Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ The David Menzies Special

00:00:00.000 Today we're sitting down with a man who actually might give you too in-depth of an answer

00:00:06.640 when you ask him a question. Yes, it's my friend David Menzies and we're learning

00:00:12.360 all about him today on The Gun Show.

00:00:30.000 You know who the most requested guest on The Gun Show is? It's someone who's never been on the show

00:00:37.620 before in any capacity. And the reason he's never been on the show before is because we talk to each

00:00:43.440 other two days a week for well over an hour on both of those shows as we co-host the Rebel News

00:00:49.820 daily live stream. It's my friend David Menzies and I know a lot about him but maybe you don't.

00:00:57.380 We know that he's fun and we know that he's fearless and we know that sometimes he's

00:01:03.280 shameless and we know he's got a less than politically correct sense of humor but that's

00:01:10.680 what we love about him. But do you know how he came to be a Rebel? Do you know what he would be doing

00:01:17.060 if he weren't a Rebel? I didn't. And so I thought why not sit down and ask my friend David Menzies 0.78

00:01:26.620 all those questions where we get to learn a little bit more about him together. So

00:01:30.920 by popular demand, please enjoy this interview I recorded with my friend and my colleague

00:01:37.740 David Menzies earlier in the week.

00:01:47.180 David, you are one of the most requested guests to The Gun Show and I think in my six years of doing

00:01:52.720 the show once a week I get an email saying Sheila you got to interview David and I'm like I talk to

00:01:57.380 him three days a week or two days a week on the live stream. How much more Sheila and David do people

00:02:02.100 want? But apparently they want some and hopefully this will help them get it out of their system.

00:02:09.720 David, I have a question for you. How did you end up at Rebel News? Like I know

00:02:15.840 what happened at Sun News although I have a question about that too. But how did you come

00:02:22.820 to be? I think you're a day one-er right? Originally Sheila on a freelance basis yeah pretty

00:02:31.720 much a day one-er and then became full-time I think it was 2017 so we were into the second year

00:02:37.680 of the company. But you are right I was with the Sun News Network and that's where Ezra was and I

00:02:42.400 had a bit of a relationship with Ezra going back to his Western Standard days. I freelanced

00:02:48.300 for the magazine and I'll tell you Sheila what happened to Sun News was really a tragedy. 0.90

00:02:57.740 We were applying for a license and I thought our case was fantastic that would have allowed us to

00:03:04.600 continue broadcasting and it was a license so many of our so many other channels did have.

00:03:11.420 But what they didn't have which we had was Canadian content. You couldn't get more Canadian

00:03:18.240 Sheila than the Sun News Network and this is important to the CRTC. It's the reason for the

00:03:25.020 very existence of the CRTC to promote and even mandate Canadian content. And we were owned by Quebecor

00:03:34.160 major conglomerate based in Quebec. Sun News Network was based in Toronto. We had bureaus

00:03:41.300 and staff all across the country. We were Canadians telling Canadian stories to a Canadian audience.

00:03:50.800 What I'm saying Sheila I don't think we could get more Canadian unless I got a tattoo of a maple leaf flag 0.97

00:04:00.120 stamped on my butt and believe me nobody wants to see that. So the thing is the other channels that had 0.96

00:04:08.200 the license we were going for, Sheila, I would say about half their content was old American sitcoms that they were just

00:04:17.320 rerunning on an endless loop. They had it. We didn't. The CRTC denied our license. Now you say, oh, why is that?

00:04:26.400 Well, they don't have to give a reason. But I'll tell you what I think the unspoken reason was. It was just the fix was in.

00:04:33.000 We were this right of center news network. Even before Sun News Network went on the air, there was a petition by the liberal elite,

00:04:42.080 Sheila, if you can imagine. They were calling Sun News Fox News North as if that was...

00:04:49.000 Don't threaten me with a good time.

00:04:50.140 But I mean, as if that was some kind of a slur, like this is pornography getting on the airwaves.

00:04:58.380 And simply put, the people, you know, the liberal leaning leftists on the CRTC, they love Canadian content,

00:05:07.400 but it's got to skew a certain way. And that is left of center. And that's what did us in.

00:05:12.040 I will say this, Sheila, you know, you talk about, what's the saying? When you're given a bunch of lemons,

00:05:19.820 make lemonade. You know, there's always a silver lining in a dark cloud. I am having more fun,

00:05:28.520 more fulfillment today with Rebel News. What Ezra did on, you know, basically his kitchen table,

00:05:36.120 the day after Sun News Network went off the air in February of 2015, created from scratch, from

00:05:43.020 nothing, this incredible news network. And I think we are telling, dare I say it, even more profound

00:05:49.460 stories than Sun News Network was. Our reach is more global than Sun News. And while I love Sun News,

00:05:58.040 I think we've gone on to better and bigger things here at Rebel. And, you know, when I look at our

00:06:05.860 talent and I'm looking right at you, Sheila Gunn-Reed, you're a big reason for it. We have so many

00:06:13.240 smart, energetic and even young people here. We, I think what we're producing, you know, for a fraction

00:06:24.020 of the price that Sun News was doing as a legacy TV network, I think it's quite remarkable. And I'm just

00:06:32.980 so happy to be on this ride with you and all my other colleagues here.

00:06:37.320 Yeah, I'm, I'm proud of the work that we do because not only do we tell the stories,

00:06:41.440 so often we are able to help fix the stories or at least make them better. It's one thing to tell

00:06:47.300 somebody's story of being stomped on by the government. And it's one thing to tell the stories

00:06:52.540 of the little guy, the working man, the forgotten people, but to give those people a hand up when they

00:06:57.580 think the world has forgotten about them. And in some cases the world truly has, that's the part

00:07:03.280 of the work that I'm the most proud of. Now I want to keep talking before you interrupt me. I want to

00:07:08.540 keep talking. I want to keep talking about Sun News because you did the morning show there.

00:07:14.480 I might've been one of the only viewers to the morning show. I want to know what happened.

00:07:18.360 You might've been.

00:07:19.040 I want to know what happened to the man cave set because that set was deadly. Where did it go?

00:07:26.860 You know what? Um, I took home, uh, a lot of the props. Well, some of the, a lot of the

00:07:32.620 props were mine to begin with, you know, the 1972 team Canada Jersey, uh, the, uh, the goalie stick.

00:07:40.280 Um, uh, I think there was a little stash of Playboy magazines. That would probably be too

00:07:45.180 politically incorrect to have in the man cave today. But, uh, I would love to revive the,

00:07:50.820 uh, the manzoid man cave. Uh, I, I thought, uh, it had such a, I don't know, it, it kind of

00:07:58.320 resembled a rec room circa 1973, I think, you know, and, uh, you know, maybe when we expand our studios

00:08:07.120 here, uh, there's room for that because I do have a lot of those original props. I wonder if I could

00:08:12.060 sell them on eBay. What do you think about that? Sheila, do you think they're

00:08:14.860 collectible in any sense? You know, there's a real rise in mid-century modern decorating.

00:08:21.340 And there was a lot of orange, burnt orange, brown, uh, velour shag. Um, there's a lot of

00:08:28.640 that. And there was a lot of that in the man cave set. I really liked the set. It was probably one of

00:08:32.540 the reasons I got up that early to watch. Wow. I didn't know that until you just said that,

00:08:37.660 but you know, I'll tell you, Sheila, if there's a lot of interest in mid-century burnt orange,

00:08:42.240 maybe I should put myself on eBay. I was going to say, I was going to say that's your whole

00:08:48.060 aesthetic. Mid-century modern burnt orange. Um, now another, just remaining on the Sun News days,

00:08:57.920 I remember, uh, the Spice Man case. Mr. Polo Putty, you see, has been nicknamed the Spice Man

00:09:05.220 because it was his use of Spice that thwarted the bandit in the first place.

00:09:09.280 You were on my radar before that. Like I liked David Menzies because he was on with, uh, Charles

00:09:15.240 Adler and you wrote kind of fun, witty columns. Don't let that go to your head. But then you took,

00:09:23.420 um, the mannequin to the police station. So thief, get away from me. Stop victimizing me. The police 0.79

00:09:29.620 aren't on their way because they don't believe in upholding the law against all the citizens.

00:09:33.640 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Do you remember that? What happened to the mannequin? That lady just stole 1.00

00:09:40.680 it from you. It's actually not mine, but I borrowed it. Thank you very much. All right,

00:09:44.520 sir. I'm going to take that out of abandoned property. Oh my. Oh, that's too bad. Yeah. It ended

00:09:48.840 up in police storage. And I don't know if we're going to throw to a clip of that. Uh, but I can tell you,

00:09:56.300 Sheila, that was absolutely incredible, uh, because that was my first filmed assignment out on the

00:10:04.460 streets. And I would argue it was the best one. I guess that what comes to mind right now, he peaked

00:10:10.960 too soon. But the thing is, um, there was a restaurateur. We're going back, uh, 10 years ago here,

00:10:19.300 Sheila, who was, I thought, and I think most of the city thought was being unfairly persecuted. 1.00

00:10:27.620 Uh, somebody had broken into his restaurant. It wasn't the first time. And he might've even

00:10:34.320 had a knife on him and the restaurateur, I think his name was Mr. Polapati. He had, all he had at his

00:10:42.140 disposal was, um, a tray of spices, which he threw at the, um, the thief. Now, if you can imagine

00:10:49.480 the, the thief, the break and enter person, he got away, but the police for whatever reason

00:10:55.720 decided to charge the restaurateur. I mean, where the hell is castle domain? I mean, once you're

00:11:03.760 invaded either in your home or your business, um, I think you have the right up to lethal force

00:11:10.360 to fight back because there's nowhere else to run. Right. Sheila. So what we did, there was this

00:11:15.300 silver mannequin, uh, that was that, uh, was that this, the Toronto sun newspaper for whatever

00:11:24.040 reason it was for some promotion. And I said, can I borrow that? Cause we were going to do a, uh,

00:11:29.600 a demonstration, uh, that if you are being harassed, here are the proper spices to use. Um, so not to

00:11:37.740 take over your show, but why don't we throw to that clip and you'll see exactly what happened.

00:11:43.220 What I am asking you to do now is I'm going to ask you, sir, this is to, uh, is to take,

00:11:48.960 is to take this. I got some other ones. Hold on a second. You know what? You're not even trying to,

00:11:52.480 you're not even trying to, you're not even listening. Sheila, you couldn't have timed it

00:11:56.340 any better. That was turning into a real nothing burger story. In fact, had that officer not arrived,

00:12:02.920 uh, if she had arrived a minute later, um, we would have been gone. The reason why we were

00:12:09.340 delayed in our departure is when I tossed the cayenne pepper, it was a windy day and both my

00:12:15.680 cameraman and I got the cayenne pepper in our eyes. And so I was standing there like this for like three

00:12:21.580 minutes. And so was the cameraman and my eyes were watering. And when my eyes opened, there were these

00:12:27.080 two police officers. That's how so many of your stories end though. Then there were two police

00:12:34.020 officers. Oh, it was unbelievable. I also have to tell you an unpublished epilogue to that. Uh, Sheila,

00:12:40.720 I received several emails from Toronto police service officers, especially female police officers. 0.99

00:12:48.300 And they were basically saying, Oh, karma is a bitch. This woman was so hated by her subordinates 1.00

00:13:00.660 that they were over the moon. This has been shared everywhere. As a matter of fact, when Efra and I

00:13:06.940 went to, uh, uh, a police division to report the Radisson hotel assault, that was that nut bar, 1.00

00:13:14.400 David Strong, who got handsy with us and our equipment. The Radisson Strangler. The Radisson

00:13:19.900 Strangler. Uh, that's a wonderful gun-ism. Excuse me. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Get your

00:13:26.760 rebel crap news out of here right now. Why is it rebel crap news, sir? Get out. I'll call the police. 0.99

00:13:34.100 Good. And then you'll be charged with assault for what you just did. After the formal interview was

00:13:38.700 over, the officer said, did you used to work at sun news now? I said, yeah. He said, Oh, that thing with

00:13:47.920 the spices. He says, you have no idea how that has lived on. Right. So, so even the police were on my

00:13:55.940 side with that one. Uh, and I think, I think that a Sergeant has since retired. Maybe that was a factor

00:14:03.420 in her early retirement. I don't know, but, um, yeah, that was, uh, that was spectacular. And you

00:14:10.860 know, it's like what Ezra says, uh, Sheila, uh, and that's why we like to go out into the field.

00:14:16.060 So to speak, when you go out there, you have no idea what's going to happen. You have no idea who

00:14:22.300 you're going to meet. Um, and I, I say that on a positive and negative thing. I mean, look at you,

00:14:27.380 what happened to you with that little weasel Dion Buse at a woman's rally decided to get physical 1.00

00:14:33.200 with you. This is one of the strengths of rebel news. Instead of being in front of a green screen

00:14:45.400 and yammering away all the time, cause anyone can do that to actually go out into the field,

00:14:52.620 meet people, talk to protesters, whether they like us or don't. I think that's our strength.

00:14:58.400 And I think it's something the mainstream media doesn't do, or if they do it, it's always a certain

00:15:05.100 narrative, isn't it, Sheila? And I mean, if I wasn't employed by rebel news, I'll tell you this

00:15:10.800 much, I'd be the number one fan of rebel news because no one is delivering our perspective out

00:15:17.580 there. It's one big chorus of trained seals funded by the government and the mainstream media now.

00:15:24.620 And I don't think this, you know, nation, this world has ever needed a rebel news more so than today.

00:15:35.100 I agree. Uh, now I want to ask you, I have a couple of questions about your work at rebel news.

00:15:42.460 What is the story that you're most proud of?

00:15:48.300 Oh, you know what? Um, that's a fantastic, uh, question. Um, you know, I think let's put it this

00:15:56.180 way. I would turn it around and say, which story seems to have resonated so much with our audience.

00:16:04.520 And Sheila, if you can believe it, and it's right now, the one year anniversary of this story,

00:16:09.620 this month with all the insanity in the world, with all the lockdowns, with all the, um, assaults on

00:16:18.860 our freedoms and charter rights with the war in Ukraine, the most oft answer asked question I get

00:16:27.860 from people, Sheila on the streets. It happened to me at Hillcrest mall on Sunday is, Hey, did you ever

00:16:35.200 get your bottle? And the answer is no. It happens to me. I'll be out at a protest in Edmonton or God

00:16:42.200 knows where. And they're like, Hey, rebel news. I'm like, yeah, David never get his liquor. Like what?

00:16:48.020 I'm fine. Thank you for asking. But yeah, no, he didn't.

00:16:51.400 And it's incredible, Sheila, because for those who don't know the story, I went to,

00:16:57.180 this was never a caper. This was never a story. This was me on my own free time buying three bottles

00:17:03.000 of Glenn Farkas, one Oh five scotch. Um, the, when I went into the Lee side, LCBO, uh, liquor store in

00:17:12.600 Toronto, it got off on a bad foot because, well, you know what, Sheila, my mask was evidently below my

00:17:19.300 nose. And twice I had a COVID Karen employee yell at me. And I think this, I'm just guessing right

00:17:27.120 here. Maybe it was an honest mistake. Maybe it was malicious, but when I bought the three bottles,

00:17:33.360 when I got home, they were all, they were packed in canisters and one was empty. So I bought three,

00:17:40.660 but I only received two because people say, well, how could you pick up a canister and not notice

00:17:45.300 there was no weight in it. That was the thing. They were locked behind a cabinet. So the first

00:17:49.820 time I actually picked up the, you know, the canister, uh, was when the empty canister that

00:17:56.040 is, was when I got home because it was a bag of three and I didn't notice the, you know, the weight

00:18:02.120 was one third less than it should be. And LCBO head office ordered the store. I mean, to their credit

00:18:09.580 for a change, they ordered their store and this was just in a matter of like 24 hours, give them his

00:18:16.020 bottle. And so Moka and I went down there to get the bottle, do a little victory lap video. And the

00:18:22.300 manager decided, no, you're not going to get it. But she, it's not her liquor store, Sheila. She, 0.85

00:18:31.460 this is a government owned monopoly. And basically, and this is where it becomes inexplicable to me,

00:18:37.820 Sheila. The, um, she wouldn't give the bottle to us. Not only that, she called the police,

00:18:43.480 which was happy about. Yeah. I said, officer, you got a case of fraud here, not trespass.

00:18:53.540 Ask you to leave a store. I'm going to phone the police. Okay. Phone the police because then I can

00:18:57.220 file a complaint of fraud against you, Ashley. In the aftermath. And it's been a year now.

00:19:02.260 I understand our lawyer sent a demand letter to the LCBO basically to fulfill what they agreed to,

00:19:09.000 to give me my bottle. It was ignored. So I think it's heading to small claims court.

00:19:14.880 And, but Sheila, I don't understand it. It's inexplicable in that LCBO corporate agreed.

00:19:22.600 I had been ripped off. They told that store to give me my bottle. She, the manager would not give me the

00:19:29.060 bottle. And now when we reach out to the boss at the LCBO, Hey, you know, live up to your agreement.

00:19:35.500 It's like, Oh, just go away. We're ignoring you. None of this makes sense. But I think it resonated

00:19:43.260 with our audience, especially those in Ontario and other provinces, unlike Alberta, where you have a

00:19:49.320 privatized system, where you have government monopoly liquor stores. They're telling you what you can buy

00:19:57.060 and what you cannot buy. And if you don't like it, it's our way or the highway, literally, you know,

00:20:02.440 in the case of people in Toronto drive the Buffalo. And of course, if you don't have your vaccine,

00:20:06.980 you can't even do that. You can't get over the peace bridge anymore. And so it's this authoritarian

00:20:12.940 oligarchy that is in the booze business. But why is the government in the booze business in the first 0.99

00:20:19.580 place? Their role is to tax and to regulate. That's it. Not to warehouse and retail alcohol.

00:20:26.940 That's the way it used to be in Alberta until I believe the early nineties when your system was

00:20:32.740 privatized. And that's the way it should be everywhere. And by the way, for this, the biggest

00:20:37.980 fallacy of all, Sheila, is, Oh, well, the government can't get rid of those liquor stores. It's a cash cow. 1.00

00:20:43.520 No, no, no. The LCBO reports its revenues, including the taxation. So in other words,

00:20:50.040 if the system here was privatized, the amount of money that the government would bring in on tax

00:20:56.820 revenue, Sheila, would be just the same, whether it's a private or a government run system. So

00:21:04.140 that's a falsehood too. So for all the viewers out there that are still wondering if I'm going to get

00:21:10.960 my bottle, we're not going to, we're not going to bend the knee. Maybe they want us to go away.

00:21:14.980 We're not going away. Um, all you've inspired me, Sheila, to give our lawyer a call later today and

00:21:21.260 find out what's going on on that file. Yeah. I think for Albertans, it resonated with us too,

00:21:26.420 because if not for Ralph Klein, that could be us, but also for us who have, you know, a liquor store

00:21:33.040 in every corner. And if they rip us off, we don't shop there anymore. We get to choose to go somewhere

00:21:38.800 else, but they don't rip you off because of, you know, they're required to give you at least decent

00:21:44.580 customer service because there's some accountability and checks and balances built into capitalism that

00:21:50.060 there are not built into a government, um, system. You have government employees just getting away

00:21:56.840 with ripping off the taxpayer and there's no accountability and it's everything that is

00:22:02.040 absolutely wrong with government. They're stealing an entrepreneurial opportunity from the working

00:22:06.860 man, largely immigrants actually out here in Alberta who open up liquor stores. The government

00:22:12.400 has just stolen that opportunity from them. You've got to pay people who rip you off government wages

00:22:18.320 and benefits to work in retail, which is crazy. That's factored into the price of your liquor.

00:22:25.020 And then when they do rip you off, you get stuck in the feedback loop of government bureaucracy where

00:22:30.460 it's like, we'll help you, but this guy doesn't care. And we'll send you back down the chain and

00:22:33.740 then back around and back around. And in the meantime, a year later, David Menzies has to

00:22:38.120 engage a lawyer to get a bottle of whiskey that he paid for in the first place. And this is it,

00:22:43.200 Sheila. When you have a government sanctioned monopoly, you don't have to provide customer

00:22:47.160 service. A quick anecdote in Richmond Hill earlier this month, I saw a guy, he got to the LCBO

00:22:53.660 at Young and Crosby. It was just like 10 seconds after 9 PM and they had already locked the doors.

00:23:02.660 I was on my way out and he was basically begging the employee there. You know, I ran for eight blocks.

00:23:10.040 You know, I just need one bottle. And she was going, I have, I have to check with my manager. I'm not

00:23:17.480 supposed to let anyone in. I don't know if he actually did get in. The point I'm making here,

00:23:22.980 Sheila, is that if this was Sheila Gunn-Reed's liquor store. We're open till 2. We're open till

00:23:30.880 2 AM. Exactly. But even if this guy came at one minute after 2 AM and he very kindly said, oh,

00:23:38.380 please, I just need a bottle of such and such. And I'll be on my way. Are you going to say, oh,

00:23:42.760 no, sorry, sir. 2 AM. It's very strict. Or you know what? I'm going to cater to your needs.

00:23:48.160 Absolutely. Come on in. I think you would let him come in because you're in a competitive

00:23:52.600 situation in Alberta and he'll remember you being mean to him and he'll never go to your store again.

00:23:57.420 He'll go to somebody else. So it was just, you know, a little vignette I saw of the authoritarianism

00:24:05.740 in retail when retail should always be about customer service excellence.

00:24:10.560 I still, it just shocks me that the government is involved in liquor sales there and the liquor

00:24:16.620 stores are closing at nine. Where are you living? This Toronto, those small town liquor stores out

00:24:22.080 here are open till 2 AM. I know we spent a lot of time on this and I know they need the studio for

00:24:25.880 the live stream shortly. So I got to move along. What story was the most fun for you? And I guess,

00:24:33.820 where did the costumes come from? You know what? I'll tell you, Sheila,

00:24:39.320 as the saying goes, not so funny when it happened, but looking back and we were playing this just

00:24:46.980 earlier this month because of what I call the transanity that's happening. You might recall, 1.00

00:24:52.500 I went down to the Air Canada Centre, now the Scotiabank Arena, where the Toronto Raptors play to try out

00:24:59.180 as a Toronto Raptors cheerleader. And, uh, I mean, the costume was ridiculous, but the mandates were

00:25:06.880 you had to show your midriff, right? So, and, uh, we were just coming off a long winter. You know what 0.98

00:25:13.160 I'm saying? And my persona is Lady Menzoid. I'm going to see if I can crack the team. And it was a goof. 1.00

00:25:19.000 It was a spoof. I walk into this building. There were Sheila, I would say 300 of the most beautiful,

00:25:28.420 most athletic woman I have ever seen in my life. And along comes Herman Munster in a miniskirt,

00:25:34.980 uh, trying to get a cheerleader job and, and, and like the stink eye I was getting. Although one

00:25:41.200 woman did come up to me and, uh, inexplicably said, you know what? I so support what you're doing. And I 0.86

00:25:47.720 thought, uh, like what, uh, kicking a woman out of the cheerleading squad, you know? And basically

00:25:54.620 the way it ended was me saying, uh, it in the most outrageous thing I could think of Sheila,

00:26:02.580 that the Raptors blew it by not hiring me as the first male pro sports trans cheerleader, because

00:26:09.580 it could have been like Jackie Robinson in 1946. Uh, the first black baseball player,

00:26:17.300 that was allowed to play in major league baseball. Uh, he was the one who broke the color barrier.

00:26:24.020 I could have been the first trans cheerleader in all of pro sports. I mean, just think about it.

00:26:30.400 It'd be like when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Now I can tell you that was five years ago,

00:26:35.580 2017 Sheila. And you know, and our haters were going, Oh, here's rebel news and Menzies at their

00:26:40.560 transphobic basketball, blah, blah, blah, blah. But just earlier this month, a university professor

00:26:47.800 at Purdue, professor cookie, I'm not making that up. Uh, she wrote a piece where she was comparing

00:26:55.580 Leah Thomas, uh, the, the male cheater who is, uh, cleaning up in the pool in the NCAA, this, uh,

00:27:04.800 gender and women's studies professor was comparing Leah Thomas to drum roll, please Jackie Robinson. 0.98

00:27:12.660 So what I'm saying, Sheila is that what was a goof, what was a parody, what was a stunt in 2017

00:27:19.200 and which incurred the wrath of the leftist progressives in 2022, it's become real. It,

00:27:27.680 the idea of biological men competing against females is being likened to Jackie Robinson,

00:27:35.720 the first black man to play in major league baseball. It, it, it is outrageous. It it's, 0.99

00:27:42.680 it's despicable, but look what's happened in just five years, Sheila.

00:27:46.920 And we're supposed to pretend it's stunning and brave and not absolutely unscientific mumbo jumbo.

00:27:54.240 Um, you know what I would like to see you revive. And I say this as, uh, the editor in chief

00:28:00.080 generation Trudeau. Now that the pubs are open again, the weather's warming up,

00:28:05.320 let's go out and see what's up with generation Trudeau, the young Trudeau voters. That was,

00:28:10.560 you know what, Sheila, uh, you must be psychic because we were just talking about that the other

00:28:16.260 day. Now, remember there were two generation Trudeau ones. One was a generation Trudeau on campus

00:28:22.820 where we'd go and we make up a completely outrageous premise. I mean, I think the first

00:28:28.680 one was one of the best where we went to Ryerson and we went to predominantly female students because

00:28:34.020 it was 2016. It was the, uh, 100th anniversary of the woman's suffrage movement. And I had my little

00:28:41.200 clipboard and I said, well, you sign a petition to denounce woman's suffrage and like ants to a jam jar. 1.00

00:28:47.940 They, and I mean, this was during the 100th anniversary. Surely if you don't know what the

00:28:54.760 word suffrage meant, it was in the news cycle that year. And we got dozens of signatures from

00:29:01.140 mostly woman saying, yeah, um, you know, uh, those who conduct suffrage on woman, uh, they should be 0.82

00:29:08.900 called out. What about those people, uh, as I was asking your friend earlier that actually support

00:29:13.540 woman's suffrage? Um, I guess we need to educate them. So there was generation Trudeau on campus 0.96

00:29:20.460 where we make up something and the brainiacs, uh, on our university and college campuses, they,

00:29:27.160 they always fall for it. And then there's, um, generation Trudeau after dark in which we just ask

00:29:33.940 a straight question, no trickery because the interview subjects are all wasted and inebriated and fully

00:29:42.320 drunk. And if I were to think any sort of like woman power or anything like that, like, I think 1.00

00:29:48.140 that we would actually run the city and country. Every second time we do that, there's always like

00:29:56.320 some female Ryerson journalism student that comes up and gives us a lecture on the ethics of interviewing 1.00

00:30:05.360 drunk people. And I would think that you're a sexist piece of shit. And wouldn't be the first 1.00

00:30:11.160 sign that's been alleged. And I always say this, I say, listen, sometimes alcohol works as truth

00:30:17.140 serum. You're really getting, you know, but the thing is it's unintentionally hilarious. You're

00:30:23.280 right. Finally, after two years, the pubs are back open. So we're going to go down again at closing

00:30:28.380 time, which is, uh, after 2 AM. And, uh, all you have to do is put a microphone in somebody's face

00:30:34.260 and, uh, the hilarity that ensues, um, is, uh, is astonishing. So yeah, thank you for reminding me

00:30:40.980 about that, Sheila. Yeah. And, you know, with regard to women's suffrage, I might seriously sign

00:30:46.620 that petition depending on the day and how many of my fellow females voted for Justin Trudeau because 0.98

00:30:52.560 of his hair. Some days I'm like, should they have given us the vote? I'm not, I'm not sure.

00:30:56.600 Um, I'm willing to hear, I'm willing to hear arguments. Um, what would be the one thing that

00:31:04.660 our viewers would be surprised to know about you, David Menzies? Oh my goodness. Um, let me think

00:31:12.740 about what would they be surprised, uh, to know about me? Um, I would say maybe it's this, um,

00:31:21.140 even at my advanced age. Um, I love cycling. It was a beautiful day in Toronto yesterday,

00:31:27.720 got the road bike out for the first time in once. And, uh, you know, I live in Richmond Hill.

00:31:32.740 You just go a couple of clicks North of Elgin Mills. You're in the country. You have endless

00:31:37.080 kilometers of, uh, pavement where you don't come across a stop sign or a traffic light is a cyclist

00:31:43.860 paradise. And basically, well, Sheila, let's put it this way. As you know, I am fat, but without my

00:31:50.920 cycling regimen, I am circus fat. Uh, I don't want to appear, uh, as a, um, uh, a subject on, um,

00:31:58.840 my 600 pound life. So, so without that, and, um, I can tell you this, uh, sometimes I have to drag

00:32:07.860 myself on the bicycle, but I will say this, that I think as a species, we were never meant to be 100%

00:32:16.180 sedentary. And what I noticed is that when I'm on my bike and you know, you're burning the calories,

00:32:22.520 you're getting into a sweat, you got the endorphin rush. Um, I think it helps the brain as well,

00:32:28.500 because Sheila, I can't tell you how many times that mid ride I have an epiphany. I come across

00:32:35.760 a fantastic idea for rebel news. I, Oh, of course this would be a, a gem. And, um, I'll say this to

00:32:42.680 everybody out there, we, you know, we've had a tough two years with the gyms cruelly and unnecessarily 1.00

00:32:48.600 shut down. Um, but you know, get active. I mean, I, it almost sounds like I'm auditioning for

00:32:54.220 one of the, um, roles in, uh, the participation ads. Remember those when, when the, the 60 year old

00:33:01.960 Swede was more physically fit than the 30, the 30 year old Canadian. Um, but yeah, that that's, uh,

00:33:09.040 maybe something people don't know about me in terms of my personal life. Um, I'm, you know,

00:33:15.100 uh, I buy a lot of lottery tickets too, Sheila. I gotta tell you, I, my dream is to buy the

00:33:20.100 performance Batmobile made by fiberglass freaks in Indiana. I think there's only five left 0.99

00:33:25.640 officially licensed by DC comics. Yeah. So while other people use their lottery winnings, I don't

00:33:30.580 know, to buy real estate and see compound returns every year. I want to buy a Batmobile. I just want to

00:33:35.880 cruise young street as the Cape crusader. Oh my goodness. That's the best poor lady Menzies in 1.00

00:33:59.000 your Robin outfit. Oh, can you imagine? I mean, really the Robin costume was surely designed for

00:34:08.020 a female, right? I mean, like red tunic, green short shorts, yellow cape. Oh, say it loud. Boy wonder 0.99

00:34:15.680 say it loud. Um, by the way, David, I think people could put together the fact that you are a cyclist

00:34:23.000 because we've all seen your legs when you tried out for the cheerleaders and your legs looked great.

00:34:27.940 That was the first thing I thought about when I saw that, that, uh, video was, well, David's got

00:34:34.420 no shame, but also nothing to be ashamed of with those legs. Yeah. I've never been objectified before

00:34:42.200 Sheila. You'll get over it. Um, one last question, cause I know they need the studio for the live

00:34:50.140 stream. What would you be doing if you were not working for rebel news? Um, probably cutting

00:34:59.040 somebody's lawn or something, uh, uh, driving for Uber, maybe I, you know, Sheila, here's the thing.

00:35:08.340 Um, and it said, but if anything happened to rebel news or if, you know, for whatever reason, uh,

00:35:16.020 it was decided that I'm no longer needed here, even with my decades of journalism experience,

00:35:21.960 even with my track record, um, my name is mud in terms of the media. I think that would be true 1.00

00:35:29.300 of every rebel. They would, the first thing they would look at because right now we're in a realm

00:35:34.420 of cancel culture. Sorry. With a couple of exceptions, if you, if for whatever reason,

00:35:42.520 rebel news fell apart or we all got fired for some reason, the only way our careers would be

00:35:49.160 salvageable is if we turned around and tried to burn down what was left on our way out the door.

00:35:55.360 And I think we all know who I'm talking about. Anyway, keep going.

00:35:58.480 No, but I mean, you know, the truth of the matter Sheila is that the mainstream media now marches in

00:36:06.800 lockstep with one another. They're all government funded. They are all trained seals. Um, you know,

00:36:13.300 the, the commentary we do, the stories we do here, um, you would never see in the mainstream media.

00:36:22.060 It would be third rail stuff. It would be too politically incorrect. And, um,

00:36:28.480 again, it goes back to what I said, you know, without rebel news, um, you wouldn't get our

00:36:32.880 content basically from anyone. But the point is, uh, my journalism career would be over because

00:36:41.100 nobody would hire me. Um, I used to be, I guessed like in the here and now I used to be a guest on a

00:36:47.040 lot of radio stations, um, and some TV stations. Um, I'm persona non grata. What have I done? Have I

00:36:54.500 committed a crime? Have I defamed anyone? Have I been sued for libel? Am I, you know, too much of

00:37:00.100 a loose cannon? No, I would say no. It's just that I have the wrong ideology. I have the wrong

00:37:06.540 viewpoint. When I listened to TV and radio, uh, these days, Sheila, I mean, the, uh, great Dick 0.93

00:37:13.800 battles quote comes to mind. If some of these cats don't get off the air soon, I'm going to stop

00:37:19.600 breathing it. Okay. It is just a vapid and vacuous and safe way of covering the news. Um,

00:37:29.220 I think when you go safe, I think when you go politically correct and woke, you are going

00:37:36.840 boring. That is the biggest sin of all. I think in this business, Sheila, I always say, be good,

00:37:43.180 be bad, be so bad that you're actually good, but to be boring is an unforgivable sin. And that's what

00:37:51.120 I see out there in the media landscape. Now, even if I agreed to be part of the boring course,

00:37:55.440 it doesn't matter. The first thing they'd see on my resume is rebel employee for the last, uh,

00:38:00.920 seven years. And that goes right away, uh, into the trash bin. So I really don't know what I would

00:38:07.480 do. It would have to be something outside of journalism. Uh, I don't think I have the brainpower

00:38:12.660 to start my own news network like Ezra did because, you know, Sheila, it's one thing to

00:38:17.960 record a video and post it on YouTube or what have you, but it's quite another thing to monetize it,

00:38:23.960 to make it an actual business. And that's what this is. I mean, I believe we've doubled our staff

00:38:29.700 in the last year and these aren't volunteers. Everyone's getting a paycheck signed by the big

00:38:35.640 boss, man. This is the brilliance of Ezra. And I'm not trying, you know, to, uh, you know,

00:38:42.660 praise someone just because he's my boss, but to create something out of nothing and then actually,

00:38:49.760 you know, monetize it and make it profitable without dipping your hands, your filthy claws

00:38:57.960 into the taxpayer trough, uh, twas ever thus with the CBC. Now it's every newspaper magazine

00:39:04.560 practically, isn't it Sheila in the mainstream? I think that is an incredible achievement.

00:39:10.580 And one last point, I think a lot of the journalists and the mainstream or legacy media,

00:39:16.220 however you want to call it, I think they resent us in a way because they're jealous of us, Sheila.

00:39:23.520 We get to cover and we get to say the things they so desperately want to, but realize that if they did,

00:39:32.420 they're going to be reprimanded or even fired, uh, for doing so. And because we have that kind

00:39:39.280 of editorial freedom and it's pure freedom, we don't answer to any master. Our audience is our

00:39:46.200 master. We don't get taxpayer handouts. We, you know, we're not funded by some secret Mr. X billionaire.

00:39:53.240 I think they resent that they resent our, the way that we can, um, you know, depict and cover stories.

00:40:01.780 And, um, much of the hatred is just based on jealousy, Sheila, nothing else.

00:40:07.440 Yeah, I agree with you. I'm not sure that I would find another career in journalism. Not sure that I

00:40:13.820 would want one. I'd rather not sell my soul to be liked by a cabal or a coven of other journalists

00:40:19.900 that hate my guts anyway, and hate everything that I stand for. I, I, I'd rather be authentic

00:40:26.520 than be in the cool kids club. And for me, um, I do like being liked by certain people. And for me,

00:40:33.580 it's when I'm out in the world and I hear from somebody who's seen one of our stories

00:40:37.420 that I wasn't sure that anybody would care when I ever did the story, but they say, well, thanks for

00:40:42.880 covering that thing. Or I didn't think anybody cared about that issue either, but then you talked about

00:40:48.720 it. And then I realized that there were other people just like me. That's the stuff I care

00:40:53.100 about. As you were talking, I was Googling, um, a quote from Andrew Breitbart and it was in,

00:40:57.380 I remembered it like that. It was a righteous indignation. It was in his book, righteous

00:41:01.240 indignation. And he writes while adulation has its moments and can be like a bath in warm water after

00:41:07.600 coming in from a snowstorm, the psychic high from standing up for what you believe in and being

00:41:12.340 attacked for it's far surpassed the comfort to be derived from that bath of praise. That's

00:41:18.500 how I feel about everything, every single day.

00:41:21.280 You know, and, and I'll tell you, Sheila, you are a gem. I don't know anyone harder working at this

00:41:26.200 company, except for maybe the boss, Ezra. I don't even think Ezra sleeps at weird times.

00:41:35.160 I know. And, uh, and hopefully you don't know something. I don't know. Hopefully you don't

00:41:39.880 know about some meeting. I have to go into the boardroom where, uh, uh, there's a certain piece

00:41:45.300 of paper and the hue is pink. So I have to resort to, uh, you know, Johnny LaRue. Please,

00:41:52.120 Mr. Caballero, give me one more chance, please, please. Cause I would cry for this job that I would,

00:41:59.460 I have no shame.

00:42:00.080 Well, David, I know they need the studio and I know you're, you're a busy guy. Um, you have,

00:42:06.580 uh, stories to do today, or at least that's what you tell me. I'm the editor in chief,

00:42:10.540 so don't lie to me.

00:42:12.480 Would I lie to you, Sheila?

00:42:14.180 No, never. Um, I just want to thank you, uh, so much for taking this trip down memory lane and,

00:42:19.780 uh, letting our viewers get to know you in the way that I do. I think you're just a real asset to

00:42:24.080 the company and a real asset to me, uh, in my life because you just are a really genuine friend.

00:42:29.600 So thanks, David.

00:42:30.840 Well, thank you so much, Sheila. One thing, never abbreviate asset because you know what you end up

00:42:36.620 with. And Sheila, um, uh, like I said, uh, this company is all the stronger for you. Um, you have an

00:42:48.480 incredible work ethic. You, you're, I think you're the best journalist in Canada when it comes to going

00:42:54.440 through those FOI, uh, information claims. You're able to go through reams and reams of data and pick

00:43:02.000 out the, uh, smoking gun moments. No one does it better than you. And I'm so happy to be on your

00:43:07.980 show. And, uh, thank you so much yet again, Sheila. Thanks, David. We'll see you on the live stream.

00:43:13.780 You got it.

00:43:18.480 Well, that was fun. I talked to David Menzies, like I say, a couple hours every single week live

00:43:26.420 on air, but there's always so much to learn about him. He's like an onion. You just keep peeling back

00:43:31.680 the layers and there's just more and more and more David. If you like that kind of thing. Now

00:43:37.660 this is a very David Menzies centric show and I'm teasing him. I think it's pretty clear that,

00:43:43.080 you know, that I have great affection for my friend David Menzies. Um, but this is a very David

00:43:48.040 Menzies centric show. And I thought I would devote my letters portion of the show, the new letters

00:43:52.860 portion of the show, because I didn't always have a letters portion of the show where I read viewer

00:43:58.340 feedback. And I thought, why not read viewer feedback to one of David's stories? His most recent story

00:44:04.340 was a commentary on transgender athletes competing against biological females. And when will somebody

00:44:13.540 have the tenacity, the bravery, the honesty, or the unmitigated gall to just say the emperor has no

00:44:22.980 clothes? So let's read a comment from Rumble on David's recent commentary on this. Obuthin writes,

00:44:31.360 not just women in sports face these fake women and have ended up losing their right to fairly compete 1.00

00:44:36.960 and be recognized as the best in their sport. After years of physically conditioning their bodies to

00:44:42.100 their maximum ability. Nope. That's not the complete damage done with all this gender mix and match 1.00

00:44:48.320 that so many political hacks are shoving down society's throats. If you are a woman or a woman 1.00

00:44:54.520 in your family that ever goes to prison, you could end up being placed in a prison cell with one of

00:44:59.780 these men. That's right. Our woke politicians have approved that a male prisoner that identifies as a 0.89

00:45:07.220 woman and that has no surgery to remove their male reproductive organs can and will be placed in 1.00

00:45:12.820 the same cell as a woman prisoner. This is already happening and has been happening for some time. 0.99

00:45:18.780 The mainstream media refuses to address this so as to make it a conspiracy theory. I guess it's just

00:45:24.880 make-believe that female prisoners are reporting that they have been raped by these so-called 0.99

00:45:28.720 transgender prisoners. If I understand things correctly, there are even female inmates who 0.96

00:45:34.860 are now pregnant because of these men. All thanks to our woke politicians who find it more important

00:45:39.460 to secure votes from the woke community than to protect members of society. Even if these members

00:45:45.360 of society are in prison, they still deserve to be safe in their own cell, in their own bed,

00:45:50.320 not raped by the roommate as they try to sleep. But again, no one person in the administration that

00:45:57.080 governs the prison system seems to give a damn. All they seem to come up with are extremely lame 0.97

00:46:02.120 and ignorant and self-serving excuses to try and justify why they are allowing one of the most 0.99

00:46:07.760 hideous crimes to be committed against another human being while these people are under their care 0.99

00:46:12.700 and oversight. To allow this to happen shows just how cowardly these officials are and that they do not

00:46:18.580 have what is needed to run administer this system. Cowards, one and all. It's interesting that this 0.99

00:46:24.600 comment was left on one of David's stories about transgender athletes because David Menzies has

00:46:31.560 been a staunch advocate for the safety of women in Canada's prison systems. He's covered many protests

00:46:40.360 where women are protesting outside of women's institutions for the safety of the women who are 0.92

00:46:47.880 incarcerated within. And even at one of his protests, I thought it was very compelling. A person who

00:46:55.180 identifies as transgender, female to male transgender was there saying that this is completely unacceptable,

00:47:03.100 is dangerous for the women inside the prison. Even reasonable trans people see the problem with 0.98

00:47:09.380 putting male offenders, biological male offenders in with biological women while they are incarcerated

00:47:17.200 behind bars captive victims for these still remaining biological male offenders.

00:47:23.680 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. What a great and thoughtful letter. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week. If you would like to have your letter to me read on air, it's really easy. Just send me an email to Sheila at rebelnews.com. I don't think you could forget that. Sheila at rebelnews.com. And just in the subject line, put gun show letters so that I can easily search it.

00:47:53.680 And find it and find it and find it. And I do not screen them for quality and I don't screen them for content. So write what you want. I'll pick it at random and I'll read it on air. And you know, frankly, the longer the better. Thanks to everybody in the office in Toronto for turning this into a show. I'll see everybody, like I said, back here in the same time in the same place next week. And as always, remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:48:20.380 You know, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:48:50.360 You know, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:48:52.240 You know, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:48:53.360 Yeah. That's the government tell you that they've been able to think.

00:48:54.880 So can you keep doing something to think?

00:48:56.920 No.

00:48:57.280 Yeah.

00:48:58.380 Yeah.

00:48:58.920 Yeah.

00:48:59.480 Yeah.

00:48:59.880 Yeah.

00:49:00.420 Definitely.

00:49:00.740 Yeah.

00:49:01.000 No.

00:49:02.920 Yeah.

00:49:03.100 Great.

00:49:04.720 Yeah.

00:49:05.780 Yeah.

00:49:06.920 Yeah.

00:49:08.040 Yeah.

00:49:08.920 I.

00:49:10.320 Yeah.

00:49:10.740 Yeah.

00:49:12.060 Yeah.

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00:49:16.540 Yeah.

00:49:16.920 Yeah.

00:49:18.140 Yeah.

00:49:19.560 Yeah.

Rebel News Podcast - April 21, 2022

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ The David Menzies Special

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