Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Letters to Sheila： What really mattered to listeners in 2025

00:00:00.000 I'm answering your letters to me. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 Long-time viewers of Rebel News know, as well as our beloved premium subscribers, I'm talking to you guys right now.

00:00:42.540 You know, every year at the end of the year, we send you an email. It lands in your email inbox and it says,

00:00:48.180 Hey, we want your letters to Sheila, to Ezra. We want to know what you think about the work that we did.

00:00:55.380 Do you have questions, comments, story ideas? We're going to sit down at the end of the year and we're going to read what you've sent us.

00:01:03.040 And there's a couple of reasons we do this. First of all, we want to know what you think about the work that we're doing.

00:01:09.840 If you have comments, questions, I want to be able to answer them.

00:01:14.700 Sometimes I just assume that you know why I think the way that I do.

00:01:19.220 And I forget that sometimes maybe my opinions need a little bit more explaining, or maybe you want to know what it's like to be a farmer, a mom, a journalist, the figurehead of all of Ezra's little schemes, whatever.

00:01:35.140 How I balance those things.

00:01:38.400 I'm open to answering those questions.

00:01:40.480 And it also allows us to do another thing besides being in constant touch with our audience, because I think that's important for us.

00:01:48.480 It is important for me anyway.

00:01:50.440 It allows us to pre-record our shows for the end of the year, because I spend like 12 hours a day at this desk.

00:01:59.660 And I do other things in my life, as you know.

00:02:02.520 But, and I almost never take time off.

00:02:05.300 Like, can regular viewers think about it for a second?

00:02:07.600 When did we see Sheila away from her desk for an extended period of time when she wasn't, like, on some sort of special mission? 0.60

00:02:18.080 Like, maybe I wasn't at my desk, but I was at the ostrich farm.

00:02:21.060 Or maybe I wasn't at my desk, but I was in Brazil.

00:02:23.280 Or maybe I wasn't at my desk, but I was in Saskatchewan interviewing the premier.

00:02:29.000 Or on a story, right?

00:02:30.100 If I'm not here, I'm still working.

00:02:32.860 I'm just not here.

00:02:34.800 And it's been like that for years.

00:02:36.240 Because, you know, sometimes I might take a day off, but I always, like, pre-record stuff for you so that you don't even know I'm gone.

00:02:44.500 Because, as you know, when the cat's away, the mice will play.

00:02:48.060 I'm not saying you guys are mice, but, you know, like, the lefties are mice.

00:02:51.020 And I want them to know that I'm always around.

00:02:53.800 Working.

00:02:54.900 Lurking.

00:02:55.220 But we wanted to pre-record the show so that our production team could take some time off.

00:03:00.860 I might be able to untether myself from this desk.

00:03:03.340 My dog might be able to have a nap somewhere other than under my desk.

00:03:08.280 And so, your letters allow us to do that.

00:03:11.700 So, we thank you for sending those letters.

00:03:14.040 And if you have any comments, Sheila at rebelnews.com all the time.

00:03:18.500 Put gun show letters in the subject line.

00:03:20.120 I love hearing from you.

00:03:21.860 But this is the end of the year show.

00:03:23.700 So, I'm going to go through, what have I got here?

00:03:25.900 One, two, let's go through eight or so.

00:03:28.580 All right.

00:03:28.980 First one.

00:03:29.640 This one is from Gail Quinney.

00:03:32.080 And she says,

00:03:33.460 I'm very traumatized by your very thorough coverage of the ostrich massacre by the out-of-control federal government.

00:03:41.100 The present government will not ever review the whole diseased animal program and its efficacy.

00:03:49.080 I may never trust the government, employee, federal, provincial, or regional ever again.

00:03:54.180 First came COVID-19, then I hope you're doing well.

00:03:58.160 Yeah.

00:03:58.860 I mean, there are a few times in recent memory where I think a lot of people suddenly felt the way you did.

00:04:07.840 And you do.

00:04:09.060 And you rightly point out COVID.

00:04:11.840 Where it's still so destabilizing for people.

00:04:16.240 And we're told to just move on.

00:04:19.080 By people who never really suffered the consequences of being a conscientious objector.

00:04:24.260 Oh, why can't you just move on?

00:04:26.100 And it's like, well, maybe because I couldn't go to my mom's funeral.

00:04:29.600 That's why.

00:04:30.480 Or maybe because my loved one died alone.

00:04:33.800 That's why.

00:04:34.800 Maybe because I was denied travel.

00:04:36.760 That's why.

00:04:37.540 Maybe because I was treated like a social pariah.

00:04:40.580 That's why.

00:04:41.320 And then at the end, you're just supposed to forgive and forget without anybody apologizing to you.

00:04:48.720 Anybody telling you that they were wrong and you were right, you're just supposed to be like, okay, well, let's move on.

00:04:54.060 Of course, the people who are wrong want you to move on.

00:04:56.360 And a lot of people feel that way about these ostriches.

00:04:58.740 Because they are such a symbol of government overreach.

00:05:02.960 And the trust the science.

00:05:04.140 When you're like, I would love to trust the science.

00:05:06.060 Could you show it to me?

00:05:06.960 Could you test the birds, please?

00:05:08.440 But they never did that.

00:05:09.800 And the longer these birds were alive, the more I think everybody involved knew that they were healthy.

00:05:16.220 But the problem with those birds is that, as Elizabeth May, of all people, put it, they were just a little too mega.

00:05:24.320 They were a little too Freedom Convoy.

00:05:27.080 And so they were just a symbol of resistance.

00:05:29.700 And like the Freedom Convoy, like Tamera Leach, like Chris Barber, you've got to crush them.

00:05:33.180 And that's what happened to the birds.

00:05:38.600 It wasn't about public health.

00:05:39.700 Of course not.

00:05:40.480 They didn't kill the wild turkeys walking around that place, did they?

00:05:43.620 And that's how the ostriches, if they ever had COVID, got COVID.

00:05:47.840 If they ever had avian flu.

00:05:50.640 If they ever had it.

00:05:51.760 That's how they got it.

00:05:52.820 But they didn't exterminate the wild turkeys.

00:05:55.680 They just killed the ostriches who were not migratory. 0.98

00:05:58.560 They weren't going anywhere.

00:05:59.160 They were quarantined for all intents and purposes.

00:06:02.020 It's about control.

00:06:07.860 And making sure that those who cannot be controlled are completely eliminated from polite society. 0.98

00:06:14.800 And if they could kill you, they would.

00:06:17.180 Because they did the birds. 0.99

00:06:20.080 Alright, next one.

00:06:21.820 Bruce.

00:06:22.900 Bruce Atchison.

00:06:25.000 Bruce lives in Radway with his beautiful little kitty, Delta.

00:06:28.460 He is an avid supporter of Revable News.

00:06:32.580 Long-time supporter of my work.

00:06:34.600 Long-time viewer of my show.

00:06:36.780 And someone who once corrected me on my flippant dismissal of disability hiring targets within the federal government.

00:06:46.240 Because I was too liberal in my language.

00:06:50.300 And I'm glad for it.

00:06:51.720 I'm actually glad for the course correction.

00:06:53.660 And it has taught me something to be just a little bit more careful with the words that I use.

00:06:57.220 I think I was making fun of like, oh, these DEI hiring targets.

00:07:01.520 And then you've got to hire this many people with disabilities. 0.95

00:07:04.060 And this many black people. 0.99

00:07:05.320 And this many people with, you know, mental illness. 0.99

00:07:09.380 And the next thing.

00:07:10.160 And the next thing.

00:07:10.680 And the next thing.

00:07:11.160 And I'm like, how about where are the competent people?

00:07:13.320 Where are they on the list?

00:07:15.120 And Bruce said, Sheila, people with real physical disabilities, and I'm paraphrasing, should be able to work and have productive jobs.

00:07:27.000 And their disabilities should not hinder them.

00:07:29.200 And of course not.

00:07:29.840 I agree with that wholeheartedly.

00:07:32.880 I should have been more clear that I meant people with made-up disabilities. 0.99

00:07:36.200 Like people who claim that they are victims of phantom honking trauma.

00:07:42.520 After Ottawa.

00:07:43.440 That's what I mean.

00:07:44.040 I don't mean people who are legally blind or have a hearing disability or a mobility problem.

00:07:51.720 I think everybody has a right to be productive.

00:07:55.840 And the other side would love to euthanize you. 0.99

00:07:58.700 I want you to be productive.

00:07:59.940 So anyways, Bruce corrected me on my loose language.

00:08:02.260 And I'm glad he did.

00:08:03.360 And he writes to me and says, I would donate $100 to Rebel News.

00:08:07.200 May I speak to you on the phone for an hour?

00:08:08.940 Bruce, I don't have a ton.

00:08:09.920 Like an hour is a lot.

00:08:11.900 I don't have a ton of time.

00:08:14.220 But Bruce says, I had so much fun last year when I was able to speak to David Menzies.

00:08:17.940 I'm a huge fan of your work and I love to discuss all sorts of things.

00:08:22.020 Why don't we split the difference?

00:08:24.260 Why don't I come to Radway?

00:08:26.980 You've got my email.

00:08:28.000 We'll figure something out.

00:08:29.260 Next one.

00:08:29.780 Brenda.

00:08:30.000 Brenda says, I so enjoyed meeting you all at the Edmonton Meet and Greet.

00:08:34.080 I think you're referring to our after event after the United Conservative Party annual general meeting.

00:08:40.100 We had a little get together of Rebel News supporters and it was a fundraiser for us.

00:08:44.160 So unlike the other hospitality suites with lobbyists dumping money to cover the cost of those things.

00:08:50.400 We don't take money from lobbyists, really.

00:08:53.620 We're crowdfunded and we rely on people like you guys to support us.

00:08:59.580 And so it was like a, I forget what, $20, $30.

00:09:02.960 And it was like a meet and greet.

00:09:04.180 Got a couple of little snacks.

00:09:05.300 But more than anything, it served as a fundraiser for us.

00:09:08.140 And you got to meet a bunch of rebels you'd never met yet.

00:09:11.140 And by rebels, I don't mean rebel employees.

00:09:13.400 I mean rebel supporters, like-minded people.

00:09:16.160 We packed a bar in North Edmonton.

00:09:19.020 And Brenda goes on to say, I bought Lisa's book for my granddaughter.

00:09:22.660 I hope you love it.

00:09:23.720 I will tell her that you bought the book.

00:09:26.060 She is just over the moon these last few days.

00:09:31.200 Like, these last two weeks have been some of the best of her life.

00:09:35.840 She's really living a dream.

00:09:37.320 And Brenda, I thank you for being a part of that.

00:09:39.080 Also, please don't lump us boomers altogether as 98% of the people I know that are my age, 65, are on board for the conservatives.

00:09:46.580 Keep up the good work.

00:09:47.740 Look, I will agree with you.

00:09:49.400 98% of the people that I know that are 65 are also conservative.

00:09:53.960 Now, maybe I'm sampling from a small pond, you know.

00:10:01.200 I know that Western boomers are probably more conservative than me.

00:10:05.140 And I think that's saying something.

00:10:06.260 They've lived through two Trudeaus, not just one. 0.97

00:10:10.120 So, that leaves one pretty darn conservative.

00:10:14.800 If you're a boomer that voted conservative, when I talk about boomers, I'm not talking about you. 0.93

00:10:19.500 I'm talking about, and you know exactly who I'm talking about, the quintessential Toronto boomer who was, like, given the finger to young Pollyov supporters.

00:10:32.580 That guy, who basically screw the next generation as long as he's got his.

00:10:37.660 He's got his $3 million house that he bought for a penny whistle and a moon pie back in 1972.

00:10:44.100 And screw his grandkids if they can't find a house.

00:10:47.660 Like, that guy, that type of guy, that avatar of a boomer.

00:10:51.520 That's the guy I'm talking about.

00:10:52.980 And I have such disdain for those people because it is so anti-civilization what they're doing.

00:10:58.160 When you think about how societies moved forward, human civilization moved forward by the older people protecting the young people. 0.97

00:11:08.320 The older people making sure the youngsters of the pack, the herd, the family, the community, the tribe, that they had all the resources they need to be stronger, faster, better, smarter, healthier.

00:11:20.040 Right?

00:11:22.260 It's one of the reasons that women and children first was always a motto. 1.00

00:11:27.540 Because the women are weaker, but the women have the children, and then you want to protect the children. 1.00

00:11:33.380 That's why it's so important that if there's no children, there's no people ever again. 0.91

00:11:38.300 And so the way the Eastern boomers vote, the Toronto boomers vote, it's so inverted of how society has ever existed. 0.97

00:11:53.780 They are breaking the deal that society has with its young people. 1.00

00:12:01.660 They just are. 0.74

00:12:03.600 And I find it so gross.

00:12:05.740 And I don't know any people like that.

00:12:07.560 Like, no, I don't know any older people like that, but I don't want to.

00:12:11.380 I don't want to.

00:12:12.640 I just, it's awful.

00:12:13.820 But again, Rena, I ain't talking about you.

00:12:19.060 Let's read the next one is from Bill.

00:12:22.160 Bill says, I just, Sheila, I just want to say that Ezra and yourself do such a fine job bringing controversial news stories to the Canadian public that, truth be told, I can't really say who I like better.

00:12:33.700 Well, thank you.

00:12:34.420 You two are both such excellent journalists and you both put so much energy into the news articles that you bring to light for the Canadian public.

00:12:42.300 I hope you both keep up the good work and continue to inspire us not to put up with biased news reporting from government sponsored news agencies.

00:12:50.740 Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah to you both.

00:12:52.940 Cheers, Bill.

00:12:54.400 Hey, Bill, I appreciate that very much.

00:12:57.640 I just want, I want to push back on just one thing.

00:13:00.360 Okay.

00:13:00.640 And I try to be as energetic as possible.

00:13:04.040 I really do.

00:13:05.400 I don't, I probably don't sleep as much as I should, but I try to, you know, focus on my health and fitness and all those things that keep your energy up and eating very, very careful with my eating.

00:13:16.140 Um, but I just want to push back on the one thing that you said, and that's biased journalism.

00:13:23.260 I don't have a problem with biased journalism.

00:13:26.660 I think you all know I'm conservative.

00:13:28.860 So, you know, that I'm, I'm reporting on stories through a conservative lens.

00:13:33.520 And I say this all the time, but I think the arc of reality bends towards conservatism.

00:13:37.040 You know, with family as society's building block, personal responsibility, um, personal autonomy, uh, decision-making closer to the person.

00:13:49.100 All those things are conservative ideas, conserving the past, conserving our history, um, government that fits inside of a teacup, but better yet on a postage stamp, that kind of stuff.

00:14:01.340 I think that the arc of moral justice sort of bends that way.

00:14:04.780 But, uh, I am conservative.

00:14:10.160 The difference between me and those that you see on CTV or CBC or global, does anybody still watch global?

00:14:18.060 It's penny stock these days, is that you know exactly where I'm coming from. 0.99

00:14:21.940 I don't think you're stupid, so I don't try to hide it. 0.98

00:14:24.800 And I couldn't anyway. 0.98

00:14:26.080 I feel like it's dishonest and inauthentic.

00:14:28.180 Look, what I find so disdainful is not only do they lie to you and tell you that they're just news automatons with no personal opinions, but they want you to pay for it.

00:14:41.860 Unwillingly.

00:14:42.340 Like, if you're here, you're watching me, you support the work that I do, um, but you're doing it because you want to, not because the state made you.

00:14:52.560 That's my problem with the other journalists, the mainstream media journalists, is that they aren't truthful to you.

00:15:02.000 And they say, oh, I'm, I'm just a middle of the road.

00:15:04.740 I don't have any personal viewpoints.

00:15:07.080 Really?

00:15:08.400 Really?

00:15:08.840 Because we can see them.

00:15:10.680 They're evident.

00:15:11.760 We're not dumb.

00:15:12.780 So I find it insulting to the viewer.

00:15:14.520 And worse yet, they're, they're funded by the state.

00:15:17.800 So by you.

00:15:19.840 Even if you don't want to.

00:15:20.940 So that's my problem with it is don't lie to me and like, don't make me pay for it.

00:15:26.580 Rosie Barton wants to be like the next Rachel Maddow of MSNBC news fame. 1.00

00:15:35.040 No skin off my nose, right?

00:15:37.420 As long as I don't have to pay for it, I don't care what happens to her.

00:15:40.120 She can be as biased as she, insufferable as she wants. 1.00

00:15:44.760 It ain't my problem.

00:15:46.520 Um, the problem is it is my problem because we're paying for it.

00:15:49.400 Um, all right, Cliff, Cliff says, uh, keep up the great work.

00:15:55.320 I'm a 78 year old follower and I appreciate your work.

00:15:58.320 Well, I appreciate you too.

00:15:59.580 Thank you so much, Cliff.

00:16:00.920 John Phillips says, considering all the new liberal laws that are coming,

00:16:06.120 are you looking for a new place for Ezra in Alberta?

00:16:10.600 I don't even know why he's still in Toronto.

00:16:12.740 You know what?

00:16:13.280 I do know why his family's there.

00:16:15.900 Um, but I know Ezra's heart, uh, is for the West and he, you know, he's, he loves Alberta.

00:16:27.220 He was born here.

00:16:28.220 He was raised here.

00:16:29.480 He's sort of in exile in Toronto, but it is something to consider.

00:16:37.000 I mean, Alberta has a very interesting future going forward.

00:16:40.300 Now, will we stay within Canada or leave?

00:16:43.000 That's for us to decide.

00:16:45.440 And if we do stay, there will be a different deal than what we have now.

00:16:50.940 And what would that mean for us?

00:16:53.000 What would it mean for taxes?

00:16:54.280 What would it mean for our rights, our freedoms?

00:16:59.400 Would they be different?

00:17:01.500 I imagine so.

00:17:02.980 And if you are a journalist in the freedom space, I think this is the best place to be.

00:17:08.200 And maybe Saskatchewan too, but I think this is the best place in Alberta to be.

00:17:13.320 And I don't know why everybody's not here.

00:17:16.440 Now, if you're going to come leave your problematic politics behind, but I don't think that I would have to warn any of my viewers that they should leave their bad ideas behind.

00:17:26.280 But yeah, I encourage everybody who wants to realize what they thought was the Canadian dream, the place to do that is in Alberta right now.

00:17:38.100 Elaine O'Neill says,

00:17:40.500 Sheila, thank you for providing that rural Western voice and the no-nonsense attitude to go with it.

00:17:46.080 Well, thank you so much.

00:17:47.660 As an expat Canadian, Albertan to be exact, right on, sister.

00:17:51.440 Now living in the U.S., I first became aware of rebel news during the trucker convoy days.

00:17:56.820 Like so many.

00:17:58.280 I joined and state, well, I'm so glad you did.

00:18:01.880 I so appreciate getting a perspective on Canadian issues that is missing everywhere else.

00:18:06.300 Have a blessed Christmas.

00:18:07.760 Hopefully it comes with a glorious Chinook.

00:18:09.820 Well, I could tell that you're an expat, Albertan, because you actually know what a Chinook is.

00:18:13.900 And I remember when Leonardo DiCaprio was filming a movie in Calgary and a Chinook blew in and the weather changed by like 20 degrees.

00:18:22.400 And he was like, oh, see, it's global warming.

00:18:24.700 And nobody told him that that's just a routine thing.

00:18:28.100 When the warm winds blow down, like the Pacific winds come down over the Rockies and it's like warm, moist air.

00:18:36.660 And it blows across sort of into Calgary and across the prairie.

00:18:42.320 It's called a Chinook.

00:18:44.280 And he had no clue.

00:18:45.780 And everyone just let him believe it was global warming.

00:18:48.540 I unfortunately live too far north and east to ever experience the pleasures of a Chinook. 0.98

00:18:54.660 Where Calgary gets like that brief reprieve from the deep freeze, I'm plugging away at minus 45.

00:19:01.180 But that's okay.

00:19:02.380 Anyway, I think it's what makes us tough.

00:19:07.060 And it also makes us reliant on ourselves and not the government.

00:19:10.620 When it is that cold and you're that far from everybody, you just don't see the government as the answer to things.

00:19:16.480 You actually start to see the government as the problem.

00:19:18.960 It's one of the reasons they couldn't keep us away from each other during COVID.

00:19:21.740 Because we're like, no, we like our neighbors.

00:19:24.260 Our neighbors are the reason we survived here for a generation.

00:19:27.160 And I'll be damned if you're going to keep us apart.

00:19:28.940 And, yeah, I think that's why so many of us, like, it's just part of the Western attitude.

00:19:35.080 Government's the problem, not the answer.

00:19:36.680 And a lot of it is formed of the land we live on.

00:19:39.780 That's for sure.

00:19:40.840 Mark says, hello, ma'am. 0.98

00:19:44.020 It's always great to see a masculine male figure with balls. 0.99

00:19:47.100 But a woman? 1.00

00:19:48.360 That's awe-inspiring.

00:19:49.660 Are you saying I'm a masculine figure?

00:19:51.400 You know what?

00:19:51.820 Somebody the other day in the comment section said, I look like a more masculine Michael Jackson.

00:19:57.600 And I didn't know to be mad or happy about it.

00:20:03.280 Still don't know.

00:20:04.840 Still, it's kicking around in my head.

00:20:06.380 I've given it a fair bit of thought.

00:20:08.220 Anyway.

00:20:09.160 But a woman that's awe-inspiring.

00:20:11.040 No shortage of strong women at Rebel News, especially considering the bravest reporter, I believe, is Alexa. 0.99

00:20:15.940 You got that straight.

00:20:16.960 Jess, she's almost brave to a fault.

00:20:18.340 Makes me worried for her.

00:20:19.540 It's amazing to see women rise up when so-called men don't.

00:20:23.080 Thanks for being in the fight.

00:20:24.060 It's incredible.

00:20:25.160 You do your farm work, family duties, and journalism all in 24 hours.

00:20:28.960 My questions to you are, how hopeful are you about the future of femininity and modern young women?

00:20:36.640 How was your family and marriage in particular affected by your slow rise to notoriety and journalism career?

00:20:42.260 Thank you very much for fighting for a country that has treated your province badly for far too long.

00:20:46.820 From Pierre Polyev to Jordan Peterson to Ezra.

00:20:48.980 A lot of good things come from Alberta.

00:20:50.560 Thank you.

00:20:51.240 What a nice thing to say, Mark.

00:20:53.060 I'll do my best to answer your first question.

00:20:56.460 How hopeful are you about the future of femininity and modern young women?

00:21:01.600 I'm not exactly the person to ask about femininity.

00:21:05.520 Like, you have eyeballs.

00:21:11.000 I'm sitting here in a drilling company hoodie, GMAC.

00:21:16.660 And, you know, I clean up fine, but it's not my choice every single day.

00:21:23.720 I think femininity and womanhood is, it's up for interpretation in, not in the biological sense, but, you know, at the same time, while I'm, you know, look the way that I do.

00:21:40.840 I also know that my most important job is as a mom to my three children.

00:21:46.120 Now, two of them are left the nest and hopefully they'll provide me with some grandchildren one day.

00:21:52.340 But that was the most important thing that I did.

00:21:54.140 And I'm seeing, you know, I think we had some pretty dark times for young women there for a while.

00:22:03.340 And I think the older women are experiencing deep unhappiness for what modern feminism sold them. 0.99

00:22:12.480 You know, they're not happy.

00:22:14.700 They're drugged up on antidepressants and trying to impose their maternal instincts on their cats because they were told that you can have a career and then a family when you feel like it.

00:22:26.620 But that's not reality.

00:22:29.100 Biology doesn't work that way.

00:22:30.520 We only have a very short window to have our kids.

00:22:32.680 And now we've got a lot of barren, miserable women out there full of regret and remorse. 1.00

00:22:38.500 And they're drowning their problems in wine.

00:22:41.960 And it's very sad because our institutions, academia, the culture told them just you can have it all.

00:22:50.780 And the choice, that's not a choice.

00:22:53.220 You can't have it all.

00:22:54.740 You can have some things if you work for them and you have to prioritize things.

00:22:59.720 You have to have, you have to decide what you want out of life and then have that.

00:23:05.240 You can't have everything.

00:23:06.040 And they were told that they could have a career and children and a marriage and, you know, look like a Pinterest board.

00:23:15.820 And that's, it doesn't work that way.

00:23:19.500 It just doesn't.

00:23:20.560 And you'll die trying, right? 0.93

00:23:23.780 And so a lot of them are miserable. 0.99

00:23:26.240 The older ladies are. 1.00

00:23:27.240 And then the generation just under them. 0.99

00:23:29.680 So like the generation that's just slightly younger than me, they're miserable and weird and gross. 0.99

00:23:37.240 And at least a lot of them are. 0.99

00:23:41.060 Like the, a lot of the younger feminists are. 1.00

00:23:45.260 Selfish, selfish ladies. 1.00

00:23:47.920 Absorbed by social media. 0.99

00:23:49.300 And, and, uh, I don't think they're happy either.

00:23:54.720 Now, the younger ones that are like 16, 17, 18, 19, up to 25.

00:24:03.280 I think we're seeing the resurgence of the trad wife. 0.82

00:24:07.200 Now, again, trad wife can look a hundred different ways. 1.00

00:24:11.660 I would describe probably myself as a trad wife.

00:24:14.240 And I don't think I look the way, like I'm not wearing a, an apron and a dress and heels to bake cookies.

00:24:21.380 Now I can bake a mean cookie, but that's not, you won't see me in that.

00:24:24.680 So I think we're seeing a return to traditional values.

00:24:29.160 I know this younger generation, both male and female are more conservative than, but I think any generation since the one that fought in World War II.

00:24:39.920 So the greatest generation.

00:24:41.860 And I think that the pendulum is swinging there.

00:24:44.920 They don't want to have kids that they're friends with.

00:24:49.160 They want to parent their children.

00:24:50.640 They want, uh, traditional gender roles. 1.00

00:24:55.000 They want to stay home with their kids.

00:24:56.920 They are not materialistic.

00:24:59.480 They are returning to church.

00:25:01.360 And so I'm hopeful.

00:25:04.180 I'm hopeful for the young women, uh, because we, modern feminism has made at least two generations of women intensely miserable. 1.00

00:25:13.900 And I think we're happiest with our little ones.

00:25:18.900 We just are.

00:25:19.800 And that's what we're designed for biologically and emotionally.

00:25:25.580 Next question was, how was, how was your family and marriage in particular affected from this low rise to notoriety and journalism career?

00:25:31.640 It's kind of funny.

00:25:32.940 Um, my youngest one, she's 60 now.

00:25:36.340 I've been with Rebel News for 10 years.

00:25:39.540 She doesn't know any other way that I just get in my little studio under the stairs and talk after she goes to school.

00:25:50.460 Um, and, like, sometimes when we're out and about, someone will notice us and she just thinks that you're all my work friends.

00:25:58.900 And then you just know we, we're work friends.

00:26:01.820 You work with that person.

00:26:02.900 And even if it's a stranger that's just seen me, I, yes, exactly.

00:26:06.420 We do work together.

00:26:07.420 We're working together to change society for the better.

00:26:10.620 And then it just sort of, then it just became a joke.

00:26:13.320 Oh, mom's, mom's little work friends.

00:26:14.880 Um, my older two, um, my daughter is a university student, student athlete, actually.

00:26:23.820 And so she had never really experienced the weirdness of the world because she went to a small rural Catholic school.

00:26:30.600 And then all of a sudden she's going to university and she's like, mom, it's crazy.

00:26:35.360 These people are crazy.

00:26:37.540 Um, and she's like, all those things you talked about, like you talk about, I see them now that I go to school in the city.

00:26:44.520 She doesn't, she still retreats to farm life, but, um, and my son, he's, you know, he's a grown man, housewife, uh, provider, uh, working in the oil field.

00:27:01.540 So, uh, and, you know, I don't know.

00:27:04.260 It's, it's, uh, for my kids, it's always kind of strange when people recognize me still, cause I'm just their mom.

00:27:13.220 I'm just mom.

00:27:15.120 Um, I remember when my son was younger, he used to say, oh yeah, you know, he would be like at a oil field style pub and then someone would figure out who his mom was and then somebody would buy him a couple of drinks.

00:27:27.100 So he would sort of use it to his benefit.

00:27:29.840 Um, but, uh, you know, I don't have a very close circle of friends.

00:27:34.240 So everybody who knows me, knows me, like knows me in the real world.

00:27:38.660 And, uh, I think that's been helpful to me.

00:27:42.360 Uh, they're very protective of me.

00:27:44.960 Tara, if you're watching, I know.

00:27:46.620 Um, and I think that, I don't know.

00:27:51.360 I just, I, it's different for me because I live in like rural Alberta.

00:27:56.600 I think, you know, David Menzies is the one you really got to worry about.

00:28:00.180 He's out there and everybody just recognizing him in the hat all over the place.

00:28:03.980 I just look like a regular old farm lady down at the farm supply store.

00:28:08.220 So, I, I, it's real easy for me to blend into a crowd.

00:28:12.640 Um, for my husband, it's sort of strange even now.

00:28:17.100 Sometimes people will figure out who his wife is.

00:28:19.700 Like he doesn't go to work and say, yeah, you don't even know who my wife is.

00:28:22.440 Doesn't say stuff like that.

00:28:23.560 I mean, cause, uh, he just doesn't.

00:28:28.220 We're not like that.

00:28:29.300 But every once in a while, someone will figure out on a project or whatever who I am and then want to talk to him about politics.

00:28:37.860 And he's like, ugh, this politics is a home thing, not a work thing.

00:28:43.600 I don't know.

00:28:44.520 You see a lot of people who sort of rise to fame and then they, they get there and then they sort of flame out. 1.00

00:28:53.500 They do something stupid. 1.00

00:28:54.660 They don't remain grounded. 1.00

00:28:55.940 It sort of goes to their head.

00:28:58.000 Uh, that's not me.

00:29:00.000 But I have too many people whose opinions in the real world I actually care about to do and say things.

00:29:07.860 That would jeopardize what they actually thought about me.

00:29:10.940 I know a lot of people say, I don't care what people think about me.

00:29:13.260 I do care what people think about me.

00:29:14.980 Not the strangers, not the haters, not those people.

00:29:18.060 But my friends and family, uh, I do care what they think about me and the work that I do.

00:29:23.020 And I don't want to do anything that would embarrass them or make them have a bad opinion about me.

00:29:32.420 I don't want that.

00:29:34.120 And so it helps me stay very grounded.

00:29:36.120 And the fact that I have a life, a very demanding life, I will say that, outside of Rebel News, um, busy, active, physically active life outside of Rebel News and with a lot of family around.

00:29:55.000 And, uh, it helps me stay sane and realize that sometimes when you get into, like, the feedback loop of people who hate you, um, it keeps that, oh, it keeps that in, like, the fake world.

00:30:07.980 It never makes it into your real world because you live in the real world every day.

00:30:11.860 Did I answer your question?

00:30:13.280 I'm not sure I did.

00:30:13.960 Anyway, uh, that's it, guys.

00:30:17.400 Uh, I don't know if this is my last show for 2025.

00:30:20.520 I think I might have a second show for 2025.

00:30:23.240 I don't know how the calendar is going to work, which show will go up first.

00:30:26.020 But anyways, sincere thank you to everybody who supported not just me, but all of our work here at Rebel News.

00:30:33.420 I want you to know we hear you cheering for us.

00:30:36.740 We see you defending us.

00:30:38.620 We see you supporting us.

00:30:40.440 And just from my family to yours, from the Rebel News team to you, thank you so much for allowing us to do work that is truly, truly meaningful to us.

00:30:54.300 What an absolute pleasure it is to give voice to your issues.

00:31:02.440 And I can't imagine doing anything else.

00:31:05.900 That's the show for tonight, guys.

00:31:07.560 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:31:09.140 I'll see you in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:31:12.780 And as always, don't let this government tell you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - December 25, 2025

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Letters to Sheila： What really mattered to listeners in 2025

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