Talking Tommy Robinson, Alberta politics and running for office (Guest： Kelly Day)
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It's been a couple of months since I talked to Kelly Day and tonight we discuss her ongoing foray into the culture war and her entrance into federal politics. Kelly Day is a Canadian YouTuber and Performer. She's been on my show before, and I do appreciate the reminder to have her back on the show again.
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Hello Rebels, you're listening to a free audio-only recording of my show, The Gun Show.
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Tonight my guest is Canadian YouTuber and performer Kelly Day. It's been a couple of
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months since I talked to Kelly and tonight we discuss her ongoing foray into the culture war
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version of my show. You're listening to a Rebel Media podcast. Angry vegan mobs Tommy Robinson and
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finding out who your friends are it's a little bit of everything tonight. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed
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Back a couple of weeks ago on Alberta's election night as Albertans were exercising the socialist
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demons from their government Kean Bextie and I and of course the boss Ezra Levant did a live broadcast
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from United Conservative Party headquarters in Calgary. Now you can go back and watch that entire show.
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It was pretty fun but on that broadcast a super chatter donated to us and then asked me to have
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Canadian YouTuber and performer Kelly Day back on my show. Now as you know I'm a fan of Kelly.
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I think she's incredibly talented and more importantly she brings a certain kindness and
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thoughtfulness to Canadian Conservative politics. She's been on my show before. She'll of course be
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on my show again and I do appreciate the reminder to have her on tonight. So joining me tonight in an
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interview we recorded Monday afternoon where we talk about you know just about everything that's on
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her radar from the culture war to how politics can harm your friendships sometimes to her steps into
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So joining me now from Prince Albert Saskatchewan is Canadian YouTuber and performer Kelly Day. Hey Kelly
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thanks for joining me. Yeah thanks for having me good to see you again Sheila. Now the reason you're
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on the show I suppose it's twofold. I took some super chat money on Albert elections night on the
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pretense that I would have you back on the show but I was going to have you back on the show anyway
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that generous donation just reminded me to do it sooner rather than later. I wanted to have you on the
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show just to do I don't know I guess a prairie girl roundup of things that are kind of going on
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that are on your radar and I guess on mine too now that the Albert election is over and I can sort of
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focus on the broader scope of politics and the culture war and I think I'll make reference to some
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of your more recent videos that you've done because you are a YouTuber. You I guess is pretty recent
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would have been we're recording this Monday it'll go to air on Wednesday. You've been accused of
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having internalized misogyny because you don't hate your own husband. Is this true?
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It's pretty close pretty close not my own husband per se I didn't get into the whole
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Twitter back and forth I still hate the word tweet I don't even like to use it it sounds so petty but
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it was ultimately just a conversation I'd had actually ironically about the Alberta election
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it was a last week old thread with a gal who basically called all UCP voters misogynist racist
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homophobic etc you know you know the gamut right you saw the campaign it was very vile and so they
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were just basically saying that you know how can all of these people have no empathy and I just said
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you know maybe it's sort of unempathetic to assume that every person in a group is is kind of a bad
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person and that just started this whole conversation this one gal that I spoke of in my video was
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someone who dove in on the sidelines sort of a friend of this other person nothing kind of came
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of it it was a week old suddenly this this random guy uh we guess it'd be an Albertan liberal perhaps
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or NDP or maybe um dove in fairly aggressive they're NDPers fair enough fair enough so have you
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looked at the chart Kelly there aren't many liberals um so he dove in and just was we got into a bit of
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banter about left versus right-wing politics he kind of tried to you know be a bit more you know
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assertive with it I was pretty I countered him with my my usual charm and uh ultimately we kind of came
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to a good place a happy medium and he said very very simply you know you seem like a very respectful
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and intelligent person this other girl just comes in out of nowhere no idea where she isn't she doesn't
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seem intelligent she is intelligent and and and that apparently she went on to explain that I wasn't
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realizing that this guy was actually using misogyny and trying to minimize my intelligence
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and men do this all the time and I just couldn't see it and ultimately she kind of accused me of
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being naive that I just didn't understand and I just thought it was so funny um I've laughed about
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it for a couple of days now because ultimately I guess I'm just not woke enough right I'm just not
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woke enough Sheila so I'm so sorry that you're talking to this girl that just just doesn't get it
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you know you seem smart but I don't know depends on the day right but that was really like
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that was as soon as Rachel Notley was resoundingly rejected um for her I guess the politics of
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destruction both of the province and everybody's reputation when you tried to say something um
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critical of her um that then became the narrative of her loss well it wasn't because Albertans want
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to get back to work that we are Canada's you know the Saudi Arabia of oil in North America and yet we
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can't get our oil to market and we're going broke um but the reason we didn't vote for Rachel Notley
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was because we were sexist um and we just we just can't have a woman leader in charge well
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we voted for Alison Redford I wasn't a fan of her but people did vote for her the right-wing
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Wild Rosers we had Danielle Smith as the leader of the Wild Rose Party um and I would credit her with
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making it you know uh a mainstream movement from a fringe party she did that and then we elected
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Rachel Notley we I mean you know the royal we no you're not me collective we yeah yeah but even with
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all that evidence that you know Albertans really don't care all that much about uh gender politics
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the outside of Alberta commenters um you know especially in the mainstream media they just
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want to accuse Albertans of being backwoods hicks and you know it's really designed to shut people
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up you know that you just get tired of constantly defending yourself against these accusations you know
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are not true about yourself that you're racist you're sexist you're homophobe you hate women um when
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all you really want is a job like so stupid really it's you know and it's funny Sheila because I've I'm
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not from Alberta but many members of my family are we've spent many summers in Alberta when I grew up
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I always wanted to I was the kid that every picture I drew was horses and a ranch and some mountains
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in behind I just thought like a ranch with the mountains in the background was just the best life
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you could ever have that's what I sort of wanted and I still kind of idealize that although horses are a
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lot of work and a lot of money so perhaps that that part might have to fly away but hay burners is all
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they are and they kick there's that too yeah but you know that that's sort of the idyllic sort of I
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guess Alberta idea right and it is a place um of western freedom it's a very independent place
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I've said that I'm going to do a cover pretty soon here of Paul Brandt's version of um or his his song
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Alberta Bound which the lyrics to me are just bang on and when you when you sing that song and when you
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think about these sort of ideas that make Alberta what they are Saskatchewan isn't so different we're like a
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sister or cousin whatever you want to call it so lately even though I'm not from Alberta I have felt
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sort of a great kinship I guess you could say with Alberta and and particularly those of you who are
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struggling against the NDP because um it just I hear the concerns that I've heard throughout my whole
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life my childhood sort of mirrored in the same things that people are saying in Alberta when it comes to
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worries about way too much power in Ottawa the West being forgotten all of these types of things right and
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so I feel for you guys and when you went through that election just watching the vitriol was just
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incredible and of course we're just seeing it nationally too you mentioned yes you you voted
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out a female which means that of course there must be internalized misogyny it must run deep within all
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of you as well um but of course they're blaming multiple Canadians for this because you're seeing
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this happening as a trend across the country we're losing sort of some female premiers in general and of
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course left with males and of course what's worse some some white males which of course makes
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everybody that much angrier so here we are right in this conundrum where we're all apparently so
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misogynistic even the women voters that we just can't figure our own lives out uh yeah and you also have
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another uh I thought it was a very thoughtful video about how politics has really tested your
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friendships long-standing friendships you thought you had with people um for me I think that sort of
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thing it's sad but it's not on you I mean when you're reaching out across the table to you know
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to express the fact that your friendships are are stronger than politics and that's not reciprocated
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I think that speaks to the quality of your friendship with that person
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absolutely um so this has happened to me I've I would say I've lost um two friends for sure and
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then there's one that hasn't openly sort of had the courage to say you know what I don't like you
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anymore I'm afraid of you or whatever it is she thinks of me she's a you know she's a very kind
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person and she wants to believe I'm okay still but you know she's so used to sort of um I guess
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you would say an NDP mindset I guess which is fine I don't have a problem with that but I haven't
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known her that long so she doesn't have that foundation of really knowing my soul so I can
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appreciate if someone that just got to know me in my most kind of leftist nihilist stage they're
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going to think that I'm this very different person when in fact I've actually returned to a very whole
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very very sane version of myself it's it's not at all different it's it's better it's improved it's
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uh it's growth right a lot of personal growth so I'm not concerned so much about these sort of new
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people that have come and gone there's been a few of those but it's these long-standing ones so I had
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a friend of um five years which I thought was a long time uh thought was bad enough and then yes lost
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a friend uh more of a family friend more much more pardon me far more close to my mother uh 65 year
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friendship with my mother has known me since I was born uh so over 30 years and um yeah just over
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Tommy Robinson over me uh supporting Tommy Robinson going to England singing um at Panadrama uh she
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believes he is a fascist therefore um I am supporting a fascist therefore my mother was
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supporting supporting a fascist so it's really just this line of thinking we have we have committed um an
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impure sin of ideology and we're out right and so yeah it's really interesting um I was hoping that I
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could rectify it it didn't go so well as I mentioned in my video um and I have to leave it
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where it is so yeah you just you have to move on and really respect that someone's in a certain you
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know mental space whatever it is you have to try to you know kind of reach out and then find that
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balance where you say okay I'm I'm out I'm moving on and ultimately the best part of this is is if you
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are sort of taking the right path um and actually following who you are you end up finding better people
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anyway so now I have these great people that I've met yourself included I'm having I've only met you
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once in person but I mean just you meet these people that you so instantly connect with and have
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similar um you know values with and they sort of accept you for who you really are not all these
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masks that you put on and so for every person I'm losing I'm gaining you know two or more and so it
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isn't the end of the world but it's been rough it's it's a transition right and um sadly the media and
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the bias and all this stuff that's going on is changing people's um opinions and it's why I'm so
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strongly against uh the CBC and I wish we could defund them because I believe they're responsible for
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tearing people apart in this country and it makes me pretty sick actually so you know that's a great
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point I wish we could part uh the CBC out like an old minivan just sell the seats sell the steering
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column um you know just so that it's a skeleton um and then uh take that skeleton to the car crusher
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and sell that for scrap um but it is true that these mainstream media narratives for example in your
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situation about Tommy Robinson people are I mean there are people more and more people now are
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are questioning the credibility of the mainstream media but the people who are still part of I would
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I would suggest a bit of a cult of the mainstream media where all their news has to come from the
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CBC and if the CBC said it it is you know like the gospel of Mark um yeah it's so true that they would
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throw out a friendship with a family because it's not just you it's tangentially now your mom
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who's who's got the stink of you on her um yes my poor sweet mom too and she couldn't you couldn't
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you know ask for a kinder more gentle loyal you know person it's just it's awful to see that
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happening to her that's what really really killed me I'm I I signed up for this I'm a youtuber now I
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get hate weekly daily sometimes so it's like yeah you know I get it but her oh that wasn't fun to see
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right well and you know like these people who know your mom for a very long time are willing
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to just say no she's supporting a fascist because CBC said something like they can't even believe
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their own uh experience with your mom their own lying eyes um because Rosie Barton said so I mean
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precisely that is exactly and that that's what got me it wasn't so much that this person has beliefs
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against Tommy Robinson if we had come if we had had a conversation and she said you know what at
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the end of the day I believe the evidence is damning and I don't trust him sorry not my thing
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I'd say okay you know what fair enough thanks for having the discussion my issue is not that we
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disagree my issue is that people these days and I always thought that it was just stuff the stuff of
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YouTube videos the stuff of American political pundits in California and Berkeley you know no no this
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is happening in in conservative Saskatchewan it's happening all over the place and everyone I talk to now
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you know people will tell me stories in the comment sections of their own experiences and it's just
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a nightmare the states is really bad of course with Trump and the deplorables um it's a nightmare
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people are getting divorced over that stuff but it's happening here too and what makes me sick is that
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these mature adults these often very intelligent people right these are not stupid people that's what
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kills me um very smart people are not able to a access their rational thinking of everything you've done
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and who you are and and not just the words you speak but the actions right so someone's known you
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your whole life and believes in you and you haven't changed as a person they just found out something
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about you politically and now suddenly they don't like you anymore that that's very indicative of a
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lack of depth then or at least a lack of um courage to just speak up to someone that you trust because
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ultimately if you can believe a journalist like you said Rosie Barton or whoever else over someone that
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you've had a bond with that long I I don't I don't know what to say about that that to me is the
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biggest level of disrespect and this is what I'm seeing across the board and same in politics it's
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all about just jabs jabs you know character assassinations gotcha moments um trying to dig
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and find one thing someone has said it's just it's really really um vile it's always been that way uh
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it's worse now with social media but we're seeing it now just infecting the general public it's really
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sick and yeah it does suck to have someone say you know what I trust this stranger in Tommy
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Robinson's case often strangers in the UK that you'll never meet um they couldn't they could be
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a fake writer altogether it could be a pseudonym you don't even know and and you're going to trust
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them over someone you've known literally since you were a toddler that's just to me that's that's I
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can't wrap my head around it so I still that's where I struggle is just to to understand it in a
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rational way and I can't no I I don't think there is any rationale to it um but I'm glad you brought
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up Tommy Robinson because I wanted to ask you about that uh Tommy Robinson he's running to be
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a member of the European Parliament um and they have a bizarre system um how how that comes to be
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and how you come to win your seat so there is a good chance that he could actually win um but
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Twitter has suspended his campaign account um and you know you and I were talking off air but for all
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the mainstream media and left-wing wailing and moaning and flailing about a Russia conspiracy
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that never was meddling in American politics this sure as hell looks like an American company trying
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to sway the outcome of a European election and everybody just thinks yeah it's fine because they
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don't like Tommy yes precisely it's fine because I don't like him it's fine because he is blank insert
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um you know expletive word here he is racist he's inflammatory whatever you think that he is so then
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they decide it's okay and no one sees the bigger picture um of what this means of what you know
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people that are calling for censorship don't realize that ultimately they're going to be digging their
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own graves because it will affect everybody even the most progressive the most ideologically pure of
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all of us um and it's sick because of course I do support Tommy Robinson I've been fairly open about that
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um obviously that would be the demise of you know this this one relationship and perhaps some to follow
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hard to say but um you know with Tommy he has just experienced a level of deplatforming that is
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is unbelievable they are like just trying to erase him off the face of the earth and they believe
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somehow that this is going to what stop the movement stop you know stop him from doing what
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he's doing it only seems to serve to push him further to want to do what he's doing this is why
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he's going into politics it's um that sense of you know what no one's speaking for this side you're
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going to keep deplatforming me fine I'm going to dive into the next realm then you know catch me
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there and and they can do it twitter can do it all these private companies can do what they do
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and we can argue about whether that's good or bad um you know free speech does it extend to
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private institutions all that good stuff but the point is more just the trend the overall trend that
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push for censorship that push to erase him from everyone's minds and tongues and and videos you
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know I've been told that my how they rule you um version um the one that I put up I had permission
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to use your copy and I made a little intro that's one of the few versions left out there I didn't
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realize that there's been a mass sweeping of even the panel drama coverage just it's insane it's
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absolute censorship it's absolute totalitarianism type censorship um I don't know why people aren't
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concerned I hope he can move forward um without this I understand he's is it a bust that he's got
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going on I don't know he's he's finding he's finding creative ways to get people's attention
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um but honestly I wonder sometimes if these extreme measures of censorship don't work in the favor
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of people who are being who they're trying to actually censor because it does become so outlandish
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that it almost makes people say well what is it about this guy that's so bad and then they maybe go
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and find him and listen to him where they wouldn't before so perhaps we will see how it goes he's a
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very tenacious um young guy so I I suspect he'll find a way around it I really do yeah I think
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there's going to be a little bit of the Streisand effect happening where the more they try to um
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memory hole Tommy Robinson the more um he's going to become part of you know the conversation um but
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that just shows you know how out of touch these censors and the mainstream media really are I mean
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when you think about it Twitter and Facebook um they're really acting as the new tv station and the
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new print newspapers of our time when nobody goes to use those things anymore like nobody really um
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flips on the local news when you can flip on Twitter it's there when you need it it you know
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you get your video and your news updates faster than running home and turning on the tv um so you know
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there there are rules particularly in Canada about whether um you know tv stations can decide not to
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take ad dollars from um you know a political candidate now they don't seem to really be following those
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these days um according to what happened in Toronto um but you know if they are acting as newspapers then
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and they want us to treat them like newspapers um and tv stations and the local news then really they need
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to be behaving like them um but that's not the case they're on one hand they want um all the access
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that they would get acting as a utility but at the same time um behaving as a private corporation
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with their own rules that um where they can exclude uh people from doing business on their platform
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and I don't think they can have a both ways and I'm not one I'm literally the last person in the world
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to advocate for regulation I just think like I would rather have my business close the door
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than have the government regulate it um but I think these companies are so big that they can actually
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decide what information you can consume um I I'm leaning towards regulation regulate these things
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as a utility like the telephone company yeah you know it was interesting because I when I first kind
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of got into Twitter I think I just joined in I guess it'd be September here of 2018 um I use it for
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very specific ways because I've learned that it's not well I've learned it's not the place for
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beautiful nuanced discussion because people are in a weird space where they just want to
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you know kind of jump on everybody for nothing it's a weird it's a weird vibe I'm not sure how
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I feel about that battlefield but it can be a lot of fun and it is like you said it's a tool like
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anything else technology can be you know a tool for destruction a hammer can tear something down
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or it can build something up and I think Twitter is no um you know it's no exception to that but like
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you said it comes down to what it was sort of intended to be it's not just now a social media
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network it's not a place to share pictures and just sort of joke around for many people it is like
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you said it's a mainstream source for news and for you know breaking events around the world it's a
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quick way to get in touch with people it's a quick way to see when something's been fact checked or
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changed um not that that happens that very often these days in journalism but you know once in a
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while when someone is willing to correct the story you can get it quickly or someone's rebuttal
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uh when they decide to call someone out you know all of this stuff is very important um like it or not
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I hate it actually I hate Twitter diplomacy but it's become a political sphere it's huge it is a
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huge political political battlefield and it's sort of necessary that you have an even playing field in
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politics if nothing else I mean you can talk about the personal accounts but when you talk about
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censoring an MEP account when you talk about censoring a political campaign um yeah where where is
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that line because that that takes away from the whole idea of it just being a business and and it does
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start suggesting that they do have a little more power a little more pull so um as this shifts and
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gets more and more prevalent yeah I'm leaning towards what you're saying and it's it's inevitable
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I think and it's it sucks because like you said I don't want the government's dirty hands in anything
00:24:08.520
but where does this end right and and at what point or are people just expected to find that
00:24:13.580
alternative source which there are you know they are available but people really have to start
00:24:17.820
opening up and trying new platforms and um you know I don't know the answer right yeah I think
00:24:23.140
if twitter and facebook get regulated um they asked for it you know all they had to do was not
00:24:29.680
be you know have these ideological purity tests before you could participate in their platform or
00:24:36.100
work for them for that matter um so if they do get regulated and it hurts their bottom line
00:24:41.360
you had it coming yeah oh no so so sad so sad now speaking of twitter um all last week I you know
00:24:50.940
my twitter mentions are like um it's like a nuclear holocaust in there most days only imagine like I
00:24:58.520
don't think it ever goes beyond like what is the highest number 99 plus I don't think I think I've
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only had that once yeah and uh I suspect yours is always just there it's like every crazy person
00:25:09.280
thinks that I need to hear what they have to say and I you know what I I Ezra gives me trouble
00:25:14.480
because he's like you should block those people but I am more spiteful and so I just mute them
00:25:19.500
because I want them to hear what I'm saying but know that I don't care what they have to say to me
00:25:25.180
nice how are you Sheila how are you yes thank you um but you enraged all of vegan twitter which is a
00:25:33.580
rookie mistake I did that like six years ago um and I you know you end up with all these crazy people
00:25:39.780
who oh man have comfort chickens they think that chickens are this higher functioning creature that
00:25:47.040
can provide some sort of like empathic support to them when they need emotional support which I mean
00:25:53.680
nobody who's ever met a chicken thinks that um but you enraged all these people and it was like
00:26:00.220
days and days and days they didn't stop I thought for sure something new will come along and they'll
00:26:06.420
forget about me they didn't it was it just kept going and going and I was like why is this honestly
00:26:11.680
Sheila it's ridiculous I all I did was in a benign moment I wasn't even thinking I was just hanging
00:26:16.460
outside with the dogs it was sunny and I just replied to an A&W um it was it was an article
00:26:22.200
about the new A&W veggie burger it was a globe and mail article and I'm a little bit pissy about all
00:26:27.100
of the constant push about taxing beef and how bad everyone is for eating beef and I eat a high
00:26:32.420
things to say about A&W too and their marketing campaign fair enough yeah you know like their
00:26:38.040
anti-hormone stuff and their anti-antibiotic stuff I mean I've got a lot of
00:26:43.360
like actual farmer opinions to say about A&W's beef um but you know it's so funny when you
00:26:51.560
wade into vegan twitter and they're telling me how to farm they're telling me how to farm
00:26:57.000
and what happens at the abattoir when the cows go down the line and it's like
00:27:01.600
no you know what you guys just eat apples and cabbage and I bet you smell horrible I'm not taking
00:27:07.780
any food advice from you but they had lots of food advice for you it was amazing she like seriously
00:27:13.920
like I said I didn't mean to get into this it was just benign like you know bugger off kind of comment
00:27:18.400
to the media and little did I know you know I get home from work and I could see my twitter
00:27:23.200
notifications just went insane and I had lots of support and people retweeted it and hell yeah
00:27:28.160
meat eaters and people posting pictures of burgers and whatever it was great but there was also this
00:27:33.180
this percentage of people and they were not there was two there was two that were reasonable well
00:27:38.020
that's not true one became reasonable uh after realizing they couldn't really argue anymore and
00:27:43.140
then the other one was more just reasonable in general the rest were just aggressive like it's
00:27:47.460
I try really hard to be empathetic towards vegans I've made a video I try to um understand their
00:27:52.800
position I've tried veganism and vegetarianism for health reasons um for managing chronic health
00:27:57.380
reasons lots of people push that idea and say you'll feel better and some people do that's great for
00:28:01.140
them didn't work for me I'm um I'm very much into high protein high red meat content period I live on
00:28:07.940
beef goat cheese um you know high protein high fat stuff it's it's not a vegan diet and uh so you
00:28:15.540
know I try to explain this to people and I would hope that they would engage usually once I said
00:28:18.920
something rational they just left they just couldn't say anything so they just left but there was a
00:28:22.260
couple they just kept going with the memes and the murderer and the the the slicing of the throat
00:28:27.600
comments and it was just like oh my god what have I done here and I engaged with a few just because
00:28:33.080
it was kind of fun it gives a really interesting picture uh once in a while if you do dive in you
00:28:37.580
know it gives a fun picture of society but then you also kind of at the end of the day you think is
00:28:41.980
this is this where we are now um as a prairie girl it is kind of funny because that that was my
00:28:46.920
argument was you guys have never been to a farm have you you don't have like you picture the the
00:28:51.200
pita movie meet your meat with massive industrialized gross factory farming and you
00:28:56.800
can't fathom that a farmer would care so much for their animals they don't understand either
00:29:01.460
even on the sense of land um the kind of to bring it to a more serious note when a farmer
00:29:07.120
not big big farmers but regular family average farmers normal average people like yourself um so
00:29:12.940
many of my family they care for their land and in order to survive off the land they have to be in
00:29:18.780
tune with the land farmers know cycles and seasons better than anybody else they understand what all
00:29:24.440
the little things mean and how much snow there's going to be and what that means for the spring
00:29:27.900
they are in tuned in every way and when it comes to their animals if there's a sick cow they they get
00:29:32.620
a vet out even though it costs a lot of money they are generally ethical generally uh they care more for
00:29:38.140
animals than most of these people and I think it's so funny because we talk about um how these farms are
00:29:42.720
ruining the earth and it's everybody's you know yelling at farmers for everything and it's like you
00:29:48.000
know I don't think that these urbanites maybe understand that they're so way off base and I just
00:29:53.520
wish I just wish Sheila once that all of these people that went and like protested at antler in
00:29:58.640
Toronto like please come to Saskatchewan and go to a beef farm please please please I just want to see
00:30:03.040
it I want to take a camera and see uh that you know play out actually I'd like them to come to your
00:30:06.980
house I think that'd be fun I'd like to watch you take a swing at those at those activists not a
00:30:11.660
not a literal physical swing but some you know I would put them to such hard work that they would be
00:30:16.640
begging for a steak just for the protein so that they could function and I'm like you I don't care
00:30:22.380
how you eat eat however you want it's like a religion right worship however you want this is
00:30:27.300
a free country I'll do my thing you do yours but um I'm not a don't call me a murderer like
00:30:35.160
literally and I think honestly Sheila I think they would rather have us even when I explained that
00:30:40.420
it's for my health people indicated that they would rather me die kind of than a baby cow and it's like
00:30:45.140
well not even a baby cow I don't even eat veal they're actually adult cows they I think that in
00:30:49.580
many people's minds that chicken that you're talking about that cow like screw me I'm a
00:30:54.500
conservative white female in Canada I would rather she just die you know what I mean I honestly got
00:30:58.340
that feeling from some of these people what do you think the overlap is from those vegans um
00:31:04.600
how many of them what do you think the percentage is of them being pro-choice you're a murderer for
00:31:10.040
eating an egg um do you think uh like generally in my experience 99% of them are pro-choice so an
00:31:18.060
egg is murder but a human fetus is not yeah I find that it's generally a very progressive ideology
00:31:25.920
now I've met a couple of conservatives who do follow it for usually it's for health reasons um
00:31:29.900
yeah sure but you know they're not preachy about it no precisely and that's the when I meet those
00:31:35.140
vegans I just I I want to hug them I work with one and she's she hates those types of vegans and
00:31:39.120
she's just this normal person that one day realized she just didn't want to eat meat anymore
00:31:43.140
she feels better she's had a baby she feels great good for her awesome she doesn't tell anybody else
00:31:47.260
that they need to basically burn in the fires of hell for having a steak and you know that like
00:31:51.720
you said it's the preachiness that really gets you but yeah I don't know um it is it is a bit of a
00:31:56.360
religion it does seem to be that people there's a judgment at the end of it and you know um when it
00:32:01.700
comes to the pro-life thing yeah you're right there is a progressivism sort of trend I guess you could
00:32:06.760
say with a lot of people who are kind of going down that that road and uh often yes that means
00:32:11.820
that there is a pro-choice um sort of mentality and yeah it is to me a little bit hypocritical it
00:32:17.900
doesn't make a lot of doesn't make a lot of sense to me um I I again try to wrap my head around some
00:32:23.580
of this stuff and because I'm a farm girl like I I get it I'm a softy I don't like animals suffering
00:32:28.560
either but that's the thing is again farmers are actually uh the first people that will put down an
00:32:33.860
animal if they're suffering they don't usually want to see like what do they think that we are
00:32:38.600
what you know I just don't get it and yet if you call out someone for wanting to you know abort a
00:32:43.300
child at what 11 months or whatever it is now in the states that these this uh senator whatever was
00:32:47.860
talking about that if you call that evil you're what hyperbolic preachy get get real it's just the
00:32:53.100
the upside down land of things right now is just astounding sometimes you have to laugh or I think you
00:32:58.500
just want to bang your head against the wall really yeah as Gavin McInnes says it's clown world
00:33:03.940
like it's it's hard to even believe that those people exist and they they can't see the um the
00:33:11.640
disconnect between their two you know diametrically opposed stances on things um I know that you have
00:33:18.120
to go to work today um so I know I'm trying to move this along a little bit I've got some time we're
00:33:23.520
good okay um although I could probably talk to you all day um it's fun I enjoy it very much yeah
00:33:29.500
the uh that's super chat money uh that I took on election night to have you on the show um
00:33:37.200
I said that I would have you on the show to sing now I'm going to put you on the spot um would you
00:33:45.320
give us 20 30 seconds of something acapella sure yeah would you like something uh any particular
00:33:53.180
genres like you know I could do a couple things or just something light to end the show yeah
00:33:57.920
something light to end the show and then uh then we'll give you a chance to let everybody know where
00:34:03.260
they can find you that sounds good how about a little Patsy Cline how does that sound oh yes all
00:34:07.800
right I'm gonna uh try to move away from this a bit I'm not set up you know mixer wise for music so
00:34:13.360
I apologize if it crackles I'll try to keep it you know try not to belt it too hard here
00:34:45.360
and then someday you'd leave me for somebody new
00:35:22.200
and I'm crazy for trying crazy for crying and I'm crazy for loving you
00:35:37.160
fantastic you were so incredibly talented and when I sing I sound like um someone is hitting a baby
00:35:47.340
with a cat so um you just have the voice of an angel um Kelly I want to thank you so much for your time today
00:35:57.300
yeah for sure um I want to give you a chance to um promote your YouTube channel let people know where they can find you
00:36:04.020
I think you do put out some incredibly thoughtful content
00:36:06.860
and I think it needs a lot more eyeballs because you approach these issues
00:36:11.040
um with a level of understanding and compassion that um I know that I don't
00:36:17.700
like I guess I've been a lifelong conservative so I it's for it's hard for me to get inside the mind of a leftist
00:36:25.780
but you come from that and you had this sort of come to Jesus change in how you look at things
00:36:31.680
but you still approach it with understanding and um I think that's valuable and missing
00:36:37.560
in a lot of the public discourse yes I would agree with that it's why I I made the channel
00:36:43.340
I'm going to try to be serious after imagining um hitting a baby with a cat that image is just
00:36:48.680
stuck right there but yes um when I started my channel essentially I started it last July I guess
00:36:54.140
it's been almost a year July 2018 it was essentially originally started to kind of just rant I started
00:36:59.060
with the feminism rant um which is kind of what we talked about today and then it just morphed into
00:37:03.300
more of a well maybe if I'm going to rant I should give my fiance a break and then it kind of
00:37:07.060
morphed into realizing this this huge gap that um there was that we needed to have more people who
00:37:13.000
kind of could understand both sides everything's very polarized because of social media so I do try
00:37:17.960
to provide um sort of a middle ground without shifting my beliefs or being wishy-washy I don't
00:37:24.680
believe in you know becoming milquetoast on the things that matter but there is a way to present it I
00:37:29.040
don't want to be and and by nature I'm just not super controversial so I do wish for a more of a sense of
00:37:34.060
unity um and I see a lot of division in our country I see a lot of division in my you know regional area
00:37:39.180
and I see a lot of it being pushed by our local um and federal governments I see the media making
00:37:44.540
it worse and I see individual people you know fueling that fire and so I just want to be part
00:37:49.040
of the solution because I think ultimately um we're not all that different we've just been made to think
00:37:55.360
about all the bad things about each other that we disagree with and politically um we can differ and
00:37:59.900
still have sort of similar core values so I try to focus on the core value stuff um I have my rant
00:38:04.940
videos though I mean there's days where it's just like I said you just want to bang your head against
00:38:08.360
a wall but I try to at least understand um I think ultimately that I'm realistic and I'm learning this
00:38:13.400
more and more that there's just people you can't um you can't help you can't touch uh they're in a
00:38:17.280
weird mind space but there are people like myself that were just you know rational classical liberals
00:38:21.540
that um believe the wrong people maybe went through some trauma went through some stuff and it
00:38:25.580
changes your perspective so my channel uh just under my name Kelly Day I always uh basically
00:38:30.320
pass on that there's two people when you look it up there's me and there's a Brazilian supermodel
00:38:34.940
I'm the one that's not the Brazilian supermodel um the picture of me and my piano can't miss me um
00:38:39.880
I do yeah social political commentary I do some music I do interviews when I can try to do them about
00:38:45.320
once a week um my channel is um focused on Christian values but it's very much open to any belief I have
00:38:51.380
plenty of atheist and agnostic and Jewish subscribers and anyone else so yeah um please come on over
00:38:57.140
check it out I'd love to have you in the comment section and I am on Twitter as well um it's more
00:39:01.820
of a sort of sarcastic fun outlet for me my handle is at Kelly our day 19 so now Kelly before we go
00:39:09.120
you did let me in on a little secret about your future um you want to share that yes yes sure I'll
00:39:16.460
probably make a video as well um I did just put you on the spot oh that's okay no it's good it's good
00:39:21.300
um needs to come out so yes I um I wasn't sure if it was going to be kind of happening so I hadn't
00:39:27.080
really mentioned it but I had applied uh to be vetted for the candidacy here for the PPC the
00:39:32.980
People's Party of Canada uh in my riding and um I was hoping to find some people uh locally that would
00:39:38.160
dive in but it's a bit tough to find that uh in this sort of um I guess you could say very rushed
00:39:43.500
campaign this very rushed election so I am uh I have been vetted and accepted and I will be running as
00:39:49.200
the candidate in uh the Prince Albert riding for the PPC so that's uh going to change again the
00:39:54.780
direction of my channel a bit it will be used now somewhat as a political platform also and you'll
00:39:59.500
see me more um on you know various articles and smear campaigns instead so that's coming you're going to
00:40:06.500
be um excoriated for speaking to me oh I'm certain of that and of course Tommy Robinson will be you know
00:40:13.220
the nail in my coffin media wise but I I have um I have no shame in what I've done and this whole
00:40:18.520
integrity bit is part of why I want to do this I don't know I I love the idea of politics um I thought
00:40:24.160
maybe if I got into politics it would be in five or ten years um but sometimes timing uh sort of comes
00:40:28.820
upon you it doesn't necessarily you don't get to pick right you don't always get to choose and
00:40:32.640
ultimately when you feel led to do something and you want to help um you know this very much is the
00:40:37.460
same narrative as what I'm doing with my channel I want to bring more uh unity I believe very much
00:40:42.300
in the PPC platform and our four core values I believe I espouse them and um I'm excited to to
00:40:47.740
build the party and just to sort of start that uh long game forward in trying to help shift some
00:40:52.780
minds um in the direction of this really wonderful country that has nothing but potential and um I'm
00:40:57.660
very concerned about the direction of of things and where we're going so I figured why not step up
00:41:02.860
and and dive in and I can I can take the arrows because I've been training for it for eight months on
00:41:07.900
YouTube so bring it on I guess well Kelly I wish you the best of luck um you are bold and unafraid
00:41:16.020
to talk about difficult issues including personal issues things that are um personal and painful
00:41:22.000
for you um but you always do it in a way of compassion and understanding like I said that
00:41:27.240
sometimes I lack anyway we all have our roles I figure yeah I want to thank you for coming on the show
00:41:34.420
um I know you got to get to work um and you've been really generous with your time and I hope
00:41:39.980
that I don't have to wait until someone reminds me via a $10 super chat to have you back on this show
00:41:47.200
again sounds good well we'll keep in touch I'd be happy to come back on so maybe I'll have you on
00:41:51.620
someday do a bit of an up close and personal with Sheila Gunn-Reed sure thanks Kelly sounds good
00:41:57.860
I wish Kelly the best of luck as she enters federal politics I think more normal people
00:42:15.040
need to get involved and I think Kelly knows what she's in for any conservative from any
00:42:20.540
conservative party by now should be well aware that the campaign against them will not be about
00:42:25.900
the issues or ideas but instead about character assassination and personal attacks but I think
00:42:32.120
Kelly's strong enough and grounded enough to handle it and I want to thank the super chatter that reminded
00:42:38.160
me to have Kelly back on my show I suppose the moral of the story here is that yes I do take
00:42:44.460
requests well everybody that's the show for tonight thank you so much as always for tuning in I'll see
00:42:50.360
everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week and remember don't let the government