Peter Stewart: Curling, Broomgate, and Goodbye Trudeau
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: comedian Peter Stewart joins the show
1:04 – Justin Trudeau steps down: what happens next?
3:34 – Trudeau's youthful look, blackface, and drama teaching
6:32 – Trudeau's boxing match and who can really fight
10:05 – Hockey vs. curling, Canada's other sport
11:52 – How Peter got into curling, from Ontario to Brooklyn
14:55 – Fights, trash talk, and Drake vs. hockey players
17:50 – Broomgate: the sweeping scandal
19:57 – The World Curling Federation's broom controversy
22:45 – Why Canada produces so many great comedians
26:21 – Lou's shows with Hatem Gabr and opening for Rob Schneider
31:16 – Peter's immigration journey from TN visa to green card
34:25 – Fixing the H-1B visa lottery
38:20 – Devon Eriksen on companies choosing immigrants
40:58 – What is an actuary? Life insurance and investing
44:30 – Elections, markets, and Bitcoin futures
46:55 – Nancy Pelosi's trades and AI in finance
48:30 – Will AI make us lose our skills?
52:16 – An actuary's day-to-day work and black swans
54:38 – Poker, sports betting, and why parlays lose
58:29 – What becoming an American means, and wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Canadian comedian, actuary, and curler Peter Stewart joins Lou to talk about saying goodbye to Justin Trudeau, the sport of curling and its controversies, immigration, and why Canada produces the funniest human beings per capita.
We also get into Trudeau's boxing match, hockey vs. curling, Drake vs. hockey players, Broomgate and the World Curling Federation's broom controversy, Lou opening for Rob Schneider, Peter's path from TN visa to green card, fixing the H-1B visa lottery, what an actuary actually does, Nancy Pelosi's trades, why parlays lose, and what becoming an American means.