Rebel News Podcast - November 05, 2020


With US election undecided, the future of oil & gas hangs in the balance


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On this episode of The Gunn Show, my friend Robbie Picard joins me from his home in Fort McMurray, Alberta to talk about the results of the U.S. election and what that means for the Canadian oil patch.

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00:01:29.860 Last night, there was an election in the United States.
00:01:49.240 What does that mean for the Canadian oil patch?
00:01:52.160 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:01:55.040 We'll be right back.
00:02:25.020 Now, as I glance out of the corner of my eye over at foxnews.com, nothing has been decided
00:02:33.420 in the American election.
00:02:35.240 The swing states that Trump was leading in when we went to bed last night, or in my case,
00:02:42.200 early this morning.
00:02:43.040 Those are all shifting towards Biden, and foxnews.com has Biden sitting right now at 238 electoral
00:02:53.760 college votes, and Trump at 213.
00:02:58.600 They need to make it to 270 to decide the president.
00:03:04.340 We don't know anything yet.
00:03:05.480 But that hasn't stopped me from bringing you what we know so far and a little bit of analysis
00:03:12.960 about what this all means for Alberta and the Canadian oil patch.
00:03:18.260 Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris are both anti-oil and gas.
00:03:23.040 Kamala is more upfront about it, but Biden has said that he will put an end to fracking
00:03:28.040 and the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:03:30.340 So, joining me now in an interview we recorded just moments ago is my friend Robbie Picard from
00:03:38.620 Oil Sand Strong to bring us some of his analysis about what is unfolding in the United States
00:03:46.500 in the election.
00:04:02.780 Joining me now from his home in Fort McMurray is my good friend, good friend of the show,
00:04:09.060 and good friend to the energy sector worker is Robbie Picard.
00:04:15.140 Now, Robbie, you and I were talking earlier this week about the election.
00:04:20.200 It seems to be all that anybody can talk about.
00:04:23.020 When we went to bed last night or early this morning, it looked like Trump kind of had those
00:04:31.100 swing states in the bag.
00:04:33.100 It looked like there were to be no more votes counted, at least at night.
00:04:39.020 And yet, something shifted overnight in favour of Biden.
00:04:44.980 I was apprehensive in the lead up to the election.
00:04:47.620 I wasn't confident.
00:04:49.920 I remain unconfident.
00:04:52.700 What do you think is happening right now?
00:04:56.100 Honestly, I don't know.
00:04:57.860 I'm surprised at how shocked that I'm personally so invested in this.
00:05:01.520 I could be nonpartisan, but this is a tough one, because if Biden becomes president, I give
00:05:13.240 Biden three years tops as president, and then we're going to be dealing with Kamala. 0.88
00:05:18.920 And what that means for Fort McMurray is devastating.
00:05:24.500 And I think that, I mean, the main reason I'm concerned is because, you know, I opened
00:05:30.460 the energy center, the war room, whatever, for Jason Kenney, and I held up a nice cell
00:05:33.880 of the poster with Sapporo Berman on it.
00:05:36.360 And then Berman kind of disappeared after she got the $2 million and started working behind 0.84
00:05:40.640 the scenes quite effectively, hitting municipalities with this whole anti-oil sands rhetoric.
00:05:45.580 That's scary enough, but what's scarier is that Naomi Klein wrote this thing called the
00:05:51.660 Leap Manifesto, and the Leap Manifesto is actually the Green New Deal, which she got 0.91
00:05:57.060 in with AOC, and AOC and Kamala and all that have been working kind of on that.
00:06:02.860 So, never mind Keystone, which will be instantaneously canceled under Biden, and you can kiss the train
00:06:09.960 to Alaska goodbye.
00:06:11.220 You will, I think, have a far more aggressive approach.
00:06:18.860 And I don't believe that Biden will kill fracking in the States.
00:06:21.920 What I think will happen is, is that he will give Canada back and put us, what they did for 0.68
00:06:26.860 years, made us the scapegoat for all of their environmental failures.
00:06:31.760 The oil sands were the best diversion tactic for all of the stuff they did in California,
00:06:36.100 all of their lower environmental standards than us, for a long time.
00:06:41.020 Under Obama, that's when the United States became the largest producer of oil and gas
00:06:47.700 in the world.
00:06:48.240 That was under Obama.
00:06:49.520 Trump carried it over.
00:06:51.740 So, I don't know what's going to happen.
00:06:53.480 And I'm blown away, though, because you said I went to bed, and I'm thinking, okay, Trump's
00:06:58.600 got this.
00:06:59.800 And it is very odd how all of a sudden, like, magically, these other votes are completely
00:07:06.980 opposite of the votes coming in.
00:07:09.280 But I don't, I criticize Greta Thunberg.
00:07:12.940 I don't tell people how to vote, particularly in other countries.
00:07:15.120 I can't believe that little pipsqueak gets so much attention for her absolute ludicrous 1.00
00:07:21.820 nonsense that she spews. 1.00
00:07:24.540 And, I mean, I've had enough of that.
00:07:26.840 It's not my place to tell Americans how to vote.
00:07:28.660 Here's what I did learn.
00:07:30.340 When you watch Florida, I'm hoping one good thing comes out of this.
00:07:34.500 Enough with identity politics.
00:07:37.220 A black guy can be a Republican.
00:07:39.600 He can also be a Democrat.
00:07:41.300 A black guy can believe in climate change, or he might not. 0.99
00:07:44.040 Enough painting all this.
00:07:46.200 What the Democrats constantly do is, like, people are so different.
00:07:50.640 I would like to see something similar to the electric college in Canada.
00:07:54.260 We have no say in Alberta.
00:07:57.100 Trudeau, and whatever he's up to, he can make our, determine our fate.
00:08:01.300 At least down there, there's a little bit of, like, it doesn't necessarily mean population.
00:08:05.460 Texas has a say.
00:08:06.900 Michigan.
00:08:07.480 Those little places can actually make a difference.
00:08:09.760 Once, you know, Quebec and Ontario are done, you know, it doesn't matter what we do.
00:08:14.040 They determine our future constantly.
00:08:16.620 That's a broken system.
00:08:20.340 I'm very fearful of, I mean, I'm very fearful of what's going to happen with Keystone.
00:08:29.620 That's a lifeline for us.
00:08:32.280 And honestly, when it comes to defending oil and gas, I mean, President Trump has done a far better job for Canada than our Prime Minister Trudeau.
00:08:43.400 So, we'll see how it plays out in the next couple hours.
00:08:47.660 But Michigan's still very close.
00:08:49.100 I mean, it boils down to Michigan.
00:08:50.420 Who's going to win?
00:08:51.680 Yes.
00:08:52.000 I should remind everybody who's watching this later on after it goes to air that we are recording this at 10 a.m. Alberta time.
00:08:59.720 And my show goes to air later on in the evening.
00:09:03.440 So, some of the things we say might be outdated, stale by the time this goes to air.
00:09:11.580 But this is the conversation we're having at this moment in time right now.
00:09:15.460 And things are changing so fast now when they weren't changing at all for hours last night.
00:09:21.500 I want to ask you one more thing.
00:09:24.060 And it's, I guess, it touches on the ethical nature of Canadian oil and gas.
00:09:30.520 You said that you suspect that under a Biden administration, God help us, that there would be further demonization of the Canadian industry.
00:09:40.340 But Biden will do something else that I think will also harm the Canadian industry.
00:09:47.820 And that is he will likely lift sanctions on Iran, which will free up their energy industry to export again.
00:09:57.820 And again, that will gobble up a market share that should belong to Canadian ethical oil and gas.
00:10:02.600 You know, I really wish the, I wish to criticize Donald Trump on one thing.
00:10:12.340 I know a lot of people that really want Trump to win.
00:10:15.680 I also am shocked with people that work in the oil and gas industry that did not want Trump to win at all.
00:10:21.820 And these are people who their entire lives have made money off of oil and gas.
00:10:25.860 If I was to criticize Trump for one thing, humility is something that I think if you got to know him, you'd realize he's a really nice guy who's quite simple.
00:10:37.100 But he didn't come across as overly humble.
00:10:40.920 So now you're in a situation where the mass says, if Iran opens their taps, we're in trouble.
00:10:48.300 North America's in trouble.
00:10:49.380 And our biggest trading partner with the largest unprotected border in the world and all that, we should have each other's backs.
00:10:56.160 I mean, realistically, you know, we should really consider having a stronger relationship with the states than we do the UK, because that's more prevalent to our existence.
00:11:04.540 If the United States sneezes, we catch a cold.
00:11:07.200 And it's very connected, right?
00:11:08.980 So through all these years, like Trump did very good on the economy.
00:11:16.400 He did grow to world peace.
00:11:17.440 And you know what?
00:11:18.100 He put he put Iran in line. 0.60
00:11:22.400 He there hasn't been ISIS.
00:11:24.780 What happened to ISIS before? 0.73
00:11:26.440 ISIS, ISIS, ISIS, ISIS.
00:11:27.920 They were burning people alive.
00:11:30.640 I think people that, you know, were against Trump don't really understand how he held the world together.
00:11:37.800 He China was devastating the American economy. 1.00
00:11:41.220 And all of a sudden, like, you know, anyone that I know that has investments are all invested in the United States under Trump.
00:11:47.200 So I, yes, it'll go back to Obama.
00:11:52.060 And but honestly, Biden's nothing.
00:11:55.580 And it's more Kamala and the squad and what's going to happen when AOC, she takes the house. 1.00
00:12:02.340 And yeah, yeah, I'm very scary.
00:12:06.340 I'm not worried about Biden, actually.
00:12:08.480 I'm worried about.
00:12:09.980 But I mean, Biden, respectfully, and I'm not a person, you know me, I don't make fun of age or, you know, if someone's a woman or a man or whatever.
00:12:17.860 But Biden reminds me of some seniors I know that, you know, we're at the dinner table and they were sharp and they would catch something.
00:12:25.180 And then all of a sudden they kind of slipped.
00:12:27.040 He's kind of on the cusp of going and we all know it.
00:12:30.600 And so it won't be when when Nancy Pelosi was talking about that thing about Trump, you know, when he had COVID.
00:12:36.300 But I think that'll come more to Biden and you'll see Kamala, she might be president. 0.98
00:12:43.200 And that's a terrifying that's a terrifying thing for the world right now.
00:12:47.660 Yeah.
00:12:48.020 She's very radical.
00:12:49.500 Well, and the other thing, too, is I think that I mean, oh, OK, so if I was to if I was like to Trump needs the Republicans need to kind of get in the cities a little bit more and and the Democrats, they need to realize that, like, Trump is loved as much as people like for his groffness or whatever.
00:13:14.720 He's very loved. And his supporters, like, I mean, there is something to that.
00:13:20.740 There's something to those people that go out for hours and hours and wait.
00:13:24.020 And they didn't quite say uneducated white voter this time like they did four years ago, where they constantly insulted a good portion of the people being voted, the voters.
00:13:34.840 But overall, I think there's just this disconnect between what people think, what think the reality of what people are dealing with is and what it truly is.
00:13:48.140 And I think we all have different realities.
00:13:49.660 And I think if one thing we need to stop accepting the fact that just because, you know, I I'm a different skin color, I'm a different, you know, if I'm Latino or black or, you know, gay or straight, it means that I automatically line up with the Democrats or the Republicans.
00:14:07.260 Yeah, I think it boils down to what how does the political people being voted for affect my personal life?
00:14:13.760 That's a great point to make, because we saw in Florida was the Cuban community there that helped deliver the state for Donald Trump and Texas.
00:14:25.280 Texas went Republican. I think that was always a safe Republican state.
00:14:29.040 But there are some border counties that were largely Democrat last time that made massive shifts towards Republican.
00:14:40.240 And I think the general consensus was in the past, well, you can't build a border wall right there because you're going to make the Hispanic community angry. 1.00
00:14:51.120 Well, as it turns out, the legal Hispanic community doesn't mind a border wall and and cares about the same things as everybody else, that the immigration rules are followed in their state and that their counties aren't turned into just an illegal walkthrough for people to try to enter into the United States.
00:15:11.280 I think that if you look at socialism, OK, and there's this notion that like with, you know, universal income and all that is somehow equals it's an equalizer.
00:15:31.740 It kind of starts off like that at first. But for all this talk about during COVID-19, the people that were the most hurt were small businesses, small restaurants, pop shops, the little piece of the Canadian or American dream that, you know what, I could open a little gas station.
00:15:53.580 And I could become a mini millionaire and I could, you know, take a few trips and provide college for my kids.
00:15:59.000 That's all slowly dying. I'm actually doing a campaign here in Fort McMurray, trying to get people to support local.
00:16:05.840 And I counted over 30 restaurants have closed in the last the last three years. Various reasons. I can't say like, you know, like whatever.
00:16:12.680 And what has benefited under this is Walmart and Amazon. So socialism, in my opinion, makes it so the very, very rich stay at the top.
00:16:25.320 And then you'll have this sort of level like the Green New Deal comes in and you'll have these political people and then they get paid and they're all make, you know, it'll protect their little bubble. 0.74
00:16:34.000 So I think the Cuban Americans understand that, I'm not saying there's some benefits, like there's always pros and cons to everything.
00:16:43.600 But the ones that have gone over to Florida who've escaped, you know, Castro, you know, they don't feel good about socialism.
00:16:50.960 They want their opportunity to work hard and get ahead and not have to feel constantly like they're owned by the state.
00:16:57.300 And one of the critiques I have is like, I mean, our bureaucracy is endless.
00:17:02.480 I mean, it's endless, endless, endless. I am leaning more towards a libertarian stance because like, why should I have, like, I work hard.
00:17:11.100 I want to choose my own destiny and you have to pay for everyone else. 0.85
00:17:14.220 So I think that this fantasy of socialism is misguided.
00:17:17.460 But I also think that, you know, with like Black Lives Matters, the most people that actually supported it were white people that had, you know, thought this sense of guilt.
00:17:28.040 But if you talk to a lot of black people, they didn't support Black Lives Matters because, and this is what I'm saying, it's like, it's deeper than we realize.
00:17:36.140 And the color of your skin is, I would argue the world slowly but surely is getting more equal and more quality all the time. 0.99
00:17:43.800 It's a long process.
00:17:45.140 And I'm not saying racism doesn't exist or microaggressions, but at the end of the day, I think people want what's best for them and themselves and their families and others, pets or whatever.
00:17:57.620 And it's pretty, it's pretty scary, how fragile it is.
00:18:06.320 Now, I'm not sure, like, what will happen.
00:18:08.780 I mean, I'm sure Michigan will, like, I mean, I imagine this will end up in the Supreme Court.
00:18:13.620 But at the end of the day, I mean, it was, I mean, the pollsters were wrong.
00:18:20.680 You know, here's the other thing, too, is like these, I don't know, these sort of like, what I've learned in the past couple years, because someone has a university degree, it doesn't necessarily make them overly intelligent.
00:18:33.280 Yeah.
00:18:33.420 And I think there's a level of street smarts and life experience that kind of balances it out.
00:18:38.640 And if you're, if the media, if the media is supposed to be fair and balanced and tell a story, well, they sure miss that story of what's going on in America with the people.
00:18:51.960 At no point, they just hate Trump so much.
00:18:54.120 Like, why does Trump have these supporters?
00:18:56.520 Why do people believe in Trump?
00:18:59.340 I also think that this early voting, I mean, I don't know if I agree with it, because I think that it does a bit of a disservice to people, because I don't think you know the whole story.
00:19:08.640 You can vote six months before, your opinion might change five or six times.
00:19:13.880 Like, I mean, personally, I always vote the day of, because I, you know, and I voted on all sides, if you know what I mean.
00:19:22.120 Like, I'm not, I've never once, sometimes it depends on the situation.
00:19:27.580 I might like the candidate better or whatever.
00:19:30.900 But for me personally, I think you should vote closer to, like, it's just a little bit, it's a bit up in the air.
00:19:37.260 I'm not for sure Trump was going to win Michigan last night, and now I'm not sure.
00:19:41.440 Yeah, I mean, it is, a lot of those early voters missed all the Hunter Biden laptop stuff.
00:19:49.240 And how many of those votes would be changed right now due to buyer's remorse,
00:19:55.260 because they cast a vote for another Democrat who is apparently just as crooked as Hillary Clinton was. 1.00
00:20:03.880 Now, I wanted to ask you, now that we've, you know, spent, well, almost 20 minutes talking about the American election,
00:20:11.060 I wanted to ask you a little about something closer to home.
00:20:14.460 And I know that you were a little bit of personally involved in this.
00:20:18.800 The inquiry into the enemies of oil and gas, that's Jason Kenney's investigation,
00:20:26.600 his government's investigation into the foreign funded meddling, into the landlocking of Canadian oil and gas.
00:20:34.800 That report is once again delayed until next year.
00:20:38.660 So a couple months now, again, at least until 2020.
00:20:42.880 I'm, I'm pro this investigation.
00:20:46.020 I'm anti how long it's taking, because the information is there.
00:20:51.060 I could have done this with you, me and our in-house researcher here at Rebel News a lot faster.
00:20:57.340 We could have lawyered it a lot faster and we could have been to the bottom of this.
00:21:00.600 Um, well, I don't understand why it's taking so long and taking so much money to do this.
00:21:07.860 I, I, I don't know either.
00:21:10.880 Um, and it's disappointing that it's taking as long as it is.
00:21:14.060 Um, we all know what has been happening for quite a while.
00:21:17.300 My fear is, I mean, we knew about this five years ago and it's still like, like, I don't know.
00:21:25.380 I don't know why we can't seem to get on the offensive.
00:21:28.920 I mean, what's at stake is huge.
00:21:31.360 It's our entire way of life.
00:21:33.060 Um, it's, um, it's sad that we're not, you know, moving along.
00:21:39.280 I am hopeful though.
00:21:40.420 Maybe, maybe they're finding some good stuff.
00:21:43.080 Um, but it's, I, I do hope that we, I do hope that we progress a lot faster than this because it's, it's taking way too long.
00:21:51.300 Um, and we need to be assertive.
00:21:53.700 We need to really start, uh, we have to change.
00:21:57.580 I mean, like we've, I mean, I don't know.
00:21:59.840 Like, I mean, I, I can only do so much as a lonely advocate in Fort McMurray.
00:22:04.460 Um, it's, uh, you know, like, and I'm proud of the few accomplishments I've had, like with Jane Fonda and, you know, when, um, even the, when I, when I started the entire I Love Oil Sends campaign, uh, those things I think are wins.
00:22:19.560 But as Albertans, like, you know, we, we need to have some patriotism and we need to really be like, this is unacceptable, this attack on our industry.
00:22:31.840 And I mean, I, I, I don't know why it's taking so long, but I hope it speeds up.
00:22:37.580 Well, yeah, and, uh, and again, I appreciate the investigation.
00:22:43.120 I'm glad that someone is finally looking into this in, in a really official capacity instead of independent researchers looking into it.
00:22:50.980 That's great.
00:22:52.020 But at the end of the day, if Justin Trudeau refuses to decertify these fake environmental charities, it's really all for nothing, isn't it?
00:23:04.060 Um, yes, except at least then we have, at least we're more aware of what we're up against.
00:23:11.380 And once it's official, it doesn't enable us to fight back a little harder and call them out on their nonsense.
00:23:16.720 We know that it was a foreign funded attack against us to suppress our resources.
00:23:19.700 We've known that for years, right from the Rockefeller report.
00:23:22.180 The fact that that was even done, um, the question is now is, you know, what are we willing to do about it?
00:23:26.980 And I think we're, uh, I think we're very complacent, even in Fort McMurray.
00:23:33.060 We, we, we just think that it's never going to, people want to live their lives.
00:23:37.040 Like, I mean, even myself, I just want to go look for weird antiques on the weekends.
00:23:40.360 You know what I mean?
00:23:40.940 I don't want to, I don't want to stress all the time, but I think we need to start stressing.
00:23:44.780 We need to start showing a little bit more teeth and we need to say, you know, like there is no such thing as green energy.
00:23:52.820 They're, they're talking about solar panels failing now and they're going to be at the dump.
00:23:56.980 The, the toxic tailings ponds that they have for rare earth minerals, those poor little kids in China and all these mines in Africa that are, have horrible working conditions.
00:24:06.800 And we sat back here where we have the greatest energy resource in the world and we can barely get a pipeline built.
00:24:12.080 We spent all this time with this weird guilt.
00:24:14.600 We should be world leaders.
00:24:15.860 I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's embarrassing.
00:24:17.940 We should, and I don't know, I don't have the solution, but I just think that it's, it's pretty sad that when, when an American election,
00:24:26.480 could determine so much, like, I don't think people realize this, like this, this little effects is exactly the city I'm sitting in right now.
00:24:33.200 It's, it's huge.
00:24:34.520 It affects us.
00:24:35.580 Like, I mean, when the, the second we heard there might be a train coming from Fort McMurray to Alaska to, oh yes, we're, we're excited.
00:24:42.020 But maybe that, maybe that can happen, but I'm pretty confident that Biden or, how do I say her name?
00:24:48.240 Kamala?
00:24:48.440 Kamala?
00:24:49.180 Kamala?
00:24:49.660 Kamala?
00:24:50.340 Kamala.
00:24:51.980 You know, I'm pretty confident they'll, they could put a stop to that fairly quick, you know, and we're in a position like, what are we doing differently?
00:25:01.320 We need to do, like, we need to do a few things.
00:25:03.360 So for me personally, you know, I'm helping the tourism industry in Fort McMurray.
00:25:07.240 I'm trying to get a secondary economy going here.
00:25:09.620 I did a lot of videos promoting tourism.
00:25:12.420 I'm trying to get my advocacy up a level.
00:25:15.620 I'm trying to get Olsen strong on the next level, but I'm one dude, you know what I mean?
00:25:19.560 Like, it's hard.
00:25:21.260 And I think Albertans, like, we, we have to, we have to put our feet to the fire and we have to fight for our survival.
00:25:29.060 We can't be complacent anymore.
00:25:31.460 So, I mean, and I know a lot of people that did not, like, this was not, like, I mean, I know a lot, well, secretly people say, yeah, I want Trump to win.
00:25:38.840 But publicly people are terrible.
00:25:40.720 Like, that's the other thing, too.
00:25:41.600 If you like Trump, you should be able to say, I like Trump.
00:25:43.860 If you like Trudeau, you should be able to say, I like Trudeau.
00:25:46.280 Or, you know what I mean?
00:25:47.420 You shouldn't have to be forced to be in silent.
00:25:50.140 I think that also is a thing we have to talk about.
00:25:52.080 Like, I mean, I don't know, but they need to speed it up and they need to act very quickly to understand the threat against our industry.
00:25:59.060 It is real and it's not pretend.
00:26:02.460 Robbie, I want to give you a chance to tell people where they can find the work that you do.
00:26:09.540 And more importantly, support the work that you do.
00:26:11.700 Because you're pretty much, most of the time, a one-man show.
00:26:16.200 I know you have a couple helpers.
00:26:17.720 But, you know, you don't have any deep-pocketed sponsors for the advocacy work that you do.
00:26:24.680 You do it mostly on your own for families and Albertans just like me and my family.
00:26:32.140 So I think it would be important and helpful if our viewers at home could spread your message and support your work.
00:26:40.220 Thank you.
00:26:40.540 So please like my Facebook page or our Facebook page at OlsandStrong and go to OlsandStrong.com and buy a T-shirt.
00:26:47.760 And yeah, for a rich multimillionaire donor, I am by far the best advocate that there's ever been in the history.
00:26:52.740 And a lot of the groups that do very well, I had a big hand in setting up.
00:26:59.080 So yeah, cut me a massive check.
00:27:01.040 That would be great so I could take OlsandStrong to the next level.
00:27:05.400 Oh, that's a great...
00:27:06.600 And I'm actually quite serious.
00:27:07.680 I know you are.
00:27:08.420 That's a great sales pitch, Robbie.
00:27:10.080 I want to thank you so much for coming on the show.
00:27:12.360 Hopefully by the time this goes to air, Donald Trump has overcome the, what looks to be very obvious voter fraud
00:27:20.760 in some of those states and the oil patch stocks can sort of creep back up
00:27:27.000 because I saw this morning that things were a little shaky in that area.
00:27:30.820 Robbie, go ahead.
00:27:32.100 I hope so.
00:27:32.780 And I pray for stabilization and no matter what happens, here's one thing.
00:27:39.140 I really wish people would just calm down a little bit and we got to try to get along.
00:27:45.020 Like, I mean, like if that's, that's something that I really hope because it's like the mental 0.58
00:27:49.560 unstable, uh, instability of the world right now.
00:27:52.620 And the problem, you know what?
00:27:54.140 It's not that bad.
00:27:54.920 We live in a great country.
00:27:56.220 America's living in a great country.
00:27:57.440 We have a great, North America's great.
00:27:59.360 We're not in war.
00:28:00.600 A lot of good things to be happy for.
00:28:02.040 So I do think that, um, I do think we should be happier than we have been.
00:28:08.560 So hopefully, hopefully things go a little bit better today, but we'll see how it plays out.
00:28:13.180 Robbie, what a great message to leave the show on.
00:28:15.640 Thanks so much for coming on the show and, you know, you and I will talk very, very soon.
00:28:21.100 Thank you for having me.
00:28:29.760 You know, that is a great message from Robbie.
00:28:37.740 Republicans, if you do lose, and maybe you'll know that by the time this goes to air, but
00:28:44.900 who only knows, it's my, um, prediction that this will be probably tied up in the courts
00:28:50.360 for quite some time.
00:28:51.320 But Robbie indeed has a great message.
00:28:54.020 Republicans, regroup, learn from your mistakes and move forward.
00:28:59.840 And Democrats, you know what?
00:29:01.760 Just behave yourselves.
00:29:03.500 Burning down your own cities and your communities, it's not going to solve any problems, and
00:29:08.500 it's definitely not going to change any hearts and minds.
00:29:12.420 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
00:29:15.140 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:29:17.120 Thank you so much for bearing with me on this very uncertain American election version of
00:29:23.880 the gun show.
00:29:24.560 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.
00:29:28.500 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.