Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Cutting through the trucker convoy media lies with Cory Morgan

00:00:00.000 Oh hey Rebels, it's me Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're listening to a free audio only recording of my

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00:00:10.280 editor of the Western Standard and we're talking about the truck convoy, politicians who don't know

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00:01:14.820 Does Aaron O'Toole support the convoy for freedom to Ottawa? Does Aaron O'Toole even know the answer

00:01:29.500 to that question? I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:01:44.820 The convoy for freedom started as a trucker's protest against cross-border COVID restrictions but

00:01:56.760 it has really become the symbol for Canadians who are sick of the division and the restrictions and

00:02:02.600 government overreach of the nearly last 23 months of two weeks to flatten the curve. On Monday morning

00:02:10.360 Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole was asked in a press conference if he would be meeting with or

00:02:15.400 supporting the truckers who are headed to Ottawa to protest the vaccination mandate for cross-border

00:02:22.560 truckers. Take a listen.

00:02:24.540 Several of your MPs have tweeted out support for the convoy. One of them saying that he felt the

00:02:33.480 Prime Minister had a vendetta against people who were unvaccinated. Do you support the convoy,

00:02:39.080 its goals, its objectives, even though the Canadian Trucking Alliance says it could be disruptive?

00:02:43.780 And to follow, again, repeat Louis' question, will you meet with them when they come to Ottawa?

00:02:48.920 We've been talking to the Canadian Truckers Alliance, Glenn, for several months.

00:02:52.760 We've seen a crisis in the supply chain coming for several months and we've proposed policies to try

00:02:59.480 and help alleviate that. The most important of which is vaccines.

00:03:04.160 You didn't answer my question.

00:03:05.660 Yes, I did, Glenn. Vaccines are a critical tool and we need to make sure we keep store

00:03:12.260 shelves full. Maybe you can answer in response to my next question, sir. You can say whether you

00:03:17.060 meet with them. That's why last week, Glenn.

00:03:18.340 O'Toole couldn't answer because I don't think he knows. Now, later on in the same day, O'Toole went

00:03:24.180 on Evan Solomon's show to provide clarity, but I think instead he just gave Evan Solomon and the

00:03:29.340 entire country a headache. Look at this.

00:03:31.500 Will truckers show up on Parliament Hill, sir? Will you meet them, yes or no?

00:03:36.260 We've been meeting with them for the last few months and I will continue to meet this week and

00:03:40.460 into the weekend with truckers and with the industry, both individual people suffering,

00:03:46.500 but also the industry. Three weeks ago-

00:03:48.980 But I'm talking about the convo. I'm talking about the so-called freedom convo.

00:03:52.100 This problem, which would actually tackle the supply chain shortage. Mr. Trudeau's making

00:03:58.060 inflation worse through his overspending, through his lack of attention on issues like

00:04:02.960 the shortages, and with the fact that he's continuing to just divide people and not deliver

00:04:08.740 on the essential things we need in this pandemic.

00:04:10.920 Now, I don't think it should be controversial for any conservative politician who believes in

00:04:15.700 conservative values to say, I'm against government coercion. And yet, Aaron O'Toole can't say that.

00:04:20.620 And I think up until now, he hadn't even been allowing his caucus to say that either. Although

00:04:25.620 things are changing. There are many conservative MPs that are coming out against vaccine mandates,

00:04:31.300 at least for the truckers. But that also means the next logical step is to be against vaccine

00:04:36.760 mandates for every other industry and ultimately every other person too. There's so much to talk

00:04:42.500 about with the truck convoy and the politicians' weak response to it and the media's vindictive

00:04:47.460 response to it, which seems very disconnected from the public's overwhelmingly supportive

00:04:52.140 response to it. So joining me tonight is someone who's not on the show frequently enough. If

00:04:57.140 you ask me, it's Corey Morgan of the Western Standard. Take a listen.

00:05:01.220 Joining me now from his office in Calgary is the assistant opinion editor at the Western Standard

00:05:22.180 and host of the new show Triggered, Corey Morgan. Corey, thanks so much for joining me. There's so

00:05:27.220 much news happening across the country, but a lot of it I think is coming out of Alberta. And so I

00:05:32.900 wanted to sit down and talk with a fellow right-wing-ish Albertan to discuss some of it. First,

00:05:39.100 let's talk about the thing that's on the top of everybody's mind, and that's the convoy.

00:05:44.120 I'll tell you why I think it's such a juggernaut, and then I'll ask you your opinion. I think this

00:05:48.220 is the first national movement against not just vaccine mandates, but the lockdown and masking. I

00:05:56.360 think these guys are an avatar for everything that people have suffered through the last 21 months. And

00:06:01.460 it's been, you know, churches popping up here and gyms in BC and curfew scofflaws in Quebec. But this is

00:06:08.200 the first one that is just rolling through all the provinces together. Why do you think people are so

00:06:14.020 interested in this? Yeah, I fully agree with what you're talking about. It is national. I think

00:06:18.500 people have been waiting for a larger means to express themselves and saying that they're tired

00:06:24.560 of this. They want to push back against mandates. I mean, on multiple levels, it's gone far beyond just

00:06:29.260 the truckers. That was just the first issue. And now people, whether they're waving on the side of the

00:06:34.020 road or donating online, they have a means. I mean, a lot of the protests before, some of them, to be

00:06:39.160 honest, were a little flaky. I went to a few and your average person just didn't want to take part in

00:06:43.740 those. But this is something they can comfortably say, yes, I'm supporting this. I'm tired of the

00:06:48.380 status quo with this pandemic mess. And I'm pushing back so that this convoy has given them the means

00:06:53.360 for it. And it's just taken off. I mean, amazingly. Yeah, it really has taken off. And I think their

00:06:58.320 GoFundMe, before GoFundMe put a hold on, it really speaks to the momentum that it has. Because

00:07:04.420 I think a lot of people, they can't be on the convoy. They're not truckers. They can't take two weeks

00:07:10.540 off work. They want to do something other than hold a sign on the side of the road, which I think

00:07:15.760 is important to show support for the efforts. But a lot of people, when they don't know what to do,

00:07:21.780 they say, well, here's 20 bucks. Throw some diesel in your truck. But GoFundMe is now holding on to

00:07:30.320 that. And we never see that sort of scrutiny from GoFundMe when it's a left-wing cause like BLM or any of

00:07:39.760 those associated movements, that it seems to be that's just the vehicle that you donate to these

00:07:44.700 causes. And that's good enough for GoFundMe. But on the flip side, whenever it's sort of like a

00:07:49.640 conservative thing, there's always this additional layer of scrutiny applied to it.

00:07:55.620 Yeah, absolutely. And the mainstream media has jumped all over that. And they've acted as if it's

00:08:00.460 been shut down. So, I mean, it should be clear. I've been watching that site. When they shut one down,

00:08:04.680 you can't even donate to it. They're saying this is a bad cause. We're not going to support it.

00:08:07.540 We're out. What they are doing is just applying their standards to the letter of saying, we want

00:08:12.640 to know where the dispersal is going and things like that, which isn't necessarily bad. But the

00:08:16.260 double standard, yeah, they wouldn't think for a second of doing that to BLM. And they're in a

00:08:21.580 rock and hard place, I think. I mean, they're probably staying to make a good chunk of money

00:08:24.500 out of this as well as part of their service. But they're probably getting inundated with,

00:08:28.460 you know, those ridiculous claims that this is a terrorist movement and stuff like that. And they 0.83

00:08:33.880 don't want to be caught within it. So it'll be interesting to see what happens. But I think

00:08:36.540 if they were going to shut it down, they already would have. Like, they would have completely

00:08:40.000 stopped this thing. They just want to make sure they've covered their butts before releasing the

00:08:44.560 funds. But as you said, it's given people a mechanism. You know, they might be living in

00:08:48.180 an area that's off the route. They don't have time. They have bills to pay. But hey, yeah,

00:08:51.040 here's 20 bucks. Here's 50 bucks. I mean, it's, what, over 60,000 donors on this. It's just been

00:08:56.260 astounding.

00:08:56.720 Yeah. And some of the donations are enormous, like $10,000, $1,000 here. These, again, people who

00:09:03.820 just, they don't know what to do, but finally someone's standing up. So they say, here's some

00:09:08.400 money, stand up for me. But you are right to point out that there, this isn't just, you know,

00:09:15.740 GoFundMe doing this on their own. GoFundMe has had a ton of pressure from people on the left,

00:09:23.880 organized, and powerful in some instances who are saying, well, what are you going to do about

00:09:30.780 all these people raising money? We saw it from Gerald Butts, who sort of wanted to nudge GoFundMe

00:09:37.560 in the right direction, and from journalists who seem to think their only job is holding the people

00:09:42.800 to account on behalf of Justin Trudeau. 0.96

00:09:46.140 Yeah, and it's ridiculous. I mean, whose business is it anyways where this money is going? It doesn't

00:09:51.160 matter. I mean, it doesn't matter. If we want one of the worst fundraisers who abuse money, 1.00

00:09:55.440 look to the federal government. They take it without a choice, with a gun to our head,

00:09:58.720 and they piss it away and put it in their friends' pockets. So GoFundMe is voluntary. People, I mean,

00:10:03.580 as far as I'm concerned, if people want to throw their money in the fireplace, it's their money.

00:10:06.580 And if they're giving it to GoFundMe, let them go. But it's an indication that this convoy

00:10:11.660 has got the establishment rattled. It's got the establishment. Media, politicians,

00:10:16.220 the bureaucrats, they are shaken up. Canadians are passive, docile Canadians are finally pushing 0.99

00:10:22.660 back and en masse. And this has them nervous. And they're just, you know, striking back in any way

00:10:27.220 they can think of.

00:10:28.440 Yeah. You know, speaking of docile and passive, the last time I saw the Hutterites out supporting 1.00

00:10:34.960 a political cause like this was during Bill 6, the farm unionization law here in Alberta back in 2016

00:10:41.640 that the NDP brought in because the NDP don't actually know any real farmers, obviously.

00:10:47.440 But the Hutterites were out there in full force. And one of the reasons they were out there 1.00

00:10:53.580 during Bill 6 in full force was when they said to the government, hey, we are a family farm and you

00:11:00.280 can't put these labor laws on us. The NDP tried to make an exemption for them and they said,

00:11:07.560 you're not going to carve us out of the community. We worked really hard to be together as neighbors.

00:11:12.620 And now you're going to give us these special exemptions that will cause division.

00:11:17.160 The Hutterites in so far, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, they're out along the side of the road, 1.00

00:11:24.340 women, men holding signs that say, we support the truckers, not Trudeau. And they were emotional.

00:11:32.020 We had one of our reporters talk to a few of them. And the man was quite emotional that,

00:11:37.540 you know, that once again, here they are fighting tyranny. And right on cue, obviously,

00:11:44.260 the mainstream media and the activist organizations whipped out these same old tropes that this is a 0.95

00:11:51.260 racist, misogynist, extremist, anti-Muslim. That's a new one. Trucking Convoy, they did this with 0.54

00:11:58.820 United. We roll. They're doing this again. But I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, I think people

00:12:05.760 just aren't buying it anymore. They're not falling for any of it.

00:12:09.160 No, they're sick of it. And they know that, I mean, anybody going around who's been to a truck

00:12:13.280 stopper, gotten out, actually new Canadians and, you know, to be blunt, non-white Canadians actually

00:12:18.800 dominate the trucking industry. There's a lot of them working in there and they do a great job.

00:12:22.460 And there are a lot of them taking part in this convoy. They're the ones very directly affected by it.

00:12:26.780 So I think if anything, it galvanizes people. They realize this is a ridiculous accusation. It's 0.97

00:12:31.160 stupid. And it ticks people off and makes them more likely to perhaps support it. And the hutter 1.00

00:12:36.440 rates is very significant because, yeah, they try to stay clear and keep to themselves out of these

00:12:40.160 sorts of issues. But they're also business people. They're seeing problems with the supply chains.

00:12:44.160 They drive trucks as well, actually, quite often. And I think it's striking as well that one of the

00:12:49.320 things among hutter rates is that they are very bound to be peaceful. If they thought this was a

00:12:54.020 violent movement by any means, they would not be out there supporting this. It would go against

00:12:58.120 their actual faith. So I think it's quite significant to see them coming out on such a

00:13:02.620 rare occasion and supporting something like this.

00:13:04.640 Yeah, I was talking to a hutter rate yesterday and he told me that 90 percent of the people on

00:13:09.340 his colony are vaccinated. Their issue is not vaccination. Their issue is always and has always

00:13:15.060 been government coercion and government incursion into their lives. And you are right to point out

00:13:21.200 that so many of them do own trucking colonies or trucking companies on the colonies. Many of them

00:13:27.360 are class one drivers. And again, this is where the government wants to drive division. Our hutterite

00:13:34.280 friends and neighbors are always driving togetherness, which I think is a symptom of their faith. Now,

00:13:40.600 let's talk about the politicians, because I think it was Monday, Aaron O'Toole had sort of two chances

00:13:48.280 to come out and support the convoy, which I mean, it should not be a controversial thing for a

00:13:54.540 conservative politician to say, I'm against government coercion. But it was difficult for

00:14:00.940 him. He had a press conference, I guess it was earlier in the day. That was just a mess. It was

00:14:06.740 a Trudeau style thing where he didn't answer a single question and then got frustrated when people

00:14:14.240 noticed he wasn't answering questions. And then later on in the day with Evan Solomon,

00:14:18.660 he, you could see Evan Solomon's visible frustration with the whole thing. Cause he kept

00:14:23.320 asking like, do you, do you support the truckers? And even then his tacit support, Aaron O'Toole's

00:14:29.540 tacit support, you still couldn't see sort of where he fell down on the issue, but his MPs I think are

00:14:35.260 breaking ranks now. Yeah. O'Toole's been ridiculously spineless. And I mean, that's what cost him the

00:14:40.120 federal election. I won't make any bones about it. He's, he's, he's got a spine of jelly. He backed

00:14:45.000 down on the carbon tax. He backed down on the firearms promises. And now he won't make a stand

00:14:50.680 on this. Guys, if we want Trudeau, we'll vote for Trudeau. If you're not presenting anything

00:14:54.040 different, might as well get the one with better hair. And it's just absurd and he's not helping

00:14:59.600 himself whatsoever. I mean, nobody's expecting him to be sitting on the hood of one of the trucks

00:15:03.020 waving a flag, but you can at least say, you know, that you understand why these people are

00:15:07.620 concerned and you support their using the right to go out and, and, and demonstrate against what

00:15:12.600 they feel are unfair government controls. You could just say that, you see, I just did. And he

00:15:16.120 won't do it. And it's just, he's showing himself as weaker and weaker. And when we see his MPs,

00:15:20.560 such as a Polly Evans from Alberta, one's coming out strongly in support of this, I'm certain would

00:15:24.960 be in defiance of orders from the leader's office. I suspect that party's having some very strong

00:15:31.120 internal issues over this. Yeah. Especially like Martin, uh, Martin Shields, he said, um, he's going

00:15:38.180 to wait in Ottawa for the trucks to show up. I think he was one of the first ones, Pierre Polyev,

00:15:42.820 likewise. Uh, I think Glenn Motts too, if I'm not mistaken, came out in support of the truckers.

00:15:47.760 And this sort of happened in the afternoon in between Aaron O'Toole's catastrophic, um, earlier

00:15:54.840 in the day, press conference to his bizarre appearance on Evan Solomon's show in the evening.

00:16:00.360 Um, and even then it didn't even seem like this pressure from within his own caucus, it didn't even

00:16:07.920 then push Aaron O'Toole in the right direction. What's going on there? I don't know. I mean,

00:16:13.780 as we saw just in my own writing, Foothills just released a call for a leadership, uh, review of

00:16:18.920 O'Toole. Uh, the dissent, I mean, they, they've got a wishy-washy leader and the time's ticking on

00:16:23.440 the next election. So, uh, I, I think the unofficial, we know how that works in, in political parties,

00:16:28.240 the unofficial campaigns and jockeying is already happening behind closed doors. And now it's not,

00:16:32.940 uh, it'll lead to a point where they're not only going to defy him a little, there's going to be

00:16:36.040 efforts to undercut him from within. So if he doesn't show some, some direction and some

00:16:40.400 leadership, we're going to see this party start really, uh, imploding again and,

00:16:43.540 and, uh, pushing for a new leader. Yeah. Uh, and we're going to see, I think some

00:16:48.060 vote splits continue to cost the conservatives ridings. I mean, just in Alberta, just the sheer

00:16:55.720 shift of votes that were, you know, conservatives in previous years, they had been winning by,

00:17:03.220 you know, they had been taking home about 70 to 80% of the vote. We saw that shift down to like 50,

00:17:08.900 65. So, I mean, continued frustration with the conservative party is showing up, um, in the

00:17:15.600 ballot box. Um, speaking of time running out on elections, let's talk a little bit about Jason

00:17:21.740 Kenny because he's come out in support of the truckers, which is great, except for the fact

00:17:28.640 that in Alberta, because of Jason Kenny's vaccine passport by another name so that he can sleep at

00:17:33.980 night, a trucker who hauls all day, cannot walk into a pub after decking off his load and have a

00:17:44.100 beer and a burger without participating in Jason Kenny's biomedical police state. And I know I'm

00:17:49.780 being hyperbolic there, but it is ridiculous to hear a politician say, these are unjust vaccine

00:17:56.280 mandates against truckers. Let me see your VAX card before you have a beer after work.

00:18:00.860 Yeah. He's trying to suck and blow at the same time on the issue. And I, I mean, I, I am happy 0.98

00:18:06.200 though, that at least he is coming out as a, as a, you know, conservative leader and being outright

00:18:10.760 unabashed in support with the, uh, the truckers themselves. So I'll take what good I can with it.

00:18:16.080 Maybe he's starting to build the framework to start, hopefully come out and say, you know what,

00:18:19.860 we don't need these passports anymore. Vaccines aren't started stopping the spread. It's just

00:18:23.920 hindering businesses and commerce and, and we're going to pull out of it. He's in a tough spot. I mean,

00:18:28.200 I, I've been very critical of Premier Kenny, but you know what he would face if he lifted the

00:18:32.600 passport mandate. Uh, people will go haywire and, uh, I still think he should do it, but he's got to

00:18:38.860 be careful on how he goes about it. Yeah. I think maybe the convoy is the off ramp for him and Premier

00:18:46.980 Scott Moe who have both said, you know, we, we think this mandate is, as you say, a hindrance to

00:18:52.640 commerce and unnecessary. Maybe this is that thing that gets them out of their own vaccine

00:18:59.040 passport, because how do you roll it back now? Some people are happily participating in the

00:19:06.400 segregation and they're happy to be part of the privileged medical class. Other people who are

00:19:11.440 vaccinated are objecting to it because they don't want to be a cog in the machinery of segregation.

00:19:17.160 And then there are just this other chunk of the population that are just stuck at home.

00:19:22.500 I think, I think, and I hope that the groundswell of support for the truckers against this sort of

00:19:30.400 stuff, I hope it will embolden some better minded politicians to start do the right, start to do the

00:19:38.480 right thing and roll some of these measures back. Exactly. We just hope to maintain some optimism. I mean,

00:19:43.560 again, this whole thing taking off like this, we haven't seen a pushback like this since the

00:19:48.540 beginning of the pandemic. And I hope that this trucking, you know, convoy is just the beginning

00:19:53.020 of what'll be more and more activities and efforts pushing back saying that's enough. We got to get

00:19:57.580 back to life as normal. Now, I think one of the reasons that truckers, especially long haul truckers,

00:20:02.900 are so resistant to the vaccine mandate is that some of them have been going to the United States,

00:20:09.220 particularly the southern United States, where COVID has not been a thing in a very long time.

00:20:15.260 And then just, you know, following the science, it seems to change according to how many kilometers

00:20:22.900 you clock on your odometer. They come back to Canada, and they end up experiencing the tyranny of

00:20:29.380 Justin Trudeau and some of their premiers. And so they've seen how the other side lives, but so have

00:20:34.020 you. And you recently got back from the United States. Tell us what the state of COVID was like

00:20:41.100 and tell us where you went. So we get a good taste of just sort of the difference between Canada and

00:20:46.960 the United States. Sure. I was on a 10 day road trip. I went through five states. We drove all the

00:20:51.660 way from Alberta down to actually Yuma and the border. We popped into Mexico as well, actually,

00:20:56.040 and Algodones for some dental work, which is a separate story. But aside, I mean, you could tell the

00:21:01.940 pandemic was going, you'd see masks here and there. But aside from that, you wouldn't even know what was

00:21:05.880 happening. As long as I didn't turn on CNN, I wouldn't even know there was a pandemic. I mean,

00:21:10.380 you'd see, again, the sprinkling of masks and you see hand sanitizers entering stores. But

00:21:14.920 that was it. And it was a choice. And there was no such thing as a passport. I didn't have to prove

00:21:19.300 vaccination to go into any restaurant. There was no ridiculous plastic barriers between seating

00:21:24.220 or any of this stuff that we're seeing up here, all of this garbage that's been normalized in 0.98

00:21:29.500 Canada. And that's what I really wanted to get out when I wrote a column on it. Like, guys, you 0.77

00:21:32.540 don't understand. You don't have to live like this. And people aren't in other areas. If they

00:21:37.500 could realize, as you said, the truckers realize it, they see it. If more Canadians would find out,

00:21:42.120 the world isn't ending down there. They're not stacking bodies like cordwood. They're actually

00:21:45.460 living and smiling at each other. And it was very nice. It was a nice break from up here and in this

00:21:51.140 bizarre masked world of pandemic restrictions.

00:21:54.440 Yeah, I think Scott Moe, the other day, he said, you know, the restrictions, they haven't

00:22:01.220 done anything really tangible. They haven't really done anything good. But simultaneously,

00:22:06.120 he's not lifting them. Like he's resisting putting on more, which I guess is as good as

00:22:12.660 it gets.

00:22:13.260 It's less bad.

00:22:14.320 It's less bad. I mean, politicians have a tendency to just go in the wrong direction,

00:22:18.720 generally speaking, anyways. So he's resisted putting on, you know, more restrictions to deal

00:22:24.020 with the Omicron sniffles. But he's not repealing the restrictions he has in place,

00:22:29.980 even though he admits that they aren't working. I don't know how we get out of this.

00:22:37.240 We have to change public opinion. I mean, that's what drives these guys. And unfortunately,

00:22:42.300 we have our, again, our legacy media, you know, running leading polls and putting out crap like 0.95

00:22:47.420 saying that a quarter of Canadians want to jail the unvaccinated. And they're dividing us. 0.88

00:22:51.520 They're scaring people. They're upsetting people. And unfortunately, they've basically got,

00:22:57.740 I mean, these politicians are always running internals. And they know there's a majority

00:23:01.280 that don't want to back off on these mandates. And it's sick. But that's where, you know,

00:23:05.900 people have to change that minority into, or majority into a minority, and the politicians

00:23:10.080 will follow. But right now, even if they themselves want to roll those mandates back,

00:23:14.360 they know they'll pay a terrible political price for it.

00:23:16.640 Yeah, I think there's a lot of people out there in the world who've never actually done anything

00:23:21.340 worthwhile for another person. And so when the TV is telling them, you're saving lives by wearing a

00:23:27.900 mask, getting your vaccine and scolding people for going the wrong way in the grocery store.

00:23:33.120 They don't want to let go of that unearned sense of heroism, right? They want to really,

00:23:39.280 the pandemic is making them the good person they actually never were.

00:23:43.200 Yeah. And they don't trust us with personal choice. Like Jane and I hit a quilt shop in Utah.

00:23:48.840 It shows, you know, the high party life we had on our trip there. But it was an unusual spot. It was

00:23:53.460 very busy and crowded, actually. And we realized when we got in that almost everybody in it was

00:23:57.360 masked. So you know what? We grabbed a mask at the front because people were looking uncomfortable.

00:24:01.240 It wasn't forced, but it was just a courtesy. Fine. If you guys are more comfortable with this mask

00:24:04.400 and it's your private property, I'll put one on. And you know what? If I was coughing and gagging

00:24:08.820 and sniffling that morning, I wouldn't be going out and around people. I don't need mandates to tell

00:24:12.620 me these things. Common courtesy and decency does these things for me. And most people have it.

00:24:17.740 Yeah. I mean, we've made it through flu seasons, immemorial, likewise with cold seasons,

00:24:22.820 with people being respectful, not coughing into their hand and then touching everything in the

00:24:27.240 grocery store. I generally think people don't do those things. There's always the one weirdo,

00:24:32.300 but that those are everywhere. Those are also the same people who pull down their mask to pick

00:24:36.040 their nose and then touch the crap dinner. You see that too. So much for my breakfast now. 1.00

00:24:42.000 Now, Corey, I know you've got a tight timeline and so do I. So why don't you tell us about

00:24:47.500 Triggered, your new show? When does it air and what do you hope to accomplish with it?

00:24:52.900 Sure. Well, I mean, it airs five days a week here in Alberta at 1130 AM until

00:24:57.620 one o'clock PM out in Standard Time. And it's live. Like that's the hard thing, but what inspired us,

00:25:04.960 I mean, a lot of us grew up with talk radio. It was a large part of our political growing and

00:25:08.860 learning. And talk radio, like so much of the other mainstream media, has just gone to crap. 0.99

00:25:13.080 They're cowardly. There's no hosts who take on strong issues or get themselves triggered and 0.99

00:25:18.000 worked up. It's just news reading practically nowadays. So we thought we can fill that void.

00:25:22.380 This is the digital world. We can have a live production with live guests, interactivity with

00:25:26.680 the commenters and things like that. So we've been developing that show here at the Western Standard.

00:25:30.680 And yeah, so far it's been going really good. So we're carrying on with it.

00:25:35.020 So where can people access that? Because I think you're filling a huge hole left by Dave

00:25:41.040 Rutherford a very long time ago.

00:25:42.860 Yeah, we really miss him. And that's some of that inspiration. Or even Danielle, you know,

00:25:46.140 Smith, she was doing very well while she was there. And she basically got driven out because

00:25:49.260 of how horrible it's gotten. And if you go to westernstandardonline.com, of course,

00:25:53.140 you can see paths to it. We have our, when we stream, it goes to our YouTube channel,

00:25:56.920 our Rumble channel, our Facebook page, all at the same time. You just have to go to any of those

00:26:02.040 channels and search for Western Standard and you'll find our channel. And yeah, the show will

00:26:06.100 come on live. And of course, if you can't catch it live, the show stays up there. You can watch it

00:26:10.220 later at your leisure.

00:26:11.640 Oh, that's awesome. I'm so glad that you're doing that work. Again, there's just a huge void in talk

00:26:17.960 radio in Alberta. Everybody went woke and then went broke and then they got fired, which is fine by me.

00:26:26.160 And you guys are filling the void and Candace is. And it's just great to see the alternative media.

00:26:31.580 You know, that's the only thing leaving the legacy media hanging around is people thinking

00:26:34.740 there's nowhere else to go. And they're finding out, no, there is somewhere else to go. And we

00:26:37.920 can see it. They're declining and good. They deserve it.

00:26:41.320 Yeah. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. 1.00

00:26:44.640 Thanks so much for coming on the show. Best of luck in your new show. And hopefully we'll have

00:26:50.400 you back on again very, very soon.

00:26:52.180 Thanks, Sheila. Always good to talk to you.

00:26:53.540 Thanks.

00:26:56.160 I'm very excited for Corey's new show, Triggered. I've caught a couple episodes of it so far

00:27:09.540 and it does that thing that conservative talk radio used to do, at least here in Alberta. And that

00:27:15.000 was provide a counterbalance to the homogeneity of the mainstream media landscape here, particularly

00:27:21.720 in print media, where everything is owned by one company, PostMedia. Now, if you'd like

00:27:27.480 to support our independent journalism on the Trucking Convoy, as we do have a reporter, Mocha

00:27:33.240 Bezergin, completely embedded inside of it to bring you the other side of the story, the

00:27:38.300 side of the story the mainstream media doesn't want you to see about just how normal and reasonable

00:27:43.280 the truckers are and how normal and reasonable the supporters of the Convoy are, please visit

00:27:48.760 convoyreports.com. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning

00:27:54.380 in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week. And as always,

00:27:59.780 remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

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Rebel News Podcast - January 27, 2022

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Cutting through the trucker convoy media lies with Cory Morgan

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