ANDREW CHAPADOS ｜ Business during lockdowns & having your bank frozen ｜ Shaun 'The Viking' Zimmer ｜ Andrew Says 93
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In this week's episode, we are joined by a familiar face of Rebel News, Sean Zimmer. Sean has been featured on Rebel News a number of times, including in the case where he was fined by the police for running a backyard fitness class out of his backyard. We also met up during the truckers convoy in Ottawa where he actually had his bank account frozen.
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link and jay bringing you a very special episode of andrew says as a guest host filling in for
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our friend andrew this week today we're going to be joined by a familiar face of rebel news
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sean zimmer i have reported on sean a couple of times including in winnipeg regarding him being
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fined by the police for running his backyard fitness classes and we also met up during the
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truckers convoy in ottawa where he actually had his bank account frozen stay tuned because this is
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going to be a good episode without further ado let me introduce you to sean the viking zimmer i'm sean
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zimmer some people call me the viking i'm a father an individual who speaks from his heart
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his truth authentic and raw so ask me anything you want brother it's good to see you again and chat
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so we sean we first crossed paths in winnipeg where you live and it was because i saw a video
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it was going viral at the time of you having let's say some interesting interactions with
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the local law enforcement in your area you were running a a fitness class a boot camp out of your
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backyard at the time you know we were going through lockdowns um you know we were dealing with covid
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restrictions almost at the peak at that time i believe and you decided i'm going to open up
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a uh you know i'm going to start running fitness classes out of my backyard and just provide that
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to the community and ultimately the police ended up visiting you can you just tell people um we'll get
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into the police interactions uh shortly but why did you first start doing the fitness classes in your
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backyard i first started doing them in my backyard because i knew people one needed a space to come
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together and help them feel sane with everything going on in the world i have a place they could
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connect with like-minded individuals who weren't just going along to get along and secondly to be
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a shining light a lighthouse in a way where i could inspire people to open their doors and not listen
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to this tyrannical rule that was being put upon us so we have a clip actually from the first time that
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we met and i reported on you we're going to run that clip right now so people can see what exactly
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you were doing at the time so i guess to start things off can you just give us a little bit of a
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background on what actually takes place here what are you running what's organized here yeah
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absolutely so my name is sean zimmer what we're doing here is taking a public stand i guess a
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tyrannical rule that we're seeing across canada specifically winnipeg where we're at right now
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so i've opened a boot camp in this backyard we got a few individuals so we're taking a stance saying
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all this is right i'm helping people come together and have a voice and show that there's people they
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connect with that feel the same as that because i know it's more so people not scared of a virus
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they're scared of the ridicule or scared of the fines from just opening instead of waiting until
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they're allowed to open so here we're free men and women taking a stand showing you that you can do
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the same so the police as you'll see in the videos they're pretty ashamed of what they're doing
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you know they say they're just doing their job they come right here on the fence we're not doing
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this in a private location my house is next to one of the busiest streets here and they come here and
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they've gave me three fines so far 1300 1300 and 2600 and they just stick it right in the fence and
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they get their butts out here as quick as they can they won't even give me their names they say it's
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for going against public health orders because originally when i started this you weren't allowed
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to gather more than one person then five people and then 10 people now for me if you tell me i can
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gather with 10 000 people i want 10 000 what you don't tell me how many people we can gather with here
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so the police interaction was pretty embarrassing on their part i'm going to be honest with that
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this story is this very interesting it's my it's i it's my second most viewed video uh that i've done
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with rebel news a lot of people were very interested in this story now the police gave you all to
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ultimately gave you at least we see in that video that they gave you three fines for running these boot
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camps in your backyard can you kind of break it down for people what it was like when the police
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first started approaching uh your property and and what what that experience was like as a whole
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yeah absolutely and you know i can't even tell you how many fines we're at now i haven't been paying
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attention um all those fines i just wrote i'm not in contract with you and sent them back
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those interactions um you know at first we're definitely putting pressure on i knew it was
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going to come though uh when i made that uh statement that we were going to offer free boot
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camps in the face of what was being told that we can't do i knew the police were going to hear about
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that and come at me as well so the first couple times i felt the pressure um they were definitely
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trying to scare me into shut down and listening and uh you know closing my doors and not taking
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the stand i was but i knew in my heart what i was doing was right so i at the beginning of everything
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was pretty angry and told the f off uh you know put my phone right in their face and put them on blast
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all over the internet for people to see what was going on and it didn't take long actually until
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the group of police officers that were um the unit i i suppose was put in charge of me
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started changing i think people were pretty embarrassed to come they didn't want to be
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blasted all over the internet for the tyrannical rule they're getting behind so
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that kept changing with different officers and they wouldn't share a whole lot of
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conversation with me um just here you can't do this um government's telling you can't uh we don't
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really have great reason behind it take it up at court if you have a problem with it and uh
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but i stood my ground you know i put a no trespass sign up and didn't allow them to come on the
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property didn't listen to them we kept going and kept going and i didn't put a
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stop to this so i'm happy i uh was able to be that shining light in the community here
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so it's now been almost two it's almost it's been just over two years now since we first
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initially met since the police first started hassling you in in your backyard let's fast
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forward to today are you still running the boot camps uh what's that like um so now things
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have opened back up uh people have their gym facilities to go to so there wasn't a need
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for that i only opened the boot camps to provide a place for people to come together as i used to
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teach fitness classes and boot camps and various other classes i had moved out of that business
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um as just outgrown it so as i said i only opened it to bring people together and those two reasons
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we opened up in the podcast here um so this year now moving forward i've focused more on children
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we've turned the whole backyard into a garden or i call it a yard in the whole yard to encourage people
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to start becoming more self-sustainable how to grow their own food teaching classes on that and
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uh really getting the children out together and connecting and having families um have a place
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to ground and and learn how to become more self-sustainable and connect with more like-minded
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individuals so we are doing uh community events still just in a different uh in a different way
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than we were last year now the second time that we met again in winnipeg was uh was through monstrosity
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burger now you actually were you were the person that reached out to me and made me aware of
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monstrosity burger what they were going through again for for people that aren't aware just to sum
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it up very quickly monstrosity burger is a restaurant in winnipeg and they did not they did
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not submit to any of the covid mandates whether it was uh mandatory masking vaccine passports
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they they were just not having any of it and because of that as i'm sure you can guess from sean's
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experience they were fined they're almost at a hundred thousand dollars worth of fines now for
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various infractions for for those mandates that i just listed off there was huge support in the
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community we that's where we saw each other they were having a the so they ended up closing the
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restaurant for indoor dining they pulled their liquor license so the only way monstrosity burger
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was actually able to serve customers was through takeout so the community in winnipeg ended up
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showing up to monstrosity burger and they basically had a picnic outside i'm gonna show a clip from that
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okay so it's absolutely packed here people are waiting in line you have a closure notice
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for indoor dining but clearly you're still getting tons of support do you want to just tell us what's
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going on here today yeah we're just having like a get together for everyone to come pick up food and
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we're gonna have some music outside and just get the community together and we're just happy to be
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able to do that yeah there was a bunch of rallies today and it looks like everybody ended up here
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and i just wanted to say thank you to everybody that comes it's um just an amazing day how does
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it feel having this kind of support from everybody i know you guys have been through quite a bit
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60 000 in fines now you had your liquor license recently pulled also with all that going on how does
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it feel that all these people have your back oh it's just so amazing to bring the community together
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like we can see that everyone's kind of like on the same page obviously and we want freedom
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for everybody my heart just is i don't even know what to say it's just crazy yeah it just feels
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really good it got so bad i mean my wife and i have been paying our employees and our bills
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out of our savings which has dwindled down to pretty much nothing and we had a negative bank
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account so we had to uh let our staff know that we only have a few more days which is why we closed
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last saturday and it just came on them all of a sudden and we hate doing that and but we were left
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with no choice we were just hoping that something would happen to keep us open for a little bit
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longer uh so monstrosity burger is now closed and um we need to take a you know month off and get
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our head straight and kind of figure out our next move so it's pretty sad watching that you know so
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as you can see um you know almost as you can see the community there is in full support monstrosity
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burger when i first visited them they were open for indoor dining they were thriving they were very
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busy they had a lot of community support and then we have they have their liquor license pulled
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you know a lot of people when they go for dining they a lot of people the sad reality is that if
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they know that a restaurant they can't get a beer or you know a glass of wine a lot of people will
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just choose to go elsewhere you know so that's a huge that hurts monstrosity burger huge there and now
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so we fast forward to you know just a few months ago and they've had to ultimately you know shut
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temporarily shut their business down i know you've been a huge supporter of monstrosity burger
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um you've really like tried to shine a light on their business through their tough times what's
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it like for you as a member of the winnipeg community to see these good people dave and
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paulina jones go through this battle and ultimately have to shut down their business because of these
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mandates you know it's definitely tough um in a few ways i remember when uh dave and paulina
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started coming to boot camp and that was before they decided to take their public stand and
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they spoke to me and referenced to what i was doing and shared that that's what they wanted to do
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and you know i was a big part of that journey with them and we definitely came together as a community
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in a beautiful way to support them you know myself i'm not an individual who goes out to eat
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and i did make a point to go out quite often just to bring community together and support and
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when everything opened back up we saw that fall apart people were happy to go support the businesses
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that shunned them away for a year and over which you know many people were taken back by how open
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people were to just go and support those individuals and for me you know i do my best not to judge
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anybody um my stand is i'm not gonna give you my business unless you publicly apologize for what
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you've done then then i i'm open to uh to go on there which we haven't seen anybody in the community
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do that yet so seeing monster out there shut down their doors is tough but you know i'm a man of god
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a man of faith and i truly believe that everything is given to us for the evolution of our consciousness
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and our path our journey here so i do i do know this mountain that they're facing right now is uh
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it has a beautiful view at the top of it they just have a grueling climb uh to get to the top
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and whether that means you know they come into opening up monstrosi burger again uh or in a
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different way or something completely different um i do have that face so i'm there for them where i
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can be um i chat to paulina and dave uh you know here or there we go to the farmer's market actually
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right down the street from me and uh you know they they hold a special place in my heart and i'm
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definitely going to be here to support them on whatever event uh venture they take on i know
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last time i spoke with dave and paulina they're not like they have hopes of opening it back up so
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i guess we just have to keep our fingers crossed and see what happens in the future now the third
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time that we crossed paths was probably one of the crazier times was during the truckers convoy in
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ottawa now for again for people that might not be aware you know winnipeg to ottawa it's not you know
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it's a quick flight but it's not exactly a quick drive so you made the journey from winnipeg to ottawa
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can you just kind of break down uh your experience what the journey to ottawa was like being in ottawa
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and then after we'll get into what happened with um with your bank account ultimately being frozen
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and the emergencies act being invoked yeah absolutely lincoln um the drive there was uh
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exciting but grueling at the same time um myself and three other individuals drove out just two days
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after the initial convoy um headed out so we got there on the monday instead of the friday i believe
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is when they got there we drove straight through a uh whiteout big blizzard and uh i think it was 24
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hours straight or it might have taken us 26 or 27 hours because of the storm um so that definitely
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uh threw the sleep cycle off um but the excitement uh getting down there to be boots on the ground um
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you know just put that off to the side no problem getting to ottawa that was the biggest catalyst to me
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changing and evolving from being a man coming out of a place of anger and instead now changing to
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be a man that comes out of his heart space um you know experiencing the love the community
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really coming together there everybody doing what they had to do to make it work whether that was
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shoveling snow bringing food cooking food uh raising funds you know smuggling gas in to keep the trucks
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running in the cold winter days to keep everybody warm at night it was life-changing um absolutely life-changing
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you know i i talked often on how i was a man before who didn't like to hug people and there i was
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standing with a sign that said free hugs and giving hundreds if not thousands of hugs out every day
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um and that evolved into different things i took part of to help out wherever i could
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so definitely life-changing anybody who was in ottawa knows um that that was a game changer you know
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and shortly being there after about a week i felt i understood i had a vision what was going to happen
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that this was going to end with riot police coming in and we were to stand in peaceful non-compliance
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um you know following the suit of gandhi um and having the lies the government was portraying
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about us show um to all the people around the world that could see it through our social media
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and it woke up a lot of people to the corruption within our government unfortunately not everybody
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but a lot of people so that's kind of been in a nutshell really uh life-changing and and as hard
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as it was not to retaliate with any physical force we succeeded at that and i do know um that that was
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the right thing to do and it changed a lot now there was uh you know looking back to that whole
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experience i was there for the entire time start to finish you know there's so many
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just crazy moments there was a lot of positive takeaways you know from that whole experience
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seeing canadians unite like that was really special but there was some very dark dark moments
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down there really dark and you were the first person that rebel news became aware of that actually
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had their bank account frozen it was unbelievable that that you know it was a coincidence and it was
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unbelievable that of course it's you you're the person that has their bank account frozen the first
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person that we hear of at rebel news to have their bank account frozen we're going to just play
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a small clip from uh the day that i met you and found out that you had your account frozen
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as of today a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account
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so in your account i'm not sure if you're aware but there was a cma um uh under the measures act
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uh they required financial institutions to suspend financial services uh for accounts with large crowd funding
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so you guys have not only frozen my account but suspended my account
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so you guys have not only frozen my account but suspended my account
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so you guys have not only frozen my account but suspended my account
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so you guys have not only frozen my account for now i mean we're working on this as well
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i came down here with the freedom convoy here in parliament hill
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crazy to think that the government was actually freezing people's bank accounts
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what what was that like for you what was that experience like
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um for me you know i saw it as another win um everything i see all the ridiculousness and
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things that are being done to wake more people up shake them and have them look at just how
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much the government is overreaching and how much power we've given them or we shouldn't and how
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they're not here to protect the people so for me i i definitely saw the the glass is half full with that
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one and um and and did my best just to work around it um and you know that ended up with my bank account
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i think of 15 plus years uh being shut down they never opened it back up um but again it it it woke up
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a lot of people and and really we set that fire under a lot of people's asses to take a stand and
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speak out and say enough's enough we need to do something about this so i looked at it as a good
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thing um and i honestly wasn't that surprised when it happened it's still frozen now yeah they shut
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that account down actually after about three months i i was getting pretty uh pretty upset about
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it i said hey bank what like what's going on i wrote to them and finally called them a couple
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times like you guys gotta figure this out and the next day they just uh they sent me
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uh informal letter without any uh conversation other than the fact that hey we've closed your bank
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account uh down due to um our regulations with the federal government and um our risk to reward ratio
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and that was that um so i've uh yeah i switched over to a different bank now and that was a that was a
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credit union um uh assiniboine credit union so a lot of people think they were safe with credit
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unions and actually that was not the case that was with credit union it's crazy we got we're just uh
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running out of time here so i want to just uh get two more quick questions in with you um
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so a lot of people believe that with what we saw with the truckers convoy in ottawa they believe that
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that changed things in canada you know it didn't happen right away but now we can see that i know not
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everything is back to normal like we have firefighters here in the city of toronto who
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are still off work because they're not vaccinated you know there's a lot of people who are still on
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the on the wrong side of of what we've seen for the past two years but a lot of things are back to the
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way they were do you think that is because of the truckers convoy do you think that the government
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has just kind of moved on from covet and they're on to something next what are your thoughts on that
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yeah i definitely think the truckers convoy had a big impact on that along with everything you know
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all the things that i spoke on the ridiculousness all the things that have helped people wake up
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um originally i you know at the beginning of spring i thought for sure things gonna come hit heavy
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in fall um and then i started realizing no a lot of people are saying enough enough even those who got
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behind um this this mess of things at the beginning are like no more um holy i see what you guys are
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talking about so for the last few months i've been pretty confident i think um we're not going to see
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a push this fall or even maybe for a few years until people lose consciousness again as there's too much
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pushback right they have to be careful um they they do have um their goal they're going for um but they
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when there's too much pushback they have to stop right and that's where we saw the crumbs so to say
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being handed throughout the pandemic where they open things a little bit even just look at the gas
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prices right jack them up drop them down just a little bit and people start getting oh thank thank
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you the gas is down to 160 now um you know just that uh take two steps and one step back take two steps
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one step back so i think right now um the the real the real push is you know um the climate change uh uh
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the agenda that's being pushed at schools um really encouraging children to um you know make sex
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changes and and get on different prescriptions hormone blockers and whatnot and uh and then
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obviously coming into a uh you know a digital currency and uh having all the things that come after that
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yeah so so a lot of people believe that they're gonna now they're done with the covid mandates
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they're gonna move into some sort of climate uh climate mandates i guess we'll see what happens
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uh thanks a lot for taking the time sean now uh if people want to find out what you're up to
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what you're doing these days uh where can they find uh where can they find your stuff yeah absolutely
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brother um i finally got my podcast started up which is called the vikings voice you can find that on
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most platforms and pretty active on instagram at least on my stories sharing what we're doing on a daily
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basis and you can find me on instagram uh sean s-h-a-u-n-j-zimmer z-i-m-m-e-r awesome well
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thanks a lot for making the time sean appreciate it always good to see you yeah my pleasure brother
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set aside where they get to the stalling house side where they get to the walk and no side for the
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people as often rushlin my boy you know that i'm talking hey rushlin my boy you know that i'm talking
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hey look rushlin my boy you know that i'm sent aside i don't trust a single soul inside
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need to euthanize sit on they ass while they loot the guys with their suits and ties we rip them off
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with the strength of gods if i see nancy pelosi or kevin mccarthur we fighting like blutakide yeah