Rebel News Podcast - March 10, 2023


DAILY Roundup | Censorship⧸Chinese election interference, CBC's big bonuses, Hacking 'Smart Cities'


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 18 minutes

Words per Minute

157.36717

Word Count

12,277

Sentence Count

979

Misogynist Sentences

28

Hate Speech Sentences

25


Summary

In this episode, Ezra Levant talks about what it's like to be part journalist, part pundit, and part business person, and what it means to be a part-time pundit. He also talks about the dangers of corporate greed, and why he thinks we should all be doing what we do best, which is laugh.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here. How are you doing? Great to see you. Oh, I'm happy to be
00:00:18.360 back in this chair. I wish I had three different versions of myself, one that could do nothing but
00:00:26.880 commentary, one that would go out into the world and do journalism in interesting places like
00:00:32.980 that super fun trip we had to the World Economic Forum. And another one of me, the worst version of
00:00:39.120 me that would try and do the business side of things. I recently visited a couple of American
00:00:46.340 news organizations. I went to Blaze Media in Dallas. I went to Breitbart in LA. And both of them have
00:00:55.500 full-time business people as their CEOs. No one else tries to have a reporter run things too. I mean,
00:01:04.340 you can do that when you're a very small shop. But I hope that one day Rebel News grows enough
00:01:12.020 that it can be like Breitbart or Daily Wire and have or Blaze and have someone take over on the
00:01:17.680 business side just because I don't think that's my forte. Although, don't knock it. I mean, in eight
00:01:23.520 years, we've grown enough that we have 47 staff. That number's gone up and down sometimes during
00:01:30.100 the height of the pandemic. We were closer to 60. But, you know, I do get a kick out of all the
00:01:37.320 different sides of things. But if you had to say, well, what are you? Are you a reporter? Are you a
00:01:41.320 commentator? Or are you a business person? I'd say I'm probably a commentator first, a reporter second,
00:01:46.200 and a business person like 10th or something. But I think that's also given us a bit of a flavor
00:01:52.220 too. I mean, I think for better or for worse, when you regard your company as a mission even more than
00:02:01.680 as a business, it shows. People know that we care and that we don't just do things to make money.
00:02:09.680 I mean, the way to make money during the pandemic was to be a Pfizer repeater. And it was super gross
00:02:18.060 to see, for example, those late night comedians just go full pharma salesman. Wasn't that gross?
00:02:26.240 Stephen Colbert, the vaccine. That was, I think, the lowest moment I've ever seen in late night TV.
00:02:33.520 And I've seen Jimmy Fallon, but you can go lower than him. Yeah. I mean, if you're about making
00:02:42.800 money, you follow the establishment narrative. Because that's where the money is. You will not
00:02:48.600 get demonetized if you're a Pfizer salesman. Even if you say false and misleading things,
00:02:55.580 if it's in the service of the official narrative, you won't be demonetized. I've seen no fact checks
00:03:02.900 of the mainstream media for denying the lab leak theory now that it's effectively being confirmed
00:03:10.320 by the U.S. government. I've seen no fact checks calling it fake news when people said, oh, the
00:03:16.280 vaccine is 100% effective and 100% safe. Who would ever say those things to begin with? Who would ever
00:03:22.120 say that? So anyway, that's me. That's who I am. I'm part journalist and part business person and
00:03:31.720 part pundit. That's who I am. I used to be funnier, I think. Maybe I still have some funny in me, but
00:03:39.980 it's been tough to laugh over the last few years. And we deal with such heavy things. Maybe laughter
00:03:44.940 is the way. When I was at Sun News 10 years ago, especially in the early days, I was in the mood to
00:03:57.060 laugh more. And I'll tell you why. First of all, because the darkness of the canceled culture,
00:04:03.220 extreme woke politics had not yet really sunk its teeth into the culture. Sun News Network,
00:04:10.360 where I was a decade ago, was under some mild boycotting and by some Antifa types, but it
00:04:18.100 wasn't ubiquitous. Other media companies would still talk to us, come on our shows. We were officially
00:04:24.840 affiliated with the Sun chain of newspapers, so we had built-in friends. I guess what I'm saying is,
00:04:32.620 and of course, Stephen Harper was the prime minister, so you didn't have the insane divisiveness
00:04:37.500 and violation of civil liberties that you have now. And I didn't have other things weighing on my mind.
00:04:44.820 I was not a business person. I was a salaried presenter. So I would show up at the crack of 10,
00:04:50.820 do my writing, record my show. I think I did it every day at 1 or 2, and be done by 4. What a life that was,
00:05:00.660 working from 10 to 4. I dropped my kids off at school in the morning. So maybe I was more lighthearted.
00:05:06.880 I mean, I still think I'm the same person. It's just I think the world is more grave, and my hair is more white to show for.
00:05:12.860 Anyways, I want to show, the reason I tell you that, besides a little bit of autobiography,
00:05:17.700 is yesterday, I think it was yesterday, maybe it was today, I just saw it today,
00:05:22.900 in the House of Commons, CBC, you know, it's a state broadcaster, right? It's like
00:05:28.600 Pravda or Russia today, or Al Jazeera is in Qatar. A lot of countries have a state broadcaster. China has
00:05:37.060 a series of them. I haven't been to China in a while, but when I was there a dozen years ago,
00:05:42.340 they had, I think it was called CCTV or something, Communist China TV or whatever,
00:05:47.880 like there was like nine channels, and each one of them was a different
00:05:51.040 version of the state broadcaster. It was quite something. I wonder what it's like now.
00:05:57.580 So the CBC is a state broadcaster, which is gross to begin with,
00:06:01.060 but of course they have government comedians on the official government comedy show,
00:06:06.020 and being a government comedian makes about as much sense as being a government punk rocker.
00:06:11.540 It's like, I mean, the whole nature of being government is you're the establishment,
00:06:16.840 you're the ruler, you're the power, whereas the whole nature of comedian is to speak truth to power
00:06:23.160 in the form of ridicule and jest. Was it, who was it? Was it Solzhenitsyn or was it Orwell who said
00:06:31.440 every joke is a little revolution? I forget. It was one of those two freedom fighters. And it was
00:06:37.860 no one less than the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran who said, there is no humor in Islam, he said.
00:06:45.260 Now that's his view. There are some Muslim people who disagree with him, but the idea of authoritarianism
00:06:51.460 is that you cannot abide jokes because jokes are made at your expense. We've talked about this before,
00:06:56.820 how King Henry, for example, had a court fool, a court jester, and who was a jokester and who might
00:07:07.900 dress up sometimes. Will Sommer was the name, Will Sommer was the name of, yeah, put that up on screen
00:07:15.120 there, was a very famous court jester. I think it was Henry VIII's court jester. And this is just a
00:07:23.660 Wikipedia story, but I've read it and it appears accurate to me. He was at, the thing about the
00:07:29.580 court jester is he, his job was to joke and he was given a special immunity. What I mean by that is he
00:07:36.280 could do something that no one else around him could do. He could make fun of the king, make fun
00:07:43.640 of the king. In fact, Olivia, it's before your time, but did you ever watch that TV show called
00:07:49.180 The Tudors? T-U-D-O-R, that was Henry's last name. Did you ever watch The Tudors?
00:07:56.860 It was, it was quite a good show, if you like sort of British and medieval stuff. And of course,
00:08:02.920 King Henry, one of the most interesting people in the last thousand years. And it was, by the way,
00:08:10.300 it was as, I think, I think they got some things right. I think there was a fair bit of historical
00:08:17.400 accuracy there. And by the way, if you ask the average age, yeah, throw some B-roll up from,
00:08:24.600 from the Tudors just to give people some flavor while I talk about it. This is a very long way
00:08:29.540 to get back to the CBC, but I'm talking about what a government jester really is.
00:08:34.440 As you can see, there's a lot of, there was a lot of sex and relationship drama in The Tudors.
00:08:42.400 And you know what? I think that's accurate. I mean, how many wives did Henry VIII have? How many did
00:08:47.080 he divorce? How many did he kill? How many mistresses did he have? And when the movie starts
00:08:53.060 out, King Henry VIII is quite a young man. And of course, that is an, is accurate in other ways too.
00:09:00.460 The average life expectancy, um, you know, 500 years ago in the UK, I don't have that information
00:09:09.400 at my fingertips, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was like 35 and there were more children and
00:09:16.400 families. People, uh, lived shorter. And so the average life, the average person, forget about life
00:09:23.780 expectancy. The average person was probably a teenager. And you know, the concept that we have
00:09:30.240 of middle age, that's when you expired back then. They didn't have our notions of medicine and things
00:09:35.800 like that. My point is, um, I think that they, they captured the spirit of that time. And one of the
00:09:43.780 things they did, and I can't, I've looked for 20 minutes on YouTube another time. I couldn't find it.
00:09:49.340 There was a wonderful scene with, uh, Will Summers, the court jester. And of course, this was a fictional
00:10:00.140 dramatization of Henry VIII. But I think that Will Summers was actually a senior advisor to the king
00:10:08.060 in that he could say the king's things to the king. He could make genuine criticisms to the king
00:10:16.240 that no one else could make. And I think he took that role very seriously. And if you believe what
00:10:21.580 you read on the history side, not the fiction side, people would use the court jester, uh, as a way to
00:10:28.180 get information to the king through, you know, there's a lot of barriers. How do you get to the
00:10:32.300 king? You have to, you have to know someone, everyone's got their interests and agendas, but maybe
00:10:36.520 if he could get to the, the king's jester and convince him there's a problem, maybe he can speak
00:10:42.400 very candidly with the king. And there's a wonderful scene that I watched in this series a decade ago,
00:10:48.620 and I can't find it online, where, uh, the jester is really taunting and pushing, uh, King Henry and
00:10:56.680 just giving him, being like a one-man opposition to him. And I think that was essential. It's,
00:11:05.160 it's like the old apocryphal saying about Roman emperors, uh, that would have a slave. And I don't
00:11:14.500 know if this was real, but I've heard this enough. And how would we know that there would be a slave
00:11:19.400 standing next to the king whose job would be to whisper in his ear, you are mortal. You are mortal
00:11:28.580 because you're the emperor of Rome, the greatest empire the world has ever seen total power from,
00:11:37.300 uh, Britannia and Gaul, um, and Hibernia. These are the, these are the Roman names for
00:11:45.300 Britain and Scotland and France, all the way to Judea. Um,
00:11:52.800 you know, what a mighty emperor. And you might be tempted to think that you are a God. And so the,
00:11:57.880 the idea was that a slave would just whisper in your ear, no, you're just a man. And there's,
00:12:02.440 there's actually a Jewish story. King Solomon, uh, allegedly had a ring with a inscription on it
00:12:09.340 that was always true, which is this too shall pass. And when he had happy times, it sobered him up.
00:12:14.660 And when he was down in the dumps, it gave him hope. All this is to say in a very long way,
00:12:20.480 the powerful people need some sort of challenge. Powerful people need a check and a balance.
00:12:28.740 And if you've ever met an oligarch, and I have, I've had the pleasure, the mixed pleasure sometimes.
00:12:38.080 If you meet an extremely wealthy and powerful person, the kind of person who only travels on
00:12:44.180 private jets and limousines, who has personal security, who has a security VP, someone who has
00:12:51.560 billions or maybe even more, you'll notice that everyone around them, almost everyone around them,
00:13:00.580 is doing whatever they can to anticipate what the great man wants and to say, yes, sir, no, sir,
00:13:06.600 three bags full, sir. How high should I jump, sir? And I think the more self-aware oligarchs know this,
00:13:12.420 that they're surrounded by flatterers. And, and you can see, I mean, this is what they say about
00:13:19.640 Vladimir Putin. They say, and this could well be propaganda, how would I know, that he doesn't
00:13:26.200 tolerate bad news. And so his advisors won't give him the straight goods. And I don't know if that's
00:13:32.260 true. That sounds like a generic insult you could say about any out of touch politician, but I can
00:13:37.920 imagine it's true. And if you watch that docudrama Chernobyl, which I absolutely loved, there was a
00:13:44.760 degree of that too. Just lie, don't give anyone bad news. It's a wonderful show, Chernobyl. It's a
00:13:54.040 terrible story, but it's wonderfully told. Powerful people, rich people, people who are used to getting
00:14:01.100 their way. People who have a lot to give, whether it's power, money, access, or something like that,
00:14:08.080 they attract flatterers. They attract yes men. Would you have the courage to defy a billionaire,
00:14:19.440 let alone King Henry VIII, who wasn't just a billionaire, he had the power of life or death
00:14:25.100 over people? So Will Summers played an incredibly important role as the court fool, the court jester.
00:14:34.560 He was the only one who could look the king in the eye and say, you are full of it. You are so wrong.
00:14:41.520 And insult the king and not be killed for it. Isn't that an important job? I know it's an important
00:14:50.000 job. That's why in this country, we take the country's biggest complainer, we give him a free
00:14:56.120 house, a big staff, and a salary and call him the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
00:15:01.780 We institutionalize dissent. We hardwire it right into the system. And there's something to the title,
00:15:11.140 Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, because you're loyal to the country, you just oppose the buffoon who's
00:15:16.260 running the place. Pierre Polyev is loyal to the king and to the country. He's not loyal to Justin
00:15:22.300 Trudeau and Trudeau's government. And that's an important distinction there too, isn't it?
00:15:27.360 And so here I am, a half hour having passed without me getting to my point. So maybe the time is to get
00:15:33.800 to my point now before we all get older. The CBC state broadcaster has a government comedian named Mary
00:15:40.360 Walsh, one of the least funny comedians I have ever seen. She's also a liberal partisan. I know this
00:15:48.920 because in the 2015 election, she recorded an attack ad on Stephen Harper. I might show you that
00:15:54.940 later, calling him Stasi Steve and said, Heil Harper, as if he's a Nazi. So Mary Walsh can find no jokes
00:16:03.320 other than to call someone a Nazi. That's how shallow her pool of humor is. And she doesn't mind
00:16:08.740 trivializing the Holocaust by equating the grave crimes and horrific crimes of the Holocaust with
00:16:15.420 her political opponent, because that's what's important to her. Anyway, so yesterday, I think
00:16:22.080 it was yesterday. I don't think it was today. Yesterday, in the foyer of the House of Commons,
00:16:26.720 where Rebel News is banned by Trudeau's parliamentary press gallery. We cannot attend. But this burnt out
00:16:33.500 over the hill, so-called comedian who is unfunny without a laugh track, goes and accosts the prime
00:16:40.800 minister when he is on the hot seat. Trudeau is on the back foot over these China allegations.
00:16:47.600 What did he know? When did he know it? How many Chinese hand-picked candidates are in his party,
00:16:54.120 in his caucus, in his cabinet? Why did he allow it? Did he, like there's, you could think of the
00:17:00.040 questions you said. They're simple questions. Trudeau has evaded all of them. And so there's
00:17:06.700 this brief moment he walks out of the parliament and he's available to the media. And there's a lot
00:17:11.340 of reporters, and I have to give credit to the mainstream media for the first time in eight years
00:17:15.060 that seem to have woken up. You've got Bob Fyfe and Steve Chase at the Globe and Mail. You've got
00:17:19.740 Sam Cooper and McKenzie, I forget his last name, at Global News. And look at me, I'm praising journalists
00:17:25.460 in the mainstream media. What's come over me? No, nothing's come over me. I'm the same guy I was a week
00:17:29.840 ago. It's that these journalists are actually doing some work. But instead of talking to Sam
00:17:35.860 Cooper or McKenzie, what's his name, or Steve Chase or Bob Fyfe or any other journalist who's
00:17:42.120 asking questions, the CBC state broadcaster sends in their alleged comedian. And we'll play it for you
00:17:50.780 in a second. I don't even know what the hell she's saying. I don't understand her point,
00:17:56.700 other than I think she's saying, Prime Minister, we should all be less partisan. Don't you think?
00:18:02.160 Why don't you set an example? I don't even get it. I think it's some stupid compliment. She's not
00:18:07.980 going to make a joke at his expense. She's going to save him, save him, A, from the journalists who
00:18:12.820 are trying to get questions to him a few feet away, and B, trying to create some change the channel
00:18:18.080 narrative. You could have a lot of funny jokes poking fun at Trudeau's, do you admire China
00:18:25.260 comment. That is not what the state broadcaster and their government comedians do. Watch the
00:18:30.980 unfunniest woman in Canada, paid for by your tax dollars, have a go at Justin Trudeau. Take a look.
00:18:38.580 I'm also outraged about everything, that we're not listening to each other anymore.
00:18:43.020 That was always your step.
00:18:43.880 I know you're a good-looking guy like you. You probably know how to fix that, right? And
00:18:47.880 so I'm here to listen to what you think. How do we get everybody back together again?
00:18:51.960 How do we can the water? How do we make Canada unbroken? Oh my God, is that Pierre Polly ever
00:18:57.200 over there?
00:18:58.220 I'm also outraged.
00:19:01.580 So I'm here to figure out how to make Canada unbroken. Everyone's so outraged. Prime Minister,
00:19:10.940 all these people are outraged because your party and your friends are taking hundreds of thousands
00:19:15.120 or millions of dollars from China. How do we get, how do we shut them up, Prime Minister?
00:19:21.820 Like, it's not even funny. Let's say the obvious thing, it's not even funny. And I think the chief
00:19:28.160 job of a comedian is to be funny. It doesn't make a point. And I think that's the second job of a
00:19:34.080 comedian. Do you have a point to make? Like, you can just tell a funny joke, make a fart joke for
00:19:39.880 all I care. If it's funny, I'll laugh. So is she funny? Check or X? X, she's not funny. Okay, fine.
00:19:48.320 So you're not that funny, but you make a serious point in a funny way. That's what a lot of late
00:19:52.580 night talk shows are. They're basically Democrat Party operatives with a band, a house band and some
00:19:59.020 jokes. So does she make a point? Not really. Her best point is, hey, Prime Minister, everyone is so
00:20:06.340 outraged. How do we get out of that? It's in the implication being there's no, there's no rational
00:20:11.620 basis to be outraged. We shouldn't be outraged. You've done nothing wrong. But before he even has
00:20:17.560 something to say, she turns around and goes, oh, there's Pierre Polyev. And I don't even know if
00:20:23.380 that's true. But I think we can assume it was true. Because if Pierre Polyev is there, she knows her
00:20:30.100 role is to be a destroyer. Can you, can you, I want to show my video that Andrew Lawton did next.
00:20:37.880 But then after that, if there's, there's a rebel news video from 2015, very early, where
00:20:46.220 Mary Walsh says to Stephen Harper, Heil Harper, and whatnot, we'll show that I want to just show
00:20:56.280 how unfunny she is, what a hack she is, the fact that she's basically paid to attack conservatives.
00:21:02.340 So when she doesn't even wait for Trudeau's answer, says, oh, there's Pierre Polyev. I think she's
00:21:06.980 actually telling the truth because she knows she's a, she has to go detonate herself on Pierre
00:21:11.800 Polyev because that's the CBC mandate. Anyways, when I was at the Sun News Network before Rebel News,
00:21:17.480 that was the predecessor to Rebel News. I worked at Sun News Network for a few years, well, from the
00:21:21.980 beginning. I worked it from the beginning to the end. And it shut down for regulatory and other
00:21:30.900 reasons I won't get into. But I did funnier stuff back then. And maybe I should get back to the
00:21:36.840 funny. So this is about a, this is about a decade ago. I dressed up as Mark Delahunty. I don't think
00:21:46.980 I've ever worn lipstick before or after. I wear a lip balm. And sometimes people say it looks like
00:21:51.680 I never wear lipstick. I think I wore lipstick in this video. I'm not sure. I think I had makeup. I wear
00:21:57.520 TV makeup. But, and it's a wig. That's not my hair. Let me show you
00:22:03.320 from a decade ago, my impression of Mark Delahunty of this hour is 22 minutes, stalking the late
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00:22:57.600 Hi, it's me, Barge Delahunty. From this 22 minutes feels like an hour. I'm here at Toronto
00:23:03.480 City Hall. That's the mayor's inner sanctum. I understand he's talking about busting the
00:23:09.020 labor he needs to pick up our garbage. I'm going to go in there now. If I don't make it out alive,
00:23:12.840 well, Wong, may your big jib draw. Let's go.
00:23:19.660 Yeah, Doug. No, no. We've got to figure our way to head off this garbage strike.
00:23:22.920 No, the city can't afford another garbage strike.
00:23:25.340 He's talking about the garbage strike.
00:23:27.060 No, it can't happen. It can't happen. We've got to figure our way to get these unions.
00:23:31.620 Can't. No.
00:23:32.560 Mayor Ford. Mayor Ford. Mayor Ford.
00:23:37.960 Barge Delahunty. From this 22 minutes feels like an hour.
00:23:41.260 Well, every time you leave the office, you take out the garbage.
00:23:51.580 Go now.
00:23:54.860 I'm Barge Delahunty. From this 22 minutes feels like an hour.
00:23:59.220 And I've sneaked into City Hall to find Mayor Rob Ford.
00:24:03.180 Follow me. I think he's inside here, boy.
00:24:05.500 Mayor Rob Ford.
00:24:11.440 Mayor Rob Ford.
00:24:14.140 Where are you?
00:24:17.240 Smells like conservative policymaking in here.
00:24:21.500 Mayor Ford.
00:24:22.860 Is Barge Delahunty?
00:24:24.400 What are you doing?
00:24:25.400 Oh, Lord, love attack Jesus Mary Joseph and the Seventh Seventh.
00:24:28.280 Oh, what's that? What's that?
00:24:29.860 Is that your Tory policy platform?
00:24:31.500 Goddard!
00:24:41.300 Mayor!
00:24:42.120 You're going to listen to me.
00:24:43.700 You stay where you're to. We'll come to where you're at.
00:24:46.060 Mayor! Mayor! Mayor!
00:24:47.620 Why do you keep running from me, Mayor?
00:24:49.300 Barge Delahunty.
00:24:50.480 From this 22 minutes feels like an hour.
00:24:53.300 Goddard!
00:24:53.780 I'm actually in Rob Ford's home.
00:25:04.220 The chicken coop!
00:25:05.980 That's his bedroom in there.
00:25:07.860 Let's go catch him unawares.
00:25:11.880 Oh, Lord, he's like a beached whale, isn't he?
00:25:15.300 Oh, Lord, where's the business for?
00:25:20.220 There's trouble in the house, isn't there?
00:25:23.280 Mayor Ford!
00:25:25.000 Mayor Ford!
00:25:26.140 It's Barge Delahunty!
00:25:27.620 Mayor Ford!
00:25:28.700 Mayor Ford!
00:25:29.820 I'm going to give you a big smooch, Mayor Ford!
00:25:32.780 Oh, Mayor Ford!
00:25:34.400 My eyes are up here, Mayor Ford!
00:25:36.340 Look up here, that's my eyes!
00:25:38.600 Got him!
00:25:39.300 Look, let me just be the first to say that that was not particularly funny either.
00:25:48.100 That's the use of the laugh track.
00:25:49.720 And one of the creepy things about this hour's 22 minutes, especially Mary Walsh, who does
00:25:56.160 Mark Delahunty, is if you take the laugh track out of her videos, there is nothing funny
00:26:04.800 in them.
00:26:06.380 And I've done this before.
00:26:07.600 She actually went to Rob Ford's house and just started abusing him.
00:26:13.820 And the final version that was on TV obviously had a lot of laugh track, which we added here
00:26:19.080 too.
00:26:19.980 And a laugh track is a kind of conformity.
00:26:22.460 You hear other people laughing, you feel like, you know, if someone else tells a joke
00:26:27.080 and someone laughs, do you ever find yourself sort of, I don't get it, but everyone else
00:26:32.000 is laughing.
00:26:32.780 Do you ever do that?
00:26:34.080 I think it's like a yawn.
00:26:35.700 You see someone yawning and you yawn.
00:26:39.340 There's some human reaction.
00:26:41.980 That's why people use laugh tracks, because they work, because they're a cue to say other
00:26:47.000 people think this is funny, so you should laugh too.
00:26:49.760 In fact, there's this whole genre of YouTube videos of TV shows with the laugh track removed.
00:26:57.880 What's that one of all the nerds who live to get, what's that?
00:27:03.920 Big Bang Theory.
00:27:04.720 That's right.
00:27:06.580 Do you want to look for one?
00:27:07.740 Just go to Big Bang Theory, no laugh track.
00:27:11.420 And it is astonishing.
00:27:12.800 I never liked that show.
00:27:13.600 I don't think I've watched five minutes of that whole series.
00:27:16.040 But a lot of people love that show.
00:27:17.520 Listen, each to his own.
00:27:18.500 But it's just astonishing to hear that show with the laugh track removed.
00:27:23.800 Do you ever see that?
00:27:24.880 YouTube's got some funny genres.
00:27:26.680 One is, and I love this, famous singers singing famous songs with all the instrumental tracks
00:27:33.540 removed.
00:27:33.980 So it's pure acapella.
00:27:35.520 That can be a haunting, wonderful experience.
00:27:37.960 You can see who the true talent is when you strip out the background vocals, strip out the accompanying music.
00:27:45.820 There's just some extraordinary talent that almost was covered up by the accompaniment.
00:27:51.320 But I forget what you called this show again.
00:27:55.520 What's it called?
00:27:56.560 Big Bang Theory.
00:27:57.680 Thank you.
00:28:00.260 There's not a lot of raw talent there.
00:28:01.960 They just need that laugh track.
00:28:03.680 Do you have one?
00:28:04.960 Go ahead.
00:28:05.500 I just want to show people what I mean.
00:28:07.000 Go ahead.
00:28:07.960 Ah, nothing makes beer taste better than cool, clear, Rocky Mountains spring water.
00:28:18.440 Where are the Rocky Mountains, anyway?
00:28:21.660 Philadelphia.
00:28:24.360 Really, I thought they were out west someplace.
00:28:26.560 Think about it, Raj.
00:28:27.460 Where did the movie Rocky take place?
00:28:31.640 Philadelphia.
00:28:33.400 Okay, now I get it.
00:28:36.480 So, this is the plan?
00:28:37.680 I mean, that was just a quick, would you laugh out loud at that?
00:28:43.260 That you can see how achingly that show, I mean, maybe that's funny.
00:28:47.060 Were you laughing there, Olivia?
00:28:48.060 Was that funny?
00:28:49.300 I don't think that was funny.
00:28:51.440 That's not even like pun level word game fun.
00:28:56.340 Like that, but if you know this show, and I don't really, they just pour the, I don't know how this show could work.
00:29:02.800 That was, was that not excruciating?
00:29:05.840 Like, it's not even funny, but you throw on a laugh track and people laugh, and that is the story of Mary Walsh.
00:29:13.180 There's two stories of Mary Walsh.
00:29:14.460 Her mission is to destroy, embarrass, and genuinely, genuinely disrupt anyone conservative, and to do the bidding of the CBC.
00:29:29.380 So, their job right now is to go in and save Justin Trudeau in some way.
00:29:32.760 So, it's only taken me 31 minutes to talk about one story, Olivia, but I had a lot of things I had to, I had to get to.
00:29:40.240 There is a lot of news about the China stuff, and so the opposition is on a roll.
00:29:48.120 And so, the government and their agents, like the CBC, are doing everything to trip them up, to change the channel.
00:30:00.920 Here is an example of that.
00:30:02.680 Do we have that Michael Cooper clip?
00:30:05.640 Actually, I want to look at Sherry Romanato's response.
00:30:09.100 Do you know what I'm talking about?
00:30:09.920 I think you've got that, that video.
00:30:11.140 It's the second one there.
00:30:11.680 So, Michael Cooper, who is an MP from the Edmonton area, was asking questions of Melanie Jolie, our clueless foreign minister.
00:30:22.320 And she said something like, I stared him in the eye, and I looked him down on, talking about Vladimir Putin, I stared Putin in the eye.
00:30:29.360 I looked him, and Michael Cooper sort of laughed at that and said, ooh, you stared him in the eye.
00:30:34.160 And it's a funny phrase, because George W. Bush said, I looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes and saw his soul.
00:30:44.840 Okay.
00:30:45.420 And Stephen Harper said, I looked him in the eye and said, I'll shake your hand, but you get out of Ukraine.
00:30:51.080 Like, so, people talk about looking Putin in the eye.
00:30:53.960 It's a, it's a metaphor.
00:30:56.940 I mean, the eyes are, are the window to the soul.
00:30:59.200 The eyes tell us a lot.
00:31:00.620 Eye contact, he won't meet my eye.
00:31:02.680 He gave me the stink eye, the evil eye.
00:31:06.880 There's a lot of symbolism and nonverbal communication that happens to the eyes.
00:31:11.680 The eyes give you away.
00:31:12.400 That's why poker players often wear sunglasses.
00:31:16.520 Sometimes your eyes dart around or your pupils dilate, you can't even control it.
00:31:20.740 So, it's a metaphor.
00:31:22.700 And it's a symbol.
00:31:25.260 And Melanie Jolie deployed it, and Michael Cooper gently mocked it and said, oh, so that must have scared him.
00:31:31.260 A complete, I mean, just a completely irrelevant point.
00:31:36.040 Like, not even, but oh my God, the liberals have their proof of sexism.
00:31:42.420 Sexism, not even too long after International Women's Day.
00:31:47.000 Let's change the subject to that, to anything.
00:31:49.980 And, of course, the media has gone along with it.
00:31:51.740 Here, take a look at this.
00:31:52.520 Minister Jolie, you've talked tough.
00:31:56.860 You've talked tough with your Beijing counterparts.
00:32:00.940 So, you say, you even stared into his eyes.
00:32:04.320 I'm sure he was very intimidated.
00:32:05.800 And now we learned today, and now we learned today, or yesterday, in the Globe and Mail, very conveniently, that a visa was denied of a diplomat who wanted to work at the Canadian Beijing embassy.
00:32:25.520 One visa?
00:32:26.460 Is that it?
00:32:26.880 I have a point of order in regards to the conduct of Mr. Cooper and his comments.
00:32:31.020 I think any woman sitting around this room, I'm sure men can appreciate it and understand it, too.
00:32:37.420 The constant demeaning nature that only occurs to our female minister that appeared today.
00:32:46.000 Yesterday, it was another member of our team asking a question in QP, and a Conservative member said she deserved a participation medal.
00:32:54.320 Today, it was a question of whether this minister is tough enough.
00:32:59.000 Every single day, we sit in this house as women, and we hear these—they're called microaggressions, but they don't feel very micro—to continuously be undermined.
00:33:12.000 And I think he owes this committee and the minister in particular an apology.
00:33:16.240 And I am really sick and tired of sitting in here having to listen to it.
00:33:20.740 I am sick and tired of Canadians having to see it.
00:33:24.320 And I'm really sick and tired of the Conservatives just not getting it.
00:33:30.480 Mrs. Romanato?
00:33:33.460 Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I, too, I'm really disappointed.
00:33:37.540 I want to know if that member opposite, when then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper confronted Vladimir Putin and said, get out of Ukraine, did that member opposite say, was he tough enough?
00:33:50.400 That was completely unacceptable.
00:33:53.280 Unacceptable behavior for every woman that has ever taken her place in this house.
00:33:57.160 And I demand an apology.
00:33:58.800 Understanding Order 18.
00:34:00.080 You know, let me list some of the toughest political leaders of the 20th century.
00:34:10.520 Are you ready?
00:34:12.360 I think at the top of the list, in the post-war world, like the toughest political leader in the 20th century was probably Winston Churchill.
00:34:19.760 So, Stalin and Mao in their own odious ways, they were tough in that they were brutal.
00:34:26.780 But in the second half of the 20th century, I mean, that's when Mao and Stalin did a lot of their work.
00:34:33.040 But would you agree with me that Margaret Thatcher was tough as nails?
00:34:39.180 If you don't agree with me, ask the Argentinian dictator, Galtieri, if I remember, who thought that he would take advantage of things and invade the Falkland Islands,
00:34:52.920 which is a little island, a group of islands off the southern tip of Argentina, couldn't be further away from the UK.
00:35:01.560 Like, we're talking almost of the Antarctic.
00:35:05.500 Very small population, maybe just a couple thousand, I don't know for sure.
00:35:09.560 So close to Argentina, so far from the UK, and he invades and reconquers the Falkland Islands.
00:35:16.500 They call them Las Malvinas.
00:35:18.880 That's the Spanish name for him.
00:35:20.400 And how on earth is Margaret Thatcher, thousands of miles away, going to, what's she going to do about it?
00:35:28.780 Well, she put together an aircraft carrier and a battle group and soldiers, and she had them steamed down to Argentina.
00:35:38.300 And she basically said, brother, you got till we get there to get out, or we are going to smash you.
00:35:43.300 And there was a war.
00:35:45.640 There was a war.
00:35:47.320 And the Brits, from thousands of miles away, won, retook the islands.
00:35:51.820 And in fact, the dictator was booted out.
00:35:54.420 There's some incredible imagery of the British aircraft carrier.
00:35:58.760 And the jets they used at the time were an American-made jet, the Harrier jump jet,
00:36:03.720 which could land, short takeoff, vertical landing, very maneuverable.
00:36:07.880 Well, the Argentinians had mirage fighters, and it wasn't without cost.
00:36:14.820 The Brits lost a ship called the HMS Sheffield.
00:36:19.360 The Argentinians lost a giant battleship called the General Belgrano.
00:36:23.440 It was actually a very bloody war, especially on the Argentinian side.
00:36:27.020 This is all a way of saying, you don't think Margaret Thatcher was tough?
00:36:32.520 Ha ha, there's that old saying.
00:36:34.540 I don't know if it's a joke or for real.
00:36:37.880 What would you like, Madam Prime Minister?
00:36:40.980 I'll have the roast beef, please.
00:36:43.460 And the vegetables?
00:36:45.060 Oh, they'll have the roast beef, too.
00:36:47.560 I mean, she was so tough.
00:36:50.060 She was so tough.
00:36:51.080 And not just tough on foreign enemies.
00:36:52.820 She was tough on the IRA.
00:36:57.320 The Irish Republican Army, you might recall that the IRA blew up, blew things up.
00:37:02.360 In fact, they tried to assassinate her.
00:37:04.700 I had a friend.
00:37:05.640 My old friend John O'Sullivan was with her the night that they had an explosion,
00:37:10.660 and he described it to me.
00:37:13.300 Terrifying.
00:37:17.160 Tough, would you say?
00:37:18.100 Do you think that she would whine if someone poked fun at her?
00:37:23.820 You're just saying that because I'm a girl.
00:37:26.440 Do you think Margaret Thatcher ever said those words in her life?
00:37:31.040 You're just doing that.
00:37:32.360 You're just mean to me because I'm a girl.
00:37:35.060 Do you think Margaret Thatcher could even make that whiny sound that we heard?
00:37:40.100 Yeah, put up some volume.
00:37:41.100 Let's hear her talk about the Falklands.
00:37:43.980 Or just anything.
00:37:45.040 Let's just remind our people.
00:37:46.320 They called her the Iron Lady.
00:37:48.600 She would chew up her critics, male or female, chew them up and spit them out.
00:37:54.700 And I can't imagine what she would think of those losers, Jennifer O'Connell and Sherry
00:38:01.040 Romanato, who instead of talking about the weighty items of the day, just want to have
00:38:06.120 a little pout.
00:38:06.980 They actually prove that they are girls, not women.
00:38:11.340 Certainly not women like Margaret Thatcher.
00:38:12.840 Here, play a bit of Margaret Thatcher.
00:38:13.820 She just gives people a little blast from the past.
00:38:15.680 Where there is discord, may we bring harmony.
00:38:19.100 Where there is error, may we bring truth.
00:38:22.220 Where there is doubt, may we bring faith.
00:38:25.320 And where there is despair, may we bring hope.
00:38:29.800 To those waiting with bated breaths for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have
00:38:37.000 only one thing to say, you turn if you want to.
00:38:45.280 The ladies, not for turning.
00:38:49.100 I'd be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the white ensign flies alongside the Union Jack
00:38:55.240 in South Georgia.
00:38:57.020 God save the Queen.
00:38:57.900 What happens next, Mr Nottingham?
00:38:59.360 Thank you very much.
00:38:59.920 What's your reaction, Prime Minister?
00:39:00.400 Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our forces and the Marines.
00:39:06.080 Of course, the chairman or the president of the commission, Mr Delors, said at press conference
00:39:11.260 the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the community.
00:39:16.780 He wanted the commission to be the executive.
00:39:19.200 And he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate.
00:39:22.440 No, no, no.
00:39:26.260 All levels of income are better off than they were in 1979.
00:39:32.140 But what the honorable member is saying is that he will rather the poor were poorer, provided
00:39:39.880 the rich were less rich.
00:39:42.080 That way you will never create the wealth for better social services as we have.
00:39:47.220 And what a policy.
00:39:49.320 Yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided the rich were less rich.
00:39:54.640 That is a liberal policy.
00:39:56.720 And we're very happy that we leave the United Kingdom in a very, very much better state than
00:40:03.600 when we came here 11 and a half years ago.
00:40:07.780 Well, that's quite a tour de force of her history.
00:40:10.380 And when they talked about South Georgia, that's, I think, the name of the, sorry, that reference
00:40:16.580 about the white flag and the union flag, they're talking about reconquering the Falklands.
00:40:21.220 That was a great summary of her career arc.
00:40:24.020 She was deposed by her own party.
00:40:25.680 She didn't lose her election in the end.
00:40:28.020 But do you think the first woman prime minister of the United Kingdom who beat labor again and
00:40:34.560 again, like a drum, in fact, was undefeated?
00:40:37.240 She was only defeated by her own party's treachery.
00:40:40.920 Do you think she, what do you think she would think of not the women, but the girls who succeed
00:40:46.940 her and walk in her footsteps, Jennifer O'Connell and Sherry Romanato?
00:40:50.420 How dare you?
00:40:51.160 You wouldn't say mean things like that to a boy.
00:40:54.000 Yeah, actually, politics is mean.
00:40:56.300 And when you play the gender card, you're essentially saying, I can't hack it with the lads.
00:41:02.600 Please put your kid gloves on for me.
00:41:04.260 Now, we don't have the same time to go in depth with Indira Gandhi of India or Golda Meir
00:41:11.640 of Israel, the prime minister who had, you know, all three of these women ran nuclear powers,
00:41:21.660 nuclear armed powers.
00:41:23.280 And it's deeply embarrassing that their successors would push the, I'm just a girl.
00:41:32.040 Math is hard.
00:41:33.700 Don't be mean to me.
00:41:35.060 I'm a girl.
00:41:37.120 They're not mean to you because you're a girl.
00:41:39.880 They're mean to you because you're an idiot.
00:41:42.580 And to shift that to that you're a female is to imply that you're an idiot because you're
00:41:49.860 female.
00:41:50.420 You're an idiot because you're an idiot.
00:41:51.760 There are men who are idiots and there are women who are idiots.
00:41:55.280 And it's unthinkable that someone would say, you're just saying that to me because I'm
00:41:59.340 a boy.
00:42:00.520 No, it's because you're stupid.
00:42:02.760 And they actually demean femin, they don't demean feminism, they demean their own sex by
00:42:10.080 pushing the don't pick on me button instead of, what do you think Margaret Thatcher would
00:42:15.120 do, she would roar like a lion and intimidate the lads.
00:42:23.240 I'm conscious of the time.
00:42:24.880 I want to show you two videos about C-11.
00:42:30.100 C-11 is one of four bills that Justin Trudeau has introduced, passed, or will introduce to
00:42:37.920 censor the internet.
00:42:38.900 C-11, which regulates the internet.
00:42:41.480 That's C-18, called the Online News Act, regulates news broadcasters, especially like us.
00:42:49.820 There was a bill in the last parliament called C-36 that reintroduces hate crimes.
00:42:55.220 And then there's a bill that has not been introduced yet, but has been released in sort of a pre-bill
00:43:02.740 format, and it's called the Online Harms Act.
00:43:06.240 Taken together, that's four pieces of legislation to censor the internet.
00:43:10.300 That's more legislation, as I like to say, than Trudeau has to deal with the economy, than
00:43:15.280 he has to deal with inflation or housing prices.
00:43:17.920 Because Trudeau deeply cares about censorship, it's actually his number one issue.
00:43:25.220 Um, and I want to show you a new Democrat member of parliament, who just has a really
00:43:34.580 weird angle here.
00:43:36.680 Uh, I don't think this is accurate, talking about one million followers, but even if it
00:43:41.400 was, it's really weird here.
00:43:42.560 Without further ado, let's play that, play that NDP MP.
00:43:46.840 Well, we started with a bill called C-10, which was definitely a worse bill.
00:43:53.560 And I think what the member's referring back to is our concerns we were expressing at that
00:43:57.680 time.
00:43:58.700 Uh, and so some of the changes that came in C-11 reassured us.
00:44:02.160 And one of those changes is the very one the conservatives are harping on, and that is
00:44:07.460 the changes that made sure that user-generated, uh, content is not affected by this bill.
00:44:13.560 Now, I think what they're ignoring there is there's an exception.
00:44:16.480 If, if you're creating your own content and you're, have a million followers, a million
00:44:21.040 subscribers, and you're making money out of that, then yes, we are going to have the
00:44:25.520 CRTC have an ability to look at that.
00:44:27.720 So it's not what the conservatives are saying, is that we should have a blanket exemption
00:44:31.860 that nobody who's making money on the internet, uh, has to report to anybody or be accountable
00:44:36.880 for anything.
00:44:38.160 Um, and, and really that was one of the major improvements between the first version of the
00:44:42.320 bill and the bill that we're now supporting.
00:44:46.860 You know, I think I just got stupider, um, there.
00:44:51.100 I, I, I don't think that, I don't think a word that guy said was accurate.
00:44:55.940 Um, I think that million thing was just some, I just don't even think that that's in, in the
00:45:02.700 law.
00:45:03.680 Um, I'm not an expert in the same way that, um, Michael Geist is.
00:45:09.360 He's a professor of, um, law and especially a lot to do with the media and things like
00:45:15.560 that.
00:45:16.280 And he said this about, you can find this on Michael Geist Twitter account.
00:45:21.840 He said this, is it any wonder Canadian digital creators fear bill C-11?
00:45:27.400 Here's NDP MP Randall Garrison saying the bill is much improved since creators with a million
00:45:32.560 followers or who make money are subject to CRTC oversight.
00:45:35.740 He's wrong.
00:45:38.340 The bill regulates user content and subscriber numbers, not a threshold, but still.
00:45:45.760 Yeah.
00:45:45.900 Where's that?
00:45:46.380 Like that million where he just made that up.
00:45:48.920 He just made that up.
00:45:51.100 He's so dumb.
00:45:52.300 Even his opposition to it is dumb.
00:45:54.400 And there's a, oh my God, we're doomed.
00:45:57.100 But that isn't that right.
00:45:58.880 I mean, speaking of dumb, I'm going to call Jagmeet Singh dumb.
00:46:03.120 And it's not because he's a girl or a boy.
00:46:05.260 It's because he's truly dumb.
00:46:06.520 And I think he has the dumbest caucus.
00:46:08.100 Although those two liberals are giving him a run for the money.
00:46:11.940 Here's another, this is, this is scary.
00:46:15.420 I think this is another new Democrat.
00:46:16.720 An MP named Lori Idlout from the far north.
00:46:24.320 And she, there was sort of a vibe with Randall Garrison there that this is good, that people
00:46:31.220 who are saying things should be regulated because we don't like other people to have power other
00:46:37.520 than us.
00:46:38.220 And we should be able to censor them.
00:46:40.400 Here is, here's Lori Idlout basically saying, yeah, we like censorship.
00:46:46.600 We like the fact that we can finally control those pesky people who think they can just
00:46:50.640 talk freely.
00:46:51.280 Who the hell do they think we are?
00:46:52.520 Take a look at this video by another new Democrat.
00:46:55.860 And I thank the member for his question.
00:47:00.960 I guess to put it simply, I very much prefer to have the CRTC determine what is reflected
00:47:10.100 back, what, what they regulate regarding online streaming, as opposed to studio executives that
00:47:19.280 are outside of this country.
00:47:20.700 And that is what we're talking about in, in this bill.
00:47:25.400 There's already been content regulation for TV.
00:47:29.300 There's been content regulation for radio.
00:47:31.680 And that content regulation needs to happen for online streaming because so many Canadians
00:47:37.260 are online every day.
00:47:41.160 Content regulation.
00:47:43.120 You heard it.
00:47:43.560 So this isn't about a crime.
00:47:47.380 Crimes are already covered, whether you do it in person, on the phone.
00:47:50.700 In a newspaper, on the internet, crimes are already.
00:47:52.980 So it's not about crimes.
00:47:55.260 It's not about taxes.
00:47:57.160 You can make money in any way, but you're taxable.
00:48:00.180 You know, we're a for-profit company trying to make money.
00:48:03.400 Whether we do it in a podcast, an email, or a video, you're still taxed.
00:48:08.660 So she's not worried about financial matters.
00:48:10.900 She's not worried about criminal matters.
00:48:12.120 You heard her.
00:48:14.040 She wants to regulate content.
00:48:15.420 Now, one of the reasons why 80 years ago, the CBC, you know, all these regulations were
00:48:22.120 put into effect is because there was, it was thought that there was limited bandwidth.
00:48:27.220 And that's some, there's some truth to that over the air radio.
00:48:31.660 There were other reasons that are simply obsolete right now.
00:48:35.060 There's unlimited bandwidth.
00:48:36.900 There was also an idea what we need to boost Canadian content because otherwise it won't happen.
00:48:41.940 And everyone's a content producer now.
00:48:45.300 This is not about some noble reason.
00:48:48.040 You heard two MPs in a row.
00:48:51.600 This is about regulating what you say.
00:48:54.620 And what you say is based on what you think.
00:48:56.380 And what you think is based on what you believe, your conscience.
00:48:59.520 This is about regulating your mind and your heart and telling you what you can or can't say,
00:49:04.740 think, feel.
00:49:06.260 That's C11.
00:49:07.100 Don't take it from me.
00:49:07.740 Take it from its supporters.
00:49:08.660 Hey, I'm going to take a minute to read some super chats.
00:49:14.520 And Mark, five bucks.
00:49:15.520 Is Adam Sosa coming back?
00:49:16.520 I loved you on the news and why it matters.
00:49:18.460 I hope you go on there again soon.
00:49:20.840 Two parts there.
00:49:22.300 Yeah, I think Adam's coming back.
00:49:23.560 He's on paternity leave, which is the thing.
00:49:26.960 So I'm not sure exactly when he's back, but I think it, I think it might be next month.
00:49:31.300 And I'm glad you miss him.
00:49:33.240 The second is you love me on news and why it matters.
00:49:35.720 Because that's a show on the Glenn Beck Blaze Network.
00:49:39.040 Thank you very much.
00:49:40.000 I went down there the other day and I did four shows in one day, including Glenn Beck.
00:49:44.060 So and they were very warm to the messages we had and were very friendly.
00:49:50.020 Fraser McBurney says, wow, the last few days have had more news.
00:49:53.380 Tucker Carlson, Proud Boys, True Dope, J6, McCarthy, East Palestine and lying fake news.
00:49:58.300 Great job, Rebel News.
00:49:59.960 Well, there's the news never stops, does it?
00:50:02.140 And we do our best to cover it.
00:50:03.440 Look, we're a small, we're an army, but we're a very small army compared to other news gathering operations.
00:50:08.260 So it's hard to cover the waterfront.
00:50:11.260 But but I think we're doing a fairly good job, if I may.
00:50:15.220 LB762 said, Ezra, I was funnier and more lighthearted a few years ago as well.
00:50:19.060 Prior to 2020, it is a symptom of our current times.
00:50:21.700 For those of us that don't have our head in the sand.
00:50:24.300 You know what?
00:50:24.900 When I'm funny, I like that version of me.
00:50:27.600 Um, but there's many things that weigh on me and you can't always think about the news
00:50:34.800 because you'll be depressed all the time.
00:50:36.760 And I think social media is a depression machine.
00:50:40.800 If you're on Instagram, well, you just look at all the beautiful people and think, well,
00:50:46.200 I'm not that beautiful.
00:50:47.060 If you're on, um, I don't really spend any time on Facebook, but I don't know, LinkedIn
00:50:53.660 or whatever.
00:50:54.800 Oh, how's my career going compared to my classmates or something?
00:51:00.100 Uh, Twitter just makes you politically revved up, angry and nervous.
00:51:04.780 So I think social media has taken a lot of fun out of life.
00:51:08.860 And I say, this is a social media addict.
00:51:12.840 I think the times are heavy, but you've got to, you've got to fence it off.
00:51:17.200 You cannot, you know, there's a Jewish saying, you are not, it's not up to you to save the
00:51:22.420 world, but neither are you free to do nothing.
00:51:25.540 That's another way of saying there's a balance there.
00:51:27.360 You cannot just worry about the world.
00:51:31.520 You should do your part, but you can't just worry.
00:51:34.000 Another way of looking at that, this is a quote I use from time to time these days.
00:51:38.500 And I thought about it a lot during the lockdowns.
00:51:43.320 How hard should you fight?
00:51:45.640 How far should you go?
00:51:46.880 I fought in my own way as hard as I could.
00:51:52.080 That's what I think I did.
00:51:53.260 And we deployed our company to that.
00:51:55.520 But let me ask you a question that has never been posed to me.
00:52:01.520 If I would have lost my job, if I would, if, if fighting hard would have meant I would
00:52:07.020 have lost my job and thus put my family in economic distress, would I have fought?
00:52:12.640 Would I have fought?
00:52:15.160 So another way of saying, maybe it was easy for me to fight because I'm the boss of my
00:52:20.900 own company.
00:52:21.840 And, and in fact, our company's mission became fighting.
00:52:25.480 But what if I was a, had a more normal job?
00:52:28.820 Like, let's say I worked as a nurse somewhere and I had to be jabbed or be fired.
00:52:33.500 And if, and if I got fired, I don't have a ton of savings and my, my family depends on
00:52:39.380 me.
00:52:40.000 Would I have, would I have gone that distance?
00:52:43.160 I, I, I never had to think about that.
00:52:45.460 I would like to think that I would do the principled thing, but there's certainly a principle to putting
00:52:51.340 food on the table for your own family.
00:52:53.600 That's a, what about that principle?
00:52:55.860 So I'm lucky in that I never had an existential challenge before me.
00:53:00.020 I'm lucky, but I also created that possibility for myself by founding Rebel News, a place
00:53:06.300 that I could, it's right in the name, rebel.
00:53:09.320 It's a home for other rebels too.
00:53:12.100 But what if I wasn't so lucky?
00:53:13.540 What if I was working in a factory somewhere, um, like GM and I was told, guess what?
00:53:18.760 We're changing your collective agreement.
00:53:20.360 The union's being bought off and you now need to jam.
00:53:23.820 Would I have quit on principle?
00:53:25.220 And it's a different answer if you're only defending, depending on yourself or if your
00:53:30.400 family's depending on you.
00:53:32.820 I quote Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident, who takes this into account and realizes not
00:53:41.280 everyone can fight.
00:53:43.160 Not everyone can sacrifice.
00:53:44.460 Not everyone's conflict oriented.
00:53:46.040 Not everyone's built for fighting.
00:53:47.560 Some people are very weak or vulnerable or they just don't know how.
00:53:50.640 And so he said, and maybe you could find the exact wording here because I'm just paraphrasing.
00:53:55.420 I've used this quote before.
00:53:59.360 At least don't participate in it.
00:54:02.620 Don't participate in the evil.
00:54:04.320 Don't let it use you as a vector.
00:54:08.100 Yeah.
00:54:08.300 Live not by lies.
00:54:09.380 Um, it's probably, is there a quote there that touches on that?
00:54:18.020 Can you pump that up a little, just even two notches more size wise so I can read it?
00:54:29.520 Yeah, go.
00:54:30.280 Yeah.
00:54:30.480 I'll read that.
00:54:31.120 On the day Solzhenitsyn was arrested, February 1974, he released the text to live not by lies.
00:54:40.720 The next day he was exiled to the West where he received a hero's welcome.
00:54:46.660 This moment marks the peak of his fame.
00:54:49.460 Solzhenitsyn equates lies with ideology.
00:54:51.560 The illusion that human nature and society can be reshaped to predetermined specifications.
00:54:58.040 And his last word before leaving his homeland urges Soviet citizens as individuals to refrain from cooperating with the regime's lies.
00:55:06.920 Even the most timid can take this least demanding step towards spiritual independence.
00:55:12.380 If many march together on this path of passive resistance, the whole inhuman system will totter and collapse.
00:55:18.980 Okay, so that's written by this other guy, Edward Erickson.
00:55:23.980 That's not the actual quote, but you get my meaning.
00:55:26.960 Solzhenitsyn said, you don't have to be on the front lines.
00:55:31.660 You don't have to sacrifice, but at least don't go along with the lie.
00:55:36.320 Do not support the lie.
00:55:38.780 Do not say the lie is true.
00:55:42.400 Do not join the enemy.
00:55:45.480 Just don't, don't join the enemy.
00:55:47.180 Just don't be a part of the system.
00:55:50.340 And that's what I thought of when, for example, when I wasn't vaxxed and had no vax passport and would want to go to a restaurant that I've been going to for years.
00:55:58.620 And the woman who would always seat me said, no, get out.
00:56:02.240 You're not vaxxed.
00:56:03.220 And I thought to myself, why are you doing this?
00:56:05.200 There's no cop around.
00:56:06.200 There's no one around.
00:56:07.540 No one's holding you to account.
00:56:09.160 It's not like your boss is here.
00:56:13.000 You asked me if I'm jabbed.
00:56:14.700 I said no.
00:56:15.580 Okay, so you asked what you were supposed to do.
00:56:17.480 Now can I have a seat, please?
00:56:18.980 Why are you being a functionary of this authoritarian rule?
00:56:22.820 Why are you being a willing participant?
00:56:26.740 You're not in the government.
00:56:28.240 This isn't your policy.
00:56:29.580 Why are you taking it upon yourself to enforce it?
00:56:31.840 Why are you letting the lie flow through you?
00:56:35.600 Why don't you just ignore it?
00:56:37.160 You know, we had a, we had an event when vaccine passports were required.
00:56:43.400 And I'll tell you, I won't say who, but I talked to the manager and I said, we're not vaxxed.
00:56:47.980 Will you let us come?
00:56:49.080 And he said, I'm going to ask everyone for their vaxxed passport.
00:56:52.720 I'm going to just ask them in case a cop stings me.
00:56:56.480 He'll hear me asking, but whatever you say, I'll let you in.
00:56:59.280 I thought that's the right answer.
00:57:00.720 There's a guy who's protecting himself.
00:57:01.920 He doesn't want to lose his business and lose his job, but he's not going to be a little
00:57:05.800 Nazi about it.
00:57:07.980 I found people like that.
00:57:09.500 I found little restaurants and places like that.
00:57:12.020 I found a barber like that.
00:57:13.280 I found, found places like that during, during the lockdown.
00:57:19.080 Um, but I also found so many people who not only would be enforcers, they erotically loved
00:57:28.500 being snitches.
00:57:31.040 In fact, I just saw a court case.
00:57:34.220 I just read a court case.
00:57:36.280 It was crazy.
00:57:37.280 It's two o'clock, but give me a moment.
00:57:39.200 I saw this crazy court case.
00:57:45.220 I'll send the link to you.
00:57:47.080 I'm going to send you a link now.
00:57:52.460 I just put it in Slack.
00:57:55.860 This is a crazy case out of Quebec.
00:57:59.580 Olivia, did you get it in Slack?
00:58:00.860 There you did.
00:58:01.240 Yeah.
00:58:01.440 Pump it up big.
00:58:02.780 Um, you can, yeah, you can put it in PDF mode.
00:58:06.440 Do you see on the top right there, it says PDF that might make it prettier if you, if
00:58:11.320 you click on that link.
00:58:14.400 So this, this, uh, was before the honorable Dennis Galeatzos, uh, a judge in Quebec.
00:58:25.240 And it was the prosecution.
00:58:27.140 It was prosecuting a guy named Neil Epstein.
00:58:29.980 I have no idea who that is.
00:58:33.420 I'm going to read a little bit of this.
00:58:34.560 Okay.
00:58:36.500 The accused Neil Epstein is charged with criminal harassment and uttering death threats towards
00:58:40.580 his neighbor, Michael Nachachi.
00:58:43.360 The alleged events occurred between March and May of 2021.
00:58:46.880 Do you know what was happening between March and May of 2021?
00:58:50.120 I do.
00:58:51.740 Harsh lockdowns.
00:58:56.160 Paragraph two of this ruling.
00:58:57.340 Picture the following scene, a beautiful spring day, a quiet street in the small residential
00:59:02.560 neighborhood, just steps away from two elementary schools, a daycare in a park.
00:59:06.420 Up the road, a four-year-old girl rides her scooter in front of her house with three adults
00:59:10.600 sitting on camping chairs in their driveway, watching her said driveway is adorned with
00:59:14.620 chalk drawings made by the child.
00:59:17.060 A few meters away, another gathering of nine children spanning ages two to eight smiles from
00:59:22.060 ear to ear.
00:59:23.060 Some of bicycles, some of scooters, all are wearing helmets.
00:59:25.380 Other children are simply walking, playing, getting much needed fresh air.
00:59:28.660 They are all under the watchful eye of their parents.
00:59:31.800 It goes on and on and on.
00:59:35.180 Paragraph three.
00:59:35.880 To most, this scene represents a blissful snapshot of suburban utopia.
00:59:40.580 And then here we get to it.
00:59:43.520 Paragraph four.
00:59:44.180 Yet to the complainant and his family, this is an unbearable nuisance and affront on many
00:59:50.820 levels, so much so that according to objective video evidence, they drive dangerously near
00:59:57.060 the children as a way to protest their presence and express their discontent.
01:00:01.840 That is the backdrop of this case.
01:00:03.780 The complainant has a list of grievances against the accused, his family, his young children,
01:00:08.460 another neighbor's young children.
01:00:09.760 These grievances are nothing more than mundane, petty neighborhood trivialities.
01:00:13.400 The complainants have consistently videotaped their neighbors, yet they charge Mr. Epstein
01:00:19.480 with criminal harassment.
01:00:20.760 With an irony of unmatched proportions, they complain that he might have recorded them.
01:00:25.140 He did not.
01:00:25.760 To the complainants, the presence of young families outside is a source of scorn, blah, blah, blah.
01:00:34.640 A man who has somehow been subjected to criminal charges for almost two years, this injustice
01:00:39.540 ends today.
01:00:41.400 Are you not gripped?
01:00:43.380 Are you not riveted?
01:00:46.680 And I'm going to...
01:00:49.720 Okay, I'll just read a little bit of paragraph seven.
01:00:51.820 Give me some time here.
01:00:52.580 This is a fascinating case and it's beautifully written.
01:00:57.480 After Mr. Epstein testified in chief in a tremendous display of professionalism and objectivity,
01:01:02.340 Crown Counsel declined to cross-examine him since, in her view, it was not in the public
01:01:06.740 interest to do so.
01:01:08.280 Instead, she humbly invited the court to enter an acquittal.
01:01:11.120 Having heard the evidence, I can unreservedly confirm that she made the right call.
01:01:14.480 Counsel's integrity was commendable.
01:01:16.260 Let me tell you what that means.
01:01:18.100 So they charged this guy, Neil Epstein, with stalking, right?
01:01:22.200 That's what criminal harassment is.
01:01:24.220 But as the video evidence was played showing that it wasn't him that was the stalker, it
01:01:29.320 was the complainants.
01:01:30.460 It's that Nachachi guy.
01:01:32.860 When this Mr. Epstein got up and said, well, here's what happened, here's what happened,
01:01:36.760 here's what happened, the Crown Prosecutor said, judge, I don't think we should convict
01:01:43.120 this guy.
01:01:43.520 I'm going to stand down.
01:01:44.440 When was the last time that happened?
01:01:48.140 And look at the judge saying, good for the Crown Counsel.
01:01:51.680 And I'm just going to, I'm just going to skip ahead here.
01:02:00.080 The evidence presented a trial.
01:02:01.440 The interested parties live on Watford Street and Beaconsfield.
01:02:04.040 It's a small narrow road with sidewalks.
01:02:05.920 It is barely 10 houses long.
01:02:07.480 The testimony of the complainant, Michael Nachachi.
01:02:16.400 Michael Nachachi is a 34-year-old man.
01:02:18.400 He has a large build, albeit smaller than the accused.
01:02:22.480 Nachachi lives with his brother, Ari, who also has a heavyset frame.
01:02:26.000 His father, Frank, and his mother, Martine.
01:02:28.640 Nachachi has installed four closed-servic cameras filming in the front of his house at
01:02:32.460 all times.
01:02:33.060 He's also installed two dashboard cameras in his parents' vehicles, a third rear-facing
01:02:37.600 camera in his father's car, and a high-resolution camera on his motorcycle helmet.
01:02:42.800 He monitored the accused and his family, tried to record, anyhow.
01:02:49.900 So what's this beef about?
01:02:51.840 What are they mad about?
01:02:58.480 I'm going to look for it here.
01:02:59.920 They're mad that these kids and neighbors are violating the lockdown anti-gathering rules.
01:03:06.660 Look at paragraph 18.
01:03:10.320 Mr. Nachachi describes it as follows.
01:03:13.360 They were having a street party, blocking the street while drinking at the height of the
01:03:18.340 pandemic.
01:03:19.280 They were having a party in the middle of the street.
01:03:25.100 And he goes on.
01:03:26.920 But look at paragraph 20.
01:03:28.100 The video evidence paints a starkly different picture.
01:03:31.980 The scene is far less pernicious than it portrays to be.
01:03:34.660 First, this party in the middle of the street is a complete misnomer.
01:03:37.420 It implies some block party.
01:03:38.920 In reality, it was simply some children playing on the road.
01:03:45.140 The court does not see...
01:03:46.640 There were no toys left in the middle of the road.
01:03:49.560 On and on and on.
01:03:50.400 So everything was a lie.
01:03:54.220 But it was Nachachi who was driving fast and in a risky way.
01:04:02.120 Let me skip ahead to 31.
01:04:04.080 Martine Nachachi never slows down her car.
01:04:06.540 Instead, the little girl is left to her own devices, quickly pushing her scooter, narrowly
01:04:10.380 avoiding being hit.
01:04:11.620 And again, Frank Nachachi does not slow his speed.
01:04:16.220 In fact, Mr. Epstein gestures to him to slow down.
01:04:19.920 Again, so...
01:04:21.320 Anyway, it's a fascinating case.
01:04:22.680 You can find it yourself.
01:04:24.040 It's called The King versus Neil Epstein.
01:04:28.000 It's a Quebec case.
01:04:29.760 Maybe I took too long in there, but here's my point.
01:04:31.540 It is about a family, the Nachachis, if I'm saying that right, at war with the other families
01:04:41.280 on the street, if they're hanging out outside, kids using sidewalk chalk, scooters, playing
01:04:48.160 around.
01:04:49.420 And instead of slowing down for the kids, he drives quickly by them to scare them and almost
01:04:55.140 hits them.
01:04:55.780 And this crazy Nachachi family is filming everything.
01:05:01.460 And by the way, the film shows that they're the ones to blame.
01:05:06.380 And they managed to get the cops to charge this Neil Epstein guy.
01:05:12.220 And they managed to get all the way to court.
01:05:13.800 And as you can hear, after Epstein gave his testimony and after the video evidence was seen,
01:05:18.420 the Crown Prosecutor said, Judge, I'm sorry.
01:05:20.520 I don't want to proceed here.
01:05:22.440 And the judge commends the prosecutor.
01:05:24.240 There's a lot of interesting things in this case, a lot of crazy details.
01:05:29.120 But the thing that stands out to me is this was a snitch.
01:05:34.980 This was a pandemic snitch.
01:05:37.500 This was a Karen.
01:05:40.480 This was someone who was furious that neighbors and kids, no less, would be outside playing
01:05:45.980 during a pandemic.
01:05:48.660 And they actually managed.
01:05:52.540 And I didn't read the whole ruling.
01:05:53.820 I just read pretty much up to there a little bit further.
01:05:56.800 They managed to convince a cop and a prosecutor to take it to court.
01:06:00.940 And good for the prosecutor for seeing the error of her ways.
01:06:03.500 But why did it have to go that far?
01:06:05.100 She didn't know this was BS.
01:06:06.540 She had to wait till this Neil Epstein's life was turned upside down.
01:06:10.480 Why did it go that far?
01:06:11.760 And the judge, you know what?
01:06:14.740 Actually, I did read a little bit further.
01:06:24.480 I got to read a little bit more.
01:06:27.720 This is, someone sent this to me.
01:06:29.700 Go to paragraph 169 if you would.
01:06:31.560 So, apparently, Mr. Epstein gave Nekachi the finger one day.
01:06:39.820 Oh, my God.
01:06:41.560 And this was proof of stalking, criminal harassment.
01:06:44.880 Let me read what the judge says at 168.
01:06:50.020 To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger.
01:06:52.980 Are you relieved, Olivia?
01:06:56.000 I wouldn't want to live in a country where it was a crime to give someone the finger.
01:06:58.780 To be abundantly clear, it's not a crime to give someone the finger.
01:07:02.160 Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right
01:07:05.060 that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian.
01:07:07.240 It may not be civil.
01:07:08.100 It may not be polite.
01:07:09.120 It may not be gentlemanly.
01:07:11.120 Nonetheless, it does not trigger criminal liability.
01:07:13.760 Offending someone is not a crime.
01:07:16.060 It is an integral component of one's freedom of expression.
01:07:18.980 Citizens are to be thicker-skinned,
01:07:21.080 especially when they behave in ways that are highly likely to trigger such profanity,
01:07:25.000 like driving too fast on the street where innocent kids are playing.
01:07:27.580 Be told to fuck off should not prompt a call to 911,
01:07:31.760 which is what happened here.
01:07:35.800 On that topic, the evidence in the case that Barr established that even after the accused's arrest,
01:07:40.540 therefore after the period covered by these charges,
01:07:42.820 Michael Nakachi called the police again
01:07:45.140 to report that Mr. Epstein's wife had given them the finger while walking on the street.
01:07:49.380 Calling the police because they gave you a finger because you're a pandemic scold?
01:07:53.700 Paragraph 171.
01:07:57.040 This needs to stop.
01:07:59.520 The complainants are free to clutch their pearls in the face of such an insult.
01:08:03.000 However, the police department and the 911 dispatching service have more important priorities to address.
01:08:07.680 The complainant's brother is fortunate that he was not charged with assault.
01:08:11.440 Similarly, both of his parents are lucky they were not taken under the highway safety code
01:08:15.040 for driveling recklessly in the presence of children.
01:08:17.500 Finally, based on the evidence of the case of Barr,
01:08:19.100 Michael Nakachi is fortunate that he was not charged with uttering death threats.
01:08:23.120 The complainants should all check those in the victory column.
01:08:26.980 Let me read paragraph 171.
01:08:32.360 I think this judge is doing a hell of a job.
01:08:34.540 This is really a crazy story, isn't it?
01:08:38.020 But this is, would you agree that this is a mask and pandemic scold gone wild?
01:08:42.920 Have you ever heard of such a thing?
01:08:44.020 They managed to get criminal charges.
01:08:46.880 Let me read right at the end.
01:08:50.540 Paragraph 174.
01:08:51.700 In the modern day vernacular, people often refer to a criminal case being thrown out.
01:08:57.140 Obviously, this is a little more than a figurative expression.
01:08:59.480 Cases aren't actually thrown out in the literal or physical sense.
01:09:02.700 Nevertheless, in the specific circumstance of this case,
01:09:05.000 the court is inclined to actually take the file and throw it out the window,
01:09:10.400 which is the only way to adequately express my bewilderment
01:09:13.580 with the fact that Mr. Epstein was subjected to an arrest and a fulsome criminal prosecution.
01:09:18.160 Alas, the courtrooms of the Montreal Courthouse do not have windows.
01:09:21.700 A mere verdict of acquittal will have to suffice.
01:09:25.340 For these reasons, the accused is found not guilty on all charges.
01:09:29.300 What do you think of that?
01:09:32.640 I like this Judge Galeatzos.
01:09:35.580 I think he's got a sense of humor to him.
01:09:38.000 Like I say, you really do need a sense of humor,
01:09:41.600 because what else are you going to do?
01:09:45.000 If you don't laugh, what else are you going to do?
01:09:47.300 That's just incredible.
01:09:52.580 Anyhow, a lawyer sent that to me because I was telling her the importance of being able to swear.
01:10:02.440 That being able to swear, it's not polite, but sometimes it's how we express ourselves.
01:10:09.140 And imagine having the cops called on you, being arrested, and being prosecuted because you swore.
01:10:14.460 And imagine the whole thing is over pandemic compliance.
01:10:18.940 That's a crazy story, and I'm glad to have read that case.
01:10:22.220 And I'm glad to know that a judge with that common sense and sense of humor sits on the bench.
01:10:26.760 And I hope to spend less time in courts in my second half century.
01:10:32.080 But if I ever find myself in a court, I would hope that a judge like that judge is sitting,
01:10:37.720 because we need all the common sense and humor we can find.
01:10:41.780 My friends, it is 2.12 Eastern Time, 12.12 in the Promised Land of Alberta, and I've got to go.
01:10:48.260 But I do have a couple of super chats I'm told that I'll read quickly before I vacate the chair.
01:10:53.400 I'll read quickly before I vacate the chair.
01:11:24.080 And Maminka says, yes, don't go along with the lie.
01:11:26.740 No excuses.
01:11:27.460 Even those who are not capable of fighting the evil can do their part.
01:11:30.260 Well said, Ezra.
01:11:31.200 Well, thank you.
01:11:31.820 Of course, it wasn't said by me.
01:11:32.880 It was said by Solzhenitsyn.
01:11:34.620 I'm repeating it, and I think that's important.
01:11:36.500 We have to repeat and remember these things.
01:11:40.280 You know, two years ago or three years ago, I did a whole show,
01:11:45.400 maybe the whole live stream, on the book Red Color News Soldier.
01:11:50.240 Do you want to put a copy of that book cover?
01:11:53.500 Red Color, C-O-L-O-R, News Soldier.
01:11:57.440 That's a weird title, isn't it?
01:11:59.140 But that was this, Red Color was Communist, News Soldier.
01:12:03.440 That's his book.
01:12:08.160 I bought that book in Hong Kong when I was there some 15 years ago.
01:12:14.200 I would not be safe to go back there now, and I don't even know if this book would be publishable.
01:12:20.020 Now, show some of the images.
01:12:21.040 Click the, so you show the book cover.
01:12:22.840 So, go back a page, and then click Images.
01:12:27.460 So, you're on the Amazon page, but go back to the Google search and click Images.
01:12:30.980 And look at those images.
01:12:32.400 These are the Red Guard and the Cultural Revolution and the Struggle Sessions and the Jailing of Dissidents.
01:12:43.200 And I want to show you what I regard as the most terrifying photo of them all.
01:12:54.400 I'm going to put it in Slack.
01:12:57.300 And I know that we did a whole show on this, but it was a few years ago, and people might forget.
01:13:01.420 So, there's a book, red-colornewssoldier.com.
01:13:06.340 Anyway, I just sent you the link, Olivia.
01:13:09.340 And there's one photo in particular I want to show you.
01:13:12.060 Feel free to put it on the screen, because even getting to there will be interesting.
01:13:17.660 We really should re-up that.
01:13:19.300 Anyway, I brought the book home.
01:13:20.920 I was showing it to my family.
01:13:24.900 So, click that link.
01:13:27.700 It's taking forever to load.
01:13:29.500 It's, I wonder if I can send you a different link.
01:13:36.920 I don't know if I can.
01:13:40.880 All right.
01:13:41.420 I'm going to send you a different version of it.
01:13:44.160 I'm going to actually just going to copy the image and send it to you.
01:13:50.640 I just sent it to you in Slack.
01:13:52.920 So, the actual image.
01:13:54.580 This is not a very high-res version, but you see it in Slack there now.
01:14:00.420 Yeah.
01:14:00.780 So, what is this?
01:14:08.000 You see a man being overpowered by what looks like military or police.
01:14:13.780 But what's he doing?
01:14:14.740 What's in his hand?
01:14:15.720 What's in his mouth?
01:14:16.920 This was a show trial, a sham trial.
01:14:21.960 He has something around his neck.
01:14:23.840 There's another photo of him.
01:14:24.840 It's a confession, a forced confession that he was like a capitalist running dog or he wasn't sufficiently obedient to Mao or something.
01:14:33.600 So, what's with his mouth?
01:14:35.880 Well, he was protesting his innocence.
01:14:41.680 He wasn't going along with the show trial.
01:14:44.060 He wasn't playing his scripted role.
01:14:46.200 He was saying, no, no, I'm not guilty.
01:14:47.960 Here's why.
01:14:48.620 Well, that doesn't work very well.
01:14:51.300 You've got to apologize and take your punishment.
01:14:54.340 So, they stuffed, I think it was a glove in his mouth to shut him up.
01:14:59.980 They stuffed a glove in his mouth to shut him up.
01:15:03.540 And Mao killed more people in raw numbers than anyone else in world history.
01:15:10.900 Depending on the source of statistics, between 50 million and 85 million of his fellow countrymen.
01:15:17.380 That's more than Hitler killed.
01:15:18.980 That's more than Stalin killed.
01:15:21.220 Depending on the sources, 85 million of his fellow countrymen.
01:15:28.920 Incredible.
01:15:29.660 There was a larger killer in terms of percentage of the world population.
01:15:34.200 In medieval times, someone named Tamerlane.
01:15:36.860 But we'll have to leave that for another day.
01:15:40.480 I tell you that because you say, you know, you refer to the Solzhenitsyn quote.
01:15:45.320 That's 50 years old now.
01:15:47.380 And these red-colored new soldier photos are from the late 60s, early 70s.
01:15:55.880 That's more than 55 years old now.
01:15:59.360 And, of course, the Holocaust itself is 80 years old now.
01:16:03.220 80, 85 years old now.
01:16:05.320 So, there's really no one alive from back then.
01:16:07.500 If you were 15 years old in 1945, you would have been born in 1930.
01:16:13.840 So, you would be 93 years old now.
01:16:16.420 That's how old Gene Hackman is, by the way.
01:16:19.020 You'd be 93 years old.
01:16:20.820 So, there are some people.
01:16:22.300 There are some people who were teenagers.
01:16:24.680 There might be some people who are 100 years old who were adults during the Holocaust.
01:16:32.340 But not a lot.
01:16:37.000 And soon, the generation of Chinese people who survived the Cultural Revolution will die off, too.
01:16:42.620 And soon, we'll only have memories, not eyewitnesses to testify.
01:16:48.780 And would it not be beneficial to all to learn from history rather than to be ignorant of it and condemned to repeat it?
01:16:58.420 I think so.
01:16:58.940 Well, that's our show for today.
01:17:02.840 I'll be back tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Mountain to talk about Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party
01:17:10.060 and what a psychologist would call projection, projecting their sins on you and me.
01:17:18.180 I think we're going to close with a video from our friend Callum Smiles.
01:17:21.480 I'll see you tonight.
01:17:23.220 Goodbye, everybody.
01:17:24.360 And check out this video from Callum.
01:17:26.580 This is Callum Smiles for Apple News.
01:17:28.560 It was here in The Hague the day before the Dutch farmers' protest.
01:17:32.980 Now, Rebel News have covered these protests before.
01:17:35.360 And as the Dutch government aren't budging an inch, we've come back here to cover it once again.
01:17:41.180 And we have to be here because the mainstream media will most likely paint a government-positive narrative
01:17:47.260 as Mark Rutter has his lackeys in the mainstream media.
01:17:51.500 So you can stay tuned to everything we're doing here in The Hague as the Dutch protest happens tomorrow
01:17:57.200 at farmerrebellion.com.
01:17:59.660 Stay tuned and I'll see you then.