Imagine waking up on Christmas morning only to find the gifts you ordered weeks ago are nowhere to be found. This episode addresses the turmoil caused by the recent strikes at Canada Post and Amazon, leaving countless holiday packages undelivered and consumers frustrated. The conversation delves into the holiday season’s pivotal role for businesses and consumers, spotlighting the growing dependency on online shopping that amplifies the chaos of disrupted deliveries.
00:00:02.584 --> 00:00:04.347 and it's over, we're done.
00:00:04.347 --> 00:00:11.042 It's december the 22nd, and if you've gotten your gift by mail yet, by amazon yet?
00:00:11.042 --> 00:00:27.272 If the answer is no, then yeah, there's a good reason for that, because here in canada thank you, justin and the rest of the canada post workers union mail didn't move for a month, and while they went back to work last week, boy oh boy.
00:00:27.272 --> 00:00:33.527 And, by the way, canada Post puts out this wonderful statement Good news your letters are going to make it to Santa.
00:00:33.527 --> 00:00:37.790 But in the meantime, how many people are not going to be happy on this Christmas?
00:00:37.790 --> 00:00:40.149 Thanks to both Amazon and Canada Post.
00:00:40.219 --> 00:00:45.511 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the final live rant of 2024.
00:00:45.511 --> 00:00:48.005 I'm David Solomon, he is Stuart Briskell.
00:00:48.005 --> 00:00:53.286 We are the Rant Network, where this is uncensored, unedited, unfiltered conversations about a whole wide variety of topics.
00:00:53.286 --> 00:00:58.993 And let me tell you, folks, stuart is just working to get at me after what I did to him on Friday.
00:00:58.993 --> 00:01:03.527 So we are going to dive into the latest news, pop culture and so much more.
00:01:03.527 --> 00:01:05.090 This is absurdity, folks.
00:01:05.090 --> 00:01:07.707 This is where modern life just kicks in and we go what the hell?
00:01:07.707 --> 00:01:12.569 Anyways, this is maybe an issue that's going to affect us really, really badly.
00:01:13.031 --> 00:01:20.260 Our dependency on both Canada Post and Amazon has gone through the roof, and I can't wait to hear how Stuart is going to tell me how Canada shit today.
00:01:20.260 --> 00:01:33.585 But folks, let's put it this way, sit back, relax as we go, and we now vent about unions, workers, corporations, governments.
00:01:33.585 --> 00:01:36.070 We are very dependent folks.
00:01:36.070 --> 00:01:37.873 We are extremely dependent.
00:01:37.873 --> 00:01:46.653 If you saw what the pandemic did, buying online, boy oh boy, did we make a ton of money?
00:01:46.653 --> 00:01:51.546 Anybody who was in e-commerce or whatever they bought, we bought, we bought.
00:01:51.546 --> 00:01:53.650 We bought my post.
00:01:53.650 --> 00:01:56.543 Stuart, I don't get mail at the door anymore.
00:01:56.543 --> 00:02:08.524 We have central boxes right now in corners of the street, and they changed it this year to accommodate for less mail and more packages, because that's what Canada Post makes its money on, not on the mail.
00:02:08.524 --> 00:02:20.401 We don't send mail anymore, but Amazon, baby, it's all about the packages, it's all about the envelopes, but yet both went on strike or on strike, and boy, talk about timing.
00:02:20.401 --> 00:02:25.308 So, stuart, what's your take on these two strikes, if you will?
00:02:26.069 --> 00:02:26.371 All right.
00:02:26.371 --> 00:02:41.021 So David, yes, tried and roasted the living shit out of me in the previous episode because I had some computer malfunctions and couldn't get jumped down, and then his Israeli blood just couldn't let anything go.
00:02:41.021 --> 00:02:45.509 And again, david was far from being correct and proper.
00:02:45.509 --> 00:02:50.245 But we won't bleed him out and gut him like a pig that he is.
00:02:50.245 --> 00:02:52.068 We're just going to stick to the facts.
00:02:52.109 --> 00:02:59.145 Today, steamsters launched the largest strike against Amazon in American history.
00:02:59.145 --> 00:03:10.895 It began December 19th and it's nationwide following Amazon's repeated refusal to quote follow the law and bargain.
00:03:10.895 --> 00:03:12.097 What does that mean?
00:03:12.097 --> 00:03:21.280 That means that Amazon is not bending over like a woke company and taking a knee to the Teamsters.
00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:32.247 The second most irrelevant union in the country the most irrelevant union in the country, believe it or not, is the teachers' unions.
00:03:32.247 --> 00:03:45.191 But because they're each independent by region, they are the biggest ones of all where they promise the world of collective bargaining and seem to get rich off of their constituents.
00:03:45.611 --> 00:03:47.643 And you have to know where unions began.
00:03:47.643 --> 00:03:52.693 You know their social justice system replaced unions.
00:03:52.693 --> 00:03:53.413 What is that?
00:03:53.413 --> 00:04:00.533 Unemployment, rules of employment, work hours and laws surrounding work hours.
00:04:00.533 --> 00:04:04.790 That literally replaced the necessity for having a union.
00:04:04.790 --> 00:04:10.042 But if you had a fiefdom, would you want to go away.
00:04:10.042 --> 00:04:35.240 Clearly they don't, and more and more people want to opt out, except those that are promised gold, silver and the life of luxury from a conglomerate that isn't going to capitulate Canada Post.
00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:41.514 Let me tell you something At the US side of the border, if you brought a package that's to be serviced to Canada, it'll either be returned to sender or refused at the post office.
00:04:41.514 --> 00:04:42.540 Why?
00:04:42.540 --> 00:04:51.992 Because the restarting of the US-Canadian post system will go probably not until the second week of New Year's.
00:04:52.713 --> 00:04:55.355 Now is this attack on old St Nick's?
00:04:55.355 --> 00:05:02.613 Is the timing to just hurt and punish those that wait all year for a cup of cheer?
00:05:02.613 --> 00:05:09.112 Why am I bringing in this second topic that David just loves as a twist and turn?
00:05:09.112 --> 00:05:12.309 Because they are intertwined.
00:05:13.302 --> 00:05:34.867 If the union did this strike on January 15th at Amazon, it would only affect a certain amount of people, but in the last-ditch effort right before the holidays, where most I think David, you're in the toy business, you used to be a toy peddler Is what 60% or 80% of your business done in the last 60 days of the year?
00:05:34.867 --> 00:05:36.812 Something like that Close enough.
00:05:36.812 --> 00:05:43.552 Okay, and again, I'm not an expert on what little toys would sell, but David worked in the toy industry.
00:05:43.552 --> 00:05:51.771 So he is well aware of what you know little Buzz Lightyear and how many of them would sell between that last 60-day stretch.
00:05:51.771 --> 00:05:59.151 But I'm willing to wager that the last 30-day stretch would sell more than burgundy shoes at Floorshines.
00:05:59.151 --> 00:06:16.459 But you would probably sell more of those little Buzz Lightyears in the last 21 days of the Christmas shopping season, which begins shortly thereafter American Thanksgiving not Canadian Thanksgiving, but American Thanksgiving.
00:06:17.281 --> 00:06:43.132 Now, if that's not an interesting fact, then why would the last five days of the overnight second-day shipment company known as Amazon, an American-based company that reinvented shopping Amazon, an American-based company that reinvented shopping wiping out shopping malls, shopping plazas and grand retailers around the world happened just on that day?
00:06:43.132 --> 00:06:44.834 Who is it punishing?
00:06:44.834 --> 00:07:00.031 Is it punishing the publicly traded company that's owned by most of Americans and most Canadians and most international corporations, pension funds, or is it to punish you, the consumer, to take away that happy holiday?
00:07:00.031 --> 00:07:16.980 Ho-ho-ho, hanukkah is just after Christmas, so they're also now caught in this crosshair, ruining the wondering joy of life in this crosshair, ruining the wondering joy of life.
00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:24.343 Why does the left seem to want to destroy any Judeo-Christian holiday, david?
00:07:24.343 --> 00:07:44.435 I can tell you why Because it interferes with their objective, and that is, to wipe out religion in every aspect of the morals that come with it in society and replace it with something other than that which brings in the woke of the world.
00:07:44.435 --> 00:07:49.730 As one example of what they've tried to do and they're continuing to try to.
00:07:49.730 --> 00:08:06.976 I think it's a much bigger message, has very little to do with Canadian postal workers that treacherously walk through the snow and sleet to deliver that wasted mail that should go electronic because their jobs are almost near obsolete.
00:08:06.976 --> 00:08:25.970 David, you're in Canada, the great white north, where every American city is within 500 miles of the American border, because there's really nothing of value just north of that, except a near barren wasteland where nobody wants to live.
00:08:25.970 --> 00:08:37.926 Because, let's face it, who could survive in the Arctic North or one of the three territories that exist in the sub-Arctic?
00:08:38.246 --> 00:08:42.850 David, december 23rd, and Stuart is trying to get at me for all of his ignorance.
00:08:42.850 --> 00:08:45.820 Okay, so let's start from the very beginning of what Stuart is saying.
00:08:45.820 --> 00:08:47.176 It's like my hot blood.
00:08:47.176 --> 00:08:52.691 I love that how Stuart just hasn't grown up since he's like eight blood.
00:08:52.691 --> 00:08:54.176 I love that how Stuart just hasn't grown up since he's like eight.
00:08:54.176 --> 00:08:58.134 Look, folks, I guess when Stuart can't be mature, he has to be immature, because it just shows that he just doesn't know what he's talking about.
00:08:58.134 --> 00:09:01.006 When it comes to it, please listen to Friday's Rent.
00:09:01.006 --> 00:09:03.794 I had to throw that in just because I want the last word this year.
00:09:03.794 --> 00:09:05.458 Okay, let's get serious.
00:09:05.458 --> 00:09:11.919 Let's talk about this whole business, about Canada Post and Amazon and the unions Folks.
00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:13.844 Stuart, hit the nail on the head, though.
00:09:13.844 --> 00:09:17.941 It's about your pain, because that's a union tactic.
00:09:17.941 --> 00:09:20.615 Union tactics are all about pain.
00:09:20.615 --> 00:09:26.140 Okay, the pain to the corporation, pain to the government, but mostly pain to you.
00:09:26.140 --> 00:09:30.419 You are always, always, impacted by a strike.
00:09:30.419 --> 00:09:31.501 Think of the airlines.
00:09:31.501 --> 00:09:32.988 When an airline pilot's going on strike, who gets hurt?
00:09:32.988 --> 00:09:33.392 You, the consumer, because impacted by a strike.
00:09:33.392 --> 00:09:34.087 Think of the airlines when an airline pilots go on strike.
00:09:34.087 --> 00:09:34.360 Who gets hurt?
00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:36.557 You, the consumer, because you need the planes.
00:09:36.557 --> 00:09:37.731 Right now.
00:09:37.731 --> 00:09:39.296 Amazon goes on strike.
00:09:39.296 --> 00:09:40.057 The delivery.
00:09:40.057 --> 00:09:40.900 Why is that?
00:09:40.900 --> 00:09:50.864 You are in pain Once again, union tactics, stuart, is all about pain so that their members get some gain.
00:09:51.650 --> 00:09:58.080 Really, or is it about the unions wanting to line their pockets with more percentages of memberships and mounts and whatever?
00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:12.158 Because, in reality, yes, the unions are unfortunately still needed, because negotiation between a group of employees and corporations and the government is unfortunately not always fair and it needs an intermediary often.
00:10:12.158 --> 00:10:17.105 But the problem is that the unions are not the right intermediary anymore.
00:10:17.105 --> 00:10:24.364 They don't really truly represent the workers as they should, and I know experience after experience.
00:10:24.364 --> 00:10:26.515 I don't have enough time in this rant to go through these things.
00:10:26.515 --> 00:10:37.317 Okay, so at the end of the day, the only tactic they have is to hurt you, which is right Now, when Stuart was talking about the left and kind of making a fruit salad out of this, a la Kamala Harris.
00:10:37.658 --> 00:10:39.923 I don't understand where like this is it?
00:10:39.923 --> 00:10:40.244 Folks?
00:10:40.244 --> 00:10:46.783 The unions are run generally by more left-leaning individuals, but you know what?
00:10:46.783 --> 00:10:55.085 At the end of the day, these people have voted in the last election election and they voted for Trump to say we want more money in our pocket.
00:10:55.085 --> 00:10:59.315 This is how you want more money in your pocket by hurting people.
00:10:59.315 --> 00:11:04.822 Okay, I love to see that Stewart once again with his immaturity.
00:11:04.822 --> 00:11:06.735 David doesn't understand.
00:11:06.735 --> 00:11:08.856 This will be the phrase of the year.
00:11:08.856 --> 00:11:12.721 David doesn't understand, which, by extension, means you're all stupid.
00:11:12.721 --> 00:11:19.634 You don't understand, because Stuart is the smart American, in this case, the United States unions, canadian unions.
00:11:19.634 --> 00:11:22.301 It really is fucking exhausting, stuart.
00:11:22.301 --> 00:11:23.182 Please stop that.
00:11:23.182 --> 00:11:23.644 Thank you.
00:11:24.250 --> 00:11:29.162 Okay, the unions are really what they were there originally for.
00:11:29.162 --> 00:11:34.359 Their raison d'etre hasn't evolved.
00:11:34.359 --> 00:11:35.861 That's the problem.
00:11:35.861 --> 00:11:36.964 It hasn't evolved.
00:11:36.964 --> 00:11:38.796 They're a powerful group.
00:11:38.796 --> 00:11:40.134 They're a powerful bloc.
00:11:40.134 --> 00:11:41.816 They're a powerful lobby bloc.
00:11:41.816 --> 00:11:49.017 You saw in the last election how who was going to get their vote in the US election was critical, and it's going to happen the same thing here in Canada.
00:11:49.570 --> 00:11:53.932 But unions have less faith and trust from its members.
00:11:53.932 --> 00:11:56.259 They've been told what to do, stuart.
00:11:56.259 --> 00:11:58.571 They've been told who to vote for right.
00:11:58.571 --> 00:12:00.956 Remember four years ago who they told them to vote for?
00:12:00.956 --> 00:12:03.211 They all said vote for Joe Biden, it'll be better.
00:12:03.211 --> 00:12:04.254 It didn't work out.
00:12:04.254 --> 00:12:06.361 And guess who got hurt again?
00:12:06.361 --> 00:12:07.927 You, the consumer.
00:12:07.927 --> 00:12:11.014 The union doesn't care about anybody else but themselves.
00:12:11.014 --> 00:12:13.399 Folks, get over this whole ideology.
00:12:13.818 --> 00:12:17.953 And to have this strike here at Christmas, as Stuart said, why would you do January 15th?
00:12:17.953 --> 00:12:21.322 We don't deliver as much as we do at Christmas, absolutely.
00:12:21.322 --> 00:12:23.474 Which means guess what, stuart?
00:12:23.474 --> 00:12:29.940 There'll be less bonuses for Amazon employees, there'll be less bonuses for Canada Post employees because they won't deliver.
00:12:29.940 --> 00:12:41.004 So you know, it's just an amazing mindset of let me hurt you, but the bigger picture, it doesn't help the employee at the end of the day, it really doesn't, and I'm sorry.
00:12:41.004 --> 00:12:52.062 So whether Stuart says I don't understand, okay, maybe I am stupid, but at the end of the day, do you think I want to give more business now to Amazon employees or to Canada Post employees?
00:12:52.062 --> 00:12:58.835 No, not at all, if they hit certain benchmarks.
00:12:58.835 --> 00:13:00.639 And if they don't hit the certain benchmarks, what happens?
00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:08.077 Anyway, stuart has to obviously read Wikipedia because he has to show that he, you know that this is the reality, is Stuart?
00:13:08.077 --> 00:13:12.743 The reality is Stuart, unions need to evolve.
00:13:12.743 --> 00:13:13.965 That's my opinion.
00:13:15.025 --> 00:13:29.821 All right, Wonderful David, and you know, what you also fail to forget is that the postal worker that used to come knock on your door and give you your mail before Christmas, or you used to leave a little envelope with $5, $10, $20.
00:13:30.142 --> 00:13:31.284 Those things are dead, absolutely zero.
00:13:31.304 --> 00:13:31.605 Yeah, it's20.
00:13:31.605 --> 00:13:32.047 Those things are dead.
00:13:32.047 --> 00:13:32.386 Absolutely zero.
00:13:32.386 --> 00:13:32.788 Yeah, it's dead.
00:13:32.788 --> 00:13:33.330 Those things are dead.
00:13:33.330 --> 00:13:41.418 David, I got to thank you for the slights that you've been just dishing and David doesn't understand.
00:13:41.418 --> 00:13:45.902 Sounds like another podcast that I'm going to start as a result of this for the new year.
00:13:46.049 --> 00:14:07.158 David doesn't understand Because, really frankly, I do understand, and the vernacular that I choose to use to try and explain the situation is maybe not to talk above people like people that are from Canada that have all this energy and is the greatest country that's evolved, that if the United States catches a cold, canada gets pneumonia.
00:14:07.158 --> 00:14:18.143 It doesn't change the fact that Canada is a great country and a great nation indeed, but unfortunately, its level of arrogance seems to be outweighed by its value to the world.
00:14:18.143 --> 00:14:37.333 Anyways, on that note, it is Christmas, it is Hanukkah, it is the last broadcast that we're doing live and you get to come back here next year and watch David and I punch it out, because you know what we actually enjoy doing this and we actually, in the green room, we sort of egg each other on.
00:14:40.422 --> 00:14:41.043 Letting you talk.
00:14:41.043 --> 00:14:42.835 I'm just putting some Christmas music in the background.
00:14:42.835 --> 00:14:44.780 Stuart, go ahead, finish it up.
00:14:45.490 --> 00:14:51.498 You know, to shut him up I just got to turn his mic completely off, and then I could just turn him off completely.
00:14:51.870 --> 00:14:52.572 And it's as it is.
00:14:52.572 --> 00:14:53.537 He's not even here.
00:14:54.070 --> 00:14:58.015 But we don't want to do that to David so fast and we want to give him a voice.
00:14:58.015 --> 00:15:02.052 So if he can mature up, I'll gladly give him his final cheer.
00:15:02.052 --> 00:15:11.178 I wish you and your family and extended families, no matter what you choose to do over the national holidays that are forthcoming, and I hope you're safe.
00:15:11.178 --> 00:15:20.703 I hope you're kind, I hope you think of others that are less fortunate and stupid, because they sure enjoy the same holidays as you.
00:15:20.703 --> 00:15:24.418 And look at this Look how red.
00:15:24.809 --> 00:15:29.182 He looks like old St Nick's with a pair of glasses on his head, and you know what.
00:15:29.610 --> 00:15:40.799 It's okay because it's about cheer and the levity that we hopefully bring with this maybe odd, maybe odd, but extremely important podcast.
00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:46.730 I hope you understand that it's done in a way that no one threats to kill each other.
00:15:46.730 --> 00:15:50.020 No one threats to hurt each other and we have a good time.
00:15:50.020 --> 00:15:56.398 I'm not afraid of hurting David's little David's opinion and I really don't give two darts what he has to think.
00:15:56.398 --> 00:15:57.682 It's okay.
00:15:57.682 --> 00:16:01.681 We've been friends for 47 years, maybe 48.
00:16:01.681 --> 00:16:05.894 I'm losing count, david, but either way, that's a thing of age.
00:16:05.894 --> 00:16:13.596 Again, as one of the representatives of the Rant Network is, the other one is going to be being silent for the rest of the broadcast.
00:16:13.596 --> 00:16:29.017 I wish you and for both of us, a happy and healthy holiday season and in 2025, we hope to roll out some crazy shit, some fun stuff and hit back the way we have.
00:16:29.017 --> 00:16:33.296 For the last will be almost five years, david, I'll give you the last sentence.
00:16:33.657 --> 00:16:34.480 Oh, wow, I got it.
00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:37.278 Ladies and gentlemen, listen, I will echo Stuart's words.
00:16:37.278 --> 00:16:40.519 This holiday season, you're going to sit down with people who don't agree with you.
00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:43.995 It's not about hate, it's not about being vicious.
00:16:43.995 --> 00:16:49.482 If you're sitting here arguing about Trump versus Biden or Trudeau versus Poliev, that's healthy.
00:16:49.482 --> 00:16:51.537 Please welcome it.
00:16:51.537 --> 00:16:55.221 Don't challenge it to the point where you can't sit at the table together.
00:16:55.221 --> 00:17:09.561 On that lovely note, ladies and gentlemen, we want to wish you and thank you again, have yourself a wonderful holiday season and we look back to ranting again in January of 2025, because that year is going to be historic.
00:17:09.561 --> 00:17:11.263 We want to wish you peace.
00:17:11.263 --> 00:17:13.244 We want to wish you all the very best.
00:17:13.244 --> 00:17:19.237 Enjoy the time with the family, and we will see you on the other side of the moon.
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