Joe Whitbread 🇨🇦

If everyone is told they’re special, no one is. Ai allows everyone to explore talents they wish they had. (artist, creator, video producer, graphic designer, writer, etc.) If everyone has “talent”, then no one does.

How connected are Canadians? Over 9.9 million sq/km separates us but I bet you know someone who will be at Game 7.

Would be hilarious if Katy Perry sang the Canadian National anthem for Game 7. 😂🇨🇦

So many find life unaffordable right now but I also witness $9 daily cold coffees, exorbitantly expensive water bottles, & a variety of disposable ‘stuff’ delivered to front steps weekly. Sorry, but can someone make ‘unaffordable’ make sense to me?

Thats a wrap! Thanks for an amazing year of cheer!

Literacy week means baseball books for kids at Glendale Sciences and Technology School in Red Deer. Students and staff met Sully and we learned some new pitches too.

When you’re little, everything in your closet casts a fearful shadow. As you grow up, you realize there’s no boogeyman in there. Canadians are supposed to be scared of the boogeyman again today but I refuse. It’s just the sad shadow from an oversized, cheap suit.

The Canadian election is barely 24hrs old and the splatter and spew from both sides of the electorate is already obvious. Anyone else lose respect for people you thought you knew yet? 🙋‍♂️

Your bias is showing.
On the right side of history or not, your ideas are perpetuated by confirming what you already know & think. Where did your ideas come from & why are others’ so damn different than yours? 🤔

Public comments are often negative because that’s where bullies get validation. Direct messages & private texts are where the kind people go. Because they want you to know you are loved. ♥️

Buying Canadian is no longer a subtle suggestion or National gesture, it’s one of economic survival. Canadians have to put their money where their freedom is & our governments have to make it much easier and affordable to actually do. 🇨🇦

Provincials in Abbotsford are underway. It’s another exciting cheer weekend in BC to kick off March! 🎤

Is it me, or does it feel like intellect isn’t an asset anymore?

A wet work weekend at the Olympic Oval in Richmond, BC.
Lots of energy for the Mardi Parti Cheer Extravaganza! Never saw ‘Cheer Announcer” coming, but it’s been a fun gig for me these past few years. 🎤

McCanada 🇨🇦

Podcasts aren’t hard.
Marketing podcasts consistently is hard.

That’s why everyone has a podcast but not everyone has listeners. 🎙️

We’re divided because the rhetoric and spew gets oxygen and we’re all the media that we lost trust in, now.

We bestow power. Of course they take it.

You know what’s more scary than cults?
People in cults often don’t know they’re in cults. 😬

Door photos. Door metaphors:
• You can only ever open one door at a time.
• Sometimes we choose the wrong door & OK to go back, even though we’re told to forge ahead.
• Watch for open doors, but closed doors can still be opened.

“Don’t think about having. Focus on becoming.” - Jerry Seinfeld

Thanks Greg. I don’t object to disagreement: I do it too in public and ironic posts like this. But few are willing to have their mind changed online. This place (and other micro conversation platforms) can’t provide necessary expression to move a point, unfortunately. Yet many try.

Points made in a social post or its comments section are rarely open to debate. Like religious & political views, few online opinions are ever open to actual reasoning or debate, only staunch stance or argument. So, why do so many people fall for it?

The high road is the best route to the long game. 🛣️

We’ll see 363 performances in three days, and over 120 teams (20-30 athletes per). Add 2-4 parents, family members per athlete, and you’ve got about 7,000 or more rotating attendance and through the door this weekend.

Amazing energy and excitement from the floor at the Edmonton Expo Centre for Cold Snap 2025: Western Canada’s largest Cheer and Dance Championships! 🎤

Hate & hurt will always be louder & cut deeper than kindness & love can. You’ll see more of it on social media too. Recognize that the mass majority aren’t laughing out loud or bullying, they’re sad for those doing it. ♥️

So, let me get this straight. I can find any podcast “anywhere I get my podcasts”?

Scammers are out in full force again this holiday season. Often luring from foreign lands, they attempt to steal from good people through a variety of cowardly & dastardly tactics. What’s worse than the scams themselves, is the erosion of basic trust caused by their now-daily onslaught.

Full moon on Friday the 13th. What could go wrong? 🌕

Take bags inside the store.
Take bags inside the store.
Take bags inside the store.
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