Rebel News Podcast - October 24, 2020


Rebel Roundup: Sophie Trudeau's freebies, Disney does trigger warnings


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

155.49698

Word Count

5,526

Sentence Count

326

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

Sheila Gunn-Reed and Andrew Chapados join host David Menzies to discuss the new details in the We Charity scandal, including the fact that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, received a total of $1,500 in speaking fees from We Day events between 2012 and 2020.


Transcript

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00:01:23.460 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
00:01:36.740 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
00:01:41.300 I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:01:43.480 So, who's the biggest swag hound in the Trudeau clan?
00:01:47.800 Is it Prime Minister Justin?
00:01:49.740 Is it Mama Margaret?
00:01:51.500 Oh, well, actually, it turns out that wife Sophie might just have the most insatiable appetite
00:01:57.900 for speaking fees and gifts.
00:02:01.160 Sheila Gunn-Reed shall have all the details.
00:02:04.380 Trigger alert!
00:02:05.160 Trigger alert!
00:02:06.060 Disney is now slapping trigger advisories on some of its classic animated fare from yesterdecade.
00:02:13.540 Apparently, everything from Peter Pan to Lady and the Tramp is somehow racist.
00:02:20.860 Andrew Chapados will weigh in on this latest virtue signalling from the House of the Mouse.
00:02:27.320 And finally, letters.
00:02:28.500 We get your letters.
00:02:29.340 We get your letters every minute of every day.
00:02:31.400 And I'll share some of your responses regarding last Saturday's huge Yahoo Nation lockdown protest
00:02:38.300 at Toronto's young Dundas Square.
00:02:40.780 Hey, Premier Ford, listen to the people put down that cherry cheesecake already
00:02:46.860 and open up the economy, will you?
00:02:49.640 Those are your rebels.
00:02:51.040 Now, let's round them up.
00:02:57.420 Now, Trudeau's family has been waist, maybe neck deep, in the We Charity scandal from the very beginning.
00:03:03.940 With the government choosing the Liberal-linked charity as the only one in the entire country,
00:03:12.020 so the Liberals did their best to tell us,
00:03:14.520 with the capacity to deliver the proposed nearly $1 billion pay-for-volunteerism student bailout program.
00:03:22.840 The government wanted Canadians to believe that the charity that has paid the Trudeau family
00:03:30.540 hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking engagement fees for We Day events
00:03:37.900 and that Trudeau's wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, hosted a podcast for
00:03:42.840 and that has paid former Finance Minister Bill Morneau's luxury-volunteerism vacation costs,
00:03:49.660 oh, and employed one of Morneau's kids,
00:03:52.240 was the only one with the ability to deliver the program in the entire country,
00:03:56.720 that the organization was paid at least $30 million in advance to do.
00:04:01.680 I mean, it's pretty clear.
00:04:03.040 The whole thing was just a bailout to Trudeau's friends,
00:04:06.540 the Kielberger brothers, who, when you think about it,
00:04:10.120 had been bailing out the Trudeau family for years with speaking engagement fees.
00:04:14.760 And we know this because once the scandal broke of paying Trudeau's friends
00:04:19.040 to run a program designed just for them,
00:04:22.220 caused the cancellation of the student bailout program,
00:04:25.600 the We organization just shut down its Canadian operations,
00:04:30.320 citing money problems as one of the main reasons for the closure.
00:04:34.640 Now, in a newly released list of payments and disclosures,
00:04:41.180 we now know the full amount of payments the We organization made to Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
00:04:48.020 in speaking fees and reimbursed expenses.
00:04:52.200 Just look at this.
00:04:53.560 Between February 2012 and March 2020,
00:04:58.200 Sophie Trudeau attended a total of eight We Day events.
00:05:01.780 She received a one-time speaking fee of $1,500 in 2012.
00:05:09.380 The total amount of expenses in hospitality costs,
00:05:13.520 including hotels, car service, and flights,
00:05:17.500 covered for Sophie Trudeau over the eight events she attended
00:05:22.100 was $23,940.76.
00:05:27.160 An additional $240 in gifts was provided to Sophie Trudeau during this time.
00:05:33.840 Translation?
00:05:34.820 Never has so much money been paid for so little talent.
00:05:39.560 But when it comes to the salivating swag hound that is Sophie Trudeau,
00:05:45.220 this is a woman who has an absolutely insatiable appetite for free stuff,
00:05:52.440 even if that free stuff is coming from the coffers of a charity
00:05:57.000 meant to help kids in impoverished third world nations.
00:06:02.000 How shameful can you possibly get?
00:06:05.640 And joining me now with more on this despicable tale
00:06:08.960 of greed, gluttony, and self-glorification
00:06:11.760 is Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:06:13.360 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
00:06:15.580 Hey, David.
00:06:16.060 Thanks for having me on the show.
00:06:17.180 It is always, always a pleasure.
00:06:19.100 Sheila, let's just cut to the chase here.
00:06:21.620 Sophie Trudeau is a privileged, wealthy woman,
00:06:24.720 so why can't she keep her snout out of the charity trough?
00:06:30.740 You know, she is the perfect wife for Justin Trudeau,
00:06:33.520 so it's sort of strange that they seem to be estranged most of the time
00:06:40.220 because she is really just as entitled as he is.
00:06:45.640 I mean, he loves to indulge himself on the taxpayer's dime.
00:06:51.080 We've seen that when we pull access to information on what goes on
00:06:56.160 on those taxpayer-funded Challenger jets.
00:06:59.080 We've taken a look at the menu, and we've taken a look at the liquor bills
00:07:03.660 for the Challenger jets.
00:07:06.420 I mean, Justin Trudeau has his special expensive vodka
00:07:08.780 that he insists on the taxpayer keeping in the jets.
00:07:12.900 And really, you know, when you look at it, she's just as bad.
00:07:16.700 Her job basically is to have no job and just do charity work.
00:07:20.940 That's her job, really.
00:07:22.240 And, you know, she insists that we pay for extra nannies
00:07:26.320 because she's so busy giving selflessly of her time
00:07:30.560 to do all this charity work.
00:07:32.320 And yet, she's just milking these charities for luxury vacations,
00:07:37.260 and then when she gets to the location,
00:07:39.480 she donates, I guess, 15 minutes of her time to give a speech
00:07:44.360 that I guarantee you kids don't care about at these We Day events.
00:07:48.680 No, that's the thing, too, though.
00:07:50.880 It's not as though you're getting some world-renowned author
00:07:54.520 or anything like that.
00:07:55.620 She's just famous for having a famous surname.
00:07:58.720 And, you know, the Sophie Trudeau story I most remember, Sheila,
00:08:02.020 we talked about it from a couple years ago, of course.
00:08:04.380 You remember the famous family vacation to the Aga Khan's resort.
00:08:08.560 And then she followed that up, if memory serves me,
00:08:12.440 where I guess there was an open invitation to come back.
00:08:16.360 And the Aga Khan and his family, they weren't going to be there.
00:08:21.060 And basically, she said, oh, that's okay.
00:08:22.940 Me and my girlfriends will just fly in for a weekend.
00:08:26.460 Like, what chutzpah is that?
00:08:29.360 Well, yeah, that's the thing.
00:08:30.880 She's really the grifter in this family.
00:08:33.780 She's the one just milking that last name for everything that it's worth.
00:08:39.520 She was the one who arranged the Christmas vacation at the Aga Khan's island
00:08:44.660 when the Aga Khan and his family wouldn't be there
00:08:47.700 because she just wanted a private luxury vacation.
00:08:52.420 She was using her connections that she's got
00:08:54.600 by having that famous last name and that famous husband.
00:09:00.680 That's how she got that.
00:09:02.100 She was the one making the connections.
00:09:04.860 It wasn't even Justin Trudeau.
00:09:06.780 She's the grifter there.
00:09:08.220 And she's the one with her hand out all the time to get all this free stuff.
00:09:13.060 Yeah, and it's also Mama Trudeau too, Sheila.
00:09:16.200 I mean, you know, she's getting these speaking gigs as well.
00:09:20.500 And, I mean, you alluded to the fact that you can't imagine the youth
00:09:24.980 being that into Sophie Trudeau.
00:09:27.020 Well, can you imagine how not into Margaret Trudeau they are?
00:09:30.900 I mean, when was she last relevant in the days of disco going to Club 54 in New York City?
00:09:36.140 I mean, and yet, it's like nepotism rules the roost there, doesn't it?
00:09:42.400 Well, just look at Margaret Trudeau.
00:09:46.240 She's been Margaret, Sinclair, Trudeau, Sinclair, Kemper, and then back to Trudeau.
00:09:55.600 Because that's where the money is.
00:09:57.920 Like, that's a lot of last names there.
00:10:00.400 I have two.
00:10:02.020 But she's got, I mean, she's got three times more than me.
00:10:05.600 Because the money's in the last name.
00:10:07.480 And nobody pays to hear Margaret Kemper talk.
00:10:10.820 Nobody pays to hear Margaret Sinclair talk.
00:10:13.320 No, I think nobody would probably hear or pay to hear Margaret Trudeau talk about her life
00:10:22.140 experience, especially kids, except for the fact that it garners them favor with the prime
00:10:28.100 minister.
00:10:28.640 And the prime minister is the guy dishing out all the money right now.
00:10:31.560 Indeed.
00:10:31.840 And, you know, Sheila, I can hear the cynics out there saying, why are you obsessed with
00:10:36.840 $24,000 in expenses, $250 worth of gifts for Sophie Trudeau?
00:10:43.160 In the grand scheme of things, when we're talking about budgets in the billions, even
00:10:47.660 approaching a trillion dollars in debt and deficit, what's the big deal?
00:10:52.780 Here's what I think is the big deal.
00:10:54.840 This is the stuff we know about the WE Charity.
00:10:58.120 And as we all know from recent days, there was almost an election triggered over this
00:11:05.220 about a committee going in to investigate really who is on the take, I think, with this
00:11:11.700 charity.
00:11:12.180 Now, it might be as clean as the driven snow, Sheila, but the more the Trudeau liberals try
00:11:18.200 to hide and shut down committees and investigations, the more I think, and why wouldn't you, that
00:11:23.940 there's a lot of rotten stuff there.
00:11:26.800 And this is just an example.
00:11:29.580 This indeed might be just chump change.
00:11:32.220 There must be some, I think, really awful six, seven, eight figure payouts from that charity that
00:11:41.400 really didn't go anywhere near a third world nation to help children.
00:11:45.500 Well, we know that Justin Trudeau used to charge charities speaking fees.
00:11:50.260 Yes.
00:11:50.500 Um, when he was an MP, here's the thing with the, I mean, $24,000, it, it isn't a huge amount,
00:11:59.220 like you say, in the grand scheme of things, all things considered and all things being
00:12:03.100 relative, but this is money meant for a charity.
00:12:07.580 And instead, it went to Justin Trudeau's pampered and privileged, very rich wife, um, to fly first
00:12:17.680 class so that she can speak for 15 minutes and say something nobody wants to hear.
00:12:22.180 Um, it's just a make work project so that she can get, you know, a first class trip to London
00:12:27.580 or wherever she went.
00:12:28.900 There are kids who are fundraising or were at the time, we now closed their Canadian operations
00:12:36.620 since the, uh, gravy train with biscuit wheels pulled out of the station.
00:12:40.620 Um, but there were kids fundraising for we, the Kiel Burgers organization, selling bracelets,
00:12:48.680 doing extra volunteer work, whatever to get money to we, because they thought it was going
00:12:56.080 to help impoverished kids on the other side of the world.
00:12:59.580 And in this instance, it went to Justin Trudeau's very rich pampered wife.
00:13:04.200 You know, great point, Sheila, and it just shows you how odious this whole story is.
00:13:09.360 And, and, and as I've always said too, in the big, big picture, what this We Charity scandal
00:13:15.140 has done, I think, has caused, um, an air of suspicion unfairly about all charities.
00:13:22.860 There are so many charities out there and you really should do your homework, folks, in terms
00:13:27.260 of finding out how much of your dollar goes to administration costs and how much actually
00:13:31.820 goes to the charitable cause.
00:13:33.740 But there are good charities out there.
00:13:35.260 But I think the average Canadian, after hearing about We, Sheila, is saying, uh, you know,
00:13:40.420 charity XYZ has, uh, is asking me for a $50 donation.
00:13:44.600 Do I know if my money is going to help people in need?
00:13:47.680 Or is it to, uh, pad, uh, a luxury vacation, uh, bill, uh, you know, when, when my check
00:13:54.860 or visa number gets to them, what are your thoughts on that, Sheila?
00:13:59.180 Well, it's very interesting how Justin Trudeau spent the first part of his prime ministership
00:14:05.000 demonizing Christian charities.
00:14:06.960 So Christian charities usually have a low overhead, um, low labor costs because they rely mainly
00:14:12.820 on volunteer work.
00:14:14.020 The people who, um, work for these organizations are, they feel, they feel called by their religion
00:14:19.740 to do this sort of work and give of themselves to these sorts of organizations.
00:14:24.680 Justin Trudeau made sure that they couldn't qualify for the Canada Summer Jobs Grant because
00:14:28.800 they wouldn't sign an attestation to the liberal values around abortion and gender theory.
00:14:34.160 These organizations chose not to violate their conscience because for them, it's, it's, uh,
00:14:42.020 a matter of their, their, uh, their soul really.
00:14:46.380 And yet Justin Trudeau goes now and crafts a nearly $1 billion program so that his friend's
00:14:54.820 charity can administer it.
00:14:57.680 Um, so if there are stigmatizations about charities, well, it started with Justin Trudeau.
00:15:03.620 It happened a long time ago.
00:15:06.000 He did it to Christian charities and now he's basically tainted the entire charitable industry
00:15:11.280 here in Canada.
00:15:12.360 And there are a lot of charities doing good work that don't have anything to do with the
00:15:16.720 Trudeaus.
00:15:17.340 You know, Sheila, thank you so much for reminding me about that.
00:15:20.260 I almost forgot.
00:15:21.340 And it just, what you just said, it just, it's just another example, isn't it, my friend,
00:15:26.520 of how upside down everything is in 2020.
00:15:30.260 I can't wait for this year to end, although I don't think 2021 is looking that much better
00:15:36.160 in terms of the long range scanners.
00:15:39.160 You know, I hope, uh, President Trump wins, um, in a few weeks because that will be the
00:15:45.200 bright spot in 2020 that we need.
00:15:47.440 And it will offer a ray of hope for 2021.
00:15:50.340 That's for sure.
00:15:51.640 Absolutely.
00:15:52.080 I don't even want to contemplate the other fellow with me.
00:15:57.160 Sheila, thank you so much for weighing in on this.
00:15:59.820 And, uh, uh, you have a wonderful weekend, my friend.
00:16:03.640 Thank you, David.
00:16:04.240 You too.
00:16:04.640 You got it.
00:16:05.460 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed up in Northern Alberta.
00:16:08.880 Keep it here, folks.
00:16:10.060 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:16:12.420 Whether it's girls screaming after Trump is sworn in, or the character affectionately
00:16:21.660 known as Trigglypuff, we've all seen our share of triggering over the last few years,
00:16:25.780 and it seems as though Disney has reached their limit.
00:16:29.540 Starting immediately, Disney Plus subscribers will see racial trigger warnings on plenty of
00:16:34.100 their content on the menu screens.
00:16:35.780 Nothing is safe, not Peter Pan, not Jungle Book, even the cats are racist now.
00:16:42.300 As part of our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we are in the process of reviewing
00:16:46.540 our library and adding advisories to content that include negative depictions or mistreatment
00:16:51.440 of people or cultures.
00:16:53.320 Now, if some of these warnings actually make sense, and some of them are very silly, as
00:16:57.180 you can imagine, here's the generic warning across most of the movies on their preview screen.
00:17:01.580 This program includes negative depictions or mistreatment of people or cultures.
00:17:06.740 These stereotypes were wrong then, and they are wrong now.
00:17:09.720 Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from
00:17:13.720 it, and spark conversations to create a more inclusive future together.
00:17:17.880 It kind of sounds like they're actually saying, we used to be racist, and this stuff is still
00:17:22.820 racist, but instead of taking it down, we're just admitting we're racist, and we hope this
00:17:26.780 sparks a conversation between, I don't know, two eight-year-olds watching cartoons in their
00:17:30.520 living room.
00:17:32.120 Take Lady and the Tramp, for example.
00:17:34.300 This apparently needs a warning, because the Siamese cats perpetuate Asian stereotypes.
00:17:39.300 Now, I watched this as a kid, and I don't recall thinking negatively of Siamese people afterwards.
00:17:44.940 Siam hasn't even been a country for like 100 years, and the only place you're going to
00:17:48.980 come across it is on the board game Risk, and I think kids are going to be okay on this
00:17:53.860 one.
00:17:54.860 The same goes for Peter Pan.
00:18:03.180 It allegedly portrays Native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity
00:18:08.500 of Native peoples, nor their authentic cultural traditions.
00:18:11.460 Maybe that makes sense, but the only thing I found really offensive was Robin Williams' performance
00:18:16.420 in the movie version of this.
00:18:22.060 Oh, there you are, Peter.
00:18:24.720 Now, of course, Aladdin is on there as well, not because of Will Smith's genie, but probably
00:18:30.680 because of the whole flying carpets thing.
00:18:33.380 Whoa, who knew that flying carpets are culturally insensitive?
00:18:39.000 Well, not to me.
00:18:39.820 I would think that a flying carpets would be an aviation breakthrough for the ages, but
00:18:45.080 really, why does Disney feel these disclaimers to be so necessary?
00:18:50.540 Surely there is a realization out there that standards have changed over the years, and
00:18:55.600 really, if these cartoons are so gasp-inducing racist, why doesn't Disney simply vault them
00:19:03.740 as in forever?
00:19:04.940 Let me guess, social justice is one thing, but at the end of the day, that mouse is beholden
00:19:12.240 to the shareholders.
00:19:14.260 And joining me now with more on Disney's trigger warning policy is Andrew Chapitose.
00:19:19.840 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
00:19:22.740 Thanks for having me, David.
00:19:23.740 You know, I'm always glad to come on and talk about cartoons with you.
00:19:26.720 Well, you don't trigger me, but I'll tell you what does trigger me.
00:19:29.620 Trigger warnings trigger me.
00:19:31.480 Ironic.
00:19:31.880 I have to say, though, given the choice, I'll take a trigger warning, as silly as it
00:19:38.740 may be, over outright cancellation, censorship, what have you.
00:19:43.440 But what do you think is really behind this, Andrew?
00:19:46.820 I think it's an easy way for them to appease people who are offended by, I don't know who's
00:19:52.400 going back and watching cartoons and being offended by them, what adults are doing that,
00:19:56.360 but it's an easy way for them to appease the offended bodies while still, as you mentioned,
00:20:00.780 making money off of their catalogue, because children aren't going to pay attention to
00:20:04.920 this when they're watching it, and they have a large catalogue, obviously, of children's
00:20:09.060 movies that they're going to want to watch, and they're now inappropriate.
00:20:13.480 Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, and you said it well in your commentary, Andrew.
00:20:16.280 I mean, they are woke, but not too woke.
00:20:19.240 And by that, I mean, we recognize this as a racist or culturally insensitive depiction
00:20:24.680 of a person or a group of people, so we want you to be aware of it.
00:20:29.640 It's not too insensitive, mind you, that we're going to obliterate it from the catalogue,
00:20:34.900 ostensibly because I think there's still money to be made off this.
00:20:39.460 Well, it's interesting that they admit that basically a lot of their content was racist
00:20:43.380 in their own mind, and so much of it that they clearly can't just delete it from the videos
00:20:49.340 without taking away large portions of the movie itself.
00:20:53.660 So they want to take away any responsibility they might have to have for it while still
00:21:00.760 making money off of it.
00:21:02.080 Here's the thing, Andrew.
00:21:03.560 Are we really, and I'm talking about the general populace, are we really that sensitive, that
00:21:09.480 fragile, that when we see something that's being depicted as culturally insensitive, we
00:21:15.400 gasp, we fret about it?
00:21:17.040 Let me give you an example.
00:21:19.140 My background, it's of Scottish heritage.
00:21:21.380 I can tell you, my friend, in the advertising industry in this nation, if you want to depict
00:21:26.920 the quintessential cheapskate, put them in a kilt and give them a Scottish accent.
00:21:32.380 It's true.
00:21:33.040 I have so many examples.
00:21:34.820 That doesn't bother me, you know, and I mean, I can, I think it's a matter of I can laugh
00:21:41.200 at myself, I can laugh at my family, I can laugh at my culture.
00:21:44.960 And I would argue if you were to depict a caricature, like say in The Simpsons, Apu, the convenience
00:21:53.060 store owner, the Indians I know in my circle, no one's offended by that.
00:21:58.800 They get a laugh out of it.
00:22:00.920 So are we being, are the companies like Disney being overprotective that what they think is
00:22:08.520 so horrendous, it, in the, in reality, it really isn't?
00:22:13.140 Well, yes.
00:22:13.620 And I would say at some points, it's a form of reverse racism when you're saying, oh,
00:22:17.720 this reminds me of natives or something.
00:22:20.520 So, and this is what all natives are like.
00:22:22.200 So you must be offended.
00:22:23.320 I'm sure 99% of the time it's people who aren't of that ethnicity or background that
00:22:27.980 are offended on their behalf.
00:22:28.960 There's been studies done multiple times about native names for sports teams, for example,
00:22:33.960 the Washington Redskins, the Eskimos is one we've talked about.
00:22:37.200 And then the native population overwhelmingly says we don't care.
00:22:40.400 And there's often, I know around here, if you look at places like Iroquois, these are
00:22:45.280 places that are named by the teams, a team of natives naming themselves and using these
00:22:50.900 logos and they don't have a problem with it.
00:22:52.260 But it's these Torontonians that have a problem with it, probably.
00:22:56.080 Oh, Andrew, far from don't care.
00:22:59.100 They actually like it.
00:23:00.060 I can tell you there was a 2016 Washington Post survey and I'm amazed that it saw the
00:23:07.040 light of day being published because it surely wasn't, I think, what the Post was hoping to
00:23:11.660 prove.
00:23:12.200 But they asked natives, exclusively natives in this poll, what do you think about the Washington
00:23:17.820 team's nickname and logo?
00:23:19.660 And I believe it was 91% approval, you know, and I went to an area of Toronto where there
00:23:27.660 were natives congregating at a Washington Redskins hat.
00:23:30.460 The comments I was getting, no, they said, we love it.
00:23:33.500 You know, they, so it's almost, I think, like white social justice warriors, maybe of a certain
00:23:40.860 age, getting offended for others and therefore implementing trigger warnings or ultimately
00:23:47.320 censorship and cancellation.
00:23:48.820 At this point, I wouldn't target it just to white people.
00:23:51.680 I think it's more of an age group or a class group, the university class of younger women
00:23:57.540 and the men who want to get with them under 25 years old in a sad, sad circle of life where
00:24:03.400 the girl presents this terrible viewpoint and in order to get their attention, the sad beta
00:24:09.000 male or soy boy, if you will, does and agrees with whatever they say.
00:24:13.880 Well, you know, I guess we should count our blessings as merely just a trigger warning as opposed
00:24:19.560 to changing content.
00:24:20.980 And Andrew, that's not outrageous.
00:24:23.160 I look back at the Star Wars example, you know, the original Star Wars film from 1977.
00:24:28.540 It shows Han Solo shooting the bounty hunter that's after him.
00:24:32.960 Who shot first?
00:24:33.820 Yeah.
00:24:34.100 Many years later, director George Lucas tweaked that scene to make the bounty hunter shoot first
00:24:40.340 at Han Solo.
00:24:41.300 So you see, he was acting in self-defense.
00:24:44.700 I mean, to me, that's crazy.
00:24:47.040 It's bowing to political correctness.
00:24:48.620 Would you like to see filmmakers go back into the past and basically whitewash what was already
00:24:56.220 produced?
00:24:57.340 No.
00:24:58.040 And I struggle with this idea.
00:25:00.080 And I actually had a conversation with producer Justin about this of deleting anything.
00:25:05.400 Personally, I say let everything fly.
00:25:07.800 I'm not offended by any form of art.
00:25:10.520 But if this own company, which is Disney, is saying that their own stuff is racist, it's
00:25:15.820 kind of weird that they're not deleting it.
00:25:17.800 It's kind of weird that they're allowing it to be out there.
00:25:19.620 And their excuse is, we want to spark a conversation.
00:25:22.420 Little Timmy and Jimmy in the living room, we're going to have a heated debate about race
00:25:26.700 and cultural appropriation about two cats saying that they're Siamese, which I thought
00:25:31.620 was very clever of me to remark that Siam hasn't been a country for 100 years.
00:25:36.540 But you will see it on a risk board, people.
00:25:38.780 There you go.
00:25:39.280 Well, I would say this, Andrew, that behind that Mickey Mouse costume is Attila the Hun
00:25:46.420 when it comes to making money.
00:25:48.500 And they're making billions of dollars.
00:25:50.480 They own the Star Wars franchise, Marvel Comics, and they're not going to start giving up content
00:25:55.440 regardless of who it offends, if anything.
00:25:58.760 I can tell you, years ago, I was at Disneyland in California.
00:26:02.800 And you talk about...
00:26:03.580 David's got that money, people.
00:26:05.860 Press trip.
00:26:07.360 And you talk about Disneyfication on Walt Disney himself.
00:26:12.580 There's a picture of Walt Disney in his office circa 1950-something.
00:26:16.380 And his fingers are like this.
00:26:19.780 And basically, it's explained, once upon a time, there used to be a cigarette between
00:26:25.320 those fingers.
00:26:26.240 They actually airbrushed out.
00:26:28.160 So let's just hope Disney and other content makers don't alter, don't airbrush out things
00:26:34.000 because then we get into, I think, the even bigger problem right now.
00:26:38.220 Statues are being pulled down by the cancel culture mob.
00:26:41.640 They're trying to erase, literally, history.
00:26:44.060 Well, unfortunately, that's just the motif of communism when you've got to erase the
00:26:49.940 colonialists and the evil capitalist history and replace it with, I don't know, what transgender
00:26:55.740 Mickey Mouse now?
00:26:56.720 We'll just combine Minnie and Mickey and he goes fluid between both of them.
00:27:00.960 Now, we're joking about all of this, but I do have to admit that the one scene in Dumbo
00:27:05.400 is pretty questionable where they're working on a railroad and talking about how they're
00:27:09.400 going to waste all their money as soon as they get their paycheck.
00:27:12.060 I'm like, what the hell is this?
00:27:13.020 But isn't it noted that Walt Disney was kind of a bad guy?
00:27:18.280 Well, yeah, there is that part.
00:27:19.600 Maybe that's why there's so much of that stuff.
00:27:21.540 And then the sexual messaging, that was a big conspiracy 10, 15 years ago where Aladdin
00:27:27.040 covers and in Lion King and such, they had subliminal messaging.
00:27:31.200 Yeah, and there's something about the Little Mermaid too.
00:27:33.580 And, you know, you can get into that minutia.
00:27:36.060 But I just wonder how, you know, how it's going to proceed in the years to come.
00:27:41.120 But I guess bottom line, at least the content is still out there and we'll put up with trigger
00:27:45.200 warnings.
00:27:45.760 And thank you so much.
00:27:46.820 It was great commentary, Andrew.
00:27:48.020 And I'll tell you, folks, I had a viewer pass on to me a couple of days ago that CHCH TV
00:27:55.020 and Hamilton, they were playing an episode of Green Acres, if you can imagine, and it involved
00:28:01.480 a native in that episode.
00:28:05.080 And they put before the episode, word for word, the Disney trigger warning about, you know,
00:28:13.120 stereotypes and what have you.
00:28:15.420 So I guess it's already spreading.
00:28:18.280 But like I said, the good news is it's not being canceled, unlike some of our statues that
00:28:23.300 are being torn down or stored away forever.
00:28:25.880 Keep it here.
00:28:26.640 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:28:28.760 I'm more of an Omni TV guy, David.
00:28:30.460 Great commercials.
00:28:37.380 Wow.
00:28:38.220 Ford Nation, or did I say Ford Nation?
00:28:40.980 Not anymore.
00:28:41.560 Yahoo Nation is more energized than ever, as Premier Doug Ford continues to shut down more
00:28:50.400 parts of the economy, the Ontario economy.
00:28:53.800 Rage is taking lease in the land.
00:28:56.840 I'm at Yonge-Dundas Square.
00:28:58.100 You can see there is a huge turnout of people that are, well, they're, quite frankly, they're
00:29:04.260 pissed by how things are going.
00:29:06.180 And you can understand the frustration just a few days ago.
00:29:09.820 So none other than the World Health Organization stated that lockdowns of the economy is not
00:29:17.640 the way to go to eradicate this virus.
00:29:20.740 They've done a flip-flop.
00:29:21.880 So why is ostensibly a Conservative Premier locking down the economy?
00:29:28.240 A Premier that ran on the campaign slogan, Ontario Open for Business, back in 2018.
00:29:35.200 Well, as the saying goes, it's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and I'm wearing milk bone
00:29:39.840 underwear.
00:29:40.620 Now, you know, I'm a little averse to dogs these days.
00:29:42.800 I got chewed up by one last month, sir.
00:29:44.780 But what is the story of this incredible canine mask?
00:29:49.200 Well, this is the only mask that I could wear because you have to wear masks in Canada.
00:29:54.020 So I decided to wear this one.
00:29:56.860 I said all the police officers in Canada and Quebec, stop doing all the stuff they're
00:30:03.280 doing.
00:30:03.900 We don't give tickets to those people.
00:30:05.780 USA!
00:30:06.420 USA!
00:30:07.920 They're not entering their home.
00:30:09.880 This is illegal, guys.
00:30:12.340 You know, it's funny.
00:30:13.140 Here's a gathering of thousands of people in downtown Toronto.
00:30:16.600 Where is the mainstream media when it comes to covering this?
00:30:19.440 Why are they able?
00:30:20.160 Aren't we just in front of their central cutplotters and they're completely ignoring
00:30:25.800 everything that's going on since we started gathering in March?
00:30:29.580 I think you're the only media coverage that actually came and covered the truth.
00:30:33.040 We've been coming almost every single week since late April, absolutely.
00:30:37.200 But, I mean, why is it that they have chosen not to cover this?
00:30:42.440 Is it because the narrative being espoused by you and the other people here, that's not
00:30:47.560 their narrative, so we're simply going to black it out?
00:30:50.160 They're getting direction from up above to spread the fear and all they're talking about
00:30:55.660 cases.
00:30:56.380 We have over 400 hospitals in Ontario and there's only 30 to 50 hospitalized people in
00:31:02.980 ICU, so they're just really narrativist to spread the fear.
00:31:07.980 And we got to, I think we have to flatten the fear.
00:31:11.540 You know, and it's funny too because, again, on the media angle, Doug Ford is so chummy with
00:31:18.260 the mainstream media and just a few years ago when they were harassing his brother, the
00:31:24.200 late, great Rob Ford, he had nothing but, you know, wicked words for the mainstream media.
00:31:30.300 Now he's all chummy with them.
00:31:32.000 What happened to Doug?
00:31:33.060 What happened to Doug?
00:31:34.140 I don't know.
00:31:34.680 I think he ate too many of those cherry cheesecakes.
00:31:37.760 Too many cherry cheesecakes, Dougie.
00:31:39.720 Well, to paraphrase that old Helen Reddy song, they are Yahoos, hear them roar in numbers
00:31:45.600 too big to ignore.
00:31:47.580 Well, okay, maybe the mainstream media is ignoring them, but is that a surprise to anyone?
00:31:53.500 In any event, that anti-lockdown protest by the rank and file of Yahoo Nation last Saturday
00:31:59.240 in Toronto might have been the biggest one of its kind in Ontario to date, and little
00:32:05.100 wonder why, given how more and more cities and regions in Ontario are being thrown back
00:32:10.780 into stage two lockdown mode.
00:32:14.580 Businesses are going bankrupt.
00:32:16.460 Ontarians are being thrown out of work.
00:32:19.120 Hey, Premier Ford, whatever happened to those 2018 campaign slogans such as, oh, I don't
00:32:25.060 know, Ontario Open for Business and for the people, who could have imagined the precise
00:32:30.980 opposite would come true in 2020?
00:32:34.340 And without further ado, here's what you had to say about the latest uprising of Yahoo Nation.
00:32:41.080 Rob Guerri writes, RIP, Rob Ford.
00:32:45.080 Shame on Doug Ford.
00:32:46.500 Rob would never let this happen.
00:32:48.380 You know, you're right, sir.
00:32:49.420 I think that with the passage of two years, we have all discovered, sadly, that Doug Ford
00:32:56.280 is not Rob Ford.
00:32:59.280 Liberals R. Cucks writes, Toronto, you voted Tory and Trudeau.
00:33:03.300 What do you expect?
00:33:05.360 Well, true enough, but it is the province that's responsible for the stage two lockdowns, and
00:33:11.260 Doug Ford was supposed to be better than those other two.
00:33:15.320 But as the saying goes, look good on paper.
00:33:19.980 True Christian writes, late, great Rob Ford.
00:33:22.940 You mean great at smoking crack in the hood?
00:33:25.640 Really stupid statement for Menzies there.
00:33:28.420 No, true Christian.
00:33:29.860 Rob Ford was a fantastic mayor and city councillor.
00:33:33.160 He got so much done, yet was downright bullied by the mainstream media, perhaps bullied to an
00:33:39.220 early grave.
00:33:40.540 Now, was Rob Ford a flawed man?
00:33:42.760 Of course he was.
00:33:43.640 We all have our flaws.
00:33:45.580 Even great men and great women are flawed.
00:33:48.240 To think otherwise.
00:33:49.360 Now, that's stupid.
00:33:51.460 Brianna C. Reacts writes, whoa, that dog mask is impressive.
00:33:56.900 Oh, and better yet, Brianna, Catherine McKennell was nowhere to be seen that day.
00:34:02.460 A voice in the frequency writes, Doug Ford, a liberal in conservatives clothes.
00:34:07.220 Sad, isn't it?
00:34:08.000 I mean, going back to January 2018, that was the reason crybaby Patrick Brown was ousted from
00:34:14.220 the PC party in a palace coup.
00:34:16.960 It was clear Brown was a conservative in name only.
00:34:21.020 Ford was the savior.
00:34:23.220 So, what happened?
00:34:25.000 Indeed, why is it that Patrick Brown actually goes to Ford's residence for dinners now?
00:34:31.320 I mean, how weird, how bizarre, how creepy is that?
00:34:37.200 And Ryan Zak Music writes, great to see happy, courageous, loving people getting together.
00:34:43.840 I agree, Ryan.
00:34:45.140 Despite the justifiable anger out there due to the lockdowns, there is always such a great
00:34:51.040 vibe in the air at these Yahoo Nation protests.
00:34:53.880 I wish I could say the same when it comes to leftists getting together.
00:34:59.740 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
00:35:02.760 Thanks so much for joining us.
00:35:03.980 See you next week.
00:35:04.740 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.
00:35:09.100 Good night.
00:35:09.500 Good night.