Rebel News Podcast - August 08, 2023


EZRA LEVANT ｜ The distorted reality of the radio parallel universe presents an alienating agenda


Episode Stats

Length

30 minutes

Words per Minute

168.90416

Word Count

5,129

Sentence Count

420

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

I made the mistake of listening to CBC Radio this morning, and I feel like I visited an alternative universe. It's August 8th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show, where I talk about what I thought of it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I made the mistake today of listening to CBC Radio, and I want to tell you what I thought of the experience. It was like I was in a parallel universe. So that's my monologue today. Hey, let me invite you to get the video version of this podcast. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. Click subscribe. It's eight bucks a month. You get the video version every day. And the eight bucks might not sound like a lot to you, but it's a lot to us. It really adds up, and it's how we pay the bills around here.
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00:00:47.940 Tonight, I made the mistake of listening to CBC Radio this morning, and I feel like I visited an alternative universe.
00:00:55.480 It's August 8th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:01.260 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:13.040 Radio is not dead, but it is dying because radio requires you to submit to the editorial choices of the station.
00:01:21.640 Whether it's music or news or talk radio, you are not in control.
00:01:26.380 Now, you can curate your own playlist on any number of apps instead, and so many new cars are wired for the internet that way.
00:01:35.180 It's not even the technology that's the problem, like the old radio.
00:01:38.980 It's why would you let someone else choose the news and opinion for you when you can so easily choose it for yourself?
00:01:46.520 Well, because you're in a habit, that's one reason.
00:01:51.020 Maybe you actually trust the news anchors, so you believe they make better choices than you.
00:01:56.340 Or maybe you just want to hear what other people are listening to.
00:02:01.300 That's a reason for me, although when 11 million people listen to, say, Joe Rogan's podcast,
00:02:07.080 that could be a better barometer of what the world is listening to and talking about than radio.
00:02:13.360 There are some personalities that are riveting.
00:02:15.300 The late Rush Limbaugh, people tuned in just to hear him.
00:02:20.200 I listen to CBC radio maybe once a year.
00:02:23.200 Out of curiosity, like you might have going to see a strange animal at the zoo,
00:02:28.680 to be candid, I do it once a year to see what the enemy is up to,
00:02:33.860 because really, they truly are government journalists at the state broadcaster.
00:02:38.800 They're not on your side.
00:02:40.860 So this morning was my annual listen.
00:02:43.300 It was the 8 a.m. radio news in Toronto, and I think I tuned in a minute or two late,
00:02:48.220 so I think I missed the top item, but here's what I did here.
00:02:52.140 First, Ukraine.
00:02:53.700 It was a story about how Russia had attacked a Ukrainian target,
00:02:57.260 and the CBC said it was a double tap.
00:02:59.840 That's the word they used.
00:03:01.440 Two strikes on the same target.
00:03:02.980 The second one, the CBC implied, was targeting rescue personnel.
00:03:07.740 The CBC then juxtaposed that with a peace conference, apparently,
00:03:12.300 that Russia was not invited to, though, and tried to link the two stories, I think.
00:03:18.100 Then there was a story about what the CBC called extreme weather.
00:03:21.860 Apparently, it really rained hard in Philadelphia recently, and I'm sure it did,
00:03:29.260 that this was one of their top news stories in Canada, which I thought was a bit odd.
00:03:36.280 A bit later, they talked about the Amazon rainforest and how, they say,
00:03:40.800 it now emits more carbon dioxide than it absorbs.
00:03:44.120 I don't know how they do the math or if things really have changed,
00:03:48.040 or rather if it was just their methodology that changed.
00:03:50.740 I have trouble believing that the world's largest tropical rainforest has changed meaningfully in the past decade.
00:03:57.380 I think it's more likely that the scientists have changed how they measure things,
00:04:01.040 or more likely yet that agenda-driven journalists have changed things for reasons that they're hiding.
00:04:08.360 We weren't told how this change happened, but we were immediately told it was bad news,
00:04:13.740 and the governments down there were really committed to doing something about it,
00:04:18.120 but it was a clear one-two punch, maybe a double tap.
00:04:21.980 After the story about how much it rained in Philadelphia, this Amazon story,
00:04:26.760 I'm not sure what the news peg was for the Amazon story,
00:04:29.300 other than they needed that little colorful comment about the rain story.
00:04:33.280 Anyways, then they switched to the good news from the CBC's point of view.
00:04:38.720 They went deep into the prosecution of Donald Trump and how he's a really, really bad dude,
00:04:43.960 and his lawyers are too, and how, and I know this is shocking to you,
00:04:48.400 and how Trump and his lawyers want to talk about their case in the news, in the media,
00:04:53.340 and argue against it, and how they claim it's their First Amendment right.
00:04:57.000 The CBC didn't seem to agree with that, but either way, the CBC was pretty excited about the whole thing.
00:05:03.280 Trump hasn't been president in three years, let me remind you,
00:05:07.160 but the CBC just can't stop thinking about him or talking about him.
00:05:11.620 It's a bit of an obsession for them, but I get it.
00:05:13.800 He's leading the polls, both to win the Republican presidential primary and then to beat Joe Biden,
00:05:19.980 so maybe they can take him out through a bunch of prosecutions.
00:05:25.700 When I say they, that would include the CBC, which thinks they're a player here,
00:05:29.980 but then they moved on to a perennial CBC campaign talking about defunding the police,
00:05:35.300 this time in Halifax, and the broadcast ended with a quirky story about an actor's strike in the United States.
00:05:43.660 They tried to Canadianize it by saying how many actors it affects up here,
00:05:47.480 but they quoted a clip from Fran Drescher, you know, when she talks like this.
00:05:53.040 It's about as American as can be.
00:05:55.220 You remember Fran Drescher?
00:05:56.540 That's Bobby Sherman.
00:05:58.740 What's that?
00:06:00.340 That's his hair.
00:06:02.760 Isn't he cute?
00:06:04.160 He's not really my type.
00:06:06.320 I'm torn between Barney and Ted Koppel.
00:06:11.780 Yeah, but Bobby could sing.
00:06:13.400 You should hear his records.
00:06:15.280 What's a record?
00:06:17.880 Aye, just bury me.
00:06:19.360 Now, I later went to the CBC's website to try and catch the very first story of the day that I just missed by a minute.
00:06:25.080 And I think it was their story about the CBC's own complaint, along with other media, to the Competition Bureau against Facebook.
00:06:34.720 The CBC is sort of suing Facebook, they announced, for stopping linking to them.
00:06:41.220 They want Facebook to link to them, of course.
00:06:45.280 But Trudeau said Facebook has to pay media companies to link to them.
00:06:51.320 And Facebook said that's not how the Internet works.
00:06:54.540 You don't have to pay to link to anybody.
00:06:55.960 That's not economical.
00:06:56.880 So no thank you if they have to pay to link to someone, they just won't link to them anymore.
00:07:02.000 Trudeau said Facebook had been stealing content from journalists.
00:07:06.360 So Facebook stopped stealing that content.
00:07:09.900 And now Trudeau's CBC wants them to steal the content again.
00:07:12.700 It's quite a weird story.
00:07:14.300 And, of course, the CBC is a player, not just a reporter.
00:07:18.080 It's quite something to hear the CBC, which has monopolistic power and state funding, complain about what they call a monopoly, Facebook.
00:07:26.880 I don't like Facebook much, but at least I'm not forced to support it with my taxes like I am the CBC.
00:07:33.200 Now, I listened and I thought, all these stories, I have just visited another parallel universe.
00:07:39.240 I mean, I know what the words mean that they used.
00:07:41.160 Facebook, Trump, Ukraine, weather, police, rainforest, actors.
00:07:45.260 I know them like I know colors of paint, red, orange, yellow, green, blue.
00:07:49.340 But, boy, did they paint a world I just can't recognize.
00:07:52.500 Like I say, fewer people than ever listen to CBC radio, people with that old habit do it.
00:07:59.540 People who don't know how to use the Internet to curate their own content.
00:08:04.760 People who want that Trudeau point of view, there are some.
00:08:07.720 But fewer people than ever.
00:08:08.820 But, boy, if you are one of those people, you live in a world that has a different colored sky than my world.
00:08:15.600 Let me give you some thoughts on these stories, if I may.
00:08:19.940 The first of all, I mean, look, I think Ukraine is big news.
00:08:24.060 I don't know if it's top news every single day.
00:08:26.140 That's more of a drumbeat than anything.
00:08:28.900 A missile strike by Russia, I suppose that's news.
00:08:31.960 Though the war has raged on for 18 months and I'm not sure if this two-missile attack warrants top-breaking news story.
00:08:38.600 I feel like there's a media campaign to keep the war on the top of our minds.
00:08:42.320 I do not like the war and I do not like the killings that I wish the war would end.
00:08:46.120 I certainly don't like attacks on civilians or civilian areas by Russia or one last week, a drone attack on against the downtown business district in Moscow.
00:09:12.320 What the hell?
00:09:18.120 I don't like the war.
00:09:19.040 I don't like the war.
00:09:19.940 I don't like the war.
00:09:20.300 I don't like the war.
00:09:21.080 I don't like the war.
00:09:22.900 I don't like the war.
00:09:26.520 I don't like the war.
00:09:30.680 Yeah, I think the war should stop.
00:09:34.160 But, look, that's a matter of editorial opinion how newsy that attack is.
00:09:39.420 The extreme weather event, though, in Philadelphia is in no way news.
00:09:45.140 I'm sorry, that's just not news.
00:09:46.640 That's the weather report, but that's in a different country.
00:09:50.080 In no way is it Canadian news.
00:09:52.080 In no way is it top news, breaking news.
00:09:54.860 You could argue that a Russian missile attack is top news.
00:09:57.700 You can't argue that rain in Philadelphia is.
00:10:01.600 It's part of a constant drumbeat, too, about global warming.
00:10:04.580 It's part of the fear campaign.
00:10:05.860 They replaced the fear of COVID with fear of global warming, or extreme weather, as they called it.
00:10:13.220 Do you think heavy rain in Philadelphia is a top news item in Canada?
00:10:17.660 Isn't there somewhere in the world every day that has extreme weather?
00:10:22.560 I mean, isn't that the thing about living on a big planet?
00:10:25.820 You could always find something somewhere.
00:10:27.420 It's raining somewhere.
00:10:28.440 There's a tornado somewhere every day, really, by definition.
00:10:31.740 It's not even news, other than you need the daily dose of global warming paranoia.
00:10:38.060 And if you're too stupid to get the CBC's not-so-subtle hint, they'll connect it to the Amazon rainforest story about how it's now emitting more carbon dioxide than it's absorbing.
00:10:48.000 Except that's not news either.
00:10:50.400 Even if it were true, which I'm skeptical.
00:10:52.480 I mean, here's a story about this news item in the Guardian newspaper two years ago, not this morning.
00:11:00.360 Here's the BBC three and a half years ago.
00:11:02.400 Same story.
00:11:03.180 How is that news?
00:11:04.040 How's that top news today?
00:11:05.620 I'm a skeptic.
00:11:06.600 I don't believe we can accurately even measure CO2 emissions in the mighty Amazon rainforest.
00:11:12.160 Seriously, how do they measure it?
00:11:14.420 They don't.
00:11:15.060 They have computer models.
00:11:16.220 They're not measuring.
00:11:17.780 They're guessing in computer models designed by people, people who take grants from activist groups and governments.
00:11:25.020 And even if it were true, so what?
00:11:27.720 All life on Earth depends on CO2.
00:11:29.600 It's what plants breathe.
00:11:31.380 How is CO2 in a forest in Brazil bad news?
00:11:35.480 How's it news at all?
00:11:37.880 Look, don't ask such silly questions just like COVID.
00:11:40.780 The CBC will do all the thinking for you.
00:11:43.920 On Trump, it's so glorious.
00:11:45.360 You'll notice how many of these stories I've mentioned are American or foreign, by the way.
00:11:50.320 And that's for a reason it's easier to talk about Trump's scandals than Trudeau's scandals, especially if you're Trudeau's government journalist.
00:11:59.600 If you smear Trump, if you're obsessed with getting Trump, you're not going to get your funding cut by Trudeau.
00:12:06.380 You're not going to get angry phone calls from the prime minister's office.
00:12:09.060 In fact, you'll get a raise because you give this simulation of holding powerful politicians to account.
00:12:14.520 It's just that you're not holding your own country's powerful politicians to account.
00:12:18.040 You'll simulate being skeptical and critical and oppositional when, in fact, you're subservient and obedient and you're distracting.
00:12:25.600 Trump's charges are newsworthy.
00:12:29.120 Top Canadian news, I'm not so sure.
00:12:32.620 Hey, I checked.
00:12:33.640 And for contrast, the CBC has done precisely two stories about Hunter Biden's laptop and the criminal activities found thereon and the corruption therein.
00:12:43.960 Just two stories.
00:12:45.000 One was a year ago calling the story sordid and one this year about how unfair it was that Republicans are weaponizing that story.
00:12:57.580 It's not Hunter that's the news, by the way.
00:13:00.040 It's Hunter being the son of Joe Biden and what Hunter Biden said about his father.
00:13:04.300 More news has come out on this in the past week that Joe Biden, Joe, the president, when he was vice president, was on at least 20 different phone calls with Hunter Biden and his business associates as Hunter Biden shook down companies for big payoffs.
00:13:19.940 No news from the CBC on that.
00:13:21.940 Better to talk about Trump.
00:13:23.100 They won't get in trouble that way.
00:13:25.880 The Halifax police defunding.
00:13:27.940 Just incredible.
00:13:28.680 There was no news pegged for that.
00:13:30.800 The CBC had wanted some police records from Halifax.
00:13:36.020 They did the access to information requests and they went to court.
00:13:39.360 Then they settled on the documents with the police getting some more records.
00:13:43.840 I understand what that's like.
00:13:45.680 The CBC itself is covered by the same access to information laws.
00:13:49.380 And they delay and hide and obfuscate and charge huge amounts of money to stop us from getting info about them because they're part of the liberal government.
00:13:59.940 That's what they do.
00:14:00.540 They're just just as bad as Trudeau.
00:14:02.460 But they did get their documents that they wanted in the end.
00:14:07.160 I'm not sure if that's big news.
00:14:09.140 The process story, I mean.
00:14:11.300 But then they pivoted at the end of the story about themselves asking for the documents to talk about defunding Halifax's police.
00:14:18.020 It had nothing to do with the documents.
00:14:21.380 They just wanted records and had a bit of hassle to get them.
00:14:24.360 I get it.
00:14:24.780 Fair enough.
00:14:25.480 But then to pivot to defunding the police, that was quite something.
00:14:28.600 Sort of like telling people about the Amazon rainforest turning evil right after a story about rain in Philadelphia.
00:14:35.240 It's not even news.
00:14:36.880 It's just some bizarre news artwork or something.
00:14:40.460 And then ending with news about the actor strike.
00:14:43.040 That was just the cherry on the cake.
00:14:44.780 Just perfect.
00:14:45.860 We're in a de facto recession in Canada.
00:14:48.240 It's only because they're bringing in massive immigration that it hides the GDP shrinkage, which is one measurement of recession.
00:14:58.220 Recession.
00:14:59.160 Inflation.
00:14:59.920 High interest rates.
00:15:00.980 Poverty.
00:15:01.680 Crime.
00:15:02.360 Drug use.
00:15:02.980 People can't afford to live.
00:15:04.420 Trudeau raising the carbon tax on everything.
00:15:06.420 Contemplating a nitrogen tax on farmers.
00:15:08.780 But the CDC doesn't care about them and their hardship.
00:15:12.440 By them, I mean you.
00:15:13.480 What about those poor actors in Hollywood who can't get by?
00:15:17.980 Will no one think about the Hollywood lovies?
00:15:21.400 It was hilarious to see them try to Canadianize the story.
00:15:23.840 I wonder how many CBC listeners felt sorry for those wealthy Hollywood actors, including Fran Drescher.
00:15:30.500 I bet a lot did.
00:15:31.640 After all, the CBC wouldn't make it their top news item if it weren't super serious.
00:15:36.780 What was all that that's called CBC News?
00:15:43.100 What was it?
00:15:44.620 Most of it was not even news.
00:15:48.400 It was like the message track of the Liberal Party.
00:15:51.680 Trudeau's enemies were the CBC's enemies.
00:15:53.980 Trudeau's plans, his schemes are the CBC's schemes.
00:15:58.380 Any criticism was reserved for foreign enemies, Trump, Russia, except for the police in Halifax, who need to be defunded because they didn't give the CBC what they wanted quick enough.
00:16:08.440 It was so U.S.-centric, as if those reporters were auditioning for jobs in the big leagues.
00:16:14.800 Sort of pitiful for a Canadian state broadcaster that obviously believes Canadians are just uninteresting and that our controversies obviously must be avoided to avoid upsetting Trudeau.
00:16:25.840 It's pretty pitiful to do stories about rain in Philadelphia or an actor's strike in Hollywood.
00:16:31.720 Oh, well.
00:16:33.040 Now I know why the CBC is in decline and why Facebook really doesn't care about stopping linking to them and why the CBC is so desperate to get that traffic, any traffic back.
00:16:46.740 Stay with us for more.
00:16:47.900 Well, you know what they say about New York City.
00:17:01.180 It's a city that never sleeps.
00:17:03.200 Like to wake up in the city that never sleeps to find I'm king of the hill, top of the heap.
00:17:08.820 Well, that's one side of New York for sure.
00:17:12.080 But these days there's another side to the city.
00:17:15.220 In some ways it feels like it's going back in time to the bad old days of the 1970s where crime was rampant and people were afraid.
00:17:23.500 There was actually an exodus from New York.
00:17:26.080 Property values fell, if you can believe it.
00:17:28.980 Rudy Giuliani turned the city around by cracking down on big crime like the mafia and little crime too.
00:17:35.180 His policies were maintained in large part by Mayor Bloomberg.
00:17:40.000 But in the years since, well, I have to say the city is regressing.
00:17:43.820 It's a pain to see it.
00:17:45.340 It hurts the heart.
00:17:46.740 Such a beautiful city.
00:17:48.840 Well, what am I talking about?
00:17:50.360 Well, here's one example.
00:17:53.060 Hundreds, thousands of migrants streaming into the United States illegally have just taken up to the camping, really, on the streets of New York or sometimes being put up in hotels.
00:18:05.540 I won't tell you the story.
00:18:07.060 To go to the streets of New York to have it told by someone who is right there, literally right now in his car.
00:18:14.740 We talked to Leroy Johnson, an independent journalist in New York.
00:18:18.680 And you can follow him, as I do, on Twitter.
00:18:21.860 And we'll put his Twitter account on the screen.
00:18:23.380 Leroy, great to finally meet you.
00:18:25.220 I follow you on Twitter, so I feel like I know you.
00:18:28.180 You're always on the streets looking for the news in the Big Apple, aren't you?
00:18:31.380 Thanks for having me on, Ezra.
00:18:33.920 Yeah, I'm an independent reporter from New York City.
00:18:36.280 I stay local.
00:18:37.460 And I try to look for any news in New York City, anywhere from crime to the migrant issue to protests.
00:18:44.560 And you're right.
00:18:45.440 New York City is starting to change a little bit.
00:18:47.440 And it's getting a little more wilder.
00:18:50.180 And you're correct.
00:18:50.940 People have left New York in droves just because the way the streets are changing here and they're scared and the taxes.
00:18:57.780 And just the way New York is changing so drastically in the wrong direction.
00:19:02.840 Recently, I've been covering the migrant crisis.
00:19:07.740 And I'm like the migrant reporter from New York City.
00:19:10.600 And it's getting out of hand right now, completely out of hand.
00:19:13.720 You had hundreds and hundreds of migrants sleeping outside in the super hot weather overnight on the streets.
00:19:19.880 And God forbid one of these guys died.
00:19:21.600 And that will be the end of us.
00:19:22.920 We would have riots if they died.
00:19:25.500 So, yeah, like I'm an independent reporter from New York.
00:19:28.080 And anything New York, I cover.
00:19:29.500 And I follow you.
00:19:30.960 I mean, it really is interesting what goes on on the streets of that city.
00:19:35.380 And by the way, I find it depressing.
00:19:38.380 I mean, I remember New York City at its safest when it was the safest big city in America.
00:19:43.980 What a great pleasure.
00:19:45.420 And people were confident and happy and carefree.
00:19:49.640 And by the way, I think some of the crime wave that's sweeping New York is coming to Toronto and Vancouver and even other cities in Canada, too, let alone other American cities.
00:19:59.080 Let me ask you, though, about the phenomenon you just described.
00:20:02.880 And I don't think that I would put being homeless or migrants on the street in the same category as some of the wild crimes we've been seeing lately.
00:20:11.540 But can you tell me a little bit about where these migrants came from?
00:20:17.220 Did they come in directly to New York?
00:20:19.180 Did they come in from the southern border and then make their way to New York City?
00:20:22.320 How did these I think there's thousands of international migrants wind up in Manhattan?
00:20:29.400 Where do they what was their route?
00:20:32.360 So a lot of them are from different countries around the world.
00:20:35.300 We have them from Russia, China, Africa, Venezuela, Mexico, all over the world.
00:20:43.040 What they do is a lot of them make their way to the southern border and then cross the southern border and either get on a plane and come here or get on a bus and come here.
00:20:51.340 So that's the route I've been getting from most of the migrants.
00:20:53.740 And some of them actually told me they walk for thousands of miles to get here.
00:20:58.140 And some of the stories that I hear from Ezra is horrible.
00:21:03.120 It's horrible from these guys.
00:21:05.160 I mean, they may be telling the truth.
00:21:06.860 I mean, once they get to the southern border to get a plane ticket, cost some money and you need some ID to get on a plane or some of these people being shipped to New York by, say, the governor of Texas or the governor of Florida.
00:21:19.260 I know they wanted to sort of put the problem at the doorstep of Democrat politicians because, you know, it's easy for a Democrat politician to say, I have a sanctuary city when they're a thousand miles away from the border.
00:21:33.840 So I think one of the moves by those border state Republicans was, all right, we'll test your commitment.
00:21:39.440 Here's a video clip that drives me nuts whenever I see it.
00:21:42.520 This is the mayor, I think, of Philadelphia celebrating the new sanctuary city status.
00:21:48.900 This was a few years ago.
00:21:50.400 He's literally doing a happy dance.
00:21:52.460 Here, take a quick peek at that.
00:21:54.340 A sanctuary city.
00:21:56.640 Yeah.
00:21:56.820 So it's easy for every mayor in a Democrat city, Washington, D.C., New York City, Philadelphia, to talk about a sanctuary city if there's no one in the sanctuary.
00:22:08.760 But you bus in or plane in a few hundred migrants, they panic like they did in Martha's Vineyard.
00:22:15.020 I've never seen people close the gates of a city faster than Martha's Vineyard.
00:22:20.420 What's the mayor, Mayor Adams of New York, have to say about it?
00:22:26.760 I think the mayor at this point had enough.
00:22:28.960 I think he's having buyer remorse with the sanctuary city thing.
00:22:32.940 And he's complaining about it.
00:22:35.060 He's saying we need to we need to call a state of emergency.
00:22:38.420 We need to fix the border crisis.
00:22:40.500 And he's asking for more money from the federal government to help aid with the migrant crisis in New York City.
00:22:45.480 Eventually, this was going to come to a neighborhood near you.
00:22:47.920 Having someone embedded is a good start.
00:22:50.420 That came from the secretary of Homeland Security.
00:22:53.000 We want to thank him.
00:22:54.020 But I've been very clear on what we need.
00:22:56.480 We need to control the border.
00:22:59.140 We need to call a state of emergency.
00:23:01.800 And we need to properly fund this national crisis.
00:23:05.640 Like I said, a lot of officials are I think I think they're having buyer remorse on the sanctuary city.
00:23:12.060 Reason being is they can't really handle the situation.
00:23:14.760 It's a city we've ran out of locations to house these migrants.
00:23:18.860 They're thinking about housing migrants in Central Park and building tents there like they're doing in other locations throughout New York City.
00:23:26.220 But, yeah, they're pissed.
00:23:27.680 And like I said, I speak to a lot of them.
00:23:29.700 And they're not happy with the situation.
00:23:31.540 You know, I saw a video a few weeks ago from Washington, D.C., when I saw one of the fault lines here is that there's a move to treat these foreign migrants with free housing and food and cell phones and things like that.
00:23:49.220 But I saw some members of the African-American community saying, hang on, we're full.
00:23:55.140 We have our own poor.
00:23:56.540 We have our own homeless to take care of.
00:23:59.960 And I saw a bit of a fault line there with a community that traditionally is down the line Democrat.
00:24:06.660 Is there some friction between recent foreign migrants and how they're handled?
00:24:15.460 Like we see that in Canada, too, by the way.
00:24:18.420 In the city I'm in, you have over a quarter million people using food banks.
00:24:22.540 And yet immigration has never been higher.
00:24:24.500 It's a bit of a tension there between, quote, Canadian homeless and foreign homeless.
00:24:29.920 What is the same tension afoot there in the USA?
00:24:32.700 Oh, absolutely.
00:24:34.820 Residents are pissed.
00:24:35.920 The African community is pissed.
00:24:37.760 People in the communities where they're sticking the migrants in are pissed.
00:24:41.200 The homeless are pissed.
00:24:42.560 And I speak to homeless.
00:24:43.720 And I try to understand how they feel.
00:24:46.540 And like I said, I cover all sides of this.
00:24:49.360 I speak to the left, the right, the homeless, the migrants.
00:24:52.680 And the homeless are pissed.
00:24:54.060 And the residents are like, what about our own homeless people?
00:24:57.460 What about our own people that are sick?
00:24:59.420 Why are these migrants getting free housing, free food, free everything, free busing, free planes, anything they want, they get for free?
00:25:07.980 And people are pissed, Ezra.
00:25:09.560 And sooner or later, there's going to be some kind of, I believe, some kind of outcry.
00:25:14.580 There's already protests against migrants being housed in certain neighborhoods.
00:25:18.760 But I think it's going to grow a little bigger soon where we might have a little violence going on.
00:25:24.520 And I truly see that happening soon.
00:25:26.460 If I recall, the mayor once said, well, I got room in Gracie Mansion.
00:25:32.020 That's the mayor's official home.
00:25:34.720 And then he backed down.
00:25:35.920 He was basically saying, oh, just kidding.
00:25:37.440 I was just trying to make a rhetorical point if I've got my story straight.
00:25:41.000 I mean, I find it, you know, liberals love saying we got a sanctuary city.
00:25:46.100 Hey, I'll give up my home until someone says, oh, really?
00:25:49.500 Do you really mean it?
00:25:50.660 And then they say, well, no, I didn't really mean it.
00:25:52.940 I just want, I mean, that's literal, that's the dictionary definition of virtue signaling.
00:25:58.840 At what point, though, do they have to actually put up or shut up?
00:26:04.020 What I mean by that is New York City voters voted Democrats.
00:26:07.760 They love calling themselves a sanctuary city.
00:26:09.980 The mayor loves it.
00:26:11.680 The liberal newspapers love it.
00:26:13.640 Are they going to get away with saying they love it?
00:26:18.600 Or at what point do they say, we're going to rescind that?
00:26:21.440 We're going to deport people.
00:26:23.600 Or our voters are actually going to, I don't know, vote Republican, do something crazy like that.
00:26:28.120 Like, so far you're saying nobody's happy with this.
00:26:31.600 But I don't think it's changed in the last month.
00:26:34.540 Like, it's still happening?
00:26:35.500 It's still going on.
00:26:37.900 And, yes, there's a lot of Democrat voters that are very disappointed in this.
00:26:41.960 And a lot of Democrat that were lifelong Democrats are changing to Republican.
00:26:46.640 They're pissed.
00:26:47.840 They're pissed.
00:26:48.500 This is going to cost the Democratic Party a lot of votes.
00:26:51.820 That's what it seems like to me if this doesn't get fixed.
00:26:55.200 Like I said, I'm on the streets, Ezra.
00:26:57.680 I speak to everyone, right?
00:27:00.020 I speak to Republicans, Democrats, radicals, the left, the right, the middle.
00:27:04.100 And they're all pissed about this.
00:27:06.140 They're completely pissed.
00:27:07.360 And it is going to cost people votes, unfortunately.
00:27:10.440 Well, Leroy, I'll continue to follow you on Twitter.
00:27:13.240 I love the updates.
00:27:14.660 I feel like I'm right there on the street.
00:27:16.760 And you're very fast.
00:27:18.120 I feel like it's a breaking news feed, sort of a TMZ.
00:27:22.020 But instead of celebrities, it's the news from the streets of New York.
00:27:25.360 Great to see you.
00:27:25.940 Thanks for taking the time to talk to us, again, live from the streets.
00:27:29.620 I really appreciate that.
00:27:31.840 Thank you, Ezra.
00:27:32.560 God bless you and your family, and God bless the families.
00:27:34.800 I appreciate you having me on, brother.
00:27:36.360 Well, it's our pleasure.
00:27:37.560 And we'll have your Twitter handle on the screen so people can join me and follow you for the latest.
00:27:42.900 There you have it, Leroy Johnson, talking to us from the streets of New York.
00:27:46.820 Stay with us.
00:27:47.440 More ahead.
00:27:56.660 Hey, welcome back to your Letters to Me.
00:27:58.220 Tony Lesbianyak5947 says, if Bell could find 5% savings, that would be worth $1.4 billion, 14 times what they're asking of the poor taxpayers.
00:28:10.920 Problem solved.
00:28:12.260 Yeah, but you see, that requires hard work and entrepreneurship, which is how Bell started over a century ago.
00:28:18.620 I mean, named after Alexander Graham Bell, of course.
00:28:22.320 That's when Bell was innovative, inventive, entrepreneurial, disruptor, all those things.
00:28:28.420 Now they're more like a public utility, and they're more and more government-focused.
00:28:32.180 It was so gross that they had so much talk about ESG.
00:28:35.620 If you're wondering why everything's gone crazy lately, why so many companies are going full Bud Light, it's that they're all under this ESG, environmental social governance.
00:28:47.240 Really, it's a cult.
00:28:48.220 It's a political cult.
00:28:49.060 And anyone who gets investment from those massive funds like BlackRock, they have to subscribe to ESG.
00:28:56.400 They've really been colonized financially.
00:29:00.900 77DRIS says, Bell destroyed the telecom system in Manitoba when they took over MTS.
00:29:06.040 Prices skyrocketed for internet and phone plans, and service went down.
00:29:10.040 And because there is only one other company to compete with, Shaw, they also increased prices and decreased service quality.
00:29:15.120 The same thing is happening in Canada with many industries.
00:29:20.360 I showed you that study that literally in the whole world, like there's 200 countries in the world, we've got the worst cell phone plans in the world.
00:29:29.220 Not just bottom half or bottom quarter.
00:29:31.840 We are the worst.
00:29:34.000 How did that happen?
00:29:35.300 Well, government control, the oligopoly, the monopoly, really.
00:29:39.400 That's what the CRTC did.
00:29:40.920 And just what they did to radio, sorry, what they did to cell phones, they did to cable, they did to radio and TV.
00:29:46.840 Now they want to control the internet.
00:29:48.060 It's atrocious.
00:29:50.440 Melody 8 says, Bell needs a lot more competition.
00:29:53.620 We need Elon Musk to come into Canada with a new cell phone service.
00:29:57.580 Now you're talking, that guy's a real doer.
00:30:00.000 And who knows?
00:30:00.680 Maybe it'll happen.
00:30:01.560 There's a few pieces in the puzzle already.
00:30:03.540 He's got that satellite internet system.
00:30:06.240 And he's got the social media app.
00:30:08.880 Who knows?
00:30:10.020 Maybe he'll put a phone line in there.
00:30:12.080 I could picture it happening.
00:30:13.980 That's a great idea.
00:30:15.760 That's our show for today.
00:30:17.060 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
00:30:21.100 Keep fighting for freedom.