00:00:00.000class is in session hi guys i'll learn 16 here listen this is my very first vlog do you feel
00:00:09.460special i i i feel like we're embarking on an embarking on a new journey and i understand
00:00:16.600there's a lot of craziness going on in the world right now and there's a trade war between canada
00:00:20.920the united states which really isn't about a trade war i'm going to talk about that a little
00:00:24.140bit later but i feel like we should sort of incorporate talking about hard things and
00:00:29.440walking around and shopping at the same time not that I'm buying anything before you start all
00:00:33.600yelling at me and everything but let me remind you this isn't about a trade war it's just not
00:00:38.300and and the mall tends to bring me a little peace so I need some peace right now I'm gonna take you
00:00:43.040guys with me we're gonna get some peace we're gonna get some food we're gonna look around at
00:00:46.920stuff we're gonna eavesdrop on people and I'm gonna do it all vlogging and and you're my first
00:00:52.120people with me so I enjoy that let's go all right so I gotta find a quiet place to sit down because
00:00:58.660If I talk to you while I'm doing this, I'm able to run into something and end up at a merch.
00:01:02.960Okay, so as I'm wandering around here today, I'm talking to a lot of people about the incumbent tariffs and what's going to happen.
00:01:08.600And obviously, I'm sitting in a retail space, and a lot of people think it's a flex and it's not going to escalate.
00:01:14.240And some people say, oh, maybe back to 2008.
00:01:17.780And what we've been talking about, I've talked to four or five different salespeople, and we're just talking about how it's not about trade.
00:01:24.940this this trade war is not about trade this trade war is to incite fear it's to incite panic
00:01:33.560it's to do all of the things that he needs to do to carve no more power if canada escalates he will
00:01:40.740escalate he is he is begging to declare a state of emergency or a national security threat coming
00:01:50.100from this side of the border. So I think when we're planning our best recourse as a country,
00:01:57.520as a people, even online here, I want to be very, very careful as to not push those buttons hard.
00:02:04.500Because at this point, we're not against Americans. We're against MAGA. And those are two very
00:02:12.220different things. As we escalate, we need to understand the words we choose to use,
00:02:18.900the alliances we choose to form as to not make anything worse do i think we're going to go
00:02:24.820through some economic hard times yep do i think those could get markedly worse if we don't
00:02:31.620recognize his motivation and his actual strategy which has nothing to do with money and trade
00:02:40.660and oil it has to do with control and power and international acclaim because that's what he's
00:02:49.380looking for here guys the make america great again oh that's code for make sure the united
00:02:56.420states is the only remaining superpower and that's just not gonna happen i could try to walk through
00:03:02.660the mall there's more open space so i'm not gonna crash into anything i find the calm in the mall
00:03:08.260very very interesting i mean i'm gonna get something to eat later so we can actually do
00:03:13.220lunch together but i found this find this calm interesting and everybody is talking about it
00:03:19.860but they're all interestingly enough talking about it like we're gonna get through it together
00:03:24.900you know 2008 horrible we're gonna get through it together and a lot of these obviously a lot
00:03:30.980of these brands are american right so i don't know which tariffs are being hit and how hard
00:03:36.340they're going to be hit. I mean, there's that place right there. But I find it's going to instill
00:03:44.900a level of nationalism in Canada. Here's what I want it to instill. I want it to instill a sense
00:03:51.500of globalism. And I know some of you are like, globalism is horrible. You know what? We're part
00:03:57.160of the same world. And since we're a part of the same world, we should be acting as such.
00:04:01.220And we should understand that all of us doing better and joining forces and forging alliances serves everybody better, not just Canadians.
00:04:12.340But I do love sort of the heightened awareness.
00:04:16.200When you have an external enemy, it does elevate your thought process a little bit to understanding what's important, where you need to stand, and how tall you need to stand.
00:04:27.580this is very deep sea like like it's me in a mirror in my phone i love all of this okay so
00:04:35.460right now i'm sitting in restoration hardware i can't afford i can't even be sitting here i think
00:04:39.880they charge at least 10 bucks a minute however after the tariffs guys the 25 percent increase
00:04:47.720on restoration hardware does this bump it up to like 30 grand a couch i'm also just wondering
00:04:55.000you know as we're talking about what power that is trying to be shifted here and garnered if
00:05:02.680maybe potentially we start legitimately talking and I realize it's coming for me so before you
00:05:09.140get all uppity in my comments I get it I'm I consume I do like to shop I'm at Yorkdale because
00:05:15.980it calms me however maybe we should start genuinely talking about how to reduce everything
00:05:24.020you know what i'm saying and how to calm i don't know what that guy she was looking for something
00:05:31.380but this isn't it how do we calm our urges to to spend and and then maybe even looking into
00:05:39.140secondary markets right a lot of the things we're talking about is like okay you got to buy canadian
00:05:44.100that's really hard like let's be honest canada we we have a lot of natural resources we farm a lot
00:05:50.580out we sell a lot um and then we buy back finished products but maybe we should be in a place right
00:05:56.260now where we're not buying new right what we need maybe we should looking for those secondary
00:06:03.940markets the amount of people who have walked down this aisle they get this close to me and they're
00:06:09.940like uh and they don't know where they're going um look at how good the fade is though just as a
00:06:16.500as a side note. I just think we should start thinking about that. We should start thinking
00:06:21.420about the way that we need to transform our economic basis a little bit, as well as Canada
00:06:27.080needs to start looking at how they can ally themselves and diversify, just like we should
00:06:33.000have been doing a very long time ago, diversify what we buy, who we trade with, and who we rely
00:06:38.600on. And all of that isn't to say the United States will be a bad trading partner forever,
00:06:43.480But it is to say when you put all the eggs in one basket, no pun intended, I realize what everybody's talking about when it comes to eggs, when you put too many eggs in one basket, there's the potential, there's the ability for that to be, you know, chucked off the nearest bridge.
00:07:00.860and we need to have more balance than that we need to have more resources than that
00:07:06.040in order to create something sustainable and and more consistent for Canadians and for
00:07:14.280people within the world in these incredible times of insanity
00:07:20.380just an interlude interlude what do we think the market's going to hit on Monday guys I don't know
00:07:29.580you but i'm going to share something about my personality i am incredibly optimistic for the
00:07:35.260most part i'd say 95 of the time i do hit my tipping point and when i hit my tipping point
00:07:41.020i don't just deal with the problems i deal with the worst case scenario so like last night i was
00:07:46.780lying over yesterday and i actually i think i made myself not feel good i i lied in bed and just
00:07:51.900thought how bad can the economy get how high can tariffs go how many job losses can we absorb how
00:07:57.500how would that affect my job how would that affect my mortgage how would that affect anna
00:08:01.260how would that affect my friends and i'm literally going through all of the different things now
00:08:06.940that's not a good place to live let's be honest we don't want to stay there we don't want to exist
00:08:12.940there but sometimes going to that place and kind of developing a little bit of a plan of action
00:08:18.940can actually empower you a little bit and to also understand like life has a way of
00:08:27.660sometimes being incredibly overwhelming and what it's only going to do is it's going to test
00:08:33.780who you are what you've been through and your resolve and i know a lot of people don't want
00:08:37.700to hear that right now they're like joanna i don't need any more tests enough's enough but guys this
00:08:43.040is a big one right because this is a big pendulum push this is a this is a 1930s if you know what
00:08:50.840i'm talking about uh emperor palpatine push in fact i think i'm going to do that tiktok on the
00:08:57.860blackboard i'm going to compare right now to the rise of emperor palpatine and if you guys don't
00:09:03.040know the history of that particular character and how george lucas created it go look it up
00:09:08.080because this is a push i don't i don't want to be hyperbolic but i want to be rational about what
00:09:15.860we're seeing happening here and all of the ideas of nationalism and patriotism and bringing back
00:09:24.640and all of those ideals and and words and and choices and now policies are very emblematic
00:09:34.420of that era and it's emblematic of that era because we've lost a lot of control we've lost
00:09:40.240a lot of power and the united states in that realm has also done as such so i get it i get
00:09:46.680wanting to research that kind of control but creating more of an isolationist imperialist
00:09:54.240country is not the answer my phone cut me off do you know how annoying that is i was in mid-thought
00:10:01.980i was doing really well and just shut off i don't know where i was i where was i i think i was
00:10:08.020talking about how we need to understand that we're a part of an international community
00:10:11.460and i do understand how that diminishes sort of direct democracy but let can i be clear we don't
00:10:18.720have that now anyway we don't have a direct democracy we haven't had a direct democracy
00:10:23.000in a very very very long period of time that this different control factors now if you're going to
00:10:28.080be a completely isolationist state, you are going to put yourself in harm's way. You are going to
00:10:34.120make yourself reliant and contingent upon your military. And as we know, the United States of
00:10:40.040America has spent more on their military than the next 20 countries combined. That didn't used to
00:10:47.520make me nervous, obviously, because we share beliefs and core values with the United States.
00:10:51.880right now it makes me nervous right now it makes me nervous that any one country is going to fixate
00:10:58.640that much of their identity and that much of their income and revenue on being able to control and
00:11:05.400manipulate militarily i still don't think that americans want that i really don't and i really
00:11:13.480think this shift that they're now seeing is incredibly out of scope and out of the dominion
00:11:24.880of what he had promised. But I think he's operating on a different level. I think he's operating
00:11:32.260on a level of rage farming. I think to get to somebody's emotional state, the quickest way
00:11:41.120you do that isn't love it's through hate and it's through rage i understand yoda said it but that's
00:11:46.980the direct line so if he could evoke enough hate and rage towards anybody even canada which is
00:11:54.220insane that's what's going to motivate that's what's going to allow him to consolidate and
00:11:59.860grow power and therein lies the problem i think fear and rage are the issues and that's what we
00:12:08.320have to combat all anybody is talking about are the tariffs literally i've eavesdropped nobody's
00:12:14.280fighting up in here you've eliminated all fights in canada because the only thing they're talking
00:12:20.580about are trade wars couples aren't fighting nobody's yelling at their kids nobody's like
00:12:26.880you know arguing with their mom or their dad they're just a hundred percent allied so really
00:12:34.140maybe to coming together more all right let's go eat something shall we i wonder what kind of
00:12:39.260things are in the food court check out this jacket oh my god wait to see the back
00:12:47.100listen i know there's a trade war going on right now but i really like this jacket
00:12:51.580you know what i also don't like about all of this i'm getting really good at walking and talking and
00:12:55.500not hitting somebody i also don't like the fact that it's pitting canadians like average canadians
00:13:00.700versus americans like we're gonna shut off your power and you're gonna check that's the most and
00:13:05.420to be honest that's what he wants he wants division when there shouldn't be any because
00:13:11.900we share so much and we rely on each other so much that we need to find a way around that right now
00:13:19.820all right so it's like the worst week in the world to actually try to eat healthier i'm not eating
00:13:24.700bread i'm not trying to reduce my sugar intake no more fun foods no more fun coffee drinks nothing
00:13:30.220so i got salad and chicken that's how serious i am about life i'll show you what i'm eating
00:13:35.020in a second okay so this is pretty healthy that's all i'm saying if it's not healthy i don't want
00:13:39.900to hear about it i'm doing my best over here true story i can't eat peas i don't like the
00:13:44.380way they pop in my mouth i don't enjoy their texture i don't think they belong in rice so
00:13:48.940can we stop putting them in rice all together just give me the rice a little bit of carb and
00:13:52.540i can move on with my day you know considering how crazy things are going the vibe and i've
00:13:59.180i've already said the vibe is lovely so many people have come up to me and talking about my
00:14:02.860tiktoks or my social media and they're like you know thank you for being positive we're all gonna
00:14:08.700get through this together you know what are you gonna buy like how are you shifting your buying
00:14:13.980it's very communal i'm kind of like i'm kind of impressed by it by the way right now i'm eating
00:14:20.300jimmy the greek i think it's jimmy jimmy the greek this is the tzatziki did i say that right