DAILY | Pastor Tim (STILL!) In Jail, Climate Barbie Calls It Quits
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 13 minutes
Words per Minute
161.06412
Summary
Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies discuss the launch of The Menzoid T-shirt, and why it's the best thing they've done in a long time. Plus, a special offer from David to the first person to buy the shirt.
Transcript
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, you have tuned in to the Rebel News live stream
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I'm David Menzies and my co-host, as always, on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Well, she's the queen of cool, but she doesn't suffer fools.
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This is perhaps the greatest day of my life, as opposed to the worst day of my life,
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when I sold my comic book collection for a used Camaro,
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and those comics appreciated into a brand new Ferrari off the lot today.
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But yeah, the people here, I guess they think so nicely of me, Sheila.
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And, well, as, you know, illustrations, as they say in the marketing business,
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not exactly as illustrated in terms of the lower half from the neck down.
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And I got to tell you, I was prompted to wear this shirt,
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not because I'm an egomaniac that I want to walk down the street
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but it's not the runaway bestseller that they thought it would be.
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I've got to do a little advertising on the live stream.
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And I'm going back into the old-time radio days.
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The first Rebel News viewer I see on the street
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Now, you might not think that's a lot of money,
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you have a chance of more than doubling your money.
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We haven't replaced them with, like, I don't know,
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What do you think about those apples, Sheila Gunn-Reed?
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Well, I'm sad that I didn't order the shirt yet.
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But I'm trying to put a bunch of stuff in there
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so that I can, you know, maximize my discount on the store.
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quite a few anti-lockdown protesters in Toronto
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I mean, David, I had the final say on what the shirt looked like
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This does not apply to any of my co-worker weasels
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that might go into the storeroom and don a shirt,
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Like Sheila said, maybe somebody had a lockdown protest.
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Or maybe just somebody seeing me on the street.
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I think they're honking at us with a thumbs up.
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But regardless, if you are wearing this shirt this summer,
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and by the way, I want your name in case I get anything.
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and I ran up to him in my shirt, and he didn't give me $100,
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And please, folks, go on to that store site of ours
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Don't make Mr. Vice President here read me the riot act
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over something I had no control over in the first place.
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And that's all I have to say about that, SheDevil.
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you can use the coupon code MENZIES10 for 10% off.
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but all you really want to buy is the Menzoid t-shirt
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Listen, Christmas is, what, just five or six months away?
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Think of their faces lighting up at the Christmas tree
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when they open the package and they get one of those shirts.
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You know, I can see Mr. Producer, he's smiling already.
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because he's thinking of the actual real stores
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And anyways, but you saw what we do have on the store.
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that he will be in jail until at least the 12th of July.
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So while all the politicians are shopping for their stampede outfits,
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Tim Stevens is languishing in jail for the crime of opening his church
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He refused to turn away people who came to his church
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to meet some sort of arbitrary government restriction on attendance.
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where he's had none in front of his kids twice now.
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And, you know, it's my understanding that not just Senator Josh Hawley
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and not just Scott Walker in the United States,
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but it sounds like there's about two dozen high-profile U.S. politicians,
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senators, congressmen, and governors, former and otherwise,
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who are keenly aware to the situation here in Alberta.
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And if this situation were happening in Hong Kong to the Catholic Church,
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I mean, I've got a book on my shelf here written by Cardinal Zen.
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He's the cardinal from Hong Kong talking about the government overreach
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into the churches there, telling people how they can worship
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Telling people like Tim Stevens how he should interpret
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the meaning of gathering together every single week
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And so if you want to show your support for all pastors,
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who also spent 35 days in jail, but Pastor Art Poloski,
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and use the coupon code MENZIES10 for a 10% discount.
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And we just got word this morning from both the neighbors of Grace Life Church
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and the congregants that the fences are coming down this morning.
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But you know, Sheila, you said something very profound there
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I think I've said this before, but if I went back in time two years ago,
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2019, and I got a future glimpse of our Rebel News store,
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and I saw a t-shirt with no context, and it said Save the Pastors,
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Is this a Hong Kong initiative, something in North Korea, Syria,
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you know, Christian pastors being rounded up and going to jail?
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But no, Canada, and of all places in Canada, Alberta,
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Well, and, you know, I see a lot of people saying,
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They absolutely, all three men, James Coates, Tim Stevens, and Art Poloski,
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Different faith practices, different faith backgrounds,
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and they're all compelled to defy the laws of man
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They all have, you know, different interpretations of the Bible,
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because, you know, there are people out there who say,
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Okay, great, but what does that have to do with locking him up?
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People say, you know, like, I don't like James Coates.
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This is not some, but it's something that he found himself faced with.
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And Tim Stevens, he's a bookish Baptist minister.
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I mean, again, these men could not be more different,
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but that saved none of them from the wrath of the government.
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which is not to say that this doesn't happen in this business.
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I mean, I always think of, you know, Ashley Madison,
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it's a website that facilitates extramarital affairs.
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And usually around January, they make a pitch to the NFL
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and whoever's carrying the Super Bowl, they want to buy an ad.
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They're not interested in them being an advertiser.
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So what Ashley Madison does is put out a press release
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and they, in effect, get millions of dollars of free publicity going,
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oh, boo-hoo, you know, the mean old NFL and NBC won't run our rad.
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They know ahead of time they're not going to get that ad space.
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that deliberately do something, whether, you know,
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They just want to practice their religion in peace.
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They never, as the old Bruce Springsteen lyric goes,
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they didn't go down to the bar wearing trouble on their shirts.
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And the fact that the head troublemaker is Premier Kenney,
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Sheila, this is just so embarrassing at the end of the day.
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It's also embarrassing to see the people who are defending him
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has basically called us clickbait and extremists.
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Is Scott Walker literally the most bland Republican money can buy?
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Because he's concerned about what's happening here in Alberta?
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I've defended Ben from attacks from the left before.
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I think, you know, like if your dad was the prime minister
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and you naturally, I mean, his career trajectory
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But like I said, maybe that extremist phone call
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Keeping the church from a congregation for 90 days,
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and arresting Tim Stephens in front of his children twice.
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Defending religious freedom from the government
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I'm going to go into John Candy mode, you know.
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As my, I see my Skype feed is coming in and out.
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instead of just one trying to take a Zoom school call.
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despite what the mainstream media is talking about,
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wander out to talk to people thing that he does.
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It used to be a great way for us to make some money
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but then YouTube, the censorship platform of YouTube,
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before they de-platform us on YouTube altogether.
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However, we've got Plan B through, I guess, Zed in the works.
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because we think it's a great place for people to find us.
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to one of the other more free-speechy platforms
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For example, there's Rumble where we're streaming on right now.
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You just have to buy some of their library cryptocurrency.
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but it is definitely on one of those things that I am aiming.
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It's on my list of things that I need to understand.
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But if you buy some of their library cryptocurrency,
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Whose body did we put my head on anyway, Sheila?
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What dirt do you think got rid of Climate Barbie?
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I think that they think if they open up for Stampede
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that they're going to forget what Jason Kenney did.
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I am worried about Rachel Notley getting back into power.
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So naturally, people are worried about that too.
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For example, our conservative movement fractures all the time
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and this is going to be a tough pill to swallow
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I think you've got a bit of a communications nightmare
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I think the only factor in Premier Kenney's favor