Rebel News Podcast - January 17, 2019


Why I've stopped being a Gillette customer after 30 years


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

170.47012

Word Count

7,836

Sentence Count

308

Misogynist Sentences

51

Hate Speech Sentences

80


Summary

Gillette makes an anti-mail ad. It's weird, but it's so predictable. I'll show it to you, and why I think I'm going to stop being a 30-year customer. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Gillette, the razor company, makes an anti-mail ad.
00:00:03.680 It's so weird, but it's so predictable.
00:00:05.880 I'll show it to you, and why I think I'm going to stop being a 30-year customer.
00:00:09.980 It's January 16th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:14.860 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:18.580 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:22.680 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it
00:00:26.280 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:30.000 You know, there are some consumer items that once you choose a brand, you really never switch.
00:00:38.120 At least I think that's how it is for men,
00:00:40.140 because I don't think most men think about certain items once they've decided what they like.
00:00:43.960 It's not a big deal.
00:00:45.280 Toothpaste, probably, deodorant, shampoo.
00:00:47.820 Maybe you find a brand, and you just never change it.
00:00:50.220 I mean, why would you?
00:00:51.440 I guess if you can't find your brand in a store, you might try something new,
00:00:54.320 but how often does that happen?
00:00:55.640 And when it comes to razors, manufacturers do a trick.
00:00:58.320 They sell you the razor handle cheaply, but they get you with very expensive blades
00:01:03.440 that only attach to their handle.
00:01:05.120 Anyways, once you have a Gillette handle or a Schick handle,
00:01:07.960 you're sort of stuck buying the blades that go with Gillette or Schick.
00:01:12.620 Not that you're really thinking of switching, because you're a guy.
00:01:16.320 I honestly haven't thought about what kind of razor I've used in decades.
00:01:19.900 Not since the last century have I thought about it.
00:01:22.400 I just don't care.
00:01:23.200 But then I saw this ad by Gillette pop up on Twitter.
00:01:27.460 It's less than two minutes long, but that's still very long for an ad, don't you think,
00:01:30.920 in an era of 30-second or even five-second ads.
00:01:33.620 They call it a short film, because they're a bit pretentious that way.
00:01:38.040 And the short film was directed by a young feminist woman named Kim Gehrig,
00:01:44.260 which is unusual.
00:01:45.080 I mean, this is an ad for men about, you know, a sharp piece of metal.
00:01:48.280 Well, it's odd that a feminist woman would be given the role of directing this ad.
00:01:53.100 I mean, the analogy would be having a middle-aged male direct an ad for tampons.
00:01:57.660 I mean, why would you do that?
00:02:00.580 Unless you were doing that for a very special reason, on purpose,
00:02:03.480 and the purpose was not to sell razors.
00:02:06.520 I'm going to show you that Gillette ad in full in a moment,
00:02:09.200 but first I want to show you some other work that I found on Kim Gehrig's own video channel.
00:02:15.120 Let me just show you one of those called You Think You're a Man.
00:02:19.380 That's the title of this video.
00:02:21.560 I'm not going to play too much of it, because, frankly, it's upsetting.
00:02:24.980 Take a look.
00:02:25.400 Turn around.
00:02:49.260 Stand up like a man and wake me in the eye.
00:02:52.860 Come here.
00:02:53.260 Turn around.
00:02:56.440 Take one final word.
00:02:57.520 What did I tell you?
00:02:58.260 You're stuck.
00:03:00.300 Huh?
00:03:00.880 Walk with it.
00:03:04.360 So it's not hard what to guess this director thinks of masculinity and maleness.
00:03:12.180 She doesn't much like traditional ideas of feminine beauty, though, either.
00:03:16.100 Here's an ad that I think is intended to encourage overweight women to exercise.
00:03:22.660 Now, that's a great idea, and I should be inspired by it, even though I'm not a woman.
00:03:27.400 I should do it.
00:03:28.620 I'm not against exercise.
00:03:30.680 I think it's a good thing.
00:03:31.540 But there's two subtle things going on in this ad.
00:03:34.920 One is the normalization of being fat.
00:03:37.980 Look at how it's redefined as healthy and sexy.
00:03:40.660 But it's anti-male a little bit, too.
00:03:43.220 Just a little bit.
00:03:44.140 It's a much lighter touch here than the last one.
00:03:45.880 This is another short video by Kim Gehrig.
00:03:50.060 Watch for the anti-male moment at the end of this clip.
00:03:52.820 Now, I'm all for encouraging fat.
00:04:22.800 Fat people like me to exercise.
00:04:24.740 Maybe I should take that video to heart.
00:04:26.780 But there's an undertone there.
00:04:28.360 It's not as blatant as that you think you're a man video.
00:04:31.420 And I wouldn't mention that, really, were it not for the new monstrosity that Kim Gehrig
00:04:35.920 has directed for Gillette, her greatest masterpiece yet.
00:04:39.320 I mean, there's an ideological, cultural, aesthetic pattern here.
00:04:42.300 Take a look at this 60-second ad that she made for Uber.
00:04:45.960 Look at the confident, in-control leader of a young woman of color, of course,
00:04:51.040 and the emasculated, goofy, nerdy, beta male, white guy, of course, who tags along with her.
00:04:57.980 The fact that the heroine is a minority and the nerdy loser is a white guy is just sort
00:05:01.560 of obvious these days.
00:05:02.880 But I'm focused on the gender rules, not the racism.
00:05:05.440 Look, take a look.
00:05:05.980 When it comes to twisting, I just got to keep insisting.
00:05:20.400 Oh, baby.
00:05:22.480 You should do swing.
00:05:24.260 Baby, you've got me beat up and down inside, out and across.
00:05:39.220 Oh, yeah.
00:05:40.320 Yeah, do you think the director of that ad knows anything about what being a man is
00:06:07.400 about or what being a man should be?
00:06:09.720 Do you think she knows how to talk to men?
00:06:12.820 Okay, so let's get to her Gillette ad, the short film.
00:06:16.860 As I say, this has been watched more than 11 million times on YouTube in just two days.
00:06:22.380 200,000 comments.
00:06:23.740 More than a quarter of a million people clicked like on it.
00:06:26.520 Nearly 700,000 have clicked dislike on it.
00:06:29.600 So if the goal is to start a conversation, mission accomplished, but if the goal is to
00:06:34.180 sell razors to, you know, men, I don't think that would work.
00:06:38.040 Here, take a look.
00:06:41.580 Bullying.
00:06:42.060 The Me Too movement against sexual harassment.
00:06:44.060 Toxic masculinity.
00:06:45.700 Is this the best a man can get?
00:06:47.600 Man can get.
00:06:49.600 Man can get.
00:06:50.380 Man can get.
00:06:51.000 Man can get.
00:06:51.380 Is it?
00:06:51.960 Oh, toxic masculinity.
00:06:56.600 And Me Too, that's the term for sexual predators in the workplace like Gian Gomeschi or Justin
00:07:02.040 Trudeau.
00:07:03.020 So that's how you start an ad about men, a male product to sell to men.
00:07:07.680 And you disparage your old Gillette brand.
00:07:10.900 The best a man can get.
00:07:12.980 I know it.
00:07:13.600 I've heard it a million times.
00:07:14.780 So now Gillette is saying that that's, don't pay any attention to that.
00:07:19.060 That's out of fashion now.
00:07:19.880 Now, being the best, being manly, that's no longer in.
00:07:23.780 And they're so sorry for all of that.
00:07:25.620 And the whole woman kissing your cheek, that's so, what's that supposed to be?
00:07:30.220 It's a woman kissing a man's cheek.
00:07:31.680 Is that supposed to be rapey or something?
00:07:34.100 Is that toxic masculinity that a woman is attracted to a man and he's clean shaven and she kisses?
00:07:39.520 Most likely her husband kissing him on a smooth cheek.
00:07:42.780 Is that not what they actually are selling?
00:07:46.960 They're destroying their own brand value.
00:07:49.340 It would be like if Apple suddenly said, don't think different anymore.
00:07:54.360 Come to think of it, they sort of are increasingly saying that with their censorship, aren't they?
00:07:58.460 Or Subway Sandwiches, which says, eat fresh, suddenly did an ad saying, well, you know, eating fresh isn't really important.
00:08:04.380 And were we really that fresh after all?
00:08:06.580 It's bizarre if your goal is to sell a product and make your company look great.
00:08:10.500 But maybe that's not what they're pushing here.
00:08:11.860 Anyways, let's keep watching.
00:08:13.620 Oh, so bullying by preteens there, that's a toxic masculinity thing.
00:08:28.340 Razors are for men, by the way.
00:08:30.540 Preteen boys, those were what, 8, 9, 10-year-old boys?
00:08:33.880 They don't buy razors.
00:08:35.780 That's who I assume was doing the online bullying there, too, that they showed in text.
00:08:39.640 And if you don't think that girls are the masters of mean comments online, well, then you've never met a teenage girl before.
00:08:47.340 Apparently, that's all at the feet of grown men who shave.
00:08:53.020 But it gets worse a lot quicker in the ad.
00:08:54.840 And that's the thing, this is so rapid-paced, and it conflates so many different things into one giant stew called men are bad.
00:09:02.380 Keep watching, I'll let more of it play now.
00:09:04.660 Sexual harassment is taking over...
00:09:06.860 It's been going on far too long.
00:09:11.440 We can't laugh it off.
00:09:14.100 Lose the damage.
00:09:16.380 What I actually think she's trying to say.
00:09:19.020 Making the same old excuses.
00:09:21.020 Boys will be boys.
00:09:22.360 Boys will be boys.
00:09:23.400 Boys will be boys.
00:09:24.300 But something finally changed.
00:09:26.600 Allegations regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment.
00:09:31.500 So hang on, boys wrestling with each other at a family barbecue, that's in the same league as groping a woman's rear end and putting a hand on a woman's shoulder in a boardroom.
00:09:41.440 I agree, I wouldn't do that myself, but is that really in the same league as the Me Too sexual predators they were talking about?
00:09:48.560 Well, of course it is when you're a feminist director.
00:09:50.520 It's all evil maleness unless you're like that nerdy guy in the Uber ad.
00:09:55.100 But those boys wrestling, young boys, they're not shaving yet.
00:09:59.580 Imagine some scolding social justice warrior feminist with pink hair coming in.
00:10:03.580 You boys, you stop wrestling, boys.
00:10:06.160 Again, if you've ever met boys, you know they do that.
00:10:09.280 It's called playing.
00:10:10.640 Boys don't play with dolls.
00:10:13.020 They maybe play with dump trucks.
00:10:14.320 But pretty soon they're chasing each other, playing tag, doing feats of strength wrestling.
00:10:18.780 It's called roughhousing.
00:10:19.940 It's called being a young boy.
00:10:21.060 This is a razor ad, just a reminder.
00:10:23.580 And that quote from Anna Kasparian at the end there, that pundit they quoted, she said sexual harassment.
00:10:31.320 Now, she's a pundit on a far-left YouTube channel called The Young Turks.
00:10:34.560 Her role on that channel is pretty obvious to anyone who's ever watched it.
00:10:37.880 It's to smile at the main host named Sank Uyghur, a big fat guy like me.
00:10:43.700 And Anna's job is to wear tight shirts while she does it.
00:10:46.520 Sorry, watch the show and tell me if she has another role besides being eye candy.
00:10:51.580 So it's weird that they would quote her.
00:10:53.120 And just one more thing on that.
00:10:55.400 The founder of that show, The Young Turks, Sank Uyghur, the fat guy, he's a bit famous for Me Too sexism himself.
00:11:03.500 He's basically a washed-up pickup artist who objectifies women.
00:11:08.500 And he's a male feminist, too, to cover it up.
00:11:11.100 But like most male feminists, his woke politics is just to, you know, like Jean Gomeschi,
00:11:16.240 was just to cover up or preempt criticism of the fact that he's abusive towards women.
00:11:20.660 Anyway, so that was a little weird gem, quoting the woman whose main job is to provide feminist cover for Sank Uyghur's own misconduct
00:11:29.540 and to show some TNA on his own channel.
00:11:32.180 So weird.
00:11:33.000 Sorry for the digression, but I had to point that out.
00:11:35.420 Anyway, back to the video.
00:11:36.300 Watch some more.
00:11:36.900 And there will be no going back.
00:11:44.420 Because we, we believe in the best in men.
00:11:48.300 Men need to hold other men accountable.
00:11:51.720 Smile, sweetie.
00:11:53.020 Come on.
00:11:54.260 To say the right thing.
00:11:56.380 To act the right way.
00:11:58.720 Bro, not cool.
00:11:59.780 Not cool.
00:12:00.140 So this is Gillette.
00:12:04.540 And it's hanging the sins of male feminists, the sexual predators of leftists like Harvey Weinstein and Charlie Rose and Bill Clinton.
00:12:12.660 They're hanging those male feminist sins around the necks of men and saying it's a problem with masculine men.
00:12:20.100 And it's scolding other men for not holding men accountable.
00:12:22.480 And this is supposed to make me feel good about getting a scolding.
00:12:26.700 I feel so great about being scolded.
00:12:28.840 And maybe I'm going to go buy a razor right now and say, thanks, Gillette.
00:12:32.380 I have nothing to do with any of that sexual predation.
00:12:34.980 That's actually a leftist thing in the main.
00:12:36.980 I mean, anyone could do it.
00:12:38.900 But in the main, the Me Too moment has been leftist feminist men.
00:12:42.340 It's leftist men gaming feminism.
00:12:45.960 Gaming it.
00:12:46.560 Figuring out how to use it as a trick.
00:12:48.420 It's not masculinity or manliness, by the way.
00:12:51.620 It's the opposite.
00:12:52.140 Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer, would invite women over to his hotel room,
00:12:57.880 telling them he had a great feminist role for them in a movie.
00:13:02.960 And then he would pressure them to sleep with him.
00:13:05.340 He was using feminism, not manliness.
00:13:08.800 He was using feminism as a trick.
00:13:11.500 And that man who was in Congress there, the black man who was testifying,
00:13:14.860 he was assaulted by some Hollywood agent, a male feminist in L.A.
00:13:20.600 You're hanging that around my neck as a Gillette user?
00:13:25.660 That's not the culture of manliness.
00:13:27.140 That's not the culture of men.
00:13:28.360 That's the culture of celebrity Hollywood men, male feminists,
00:13:32.200 which is just the other side of the coin of the female feminist who directed this ad.
00:13:37.080 And right at the end there, a young man telling a young woman to smile at a pool party.
00:13:43.760 Is that wrong?
00:13:44.780 Maybe.
00:13:45.160 I mean, I'd have to know the context, maybe know who the people are.
00:13:47.640 And I'd have to wonder if that's really a problem at what was really a pool party for young singles.
00:13:54.580 I don't know, was that a clumsy pickup line?
00:13:57.020 Hey, can you smile some more?
00:13:58.780 So is any pickup line now called toxic masculinity?
00:14:04.000 And is that on par with rape or something?
00:14:06.020 Because they're mentioning all these things together in the ad.
00:14:08.300 And I noticed that both of the offending men there were white and both of the correcting men were black.
00:14:12.960 Now that's not my focus here, but it's so obvious who the stereotypers here are,
00:14:17.620 who the bigots here are, it's the Hollywood folks who made this ad,
00:14:23.100 who also were fine with Harvey Weinstein for years.
00:14:27.200 It's Gillette who's the bigot here.
00:14:29.560 There's a racist narrative here, just like there's a misandrist, anti-male narrative here.
00:14:33.900 Let's watch some more.
00:14:35.340 Some already are.
00:14:38.900 In ways big.
00:14:40.720 Young men.
00:14:42.780 And small.
00:14:44.120 I'm strong.
00:14:45.420 I'm strong.
00:14:47.620 But some is not enough.
00:14:53.080 It's not how we treat each other, okay?
00:14:55.260 Okay.
00:14:57.900 So some 10-year-old boys wrestling at a barbecue is the same as a pack of teenagers beating up someone on the street.
00:15:06.440 Do you see the elisions here, the blending of things?
00:15:09.360 Asking a girl at a pool party to smile is as evil as touching a female colleague on the shoulder.
00:15:15.320 It's as evil as grabbing a female's butt on a TV show is as evil as, I don't know, whatever Terry Crews was talking about.
00:15:23.000 What was he talking about, by the way?
00:15:24.460 Well, he was groped by another man named Adam Venet, a Hollywood agent.
00:15:28.960 Who knows?
00:15:29.300 Maybe that Hollywood agent even worked on this ad.
00:15:32.540 How has that anything to do with anything?
00:15:34.840 Anything to do with treating women right?
00:15:36.480 Anything to do with buying a razor?
00:15:38.120 Other than just saying men are evil, or at least white men are, I guess.
00:15:41.220 I didn't make this about race.
00:15:42.320 They did.
00:15:42.780 Sorry.
00:15:43.860 Watch the rest.
00:15:44.620 Because the boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow.
00:15:51.660 Oh, it ends with a little scold there in writing.
00:16:07.360 Just in case they didn't hit you over the head hard enough, they put the words on the screen.
00:16:11.500 You have homework to do, by the way.
00:16:13.060 You have to improve yourself, people.
00:16:14.640 You're not really good enough to buy razors from Gillette.
00:16:16.840 But no, men are.
00:16:18.280 Men need to be rebuilt.
00:16:19.380 So says Kim Garrick, the director of the ad, and her Hollywood team.
00:16:23.080 I wonder how many Me Too moments there were in the making of this ad.
00:16:27.420 If you click on the link that they show you there, it takes you here.
00:16:30.780 Let me read just one line from their re-education page.
00:16:34.200 They say,
00:16:34.420 But turn on the news today, and it's easy to believe that men are not at their best.
00:16:38.380 Many find themselves at a crossroads, caught between the past and a new era of masculinity.
00:16:43.040 While it is clear that changes are needed,
00:16:44.440 where and how we can start to affect that change is less obvious for many.
00:16:48.720 And when the change is needed, it seems so monumental, it can feel daunting to begin.
00:16:52.600 So let's do it together.
00:16:55.000 Yeah, so a media company made an ad smearing men,
00:17:00.160 and then it complains about when you turn on the news, you see men not at their best, really.
00:17:05.840 And we have to get rid of that old masculinity, you know, that old stuff,
00:17:08.480 that masculinity that stormed the peaches on D-Day, that toxic masculinity,
00:17:13.260 or when on 9-11, firemen actually ran into a burning Twin Towers rather than running out of it
00:17:20.360 because they went in to save people.
00:17:21.480 That's old-fashioned, you see.
00:17:22.880 Gillette wants to retrain your mind together with you.
00:17:26.320 And no thanks, there are enough pink-haired feminists screaming at me already.
00:17:29.460 I don't need my razor company to do that,
00:17:31.620 and I'm not really into signing up for re-education camp yet.
00:17:34.980 It's not mandatory yet.
00:17:37.320 That's a weird ad, would you agree with me?
00:17:38.860 It would have been even weirder had they stood up against real, real, real toxic masculinity.
00:17:44.040 Here's what Imam Tahiti of Australia said.
00:17:47.300 A great tweet here.
00:17:48.300 He said,
00:17:49.240 Hi, Gillette, I can't find your video on men who force women to undergo female gentle mutilation,
00:17:54.260 force their wives and daughters to wear a burqa,
00:17:56.840 burqa kill their women for leaving the religion,
00:17:59.220 rape their wives because their imam allows it,
00:18:01.260 form rape gangs across Europe.
00:18:02.860 Thank you.
00:18:03.180 Now, of course, that would be pretty weird for a razor ad too
00:18:07.740 because it's political scolding and political activism,
00:18:10.980 and this is a razor company.
00:18:12.680 But the razor company was just as weird and scolding and political.
00:18:15.440 Both would be weird ads,
00:18:16.920 but at least the one the imam from Australia mentions would be accurate and helpful.
00:18:21.920 Hey, could you imagine an ad for a women's personal product,
00:18:25.040 not razors, but, I don't know, maybe some feminine hygiene products of some sort,
00:18:28.320 that said,
00:18:29.260 Hey, girls, we need to do better.
00:18:31.300 No more false accusations of rape,
00:18:33.900 which are a thing, unfortunately, especially on campuses these days.
00:18:36.680 Women, we need to do better.
00:18:38.460 No more, oh, I don't know,
00:18:39.660 banning your ex-husband from getting visitation rights with his kids after your divorce.
00:18:45.020 I don't know.
00:18:45.600 No more fake paternity schemes.
00:18:47.080 I don't know, whatever.
00:18:47.840 I don't know what the analogies are to the slanders against men put out by Gillette
00:18:51.880 to the men of the world.
00:18:53.180 As if all men are guilty of all of it.
00:18:55.380 I don't know what the female equivalents would be.
00:18:58.040 There are things in the battle of the sexes that some women do do.
00:19:02.520 It would just be weird for a feminine products company that blamed all women as what?
00:19:09.220 I don't know.
00:19:10.060 Being promiscuous.
00:19:11.000 Stop being promiscuous women.
00:19:12.180 Stop being unfaithful.
00:19:13.080 I mean, whatever.
00:19:14.000 Who on earth would try to sell a product this way?
00:19:16.100 But, of course, products are not really for sale here.
00:19:20.020 Hollywood feminism is for sale.
00:19:21.560 Harvey Weinstein would have loved that ad.
00:19:23.720 He would have produced it.
00:19:25.180 I want to show you something for real from the Toronto story yesterday.
00:19:29.160 I know you think this is unbelievable, but believe it, it is from their advice column.
00:19:34.740 Let me read it to you.
00:19:35.840 I'm married to a woman whom I love and adore.
00:19:41.620 The thing is, she sees other men for sex and is open about it.
00:19:46.240 She doesn't have sex with me and says I'm too small.
00:19:49.660 Now she wants to have a baby, but it won't be mine.
00:19:52.720 What do I do?
00:19:54.680 Ask Ellie.
00:19:55.460 Yeah, that's the new Gillette.
00:20:00.340 That's that uber guy.
00:20:02.980 The new Gillette is about unmanliness, about being, in that case, cuckolded.
00:20:07.640 I wonder which man involved in that Toronto Star story uses Gillette.
00:20:11.620 I'm guessing it's the husband who uses Gillette and not her boyfriends.
00:20:15.880 Because he's renounced traditional ideas of masculinity, just like Gillette has asked him to.
00:20:21.800 Because after countless generations, centuries, millennia, Gillette has found a better way to be a man.
00:20:28.360 And lucky for us, this better way came from, of all people, a woman named Kim Garrick.
00:20:33.440 She should win the Nobel Prize for something.
00:20:36.320 You know, Kim Garrick made a long ad for a woman's personal product for the brand Libress.
00:20:42.920 Now, I don't know anything about Libress because I'm a guy.
00:20:45.920 But I want to show you 35 seconds of this ad.
00:20:48.220 It gets heavy duty after 35 seconds.
00:20:50.840 So I'm going to stop it there.
00:20:52.160 I'm not going to say this is an R-rated ad.
00:20:54.540 It's more artistic than pornographic.
00:20:57.800 But turn away now if you don't want to see some lady bits.
00:21:01.380 But all the man-hating, emasculating, disavowing in the Gillette ad about razors.
00:21:06.700 Imagine for a moment what the absolute 180-degree opposite of such hatred for men would be if it was deployed on a female hygiene product.
00:21:18.000 Here's the first ad of her tampon ad.
00:21:20.180 Same director.
00:21:21.740 Viewer discretion advised.
00:21:22.880 Again, this is not porn.
00:21:24.640 It's artistic sexuality.
00:21:26.800 Take a look.
00:21:27.220 We've come a long, long way together
00:21:34.200 Through the hard times and the good
00:21:39.540 I have to celebrate you, baby
00:21:44.880 I have to praise you like I should
00:21:50.460 You're so rare
00:21:52.480 So fine
00:21:55.060 I'm so glad you're mine
00:22:00.300 You're so rare
00:22:01.720 So rare
00:22:02.640 So fine
00:22:04.200 So fine
00:22:05.480 It goes on.
00:22:08.080 That's a real ad.
00:22:09.880 Yeah, like I say, that's the woman who made the Gillette ad.
00:22:13.400 Do you think they picked the right gal?
00:22:15.820 You know what?
00:22:16.300 I don't really care about what razor I use.
00:22:18.760 I swear.
00:22:19.280 I know I couldn't tell the difference between brands
00:22:22.260 They all overcharge
00:22:23.580 But after watching that Gillette ad three times
00:22:26.940 And learning more about the woman who directed it
00:22:29.120 And reading that awful propaganda website by Gillette
00:22:32.140 And their pledge to take a million dollars from you, of course
00:22:35.300 From your razor purchases
00:22:37.320 To re-engineer what it means to be a man
00:22:39.100 I just don't want to be a part of that
00:22:42.080 I didn't sign up for that
00:22:43.700 I didn't realize I was in that
00:22:45.460 But as a Gillette customer, I am
00:22:47.700 I have not thought about my razors in 30 years
00:22:52.080 But now I'm forced to think about it
00:22:54.420 And I hate my razor now
00:22:57.460 Because it's all about that super weirdness
00:23:01.000 Now I'm not going to throw out my razors
00:23:02.840 They're too expensive
00:23:03.560 I will use up the blades that I have
00:23:05.380 And then I just will not buy the same brand
00:23:07.740 I'm not going to buy Gillette anymore
00:23:09.660 Because it's just too bloody weird
00:23:11.120 By the way, I checked out Schick
00:23:13.180 Which was the only other consumer brand I knew
00:23:16.420 And they are just as bad
00:23:18.100 They're just less artistic about it
00:23:20.820 Here's an announcement two months ago
00:23:23.680 That Schick was doing a web series
00:23:27.000 Let me quote there
00:23:27.760 That hopes to challenge toxic masculinity
00:23:30.580 They really had
00:23:31.900 They deleted it
00:23:33.680 I should tell you
00:23:34.120 In the last 24 hours
00:23:34.920 That this really gross Twitter video
00:23:36.660 That actually attacked masculine phrases
00:23:38.880 Like man up
00:23:40.020 Or be a man
00:23:40.740 I was going to show you that video here now
00:23:42.400 Just to prove they're just as bad as Gillette
00:23:44.220 I didn't think they would delete it
00:23:46.320 But they quickly deleted that ad
00:23:48.280 In the last 24 hours
00:23:49.520 Pretending they never did it
00:23:50.660 Because they see how bad it's getting for Gillette
00:23:52.580 And by the way
00:23:53.360 The Dollar Shave Club
00:23:54.740 And Harry's Razors
00:23:56.860 They're positioning themselves
00:23:59.040 As no name cheaper alternatives
00:24:00.460 Of course
00:24:00.820 They're owned by corporate giants
00:24:02.540 They're just the pretend cheap brand
00:24:04.180 They've come up against masculinity too
00:24:06.600 But I note that
00:24:07.820 Every single one of these companies
00:24:09.380 Harry's, Dollar Shave
00:24:10.560 And Schick
00:24:11.500 Have all deleted
00:24:12.560 Their anti-male videos
00:24:14.520 In the last 24 hours
00:24:16.280 They deleted their tweets
00:24:17.540 They deleted their press releases
00:24:19.040 All in the last 48 hours
00:24:20.140 So they're all in it
00:24:23.660 How did that even happen?
00:24:25.780 So what am I going to do?
00:24:26.600 Not shave?
00:24:28.160 No, I'm going to shave
00:24:29.280 I just
00:24:29.760 I despise all of them
00:24:31.440 Gillette, Schick
00:24:33.340 The no-name brands
00:24:34.220 Because they've all been colonized
00:24:36.340 By the feminists of Hollywood
00:24:38.620 The female feminists like Kim Gehrig
00:24:40.240 And the male feminists like Harvey Weinstein
00:24:41.940 Of Hollywood
00:24:43.020 The ad agencies
00:24:43.840 I bet they had Me Too moments on the set
00:24:45.860 Of course they did
00:24:46.480 They all share the same anti-male bigotry
00:24:49.500 It's a weird ideology
00:24:50.500 All four razor companies agree
00:24:52.780 But I suppose the fact
00:24:54.040 That the last three companies I mentioned
00:24:56.060 Schick dollar shaven Harry's
00:24:57.240 Have tried to cover their tracks
00:24:58.960 Tried to deceive their customers
00:25:01.080 Tried to delete their smears
00:25:02.340 But Gillette is still plowing ahead
00:25:04.460 With theirs
00:25:04.860 Well maybe I should still move away
00:25:07.980 From Gillette to one of the others
00:25:09.000 Because at least they're
00:25:09.800 They're renouncing their cowardice
00:25:12.440 No more Gillette for me
00:25:13.720 I just I cannot give those people
00:25:15.520 My money
00:25:16.220 I'm not saying boycott Gillette
00:25:17.380 I'm just saying there's no bloody way
00:25:18.580 I'm going to give them my money
00:25:19.340 I really don't care what I shave with
00:25:21.780 As long as it works
00:25:22.420 I just don't want to give a dime
00:25:23.860 Of my money to people who hate me
00:25:26.020 Simply because of my sex
00:25:28.040 I mean would you
00:25:28.740 They're calling me names
00:25:29.980 I haven't done any of those things
00:25:31.460 Stay with us
00:25:33.080 We'll talk to a guy
00:25:33.840 Who's got some thoughts on this
00:25:35.280 Michael Knowles
00:25:35.900 He's up next
00:25:36.580 On The Rebel
00:25:37.600 Well Gillette is a global brand
00:25:53.320 And they were the subject
00:25:54.360 Of global mockery
00:25:56.020 And one of my favorite
00:25:57.860 Online memes
00:25:59.040 Was this one
00:26:00.280 By Michael Knowles
00:26:01.460 Of The Daily Wire
00:26:02.300 He tells me that it was
00:26:04.160 The idea before it came from his wife
00:26:06.960 There's a picture of him on the left
00:26:08.700 A man's man
00:26:10.300 Drinking
00:26:11.040 I don't know what that is
00:26:12.060 Looks like hard liquor to me
00:26:13.160 Shaving while smoking a cigar
00:26:16.540 As men are wont to do
00:26:17.880 But when he uses Gillette
00:26:19.680 Well ladies
00:26:20.520 At the right is your social justice warrior
00:26:22.880 He's not drinking whiskey or smoking
00:26:25.500 He's got a cup of tea
00:26:27.040 And he's wearing
00:26:28.120 I think that's a pajama outfit
00:26:30.700 Done right up to the neck
00:26:32.160 And spectacles
00:26:33.660 He is the modern man
00:26:35.360 And joining us now
00:26:35.960 Is that modern man
00:26:36.880 Michael Knowles
00:26:37.920 Who is the host
00:26:38.920 Of The Michael Knowles Show
00:26:40.000 On The Daily Wire
00:26:40.900 Every Monday to Thursday
00:26:42.340 On The Daily Wire
00:26:43.160 Michael great to have you back
00:26:44.160 On the show
00:26:44.960 That's a great picture
00:26:45.920 Thanks for having me back
00:26:47.020 Which one of those
00:26:48.240 Is closer to the real
00:26:49.720 Michael Knowles
00:26:51.180 The scary thing is
00:26:54.440 I had all of those costume pieces
00:26:56.980 In my bedroom
00:26:57.840 When we were shooting it in the morning
00:26:59.540 I think I generally lean
00:27:01.520 Toward the stogies
00:27:02.940 And the scotch
00:27:03.780 And you know
00:27:04.520 Sort of keeping myself
00:27:05.680 Unkempt on the weekend
00:27:06.660 But I gotta tell you
00:27:08.180 Every once in a while
00:27:09.480 A nice little sip of tea
00:27:10.660 In a lemon cup
00:27:11.640 Is just really hits the spot
00:27:13.780 Well you know what
00:27:15.020 I think
00:27:15.640 I think a masculine man
00:27:17.420 Can drink whatever
00:27:18.560 He likes
00:27:19.300 And I mean
00:27:19.800 I don't think
00:27:20.300 Drinking tea necessarily
00:27:21.200 Makes you emasculated
00:27:22.760 But
00:27:23.320 Boy
00:27:25.280 I mean
00:27:25.720 You go through
00:27:26.260 Frame by frame
00:27:27.600 Of the video
00:27:28.520 And it's not a lot
00:27:30.020 Of joking
00:27:30.540 Like they are
00:27:31.260 Deadly serious
00:27:32.320 They
00:27:33.200 What gets me the most
00:27:34.680 About them
00:27:34.980 I'd love your thoughts
00:27:35.720 On this
00:27:36.080 Is that they
00:27:36.980 They conflate
00:27:37.940 You know
00:27:39.080 Boys wrestling
00:27:40.080 At a backyard barbecue
00:27:41.340 Which can be
00:27:42.060 Rough housing
00:27:42.880 But it's not
00:27:44.020 Any sort of
00:27:45.000 You know
00:27:46.060 Crime
00:27:46.880 Or
00:27:47.100 I don't even
00:27:47.820 Think I would
00:27:48.340 Call it violence
00:27:49.020 They conflate that
00:27:50.420 With Harvey Weinstein
00:27:52.380 Style
00:27:52.880 Me too
00:27:53.620 Rapes
00:27:54.720 They conflate
00:27:55.800 That with
00:27:56.560 You know
00:27:58.860 Workplace
00:28:01.060 Sexual harassment
00:28:02.260 With a pack
00:28:03.260 Of teenagers
00:28:03.960 Chasing someone
00:28:04.800 Down the street
00:28:05.400 They just
00:28:06.580 Swallow all that
00:28:07.620 Up with
00:28:08.080 That's what
00:28:08.920 Being a man
00:28:09.520 Is about
00:28:10.020 That's what
00:28:10.540 Bugs me the most
00:28:11.260 About this
00:28:11.800 Of course
00:28:12.800 I can't wait
00:28:13.440 To see all
00:28:13.860 Of the commercials
00:28:14.500 About toxic
00:28:15.400 Femininity
00:28:16.260 From secret
00:28:18.020 Deodorant
00:28:18.720 Or something
00:28:19.180 I don't know
00:28:19.580 I want to see
00:28:20.000 All that
00:28:20.300 You don't hear
00:28:21.060 About toxic
00:28:21.760 Femininity
00:28:22.440 Very much
00:28:22.880 And for the
00:28:23.420 People who
00:28:23.780 Are defending
00:28:24.300 This ridiculous
00:28:25.180 Ad
00:28:25.760 It shows
00:28:27.000 The goodwill
00:28:27.700 Of conservatives
00:28:28.360 Because they say
00:28:29.000 Well you know
00:28:29.620 The ad is saying
00:28:30.280 We shouldn't be
00:28:30.760 Bullies
00:28:31.260 And we shouldn't
00:28:32.040 Be mean
00:28:32.560 And abusive
00:28:33.800 And oh
00:28:34.260 Yeah right
00:28:34.880 What it's actually
00:28:36.440 Saying is that
00:28:37.640 Masculinity is toxic
00:28:39.360 This is on the heels
00:28:40.400 Of the American
00:28:41.000 Psychological Association
00:28:42.080 Saying that
00:28:43.020 Traditional masculinity
00:28:44.300 You know as opposed
00:28:45.580 To that newfangled
00:28:46.480 Masculinity
00:28:47.140 In the onesie pajamas
00:28:48.340 With the teacup
00:28:49.080 Is harmful to people
00:28:50.840 And you don't see it
00:28:52.200 On the other side
00:28:52.840 If I made a
00:28:54.600 Commercial about how
00:28:56.160 Women need to do better
00:28:57.260 Women have been so bad
00:28:58.760 For so long
00:28:59.540 And they need to do better
00:29:00.640 I would be run
00:29:01.240 Out of town
00:29:01.720 On a rail
00:29:02.360 And the other side
00:29:03.780 Of this
00:29:04.140 Is obviously
00:29:05.760 As you make
00:29:06.400 A great point
00:29:07.060 There is a big
00:29:07.920 Distinction here
00:29:08.680 Between Harvey Weinstein
00:29:10.600 You know
00:29:11.800 Forcing himself
00:29:12.720 On women
00:29:13.340 And letching
00:29:14.300 For decades
00:29:15.080 And ruining
00:29:15.860 People's careers
00:29:16.500 Because they won't
00:29:16.960 Sleep with him
00:29:17.500 And boys
00:29:18.740 Wrestling with each other
00:29:19.880 Little boys
00:29:20.640 Like to roughhouse
00:29:21.400 Every little boy
00:29:22.540 For all of human history
00:29:23.540 Has liked to roughhouse
00:29:24.880 And what this agenda
00:29:26.540 Is doing
00:29:27.240 This left wing
00:29:28.280 Commercial
00:29:29.520 Is it's trying
00:29:31.160 To purport
00:29:31.720 To be compassionate
00:29:32.600 There's nothing
00:29:33.420 Compassionate about this
00:29:34.440 We now have
00:29:35.260 A generation of people
00:29:36.380 The millennial generation
00:29:37.760 My own generation
00:29:38.660 Which was raised
00:29:39.580 In the age
00:29:40.200 Of the self esteem movement
00:29:41.840 And of anti-bullying
00:29:44.380 All the time
00:29:45.140 No bullying
00:29:45.780 And helicopter parents
00:29:47.720 And being sheltered
00:29:48.560 From everything
00:29:49.280 Both experientially
00:29:50.680 And academically
00:29:51.480 And what has happened
00:29:52.520 We have the most
00:29:53.340 Miserable generation
00:29:54.360 In modern history
00:29:55.300 Millennials
00:29:56.140 Are much more anxious
00:29:57.880 Much more stressed
00:29:58.820 Much more clinically depressed
00:30:00.800 Much more likely
00:30:01.880 To be hooked
00:30:02.340 On depression drugs
00:30:03.680 Much more likely
00:30:04.560 To attempt suicide
00:30:05.760 Than other generations
00:30:07.040 There was a study
00:30:08.280 That came out of ASU
00:30:09.500 It showed that
00:30:10.540 A quarter of
00:30:11.540 American college students
00:30:13.180 Are suffering PTSD
00:30:14.600 Because a Republican
00:30:15.940 Won the 2016 election
00:30:17.280 If we raise a generation
00:30:19.000 As coddled little buttercups
00:30:20.620 They're going to
00:30:21.220 Encounter reality
00:30:22.160 And they're going to crack
00:30:23.240 They're going to be
00:30:23.680 Too fragile
00:30:24.340 To withstand it
00:30:25.380 There's nothing
00:30:25.920 Compassionate about it
00:30:27.020 The only thing
00:30:28.200 That we can get
00:30:28.920 Out of this Gillette ad
00:30:30.100 That I think
00:30:31.220 Is a good thing
00:30:31.800 Is we can laugh
00:30:32.680 At the absurd leftism
00:30:34.100 Of corporate America
00:30:34.960 Yeah
00:30:35.380 You know
00:30:35.920 It's important
00:30:36.480 Not to let the
00:30:37.140 Left get away
00:30:38.040 With saying
00:30:38.860 Harvey Weinstein
00:30:40.340 Was toxic masculinity
00:30:41.900 Because Harvey Weinstein
00:30:43.560 Calls himself
00:30:45.240 A feminist
00:30:45.700 To this day
00:30:46.240 In fact
00:30:46.580 His first gambit
00:30:48.260 When he was caught
00:30:49.120 Was to say
00:30:49.780 Oh I'm going to
00:30:51.040 Rededicate myself
00:30:52.020 To my mother's memory
00:30:53.220 And I'm going to
00:30:54.000 Put a lot of money
00:30:54.640 Into anti-violence
00:30:55.880 And I'm a feminist
00:30:56.340 Like he said
00:30:59.300 He was a feminist
00:31:00.400 Bill Clinton said
00:31:01.280 He was a feminist
00:31:01.920 Teddy Kennedy said
00:31:03.540 He was a feminist
00:31:04.160 They were all using
00:31:05.480 Male feminism
00:31:06.400 As a preemptive
00:31:08.560 Excuse or
00:31:10.140 A confuser
00:31:11.560 For their private
00:31:13.380 Conduct
00:31:16.140 Which was
00:31:16.960 This is
00:31:17.320 And I would put it
00:31:19.400 To you
00:31:19.480 And even Terry Cruz
00:31:20.600 Who was the black
00:31:21.640 Actor there
00:31:22.260 Who said
00:31:23.000 Men have to tell
00:31:23.880 Men to do
00:31:24.220 He was groped
00:31:25.400 By a Hollywood agent
00:31:26.980 A male
00:31:28.040 So this is a
00:31:29.220 Hollywood feminism
00:31:30.560 Problem
00:31:31.300 Not a real
00:31:32.920 Working-collar
00:31:34.460 Blue-collar
00:31:35.260 Guy problem
00:31:36.300 That's a feminist
00:31:37.220 Problem
00:31:37.720 What Gillette
00:31:39.400 And what
00:31:40.380 The APA
00:31:41.520 Are now saying
00:31:42.220 Is that masculinity
00:31:43.080 Is toxic
00:31:44.200 That manliness
00:31:45.200 Is a vice
00:31:46.540 And we need to
00:31:47.240 Root it out
00:31:47.900 But of course
00:31:49.060 Manliness
00:31:49.660 Is a virtue
00:31:50.640 Manliness
00:31:51.360 Is such a virtue
00:31:52.300 That the word
00:31:53.360 Virtue
00:31:53.860 Actually comes
00:31:54.720 From the word
00:31:55.360 For manliness
00:31:56.300 It comes from
00:31:56.800 The latin word
00:31:57.380 Vir
00:31:57.760 Which means man
00:31:58.940 These are good
00:32:00.220 Virtues
00:32:00.660 Now
00:32:00.900 All the virtues
00:32:02.000 Can be perverted
00:32:02.840 Into vices
00:32:03.580 But let me tell
00:32:04.760 You something
00:32:05.260 When the enemies
00:32:07.140 Are storming the beaches
00:32:08.520 You'd better hope
00:32:09.580 That you've got
00:32:10.060 Manly men
00:32:10.760 In your country
00:32:11.340 To protect you
00:32:12.440 When people
00:32:13.820 Are being victimized
00:32:14.900 Women especially
00:32:15.660 Are being victimized
00:32:16.540 You'd better hope
00:32:17.380 There are manly
00:32:18.100 Courageous men
00:32:18.800 To protect you
00:32:19.460 I always joke
00:32:20.380 About those male
00:32:21.080 Feminists
00:32:21.660 That they're the
00:32:22.300 Creepiest people
00:32:23.360 On the face of the earth
00:32:24.480 And how they always
00:32:26.180 They use these
00:32:26.980 Ideologies
00:32:27.680 Of feminism
00:32:28.800 And leftism
00:32:30.220 To pursue rampant
00:32:32.820 Self-interest
00:32:33.400 They say
00:32:33.780 Oh honey
00:32:34.180 I'm a feminist
00:32:35.040 We don't need
00:32:35.560 All that patriarchy
00:32:36.460 Of going out on dates
00:32:37.860 Or getting married
00:32:38.620 Let's just go back
00:32:39.720 And Netflix
00:32:40.140 Flicks and chill baby
00:32:41.180 I'm really progressive
00:32:42.420 It's outrageous
00:32:43.400 And this is another aspect
00:32:44.800 By the way
00:32:45.220 Of this commercial
00:32:45.880 For those defending it
00:32:47.480 Among the conservatives
00:32:48.380 It is just pure leftism
00:32:50.720 Even in the racism
00:32:51.720 Of the commercial
00:32:52.600 In the commercial
00:32:53.640 The first part of it
00:32:55.220 With one exception
00:32:56.760 All of the bad guys
00:32:58.400 Who are bullying
00:32:59.040 And doing all those things
00:33:00.100 All of them
00:33:00.960 Maybe 50, 60 guys
00:33:02.480 Are white guys
00:33:03.580 And in the second part
00:33:06.300 When it's all the good men
00:33:07.500 Being good guys
00:33:08.500 It's virtually all
00:33:10.340 Non-white men
00:33:11.800 Going up and stopping
00:33:13.420 White men from doing
00:33:14.220 Bad things
00:33:14.900 That is a racist trope
00:33:17.840 That shows you
00:33:18.840 That this isn't just
00:33:19.660 About stopping bullying
00:33:20.820 This is about pushing
00:33:22.080 A leftist agenda
00:33:23.700 With all of the ideologies
00:33:25.300 That come along with that
00:33:26.380 Yeah
00:33:26.640 I watched a bunch of ads
00:33:29.240 Produced by this same
00:33:30.900 Female director
00:33:31.840 And they're all
00:33:33.240 On this same tear
00:33:35.460 You know what
00:33:36.700 I was so frustrated
00:33:37.560 And I have not given
00:33:38.660 A thought
00:33:39.260 To what razor
00:33:40.400 I buy in decades
00:33:42.380 But I just do not
00:33:44.680 Want to give even
00:33:45.500 One dollar
00:33:46.240 To these guys
00:33:47.140 So it's not like
00:33:47.780 I want to call
00:33:48.220 For a boycott
00:33:48.960 It's not like
00:33:49.440 I'm boycott Gillette
00:33:50.760 It's just I personally
00:33:51.760 Don't want to give
00:33:53.300 Any money to a bunch
00:33:54.260 Of weirdo creeps
00:33:55.380 Like that
00:33:55.780 Trouble is
00:33:56.620 You better not
00:33:57.140 Call for a boycott
00:33:58.040 Because that would be
00:33:58.760 Toxic masculinity
00:33:59.780 You have to call
00:34:00.280 For a boycott
00:34:01.020 Of Gillette
00:34:01.880 Here's the thing
00:34:03.080 Schick
00:34:04.080 Who I think
00:34:04.860 Is the big competitor
00:34:05.840 They had a whole bunch
00:34:07.880 Of smaller ads
00:34:08.820 That just didn't go viral
00:34:10.200 Now they have deleted
00:34:11.700 Them all in the last
00:34:12.600 48 hours
00:34:13.380 I literally saw
00:34:14.640 An ad that was
00:34:15.400 Just as bad as this
00:34:16.340 It was going through
00:34:17.160 All the masculine
00:34:18.400 Phrases we have
00:34:19.440 Like man up
00:34:20.780 Be a man
00:34:22.120 Put in a man
00:34:23.200 Size
00:34:23.600 Like it just
00:34:24.740 Any common parlance
00:34:26.020 Where the word man
00:34:27.320 Was a positive
00:34:28.760 They had this short video
00:34:30.960 And I noted that
00:34:32.460 I said oh I'm going
00:34:32.940 To mention that today
00:34:33.740 In the last 24 hours
00:34:35.500 Schick has deleted
00:34:36.780 All traces of that
00:34:38.880 And so has Harry's
00:34:41.060 And Dollar Shave
00:34:42.700 But I have gone online
00:34:44.280 And I see that
00:34:45.540 All three of those
00:34:47.660 Competitors
00:34:48.140 Schick, Harry's
00:34:49.020 And Dollar Shave
00:34:49.600 Have the identical
00:34:51.280 Messaging to Gillette
00:34:53.320 They just didn't
00:34:54.500 Have theirs go viral
00:34:55.420 And they're deleting
00:34:56.180 A lot of theirs
00:34:56.880 Now they're
00:34:58.000 Since saying oh
00:34:58.920 Come to us
00:34:59.520 Instead of Gillette
00:35:00.180 They're sort of
00:35:00.840 Pretending they never
00:35:01.660 Bought into it
00:35:03.060 But can you explain
00:35:03.980 For me Michael
00:35:04.600 How is it that
00:35:06.640 Four companies
00:35:07.680 Who are in the
00:35:09.120 Sell sharp metal
00:35:10.420 To men business
00:35:11.420 How did all four
00:35:13.000 Of them get into
00:35:14.600 The pink haired
00:35:15.480 Social justice warrior
00:35:16.640 Feminist business
00:35:17.660 All at the same time
00:35:18.900 How the hell
00:35:19.400 Did that even happen
00:35:20.260 Well this is where
00:35:22.060 You're right
00:35:22.780 That Gillette
00:35:23.720 Doesn't deserve
00:35:24.380 All of the blame
00:35:25.380 What they are seeing
00:35:26.400 Especially Schick
00:35:27.980 And Gillette
00:35:28.540 They've seen their
00:35:29.200 Market share decline
00:35:30.100 In recent years
00:35:30.760 Because of the
00:35:31.480 Mail order companies
00:35:32.460 Like Harry's
00:35:33.300 And like Dollar
00:35:33.840 Shave Club
00:35:34.320 And so what
00:35:35.260 They're seeing
00:35:35.780 Is that they
00:35:36.920 Need some new
00:35:37.860 Marketing campaign
00:35:38.920 And they look
00:35:39.860 Around at
00:35:40.260 Corporate America
00:35:40.980 And the old
00:35:41.780 Expression was
00:35:42.640 Get woke
00:35:43.380 Go broke
00:35:44.200 That when you
00:35:44.840 Embraced politics
00:35:45.920 It would hurt you
00:35:46.720 Michael Jordan
00:35:47.700 They said why
00:35:48.160 Don't you talk
00:35:48.600 About politics
00:35:49.180 He said because
00:35:49.760 Republicans buy
00:35:50.500 Sneakers too
00:35:51.280 And this has
00:35:52.480 Changed in recent
00:35:53.220 Years
00:35:53.440 It's changed because
00:35:54.460 We on the right
00:35:55.840 Tend to see that
00:35:56.800 Politics is downstream
00:35:57.700 Of culture
00:35:58.300 Culture is downstream
00:35:59.360 Of religion
00:36:00.040 What the left
00:36:00.840 Has done is make
00:36:01.480 An idol out of
00:36:02.200 Politics
00:36:02.620 So it's turned
00:36:03.420 Their politics
00:36:04.000 Into their religion
00:36:04.840 And into their
00:36:05.640 Penance and their
00:36:06.380 Sacraments
00:36:07.020 And all of their
00:36:08.300 Virtue they put
00:36:09.040 Into politics
00:36:09.820 Corporate America
00:36:11.460 I think there's a
00:36:12.760 Ridiculous idea
00:36:14.160 That corporate America
00:36:15.520 Is right wing
00:36:16.400 It's all those
00:36:17.020 Big fat cats
00:36:17.960 No way
00:36:18.760 Corporate America
00:36:19.460 Is very left wing
00:36:20.700 And it follows
00:36:21.680 The popular culture
00:36:22.540 Because they just
00:36:23.020 Want to make a buck
00:36:23.860 In an amoral way
00:36:25.800 Whether they do it
00:36:26.760 By embracing politics
00:36:27.960 Or by disavowing politics
00:36:30.000 And because the left
00:36:31.580 Has been so successful
00:36:32.680 At pushing their agenda
00:36:34.320 Through the culture
00:36:35.140 Corporate America
00:36:36.340 Has followed suit
00:36:37.340 And they are
00:36:38.100 Embracing these things
00:36:39.140 I would have said
00:36:40.440 That get woke
00:36:41.020 Go broke
00:36:41.480 Remains true
00:36:42.100 Until Nike
00:36:42.840 Embraced
00:36:43.520 Colin Kaepernick
00:36:44.880 Embraced a protest
00:36:46.120 Of the American flag
00:36:47.140 Itself
00:36:47.560 As its spokesman
00:36:49.100 And it's done
00:36:50.360 Very well
00:36:50.900 It has made money
00:36:51.920 On that gambit
00:36:53.120 So now other companies
00:36:54.720 Are saying
00:36:55.080 I guess we've got
00:36:55.700 To embrace leftism
00:36:56.680 There seems to have
00:36:57.560 Been a backlash here
00:36:58.480 Against Gillette
00:36:59.540 We'll see however
00:37:01.180 What this actually
00:37:02.380 Does to their bottom line
00:37:03.360 Once the smoke clears
00:37:04.420 Perhaps this is the way
00:37:05.820 Of the future
00:37:06.320 And it's why
00:37:07.140 I think conservatives
00:37:08.780 Have to be much more careful
00:37:10.260 We always give money
00:37:11.840 To politicians
00:37:12.500 We always focus on
00:37:13.520 Free markets
00:37:14.440 Deregulations
00:37:15.320 That's all great
00:37:16.400 But if you lose the culture
00:37:17.380 None of that matters
00:37:18.320 Because the culture
00:37:19.360 Is going to decide
00:37:20.520 How your politics
00:37:21.520 And your markets
00:37:22.260 And your companies look
00:37:23.360 And right now
00:37:24.540 The left is winning
00:37:25.360 That game
00:37:25.860 Yeah you're so right
00:37:26.780 Just a quick point
00:37:27.500 When I was working
00:37:28.720 For Ethical Oil
00:37:29.580 As a little NGO
00:37:31.040 I was shocked
00:37:31.920 To find how many
00:37:33.440 Vice presidents
00:37:34.120 Of major oil companies
00:37:35.400 In Calgary
00:37:36.000 Had absolutely bought
00:37:38.200 Into the theory
00:37:38.900 Of man-made global warming
00:37:39.960 And I thought
00:37:40.700 You're kidding me right
00:37:41.540 This is just some
00:37:42.300 Double talk for PR
00:37:43.340 No
00:37:44.120 I mean in the
00:37:45.020 Vice president
00:37:46.020 And the C-suite offices
00:37:47.780 Of all the oil companies
00:37:48.920 They were absolute
00:37:50.140 True believers
00:37:50.780 Or so they said
00:37:51.500 Let me throw at you
00:37:52.340 One last theory
00:37:53.040 And then I'll let you go
00:37:53.680 You're very generous
00:37:54.840 With your time Michael
00:37:55.680 I appreciate you joining us
00:37:56.660 I have two possible explanations
00:37:59.960 And I'd like your thoughts on this
00:38:01.800 One is
00:38:02.720 That like a lot of journalists
00:38:05.200 They're not actually writing
00:38:07.100 For
00:38:08.040 When journalists
00:38:09.420 Write their favorite stories
00:38:11.100 It's for their peers
00:38:12.160 And their competitors
00:38:13.060 And for the club
00:38:14.200 They're writing for other journalists
00:38:15.480 Look what I did
00:38:16.500 Look what I did
00:38:17.140 They're not writing
00:38:17.720 For what their readers want
00:38:18.560 So maybe this filmmaker
00:38:20.920 They call it a short film
00:38:22.240 Maybe this director
00:38:23.540 And this ad agency
00:38:24.920 Was just trying to show off
00:38:26.540 For other ad agencies
00:38:27.840 How cool they were
00:38:29.240 And how hip they were
00:38:30.040 That's theory number one
00:38:31.520 Theory number two is
00:38:32.720 I mean I have to say
00:38:34.920 That you know
00:38:36.060 My wife goes to the drugstore
00:38:37.320 A lot more than I do
00:38:38.120 I think women generally
00:38:39.100 Go and buy their beauty things
00:38:40.520 A lot more than guys do
00:38:41.640 And I think a lot of guys
00:38:42.340 Should say
00:38:42.620 Oh can you pick me up
00:38:43.620 Some razor blades
00:38:44.320 While you're there
00:38:44.940 I think
00:38:45.560 So maybe this ad
00:38:46.820 Wasn't aimed at men
00:38:47.900 But at the women
00:38:48.820 Who pick up razor blades
00:38:49.880 For the men
00:38:50.480 Because they're going
00:38:51.560 To get their makeup
00:38:52.300 Or beauty things every day
00:38:54.000 So maybe it was
00:38:54.900 Trying to woo women
00:38:56.960 I don't know if it'll work
00:38:57.780 But what do you think
00:38:58.220 About those two theories
00:38:59.340 Number one
00:38:59.780 That maybe this was
00:39:00.540 Just ad agencies
00:39:01.620 Indulging their own
00:39:03.180 Artistic adventure
00:39:05.300 Or number two
00:39:05.960 That maybe they're trying
00:39:06.620 To get women buyers
00:39:08.080 Of stuff for their guys
00:39:09.920 I think both of those
00:39:11.680 Ideas hold a lot of water
00:39:13.260 Especially the first one
00:39:15.220 There is a prestige factor here
00:39:18.220 There is a virtue signaling here
00:39:20.260 Both by the director
00:39:21.760 By the ad agency
00:39:22.560 And by the company
00:39:23.740 And corporate America
00:39:25.100 Is very keen
00:39:26.160 To do this sort of thing
00:39:27.900 Because people are so reactive
00:39:30.640 In their politics now
00:39:31.580 Because we're in the age
00:39:32.980 Of reality television politics
00:39:34.580 With a reality TV star
00:39:36.300 As president
00:39:36.860 You are seeing people
00:39:38.000 Constantly engaging in politics
00:39:40.440 They'll choose which
00:39:41.640 Rideshare app to use
00:39:43.200 Based on how they reacted
00:39:44.960 To some Trump policy
00:39:46.620 A year ago
00:39:47.760 And so I do think
00:39:49.480 There is a little virtue signaling
00:39:50.740 I think corporations
00:39:51.800 Are often inefficient
00:39:53.200 And they have a lot more
00:39:54.600 Going on
00:39:55.260 Than just what is
00:39:57.400 Necessarily best
00:39:58.420 For their business
00:39:59.160 They want to make money
00:40:00.600 They want to increase
00:40:01.620 Profit to shareholders
00:40:03.140 Absolutely
00:40:03.840 But their theories
00:40:05.480 On how they do that
00:40:06.360 Tend to be locked
00:40:07.460 In a bubble
00:40:07.980 With other people
00:40:08.920 In the C-suite
00:40:09.760 As you say
00:40:10.400 Who read the elite
00:40:12.520 Coastal newspapers
00:40:13.660 Who go to the same
00:40:14.800 Cocktail parties
00:40:15.560 There's a lot of that
00:40:16.620 And television has always
00:40:18.020 Been for women
00:40:18.680 Women are the people
00:40:20.220 Who watch sitcoms
00:40:21.540 Women are the people
00:40:22.200 Who watch network television
00:40:23.220 Women are the people
00:40:24.160 Who are watching
00:40:24.880 These advertisements
00:40:26.320 And doing all of the shopping
00:40:27.740 All of that is true
00:40:29.540 All of that underscores
00:40:31.520 Just how much
00:40:33.320 Conservatives have to
00:40:34.760 Come back
00:40:35.380 Because as a gender divide
00:40:36.920 Continues to grow
00:40:38.120 In politics
00:40:38.860 Especially among
00:40:39.980 Single women
00:40:40.740 Compared to men
00:40:41.720 And married women
00:40:42.600 As the culture
00:40:44.220 Becomes more polarized
00:40:45.940 And more politicized
00:40:47.400 You're going to see
00:40:48.280 That problem worsen
00:40:49.400 And for those conservatives
00:40:51.340 Who want to bury
00:40:51.900 Their head in the sand
00:40:52.620 And say
00:40:53.000 Let's just talk about taxes
00:40:54.520 Let's just talk about
00:40:55.660 Deregulation
00:40:56.500 Everything that isn't cultural
00:40:58.480 Is ultimately counting beans
00:41:00.240 Because of the strength
00:41:01.980 Of that
00:41:02.440 And it's not just
00:41:03.480 The culture of the commercial
00:41:04.400 But it's the culture
00:41:05.380 In that C-suite
00:41:06.620 And it's the culture
00:41:07.720 Of the journals
00:41:08.720 And the magazines
00:41:09.420 And the newspapers
00:41:10.140 That those corporate masters
00:41:12.020 Are reading
00:41:12.840 And it's the culture
00:41:14.680 Of the customers as well
00:41:16.080 Who demand boycotts
00:41:17.660 And girlcotts
00:41:19.200 And who are reacting
00:41:20.940 To these politics
00:41:21.760 That's the culture
00:41:22.420 That you've got to engage in
00:41:23.420 Wow, holy cow
00:41:24.700 You said a lot there
00:41:25.520 Michael Knowles
00:41:25.980 What a pleasure
00:41:26.540 To have a moment
00:41:27.480 Of your time
00:41:27.960 I want to encourage
00:41:28.640 All our viewers
00:41:29.340 To check out Michael's show
00:41:31.840 It's called
00:41:32.160 The Michael Knowles Show
00:41:32.940 It's on the Daily Wire
00:41:34.080 We have other friends
00:41:35.300 There, Andrew Klavan
00:41:36.020 And Ben Shapiro
00:41:36.980 So you'll be in good company
00:41:37.940 Make sure to check out Michael
00:41:38.920 Thanks for your time my friend
00:41:40.040 Keep up the fight
00:41:40.720 Thanks for having me
00:41:42.440 Good to be here
00:41:42.920 Alright, there you have it
00:41:44.140 Stay with us folks
00:41:44.920 More ahead after the break
00:41:46.200 Welcome back
00:41:57.400 On my monologue Monday
00:41:58.300 About Chrystia Freeland
00:41:59.080 Rushing to bring
00:41:59.960 Rahaf Al-Khanoun to Canada
00:42:01.860 While building silent
00:42:03.360 About a Canadian
00:42:03.920 On death row in China
00:42:04.740 Billy writes
00:42:05.480 Freeland is milking it
00:42:07.240 But considering how Trudeau
00:42:08.240 Is all about the photo ops
00:42:09.140 It's not the least bit surprising
00:42:10.720 Yeah, you know
00:42:12.640 I was surprised to see
00:42:13.500 Some backlash
00:42:14.540 Against Chrystia Freeland's
00:42:16.740 Gropey handsiness
00:42:17.580 With Rahaf Al-Khanoun
00:42:19.720 The most surprising
00:42:21.580 Was from the CBC
00:42:22.540 They had someone
00:42:23.500 Named Shanifa Nasser
00:42:25.180 Condemn it
00:42:27.100 And I thought
00:42:28.140 Well, I wonder
00:42:28.920 If she's running taqiyah
00:42:30.220 For the Saudis
00:42:30.940 Or something
00:42:31.280 It was really, really weird
00:42:32.600 I criticized it
00:42:35.520 Because it's liberal grossness
00:42:36.980 But why is a
00:42:38.380 Muslim journalist
00:42:39.500 Who covers Muslim
00:42:40.400 Beat for the CBC
00:42:41.560 Criticizing that
00:42:42.920 You'd think this is great
00:42:44.000 A liberated Muslim woman
00:42:46.820 Getting out from
00:42:47.900 The yoke of Sharia law
00:42:49.000 But the CBC's
00:42:50.460 Muslim reporter
00:42:52.040 Didn't like it one bit
00:42:53.320 I thought that was quirky
00:42:54.060 Don't you?
00:42:55.840 Linda writes
00:42:56.500 Ironic that the liberals
00:42:57.840 Save this woman
00:42:58.400 From Islamic extremists
00:42:59.320 Yet have no qualms
00:43:00.020 About importing immigrants
00:43:00.820 With the same ideology
00:43:01.780 As her persecutors
00:43:03.260 Yeah, yeah
00:43:04.380 You're so right
00:43:05.120 And Trudeau has no problem
00:43:06.860 Going to all the most
00:43:08.000 Radical mosques
00:43:08.820 In the country
00:43:09.820 I remember
00:43:10.580 On the Sun News Network
00:43:11.300 When we asked him
00:43:13.000 A question about
00:43:13.500 Going to one mosque
00:43:14.240 The Asuna Wahhabi mosque
00:43:17.240 In Montreal
00:43:18.120 That the Pentagon said
00:43:19.240 Was a recruiting zone
00:43:20.520 For terrorists
00:43:21.280 Like not just
00:43:22.300 Having medieval ideas
00:43:24.940 But actually violent terrorists
00:43:26.860 And Trudeau said
00:43:27.820 No, absolutely
00:43:28.540 He doesn't regret
00:43:29.140 Campaigning there
00:43:29.740 And he will continue
00:43:30.360 To do so
00:43:30.820 Of course he will
00:43:31.760 He got 1.3 million
00:43:33.300 People in Canada
00:43:36.260 Who identify as Muslim
00:43:37.300 I don't know how many
00:43:38.260 Her citizens
00:43:38.800 Are able to vote
00:43:39.520 But that's a massive block
00:43:40.880 Compared to
00:43:41.460 One quarter
00:43:42.360 Of that number
00:43:42.880 Of the Jews
00:43:43.340 Trudeau can count votes
00:43:44.720 Paul writes
00:43:46.360 The liberals
00:43:47.540 Are using Rahaf Al-Qanun
00:43:49.040 As a trophy
00:43:49.600 They could care less
00:43:50.560 About her
00:43:50.860 She's an election prop
00:43:52.060 Canadians being held
00:43:53.120 In China
00:43:53.480 Are symbolic
00:43:54.020 Of liberal failure
00:43:54.660 And weakness
00:43:55.120 So they will be ignored
00:43:56.640 Yeah, you know what
00:43:58.960 I did some digging
00:44:00.060 Into the Schellenberg guy
00:44:01.340 Who is sentenced to death
00:44:03.540 A Canadian from Abbotsford
00:44:04.700 Who is sentenced to death
00:44:05.440 In China
00:44:06.740 And I'm pretty sure
00:44:08.780 He is a drug dealer
00:44:09.460 Because he was convicted
00:44:10.240 Of drug dealing
00:44:11.000 And all sorts of offenses
00:44:11.900 Here in Canada
00:44:13.020 And then he thought
00:44:13.560 Oh, let me go to China
00:44:14.520 And do that
00:44:14.840 What a foolish guy
00:44:15.640 He should have stayed
00:44:16.200 In Canada
00:44:16.660 Where he would
00:44:17.300 Be dealt with impunity
00:44:19.100 I mean
00:44:19.520 Trudeau and the liberal courts
00:44:21.800 Have struck down
00:44:22.440 Harper's mandatory minimums
00:44:24.700 Any three strikes you're out
00:44:26.020 Type laws
00:44:26.560 Or whatever
00:44:27.020 Strictness
00:44:28.120 Harper tried to bring in
00:44:29.100 He should have stayed here
00:44:30.040 And done that
00:44:30.480 I'm not saying
00:44:32.140 He was innocent
00:44:33.120 I don't think he was
00:44:33.920 But China went back
00:44:36.220 And said
00:44:36.620 Oh, we just gave him
00:44:37.680 A custodial sentence
00:44:39.100 We're now going to
00:44:40.120 Retry him
00:44:40.780 And sentence him to death
00:44:41.820 That's clearly
00:44:43.080 Clearly
00:44:44.260 Clearly
00:44:45.020 Clearly
00:44:45.740 Not a judicial move
00:44:47.340 That really is
00:44:48.740 A murder
00:44:50.800 Of a drug dealer
00:44:53.620 I grant you that
00:44:54.400 But a murder
00:44:55.180 In return
00:44:56.440 For what Canada
00:44:57.320 Is doing
00:44:57.540 That's just on the China front
00:44:58.600 Is there a country
00:44:59.840 In the world
00:45:00.480 With whom Canada
00:45:02.320 Has better relations
00:45:03.140 Now than when
00:45:03.660 Trudeau took over
00:45:04.380 China
00:45:05.360 Disaster
00:45:06.640 India
00:45:08.120 Disaster
00:45:09.240 Cuba
00:45:09.980 You'd think
00:45:10.420 Would be better
00:45:11.040 But they're using
00:45:11.980 Sonic waves
00:45:12.800 To harm our diplomats
00:45:14.020 Russia
00:45:14.820 Christy Friedman's
00:45:16.060 Banned from going there
00:45:17.260 Donald Trump
00:45:18.820 How do you think
00:45:19.220 They get along there
00:45:19.960 Country after country
00:45:21.880 Trudeau's wrecked it
00:45:24.020 And he was supposed
00:45:25.060 To be this savvy
00:45:26.240 Millennial grown up
00:45:27.980 Or whatever
00:45:28.460 I don't know
00:45:28.880 He's been a disaster
00:45:29.840 Anyways thanks for
00:45:31.940 Holding the fort yesterday
00:45:32.820 I had to go to a funeral
00:45:33.540 But I'm back in Toronto
00:45:34.740 Obviously
00:45:35.140 At our world headquarters
00:45:36.420 And I'll be here again tomorrow
00:45:37.480 Until then
00:45:38.020 On behalf of all of us
00:45:39.180 Here at Rebel World Headquarters
00:45:40.220 To you at home
00:45:40.700 Good night
00:45:41.020 And keep fighting for freedom
00:45:54.020 Good night
00:45:55.020 Good night
00:45:56.020 Good night
00:45:57.020 Good night