Ezra LeVant tackles fan questions on free speech, journalism, and political battles, including Trudeau’s seven lawsuits (five expected losses) and his own defiance. He advises citizen journalists to start small, warns against weaponizing dissent like Canada’s online harms bill (C-63), and details legal fights for Tommy Robinson—one over a "bogus Terrorism Act charge" with warrantless seizures. LeVant plans Rebel News coverage of Trump’s inauguration via the Rumble Truth Social inaugural ball before flying to Davos, where past confrontations included Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. His family stays private despite risks, and he defers to Avi Yamini on New Zealand’s anti-Semitism claims while reiterating Teresa Tam’s WHO-linked controversies. Trump’s targeted tariffs may be possible, LeVant suggests, blending legal strategy with relentless activism. [Automatically generated summary]
Ask me anything about our business, about politics, about my personal life, even.
We'll get some of those.
Before I get to that, I want to invite you to get the video version of this podcast because I want you to see me dressed up as Santa or at least wearing the Santa hat, which I am doing in today's episode.
Please go to RebelNewsPlus.com and click subscribe.
Do you ever feel like you need a translator just to understand your financial plan?
Rocklink Investment Partners cuts through the noise.
No more confusing buzzwords and endless charts.
Just clear, straightforward advice that puts you in the driver's seat of your financial future.
Don't believe me.
Give them a call for a free consultation to learn more about how Rocklink can protect and grow your wealth using the time-tested principles of wealth creation.
You can call them at 905-631-5462 or email them at info at rocklink.com.
That's Rocklink with a C. Info at rocklink.com.
Tonight, Merry Christmas, everybody.
It's me, Hanukkah Harry.
I'm going to read your letters to Santa or to me.
It's December 25th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
Shame on you, you sensorious bug.
Well, it's that time of year again, that cozy digital fire.
And, you know, I like to read letters from fans and even from foes at the end of every show.
But today we're going to make that the entire show.
We put out a call by email and on the website to ask people to send in their question literally and ask me anything.
I can't think of any question that I would reject.
Now, there might be some things that are private that I wouldn't answer, but there's really no holds barred.
A chance for you to put your toughest or bestest questions to me, even of a personal nature.
So without further ado, let me read your letters to me.
And I have not seen these before.
These have not been vetted in any way.
Our team has just literally printed them out, put them in this big Santa's bag, and I'm just going to read them and then chuck the ones I'm done with on the floor.
So here we go.
The first is by Pauline Gautier.
Bon jour, Ezra.
People are so entrenched in their magical thinking, and many are so unable to admit what they see with their own eyes.
Listen to both sides and think critically.
Considering this, do you ever feel like just throwing your hands up and calling it a day?
If not, how do you keep going in a country where our destructive PM is doing absolutely everything he can to block and discredit you?
Thanks for all you do to bring us the truth.
Blessings.
Well, Pauline, first of all, thanks for your very friendly words.
I appreciate your compliments in there.
Yeah, it's frustrating.
And sometimes it even feels lonely.
And sometimes we know we're going to lose a battle.
Like we're always battling Trudeau in court.
I haven't counted recently, but last I checked, we had seven lawsuits against them.
And I got to tell you, that's an uphill battle.
We'll probably lose five out of those seven.
But I feel like we have to do it anyways.
And I know that just because the odds are long doesn't mean you can't win.
I feel like there were really dark days, for example, during the Emergencies Act when the government cracked down on the convoy, when they were seizing bank accounts.
We didn't know if it would get worse.
But I think you have to keep doing what's right.
And I think you can find hope and inspiration in certain places.
I mean, for me, when Donald Trump won, I mean, put aside his flaws and things like that.
To me, I was really worried that the rules would be rigged, that there would be cheating, and that that would cause a great strife in America.
When he survived his assassination attempt, my heart was pounding how close America came to a civil war.
And now I'm sort of relieved of what didn't happen, and I'm elated at what could happen.
And I want to keep that positive hope going.
In my own case, I consider myself extremely lucky that I get to do this for a living and get to work with like-minded people.
I know a lot of people, including people I went to school with, who were interested in politics, but they got a quote real job.
And they like the job for sure, but I regard it as a privilege and almost a luxury that I get to deal with ideas and political battles every day for a living.
That's pretty fun.
I mean, it almost feels like I'm not working when I get to do these things.
And of course, I'm only one person.
There's only 24 hours in a day.
So to be able to work with 30 colleagues, there's 30 of us, that's pretty cool too.
So I don't know if that answers your question, but those are some of my thoughts.
Thanks for your kind wishes.
Okay, let's keep going.
We got a whole bunch in here.
And maybe I might have to be a little more succinct in some of my answers.
This is from Caitlyn Pidgin.
Merry Christmas, Ezra.
Straight to the point.
I was wondering if you had any advice for anyone who would like to start journalism.
What is a good way to start?
I've had so much hope since I first heard about and watched Rubble News.
The way you report on what's real and true in Canada and all that you do are beyond an inspiration.
Thanks very much, especially during the Convoy.
I want to thank you.
Thank you for your heroic actions towards making a better future for not just Canada, but also Australia and thus the world.
Wishing your team all the best in the new year, sincerely, Kate.
Well, that's so nice of you.
Thank you.
And I'm glad you gave a shout out implicitly to our Australian team, Abhi Yamini, and he's got two colleagues he works with down there.
They do a great job.
You might not expect my answer about how to start journalism, but maybe you do.
These days, you're a journalist if you have a smartphone and a Twitter account.
And I know that sounds like I'm not answering, but actually, I really am answering.
I don't know if you remember, but when you mentioned the convoying here, I went down to the convoy for a couple of days in Ottawa.
I spent most of it here in Toronto sort of quarterbacking things, but I did go to see with my own eyes Ottawa, and I was invited to give a couple of brief remarks by the folks who were running the PA system there.
They recognized me and they invited me out.
And my message to people there was, you are the media, be the media.
If you've got a cell phone, these days every cell phone has a camera in it, right?
Guess what?
You're a videographer.
If you have a Twitter account and they're free, guess what?
You can write a story.
And these days you can write quite long.
So I would suggest starting in that way as a citizen journalist using the tools of citizen journalism.
And you might say, well, I want to be a bigger big shot than that.
I want to have a studio.
I want to do something fancier.
Walk before you run.
Can you, do you have something interesting to say?
Can you build it up from scratch without hurting yourself financially?
Because, I mean, you didn't explicitly say you want to make a living in journalism because it's hard to make a living in journalism.
I mean, most people are failing at that, right?
The only reason CBC continues on is because of the subsidies.
I think starting journalism and doing journalism for a living are two different things.
So my advice to you would be start small.
Tweet about things in your own neighborhood.
Photo or video things in your own realm.
If you're a student, there's lots of crazy things going on on campuses.
If you're not a student, you know, these days in Canada, I'll just give you an example.
There's lots of homeless encampments.
That's a very sad thing.
We're all used to them in big cities, big city slums, but they're even in small towns now.
So, with the tools you have, a cell phone, a Twitter account, wherever you are, there is news where you are.
And if you can film it and tweet it and write a little story, that's journalism.
And I would start doing it as sort of a hobby before trying to make it a full-time enterprise.
See if you like it.
See if you get a reaction.
See if you get a response.
All right, I better speed up if I'm going to get through these letters.
I'll keep going.
And thank you for that.
This is from Rick.
Hi, I just bought your new book on the crime sinister.
Oh, that's funny.
Can't wait to read it.
I have to get your first one as well.
Another year of total corruption.
They went after David Menzies with false arrests and now they came after you.
It conclusively shows how corrupt the entire system here is in Canada.
They all should hang from a rope.
Well, I mean, hang from a rope, I know, is a colorful metaphor.
And sometimes people talk about, you know, prosecuting the prime minister.
And I always just tap the brakes a little bit on that talk because of two reasons.
First of all, I know you're speaking metaphorically and poetically, and hang from a rope is a metaphor, but they really want to label our side violence, right?
Violent.
That's what they wanted to do with the truckers.
They wanted to graft the U.S. narrative of the January 6th insurrection onto the peaceful Canadian truckers.
That was what Trudeau explicitly wanted to do.
And he was foiled because of the bouncy castles and the hot tubs and the positive spirit that was published by citizen journalists.
So the first thing is don't let them hand you a script that you are violent.
We're not.
In fact, it's the other side that is.
Look at Antifa or a lot of these Pearl Hamas rallies.
The second thing about criminalization, I agree that a lot of crimes have been committed by the government, mainly in the form of fraud, fraud, corruption.
Trudeau himself has been convicted multiple times under the Conflict of Interest Act.
And I think that there are a lot of crimes that have happened that have been covered up.
I think the RCMP is being politicized.
I think that Elections Canada looked the other way with massive foreign interference.
So there are crimes.
And those crimes absolutely should be prosecuted.
But again, just if you would accept my counterpoint, it would be don't label mere disagreement a crime.
You know why?
Because you'll be the one they prosecute.
If having the wrong opinions or the wrong politics becomes a crime, you know that they will wield that law against people like you and me.
So absolutely prosecute the real crimes.
And I bet you this is the most corrupt government in history, all combined.
But don't criminalize political difference.
Do you understand the differentiation there?
All right, let's keep going.
From Scott Blumenthal.
Ezra, I love everything that you do.
I'm an American married to a Yemenite Israeli.
So I have three Abiyenins of my own.
Well, that's terrifying.
One is quite enough for the world.
I'm kidding.
Inaugural Rumble Rumble00:03:30
I read Labrano's when it came out.
We read Abby's book when it came out.
I donate what I can to Rebel News.
I want a copy of Trudeau's secret plan, but I refuse to give even one cent of my money to the communists at Amazon.com.
How can I get a copy of this book without Amazon?
I'm willing to pay double.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, Scott, first of all, thank you for all the interesting things you've said there.
We do have some copies right here at the office.
So if you send an email to info at rebelnews.com and just refer to this, we'll take care of you.
And I understand your skepticism of Amazon.com.
There's a lot of things about them I do not like.
That said, they are the number one way to sell books, which is our goal here.
So info at rebelnews.com and just sort of describe things and mention that I said this and then we'll take care of you that way.
Thank you.
All right, let's keep going here.
We've got a lot more letters.
Ivan Hamlin says, hi, Ezra.
I just wanted to know if you or any of your journalists are going to be at Trump's inauguration.
Keep up the great work.
Well, the answer to that is yes.
I think David Menzies is going down with Ephraim Monsanto, if I'm not mistaken.
And I have been invited to the Rumble Truth Social inaugural ball.
And we publish on Rumble.
As you know, that's a competitor to YouTube.
It's a free speech competitor to YouTube.
And the president of Rumble has invited me.
And I've accepted the invitation.
I've never been to an inauguration before.
I don't know what to wear to an inaugural ball.
I just put on a proper suit, I guess.
I should tell you, as soon as that ball is over, I'm getting on a plane and going, how ironic is this, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, because that starts on the 20th of January.
So the inaugural ball, inauguration days of January 20th.
It's also when the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos starts.
So I thought, well, you know, it's a real tradition at Rebel News to go to Davos and cover it.
And I don't want to miss that.
That's very important to our viewers.
However, Abi Yamini and Sheila Gunreed will both be at Davos from the very first minute.
In fact, I think they're arriving the day earlier.
So I will miss a day and a half in Davos, but I'll be there like literally the next flight I can take.
I will.
And I just feel like to be invited to an inaugural ball by True Social and Rumble, given our relationship with Rumble, I feel I should accept that invitation, mainly because Sheila and Abhi are going to cover off the World Economic Forum.
I believe that our annual trip to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos is the most important journalism we do.
You might recall that's when I scrummed Albert Burla, the CEO of Pfizer with Abi Yamini.
And you never know who you're going to get there.
I mean, last year I bumped into the president of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
I don't know if you saw that one.
A couple years ago, it was Greta Tunberg.
So I think that's a very important place for our citizen journalism.
I'm going to take a detour through the inaugural.
I've never been to one before.
I'm sort of excited about it.
And, you know, what's happening?
There's a lot happening in the world at the same time, isn't there?
All right, next letter.
Ronald Redland.
Hi, Ezra.
Child Porn Censorship Controversy00:02:06
My question is regarding the House question period regulations.
I've been hearing lots about the online harms bill, that's C63, and the liberal talking points regarding children and their safety.
I also know about the devastating portions of the bill, which destroys free speech.
I've been waiting patiently to hear from the opposition party some quotes from the bill, which will show the viewers what's being as a Trojan horse.
Have I missed something or are members not permitted to quote sections of the bill?
Why is anti-freedom of speech Trojan horse not all over the news?
Thanks for considering my question.
All the best to you.
The bill is moving through parliament, but you might recall that about two weeks ago, the Justice Minister, Ari Farani, announced he was going to split the bill into two parts, which I don't know how that works.
I think I'm just guessing he has to reintroduce it.
So there really are two distinct parts to the law, to the bill, which is a proposed law.
The first is dealing with child pornography, revenge porn, sexual predators, human trafficking, stuff like that.
First of all, everyone agrees with cracking down on that stuff.
Second of all, a lot of that stuff already is in law.
I think it was Stephen Harper who 10 years ago banned so-called revenge porn with a very serious prison term.
So to put those in the bill, again, in my view, is a distraction, a misdirection from what, like you said, Trojan Horse, the actual internet censorship provisions.
No one could disagree with banning child porn.
But then they put in this political censorship stuff.
So if you dared speak out against the bill, they would falsely say you were against cracking down on child porn.
Looks like the bill is going to be split in two.
If that's the case, I think, to my relief, it is unlikely that that will pass before the next election.
As far as quoting a bill, absolutely you can quote from a bill when you're debating it in the house.
Calvin Arndt says, hey, Ezra, my wife always asks me, how does his wife put up with the crazy life he leads?
Private Lives, Public Risks00:15:37
Referring to you, she must be a superwoman.
So yeah, is your wife polar opposite to you?
How does she cope with all that you and Rebel go through?
Well, that's a very friendly question.
And yeah, I mean, can you imagine how tolerant she must be?
And she doesn't even roll her eyes, which I'm glad.
I remember asking her once, I said to her, how come you're not watching my shows?
And she said, Ezra, I get it.
24 hours a day, I could recite your monologues for you.
I don't need, you know, after listening to you all day, to sit down to relax by listening to you some more.
She didn't quite use that language, but it was sort of funny.
When I asked her why she doesn't watch it, she says, I hear it all day.
No, she's, I do try, I try and get home.
I travel a lot, as you may detect, but I always try and get home as fast as I can, which sometimes truncates the trips.
For example, sometimes I go when I go to cover a place like Amsterdam, where I went when there was riots about a month ago, or Ireland.
Sometimes I'm only on the ground for 24 hours.
And I think, well, boy, I could sure use an extra day here.
But I do try and get home because I like to see the wife and kids.
And they're not very political people, which I think is excellent.
I mean, being political is a certain path in life.
And we're not just political.
We're sort of conflict-oriented, Rebel, in a way that we rush to the controversy and we try and fight it.
And not everyone is built that way.
I am.
And so I'm lucky I've a home life situation that can abide what I do.
And they're great.
They're great.
They really are.
I couldn't do it without their support and patience.
Keely Park says, what about Tommy Robinson?
I make a monthly subscription for his legal fees.
Why is he still in solitary confinement?
Keely, thank you very much for this letter.
I think about Tommy all the time, and I am in fairly constant touch with A, members of his family, and B, members of his little team.
As you know, he still has a news outlet called Urban Scoop.
I'm about to send an email out that gives an update on his legal case.
I'm recording this a little bit before Christmas Day, so by the time you see this, you'll have an email from me giving you a very specific update on the two legal files I have been working on for Tommy.
What do I mean by that?
I have been working with two law firms in the UK, one of which is fighting against the bogus Terrorism Act charge against him.
Remember, under the Terrorism Act, they can seize you without a warrant, question you, you have no right to remain silent, and demand to get into your cell phone.
You have to give the password.
Tommy's not a terrorist.
They just use that law to get into his phone.
He refused to give his phone password.
So they're prosecuting him for that.
It's crazy, but you got to defend it.
So I'm working with the law firm.
In that case, it's called Carson Kay.
And it sounds ridiculous, but we have to hire not only that law firm, but a barrister in the UK.
There's a separate lawyers.
They have the solicitor and the barrister, two different people, which sort of doubles the cost.
But we have an excellent team going to fight on the Terrorism Act.
And your question is about the second part of what I'm helping him with, which is his prison situation.
As you know, I visited him in Woodhill prison, and I suppose he's doing okay in that he's in no danger other than the danger of mental psychological decay of being by yourself.
He's getting all the food he needs.
He's getting lots of visitors.
The prison itself is not too far away from his kids, so they can visit him.
He's allowed to wear his civilian clothes because he's a civil prisoner.
The main problem, though, is he is in a segregation unit meant for hard criminals.
And we have a law firm.
And by this time, by the time you're watching this video, you should receive a letter from me outlining the steps we're going to take.
This prison law firm has written to the prison.
The prison has written back.
And I'm going to show that letter in an email to Tommy's supporters.
So anyways, I'm sorry for the very lengthy argument, sorry, answer, but just to tell you, I am very much focused on that.
I'd say I work on that two or three days a week.
Not for the whole day, but I'm dealing with things two or three times a week because Tommy's not very law oriented.
Obviously, the lawyers are consulting him.
He's the client, but I've agreed to help work with the lawyers to help plan, budget, what's the strategy, just to oversee things a little bit, including on the pricing side.
Because I'm a former lawyer myself and I'm a little more familiar with it.
I think Tommy doesn't really like dealing with lawyers and its shows.
Anyway, that's a long answer, but by the time you see this video, you should have a more detailed update from me.
Noreen Proctor says, hi, Ezra.
I ran up to hug you at Tamara Leach's book sign in County.
Ezra, you never give up no matter what.
I have watched non-mainstream news and rebel news for the last almost five years and you're my number one all-time Canadian hero.
God bless you and every single rebel reporter.
You are all Canadian heroes.
Well, thank you and thank you for the hug.
And I am a big fan of Tamara Leach as well.
And working with her has been a great privilege, not only doing stories about her, but publishing her book.
And as you know, we're crowdfunding her legal fees.
And I just recently learned that she was paying for her own physical security and she didn't tell anyone.
Whenever I would see her out in Ottawa, she would have this bodyguard who was a great bodyguard, by the way.
I mean, really professional.
And I don't know why, but I assume someone else was paying for that.
I just never asked until recently.
And she said she paid tens of thousands of dollars for her own protection.
And I'll be honest with you, my first reaction was I was mad, mad that she kept that a secret.
I mean, it just goes to show you how humble she is that she didn't ask for help.
Anyway, we're going to help her with that, as you know.
Bobby Meyer says, New Zealand, because of its anti-Semitic government, is experiencing high levels of anti-Semitism.
Will Rebel News be employing a reporter to cover the issues?
Actions there.
I've been to New Zealand with Avi, and I didn't know that it had an anti-Semitic government in New Zealand.
I know that Jacinda Ardern, the socialist leader, is gone and that the party that succeeded her was more conservative or freedom-oriented.
I have not heard that it's anti-Semitic and I just maybe I haven't been following it.
I know there are some countries like Ireland, the government is really pro-Hamas, so much so that Israel withdrew its embassy.
I just haven't heard this about New Zealand and I pretty much rely on Avi Yamini for news about New Zealand.
I mean, it's further away than you would guess.
When I was a kid, I thought New Zealand and Australia were right close to each other.
It's like hours away by plane.
Just looks close because there's nothing else down there on the map.
But if something's happening in New Zealand, I'm going to rely on Avi to tell me because I just wouldn't have the contacts.
Crystal Dowy says, you appear to be a very private person and I want to respect that.
But I am curious about your family.
Do you have children?
What can you tell me about your wife and kids?
Do your wife and children agree with you politically?
I am sort of private, not because I'm not proud of my personal life, but because they would face some retaliation and danger for being associated with me.
I myself, you know, I'm up for the cut and thrust of it.
I condition out so I can take it most of the time.
And I'm not under someone else's power.
Like I remember when I was a student activist, I was always cognizant of the fact that the professors had the ultimate power over you.
They could give you a failing grade, for example.
They wouldn't give you a recommendation letter or something.
And even when I worked for other companies, I used to work for the National Post.
I used to work for the Sun and Sun News Network, things like that.
Whenever you have a boss, you are at some risk.
But I've been independent for almost 10 years.
But my wife and kids, first of all, they're not activists like me.
So they're not public people.
And the problem with being more open about them would be the people who want to get to me might choose to get at me through them.
And they haven't signed up for that.
I mean, obviously, they respect my politics.
I mean, when I met my wife, I was already fairly well known for having certain strong opinions.
And I don't think she would have spent any time with me had she been opposed to them because it's not like I sneaked up on her with these opinions.
She knew about me before we met on a personal level.
And the kids are young enough that they're not really politically active.
You know what's sort of fun, though, is the older kids, their peers at high school follow Rebel News.
Not all of them.
But it sort of went from, oh, you know, I don't know if you have kids, but your kids love you and idolize you until a certain age.
And then, you know, they say, oh, dad's not cool.
Oh, dad, come on, you're embarrassing.
Oh, that's dad's music.
Oh, that's dad's slang.
I don't know if you know.
I mean, kids go from absolutely holding you up on a pedestal to sort of laughing at how ghost you are.
But I've had sort of a renaissance in my own family because other kids in high school think Rebel News is cool.
Anyways.
So thank you for that letter, Crystal.
Susan Burns.
Hi, Ezra.
I would like to know more about Teresa Tam.
I haven't ever seen anything about her background and current involvement with the WHO.
Well, Susan, I haven't done a story about Teresa Tam recently, but we did a lot of reports about her during the pandemic.
And right in the very early days, we were one of the first to dig up a footage of her in some National FILM Board documentary quarantines and like prisons and arresting people who didn't lock themselves up, um.
So so we were very, very early skeptics of Teresa Tam.
We also I think it was Rebel NEWS that broke the exclusive that she was an employee, not an employee.
She was well yeah, an employee of the World Health Organization and had a non-disclosure agreement with them and sort of a loyalty pledge to them and and, and she was one of the directors that made some vote about whether or not to, you know, to criticize China, or so.
I forget the details right now, but we did a ton of journalism about Teresa Tam.
I think we had a very large petition too and again i'm going from memory here I think we called it Firetam f-i-r-e-t-a-m dot com.
Um, I haven't done a story about her recently.
Maybe someone else on our team has.
I know that um Tamari Uglini and um Drea Humphrey continue to do that beat.
But if you want to see our stuff on Theresa Tam, just type in firetam.com and I think that'll show a lot of our stories.
There is a question people ask, which is.
Is she transgender?
And uh, i've seen pictures and allegations.
I haven't done any investigation in that regard and frankly, that's not my beef with her.
My beef with Teresa Tam is she's an authoritarian bully.
Junk science obeys the World Health Organization.
Um has dual loyalties.
On the one hand, she's loyal to the World Health Organization.
On the other hand, she's loyal to Camera.
Pick her lane.
Which one is it?
Um, none of that has to do with her own sexuality.
I don't know about her sexuality and it's the reason I of find her atrocious is because of what she does, not because of her sexuality.
One way or the other, Wayne Curry, is it possible or feasible for Trump to exempt certain provinces from tariffs while imposing them on non-compliant provinces?
Also, you have said that the average donation to Rebel NEWS is 58.
Is that per month, per year, every christmas?
Wayne, the average gift, the average what?
To answer your question, we don't get any money from the government.
We we don't get money from Youtube.
We were demonetized, so we rely overwhelmingly on crowdfunding and the average gift is 58.
So that's the average time when someone gives.
Sometimes people give once and never again.
Sometimes people give every month.
Uh if, if people are giving every month.
Typically it's less than 58.
The reason I mentioned the 58 average donation is to make the point that we have a ton of little supporters.
It's not like we have one big oligarch cutting us a check for a million bucks a year.
I've daydreamed about that sometimes.
Life would be easier if you just had one giant benefactor, but it would be terrifying because you would have to do exactly what they said or with one flick of the tail, you'd be out of business.
Um luckily, i've never been tested with such an offer.
Um, as to your question about tariffs, I don't see why not.
I mean Trump can do whatever he wants.
He could write a tariff in In whatever way he wants.
In terms of practical terms, he might exempt oil and gas and minerals, but tariff the auto industry.
That would effectively have a geographic difference, too, wouldn't it?
Darlene Brown says, I appreciate all the honest reporting your team does for us Canadians when we can't trust any legacy media.
I'm not at all happy with the flack you all get, but that is a burden we must bear with telling the truth these days.
However, it seems that there are only two provinces in Canada that got most of the coverage, and they are Alberta and Ontario.
Is it possible there might be something worth reporting in, let's say, Saskatchewan or Manitoba?
Maya Coppa, you are correct.
And it's a function of where our people are geographically.
Drea is in the Greater Vancouver area.
Sheila is in Alberta.
Alexa is in Montreal.
I'm here in Toronto with David.
Abiyamini's in Melbourne.
We used to have a fella in Ottawa.
We actually briefly had a young lady, Kelly Lamb, in Saskatchewan.
And when we had her, she was doing stories there.
It's a little bit harder.
Well, although, you know, we do travel around.
I acknowledge that we are not doing enough coverage in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and we do very little in the Atlantic.
And I think it's because we're small.
And you don't just need the journalists.
Red Pill Revelations00:03:58
You need the cameraman and the editor and things like that.
And we, listen, if we had the budget, I would love to have someone in the Atlantic and I would love to have someone in the prairies.
We just don't.
Brian Krause, my question is: can you select a subscriber once a month to shadow you and/or one of your reporters for a day in whatever office or region that makes sense that's closest to where they live or work?
I'd be fascinated to see how the sausage is made.
And I bet many other subscribers feel the same way.
I volunteer for the first month.
You start this program, as long as it's not in April, as I'm a tax accountant.
Thank you for considering it.
Well, Brian, that sounds like a lot of fun.
How the sausage is made.
Yeah, well, it is sort of fun behind the scenes.
I mean, every morning at 10 a.m. Eastern, which is 8 a.m. in Alberta and 7 a.m. in BC.
And I say that because we have teammates in different time zones.
We have a Zoom or Skype call where we all sort of talk about stories of the day and who's doing what.
And then I'll just take in the example of David Menzies.
We have a typically he goes somewhere and the cameraman goes with him and there's some interaction.
God forbid, sometimes he's even arrested.
And then to bring that back, and then the cameraman is typically also the video editor.
And maybe there's some comments said in the studio.
Yeah, it's an interesting process.
And then when it's done, it's reviewed by an editor and then it's uploaded to the internet and tweets are written.
For every story, there's probably six pairs of hands that touch it, maybe even more.
And then sometimes if it's interesting, someone writes an email to send that out to the list.
So it is how the sausage is made, it's a great phrase.
In terms of the logistics, you know, why don't you send an email?
I mean, I'm not sure where you're located.
It would be a different experience if you were out in the field, like in Vancouver, just to watch Drea report something.
Whereas here in Toronto, you would probably see more of the different stages in the, you know, the assembly line.
You know, we wouldn't want you to get underfoot, trampled or anything, but it could be fun.
It could be fun sort of reality TV style, almost like TMZ brings a camera into the newsroom.
All right, last question.
Leanne says, what surprised you most this year, good or bad?
I was surprised that Trump won as convincingly as he did.
I wasn't surprised that he got the votes.
I was surprised that there weren't more shenanigans.
I was convinced of it.
I was, you know, the kids use a phrase red pill and blue pill.
And then there's a phrase white pill or black pill.
These are, you know, different moods.
Red pill is you wake up to reality.
Blue pill is you like to still labor in unreality.
Black pill is you feel like everything's doomed.
White pill is you feel delighted and optimistic.
I was blackpilled about the election.
I thought they're going to do everything and anything.
Trillions of dollars, entire wars will turn on this election.
I thought the deep state, whatever, anything, nothing, they will not let Trump win.
And look, they tried twice to assassinate him.
They came within an inch once.
So when he won and won every swing state and won the majority of the popular vote, I was shocked.
Not shocked that he had the support, but shocked that he overcame the shenanigans.
And I'm still reeling from that.
And that gives me hope here in Canada too.
Pope John Paul II always used to say, where there's life, there's hope.
And isn't that the truth?
So never give up.
Never give up.
Never, never, never.
My friends, thanks for your great questions.
And Merry Christmas to you all from Hanukkah Harry over here on behalf of all of us at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home.