Okay, Andrew, I want you to use your imagination for a minute.

Like Willy Wonka wanted me to?

Concentrate, okay? I really need you to concentrate on this. I want you to imagine that this is

some time in the not-so-distant future. Picture a world, let's say, let's say, 2023, not too far from now. And imagine that all of a sudden

you wake up one morning and you cook on the news and aliens have just come down from space

at a giant spaceship and they've landed in Canada. Why Canada? I don't know. Maybe they heard

that they're very hospitable people. Okay.

So they land in Canada and the Canadians, they all come out of their houses and say,

oh, these, these aliens seem okay. They don't seem like they're soakers or hosers. So I suppose they could stay, don't you know?

So they all come out.

They're like, okay, let's be chumly with these aliens.

And the aliens tell the Canadians that they're planning on sticking around because they don't have many oak trees on their home planet.

Oh.

And Canada has lots of oak trees.

Yeah, they do.

Not as many as maples.

But they have oak trees. And so they tell the Canadians, as many oak trees as you can bring us, we're going

to bring them to us every year, we're going to come back and load them to build our spaceship,

and we'll give you guys all sorts of goodies from our home world, including super laser weapon

technology.

So the Canadians go, oh, we don't really use weapons much, but I suppose that would be great.

All the Canadians go out with all their lumberjack buddies and they start chopping down

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