Shaun Newman Podcast - #497 - 1 Million March 4 Children

Episode Date: September 14, 2023

Miranda Courts, Tara Anderson & Bonnie Scherger hop on the podcast to update us on the September 20th march in Lloydminster. Presentation on SOGI: https://rumble.com/v3b1owa-live-007-danae-christian.html For the Kids' Sake Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/forthekidssake Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcastPatreon: www.patreon.com/ShaunNewmanPodcast

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Here we go. Welcome to this Sean Newark podcast. Today I am joined by a bunch, a whole different group of ladies in town. I don't know why I think a bunch of group, but it doesn't matter. Miranda Courts, Tara Anderson. Bonnie Sugar, coming in to talk about this upcoming March here in town, 1 million March for kids, for children. For kids?

For children. Anyways. Thanks for all hopping in and doing this. I know everybody is all tense. They're all worried about the mic in front of them, but I do appreciate you coming on, share with the audience a little bit about what is going on. So where do you want to start?

Who wants to start? I'm looking around at everybody. Do we want to just start with what it is? and move from there. Sure. So this March is to bring recognition and light to what's going on in schools, not only across Canada, but obviously in our area, more specifically, Saskatchewan schools,

with the sexual and gender ideologies and indoctrination that's going on with our kids in school as young as kindergarten. So that's kind of where this starts. And actually, you know, it's funny. I don't know why I'm so caught off, Garrett. I'm trying to run six different things here. But maybe I should let people get to know the voices of everybody that's in here. I rattled off your names.

And then I know Tara is probably the only one who's ever been in here before. For kids' sake, a long time ago? Yeah. When was that? 21? 21, maybe. Anyways, that was a long time ago. Miranda, how will we start a little bit of your background?

Long or short as you want to go. We don't have a time limit by any stretch of imagination. But just, uh... Oh, Sean, there's always a time limit with you. No, it's funny. Actually, I was saying, Tara and I were talking before we got in here. And I'm like, you know, like, well, how long are we going for today? Because you would ask, well, when's the meeting?

And I'm like, I don't know. I'm an hour after the point. Like, how long are we going to talk for? Yeah. Because I actually like to set zero time limits, then I don't have to worry about time. That's true. But so many people who give you your time from wherever they're sitting always have a time frame. It sucks because then you got to like worry about in the back of your brain.

Like, did I get everything? Did I remember everything? And I got to stare at the time because. It's funny how the minutes just pick away. So no, a little bit about yourself so the audience can get a feel. So I'm a mom of three. All three of my children are vaccine injured from childhood vaccines. So I've kind of been on this crusade, I guess you'd say, against vaccines for 27 years.

More recently with the COVID vaccines, making sure that not only my children were protected, but all children were protected. I jumped into public activism in 2020 when COVID hit and just trying to make sure that all sides of information were brought out to the public. And because there's two sides to every story and then there's the science in the middle. And I felt like the science in the middle was definitely not being put out there. So I jumped into trying to educate the community and trying to shut down the vaccines. and I've just continued from there. I am one of the original organizers of the Freedom Convoy.

I went to Ottawa and protested there for three weeks and went through a horrific weekend with our wonderful government and came home, took some time off to mend the mental health from that and then just dove right back into it with this vaccines for the kids and then the indoctrination, sexualization of Soji 1, 2, 3 that I found out was going on. I didn't realize that it had been going on for as long as it had in multiple provinces in Canada. And correct me if I'm wrong, the longest being six years in BC. And 60 school divisions.

Yeah. And now in Alberta, it's seven school divisions, which includes, I don't even know how many schools, but it's seven school divisions in Alberta right now that are running this. And they call it the test pilot project, but we all know that it's not going anywhere unless people like us and parents and caregivers across the country step up to make sure that this is eliminated and not brought back. So that's my story. Tara, once again, like we kind of prefaced, we had initial podcast before the kids sick,

but man, that's a long time ago now. I actually can't remember how long ago that was. a little bit about yourself so the audience can get a feel for you. Sure, you bet. So I grew up just south of here near a small town, Paradise Valley, and moved to the big city to go to college. I married my high school sweetheart, and we quickly realized that we don't belong in the city. We love country living, so we moved back home,

and we have three kids, three adult children now, and just became a new Nana. Congratulations. Thank you. And yeah, for people that know me, our family is the most important, next to God, family is the most important thing to me. And I just, you know, we've tried to build a life that is conducive for that. And so, you know, I've worked from home for 17 years with a health and wellness company. And we've raised our kids on our family farm.

And, yeah, I just, family is the most important thing in our life. like I said, next to God. And so I think the family unit is foundational for the world, actually. Well, as you're talking, I'm like, I can figure this out. For the Kids' sake, was on episode 199. And for everybody's thought process today, this is episode 497. It was August 11th, 2021. So that is over two years ago that we sat down on here and just shared me, you, Dustin, and Ken Carson.

That's right. And it's interesting. you know, as far as groups go, that's still, those three are still in the group, or I guess I'm still in the group. I don't know. Anyways, the group is still there, which is, I don't know, I don't know if that speaks to what the group has been about or what, but normally you don't have that cohesion. Usually there's some pieces fall off and everything else. Anyways, Bonnie. Well, my name's Bonnie Sugar and I grew up in rural Saskatchewan. And my husband and I moved to Lloyd about 26 years ago. So this is home for us. We've been married.

30 years and we have three grown girls that are adult children and probably around August of 21 we had heard about for the kids' sake and it sparked our interest because we weren't sure what was going on both my husband and I were were curious to what they they were presenting I guess it was at Kit Scottie we went was our first presentation that we went out there and from there I've been following following for the kids' sake and going to their presentations and learning more, making critical choices, critical decisions moving forward. My background is in teaching. I have stepped away from that.

And I think what I saw in the schools during COVID also had some discernment to it. I had to decide where I was. And that was part of the reason that I chose to step away. way. Having three daughters, I guess looking at where they were 10, 12, 15 years ago in the junior high, in the junior high part of their life and puberty and how much has changed in the school system. And yeah, that's kind of my story. Well, here's another interesting fact for everybody in the room. Camille was my 34. guest so that's one of her daughters who went on to play high-end hockey and I

remember that interview because she's the only guest and a shout out to Camille if she's listening to make me restart the interview and be like I need to restart this and so we stopped like 10 minutes in and I'm like okay and I'm like super new and I'm probably a little rough around the edges at that time because I'm like sure we could we could start again and I'm like how do I start this all yet anyways that was that was episode 34 September 18th 2019 so that is a lifetime ago back when I was doing nothing but hockey anyways that's that's a long time ago yeah and she hasn't been in your new place here so I'm sure you've won after yeah yeah exactly

we've heard for kids sake multiple times yeah I was gonna say yeah please please talking about group cohesiveness we have a group any it ranges anywhere from 10 members to 20 25 members there's quite a few of us that are originals from back in 2020 who've been working together since then. And just a wonderful group of people that, you know, some of them don't have kids. Some of them, you know, don't have grandkids, but, you know, they just see the need for the community to not be whitewashed with all of this and long hours. We've changed buildings a few times.

We've, you know, changed hands with members a few times. But there's an original core group of us that, I don't know, don't think you're going to go anywhere anytime soon. Well, it's, uh, I think of the book club. So we got a book club that formed in 2018. And, uh, it's funny, like it's, it's hard to break those ties once you've gone through. I mean, nobody predicted. I didn't predict COVID. Certainly, there's people that, um, were onto it right off the get go. But I mean, uh, to go through things like that, you learn what everybody's worth real fast, right? And so it's, it's, it speaks to, uh, going through difficult times, what happens because you're starting to see these little groups,

pockets form not only in our community, but across, you know, all of Canada, all of maybe the world. And it's people coming together when they can't figure out what the heck's going on. And there's lots of social pressure to conform or whatever else. So either way, two groups here in town that have... And I guess I should say our group name officially is family, faith, freedom. A lot of what we do is by the faith. Not everything. And faith has a broad definition. but a lot of what we do is guided through our faith. Now, curious, for this, for Wednesday, Wednesday, September 20th here in Lloyd Minster,

let's, I guess let's start back. I jumped to this right off the hop. Now everybody's got a feel for who everyone is. September 20th, 10 a.m. at the City Hall, or the area around the Legacy Center, that's where this is going to kick off 10 to noon or 10 until 2 10 till 2 10 till 2 11 is the walk 10 to 11 roughly right now show up and then there's going to be a group of speakers still ironing out when they will all speak who they all will be but regardless if you show up at 10 that's kind of

the feel of it what else should people know folks about September 20th here in lloyd minster Well, the idea is it's a school walkout. And so we're encouraging people to pull their kids out of school that day, come down and march with us. And do you want me just to read the mission statement from the $1 million March for Children? Sure. Okay. So this you can find right on their website.

It's the number one million March and then the number four children.com. So if you go to their website, all of this information is there. But just for the listener to know what their mission statement is. We are brothers and sisters in humanity standing up to free our children from the bondage of indoctrination, breaking the system designed to sexualize our children. And then they go into just a couple of sentences of who they are, which I think are kind of key. So uniting diverse backgrounds and faiths, we share a resolute purpose, advocating for the elimination of sexual orientation and gender identity. So the soji, most people will know that as, soji curriculum, pronouns, gender ideology, and mixed bathrooms in schools.

As a symbol of our commitment, students are encouraged to participate in a nationwide walkout on that day. Additionally, major cities across the nation will host March events. Together we stand united to safeguard the well-being and innocence of our children. So that's just the Coles notes of what that day is about.

I think for myself, there were two things that really attracted me to this movement and this idea. The first is that, the last three years in this world, we have seen nothing but division. And this is about bringing people together. So it doesn't matter what your faith is, what your race, your sexuality, any of that. All you have to do is have a heart for children and want to protect them in our schools from sexualization and indoctrination. And the second thing is this is about us being a

voice for our children. And that's, you know, I can speak for myself in the for the kids' sake group. that is why we exist. So. And that why all parents exist. Yes. If parents aren't, if parents aren't speaking up for their kids, who is? The kids, your children, that's what you live for. 100%. So whether it's for the kids' sake or anybody, if you have children, you're here to be their voice until they can be strong enough to have their own voice.

And when we're talking about, you know, kids that, you know, can't remember to put on the socks in the morning or make their bed or pick up a, you know, their cereal bowl. I'm not thinking that these kids have the ability to make adult decisions, such as their sexual gender or sexuality down the road. Pawnee, do you want to, do you have any, because where I sit on all that, I'm like the Soji thing, you know, we were on Kirk Price a couple days ago. And the thing about the Soji thing is, as a grown man, I still stare at it, and I'm still confused.

And so then, and so then, and so, well, you got to get, you're, you're, older guy and you got to get on it and I'm like I don't I don't know I don't think so but I wasn't always old I wasn't always old I was young once too and I think back to being young and that stuff still doesn't make sense to my young brain back then so I don't think it's an old thing I think that it's a grooming thing and I think it's a higher thing than what we recognize or realize it to be because yeah as a young person some of that stuff I wouldn't have gotten it then either so don't feel bad, Sean. You're not old. Well, I discovered Soji probably about a year and a half ago, came across some social media from

BC. Parents actually were presented from their children, the Planned Parenthood cards. And I was flabbergasted. Like, I had to dig into this. So I started doing some research and realized, yes, all the divisions, school divisions in BC are provided the Soji 1, 2, 3 material. I dug a little deeper. Alberta was doing the start of it.

Yeah, the pilot programs. Yeah, and then Saskatchewan was supposed to have Prince Albert and Saskatoon. We're supposed to be pilot projects, which have been put on hold. So it's the images, it's the material, the written material that a person, like, don't go from what I'm saying, look into it. It's out there. It's available for parents to check out. and create your own opinion. It's not hidden.

No, no. That's, it's crazy to me that we still, you'll still run into the odd parent or person. It's like, what's that? You know, and like we said the other day, I don't blame anyone for not knowing this information because, I mean, for years, we've trusted the system. We've trusted that when you drop your kids off at school, they're learning what they need to learn. And once your eyes have been opened to what Soji is and what they want to teach our children,

you can't unlearn it and you also for myself can't turn a blind eye. And like Bonnie said, don't take it from us. Like go in and learn the information. I mean, there's a really great video that Denei Christian did. She's a former teacher in Saskatchewan. Can we link that in this? Yeah, sure. We can, for the listener, I'll put it in the show notes.

Actually, I'm going to be on the Schmidt House podcast here in a week's time, I think. Anyways, but that's exactly what it is. and she does a phenomenal job. And she's going to be on the podcast here end of September, September 29th, I want to say, somewhere in that time frame. She does an excellent job of just walking through it to where you want to pull out a piece of paper

and be like, oh, that's, take notes. Because it was very well done presentation. Yeah, she goes into what Soji is, what SOG 1, 2, 3, and what the ARC foundation is. So if you're not familiar with that, I just really encourage you to listen to that link. And she's a teacher out of Saskatchewan. I mean, if it doesn't get more credible,

than that, you know. And she's exposing that, okay, Soji 1, 2, 3 may not be in their curriculum as of yet, but the content that's being taught in Soji 1, 2, 3 is. Yeah. And she exposes that. And, you know, they talk on the, on the video, you know, on the podcast that they're not whistleblowing because all of this information is out there. Absolutely.

Yeah. Right. So. Well, that's, but if we've learned anything from the last couple of years, they haven't been, like most of us just sitting there right in front of you. It's, it's, they're playing on. off of like people's like look at the words they're using inclusivity what are they equality inclusivity and diversity and there's nothing extreme about any of those words no

right and people need to understand something like I learned one of the biggest lessons that I learned from Ottawa and from the lawyers not that you I learn much from lawyers nowadays but one of the biggest things I learned is especially with government entities, it's all about words. And they will use the most simplistic words, and it's just the way that they use them, that if you're not actually reading it and paying attention, it sounds like, it sounds so simple, right?

But if you're paying attention, it's all out there. It's all out there to be found. You know, one thing that Miranda and me and you might get along better than we think, because I love to give late and gray a hard time he sat in your chair. And I'm like, you know, I've got to get. have lawyers a little bit of a rough time, right? Even though you're talking and got a podcast and you're doing lots of great things, I was like in the middle of the COVID, I reached out to a bunch of lawyers and they would do nothing for me. Don't get me wrong. We had a couple through,

for the kids' sake, that certainly did their best to do and are still doing. But it was funny in the middle of COVID. They wouldn't like, yeah, it's a lost cause, a lost cause. And I have to, and I have to say not all lawyers. I should say we have a few good lawyers and and now that are working hard for us and hopefully, you know, we'll be successful on this current case. But it's funny. I like giving it to them, though, too. I put them in the same ballpark as like politicians and stuff. And Leighton always kind of squirms it.

I'm like, I know, I know. You're doing better than that. But, you know, I got, Shane Getson's another politician who's been on multiple times, right? And so they're great ones. But it's funny. And the lawyer's side of things, when you talk about words and you see what's coming down the pipe across all professions, all corporations, all at the same time, you can't help but go.

Like, holy crap. why can't everybody see this, except for it's wrapped up in this nice little, you know, you come back to what James Lindsay just said on the podcast, right? Like the, it looks like the cherry-filled chocolate, except they've somehow removed the cherry and put something else in this inside. And that analogy to me is pretty good because the structure of it feels like, well, we're helping people off. It's chocolate. Yeah.

Yeah. So September 20th, 10 a.m., people can show up. I would say we're encouraging them to park on the north side of the legacy center, but there's a parking lot that's actually west of that, right across from the doctor's office. If you're in Lloyd, you understand what I'm talking about. But the northwest side of the legacy center, there's a gravel parking lot. There'll be parking there.

There might be some parking within the City Hall parking lot as well, but I imagine most of us volunteers will probably be taking those ones up. But there is quite a bit of parking in that area, yeah. And we just encourage people to come out. It's a peaceful protest. Like we're not, we invite everybody out, right? We want everybody to come out. And if they can bring their kids, if they can't, we completely understand.

We still want you to participate. If you're stuck at work and you're going, I can't leave work, ask your boss, right? Like it's only come walk for the hour. The march starts at 11. We timed it out today. And Miranda, you've walked it as well. And it was pretty much on the button 30 minutes. So if you got the head of this thing, you get out and you're one of the first.

one's going it's 30 minutes and you can be gone if you're at the back depending on how many people come traffic lights that type of thing it could be upwards of 45 minutes an hour it just depends on how many people show up and all that type of thing what are some of the things that are going on at the that people can expect like there's going to be information on SOGI being handed out so you can have a pamphlet if you want you can look at it you can go oh that's what it is the informational part of it I know for podcast viewers a guy named Tanner and a day is going to speak it sounds like Danny Hosak's going to

speaking, he's been on the podcast before. Miranda's going to have a part. What else am I missing? So we're going to also have some sort of a barbecue lunch after the walk, having quite nailed down, whether it's hot dogs, hamburgers, whatever, but there will be some sort of a barbecue lunch at noon. And to keep in mind, we don't know how many people will be showing up, so. So if we run out of food and you're there, please, we apologize.

We're planning for a certain amount of people if we have more than that. I mean, wonderful to have it. I'm sorry if you miss out on it. but it's hard to plan for. Well, and people have to realize that this is all volunteer initiative. No big organization sitting there pushing any of this, right? Right. Sorry, didn't mean to cut off.

No, that's fine. And then we have Mark Toop who will be singing. I do believe we also have Brianna Gammon, who will be singing as well. There will be lots of kids games, Big Giant Connect 4, Big Giant Jenga, some egg races, some fishing pond, some little goodies for the kids, that kind of thing. Just a really great afternoon after the walk of fellowship and kids being kids like they should be. And I feel like I'm going to get along with this Mark Toop pretty good. I was just talking to Maz and he's like, have you talked to him yet?

And I'm like just a little bit and he's like, oh, he might be a podcast guest. He was telling me he opened for Nazareth once upon a time. I mean, there's going to be a generation that has no idea who that is. certainly I don't think anyone in this room, sorry ladies, not to date any of us, but I don't think any of us have forgotten who Nazareth is. I've been to two of their concerts. So a little bit of music at the end. Ladies, anything else that people should know from the actual walk. We, you know, maybe bring a chair in the back. Your vehicle's not a bad idea. We will have some signs as well for sale, a limited amount, but we're getting some made up just so that if people want

have a sign through the march they can. And how much is one of those? I think we were going to say $10. A sign. Just so people remember to bring cash. Basically, just to cover the cost of... Did I mention it's a cashless walk? No, I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. You're fired. Yeah, so there'll be signs. I can't stress enough that this is peaceful. It's, you know, everything that we do is with, you know, respect and peacefully and with love. And just, yeah, we want to emphasize. size that as well. Yeah.

And it's a community event. Like I know when I, the first time I went to for the kids sake, I was like, oh, who am I going to see there? Who am I going to meet? And you'll be so surprised how many people want to come out and just, just speak to what's going on and share their, their stories, maybe what their children are going through. And it's a safe place. So yeah, it's very welcoming.

Yeah. And just to add to that, the peacefulness and the everybody's, the everybody's, you know, invited this this is not an LGBTQ plus um bashing uh event at all LGBT plus actually are very involved in this as well we have gays against grooming um that are involved in this march out east and so this this I want to be very clear that this you your choices are your choices this this is not one an event for for that dispute at all So I want everybody to understand that wholeheartedly that we can accept others' choices as well as, you know, our own choices. So this is not to be against the LGBTQ plus community in any way.

Yeah, it's all about the kids. It's all about the kids. It's just like very focusing on the kids. Like, let's just let's just let kids be kids. I think is what a lot of parents want to be informed about what is happening with their child, one. And then, too, it's just, let's like kids be kids. Can we do that? and just move on with life and and just also too about the lunch the lunch is free it is by donation only

do not feel like you have to donate um it is it will be provided for free um there will be a donation bucket there of course and we also have awesome pops um treat truck coming for um snow cones and ice cream treats for after lunch as well for the kids that that will be a cost associated and and as far as donations go there's going to be donation buckets out so don't feel like you have to donate anything but do realize any of the donations are coming back into our community there's two groups here that are trying to come together and build something out that um you know i think a lot of the community wants to support i feel like that i don't i don't what did kurt price at 82 percent well 82 82 is that yes is the poll on on what saskatchewan um said when it came to

parents involvement in the schools and you know when you come back what this is all about it's it's parents trying to show their government, trying to show their city, that whether this is happening or not, whether they have it in the plans, whatever, we want nothing to do with it. And protesting, putting on a show of like, this is what we want and this is what we stand against is one of the ways to get people to look and really pay attention because right now it's kind of like, oh yeah, whatever, right? But hopefully people come out and feel comfortable coming out to this because once again it's a peaceful that's what it's all about it's it's it's trying to um support parents and the school system you know I forget who said it here before we

was Bonnie you're not in your head it might have been you who said we got to find a way to get parents and teachers together again talking about something because I know a lot of people whether it's teachers or it's just different people in different organizations they can't raise their head off for fear being shot you know picked off and that happened right through COVID and now it's happening in different things, usually under the heading of diversity, inclusion and equity. Yeah. And the education, I won't say teachers because I feel like teachers are kind of stuck as

well, but I will definitely say that the education system itself has taken a really wrong turn somewhere and eliminating parental knowledge with what's going on in the schools. And I think that it's important for things like this to go on to remind the education system that parents and their relationship with their students, their children is number one relationship. The educator and the education system is number two. Well, and it might be important to make mention of the recent announcement with the education minister in Saskatchewan. Because I think some people may feel like, okay, they're doing something. So do we really have to come out in protest? So the three things that, I mean, many people have probably heard about already,

but the three things that they made policies around were when changing a preferred name and pronouns used by students under the age of 16 years old, they need to have parental or guardian permission. There's a policy now where guardians and parents need to be informed of any sexual health curriculum. And then the third thing was they are immediately pausing third-party groups connected to health sexual health education coming in. So as much as that is a step in the right direction, which we are so grateful for.

I know we were talking about that the other day. There's a lot more that needs to be done. And right now there's that, well, the SOS government's being sued. It's up in the air. And there's also that it's, again, this is about wording, right? And when they say parental for sexual education stuff, that's also defined by them what sexual education stuff is. And so that that's also a very fine line that needs to be broadened

because what we might as parents feel like is unacceptable for our kids to learn, they'll say, well, that's not sexual education. So we're able to teach that. And it's being brought into all classes. That's the other thing. This is not just narrowed down to a health class with extremely graphic and things of sexual orientation in one class. This is taking it into every class that we talked about that content.

Well, a lot of this content is being brought into your English class, your science class, your social class. Your math class. Your math class. Like, you know, when we went to school, it was reading, writing and arithmetic, you know, your basic sex ed, you know, wear a condom, abstained, don't get an STD. There's no doubt that some sexual education has to be there, at least in a little bit of the higher grades. but the amount of content and stuff that they're bringing as low as the kindergarten classes is what I think is absolutely unacceptable at this point. So while this is great, and I appreciate Scott Moe and Duncan, of course, before he was

transitioned out, and I hope Jeremy Cockrell follows in those same footsteps, it is just scratching the surface. So I'm standing behind the Saskatchewan Premier for now in that he continues on with this fight. I know right now he's there got an injunction. and lawsuit going on to try and stop them from doing this. And I'm proud to say that they're still standing up against it. And I just hope that they continue to keep going down and that it gets broadened more than where we're at now.

And I think as a parent, too, just to bring it back to the kids, like make the time to talk to your kids when they come home at meal time or before they go off to school. And don't just ask them how their day was. Ask the deep questions. Yeah, have real conversations with them. what kind of books did you read today? Or who did you play with at recess?

And a lot of those leading questions will open up and hopefully share with you. Because we can't paint parents with all the same brush that they're not going to be able to share with the child with their parent and feel comfortable with that. And same goes for the teachers. We can't paint all the teachers with the same brush that. that this is happening at schools. So I think we need to have grace when we're speaking to our teachers. Reach out to them, create a relationship, whether it's through email, phone calls. I know our daughters had very good relationships with teachers through all of their school years.

So really take the time to get to know of the personalities within your child's classroom. And don't forget, I would say if I asked each one of us, We all had a favorite teacher growing up or multiple that really, whether it took us under their wing or taught something just so fantastic. And you can never forget that. Like that hasn't changed. There's still those teachers. There's probably still thousands of those, right? I would say the majority are absolutely like that.

It's when the SAS government comes out and says, we're getting rid of this. And then the teachers union federal or teachers union president, geez, I hope I'm getting that right. TPA. It comes out and says, we're against this. And I speak for 13,000 teachers. Teachers need to understand that. Parents see that and go, what the deuce is that? And I think we understand that teachers are in a tough spot.

So they would be sitting here around the area going, guys, we got none of this going on. And you probably got 12,000 teachers heard that and went, she doesn't speak for me, but I need to teach. It's like a doctor, right? A lot of these doctors didn't want to give out, you know, the exemption letters and stuff because they risked losing their jobs. And is it more important to stay in your job and help thousands and thousands of of patients who are going to need you, just like teachers, I believe, like I've got a few teachers that have given me, you know, letters to read. And because they're too afraid to talk.

And they're afraid to talk because they really truly enjoy their job with the students. And if they're not there with their students, who is? I'm literally married to a woman who teaches, right? I have stayed away from this conversation for so long because I'm like, I just, I just don't want to go, but here's the problem is whether she agrees with anything I'm doing right here. I know that all teachers' hands are tied at this point. Because if they speak out, they're out of a job. You know, when we talk about Deney Christian, why she gets to speak out?

I'm not saying she wasn't speaking out before, but why is she now? She's not a part of the system anymore. Why does Sean get to do half the stuff he does? He's not a part of the system anymore. He literally gets to just make fun of it and have some people on and try and have some discussions and et cetera, et cetera. You know, when you were talking about having conversations with your kids, this was a cool one, okay? This was just yesterday. I'm driving home someday.

I hope Shay walks back through these and hears this. We're driving home, and we got a song on, and somewhere in the song, something about God comes on, and you can see my daughter in the back. She's six. She's going, what? And so now they're having a conversation about God. I did not put any of this. I was just kind of, it was a country song, you know, it's just kind of like whatever. And she's trying to make sense. And she goes, you know, what they're saying is, is if you do something nice for someone, it moves you closer to God because they're inclined to do something nice for the next person. Kind of like pay it for it. It's kind of why I took it. And he goes, but if you do something mean, that moves you closer to and I'm like I'm watching him and I'm like moves you closer or what and he's like well I don't know but it moves you to you're gonna do something mean to the next person and I'm like it's actually pretty good profound little thought out of a seven-year-old I don't know where the heck you got that from you know like so when you talk about having a meeting and full conversations that was just me sitting in the car interacting and hearing how their day went and a song comes on and

you have this conversation play out I've been thinking about that you know, since he said, well, I wrote it down because I'm like, do something nice for someone and it will perpetuate out. And the opposite is so true. Yeah, absolutely. 100%. That was a rule in our house was treat others as you wish to be treated. And you can take that anywhere in life, right? So is there anything else that, you know, before we let, we'll cut it off. And certainly, as far as Soji goes, we'll direct them to that. Danna Metcalfe is going to come on early next week before the March. I'm sure that's going to pop some minds out of whatever they were thinking.

We got Danae coming on later on this month. It's going to speak directly to Soji. When it comes all the way back to Lloyd Minster, though, September 20th, is there anything else, ladies, that you think needs to be brought up as far as the day leading up to the day? There's going to be a few days before this, since this is released to the actual March that you want to make sure people know. I guess we're communicating any further information beyond today through our Facebook group. So that's for the kids' sake, folks. I suppose I could put that in the show notes too if you just want to click on that.

I guess I could do that. Yeah. Oh, thank you. Anyways, that's a nice way to find out details is the Facebook group. Or for people that aren't on Facebook, we do have a substack as well if you want to link that here too. And that's just going to be like, it's just email communication. We don't bombard you with tons of email. It's just literally the information that you'll need for that day to come out.

So I think that's. I guess the only other thing that I would want to say is to any of our councilmen here in Lloyd Minister, to any of our city officials, to Colleen Young, to Rosemary Falk, I've sent them all emails inviting them because this is one of those topics that doesn't politically get them in trouble. Because they're on the right side of things. That's right. 82%. And, you know, how can anybody not, or how can anybody have a problem with advocating for kids?

With advocating for kids. I'm glad you literally stole the thought on my mind. I would say if you're listening to this and whether you're in Lloyd or not, I hope if you're listening in this area and you're going to come, one of the things you could do is you could challenge our civic leaders, our civil leaders. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I've reached out to Gertz. I know Colleen, I believe, has been reached out to. I saw your response from Scott Moe.

Oh, it was amazing a response. I wasn't a robot automatic response. I was like, yes. So, you know, could you imagine if the Premier came? I mean, that's probably a long shot. But at the end of the day, if you're listening to this and you're like, well, what can I do? Well, I mean, there's, you know, on both sides of this city, you got Garth Roswell, you got Shannon Stubbs. On the other side, you got Colleen Young, and you have, oh, folks, Rosemary.

Sorry, sorry, Rosemary, I can't, you know. But then you also have town council, city council, whatever, and then you also have all these different little groups. All these people can be encouraged to come. You don't have to get mean or anything about it. You can just inform them. I would say that we've reached out to a bunch of the communities in town. Like we've been talking with the Muslim community, that was one of the first things that got approached by both groups, which was. And they're coming.

And they're coming. I've reached out to the Mosaic Church, which I believe, I don't want to characterize it, but I believe it's largely Filipino and they've been interested in what we're doing. I know then of course like the Baptist and I'm not sure about the Catholic actually. Actually yeah they've all been contacted now. So you

look at it and you go we're trying to get everybody out and we're trying to make it as peaceful as like if you're going to come and you've never protesting before in your life it's an experience that isn't this crazy you know it's Lloyd for a couple hours if you bring your kids

awesome they got a couple of things for kids set up afterwards, hopefully a meal. If we run out of food, that's a great thing, I think. And you just show up, you see some people, we all stand together United. We do a march. We come out. It's not this big thing. It's a warm, fuzzy feeling. It really is to get like-minded. When you're all coming together for the same common goal of that precious little mind, that, you know, it's a warm, fuzzy feeling. There's, there's no negative to it. And for people that are asking what they can do to help, there's two things. Number one is listen to that tug on your heart and come and show up. And it's easier or not to. I get that.

But just really encourage you to come out yourself. And number two is share this information. Tell a friend, tell a neighbor, tell everyone you know, because it is about coming together. Numbers speak volumes. They really do. And, and you know, we might not have any of our, you know, elected officials come, but you can guarantee that they'll see it. You can guarantee that it's going to be right out their front door. That's right. You can guarantee that they'll see it. And so, you know, when you have 20 people show up, it's like, yeah, but when you have 500 people show up for the same common goal, they've got to listen. And for the Lloyd Minster listener, walk, you know, the route takes you from City Hall, okay, and you walk down Highway 16 and then you hit the

Wendy's corner where you hit the button, it almost shuts down all of 16 hours. I was joking with the ladies day. You hit that thing, it almost changes, because it's a pedestrian crosswalk. That's what it is. there's no, it's not a station light where it changes all the time. So you're going to shut down 16. I'm not suggesting anything to anyone. I'm just saying by pushing that button, you already do it. You shut down a major highway for 30 seconds. And if you get 500 people out or whatever the number is, you know, I'm not trying to low ball and high ball at anything. I'm just like, what a thing for the city of Lloyd to see and get going like what is going on. Right. Like I think that's really important. I can't emphasize enough though. Push on our politicians because they have.

have to listen to their constituents. And if they all say you should be coming out to this, whether it's city council, whether it's, uh, you know, being on the border city, we have the two employs, the two MPs. It'd be lovely to have one of them. Uh, and we'd find time for them to say a quick little message. Absolutely. Absolutely. Premier Scott Moe will hold them to a couple minutes. Hey, Miranda. We don't want them. We don't want them talking too much. And for any of your listeners, because I know you're, you're very broad. There are, um, rallies all over in Edmonton as well, or Alberta as well. Saskatoon's got one going on with Medina.

Regina. Regina's got with Tony Wells. So yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'm in contact with Tony. All the cities are listed on the website. Should be. Or should be.

Should be. But there's been such a high, high registration load on this. I believe they're, I've seen over 300 cities now that have said that they're doing this. So don't panic if you don't. see your city there or your your area there you can get a hold of me and I can also get you in touch and find out if your area is having it as well I really want to encourage you though if you're sitting like right around where Shelby Boyd is because she's uh what is it sorry Shelby is it cameras I'm spacing right now I forget the little town and it doesn't matter but you know she could go

to Amiton she could go to Calgary and then I was texting with and she's like we'll just come to Lloyd I said if you're in that spot and you're listening to this you should just come to Lloyd because we'd love to have the show with people from all, you know, they always, what did they always say about Lloyd? Lloyd's, you know, a town of like 25,000, 30,000 people, but it's a community of like 70,000 plus, maybe even more than that, because it's not just Lloyd, it's Lloyd, and how many little towns. When we did Bike for Breakfast years ago, I think it was, Lloyd's got, once again, I don't know, folks, is it 18 schools between the two divisions, something like that, maybe it's a little high, maybe it's a little low, no, it's definitely not low.

But then if you factor in Onion Lake all the way out to Maidstone, all the way over to Kid Scotty, PV, Dewberry, all these different communities, you get Neilberg, you get all these like, you know, you have a big area here. So we encourage everybody to come out and enjoy a quick. Yeah, we've got people coming from Sherwood Park, by the way. There you go. There you go. So either way, if there's nothing else, I'll let all the ladies out of here. And we hope to see you September 20th. That's 10 a.m. 10 a.m.

Wednesday morning. I keep on to say Saturday morning, September 20th, 10 a.m. And the walk starts at 11 a.m. We hope to see you there. And please bring your smiles, your chairs, and if you can, your kids, because that's what it's all for.

So thanks again, ladies for hopping in. Thanks, Sean.