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You are listening to Keep Canada Weird, a weekly weird news roundup by the nighttime podcast handsome air and airport this is episode

171 of keep Canada weird before we round up this week's weird Canadian news let me ask you

the burning question we all have how you doing over there? I'm doing very well.

It's a comfortable temperature.

Last week when we recorded, I was having a lot of aggressive perspiration from being in an upstairs apartment and the heat was very intense.

And you did the stereotypical podcast thing for real as you record it without pants.

That's right. But I had underwear on. So for legal purposes, please state that.

Okay. Fortunately, it's not that hot tonight, so nothing weird's going to happen. But let's start off the show the way we always do with the unveiling of tonight's special

drinks.

Do you want to show yours off first?

Oh, yeah, I'd love to, thanks.

It's a special drink I've had before on the show.

It's actually the special drink that I go to most often when driving a long distance.

I like to get a sugar-free vitamin water. Okay, yeah, I like

those things. Yeah, yeah. This flavor, as I will read to you, is blueberry pomegranate flavor.

You know, the flavors of all those kinds of like gatorade style drinks, it's always BS. If you read the name of the flavor, it sounds like this fancy thing. But really, you just got to, like you just need to say what color it is. There's like the blue ones, the orange ones, the red ones. People know what you mean. The one you're drinking is like a reddish purple. This color is a blueberry pomegranate color. Yeah, it's reddish purple, and it's going to taste reddish purple. Take a hit off it. I don't care for this conversation. I find you're kind of reigning on my special drink parade right now. Okay, sorry. I shouldn't take the spotlight. Go for it. Okay, I'll sip it. Oh, yeah.

Good. My special drink may not seem all that special to you.

I just got a seven-up in my hand here, which is refreshing and nice on a summer evening as it is tonight.

But this wasn't my plan.

Tonight, I was going to surprise you with a special treat instead of a special drink.

But after going from shop to store to grocery store to gas station, I could not find what I was

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