Opening some contest entries!

Hello, thank you for typing. Welcome. Why is that? Okay, so YouTube works. Thank you, Harvey, for typing. More YouTube works. What are these bot messages? You see these? Stream. I don't want that.

Re—

anyway, we are opening up, uh, well, we just started, so that's why it's probably not, probably not there. I just want to turn this stupid bot off though, giving me like time someone types something, it gives me— ah boy, they don't want me. I see Facebook. Hello, Facebook. Hi. Funky's cutting up on Facebook. Uh, that's not good. I don't think it's me. I'm just— I'm getting all sorts of double errors, double double messages and I don't know why. Bro, why isn't this— why all these cannot just get along with each other? And so I, I know you do. Hang on, I want to fit— I have to Welcome. See, what's happening is I'm getting all of these Restream bot messages and I don't want any of them. I don't either. That's why I'm— think that's how No, no, no, that's not it. Sorry folks, hold on. Yeah, this is, uh, I was trying a new, a new system and it's just not really working. I thought it was going— now the chat isn't working at all. Why they make these so difficult and I can't log on to— Hello, Tod's wife, you are wonderful.

Shucks. Thanks.

Um, ability hide, hide bots. How do I hide? But I can't— I'm not even seeing their actual what they're typing. I'm only seeing it through like this. Dina is on Facebook, so like, why isn't it— what is all this nonsense? Why is it coming through with a Twitch icon?

I think it's because Restream bot is the thing letting you—

I guess no, Restream is a, is a different system. Restream is the thing that's— and I can't log in— is, is broadcasting it all. This, this, I don't know. And I can't see any TikTok and I can't see any Like, she said it once and then copied it. And yeah, exactly.

Complicated.

You know, I don't know whether I've— how do I get rid of that there? But like, here's my usual chat thing, but it's just spinning, not getting anything. I don't know. So Facebook and YouTube, which is what it was before, but I know that there's people on Instagram.

I can follow one.

Yeah, but I don't want to like have to have like your phone open and my phone open and this window open and those things. Like, look at all the— here, here, this is Instagram. These are all the Instagram people. Hello, Instagram! But we can see your comments, but I, but I can only see them when I'm like on the Instagram site.

Well, I don't mind looking.

I do. I don't want— I, I just want to look in one place. Learning new things can be tough.

It's not working.

What is— what are URLs? Yeah, it's not even— they don't even give me a URL for that. Uh, and like, look, it's that and that.

Yeah, it goes like double.

Yeah, it goes 3 times. It's like broken. Wait, why? Okay, let's just take— let's just eat them. Thank you. I know Instagram can see and hear me, I just can't see their comments in the pool that people told me I should. Problem is that like I'm streaming to YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram at the same time. So all 5 platforms can see me, which is good. That's what I want. But I also want to be able to see everyone's comments in one place. That's where it gets difficult. What I had before was a tool that was purported to show me all of those things, but in fact, it only showed me YouTube and Facebook. So the Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch people, I could not see their comments and was just ignoring them, which I don't want to do. A couple of people have suggested I use this tool that I'm using right here, but it's also just showing me Facebook and YouTube. And I suspect it's me. It's probably me doing something wrong. What happens if I press that button? Absolutely. And then these don't have tooltips. Oh, yes, they do. Do I have to click activate? Oh, maybe I have to click activate source. Now we're getting— okay, now I don't know why that's happening. Activate source. Thank you, CJ. Oh, I got an Instagram! I got an Instagram, people! I got an Instagram!

You just connect it.

Yeah, I did, I did, I did. So maybe I have to turn that off and then say activate source. Oh, Instagram people, I can see you! I can see you! Okay, we're getting there, we're getting there. So maybe I have to turn that off and activate source and that off and activate. Oh, and see TikTok! I see TikTok!

Hi Jessica!

Oh, we're getting close. You're literally just pressing random buttons and it's—

I am literally just pressing random buttons and it is working.

Okay, so, okay, yo, we're getting there. So I just have to figure out how to stop the, the, the, the— thank you, Maureen. I have to figure out how to stop this Restream bot from yabbering. And there's a way—

Restream?

No, that's what I was trying to log in. I was trying to do that over here and it was just like not—

no, I mean like, can you not?

Well, sure, but look I can't log in.

No, the one that, that you were just looking— there's a thing where it scroll. Got a minute ago and it like had a list of—

I saw one that said no, like hide bots.

There, there, there.

I don't want to hide the messages.

No, hide the ones the Show only messages from members.

Hi, hey, welcome again. Do a search. Styling effects, export, stream bots. Oh, do not show bot messages. Okay. Delete names for bots. You see, it's still— they're still coming out. Do not show bot messages is on. I'm sorry, folks. Kevin, I think we probably are opening up the trinkets very shortly. Chatbot? No, this is— the problem is that the chatbot is coming from a different provider. It's coming from these people. But for some reason I am unable to log in. Try again. But watch you on YouTube, like I can see verification code. Well, because I'm checking other things. Okay, it's like letting us log in now. Yeah, so where's the— oh, hang on, that doesn't fix anything. So where's the bot in here though?

Like analytics should be in the stream.

Maybe, maybe update titles, edit event. Settings, settings, backup stream, pull links, embed chat player. No, I want the bot to disappear. Power plugged in and turned on. I know you guys can hear me. I— we're getting better, we're getting closer. I'm just— the chat window that I'm— here, I can show you guys what I'm, what I'm bitching about. Hold on, I'll put it up on the screen so you can see what I'm seeing. And it's really difficult to see, so hold on, let me do browser. This people type we will probably get, okay, so see what I'm saying here? See how it says, so in a second Gail's actual comment will show up as a Facebook message. Hopefully below. There it is. So see, it says Facebook, but then it says Restream Bot. This Restream Bot just keeps showing up, and it makes it really difficult to see what people are actually saying. And all I want is that Restream Bot to go the fuck away. And I don't know where it comes from. Well, it's from a service called Restream, which I use, but I don't know where in here— oh, settings? Stream setup. Oh, little alerts. Set up ending.

No, home.

Like, I don't know where— this is gonna be one of the things where I have to like email the support people because I have no idea where to turn that off. It's difficult. All right. Yeah, yeah, you guys see what's happening though? See, like, it's, it's giving— it's repeating it 3 times. Oh, irritating. I know, Kevin, I know. All right, I will hide that window and we will begin opening some of the contest entries. So I went into, um, the post office box. I went into the post office box. That's a good idea, thank you. Some of you are— no, you know what, they're not all going to be able to see that because some people are vertical.

Ah, vertical kids, get with it.

They are with it.

What would Nora have said?

Okay, Instagram people can see, can see it fine.

Critical people want to see all this.

They couldn't see. And TikTok, I think, are not able to see my other— oh, you know what, maybe it's not. Maybe it is, it's horizontal. Hi Panda, I can see Yes. Okay, so maybe it's—

is it—

are all of you seeing us vertically? I guess I should have just asked you guys to begin with. Not vertically, I mean horizontally, like wide. Or some of you seeing—

am I wide?

Here, hang on, hang on. You over here, go over here, and I'm gonna go over here. Are any of you unable to see us at all? That's the question to ask. Are any of you unable to see us?

Horizontal on Facebook.

Turning off the Restream bot midstream. I love you. Go to the Restream dashboard, open, open chat, the panel that shows all your comments. I don't have that in here. I don't have that.

You just look at view, off all the comments, recording, and no home.

So riveting. Update titles, edit event. Not editing. I, I, I don't have the thing that she's telling me. Go to your Restream dashboard, open chat, the panel that shows all your comments. The chat window that I have is Spinning. See if I can close it and then open it again. Docs. Chat. See, this is just like— oh, stop spinning. Okay, settings.

Remember, you reloaded everything, so relay mode.

Turn relay mode off. Is that what you were saying before? Turn off relay mode. This will instantly stop it from posting on Facebook Live. It'll stop messages. Raw. Okay, and then settings and close, and we'll see if this works.

Gold star for Sheila.

A couple of people.

Others.

I feel like, I feel like maybe it's worked. Okay, let's turn this on and see. I think the Restream bot has not been on since we did that. I think it's fixed. Thank you so much. All right, let's move this over here. Out of the way.

We're actually gonna see the chat on the—

yeah, they'll be able to see it if they want.

Yeah.

Um, that's where it worked. It worked great. Oh, sorry.

Careful, I, I— my legs.

All righty then. So let me just—

Hamilton, New Zealand, welcome, Gertrude. Are they— are you called Gertie or, um, Gert? Too cute. I know. Gusting.

So now I see I can't wait. Lisa says this, but where— why is we not seeing down here? Oh, we are. It's just slower.

Okay, 3 different chat panels.

I think we got it. I think we got it. Now it's frozen. Oh, hopefully that's just—

reload, reload.

Okay, hooray! Thank you for your patience, everyone. Thank you for people who helped. Um, I can't—

so no easy way to do that.

So here is mail, mail. Here's the mail that we have received in a few days. So I went to the post office box and, uh, went there and, um, and I opened it up expecting to see like maybe 2 or 3, and, um, I know I saw— and holy moly. Oh, you know why it's highlighting PJ? Because PJ's a member.

That's—

isn't that smart? Hey PJ, subscriber, you know, neato neato. All right, and then so anyway, it was full, it was jammed, you could— it was so jammed I have a small mailbox, right, that it couldn't fit anymore. And I opened it up and I shrieked. I'm like, ah! And the guy says— the guy looked, and I'm— it was clear that I had been, you know, a lot of stuff. And he said, are you a teacher? So I don't know whether teachers—

as soon as that, the teachers get mail. I mean, like, are renowned for getting mail.

Yeah.

Um, Mitch, Mitch and Ange, um, I love Melbourne. So happy to have you join.

Uh, someone asked, someone asked what happens if there is a Canada Post strike. I will extend the deadline if there's a Canada Post strike for sure.

Okay, so first of all, Matthew is from Portland, Oregon, moving to Richmond next week. Way to go! Glad to have you.

This one is coming from Comox. Oh, we know we can only open one at a time because I want to be able to put these back in the envelope.

Mima on YouTube. Ah, I was a good name at first when I saw it. I thought it was like Dawson or Jemerson or something. Hey, my bad.

Okay, so we have a Comox pendant, I think.

This is a contest. It's a write-in contest called the smallest—

Canada's Biggest Smallest Contest.

Canada's Biggest Smallest Contest. And it's— we invited people to send the smallest, like a small souvenir of your hometown, and it had to fit in letter mail. So that was— that's the contest.

Can someone on TikTok type something into the comments? I want to see if I'm not able to see TikTok. So no, no, I haven't ripped it off fully off. I've still, I've still got it. There we go.

I—

the rules were a little hard to understand. I see. I don't think I'm getting TikTok people yet. You just try doing what I— that one thing that I did with the other one.

I had TikTok already.

I thought I had TikTok for a while. I thought I saw them up here. No, they all say, "Saiyan." I know. No, no, no, don't literally type TikTok. I mean people on TikTok. Just say activate source. We'll try. I don't know if that's working. And then it also— oh, so this came from— this is what they do. I assume it's OK if they— oh, there. Thank you, Jessica. Yay, we got all the channels.

Woo-hoo!

So this is— This is what she does. I— sorry, I don't know if it's a she or not. This is what this person does.

I'm hoping it was me, like the phone number.

Oh well, and then it's Comox. Still only— still only see between you two. Okay, so some people are seeing it just vertically.

Who said that? Oh, Insta.

So some Instagram people are seeing it vertically, some Instagram people are seeing it Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. And then also has these really cool earrings. Oh, so that's cool. Thank you. That is in the running. Obviously these are all in the running.

I want to do a non— okay, I can't find one. She has—

she's locked up.

Oh, okay, I, I let her out.

Girl, come here.

We don't want anyone to— look, someone wrote when they mailed it just to make sure that got in the contest. Okay, this one doesn't have an, um, a thing.

Okay, so extra small.

This is really, uh, full screen on TikTok.

Okay, thank you, Spirit.

It's really taped up. I'm coming, I'm coming. We don't— this is like holiday unwrapping. Oh, cute! I'm surprised. I'm always amazed when you can get this, something like this Through the mail. Oh, oh, I see.

Oh, my friend, una, the contest is Canada's Biggest Smallest contest, and what I wanted you people to do is to send me the smallest possible trinket or souvenir from their, from their town, from their community, as long as it, it had to fit in a regular size envelope. That is the, that is what is going on. "Love from Calgary." Thank you, Nicole. "Is it worth more if it's smallest?" It will not be ranked purely on size. It will be size and creativity. Ah, OK. Oh, that has a letter.

OK. The sender's name is Leona. And she's from New Westminster, which is my hometown. Biased. If you're ever in New Westminster, I would love for you to stop by my deli. I've been told it's the most fun deli in Canada. And here, this I can attest as a New Westminster person. This is an actual souvenir of New Westminster because we are called the Royal City as it was named for Westminster in England. And it was considered, I think it was by a royal, was the first city in BC. It sounds very royal. And I just don't remember the exact details, but Isn't that cute? And it's a pin, but there's magnet in it, so it's gonna go on our fridge. Way to go, Leona! Thank you.

Oh, I'm gonna do— yeah, put it back in, please.

I can tell you guys, um, a lot of you challenged the definition of letter mail, so it'll be fun to see what came through. Is this the address I should ship the Daimobars? Oh my God, if you send Daimobars, I'm not sure what I would do. Um, oh yeah, then there's an address on the screen. Maybe asking. Yeah, New West represent the Royal City. I went to Herbert Spencer Elementary School. There's only one high school in West, so There we go.

Does that help the— sorry, uh, but sorry about the people who are, um, vertically challenged. There we go. Okay, okay.

All right, your turn.

Thank you. It'll all be mine.

Come up with the idea.

You did come up with the idea, and I buy your fun. You do. Okay, this is from Richmond, from Glenda in Richmond.

What? Sure. Oh, what? She's just playing with the plastic thing. It's fine.

Thank you, Mike.

Oh, oh, pretty. Oh, that's a proper Olympic pin from Richmond.

Love your videos from Glenda. I won't read the rest, but that's so cool.

I love that there's the arrows. This thing. Venue City, that is a real deal.

Jessica, I might do something like that. Yeah, I might. I'll have to figure out what to do with it. I'd like to do something, but I don't know what.

I think you might have to run it again so that you have enough content.

Yeah, so this one has no return address.

So if this is a white powder, And there are quite a few with no return address, which is weird.

Oh, thank you, Chris.

I guess they're like, I don't—

thank you—

I don't want to get any back, you know? They're like, this memento means nothing in case it is lost in the mail.

The thing I love about this is that people are handwriting the letters, and I'm so glad that we I'll tell you what, one of the things I didn't expect with the infusion was that it would be meaningful to the people who came, not just the locals. And I am learning that one of the things that I was not expecting is that people would include letters. So this is from Kamloops. Iver, someone told— someone sent me a photo of this, I think. Thank you for being an oasis of sanity.

You're very welcome.

Thank you. Saying that. That's nice. Is this you, Kamloops Kevin? That seems about right. Hang on, let me just check to see if the first name, first name and, and the letter, uh, match up. Let's see, let's just see, let's just see.

Yay, Kamloops Kevin!

This was a Kevin, so there you go, that's Kevin. He's in the chat right now.

Okay, I got one.

It's really cool, it's really nice. This is actually, it's kind of an enamel pin. I've ordered 100 of these. That's a cool pin of the littlest hobo face with a Canadian maple leaf behind. I've got 100 of these that are being made right now by a lovely woman in Ottawa.

All right. This one, I won't show you the front because that address is on it. It's from Oromocto, New Brunswick. If E. Gormley is here, make yourself known in the chat.

PJ, you will probably get one. It's for— I'm going to— they're for people who are in my audiences at speaking engagements, but I I will probably send them out to members that have been members for a while, which you have, so you'll like to get one. And just wait— sorry, um, if I have— I don't qualify for the contest, but I wanted to say hi. I just want to tell you, you can still send something. You will not qualify for the actual contest, but you can still send if you want to like be part of, uh, of having your thing shown and all that jazz.

Okay, Departure Bay. Hey Robert, that's just up the street, the, uh, tournament capital of Canada. I have been to Kamloops. So many times because of tournaments. Okay, um, all right, hi. Okay, that it's—

I can do it.

I just don't want to show the two. What is it? Oh, it is a real deal! I love the pins. Oramukto, look at that, like a, an embossed metal pin. I love it, it's really official. With a neat little like plaid bit and says, I'm from the town of Oromocto. It's always been labeled Canada's Model Town. We're home to Base Gagetown. Oh, I've heard of that. Our town is made up largely of military and civilian families. Closed is a pin and sample of our tartan. Fingers crossed. Donna, thank you so much. That's awesome. I love the little tartan in there too.

If you want to participate, by the way, The address is— I'm sorry if you are on vertical video, but the address is over here in the corner. I'm gonna go, uh, you'll have to be watching on horizontal to just get—

but the dog is eating a plastic bag.

Who's in the running for winning it out for the cities? All of these people are in the running. Everyone so far is in the running, um, as long as it fits in an envelope and is from Canada. And this one is from Summerland, also in BC.

Summery.

Okay, this is a— first of all, really cool card. Pogo Pogo. Uh, the contest is Canada's Biggest Smallest Contest. It is send me the smallest trinket possible from your community. We'll have to read that later.

There's some good prizes, but just look back at Tod Maffin's video from last week. It has all the prizes in it.

So this person sent us the program for the Summerland Fall Fair.

That's totally fair.

Also cool.

The— can someone— oh, what was I going to— can someone explain to those who don't know what Ogo Pogo is? You know what it is, but the people who aren't from—

we do need a knife, like the fish paring knife.

Yes.

Thank you.

I'm not putting a blade in your hand. The butter knife will be—

sure, whatever. Hello, vertical people. I apologize that some of you are not seeing stuff. I only have figured out how to do it wide. TikTok is— TikTok was horizontal when I saw it, I think. Oh, okay, this one, this one's pin is coming through. So this is from Peachland, BC. This is from Carolyn in Peachland. Uh, it is, Carmen, basically the Canadian version of the Loch Ness Monster. Correct, it is, it is. That's— that is a fair—

fair. It's more like Sasquatch. But yes, Loch Ness.

This person included their business card.

I think Ogopogo is meant to be like a serpent. I don't know if that's what Loch Ness is. It was a big deal when I was a kid. Ogopogo was like a real thing.

Oh, you like the lamp? Oh, you know what? Watch, this is even better. Hey Siri, change the kitchen lights to blue. Hey Siri, change the kitchen lights to green.

I have to show you this lamp. Eh, eh, is that not cool?

Hey Siri, turn on the Jocelyn living room light.

It's got like—

hey Siri, change the Jocelyn living room light to red.

It is an actual pulley, but it doesn't, you know Don't use that part that much.

I just got here. Who is your friend? I don't know, some hot chick that I'm probably gonna bang later.

Um, so chill.

So Peachland, so very shiny and classy.

Oh, that's pretty. I like it. I like pins. I don't know why I like pins. Yep.

Thank you, Carolyn from Peachland.

Me next.

I think we're gonna do 2 categories. I think we have to do smallest, obviously, and then we also maybe most— hey, hey, Ian, how are you? Oh yeah, okay, say hi to your better half for us.

Okay, um, this one is from Langley. Um, Langley is in the Fraser Valley outside of Vancouver. Sorry. This— oh, I hope I didn't drop any. Oh yeah, okay, from the BC Summer Games. I don't know if other provinces do this, but this is a township. Township is different than Langley City, but I don't think it matters to anyone.

It's 2010. Yeah, that's old school.

I remember I actually lived in Surrey.

Um, he's watching, says hi. Hi guys.

Hey, who am I saying hi to? Oh yeah. Um, and here's a participant. Oh, someone actually participated. Exchanging pins is a really big deal in these Summer Games. India and Canada won. And it's from—

oh no. Did you lose it?

No, there's no—

Where's the envelope? Where's the envelope?

The envelope's here. So it's from Mimi. Thank you so much, Mimi. Those are great. I'm curious if you're watching, tell us if you were a participant in the 2010 Summer Games in BC.

Summer Games. Uh, hello from Kildonan.

Okay, I'm a 3 Summer Games, 3 BC Games, uh, alum myself, so it's fun.

He was the Tod Bertuzzi of wheelchair basketball.

I was not a very good wheelchair basketball— that's why I went to—

so, so, rip. Sorry, hang on, letter. Oh, I know where Nakusp is.

I have been to Nakusp. It's so beautiful.

Oh, now this is very interesting. Okay, so thank you Tracy, who is the manager of the Nakusp Visitor Center. And I'm going to try and cover up part of it because I might— so this is very interesting. I, I don't know whether this is new. So here is their sticker, but She says, love it. She says, notice the, the, uh, subliminal message in there.

Us.

There's a heart around the US.

Oh, that's clever. Very clever. I wonder if they actually come because of that. I, I gotta tell you, because I'm a big fan, is I, my very first, um, adopted mountain bike camp was in And I had a great time, and I've been cycling, mountain biking ever since. And thank you, Nakusp. It's wicked out there. I want to live there. So thanks for participating. Um, oh, I lived in Nanaimo during the winter of 20— I thought— sorry. Um, I loved your bit when you held up your participation.

Okay, um, uh, I don't know yet, Moon Willow. Where's your— where are you from? I don't remember seeing a Moon Willow there though.

I think most people—

oh, the floating post office, we have not found that yet. Yeah, may not have gotten here. Okay, you got one?

Yeah. Okay, this one is from Port Moody, BC. And which is again in the outlying Tri-Cities area of Vancouver. Like, it's not in Vancouver, it's in outlying communities, um, next to Burnaby Mountain where SFU is. Hi Dot! Hi Tod! Love the videos, keep them coming from Ron from Port Moody. And it's a Civic pin. Here.

I could do it.

Oh yeah, you do it.

I'm not gonna—

but thanks, Ron. I love City Pins. We're gonna get Bob Kronbauer coming knock on our door to have—

I live in Port Moody for 4 years. Um, you did just send it, might have not have gotten it even though we're neighbors.

No, it's not mail time, Josh. Well, it is mail time, but it's not the deadline for for the contest. We're just— we couldn't help ourselves. I've got a lot of mail and we wanted to open it.

Uh, no, Moonweller, the deadline is still active. It's, um, as long as I get it by Labor Day, that, that will qualify.

Open it?

Yeah, sure. And to be perfectly honest, if it comes in later, that's fine too. Like, this is not a big deal contest. Um, so yeah, no, you can still— it'll still come. I'm gonna tell people Labor Day, but I'll probably still accept stuff. Yeah, it dribbles in, and if there's a— if there's a strike anyway, then, you know, what can you win? I'll tell you what you win. You win quite a big prize pack, by the way, of BC Gourmet Food. Um, it's worth several hundred dollars. It's like the fanciest jam and the fanciest chocolate, and it's fun. It's real— it's really good. You win that, it will be sent to you wherever you live in Canada. And I will also do a video on the town, the community that it comes from.

It'll be weird if it's Nanaimo.

I think we have to exclude Nanaimo, frankly.

Aw, but all the people— there are a lot of letters from Nanaimo. So we'll come up with something else.

A special hometown award. This is from Kim in Calgary. It's probably a sticker. Oh, that's cool. It's a guitar pick with— You know what, this is, this is my—

it's very cool.

This is my favorite so far because it's pretty unique. So it's this person's song. It's from the Blues Festival. It's from the Calgary Blues Festival.

I love it. And that is a cool one. Our Labor Day in New Zealand isn't until the end of October. Oh, that's weird.

Oh, I see.

That's— you're not on the Labor Day, um, holiday. That I think it was France who thought that one up. Someone tell me about the label.

Please rig it for me.

Okay, this one's that town that you—

oh, it's from Creston, which I, which I lived in briefly. Okay. Is known across the country as one of the most successful food banks in Canada. Okay, it's still in here.

Yeah, it felt like there was something hard in there.

Oh yeah, okay. It's a magnet. I got it at Gleaners. Does it actually have the community name on it though? Oh my god, yeah, it does. Creston Valley. Creston Valley up at the very top above Gleaners. It says Creston Valley.

You know, this is a big, um, not a brand, but like, I think that there's other communities I've been in have Gleaners as well in the same kind of Oh, oh, thanks Radio. Please rig it for me.

Yeah, I know.

Oh, okay, sorry, I missed that. Possibly Wawa and Terry. Um, all right, I guess I'll open this. Um, no address, no return address. Okay, not giving him— uh, okay, long— oh, you hold it up. Oh. An Irish coin.

All right, let's— I'm gonna read it. Uh, I hope you enjoy your— I enjoyed your channel. Tiny Treasures contest, great idea. I hope you get interested. I'm sending you a Toronto Transit Commission token. Lover, until June of 2025, this would have gotten you a ride on our public transit system, TTC, known locally as Take the Car.

That's terrible.

That's awesome.

Oh, sad.

This little guy may have crisscrossed Toronto dozens of times going from pocket to fare box to be collected and resold to do it all again. But alas, the TTC no longer accepts tokens as fare payment, so it's been relegated to a souvenir of the past, destined to get lost in the couch or sucked up in the vacuum. So I've decided to send it on one last epic journey, not across the city but across the country.

Okay, that's my favorite.

Happy travels, little guy. I love it.

Okay.

Okay, Josh, thank you so much for that. And Kim, if you are here, Josh just gave you a membership to my channel, which means you are— you'll be getting, uh, behind-the-scenes video. I'll show the thing, uh, every week. And so that's kind of hard to see, I think. How much spray cheese can we send to the PO box? I'm still going through— let me put it this way, I'm still going through the spray cheese that, that was given. So thank you, Josh. That was very nice of you. Where's this? Goes here. Yeah. Okay, we're gonna open this. We're gonna save this to the last because it's quite large, so I'm curious to know what's in it. But we've got about 4 or 5 left. Ready to come play Marvel Rivals with us? I mean, I probably will. I probably will. But like, I have to learn all the characters and their abilities and their ultimates and But I will. I'm into it. I mean, it's basically Overwatch. This is from Lilouette. Yes, this is from Lilouette. Not one of these contain money, by the way. No, I'm kidding. Oh, a letter as well. Hey, what is this? Awfully heavy. Resident of Lillooet since 1974. I have met Ma Murray and I have seen the play Ma in the Sagebrush Theatre in Kamloops. Many years ago I met her daughter Georgina in a jumbo jet 30,000 feet above Spain. Waiting for a queue in the bathrooms. I do not understand what this is. This one is— oh, it comes in a pouch. Yeah, I'm not going to open it because it's taped. It looks like a coin. It does have like Lillooet on it, so it does qualify for the contest, but I'm not sure what it is. There's not really an explanation of what this is. So when we do further deeper dive into this, then we'll— and we'll do that. Dina, thank you so much. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. I hope you enjoy it. So people in the Todd Squad, or that's what I call the membership, um, every week you get a behind-the-scenes video that is— I don't post publicly. It's mostly about our personal life, um, a lot of health stuff these days. I had a post that nobody liked. I've had a couple of videos that nobody liked, um, one big one that took me a long time to edit, and it was about the future of the world. And so I talk about all that kind of stuff, so There's that, plus I do a special essay every week, almost weeks, for the people who are members as well. Plus there's lots of little things. So the contest, Deborah, is Canada's Biggest Smallest Contest. I've asked people to send me the smallest trinket from their community, and this is from Nanaimo, and it just has to be tiny. Okay, and it is a— it is a Nanaimo pin. That's a nice one, actually. I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it. In the running. I mean, they're all in the running, of course. All right, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 left. I was so surprised when these many were there. I was stunned. I don't quite know how to open it. I'm going to leave this for Jocelyn. Better than I am. Okay, this is from Calgary. Carolyn and David from Calgary. Here is my smallest souvenir. It is a commemorative coin representing my hometown. Ah, I got in trouble from the Newfoundlanders because I mis— no, it was the PEIers because I mispronounced this name. Souris, Manitoba. Souris is a very picturesque town situated on the Souris River. The population is 1,800. They have the largest swinging bridge in Canada, but their real claim to fame is all of the peacocks that roam freely about town. Crazy. So it is an anniversary coin from that community. Need to get a map and stick all the pins to it. That's a great idea. That is a great idea.

Oh, like, actually, yeah, yeah. Um, also that app to put little metaphorical pins.

Yeah, don't send anything you're afraid of losing or that you're afraid of me not returning, because I probably will— sorry, because I probably will not return them. I'm just bad at record keeping and I'm lazy.

I think that is a rule. We are not sending back.

Yeah, if, if people didn't know that, then we are not sending this back. Well, if people didn't know that and they sent it anyway, then yeah. But I mean, I think generally that's the— I think I've said that on the videos too.

I haven't seen anything at all.

Uh, McBride, BC. I'm a big fan. From Wanda. Oh, Wanda's included an actual stamped self-addressed envelope. I guess those can go back. So this is kind of a neat little magnet thing. Oh, is it a magnet? Oh no, you know what? It's a book. Oh, you know, I could use this. I think it's— I think, I think it is a— a Colleen, you can make swag and put your town name on it if you like. I think it's a bookmark because it's got magnets. In the middle.

Oh yeah, I think you're right. Really pretty.

Spell the name of the manager of the town. S-O-U-R-I-S-O. S-O-U-R-I-S. It looks like Suris.

Suris means mouse, doesn't it? As like my tiny, um, actual knowledge about French.

Um, yeah, I think it's a part. And in fact, I was so embarrassed that I mispronounced Surrey, PEI, that the next day after I was smacked down by the entire provincial body, I got myself a copy. What are you doing? Oh, I got myself a copy of the Canadian Press Stylebook, which, which I have wanted to have again for a while. And it has in here a pronunciation guide of every community in Canada. Yeah, like pick a community and I'll tell you.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, I— my niece and I were digitizing old photos and found a bunch of telegrams from whose Moustiquato.

Can you know— do you know the first 3 or 4 letters?

O-S-U-M-O-S. I can find it, find it, because I searched for it. I'd never heard of it before. It's a new—

does it look like Miss Kooch? It's pronounced Miss Kooch. Is it Miss Kooch?

No.

Oh, that's also a B-E-I.

It's Miss Kootaboit. Nova Scotia.

Oh, there it is. Here it is. It's Musquodobit. Musquodobit. Musquodobit.

In the 1881 telegram that we were looking at, they pronounced it— they wrote it as two separate words. Musquodobit.

Funny. Anyway, it looks like it was the If you guys want to know how to pronounce any community, let me know and I will tell you.

It was the closest one to my ancestor, I guess. Oh, OK.

Thank you. This is from Caitlin in the city that rhymes with fun.

That's a nice story. It's vagina. Vagina.

Oh, I'm a fan of this one. It's not the smallest, but it certainly is the coolest and most unique so far. Is there— oh, it's a 3D print, so they made it themselves. What? It is a hockey stick with the name, I assume, of the community.

Balgonie. Balgonie. Where? Where? Oh, Saskatchewan.

Actually, let's look that up.

No, Balgonie, I bet.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, they don't have it.

I love how the Canadian Press style guide is like the main character.

Hey, yeah, they don't have it listed.

Bad. Oops. Pronounce Gjoa Haven, Northwest Territory. I'm gonna say Joe Haven. Goja.

It also doesn't have it. I'm a little disappointed. The ones that like it had Yeah, it doesn't have that one either. Okay, thank you.

Has anyone ever heard of Musquodoboit in Nova Scotia? Is that still there? It was a telegraph station at some point in the— Um, okay. Oh, I'll do this one. Um, here's my entry into your smallest item contest. From the province of Newfoundland. I'm so glad. Love Newfoundland. Um, I found this old coin during my hike on Mount Trio, which is in St. John's, Newfoundland. And as we are the last to join Confederation, I would assume that it came ships from England. Oh, that's lore. Um, I hope it brings you good luck. Prosper. My name is Nora and I am 73 years old. Way to go, Nora! Do you want to show it? No, the address. Yeah, yeah, Johaven is the pronunciation. That's cool, Tina, thank you. Johaven. I was, I was getting close. Oh, Muscogee is a popular town. Thank you.

When I do these for real, I will take good photos of them so you can see this actually. In reality, it is— actually, I can't see anything on here. Oh, you know what, Nora? Might not qualify. Doesn't have the community name on it, I don't think. Or it might, and I'm just going old. But what is it?

Coin from maybe the English settled. Oh, because it's the last province, the, um, Confederation. They've predated the—

oh no, there is text on it. It's— this is an incredibly old coin. I think it's unreadable, really. I might have to— do we have a coin dealer in, in, uh, yep. Yeah, I might take that to them and see if they know what this—

we've got a mystery. Better than a coin, you gave us a mystery.

Exactly. That was kind of— wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, where's this envelope? Yeah, because I'm gonna— yeah, thank you. It is, it is dark, dark, dark brown. Like, it is— you— it's illegible as far as anything.

Oh, Sue, you gotta get on it. We're excited to see whatever you want to share. I mean, if it fits in a letter.

The address is up here, and I'm— I do this. There you go. Yeah. It's really hard to do. There, there it is. The address is up here, and I'm sorry for those people who are only seeing the middle part of the screen because I just cannot figure it out.

Sure. What are you doing? We have a very mischievous—

this is from an— no location.

Sure, I'll deal it.

So this is from Courtney. Oh, this is from Courtney. Just up there.

Go Courtney! We love Courtney.

Up the road from us.

This— I think you need to open it. Mail.

DJ, can I ask you a question? Can I make you a mod on my YouTube channel? I need mods on my YouTube channel and you've been around long enough and I think you'd be a good person. All it is is just basically removing assholes, which there haven't been any assholes. Um, but if you'd be willing to do that, let me know. Okay, thanks. What is the contest? It is Canada's Biggest, Smallest Contest. Okay, perfect. It's not a responsibility, you don't have to do it. It's just, it's just in— just let me find you and then I'll, and then I will, um, nominate you or however that looks. It's just, it just helps in case So let's go. Oops, we find you. And then what is the contest? It is Canada's biggest contest. Add as moderator. Okay, sorry about the audio. Hold on. And manage blocked words and change chat modes in live. It also came— all right, I put you this. Congratulations. Wield, wield it with power. Wield your power. What is this audio?

Are you guys—

oh no. Are you guys okay? I think we're okay, right? We're okay. There's no echo right now as I'm speaking. No, I don't— you don't have to PM me anything. I just, I just made you a moderator. You now have the power. Congratulations. Wield it with mercy and justice. Okay, thank you. This is unlisted. They've made an envelope, kind of like you in school, you made one of these things.

I think, I think they're called finger puzzles. I think they had, um, less appropriate.

And this is from— it looks like an animal. No, that was me. Hi, this is from my vintage collection from the 1970s. Oh cool, like it. It's White Rock, White Rock, BC. Very cool, very cool. This is a little hard.

What is it from?

White Rock?

No, what is it?

White Rock SAC. I don't know what that is. You could Google this little envelope thing.

No echo. Yes, we can.

Littered with pineapples, and I think we all know what that means. Do you? I read the internet. Oh no, no, that's, that's at the end. Okay, this is Victoria. This is from Victoria. I love your videos. We need more awareness of Canada and our history, so thank you. I live in Colwood in a 1950s era home, and I love that our community protects its history. The item I included is perfect because it embodies what is best about Colwood— comfort and history and celebrating quietly with a nice cup of tea. Ah yes. A cup of tea. Oh, this person is, uh, is using her— their Gmail address to see if I'm sending them, uh, sending them spam. See, on Gmail you can put plus and then any word you want.

Oh yeah, and it'll still get to you. Hollywood Heritage.

True.

Not an upside down with, uh— and it even has like the searches.

That's right, PJ now has the power. PJ can time people out, put them in a corner.

Can I say that Colwood is near Victoria on Vancouver Island, and it's where the Royal Roads campus is, where it used to be military college and it's now— I think it's not private, but it's like a management school. And it has one of the most beautiful parks on it. Grounds are like stunning.

I was going to say, why didn't they send us tea?

They had a cup of tea.

I love tea.

I will sample.

We do this now? Should we sample now?

There you go. Do it.

I can't.

I've been getting up and down. I'm not getting up from right now. We'll do a separate video.

Okay.

Look at these.

Was this— which one was this? This was out of the big brown one? No, this one. That was this one. Oh, yeah, right. I was very excited. I thought, cool tea.

Yeah. So anyway, I was just saying, Koh Lied, if you are anywhere near Koh Lied or you're going Allwood. Go to the Railroads campus if you're into like superhero movies. I think a few of them were filmed at the Railroads campus itself. And the most amazing place to mountain bike. I mean, not mountain bike. It's so beautiful. Can't even tell you.

This person is from Lone Butte.

Cute. Cute.

Well, let's find out.

My mom was born in Central Butte, Saskatchewan.

This is in BC.

We did a great video on Colwood earlier. What the heck? How did we not—

damn it, it doesn't have this either. What good is this book?

When did we do a great video on Colwood?

We did, we did when we were, when we were in Victoria, when we were at the cabin. Remember, we went, we tooted around and we went to a beach, we went to a little store.

No, Colwood is not in Michaux. Uh, Colwood is on the way too much.

Yeah, yeah, we did it about Colwood.

Oh, it was Michosen, PJ.

Oh, maybe it was Michosen.

Colwood is a little bit more suburban. Michosen's like full-on agricultural and horses and orchards and stuff. Under Mile House, that's our— one of our close friends, it is where her family is.

You are correct, it's Butte. But lone bot is more fun to say, can we agree on that?

It's true.

Are we at the last one?

I think we're not sitting on it. The loose ones over there? I had— I think I need—

Yeah, you need to check a little bit more. Maybe there's some over there on the left.

Burn the book, we have the internet now. Way to go, Gord.

Oh, here's why.

Okay, it was already disqualified in my book, but it's very funny.

I'm so glad this is the last one.

I'll show it and you read it.

No, no, just wait, just wait.

We have to show the thing.

We will, we will. We have to build up the narrative, uh, arc.

Todd is, uh, a fascist about storytelling.

I am.

It's a problem.

There's an arc. I live in Victoria and I was born and raised here. When I became a teacher, I moved to the intern to teach school. I took a stone from the beach near my house as a memento. Anyway, this is quite long and it looks like it might be personal, so I'm not going to read too much of it. It's literally a rock, but they did write— they did write Victoria. Oh, it's kind of a heart rock, but they did write Victoria, BC on it.

That is very cute.

So like, how—

we did say it was okay to craft your own.

Yeah, well, we said it was okay to craft your own.

They wrote the name on it.

That's not crafting the object.

This one already had a strike against it because It was not letter mail.

It was not letter mail.

And to me, that's important because it's the only way to keep from the spiraling of democracy. I mean, to keep from the rules being broken so that people end up paying a lot of money. And it says parcel. I can't do that.

Parcel. Parcel mail, yeah.

Parcel mail.

Yeah.

Like—

The rule was that you could—

Good effort.

The rule was that it has to be— something that where your community name is an intrinsic part of the object. You can't just take anything and write your community name on it. However, you could hand-make something entirely, and then you can't take an existing object like a stone or a sticker and write something, but you can create something brand new and then put your—

but I gotta say, a rock is community, especially Vancouver Island, which is one big mossy rock.

I'm keeping this.

It's— I think it's great and funny, and I think it— if it wasn't for having not done doing letter mail, and even up because, um, but, uh, it is a long card. Yeah. Summer at Willow's Beach, Oak Bay. Always shown off about.

So I'm going to leave you with this story. So Jocelyn and I are— we like to consider ourselves penguins. And the whole model of a penguin is that penguins, they mate for life. And thank you. Yeah, you know where I'm going with this. Is they mate for life and they just have one partner, basically. Like, they're very— they're very— like, there's always a little husband and wife penguin couple. And whenever you see the videos, there's always— there's usually two little penguin couples. It's like a boy and a girl couple. And then— and they're— anyway, and apparently to show their love for each other, they go and they give each other pebbles. That it? Or stones, right? And they'll find a stone and they'll bring it to the other penguin.

I guess we don't know their love, but they do it only for their mate.

Yes. Yeah. And so we have occasionally, when someone's needed cheering up, gone out—

or husband and husband, or husband, husband.

Yeah, it could be. Yeah, it could be.

They are known to not only—

and there might be poly penguin families, we don't know. My point is, my point is, or whatever. Anyway, my point is, is that they get for their spouse or partner a little rock and they give them to it. And so we have taken to occasionally, like, if things get Def Con 4, if things are bad, like we're stressed out or had a bad time at work.

Not bad between us.

No, no, not bad between us, but just in life and you want to support the other person. Def Con 4 is a Blizzard at Dairy Queen. And Def Con 5 is the pebble.

I have a pebble hidden.

I have to read this. Come back to Australia. We would love to come back to Australia, but not in winter again.

This sender, Jean, redeems herself. I'm— unless it's Jean. So they— I'm gonna say they. I live in Victoria and was born and raised here. When I became a teacher, I moved to the interior to teach school. I also— or I took a stone from the beach near my house as a moment. I loved my work but longed for the rain, ocean. I was lucky to return to the island 17 years later and worked in education 30 more years before retiring as a school principal. And a lovely school on the ocean in Bay. Students would play at the beach at lunch. Wow. Um, collectively collecting heart-shaped stones to give to me. Talking about the story development, this one takes the cake. Um, and they knew the heart is my favorite shape. So I give to you one of my heart-shaped stones as a souvenir of Victoria with all you do, um, to remind us how very lucky we are to live in incredibly special country. Huge gift to be—

oh, now we have to put it in.

You're back in.

Yeah, she's back in.

You're back in. What are we gonna do?

The female penguin also dumps the kids on the males until they hatch. Well, that's not right. Great perk.

We don't have kids. This is so cute. What a great way to end it. Um, you still didn't follow the rules, Gene, but you can tell that story.

That's all right. So it's not too late if you want to enter the contest. It has to arrive by Canadian Labor Day, which I learned today is different than New Zealand Labor Day. So Canadian Labor Day, which is like—

it's actually the 1st of September.

Is it really?

I think, yeah.

Um, you can mail it to— one moment please— mail it to this address. I'm put it in the middle so that the other folks can see it.

Doreen Simmons, um, my grandpa, yeah, would spray paint little rocks from the landscaping in his city for us as his grandkids. Thought we'd—

All right. Well, are you hungry? I haven't made dinner yet. And it's like almost 8 o'clock. I was going to make—

I guess we should feed ourselves.

I was going to make fish burgers. Are you OK with fish burgers? So thank you, PJ, for agreeing to become a moderator. Thank you.

Voluntold, if I ever heard it.

No, no, no, not at all. I asked. Thank you all for coming out. Thank you for sending. I was stunned that we had that many in the mailbox. And more to come, I'm sure. Um, if you want to enter Canada's Biggest, Smallest Contest, here's the address. And, uh, as long as it fits in a regular letter-sized envelope, it just needs to go by letter mail.

So as long as Canada Post accepts it as letter mail, you're good, you're good.

Um, and then it has to arrive by Labor Day, and then we will do a big video and opening and crown the winners.

Can I also ask, having tried to open those, please don't tape your letters all the way to the end of envelope flap, please. It was really hard to not actually stab your letters down the middle with a knife. That's my—

DJ, I think so.

I think I'll have to pop off next.

Have to. I did a video. We did a video today. It is up on the channels. No one has so far seen the Easter egg. You haven't even seen the Easter egg yet. Yeah, so the— it is— if you go to pretty much any of the channels that you people are on, you are looking for the video that looks like— here is the— let me—

so, um, Labor Day is the first, uh, Monday in Canada and America.

It looks like this. Barney vs. Trump Game Show is good. And the, uh, and the, the thing that people have not seen Which was a suggestion during the live of me doing it, is if you look carefully, there's a little—

Ah, JD Vance.

There's a little JD Vance in the corner.

Aw, no couch.

Oh, I should have put a couch. That would have been even funnier.

I want you guys to all know that Tod did not tell me the topic or anything about the video before. I sat down and was interviewed. So that doesn't make me want to see it then.

Yeah, exactly. All right. Thanks, everyone. Thank you for your support.

Oh, hey, you hear those? Thank you. Thank you for watching.

Thank you for watching. Thank you for becoming a member if you did. And if not, feel free to enjoy everything else. The newsletter is free. And it's at farandwide.news. I got every answer right. Well, that was kind of the point.

Yeah. The green sparkly jacket, we've had that for a while and we— I'm just— Greg. It's gorgeous and I think we'll see it.

We will.