Rebel News Podcast - December 26, 2019


Sheila and Keean take a look back at Rebel's best political stories


Episode Stats

Length

32 minutes

Words per Minute

177.09395

Word Count

5,732

Sentence Count

321

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

In this episode, my friend and colleague Kian Bextie and I take a look back at the crazy, crazy year that was 2019. We discuss our favourite stories, the most fun to do, and the stories that could only be told by us here at Rebel News.


Transcript

00:00:00.140 Hello Rebels, Happy New Year and a very Merry Christmas.
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00:01:45.560 Kian Bextie and I take a look back at the year that was at Rebel News.
00:01:59.860 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:02:15.560 It has been some kind of crazy, crazy year, has it not, friends?
00:02:23.420 Alberta, well, we liberated ourselves from the NDP in a landslide victory
00:02:27.660 for Conservative Premier Jason Kenney.
00:02:31.260 And Eastern Canada, primarily Toronto and Montreal, have re-elected
00:02:36.300 gropey, black-faced, two-faced, fancy-sock laughing-stock
00:02:42.300 Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for all of us.
00:02:45.860 And so, of course, the West, well, they want out.
00:02:49.040 Along the way in this crazy, crazy year here at Rebel News,
00:02:53.020 we did some really great journalism that nobody else was doing
00:02:56.740 and we did it on both sides of the longest undefended border in the world.
00:03:02.020 And so tonight, I've invited my friend, my colleague, Kian Bextie on the show
00:03:07.980 so that we may take a look back at some of our favorite stories from this past year
00:03:13.420 and some of the stories that could only be told by us here at Rebel News.
00:03:18.220 So Kian joins me now from his home in Calgary
00:03:20.640 in an interview we recorded earlier last week.
00:03:24.200 So joining me now is my friend and colleague, Kian Bextie,
00:03:41.980 and we're going to do a little retrospective on the year that was.
00:03:47.580 Kian, thanks for joining me.
00:03:49.520 I want to talk a little bit about some of our favorite stories,
00:03:53.820 some of the stories that were the most fun to do,
00:03:56.500 and some of the stories that couldn't be done
00:03:59.360 by anybody other than us here at the Rebel.
00:04:01.780 And I think you're a perfect encapsulation of that
00:04:03.980 because we joke we're going to release the Kian on a story.
00:04:07.920 You just get on a plane and you show up wherever the news is happening
00:04:11.380 and you're not scared to get it.
00:04:14.480 Let's start with the first one on my list.
00:04:16.520 What was your very favorite story?
00:04:19.380 I'll tell you mine and then you can tell me yours.
00:04:21.780 Mine was the ability to fly to Iraq to tell the story
00:04:26.660 of the persecuted Christians of the region
00:04:29.540 and the difference that, I'll say we,
00:04:33.280 and I don't mean we at the Rebel,
00:04:34.720 I mean we as everybody who donated to our crowdfunding efforts
00:04:39.300 to help Christians in the region.
00:04:41.100 It was, you know, that was a project that's a couple years old
00:04:44.140 and to see the changes that we've made in the lives of Christians in Iraq,
00:04:47.920 whether they want to stay or they want to go.
00:04:50.360 One of the most profound moments, I guess, of my entire life
00:04:53.840 outside of my children and my family
00:04:55.680 is certainly in my entire work career.
00:04:58.100 What's your favorite story of 2019?
00:05:02.060 My favorite story of 2019 was probably the United We Roll convoy,
00:05:07.740 that whole saga that went from Alberta to Ottawa.
00:05:11.180 But I was remembering what you were telling me about your Iraq trip,
00:05:16.700 about how you were bombing around these planes with the priest,
00:05:21.100 listening to hymns, basically, that you sing in your own church.
00:05:24.840 Yeah.
00:05:25.160 Like I think that that's like, it's pretty hard to top something like that,
00:05:28.780 like a moment like that where you realize that these Christians out in Iraq
00:05:32.680 are fighting, you know, this fight that you can relate to on a religious level,
00:05:37.500 but we can't really, just like when I was in Hong Kong,
00:05:41.460 we couldn't really, in Canada, it's hard to explain to Canadians
00:05:46.500 how dire their circumstances really are.
00:05:49.860 But my favorite story, probably United We Roll,
00:05:53.240 Hong Kong probably a close second.
00:05:55.400 Yeah.
00:05:55.880 For me, I think that was one of your greatest stories
00:06:00.280 was being embedded with United We Roll.
00:06:02.640 And it was so important that we were there
00:06:04.780 and that you were there to tell the other side of the story
00:06:07.540 because, you know, Glenn, you know,
00:06:09.500 Haley from United We Roll like I do.
00:06:11.920 They're good, decent people.
00:06:13.880 They're not hateful people.
00:06:15.520 They're not bigoted people.
00:06:17.060 They just want work for their friends and for their communities.
00:06:20.500 And they were being absolutely axe murdered in the mainstream media.
00:06:24.540 So that's why it was, I think it was great
00:06:26.340 that you were there to tell the other side of the story,
00:06:28.740 which is really our mandate here at The Rebel.
00:06:30.680 Yeah, I mean, the mainstream media wasn't sharing this part of the story
00:06:36.060 that, you know, as we were driving across the Trans-Canada Highway,
00:06:39.860 there were hundreds of people lined up in just kilometer stretches.
00:06:44.460 You know, as we'd get to towns, it would turn into a bit of a parade.
00:06:48.000 And then we'd leave the towns.
00:06:49.660 And then there would just still be,
00:06:51.660 there would still be people spattered at the end of driveways.
00:06:54.940 There was this one mother in a bathrobe holding her baby
00:06:58.180 in like minus 10 weather.
00:07:00.840 And she was just there with a little sign in her child cheering us on.
00:07:04.880 It was like, it was a Canada-wide movement.
00:07:06.860 And it was something that the mainstream media
00:07:08.220 didn't really want people to know about.
00:07:10.180 They just wanted to know that there was these, you know,
00:07:12.700 rough oil sands workers who were out of work,
00:07:15.880 who were angry at Trudeau.
00:07:17.640 Maybe they were going to arrest him when they got there.
00:07:20.780 They didn't know, but they could be,
00:07:22.780 almost like they were criminals, you know,
00:07:24.400 like they were white supremacist criminals.
00:07:26.200 When really they were just oil and gas workers out of work,
00:07:29.480 wanting to share their story with Canada.
00:07:32.060 Yeah.
00:07:32.260 And Trudeau refused to meet with them.
00:07:35.400 And it was interesting because a lot of the opposition to United We Roll
00:07:38.840 came from within the official pro-oil sands movement.
00:07:44.100 A lot of it came from that side.
00:07:46.420 A lot of the narrative against Glenn
00:07:48.900 and what Glenn and Haley were trying to do
00:07:50.600 came from people who couldn't organize things the way that they could.
00:07:54.840 Let's move on to the next story.
00:07:58.940 What was the most fun story for you to do in 2019?
00:08:05.940 The most fun.
00:08:08.580 Okay.
00:08:09.120 There was a, there's this, here's, here's the background.
00:08:11.660 We, I was coming back from a Donald Trump rally.
00:08:13.500 It's a bit of a story.
00:08:14.180 I was coming back from a Donald Trump rally in Florida
00:08:16.020 and the closest airport that we could get to was Atlanta.
00:08:18.740 So I was driving from the Florida panhandle to Atlanta.
00:08:22.780 And in the middle of the night, as I'm trying to get to my flight at 6 a.m.,
00:08:28.540 I, I'm driving and I'm, I'm tired.
00:08:31.220 And the bush in Alabama is about 40 feet tall on both sides of the road.
00:08:36.340 And then all of a sudden there's a clearing with two lights sort of hovering on the clearing.
00:08:40.080 And I was like, what the heck is that?
00:08:41.120 So I pulled my rental car over.
00:08:43.020 Yeah, I thought it was aliens.
00:08:44.400 I pulled my rental car over and I look.
00:08:46.540 And it's this like Black Hawk helicopter just hovering in this clearing.
00:08:49.880 And then it takes off and it bolts.
00:08:52.240 And then there's a few others that went overhead.
00:08:53.940 And I thought, wow, that was pretty cool.
00:08:55.120 And I ended up going home, back to Calgary.
00:08:57.680 And then I hear news reports that the FBI raided a terrorist compound in Alabama.
00:09:02.520 And to get to Georgia from the Florida panhandle,
00:09:05.220 you had to drive right by where this raid was.
00:09:09.000 And it was the same terrorist that was, that had a compound in New Mexico.
00:09:12.920 It was the weirdest coincidence ever.
00:09:14.700 So after I landed from Atlanta, I ended up packing my stuff again
00:09:18.280 and went right back to Atlanta to go to this road
00:09:21.460 that I just happened to be driving on at like 2 a.m.
00:09:24.100 and I spoke to a few police officers there
00:09:27.680 and they explained to me which gravel road to go down.
00:09:30.620 And I had just bought a new drone.
00:09:32.480 So I go to this terrorist compound in Alabama
00:09:36.740 with this new drone, never flown one in my life.
00:09:40.140 But we wanted to record everything that was there
00:09:42.280 because the compound in New Mexico was bulldozed by the FBI.
00:09:46.440 And nobody understood why.
00:09:47.560 Reporters went to it the day after
00:09:48.960 and were picking up bullets in the sand and manuscripts.
00:09:51.800 And it was just so confusing why the FBI would bulldoze something
00:09:54.840 that had such sensitive information.
00:09:56.960 And maybe if they didn't bulldoze it,
00:09:58.400 they would have known that there was another compound in Alabama,
00:10:01.020 you know, sooner than six months down the road.
00:10:05.520 So anyways, I'm flying this drone
00:10:06.860 through the Alabama bush,
00:10:11.280 videotaping their training camp,
00:10:13.500 the tires that they have set up for the kids to jump through.
00:10:18.340 Because they were training kids.
00:10:19.260 It was a terrorist kindergarten, basically.
00:10:22.400 They were training kids to shoot up schools.
00:10:25.320 So they had a school bus there.
00:10:27.400 And I drove the drone right along the school bus to peer inside
00:10:30.340 and we looked at the houses.
00:10:31.800 Anyways, it felt pretty 007-esque
00:10:34.780 because, you know, you don't get to fly a drone
00:10:37.000 in a terrorist training compound very often.
00:10:38.740 So that was pretty fun.
00:10:40.640 Yeah, especially a small-town boy from Vulcan, Alberta,
00:10:43.540 flying a drone to examine a terrorist facility in the United States.
00:10:48.380 For me, I guess my most fun stories actually involve you.
00:10:53.420 Because like you, I normally work alone.
00:10:55.520 Like, you're the cameraman for yourself.
00:10:57.300 I'm often the camerawoman for myself.
00:10:58.980 So when Greta came to Edmonton
00:11:02.720 and we had the How Dare You truck
00:11:05.280 driving in circles around where, like,
00:11:08.220 the climate march in Edmonton
00:11:10.600 was sort of congregating before they began.
00:11:14.360 And I sort of stood back
00:11:15.500 because I didn't want to be recognized.
00:11:17.200 When I get recognized by the left, they normally attack.
00:11:19.620 So I stood back and did it like wildlife photography.
00:11:23.060 I didn't want to interrupt them in their natural habitat.
00:11:25.720 And we got some really great footage from that, you know,
00:11:27.580 activists saying, you know,
00:11:29.840 all the white people to the bag.
00:11:32.720 And also our trip to Madrid.
00:11:35.300 That was so fun working with you.
00:11:38.160 One of my favorite videos, I think, ever that you've done
00:11:40.880 is you breaking the hearts of the, you know,
00:11:45.880 the Greta fangirls, the people who,
00:11:48.260 the next word out of their mouth was that Greta's my hero
00:11:51.540 if they had just kept talking.
00:11:53.660 When you broke their hearts and showed them the car,
00:11:56.080 I mean, that was so fun.
00:11:57.640 And, you know, it shouldn't be fun to deflate their dreams,
00:12:00.520 but it was great to bring those kids to reality.
00:12:02.940 Yes, bringing them to reality.
00:12:05.080 We were doing them a favor, really,
00:12:06.380 because Greta Thunberg is the biggest climate hypocrite
00:12:08.780 that there is.
00:12:10.300 You know, climate contraband everywhere from her car.
00:12:12.840 And today she just tweeted two pictures of her dogs.
00:12:15.220 Dogs are bad.
00:12:16.460 They tell me dogs are bad.
00:12:19.080 Yeah, but Greta Thunberg doesn't care.
00:12:21.020 She just wants you to euthanize your dogs
00:12:24.140 and she wants you to throw out all your plastic.
00:12:26.460 She just, she'll tell you that you got to get rid
00:12:29.380 of all of your pets, all of your climate contraband.
00:12:31.800 But when it comes to her, she'll ride in first class
00:12:33.920 on trains and-
00:12:35.660 And lie about it.
00:12:36.360 Oh, and lie about it.
00:12:37.680 She'll fly people across the Atlantic Ocean
00:12:40.420 so that she can take an exclusive yacht trip
00:12:43.660 across the sea, but not tell you about the people
00:12:46.260 that she flew across the ocean
00:12:47.300 because that goes against her narrative, right?
00:12:49.860 So exposing Greta was also fun,
00:12:52.760 but I think what you mentioned at the start of this video
00:12:54.700 was, you know, what was the most important thing
00:12:57.780 that we did?
00:12:58.880 And perhaps exposing Greta for who she is,
00:13:01.460 maybe that was probably the most important thing
00:13:03.680 that Rebel News did, or at least I did.
00:13:06.120 Yeah.
00:13:06.820 Because nobody, up until the time that I interviewed her,
00:13:10.660 interviewed Greta at that hotel in Edmonton,
00:13:12.700 nobody had ever done a hostile interview
00:13:16.000 of St. Greta, the climate child.
00:13:19.760 Yeah, I think you just stole my next question.
00:13:22.220 My next question for you would have been the story
00:13:24.880 that most encapsulated the need for the rebel
00:13:28.660 as a counterbalance to the mainstream media.
00:13:31.840 I think that that really is globally speaking,
00:13:35.200 probably the story that really proved
00:13:42.120 that we punch above our weight
00:13:43.380 and we're not unafraid to take on these
00:13:48.520 so-called untouchables.
00:13:50.720 We can't touch, Greta's a child soldier for the left.
00:13:54.000 That's really what she is.
00:13:55.120 We can't attack her because she's a child soldier,
00:13:57.340 but we're supposed to listen to her
00:13:58.560 because she's an expert.
00:14:00.020 And we totally, especially you,
00:14:02.680 and I think you approached it a great way
00:14:05.280 when you went to Edmonton and found her parents
00:14:08.180 and her handlers is, you know,
00:14:10.460 you asked her questions until it became apparent
00:14:12.560 that she's just a child.
00:14:14.280 And then you, you know,
00:14:16.280 stuck the knife in her adult handlers, so to speak.
00:14:19.680 And for me, I think for,
00:14:23.120 if I were to say what was, you know, of your work,
00:14:26.440 that necessitate, like shows why we're necessary,
00:14:30.940 I'd say that was it.
00:14:32.680 Yeah, I would agree with that.
00:14:34.500 And that is an international thing,
00:14:37.620 but I'm racking my brain through all the stories
00:14:40.780 that we've done now, now that we bring this up.
00:14:43.800 And there's stuff that we covered in the United States
00:14:45.980 that the mainstream media wasn't even covering.
00:14:47.780 Ilhan Omar.
00:14:48.180 Do you remember?
00:14:49.020 Yeah.
00:14:49.620 Ilhan Omar was a great example.
00:14:50.980 That was one of my first, like, explosive stories.
00:14:53.640 Yeah.
00:14:54.460 Ilhan Omar and the whole squad, really,
00:14:56.240 when I asked them to condemn that ICE bomber,
00:15:01.640 the terrorist.
00:15:03.120 And they all just said,
00:15:04.100 no, no, no, we have statements coming.
00:15:05.400 I can't condemn them right now
00:15:06.600 until, you know,
00:15:07.540 my handlers tell me that it's okay to condemn them
00:15:10.000 because you don't want to condemn Antifa
00:15:11.900 when you're the squad,
00:15:13.580 when you're Ayanna Pressley
00:15:15.340 and Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
00:15:18.820 seeing all of them in Congress
00:15:21.680 and being able to interview them all
00:15:23.460 really opened my eyes
00:15:26.280 as to how closed off the media is in Canada.
00:15:29.960 You know, it was just,
00:15:31.520 I basically went in that summer
00:15:33.500 from interviewing the most high-profile congresswoman
00:15:36.640 in the United States
00:15:38.180 just on a whim, basically,
00:15:40.920 to pleading my government
00:15:42.580 to letting me into our election debate.
00:15:45.340 And them saying no, you know,
00:15:46.660 like the contrast between
00:15:48.060 what the United States will let journalists do
00:15:50.660 with what the Canadian government
00:15:52.700 will let journalists do is so stark.
00:15:55.940 Yeah, and, you know,
00:15:57.240 it also is pretty evident
00:15:58.860 how the media is falling down on the job
00:16:02.440 in the United States and in Canada.
00:16:05.040 You and David Menzies,
00:16:06.120 both, you're basically jumping out of bushes
00:16:07.660 to ask accountability questions
00:16:09.220 to candidates on the campaign trail
00:16:11.020 that, and you guys were giving liberals
00:16:13.320 and NDPers the treatment
00:16:14.740 that we only see the mainstream media
00:16:16.820 give conservatives.
00:16:18.280 But when you,
00:16:19.200 I don't want to say accosted,
00:16:20.940 but when you committed
00:16:21.660 a dangerous act of journalism
00:16:23.080 on Ilhan Omar,
00:16:24.900 it was right after a press conference
00:16:26.700 and the journalists
00:16:27.900 were just sort of packing up their stuff
00:16:29.340 and going their separate,
00:16:30.640 like, no,
00:16:31.240 if she wasn't going to take questions,
00:16:32.940 they weren't going to ask them.
00:16:34.280 And you didn't take that for an answer.
00:16:37.140 You chased her,
00:16:38.400 well, not chased her,
00:16:39.240 walked with her
00:16:39.900 and asked her accountability questions,
00:16:41.900 which dozens of journalists
00:16:43.940 who work on Capitol Hill
00:16:45.000 could have done,
00:16:45.680 but it took a Canadian to do it.
00:16:47.620 And they do do it
00:16:48.820 if it's a Republican,
00:16:50.540 you know,
00:16:50.840 like if it is Lindsey Graham
00:16:52.700 coming out of the Kavanaugh hearings,
00:16:56.160 you know,
00:16:56.400 they're scrumming him
00:16:58.460 because he's on the Judiciary Committee
00:17:00.500 and that's an important thing for them.
00:17:03.380 But for some reason,
00:17:04.540 when a major story breaks
00:17:06.020 out of Minneapolis,
00:17:06.920 which I was at just the day before
00:17:09.140 when I was in Washington,
00:17:11.440 when that major story breaks
00:17:13.740 of Ilhan Omar
00:17:14.620 marrying her brother,
00:17:17.120 I mean,
00:17:17.480 it's not,
00:17:18.260 I don't even want to say allegedly anymore.
00:17:20.120 It's a pretty closed case right there.
00:17:22.340 Maybe I should say allegedly.
00:17:23.820 Ilhan Omar allegedly married her brother,
00:17:25.940 ladies and gentlemen.
00:17:27.100 In case you haven't caught up on that story,
00:17:29.380 Google that one.
00:17:30.300 It's a doozy.
00:17:31.140 And it looks like
00:17:31.960 she committed immigration fraud.
00:17:33.540 It looks like
00:17:34.360 she perjured herself
00:17:35.680 on a ton of legal documents
00:17:38.300 for her divorce.
00:17:39.380 And this story just keeps snowballing
00:17:40.740 and snowballing and snowballing.
00:17:41.840 But for some reason,
00:17:42.960 nobody had the kahanas
00:17:44.400 to ask Ilhan Omar a question to her face.
00:17:47.040 So as you said, Sheila,
00:17:48.300 right after a press conference
00:17:49.300 was scheduled on the Hill,
00:17:50.700 I just walked with her.
00:17:52.240 That was it.
00:17:52.740 That was the brave act of journalism
00:17:54.340 that exploded in the United States.
00:17:56.360 They shared it far and wide
00:17:57.380 because they just couldn't believe it.
00:17:59.140 Someone managed to get Ilhan Omar,
00:18:01.260 you know,
00:18:01.460 the member,
00:18:02.100 the leader of the squad,
00:18:03.640 or maybe it's AOC,
00:18:04.540 if it's the leader,
00:18:05.080 I'm not sure these days.
00:18:06.460 But it's stunning
00:18:07.740 how incompetent
00:18:09.000 the mainstream media is
00:18:10.400 in the United States.
00:18:12.140 Yeah.
00:18:12.600 Given how much access
00:18:13.700 they're allowed to have.
00:18:14.680 Yeah.
00:18:15.080 And they sure hate us,
00:18:16.080 but we're not going to go away
00:18:17.100 as long as they don't do their jobs.
00:18:18.600 Like,
00:18:18.960 as far as the mainstream media
00:18:20.380 is concerned,
00:18:21.040 as long as they stay inept,
00:18:22.960 then that's great job security
00:18:24.960 for you and I.
00:18:25.760 I think for me,
00:18:27.480 and Ezra did it,
00:18:31.280 but I'd like to say
00:18:31.900 I did it first.
00:18:34.620 In,
00:18:35.740 I wrote The Destroyers
00:18:38.160 to tell the other side
00:18:39.040 of Rachel Notley's NDP
00:18:41.200 that,
00:18:41.860 you know,
00:18:42.020 to give them the vetting
00:18:42.820 they weren't getting
00:18:43.560 in the mainstream media.
00:18:45.020 And Ezra did it
00:18:45.940 this time
00:18:46.840 for the Libranos,
00:18:48.200 for,
00:18:49.140 you know,
00:18:49.640 the liberals
00:18:50.280 to a certain extent
00:18:51.000 in his book,
00:18:51.660 The Libranos.
00:18:52.700 And,
00:18:52.940 you know,
00:18:53.240 he told the story
00:18:54.900 of the scandals
00:18:56.140 that are quickly told
00:18:58.800 in the mainstream media
00:18:59.640 and quickly swept
00:19:01.380 under the rug.
00:19:02.120 And for me,
00:19:02.880 going on,
00:19:03.520 you know,
00:19:03.900 handing out Libranos signs
00:19:05.280 and going to the book signings
00:19:08.200 and,
00:19:08.500 you know,
00:19:08.880 helping get that information
00:19:10.720 in people's hands.
00:19:11.580 And they were thirsty
00:19:12.820 for that information.
00:19:13.820 They really wanted it.
00:19:14.980 I think Ezra's book
00:19:15.740 went to number two.
00:19:18.980 I think that was,
00:19:20.200 that for me
00:19:20.820 was a huge success
00:19:21.940 in 2019.
00:19:22.920 And I'd like to think
00:19:24.600 I played a part in it,
00:19:25.480 even though Ezra wrote the book.
00:19:27.200 But again,
00:19:28.280 that we can write these books
00:19:31.060 that go to number one
00:19:32.660 for me
00:19:33.540 and number two
00:19:34.480 for Ezra.
00:19:36.440 And we don't get reviewed
00:19:37.840 in Maclean's.
00:19:38.820 We don't get reviewed
00:19:40.060 by anybody
00:19:41.100 in the mainstream media.
00:19:42.160 I got bumped
00:19:42.800 by a Harry Potter book.
00:19:44.240 That's how,
00:19:45.040 that's how successful
00:19:46.320 The Destroyers was.
00:19:49.500 And nobody talks about it.
00:19:51.180 They just,
00:19:51.640 like,
00:19:52.180 not that nobody talks about it,
00:19:53.360 but nobody in the mainstream media
00:19:54.600 talks about it.
00:19:55.200 They just pretend like
00:19:56.000 we don't exist.
00:19:57.600 But the book sales,
00:19:58.840 they speak for themselves,
00:20:00.060 that people want
00:20:00.980 the other side of the story.
00:20:02.760 And,
00:20:03.040 you know,
00:20:03.800 layoffs all the time
00:20:04.960 in the mainstream media.
00:20:06.020 And yet we can write books
00:20:06.880 that go to number one
00:20:07.640 and number two.
00:20:08.500 And the media wonders why.
00:20:10.540 How are they able to do it?
00:20:11.800 Well,
00:20:12.380 how about some balance?
00:20:14.040 The stunning thing
00:20:14.880 about these books
00:20:15.760 that you wrote
00:20:16.560 and the one that Ezra wrote
00:20:17.540 is they don't go,
00:20:18.880 you know,
00:20:19.180 they're not put on
00:20:19.900 the front shelf
00:20:20.560 at chapters.
00:20:21.520 No.
00:20:21.680 You know,
00:20:21.920 Margaret Atwood's book,
00:20:22.980 that's the one
00:20:24.300 that edged Ezra out.
00:20:28.240 That was,
00:20:28.520 you know,
00:20:28.700 that was,
00:20:29.060 you couldn't avoid
00:20:30.380 seeing that book
00:20:31.700 at every airport bookstore,
00:20:33.020 at every chapters,
00:20:34.200 Indigo,
00:20:34.540 whatever.
00:20:35.180 That's being shoved
00:20:36.260 down your throats.
00:20:37.680 But Ezra's book
00:20:38.520 and your book,
00:20:39.320 it's word of mouth.
00:20:40.560 It's us advertising
00:20:41.700 it on our own.
00:20:42.360 It's a little bit
00:20:43.020 of Amazon.
00:20:43.980 And it's us going
00:20:45.180 from town to town
00:20:46.340 to hand the book
00:20:47.600 out to people
00:20:48.240 who want it.
00:20:48.820 And if,
00:20:49.680 oh boy,
00:20:50.160 like if Margaret Atwood
00:20:50.920 did that,
00:20:51.400 she would probably
00:20:52.500 meet in an empty
00:20:53.240 parking lot.
00:20:54.140 Whereas,
00:20:54.860 you know,
00:20:55.080 the people interested
00:20:56.080 in the other side
00:20:56.720 of the story,
00:20:57.500 they line up in droves
00:20:58.800 to get this
00:20:59.260 because they can't
00:20:59.920 find it anywhere else.
00:21:01.420 Yeah.
00:21:01.900 Yeah.
00:21:02.160 That's a great point,
00:21:03.020 actually,
00:21:03.540 that,
00:21:03.860 you know,
00:21:04.220 it's all,
00:21:04.640 it's all grassroots
00:21:06.120 and yet these other
00:21:07.660 media conglomerates
00:21:09.140 ignore the grassroots
00:21:10.520 and just go with
00:21:11.400 their own agenda
00:21:12.220 because they exist
00:21:13.260 in a bubble.
00:21:13.880 They have no connection
00:21:14.680 to the people.
00:21:16.800 Next question.
00:21:17.560 What was your biggest
00:21:18.500 win in 2019?
00:21:21.280 I'll tell you mine.
00:21:22.140 Mine was winning
00:21:23.640 against the elections
00:21:24.560 commissioner
00:21:25.200 and having them
00:21:25.940 drop their investigation
00:21:27.340 into my illegal book
00:21:29.340 and then watching
00:21:30.960 Lauren Gibson get fired
00:21:32.100 because he's a partisan
00:21:33.100 hack who never
00:21:34.600 should have had the job
00:21:35.660 in the first place.
00:21:36.820 However,
00:21:37.260 I did get left
00:21:38.040 with some $75,000
00:21:39.520 in legal fees
00:21:40.320 and if people want
00:21:40.840 to help me out,
00:21:41.660 they can go to
00:21:42.180 savesheela.com.
00:21:43.940 What was your biggest win?
00:21:45.140 My biggest win was
00:21:47.860 it was also legal,
00:21:49.400 like legally related.
00:21:52.580 Your win was hard to beat
00:21:53.760 and he's still getting
00:21:54.680 hammered in the courts
00:21:56.040 right now
00:21:56.580 because a judge
00:21:58.020 recently said
00:21:58.860 that his fines
00:22:00.500 were vindictive
00:22:01.620 and like cruel.
00:22:03.180 It was just
00:22:03.860 chicken soup
00:22:04.760 for the soul.
00:22:05.520 It was because
00:22:06.420 he,
00:22:07.460 Lauren Gibson,
00:22:08.320 what I don't think
00:22:08.940 people understand
00:22:09.640 is this elections
00:22:10.880 commissioner,
00:22:11.580 he gets to open
00:22:12.900 the investigation
00:22:13.640 into you,
00:22:14.960 decide if it's
00:22:15.840 worth an investigation.
00:22:17.560 Then he sicks
00:22:18.400 the investigators
00:22:19.220 on you.
00:22:20.460 Then they make
00:22:21.540 a finding of guilt.
00:22:22.860 You may or may not
00:22:23.780 ever get to see
00:22:24.560 the evidence against you.
00:22:25.740 I didn't get to see
00:22:26.720 a single complaint
00:22:27.560 against me.
00:22:28.900 Then they get to decide
00:22:31.440 what fines
00:22:32.640 you're levied
00:22:33.500 and then they get
00:22:34.480 to execute
00:22:35.120 the fines against you.
00:22:36.380 None of it
00:22:37.060 ever goes before
00:22:38.120 a judge
00:22:38.640 and what's great
00:22:39.740 is the second
00:22:40.820 that this stuff
00:22:42.380 went before a judge.
00:22:43.640 A judge said
00:22:44.360 this is crazy
00:22:45.740 and it doesn't
00:22:47.000 make any sense.
00:22:47.820 So here's to
00:22:48.960 Lauren Gibson
00:22:49.440 being a laughingstock.
00:22:51.280 Anyway,
00:22:51.580 sorry to interrupt.
00:22:53.020 I think that we
00:22:54.260 should be taking
00:22:54.740 things to judges
00:22:55.440 more often
00:22:56.020 because the second
00:22:56.680 we took
00:22:57.200 the elections
00:22:58.720 commission
00:22:59.380 or the debates
00:23:01.140 commission
00:23:01.580 to court
00:23:02.940 to say,
00:23:03.620 no,
00:23:03.740 you got to let us
00:23:04.380 into the most
00:23:05.520 high profile debate
00:23:06.600 in this election.
00:23:07.700 We are accredited
00:23:08.460 journalists.
00:23:09.060 You know,
00:23:09.180 the Secretary of State
00:23:11.080 has accredited us.
00:23:12.020 The United Nations
00:23:12.900 has accredited us.
00:23:14.520 Israel's accredited.
00:23:15.280 Everywhere around the world
00:23:16.220 has accredited Rebel News
00:23:17.200 but our own government
00:23:19.160 says,
00:23:19.880 no,
00:23:20.120 no,
00:23:20.340 no,
00:23:20.580 no,
00:23:20.800 you have committed
00:23:22.040 activism once before.
00:23:23.660 Well,
00:23:24.040 we laid out,
00:23:24.720 well,
00:23:24.780 the Toronto Star's
00:23:25.900 main mandate
00:23:26.680 is activism.
00:23:27.660 News is secondary
00:23:28.320 to them.
00:23:29.240 They pick and choose
00:23:29.960 the news
00:23:30.340 that they want
00:23:30.800 to report on
00:23:31.380 based on whether
00:23:32.080 or not it fits
00:23:32.680 their progressive narrative
00:23:33.980 but they let them in.
00:23:35.200 They let a couple
00:23:35.700 of them in.
00:23:36.200 They let Chinese
00:23:36.700 state broadcasters
00:23:37.700 in.
00:23:37.860 And they let tons
00:23:38.480 of these,
00:23:40.700 I mean,
00:23:41.260 if they identify
00:23:41.900 as a journalist,
00:23:42.660 I'll give them
00:23:44.100 the benefit of the doubt.
00:23:45.400 That's what I expect
00:23:45.980 people to do for me.
00:23:47.480 But when it came to us
00:23:48.720 just because we were
00:23:49.400 conservative,
00:23:50.640 the debates commission
00:23:51.160 said,
00:23:51.480 no,
00:23:51.620 you can't come in.
00:23:52.320 So David Menzies
00:23:53.000 and I flew,
00:23:53.820 well,
00:23:54.040 David was in Toronto.
00:23:54.880 I flew to Toronto
00:23:55.640 to meet Ezra there
00:23:56.860 in court
00:23:57.460 at 9 a.m.
00:23:59.080 We found a judge.
00:24:00.940 He heard our case.
00:24:02.300 And before I knew
00:24:03.020 the ruling,
00:24:03.880 I flew to Ottawa
00:24:04.720 because I wouldn't
00:24:05.340 be able to make it
00:24:06.080 if I waited for the ruling.
00:24:07.320 So it was all on a hope
00:24:08.700 and a prayer.
00:24:09.620 Yeah.
00:24:10.460 And,
00:24:10.960 you know,
00:24:11.280 10 times,
00:24:12.460 five times,
00:24:13.500 maybe one half
00:24:14.160 of the times
00:24:14.660 these trips
00:24:15.960 don't work out.
00:24:16.800 By the way,
00:24:17.300 some of the people
00:24:18.060 that are viewing
00:24:18.500 these stories,
00:24:19.440 they see the successful
00:24:20.780 ones.
00:24:21.180 Lots of times
00:24:21.780 these flights
00:24:22.340 don't go the way
00:24:23.640 we hope it does.
00:24:24.600 We drill a few dusters
00:24:26.600 before we get a good story.
00:24:28.880 Yeah.
00:24:29.180 So I flew to Ottawa
00:24:30.380 and luckily
00:24:31.040 it just worked out
00:24:31.980 and we were allowed in.
00:24:34.900 The judge ruled
00:24:36.040 that the debates commission's
00:24:39.540 findings
00:24:40.580 and their argument
00:24:41.620 were incomprehensible.
00:24:44.100 Like they didn't
00:24:44.620 really make sense.
00:24:45.640 The arguments didn't flow
00:24:46.660 and they were just
00:24:47.720 sort of pulling things
00:24:48.600 out of thin air
00:24:49.420 as arguments
00:24:50.620 and it didn't resemble
00:24:53.240 a legal argument.
00:24:55.100 And so the judge said,
00:24:56.580 yep,
00:24:56.820 go in,
00:24:57.380 he and David
00:24:57.880 and David
00:24:58.640 and I strutted in there
00:24:59.820 like you wouldn't believe.
00:25:00.920 Like it was,
00:25:01.620 it was,
00:25:02.540 that was the biggest win
00:25:03.780 of the year
00:25:04.660 for sure
00:25:05.480 because we walked in
00:25:06.620 with the debates commission
00:25:08.620 just,
00:25:09.120 just foaming at the mouth
00:25:11.200 and all of the accredited
00:25:13.040 journalists
00:25:13.620 who were already in there
00:25:14.800 had all of their desk space
00:25:16.220 all taken
00:25:16.660 and we just sort of did
00:25:17.680 a victory lap
00:25:18.920 through the
00:25:19.940 Museum of Natural History
00:25:21.640 or Canadian,
00:25:22.620 Museum of Canadian History
00:25:23.720 so that they could all say,
00:25:25.140 yeah,
00:25:25.300 we're in here
00:25:25.900 and then we took a desk
00:25:27.000 at the back
00:25:27.460 and we did our job
00:25:28.280 I think better than
00:25:29.140 anyone else there
00:25:30.240 because we asked
00:25:31.720 more questions
00:25:32.480 than most,
00:25:33.740 most of the other media
00:25:35.160 outlets combined
00:25:36.100 and the,
00:25:37.440 you know,
00:25:37.700 the debates commission
00:25:38.380 said,
00:25:39.060 oh,
00:25:39.200 it's highly unlikely
00:25:40.020 that they'll even be able
00:25:41.060 to ask a single question
00:25:42.180 because the lineups
00:25:43.640 will be so long,
00:25:44.580 it'll be so hard
00:25:45.200 to get a question,
00:25:45.980 maybe the leaders
00:25:46.480 won't pick them
00:25:47.160 but,
00:25:47.780 you know,
00:25:47.860 we just got in line
00:25:48.800 and had lots of questions
00:25:50.220 to ask
00:25:50.780 because there was
00:25:51.340 quite the backlog
00:25:52.060 given that we weren't
00:25:53.340 allowed access
00:25:53.860 for quite a long time
00:25:54.700 and we did a better job
00:25:56.480 than anyone else there
00:25:57.220 so that was just
00:25:58.520 a night full
00:25:59.600 of straight winning.
00:26:01.420 Yeah,
00:26:01.640 I liked how
00:26:02.900 the mainstream media
00:26:04.580 journalists
00:26:05.020 were sort of like
00:26:05.820 shocked
00:26:06.260 and clutching their pearls
00:26:07.360 at how you and David,
00:26:10.040 you particularly
00:26:10.980 in that first debate
00:26:11.880 and then you and David
00:26:12.840 in the second debate
00:26:13.660 were able to get questions,
00:26:15.340 how you guys ended up
00:26:16.600 getting questions first
00:26:17.760 and it's like,
00:26:18.960 well,
00:26:19.140 hustle and hard work.
00:26:20.520 You know,
00:26:20.660 when you have to fight
00:26:21.440 for everything,
00:26:22.520 of course you're going
00:26:23.120 to fight to get
00:26:23.620 the first question.
00:26:24.620 Of course you're going
00:26:25.200 to figure out a way
00:26:25.780 to get to the front
00:26:26.380 of the line
00:26:26.860 and,
00:26:27.740 you know,
00:26:27.860 these other journalists,
00:26:28.820 they get access
00:26:30.400 handed to them
00:26:31.940 so it's shocking
00:26:33.200 to them
00:26:33.760 to see,
00:26:34.820 you know,
00:26:35.960 other journalists
00:26:36.920 who are scrappier
00:26:38.400 and who,
00:26:40.100 where we come from
00:26:40.920 a meritocracy
00:26:41.840 at the Rebel,
00:26:43.220 they were just shocked.
00:26:44.900 They were shocked.
00:26:45.360 It was a cultural divide
00:26:47.680 between you
00:26:48.220 and the other journalists
00:26:48.940 that was very evident
00:26:50.040 and I,
00:26:50.500 I really enjoyed it
00:26:51.780 actually.
00:26:53.300 David and I waited
00:26:54.320 for about an hour
00:26:55.900 and a half
00:26:56.520 with Andrew Lawton
00:26:57.540 because he was also
00:26:58.380 in the same position
00:26:59.120 as us from True North.
00:27:00.500 We waited for an hour
00:27:01.840 and a half
00:27:02.300 at that French debate
00:27:03.360 after I sort of
00:27:04.480 understood how
00:27:05.160 it was going to work
00:27:05.840 and where we had to line up
00:27:07.140 to show the police dogs
00:27:08.100 our bags,
00:27:08.620 that kind of thing.
00:27:09.160 We waited there
00:27:09.860 for an hour and a half
00:27:11.100 to be the first in line
00:27:12.120 and even then
00:27:13.240 the president
00:27:14.400 of the press gallery
00:27:15.300 who I found out
00:27:16.160 after the fact
00:27:16.640 who this was,
00:27:17.680 he tried to budge us
00:27:18.640 in line multiple times
00:27:19.980 and I was just like,
00:27:20.740 no, I'm not,
00:27:21.640 like you're not going
00:27:22.200 to go in front of me
00:27:22.800 so I just kept
00:27:23.280 walking ahead of him.
00:27:24.180 He was,
00:27:24.780 that guy,
00:27:25.820 he's a,
00:27:26.480 he's a jerk
00:27:27.720 but it was a lot
00:27:30.240 of grit and hard work
00:27:31.020 to get those questions asked
00:27:32.400 and it's just something
00:27:32.980 that mainstream media
00:27:33.540 is not used to.
00:27:34.860 You know,
00:27:35.140 and winning
00:27:35.940 is really the best revenge,
00:27:37.960 isn't it?
00:27:38.400 Now,
00:27:40.320 last question
00:27:41.060 because I've taken up
00:27:41.900 a bit of your time.
00:27:43.840 What do you want
00:27:45.160 to focus on
00:27:45.880 in 2020?
00:27:47.960 Because
00:27:48.400 I think what sets
00:27:49.940 us apart
00:27:50.580 from the rest
00:27:51.440 of the mainstream media
00:27:52.280 is we get a lot
00:27:52.940 of freedom
00:27:53.380 to cover the issues
00:27:54.840 that are really important
00:27:55.900 to us as individuals.
00:27:57.960 I mean,
00:27:58.560 I get to cover
00:27:59.580 the agriculture beat
00:28:00.800 because I'm a farmer
00:28:03.460 and,
00:28:04.260 you know,
00:28:05.340 I get the freedom
00:28:06.220 and leeway to do that.
00:28:07.160 Of course,
00:28:07.440 you and I are both
00:28:08.020 oil patch advocates.
00:28:10.100 What are you going
00:28:10.740 to focus on
00:28:11.280 in 2020?
00:28:12.600 I,
00:28:13.120 in particular,
00:28:14.000 want to focus
00:28:14.580 on the Indigenous
00:28:15.760 communities
00:28:16.340 who benefit
00:28:17.060 from oil and gas
00:28:18.640 and all these
00:28:19.360 agreements
00:28:20.040 with oil and gas
00:28:20.980 companies
00:28:21.380 who are now
00:28:22.220 being dammed
00:28:23.600 to poverty
00:28:24.340 by the federal
00:28:25.440 government
00:28:25.900 and the NGOs,
00:28:27.400 these environmental
00:28:28.040 NGOs
00:28:28.520 who love to stand
00:28:29.780 behind Indigenous
00:28:31.340 groups to say,
00:28:32.580 you know,
00:28:32.840 block the pipeline,
00:28:33.980 it's for Indigenous
00:28:34.580 rights while damming
00:28:35.700 entire communities
00:28:36.560 to generational
00:28:37.260 poverty.
00:28:37.860 I want to tell
00:28:38.500 those stories.
00:28:39.500 What do you want
00:28:39.980 to do?
00:28:41.260 Well,
00:28:41.740 I think that it's
00:28:42.760 going to be a really
00:28:43.460 busy year because
00:28:44.360 there's going to be
00:28:44.860 two major elections.
00:28:45.920 There's going to be
00:28:46.260 the election of the
00:28:47.560 new conservative
00:28:48.440 leader to replace
00:28:49.260 Andrew Scheer,
00:28:50.280 barring him not
00:28:51.280 staying on indefinitely
00:28:52.400 until the government
00:28:53.360 collapses.
00:28:54.200 Yeah,
00:28:54.220 that's a long goodbye,
00:28:55.140 isn't it?
00:28:55.440 Yeah,
00:28:56.500 it's a really long
00:28:57.360 goodbye.
00:28:58.640 So there's going
00:28:59.620 to be that,
00:29:00.140 but then there's also
00:29:00.760 going to be the 2020
00:29:01.600 Democratic
00:29:02.500 primaries,
00:29:04.320 which will wrap
00:29:06.440 up probably
00:29:07.440 halfway through
00:29:08.040 the year.
00:29:08.400 I don't know
00:29:08.720 the exact date
00:29:09.280 on that,
00:29:09.660 but then right
00:29:10.400 after that is
00:29:11.360 the American
00:29:11.700 presidential election.
00:29:13.040 So that's actually
00:29:13.780 three huge elections
00:29:15.720 that we are going
00:29:16.680 to have to try
00:29:18.240 our best to cover
00:29:19.920 the whole thing.
00:29:20.700 I mean,
00:29:21.000 it's not like we
00:29:21.760 have a whole floor
00:29:23.960 of people working
00:29:25.820 for us like CNN
00:29:26.760 does,
00:29:27.240 multiple floors
00:29:28.100 of people for them
00:29:28.840 and Fox News
00:29:29.500 and all that.
00:29:30.360 We have you,
00:29:31.520 me,
00:29:32.060 Ezra,
00:29:32.660 David,
00:29:33.320 Abigail.
00:29:34.760 So we're going
00:29:35.820 to do our best
00:29:36.320 to cover it
00:29:36.840 and we're going
00:29:37.280 to,
00:29:38.080 you know,
00:29:38.400 it's going
00:29:38.840 to be a long
00:29:39.360 grind,
00:29:40.000 but I think
00:29:40.740 it's just such
00:29:41.460 a rewarding job
00:29:42.300 that we get to
00:29:42.760 work for Rebel
00:29:44.000 News,
00:29:44.940 covering stories
00:29:46.340 that one,
00:29:47.780 if we wanted
00:29:48.380 to cover while
00:29:48.980 working for CTV,
00:29:50.900 like,
00:29:51.980 you know,
00:29:52.280 the,
00:29:53.120 what's his name,
00:29:54.080 Mike Arcelini's
00:29:54.920 of the world,
00:29:55.500 we wouldn't be
00:29:55.940 allowed to.
00:29:56.420 We'd have to
00:29:56.860 cover Lost Dogs
00:29:58.500 and,
00:29:59.060 you know,
00:29:59.840 broken fire hydrants,
00:30:01.160 but we get to
00:30:02.100 cover terrorist
00:30:03.000 training camps,
00:30:04.180 we get to cover
00:30:05.040 the President
00:30:05.720 of the United States
00:30:06.760 in the White House.
00:30:09.660 It's just such
00:30:10.400 an honor to be able
00:30:10.980 to do the job
00:30:11.540 that I do,
00:30:12.260 and it's an even
00:30:13.700 bigger honor
00:30:14.160 that people watch it
00:30:15.660 and enjoy the content
00:30:16.980 that we produce
00:30:17.580 and the news
00:30:18.000 that we produce.
00:30:19.240 It's really,
00:30:19.940 it's such a fulfilling
00:30:20.920 job and I hope
00:30:21.560 that we can just
00:30:22.100 double down on
00:30:22.700 what we've been
00:30:23.100 doing next year.
00:30:24.220 Great,
00:30:24.720 Kian,
00:30:24.900 thank you so much
00:30:25.740 for taking the time
00:30:26.800 to do this interview
00:30:27.500 and thank you
00:30:28.460 so much
00:30:28.900 for personifying
00:30:31.080 the work that we do
00:30:31.860 here at The Rebel,
00:30:32.560 which is punching
00:30:33.140 above our weight
00:30:33.880 and asking the questions
00:30:34.940 that nobody else will.
00:30:37.160 Happy New Year,
00:30:37.900 buddy.
00:30:38.820 Happy New Year
00:30:39.340 and Merry Christmas,
00:30:39.980 Sheila.
00:30:40.460 Yeah,
00:30:40.740 you too.
00:30:48.400 You know,
00:30:49.000 Kian's right,
00:30:49.560 we've got a frisky
00:30:50.960 year ahead of us,
00:30:52.140 don't we?
00:30:52.820 We're going to see,
00:30:54.020 possibly,
00:30:54.600 a conservative
00:30:55.100 leadership race
00:30:56.380 and we might be
00:30:57.480 one of the only
00:30:58.240 journalistic outlets
00:30:59.140 that will treat
00:30:59.960 the race fairly
00:31:02.060 because,
00:31:03.020 well,
00:31:03.500 first off,
00:31:04.020 we aren't anti-conservative
00:31:05.160 like the mainstream media is,
00:31:06.600 but also fairly
00:31:07.580 because we don't mind
00:31:08.780 holding our own
00:31:10.180 to account
00:31:10.640 when they aren't
00:31:11.320 conservative enough.
00:31:12.600 We are also going
00:31:13.960 to be covering
00:31:14.440 the Western alienation
00:31:15.860 sentiment fairly
00:31:16.880 because the mainstream media
00:31:18.600 paints disaffected
00:31:19.960 Albertans
00:31:20.660 as racist
00:31:21.800 backwards hillbillies.
00:31:23.660 And who knows,
00:31:24.840 we might even see
00:31:25.640 a federal election
00:31:26.780 if Justin Trudeau
00:31:27.920 does something
00:31:28.720 idiotic enough
00:31:30.440 to force the NDP
00:31:31.580 to vote against
00:31:33.180 his government
00:31:33.880 causing his minority
00:31:35.000 government to fall.
00:31:36.880 Here's hoping.
00:31:38.340 And we've got an election
00:31:39.460 in the United States
00:31:40.840 and you,
00:31:41.620 dear viewer,
00:31:42.100 you've already seen
00:31:42.880 the kind of work
00:31:43.640 Kian can do
00:31:44.460 when we set him loose
00:31:46.340 on those pesky
00:31:47.720 Democrats.
00:31:48.340 2020 is going
00:31:51.060 to be exciting
00:31:52.420 however you slice it.
00:31:53.900 It's going to be hard work
00:31:54.900 but it's work
00:31:55.720 we're proud to do
00:31:56.600 and it's work
00:31:57.420 we can only do
00:31:58.320 with the support
00:31:59.400 of our friends
00:32:00.280 and viewers
00:32:01.220 like you at home.
00:32:03.140 So thank you
00:32:03.780 for your support
00:32:04.640 this past year.
00:32:06.300 I hope everybody
00:32:07.180 had a very Merry Christmas
00:32:08.300 and here's to a very
00:32:09.300 Happy New Year
00:32:10.460 full of opportunity
00:32:11.720 and hope.
00:32:13.360 I'll see everybody
00:32:13.980 back here
00:32:14.540 in the same time
00:32:15.360 in the same place
00:32:16.140 next week.
00:32:17.020 And remember,
00:32:17.560 don't let the government
00:32:18.920 tell you
00:32:19.440 that you've had
00:32:20.040 too much to think.
00:32:21.020 Thank you.