SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Kian Simone's first feature film is 'Trucker Rebellion： The Battle for Coutts'
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From working in a warehouse in Toronto to becoming an Alberta documentary filmmaker with a sold-out premiere, Kian Simone joins me tonight to explain his meteoric rise to successful documentarian, and to discuss his new documentary, Trucker Rebellion: The Story of the Kutz Blockade.
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From working in a warehouse in Toronto to becoming an Alberta documentary filmmaker with a sold-out
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premiere, Kian K2 Simone joins me tonight to, I guess, explain his meteoric rise to
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successful documentarian. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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You know, I think one of the very unique things we do here at Rebel News is that
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we often don't hire people with journalism backgrounds, but we hire people with a certain
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skill set, but more importantly, a certain work ethic and a certain mindset. Do you believe in
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freedom? Do you believe in tolerating other viewpoints? And do you believe so often in
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fighting for the little guy and telling their stories when everybody else seems to be lying
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about them? And that is exactly what my friend and colleague Kian K2 Simone has done in his brand new
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documentary movie. It's called Trucker Rebellion, the story of the Kutz blockade and the very first
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showing happening Thursday, May 26th at Canyon Meadows Cinema in Calgary is already completely
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sold out. Actually, if you want to get your tickets for the second showing because there was such intense
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demand for the opportunity for people to see this documentary in person, we had to bring in a
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second showing. You can get your tickets at truckerdocumentary.com. Now, I wanted to have
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Kian on the show because his story is so incredible. He recently graduated from film school. He had
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unbeknownst to him gone to school with some of the people who are already working at Rebel News,
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and he just couldn't take what was happening in Ontario with regard to the lockdown. So he
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somehow, well, not somehow, but he got a job with us, packed his bags, moved to Calgary like that. He
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just made this life-changing decision. And since then, he's been telling the stories of the normal people
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being hurt by the lockdown and the people who stood up and resisted the lockdown, like Pastor Art
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Poloski and like the truckers who blockaded the border at Kutz. So Kian joins me tonight to talk about
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his trucker documentary, but he also joins me tonight to discuss his other documentary project. It's a
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documentary series that he's created with Rebel News UK correspondent, Lewis Brackpool, wherein they
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expose the World Economic Forum's Great Reset. So please enjoy this interview I recorded with my
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friend and colleague, Kian K2 Simone, yesterday morning.
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On January 29th, truckers began a blockade at the Kutz-Sweetgrass International border crossing
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to show supportive solidarity with the Freedom Convoy to Ottawa. They, like millions of Canadians,
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of vaccine mandates and saw that now was the time to stand.
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Kian K2 Simone and myself, Sid Vizard, were embedded within this blockade from the moment
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On May 26th, we'll be bringing you our exclusive coverage from the inside with our new documentary,
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Trucker Rebellion, the story of the Kutz blockade.
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To watch Trucker Rebellion, the story of the Kutz blockade, head to truckerdocumentary.com.
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Not only will you be able to view it there and donate to our independent journalism, you'll
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also be able to buy tickets for a live viewing in theatre as we premiere this exclusive documentary
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with members of our Rebel team in none other than Calgary, Alberta.
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So joining me now from his home office for now in Calgary is my friend and successful documentary
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Now, I wanted to have you on the show because you're just ripping it up out there.
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And before I get into the things that you're working on, and I know we've talked about this
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before when you were on the show before, but your journey to Rebel News and then to the
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place where you are now within the company, it's kind of interesting, but it's also the story
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We just sort of really have a story to tell inside of us.
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And Ezra Levent just plucks us out of obscurity and lets us, you know, he sees potential in
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so many people that maybe they don't see in themselves.
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And so why don't you tell us how you came to be a Rebel?
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Yeah, actually, I give a lot of credit to that of what we famously call K1.
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Um, he had the same name as me, Kian, so I would, uh, my dad showed me his work and I
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And I kind of just went through it in my head and I was like, well, I'm not really comfortable
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And, uh, I'm, I find myself to be a creative person and I figured I'd, uh, give it a venture.
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And at the time I was working in a warehouse at Leon's, I was like, screw this.
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So I started looking for jobs, looking for work and camera or just anywhere in the industry.
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And, uh, I saw that Lincoln and Mocha worked at Rebel and I went to school with them.
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I was in their class in college and I never spoke a word to either of them.
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I was like, Hey, do you remember me to Lincoln?
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Um, and all of this sort of unfolded in Ontario, but now you're in Alberta.
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Um, I was living with my dad at the point, uh, you know, we're just living together, two
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guys, it's, uh, it's super fun, but it's not sustainable and I can't bring a girl home.
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You're looking at like $2,500 for someone's basement.
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That looks like they lock people up inside of it.
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So, but, uh, they locked up my Walmart in my small town of Bradford, Ontario.
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They, uh, you couldn't buy non-essential items, which is closed.
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I don't buy clothes at Walmart, but, uh, you couldn't.
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And the next day I said, I'm moving to Calgary.
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I asked my girlfriend, I was like, you want to come with me?
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Like while we were driving, we're looking at apartments.
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You just decided wherever I go, it's got to be better than here.
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Calgary is, I've always wanted to live in Alberta.
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And, uh, it's the people that brought me here, not just the prices of the, the apartments.
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It's the people it's, you walk down and people actually smile at you, which you don't get
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in Toronto unless you have something on your face.
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Now, uh, ever since you got to, uh, to Calgary, we just sort of threw you right into everything.
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I think your first week on the job, or maybe even your first day on the job, we had you
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sleeping in pastor Art Poloski's church because we thought the cops were going to break in.
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We, I was supposed to start on May 3rd and our, uh, our COO, Eten messaged me.
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You know, like I, I've just, I was in a different world and I was like, okay.
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Um, I go there and there's a huge protest at the church and I'm meeting Art Poloski for the
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So it's three days after that where, um, I was sleeping in the church.
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Two days, two nights, you know, it's an experience I'll never forget.
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It was the best in different ways and journalistic ways, but I think, uh, human rights wise, it
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I just remember that and thinking, what are we doing?
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I just remember thinking he seems so eager to be there when the cops violate the rights
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of this pastor that he's willing to sleep on an air mattress in a place that could or
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There isn't many things that I wouldn't do to tell the truth, show the truth, show what
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And I think that's a great segue, by the way, look at you being a journalist into, uh, you
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know, really telling not just the other side of the story, but as you say the truth.
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And I wanted to have you on because you have a brand new documentary, it world premiere
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is Thursday night in Calgary, but it's about the truckers as they went to coots.
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Um, some truckers went all the way to Ottawa, um, to protest Justin Trudeau's remaining COVID
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mandates, but not just Justin Trudeau's, Doug Ford's, everyone's remaining COVID mandates,
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Some stayed in Alberta and went south to the border at coots.
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And so did you, and I'll never forget that phone call.
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You have a really tiny car because you're from Ontario and we'll catch you up with getting
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Um, but, uh, you and Sid Fizard just jumped in your little car, drove in a snowstorm to
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I think it's, uh, Sheila, I think we're going to be here for a few days.
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You know, we, we, we went the first night and we knew we were sleeping there.
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We knew that we would just go late at night and maybe the next day, just tell the entire
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story because be there from the morning until the night, see what happens.
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That snowstorm hit and my car just, just blocked in by more trucks that showed up.
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And then, uh, I w I was actually on the phone with you while someone said, Hey, there's
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And then just naturally you're like, okay, well, let's just wait.
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Um, and then, uh, we got off the phone and he shows me a damn video of it.
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There is 47 RCMP officers with big tactical trucks on the way.
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I'm like, okay, well, I can't really refute that.
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And that's when the second phone call hit where Sheila, I think we're going to be here
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And, you know, I'm so glad you were because during the time that you guys were there,
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what the politicians were saying about the truckers in particular, Jason Kenney, who got
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a lot of things wrong, um, accusing the truckers of, you know, assaulting police officers and,
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and, uh, closing the border sometimes when the border wasn't closed, they were letting
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commercial trucks through, um, and the media was getting it wrong.
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And even, you know, even the, uh, the police at some points were getting it wrong.
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Um, tell us, you know, we sent you just there to do the news or you sent yourself and said,
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Um, but what inspired you while you were there, you just decided sort of on the, on the spot.
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There's a bigger story here that I cannot tell in just, you know, 240 seconds of things that
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are ending up on Twitter every day, which you owned this story for sure doing that, but what
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made you think that there was something bigger, a bigger narrative that you had to get on the
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Well, I think it was just the fact that it was a border, right?
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It is critical infrastructure and it involves two countries now.
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And, uh, our counterpart in America is much bigger than us.
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So when I was started, uh, just saying things on Twitter, because there was no service to
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do reports and it's something that the mainstream media was on right away as well.
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Uh, good for them, at least in some aspects that they did speak about it, but they weren't
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So me being there and being able to post what's happening in live time, um, it got a lot of
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And I, you know, I was, my phone was just constantly vibrating and vibrating.
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This is, this is, this is bigger than just a convoy.
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And then that's when I was able to start talking to the actual truckers and, you know, they're,
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I'm just a 23 year old kid and they're crying to me about their family, can't feed their
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I'm like, I can't just do a report on this and say, okay, finished.
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Thanks for, uh, thanks for fighting for freedom and doing what you do.
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And I think, I think from before my last point about having no service also played a big part
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Cause even if we wanted to get reports up, we couldn't, there's no, no uploading anything.
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You could upload a tweet and it would take five minutes.
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So imagine trying to upload a five gigabyte video.
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Uh, I think the Amazon there barks at everything.
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Um, I think just it, it, it brings it down to earth when you make a documentary and you
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say like, this is a, this is a full production.
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This is, this is something that we spent a lot of time on.
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We, of course we were there for me nine days and said, what, like 16, that animal.
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And, uh, I think it just, it just shows the entire experience in full when, when, if we
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were to do something in 12 minutes, sure people want to see it and, and it would, it
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But I just, I just think a documentary just makes it more special for everybody involved.
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And it also helps, like you said, mainstream media was getting it wrong.
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I think it was the best karma for Kenny who stood up for the truckers when they went to
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Ottawa and then they were in his own backyard and it wasn't, wasn't the same.
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You know, um, when you were in coots and I asked this question because I'm a lifelong Albertan.
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And so I know this about us, um, but this is the kind of thing when I see it, this is
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the kind of thing that might only happen in Alberta where you see farmers who usually are
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just tending the fields and they're sort of too busy feeding the world to worry about
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But frequently there comes a time in this province where it is the farmers who stand
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up, engage in civil disobedience and make change.
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It's always the normal people, the working man, saving the whole entire society from
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Um, I guess I want your Ontarian perspective of, okay, so now you've got the truckers, then
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the farmers show up with their heavy equipment.
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And some of that stuff is, you know, three quarters of a million dollars and they're willing
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The province could seize it at any time, tow it away, wreck it when you tow it.
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And then the cowboys show up with horses and then everybody ends up up the road in Milk
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It was like almost all of Southern Alberta converged in two places in Coutts and at Milk
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River to protest the government they likely voted for.
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Um, there's, there's one extremely heated answer and one of answer of community.
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And it's more controversial, like I said before, agree with it or not.
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It's illegal to do that, but we're speaking Alberta here.
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They know not to drive around in circles and say, we're mad.
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If you're, if you're messing around with people's lives, they're going to push back.
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And I'm, I'm, I'm happy to, to report there was no violence.
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It was, we're going to get you in your pockets was, was what they, what they said is why they
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And then the community aspect, yeah, there was what, 15,000 people in milk river at one
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And then over tens of thousands of people that it went for miles that, that lineup.
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And it was, it was families, you know, I would walk around and I would see kids using the
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They're not, they're not these, these people that the mainstream media painted them out to
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They're kids who want to have, be able to have a future.
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So the parents were there fighting for it with burgers and hot dogs.
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And there's sort of that other side of the story where, you know, these are border communities
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and they're so small that sometimes the other half of your community, the other half of the
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resources your community relies on is across the border in the United States.
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Like I know, especially in Southern Manitoba, when they closed the border to the unvaccinated,
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some kids in Canada played on the American hockey team because that's where the rink was.
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People commuted across the border every single day and came back.
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And because of the vaccine mandates at the border, they couldn't do that.
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And I just want to give context to when you say 15,000 people were in Milk River on a good
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So that shows just how much the population swelled in Southern Alberta to support the truckers.
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And I think that played a real role in Jason Kenney being shown the door because that was
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one of the, it still remains one of the most, if not the most conservative place in the entire
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They came there so that they didn't have the government telling them what to do.
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And now the government was not only telling them what to do, but dividing them from their
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friends and neighbors based on the vaccine mandate.
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And I think that's why so many people just said, you know what?
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They are breaking the law, but this is civil disobedience.
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And I want to throw my name in my face to support them.
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And I was speaking to one guy on my second last day there, and he was new.
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He snuck in past the border, sorry, past the blockade in Milk River.
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He's like, yeah, I saw you on Twitter and I wanted to come show my support for the truckers.
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Now we should tell everybody the name of your documentary and how they can get tickets.
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The first showing has sold out through just overwhelming response from people who want
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And I want to, I've seen the documentary a couple of times already, and there's footage
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in there that no matter how closely people follow your coverage at Coots and Sid's coverage
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at Coots, there's footage that they have not seen yet.
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Compelling, beautiful footage that never made it into a news story because those have to be
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Uh, so if they want to see, as they say, the full story, the only way to get it is in
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If we have all the negotiations in there, we're, we're journalists inside of an RCMP
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And if you want to come see the second show, June 1st in Calgary, Alberta, go to trucker
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Um, I think it's playing at the Canyon Meadows cinemas and, uh, yeah, I'm excited.
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So we will also, for those people who are curious, you will be there.
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Uh, and we've got trucker lawyer, Chad Williamson and his trucker lawyer sideburns.
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You know, it's, it's, he's, he's the perfect guy for the job.
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By the end of his time at the blockade, he did look like he should be in a Western.
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Like he rolled down there looking like a lawyer, a cat dad.
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Um, now that's not the only thing you've been working on.
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To a born again, Albertan to, uh, a viral successful documentary filmmaker, uh, tell
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us about your docu series with our UK reporter.
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So this is sort of like an international docu series, um, transatlantic, I guess, docu
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series with our UK reporter, Lewis Brackpool about the world economic forum, which I think
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Um, because as people may know, the world economic forum is underway right now in Davos,
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We have a rebel news team that's there, um, right now.
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And people can follow all of their reports at W E F reports.com and support their, their
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But in advance of that, you and Lewis were digging down into just how truly sinister this
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organization really is while they paint themselves as just these benevolent keepers of humanity.
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Well, uh, it's actually kind of a funny story how it started.
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Uh, it actually all started out with our web editor, Dave.
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Um, we were talking one night, we were just playing video games, just doing what we do.
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And, uh, you just, I sent a picture of the book COVID, the great reset written by Klaus Schwab.
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I was, I'm not touching that thing until later.
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So I just had it on the shelf and, uh, he's like, yeah, we should give it a read.
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I was like, okay, well read through it a little bit and yeah, there's, this is cool.
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And Dave's like, yeah, we should do something on this.
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So it, it, that sat for a few months, you know, we're, we're busy.
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And then, uh, Lewis expresses want to, to be a part of something, um, bigger than just
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reports, uh, just to do on the side, you know, if we have an extra hour, um, instead
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of what doing, what guys do play video games or something, let's read a book and put down
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And, uh, I think I just used all the skills that I've learned over the past two years
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I'll, uh, I'll lay a foundation of the script and Lewis was like, yeah, well, I'll, I'll,
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So all three of us just kind of put our heads in and, uh, just honestly, Sheila, I gotta be
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We spent more time reading the book and on the script.
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I did that video in like three days over a weekend.
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And it wasn't supposed to be like this big thing where it's just like, yeah, let's do
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And, uh, then Dave's like, well, let's do a docu-series.
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I'm like, okay, let's see how the first one goes.
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Um, I sent it over and everyone's like, yep, this is it.
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We waited a month to say, well, might as well wait for the world economic forum, get it out
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the day before and, uh, that's, that's when everybody will be wanting it.
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And yeah, like you said, it went kind of viral.
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And you're getting some international attention over it, which I think is incredible.
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Um, but at the same time, you aren't, this is not really, you know, the other side might
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accuse you of, oh, this is a manipulative hit piece.
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You actually are just using their own words and the things that they say, the world economic
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forum and Klaus Schwab, the founder of it, and everybody's who's involved, I call them
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the vampires familiars of Klaus Schwab, um, you're really only using their public statements.
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You're using their public statements and just showing people, this is what they're saying
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You, you sort of just lay it on the viewer and the viewer can decide how to interpret the
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The hardest part, you know, wasn't the hardest part was getting this, getting it all into
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The easy part was literally typing out Klaus Schwab and then blank, whatever you want to
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And then there's a, there's a, there's a clip of him saying it.
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There's one thing in the documentary that isn't in the book and nowhere on the world economic
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And that is that Klaus Schwab started the world economic forum from a CIA backed Harvard program
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that Henry Kissinger was running and it's true.
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And then all you got to do, Klaus Schwab, Harvard, and there's a clip of him saying it.
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So it's, it was really just the editing was just the tedious part of putting it together
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Everything else was just, just like you said, they've said it.
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You used what they've said and just showed the world.
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Because I think these people think that they're only talking to each other when they say these
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things, you know, the elites are only talking to each other and the only people who are going
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to read their stupid books are other elites and they all agree with each other.
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But the normals who have to live with the consequences of their crazy ideas for society,
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they think that we are not going to be interested in what they're doing.
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We're happy to let them shepherd us through the next few years or I guess in perpetuity.
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And they also think that even if we are outraged by the things that they are going to do to us,
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that we're not smart enough to understand how they are looking out for us.
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And we are not smart enough to make up our own minds about things.
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Well, there's a part to that that they don't express.
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And it's the part that they've admitted that they've already lost and that they're desperate.
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2020, the Great Reset, that annual themed symposium that they had, it was out of desperation.
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And it's in the book, of course, that they've admitted their loss and its complexity.
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You know, some people get extreme with what they want to do about it.
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And I know that's a crazy thing to say, but it's true.
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They declared a war on our life and the way that we live.
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And the way that we fight back is just being more human.
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Our complexity of there's 7 billion people on this planet that they want to run.
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And because we're so complex and 7 billion people have different wants and needs
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So they'll try and they'll try and they'll try.
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And they'll say, you will eat the bugs and you will live in a pod.
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I really, I am not coming out of this like in the dark.
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After doing all this research, like there's no way that it can work.
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Well, I think that that sort of tips our hand to the things that they really want to do.
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Because if you look at the things that they really want to do, so much of it is stripping
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Where they say, okay, well, we want to give you a microchip in your brain.
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And we want to change the way you communicate with each other, not face to face.
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They realize that they are up against the human will to be free.
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You take away the humanity if you want to control those people.
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But I think even these oligarchs, because they really are big tech or power oligarchs, they
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know that every great tyranny falls because there is the human desire to be free.
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It's that thing that we are inherently born with.
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It's the reason we know slavery is wrong, because humans are born to be free.
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That it's granted to them by virtue of being born alive, a human being.
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You know, you're free because you're born in the image of the creator.
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But even the oligarchs know that they are up against this thing that nobody in the history
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Well, let's look at the numbers of like how many people are on actual, actually on Twitter,
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Instagram, Facebook, where all these ideas are talked about in this like kind of hive
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mind of all of our consciousness that we think everybody's on there in the conversation.
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But 200 million people on Twitter is actually not a lot of people.
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And just kind of spread that out across the other platforms.
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There's so many people on this earth that have an opinion, have an idea.
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And like I said before, have a complexity to them that the World Economic Forum and these
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And like you said, they have a desire to be free.
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And we haven't heard them because they're not in our little echo chamber of even though
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that we can fight with each other online and we can make docuseries about them and make
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do reports on them and go to Davos and say, hey, like with the mic in their face.
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But there's so many people in this world that they have no chance against that desire to
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The first part is out right now, how people can support your important work, because all
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of your journalism is independent, unlike the mainstream media who are currently at Davos,
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not reporting on the crazy, crazy things that are unfolding there.
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So tell people how they can see your work and support your work, please.
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There you'll find the documentary, the first episode, and you'll be able to donate to even
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if it's just buy me a coffee while I read the book for you, because I'll read it for you
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Now, before I let you go, because you are besides being an incredible documentary filmmaker,
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Um, uh, tell us what sort of things you're working on next.
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Actually, I think it is, um, really zeroing in on this Spirit Reset docuseries.
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I think that, uh, there's five resets that we've got to go through technological, economic,
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That's, it's, it's all of, it's all the world compact into five little pillars.
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So I think that's a big, uh, a big project that we've got to get into over the next coming months.
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Um, there's a few more documentaries that I would like to make in the meantime.
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I think, uh, okay, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll say it here.
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And I would like to speak to all of the people who were directly impacted by the NDP's extreme,
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radical policies that took out what 15% of all jobs of this tiny town of 2,500 people
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where the suicide rate spiked, where they lost.
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And this is the craziest part is that, okay, they lost their biggest economical value of
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And you can go there, you can go look at the mines.
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You can go look at all the historical stuff at the train station there.
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And then what happened two years after they shut down all the coal was COVID.
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So no one's going to be a tourist in Hannah, Alberta during COVID.
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They have a hardware store and they have Nickelback.
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When people talk about tourism in Hannah, it's a thing.
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The coal mine itself created a lake, a summer resort that everybody uses.
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They use the cooling lake from the coal mine and it's this fun resort.
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And because the water is warmer, uh, the fishing is awesome, but now the coal mine's gone.
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I think that deserves a, I think that deserves, like I said, a special well-produced project that people can actually learn about what happened there rather than going on CBC and saying, oh yeah, they're shutting down the coal mine.
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They say, yeah, just transition into homelessness and into a sleeping bag, sleeping on the street.
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Um, but you know, people might say, well, it's just Hannah.
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It's just a small town with 2,500 people, but this is the war on fossil fuels and it's being replicated in cities and towns, not just all across the country, but all across the world.
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Um, where outside of the urban centers, the people who do the work and the labor to support the urban centers so that you can flip on your light switch, those people are being absolutely devastated by green energy policies.
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Um, they're the collateral damage in all of this.
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And, uh, I think it's wonderful that our born again, Albertan would humanize this town.
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Uh, thank you so much for the important work that you do and for advocating for Albertans.
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Um, you know, it's funny that so many people from Alberta are actually from somewhere else, but like you, they fall in love with this place and, uh, our desire, like everybody else in the world to be free, um, would just, I think sometimes we fight a little harder than everybody else for that desire to be free.
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I can't wait to check back in with you and tell the world, uh, what you're doing next.
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This is the portion of the show where we let you have your say.
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We're not the mainstream media, so we don't take your money and then shut you out of the conversation.
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Now, sometimes I take my viewer comments from my email and that's probably the easiest way for you to send me a comment because it lands right in my email inbox.
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My email, if you would like your comment right on air is Sheila at rebel news.com.
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And in the subject line, please put gun show letters so that I can easily find your comment because as you know, I probably receive hundreds of emails per day.
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Anyway, this comment doesn't actually come from my email, but it comes from rumble.
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It is on my interview with Morian Pools, the Dutch filmmaker.
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I spoke to last week about his new documentary film, Pan Damned that is being censored by big tech.
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It is available on his rumble channel if you'd like to see it for yourself.
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Now, Abu Tan, I hope I'm saying that right, writes to me and says,
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People must be made to realize that they have been conditioned to believe what is seen on TV.
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The scarier and unbelievable it is, the more they grasp onto it in a terror reaction,
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wanting to believe that a heroic person or organization has made efforts to protect them,
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There's a lot of tribalism happening out there.
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And we actually see this in and around the vaccines.
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We saw the very same people saying they would never get a vaccine developed by Trump,
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publicly shaming people now for not getting vaccinated because their team now is calling
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for vaccinations and forced vaccinations and mandatory vaccinations in workplaces and for travel.
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They don't want to believe they've been lied to and made a victim,
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that greed rules the great powers of our nations.
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If they opened their eyes, opened their perspective,
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Getting them to look objectively at things is the challenge.
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Getting them to realize their heroes are possibly villains is going to be quite the poison pill for most.
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But the truth must be presented no matter what.
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As I said in my interview with Mariah and Poole's,
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it is unkind to tell people a sweet, sweet lie because it makes them feel better.
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And it is unfortunate that a lot of people just refuse to see it
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because people don't like to admit that they were wrong,
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that they bet on the wrong horse from the very beginning.
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So they remain in their delusion so that they feel right and so that they feel smart.
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But we cannot move on from everything that happened in the last two years
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until there is a full accounting for what the powers that be got wrong.
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And they are made to answer for the things and the damage that they did to normal people.
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I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.
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And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.