DAILY ｜ Freeland, McKenna and CTV all promote Ukrainian neo-Nazis
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Rebel News has doubled in size in the last year, a testament to our reporters who are doing the kind of journalism that no one else is doing. We're streaming on YouTube, the censorship platform, but we like to stream on Rumble as well. And by the way, they are a free speech-oriented platform, which I think is preferable to YouTube, which really doesn't give a damn about free speech.
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Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here. How are you doing? What a great pleasure to be back in
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this chair. You know, I used to do live streams every day at 12 noon, especially when the
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pandemic started. There was so much news to talk about. I couldn't get through it all
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in my nighttime show. And frankly, we were all sort of stunned watching the pandemic take
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effect. So I did that for a while, but I just, you know, things just went so nuts around here,
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Rebel News, that I couldn't take the time. As you know, we have doubled in size in the last
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year, which I think is incredible. And it's a testament to our reporters who are doing the
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kind of journalism that no one else is doing. You know, our motto, telling the other side of
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the story. And I think we've had a great run. But I thought, you know what, I like doing the
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live streams. I want to come back, even if it's just one day a week. So what a pleasure
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to be back. And thank you for that. We're streaming, of course, on YouTube, the censorship platform.
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But we like to stream on Rumble as well. And we're doing that right now. We are also on
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superu.net, Odyssey. And I think we might be on Getter. I sort of lose track of all of them.
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But I think it's great that we're on those different platforms. That said, if we talk
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about things that are too spicy, we abandon the YouTube platform because they're just
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waiting for us to give them an excuse to nuke us. So if it's all the same to you, I would
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encourage you to set up an account on Rumble and to get used to it. And by the way, they
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are a free speech-oriented platform, which I think is preferable to YouTube, which really
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doesn't give a damn about free speech. There's a lot of very strange things going on right
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now in social media. I'll do my show on this tonight. But Meta, that's the name of the company
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that owns Facebook and Instagram, has changed their terms of service, changed their community
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guidelines. Obviously, you're not allowed to call for someone's death. You're not allowed
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to call for an assassination. But they changed that. They literally changed it two days ago,
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I think, or yesterday, so that they will make an exception if you're calling for the death
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of Russians and Bellow-Russians, people from Belarus. They're not hiding this. They're not,
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this isn't like a secret thing. They had like management meetings about it and they thoughtfully
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said, yeah, we think we're going to, I don't know, what, declare war? I mean, Facebook is larger
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than many companies, financially speaking. It's large, many countries rather. It's larger than many
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countries in terms of its power. I mean, I don't know how many people work for Facebook. Going
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from memory, I'd say it's about 100,000. So there are some countries that are smaller population-wise
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like Nauru and Tuvalu, tiny little countries like that. But of course, Facebook is as powerful as a
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NATO country. It may not have nuclear bombs, but it has something even more powerful, which is ideas.
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I mean, Alex Jones was right when he called his company Infowars and his slogan, there's a battle
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on for your mind. Don't you feel that now? So Meta, Facebook and Instagram have declared war on Russia
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and Russians and on Belarus and Belarusians. And I'm just working my way actually through the rules
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right now. Imagine that. Your company, YouTube has about 2 billion users with a B. So that's,
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I don't know, a quarter of the humans on this earth. And of course, they don't, you know, if you're a
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baby, you're not going to subscribe. So maybe there's only, maybe there's only 6 billion people
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and they have one third of that. So literally one third of the humans on earth have Facebook and
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Instagram. And if you make a policy saying we're going to allow calls for murder, but just against
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Russians, because that's the thing to care about now. We cared about the pandemic before, but we've
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all switched. Russia opens criminal case against Meta over death calls on Facebook. Yeah. So
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Facebook is lucky that Russia is responding through criminal courts rather than militarily,
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because Facebook is literally saying we are going to be the weapon through which people can call
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for assassinations. It's crazy. Here's my point about 2 billion.
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If you were some hobo on the street, drunkenly hollering out, we're going to kill Vladimir Putin.
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That would not cause the death of Vladimir Putin. First of all, you're here in Canada or wherever.
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Second of all, you're just a hobo who's hollering at people passing by and they go by quickly. But if
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you have 2 billion people hearing you, and if they're all around the world, most people will
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just slough that off or just say, okay, whatever. But how many people would actually be incited to
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violence? One in a thousand? Probably not. One in a million? One in a million. If you were to say to
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one million people, go kill Vladimir Putin, here's why. Or go kill a Russian. Just kill a Russian.
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If you said that to a million people, would one of them say, yeah, it's a good idea. Someone who was
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maybe crazy. Someone who was maybe in a drug-induced hallucination. Someone who was radicalized.
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If you said it to a million people, would one out of a million do it? Maybe. But like I say,
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Facebook has 2 billion users. So one in a million, that works out to 2,000 people.
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Now let's say most of those people would never have a chance to kill a Russian. I mean, I guess
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they could go to the Russian tea shop in their city, a Russian city. In Canada, there are 600,000
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Russian Canadians. I live in Toronto. There's lots of Russian grocery stores and places with Russian
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Cyrillic letters on the sign. So I think most people are geographically not near any Russians to kill
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them. But there are Russians around the world. I'm not just talking about killing Putin or killing
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someone there in that country. But there are Russians all around the world. And Facebook is saying it's
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okay to publish on their platform to kill them. And you got 2 billion people on Facebook. Is one in a
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million going to do? Even if of those 2,000 who might be activated by this, even if half of them can't
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act, even if 90, let's say 90% of those can't act. Okay, you still got, you still got 20, 28 murders on
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your hands. Like surely they've done the math on that. Even if it's such an extremely unlikely thing,
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you are thoughtfully, willingly, carefully, corporately deciding that you will be the
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information weapon to incite violence against Russia. And hopefully 99% of people do nothing with
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it. Or hopefully 99.9999% of people do nothing with it. But that still leaves dozens or hundreds
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who will. I think it's shocking. I think it's shocking. And I think it's companies acting like
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countries. And the thing about that is that other countries, when, when, if a company declares war on
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a country, we just saw the global mail headline there, that Russia is going to criminal court.
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Okay, that's very lucky for Facebook that they're just going to court. Because if, if you are a
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terrorist organization, we have terrorist organizations that are put on, you know, in Canada,
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it's called the public safety department. In the United States, it's called homeland security.
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There are terrorist lists of criminal organizations. Canada has that blacklist. The United States has
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that blacklist. Many countries do. The United Kingdom does. Do you want to call that up? Do you
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want to type in public safety terrorist list Canada? Just to show people, because maybe people don't know
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that. So in Canada, there's probably close to 100 organizations that are criminal banned. Like
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they're, they're, they're, they're sort of, I think they're even lower in status. Like there's the
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hell's angels and there's a different mafia families, but terrorist groups are lower in terms
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of legal. They're hostess humani. I forget the, the Latin phrase there. They're, they are an enemy
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of all mankind. Yeah. Listed terrorist entities. Thank you very much. Counter. Okay. So click on
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currently listed entities. You see that link there. Yeah. Click on that. So this is, let's just read
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it here. This webpage has been prepared for reference only. Users should consult the ads,
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blah, blah, blah. Several of the listed entities are known under different names. Anyway, so here they
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are. Now you can see a lot of them are in Arabic, Al Qaeda. You see that there, but there's all different
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kinds of Al Qaeda. Al-Shabaab. They're, they're active in Nigeria, if I'm not mistaken. Al-Aqsa
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Martyrs Brigade. I see a white group there, the Aryan Strike Force. I've never heard of that before.
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You know, ELN. I, I'm trying to remember what country that's in. So this is a list of terrorist
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groups. You can see Hamas is on there. You see Hezbollah, Indian Mujahideen. So most of these are
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Islamic groups, but there's a few others on there. I don't, lots of Islamic states. Anyhow, thanks very
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much. It's a, it's a long list, right? I think that the Tamil Tigers are on there. I can't recall.
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So those are, those are like pirates. You can like, basically, I mean, you can almost kill a pirate
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on site. That was the law. You have a drumhead trial. They were outside. When you call someone
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outlaw, that means they're outside the protection of the law themselves. Bounty hunters used to go
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after outlaws. Is Facebook about to become an outlaw? Is Facebook about to transform itself
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from a corporation into not a country, but a rogue extremist group that's literally calling for
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violence against Russia? They're lucky all Russia is doing is suing them. Yeah. Imagine if Facebook
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was put on Russia's list. Now you might say, so what? Try and collect all of Facebook's assets
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are in America or wherever, and they would never uphold the Russian court ruling. Well,
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Zuckerberg should be careful because if you call for the death of a Russian oligarch, let's say,
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and if that death happens, you better be careful that what comes around doesn't go around. If you're
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declaring, if you're declaring, if you're in the business of declaring war now, don't be shocked if
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someone declares war against you, especially if you're going after people who are authoritarian and,
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and violent, and Putin is a former KGB agent. I just find that crazy. But I, I'm less concerned about
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Putin and Russian oligarchs than I am about what this says about Facebook and Instagram here in
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Canada and the United States in the West. And Zuckerberg has this creepy idea called the metaverse.
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Do you want to throw up his little promo ad he did? He did this little promo for the metaverse,
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which is basically a virtual reality world. And he wants everyone to trade in real life
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for this metaverse, he calls it, where you have real estate in the metaverse. It's all just a,
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a computer simulation. It's like the Sims, SimCity, that old video game. He thinks he's made it and
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you just put on, uh, this headset and you're living in the metaverse and guess who owns the metaverse?
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Oh, that's right. He owns everything in it. Yeah. Turn up the volume on this.
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So, so this is what he created virtually. It has things that are only possible virtually,
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and it has an incredibly inspiring view of whatever you find most beautiful.
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Hey, are you coming? Yeah. Just got to find something to wear.
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Whoa, we're floating in space? Who made this place? It's awesome.
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Boz, is that you? Of course it's me. You know I had to be the robot, man.
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Hey. Sorry, I'm running late, but you've got to see what we're checking out.
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There's an artist going around Soho hiding AR pieces for people to find.
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Hold on. I'll tip the artist and they'll extend it.
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If you guys like it here, I have another room that you're going to love.
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Hey, you have to see this. Beast is going crazy.
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This place is great, Boz, but there's something I got to get back to.
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All right. So that's a glimpse of a few ways that we're going to be able to get together and socialize in the metaverse.
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I think Mark Zuckerberg is one of the creepiest people around.
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I don't believe, as some people do, that he is a lizard.
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I think he just has the social skills of a lizard.
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Can you I just sent you, you know, can you I'm going to maybe I can find it maybe faster than you.
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And they asked him about his lies and they asked him about violating his.
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He's sitting in a red chair and he's answering questions about privacy.
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He doesn't do unscripted interviews with people who might ask actual questions.
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You see that link I just sent you there, Olivia?
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So so so so anyway, you saw he has this world that is basically a virtual reality world and you
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dress up as you like, you know, as a robot or as a flying fish or something or whatever.
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And you can meet in this digital space and he owns it.
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And obviously he'll make money off you the way he does on Facebook, which is by selling everything he knows about you.
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And there will obviously be markets and he'll he'll there'll be commerce to do in his metaverse.
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He basically wants to build another world where he's the emperor and he can watch everything and he controls everything.
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How would you like him being not just the president, but the god of your world?
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I want to show what a sweaty little loser he is when asked about violating his users privacy.
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Do you feel like it's a backlash or that you feel like you're violating people's privacy?
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Do you feel like you're adequately portrayed as a because they want to wonder about the person who actually created this thing?
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I mean, I, you know, a lot of stuff happened, happened along the way.
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I think, um, you know, there were real learning points and turning points along the way in terms of,
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You know, it really went from this position very early on where we were just in this college dorm room to,
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It was a few friends and me and, um, you know, it just kind of had this project feel for a while.
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And there was this real turning point when, um, when companies started trying to buy the company
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And, you know, I had to kind of get my friends together and we had to decide what was it that
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we really cared about and what was it that we wanted to do?
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Um, and, you know, we decided not to take those offers.
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And, you know, to me, a lot of that decision was that what we wanted to do and what we wanted to
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spend, you know, a big part of our lives doing was just continuing to push and, um, and, and kind of
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build products that help people share information, um, build products that help people stay connected.
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Um, and that's really what we're spending our time doing. And, you know, I, I think, you know,
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there's just been a lot of, a lot of space between that early stuff and where we are now.
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Um, if I could, if I knew what I knew now, then, then I hope I wouldn't have made those mistakes, but
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I can't go back and change the past. I can only do what we think is the right thing going forward.
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So before we move off this privacy thing, and I thought that was a fascinating answer.
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There's a group of women in the audience that wish you would.
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Um, can you explain what this instant personalization thing was that you did and why you did it and
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what was the, what's the value of it to your users?
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And this weird symbol in the middle that is probably for the Illuminati.
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Yeah, you know, um, and that was an interesting clip.
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There were actually some other clips there where he talks about violating privacy.
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I mean, I'm not saying that the movie The Social Network was a documentary, but I think it was
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true enough to the facts to watch how he broke his word, how he reneged on deals,
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how he stole intellectual property from everyone he met, how he is an inveterate liar who will do
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Well, that was a learning point and a turning point.
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And I know I'm getting a little sweaty, but that was a learning point and a turning point.
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So anyways, that's the guy who's building the metaverse.
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There was a brief moment a few years back where there was this
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idea that he was going to run for public office.
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He went out into the country to try and humanize himself.
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He was filmed, I think, feeding some farm animals and going to, you know, meet with regular people.
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Can you go to YouTube and grab Mark Zuckerberg's sweet baby rays?
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Like he would, he had, he hired these political consultants and they started polling and they
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And he abandoned that, I think because it was hopeless.
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I think a lot of people actually hate Facebook, even though they use it.
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A lot of that is frankly unfair because of the memes, but there's a deeper truth underneath it.
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Like it was just an example of how weird this guy is.
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I mean, we're all weird in our own ways and, and we like to be able to be weird in our own ways
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and eccentric and I, I think there's too much homogeneity, but his weirdness I think is a sociopathy.
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I think there's an evil there and, um, I could send you what I'm talking about.
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Oh yeah, just, yeah, just throw it up for a second just to show this was, yeah.
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Hey everyone, we are live from my backyard where I am smoking a brisket and some ribs.
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I am, I'm making meats now, smoking these meats here.
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Just set the charcoal up and you set the, the wood chips up.
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And then smoking meats, grilling, grilling meats.
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Then some pork ribs on, on, on, on the green egg.
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And I'm just sitting in our backyard, finishing off this brisket and these ribs.
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But hopefully for Canadian Thanksgiving, you get to eat a lot of brisket and ribs.
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How many of you guys are eating brisket and ribs tonight?
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They taste doubly better when, um, when you hunted the animal yourself.
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So what are, what are you guys making for dinner?
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Maybe throw some Sweet Baby Ray's on the ribs and take it from there.
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Yeah, no, this is, this is what Facebook Live is, is for.
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Just hanging out while you're sitting in your backyard, uh, waiting for your brisket
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You know, being socially awkward or on the spectrum is not my problem with Mark Zuckerberg.
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Um, did you, did you get that email I sent you of when he, when he briefly thought he was running for, for office and he, and he visited this farm and he, he like, you throw, throw that image up there.
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Um, my beef with Mark Zuckerberg is not that he's socially awkward.
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It's not that he has no sense of humor and doesn't quite understand what it's like to be a person.
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Um, my beef is his amorality, uh, and his immorality, his promise breaking, his violation of privacy.
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Um, his, um, his, I think lying is his normal state.
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Maybe that's how it is if you want to be worth a hundred billion dollars or whatever he's worth now.
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I think you need a kind of viciousness that is not normal.
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You can earn a million dollars through hard work.
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You can earn 10 million dollars through hard work.
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the amount of money you have attracts such vicious vipers and such vultures and such operators, such
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I might even say that you yourself must adopt those vicious tactics or you'll be devoured.
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I don't think you can be a billionaire without being a brutal person.
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Now, maybe you can offset that by doing some good things as well.
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And the reason I say that is because if you get a certain amount of dough,
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it will attract the worst people in the world to come and get you.
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Maybe Mark Zuckerberg is just simply a socially awkward
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idiot who, when he realized that he had built something worth
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decided, well, I'm not going to let this be stolen from me.
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Mark Zuckerberg is one of the worst people in the world.
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Did you put on the screen his farming thing there?
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And that's an old fashioned tractor, by the way.
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So I don't think his attempt to run for office got off the ground.
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But really, why would you run for office if you're Mark Zuckerberg?
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When you're the president of a company that you control, your word is law.
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And if the person doesn't accept it, they're fired.
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Or sued or cheated out of their shares, in his case.
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You are, you know, within the constraints of the law, a king.
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And as we've seen with him, he doesn't even feel himself constrained by law.
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And he is in multiple jurisdictions around the world.
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And Facebook is one of the largest political donors and lobbyists in the world.
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So we can change the law or get excuses from the law as it needs.
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Why would someone like that want to be merely president?
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When you're president of Facebook, you rule an empire of two billion people around the globe.
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If you're merely the president of the United States, you only rule America.
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Why would Mark Zuckerberg take a step down from being the emperor of Facebook to be merely president?
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Especially when he has to do such cringy things as talk to the poors.
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So I think Mark Zuckerberg has abandoned his plans for politics.
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And instead of being merely the president of the United States or president of the country of Facebook,
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And to create this entire new space, this entire new community where he owns all the rules,
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where he owns all the terms of service, where he controls everything,
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where he controls all the information, where he knows all the information,
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where everything that's said is recorded, everything said to you, everything said by you,
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He sells you, he sells what you say, he sells access to you.
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Olivia, I just sent you a meme of someone in a dirty chair with a VR headset on,
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Because if you're in the real world, you're in the real world,
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and if you're like me, you're addicted to your phone.
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So half the time you're looking at your phone like this.
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And so there's someone just literally sitting in a corner on the floor, miserable.
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And he's near an outlet, and he's wearing his virtual reality visor.
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But maybe there's something more wonderful in it.
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I'm going to send you a parody video that's not very much a parody.
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The promise of the paradise of the artificial reality is the pull.
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You know, that's the World Economic Forum, transhumanism thing.
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So, Zuckerberg says, come with me to this amazing paradise where you can be anything,
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Footnote, small print, Zuckerberg controls everything in the terms of service,
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And maybe he'll allow murder in the metaverse, like he's allowing murder towards the Russians.
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That's the pull, a paradise-like world, an Eden, where he's God.
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But the push is that crappy world where in real life you're poor, you have no social connections with anyone,
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you don't have relationships, you don't have property, you don't have a physical life.
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It's all the life of the mind, but not your own mind.
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You're part of the artificial intelligence mind.
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I just sent you, Olivia, and I think you have it there.
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Sort of a, like showed you the, that video we showed that was from The Guardian, they basically ripped it,
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But here's someone who did, I think, a slightly dystopian riff on it that I think is probably more realistic.
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Starting with the most important experience of all, Sweet Baby Rays.
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I like barbecuing, and I guess I'm a Sweet Baby Rays fanboy.
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Mark Zuckerberg offers you his Sweet Baby Rays barbecue sauce.
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Shake your metaverse licensed headset to decline.
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Nod your metaverse licensed headset to confirm the rejection.
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Shake your metaverse licensed headset head nod detected.
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A little bit funny, that allusion to Sweet Baby Rays, but I think that the reality may have some elements of that.
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You're banned, unless you buy your way out maybe by buying some Sweet Baby Rays or something.
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Would you want to live in a world where Mark Zuckerberg was the president?
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But at least in that world you would have real things like courts and maybe some media and maybe some businesses that are not his.
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But if you were to enter into the metaverse, everything is his.
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Every idea, everything spoken, a record of everything.
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And the law itself, the rules of life itself are his terms of service that he can change at will, as we just saw him.
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I think Mark Zuckerberg is evil, but really how much more evil is he than the other tycoons?
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It's very odd to me that he can green light calls for murder.
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I understand why that's being investigated by Russia.
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I don't know why that's not being investigated in America.
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Thank you for letting me go on a bit of a Zuckerberg tear there.
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I'm happy that Jesse Smollett, the white man who does have a white daddy, is going to jail for 150 days and pay $150,000.
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And then there's a comment about him being gay.
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Jesse Smollett is a privileged, successful man from a privileged, successful family.
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If it was to give his career a boost or if it was for political reasons, you might know that he consulted with Kamala Harris about some anti-lynching law.
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And maybe he basically thought, well, I'll do a little scene, but it won't be on a TV show.
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It'll be on the street and I'll make the case for an anti-lynching law because I'm a dramatic actor.
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But it blew up in his face and he's off to jail.
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Do you have a clip of him in court where he says, I'm not suicidal.
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I mean, I think you say I'm not suicidal when you're worried that someone's going to try and kill you and make it look like a suicide.
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Maybe this is part of a movie he's doing or a documentary about himself.
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No, I would just like to say to your honor that I am not suicidal.
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If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBTQ community.
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Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but I did not do this.
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And if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself.
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He's talking about it like it was an LGBTQ plus moment.
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Maybe there's nothing deeper or larger than that.
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But boy, every political leader in the world chimed in.
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I mean, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, pretty much every senior Democrat weighed in on it and many Canadians too.
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I wonder if some of the Azov Battalion were in the imported security forces that confronted the peaceful truckers in Ottawa.
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Yeah, I did a show last night at some length talking about the Azov Battalion.
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And it's weird to me that they do use Nazi symbols.
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Ukraine has a history of Nazi paramilitaries going back to Hitler's time.
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They assisted the Nazi, the German SS in exterminating a large number of Jews.
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It's very weird to me that an actual group of Nazis like that is permitted to be part of the Ukrainian military.
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I mean, in Canada, people throw the word Nazi around like an insult, but it's not really true.
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There's some neo-Nazis who are basically live action role playing.
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They get a tattoo and whatever, but they're they're not actual Nazis.
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You have military battalions with tanks, with guns, with uniforms, with Nazi flags.
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I think it may be the only place in the world where that happens.
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And Chrystia Freeland hangs out with these people, wears their banners.
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Do you have those Ottawa citizen stories that we mentioned yesterday?
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It's not just Chrystia Freeland who herself is a bit of an extremist on this stuff.
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The Canadian government met with the Azov battalion and they knew it was iffy because they were worried.
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Canadian officials who met with Ukrainian unit linked to neo-Nazis feared exposure by news media.
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A year before the meeting, Canada's Joint Task Force Ukraine produced a briefing on the Azov battalion acknowledging its links to Nazi ideology.
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Like they literally have like that's a Nazi swastika.
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And there's a link that I want you to go to if you'd be.
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Allegations of Canadian troops training neo-Nazis and war criminals sparks military review.
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A review into how Canada approves the foreign military personnel trains should be ready by early next year, but parts of the study will need to remain secret.
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A review into how Canada approves the foreign military personnel trains should be ready by early next year, but parts of the study will need to remain secret, according to the Department of National Defense.
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The review falls concerns raised by Jewish groups of the alleged involvement of Canadian troops in training neo-Nazis in Ukraine, as well as warnings by soldiers last year that some Iraqis who have received instruction from Canada were involved in torture and rape.
00:43:49.680
When Gerald Stanley was accused of murdering Colton Boushey in 2016 at GoFundMe raised $41,000 in one day, would Trudeau stop the GoFundMe today?
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And before they were pressured into refunding the money to the donors, they were actually planning on giving the money that was donated for truckers to their own favorite causes.
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Kushi 1124 says, I hope someone makes a techno remix of brisket and ribs.
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I mean, in that fake metaverse clip I have, I think the most powerful thing is that synthesizer tone music in the background, which is how I imagine every dystopian future to be.
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I think we're getting so close to the metaverse.
00:44:42.680
But have you ever seen, Olivia, have you ever seen that movie called Ex Machina?
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I think that that movie is already here practically.
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I mean, the combination of artificial intelligence and the internetization of sex.
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And I think how it's destroying normal relationships, I think.
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I think that Ex Machina is already here, frankly.
00:45:11.680
Trinity Canadian, Read the West has many bio labs in Ukraine and USA spends tax dollars on it.
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Can you find out if Canada spent tax dollars as well and how much?
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You're talking about the accusation by the Russians that was confirmed by the American Undersecretary of State for the region that there are bio labs in Ukraine.
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And they were worried that Russia would grab them.
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Enoch says, Ezra, I'm going to blow a couple of bucks on this because it's something I've wondered for years.
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Why do you use the Facebook plug in on the website?
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I left Facebook five years ago, so I can't comment on the website.
00:45:44.680
You know, I do hear that complaint from people.
00:45:47.680
And I think it is our plan to move off Facebook.
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And there were some reasons that it was helpful to us to do that.
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If we can find some other comment system, I think we are looking into fixing that.
00:46:10.680
Have you guys at Rebel ever reached out to Trudeau Camp for an interview, no matter how impossible it will be?
00:46:16.680
Well, we have asked, obviously, but we're regularly turned away.
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So, I mean, I guess after seven years, you sort of stop asking.
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Not only are we banned, but when we actually went to federal courts and got a court order forcing the Federal Debates Commission to let us into the debates and we put our questions to Trudeau, he says, I'm not answering you.
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When the court lets us in, Trudeau just refuses to answer.
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Which I always point out that at least Donald Trump, with his bête noire, with his nemeses, he would always, I mean, Donald Trump did not avoid CNN.
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If Trump were like Trudeau, not only would he not take any CNN questions, he wouldn't even allow them in the room.
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It's such a laugh that Trump was called this enemy of the media.
00:47:26.680
Trinity Canadian again, Ezra, can you see if you can expand the Rebel store to sell maybe more stuff like all natural vitamins, mugs, emergency food survival.
00:47:36.680
Maybe partner with Canadian companies for sponsorship.
00:47:41.680
One company maybe is good to go company sells emergency food supply.
00:47:45.680
They get a portion of the proceeds, you get a portion of the proceeds.
00:47:49.680
Yeah, I mean, I know that that's how a number of conservative oriented sites, pardon me, make a few bucks.
00:47:59.680
I spent an awful lot of time talking about Mark Zuckerberg.
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I'm going to do some work on my show about it tonight.
00:48:05.680
My criticism of Mark Zuckerberg is not that he's weird.
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The problem about being weird and a billionaire is that no one will tell you you're weird.
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And even if you're married as he is, well, your wife is a billionaire, too.
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You're surrounded by it's like it really is close to being like an official king's court 500 years ago.
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And you know that the person at the center of it, his royal highness, has unlimited power.
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And so you're always thinking, how can I protect myself from risk?
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And how can I get some of this wealth and power for myself?
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Maybe it's apocryphal, but I understand from reading it.
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I don't know if it's actually true that the Roman emperors would have a slave whisper in their ear.
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You are mortal because they would feel immortal.
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They would come back and Rome was mighty and it straddled the world and the empire in the center of it.
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They would have felt all powerful and they needed to be reminded that they were mortal.
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And King Henry VIII, I think, had the most famous court jester.
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And we think of a court jester as just someone who makes jokes and does acrobatics and makes people laugh.
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But what the court fool, also called a jester, would really do is because he was the jokester.
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Henry VIII was a very momentous and important king.
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And he was also out of control in many ways, as you know.
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And the jester had immunity from telling the king what's what.
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From mocking the king, from rebutting the king, from saying, are you stupid?
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We don't know exactly how that was done, but I don't know.
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It might have been on HBO or something called The Tudors, T-U-D-O-R-S.
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It was basically Game of Thrones, but instead of about some fantasy world, it was about the throne of England, King Henry VIII.
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And it was sexy and dramatic and there were wars, but instead of dragons, it was real life.
00:51:33.680
James, you know, it was, I watched maybe five episodes of it, but Will Summer is in some of those episodes.
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And in that artistic treatment of it, Will Summers is so shockingly blunt, like not just mocking the king, but viciously attacking him verbally, trying to make a dent in the king.
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It almost, like maybe the king wanted a real friend.
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Will one person in the king's court who could speak honestly with him.
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Now, obviously that's just a 21st century, you know, Hollywood adaptation.
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I think it might have even, it might have been a Canadian connection there even.
00:52:16.680
So it was just, I mean, who knows what it was actually like 500 years ago, but 400 and something years ago.
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Who can go right up to Mark Zuckerberg and say, you're out of control?
00:52:44.680
You know, or maybe Mark Zuckerberg knows who he is and he's fine with it.
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And these masters of the universe, I mean, Elon Musk is always out there in the media in uncontrolled situations.
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And people mock him and he seems to have a self-deprecating approach to himself.
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I mean, Elon Musk, half the time on Twitter, he's making jokes about himself.
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He allows himself to be interviewed by comedians.
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The other day, as you know, he called for more oil and gas production, which is an odd thing for the Tesla president to say.
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Compare how he exposes himself to unrestricted media criticism, how he is self-deprecating to compare that to how Jeffrey Bezos is or Bill Gates.
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Can you grab, can you go on a Twitter and type Melinda Gates Epstein and then click video?
00:54:17.680
One of the key reasons was because Bill Gates was hanging out with the convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, and Bill Gates had many meetings with him and continued to do so even after Epstein was convicted.
00:54:37.680
You know, it was also widely reported that Bill had a friendship or business or some kind of contact with Jeffrey Epstein and that you were not that that was very upsetting to you.
00:54:48.680
Did that play a role in the in the divorce at all in this process?
00:54:51.680
Yeah. As I said, it's not one thing. It was many things.
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But I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. No.
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I made that clear to him. I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time.
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And I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door.
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So, you know, my heart breaks for these young women because that's how I felt.
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My God, I feel terrible for those young women. It's awful.
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And you shared that with Bill and he still continued to spend time with him.
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Any of the questions remaining about what Bill's relationship there was, those are for Bill to answer.
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Imagine what else she knows that she's not saying.
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But there's only one reason for Bill Gates to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Bill Gates has far more money than Epstein ever had.
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So he doesn't need to hang out with Epstein for money.
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Bill Gates has, through his foundations, access to anything and anyone in the world.
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Even Stephen Harper, the conservative prime minister, did things with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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I don't know if that was a good idea, but he did.
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There's no one in the world that Bill Gates could not get on the phone if he wanted to.
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There's no company he couldn't buy or at least buy a large stake in if he wanted to.
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But he's in such a league he could buy anything he wanted.
00:57:01.680
So why would Bill Gates hang out with Jeffrey Epstein?
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What does Epstein have that Bill Gates couldn't get elsewhere?
00:57:08.680
Well, there's only one thing that Jeffrey Epstein is known for.
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Sorry to phrase it that way, but that's what it is.
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He would recruit through agents, extremely young girls, and he would rape them and his friends would rape them.
00:57:31.680
And that, sorry to use that rough language, but that's what he was, that's what he did.
00:57:44.680
Well, what do you think he kept going back for?
00:57:55.680
What else was Jeffrey Epstein in the business of?
00:57:59.680
It's quite something to hear it from Melinda Gates, isn't it?
00:58:05.680
Let's just whip through a few more Super Chats.
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And I'm not sure if I covered things the way I wanted to.
00:58:25.680
I sort of rambled on for a while about Mark Zuckerberg.
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But, you know, once you've made a certain amount of money and once you've had a certain amount of corporate success, what do you do?
00:58:42.680
Well, the answer for a lot of these guys is to go into space.
00:58:46.680
I mean, they all have their rival space programs.
00:58:48.680
There's Elon Musk with SpaceX, which actually seems to have a lot of commercial purpose.
00:58:54.680
They have the internet and they're actually trying to be a utility, not just for fun.
00:59:00.680
Jeffrey Bezos has his space program, which seems a lot more about vanity and I'm in space and I've got this huge phallic rocket ship.
00:59:10.680
And Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic, same thing.
00:59:17.680
You think, well, what would I do as a child or what's the craziest thing I can do?
00:59:36.680
I think that for some of them they want to become like a god.
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That's my explanation for the metaverse and for what Zuckerberg wants to do.
00:59:51.680
And it's very much in sync with what the World Economic Forum talks about, about connecting the internet and computers directly to your mind.
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And frankly, Elon Musk is doing some things like that as well.
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History Club World chips in five library crypto and says, does Rubble plan to expand into more comedy lifestyle?
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Do you have plans to interview Trump, Musk or any influential people?
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Well, there's a lot of good questions in there.
01:00:27.680
We have tried to connect with Trump, but we've been unsuccessful.
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I don't know if he does a lot of foreign media.
01:00:32.680
He would talk to Piers Morgan, his friend in the UK, but they had a personal connection.
01:00:36.680
I don't know if we've tried to talk to Elon Musk.
01:00:44.680
Do you believe after this conservative leader race, the next leader will stay interacting with rebels?
01:00:51.680
Does rebel plan on increasing its presence in Medicine Hat, America, UK, Europe, Australia, anywhere else?
01:00:56.680
Well, I'm glad that you put Medicine Hat on that list.
01:00:59.680
We are going to be involved with the leaders, with the leadership on the conservative side.
01:01:06.680
And yesterday alone, we spoke with three different leadership candidates.
01:01:16.680
Like, do we have, yeah, here's Dakota Christensen, who went with Isabel to Roman Babers kickoff.
01:01:24.680
I'll just show you, I'll just show you a minute of that.
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When others refuse to do so, it's something that I bring to the table.
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Dakota Christensen for Rebel News here in North York, Ontario at the National Event Centre,
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where the Independent Member of Provincial Parliament, Roman Baber,
01:01:47.680
is set to formally announce his bid for the Federal Conservative Party leadership race
01:01:55.680
Well, folks, we did make it inside the event here, where Roman Baber is set to announce his official candidacy
01:02:04.680
I will say, it's a very relaxed atmosphere, and unlike other previous Conservative Party events,
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In the face of fear, Roman made a choice, the same choice he always makes.
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My name is Roman Baber, and I'll always stand out for what's right,
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I'm proud to announce my intention to seek the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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I've always believed and lived the Canadian dream.
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He was really one of the handful of elected politicians across this country
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You can watch the rest of that video on our website.
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He had a good one on, he had a good back and forth with Roman Baber.
01:03:06.680
And we had a reporter in Calgary at the Jean Charest event in the Scrum.
01:03:13.680
And yesterday I interviewed Leslie Lewis on the show, on my show.
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And I think we'll be putting that up on YouTube and Rumble today.
01:03:22.680
So to answer your question, I think that so far, three out of three
01:03:27.680
Conservative leadership candidates that we've spoken to have agreed to come on the show.
01:03:31.680
I have no idea what Patrick Brown will say or do,
01:03:37.680
because he has shown a tremendous hatred towards Rebel News in the past.
01:03:48.680
We have more than five million cumulative followers on social media,
01:03:57.680
So for example, our official Rebel account has about 350,000 Twitter followers.
01:04:10.680
You know, the number's getting close to a million.
01:04:14.680
YouTube, Instagram, Getter, TikTok, Truth Social, Super U, Rumble.
01:04:21.680
You add them all up, add up all those numbers, both our corporate accounts and our staff,
01:04:31.680
We have over a million people on our Rebel News email list alone.
01:04:35.680
So if you're a Conservative leadership candidate, you don't have to love Rebel News.
01:04:41.680
But if you don't talk to Rebel News, you're doing two things.
01:04:44.680
First of all, you're cutting yourself off from millions of supporters who are probably the kind of people you want to talk to.
01:04:52.680
So you're missing the opportunity, but you're also incurring a cost,
01:04:56.680
because you're defining yourself as someone who is more afraid of what the media party says about you.
01:05:02.680
Yeah, Rebel News, the largest independent news station in Canada that has earned the respect of millions of people,
01:05:09.680
including most recently for our coverage of the truckers.
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So it would be quite strange for someone who wants to lead the Conservative movement in the form of the Conservative Party
01:05:21.680
to say we're not going to talk to the most successful, effective, large, dedicated, active Conservative media in the country.
01:05:28.680
It would be really weird. And it would be demoralizing to the base.
01:05:34.680
I think that's a mistake that both Erin O'Toole and Andrew Scheer made.
01:05:39.680
And I hope that whoever is the next leader of the Conservative Party doesn't make that mistake.
01:05:44.680
I think that this debate is going to come down, this contest, to be completely blunt.
01:05:49.680
To be completely blunt, I think it's going to be Pierre Polyev and Jean Charest as the two last standing.
01:05:57.680
Like, I like Lesley Lewis and I like Roman Baber.
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I don't think they're going to beat Pierre Polyev or Jean Charest.
01:06:04.680
I think that's going to be the final battle, you know, the elimination round, the finals.
01:06:10.680
And I don't think that Jean Charest has a hatred for Republicans.
01:06:16.680
That's very much a Toronto thing or more an Ottawa thing.
01:06:24.680
I mean, he does know the rest of the country, but he's not in the Mean Girls Club of the Ottawa-Toronto media party.
01:06:30.680
So, last night, he seemed happy to have us at his event, and we were.
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I'm excited about it because, boy, we sure do need an alternative to Justin Trudeau these days, don't we?
01:06:43.680
I'm just going to take one last quote from Fraser on Odyssey, who says,
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More Americans have died from the mRNA COVID jabs in one year than Americans lost in the Vietnam War,
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over 58,000 killed by the government-mandated jabs.
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Now, that's the kind of thing that might get you sacked on YouTube.
01:07:04.680
But that's the crazy thing is you're allowed on Facebook and Instagram to call for death threats of Russians,
01:07:14.680
but you're not allowed to have debates about pandemic issues.
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I don't know what the facts of that are, by the way, but I'd be curious to check it out.
01:07:25.680
I've been thinking through these things about Zuckerberg for a bit.
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And so thanks for letting me talk through them with you.
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And thanks for your super chats and other tips.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, goodbye.
01:07:42.680
Wednesday, I spent a number of hours with Chancellor Schultz of Germany.
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He's the new chancellor of Europe's largest economy, someone I've personally known for a number of years.
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But it was extremely important to deepen that friendship and the working together on things like strengthening democracy,
01:08:06.680
on pushing back against misinformation and disinformation, obviously in Russia, but also in our own democracies.
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There is a lot of work we need to continue to do together.
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And that was something that we spent a lot of time discussing and talking about how we strengthen our economic ties as well.