Sheila Gunn-Reid spotlights Brad Schistamus (Five Times August), whose Silent War album (Nov. 2023) critiques COVID policies, Trudeau’s suppression of dissent, and "woke" pop culture, like drag queen kids’ shows, framing them as indoctrination. She contrasts Hollywood’s forced narratives—blaming failures on racism—with independent artists like Schistamus and Kanye West, who prioritize audience-driven content over censorship. Gunn-Reid ties this to Alberta’s Ungovernable movement, arguing minimal government aligns with free expression, while reading a viewer’s comment about radicalization when peaceful values clash with coercion. The episode urges listeners to engage via email or social media, despite critiquing platforms like YouTube for suppression, and promotes Silent War as a counter to mainstream cultural control. [Automatically generated summary]
Brad Schistamus of Five Times August joins us tonight to discuss his new album, Silent War and What Else is New in the Culture Wars.
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Sad little man, sad little man.
You better run now while you know you can.
I won't leave.
I won't leave.
I will not be leaving.
Quietly.
Take what you want, cause what you want is what you owe.
Come everyone and fast as till they're all controlled.
Yes, I will always fight for you.
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And I will not give up on you.
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Oh God, oh God, help our soul.
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Oh my heavy times, everybody's angry living lies.
And you broke joke, woke, folk, think you're gonna save the day.
You've gone out of your damn mind, kids.
Nobody cares about what you say.
You ain't no leader and you ain't the boss.
You wander around like you're fucking lost.
So check your watch, turn your back.
Set us up for the big attack.
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Shame, blame.
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Stand up before it's so gone.
What you just saw there is the trailer for the new album by Five Times August, otherwise known as Brad Schistamus.
He's an independent musician who has really taken a stand, especially during the pandemic, in the interest of free thought and free expression.
And the beauty is he's an independent musician, so he's really not beholden to anybody.
And he has taken some, I guess, what would be considered controversial in pop culture stances on issues of COVID and vaccination and Justin Trudeau's war on peaceful protesters.
But really, they are mainstream viewpoints that Hollywood and the music industry don't think normal people should hold.
For example, Brad's video for his single, This Justin, was incredible.
Take a look at this.
This just in another coward in control.
Scared by the sound, so he hides in a hole.
He'll call on the guards to trample the crowd.
Cause the louder they get, they silence his power.
Shame, blame, no matter what they say, don't let the bastard get to you.
He's gonna try to shut us down, but we'll stand our ground.
This Justin, he'll lose.
This Justin, another villain on the screen.
Acting like a hero for all the drama queens.
This just in another black painted face, lathered in his virtue, enslaving every race.
He'll send out the troops and freeze the account.
Says the freedom you get is what he makes aloud.
Shame, blame, no matter what they say, don't let the bastard get to you.
He's gonna try to shut us down, but we'll stand our ground.
Miss Justin Hill, look in his eyes, you can see he's afraid So fragile inside while the town's on parade.
Shame, blame, no matter what they say, don't let the bastard get to you.
He's gonna try to shut us down, but we'll stand our ground.
This justin, he'll lose.
shut us down cause we'll stand our ground this just in you so joining me now to discuss his new album silent war and the war on the minds of our children through pop culture brainwashing is brad schistamus or five times august
Parents and Drag Culture00:14:45
So, joining me now is Brad Schistamus from Five Times August.
Brad, thanks so much for coming on the show.
I wanted to have you on the show.
Well, first of all, because you have new music out and because you are one of the few people in, I think, music, there are more now than ever before, who are outspoken about the flaws of the pop culture world.
It seems to be only acceptable to have an homogenous viewpoint on social issues, on cultural issues.
And so, when there are people like you who sort of pop up and say, hey, Wade, there might be a different way here, you sort of become this not only a beacon for hope for people like me, but also a lightning rod for criticism because the arrows are all around you and they're sort of firing in at you.
So, I guess before I start the interview and we'll talk about your new music and, oh, I want to talk to you about Kanye a little bit.
I guess what was the turning point for you?
What was the thing that you were like, no, I got to speak out and I have to do it right now and whatever it costs?
It was towards the end of 2020, really.
It was, you know, everybody had gone through that year and it was like everybody sort of started out going like, what?
At the beginning of the year, and then at the end of the year, for me personally, I was like, come on, you know, like, it's time to move on.
And I was, you know, looking around wondering where everybody was, you know, is nobody going to speak up about this stuff.
And, you know, thinking about my kids and everything, the future that they had in front of them.
If, you know, I say this a lot, but I didn't want them to look back on this time wondering what daddy did, you know, or did you do anything for our future?
And I had this platform.
I found myself in a unique position to speak up.
I don't have any chains to anybody.
You know, I'm an independent artist.
I've always been independent.
So, you know, I just started sort of speaking out out of a way to vent for myself.
But then once I realized I wasn't alone, that really inspired me to start speaking up to let other people know they're not alone.
You know, it's so interesting because we know as parents, pop culture has such an influence on the culture.
But then culture skeptics say, and I'm guilty of this.
I don't want any part of this.
It's gross.
You know, it's the primordial goo of evil.
I'm just going to stand over here and I won't get involved.
And so I really admire people who say, you know what?
That's a battleground we should not walk off from.
And I think I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I think that's what you're doing when people like me are like, no, I don't want any part of this.
I'm just going to stand over here and listen to 70s country music.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I grew up just sort of engulfed in pop culture.
I'm an 80s, 90s kid, and everything that I loved growing up has been demolished or rebooted in some weird, woke way that doesn't make sense.
It's not about, you know, what it used to be about or what it used to represent.
So everything has sort of been falling apart that, you know, we used to love as kids.
And then it's, and it's being twisted and manipulated for a new generation in a weird way.
And all the new stuff is too.
I mean, there's just this underlying evil tone to that that seems just unnecessary.
So and it's so loud and so in our face all the time.
You can't even let your kids watch anything online because all of the ads, every ad has something, you know, an agenda behind it.
So you have to be really cautious of it.
But, you know, at this point, it's like, I'm just calling everything out that I see because I'm tired of it.
Like, there's just too much of it.
That's like, we have to stop.
The irony of this whole intolerant time is that we have been so tolerant up to now.
That's why we're in this position now, is that our tolerance of everything that was unique and different and special and whatever it was, sometimes we turned a blind eye to maybe, you know, something that was in pop culture that, you know, seemed a little off at the time.
And now it seems like, oh, that was really actually an evil little message there or something like that.
But I'm very just like aware of it now and I'm exhausted of it.
So, you know, I take to Twitter a lot and just rant about whatever I see.
But we have to, you know, at this point, the line in the sand has been drawn and it's like, you can either keep going down this road and this path and it's going to get weirder and uglier and we're on a slippery slope, or we can start calling it out now and, you know, bring awareness of it to others that may not be awake yet or something.
But we have to start walking away from it too and building our own sort of pop culture, our new pop culture, you know.
Yeah, that's a very interesting point.
I want to come back to that.
But, you know, one of the things that you're very vocal about on your Twitter account is this drag queen performances for kids.
And I think it is, it is the perfect confluence, the intersection to use the language of the left, of the postmodern war on beauty and this leftist cultural Marxist war on the minds of our children.
And it is just manifesting at the local library for some reason.
So even places where, you know, you used to.
You used to send your kids to the library when you didn't want them to watch so much TV.
And so I guess the evil forces of the universe were like, oh, down there, that's where the parents who send their kids, the parents who worry about what's infesting their kids' minds send their kids.
Let's go get those parents down there too.
And, you know, it's atrocious.
But again, you mentioned the slippery slope.
This is it.
Like we're hurtling towards the bottom and the snowball is enormous.
And the snowball is drag queen story hour.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just it's just insanity.
As you, as you were talking there, I was actually thinking about how controlled information is online.
And, you know, our only escape now from the information that we receive online is to go back and find those, you know, that physical information.
We used to have books and records and, you know, DVDs, whatever it may be.
And so to have that one outlet, right?
If you go to a library for information and it's all hard copy information.
And this is sort of just a twist on what you're saying, but I was thinking like, it's weird that we can't even go there now because, you know, that information, that agenda has seeped its way in to where it's not even about going to escape in a world of knowledge now.
Those libraries have become a parade and a circus for this weird agenda.
So it's just another battle with our kids.
But, you know, more so, it's like, what are the parents thinking?
Why are they bringing their kids?
What parent in their right mind is like, you know what?
That's a, let's go, let's take you to that.
Because I had an experience recently.
I took my kids.
Now, I don't take my kids to Drag Queen Story Hour.
I took my kids to a symphony recently.
And my eight-year-old son is into piano.
Like he loves piano.
And he looked at the piano player and he leaned into me and he goes, hey, that could be me someday.
And I couldn't help but think about these kids that are being exposed to what they're seeing at these drag queen story hours where these people come out and, you know, they're mocking women, first of all.
And it's like a cartoonist impersonation of what a woman is supposed to be.
And then they're spreading their legs, they're dancing to these nasty songs.
How many kids are looking at them?
My point is, how many kids are looking at them going, oh, that could be me someday?
And every bit of information you're putting in front of these children, they're thinking, Matt, could that be me someday?
What do I like about this?
What do I want to take away from this?
It might not be a drag queen, but it might be dancing for money.
You know, there's many different layers to it.
And so it's shocking that there's so many parents out there that are willing to even show up to these things and encourage their babies to hand money to these people.
And it just keeps perpetuating itself.
And it's part of that slippery slope that's just going to keep getting weirder because it won't be good enough, right?
What do we do every time?
We push the boundaries every time.
So now we're slammed up against the wall right now with Drag Queen Story Hour for children.
What comes after that, right?
How do they push it after that?
It's going to be, you know, furry time for whatever, like the people that dress up in leather dog outfits and it's going to keep finding its way further and further down the way.
And so that's what I'm saying.
We have to stop.
We have to sort of say, hey, this might be a little too much in society, you know, be you, but maybe you don't have to shove that in front of other people's kids.
Yeah, you know, you see these kids giving the money at the Drag Queen Story Hour, and they always have this look that they give their parents, like they're seeking approval from their parents.
And, you know, you think about it, you think about how many people go into the family business.
Maybe they're a carpenter, maybe they're a musician like your kids.
And, you know, a lot of that is because they learn to love the business, but they're also seeking the approval of their parents.
And I see a lot of that with these little people going to Drag Queen Story Hours, the same as when my kid scores a try playing rugby.
She turns around to make sure I'm watching.
Right.
But we're not doing that with kids anymore.
We're taking them to Drag Queen Story Hour and saying, here, stick this in this man's G string for approval.
Yeah.
And it's uncomfortable to even say that.
Like as you're saying it to me, I'm like, why is that even a sentence in these times?
But yeah, you're right.
There's always that look of like, is this what I'm supposed to do?
And the parents giving the okay.
Yeah.
When you see people doing this, you give them money.
And look, that, you know, what is the message there?
This could be you.
You could do this.
This is your future.
I don't know what that is.
Is the message, you know, it's sort of they guise it with, they disguise it under tolerance and acceptance and stuff.
And that's one thing.
That's okay.
That's who you are.
Okay, great.
But they bring it out and present it in a ritualistic way.
Yeah.
That it's indoctrinating.
You know, it's not in, it's not tolerance at that point.
It's indoctrinating and it is grooming and it is those words that we're using right now.
And it's sad that that's how we're choosing to influence our kids.
It's weird.
We've gotten to a place where, you know, kids used to watch Sesame Street when they were that age, and now they're in a bar with grownups watching cross-dressers.
It just boggles the mind.
But I think as a parent, a lot of this is because maybe people from the left have kids for different reasons than I had kids.
I have kids to perpetuate my value system because I think my value system is probably the most productive value system where I think people are happier.
But I also want to perpetrate the species.
I want to raise contributing, happy, healthy, emotionally stable members of society.
And I see some people on the left seeing their kids as an accessory to their own social justice causes.
If people on the left haven't self-sterilized for climate change reasons, you see them raising their kids as genderless.
I'm going to dress them genderless.
They're going to have no gender.
They're going to have a genderless name.
And I say this with a kid named Riley, who's a girl.
That's because I was lazy.
I just didn't want to have to pick two names.
I didn't have a political agenda there.
But, you know, like you see people who are raising their kids as just an arm of their social justice causes instead of this thing that you do as a greater good for the culture, but also for your family.
Right.
Yeah.
Like to me, the goal of raising children is that you're supposed to be raising the next crop of society.
And it's supposed to be better, more well-rounded, you know, more in tune with goodness.
And if you compare the two sides, how one side's raising their kids, one side's raising the other kids.
Like, if you look at, look at TikTok for crying out loud, like those kids aren't happy.
They're confused.
They don't know who they are.
Sorry to interrupt you.
I look at those kids on TikTok and I say, those are future suicides.
Like it deeply troubles me.
I can't even go on TikTok.
Now that you're talking, and again, I hate to interrupt you.
I see as one side of this equation raises children as their role in creating the future.
It's a selfless act.
And the other side sees children as a way to indulge their own selfish vices.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it seems like, and that mindset is about right now, because those parents, you know, that's an act for their, for, to justify their own existence, right?
If I raise, right?
If I raise this person and infiltrate my, every, of course, every parent has their, their own sort of agenda for their kids.
But, you know, there's an agenda where, like you said, you're trying to raise a better, a better quality person than you even are.
Disney's Capitalistic Viewpoint00:06:47
Yeah.
And then there's the other parent that's trying to raise a human to justify everything that that parent has ever done in their life or who they are.
They need the acceptance.
That's why you see so many of them going after kids, because a kid is a sponge and they'll just listen to you and they'll say, that's great.
I'm, you know, you be who you are.
Those people are so, they're missing something on the inside that they have to seek validation from a child when, you know, we're supposed to be, you know, it's supposed to be sort of the reverse of that.
We're supposed to be, you know, validating the world for the child in a way of saying like, look, here's a great big world for you that sets you up so you can do great things in this world and create another group of human beings that are even better than this group of human beings.
And it's supposed to stair-step its way up and we're watching the free fall of society go down.
So it's a crazy battle.
Now, you touched on, and this is something that I think the Daily Wire seems to be doing quite well.
They are creating this alternative ecosystem of pop culture for people like me who say, I don't want any part of whatever you people are doing.
No, thanks.
But they, you know, they're creating programming for kids and movies and you're doing the music side.
Is that the way?
Or is just checking out like I did the way?
I mean, I have to say it's the way.
Well, we're so influenced by our by the media that we absorb.
I mean, music is a universal language.
I can't tell you the response I've gotten from all around the world on the music that I've released, you know, over the last year and a half, but like it's been incredible and it reaches people to the, you know, whole other side.
And that's the same for movies and comedy.
And I don't think it's so much that we're trying to replace anything.
It's just that the old way of doing things has just been beaten down and they won't stop doing what they're doing.
And, you know, to the comedians that are that are on this side of the aisle, they're doing what the great comedians always did.
As a musician, I'm doing what I'm trying to do, what the great musicians always did, you know, the great songwriters was they spoke up when it was time to speak up, whether you agreed with it or not.
But nobody, you know, very few really spoke up.
And the same with movies, too.
You're going to see more and more movies being made that aren't really battling against woke culture or anything like that.
They're just making what we want, what people want to see.
That's the difference is pop culture isn't making things that people want.
They're just making things to serve an agenda, and that's why it's crumbling.
And then, and then if it doesn't work out, then they blame everybody, you know, it's the, it's the culture's fault for not wanting it.
Oh, well, that movie had a bad opening.
Well, it's, it's because of racism, you know, or whatever.
Right.
So it's, it's weird that they won't wake up to that.
But to me, it's like, well, I'm just doing what all my former heroes, you know, what I thought they were all sort of supposed to be about.
And it's not that I'm really fighting against or purposely going like, I'm going to fight against that culture.
It's like, this is just right to me.
This is what's worth fighting for.
So I'm going to put it into my music.
You know, I think even just from a purely capitalistic viewpoint, wouldn't you want to make content that somebody will consume?
You know, like in Canada here, we have our mainstream media is subsidized by the government and nobody watches it, but there's never that market correction that is required for them to fix whatever the heck they're doing over there because they always have this constant shuffle of money towards them.
And I sort of see that in the censorship homogeneity enforcement that you see in the pop culture in the United States in that, you know, if somebody doesn't like your stuff, it's not a flaw with your stuff.
It's the flaw with the person will point over there.
And everybody will just call everybody who didn't watch it a racist.
It's just, it's so interesting to see, again, as a purely capitalistic viewpoint, you don't have to make content for everybody, but you might want to try to make it for somebody and not alienate half the people who are interested in spending some money at the movies today.
Yeah, you would think that they would perk their head up and go, you know, the last 10 movies really didn't do that well at the box office.
Maybe we should change our approach to what we're making.
You know, you're seeing that a lot with Disney right now.
Like every move they do is a double down on what, you know, their, what their agenda is.
And more and more people are dropping off.
I mean, speak of, you speak of pop culture, and that's like at the forefront, Disney, you know, they've got their own whole Disney culture.
And I honestly, like, I grew up loving Disney.
I went to those parks with my family.
I took my kids.
And I was very influenced by a lot of those movies.
And at this point, I couldn't care less what happens to that company because they keep pushing me in a direction that is like, I don't, you know, I don't want what you're making anymore.
And you keep making it.
So that's that, you know, and I think a lot of families are waking up to that.
A lot of them are leaving behind, you know, such a cherished family brand.
But you're seeing that not just in with Disney, but a lot of family brands, Sesame Street and PBS and everything.
It's interesting because, you know, you see the success of like Top Gun and they can't figure it out.
And I'm like, because it's normal.
It's a normal movie, like how movies used to be without all your nonsense sort of percolating in the background.
Just a movie where people who are want to go to decompress from the pressures of the world, where you haven't shoehorned all the pressures of the world into the movie, so there's no escape for people anymore.
They Hollywood just cannot figure it out.
Now I want to ask you because another outspoken musician and doesn't matter where you fall down on his politics, but Kanye is part of this ecosystem building project.
Ruffling Feathers Matters00:04:00
I see um coming out of you know the I don't don't even want to say conservative, but maybe just the free speech, free thought side of the aisle um with his uh proposal to buy Parlor.
What do you think about that?
You know um, like i've never been a super Kanye West fan.
I appreciate, you know I, I appreciate um, him pushing buttons is what I appreciate right now.
And um, if he wants to buy Parlor, all right, you know that's fine.
I'd be interested to see what he does with it.
I think I think you need guys like that.
Um, everybody's just so sort of um, so worn out with with what already is that if Kanye West buys Parlor and Elon Musk buys Twitter and you're stirring the pot up and making it different um I, I think that that's good.
I think that people are just pining for.
You know, a an, a place to speak up where you don't feel like you have to watch what you say anymore.
But and there's, there's a lot of them out there's a good chunk of social media platforms where you can say what you want to say, but they're kind of their own uh, echo chambers right now, and it's great that they're there.
But you do still need to have that public discourse where you can have somebody disagree with you, and you know that you can have the disagreement and that's just that.
You're not going to get banned, you're not going to get censored.
Um so, you know, of course, like Kanye he, he speaks up, speaks his mind, and instantly we got to cancel Kanye, you know, good luck.
Um yeah, and so we do need, you know, i'm glad to have anybody that has that large of a platform to to really, you know, ruffle some feathers right now.
Um, I just, you know i'm not going to agree with everything he says, but I I, you know that's the whole point is like we don't, they don't have to be, it doesn't have to be.
Oh, he's all over on this side, or he's all over on this side, and if you're somewhere in between, then I just can't.
Or if you're somewhere over there, then I just can't follow him.
Um, I just want to get back to that where it's like, oh yeah, that you know I don't agree with everything they say but um, you know, I I respect their right to say it and we can all just live life like we used to live life and get back to that kind of normality.
I also think um, we should be graceful as we watch people evolve from from their other side.
You know, I go around proselytizing the good word of free thought and free expression, and so when we get somebody from the other side who starts to rethink their viewpoint, I don't think we should have a litmus test or a purity test for them.
Let them evolve.
Let them come around to our way of thinking.
Let them get here.
We don't have to go back and say, well, you said that back then and you did that back then.
Yeah, let them have their Saul to Paul moment on the road to Damascus.
We don't have to, you know, hold them to the woke standards, but our own version of going back and post-canceling people as they change their minds and their views that we keep telling them to change their minds and their views on.
Sure.
Yeah, you've got to, that's the thing that I like about it.
If you ruffle feathers, all you're really doing, regardless of what side you're on, is getting other people to think.
I think people are so stale in their brain right now with one way of thinking that, you know, if you can get people to go, oh, Kanye said that or whatever, you know, whoever it is, then you're cracking that egg open a little bit and getting them to think once again.
And that's the road we need to be on is, you know, expanding our thoughts again and being willing to engage with a conversation that might not be exactly what you think because everybody's so locked into their beliefs now.
Yeah.
Silent War Release00:06:01
As a Canadian too, I always look on with great fascination when I see political millionaires because we really don't have that in Canada.
I bet you can't even name one.
Or even like political musicians in Canada who are sort of speaking out and ruffling feathers because we have a very small group of elites at the top and everybody wants to be invited to those fancy parties.
And the only time you ever hear of our millionaires speaking out on issues of politics is when they go to the United States and get jobs on Shark Tank like Kevin O'Leary.
But they don't stay here and do the things like Elon Musk is doing or Peter Thiel or Kanye.
So as a Canadian, I'm always like, we need some of those guys, but we just have sort of a small pool at the top.
I promise you only 20 minutes.
I've taken up more of your time than that.
Brad, tell us about your new music coming out and why?
Why this album title?
So I have an album coming out first week of November called Silent War.
There's a song called Silent War on the album.
And this album actually pulls together all of the singles that I put out over the last year and a half, collects them into one spot with a couple more new songs.
And it's just sort of a way to document everything that I've put out.
I've sort of been writing an album in real time over the last year and a half without realizing it.
And then people start asking, you know, where's the album?
So I wanted to put them together.
And it's been an interesting project because I put the track, the track list in the order on the album is the order in which I released the songs.
And it sort of tells a story from the beginning of where I started out as a songwriter and what has sort of happened and unfolded over the last year and a half.
So, you know, it just seemed time to put these songs together into one collection.
It's called Silent War because of the song Silent War, which is essentially about what we're facing.
It's a psychological war.
Everybody's online.
You know, that's the battle at hand right now.
It's a different kind of war than we've ever fought.
And, you know, being locked inside our homes, you know, that's the battle at hand.
Everybody sort of feels locked behind a screen in a way.
And the way of reaching out is through our computers and our screens now.
Now, where can people get the album?
You actually have it in vinyl, old-timey, old-fashioned, which is great.
And your merch is incredible.
The Justin Trudeau wearing the headdress t-shirt is great.
How do people support your independent work?
Yeah, you can go to five timesaugust.com, just the main website.
We've got CDs and we're crowdfunding the vinyl.
We've got a pre-sell 200 copies.
It'll be super limited edition, but the CDs will be available on the website.
And it'll be on all of the digital music platforms as well.
So, but yeah, I kind of wanted to, I wanted to take these songs and put them into a physical format because, you know, I want to, that's another thing that, that pop culture is not doing anymore.
They've sort of abandoned holding the piece, you know, holding a record and listening to it.
I kind of wanted to bring that back and holding a CD and reading the lyrics as you listen.
I wanted to bring that back.
So get that physical copy if you, if you want it.
Yeah, you know, I was thinking about that the other day, just pulling out the sheet, the liner notes from a CD.
That used to be so gratifying when you took the plastic off a CD and then you ripped the liner out to make sure that you actually had the words you were singing right.
Right.
Yeah.
And it was yours, though, you know, it was your copy and you could write in it or staple it on the wall with a bunch of other album covers.
And, you know, that's something that I've always loved about music was the actual physical copy of it as well.
And so it creates an experience.
So hopefully I can deliver that experience and kind of guide us back towards that kind of world of pop culture.
We put on a record and listen with headphones.
I got it all behind me anyway.
Well, Brad, here's to tradition and our little efforts to bring it back.
You know, we're big fans of you here at Rebel News.
You are, you know, I guess, you know, carrying on our journalistic mission here to tell the other side of the story.
You're saying there's another side to pop culture and there's another way of doing things.
And, you know, I embrace those things.
Brad, thanks so much for coming on the show and we'll have you back on again very, very soon.
Great.
Thanks for having me.
Well, friends, we've come to the portion of the show where we welcome your viewer feedback.
You see, I'm like the mainstream media who are just all too happy to take your money to produce something you don't want, but then tell you to shut up when you complain about the things that they're producing with your money.
I actually want to hear from you.
I actually care about what you think about the work that we're doing over here at Rebel News.
So if you want to send me some viewer feedback, it's really easy.
Sheila at rebelnews.com.
That's my email address.
Put gun show letters in the subject line so it's easy for me to find because I do receive hundreds of emails a day and I don't want to miss yours.
Now, one of the other ways that you can leave us viewer feedback is to comment on our Rumble or our YouTube videos.
I do go looking over there for those.
Today's comment actually comes from YouTube and I'm not one to support YouTube.
It's a censorship platform, but today's comment was just so great that I'll make an exception, just this once.
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And it's on my interview last week with my friend and colleague and our chief documentary filmmaker here at Rebel News, Kian Simoni, on his documentary called Ungovernable.
It's about Alberta's quest for independence and how independence means different things to different people, but it's for Albertans to chart our own path forward.
And largely for us, I think as Albertans, we just want to be left alone and being left alone means a lot of things to a lot of different people, but it is my personal political philosophy.
Leave me alone.
That's it.
Leave me alone.
I'll leave you alone.
And don't use the government to make me care about the things that you care about, because I don't like that.
And a government that cares about what I care about is a government that is way too big and way too expensive.
Anyway, let's read the very great comment that I found on YouTube.
It's from James C., and it's a quote.
He writes, the most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of men who want to be left alone.
They try so very hard to mind their own business and to provide for themselves and those they love.
They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the force and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide.
They are literally killing off who they used to be, which is why when forced to take up violence, these men who want to be left alone fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.
They fight with raw hate and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play acting at politics and terror.
True terror will arrive at these people's doors and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy.
But it will fall upon the deaf ears of men who just wanted to be left alone.
He says the author is unknown there.
But it is true.
You know, when, and I'm not saying the people at Coots were involved in any violence.
In fact, they were peaceful, I think, to the bitter, bitter end.
But when you are compelling people who want to be left alone to finally act, you're dealing with someone that you have unintentionally radicalized.
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And so help you, God.
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.
I should tell you, if you want tickets to the last showing, in-person showing, of Kian Simoni's documentary, Ungovernable, go to albertadocumentary.com.
We have one last showing, and it's at Church and the Vine in Edmonton.
For dates and tickets, it's at albertadocumentary.com.