Rebel News Podcast - July 28, 2021


DAILY ｜ Pastor Art Court UPDATE, Airports Drop Vaccination Segregation


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 5 minutes

Words per Minute

159.76071

Word Count

10,531

Sentence Count

798

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

Rebel News Live Stream on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, featuring Ezra Levant, David Menzies, and Sheila Gunn-Reed. They talk about Ezra's early morning court appearance, what it's like to live stream a daily news show, and what it means to be a Rebel.


Transcript

00:00:00.260 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. You have tuned into the Rebel News live stream on this, a Tuesday, July 27th.
00:00:09.860 I hear that warning in the back of my ear. I guess we haven't warned you enough, but in any event, it is Tuesday, July 27th, 2021.
00:00:19.200 Welcome aboard. I am David Menzies and my co-host, oh, my co-host.
00:00:23.700 You know what? It's raining cats and dogs right now here in Hogtown, but she is always the bluebird of happiness.
00:00:31.380 She is the she-devil with a sword, the Khaleesi of Northern Alberta. She is Sheila Gunn-Reed. How are you doing, Sheila?
00:00:40.280 David, I'm doing great. I think we have all kinds of technical difficulties.
00:00:44.240 I'm a little bit late because I was in court all morning. I sort of ran down the stairs.
00:00:49.460 I'm really not even ready for work. My hair is not done. I couldn't find my glasses.
00:00:54.940 I only have one slipper on it. I'm not even lying. I blew a slipper running down the stairs so that I could get down here.
00:01:01.300 And my Skype feed is frozen, but the show must go on and I couldn't be happier to be sitting here for the next hour with you.
00:01:07.260 Well, Sheila, don't fret about your hair. That is the wild yet controlled look.
00:01:12.860 You know, they would charge you $300 at a Yorkville hair salon for that look, so there you go.
00:01:18.140 You're just ahead of the curve with that. Either that or you're driving with the windows open again.
00:01:24.100 I always do, David. I always do. You know, I just go for the own natural look.
00:01:30.140 Should I tell everybody what we're doing here before we get too, too far off the rails?
00:01:33.980 Okay. And again, Justin, everything's frozen on my side, so I think that might be a me problem, not a you problem.
00:01:42.480 But what we're doing here is this every single day of, I guess, the five work days a week.
00:01:49.540 So we are rebels, so we don't really take a day off. The news happens and we have to be there.
00:01:54.180 But for the five regular work days of the week, we host a live stream. It's for an hour at noon in Toronto, 10 a.m. out here in Alberta, 9 a.m. in Vancouver.
00:02:08.320 And we used to just host the live stream on YouTube. That was the only platform that we were really occupying.
00:02:15.720 And that's because YouTube, in its inception, seemed to be a place where you could talk about things that you couldn't talk about on terrestrial TV.
00:02:25.140 But then YouTube, despite its early protestations that it wasn't evil, actually was evil,
00:02:33.520 me thinks the lady doth protest too much, as they say, when they're out there saying, don't be evil.
00:02:39.420 You know, it's like Justin Trudeau, when he says he's a feminist, you're like, I think you're protesting a little too much.
00:02:44.560 But anyway, YouTube, we took to YouTube for an hour every day because it was a good place for David and I to talk to each other,
00:02:53.880 for Ezra to get all those things off his chest that he probably just interrupts other people in the office when they're working.
00:03:01.100 To say it was a good way for us to talk about the news of the day in an unscripted way because the news was changing all the time.
00:03:08.280 And initially, it was a great way for us to make a little money because YouTube used to allow us to receive something called a super chat.
00:03:15.600 You could leave us a question, a query or a comment and donate a little money to us and we would answer your question on air.
00:03:23.120 But YouTube completely demonetized us for complaining, actually, about YouTube censorship without a little bit of self-awareness.
00:03:30.280 YouTube, come on. So now more like Johnny Appleseed, we're sort of sprinkling our content on all the other platforms all across the Internet.
00:03:37.280 And those are still places where you can interact with each other.
00:03:40.940 Those are still places where you can interact with us.
00:03:43.960 And on two of three of those platforms, you can also support us.
00:03:48.460 So we're on Rumble, great free speech platform.
00:03:52.540 It's sort of in its early stages, but we like it and they don't care what our politics are.
00:03:58.660 And I think that's the most important part.
00:04:00.540 Over on SuperU, same thing, great free speech platform.
00:04:04.660 You can support the work that we do on SuperU by leaving us a tip and you can talk back and forth with a SuperU shout.
00:04:12.100 And over on Odyssey, there are a couple of different ways to support us there.
00:04:17.540 You can tip us as a creator, but you can also leave us a hyper chat by and again, in two different ways.
00:04:27.760 You can buy their library cryptocurrency and donate a little bit of that cryptocurrency to us.
00:04:33.880 But you can also donate to us using regular old fiat currency.
00:04:38.700 If you're like me and you still, you know, you need to understand cryptocurrency because it might be the thing of the future, but you're not there yet.
00:04:47.440 You can donate to us in regular old fiat currency.
00:04:50.560 So there are still ways that you can support the work that we do completely of your own free will, even though YouTube tried to strangle us and also cut us off from our 1.5 million YouTube subscribers.
00:05:05.120 Sheila, you're amazing.
00:05:06.320 I don't know how you remember all that cryptocurrency stuff.
00:05:10.320 I don't know.
00:05:10.900 I don't know.
00:05:11.720 Much less understand it.
00:05:14.040 And by the way, you mentioned a name there that I haven't heard since my childhood.
00:05:18.180 That would be back when, oh, a 1969 Camaro was a new car.
00:05:24.340 And that is Johnny Appleseed.
00:05:26.500 How did that story end, by the way?
00:05:28.160 I can't remember.
00:05:30.220 I don't know.
00:05:31.020 That's why I think that's why there's apple seeds or apple trees all over the United States.
00:05:36.500 Johnny was just out there sprinkling, right?
00:05:38.680 It doesn't have him being, you know, eaten by a giant or something like that.
00:05:44.240 Or that's probably Jack and the Beanstalk.
00:05:46.020 But anyways, I thought you could educate me on that.
00:05:50.300 You know what, David?
00:05:51.440 The only reason I remember the Johnny Appleseed name so much is that when my kids were little, they used to sing Grace, like before they ate.
00:06:00.400 And there's a Johnny Appleseed little kids song that they sing for Grace before they eat.
00:06:06.400 So that's the only reason I really remember it.
00:06:08.460 Yeah, but that's the thing.
00:06:09.180 The only thing I remember about that story is what you just said.
00:06:12.320 He's walking around tossing apple seeds behind it.
00:06:15.500 Did anything grow?
00:06:17.040 I mean, did anything come of this?
00:06:18.960 Maybe that's the whole story.
00:06:20.920 Like, that's it.
00:06:21.720 Maybe we don't have a good resolution.
00:06:23.800 Maybe that's just it.
00:06:25.320 He spread apple seeds.
00:06:26.900 If Johnny Appleseed was a loser that had a non-green thumb, I mean, we don't want to adopt him as our mascot, do we?
00:06:33.460 But we wouldn't know about him if he was a loser with a bad thumb.
00:06:37.140 Well, listen, there's another name in the news.
00:06:41.280 And of course, that is Pastor Art.
00:06:43.640 Oh, I was going to say, is it you?
00:06:46.140 Oh, no.
00:06:47.380 No, but we'll talk about Pastor Art.
00:06:49.220 It's fine.
00:06:49.820 And of course, Pastor Art, Sheila, before we throw to a video, what indeed is the latest for this Calgary pastor?
00:07:02.300 So I was in court this morning.
00:07:05.060 Today was the sanctions.
00:07:06.260 We were supposed to find out exactly how much time Pastor Art would get for breaking the court order that he was found guilty of in a prior hearing.
00:07:17.380 That court order is from May 6th.
00:07:19.780 And that's the court order that prevented all forms of illegal public gatherings.
00:07:24.760 So and that's the Orwellian term the government used to describe church services, protests against the lockdown, family dinners, if they exceeded the 10 percent, if you were or 10 people, if you were eating outside.
00:07:41.280 Like, it was just really crazy.
00:07:43.140 And it was designed specifically, really, to stop Chris Scott of the Whistle Stop from holding a 1,500 person protest against the seizure of his property, his gas station, convenience store, restaurant and campground that he owns there in Mirror.
00:08:01.960 I mean, really, he literally owns half the businesses in Mirror because Mirror is only 500 people.
00:08:07.040 Wow.
00:08:07.300 Right. So to to seize that, you really seized something important to the community.
00:08:12.380 So that was the May 6th Judge Rook order, Justice Rook order.
00:08:16.620 It was obtained in secret, as they say, ex parte.
00:08:19.320 So none of the lawyers involved were allowed to participate.
00:08:22.700 AHS just went and got it.
00:08:24.140 AHS being Alberta Health Services.
00:08:25.940 And they knew that Chris Scott has had a lawyer at the time, but they didn't include Chad Williamson.
00:08:30.700 The only time Chad Williamson ever heard about that court order being obtained was after they obtained it at, you know, in the evening.
00:08:38.880 They sent him the court order and said, oh, by the way, we got this against your client.
00:08:42.820 Make sure he doesn't hold a protest or he's going to go straight to jail.
00:08:46.100 Chris Scott spent three days in jail for that, by the way.
00:08:49.460 In jail.
00:08:50.200 Now, they also in jail now where there are coronavirus outbreaks.
00:08:54.180 And that came up in court today.
00:08:55.620 So they also use that order to go around arresting pastors.
00:09:01.200 They arrested Pastor Tim Stevens on it.
00:09:04.020 And they also arrested Tim Stevens twice, actually, in front of his kids.
00:09:07.860 And they arrested Pastor Art Poloski and his brother.
00:09:11.800 And we've all seen that, like, SWAT-style takedown on a wet Calgary highway.
00:09:17.660 Now, the Poloski brothers were found in contempt of that order.
00:09:22.720 So they were found guilty of breaching that order.
00:09:26.140 And so today was supposed to be the sanction hearings and or the where they determine sanctions.
00:09:31.080 But as it turns out, Alberta Health Services is slowly trickling in their evidence.
00:09:37.980 I don't know why, but they're and it's you could tell our lawyer, Sarah Miller, was like, this is ridiculous.
00:09:44.540 How do I prepare if you're giving me evidence just a couple of days before?
00:09:47.820 And then we have court right after.
00:09:50.020 How do I even when do I get to examine your the people who are filing these affidavits?
00:09:55.300 When do I even get to look at the information?
00:09:57.260 You just want me to walk into court unprepared.
00:09:59.700 So it was ridiculous.
00:10:01.600 It is ridiculous.
00:10:02.880 And she tried to have a date set that was basically a close of evidence.
00:10:07.000 Like, you cannot give me any more stuff after this date because I can't prepare down the road.
00:10:12.640 And you could tell she's getting frustrated.
00:10:14.480 The judge is getting kind of frustrated with things getting kicked down the road.
00:10:17.800 But the most important thing here is that the.
00:10:23.100 Province of Alberta is asking for now.
00:10:26.480 Remember, these two men have already been arrested.
00:10:29.700 They were arrested and held for two days in jail.
00:10:33.740 For opening their church.
00:10:35.620 That's how ridiculous this is.
00:10:37.580 But secondarily now, because they were found and contempted that original court order, the province wants three weeks in jail.
00:10:45.700 Twenty one days in jail.
00:10:49.740 That's to put that into context.
00:10:51.620 The guy who punched me in the face at the women's march didn't see the inside of a jail cell.
00:10:57.380 Not even once.
00:10:58.220 Not even when he was processed.
00:10:59.540 Nothing.
00:11:00.220 Nothing.
00:11:00.520 He was convicted of that.
00:11:03.640 He got a he got a discharge after he kept the peace and was of good behavior.
00:11:08.920 So now, you know, like he's got no criminal record.
00:11:12.160 These two men for the crime of opening a church to willing congregants.
00:11:17.920 Nobody's a victim here.
00:11:19.140 The only victim here is the province because nobody listened to their stupid rules.
00:11:23.420 They want three weeks in jail from these men.
00:11:28.540 Somebody pointed out to me that if Pastor Art had punched his congregants, he wouldn't see that much time in jail.
00:11:35.340 You know, it's amazing.
00:11:37.240 And of course, the mainstream media are the cheerleading section to see these pastors put in jail.
00:11:42.880 And then go back to your personal story, Sheila.
00:11:46.400 Dion Buse or whatever alias he's going by these days, because I understand he may have changed his name.
00:11:52.420 He gets a glowing article in the CBC.
00:11:55.620 Gee, I thought CBC was pro-feminist, anti-violence, anti-violence against women for sure.
00:12:00.820 But I guess when he gives you a knuckle sandwich, this is something to celebrate.
00:12:05.340 Unbelievable.
00:12:07.020 Yeah.
00:12:07.380 And the same thing, the court wants the same thing for, or rather not the court, but Alberta Health Services.
00:12:13.580 They're asking for the same amount of jail time for Chris Scott, the small town business owner, who his only crime really was not going broke quietly.
00:12:22.620 And protesting the lockdown.
00:12:24.960 He literally got arrested for protesting the lockdown on a court order that Alberta Health Services sought in secret so that his lawyer couldn't participate.
00:12:35.880 So Alberta Health Services comes in with dirty hands.
00:12:38.360 They basically violate Chris Scott's civil rights by denying him legal representation in a court proceeding that would result ultimately in his three-day incarceration.
00:12:51.200 And now, that's not enough for them.
00:12:53.600 They want 21 more days because he didn't go broke quietly enough.
00:12:58.820 Sheila, here's my question to you.
00:13:01.760 To me, and I can't prove this, of course, but it seems that this is a vendetta against these pastors.
00:13:08.780 What I want to know from you is what is the unspoken strategy behind this vendetta?
00:13:15.640 What is fueling this hate on for men that are good men, Sheila?
00:13:21.840 Well, I think it's sort of twofold here.
00:13:27.920 First of all, the Alberta Health Services is, you know, obviously angry with them because these men, all of them, the pastors, the business owners, they would not bend the knee to the state.
00:13:40.900 They, with Chris Scott's case, he, you know, he had the support of his customers.
00:13:46.320 He had the support of his community.
00:13:48.860 Everybody was cheering for him.
00:13:50.280 And ultimately, he embarrassed the province into reopening restaurants before we went into a third lockdown.
00:13:55.960 So, he really moved the needle through his public shame.
00:13:59.600 And, you know, like, you're bringing the full force of Alberta Health Services down on a roadside diner owner in literally the middle of nowhere.
00:14:10.380 And so, you know, once you kick the ball down that road, it's hard to stop, right?
00:14:16.000 The snowball is just picking up and picking up and picking up.
00:14:18.820 And with pastor art, I guess for them, it was, you know, we had this, Chris Scott inspired restaurant rebellion.
00:14:28.440 The pastors inspired this church rebellion on some level.
00:14:32.800 It's why they still proceed with the persecution of Pastor James Coates.
00:14:39.960 It's why they haven't dropped any of the proceedings against Tim Stevens.
00:14:44.320 They're still going forward with that.
00:14:45.720 But I guess in, like, the macro sense, they are continuing with this, not just because they were embarrassed once, but because I think the stage is being set and you can sort of feel it in the air for another lockdown come the fall when flu season pops up again.
00:15:05.320 And the media won't shut up about the Delta variant or the Lambda variant.
00:15:10.780 We're running out of, you know, characters to name these things after.
00:15:14.960 And so I think these men have to be taught a lesson to send a message to everybody else who thinks, you know what?
00:15:25.140 I'm not locking down again in the fall.
00:15:27.340 I've got nothing left to lose.
00:15:30.020 The province is sending a message.
00:15:32.320 Oh, yes, you do have something left to lose.
00:15:34.480 It's not just your business.
00:15:35.640 It's not just your livelihood.
00:15:37.300 We will take your liberty to.
00:15:38.780 You know, it almost reminds me of a story I did earlier this month.
00:15:45.120 Jenny Wang of the souvenir market at St. Lawrence Market got into, she alleges, a dispute with one of the bureaucrats there.
00:15:54.080 And suddenly, after almost two decades of business, she's being evicted.
00:15:58.660 She's losing her livelihood.
00:16:00.320 This is a woman that came to, you know, from China, you know, in the early 90s, Sheila, to pursue the Canadian dream.
00:16:08.780 And I don't know.
00:16:10.360 You know, there's the roller coaster capital of the world is Cedar Point in Ohio.
00:16:14.920 And there's a roller coaster there.
00:16:16.300 It's called the mean streak.
00:16:18.820 And I think with certain bureaucrats, Sheila, they have a mean streak.
00:16:23.640 They know they're immune, I think, to any discipline or firing.
00:16:27.760 All this nonsense.
00:16:29.060 We're all in this together.
00:16:30.140 No, none of them lost an hour's worth of work.
00:16:33.460 Many of them got pay raises.
00:16:35.380 And I think there's a feeling of that they're invincible.
00:16:39.640 They're invulnerable.
00:16:41.120 And if they've got a sour personality, wow, you don't want to cross these people, even though it is our money, taxpayer dollars, funding their salaries.
00:16:50.780 These are bloodthirsty people with an unearned sense of power.
00:16:57.000 And they don't want to give it back.
00:17:00.420 You know, they see the end of the pandemic as the end of their own importance.
00:17:04.260 And they can just go back to shuffling paper around.
00:17:07.360 Before the pandemic, the only time we ever heard of Dina Hinshaw, the chief medical officer of health, was every year for a couple hours in the news before Stampede, where she would pop up and warn us all about STDs.
00:17:21.260 And there's always like this outbreak of STDs.
00:17:24.320 Really?
00:17:24.520 Yes, I swear to God, I'll send you the news coverage.
00:17:29.400 But that was the first time I heard her name.
00:17:31.640 It's the only time you ever heard her name, was she would warn about the outbreak of STDs, syphilis, and gonorrhea in the wake of Stampede.
00:17:39.460 And you know what?
00:17:40.220 Frankly, it's good advice.
00:17:41.580 That's the kind of advice that I need her warning people about actual dangerous communicable diseases spread by gross behavior.
00:17:48.720 And that was it.
00:17:50.580 She would pop up, like I said to you in that text message, like a prudish Punxsutawney Phil, to warn us all for a little bit.
00:17:58.240 She would see her shadow and then she would go back down for another year.
00:18:02.020 That's what these people used to do.
00:18:06.060 Now they're media stars, celebrities, and they have the power to strip you of $1,200, strip you of $5,000, close your business, take away your liberty.
00:18:17.820 This is power they never even imagined they would ever have, and I don't think they want to give it back.
00:18:23.160 No, I think you're quite right in that assessment, Sheila.
00:18:26.420 I mean, honestly, until a year and a half ago, I had never heard the name Theresa Tam.
00:18:30.840 She's a household name now.
00:18:32.540 In Toronto, Cruella de Villa, you know, the chief medical health officer who's signing all those eviction notices for restaurants that dare to open before they're allowed to.
00:18:41.920 Again, I call John Tory now the deputy mayor of Toronto because it seems that de Villa is actually running the show.
00:18:51.100 He is so beholden, given his lack of spine to this woman, that he just, you know, follows her every women fancy.
00:19:00.560 And again, I had never heard this name until about a year and a half ago.
00:19:04.180 So I think you're right.
00:19:05.360 But I think they got a little taste of celebrity, and they kind of dig that taste, Sheila.
00:19:12.600 Yeah, yeah, it's in the bloodstream, and they're not going to give it back.
00:19:16.180 They don't want to go back to obscurity, pencil pushing.
00:19:19.680 Like, it's not enough that they're overpaid for what they do.
00:19:23.160 I think Dina Hinshaw is the highest paid bureaucrat in Alberta.
00:19:28.540 It's not enough that they are making, you know, a third of a million bucks a year, more than the premier of the province.
00:19:36.880 That's not enough for them.
00:19:38.280 They like the power, whereas a lot of other people would just shut up, shuffle some paper around, and take home an inflated salary.
00:19:46.600 Not these people.
00:19:47.520 It's in the bloodstream.
00:19:48.440 And, you know, it's the sanctimonious attitude they have.
00:19:52.040 I'm doing this.
00:19:53.680 I'm carrying out this carnage for your protection, for your safety.
00:19:59.060 Give me a break.
00:20:00.500 Anyways, I do understand, Mr. Producer, do we have a Pastor Art video clip lined up?
00:20:06.700 So let's go to it now.
00:20:08.640 Thank you.
00:20:10.180 Adam Sos here for Rebel News.
00:20:12.340 And for weeks on and out, see Pastor Artur Pawlowski at least a couple of times a week.
00:20:19.320 He was a headline newsmaker.
00:20:21.980 When it started originally, he was getting in trouble for feeding the homeless frequent encounters with police.
00:20:30.040 Everything escalated in the viral get-out, get-out video that had millions of views.
00:20:35.600 Immediately, Gestapo is not allowed.
00:20:41.380 Out!
00:20:43.140 Do you understand English?
00:20:45.340 Get out of this property.
00:20:48.100 Go.
00:20:48.860 So go.
00:20:49.780 Go.
00:20:50.280 And don't come back without a warrant.
00:20:52.640 Out, Nazi.
00:20:53.320 Finally, we had the dramatic roadside arrest of Pastor Artur Pawlowski.
00:21:00.540 He was in jail, and since that time he is free, and he's actually been touring the United States,
00:21:06.220 visiting churches and talking to important political figures, sharing the cautionary tale of what has happened in Canada.
00:21:15.040 He joins me live in just a moment for an exclusive interview.
00:21:18.800 So great to see you.
00:21:19.920 It's been a little while.
00:21:20.840 We used to see each other a couple times a week.
00:21:22.800 Now it feels like it's been a few weeks, certainly.
00:21:26.300 So where have you been?
00:21:27.900 Fill everybody in on your latest adventures.
00:21:30.740 Well, it's incredible here in the United States of America.
00:21:33.900 I was supposed to be here just for a few weeks to speak to a number of churches and a number of, you know, conferences.
00:21:43.940 But it turns out that Americans absolutely adore me.
00:21:47.920 They love the fight, they love what is going on if it comes to resistance towards tyranny,
00:21:55.160 because they understand that what's happening in Canada, it's coming to the United States as well.
00:22:01.040 So they appreciate anyone that is willing to stand up for freedom, for liberty.
00:22:05.680 I have been touring in about 13 states so far, and more are coming.
00:22:12.880 I got literally hundreds of invitations to come to speak at different conferences, different churches, different halls, Republican meetings, Tea Party meetings.
00:22:25.020 I was invited so far to incredible, incredible places.
00:22:30.380 I've met with the governor, William Lee, the governor of Tennessee.
00:22:34.680 I had a meeting with John Rose, the congressman.
00:22:39.100 I had a meeting with Brian Dunaway.
00:22:41.560 He is the district attorney.
00:22:43.120 And I had a meeting with a number of senators, either state senators or U.S. senators.
00:22:50.160 So incredible journey, very sympathetic towards what is happening with me and other Christians, other pastors in Canada.
00:22:59.360 They all are like one voice, willing to stand up and help.
00:23:04.300 They're writing, as we speak, they're writing letters to Canadian governments, pretty much telling them what Senator Hawley said,
00:23:12.860 stop this persecution or you will be counted alongside other nations that are persecuting and prosecuting Christians like China or Russia or Saudi Arabia.
00:23:23.840 So wherever I go, I'm telling you, it's so incredible, such a big difference.
00:23:29.480 I get standing ovations every single time.
00:23:32.820 I mean, I'm here over a month, month and a half almost.
00:23:36.400 And everywhere I go and I speak almost daily, sometimes twice a day, I get a standing ovation.
00:23:43.340 It looks like American Eagle is rising up and it's started to flop its wings.
00:23:49.620 Well, there is.
00:23:50.080 Wow, Sheila, just look at that reception stateside, Pastor Art is getting.
00:23:54.740 It reminds me of a Leafs playoff game, SRO, sold right out, standing room only.
00:24:00.500 And that's what he's getting.
00:24:01.540 And also media coverage.
00:24:03.280 He was on Tucker Carlson, was he not at one point?
00:24:07.260 And so where are the sit down long form interviews by the CBC, Global, CTV?
00:24:14.620 He's persona non grata here.
00:24:16.560 That tells you a lot, doesn't it?
00:24:18.620 Yeah, I mean, that's twofold, though.
00:24:23.140 They wouldn't talk to him anyway.
00:24:26.380 But would he sit down with them knowing what he knows about CBC and the hit piece they would
00:24:31.140 ultimately create from him?
00:24:32.840 It's probably wise that he doesn't.
00:24:34.400 But the point is that they haven't asked him anyways.
00:24:36.400 It's just like Aaron Coates, Pastor James Coates' wife, she didn't talk to the mainstream media.
00:24:43.280 But she did talk to Tucker Carlson, and she did talk to me.
00:24:46.660 They actually didn't even allow the mainstream media on the church property.
00:24:50.600 They had to stand in the ditch across the road.
00:24:52.640 I remember that.
00:24:54.040 Because the only reason they're remotely interested in any of this Christian prosecution and persecution
00:25:01.680 is to try to justify it in some way and call Pastor Art or Grace Life Church, a bunch of dangerous super spreaders,
00:25:11.560 all the while skipping over the fact that the state is willing to stuff them into facilities where there are coronavirus outbreaks.
00:25:20.080 And actually, that came up in court today with Pastor Art.
00:25:23.020 The judge even noted that Alberta Health Services, in the interest of public health,
00:25:31.040 is seeking to incarcerate the Poloskis in jail, again, in facilities that have had coronavirus outbreaks.
00:25:41.880 And again, all in the name of public health, because apparently that's what's necessary,
00:25:47.060 is you take healthy men out of their coronavirus-free congregations
00:25:52.420 and then stick them into facilities that have coronavirus all in the name of protecting the public health.
00:26:00.160 And Sheila, to rewind the tape when it comes to Pastor Art, even pre-COVID,
00:26:05.820 what is it with the city of Calgary or the province of Alberta that has a problem with him feeding the homeless?
00:26:12.880 Well, that's the thing.
00:26:13.760 He's got plenty of opinions, as we all know about Pastor Art, but that doesn't mean that he can't go out there and feed the homeless.
00:26:24.260 He doesn't like Mayor Nahid Nenshi.
00:26:26.460 Obviously, Mayor Nahid Nenshi in Calgary doesn't like Pastor Art either.
00:26:31.040 But that's not a crime.
00:26:33.600 That's freedom.
00:26:35.040 That's what it's like in a free society.
00:26:36.960 You can go about your business and express your political opinions, quietly or loudly.
00:26:43.060 It doesn't matter.
00:26:44.620 But in Calgary, it would seem that they are using, first of all, it was noise violations,
00:26:54.420 tickets for other things, and then now coronavirus regulations to crack down on Pastor Art.
00:27:01.580 I mean, he got a ticket for an illegal public gathering for feeding the homeless in downtown Calgary when it was like minus 30 that day or minus 28 or something that day.
00:27:12.680 You can see the clothes Pastor Art's wearing.
00:27:14.600 He's wearing a skidoo suit to feed the homeless.
00:27:17.240 But in the city of Calgary, for the police that day and whoever called the cops, because the cops, I don't think at that point they were just showing up, they were being sent there.
00:27:30.220 For whoever did that, for them, it was more important to crack down on Pastor Art than to make sure some of society's most vulnerable and most disenfranchised, it didn't matter if they went hungry, because for them, the means justified the ends.
00:27:52.380 Unbelievable.
00:27:53.200 And noise violations?
00:27:55.200 Boy, they're really stretching there, Sheila.
00:27:56.840 What next?
00:27:57.940 Is Alberta Health Service going to go after the ice cream trucks for playing?
00:28:03.640 Don't laugh.
00:28:04.760 They're not the only guys who are doing it.
00:28:06.540 I think it was Montreal police ticketed one of our Fight the Fines people for noise violations that they used for traveling musicians because he was using an amplification system, but he wasn't blaring it, because he was protesting the lockdown.
00:28:25.560 And, you know, like you see BLM all the time using bullhorns, whatever.
00:28:30.700 Constantly.
00:28:31.300 They don't get tickets, but he was out there talking about the lockdown and he got this noise violation ticket.
00:28:37.900 So we said, get over here, get it.
00:28:39.980 You're a Fight the Fines client now.
00:28:41.840 And so, you know, like they're just using whatever they can to shut people up.
00:28:45.420 I guess that's the moral of the story.
00:28:47.300 So petty.
00:28:48.000 Well, Sheila, to switch gears here, why don't we?
00:28:52.120 Oh, I understand from Mr. Producer, we already have some chats in.
00:28:55.100 So before we go to our next subject, Sheila, can you do your thing?
00:28:59.140 I will.
00:29:00.000 We've got a rumble chat from MVP337.
00:29:06.460 3337, I guess.
00:29:07.600 Sheila's wearing her Justin Castro shirt.
00:29:09.140 Yes, I am.
00:29:09.960 Funny that everybody should ask.
00:29:11.420 So this is not one of ours.
00:29:15.220 However, if you do like cheeky, conservative T-shirts, might I suggest you head on over to rebelnewsstore.com.
00:29:23.120 If you use the coupon code SHEILA10, you should be able to get 10% off there if you haven't already used it.
00:29:28.560 Did I lose you guys?
00:29:29.420 Okay.
00:29:30.080 And or Menzies10.
00:29:31.900 And there's a really great Menzies T-shirt over in there.
00:29:34.040 But this shirt that I am currently wearing is actually from resistancecoffee.com.
00:29:40.540 And I like resistancecoffee because not only have they sponsored my show, but we have a really great partnership with them in that they, first of all, they don't care.
00:29:53.380 They don't care if you don't like them.
00:29:54.860 Like they're sort of like they don't care about cancel culture.
00:29:58.440 I have a defund the CBC T-shirt from resistancecoffee hanging in my office here.
00:30:02.400 And this one, like the fun Justin Castro shirt.
00:30:05.920 Very timely given what's going on in Cuba.
00:30:08.120 But resistancecoffee gives 10% of their sales back to civil liberties initiatives.
00:30:14.580 And one of those civil liberties initiatives is fightthefines.com.
00:30:18.880 So I'm proud to wear their merchandise.
00:30:20.620 I'm proud to talk about them because they really do give back.
00:30:25.280 Like when they say they are the resistance, they really are helping us help other people, normal people resist the lockdowns through their generous donations to fightthefines.com.
00:30:35.180 So, yeah, if you like this shirt, it's over on resistancecoffee.com.
00:30:38.200 You know, Sheila, why doesn't Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just quash these rumors and take a DNA test, a la the Jerry Springer show?
00:30:48.640 Boy, that would be a blockbuster rating show.
00:30:52.100 It would also explain a lot, right?
00:30:54.360 It would explain so much.
00:30:56.240 Yeah, because, you know, there's a there's a huge contingency that really believes.
00:31:01.620 And who am I to say it's true or untrue?
00:31:04.200 I don't know all the more reason for him to do that DNA test.
00:31:08.580 But that will never happen, of course.
00:31:10.340 No, I don't know.
00:31:11.200 I just think, you know, that's a couple of guys who look alike.
00:31:14.380 It's a hell of a resemblance.
00:31:16.140 I got to tell you.
00:31:18.180 Yeah.
00:31:18.660 You know, just a couple of guys who look alike.
00:31:20.840 And, you know, I'm just who even knows just a coincidence, just a coincidence that, you know, Justin kind of looks like Fidel and his mother spent a lot of time in Cuba next to Fidel.
00:31:32.940 And just just a coincidence.
00:31:35.320 I just think they have similar smiles.
00:31:37.220 That's all.
00:31:37.840 OK, let's keep going before we get in big trouble.
00:31:41.560 We've got a hyper chat of five libraries from cave time.
00:31:45.440 Sorry about the YouTube demonetization.
00:31:48.000 YouTube is trash.
00:31:48.960 Now, YouTube is I call them evil.
00:31:53.480 And I think when you take away people's ability to speak out about things that they care about and spread their message, I think that's evil.
00:32:03.440 But we still broadcast there.
00:32:06.780 I don't know.
00:32:07.740 I like us to be there a little bit for spite.
00:32:09.960 But we have one point five million YouTube subscribers there.
00:32:12.680 And what a great way for us to spread the message that there are other platforms out there that don't care about your politics.
00:32:21.800 Then, you know, like what a good way for us to do that by using YouTube to help chip away at YouTube just a little bit at a time by using them.
00:32:31.400 So that's why we're still there.
00:32:33.560 If you're watching us on YouTube, you know what?
00:32:35.860 Take that off ramp over to one of those other platforms.
00:32:38.440 And we don't want to abandon those people.
00:32:40.760 They have been our supporters for a very long time.
00:32:43.120 And we still want to make sure that we're there for them in a way that they want to watch us.
00:32:47.840 100%.
00:32:48.240 We've got a super you tip from, oh, Quango Chef.
00:32:51.560 I haven't seen you in a long time.
00:32:55.280 Oh, did I lose you guys?
00:32:58.280 Did I lose you guys?
00:32:59.340 Sometimes things go down in my ear.
00:33:01.080 But anyways, Quango Chef tipped us $2.
00:33:04.000 Well, that's very kind.
00:33:04.900 Thank you very much.
00:33:06.480 We've got a hyper chat from History Club World.
00:33:09.440 You know, David, we have this guy.
00:33:12.400 And he came through for us this time.
00:33:14.420 And I saw this chat come in.
00:33:16.140 So I did some Googling myself and things I already knew.
00:33:19.300 But I just sort of forgot.
00:33:20.960 Johnny Appleseed was an American missionary and plant nursery owner.
00:33:24.120 The story is created based on his incredible kindness.
00:33:27.760 Follow History Club World on Instagram.
00:33:29.860 Yeah, he was eccentric.
00:33:31.420 He didn't wear shoes.
00:33:33.520 And he would take the seeds from like cider presses.
00:33:37.040 So like the waste product.
00:33:39.280 He would take the apple seeds.
00:33:40.800 And then he would grow the trees from the apple seeds.
00:33:44.480 And then give them to the pioneer people to start orchards.
00:33:49.340 And he would go around proselytizing.
00:33:51.400 And he was just like a...
00:33:53.500 He wore ragged clothes.
00:33:55.080 And he didn't wear any shoes.
00:33:57.000 And I think he, despite his disheveled appearance, died quite wealthy.
00:34:04.460 Because he just didn't spend his money.
00:34:06.320 He just was out there on the land.
00:34:08.720 And you've got to buy a pair of shoes.
00:34:11.940 I mean...
00:34:12.440 Yeah, I don't know.
00:34:13.240 I'm all for a frugal existence, Sheila.
00:34:15.860 But shoes, come on.
00:34:17.400 That's a necessity.
00:34:19.200 Shoes on the frontier.
00:34:20.960 Like, you know, there's no sidewalks.
00:34:22.560 There's no lawn.
00:34:24.300 Like, you know, it's just sticks and rocks and brambles.
00:34:29.140 So we've got a super you from Cry for Justice says, why can't we recall Kenny?
00:34:35.620 Because we don't have recall legislation here in Alberta yet.
00:34:38.520 And the recall legislation that we do have has a bit of a poison pill built into it so
00:34:43.700 that it doesn't work.
00:34:44.860 And we've covered that quite extensively here on Rebel News.
00:34:48.160 So, it's, I mean, it's great in theory.
00:34:55.280 I'd love to do to some of our politicians what they're doing to Gavin or Gavin Grusom in California.
00:35:04.160 Sounds like an Addams Family character.
00:35:09.000 He is if you're a small business owner.
00:35:11.000 So, I'd love to be able to do to Gavin Grusom or to Jason Kenney what they're doing to Gavin
00:35:18.940 Grusom in California.
00:35:20.200 But we just don't have that here.
00:35:23.160 We've got a rumble chat from Lola Big Cups America.
00:35:29.100 Oh, it says America loves Pastor Archer.
00:35:31.120 Yeah, it sure looks that way, doesn't it?
00:35:33.440 We've got a rumble from Share 21.
00:35:36.080 Archer is doing what Nenshi won't.
00:35:38.420 You mean take care of the homeless?
00:35:39.760 Population in Calgary in a way that seems to be effective?
00:35:44.940 That's the thing.
00:35:46.600 For Pastor Art, and he's always very clear about this, a lot of the people that he works
00:35:52.320 with in Calgary, they aren't people who are able to go to shelter beds through, you know,
00:36:01.780 addiction or mental illness.
00:36:04.220 And so, they are on the streets through their own choice, their own behavior, whatever.
00:36:11.360 But that doesn't mean that they should be hungry and cold.
00:36:14.640 And so, that's what Pastor Art does.
00:36:16.480 And so, he's the point of contact and oftentimes the point of survival for people who have truly
00:36:22.360 slipped through the cracks.
00:36:24.220 And it's not really slipping through the cracks.
00:36:25.820 It's slipping through a big cliff.
00:36:28.220 Yeah.
00:36:29.500 And so, he's there for them and the city isn't.
00:36:32.380 So, to ticket and punish him for that, it's really outrageous.
00:36:36.720 It's quite gross, actually.
00:36:37.900 And we've got one hyperchat from History Club World.
00:36:42.580 Do you think there's any way for us to read, I think it means readjust, the power of the
00:36:49.080 public health officials?
00:36:50.640 I'm not sure.
00:36:51.900 You know, I got a cool shirt from resistancecoffee.com, actually.
00:36:57.860 And it says defund AHS.
00:36:59.660 And I think that might be the solution, but I don't think we have politicians who are brave
00:37:08.160 enough to stand up to the public sector unions because the Alberta Health bureaucracy, and
00:37:14.440 I think this is the same all over, and especially it's reared its ugly head during this pandemic.
00:37:19.520 They are just too powerful.
00:37:21.000 They control too much power.
00:37:22.720 And I think that comes from just the enormous amount of the budget of provincial governments
00:37:30.520 that health care eats up.
00:37:32.420 I mean, sometimes it's nearing half of the provincial budget.
00:37:37.360 And for what?
00:37:39.860 It all has to be scaled back, privatized.
00:37:42.720 We need to take a Ralph Klein approach, privatize as much as we can, even and probably especially
00:37:51.280 the support services, because many of those support services were sort of gathered up
00:37:55.940 into the public sector because they are union dues that only enable things to keep growing
00:38:01.400 and growing and growing.
00:38:02.360 So I think maybe that's it.
00:38:03.640 We need to defund these people a little bit.
00:38:05.760 And every time there's, they call them cuts, but they're not even cuts.
00:38:13.600 They're just not raises as fast as the public sector would like.
00:38:18.280 And every time the public sector doesn't receive a raise or a growth in the public sector fast
00:38:23.460 enough, they cry cuts.
00:38:25.140 And so we have to change the conversation and all of that.
00:38:27.960 But Sheila, I think you are indeed making the argument for, I don't know, a royal commission,
00:38:32.840 a public inquiry that when the dust settles, the smoke clears, when we're finally out of
00:38:39.140 this COVID nonsense, I don't know how many months or even years down the road that'll be.
00:38:44.240 We have to have a serious investigation in terms of how unelected, non-accountable health
00:38:51.780 bureaucrats wielded so much power, be it at the municipal, the federal, the provincial
00:38:58.040 level.
00:38:59.240 I think that is crucial.
00:39:02.880 You know, that these people, as we said earlier, they went from nobodies to celebrities.
00:39:08.820 And man, they had a bazooka on their shoulder when it came to shutting down small businesses
00:39:15.860 and putting entrepreneurs into actual prison cells.
00:39:19.860 This is surely beyond their mandate.
00:39:22.580 And we have to have an inquiry into this to make sure that if we ever get into another
00:39:26.820 pandemic in the decades down the road, this never happens again.
00:39:30.700 Well, there have been already some inquiries started and people are just sort of ignoring
00:39:37.840 them because they sort of get chucked down the memory hole of the mainstream media.
00:39:43.060 I forget which province it was, Quebec or Ontario.
00:39:45.800 They were basically euthanizing grandparents like they were unwanted animals at the pound.
00:39:53.840 They were providing them painkillers to make them comfortable instead of providing them
00:40:02.700 effective treatments for COVID-19 in these nursing homes.
00:40:06.860 And I mean, a lot of people don't know that.
00:40:09.620 That's so outrageous that they didn't provide life-saving medical treatment to someone's
00:40:17.500 grandparents that were already isolated away in these nursing homes.
00:40:21.480 That, I mean, they were just making them comfortable and allowing them to die.
00:40:27.540 I think it was Quebec and that would make sense because Quebec is such a pro-euthanasia culture
00:40:33.300 that once you become difficult, they want you to just take the next train off planet Earth.
00:40:42.360 And so, you know, those examinations are already out there.
00:40:47.560 But how do you get through the wall that is the mainstream media?
00:40:52.300 I guess as long as they're terrible, we'll always have a job.
00:40:55.440 And Sheila, I'll never forget that moment where one of Ontario's top public health officials,
00:41:01.600 Dr. Barbara Yaffe, that hot mic moment where she said basically,
00:41:06.540 oh, they give me these papers to read.
00:41:08.540 I don't know, you know, what I'm reading.
00:41:10.020 What?
00:41:10.500 I thought you're the one crafting, but who is they, right?
00:41:16.340 Yeah.
00:41:16.500 I mean, I don't even understand why this woman still has a job and, you know,
00:41:20.500 and telling us to tut, tut, stop what you're doing after that moment.
00:41:26.120 That was totally egregious, I thought.
00:41:29.120 Yeah.
00:41:29.640 But, I mean, it makes perfect sense that, you know, again,
00:41:33.260 these people are more well-paid than the premiers in the provinces in which they work.
00:41:39.480 Yeah.
00:41:39.740 And they can't even read their notes.
00:41:41.960 They can't even read their notes.
00:41:43.320 Like, they're just phoning it in.
00:41:45.560 The second half of that hyper chat says,
00:41:48.000 as for the Archer trip, I have an idea for what Rebels should have done.
00:41:52.000 Sent a camera crew to follow him around and then make a documentary about it.
00:41:55.120 Here's the problem with that, though,
00:41:57.180 is that we would have to have our guys quarantine.
00:42:00.260 They'd be subject to quarantine on the way back.
00:42:03.100 And then we lose our people for like a month, a month.
00:42:06.960 And we don't have a bunch of camera crew just standing around holding up walls
00:42:11.520 like they do down at the CBC.
00:42:13.560 Our guys who are videographers are also video editors,
00:42:16.880 and sometimes you even see them in front of the camera.
00:42:19.840 So, you know, I'm sure, and Pastor Art, he records everything he does anyway.
00:42:26.360 So there's a lot of that footage out there.
00:42:28.760 And, you know, it would have been great if we were able to have done that.
00:42:31.800 But just because of the quarantine measures, it would have been nearly impossible.
00:42:38.460 Which is a good segue to our next video, Sheila.
00:42:41.280 I mean, you know, airports across Canada during this...
00:42:45.760 Oh, we don't have a video, rather.
00:42:47.880 But regardless, airports across our dominion in the last 16 months,
00:42:53.600 we've had to fly occasionally.
00:42:55.300 And I call them factories of sadness.
00:42:57.880 Most of the businesses and the food service outlets, they're shuttered.
00:43:02.620 And all the employees seem to be walking around with double or triple masks
00:43:07.300 and sometimes that like sort of science fiction plastic thing in front of their mouth as well.
00:43:12.480 And, you know, airport travel with all the frisking and searching and lineups,
00:43:18.960 it's never been great.
00:43:21.260 But it is now demonstrably worse with all the masking requirements, I think.
00:43:27.320 And now we're getting into the situation, Sheila, with some airports,
00:43:31.360 the most recent one here in Toronto, Pearson International,
00:43:35.220 where there's lineups for those who are doubly vaxxed and those who are not.
00:43:42.700 So, again, another indicator that despite what our authorities were saying,
00:43:47.820 oh, no, a vaccine passport, that's outrageous.
00:43:52.160 That's conspiracy stuff.
00:43:54.020 But here we go.
00:43:55.160 It's coming, isn't it, Sheila?
00:43:57.600 Well, they're like, oh, no, it's not a vaccine passport.
00:44:00.460 You just literally have to show your vaccination status alongside your passport
00:44:05.040 when you're returning home to see whether or not you can get into one line or the other.
00:44:10.660 I mean, it's not a vaccine passport, but it serves the exact same purpose.
00:44:16.340 You can call it whatever you want, but really at the end of the day,
00:44:19.180 it is this piece of paper or digital document that says that you can do certain things
00:44:23.940 and you can't do other things.
00:44:26.220 And if Pete, sorry, go ahead.
00:44:27.780 Oh, I see this just in, as they like to say, Mr. Producer, always Johnny on the spot.
00:44:33.420 Look at that.
00:44:34.120 Already, Pearson Airport reversed his decision to separate arrivals by vaccination status.
00:44:40.160 Jeez, I thought it just kicked in because I think the first airport that did this
00:44:44.560 was Vancouver International, wasn't it, Sheila?
00:44:46.880 And I don't know if Vancouver's reversed their policy.
00:44:50.440 And apparently, Mr. Producer thinks they have too.
00:44:53.560 So, wow, this might be a good story in the making.
00:44:57.780 No more airport apartheid in terms of who's vaccinated and who isn't.
00:45:04.620 Well, you know, frankly, I think this just shows the bubble in which these bureaucrats work in, right?
00:45:09.820 Like, they all sat around a table and thought this was a really great idea.
00:45:14.660 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:45:15.140 People are going to love this.
00:45:16.340 People aren't going to be mad about this.
00:45:17.940 Herded into two different lanes like a bunch of cattle.
00:45:19.980 You know, like they didn't they didn't think that the Canadian public would be like, hey,
00:45:26.100 no, that's that's weird and gross.
00:45:28.140 And it actually has acts as like a certain public shaming effort, too.
00:45:33.520 Oh, look, you're in the cooties line and we're not in the cooties line.
00:45:37.080 And I don't want to be in the cooties line next time.
00:45:39.320 So I'll give in to the peer pressure to get a vaccination.
00:45:43.920 Like, I think the bureaucrats didn't realize how gross the Canadian public thought this would all be.
00:45:50.660 Oh, 100 percent.
00:45:51.580 You know, Sheila, but I got to tell you, I'm confused on this story because the date of that story of the policy reversal is July 26, which was yesterday.
00:46:01.300 And driving into the office, listening to 680 News, it was a story about a vaccine and non-vaccine lineup at Pearson here on July 27.
00:46:11.220 So has the reversal been reversed?
00:46:14.940 Who even knows?
00:46:15.820 Maybe you need to go down to Pearson, don't you, David?
00:46:18.080 I guess I do.
00:46:19.400 Oh, joy.
00:46:21.740 Now, there's one story in here that I kind of wanted to talk about.
00:46:25.580 And, Justin, I'm sorry, I can't see if you're going to bring this up on screen because I can't see anything.
00:46:30.300 But I wanted to talk about this masterpiece of an article in the Globe and Mail.
00:46:35.660 And, David, I tease you about this sort of stuff, but you actually do have a pickup.
00:46:40.920 It's a ladies' pickup, but, I mean, it's a pickup nonetheless.
00:46:44.360 I call it an urban pickup truck.
00:46:47.580 And, you know, here's the thing, Sheila.
00:46:49.680 It's a truck that's now defunct, folks.
00:46:51.980 It was the Explorer used to, when it was an SUV, before it became a crossover in model year 2011.
00:47:00.720 Built a pickup truck version called the Sport Track.
00:47:05.160 And I bought a very handsome one, the Adrenaline Edition.
00:47:09.640 And you know what?
00:47:10.320 It was basically, I'll tell you the number one problem, especially in North America,
00:47:15.440 is people buying too much vehicle to satisfy their needs, right?
00:47:20.160 No, that's not a problem.
00:47:22.140 This is made up.
00:47:23.820 That is not a problem.
00:47:25.320 But having said that, I applaud anyone.
00:47:28.280 If that's what they want to spend their money on, that's fine.
00:47:30.520 But this pickup, for my needs, which was, at the time, two kids in hockey,
00:47:36.520 at one point, both goaltenders.
00:47:38.400 So, if you look at the size of goaltending equipment, that went into the bed.
00:47:42.860 It's a four-door, you know, cab.
00:47:45.400 Which, really, if you're a pickup truck purist, four doors are heresy.
00:47:50.700 A pickup truck should be...
00:47:51.760 Excuse me.
00:47:52.460 Oh, no, no, no, a pickup, a classic American pickup truck should only be two doors.
00:47:58.840 Adding those extra set of doors is kind of the minivan-ification of the pickup truck.
00:48:05.020 Anyways, I'm just saying that suited our needs perfectly.
00:48:09.540 All-wheel drive, four doors, a bed big enough for stinky goalie equipment to go in.
00:48:15.940 Bob's your uncle.
00:48:16.720 But this idea, this story about pickup trucks being a plague, it's unbelievable.
00:48:26.540 And what I don't understand about it, the fallacy here, Sheila,
00:48:30.660 is that you will have supersized SUVs built on, essentially, a pickup truck platform.
00:48:39.020 Well, how come SUVs aren't a plague?
00:48:42.360 Or extra-large crossovers, for that matter?
00:48:45.040 I mean, this story is nonsensical.
00:48:49.500 Yeah.
00:48:50.240 I mean, there are a lot of people out there driving vans that don't need to drive vans.
00:48:53.740 And I don't care.
00:48:54.680 I don't care what you need to drive.
00:48:56.320 It's none of my business.
00:48:57.380 If you're paying the bills and you can put fuel in it, it's none of my business.
00:49:01.900 I'm not one of those people who thinks that your SUV or your pickup truck is killing the world.
00:49:08.940 And, like, this, it's, the articles in the Globe and Mail, the title is, Pickup Trucks Are a Plague on Canadian Streets.
00:49:19.800 He might mean Toronto Streets, because this guy has obviously never left downtown Toronto.
00:49:24.940 It starts off, it starts off, this is beautiful.
00:49:30.340 Many things have changed in pandemic times.
00:49:34.140 One that has not is North America's love affair with the pickup truck.
00:49:38.040 Even in the midst of economic uncertainty, consumers lined up to buy these hulking, belching kings of the road.
00:49:44.580 It makes me actually want to go to the dealership when this guy says stuff like this.
00:49:48.940 Once the vehicle of the cowboy, the contractor, and the good old boy, all people I want to hang out with, pickup trucks have become the continent's mainstream ride.
00:49:57.780 Even city parking lots are full of, simply full of them.
00:50:00.860 In Canada, Ford's F-150 has been the best-selling auto for years.
00:50:05.460 It's the best-selling auto for years, not because people just have money to burn.
00:50:10.180 It's practical.
00:50:11.300 That's where I come from.
00:50:12.840 That's the pickup truck that your mother-in-law drives.
00:50:15.700 That's not even a ladies' pickup truck.
00:50:17.100 That's a little small for a ladies' pickup truck.
00:50:19.180 But they're comfortable.
00:50:21.760 They're practical.
00:50:22.900 You can do things with them.
00:50:24.180 You're not renting a vehicle if you need to move something.
00:50:28.340 And, you know, like, moreover, it's none of this guy's business.
00:50:32.980 The guy who wrote this, his name is Marcus G.
00:50:36.540 And I have some speculations about Mr. Marcus G.
00:50:40.020 Like, maybe some handsome rig hand stole his girlfriend at the meat counter while he was off squeezing the tofu for firmness over in the deli.
00:50:51.880 Like, this is a guy who got cut off on the way to hot yoga.
00:50:57.280 And the article is his response to this.
00:51:01.500 And Globe and Mail was like, yep, print that baby.
00:51:03.960 Like, this is why mainstream media is failing right here.
00:51:07.580 It is unbelievable.
00:51:08.880 And yet, I bet even Mr. G, when it comes to moving day, when he knows of anyone in his social circle that actually owns a pickup truck,
00:51:18.040 because this has happened to me several times, even with my lady pickup truck, as you call it, Sheila.
00:51:23.060 Boy, you really learn who your friends are, because they're on the hotline to say, can you bring your truck over?
00:51:31.200 I've got to move.
00:51:31.940 Or can you bring your truck over?
00:51:33.220 I've got a ton of stuff to haul to the landfill site.
00:51:36.520 But what that says to me, Sheila, is the sheer utility of these vehicles, right?
00:51:41.860 And what's wrong with that?
00:51:44.020 I mean, what would be better, making one trip in one pickup truck with all your stuff in the bed,
00:51:51.760 or making 28 trips in a Toyota Prius with, you know, bit by bit of stuff in the hatchback area?
00:52:01.880 So I think if you crunch the numbers, you could argue that, in that case, the pickup truck is an environmental champion.
00:52:09.060 One trip, it's done, as opposed to multiple going back and forth and burning all that carbon.
00:52:13.540 And listen, you know, I mean, we live in a golden age of automobiles.
00:52:19.060 If you want to buy a retro muscle car, like a Challenger, a Camaro, a Mustang, they're there for you.
00:52:25.800 If you want to buy a minivan, a category that didn't exist until the early 80s, it's there.
00:52:31.280 SUVs, electric cars, plug-in hybrids, you name it.
00:52:35.680 And what's wrong with that?
00:52:37.100 And I got to tell you, Sheila, last weekend, for the first time, and I went, as he drove by,
00:52:43.680 I gave him a big thumbs up, because I don't, maybe this model is more prevalent out in Alberta,
00:52:49.520 but for the first time on Toronto streets, I saw a Ram T-Rex, which is this 707 horsepower monster.
00:53:00.100 I mean, it kicks the Ford F-150 Raptor to the curb until next year, when I understand Ford is going to make the Raptor R
00:53:11.020 and put the Shelby Mustang engine into that, so it'll be at the 700 horsepower level, too.
00:53:16.620 I don't know why GM is sitting out in the horsepower races, but I guess they're too hellbent on going to all electrification by 2035.
00:53:25.440 But the point is, sure, it's impractical, right, a 777 horsepower truck in an urban environment.
00:53:34.780 But if that's what he likes, if that's his muscle car slash truck, that's his money.
00:53:40.280 I bump into him, by the way, at the Petro-Canada, because you're going to be filling that tank up a lot of times.
00:53:45.500 Yeah.
00:53:45.880 Then so be it, freedom of choice.
00:53:48.220 My vehicle, my choice, right?
00:53:50.700 Well, this article drips of classism, I think.
00:53:55.460 Oh, yes.
00:53:56.620 It's just sleazy classism, exactly what you would expect from the Laurentian elite, right?
00:54:02.340 Like, cowboys and good old boys are the only people who should drive these things.
00:54:07.360 And those cowboys and good old boys with their fun, practical, good-looking pickups,
00:54:12.500 they're infecting the upper classes with their pickup trucks.
00:54:16.120 Like, it's, they're literally describing my husband's pickup truck in this article as a bad thing.
00:54:25.580 And I'm like, yeah, honey, looks good.
00:54:27.100 You know what, though?
00:54:27.580 We should consider getting something a little newer.
00:54:29.540 So, it says, he talks about, pickup trucks have become supersized and jacked up in form.
00:54:39.920 We've all seen the lifted, and they put lifted in scare quotes, as in a lift kit is scary.
00:54:45.960 Like, versions with their high profiles and their giant wheels, the tricked-out models with gleaming chrome.
00:54:53.880 Like, how does chrome?
00:54:55.300 What's wrong with gleaming chrome?
00:54:56.960 What's wrong with taking care of your stuff?
00:54:59.920 Anyways, extra lights, big bumpers, and fancy racks.
00:55:04.680 Like, he thinks a headache rack is fancy, but whatever.
00:55:07.940 I mean, they're literally describing the vehicle of the blue-collar oil patch worker,
00:55:14.420 or the blue-collar farmer, or the cowboy, or the construction worker, as a thing of disgust here.
00:55:21.360 Um, and he goes on to complain that a recent U.S. report found that more than half a million diesel pickups
00:55:30.260 had been fitted with devices.
00:55:33.320 This is so funny, because if you work in the oil patch, you know exactly what this guy's talking about.
00:55:37.720 A recent U.S. report has found that more than half a million diesel pickup trucks
00:55:41.880 had been fitted with devices that override their emissions controls, dumping pollutants into the air.
00:55:47.140 You mean things that make your vehicle more efficient, and don't bung it up?
00:55:52.700 Anyways, uh, in the—oh, this is my favorite.
00:55:55.980 In the charming practice known as rolling coal, some pickup drivers blow past cyclists and electric vehicles
00:56:02.680 and deliberately spew black smoke at them.
00:56:07.560 I'm not saying it's deliberate, but it happens.
00:56:10.980 I've heard of that, Sheila, and I do a lot of cycling,
00:56:13.180 and I've never actually witnessed or seen that, even out, you know, in the country.
00:56:17.960 Uh, you know, I know it does happen, but I think that's exaggerated.
00:56:21.220 It's almost like an urban legend.
00:56:22.980 But I gotta tell you, you know, uh, about six or seven years ago,
00:56:27.120 I have a good friend, he's a civil engineer, he lives in a section of Toronto called Leeside.
00:56:31.700 Um, Leeside is a very snobby area of the city.
00:56:36.760 Uh, it's where people will go to the healthy planet with recycled bags, you know, for their stuff.
00:56:43.620 And him and his wife both have GMC Yukon Denali's, and, uh, one is parked in the spot,
00:56:50.780 the parking spot of the house, and one is on the sidewalk.
00:56:53.660 And one day his wife came out, and she thought she had received a parking ticket.
00:56:59.260 But it was a yellow sticky note, and it was an anonymous note from someone in the community,
00:57:05.360 basically chastising my friends for, don't you think this is a little much for this community,
00:57:11.740 that you have two large SUVs?
00:57:14.840 Swear to God, he showed me the note, Sheila, I couldn't believe it.
00:57:18.360 My Lord.
00:57:19.540 And I, and I thought, I thought if that had happened, you know, to you, Sheila,
00:57:26.280 as someone leaving you that note, and you catching them in the act,
00:57:30.240 oh, I don't even want to know what could have happened.
00:57:34.720 That is exactly how I end up at the dealership trading in my Jeep for something bigger.
00:57:39.200 Like, just for spite.
00:57:41.400 This, okay, the last paragraph of this article might be the best.
00:57:45.860 Okay.
00:57:46.180 Because, um, it's, they, they're basically calling pickup trucks toxic masculinity without saying it.
00:57:56.800 You knew that that was coming in here.
00:57:59.740 And again, classism.
00:58:01.500 Those stupid hillbillies are making money, and we can't have that, right?
00:58:04.800 It reads, even if they weren't polluting and dangerous.
00:58:09.160 Okay.
00:58:09.720 The parade of pickup trucks would, would be a blight on the road scape and a finger in the eye of other drivers.
00:58:17.360 A way of saying to everyone else, I'm bigger, badder, and richer than you.
00:58:22.880 A vehicle that started as a practical tool for hardworking people has become, for many,
00:58:27.440 an obnoxious assertion of dominance and division.
00:58:31.680 The end.
00:58:32.240 But, you know, Sheila, again, I don't understand, if we're judging a vehicle by its mass, why the bias to a pickup truck?
00:58:41.580 A Ford F-150 is a big truck, yes, of course, but so is a Cadillac Escalade.
00:58:47.040 You know, it is this huge box on wheels.
00:58:50.220 So, why doesn't the criticism extend to SUVs?
00:58:53.640 And I think you're right.
00:58:55.000 There is a classism thing here, this idea of this is a hillbilly limousine, something with an open bed.
00:59:02.520 Whereas if you enclose it, like an Escalade, then that's okay.
00:59:06.300 That's an urban cruiser.
00:59:07.820 I mean, it makes no sense.
00:59:08.880 And by the way, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't there some allegations about that article,
00:59:12.860 that there's some plagiarism in it from another anti-pickup truck article?
00:59:16.940 Yeah, I mean, how many times can you write an anti-pickup truck article, though, before it just becomes boilerplate?
00:59:25.420 Yeah, I think, for me, this whole thing smacks of classism.
00:59:30.000 It's the same reason that when, or it's the same, like, mentality that when the oil patch hits a downturn,
00:59:39.480 carbon tax chases away our jobs, pipelines get blocked and chases away more jobs,
00:59:44.380 and people start to lose their houses and their cars and their businesses,
00:59:48.000 we get the scolds from the eastern part of the country or the urban elite, even in our own province,
00:59:55.480 and they say, well, you shouldn't have blown all your money on toys and pickup trucks.
01:00:00.300 You know, the money that we were earning when we had jobs that we spent however we wanted,
01:00:04.760 and it wasn't any of your business?
01:00:06.520 Yeah, I'd like to see how much in savings the people scolding those people have in their bank accounts,
01:00:13.900 because I think they're probably also a paycheck away from bankruptcy,
01:00:17.800 but they look down their noses because our fun doesn't involve going to wine tastings.
01:00:25.200 Our fun involves going out and shooting a $1,200 shotgun at some targets for fun and ripping around on dirt bikes,
01:00:32.020 and, you know, everybody's fun costs money.
01:00:34.480 They just think ours is a little bit uncouth.
01:00:36.800 And, you know, Sheila, I think that if there's two vehicle classes that define the American,
01:00:45.920 the all-American automobile, it would be the muscle cars, the original muscle cars,
01:00:50.700 which was a brief period in time, basically mid-60s to early 70s,
01:00:55.080 and, of course, the pickup truck.
01:00:57.100 It doesn't get any more American than that.
01:01:00.640 And, you know, and I've got to tell you, folks, on a personal level,
01:01:02.500 the day I truly fell in love with Sheila Gunn-Reed is when she told me she once owned a Subaru BRAT.
01:01:08.880 I believe BRAT is an acronym for Bi-Recreation All-Terrain Vehicle.
01:01:14.920 And it was ingenious by Subaru because when the BRAT was being manufactured,
01:01:21.040 they imported it with two seats in the bed of the pickup truck.
01:01:26.440 Yeah.
01:01:26.580 I understand that made it a vehicle as opposed to a truck so it would come in at a lower tariff rate.
01:01:32.780 They were beating the government at its vehicle tariff game.
01:01:37.640 And, but just, it is the most surreal vehicle ever because the first time I saw a Subaru BRAT,
01:01:43.540 it was on Davenport Avenue in Toronto.
01:01:46.260 It was a torrential rainstorm.
01:01:48.980 And there was two people seat belted into the seats in the open bed, soaked to the bone.
01:01:57.380 And those seats were just like banquet chairs with the legs removed, just bolted into the truck bed.
01:02:03.920 They're like not, not nice, not comfortable, just plastic banquet chairs with no legs, just drilled in.
01:02:10.360 And Sheila, you should never have gotten rid of that car, that truck.
01:02:14.200 That, I think, I'm sure by now the Subaru BRAT is quasi-collectible, if not outright collectible.
01:02:20.740 But I wonder what Marcus G. would say about that little truck with the seats on the bed.
01:02:26.500 Jeez.
01:02:27.740 You know, I don't know.
01:02:30.400 I mean, when you're just, what a soy-soaked article.
01:02:34.340 Anyways, we should quickly wrap this up because we're three minutes over.
01:02:39.060 We've got a Super U tip from Annalisa.
01:02:41.460 She gives us $20.
01:02:42.200 Thank you, Annalisa.
01:02:43.540 Good to see you.
01:02:45.160 We've got a Super U shout from Devil's Advocate.
01:02:48.000 You can't have a tailgate party with a Prius.
01:02:50.400 Ain't that the truth?
01:02:54.920 A lot of this anti-pickup truck nonsense is just rewriting history, right?
01:02:58.960 The country is built by blue-collar people who drive pickup trucks.
01:03:04.680 And they just want to rewrite the importance of those people right out of the history books.
01:03:09.180 We've got a Hyper Chat 10 Libraries.
01:03:12.600 Well, thank you very much.
01:03:13.340 From Rebecca Henderson.
01:03:14.300 Candace Owens is talking about Canada's vaccination segregation on her show.
01:03:18.560 Excited to hear her thoughts.
01:03:19.900 Me too.
01:03:20.820 There are restaurants that are forcing un-vaxxed people to sit outside.
01:03:25.640 You might as well say disabled people sit outside.
01:03:27.940 Everyone else can go inside.
01:03:29.920 Yeah.
01:03:30.660 It's medical segregation.
01:03:31.800 On that note, though, Sheila, as a little teaser, I do have a report of a place in Oakville, the Moonshine Cafe, that did install that policy.
01:03:42.640 And basically, and the restaurateur, good guy, John, I spoke to him.
01:03:46.720 All the regulars were thumbs up with it, but oh boy, did he get blowback.
01:03:52.500 And I'm happy to say that even before there was going to be a protest outside his restaurant, he's already reversed that policy.
01:03:59.100 It doesn't matter if you're vaxxed or un-vaxxed.
01:04:01.560 And really, you know, why should a restaurateur be asking you about your medical history?
01:04:08.140 Would they also ask, by the way, any recent sexually transmitted diseases either?
01:04:12.960 Because we have a special section for you people too.
01:04:15.360 Yeah, yeah, it's gross.
01:04:17.960 It's just gross.
01:04:18.860 And the amount of people trying to justify it, it's also just virtue signaling, right?
01:04:24.940 Because if you're trying to justify it, then you're like, look at me, I'm a good person, I'm vaccinated, I'm the best.
01:04:30.380 We've got a hyper chat from Juice Moose.
01:04:32.920 Someone call that article author Wine 11 and get them a whambulance.
01:04:37.820 Yeah, there's a great deal of, like I said, that article is just soy soaked.
01:04:45.180 It's just oozing soy milk.
01:04:48.040 It's barf.
01:04:49.040 It's barf.
01:04:50.040 Anyways, I think we're all cut up now.
01:04:51.600 We're six minutes past.
01:04:52.900 Well, that is fantastic.
01:04:54.240 Well, thank you, everybody who contributed to our financial situation through those various crypto ways and old-fashioned cash.
01:05:02.980 Greatly appreciated.
01:05:04.400 Thank you to Justin behind the board, of course, my lovely co-host, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
01:05:09.260 We'll be back here in this space on Thursday.
01:05:12.640 The Big Boss Man, Ezra Levent, he takes over tomorrow.
01:05:15.680 And in the meantime, stay sane.
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