Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Kian Simone's first feature film is 'Trucker Rebellion： The Battle for Coutts'

00:00:00.000 From working in a warehouse in Toronto to becoming an Alberta documentary filmmaker with a sold-out

00:00:06.660 premiere, Kian K2 Simone joins me tonight to, I guess, explain his meteoric rise to

00:00:15.200 successful documentarian. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 You know, I think one of the very unique things we do here at Rebel News is that

00:00:41.620 we often don't hire people with journalism backgrounds, but we hire people with a certain

00:00:48.740 skill set, but more importantly, a certain work ethic and a certain mindset. Do you believe in

00:00:56.360 freedom? Do you believe in tolerating other viewpoints? And do you believe so often in

00:01:02.860 fighting for the little guy and telling their stories when everybody else seems to be lying

00:01:08.260 about them? And that is exactly what my friend and colleague Kian K2 Simone has done in his brand new

00:01:16.620 documentary movie. It's called Trucker Rebellion, the story of the Kutz blockade and the very first

00:01:22.720 showing happening Thursday, May 26th at Canyon Meadows Cinema in Calgary is already completely

00:01:31.180 sold out. Actually, if you want to get your tickets for the second showing because there was such intense

00:01:38.420 demand for the opportunity for people to see this documentary in person, we had to bring in a

00:01:45.240 second showing. You can get your tickets at truckerdocumentary.com. Now, I wanted to have

00:01:53.060 Kian on the show because his story is so incredible. He recently graduated from film school. He had

00:02:01.120 unbeknownst to him gone to school with some of the people who are already working at Rebel News,

00:02:06.860 and he just couldn't take what was happening in Ontario with regard to the lockdown. So he

00:02:15.720 somehow, well, not somehow, but he got a job with us, packed his bags, moved to Calgary like that. He

00:02:24.240 just made this life-changing decision. And since then, he's been telling the stories of the normal people

00:02:31.380 being hurt by the lockdown and the people who stood up and resisted the lockdown, like Pastor Art

00:02:37.660 Poloski and like the truckers who blockaded the border at Kutz. So Kian joins me tonight to talk about

00:02:44.760 his trucker documentary, but he also joins me tonight to discuss his other documentary project. It's a

00:02:51.580 documentary series that he's created with Rebel News UK correspondent, Lewis Brackpool, wherein they

00:03:00.540 expose the World Economic Forum's Great Reset. So please enjoy this interview I recorded with my

00:03:08.340 friend and colleague, Kian K2 Simone, yesterday morning.

00:03:12.240 On January 29th, truckers began a blockade at the Kutz-Sweetgrass International border crossing

00:03:33.720 to show supportive solidarity with the Freedom Convoy to Ottawa. They, like millions of Canadians,

00:03:42.240 of vaccine mandates and saw that now was the time to stand.

00:03:48.120 Kian K2 Simone and myself, Sid Vizard, were embedded within this blockade from the moment

00:03:53.040 we arrived until the very end.

00:03:59.360 On May 26th, we'll be bringing you our exclusive coverage from the inside with our new documentary,

00:04:04.620 Trucker Rebellion, the story of the Kutz blockade.

00:04:10.500 To watch Trucker Rebellion, the story of the Kutz blockade, head to truckerdocumentary.com.

00:04:16.500 Not only will you be able to view it there and donate to our independent journalism, you'll

00:04:22.500 also be able to buy tickets for a live viewing in theatre as we premiere this exclusive documentary

00:04:28.000 with members of our Rebel team in none other than Calgary, Alberta.

00:04:42.100 So joining me now from his home office for now in Calgary is my friend and successful documentary

00:05:00.920 filmmaker, Kian Simone.

00:05:02.980 Kian, thanks for joining me on the show.

00:05:03.980 Hello, Sheila.

00:05:04.980 Thanks for having me.

00:05:05.980 Always a blessing to be on here.

00:05:07.980 Oh, buddy.

00:05:08.980 Thank you.

00:05:09.980 Now, I wanted to have you on the show because you're just ripping it up out there. 1.00

00:05:15.980 And before I get into the things that you're working on, and I know we've talked about this

00:05:20.980 before when you were on the show before, but your journey to Rebel News and then to the

00:05:26.480 place where you are now within the company, it's kind of interesting, but it's also the story

00:05:31.600 of all of us who work at Rebel News.

00:05:34.120 We just sort of really have a story to tell inside of us.

00:05:39.140 And Ezra Levent just plucks us out of obscurity and lets us, you know, he sees potential in

00:05:45.000 so many people that maybe they don't see in themselves.

00:05:47.760 And so why don't you tell us how you came to be a Rebel?

00:05:52.460 Yeah, actually, I give a lot of credit to that of what we famously call K1. 0.99

00:05:57.620 Yeah.

00:05:57.860 Um, he had the same name as me, Kian, so I would, uh, my dad showed me his work and I

00:06:02.660 was like, I want to do that.

00:06:04.360 Like, I think I can do that.

00:06:06.420 And I kind of just went through it in my head and I was like, well, I'm not really comfortable

00:06:10.020 on camera, but I'm really good with one.

00:06:13.780 And, uh, I'm, I find myself to be a creative person and I figured I'd, uh, give it a venture.

00:06:19.120 So I started doing things on my own.

00:06:21.640 And at the time I was working in a warehouse at Leon's, I was like, screw this.

00:06:25.680 I can't do this anymore.

00:06:26.920 So I started looking for jobs, looking for work and camera or just anywhere in the industry.

00:06:31.740 And, uh, I saw that Lincoln and Mocha worked at Rebel and I went to school with them.

00:06:36.260 I was in their class in college and I never spoke a word to either of them.

00:06:40.420 Never.

00:06:40.920 Not once.

00:06:41.380 Like not even a hello.

00:06:43.280 And, uh, I just messaged him.

00:06:44.820 I was like, Hey, do you remember me to Lincoln?

00:06:47.320 And he's like, yeah, man, how's it going?

00:06:48.680 And I'm like, really good, dude.

00:06:49.980 I just jumped right into it.

00:06:50.900 I was like, dude, get me a job.

00:06:52.720 I was like, just get me in.

00:06:53.960 And it's, it just started from right there.

00:06:56.240 He talked to, uh, Efron and boom, I'm in.

00:07:00.980 But all this weird, I know it is so weird.

00:07:03.900 Um, and all of this sort of unfolded in Ontario, but now you're in Alberta.

00:07:07.420 So how did that happen?

00:07:09.000 Yeah.

00:07:09.500 So, uh, I was always looking at it.

00:07:11.480 Um, I was living with my dad at the point, uh, you know, we're just living together, two

00:07:15.600 guys, it's, uh, it's super fun, but it's not sustainable and I can't bring a girl home.

00:07:19.660 So I was, uh, with my girlfriend now fiance.

00:07:22.420 Um, and I was like, we got to do something.

00:07:24.240 We got to figure something out.

00:07:25.380 And we're looking in Toronto at, to rent.

00:07:27.700 And it's just not possible.

00:07:29.080 You're looking at like $2,500 for someone's basement.

00:07:32.200 That looks like they lock people up inside of it.

00:07:35.400 I'm not doing that. 0.52

00:07:36.640 I'd rather live with my dad and be a weirdo.

00:07:40.000 So, but, uh, they locked up my Walmart in my small town of Bradford, Ontario.

00:07:45.960 They, uh, you couldn't buy non-essential items, which is closed.

00:07:49.180 I don't buy clothes at Walmart, but, uh, you couldn't.

00:07:52.920 So I was like, I'm out of here.

00:07:54.280 And the next day I said, I'm moving to Calgary.

00:07:57.120 And the day after that, I moved.

00:07:58.480 I asked my girlfriend, I was like, you want to come with me?

00:08:01.080 She said, sure.

00:08:02.180 We got a place on the way out.

00:08:05.340 Like while we were driving, we're looking at apartments.

00:08:07.800 It was just, you didn't have anywhere to go.

00:08:11.820 You just decided wherever I go, it's got to be better than here.

00:08:15.760 And ended up in Calgary.

00:08:17.600 Calgary is, I've always wanted to live in Alberta.

00:08:19.740 That's my favorite, favorite place.

00:08:21.200 I've been here twice before, before this.

00:08:23.100 And, uh, it's the people that brought me here, not just the prices of the, the apartments.

00:08:27.960 It's the people it's, you walk down and people actually smile at you, which you don't get

00:08:31.900 in Toronto unless you have something on your face.

00:08:33.860 Now, uh, ever since you got to, uh, to Calgary, we just sort of threw you right into everything.

00:08:45.760 I think your first week on the job, or maybe even your first day on the job, we had you

00:08:49.720 sleeping in pastor Art Poloski's church because we thought the cops were going to break in.

00:08:55.400 And it's so funny.

00:08:57.140 We, I was supposed to start on May 3rd and our, uh, our COO, Eten messaged me.

00:09:02.200 He said, uh, you want to work on the first?

00:09:04.380 I was like, well, yeah, I'd love to.

00:09:06.040 It's a Saturday.

00:09:06.920 He's like, okay, uh, go to this church.

00:09:08.800 And he sent me the location.

00:09:10.080 I knew nothing about the situation.

00:09:12.100 You know, like I, I've just, I was in a different world and I was like, okay.

00:09:16.400 Um, I go there and there's a huge protest at the church and I'm meeting Art Poloski for the

00:09:20.460 first time.

00:09:20.840 I was like, wait, I have seen you.

00:09:22.740 This is five minutes from my house. 0.99

00:09:23.980 What the heck?

00:09:24.880 And then, uh, yeah.

00:09:26.060 So it's three days after that where, um, I was sleeping in the church.

00:09:31.280 What was it?

00:09:31.680 Two days, two nights, you know, it's an experience I'll never forget.

00:09:35.920 It's, uh, it wasn't the best experience.

00:09:38.360 It was the best in different ways and journalistic ways, but I think, uh, human rights wise, it

00:09:44.620 was freezing on the floor.

00:09:48.680 I just remember that and thinking, what are we doing?

00:09:51.800 What are we doing to this kid?

00:09:53.540 But he seemed so eager.

00:09:55.200 I just remember thinking he seems so eager to be there when the cops violate the rights

00:10:02.060 of this pastor that he's willing to sleep on an air mattress in a place that could or

00:10:06.920 could not be haunted.

00:10:07.840 I'm not sure.

00:10:09.940 There isn't many things that I wouldn't do to tell the truth, show the truth, show what

00:10:15.000 happens.

00:10:15.440 I think that's why I fit in.

00:10:18.420 Yeah, it is.

00:10:19.180 And I think that's a great segue, by the way, look at you being a journalist into, uh, you

00:10:25.140 know, really telling not just the other side of the story, but as you say the truth.

00:10:29.300 And I wanted to have you on because you have a brand new documentary, it world premiere

00:10:37.720 is Thursday night in Calgary, but it's about the truckers as they went to coots.

00:10:45.100 Um, some truckers went all the way to Ottawa, um, to protest Justin Trudeau's remaining COVID

00:10:52.080 mandates, but not just Justin Trudeau's, Doug Ford's, everyone's remaining COVID mandates,

00:10:56.000 but some didn't go all the way to Ottawa.

00:10:57.980 Some stayed in Alberta and went south to the border at coots.

00:11:01.480 And so did you, and I'll never forget that phone call.

00:11:06.420 It was cold.

00:11:07.200 There was a storm all across the province.

00:11:09.600 You have a really tiny car because you're from Ontario and we'll catch you up with getting

00:11:14.280 a bigger vehicle eventually.

00:11:16.500 Um, but, uh, you and Sid Fizard just jumped in your little car, drove in a snowstorm to

00:11:24.780 coots and there you stayed for weeks.

00:11:27.480 Well, you brought up the phone call.

00:11:29.340 I think I remember exactly how it went.

00:11:30.800 I think it's, uh, Sheila, I think we're going to be here for a few days.

00:11:34.900 Yeah.

00:11:35.680 Yeah.

00:11:36.320 Yeah.

00:11:37.080 You know, we, we, we went the first night and we knew we were sleeping there.

00:11:40.200 We knew that we would just go late at night and maybe the next day, just tell the entire

00:11:44.040 story because be there from the morning until the night, see what happens.

00:11:49.160 And, uh, it was that day.

00:11:51.700 Yeah.

00:11:52.100 That snowstorm hit and my car just, just blocked in by more trucks that showed up.

00:11:57.040 Yeah.

00:11:57.440 And then, uh, I w I was actually on the phone with you while someone said, Hey, there's

00:12:02.280 a bunch of RCMP coming.

00:12:03.600 Yeah.

00:12:04.200 And then just naturally you're like, okay, well, let's just wait.

00:12:06.620 Let's wait for the facts.

00:12:07.800 It's everybody says it every single time.

00:12:09.660 Right.

00:12:10.360 Yeah.

00:12:10.600 I'm like, okay.

00:12:11.040 So I calmed down a bit.

00:12:12.020 You calmed me down. 0.99

00:12:12.680 Um, and then, uh, we got off the phone and he shows me a damn video of it. 0.90

00:12:16.640 There is 47 RCMP officers with big tactical trucks on the way. 0.95

00:12:21.960 I'm like, okay, well, I can't really refute that.

00:12:24.760 And they blocked us off.

00:12:25.880 They blocked us in.

00:12:26.940 And that's when the second phone call hit where Sheila, I think we're going to be here

00:12:30.560 for a bit.

00:12:31.520 Yeah.

00:12:32.580 Yeah.

00:12:32.940 And, you know, I'm so glad you were because during the time that you guys were there,

00:12:39.080 what the politicians were saying about the truckers in particular, Jason Kenney, who got

00:12:43.980 a lot of things wrong, um, accusing the truckers of, you know, assaulting police officers and,

00:12:49.480 and, uh, closing the border sometimes when the border wasn't closed, they were letting

00:12:53.860 commercial trucks through, um, and the media was getting it wrong.

00:12:58.600 And even, you know, even the, uh, the police at some points were getting it wrong.

00:13:04.500 Um, so I, I'm so glad that you were there.

00:13:07.020 Um, tell us, you know, we sent you just there to do the news or you sent yourself and said,

00:13:12.440 Sheila, I'm going to do the news.

00:13:15.380 Um, but what inspired you while you were there, you just decided sort of on the, on the spot.

00:13:24.060 There's a bigger story here that I cannot tell in just, you know, 240 seconds of things that

00:13:32.080 are ending up on Twitter every day, which you owned this story for sure doing that, but what

00:13:37.220 made you think that there was something bigger, a bigger narrative that you had to get on the

00:13:41.020 record?

00:13:42.200 Well, I think it was just the fact that it was a border, right?

00:13:46.080 You know, agree, agree with it or not.

00:13:48.220 It is critical infrastructure and it involves two countries now.

00:13:51.100 And, uh, our counterpart in America is much bigger than us.

00:13:55.240 So when I was started, uh, just saying things on Twitter, because there was no service to

00:13:58.880 do reports and it's something that the mainstream media was on right away as well.

00:14:03.860 Uh, good for them, at least in some aspects that they did speak about it, but they weren't

00:14:08.320 speaking about it properly.

00:14:09.700 So me being there and being able to post what's happening in live time, um, it got a lot of

00:14:16.720 traction.

00:14:17.100 And I, you know, I was, my phone was just constantly vibrating and vibrating.

00:14:21.660 I'm like, what the heck is happening?

00:14:23.000 I'm like, wait, America is sharing this.

00:14:26.020 And all of America shared it.

00:14:29.560 I'm like, this is a huge story.

00:14:31.560 This is, this is, this is bigger than just a convoy.

00:14:34.040 This is.

00:14:34.860 And then that's when I was able to start talking to the actual truckers and, you know, they're,

00:14:39.800 they're talking to me.

00:14:40.480 I'm just a 23 year old kid and they're crying to me about their family, can't feed their

00:14:45.340 family.

00:14:45.760 I'm like, I can't just do a report on this and say, okay, finished.

00:14:49.200 Thanks for, uh, thanks for fighting for freedom and doing what you do.

00:14:52.980 I'm going home now.

00:14:54.700 And I think, I think from before my last point about having no service also played a big part

00:14:58.860 in, um, making this a documentary.

00:15:01.300 Cause even if we wanted to get reports up, we couldn't, there's no, no uploading anything.

00:15:05.900 You could do it.

00:15:06.800 You could upload a tweet and it would take five minutes.

00:15:09.420 So imagine trying to upload a five gigabyte video.

00:15:13.680 Right.

00:15:14.100 So it was just impossible.

00:15:15.700 And I think that it's just, sorry.

00:15:22.220 Uh, I think the Amazon there barks at everything. 1.00

00:15:28.520 Um, I think just it, it, it brings it down to earth when you make a documentary and you

00:15:34.620 say like, this is a, this is a full production.

00:15:37.260 This is, this is something that we spent a lot of time on.

00:15:39.960 We, of course we were there for me nine days and said, what, like 16, that animal.

00:15:44.280 Yeah.

00:15:45.060 Yeah.

00:15:45.400 And, uh, I think it just, it just shows the entire experience in full when, when, if we

00:15:49.780 were to do something in 12 minutes, sure people want to see it and, and it would, it

00:15:54.480 would get out there.

00:15:55.120 But I just, I just think a documentary just makes it more special for everybody involved.

00:15:59.700 And it also helps, like you said, mainstream media was getting it wrong.

00:16:03.780 Kenny was getting it wrong.

00:16:04.840 I think it was the best karma for Kenny who stood up for the truckers when they went to

00:16:09.280 Ottawa and then they were in his own backyard and it wasn't, wasn't the same.

00:16:13.840 It wasn't the same.

00:16:16.280 You know, um, when you were in coots and I asked this question because I'm a lifelong Albertan.

00:16:24.920 And so I know this about us, um, but this is the kind of thing when I see it, this is

00:16:31.080 the kind of thing that might only happen in Alberta where you see farmers who usually are

00:16:35.660 just tending the fields and they're sort of too busy feeding the world to worry about

00:16:40.080 politics and civil disobedience.

00:16:42.120 But frequently there comes a time in this province where it is the farmers who stand

00:16:47.020 up, engage in civil disobedience and make change.

00:16:50.160 It's always the normal people, the working man, saving the whole entire society from

00:16:55.660 itself sometimes.

00:16:57.880 Um, I guess I want your Ontarian perspective of, okay, so now you've got the truckers, then

00:17:04.180 the farmers show up with their heavy equipment.

00:17:07.180 And some of that stuff is, you know, three quarters of a million dollars and they're willing

00:17:11.840 to risk their heavy equipment on the border.

00:17:14.960 The province could seize it at any time, tow it away, wreck it when you tow it.

00:17:18.880 Um, they did that.

00:17:20.560 And then the cowboys show up with horses and then everybody ends up up the road in Milk

00:17:26.620 River.

00:17:27.220 It was like almost all of Southern Alberta converged in two places in Coutts and at Milk

00:17:33.260 River to protest the government they likely voted for.

00:17:38.580 I think there's two parts to that.

00:17:40.060 Um, there's, there's one extremely heated answer and one of answer of community.

00:17:45.720 I'll start with the heated one.

00:17:47.080 And it's more controversial, like I said before, agree with it or not.

00:17:49.960 It's a border, it's critical infrastructure.

00:17:52.020 It's illegal to do that, but we're speaking Alberta here.

00:17:55.980 They know to hit them in their pockets.

00:17:59.620 They know not to drive around in circles and say, we're mad.

00:18:02.200 So you're going to get that.

00:18:05.440 If you're, if you're messing around with people's lives, they're going to push back.

00:18:09.360 And I'm, I'm, I'm happy to, to report there was no violence.

00:18:12.940 Yeah.

00:18:13.340 Right.

00:18:13.740 There was no, nobody heard each other.

00:18:15.680 It was, we're going to get you in your pockets was, was what they, what they said is why they

00:18:20.180 did it.

00:18:20.520 And then the community aspect, yeah, there was what, 15,000 people in milk river at one

00:18:25.780 point.

00:18:26.120 And then over tens of thousands of people that it went for miles that, that lineup.

00:18:31.640 And it was, it was families, you know, I would walk around and I would see kids using the

00:18:36.460 firewood and building forts out of it.

00:18:38.000 Like these aren't terrorists.

00:18:40.220 No, they're not domestic terrorists.

00:18:42.400 They're not, they're not militias.

00:18:45.180 They're not, they're not these, these people that the mainstream media painted them out to

00:18:49.060 be there.

00:18:49.540 They're hardworking families.

00:18:50.860 They're hurt families and their children.

00:18:54.860 They're kids who want to have, be able to have a future.

00:18:57.660 So the parents were there fighting for it with burgers and hot dogs. 0.53

00:19:01.600 Yeah.

00:19:02.180 Burgers. 1.00

00:19:02.920 Yeah.

00:19:03.460 Burgers, hot dogs, barbecue.

00:19:04.960 And there's sort of that other side of the story where, you know, these are border communities

00:19:09.820 and they're so small that sometimes the other half of your community, the other half of the

00:19:15.900 resources your community relies on is across the border in the United States.

00:19:20.700 And instantly they're cut off from that.

00:19:22.780 Like I know, especially in Southern Manitoba, when they closed the border to the unvaccinated, 0.99

00:19:29.240 some kids in Canada played on the American hockey team because that's where the rink was.

00:19:33.320 And it cut them off from their friends.

00:19:35.460 People commuted across the border every single day and came back.

00:19:38.500 And because of the vaccine mandates at the border, they couldn't do that.

00:19:41.900 And I just want to give context to when you say 15,000 people were in Milk River on a good

00:19:48.520 day, Milk River is about 825 people.

00:19:53.640 So that shows just how much the population swelled in Southern Alberta to support the truckers.

00:20:00.280 And I think that played a real role in Jason Kenney being shown the door because that was

00:20:06.040 one of the, it still remains one of the most, if not the most conservative place in the entire

00:20:11.960 country, that Southern Alberta section.

00:20:14.460 People settled it for freedom.

00:20:16.100 They settled it.

00:20:17.340 They came there so that they didn't have the government telling them what to do.

00:20:20.620 And now the government was not only telling them what to do, but dividing them from their

00:20:24.680 friends and neighbors based on the vaccine mandate.

00:20:27.900 And I think that's why so many people just said, you know what?

00:20:31.660 They are breaking the law, but this is civil disobedience.

00:20:34.640 They're doing it peacefully.

00:20:35.460 And I want to throw my name in my face to support them.

00:20:39.100 And I was speaking to one guy on my second last day there, and he was new.

00:20:44.140 He snuck in past the border, sorry, past the blockade in Milk River.

00:20:50.180 I was like, where are you from?

00:20:51.500 He's new.

00:20:53.260 Just curious of where people are coming from.

00:20:55.420 He said Grand Prairie.

00:20:56.860 Yeah.

00:20:57.160 It's a long drive.

00:20:57.940 Holy cow. 0.89

00:20:58.460 I'm new here.

00:20:59.180 I'm like, isn't that like 11 hours away?

00:21:00.920 He's like, give or take.

00:21:01.740 Yeah.

00:21:02.540 He's like, you just came down here.

00:21:04.020 He's like, yeah, I saw you on Twitter and I wanted to come show my support for the truckers.

00:21:11.520 Oh my God.

00:21:13.680 Yeah.

00:21:14.100 11 hours.

00:21:15.200 I was like, okay, that's impressive.

00:21:18.700 Yeah.

00:21:19.720 Now we should tell everybody the name of your documentary and how they can get tickets.

00:21:24.980 The first showing has sold out through just overwhelming response from people who want

00:21:31.340 to be a part of the world premiere.

00:21:33.260 So we have a second showing.

00:21:36.320 So tell people how they can get those tickets.

00:21:39.020 And I want to, I've seen the documentary a couple of times already, and there's footage

00:21:44.200 in there that no matter how closely people follow your coverage at Coots and Sid's coverage

00:21:50.700 at Coots, there's footage that they have not seen yet.

00:21:54.260 Compelling, beautiful footage that never made it into a news story because those have to be

00:22:00.920 quick and snappy.

00:22:01.680 Uh, so if they want to see, as they say, the full story, the only way to get it is in

00:22:06.700 this documentary.

00:22:08.260 Yeah.

00:22:08.620 If we have all the negotiations in there, we're, we're journalists inside of an RCMP

00:22:13.300 negotiations.

00:22:13.960 Like how freaking cool is that?

00:22:16.480 Um, yeah.

00:22:17.380 So we have all that stuff.

00:22:18.240 Yeah.

00:22:18.380 Like a lot of stuff from milk river.

00:22:19.780 And if you want to come see the second show, June 1st in Calgary, Alberta, go to trucker

00:22:24.000 documentary.com.

00:22:25.060 Um, I think it's playing at the Canyon Meadows cinemas and, uh, yeah, I'm excited.

00:22:32.080 Yep.

00:22:32.240 So we will also, for those people who are curious, you will be there.

00:22:37.480 Uh, Sid Fizzard will be there.

00:22:39.180 He was also at the border blockade.

00:22:41.000 Adam Sose will be there.

00:22:41.920 He was over at, uh, milk river.

00:22:44.240 Milka Bezergin will be there.

00:22:45.680 He was also over at milk river.

00:22:47.720 Uh, and we've got trucker lawyer, Chad Williamson and his trucker lawyer sideburns.

00:22:52.240 They're going to be there.

00:22:54.200 I'm most excited for him to come.

00:22:55.940 You know, it's, it's, he's, he's the perfect guy for the job.

00:22:58.960 By the end of his time at the blockade, he did look like he should be in a Western.

00:23:05.900 Like he rolled down there looking like a lawyer, a cat dad.

00:23:09.180 And he left there looking like a, a cowboy.

00:23:12.040 That was for sure.

00:23:14.220 Um, now that's not the only thing you've been working on.

00:23:18.080 You've really, again, from a Leon's warehouse.

00:23:22.240 To a born again, Albertan to, uh, a viral successful documentary filmmaker, uh, tell

00:23:29.640 us about your docu series with our UK reporter.

00:23:33.080 So this is sort of like an international docu series, um, transatlantic, I guess, docu

00:23:38.760 series with our UK reporter, Lewis Brackpool about the world economic forum, which I think

00:23:44.540 is absolutely timely.

00:23:46.180 People are really hungry for this information.

00:23:47.820 Um, because as people may know, the world economic forum is underway right now in Davos,

00:23:54.020 Switzerland.

00:23:54.320 We have a rebel news team that's there, um, right now.

00:23:57.820 And people can follow all of their reports at W E F reports.com and support their, their

00:24:04.560 trip there.

00:24:05.160 But in advance of that, you and Lewis were digging down into just how truly sinister this

00:24:12.220 organization really is while they paint themselves as just these benevolent keepers of humanity.

00:24:18.560 Yeah.

00:24:19.140 Well, uh, it's actually kind of a funny story how it started.

00:24:21.680 Uh, it actually all started out with our web editor, Dave.

00:24:25.140 Um, we were talking one night, we were just playing video games, just doing what we do.

00:24:29.000 And, uh, you just, I sent a picture of the book COVID, the great reset written by Klaus Schwab.

00:24:34.820 And I was like, Hey, I got that book.

00:24:36.140 My dad got it for me.

00:24:37.060 I never opened it.

00:24:38.220 I was, I'm not touching that thing until later.

00:24:40.620 Like I just got a lot to deal with right now.

00:24:42.520 So I just had it on the shelf and, uh, he's like, yeah, we should give it a read.

00:24:46.840 I was like, okay, well read through it a little bit and yeah, there's, this is cool.

00:24:51.600 And Dave's like, yeah, we should do something on this.

00:24:54.940 So it, it, that sat for a few months, you know, we're, we're busy.

00:24:58.140 We, that's a, it's a big project.

00:25:01.440 And we, we just started it two months ago.

00:25:03.880 We just started picking away at it.

00:25:05.860 And then, uh, Lewis expresses want to, to be a part of something, um, bigger than just

00:25:11.120 reports, uh, just to do on the side, you know, if we have an extra hour, um, instead

00:25:15.780 of what doing, what guys do play video games or something, let's read a book and put down

00:25:20.880 something.

00:25:21.980 And, uh, I think I just used all the skills that I've learned over the past two years

00:25:25.820 at rebel.

00:25:26.220 And I was like, well, I'll produce this thing.

00:25:28.380 I'll, uh, I'll lay a foundation of the script and Lewis was like, yeah, well, I'll, I'll,

00:25:33.780 I'll read the book too.

00:25:34.580 And we'll get, we'll get some ideas down.

00:25:36.200 So all three of us just kind of put our heads in and, uh, just honestly, Sheila, I gotta be

00:25:43.900 honest with you.

00:25:44.400 We spent more time reading the book and on the script.

00:25:46.780 I did that video in like three days over a weekend.

00:25:50.660 And it wasn't supposed to be like this big thing where it's just like, yeah, let's do

00:25:54.040 something special for our rebel viewers.

00:25:55.900 Let's just show them what the great reset is.

00:25:58.980 And, uh, then Dave's like, well, let's do a docu-series.

00:26:01.540 Let's go through all of them.

00:26:02.560 Let's go through all the resets.

00:26:03.780 I'm like, okay, let's see how the first one goes.

00:26:06.660 And then, uh, I did it over that weekend.

00:26:08.500 I was like, I think this is really good.

00:26:10.900 Um, I sent it over and everyone's like, yep, this is it.

00:26:14.460 This is the thing.

00:26:15.920 And then, so we, we waited a month.

00:26:18.360 That was like a month ago.

00:26:19.300 We waited a month to say, well, might as well wait for the world economic forum, get it out

00:26:23.080 the day before and, uh, that's, that's when everybody will be wanting it.

00:26:29.260 And yeah, like you said, it went kind of viral.

00:26:31.660 Yeah.

00:26:32.220 Happy with it.

00:26:33.160 Yeah.

00:26:33.420 And you're getting some international attention over it, which I think is incredible.

00:26:38.620 Um, but at the same time, you aren't, this is not really, you know, the other side might

00:26:46.720 accuse you of, oh, this is a manipulative hit piece.

00:26:49.600 You actually are just using their own words and the things that they say, the world economic

00:26:54.080 forum and Klaus Schwab, the founder of it, and everybody's who's involved, I call them

00:26:58.940 the vampires familiars of Klaus Schwab, um, you're really only using their public statements.

00:27:05.940 They have not tried to hide any of this stuff.

00:27:08.440 You're using their public statements and just showing people, this is what they're saying

00:27:12.780 they're going to do.

00:27:14.080 You need to know this.

00:27:15.480 You, you sort of just lay it on the viewer and the viewer can decide how to interpret the

00:27:20.920 information you're giving them.

00:27:21.820 The hardest part, you know, wasn't the hardest part was getting this, getting it all into

00:27:28.620 25 minutes.

00:27:29.520 The easy part was literally typing out Klaus Schwab and then blank, whatever you want to

00:27:34.660 know.

00:27:35.260 And then there's a, there's a, there's a clip of him saying it.

00:27:38.520 There's one thing in the documentary that isn't in the book and nowhere on the world economic

00:27:42.200 forum site.

00:27:42.940 And that is that Klaus Schwab started the world economic forum from a CIA backed Harvard program

00:27:49.380 that Henry Kissinger was running and it's true.

00:27:52.820 And then all you got to do, Klaus Schwab, Harvard, and there's a clip of him saying it.

00:27:58.960 Yeah.

00:27:59.880 So it's, it was really just the editing was just the tedious part of putting it together

00:28:05.540 in a story that makes sense.

00:28:07.120 Everything else was just, just like you said, they've said it.

00:28:11.120 Yeah.

00:28:11.640 And it's in the book.

00:28:12.980 He wrote about it.

00:28:14.140 It's not a conspiracy.

00:28:15.040 There's no hit piece.

00:28:15.780 Yeah.

00:28:16.700 You used what they've said and just showed the world.

00:28:21.260 Because I think these people think that they're only talking to each other when they say these

00:28:25.520 things, you know, the elites are only talking to each other and the only people who are going 0.99

00:28:29.900 to read their stupid books are other elites and they all agree with each other. 0.99

00:28:34.260 But the normals who have to live with the consequences of their crazy ideas for society, 1.00

00:28:39.260 they think that we are not going to be interested in what they're doing.

00:28:45.360 We're happy to let them shepherd us through the next few years or I guess in perpetuity.

00:28:52.880 And they also think that even if we are outraged by the things that they are going to do to us,

00:28:57.900 that we're not smart enough to understand how they are looking out for us.

00:29:03.860 And we are not smart enough to make up our own minds about things.

00:29:07.640 Well, there's a part to that that they don't express.

00:29:11.720 And it's the part that they've admitted that they've already lost and that they're desperate.

00:29:18.620 They're going extreme.

00:29:21.080 They're out in the open with it.

00:29:22.560 2020, the Great Reset, that annual themed symposium that they had, it was out of desperation.

00:29:29.940 And it's in the book, of course, that they've admitted their loss and its complexity.

00:29:35.720 They're lost by complexity of human beings.

00:29:39.380 Everybody asks like, oh, what can we do?

00:29:42.500 You know, some people get extreme with what they want to do about it.

00:29:46.020 And we don't have to do it.

00:29:48.580 They declared a war on humanity.

00:29:52.280 And I know that's a crazy thing to say, but it's true. 1.00

00:29:54.460 They declared a war on our life and the way that we live. 0.57

00:30:00.760 And the way that we fight back is just being more human.

00:30:05.040 And they don't want that.

00:30:07.060 Our complexity of there's 7 billion people on this planet that they want to run.

00:30:10.880 There's 1% of them.

00:30:12.120 1% of the 1% goes to these meetings.

00:30:14.880 And because we're so complex and 7 billion people have different wants and needs

00:30:18.000 that they know that they can't mitigate us.

00:30:22.740 They know that they can't put us into groups.

00:30:24.600 So they'll try and they'll try and they'll try.

00:30:26.920 And they'll say, you will eat the bugs and you will live in a pod.

00:30:30.160 You will own nothing and be happy.

00:30:31.420 But we won't.

00:30:32.640 I don't think we will.

00:30:34.480 I really, I am not coming out of this like in the dark.

00:30:39.080 After doing all this research, like there's no way that it can work.

00:30:42.500 There is no way.

00:30:43.260 Well, I think that that sort of tips our hand to the things that they really want to do.

00:30:49.620 Because if you look at the things that they really want to do, so much of it is stripping

00:30:53.460 away the humanity of humankind.

00:30:57.220 Where they say, okay, well, we want to give you a microchip in your brain.

00:31:01.160 And we want to isolate you from each other.

00:31:04.480 And we want to change the way you communicate with each other, not face to face.

00:31:09.440 It's taking away.

00:31:10.580 They realize that they are up against the human will to be free.

00:31:15.040 And so what do you do?

00:31:16.560 You take away the humanity if you want to control those people.

00:31:19.940 But I think even these oligarchs, because they really are big tech or power oligarchs, they

00:31:29.460 know that every great tyranny falls because there is the human desire to be free.

00:31:36.400 It's that thing that we are inherently born with.

00:31:39.780 It's the reason we know slavery is wrong, because humans are born to be free.

00:31:46.120 That it's granted to them by virtue of being born alive, a human being.

00:31:52.360 People may find a religious viewpoint on this.

00:31:54.980 You know, you're free because you're born in the image of the creator.

00:31:59.500 Or just because you are, because you're free.

00:32:03.500 But even the oligarchs know that they are up against this thing that nobody in the history

00:32:11.280 of humanity has ever been able to control.

00:32:13.820 Well, let's look at the numbers of like how many people are on actual, actually on Twitter,

00:32:20.160 Instagram, Facebook, where all these ideas are talked about in this like kind of hive

00:32:25.220 mind of all of our consciousness that we think everybody's on there in the conversation.

00:32:29.180 But 200 million people on Twitter is actually not a lot of people.

00:32:32.560 Yeah.

00:32:33.240 And just kind of spread that out across the other platforms.

00:32:35.920 There's so many people on this earth that have an opinion, have an idea.

00:32:40.020 And like I said before, have a complexity to them that the World Economic Forum and these

00:32:43.820 people can't control.

00:32:45.240 And like you said, they have a desire to be free.

00:32:47.280 And we haven't heard them because they're not in our little echo chamber of even though

00:32:51.340 that we can fight with each other online and we can make docuseries about them and make

00:32:56.620 do reports on them and go to Davos and say, hey, like with the mic in their face.

00:33:01.460 But there's so many people in this world that they have no chance against that desire to

00:33:07.380 be free, like you said.

00:33:09.340 Now, tell us how we can find your docuseries.

00:33:12.320 The first part is out right now, how people can support your important work, because all

00:33:16.060 of your journalism is independent, unlike the mainstream media who are currently at Davos,

00:33:21.580 not reporting on the crazy, crazy things that are unfolding there.

00:33:25.480 So tell people how they can see your work and support your work, please.

00:33:29.160 Yes, it's exposethereset.com.

00:33:32.420 There you'll find the documentary, the first episode, and you'll be able to donate to even

00:33:38.180 if it's just buy me a coffee while I read the book for you, because I'll read it for you

00:33:42.360 and I'll do it for you.

00:33:44.320 I just I just ask you to watch.

00:33:46.360 Yeah, that's wonderful.

00:33:48.100 Now, before I let you go, because you are besides being an incredible documentary filmmaker,

00:33:53.300 you are also an editor at the company.

00:33:55.340 And I know you're just like me.

00:33:57.600 You're like, ah, my work is piling up.

00:33:59.160 Um, uh, tell us what sort of things you're working on next.

00:34:05.880 Actually, I think it is, um, really zeroing in on this Spirit Reset docuseries.

00:34:10.880 I think that, uh, there's five resets that we've got to go through technological, economic,

00:34:17.040 environmental, geopolitical, and societal.

00:34:19.260 There's a lot of unpack there.

00:34:20.960 Yeah.

00:34:21.760 That's, it's, it's all of, it's all the world compact into five little pillars.

00:34:26.080 So I think that's a big, uh, a big project that we've got to get into over the next coming months.

00:34:31.740 Um, there's a few more documentaries that I would like to make in the meantime.

00:34:36.560 I think, uh, okay, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll say it here.

00:34:41.180 I would like to go to Hannah for five days.

00:34:44.140 And I would like to speak to all of the people who were directly impacted by the NDP's extreme,

00:34:51.420 radical policies that took out what 15% of all jobs of this tiny town of 2,500 people

00:34:59.320 where the suicide rate spiked, where they lost.

00:35:03.520 And this is the craziest part is that, okay, they lost their biggest economical value of

00:35:09.080 this town, but there was another one.

00:35:10.740 There was a second, it was tourism.

00:35:12.940 It's a very old place to go.

00:35:14.500 And you can go there, you can go look at the mines.

00:35:16.420 You can, the now shut down mines.

00:35:18.600 You can go look at all the historical stuff at the train station there.

00:35:22.300 And then what happened two years after they shut down all the coal was COVID.

00:35:26.980 So no one's going to be a tourist in Hannah, Alberta during COVID.

00:35:31.780 Yeah.

00:35:31.860 So that's, that's gone too.

00:35:33.900 So what do they have left?

00:35:35.200 They have a hardware store and they have Nickelback.

00:35:38.100 Yeah.

00:35:39.020 I've been to the hardware store in Hannah.

00:35:41.060 The mayor owns it.

00:35:45.220 Yeah.

00:35:45.660 Yeah.

00:35:46.200 When people talk about tourism in Hannah, it's a thing.

00:35:49.580 The coal mine itself created a lake, a summer resort that everybody uses.

00:35:55.040 They use the cooling lake from the coal mine and it's this fun resort.

00:36:00.260 And because the water is warmer, uh, the fishing is awesome, but now the coal mine's gone.

00:36:07.140 I think that deserves a, I think that deserves, like I said, a special well-produced project that people can actually learn about what happened there rather than going on CBC and saying, oh yeah, they're shutting down the coal mine.

00:36:20.940 The effect of this date.

00:36:22.480 Sorry.

00:36:22.840 It's the start of a just transition.

00:36:25.320 They say, yeah, just transition into homelessness and into a sleeping bag, sleeping on the street.

00:36:30.660 Um, but you know, people might say, well, it's just Hannah.

00:36:33.940 It's just a small town with 2,500 people, but this is the war on fossil fuels and it's being replicated in cities and towns, not just all across the country, but all across the world.

00:36:42.140 Um, where outside of the urban centers, the people who do the work and the labor to support the urban centers so that you can flip on your light switch, those people are being absolutely devastated by green energy policies.

00:36:52.660 Um, they're the collateral damage in all of this.

00:36:55.220 And, uh, I think it's wonderful that our born again, Albertan would humanize this town.

00:37:00.600 Uh, K2, I'll let you go.

00:37:02.240 I'll let you get back to work.

00:37:03.440 Uh, thank you so much for the important work that you do and for advocating for Albertans.

00:37:08.060 Um, you know, it's funny that so many people from Alberta are actually from somewhere else, but like you, they fall in love with this place and, uh, our desire, like everybody else in the world to be free, um, would just, I think sometimes we fight a little harder than everybody else for that desire to be free.

00:37:25.940 And the desire to just be left alone.

00:37:27.780 Thank you.

00:37:29.980 Okay.

00:37:30.460 K2, thanks so much for coming on the show.

00:37:32.240 I can't wait to check back in with you and tell the world, uh, what you're doing next.

00:37:36.520 Thanks boss.

00:37:37.000 Thanks for having me on.

00:37:38.060 You got it.

00:37:46.040 This is the portion of the show where we let you have your say.

00:37:48.840 We're not the mainstream media, so we don't take your money and then shut you out of the conversation.

00:37:53.900 We welcome your viewer feedback.

00:37:56.280 Now, sometimes I take my viewer comments from my email and that's probably the easiest way for you to send me a comment because it lands right in my email inbox.

00:38:08.060 My email, if you would like your comment right on air is Sheila at rebel news.com.

00:38:14.580 And in the subject line, please put gun show letters so that I can easily find your comment because as you know, I probably receive hundreds of emails per day.

00:38:28.640 Anyway, this comment doesn't actually come from my email, but it comes from rumble.

00:38:34.080 Let's take a look.

00:38:35.700 It is on my interview with Morian Pools, the Dutch filmmaker.

00:38:41.320 I spoke to last week about his new documentary film, Pan Damned that is being censored by big tech.

00:38:49.680 It is available on his rumble channel if you'd like to see it for yourself.

00:38:55.140 Now, Abu Tan, I hope I'm saying that right, writes to me and says,

00:39:00.120 People must be made to realize that they have been conditioned to believe what is seen on TV.

00:39:05.520 The scarier and unbelievable it is, the more they grasp onto it in a terror reaction,

00:39:11.660 wanting to believe that a heroic person or organization has made efforts to protect them,

00:39:17.040 especially those they voted for.

00:39:19.180 Boy, that is an excellent comment.

00:39:21.840 There's a lot of tribalism happening out there.

00:39:24.300 And we actually see this in and around the vaccines.

00:39:28.020 We saw the very same people saying they would never get a vaccine developed by Trump,

00:39:35.180 publicly shaming people now for not getting vaccinated because their team now is calling

00:39:42.740 for vaccinations and forced vaccinations and mandatory vaccinations in workplaces and for travel.

00:39:50.880 Anyway, let's keep reading.

00:39:52.400 They don't want to believe they've been lied to and made a victim,

00:39:55.160 that greed rules the great powers of our nations.

00:40:00.060 This is what they refuse to do.

00:40:01.900 If they opened their eyes, opened their perspective,

00:40:04.980 they would see that they have been betrayed.

00:40:07.940 Getting them to look objectively at things is the challenge.

00:40:11.580 Getting them to realize their heroes are possibly villains is going to be quite the poison pill for most.

00:40:17.360 But the truth must be presented no matter what.

00:40:20.460 As I said in my interview with Mariah and Poole's,

00:40:24.180 it is unkind to tell people a sweet, sweet lie because it makes them feel better.

00:40:31.740 Truth is always, always the best policy.

00:40:36.220 And it is unfortunate that a lot of people just refuse to see it

00:40:40.740 because people don't like to admit that they were wrong,

00:40:44.340 that they bet on the wrong horse from the very beginning.

00:40:47.160 So they remain in their delusion so that they feel right and so that they feel smart.

00:40:52.300 But we cannot move on from everything that happened in the last two years

00:40:57.160 until there is a full accounting for what the powers that be got wrong.

00:41:04.320 And they are made to answer for the things and the damage that they did to normal people.

00:41:09.800 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:41:11.340 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:41:13.100 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:41:16.040 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:41:19.840 Thank you.

00:41:46.040 Thank you.

00:41:49.840 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - May 26, 2022

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Kian Simone's first feature film is 'Trucker Rebellion： The Battle for Coutts'

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