 Hi, this is Debbie from Socan. You're watching Trucker Josh with his friend Diesel. Enjoy the show. This is Gashwan. We're about nine to ten hours from home. We're gonna get home tonight, but we're gonna have to hurry. So I'm glad you're here with me. I'm gonna need some company because this is gonna be, it's gonna feel like a long day. There's a few stops as possible. We can do this. When home's at the end of the day, we have a little bit more motivation, don't we? Let's get it done. Let's get out of here, head on to the highway. Looks like everyone else is leaving at the same time as me. Good. That means I'm on a common schedule. That's stuff. There are two roads here. I've got a stop sign here. I'm gonna stop anyway, because that's a road. And they've got another road over here. No stop sign again. Stopping anyway. I turned my signal along a little late there. At least there was no one to signal to at that time. Not bad. Thanks, Karen. See, I'm not perfect either. I make mistakes with my signals and stuff, too. I tried to remember that when I get frustrated at other people not using their signals. Maybe they were just forgetful in that moment. Try to cut people some slack sometimes. Sometimes. And this is the Transcantus. You hear the stop sign? And at the next side there, there's a yield. So at least I know what I'm supposed to do there. If you don't know what you're supposed to do, just stop. This is a yield. I yield to no one. Closest lane. I know Saskatchewan. The capital of Saskatchewan. Is that what I was gonna say? It's Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan. So Saskatoon is a northern city. So if you want to compare it to Alberta, Saskatoon is sort of like the Edmonton of Saskatchewan, and Regina is sort of like the Calgary, except the capitals are reversed. And Alberta Edmonton's the capital, like we were talking about the other day. And in Saskatchewan, Regina, the southern city, is the capital. Correct me if I'm wrong. Saskatchewan are people? Saskatchewanite? Saskatchewanese? You Saskatchewanese? Hider people. Rider nation. That'll make you happy. Their football team here. It's like American football, but it's Canadian football. Karen, I'm telling a story again. So Canadian football is a CFL. For those of you who haven't heard me describe it before, are you in the US? Canadian football is the same as American football, except the football is heavier and bigger, so it's harder to throw. The end zone is bigger, and you only have three downs, not four. I don't know what you guys need four downs for down there. I don't know. If you can't get a touchdown in three downs, I don't know. Well, why do you need the extra one, right? So we have three downs, bigger ball, longer end zone. Same thing other than that, for the most part. The CFL is pretty much the farm league of the NFL. Some people get mad if I say that, but you know, it's the professional football players that couldn't make it in the NFL that come play for the CFL. All right, that's just my opinion. I'm just going to throw that out there. I'm not a big football fan. I don't watch football. In Manitoba, our team is called the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and they are the arch nemesis and arch rivals of the Saskatchewan Rough Riders, or just the riders. They call themselves Rider Nation, and Saskatchewan is passionate about their riders. You don't come here and diss the riders, and bad things will happen to you. You just come here, you smile, you nod, you got nothing as good to say about the riders. Just don't say anything at all. People are serious here. There's even some of them infiltrating Manitoba. You know who you are. I work with some of you. Very passionate about their football. It's a friendly rivalry. Whenever they play, we call it the Banjo Bowl, I think. But like I said, I don't follow football that much. Where was I going with this? Forget where I was going with this, but oh yeah, we'll just call you Rider Nation Saskatchewan. That'll make them happy. Totally forgot what I was going to say after that. Totally got sidetracked there. I'm not in this whole rivalry thing, because like I said, I don't follow football. I'm more into hockey. And speaking of hockey, you know what I'm going to say next. You know what I'm going to say next. Such a shame that Don Cherry was fired. I said it. There you go. You want to know my opinion? I was mad. I'm still mad. I'm sure I'm still going to be mad when this video gets released. He is a legend. He's been broadcasting Coach's Corner in On Hockey Night in Canada for 38 years longer than I've been alive. I grew up watching him every Saturday. It's a part of my childhood. And he messed up his words. He meant no bad. And everybody knows it. And then his partner, Ron McLean, Ron the Coward McLean, just threw him under the bus the next day. So from now on, between intermission or in the intermission of Hockey Night in Canada, they got a new show. It's going to be called Coward's Corner with Ron McLean. So upsetting. So upsetting. The outraged mobs got them. They got them. And it's so sad. Because the majority of Canadians loved him. It's just the few people up in their high ivory towers in the big cities of Toronto. They thought he was a little bit controversial. That's what made him so awesome. That's what made it interesting to watch. What's he going to say today? We don't know. I wonder what's going to happen next week on Coward's Corner. Pardon me, Coward's Corner. I don't know who the new host is going to be or if McLean is going to do it. I'm being a little hard on McLean here. I know he was just trying to save his job. He was just trying to save his job. McLean, if you're watching this by some random chance, disappointed, buddy. Disappointed. Why would he be watching this? I don't know. Somebody knows him. Might share it with him. Look at this. Trucker Josh called you a coward. Sorry, bud. I mean, that was kind of cowardly. I'm sorry. Often, well, I guess it is personal. You threw your buddy under the bus. When you knew he meant no ill. You know he didn't mean anything bad. You could have clarified and defended him just a little bit, but I'm mad right now. I'm so mad. You know, Don's 85 years old. I'm sure he's ready to retire. It's just so bad, so sad that he didn't get to go out on his own terms, you know? And he went out like this. That's my rant on that. I wasn't even going to touch that, but there we go. It's out there. It's out there. Now you know my opinion. Let's get back to trucking. Let's get back to trucking. We're going to be passing by Balgoni Bologna real soon here, and we're about six hours from our yard in Winnipeg. One more thing, though, with the whole Don Cherry debacle, whatever you want to call it, the whole Don Cherry thing, and then I won't talk about it anymore because I'm sure those of you watching my video, they're happy he's gone. I'm sad and I'm mad, but the one thing I really admire is that he did not apologize. He did not apologize. For those of you who weren't watching, but Don Cherry, he's a patriot, a Canadian patriot, and he's done more than a lot of media personalities and broadcasters for our military. And during what we call Remembrance Day, it's our Veterans Day, just like you guys have in the States on the same day. It's our Veterans Day. In Canada, we wear poppies to remember our fallen soldiers. I got my poppy right up here, 365 days a year. It's always with me. You always remember why we have such a great life here in Canada, why we have the freedoms, why I can drive my truck from coast to coast and not have to worry about anything really. We have really no worries. But anyways, he's big into honoring the troops, okay? And so am I. So I understand what he was trying to say. What he was saying is that in these big progressive cities that we have in Canada, these big cities like Toronto, you go into the inner city and you don't see a lot of people honoring the soldiers. And you actually see a lot of hatred towards our soldiers in some areas. So Don, like myself, and any other patriot who walks into an area like this did what we all would do. We would say, why aren't you honoring the troops? Like, hey, maybe you should wear a poppy, you know? Someone died so you could be walking these streets safely right now. Someone died so that you could be as wealthy as you are, live in a wealthy country like this. Somebody gave their life and paid the ultimate sacrifice so you could live in the way you live today and, you know, not speak Nazi German? I don't know. Because you know they wouldn't have stopped in Europe. They would have come over here eventually too. And who knows, we could have been living under a fascist Nazi government for the past 60 years instead of living in the freedoms that we have today. And so we wear our poppies to remember the people who died to stop that movement. I mean, nowadays you talk to people, they don't even know what a Nazi is, but that's a different topic all together. So Don said, you know what? The least you could do is spend a couple of bucks into a poppy and celebrate. Remember this tradition. Take part in this tradition with us. Remember them. Everybody. And, you know, they took his words and they did what they did, right? They do what they do. They did what they always do. They take it out of context. They twist it. Oh, we know what he meant better than he did. Oh, he meant this. He meant, oh, oh no, he's a racist. Come on, guys. You know what he meant. He's an 85 year old guy. You know what he meant. So on Remembrance Day, they fired him for standing up for our soldiers on Remembrance Day. That's why Canadians are mad. He was doing what any one of us would have done and everyone understood what he meant. He's an 85 year old guy. He bumbles up his words sometimes, but he's done more for our country than a lot of these people whining and complaining. Oh, I'm just so mad. Anyway, that's the whole story. They fired him after 38 years, just like that. But, hey, they reelected a guy who wears blackface more times than he can remember. So that's okay. That's okay. Reelect that guy, but this guy over here, fire him. Oh, afterwards, you know, the outraged mob kept going after him, going after him, going after him, demanding an apology. No apology from that patriot. Respect. Don't apologize to the outraged mob. Never apologize to the outraged mob. That's never going to be enough. That's never going to satisfy them. They're just going to use that as weapon against you. See, he admitted he was wrong. We were right. No, you were wrong. He was right. He's not going to apologize. So much respect for that. What a patriot. That's my rant. Stick into it. No apologies. Just like Dawn. So on another note, we're in Saskatchewan now. And like I've said before, Saskatchewan doesn't participate in daylight savings time. So because of that, they never change their clocks, which I think is genius. That is so awesome. Never having to change your clocks, never having all this confusion twice a year. Saskatchewan, you're doing it right. So we're in central time zone now, but at summertime, they're in mountain time zone, which is one time zone west of me. So right now, we're in the same time zone as my home in Manitoba. So the way I remember that is, because I travel through here all the time, I used to always forget, where are they? Are they with Alberta or are they with Manitoba? This is the way you remember what time it is in Saskatchewan, okay? Here from Manitoba is how I do it. During spring time, the flowers start popping out, the grass starts growing, the snow melts, it starts to get nice outside. Saskatchewan springs away from Manitoba to go hang out with Alberta for the summertime, you know? They go to the beach, they go mountain climbing, they, they all hang out together all summer. But in wintertime, there's not as many people in Manitoba and it gets really cold. So Saskatchewan's a nice neighbor and they fall back to Manitoba for wintertime to help keep us warm in Manitoba. Do you like my story, Karen? Wait, wait, this is how I remember it. So in fall times, Saskatchewan falls back to be with Manitoba to help keep us warm. Summer time, they, or spring time, they spring away from us to go hang out with their fun cousin on the other side, Alberta. That's how you know what time you're in without looking at the clock. Nowadays, all clocks change on their own mostly, right? Like all the clocks I own, they all change on their own, except for the ones you hang on the wall and stuff, right? But those are even becoming old school. Did they fix these railway tracks yet? Am I going to lose a tire here? Let's slow her down, slow her down, Trucker Josh, slow her down. This is going to be, this is going to, no, they fixed it. Okay, good. Beautiful, it's still a little bumpy, but way better than it was. You got to be careful. Some of these railway crossings that you go over in Canada sometimes. Wow, like, you're going to bend your rims, you're not just going to blow your tire, you're going to, blow your tires going to go right down to your rim and bend your rim up. They're bad. In one kilometer, turn left on, Trans Canada Highway, Highway One. Karen, you know that that's not what you got to do because they got roundabouts here now, because they're all fancy and stuff in Saskatchewan. So you don't turn left, you actually turn right, and then you go left, but it's actually a right turn, but we're going left. So I get what you mean, we're going left, we're not turning left though. Roundabouts. You know, there's new lights coming up around our area at home too, and you know, I follow our local news online and on Facebook around my area, and they always announce, you know, oh, new lights coming to this intersection. You know, sometimes I'm like, oh great, more stop and go traffic. And other times I'm like, oh, that would actually help and make sense. You wait there, Mr. Grain Man, I got the green light here, me first. So yeah, there's one time where I thought, you know, these lights here, they actually make sense, you know? A lot of traffic, accidents happen there all the time, it's hard to get across with a semi, yeah, sure, put up some lights that'll help. Turn left on, Trans Canada Highway, Highway One. No, gonna go around these dumb roundabouts first. Which way are you going? Which way are you going? Are you going that way? Okay, I'm going this way. See, I always use my signal when I'm signaling out, so here I'll put my right signal on, because I'm leaving the roundabout to the right here, that way the people at other parts of the roundabout know exactly where I'm going, right? Watch this, we'll do it again at this roundabout. Pay attention, children. I haven't even had my coffee yet, have I? I had a coffee this morning, that's right, I need another coffee. I don't want to stop though, I want to go home. Okay, so here we enter the roundabout, don't put your signal on, because you put your right signal on here, people think you're going to exit at this next exit here, right? Even though you can't. So here I'm turning my left turn signal on, because I'm going to stay in the roundabout, not turning here, I'm going left, going left, and once I pass that intersection, I turn my right signal on, because I'm leaving the circle to the right at the next exit. You see what I did there? They probably couldn't see it, because I know you can't see my signals right now, I mean you could visualize it, right? I don't know, is that the right way to do it? That's the way I do it. Does that make sense? Roundabouts don't make sense. And so we got, you know, we're just under six hours, straight down this road. Do any of you pull these pikes? Is it hard to hook them up? Well this one's not, this one has those sliding axles in the center, that would be super easy to hook up. I mean a lot of the pikes, they have that like little, shoot what you call it, behind it, that little tiny dolly thing? Shoot, I can't think of it right now. You know what I mean. So how does it work? Do you hook that thing up to the trailer first? Or do you hook it up to the trailer in front first and then hook the one of the, because you can't really back up with that thing back there, can you? I've never actually seen them hook up. All the Christmas lights in town are turned on. We noticed that they had hung them up already before Remembrance Day. They didn't turn them on until the Tuesday evening after Remembrance Day though, so that was nice. Main Street always looks more colorful. I wish that they would light up these trees in the center too. I think that would look really cool. They always just do the ones on the side and you know, it's a lot of work already and each individual tree along Main Street has its own little plug in, right? It's all underground. So they'd have to, you know, install all the plugs and stuff for these trees in the center here on the left. But I think it'd be super cool. Maybe one day, maybe one day they'll do that. I have to spend some more time this weekend hanging up Christmas lights. We didn't get nearly finished last weekend so I'm hoping to get everything finished this week because I'm not going to be home, well I guess I'm trying to get home for the next weekend. But I don't know if I'll make it or have time to do anything more. So I'm going to try to get everything done. We've got to get the rest of those red and green lights all the way around our house and then all the way around the garage and then see what we have left yet. We have a bunch of other lights we want to hang up and maybe wrap around our porch, the pillars on the porch and stuff and the banister. We try to go a little bit bigger every year. You know, try to get new stuff every year. One day when we're old and retired it'll take us all a year just to set up for Christmas. Maybe by that time we'll like, want the lottery or something and we're gonna pay someone to do it. Now that takes all the fun out of it. I'm just gonna retire and do it myself. That'll be my job, getting ready for Christmas.