00:00:00.000Well, yeah, I mean, my life has also changed because of the protests, yours as I think pretty much everybody, even for even for the protesters.
00:00:07.560I mean, it was, you know, one of those events that just you never saw it.
00:00:11.820You you didn't see it coming. But when it happened, it was incredible.
00:00:14.980Just one of the most incredible experiences of my life.
00:00:39.140Who is now with True North. That's right.
00:00:41.900So I called him. Yeah. Me and Tom called him and said, listen, because I said, I want to at least try to get somebody affiliated with legacy media who is credible and honest.
00:00:53.140So we called Anthony and we're going through a couple of his listing, a couple of names.
00:00:58.200And then he said, you know, who would be good?
00:01:00.700Rupa would be good. She's in Ottawa and she's an honest actor.
00:01:03.900She's not going to, you know, promulgate a narrative if it's false.
00:01:08.060Right. And I said, OK, and got your email address and I sent you an email.
00:01:12.620So I actually wanted you. That's right.
00:01:15.420Right. And at that point, I think you were writing for it was for the National Post.
00:01:18.860Yeah. Yeah. I still am. I mean, I'm still a freelancer for them.
00:01:23.180But yeah, no, actually, you're absolutely right.
00:01:25.840I think I'm mixing you up with several of the other people who were at the Swiss Hotel and they were a little apprehensive, I think, about, you know, legacy media journalists being in the room.
00:01:36.980But yes, I absolutely remember Anthony Fury emailing me and saying this is press conference.
00:01:42.220Please go to it if you can. And I'm glad I did, because I thought that was a very important event in, you know, in helping set sort of this, you know, narrative, your own narrative.
00:01:55.460Right. And already before the protesters that even, you know, they even came to the Capitol, you already had this establishment narrative from the mainstream media and others that these guys were a bunch of far right, you know, nut jobs, you know, going to pull a January 6th style insurrection and blah, blah, blah.
00:02:20.340And whatever you think of the January 6th thing, whether it actually, you know, it was, you know, if it was a nothing burger or there was something to it, it doesn't matter.
00:02:31.680The point is, you know, there was a lot of fear mongering at that at that point.
00:02:35.280And I'm glad I spent that whole day walking through the protests and then I came to the press conference and I wanted to hear you guys, you know, and I wanted to ask you those questions.
00:02:46.560And I remember asking you, you know, so what do you say to people who say that this is what you're up to?
00:03:10.580But it really didn't seem to get a lot of traction.
00:03:13.140It was still, it still didn't hit like the mainstream of legacy media.
00:03:17.800It was still kind of flying under the radar.
00:03:19.680You could tell they didn't know what to do at that point and how to deal with it.
00:03:23.520And that's why, you know, we did that press conference, which was two hours and 20 minutes long.
00:03:27.980And then after you left, we did an out, me and Tamara did an hour with Rebel News and hoping that would get, you know, the full story out in our context.
00:03:56.500And I knew over time that if we remained peaceful, we stayed in that aura of positivity and, you know, had this community feeling about us, which we really tried to work on.
00:04:09.720That's what ended up, you know, getting the bouncy castles and the barbecues and the soup kitchens and all that sort of stuff.