Eric & Gord: What If We"re Right?

One last chance to listen to the world changing. As a final farewell Host, Producer and Show Creator Eric Hunt's first installment showcasing his favorite clips from nearly five years of Eric & Gord:What If We're Right?

In This episode : Clips from 2019 2020 & 2021

00:00:19:000 Woody Allen

00:03:45.000 Gay Orgies

00:07:51.300 Indian Textile Factories

00:21:24.314 Active Shooter Drills in Schools

Welcome to a brand new episode of Eric & Gord: What If We're Right? Dive into a whirlwind of intriguing discussions and surprising revelations as Eric and Gord reflect on the undeniable changes in the world since they started podcasting. From the dramatic drop in cigarette smoking to the surge in global democracy, they humorously ponder the potential impact of their show on these positive trends.

In This Episode:

00:00:00 - This program is for adult audiences only

00:00:19 - Since Gordon started podcasting, global suicide rates have dropped by 38%

00:05:30 - Halif: The Halif cannibalized 93% of ant corpses

00:09:57 - There's probably a group walking by right about now. Someone should put a pylon out or something

00:11:07 - Northern California hiker killed by giant redwood in national park

00:15:23 - 100 people a year die from falling trees, according to one study

00:20:14 - Number ten on the list, 104 people are killed by wind

00:23:46 - News reporter in Oklahoma says gorilla looks just like her

00:27:38 - A sharp knife is a safe blade. A dull knife is an accident waiting to happen

Join us for a blend of humor, thought-provoking conversation, and a touch of the bizarre. Whether you’re looking for a laugh or some insightful commentary, this episode has it all. Don’t miss out on the fun!

Pearl Jam

[Pearl Jam Official Website](https://www.pearljam.com/)

Muir Woods National Monument

[Muir Woods National Monument](https://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm)

Baltimore Homicide Statistics

[Baltimore Sun Crime Data](https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/)

NXS

[INXS Official Website](https://www.inxs.com/)

Gord's Little Shop of Sharpening

[Gord's Little Shop of Sharpening on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/GordsLittleShopOfSharpening/)

A Special interview with Patricia Cameron - a terminal cancer patient approved for medically assisted dying

Originally Published March 09, 2021

omorrow. Season 3 finale n! 00:00:00 - 00:05:02 The following program for adult audiences only would like us on facebook sony instagram. But i should have it for tomorrow night. So the season finale from computer not we exciting and then we gotta figure out next week. Yeah i'm abby. Tuesday march eighth believe nine twenty twenty one and i don't have an intro but go to facebook. Watch the funny video. I just think gordon is funny. Have a chance to watch it yet. It's from two years ago. it's good stuff. It's a anniversary video. 'cause tonight technically is the anniversary of our season finale New season starts on martine. Everybody thanks for listening. Thanks for telling your friends. Thanks for paying attention for the last two episodes of the season. Then we take a little break. I don't think it'll be all the way till the eighteenth. I don't know we'll talk. We'll figure it out. But then we're back and i realized With my meant to talk about off the air. I may have to change the entire format the show but i don't want to tell the people why it will be a surprise for me as it will be for you guys but that'd be no longer engorged sitting around going live anything really neither. Neither none of this is talking about her shoes. So but a pair of shoes i. Nobody wants to hear that we're talking about. She's but we do have that one episode. Nobody gives a shit about your forklift Because we just sat. You're talking about forklifts because we had nothing talk. I mean there's some to be said for a free form conversation but still makes a difference inch absolutely does and that's actually a popular now because our indian fans are phenomenal. And they'll apparently listen to anything. Thank you guys. Yeah so we'll see season four coming up going to be the best season ever to be a lot more public engagement. A league that our guests All in all just all star season. We're looking forward to but it's going to be different and it's gonna be interesting how we pulled off. I'm excited. I am too. Because i think everything that i am. I'm happy with will go away. Certainly the hope. I miss talk everyday and i i but there's no reason we can't do that to know. Sure we can surely will podcast. I don't think we've done that but we could if we wanted to. We have but anyway. That's not that's not for you guys to know just know that we're doing our best season ever but there's doubt now there's only there's being tired there's no more like anything that annoys me that will end and that's good. I also think looked better quality guests if just guest and we have a whole week to prepare for that guest and no more surprises. No more worries that no more me asking to miss before we start the show. Hey what's our gas name again. Absolutely still happen. I guarantee he asked is probably more guests. What what podcast. The one we do every week but wooded dog about data's cleaning with the same day every week do what who are you scored. That's my impression of gord. By the he's an. It's quite accurate at at a lovely argument in not completely unintended today on facebook about kobe and the masks not is i said it's not about the mast. It's about what they represent about a corrupt government telling us what to do and if we let them if we give them this one then. The next one's going to be a lot more uncomfortable than masks. I promise you and some guy got back to be with okay. You don't like wearing your mask all. Take off your mask and go volunteer at a covid warden. And immediately responded. Are you allowed to do that. I would love to do that. 00:05:03 - 00:10:04 That would be bright. That would prove point about fifteen seconds. He's like and he was saying how he works in the hospital. Because as i was when you see it up close personal people dying. You'll change your tune and like all right. What's your point of reference. She's like i worked there. I see every day and then he brought up this ugo volunteer with your mask. Can you give me in... Support this podcast

Originally Aired on June 20th, 2018, This episode is the first successful recording with Gord (He hadn't agreed to be a Co-Host at this point)

The following program is for adult audiences only. This is, this is Eric and Gord. What if we're right, live right now. Are you ready? Find and like us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. I don't have anything to drink. I hate my life. Here we go on 3, 2, 1, 0. Well, hi there. Happy Sunday. It's June the 10th. And I'm Eric talking at you as always, from beautiful downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where if you have to argue the semantics between sexual assault and rape, you've probably already gone too far.

Okay, we'll call that long enough. That's a little shorter than normal. Welcome to, is it Just Me, a special Sunday edition. The reason we're doing a special Sunday edition is because I am canceling, um, Eric Brennan's Sunday School. Eric Bre Sunday School is just too much work or too little reward. Uh, maybe I'll pick it up again in the future, but it's really hard to do what we do on camera and, uh, try to make it fun and interesting, um, with substandard equipment.

So that was a long-winded thing to talk about. Um, welcome to the show everybody. Podcasting. Fm, very happy to be back working with Anchor FM because it just opens up a whole bunch of new doors. This doesn't mean that I'm abandoning speaker.com because they just opened three new doors for us too. So that's three more platforms where you can listen to this show.

Um, and plus, with what Anchor does for us, it's pretty much anywhere you can hear a podcast. You can hear me and Gord, speaking of Gord, how are you tonight sir? I am fantastic. How you doing buddy? I am, we're almost four minutes into a whole recording, so I'm doing really well.

We'll take our victories while we can get 'em. Exactly. How is the Province of Ontario? No one's burned it down yet. No, no, we haven't started the the riots yet, so we're doing okay with that. I'm happy with the weather. We haven't had any sweltering heat for this last, uh, almost week, so I've been pretty happy with that too.

That's been nice as a, uh, that's fantastic. As a fat ginger, I am not a fan of the heat, so, you know,

you know, after, after all, you've got winter coming in about a week or Yeah. Something that, yeah, it's usually about every three weeks you get a good blast of winter.

We're, uh, we're pretty standard Vancouver weather here. It's been, uh, cloudy and dreary and can't make up its mind. It won't rain, but it won't get nice. Perfect. Uh, very despondent weather. Yeah. The very atypical BC weather.

Need a Woody Allen soundtrack playing. All right. I am I making weird noises here? I don't know. So, um, little disorganized tonight. I wasn't expecting to be, but I am behind schedule trying to get the mobile studio up and running. Uh, so Gord, did you wanna start us off tonight with, uh, maybe pick up some stuff you didn't get to say last night?

Um, or whatever you like. Well, one thing I didn't get to touch up on last night, um, I did a Facebook post about this, um, the other day. Um, I had, uh, you know, I'm out here, I'm, you know, getting, trying to get some new work going and, uh, first of all, Ontario is very sexist in what they're willing to hire you for.

I have actually only walked into three separate companies and asked about a job, and all three times I've been told specifically, sorry, you're a guy that is for women only. And, uh, well, I have never such a thing. It was unbelievable. Um, that was all three for, for customer service based jobs. Um, two was to work in a bar as a server.

I was just flat out told, no, if you wanna work in the back of the kitchen, no problem, but we don't have dudes in the front. Um, and the other one was for an office job. And I was told, no, no, no office jobs are for women. And it was a woman who told me this. I do believe that is against the law, but I don't know Ontario law.

Oh, it is the very definition of sexism against the law. Absolutely. But uh, yeah, it is what it is. And welcome to Ontario. So as a guy, the funny thing, yeah.

I wanna know if anyone else has encountered this. I want send in an email to maybe it's me [email protected]. Have you ever experienced sexism in a word, male or female? Uh, call in and, uh, a message here on Echo, echo fm, uh, phone number. 3, 4, 3 9, 7 4 5. And leave a message and please specify if you don't want your message played on the show.

'cause if you don't specify, we will play it. Have you experienced sex at all in applying for a job? I can tell you, like as a guy, this is the first time in my life I've ever actually experienced this. In a sense, reverse sexism, if you will. Uh,

You're here a job, you will work in the warehouse. I'm like, I don't wanna work in the warehouse. I'm fucking old. I'm, my body is half falling apart and it's not what I wanna do anymore. Put me in front of people. No, no, no. I'm gonna get you slinging because you're a guy. Shocking. You know what? It's funny, I'm, I experienced something very similar last week where, uh, I was told by an, a job placement agency that, uh, manual labor was what I've cut out for and the fact that I'm now old, my knees are shot, my back can't do what it used to, that's irrelevant.

It's, I'm a, I'm a construction worker and that's what I'll be until I can't do it any. So it's uh, that, that, that part makes sense to me. But the, the flat out being told it's a job for a woman, I don't see how that's even tolerated in this day and age. Yeah, there it is. My buddy who's a director of HR for a company, when I told him he is like, you know, you should be charging 'em.

I said, that would be three separate lawsuits I'd be going through and I've been in the province for a week. Like, come on, you.

Um, but my, wow. The thing I wanted to, what I, what set me off on my initial rant wasn't actually about the sexism. It was the, it was what I actually had to go through. It was a job placement thing where they're doing like a job fair. They had three areas that you could apply for, um, office work, forklift drivers, and um, warehouse work, general labor work.

I went in to apply for the office work because again, I'm good with people, I'm good with customer service, I'm good with the phones, and I was told, no, you're a dude. That's for women, so no, no, no. You'll be, you'll, you'll be applying for the forklift or this. I'm like, I don't wanna do those. I. So she hands me the forms to fill out.

This is probably one of the most depressing things I've ever done in my life, and I've dug graves for people. I mean, I've worked in cemeteries, I've made monuments, I've worked in warehouses, I've done midnight shifts. I've done jobs where people off themselves for a regular basis in, and this hands down was the most depressing shit I've ever dealt with.

The, the, the, the, the testing they have me do, it's right. It's testing for a two year old and this is the companies that want to hire saying, well, you should be able to do this. And I'm just like, I couldn't understand how low the expectations were and what the minimum requirement was. 'cause it was so, it was so s.

Here's nine more versions of that picture. Between one and three of each row will be different. Circle the different ones. And I'm like, this is what you do in grade school. Like, why am I 40 years old doing the same type of bullshit? It just, it just, I I was mind numbed about it, but what was, I wonder? Not sorry.

I, I, I just wonder if that corresponds with, um, Education levels in Ontario. It'd be interesting to look up numbers of, you know, high school graduate percentages and whatnot. Maybe that is the, uh, the standard testing for a 40 year old male. You know, it, it sure as hell shouldn't be. Absolutely not. But, uh, that's something we'll have to look into and get and get back in touch on.

Maybe there is a, a. School system or something. Well, I had asked, I'm like, is there, 'cause like when she first handed it to me, I filled it out and I went back to her and I said, um, you might have given me the wrong one, but do you have one for adults? And she kind of laughed it off and she's like, oh, you know, no, this is the standardized test.

I'm like, well, if you're gonna make me do this, can you at least gimme a crayon? Like, you know, let's just go with, with what you're giving me here. And she's, she's laughing. She. When I'm, each level, they give me, I did three different tests at each level. They gave me, I'm, I'm coming back to this woman more and more angry and frustrated.

And one thing that blew my mind was one of the things, but again, keep in mind I'm applying for a customer service or office position, and the paperwork is all for general labor. One of them was a picture of a forklift. Yeah. Okay. That is three quarters labeled and then on the bottom of the labeling is all the terms and all the pieces of the forklift, and it has like six empty spaces.

And the guy next to me who is like I would say 10 years older than I am, clearly this guy's been in the labor industry most of his life. You know, you can just tell. Yeah. Um, he turns to me and he goes, how am I supposed to know what these things are actually called? And I looked at him, I go, and I, I thought he was fucking with me.

I'm like, really? And he goes, seriously? I'm like, okay. I said, well, you see the stuff that's already labeled? He goes, yeah. I said, find those words and cross them out from your list on the bottom. What you have left over is what's gonna fill in the blanks. Fill in what you do know and what's left over. Yes, absolutely.

Seems pretty simple and understand. This is a white guy and there's no language barrier. Well, I'm gonna take his, as someone who holds four valid forklift certificates at the moment, and I have to redo my written test every two years to renew any given one. Yeah, it's hard. Looks really, really simple actually.

And they don't change. No. So, uh, That's pretty sad. It was quite sad. So I have that. There's a dude in a business suit sitting on the other side of me. He's cursing and swearing through this 'cause he doesn't understand what he's doing. I'm, if you have enough to show up in a business suit, you should be able to add one plus one on difficult stuff there.

Math. Like, it's the thing that baffles me every time I take a forklift test. Yeah. And I'm in a room full of people, half of them drive cars, which more intricate and to learn and, and operate. And yet these people can all get driver's licenses and over half of them failed their forklift test. It blows my mind.

It makes no sense. It really doesn't. It really doesn't. Oh, it makes sense if you don't think it, I suppose. But that was, I think that was the problem. Um, so the last part of the test, if you will, she gets me in the room again. At this point, I am legit frustrated. I'm, each time she gives the test, I'm telling her, I said, I'm stealing another pen.

'cause at least I'm walking in here with something. She's like, I understand. Take the pens. I'm like, thank you. So I'm stealing these big.

I do the final test and she hands, she takes this case, she flips her case open and on one side it's got these round discs with three different colors on it. On the other half of the case are round slots colored and the same colors that are on the discs. And she says, using one handle only, you take, you know, a red goes in the red on the bottom left corner and you go from bottom to, and then the second row bottom.

We have, did you get a food PT kind? Kinda right? I'm expecting data or electric shock. It's one of the two. So I'm like, okay. And she goes, and this is a kind thing. I'm like, all, so I begin and I'm doing this and I'm cruising through it pretty quickly and I get about halfway through and I just sort of paused and I, I, I literally, I stopped doing, I was doing and I looked up at her.

I go, so what's the point of this? Is this like I hand coordination? Is it. How you can pay attention to detail what it is. She goes, oh, it's kind of a combination of those and, you know, just sort of making like a basic aptitude test. And I'm like, oh. So I'm finishing up and I'm airing away talking to her because I'm, you know, I, I'm bored as I'm doing this.

I feel like I'm a child in fucking daycare, you know, putting circles in circles. And I was just gonna, you know, so I'm, so I finish the thing off. She hits the stopwatch. She goes, oh, you know, a minute 12. I'm like, and wow, that took me over a minute. That's pretty sad. I should have done that about 45 seconds.

I did pause, I did talk to her for a bit so I can understand. She turns me and she goes, wow, I'm minute 12. That's one of the fastest times I've ever seen, and the fastest so far. Today is two minutes is two minutes slower than you. It took somebody three minutes to do this. That was the quickest. Wow. So, yeah, I, I left there feeling normally you would feel proud of yourself, of being able to accomplish so much.

But yeah, no, I was quite insulted by the whole thing. I. I genuinely need to know if this is an indictment of the employment system or if it's an indictment of the school system. And if anyone listening in Ontario, uh, tonight, I know you're probably not, but after tonight, you will be anyone listening in Ontario right into the show.

Maybe it's me [email protected] and let know. Uh, is this on what Gord's going through or is this a new thing? Is it an your Ontario system or is it, is every, is the government putting fl

one of the better episodes from the summer of 2020 when the internet was not always good to the boys. Originally Published on Aug.25/2020

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Originally Published February 18,2020... Gord could always bring out the best in Eric by mentioning Florida

In this 2018 Episode the boys celebrate the landmark of 9 listeners (at its peak in 2021 they boasted more than 14000). It also contains some very important firsts including their first mention of Gwyneth Paltrow as well as the first appearance by "The Ambulance".

As the Podcast comes to an end, Eric revisits the entire catalog, edited for time & content, remixed, remastered, re-righted? Listen to the world Still changing.

this 2018 episode features a solo Eric (Gord wasn't a daily fixture yet) but there's something different about his voice! Originally published June26, 2018

This one is serious, pay attention!