Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Leftists preen as Fort McMurray is threatened by wildfire, again

00:00:00.000 Well, it's fire season again here in Alberta, which means it's blame it all on climate change

00:00:19.720 season. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 If you've even been loosely paying attention to Alberta for the last decade or so, but

00:00:46.160 since always, spring means fire season. Grass fires, bushfires, forest fires. It's what the

00:00:54.160 forest does to renew itself, burns down. It's caused by lightning. It's caused largely by

00:01:01.220 human activity, but that's what happens when you plunk a bunch of people into the world's

00:01:05.680 first or second largest, depending on how you measure it. Continuous forest, you know,

00:01:10.060 the boreal forest, it encompasses so much of Alberta, including where I live, but also

00:01:15.380 Fort McMurray. Fort McMurray, Alberta had a major fire that swept through the town about

00:01:20.980 eight years ago. It burned down my guest's house and the town is sort of being licked

00:01:27.340 by flames again. People are under evacuation notice. The province is, as it generally is

00:01:36.120 this time of year, blanketed with smoke and people are taking precautions. But that also

00:01:46.060 means the ghouls of the world, the climate change hucksters are happy to take advantage of this

00:01:56.380 scary time for a lot of people to push their radical climate change agenda. One of those ghouls

00:02:04.620 is NDP MP Charlie Angus, who recently tweeted a picture of Fort McMurray with flames outside of

00:02:14.480 the city. And he said, Exxon knew in the 1980s, Imperial Oil knew in the 1980s, Shell knew in the

00:02:22.340 1980s. Their reports predicted the climate catastrophe that is upending life today. They just never bothered

00:02:27.680 to tell the people in Fort McMurray who are living with the consequences of peak CO2.

00:02:32.000 He is blaming the very people who produce the oil and gas for the fire threatening their homes.

00:02:42.200 He doesn't say, however, that it will be the oil and gas sector that will muster resources to help

00:02:49.000 save Fort McMurray one more time. He also doesn't say it is the safety training provided by the oil and gas

00:02:55.040 sector that will ensure that people, by and large, will be unscathed during the fire emergency in Fort

00:03:06.160 McMurray. It's why there was no loss of life related directly to the fire during the last major fire in

00:03:16.100 Fort McMurray. He doesn't say that it is the oil and gas sector that is bringing up resources to Fort McMurray

00:03:24.780 right now on the highways so that firefighters have a place to stay. It's never the hippies and the tree huggers

00:03:32.040 working to save these communities. They're just on the internet, blaming the communities for what could be their fate.

00:03:40.420 Without acknowledging, once again, that Fort McMurray is plunked right in the middle of the boreal forest

00:03:47.300 and the boreal forest burns. That's what it does to renew itself. They tell me to follow the science,

00:03:53.160 but they never, ever do. Joining me today is my friend, Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong and Oil and Gas World

00:04:00.500 Magazine. He's a staunch advocate for oil and gas. He's had it with Charlie Angus and he's under evacuation

00:04:06.620 notice himself. Let's hear what he has to say.

00:04:13.300 My good friend, Robbie Picard. However, he's not in his usual haunt of Fort McMurray. He's somewhere else

00:04:19.060 and he is definitely someplace else, not in his usual office. Robbie, tell me what you're doing. Where are you?

00:04:25.920 Well, I'm in, uh, I'm in Lavac, Ontario, which is a small town just outside of Sudbury.

00:04:30.980 Um, after a bit of a hiatus and, uh, a great, uh, amazing Oil and Gas World slash Oil Sand Strong

00:04:37.660 bus, I'm back on the road and, um, I'm doing maybe a little bit of advocacy, giving out stickers

00:04:43.820 and talking to regular Canadians, interviewing them to the magazine and airing their stories.

00:04:48.800 And, uh, it's kind of been really kind of refreshing. Like, uh, when I picked up the bus,

00:04:53.100 the bus has been in Sudbury for a little while, there was actually, uh, seeing the off group

00:04:58.340 that all changed. And they were, they watched the buses, they got this like secured storage

00:05:03.700 area. And I didn't realize how many people appreciated the bus. Um, and even chased down

00:05:10.840 a guy that tried to break into it, uh, throughout the course when it was parked. And it's been

00:05:16.780 really nice. And the amount of this bus alone, just the amount of talk and support that I've

00:05:22.160 received has been, uh, has been excellent.

00:05:26.120 So what are you doing with the bus? You said you're, you're doing oil and gas advocacy and

00:05:30.740 interviewing people. What do you mean by interviewing people?

00:05:34.360 So, um, I stopped along the road and I try to find people that, um, are interesting and

00:05:40.880 I tell their stories. So if it's, you know, like, uh, people that have in some ways, oil and

00:05:45.980 gas has, uh, you know, changed their lives. Still not to be able to do an oil and gas story.

00:05:49.620 I interviewed interesting people. I interviewed one guy from an antique store. One guy that

00:05:54.260 I met was worth millions and millions. And another person that, uh, she moved back to

00:05:59.060 Sudbury, retired from work in Alberta, which is interesting because Sudbury's got a minor

00:06:03.320 thing. And then my big plan is to eventually get this bus on the water. I have a few MPs

00:06:11.120 places. I can sell my merch along the way and interview people along the way. So that's essentially

00:06:16.900 what it's doing. Um, and I'm hoping to head there pretty quick, um, to a specific place

00:06:22.100 that's three, some hours north of here. Um, however, uh, you know, there, there's different

00:06:27.860 situations going on right now. So I'm a little bit kind of nimble.

00:06:33.840 Let's talk about the situations that are going on right now, because while you were out on the

00:06:37.860 road in Ontario and I re like, well, I saw you over the weekend. Yeah. You were, uh, I think one

00:06:46.180 of the most well-received speakers at our rebel news live event, as you always are. But as you and

00:06:51.880 I were sitting there, you got an alert saying you were under evacuation notice one more time

00:06:59.920 in February because of the wildfires. Tell us a little bit about that. Well, it's, you know,

00:07:04.480 I'll be honest. I'm trying to like not lose my mind. So, um, and, and, and, and as you know,

00:07:10.940 the last fire, I didn't hold any punches. I was pissed off. I was pissed off at the mayor at the time,

00:07:17.380 city and the province. And frankly, I still am this time, not as much. Um, I feel like,

00:07:24.340 so it's sort of like 2016 over again. Uh, my, my, one of my staff that works for me,

00:07:31.300 his home with his wife and his two kids is literally in the same area that my house worked

00:07:35.620 down, you know, eight weeks ago. However, um, it's a different kind of fire. And I really

00:07:41.780 truly believe they have it handled. Um, it, is there a risk? A hundred percent. Um, and the smoke

00:07:47.960 is very dark. And what it is, is that there's this kind of the new growth. It's not, the last

00:07:53.140 fire was very scary because it had these pine trees that were also right in the town. And it

00:07:58.700 kind of created this jumping effect. And that's why it went so fast. This one's more like a bush

00:08:05.020 fire, kind of like the evidence of Saskatchewan and Alberta, you don't get us worked up. It's just

00:08:08.880 so much stuff. Right. So I, I, I, you know, my, my old neighborhood where my office, Robbie

00:08:14.960 Carton is has been evacuated, but they're kind of people are still there. A lot of people have not

00:08:18.980 left. I'm not overly concerned. I am headed home so that I wanted to, you know, my staff

00:08:28.820 and, um, and, and be there to handle, you know, cause yep, a lot to do, but I'm not overly worked

00:08:34.660 up about it. I feel like our mayor and I'm not just saying this cause he's my friend. I really

00:08:38.760 believe he is a kick ass mayor. And I think they have an understanding. I do believe they've 0.97

00:08:42.840 learned from the past, but after this is over, I do think we need to really look at like building

00:08:48.720 a proper fire break around Fort McMurray. Like lots of cities have, as I travel around

00:08:53.960 the country, I've, I'm noticing a lot of cities that have been around longer than Fort McMurray

00:09:01.260 and they have better infrastructure than we do. We have a lot of stuff, but we need to

00:09:05.920 really think about how to make a community that's a bit more like, can't be susceptible

00:09:11.000 to this. Now, you know, I'm getting, I'm getting all the questions. Like you think this is

00:09:14.960 vast climate change. I still believe in my heart of hearts that the forest is meant to

00:09:20.440 burn every 20 to 30 years and burns and the burns again. If you look at other countries

00:09:27.700 around the world that have addressed their forest issues and proper forest, that's fine. But

00:09:32.780 when you put these forests around to burning, you're going to see us all look beautiful in

00:09:36.520 a couple of years. Um, so I'm not overly worked up. I'm definitely like, you know, it does bring

00:09:41.020 back memories here. I want to make sure that, uh, that everybody there is safe and okay. But I,

00:09:47.800 I'm not, you know, I'm, I'm in a weird spot right now. Cause like I, I back on the road in Ontario,

00:09:53.240 which has taken a lot longer than it was supposed to you to get the bus turned up and I need to go

00:09:57.220 home again. The last time I had the bus in Ontario, I had to go home and I thought it was coming

00:10:02.360 back in a couple of weeks and that was a year and a half later. Yeah. You know, I'm glad you

00:10:07.580 mentioned that, you know, like the, the fear mongers immediately get on like, Oh, this is climate

00:10:13.880 changed. They don't see it. And they say, you know, like this just keeps happening over and over and

00:10:19.360 over again in Canada. Yeah. Because we live in the boreal forest, which is like the world's first

00:10:24.380 or second largest continuous forest. And we have, especially in the West here, forest communities that

00:10:31.040 are plunked right in the middle of it. So of course you have these small cities in the middle

00:10:38.840 of the world's largest continuous forest. Of course, they're going to be exposed to forest fires in a

00:10:45.340 way that you don't see in other countries. And yet, of course, the scaremongers push this idea that

00:10:52.700 it's climate change, climate change, climate change, instead of just the normal cycle of the forest

00:10:56.620 that you don't see in other places without the boreal forest. Well, yeah. And, and, and, and it goes

00:11:03.060 to show you too, like one thing that like, I'm, I'm trying to be a little more level-headed than last

00:11:07.340 time, but at the same time, like, like Charlie Angus made that post and like, somehow like there, he's

00:11:13.200 like, I really don't like that guy. I think he's a giant douchebag. And I really, truly like, cannot wait 0.99

00:11:19.560 to drive my bus close to his office. I mean, it might be a little belayed now to get home, but I saw his

00:11:26.180 tweet. And I thought that was just such a, it just comes from a guy who's, you know, a lost 20

00:11:32.780 year politician. He was really never had to do real work in his life, other places. And I really

00:11:43.180 like, I, one thing I will say that I love about Ontario is the vast majority. And I'm not even

00:11:49.400 talking minorities or us and what our pipelines, they want Canada. Our GDP under, I, the liberals

00:11:58.820 did this under protest. They didn't want to do this pipeline. They had to. And I mean,

00:12:02.840 I bet you they're banking the gods right now because they're disastrous establishment of

00:12:08.580 our budget. When the Trans Mountain opened up, the GDP went up a little bit and that's some

00:12:12.660 good news. And Ontario. And, you know, when I, when I spoke in Toronto, like, you know,

00:12:17.840 it seems like I said, but it's just like, Alberta is the heart of this country and

00:12:24.040 metal oil, which feeds the arteries, feeds the entire thing. And it's really nice to see

00:12:31.220 the average Canadians and the people here at Sudbury. Sudbury is a similar town to Fort

00:12:36.640 McMurray, a very big mining town as the industry doesn't really crash on it. You know, they

00:12:41.520 always keep mines going somewhat suspicious. But everyone here supports us. So I'm hoping

00:12:47.560 that, you know, I think this fire of McMurray is going to be short lived. And then I'll get

00:12:52.540 back on the bus and I will tour. And I, I feel like, you know, I love, I love this piece

00:12:59.400 of the bus. And I stop, I talk to meetings, I have coffee with people, I interview them.

00:13:04.340 If I'm interviewing, you know, some multi-billionaire celebrity, I guess the same treatment as just,

00:13:10.320 you know, it's easy at the coffee shop there. And it's been an eye opening experience.

00:13:14.360 So, you know, um, and I, and I, you know, obviously I'm thinking about home and I'm not

00:13:18.320 worried. Like, you know, my partners with my dogs and my famous turtles, I got world famous

00:13:22.900 turtles, you know, the rest of the turtles and, uh, uh, everything's fine. And, but I, but I,

00:13:28.040 I feel good. I, I, we, we have a great mayor. We have a great fire chief. And what I love

00:13:34.940 about this round, excuse me, one for the last one, I don't see a lot of egos on the

00:13:40.420 people on the podiums. I just see, this is the update. This is what you do. This is how

00:13:45.700 we're going to help you. And the last fight was just too many, like, oh, I'm this one

00:13:51.240 and I'm this, I'm, that shit's over. Our mayors are down to earth. God, our fire chief's 0.99

00:13:57.400 good. Our, our CEO, you know, so I think they got a handle on this. Now I'm not there at

00:14:03.840 this moment. I will be probably tomorrow morning and, and, uh, see how it plays out.

00:14:09.780 But I, I, in my heart of hearts, I feel strong that we're in a good position and I trust people

00:14:14.840 there that they will do the best that they can. Um, they're on it. Like the last fire,

00:14:20.160 you know, eight years ago, you know, I, I don't believe they were on it. And we live

00:14:25.300 in a forest. I mean, and that's the reality where I live now. I would say, you know, you

00:14:32.100 could throw a baseball and tree. Like it's even now, like in that. So if we're going

00:14:37.580 to live in the forest, like you got to find a way to manage it. So it doesn't, it's, and

00:14:42.860 here's the problem, like fire happens and then it doesn't happen. And then you get all these

00:14:46.660 people like, well, I want my trees. Well, you got to look at it from a thing. And one way

00:14:51.320 how houses are made. Like, you know, when I was in Toronto, I was super impressed. They

00:14:55.160 are better at building houses in Toronto than we are in Alberta. I mean, I know

00:14:59.160 siding and why, like that's the Alberta house. So going forward, we need to build

00:15:05.100 trees and fire. Right. And I think that's something to look at in the future. Right.

00:15:09.800 Cause you know, even my house now is final side. So I mean, like, you gotta, we gotta

00:15:13.980 build fire for, and I get, you want trees in the city too. So you got flat tree, smart,

00:15:18.980 nurture the trees, make sure they grow, but you don't want a bunch of pine trees that can, you know,

00:15:24.580 like they create a castle. Yeah. I remember last time around with the NDP and power they 0.99

00:15:31.680 had leading up to the fire season, they cut egg and forestry, which covers the water bomber

00:15:38.180 contracts. They meddled in the water bomber contracts. And then the water bombers, the

00:15:42.800 guys got to pay the bills. They signed on with other provinces and it left the province in

00:15:49.620 a difficult position to elicit, uh, water bombers to deal with the fire season in 2016.

00:15:56.720 And it was terrible. I have more confidence in the provincial government now than I did then.

00:16:02.820 Yeah.

00:16:03.820 And Danielle Smith, I mean, people can say whatever they want about her, but I've never in my life

00:16:09.280 seen a politician with more balls to get stuff done. I mean, I had the privilege of sitting with

00:16:15.320 her prior to her being premier. We went to Boston a couple of years ago. And I mean, that woman is

00:16:21.800 incredible. And this is why I'm not as, uh, as I was before, as I know that my mayor is amazing.

00:16:29.240 I know our premier, it has our back. She cares about the oil industry, cares about Fort McMurray. 0.58

00:16:35.480 And I mean, she, she is fighting this chauvinistic tyrant in Ottawa. And then they're just trying to,

00:16:43.520 like, I mean, this thing and difficult, like for the climate change, right?

00:16:46.540 The climate change is okay. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second here. In the 90s,

00:16:51.460 it's having almost wet. In the 70s, it's having almost wet. Fort McMurray is surrounded by forests

00:16:57.220 that burn. I think we need to, if I was to critique, and this is not an immediate critique,

00:17:02.340 we need to build a city that can handle this without a lot of worry. And I think we have the

00:17:07.660 technology to do it. I mean, you don't see, like, here's, here's a real point. Like if you go,

00:17:12.860 like when we did turn the fire a few years ago, you go by the Mormon church, it went through the 1.00

00:17:18.220 Beacon Hill, right? You know, you can make arguments that, you know, that it was protected by God,

00:17:22.400 which, you know, it was, but at the same time, the brick and the tin and all that shot, shot cable,

00:17:29.080 went through the Beacon Hill fire too. It still stood. It'll stand again. How we build our homes

00:17:35.020 matters, right? And I think that's part of the, like, I mean, like you go through, like,

00:17:40.200 we don't build homes in Alberta in general. Very, very fire resistant. We build them with

00:17:45.540 cheap plywood and insulation. And I mean, and you know me about, like, I'm not a big fan of

00:17:50.360 vinyl plank floors. I mean, why do people cover perfectly good hardwood with vinyl plank? Mind

00:17:56.160 you, I can make that argument that wood burns, but it'll burn a little slower. The vinyl plank just

00:17:59.880 takes it. So my point is, is we could do better. Well, but we try to build things affordably here

00:18:05.900 as opposed to the rest of the country. But listen, you mentioned Charlie Angus's tweet. I want to go

00:18:12.740 back to that because there's a point I want to make. And I wonder if you'll agree with me. So

00:18:16.660 Charlie Angus, the city of Fort McMurray is under evacuation notice. People are scared. They're

00:18:24.640 scared because they went through this very recently. Charlie Angus decides, you know what I'm going to

00:18:29.780 do? I'm going to blame the people in Fort McMurray who work in the oil and gas sector. So we've got

00:18:36.460 him saying Exxon knew in the 1980s, Imperial Oil knew in the 1980s, Shell knew in the 1980s.

00:18:42.800 Their reports predicted the climate catastrophe that is upending life today. Okay, Charlie. They never

00:18:49.640 bothered to tell the people in Fort McMurray who are living with the consequences of peak CO2.

00:18:54.960 What a vulgar tweet. Because basically, he's attacking the very people whose houses are

00:19:02.440 burning down because they have the audacity to fuel the economy of the rest of this country,

00:19:06.700 including Charlie Angus's salary. But also simultaneously, it was in the past, the training

00:19:15.940 of the oil and gas sector that prevented any deaths from the fire last time around. Everybody knows

00:19:24.840 how to evacuate. Everybody knows confined space. Everybody has safety training in Fort McMurray.

00:19:30.880 Also, the oil and gas companies, they, you know, building berms, pushing dirt to try to save the

00:19:37.120 community. There are no hippie tree planters up there working to save Fort McMurray, and there never is.

00:19:44.260 So the way I see it with Charlie Angus is it reminds me, like, these guys are very bitter.

00:19:51.340 They're, they're, they're very angry. And, and, and would like to see Charlie's personal

00:19:57.100 comfort. But you love that, you know, um, he, and, and Channely, look, I'm very close to his

00:20:04.880 variety right now. And pretty much everyone that I talked to says he's a dick, and that they don't 0.99

00:20:09.240 like him. And that, uh, that he's given up on the working class and he becomes an elitist. I mean, 0.99

00:20:15.400 it's like, I think, look, here's the deal. We care about the environment. We care about our planet

00:20:21.960 and we, we are making it better. And Fort McMurray will get us through this. This is going to be a

00:20:26.480 little bump and we're going to boom. We're already on the board. And I think going forward, we need

00:20:31.180 to like, one thing is when I spoke at Rebel Live, I really clicked with, it's like, you know, kind of

00:20:35.760 when we were, when Donald Trump Jr. was up there, I'm like, I agree with this. I agree with this. I

00:20:39.220 don't agree with that. And I didn't discount everything he said because I didn't agree with one

00:20:43.340 point. I'm going to really try to go back to that because this country needs dialogue in a good

00:20:49.220 way. And people like Charlie Angus are these, these hypocrites, like Jack Musine, you know, 0.97

00:20:56.560 Jack with his Rolex watch, BMW car, it's like expensive bike. And then all the grocery stores, 0.97

00:21:03.800 like I find it hilarious. Like I don't like going after, uh, you know, Galen West, even though he's

00:21:08.560 a billionaire. I'll tell you why, because at least it's a Canadian company. Well, I don't really see

00:21:12.840 them going after Walmart. Walmart has massive grocery stores. So he got some successful

00:21:17.320 Canadian companies to continue with Walmart. And then you find out that his little brother

00:21:22.000 is on, uh, is, uh, you know, it was a lobbyist. It's for a company for a grocery store. It's

00:21:27.640 like the hypocrisy that comes up in the West is insane. You know, it's like, and as I saw 0.70

00:21:34.240 a CTV reporter rip and jag me to part about like, okay, why didn't you stop Trudeau? Well,

00:21:39.280 well, well, we know why, because you want your pension so you can afford your cigars,

00:21:43.180 you can go around and act like you're a socialist, but you're really not a socialist.

00:21:48.100 You're a stock up, up for middle class, not quite a multimillionaire, but you sure like the taste

00:21:53.380 with the crumbs of the billionaires throw down at you. And the rest of this country has to work

00:21:57.580 and figure out how we're going to get ahead. I'll tell you this for McMurray. Now I feel good

00:22:01.660 about for McMurray. And I think internally for McMurray has kind of made some progress to making it a

00:22:07.600 better community. 97% of our taxes come from industry. And I think that's been our whole

00:22:12.700 focus. Not anymore. We're having more social programs where the indigenous are opening little 1.00

00:22:17.240 businesses. It's not so much like they need the money because of industry, because it makes the

00:22:20.460 community a better, more inviting place to live. There's a push at a camp. I'm not going to let

00:22:25.040 this fire stop it. I'm going to work my ass off and elites stuck up. I've always been politicians that,

00:22:31.260 you know, play in shitty bands. They're not going to, you know, not going to be too worked up about it, 0.94

00:22:35.920 you know, and I just, unfortunately, I need to figure out what I'm doing right now because I have

00:22:41.520 a business and, you know, and I don't have a sweet house government tension that to fall back

00:22:45.980 on. And I got scared staff. I mean, I'm not scared. And if I was in McMurray right now, I would

00:22:51.020 let me tell you something. If I had went back to 2016, I would never have evacuated. I would have just

00:22:57.420 stayed. I would have found a different place to stay. And I would have just input. And it's like

00:23:02.860 my biggest regret. My biggest regret thing is I'm not there to help people because I think it was

00:23:06.820 a mistake for me to evacuate last time. I could have helped. It's far better just giving

00:23:10.600 common people down. So I'm going to, you know, that's the thing. But like, I have scared staff

00:23:14.960 about people worked up. And, and what I'm going to relate to it, I've only missed a lot of posts.

00:23:20.640 People are scared. Even though, and, and this is what I will say about speaking to the people

00:23:26.140 of McMurray. Like, you can trust the officials this time. Like, if they say wait and thick

00:23:32.540 would wait and thick would. Last time, no. I mean, I was the guy that they told me go

00:23:36.840 north. I'm like, fuck this. I went south. And I pinned it. I went south, right? Thank 1.00

00:23:40.460 God. Could you imagine two scared 150 pound pit bulls on a plane sitting next to some chihuahua

00:23:45.560 and some laden's lap would have been disaster. Honestly, they don't like little dogs, right? 0.99

00:23:49.840 So said, you know, so my point is, is like, I'm glad. But this time, no, I think part

00:23:55.360 of the problem with the creatives. Everyone left, period. Even from Beacon Hill or Timberley.

00:24:00.360 And like, I'm like, guys, calm. This is a different situation. So please listen to Chief Jody

00:24:05.360 Butts. Listen to Mayor Bowman. They truly have your back. And they're not narcissistic people

00:24:11.380 trying to get the spotlight. They literally want Fort McMurray to do well. They want you

00:24:16.080 to be safe. So I have full faith in that. Full faith in most of them.

00:24:21.200 Now, speaking of wanting Fort McMurray to do well, not only do you want Fort McMurray

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00:24:43.180 gas and or the conventional oil. Oil Sand Strong, the legendary brand. And then, so you go to

00:24:49.120 oilstandstrong.com, oilandgasworld.ca. Sign up. Buy at least $127 worth of merch. You know,

00:24:56.080 and that would be amazing. So yes, please. So the more shirts, we are selling quite a bit, but

00:25:01.160 this bus, this bus runs on propane. So I should get some kind of propane brag going. Um, but it's,

00:25:06.860 uh, it's pretty awesome. You know, and if you see the bus, you know, uh, stop, I am going to maybe

00:25:12.640 do a GoFundMe or go give a send go or something. So I've never really done that. Like, yeah, like it's my

00:25:18.200 marketing company pays for this. And I want to really make a difference. I want to be in fight.

00:25:23.360 Uh, I'm not scared to fight. Like, I'm not scared of Charlie Angus or Jane Fodd or other

00:25:28.840 celebrities. In fact, I kind of, you know, like I, I, I believe that that's a necessary thing to

00:25:34.060 defend, you know, our way of life. And I, and I stand by it. Um, so please support, check out the

00:25:40.020 website. If you see this bus, give it a home, you know, and then, uh, and then maybe I'll pull over

00:25:44.920 a sticker, um, and a t-shirt or whatever, uh, sign the bus. It's a pretty fun bus actually. Like I,

00:25:50.640 I didn't realize how cool it was. So I've had a, I have some time in it now where I've been kind

00:25:54.620 of not sure if I'm going to Fort McMurray or not. So I camped out in front of my cousin's house,

00:25:58.840 you know, and then, uh, so it's pretty cool. I shook up the neighborhood. I was doing, so it's good.

00:26:04.940 So. Awesome, Robbie. Yeah. I would love to see just social media flooded with pictures.

00:26:11.380 Um, yeah. We'll send strong buses. It makes its way across the country. That would be just amazing.

00:26:15.980 Yeah. It's going to be fun. And it's a fun bus. I mean, it does need to be, I think I'm going to

00:26:21.060 upgrade the seats a little bit. I'm going to make a few changes, but, uh, it's fun. And it's fire it

00:26:26.040 up. It fire right up. Like, I mean, it's been sitting for two years. The first try it fires up. I mean,

00:26:32.080 it's 1977. I mean, that's pretty impressive. So all these people going on about these new,

00:26:36.320 I don't think no Tesla would fire up in 40 years. Robbie, I got to let you go. You've got a lot of,

00:26:42.800 I guess, plans to make hours. Uh, thanks so much for sticking up for families, just like mine.

00:26:50.020 And, uh, just let your friends and family in Fort McMurray know that we're, we're rooting for

00:26:56.800 them. We're, we're praying for them. Thank you. Yeah. And so far it's good news. Like nothing has

00:27:00.400 been buried yet. So it's just, it's just the outskirts. You know what I mean? So I, I feel

00:27:05.080 good. I feel good. And I, and I, and I, I feel good about the communities.

00:27:15.300 Well, we've come to the portion of the show wherein we invite your viewer feedback. I say

00:27:19.160 it every week. I realize it's getting redundant, but without you, there's no rebel news. So

00:27:23.100 of course we want to hear from you because if you don't like us anymore, then we just don't exist

00:27:28.740 because we'll never take a penny from Justin Trudeau. And how could we hold him to account if we ever

00:27:33.660 did? So this is why I give you my email address right now. It's Sheila at rebel news.com put gun

00:27:40.200 show letters in the subject line. So I know why you're emailing me. Cause sometimes I get emails

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00:28:12.140 comment there. I do go looking for viewer feedback over there from time to time. Now today's viewer

00:28:18.900 feedback does come from the email bag and it is on last week's show. I believe it was last week's show.

00:28:26.660 The last week has just been an absolute blur. Um, on, uh, my interview with Robert Krejcik

00:28:34.740 on his coverage of the ongoing anti-Semitic encampment happening at the University of Ottawa.

00:28:44.620 He's been there at least twice now. And it was very odd the second time around because there were these

00:28:50.660 hobo handlers, I'll call them. And they were going around making sure that nobody talked to Robert 1.00

00:28:58.860 because they might actually tell the truth to Robert if they didn't know any better. For example,

00:29:05.540 who's paying for all those matching tents? If you guys are a bunch of starving, over-educated

00:29:10.460 barista career students, or who's paying for these matching signs? When you say that Israel is occupying

00:29:20.400 Gaza, what do you mean by that? Since Israel pulled out of Gaza years and years and years ago. So,

00:29:29.180 you know, we went anyway, the moral of the story is they had these handlers going around making sure

00:29:34.120 that Robert didn't actually get an opportunity to ask a question of the squatters so that the squatters

00:29:42.460 might accidentally say what they really mean and what they really want. So, so today's gun

00:29:50.380 show letter comes to us from Jerry, who writes, Hi Sheila, thanks to you and Robert for your spot-on

00:29:55.760 coverage of Hitler's hobos at the University of Ottawa. Yes, I did begin calling them Hitler's 0.89

00:30:00.780 hobos because their view on the state of Israel is indistinguishable from the Nazis. Also, vagrants 0.98

00:30:06.780 of the Third Reich applies as well, but Hitler's hobos, it's kind of catchy. Those of us in the states 0.96

00:30:12.800 have been dealing with this lunatic fringe as well, but I'm also seeing some pushback.

00:30:18.860 At about midnight on May 6th, when everyone must have been asleep

00:30:22.420 or had gone home, because I highly doubt many of these people are actually camping overnight

00:30:28.880 in these encampments, do they seem like the outdoorsy sort? The camping type? Yeah, right. I bet most of

00:30:36.820 them are just sitting beside a tent all day and then going home at night. Anyway, let's go on.

00:30:45.960 At about midnight on May 6th, when everyone must have been asleep, the protester encampment at

00:30:50.720 Harvard was treated to a loud rendition of our national anthem. I hope the music spreads across

00:30:57.080 both our nations. From Jerry. Yeah, that's a great idea. We know in Canada that the left's

00:31:06.220 major thinkers think that the Canadian flag has been co-opted by crypto-Nazis and the Freedom Convoy,

00:31:17.400 so now that when they see a Canadian flag, they are triggered and they think there's just some sort of

00:31:23.860 Russian-backed radical waiting to honk their horn at them. I imagine it's the same in the United 0.63

00:31:31.220 States. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll

00:31:35.260 see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week. And as always,

00:31:39.180 don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - May 16, 2024

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Leftists preen as Fort McMurray is threatened by wildfire, again

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