Rebel News Podcast - January 05, 2022


EZRA LEVANT ｜ A left-wing CBC insider says the place has gone absolutely nuts — I’ll read to you from her amazing resignation letter


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

156.86128

Word Count

5,624

Sentence Count

178

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

A longtime left-wing journalist resigns from the CBC. She says it s just too woke, obsessed with race, and my favorite criticism, she says the CBC has warmed over student journalism. I think she s right on all those points. I ll take you through it, and then I ll interview our Rebel, Matt Brevner, about his new song.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I'm going to take you through an extraordinary resignation letter
00:00:04.480 by a longtime left-wing CBC journalist who just can't stand working there anymore.
00:00:10.540 She says it's just too woke. It's obsessed with race.
00:00:13.460 And my favorite criticism, she says the CBC has really warmed over student journalism.
00:00:18.120 It's that juvenile. I think she's right on all those points.
00:00:21.340 I'll take you through it, and then I'll especially interview with our Rebel, Matt Brevner.
00:00:25.140 He's got a new song out, a musical creation. We've got an artist in our ranks. I don't know if you know.
00:00:32.020 That's all ahead. I really want to invite you to become a Rebel News Plus subscriber
00:00:35.880 because today's show, I want you to see Matt Brevner's new video.
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00:00:54.880 Thanks.
00:00:55.900 Tonight, a left-wing CBC insider says the place has gone absolutely nuts.
00:01:01.720 I'll read to you from her amazing resignation letter.
00:01:05.080 It's January 4th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:09.300 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:13.080 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:16.700 The only thing I have to say to the government, the why I'm publishing,
00:01:20.940 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:24.880 I honestly never heard of Tara Henley before.
00:01:30.800 Apparently, she's been a CBC journalist, a reporter, and producer for nine years.
00:01:36.360 Then again, the CBC has 7,500 staff.
00:01:39.620 You can't be expected to know them all.
00:01:42.040 Here is her official CBC biography page, which I'm slightly surprised that they haven't deleted yet.
00:01:53.340 So she's a real person, and it reads like you'd expect it to read.
00:01:57.960 Here, let me just read to you from one of her stories at the CBC.
00:02:01.700 This one goes,
00:02:04.080 I never set out to make a radio doc about my private crisis,
00:02:10.520 about staring down 40 and being single and childless and baffled by my life.
00:02:16.740 I didn't even really want to talk about it with family and friends.
00:02:20.620 So if you told me six months ago that I'd produce something this personal,
00:02:25.340 I wouldn't have believed you.
00:02:27.480 But here's the thing.
00:02:30.280 Sometimes you don't go looking for a story.
00:02:33.080 Sometimes a story finds you.
00:02:36.380 So it's the usual, a CBC reporter who thinks she's the most interesting story there is.
00:02:42.740 It's always about them, isn't it?
00:02:44.280 I don't think she meant it that way,
00:02:46.200 but to me it reads like an anti-feminist letter of regret.
00:02:50.580 Here, I'll read it some more.
00:02:51.760 In the year or so leading up to my 39th birthday,
00:02:56.080 I kept winding up in coffee shops with women my age,
00:03:00.700 having the same conversation over and over again.
00:03:04.060 Everywhere I turned, there were smart, successful women
00:03:07.580 who hadn't found a partner or a family life
00:03:11.160 and felt like time was running out.
00:03:13.960 Acquaintances, friends, colleagues, it didn't seem to matter.
00:03:17.680 Give them a cup of coffee at half an hour,
00:03:20.420 and they'd inevitably open up about this 39th problem.
00:03:25.500 They all articulated the same frustration.
00:03:28.060 As daughters of this feminist revolution,
00:03:30.640 we'd been told that we didn't need to seek out marriage and motherhood.
00:03:34.940 Our job was to go to school, get a career, fulfill our potential.
00:03:39.360 The rest would fall into place.
00:03:41.840 Spoiler alert, she's unhappy.
00:03:44.040 Now, I'm not picking on her.
00:03:45.140 I'm just telling you what her work was like at the CBC.
00:03:51.520 Solipsistic, leftist, trendy.
00:03:54.860 The kind of thing that you and I might put in a private diary
00:03:57.820 or on a Facebook page just for our friends and family.
00:04:01.020 We would never presume that we could earn a living
00:04:04.000 complaining about our personal lives and our choices
00:04:07.280 and getting paid handsomely by taxpayers
00:04:10.320 to do things the private sector wouldn't report on.
00:04:13.980 I mean, that's the whole rationale for the CBC.
00:04:17.400 We have to pay them to do this work because no one else would do it.
00:04:20.320 Yeah.
00:04:20.780 So an absolutely representative CBCer, wouldn't you say?
00:04:25.320 So why would someone like that,
00:04:28.640 who really gets to run a feminist blog for a living
00:04:31.720 at taxpayers' expense,
00:04:34.620 why would she quit a job for life
00:04:37.240 in a burst of fury?
00:04:40.500 Because that's exactly what she did yesterday.
00:04:44.720 You take a look at this.
00:04:47.380 Speaking freely.
00:04:49.220 When I resign from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
00:04:53.500 I like how it starts, eh?
00:04:55.260 I'll admit this much.
00:04:56.720 The woman can write.
00:04:58.100 Or maybe I just like reading what she has to say.
00:05:01.720 I'll read some.
00:05:03.060 For months now, I've been getting complaints
00:05:05.380 about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
00:05:07.540 where I've worked as a TV and radio producer
00:05:10.080 and occasional on-air columnist
00:05:12.300 for much of the past decade.
00:05:14.380 People want to know why, for example,
00:05:17.420 non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog
00:05:24.180 is an editorial priority for the CBC
00:05:26.720 when local issues of broad concern go unreported.
00:05:30.680 Or why our pop culture radio show's coverage
00:05:35.620 of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special
00:05:37.920 failed to include any of the legions of fans
00:05:41.780 or comics that did not find it offensive.
00:05:45.880 Or why exactly taxpayers should be funding articles
00:05:49.920 that scold Canadians for using words
00:05:52.640 such as brainstorm and lame.
00:05:55.920 Everyone asks the same thing.
00:05:58.460 What is going on at the CBC?
00:06:01.700 That's just great.
00:06:03.760 That last reference, by the way,
00:06:06.200 it was to this story here,
00:06:08.660 this unintentionally hilarious news report
00:06:11.580 about how staff at the CBC brainstorm
00:06:14.900 a list of 18 words you shouldn't use.
00:06:17.640 That's what they do over there at CBC News.
00:06:21.540 They come up with a list of words that they didn't like.
00:06:25.100 And then they interviewed experts
00:06:27.220 on why those words should not be used anymore.
00:06:30.200 You'll recall I did a show on that hilarious story.
00:06:33.320 Anyways, here's what Tara Henley had to say about that.
00:06:37.340 I'll read a bit.
00:06:37.800 When I started at the National Public Broadcaster in 2013,
00:06:43.760 the network produced some of the best journalism in the country.
00:06:47.960 By the time I resigned last month,
00:06:50.060 it embodied some of the worst trends in mainstream media.
00:06:53.540 In a short period of time,
00:06:55.020 the CBC went from being a trusted source of news
00:06:58.220 to churning out clickbait
00:07:00.100 that reads like a parody of the student press.
00:07:03.520 Hey, that is so true.
00:07:05.000 I mean, that article about bad words,
00:07:08.920 words I really, really don't like,
00:07:11.560 that's the kind of thing you'd expect
00:07:13.700 to see in a childish student newspaper
00:07:16.840 by someone who just got a piercing
00:07:19.240 or a tattoo to make their parents mad,
00:07:23.240 but still takes their laundry home on weekends
00:07:25.440 for their mom to do.
00:07:26.400 Like, it's just so childish
00:07:27.820 that the CBC's doing that.
00:07:30.660 And this part of her resignation letter
00:07:32.780 was really something.
00:07:33.620 Let me quote a bit more.
00:07:35.880 Those of us on the inside
00:07:38.220 know just how swiftly and how dramatically
00:07:40.680 the politics of the public broadcaster have shifted.
00:07:44.160 It used to be that I was the one furthest to the left
00:07:48.060 in any newsroom,
00:07:49.760 occasionally causing strain in story meetings
00:07:53.320 with my views on issues like the housing crisis.
00:07:56.600 I am now easily the most conservative,
00:07:59.820 frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics.
00:08:05.400 This happened in the span of about 18 months.
00:08:09.260 My own politics did not change.
00:08:12.660 That's quite something.
00:08:14.120 She says she was the most left-wing person in the newsroom a decade ago.
00:08:18.420 Now she's the most right-wing and she didn't do any changing.
00:08:22.920 Now don't let me slow down.
00:08:26.320 I'll read some more.
00:08:27.620 To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance
00:08:33.500 and to abandon journalistic integrity.
00:08:36.720 It is to sign on enthusiastically to a radical political agenda
00:08:41.340 that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States
00:08:46.360 and spread through American social media platforms
00:08:49.060 that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions.
00:08:52.940 It is to pretend that the woke worldview is near universal,
00:08:58.120 even if it is far from popular with those you know
00:09:00.620 and speak to and interview and read.
00:09:03.700 Hey, don't blame America, sister.
00:09:06.280 Political correctness is just as much a Canadian problem
00:09:09.540 as it is in America.
00:09:11.080 Here's the key line in her whole thing.
00:09:12.920 Look at this.
00:09:14.900 To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea
00:09:17.540 that race is the most significant thing about a person
00:09:21.100 and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others.
00:09:25.480 It is in my newsroom to fill out racial profile forms
00:09:31.640 for every guest you book,
00:09:33.920 to actively book more people of some races and less of others.
00:09:38.540 To work at the CBC is to submit to job interviews
00:09:41.220 that are not about qualifications or experience,
00:09:43.840 but instead demand the parroting of orthodoxies,
00:09:46.920 the demonstration of fealty to dogma.
00:09:49.100 It is to become less adversarial to government and corporations
00:09:53.360 and more hostile to ordinary people with ideas that Twitter doesn't like.
00:09:58.800 Can you believe it?
00:10:00.720 They fill out forms racially profiling the people they invite on their shows.
00:10:06.740 How gross is that?
00:10:08.300 By the way, what if someone is mixed race?
00:10:10.920 You know, half white, half black, or something like that.
00:10:14.140 Now, what if they merely identify as black but are really white,
00:10:17.840 like Sean King or Rachel Dolezal?
00:10:20.860 What if they simply refuse to answer such a rude question?
00:10:25.300 I mean, do you have to guess about their race if they won't tell you?
00:10:28.720 There are light-skinned black people and dark-skinned white people.
00:10:32.720 Do they have some sort of color swatch at the CBC
00:10:35.680 that they hold up to the person's photo to figure them out?
00:10:38.380 Imagine being booked for an interview and being asked about your race.
00:10:42.340 Would you go through with such an interview?
00:10:44.980 I wonder if it matters, though,
00:10:46.860 if they're interviewing people who are privileged or working class.
00:10:51.020 That seems to be a real thing, a real divide, don't you think?
00:10:54.420 More real than the color of someone's eyes or skin.
00:10:58.440 There are many black millionaires.
00:11:00.240 Do you think they need a leg up?
00:11:02.380 Anyone with a PhD is obviously privileged enough
00:11:05.040 to spend 10 years at a university.
00:11:07.260 Are they hard done by in 2022?
00:11:10.220 There are white working class people.
00:11:14.200 That elitism divide is probably a greater factor
00:11:17.740 as to someone's role in Canadian society
00:11:20.200 than their race, to be honest.
00:11:21.720 I mean, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver are majority minority cities.
00:11:25.220 As in, most people are not white.
00:11:27.840 It's no longer a thing to have a minority as a CEO
00:11:31.640 or a politician or someone in high society.
00:11:36.880 You know, urban, rural, rich, poor,
00:11:39.100 higher education versus high school education,
00:11:41.940 trades versus professions.
00:11:43.500 That's the real divide.
00:11:45.200 I don't think the real divide is on race anymore.
00:11:47.500 And I don't think it's really solving it
00:11:49.060 by being super racist yourself.
00:11:51.800 Is the goal diversity?
00:11:53.480 Is that the goal?
00:11:54.940 Or is it just plain old racism?
00:11:56.880 Tara Henley would say it's just plain racism
00:12:01.260 or even just being bitter and aggrieved.
00:12:06.040 I'll read some more.
00:12:07.140 It is to endlessly document microaggressions,
00:12:10.000 but pay little attention to evictions,
00:12:12.920 to spotlight companies' political platitudes,
00:12:15.640 but have little interest in wages or working conditions.
00:12:18.920 It is to allow sweeping societal changes
00:12:21.460 like lockdowns, vaccine mandates,
00:12:23.760 and school closures to roll out with little debate,
00:12:26.860 to see billionaires amass extraordinary wealth
00:12:29.600 and bureaucrats amass enormous power
00:12:31.700 with little scrutiny,
00:12:33.600 and to watch the most vulnerable amongst us
00:12:36.040 die of drug overdoses with little comment.
00:12:38.980 It is to consent to the idea
00:12:40.740 that a growing list of subjects are off the table,
00:12:43.560 the dialogue itself can be harmful,
00:12:46.020 that the big issues of our time are already settled.
00:12:49.420 It is to capitulate to certainty,
00:12:52.600 to shut down critical thinking,
00:12:54.200 to stamp out curiosity,
00:12:55.640 to keep one's mouth shut,
00:12:57.340 to not ask questions,
00:12:58.440 to not rock the boat.
00:13:00.400 This, while the world burns.
00:13:02.780 Wow!
00:13:03.580 She actually expressed some doubt
00:13:05.620 about forced vaccines,
00:13:07.520 or at least an interest in a debate
00:13:09.880 about that subject and other things,
00:13:12.240 like the establishment's love for billionaires
00:13:15.680 and big pharma.
00:13:17.540 This woman says she hasn't moved to the right,
00:13:20.820 and perhaps I believe her,
00:13:22.520 those used to be things that leftists cared about.
00:13:26.100 Not anymore.
00:13:26.740 Let me read some more.
00:13:28.120 How could good journalism
00:13:30.060 possibly be done under such conditions?
00:13:32.640 How could any of this possibly be healthy for society?
00:13:36.440 All of this raises larger questions
00:13:38.300 of the direction that North America is headed,
00:13:41.060 questions about this new moment
00:13:42.640 we are living through,
00:13:44.080 and its impact on the body politic
00:13:45.740 of class divisions
00:13:47.360 and economic inequality,
00:13:49.180 on education,
00:13:50.220 on mental health,
00:13:51.100 on literature,
00:13:52.020 on comedy,
00:13:52.680 on science,
00:13:53.440 on liberalism and democracy.
00:13:55.100 These questions keep me up at night.
00:13:57.960 I can no longer push them down.
00:14:00.280 I will no longer hold them back.
00:14:02.380 This Substack is an attempt
00:14:03.960 to find some answers.
00:14:06.680 I won't read the rest.
00:14:07.700 Substack, by the way,
00:14:08.660 is a publishing site.
00:14:09.700 It's like a little blog,
00:14:11.220 a bit like an email system,
00:14:12.480 so she's apparently starting one of those.
00:14:16.600 I think I'm going to follow her, you know?
00:14:18.560 I'll do more than that.
00:14:20.220 I think I'm going to invite her on
00:14:21.340 as a guest to the show,
00:14:22.500 and who knows if she would accept,
00:14:24.580 maybe even,
00:14:26.720 I know this is nuts,
00:14:27.640 maybe to have her as a contributor
00:14:29.340 from time to time.
00:14:31.800 I don't think we need more leftists
00:14:33.280 in the media,
00:14:33.720 and she describes herself as a leftist.
00:14:35.760 There are already 7,499 of them
00:14:38.260 still left at the CBC,
00:14:40.300 but if she really believes
00:14:42.420 in diversity of opinion
00:14:43.680 and following the facts
00:14:45.040 where they lead
00:14:45.740 and asking tough questions
00:14:47.840 about things
00:14:48.300 and having a debate,
00:14:49.180 you know,
00:14:49.860 maybe
00:14:51.000 she might actually be a rebel after all.
00:14:56.180 Stay with us for more.
00:14:57.180 I can't help but look around
00:15:16.560 and feel like things
00:15:17.300 are getting out of hand
00:15:18.780 We've been told to trust the science,
00:15:22.480 but the science
00:15:23.100 just doesn't make sense
00:15:24.680 They say it isn't mandatory,
00:15:28.100 but they also say
00:15:28.960 you jabber your job
00:15:30.120 But if it doesn't stop the spread,
00:15:33.580 it makes you feel like
00:15:34.360 this is just a facade
00:15:35.660 What about the healthcare workers?
00:15:40.280 What about the frontline nurses?
00:15:42.200 How quickly we forget
00:15:44.760 that they were working
00:15:45.600 18 hours a day
00:15:46.940 What about informed consent?
00:15:51.580 What about due diligence?
00:15:54.440 It seems the country
00:15:55.520 that I used to call home
00:15:56.800 is surely slipping away
00:15:58.180 Well, that is an excerpt
00:16:01.300 from an amazing new music video
00:16:03.040 made, incredibly,
00:16:04.680 by one of our rebels.
00:16:06.840 Matt Brevner is a journalist
00:16:08.420 in our B.C. Bureau
00:16:09.980 And that's his rap video.
00:16:12.240 I don't know if rap
00:16:12.900 is the right phrase.
00:16:13.700 I think it's beautiful.
00:16:14.580 Joining us now
00:16:15.220 via Skype from Vancouver
00:16:16.200 is Matt Brevner.
00:16:17.520 Matt, great to see you again.
00:16:19.320 Thank you so much
00:16:20.200 for having me on the program.
00:16:21.780 It's a pleasure.
00:16:23.080 Well, you know,
00:16:23.740 I've watched that whole video.
00:16:25.480 You gave us a sneak preview
00:16:27.020 at our Christmas party
00:16:28.620 and the whole room
00:16:29.440 was shocked.
00:16:30.640 I mean, you work for us
00:16:32.580 as a journalist.
00:16:33.480 You cover the news.
00:16:34.600 You're a cameraman.
00:16:35.540 You're an editor.
00:16:36.120 You're on screen sometimes.
00:16:37.700 I sort of forgot.
00:16:39.920 You know how to sing.
00:16:41.900 That's actually
00:16:42.720 your first profession.
00:16:44.660 You're a singer.
00:16:46.780 Yeah, it's my history.
00:16:49.380 That's actually how
00:16:49.920 I came to Rebel
00:16:50.980 was my music pass
00:16:53.240 and getting canceled
00:16:55.960 a year and a half ago
00:16:56.920 or whatever that means now
00:16:58.240 and I spent kind of
00:17:00.140 the last year
00:17:00.760 hiding behind the camera
00:17:01.980 and ducking my past career
00:17:05.060 but I felt like
00:17:06.280 there was a lack of artists
00:17:07.900 speaking out against
00:17:08.920 what's happening right now
00:17:10.100 and you would hope
00:17:11.180 that the arts would be
00:17:12.100 the first line of defense
00:17:13.620 for this sort of thing
00:17:15.100 and I just felt like
00:17:16.060 I had to write about it.
00:17:17.540 I'm so glad you did
00:17:18.720 and it's a good point
00:17:20.020 because artists
00:17:20.960 require gatherings.
00:17:23.060 I mean, sure,
00:17:23.620 you can stream
00:17:24.780 and be digital only
00:17:26.060 but a lot of artists
00:17:27.460 get started
00:17:28.480 hard work
00:17:30.000 in a small club
00:17:31.000 at a small venue
00:17:32.040 heck, even at a wedding
00:17:33.380 or a bar mitzvah
00:17:34.300 I mean, to pay the bills
00:17:35.420 to get some exposure
00:17:37.020 to get some experience
00:17:38.020 and when you shut down
00:17:39.660 every theater
00:17:40.460 every concert venue
00:17:41.580 every gathering
00:17:42.720 every cycle of life event
00:17:44.580 I think a lot of times
00:17:47.160 we think about
00:17:47.740 the restaurant
00:17:48.680 or the hotel
00:17:49.460 but we don't think
00:17:50.240 about the artists.
00:17:50.960 I think artists
00:17:51.920 have been devastated
00:17:52.780 in the last two years.
00:17:54.880 Well, it's not only
00:17:55.900 not being able to tour
00:17:56.960 there's been a muzzling
00:17:59.160 especially of Canadian artists
00:18:00.880 because so many Canadian artists
00:18:02.200 are fully dependent
00:18:03.860 on the Canadian grant program
00:18:05.520 so if you step out
00:18:08.040 of the line of that
00:18:08.760 you don't get funded
00:18:10.800 and if you don't get funded
00:18:11.800 you can't pay your rent
00:18:14.620 and it's difficult
00:18:16.220 as a musician
00:18:16.820 even with streams
00:18:18.380 you know, a million streams
00:18:19.760 will pay you about $4,500
00:18:20.920 and that's straight
00:18:23.680 to the label
00:18:24.240 not including
00:18:25.040 the labels cut
00:18:25.900 publishing
00:18:26.480 all expenses
00:18:27.640 so you know
00:18:28.900 an artist could be
00:18:29.700 clocking millions of streams
00:18:30.940 on your favorite platform
00:18:32.420 and in fact
00:18:33.260 still be, you know
00:18:34.060 hard-pressed to get by
00:18:36.000 so
00:18:36.440 You know, you mentioned
00:18:38.600 censorship
00:18:39.640 when we have to live
00:18:40.680 our life virtually
00:18:41.820 when we don't live
00:18:43.260 our life in real life
00:18:44.700 then there is always
00:18:46.000 that middleman
00:18:46.720 and it's a censor
00:18:48.280 quite often
00:18:48.880 I don't want to live
00:18:49.720 in the metaverse
00:18:50.600 I want to live
00:18:51.600 in the real universe
00:18:52.700 and just before
00:18:53.920 we turn the camera on
00:18:54.780 you were telling me
00:18:55.560 that because your video
00:18:57.220 takes a contrarian
00:18:58.540 point of view
00:18:59.120 to the master narrative
00:19:00.800 about the pandemic
00:19:01.680 and the vaccines
00:19:02.500 that you had some problem
00:19:04.660 promoting it online
00:19:06.180 obviously a big tech algorithm
00:19:09.580 censoring it
00:19:10.400 like they would censor a tweet
00:19:11.660 tell our viewers
00:19:12.680 a little bit about
00:19:13.700 this new kind of throttling
00:19:16.260 that you saw
00:19:17.140 on this music video
00:19:18.200 Yeah, this is the first time
00:19:20.060 anything like this
00:19:20.720 has happened to me
00:19:21.360 and this is developing
00:19:22.240 literally in the last
00:19:23.180 the last 30 minutes
00:19:24.280 but typically
00:19:25.100 in an industry standard
00:19:27.080 music video rollout
00:19:28.400 you would run a Google
00:19:29.700 AdWords program
00:19:30.660 and a pre-roll
00:19:31.980 and you would market
00:19:32.940 the song to
00:19:33.640 like-minded people
00:19:34.800 or people that
00:19:35.540 have similar
00:19:36.320 musical interests
00:19:37.320 and that's
00:19:38.820 very essential
00:19:40.240 in getting the message
00:19:41.360 out there
00:19:41.800 and getting it
00:19:42.340 to not only
00:19:42.920 your fans
00:19:44.080 but new fans
00:19:44.860 and Google
00:19:46.060 blocked the video
00:19:47.100 they won't let me
00:19:47.820 promote it
00:19:48.320 so unfortunately
00:19:49.920 if you know
00:19:51.060 if we want to get
00:19:51.620 the message out there
00:19:52.440 and we want people
00:19:53.160 to hear it
00:19:53.600 it's just going to
00:19:54.100 take some
00:19:54.540 some grassroots
00:19:55.320 sharing and liking
00:19:56.740 and sending to friends
00:19:57.940 because
00:19:58.340 yeah obviously
00:20:00.100 big tech doesn't
00:20:00.880 want this message
00:20:01.400 to get out
00:20:01.840 it sounds a little bit
00:20:02.560 cliche at this point
00:20:03.460 but it's the reality
00:20:04.520 and I'm looking
00:20:05.800 at my ads manager
00:20:06.960 and my Facebook manager
00:20:07.960 right now
00:20:08.380 and they won't
00:20:09.180 let me promote it
00:20:09.900 so I'm not sure
00:20:11.000 actually who's actually
00:20:11.820 seeing the video
00:20:12.980 but if you are
00:20:14.020 seeing it
00:20:14.600 and you like it
00:20:16.080 I would just
00:20:16.540 leave a comment
00:20:17.480 and like
00:20:17.960 and whatever else
00:20:18.620 so I can know
00:20:20.000 but it's going to
00:20:20.740 make it tricky
00:20:21.200 to promote it
00:20:21.900 to be honest
00:20:22.720 well you know
00:20:24.360 we've dealt with that
00:20:25.100 of course on the news side
00:20:26.400 we've been
00:20:27.080 blocked and throttled
00:20:29.480 and downranked
00:20:30.400 by Google
00:20:30.940 it's just shocking
00:20:32.260 but not surprising
00:20:33.140 that they've applied
00:20:33.800 that to artistic
00:20:35.240 and creative endeavors
00:20:37.140 like music
00:20:37.720 you say Google blocked
00:20:38.860 what are the other
00:20:40.060 platforms
00:20:40.900 you've put it on
00:20:42.280 I mean there's
00:20:42.860 there's different ways
00:20:43.940 to get music out there
00:20:45.020 I like the video format
00:20:46.440 but a lot of folks
00:20:47.660 listen just to the audio
00:20:48.920 where else is your song
00:20:50.960 right now
00:20:51.480 well currently
00:20:52.880 the song is on a platform
00:20:54.360 called Van Camp
00:20:55.460 and the reason why
00:20:56.280 I decided to release it
00:20:57.260 with Van Camp
00:20:57.860 rather than Spotify
00:20:59.080 or Apple Music
00:20:59.960 immediately
00:21:00.460 is because they have
00:21:01.800 a pretty amazing
00:21:02.740 platform set up
00:21:03.520 where people can
00:21:04.100 download your song
00:21:04.860 for free
00:21:05.320 or they can pay
00:21:06.520 what they want
00:21:06.980 to donate
00:21:07.480 and get the download
00:21:08.940 so whether that's
00:21:09.580 a penny or a dollar
00:21:10.640 or whatever they want
00:21:11.860 and that goes
00:21:13.020 basically
00:21:13.780 after some service fees
00:21:15.620 basically goes directly
00:21:16.620 to the artist
00:21:17.180 so you know
00:21:18.240 it really goes
00:21:19.660 a long way
00:21:20.600 if you're going out
00:21:22.000 of your way
00:21:22.340 to pre-save
00:21:22.940 the Spotify link
00:21:24.220 share the Spotify link
00:21:25.360 you could play that song
00:21:26.340 a thousand times
00:21:27.080 and the artist
00:21:27.480 might not even see
00:21:28.180 a dollar off of it
00:21:29.020 so this way
00:21:30.580 you know
00:21:31.100 I figured it would be
00:21:32.400 a good way
00:21:32.800 to kind of bypass
00:21:33.500 the system
00:21:34.700 in a sense
00:21:35.440 this whole rollout
00:21:36.360 is going to be
00:21:36.780 a counter-cultural rollout
00:21:38.000 and I was expecting
00:21:38.660 that to happen
00:21:39.260 and I'm actually
00:21:40.080 excited by it
00:21:40.860 so if you like
00:21:42.000 the song
00:21:42.480 and you want to
00:21:43.000 you know
00:21:43.400 contribute to me
00:21:44.360 and my grassroot
00:21:45.320 marketing efforts
00:21:46.360 directly
00:21:46.920 you can go to
00:21:48.060 Brevner.com
00:21:49.080 and follow the
00:21:50.520 band camp link
00:21:51.120 and get the song
00:21:51.920 there
00:21:52.220 Brevner.com
00:21:53.400 B-R-E-V-N-E-R
00:21:55.720 dot com
00:21:56.240 of course
00:21:56.600 Matt Brevner
00:21:57.320 is the artist
00:21:58.460 well listen
00:21:59.020 I'm very excited
00:21:59.740 about this
00:22:00.320 sometimes these
00:22:01.980 counter-cultural
00:22:03.520 I'm not even going
00:22:04.100 to call it
00:22:04.480 counter-culture
00:22:05.040 because it's
00:22:07.020 authentic culture
00:22:08.700 in response
00:22:09.940 to the
00:22:10.520 manufactured
00:22:11.760 narrative
00:22:12.400 of advertorials
00:22:14.300 I saw the other day
00:22:15.080 all these
00:22:16.180 late night
00:22:16.920 comedians
00:22:17.820 ran the exact
00:22:19.240 same
00:22:19.800 sponsored content
00:22:21.320 by Google
00:22:22.440 and YouTube
00:22:22.920 and it was
00:22:23.860 sort of a mashup
00:22:24.820 of like
00:22:25.580 five different
00:22:26.880 late night
00:22:27.400 comedians
00:22:28.040 who actually
00:22:28.920 have the same
00:22:29.500 jokes
00:22:30.180 and it was all
00:22:31.000 brought to you
00:22:31.760 by Google
00:22:32.460 and that's
00:22:34.160 not mainstream
00:22:35.060 content
00:22:35.640 that's corporate
00:22:37.500 PR
00:22:38.340 and
00:22:39.660 I think
00:22:41.140 sometimes
00:22:41.820 an authentic
00:22:42.760 grassroots person
00:22:43.820 can fight back
00:22:44.500 in the states
00:22:44.980 let's go
00:22:45.780 Brandon
00:22:46.320 some songs
00:22:48.440 with that
00:22:49.020 in their name
00:22:50.120 have zoomed up
00:22:51.300 as a way
00:22:51.640 people fighting
00:22:52.420 back against
00:22:53.120 the corporate
00:22:53.620 message
00:22:54.000 I'm hopeful
00:22:55.420 that your song
00:22:56.280 could do the
00:22:57.320 same thing
00:22:57.880 I mean if it
00:22:58.380 catches on
00:22:58.980 I think there's
00:22:59.500 millions of
00:23:00.260 Canadians and
00:23:00.880 Americans and
00:23:01.600 people anywhere
00:23:02.180 around the
00:23:02.660 world
00:23:02.840 who would
00:23:03.420 say yeah
00:23:03.860 I'm going
00:23:04.200 to listen
00:23:04.480 to that
00:23:05.020 it could
00:23:05.840 happen
00:23:06.280 well I hope
00:23:07.940 it inspires
00:23:08.540 people to
00:23:09.060 just have
00:23:09.380 conversations
00:23:09.980 with one
00:23:10.420 another
00:23:10.680 because
00:23:11.140 something I
00:23:12.300 really noticed
00:23:12.880 is a big
00:23:13.980 public sentiment
00:23:14.860 shift
00:23:15.520 and the cracks
00:23:16.500 are starting
00:23:16.900 to show
00:23:17.360 in the narrative
00:23:18.260 especially over
00:23:19.100 the Christmas
00:23:19.560 break where
00:23:20.120 people who
00:23:21.160 you know
00:23:21.440 they trust
00:23:21.840 their government
00:23:22.300 they trust
00:23:22.780 the news
00:23:23.320 they've just
00:23:24.600 been doing
00:23:24.980 what they've
00:23:25.340 been told
00:23:25.800 over the past
00:23:26.420 couple years
00:23:26.960 and it's
00:23:28.200 still not enough
00:23:28.940 so people are
00:23:29.780 starting to get
00:23:30.320 fed up
00:23:30.780 I just hope
00:23:32.160 that something
00:23:32.680 like this
00:23:33.240 like the way
00:23:33.960 the song's
00:23:34.320 packaged I
00:23:34.780 wanted it to
00:23:35.320 be moderate
00:23:35.900 and just speak
00:23:37.000 to questions
00:23:37.480 that everybody's
00:23:38.160 having reasonable
00:23:38.880 questions that
00:23:39.620 we can't even
00:23:40.180 have any ask
00:23:41.000 anymore and I
00:23:42.040 hope it inspires
00:23:42.640 people to have
00:23:43.220 you know these
00:23:44.260 similar conversations
00:23:45.200 even pipe up a
00:23:46.020 little bit with
00:23:46.460 people they love
00:23:47.220 or friends or
00:23:48.360 family or whatever
00:23:49.140 and you know
00:23:50.020 that's I believe
00:23:51.060 that's the way
00:23:51.500 we're really going
00:23:51.980 to get over
00:23:52.480 all this mess
00:23:54.040 well that's very
00:23:55.120 exciting I'm very
00:23:56.100 hopeful tell me a
00:23:57.300 little bit about
00:23:57.720 the title of the
00:23:58.620 song the name of it
00:23:59.540 how did you come up
00:24:00.180 with that
00:24:00.560 sure I mean
00:24:02.700 it's a lot of
00:24:04.760 the footage was
00:24:05.420 gathered by just
00:24:06.760 Drea and I out
00:24:08.140 at Vancouver
00:24:08.640 protests or BC
00:24:09.680 protests over this
00:24:10.700 past year and
00:24:11.720 it's it's it's
00:24:14.420 crazy especially
00:24:15.180 I remember the
00:24:16.060 major one and then
00:24:17.240 the summer in front
00:24:17.780 of City Hall and
00:24:18.460 just the thousands
00:24:19.080 of people and it
00:24:20.440 really makes you
00:24:20.960 realize how many
00:24:21.700 how many people
00:24:22.760 there are that
00:24:23.960 are passionate about
00:24:24.900 freedom and these
00:24:26.380 are like the
00:24:26.820 outspoken ones
00:24:27.560 never mind the
00:24:28.580 people that are
00:24:29.060 like speaking
00:24:29.760 quietly or what
00:24:30.800 have you and it
00:24:31.880 really is like the
00:24:33.080 the group of
00:24:33.720 people that are
00:24:34.300 that are driving
00:24:35.360 segregation and
00:24:37.000 oppression and
00:24:38.000 and hatred and
00:24:40.080 vitriol into the
00:24:41.180 public zeitgeist
00:24:42.720 they're really a
00:24:43.620 minority you know
00:24:44.860 it's a we've
00:24:46.260 created this sort
00:24:47.400 of like cultural
00:24:48.100 hegemony where
00:24:48.980 one percent of the
00:24:50.480 population claim to
00:24:52.020 speak for the
00:24:52.800 the 99 and I
00:24:54.160 truly believe that
00:24:54.980 with just a spark of
00:24:56.340 of hope or a dash
00:24:58.120 of inspiration it
00:24:59.400 may encourage the
00:25:00.200 other 99 to stand
00:25:01.320 up and speak up
00:25:02.760 and and stand up
00:25:04.100 for themselves so
00:25:04.760 more of us I
00:25:05.560 believe that I
00:25:06.120 truly believe that
00:25:06.660 there's more of us
00:25:07.400 that that are
00:25:08.140 passionate about
00:25:08.720 freedom and
00:25:09.860 passionate about
00:25:10.680 family and want
00:25:12.100 to keep this
00:25:12.560 country and the
00:25:13.340 and our social
00:25:14.080 fabric together
00:25:15.000 than want to
00:25:15.640 destroy it so I
00:25:16.760 truly believe that
00:25:17.780 well there you
00:25:18.640 have it the song
00:25:19.680 is called more of
00:25:20.760 us the artist is
00:25:22.380 our friend Matt
00:25:22.920 Brevner who
00:25:23.440 happens to be a
00:25:24.240 rebel out in
00:25:25.280 Vancouver you can
00:25:26.220 get the track
00:25:27.120 yourself at
00:25:28.200 brevner.com and
00:25:30.200 we'll end the show
00:25:30.860 today by playing it
00:25:31.800 for you in full
00:25:32.240 Matt great to see
00:25:32.860 you congratulations
00:25:33.500 it's it really is
00:25:35.180 thrilling to have
00:25:35.700 someone of your
00:25:36.720 talent in our
00:25:37.840 shop I mean I
00:25:39.100 mean we know you
00:25:39.900 as a news gatherer
00:25:41.100 and an editor and
00:25:41.880 a journalist it's
00:25:42.960 really fun to see
00:25:44.020 your artistic side
00:25:45.160 come up thanks
00:25:45.800 thanks very much
00:25:46.500 for this and and
00:25:47.480 good luck on the
00:25:48.400 song I think it's
00:25:48.980 going to do great
00:25:49.560 thank you so much
00:25:51.540 I really appreciate
00:25:52.340 the opportunity to
00:25:53.640 share this and and
00:25:54.820 this is my
00:25:55.260 contribution to the
00:25:56.200 to the fight to
00:25:57.160 the front and it
00:25:58.300 really feels like a
00:25:59.040 full circle moment
00:25:59.880 so for that I'm
00:26:01.340 truly grateful to
00:26:02.400 you Ezra thank you
00:26:03.260 well I've done
00:26:04.060 nothing other than
00:26:04.740 enjoy the music and
00:26:05.980 encourage our our
00:26:07.800 viewers to do the
00:26:08.480 same folks there
00:26:09.580 aren't a lot of
00:26:10.220 artists on our
00:26:11.180 side of this idea
00:26:12.240 battle who are
00:26:13.020 willing to stand
00:26:13.720 up and stand out
00:26:15.100 so I would encourage
00:26:16.360 you to go to
00:26:17.000 brevner.com and
00:26:18.500 chip in as Matt
00:26:20.600 said it could be a
00:26:21.720 penny could be a
00:26:22.340 dollar whatever it
00:26:23.120 is just to help
00:26:24.180 an independent
00:26:25.000 creator fight the
00:26:28.140 power with truth
00:26:29.180 and I would
00:26:29.800 encourage you to do
00:26:30.480 that Matt congrats
00:26:31.440 we'll talk to you
00:26:31.960 soon thanks Ezra
00:26:33.660 all right you're
00:26:34.460 welcome there you
00:26:34.880 have it Matt
00:26:35.280 brevner go to
00:26:36.420 brevner.com stay
00:26:37.240 with us more ahead
00:26:37.940 hey welcome back
00:26:51.380 your viewer feedback
00:26:52.120 Belmont family says
00:26:54.120 so Kenny says no
00:26:55.840 one should protest at
00:26:56.920 a politician's house
00:26:57.920 that they will arrest
00:26:59.100 a pastor at his
00:27:00.140 house in front of
00:27:01.240 his crying children
00:27:01.900 or arrest pastor
00:27:03.200 swat style on the
00:27:04.080 side of a road or
00:27:05.500 arrest a business
00:27:06.160 owner for protesting
00:27:07.060 unjust laws which
00:27:08.600 are crushing his
00:27:09.140 business you started
00:27:10.740 the fight Kenny but
00:27:11.540 Albertans will finish
00:27:12.320 it there's a lot of
00:27:14.100 truth there by the
00:27:14.760 way there is no law
00:27:15.800 against protesting
00:27:17.180 anywhere on public
00:27:18.580 property you can
00:27:19.840 protest outside the
00:27:20.880 legislature you can
00:27:21.640 protest outside a
00:27:22.560 shopping mall you can
00:27:24.000 protest if you're on
00:27:25.100 public property in a
00:27:26.500 residential neighborhood
00:27:27.300 I mean I'm not
00:27:27.880 recommending it for
00:27:29.760 the main reason is
00:27:30.640 that there are other
00:27:31.140 people on that street
00:27:31.960 besides a politician
00:27:32.820 there's his wife and
00:27:34.620 kids or her husband
00:27:36.320 and kids I mean you
00:27:37.760 don't want to drag the
00:27:38.620 family into it that's
00:27:39.560 true that's but that's
00:27:40.360 an aesthetic and moral
00:27:41.560 and taste issue there
00:27:43.160 is no law in Canada
00:27:45.000 that says you cannot
00:27:46.360 have a peaceful
00:27:47.080 protest outside
00:27:48.480 someone's house and
00:27:49.480 Jason Kenney lied
00:27:50.540 when he said there was
00:27:51.680 trespass or at least
00:27:52.680 the crown prosecutor and
00:27:54.300 the police did not say
00:27:55.340 there was trespass I
00:27:56.700 think they cooked that
00:27:57.720 up to excuse an
00:27:59.160 unlawful arrest
00:28:00.440 Ian Anderson says
00:28:02.540 policing used to be a
00:28:04.000 noble profession
00:28:04.800 these days just about
00:28:06.360 any warm body with a
00:28:07.780 fragile ego in
00:28:09.340 possession of a
00:28:10.040 borderline average
00:28:10.840 intelligence will do
00:28:12.100 Canadian police services
00:28:13.540 are not looking to
00:28:14.960 recruit Rhodes scholars
00:28:16.400 you know I don't know
00:28:18.940 if I agree with all of
00:28:19.880 that I think that a lot
00:28:20.800 of great people are in
00:28:21.780 policing but the last
00:28:23.060 two years two things
00:28:24.700 have happened to the
00:28:25.500 best of them anyone
00:28:27.500 who truly believes in
00:28:28.740 civil liberties has
00:28:30.320 either been demoted or
00:28:32.760 shuffled or quit because
00:28:34.560 they don't want to
00:28:35.100 participate in this
00:28:36.380 political biomedical
00:28:37.640 security state none of
00:28:39.740 the things we talk about
00:28:40.740 here are crimes unlike
00:28:42.000 what that cop says
00:28:43.000 Pastor Arthur Pawlowski
00:28:44.580 was not arrested charged
00:28:45.620 or convicted with any
00:28:46.700 crime keeping your church
00:28:48.020 open is not a crime
00:28:49.000 show me where it is in
00:28:49.780 the criminal code so
00:28:50.940 cops who were squeamish
00:28:52.580 about this kind of thing
00:28:53.460 have either been
00:28:54.540 transferred or reassigned
00:28:56.440 or retired or quit or
00:28:58.000 were fired and then
00:28:59.440 secondly any any cop who
00:29:01.920 doesn't want to take a
00:29:02.740 forced jab has been put
00:29:04.480 on leave or fire too so
00:29:05.820 I think you've had the
00:29:07.940 police do two culls of
00:29:10.460 anyone who believes in
00:29:11.640 thinking for themselves or
00:29:13.020 civil liberties so I think
00:29:14.680 that while there are still
00:29:15.780 some good police out there
00:29:16.960 I think a lot of the good
00:29:18.280 ones have been removed
00:29:19.260 someone with the nickname
00:29:21.700 construction crony says
00:29:23.240 this is insane they had no
00:29:25.120 reason to take him down
00:29:26.340 like this usually you will
00:29:28.000 get a chance to turn
00:29:29.000 yourself in first with
00:29:30.740 breaches this is making a
00:29:32.460 statement and it's an
00:29:33.320 abuse of power you're
00:29:35.180 exactly right I mean the
00:29:36.920 only reason to have 20
00:29:38.500 cops and 10 police cars
00:29:39.800 stop someone on the road
00:29:41.460 pull him out of the
00:29:42.800 vehicle and onto the
00:29:43.600 street as other cars
00:29:44.380 whiz by in the snow at
00:29:45.960 night is if there is if
00:29:47.740 that is the safest way to
00:29:49.400 do it if there's a
00:29:50.580 terrorist and if you let
00:29:51.680 him drive one more block
00:29:52.900 he might kill someone or
00:29:54.580 if someone is actively
00:29:55.880 speeding away and they're
00:29:56.940 going to escape if you
00:29:58.340 don't catch him if you're
00:29:59.240 in hot pursuit they were
00:30:00.840 not in hot pursuit of
00:30:02.140 Arthur Babzowski he was
00:30:03.680 meandering on his way
00:30:05.040 home they knew where he
00:30:06.260 was coming from they knew
00:30:07.240 where he was going to
00:30:08.200 they knew his phone
00:30:09.400 number they knew his
00:30:10.080 lawyer's phone number
00:30:10.980 that was done for
00:30:12.140 purposes of shock and
00:30:13.420 awe and if Calgary police
00:30:15.580 have so many policemen
00:30:17.620 and police cars at their
00:30:19.080 disposal that they've
00:30:20.280 just got an extra 20
00:30:21.280 kicking around for a
00:30:22.520 routine traffic stop
00:30:23.900 like this well maybe
00:30:24.980 their budget is too high
00:30:26.340 and they're being too
00:30:27.140 wasteful if they don't
00:30:28.160 have real crime to
00:30:29.220 catch and this you know
00:30:30.640 what it was all
00:30:31.280 political and I believe
00:30:32.740 it is fair to say that
00:30:35.180 that Arthur Pawlowski is
00:30:37.680 a political prisoner I
00:30:40.560 believe that is fair to
00:30:41.680 say and I know that
00:30:42.760 sounds crazy in Canada
00:30:44.320 but you tell me
00:30:45.600 differently if you watch
00:30:46.500 that tape well that's
00:30:48.680 our show for today on
00:30:50.480 behalf of all of us here
00:30:51.400 at Rebel World Headquarters
00:30:52.400 so you at home good
00:30:53.180 night and keep fighting
00:30:54.460 for freedom and here as
00:30:55.540 promised is the full
00:30:56.640 video of Matt Brevner's
00:30:59.120 new musical hit more of
00:31:01.300 us enjoy
00:31:02.240 I can't help but look around
00:31:09.920 and feel like things are
00:31:10.800 getting out of hand
00:31:12.140 we've been told to trust the
00:31:15.400 science but the science just
00:31:16.760 doesn't make sense
00:31:18.040 they say it isn't mandatory
00:31:21.100 but they also say you're
00:31:22.500 jabber your job
00:31:23.460 but if it doesn't stop the
00:31:26.620 spread it makes you feel like
00:31:27.700 this is just a facade
00:31:29.000 what about the health care
00:31:32.240 workers what about the
00:31:34.440 frontline nurses how quickly
00:31:37.520 we forget that they were
00:31:38.620 working 18 hours a day what
00:31:42.380 about informed consent what
00:31:45.200 about due diligence it seems a
00:31:48.560 country that I used to call home
00:31:50.140 is surely slipping away I can't
00:31:54.220 help but look around and feel
00:31:55.220 like minds are slowly starting
00:31:56.220 to change cause even if you're
00:31:59.220 triple vaccinated know that
00:32:01.220 segregation isn't the way
00:32:03.220 freedom is a choice and it's
00:32:06.220 available to all if we choose
00:32:08.220 but first things first we gotta turn
00:32:13.220 off the news yeah what about the
00:32:16.220 healthcare workers what about the
00:32:19.220 frontline nurses how quickly we
00:32:22.220 forget that they were working 18
00:32:24.220 hours a day what about informed
00:32:28.220 consent what about due diligence it
00:32:33.220 seems the country that I used to call
00:32:35.220 home is surely slipping away if you're
00:32:39.220 late to the party there's plenty room
00:32:41.220 at the table this side don't
00:32:42.220 discriminate I'm calling on every
00:32:45.220 single man woman child of the able
00:32:47.220 it's time to take the streets and
00:32:48.220 liberate but please don't be a part of
00:32:50.220 the problem staying willfully
00:32:52.220 ignorant cause there's just way too
00:32:54.220 much at stake yo it's okay to change
00:32:56.220 your mind you can admit you were wrong
00:32:58.220 cause where there's perfect love there
00:32:59.220 ain't no shame heavenly father show me
00:33:03.220 what I don't understand yet I got my
00:33:05.220 marching orders I don't fully know the
00:33:07.220 plan yet hold onto my bible before bed
00:33:09.220 no it ain't been yet did you know the
00:33:11.220 makers of the vaccine make the xanax
00:33:13.220 I would never lean on corporations for
00:33:15.220 morality cause they put their profits
00:33:17.220 over people for their salaries know
00:33:19.220 they wanna make you bend the knee for
00:33:21.220 your normality I know you feeling all
00:33:23.220 all alone but in reality there's way more
00:33:27.220 of us than them there's way more of us
00:33:33.220 than them there's way more of us than them
00:33:37.220 there's way more of us than them
00:33:41.220 there's way more of us than them
00:33:49.220 there's way more of us than them
00:33:51.220 There's way more of us than that
00:33:56.000 There's way more of us than that
00:34:02.420 There's way more of us
00:34:07.320 There's way more of us than that
00:34:21.220 That's really me, that's really me
00:34:51.220 That's really me
00:35:21.220 That's really me