SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ The David Menzies Special
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Ezra Levant is a writer, podcaster, and host of Rebel News Daily with co-host David Menzies. The two have been friends for a long time, but did you know how Ezra came to be a Rebel host?
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Today we're sitting down with a man who actually might give you too in-depth of an answer
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when you ask him a question. Yes, it's my friend David Menzies and we're learning
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You know who the most requested guest on The Gun Show is? It's someone who's never been on the show
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before in any capacity. And the reason he's never been on the show before is because we talk to each
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other two days a week for well over an hour on both of those shows as we co-host the Rebel News
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daily live stream. It's my friend David Menzies and I know a lot about him but maybe you don't.
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We know that he's fun and we know that he's fearless and we know that sometimes he's
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shameless and we know he's got a less than politically correct sense of humor but that's
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what we love about him. But do you know how he came to be a Rebel? Do you know what he would be doing
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if he weren't a Rebel? I didn't. And so I thought why not sit down and ask my friend David Menzies
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all those questions where we get to learn a little bit more about him together. So
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by popular demand, please enjoy this interview I recorded with my friend and my colleague
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David, you are one of the most requested guests to The Gun Show and I think in my six years of doing
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the show once a week I get an email saying Sheila you got to interview David and I'm like I talk to
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him three days a week or two days a week on the live stream. How much more Sheila and David do people
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want? But apparently they want some and hopefully this will help them get it out of their system.
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David, I have a question for you. How did you end up at Rebel News? Like I know
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what happened at Sun News although I have a question about that too. But how did you come
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to be? I think you're a day one-er right? Originally Sheila on a freelance basis yeah pretty
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much a day one-er and then became full-time I think it was 2017 so we were into the second year
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of the company. But you are right I was with the Sun News Network and that's where Ezra was and I
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had a bit of a relationship with Ezra going back to his Western Standard days. I freelanced
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for the magazine and I'll tell you Sheila what happened to Sun News was really a tragedy.
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We were applying for a license and I thought our case was fantastic that would have allowed us to
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continue broadcasting and it was a license so many of our so many other channels did have.
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But what they didn't have which we had was Canadian content. You couldn't get more Canadian
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Sheila than the Sun News Network and this is important to the CRTC. It's the reason for the
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very existence of the CRTC to promote and even mandate Canadian content. And we were owned by Quebecor
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major conglomerate based in Quebec. Sun News Network was based in Toronto. We had bureaus
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and staff all across the country. We were Canadians telling Canadian stories to a Canadian audience.
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What I'm saying Sheila I don't think we could get more Canadian unless I got a tattoo of a maple leaf flag
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stamped on my butt and believe me nobody wants to see that. So the thing is the other channels that had
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the license we were going for, Sheila, I would say about half their content was old American sitcoms that they were just
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rerunning on an endless loop. They had it. We didn't. The CRTC denied our license. Now you say, oh, why is that?
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Well, they don't have to give a reason. But I'll tell you what I think the unspoken reason was. It was just the fix was in.
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We were this right of center news network. Even before Sun News Network went on the air, there was a petition by the liberal elite,
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Sheila, if you can imagine. They were calling Sun News Fox News North as if that was...
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But I mean, as if that was some kind of a slur, like this is pornography getting on the airwaves.
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And simply put, the people, you know, the liberal leaning leftists on the CRTC, they love Canadian content,
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but it's got to skew a certain way. And that is left of center. And that's what did us in.
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I will say this, Sheila, you know, you talk about, what's the saying? When you're given a bunch of lemons,
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make lemonade. You know, there's always a silver lining in a dark cloud. I am having more fun,
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more fulfillment today with Rebel News. What Ezra did on, you know, basically his kitchen table,
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the day after Sun News Network went off the air in February of 2015, created from scratch, from
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nothing, this incredible news network. And I think we are telling, dare I say it, even more profound
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stories than Sun News Network was. Our reach is more global than Sun News. And while I love Sun News,
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I think we've gone on to better and bigger things here at Rebel. And, you know, when I look at our
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talent and I'm looking right at you, Sheila Gunn-Reed, you're a big reason for it. We have so many
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smart, energetic and even young people here. We, I think what we're producing, you know, for a fraction
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of the price that Sun News was doing as a legacy TV network, I think it's quite remarkable. And I'm just
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so happy to be on this ride with you and all my other colleagues here.
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Yeah, I'm, I'm proud of the work that we do because not only do we tell the stories,
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so often we are able to help fix the stories or at least make them better. It's one thing to tell
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somebody's story of being stomped on by the government. And it's one thing to tell the stories
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of the little guy, the working man, the forgotten people, but to give those people a hand up when they
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think the world has forgotten about them. And in some cases the world truly has, that's the part
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of the work that I'm the most proud of. Now I want to keep talking before you interrupt me. I want to
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keep talking. I want to keep talking about Sun News because you did the morning show there.
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I might've been one of the only viewers to the morning show. I want to know what happened.
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I want to know what happened to the man cave set because that set was deadly. Where did it go?
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You know what? Um, I took home, uh, a lot of the props. Well, some of the, a lot of the
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props were mine to begin with, you know, the 1972 team Canada Jersey, uh, the, uh, the goalie stick.
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Um, uh, I think there was a little stash of Playboy magazines. That would probably be too
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politically incorrect to have in the man cave today. But, uh, I would love to revive the,
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uh, the manzoid man cave. Uh, I, I thought, uh, it had such a, I don't know, it, it kind of
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resembled a rec room circa 1973, I think, you know, and, uh, you know, maybe when we expand our studios
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here, uh, there's room for that because I do have a lot of those original props. I wonder if I could
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sell them on eBay. What do you think about that? Sheila, do you think they're
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collectible in any sense? You know, there's a real rise in mid-century modern decorating.
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And there was a lot of orange, burnt orange, brown, uh, velour shag. Um, there's a lot of
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that. And there was a lot of that in the man cave set. I really liked the set. It was probably one of
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the reasons I got up that early to watch. Wow. I didn't know that until you just said that,
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but you know, I'll tell you, Sheila, if there's a lot of interest in mid-century burnt orange,
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maybe I should put myself on eBay. I was going to say, I was going to say that's your whole
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aesthetic. Mid-century modern burnt orange. Um, now another, just remaining on the Sun News days,
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I remember, uh, the Spice Man case. Mr. Polo Putty, you see, has been nicknamed the Spice Man
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because it was his use of Spice that thwarted the bandit in the first place.
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You were on my radar before that. Like I liked David Menzies because he was on with, uh, Charles
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Adler and you wrote kind of fun, witty columns. Don't let that go to your head. But then you took,
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um, the mannequin to the police station. So thief, get away from me. Stop victimizing me. The police
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aren't on their way because they don't believe in upholding the law against all the citizens.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Do you remember that? What happened to the mannequin? That lady just stole
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it from you. It's actually not mine, but I borrowed it. Thank you very much. All right,
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sir. I'm going to take that out of abandoned property. Oh my. Oh, that's too bad. Yeah. It ended
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up in police storage. And I don't know if we're going to throw to a clip of that. Uh, but I can tell you,
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Sheila, that was absolutely incredible, uh, because that was my first filmed assignment out on the
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streets. And I would argue it was the best one. I guess that what comes to mind right now, he peaked
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too soon. But the thing is, um, there was a restaurateur. We're going back, uh, 10 years ago here,
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Sheila, who was, I thought, and I think most of the city thought was being unfairly persecuted.
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Uh, somebody had broken into his restaurant. It wasn't the first time. And he might've even
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had a knife on him and the restaurateur, I think his name was Mr. Polapati. He had, all he had at his
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disposal was, um, a tray of spices, which he threw at the, um, the thief. Now, if you can imagine
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the, the thief, the break and enter person, he got away, but the police for whatever reason
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decided to charge the restaurateur. I mean, where the hell is castle domain? I mean, once you're
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invaded either in your home or your business, um, I think you have the right up to lethal force
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to fight back because there's nowhere else to run. Right. Sheila. So what we did, there was this
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silver mannequin, uh, that was that, uh, was that this, the Toronto sun newspaper for whatever
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reason it was for some promotion. And I said, can I borrow that? Cause we were going to do a, uh,
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a demonstration, uh, that if you are being harassed, here are the proper spices to use. Um, so not to
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take over your show, but why don't we throw to that clip and you'll see exactly what happened.
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What I am asking you to do now is I'm going to ask you, sir, this is to, uh, is to take,
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is to take this. I got some other ones. Hold on a second. You know what? You're not even trying to,
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you're not even trying to, you're not even listening. Sheila, you couldn't have timed it
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any better. That was turning into a real nothing burger story. In fact, had that officer not arrived,
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uh, if she had arrived a minute later, um, we would have been gone. The reason why we were
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delayed in our departure is when I tossed the cayenne pepper, it was a windy day and both my
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cameraman and I got the cayenne pepper in our eyes. And so I was standing there like this for like three
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minutes. And so was the cameraman and my eyes were watering. And when my eyes opened, there were these
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two police officers. That's how so many of your stories end though. Then there were two police
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officers. Oh, it was unbelievable. I also have to tell you an unpublished epilogue to that. Uh, Sheila,
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I received several emails from Toronto police service officers, especially female police officers.
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And they were basically saying, Oh, karma is a bitch. This woman was so hated by her subordinates
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that they were over the moon. This has been shared everywhere. As a matter of fact, when Efra and I
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went to, uh, uh, a police division to report the Radisson hotel assault, that was that nut bar,
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David Strong, who got handsy with us and our equipment. The Radisson Strangler. The Radisson
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Strangler. Uh, that's a wonderful gun-ism. Excuse me. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Get your
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rebel crap news out of here right now. Why is it rebel crap news, sir? Get out. I'll call the police.
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Good. And then you'll be charged with assault for what you just did. After the formal interview was
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over, the officer said, did you used to work at sun news now? I said, yeah. He said, Oh, that thing with
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the spices. He says, you have no idea how that has lived on. Right. So, so even the police were on my
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side with that one. Uh, and I think, I think that a Sergeant has since retired. Maybe that was a factor
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in her early retirement. I don't know, but, um, yeah, that was, uh, that was spectacular. And you
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know, it's like what Ezra says, uh, Sheila, uh, and that's why we like to go out into the field.
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So to speak, when you go out there, you have no idea what's going to happen. You have no idea who
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you're going to meet. Um, and I, I say that on a positive and negative thing. I mean, look at you,
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what happened to you with that little weasel Dion Buse at a woman's rally decided to get physical
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with you. This is one of the strengths of rebel news. Instead of being in front of a green screen
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and yammering away all the time, cause anyone can do that to actually go out into the field,
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meet people, talk to protesters, whether they like us or don't. I think that's our strength.
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And I think it's something the mainstream media doesn't do, or if they do it, it's always a certain
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narrative, isn't it, Sheila? And I mean, if I wasn't employed by rebel news, I'll tell you this
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much, I'd be the number one fan of rebel news because no one is delivering our perspective out
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there. It's one big chorus of trained seals funded by the government and the mainstream media now.
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And I don't think this, you know, nation, this world has ever needed a rebel news more so than today.
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I agree. Uh, now I want to ask you, I have a couple of questions about your work at rebel news.
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Oh, you know what? Um, that's a fantastic, uh, question. Um, you know, I think let's put it this
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way. I would turn it around and say, which story seems to have resonated so much with our audience.
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And Sheila, if you can believe it, and it's right now, the one year anniversary of this story,
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this month with all the insanity in the world, with all the lockdowns, with all the, um, assaults on
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our freedoms and charter rights with the war in Ukraine, the most oft answer asked question I get
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from people, Sheila on the streets. It happened to me at Hillcrest mall on Sunday is, Hey, did you ever
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get your bottle? And the answer is no. It happens to me. I'll be out at a protest in Edmonton or God
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knows where. And they're like, Hey, rebel news. I'm like, yeah, David never get his liquor. Like what?
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I'm fine. Thank you for asking. But yeah, no, he didn't.
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And it's incredible, Sheila, because for those who don't know the story, I went to,
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this was never a caper. This was never a story. This was me on my own free time buying three bottles
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of Glenn Farkas, one Oh five scotch. Um, the, when I went into the Lee side, LCBO, uh, liquor store in
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Toronto, it got off on a bad foot because, well, you know what, Sheila, my mask was evidently below my
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nose. And twice I had a COVID Karen employee yell at me. And I think this, I'm just guessing right
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here. Maybe it was an honest mistake. Maybe it was malicious, but when I bought the three bottles,
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when I got home, they were all, they were packed in canisters and one was empty. So I bought three,
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but I only received two because people say, well, how could you pick up a canister and not notice
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there was no weight in it. That was the thing. They were locked behind a cabinet. So the first
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time I actually picked up the, you know, the canister, uh, was when the empty canister that
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is, was when I got home because it was a bag of three and I didn't notice the, you know, the weight
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was one third less than it should be. And LCBO head office ordered the store. I mean, to their credit
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for a change, they ordered their store and this was just in a matter of like 24 hours, give them his
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bottle. And so Moka and I went down there to get the bottle, do a little victory lap video. And the
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manager decided, no, you're not going to get it. But she, it's not her liquor store, Sheila. She,
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this is a government owned monopoly. And basically, and this is where it becomes inexplicable to me,
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Sheila. The, um, she wouldn't give the bottle to us. Not only that, she called the police,
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which was happy about. Yeah. I said, officer, you got a case of fraud here, not trespass.
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Ask you to leave a store. I'm going to phone the police. Okay. Phone the police because then I can
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file a complaint of fraud against you, Ashley. In the aftermath. And it's been a year now.
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I understand our lawyer sent a demand letter to the LCBO basically to fulfill what they agreed to,
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to give me my bottle. It was ignored. So I think it's heading to small claims court.
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And, but Sheila, I don't understand it. It's inexplicable in that LCBO corporate agreed.
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I had been ripped off. They told that store to give me my bottle. She, the manager would not give me the
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bottle. And now when we reach out to the boss at the LCBO, Hey, you know, live up to your agreement.
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It's like, Oh, just go away. We're ignoring you. None of this makes sense. But I think it resonated
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with our audience, especially those in Ontario and other provinces, unlike Alberta, where you have a
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privatized system, where you have government monopoly liquor stores. They're telling you what you can buy
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and what you cannot buy. And if you don't like it, it's our way or the highway, literally, you know,
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in the case of people in Toronto drive the Buffalo. And of course, if you don't have your vaccine,
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you can't even do that. You can't get over the peace bridge anymore. And so it's this authoritarian
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oligarchy that is in the booze business. But why is the government in the booze business in the first
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place? Their role is to tax and to regulate. That's it. Not to warehouse and retail alcohol.
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That's the way it used to be in Alberta until I believe the early nineties when your system was
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privatized. And that's the way it should be everywhere. And by the way, for this, the biggest
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fallacy of all, Sheila, is, Oh, well, the government can't get rid of those liquor stores. It's a cash cow.
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No, no, no. The LCBO reports its revenues, including the taxation. So in other words,
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if the system here was privatized, the amount of money that the government would bring in on tax
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revenue, Sheila, would be just the same, whether it's a private or a government run system. So
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that's a falsehood too. So for all the viewers out there that are still wondering if I'm going to get
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my bottle, we're not going to, we're not going to bend the knee. Maybe they want us to go away.
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We're not going away. Um, all you've inspired me, Sheila, to give our lawyer a call later today and
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find out what's going on on that file. Yeah. I think for Albertans, it resonated with us too,
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because if not for Ralph Klein, that could be us, but also for us who have, you know, a liquor store
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in every corner. And if they rip us off, we don't shop there anymore. We get to choose to go somewhere
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else, but they don't rip you off because of, you know, they're required to give you at least decent
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customer service because there's some accountability and checks and balances built into capitalism that
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there are not built into a government, um, system. You have government employees just getting away
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with ripping off the taxpayer and there's no accountability and it's everything that is
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absolutely wrong with government. They're stealing an entrepreneurial opportunity from the working
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man, largely immigrants actually out here in Alberta who open up liquor stores. The government
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has just stolen that opportunity from them. You've got to pay people who rip you off government wages
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and benefits to work in retail, which is crazy. That's factored into the price of your liquor.
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And then when they do rip you off, you get stuck in the feedback loop of government bureaucracy where
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it's like, we'll help you, but this guy doesn't care. And we'll send you back down the chain and
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then back around and back around. And in the meantime, a year later, David Menzies has to
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engage a lawyer to get a bottle of whiskey that he paid for in the first place. And this is it,
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Sheila. When you have a government sanctioned monopoly, you don't have to provide customer
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service. A quick anecdote in Richmond Hill earlier this month, I saw a guy, he got to the LCBO
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at Young and Crosby. It was just like 10 seconds after 9 PM and they had already locked the doors.
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I was on my way out and he was basically begging the employee there. You know, I ran for eight blocks.
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You know, I just need one bottle. And she was going, I have, I have to check with my manager. I'm not
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supposed to let anyone in. I don't know if he actually did get in. The point I'm making here,
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Sheila, is that if this was Sheila Gunn-Reed's liquor store. We're open till 2. We're open till
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2 AM. Exactly. But even if this guy came at one minute after 2 AM and he very kindly said, oh,
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please, I just need a bottle of such and such. And I'll be on my way. Are you going to say, oh,
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no, sorry, sir. 2 AM. It's very strict. Or you know what? I'm going to cater to your needs.
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Absolutely. Come on in. I think you would let him come in because you're in a competitive
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situation in Alberta and he'll remember you being mean to him and he'll never go to your store again.
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He'll go to somebody else. So it was just, you know, a little vignette I saw of the authoritarianism
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in retail when retail should always be about customer service excellence.
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I still, it just shocks me that the government is involved in liquor sales there and the liquor
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stores are closing at nine. Where are you living? This Toronto, those small town liquor stores out
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here are open till 2 AM. I know we spent a lot of time on this and I know they need the studio for
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the live stream shortly. So I got to move along. What story was the most fun for you? And I guess,
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where did the costumes come from? You know what? I'll tell you, Sheila,
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as the saying goes, not so funny when it happened, but looking back and we were playing this just
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earlier this month because of what I call the transanity that's happening. You might recall,
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I went down to the Air Canada Centre, now the Scotiabank Arena, where the Toronto Raptors play to try out
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as a Toronto Raptors cheerleader. And, uh, I mean, the costume was ridiculous, but the mandates were
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you had to show your midriff, right? So, and, uh, we were just coming off a long winter. You know what
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I'm saying? And my persona is Lady Menzoid. I'm going to see if I can crack the team. And it was a goof.
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It was a spoof. I walk into this building. There were Sheila, I would say 300 of the most beautiful,
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most athletic woman I have ever seen in my life. And along comes Herman Munster in a miniskirt,
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uh, trying to get a cheerleader job and, and, and like the stink eye I was getting. Although one
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woman did come up to me and, uh, inexplicably said, you know what? I so support what you're doing. And I
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thought, uh, like what, uh, kicking a woman out of the cheerleading squad, you know? And basically
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the way it ended was me saying, uh, it in the most outrageous thing I could think of Sheila,
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that the Raptors blew it by not hiring me as the first male pro sports trans cheerleader, because
00:26:09.580
it could have been like Jackie Robinson in 1946. Uh, the first black baseball player,
00:26:17.300
that was allowed to play in major league baseball. Uh, he was the one who broke the color barrier.
00:26:24.020
I could have been the first trans cheerleader in all of pro sports. I mean, just think about it.
00:26:30.400
It'd be like when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Now I can tell you that was five years ago,
00:26:35.580
2017 Sheila. And you know, and our haters were going, Oh, here's rebel news and Menzies at their
00:26:40.560
transphobic basketball, blah, blah, blah, blah. But just earlier this month, a university professor
00:26:47.800
at Purdue, professor cookie, I'm not making that up. Uh, she wrote a piece where she was comparing
00:26:55.580
Leah Thomas, uh, the, the male cheater who is, uh, cleaning up in the pool in the NCAA, this, uh,
00:27:04.800
gender and women's studies professor was comparing Leah Thomas to drum roll, please Jackie Robinson.
00:27:12.660
So what I'm saying, Sheila is that what was a goof, what was a parody, what was a stunt in 2017
00:27:19.200
and which incurred the wrath of the leftist progressives in 2022, it's become real. It,
00:27:27.680
the idea of biological men competing against females is being likened to Jackie Robinson,
00:27:35.720
the first black man to play in major league baseball. It, it, it is outrageous. It it's,
00:27:42.680
it's despicable, but look what's happened in just five years, Sheila.
00:27:46.920
And we're supposed to pretend it's stunning and brave and not absolutely unscientific mumbo jumbo.
00:27:54.240
Um, you know what I would like to see you revive. And I say this as, uh, the editor in chief
00:28:00.080
generation Trudeau. Now that the pubs are open again, the weather's warming up,
00:28:05.320
let's go out and see what's up with generation Trudeau, the young Trudeau voters. That was,
00:28:10.560
you know what, Sheila, uh, you must be psychic because we were just talking about that the other
00:28:16.260
day. Now, remember there were two generation Trudeau ones. One was a generation Trudeau on campus
00:28:22.820
where we'd go and we make up a completely outrageous premise. I mean, I think the first
00:28:28.680
one was one of the best where we went to Ryerson and we went to predominantly female students because
00:28:34.020
it was 2016. It was the, uh, 100th anniversary of the woman's suffrage movement. And I had my little
00:28:41.200
clipboard and I said, well, you sign a petition to denounce woman's suffrage and like ants to a jam jar.
00:28:47.940
They, and I mean, this was during the 100th anniversary. Surely if you don't know what the
00:28:54.760
word suffrage meant, it was in the news cycle that year. And we got dozens of signatures from
00:29:01.140
mostly woman saying, yeah, um, you know, uh, those who conduct suffrage on woman, uh, they should be
00:29:08.900
called out. What about those people, uh, as I was asking your friend earlier that actually support
00:29:13.540
woman's suffrage? Um, I guess we need to educate them. So there was generation Trudeau on campus
00:29:20.460
where we make up something and the brainiacs, uh, on our university and college campuses, they,
00:29:27.160
they always fall for it. And then there's, um, generation Trudeau after dark in which we just ask
00:29:33.940
a straight question, no trickery because the interview subjects are all wasted and inebriated and fully
00:29:42.320
drunk. And if I were to think any sort of like woman power or anything like that, like, I think
00:29:48.140
that we would actually run the city and country. Every second time we do that, there's always like
00:29:56.320
some female Ryerson journalism student that comes up and gives us a lecture on the ethics of interviewing
00:30:05.360
drunk people. And I would think that you're a sexist piece of shit. And wouldn't be the first
00:30:11.160
sign that's been alleged. And I always say this, I say, listen, sometimes alcohol works as truth
00:30:17.140
serum. You're really getting, you know, but the thing is it's unintentionally hilarious. You're
00:30:23.280
right. Finally, after two years, the pubs are back open. So we're going to go down again at closing
00:30:28.380
time, which is, uh, after 2 AM. And, uh, all you have to do is put a microphone in somebody's face
00:30:34.260
and, uh, the hilarity that ensues, um, is, uh, is astonishing. So yeah, thank you for reminding me
00:30:40.980
about that, Sheila. Yeah. And, you know, with regard to women's suffrage, I might seriously sign
00:30:46.620
that petition depending on the day and how many of my fellow females voted for Justin Trudeau because
00:30:52.560
of his hair. Some days I'm like, should they have given us the vote? I'm not, I'm not sure.
00:30:56.600
Um, I'm willing to hear, I'm willing to hear arguments. Um, what would be the one thing that
00:31:04.660
our viewers would be surprised to know about you, David Menzies? Oh my goodness. Um, let me think
00:31:12.740
about what would they be surprised, uh, to know about me? Um, I would say maybe it's this, um,
00:31:21.140
even at my advanced age. Um, I love cycling. It was a beautiful day in Toronto yesterday,
00:31:27.720
got the road bike out for the first time in once. And, uh, you know, I live in Richmond Hill.
00:31:32.740
You just go a couple of clicks North of Elgin Mills. You're in the country. You have endless
00:31:37.080
kilometers of, uh, pavement where you don't come across a stop sign or a traffic light is a cyclist
00:31:43.860
paradise. And basically, well, Sheila, let's put it this way. As you know, I am fat, but without my
00:31:50.920
cycling regimen, I am circus fat. Uh, I don't want to appear, uh, as a, um, uh, a subject on, um,
00:31:58.840
my 600 pound life. So, so without that, and, um, I can tell you this, uh, sometimes I have to drag
00:32:07.860
myself on the bicycle, but I will say this, that I think as a species, we were never meant to be 100%
00:32:16.180
sedentary. And what I noticed is that when I'm on my bike and you know, you're burning the calories,
00:32:22.520
you're getting into a sweat, you got the endorphin rush. Um, I think it helps the brain as well,
00:32:28.500
because Sheila, I can't tell you how many times that mid ride I have an epiphany. I come across
00:32:35.760
a fantastic idea for rebel news. I, Oh, of course this would be a, a gem. And, um, I'll say this to
00:32:42.680
everybody out there, we, you know, we've had a tough two years with the gyms cruelly and unnecessarily
00:32:48.600
shut down. Um, but you know, get active. I mean, I, it almost sounds like I'm auditioning for
00:32:54.220
one of the, um, roles in, uh, the participation ads. Remember those when, when the, the 60 year old
00:33:01.960
Swede was more physically fit than the 30, the 30 year old Canadian. Um, but yeah, that that's, uh,
00:33:09.040
maybe something people don't know about me in terms of my personal life. Um, I'm, you know,
00:33:15.100
uh, I buy a lot of lottery tickets too, Sheila. I gotta tell you, I, my dream is to buy the
00:33:20.100
performance Batmobile made by fiberglass freaks in Indiana. I think there's only five left
00:33:25.640
officially licensed by DC comics. Yeah. So while other people use their lottery winnings, I don't
00:33:30.580
know, to buy real estate and see compound returns every year. I want to buy a Batmobile. I just want to
00:33:35.880
cruise young street as the Cape crusader. Oh my goodness. That's the best poor lady Menzies in
00:33:59.000
your Robin outfit. Oh, can you imagine? I mean, really the Robin costume was surely designed for
00:34:08.020
a female, right? I mean, like red tunic, green short shorts, yellow cape. Oh, say it loud. Boy wonder
00:34:15.680
say it loud. Um, by the way, David, I think people could put together the fact that you are a cyclist
00:34:23.000
because we've all seen your legs when you tried out for the cheerleaders and your legs looked great.
00:34:27.940
That was the first thing I thought about when I saw that, that, uh, video was, well, David's got
00:34:34.420
no shame, but also nothing to be ashamed of with those legs. Yeah. I've never been objectified before
00:34:42.200
Sheila. You'll get over it. Um, one last question, cause I know they need the studio for the live
00:34:50.140
stream. What would you be doing if you were not working for rebel news? Um, probably cutting
00:34:59.040
somebody's lawn or something, uh, uh, driving for Uber, maybe I, you know, Sheila, here's the thing.
00:35:08.340
Um, and it said, but if anything happened to rebel news or if, you know, for whatever reason, uh,
00:35:16.020
it was decided that I'm no longer needed here, even with my decades of journalism experience,
00:35:21.960
even with my track record, um, my name is mud in terms of the media. I think that would be true
00:35:29.300
of every rebel. They would, the first thing they would look at because right now we're in a realm
00:35:34.420
of cancel culture. Sorry. With a couple of exceptions, if you, if for whatever reason,
00:35:42.520
rebel news fell apart or we all got fired for some reason, the only way our careers would be
00:35:49.160
salvageable is if we turned around and tried to burn down what was left on our way out the door.
00:35:55.360
And I think we all know who I'm talking about. Anyway, keep going.
00:35:58.480
No, but I mean, you know, the truth of the matter Sheila is that the mainstream media now marches in
00:36:06.800
lockstep with one another. They're all government funded. They are all trained seals. Um, you know,
00:36:13.300
the, the commentary we do, the stories we do here, um, you would never see in the mainstream media.
00:36:22.060
It would be third rail stuff. It would be too politically incorrect. And, um,
00:36:28.480
again, it goes back to what I said, you know, without rebel news, um, you wouldn't get our
00:36:32.880
content basically from anyone. But the point is, uh, my journalism career would be over because
00:36:41.100
nobody would hire me. Um, I used to be, I guessed like in the here and now I used to be a guest on a
00:36:47.040
lot of radio stations, um, and some TV stations. Um, I'm persona non grata. What have I done? Have I
00:36:54.500
committed a crime? Have I defamed anyone? Have I been sued for libel? Am I, you know, too much of
00:37:00.100
a loose cannon? No, I would say no. It's just that I have the wrong ideology. I have the wrong
00:37:06.540
viewpoint. When I listened to TV and radio, uh, these days, Sheila, I mean, the, uh, great Dick
00:37:13.800
battles quote comes to mind. If some of these cats don't get off the air soon, I'm going to stop
00:37:19.600
breathing it. Okay. It is just a vapid and vacuous and safe way of covering the news. Um,
00:37:29.220
I think when you go safe, I think when you go politically correct and woke, you are going
00:37:36.840
boring. That is the biggest sin of all. I think in this business, Sheila, I always say, be good,
00:37:43.180
be bad, be so bad that you're actually good, but to be boring is an unforgivable sin. And that's what
00:37:51.120
I see out there in the media landscape. Now, even if I agreed to be part of the boring course,
00:37:55.440
it doesn't matter. The first thing they'd see on my resume is rebel employee for the last, uh,
00:38:00.920
seven years. And that goes right away, uh, into the trash bin. So I really don't know what I would
00:38:07.480
do. It would have to be something outside of journalism. Uh, I don't think I have the brainpower
00:38:12.660
to start my own news network like Ezra did because, you know, Sheila, it's one thing to
00:38:17.960
record a video and post it on YouTube or what have you, but it's quite another thing to monetize it,
00:38:23.960
to make it an actual business. And that's what this is. I mean, I believe we've doubled our staff
00:38:29.700
in the last year and these aren't volunteers. Everyone's getting a paycheck signed by the big
00:38:35.640
boss, man. This is the brilliance of Ezra. And I'm not trying, you know, to, uh, you know,
00:38:42.660
praise someone just because he's my boss, but to create something out of nothing and then actually,
00:38:49.760
you know, monetize it and make it profitable without dipping your hands, your filthy claws
00:38:57.960
into the taxpayer trough, uh, twas ever thus with the CBC. Now it's every newspaper magazine
00:39:04.560
practically, isn't it Sheila in the mainstream? I think that is an incredible achievement.
00:39:10.580
And one last point, I think a lot of the journalists and the mainstream or legacy media,
00:39:16.220
however you want to call it, I think they resent us in a way because they're jealous of us, Sheila.
00:39:23.520
We get to cover and we get to say the things they so desperately want to, but realize that if they did,
00:39:32.420
they're going to be reprimanded or even fired, uh, for doing so. And because we have that kind
00:39:39.280
of editorial freedom and it's pure freedom, we don't answer to any master. Our audience is our
00:39:46.200
master. We don't get taxpayer handouts. We, you know, we're not funded by some secret Mr. X billionaire.
00:39:53.240
I think they resent that they resent our, the way that we can, um, you know, depict and cover stories.
00:40:01.780
And, um, much of the hatred is just based on jealousy, Sheila, nothing else.
00:40:07.440
Yeah, I agree with you. I'm not sure that I would find another career in journalism. Not sure that I
00:40:13.820
would want one. I'd rather not sell my soul to be liked by a cabal or a coven of other journalists
00:40:19.900
that hate my guts anyway, and hate everything that I stand for. I, I, I'd rather be authentic
00:40:26.520
than be in the cool kids club. And for me, um, I do like being liked by certain people. And for me,
00:40:33.580
it's when I'm out in the world and I hear from somebody who's seen one of our stories
00:40:37.420
that I wasn't sure that anybody would care when I ever did the story, but they say, well, thanks for
00:40:42.880
covering that thing. Or I didn't think anybody cared about that issue either, but then you talked about
00:40:48.720
it. And then I realized that there were other people just like me. That's the stuff I care
00:40:53.100
about. As you were talking, I was Googling, um, a quote from Andrew Breitbart and it was in,
00:40:57.380
I remembered it like that. It was a righteous indignation. It was in his book, righteous
00:41:01.240
indignation. And he writes while adulation has its moments and can be like a bath in warm water after
00:41:07.600
coming in from a snowstorm, the psychic high from standing up for what you believe in and being
00:41:12.340
attacked for it's far surpassed the comfort to be derived from that bath of praise. That's
00:41:21.280
You know, and, and I'll tell you, Sheila, you are a gem. I don't know anyone harder working at this
00:41:26.200
company, except for maybe the boss, Ezra. I don't even think Ezra sleeps at weird times.
00:41:35.160
I know. And, uh, and hopefully you don't know something. I don't know. Hopefully you don't
00:41:39.880
know about some meeting. I have to go into the boardroom where, uh, uh, there's a certain piece
00:41:45.300
of paper and the hue is pink. So I have to resort to, uh, you know, Johnny LaRue. Please,
00:41:52.120
Mr. Caballero, give me one more chance, please, please. Cause I would cry for this job that I would,
00:42:00.080
Well, David, I know they need the studio and I know you're, you're a busy guy. Um, you have,
00:42:06.580
uh, stories to do today, or at least that's what you tell me. I'm the editor in chief,
00:42:14.180
No, never. Um, I just want to thank you, uh, so much for taking this trip down memory lane and,
00:42:19.780
uh, letting our viewers get to know you in the way that I do. I think you're just a real asset to
00:42:24.080
the company and a real asset to me, uh, in my life because you just are a really genuine friend.
00:42:30.840
Well, thank you so much, Sheila. One thing, never abbreviate asset because you know what you end up
00:42:36.620
with. And Sheila, um, uh, like I said, uh, this company is all the stronger for you. Um, you have an
00:42:48.480
incredible work ethic. You, you're, I think you're the best journalist in Canada when it comes to going
00:42:54.440
through those FOI, uh, information claims. You're able to go through reams and reams of data and pick
00:43:02.000
out the, uh, smoking gun moments. No one does it better than you. And I'm so happy to be on your
00:43:07.980
show. And, uh, thank you so much yet again, Sheila. Thanks, David. We'll see you on the live stream.
00:43:18.480
Well, that was fun. I talked to David Menzies, like I say, a couple hours every single week live
00:43:26.420
on air, but there's always so much to learn about him. He's like an onion. You just keep peeling back
00:43:31.680
the layers and there's just more and more and more David. If you like that kind of thing. Now
00:43:37.660
this is a very David Menzies centric show and I'm teasing him. I think it's pretty clear that,
00:43:43.080
you know, that I have great affection for my friend David Menzies. Um, but this is a very David
00:43:48.040
Menzies centric show. And I thought I would devote my letters portion of the show, the new letters
00:43:52.860
portion of the show, because I didn't always have a letters portion of the show where I read viewer
00:43:58.340
feedback. And I thought, why not read viewer feedback to one of David's stories? His most recent story
00:44:04.340
was a commentary on transgender athletes competing against biological females. And when will somebody
00:44:13.540
have the tenacity, the bravery, the honesty, or the unmitigated gall to just say the emperor has no
00:44:22.980
clothes? So let's read a comment from Rumble on David's recent commentary on this. Obuthin writes,
00:44:31.360
not just women in sports face these fake women and have ended up losing their right to fairly compete
00:44:36.960
and be recognized as the best in their sport. After years of physically conditioning their bodies to
00:44:42.100
their maximum ability. Nope. That's not the complete damage done with all this gender mix and match
00:44:48.320
that so many political hacks are shoving down society's throats. If you are a woman or a woman
00:44:54.520
in your family that ever goes to prison, you could end up being placed in a prison cell with one of
00:44:59.780
these men. That's right. Our woke politicians have approved that a male prisoner that identifies as a
00:45:07.220
woman and that has no surgery to remove their male reproductive organs can and will be placed in
00:45:12.820
the same cell as a woman prisoner. This is already happening and has been happening for some time.
00:45:18.780
The mainstream media refuses to address this so as to make it a conspiracy theory. I guess it's just
00:45:24.880
make-believe that female prisoners are reporting that they have been raped by these so-called
00:45:28.720
transgender prisoners. If I understand things correctly, there are even female inmates who
00:45:34.860
are now pregnant because of these men. All thanks to our woke politicians who find it more important
00:45:39.460
to secure votes from the woke community than to protect members of society. Even if these members
00:45:45.360
of society are in prison, they still deserve to be safe in their own cell, in their own bed,
00:45:50.320
not raped by the roommate as they try to sleep. But again, no one person in the administration that
00:45:57.080
governs the prison system seems to give a damn. All they seem to come up with are extremely lame
00:46:02.120
and ignorant and self-serving excuses to try and justify why they are allowing one of the most
00:46:07.760
hideous crimes to be committed against another human being while these people are under their care
00:46:12.700
and oversight. To allow this to happen shows just how cowardly these officials are and that they do not
00:46:18.580
have what is needed to run administer this system. Cowards, one and all. It's interesting that this
00:46:24.600
comment was left on one of David's stories about transgender athletes because David Menzies has
00:46:31.560
been a staunch advocate for the safety of women in Canada's prison systems. He's covered many protests
00:46:40.360
where women are protesting outside of women's institutions for the safety of the women who are
00:46:47.880
incarcerated within. And even at one of his protests, I thought it was very compelling. A person who
00:46:55.180
identifies as transgender, female to male transgender was there saying that this is completely unacceptable,
00:47:03.100
is dangerous for the women inside the prison. Even reasonable trans people see the problem with
00:47:09.380
putting male offenders, biological male offenders in with biological women while they are incarcerated
00:47:17.200
behind bars captive victims for these still remaining biological male offenders.
00:47:23.680
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. What a great and thoughtful letter. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week. If you would like to have your letter to me read on air, it's really easy. Just send me an email to Sheila at rebelnews.com. I don't think you could forget that. Sheila at rebelnews.com. And just in the subject line, put gun show letters so that I can easily search it.
00:47:53.680
And find it and find it and find it. And I do not screen them for quality and I don't screen them for content. So write what you want. I'll pick it at random and I'll read it on air. And you know, frankly, the longer the better. Thanks to everybody in the office in Toronto for turning this into a show. I'll see everybody, like I said, back here in the same time in the same place next week. And as always, remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
00:48:20.380
You know, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
00:48:50.360
You know, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
00:48:52.240
You know, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
00:48:53.360
Yeah. That's the government tell you that they've been able to think.