The hosts apologize for a typo that said "moist" and use it to riff on Canada's obsession with the word during COVID. Justin Trudeau said "speaking moistly," Andrew Scheer became a meme, and someone made a synth-pop remix that David Usher covered.
I never thought I'd have to make this kind of video, but—
well. In a video I put out earlier today, a captioning error caused a certain word to appear briefly on screen, and I am sorry that it did. That word, of course, was "moist." I recognize Canada has a complicated relationship with the word moist. I am deeply sorry. Our troubled history goes back to the pandemic, when then-Prime Minister Trudeau told the entire nation that wearing a mask prevents you from breathing or speaking moist air.
Moistly on them.
And like puppies hearing their dog food can open, everyone in the country did this: Even the sign language translation was like, what the fuck did he just say?
Even Trudeau knew it. Speaking moistly on them. What a terrible image.
But then the Conservative leader, Andrew Scheer, defending his decision to fly his family to Ottawa on a government plane during the lockdown, said this apparently unironically: We made sure that we were not speaking moistly on each other. Then, then, because our nation turns awkwardness into performance art, The Canadian internet, which apparently had nothing else going on at the time, absolutely lost its mind. Someone turned it into a Heritage Minute, as we do. An Edmonton musician autotuned the clip into a 1980s synth pop banger. "Deep 2 meters apart, speaking moistly." Millions of views. It became one of the top trending videos in Canada for the entire year. Then, then, David Usher, one of the most successful Canadian rock acts of the 1990s, covered it. "Speaking moistly." With a string quartet, because why the hell not at this point. "Speaking moistly." David Esher's band name, by the way, was Moist. So yes, we have a complicated relationship with that word. But can you blame us? It was the government's fault. We had no choice but to make fun of it. And that's not even the time the BC government recommended glory holes during the pandemic, and you probably think I'm kidding about that!
What about shame holes? Uh, yes, those are also considered safe.
Ten times Canada helped the U.S. with its wildfires, instead of whining about the smoke. 
