Rebel News Podcast - CBC's advertising revenues down 37% as ratings for Trudeau's state broadcaster plunge

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. I've got great news for you, as from one shareholder to another of the CBC.

00:00:05.500 They have their annual report today. I'm kidding around, of course. Neither you or I are allowed to

00:00:11.140 sell our shares in the CBC, and they wouldn't be worth much anyways. But I'll take you through

00:00:16.360 the report and show you some of the little hidden gems in there that'll just make you,

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00:00:44.360 Okay, here's today's podcast.

00:00:57.200 Tonight, the CBC's ratings plunge and advertising revenues are down 37% in a year. Despite record

00:01:09.060 subsidies, fewer people than ever are watching Trudeau State Broadcaster. It's January 14th,

00:01:14.880 and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:18.640 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:22.240 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:26.540 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my

00:01:31.160 bloody right to do so.

00:01:37.360 The CBC has released its annual report, and it's a doozy. Now, if you were a shareholder,

00:01:44.400 you'd sell. You'd probably sue them for mismanagement. You'd fire their board of directors.

00:01:50.780 Alas, although you own it, all that really means is that you're on the hook for it.

00:01:56.900 Justin Trudeau and his extremist new heritage minister, a lifelong environmental activist from

00:02:02.740 Quebec named Stephen Gilboa, they control it. And they use it the way other countries use their

00:02:10.020 state broadcasters, whether it's Vladimir Putin's RT, Russia Today, Qatar's Al Jazeera,

00:02:17.740 or Turkey's TRT. That's their global broadcaster. Each of those broadcasters

00:02:26.080 occasionally tells the news straight up. Sure they do. And each of them has interesting people

00:02:32.660 on it. Sure they do. But like the CBC, at the end of the day, they know who their boss is, and

00:02:39.760 they pay extremely close attention to what their bosses want. Turkey's Erdogan, Russia's Putin,

00:02:47.300 and Canada's Trudeau. So the CBC is a propaganda machine, really. You know that because it seeps

00:02:54.520 from the news into the entertainment divisions. I use the CBC's so-called comedy department as a

00:03:01.900 barometer for this. If there's a new Liberal Party talking point on Monday, you'll see it show up

00:03:08.660 later in the week on, say, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, one of their comedy shows. I mean,

00:03:15.240 fat jokes, for example, about Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Several anti-Trump tweets a day, really.

00:03:24.260 There's a show I watched one time on the CBC called Kim's Convenience. I'm pretty sure they

00:03:32.100 screened their actors and only allowed left-wing or Liberal Party political activists to even

00:03:37.980 audition. I don't think that's actually reflective of the Korean-Canadian community, by the way.

00:03:44.380 So yeah, you know it's a propaganda channel when not just the news shills for the government,

00:03:49.400 but even the dramas and the comedies and even the sports do, too. It really is the Russia today 0.74

00:03:56.800 Al Jazeera model. Anyways, yeah, when they have an annual report, it's not like a real annual report

00:04:04.280 of a publicly traded company on the stock market where the directors have a real fiduciary duty

00:04:11.280 to investors. For example, a company on the stock market has to disclose which executives earn what.

00:04:18.700 Executive pay is a big issue in rich companies because you want to hire an excellent executive

00:04:25.580 team. And it's absolutely appropriate to reward them well if they meet their targets.

00:04:33.600 And conversely, to sack them if they fail. And to be able to know the difference. The CBC keeps all

00:04:41.420 of that a secret from you and me. We know how much staff on Parliament Hill will make. We know how

00:04:46.680 much MPs and senators and cabinet ministers and we even know how much Justin Trudeau makes. We know

00:04:52.720 their expense accounts, or most of it. We know a lot about our elected politicians, but not for the

00:04:59.620 CBC that we all own, even though we allegedly are its shareholders. We're not. It's a fake, this whole

00:05:08.240 annual report thing. It's disinformation. It's a trick. Even the British version of the CBC,

00:05:14.640 the BBC, even they disclose their salaries. Not the CBC. It is obviously shockingly high how much

00:05:22.000 they pay their talent if they insist on keeping it a secret. Otherwise, why would they keep it secret?

00:05:27.580 Anyways, the annual report is a propaganda exercise, just like the rest of the CBC is.

00:05:31.760 But tucked away amongst its many self-praising pages are a few details that are shocking nonetheless.

00:05:38.140 Like I say, in a publicly traded stock market company, someone would be sacked for this, but no

00:05:44.020 one gets sacked in government, do they? I think the most incredible thing to see right off the top is

00:05:48.800 that advertising revenues in English TV plummeted by 37%. I was first alerted to this by Blacklock's 0.99

00:05:57.940 reporter. So it's down in one year. Do you see that? From $178 million down to $112 million. Those

00:06:05.820 are millions, not the thousands they appear to be. I mean, I've heard of companies with troubles in this

00:06:12.580 new media environment. I mean, every kind of media is having a tough time, right? But to lose 37% of your

00:06:20.800 revenue in a single year, I have never heard of that. I've never heard of that before. Boy, you've

00:06:27.960 got to bring in some experts to do that poorly. People are watching more content in the world than

00:06:34.420 ever. There's actually never been more advertising in the world than there is at this moment.

00:06:41.020 It's just not on the CBC. Look at this part. CBC News. See that there? Do you see their targets for

00:06:49.920 2019-20? Their goal, their big hoped-for outcome, their big plans, is to try to attract 1.4% of

00:07:01.120 Canadians to watch their news at any time. Do you see all-day audience share at any time during the

00:07:07.040 day? 1.4%. And even their non-news programming, their big goal is to see if 5.3% of Canadians might

00:07:16.460 watch. So they know that no one wants their news, but even their non-news no one wants. They have a

00:07:23.180 billion and a half dollars a year poured into them by Trudeau. Plus whatever ad money still comes their

00:07:27.960 way. And they acknowledge that 98.6% of Canadians don't want their news. That's what's left after

00:07:34.360 they get their 1.4%. And they acknowledge that 94.7% of Canadians, and everyone's watching TV more than

00:07:40.620 ever. More screens than ever. 94.7% don't want anything from the CBC. Not even their dramas or

00:07:48.780 their comedies or their kids' shows or their sports. No one's watching it. Look at this. They're 6 p.m.

00:07:56.520 local TV newscasts. So that's your CBC Calgary, CBC Toronto, CBC Vancouver. In the entire country,

00:08:06.820 it's 319,000 people. So on average, just over 10,000 people per town. It's one in a thousand

00:08:14.540 people watch the local CBC broadcast. Just in any given town, maybe 10,000 people. It's tiny. I mean,

00:08:24.840 my high school had 2,000 people in it. For $1.5 billion a year, you could probably have someone drive

00:08:32.060 around town in a Rolls Royce handing out, like, DVDs to those handful of CBC viewers like a paper route,

00:08:39.320 and it would be cheaper. So maybe you're thinking, okay, well, they're probably just killing it on

00:08:45.220 digital. You know, YouTube, Twitter, whatever, stuff like that, the way kids watch TV now on their

00:08:50.760 phones. Yeah, no. Look at this. Their goal for CBC News is to get people to visit their website for 27

00:08:59.920 minutes per month. You see, it says monthly average minutes per visitor. Monthly. That's not each day.

00:09:08.060 Each month. So it works out to about 50 seconds a day. That's their big hope for outcome. That's what

00:09:15.680 you're paying $1.5 billion tax dollars for. By the way, we here at The Rebel have 1.28 million subscribers,

00:09:22.980 and we get millions of visitors a month, and our average viewer, according to YouTube,

00:09:28.000 our average viewer watches our average video for four and a half minutes per video.

00:09:35.540 So we don't get people who stay for 50 seconds. Every single one of our videos keeps our viewers an

00:09:43.500 average of four and a half minutes. That's according to YouTube stats. And we don't get any money from the

00:09:49.020 taxpayer. Look, no one really wants to watch the CBC, not even their allegedly non-political stuff.

00:09:57.720 But the funniest part to me are the excuses by the new boss of the CBC. Catherine Tate is her name.

00:10:04.400 She's been in America for years. She was brought in for the job from the States. I don't know. There

00:10:09.160 was no one in Canada who could do it. But Trudeau said she was hired because she's a woman. That's what

00:10:13.640 Trudeau does. That's what his announcement emphasized. Her gender, not her skills. I mean, 0.97

00:10:19.800 it's a hell of a thing to lose 37% of your ad revenue in a year. But hey, guys, she's a woman. 1.00

00:10:25.800 Did I mention that? How demeaning to her. I can't believe she accepted that. Let me play for you

00:10:31.260 her excuse-ology when she appeared before a parliamentary committee. And this was last

00:10:36.660 year before the bad news even came out.

00:10:38.100 One of the reasons that I accepted to this wonderful job is because I believe that public

00:10:45.060 broadcasting never has been more important than it is today. And when I meet with other public

00:10:51.960 broadcasters in Paris or in London or by telephone to Australia, we are all facing the same challenge,

00:11:01.760 which is how do we protect and defend our citizenry from this unbelievable tsunami of

00:11:15.180 disinformation? And in a sense, we become a beacon for truth. And the key to your question in the

00:11:23.440 notion of a public versus a state broadcaster is we need the public to feel safe, that we are a beacon

00:11:33.740 for that truth and that they know.

00:11:39.100 What a messiah complex. She thinks she's saving us from ourselves. Is any of that the job of the CBC

00:11:45.500 to correct people's opinions? Imagine the chutzpah, the gall, to say you are the beacon of truth.

00:11:54.860 That's sort of like how the Bible talks about Jesus. That's how Catherine Tate talks about herself.

00:12:00.500 I mean, just for one example that's going on in this very minute, the CBC are the ones who claim

00:12:05.720 that aboriginal bands are opposed to that gas pipeline in northern BC, when in fact 20 out of

00:12:13.780 20 Indian bands support it. So they're liars. They're not promoting the truth. They're actually 1.00

00:12:21.380 disinforming. I won't go so far as to say they're purposefully lying. They probably just think of it

00:12:29.380 as spinning or something. But they're absolutely promoting Trudeau's brand of politics, which is why

00:12:34.860 barely 10,000 people in any given town tune in to CBC News at 6 p.m. each day. They don't want to

00:12:41.140 be scolded or spun. And get this comedy. Everybody makes mistakes, but the journalistic standards and

00:12:50.320 practices state very clearly. We measure, we research, we're transparent, we weigh, we try very

00:12:59.280 hard to present both sides or all sides of a particular subject. That is the nature of the public service and

00:13:07.260 the mandate.

00:13:09.560 Do you think that's true? Does the CBC present the other side of the story? Does it present the skeptical

00:13:15.600 side of the story with regards to the theory of man-made global warming? They do not. In fact, they

00:13:21.460 explicitly say they won't have climate skeptics on. Do they have skeptics of mass immigration? Do they have

00:13:26.620 anyone who's pro-Trump or even just, for example, skeptical of the three-year Russia collusion

00:13:34.640 hoax? Don't make me laugh. Hey, that could be the CBC comedy department's motto. Don't make me laugh.

00:13:42.040 They're very successful at that. The thing is, look, we should be crying, not laughing. We Canadians have

00:13:48.660 never paid more for the CBC in taxes than we do now. And they've never had fewer people listening and

00:13:55.800 watching and clicking as a percentage of the population as they do now. They're shrinking.

00:14:02.000 I guess that's a kind of good news. Stay with us for more.

00:14:06.820 Do you think that the people who died on that plane are collateral damage in the tensions between Iran and

00:14:24.620 the U.S.? I think if there were no tensions, if there was no escalation recently in the region, those Canadians would be

00:14:34.020 right now home with their families. This is something that happens when you have conflict and war. Innocents bear the brunt of it.

00:14:41.660 And it is a reminder why all of us need to work so hard on de-escalation, on moving forward to reduce tensions and find a pathway

00:14:50.620 that doesn't involve further conflict and killing.

00:14:53.020 You know when Trudeau does his bedroom voice when he gets really deep and sexy like that, you know that's a time to hang on to your wallet. Did you hear what he actually said there? He blamed the tensions for shooting down an airline with over 170 casualties. The thing is, tensions don't shoot down airlines. There's tensions all the time, especially with a dictatorship.

00:15:21.180 What shot down that airline was a missile that the Iranian government admits they shot.

00:15:28.380 Justin Trudeau is still blaming others, including America, and that's a media party trope that even Iran no longer argues.

00:15:37.820 Joining us now to talk about this is our friend Manny Montenegrino, who's the CEO of ThinkSharp. He joins us now via Skype from Ottawa.

00:15:46.420 Manny, am I overreacting? Was Trudeau being nuanced and friendly? Or is he actually trying to take the blame away from Iran and just sort of say,

00:15:57.280 well, accidents happen, things happened, and America raised the tensions, so they're equally to blame? That's how I felt. Am I misreading it?

00:16:05.480 No, I don't think so, Ezra. You are nailing it as it should be said. First of all, Ezra, my prayers and thoughts are for the 176 killed.

00:16:17.100 It is the most disturbing news you could hear, but it is terrible, so I'll start with that.

00:16:23.080 I have some good Iranian friends, and I certainly learned a lot about Iran through my Iranian friends.

00:16:28.800 One is a member of Parliament, a provincial Parliament, a Conservative member of Ontario.

00:16:36.220 No, it's not wrong, Ezra. Your feelings are right.

00:16:40.000 I'm surprised because the Prime Minister resisted blame game for a couple of days, and now, while Iran accepts blame, accepts criminality, 0.79

00:16:53.380 in fact, this was a criminal act or a gross criminal conduct or a gross negligent act.

00:16:59.720 Either way, it is criminal in nature.

00:17:02.340 The Iran government itself has set up a judiciary committee to review, and as I understand, as of today,

00:17:10.480 are charging and have already detained the criminal conspirators to this mass killing.

00:17:18.340 To sit there and lay blame to tensions and anything else and directing it to President Trump is reckless.

00:17:29.240 There are no reasons or explanations for criminal conduct.

00:17:36.460 Iran is even on that path. 0.98

00:17:39.840 So it shocks me to see that the Prime Minister is moving towards that narrative.

00:17:48.080 So it is just wrong.

00:17:49.920 It's wrong in so many levels.

00:17:51.660 At no time, even during conflict, should there be any criminality, intentional killing of innocent victims.

00:18:00.360 And it's criminal in nature.

00:18:02.440 You can't say that the tensions resulted in this.

00:18:06.060 We will see who did it, who was ordered, and why it was done.

00:18:10.800 But at no time, even Iran is not taking, is upset by this at this moment in time.

00:18:17.220 Yeah.

00:18:17.500 You know, I knew Trudeau had gone so far when I saw a story by Al Jazeera.

00:18:25.560 Al Jazeera is owned by the government of Qatar, which is an extremist dictatorship in the Gulf region.

00:18:32.420 And they're known to support terrorist groups.

00:18:35.900 Like, they're very radical.

00:18:37.740 And they were praising Trudeau's, you know, how he verbalized this.

00:18:43.920 When Al Jazeera, the state broadcaster of Qatar, thinks you're right, that's probably a sign you're doing democracy wrong.

00:18:50.720 Well, there's more to that, Ezra.

00:18:55.460 You know, unfortunately, we seem not to be guided by history.

00:19:00.620 We seem not to remember what happened last week, last month, or the months before.

00:19:05.280 We seem to ignore the plight of the Iranians.

00:19:08.420 The Iranians have been protesting for months to remove this terrorist regime. 1.00

00:19:17.080 I mean, 300 Iranians, according to Amnesty International, have been killed in these protests.

00:19:25.220 This is as of December, my numbers.

00:19:27.100 There might be more.

00:19:28.260 Thousands have been imprisoned.

00:19:30.120 I mean, 300, that's twice.

00:19:32.480 Those are two of those planes of Iranians that were killed by this regime because they were protesting against this terrorist regime.

00:19:42.700 Thousands are in jail.

00:19:43.760 We see a similar of what's happening in China with Hong Kong.

00:19:48.600 And the Chinese government has not killed any Hong Kong.

00:19:53.620 Sure, they've imprisoned them.

00:19:56.220 But Iran has gone way past. 0.85

00:19:59.240 And to sit there and not understand or to give them some form of exemption, this government that's already killed 300 of its own people, imprisoned thousands,

00:20:09.520 it's just, it's beyond any comprehension.

00:20:11.720 Yeah.

00:20:12.420 You know, this is obviously the official government line.

00:20:16.020 We saw there from the softball question from Donna Friesen.

00:20:20.560 I suggest that question was set up because in Trudeau's first press conference,

00:20:27.060 when, after Iran confessed to this,

00:20:31.200 no fewer than three CBC journalists within the course of an hour had that same narrative.

00:20:36.900 Here's a quick clip of Rosemary Barton, Katie, I think Simpson is the last name,

00:20:44.780 David Cochran, and one other CBC journalist here.

00:20:48.720 Take a quick look at this.

00:20:50.020 63 Canadians dead because of the unintended consequences of a decision made by the U.S. president.

00:20:58.360 Who's to blame, right?

00:20:59.980 I mean, in terms of, is it the United States?

00:21:02.860 Is it Iran?

00:21:03.920 Is it both?

00:21:05.700 Who's to blame here for what happened?

00:21:09.020 Manny, to have four CBC journalists, to have the exact same line,

00:21:14.500 which is a very unusual thing to blame America for Iran shooting down a plane,

00:21:18.460 I think that's an official talking point of Trudeau and Trudeau's CBC.

00:21:26.380 I don't understand why.

00:21:28.960 I mean, it's not like Trudeau's pushing the blame off himself onto Trump.

00:21:33.380 It's like he's siding with Iran against Trump.

00:21:38.820 I don't understand what to make of it.

00:21:41.620 Well, it's easy.

00:21:43.080 I mean, it's easy.

00:21:44.460 In Canada, Trump is a negative.

00:21:46.760 I think the last time I've seen, 75% of Canadians don't like Trump.

00:21:51.360 And so it's easy.

00:21:52.700 If you don't have any intellectual planning or thinking about what our foreign policies should be,

00:22:00.380 well, take the quick, easy, low-hanging fruit and blame Trump and everybody's on your side.

00:22:05.880 I get it.

00:22:06.680 But if you look at what's, I mean, you know, Ezra, I keep saying on your show,

00:22:12.340 I think of the two Michaels in China.

00:22:14.560 Right.

00:22:14.840 The two Canadians in China, they saw that after the election or just before the election,

00:22:21.780 the prime minister goes to Washington to plead for the president to do something to save these two Canadians.

00:22:28.860 And we saw that that was an election move.

00:22:30.700 I knew it was an election move.

00:22:32.060 I knew he wasn't sincere.

00:22:33.740 He did that.

00:22:34.360 Right after the election, you have the mean girl talk of the G7 meeting where they're all making fun of the president and Trudeau's leading the gang.

00:22:46.980 That hurts the two Michaels in China.

00:22:50.280 Now, today, how do the two Canadians in Chinese jail, the two Michaels feel when the prime minister gratuitously, wrongly,

00:23:00.500 and for no reason, attempts to shift the blame of a criminal act.

00:23:05.400 It wasn't an act of war.

00:23:06.960 It was criminality.

00:23:08.360 It was wrong.

00:23:09.700 It was negligent.

00:23:10.760 It was grossly negligent.

00:23:12.340 The Iranians say so. 0.99

00:23:13.860 But the prime minister, Gratuvanisi, blames the or indirectly blames the president,

00:23:20.120 who he seeks their help to get these two Michaels released from China.

00:23:24.900 It just baffles me, and I don't get it.

00:23:28.460 I do get this, Elezra.

00:23:29.840 I do get this because, obviously, I have, you know, being a lawyer, I understand there are many people that don't want adversarial confrontation.

00:23:41.540 I get that.

00:23:42.440 Most people don't want to go into a fight.

00:23:45.000 I understand that.

00:23:46.000 I guess people forget that in Benghazi, the embassy that was taken over and four Americans were killed,

00:23:55.240 the thought at that time was, well, let's not escalate this.

00:24:00.160 Let's not build the confrontation.

00:24:02.860 Well, that's fine, except for the four Americans that died. 0.93

00:24:06.140 Well, what we had here, General Somali strikes the Baghdad embassy, and Trump responded differently.

00:24:17.740 He did the anti-Benghazi.

00:24:19.520 He sent the troops in.

00:24:21.280 So in light of that strike on an embassy that attempted to kill diplomats and Americans,

00:24:28.920 you could see that the president, with the long, rich history of killing Americans, the Iranian general, decided to act. 0.95

00:24:39.120 So, and I know that most people don't want that.

00:24:42.380 And you know what?

00:24:43.220 Let more Americans die so we don't escalate it. 0.99

00:24:45.820 This president thinks differently.

00:24:48.760 You know, the juxtaposition you make between Trudeau giving China a pass when they really are to blame 0.72

00:24:57.440 and Trudeau falsely blaming America when they're not to blame, it's so striking.

00:25:03.380 And I think you're right.

00:25:04.100 I think Trudeau's just pandering to anti-Trump sentiments.

00:25:07.860 But I think it goes beyond that because you can be anti-Trump, but also anti-Iran.

00:25:13.780 And let me just show you this one tweet from Rosemary Barton, the senior political correspondent for the CBC.

00:25:20.780 She says that by giving black box information to the West, Iran has gone above and beyond their duty. 0.63

00:25:29.680 I mean, praising Iran.

00:25:33.240 And like, you can be anti-Trump.

00:25:35.580 I don't agree with it.

00:25:36.460 I think it's inappropriate for a state broadcaster to do that.

00:25:40.620 I think Trudeau's wrong.

00:25:41.380 But to praise Iran, and more news.

00:25:44.760 Manny, I see today that Trump is not only ratcheting up sanctions on Iran,

00:25:49.200 but he's trying to get NATO allies like France and the UK to join him.

00:25:54.660 I don't see Canada doing that same thing.

00:25:59.200 They just killed dozens of Canadians, including a lot of Persian Canadians from across the country.

00:26:09.240 I don't know the exact number.

00:26:10.100 I think it's slightly less than the originally reported, 63.

00:26:13.860 Trudeau won't lift a finger against Iran, even when other allies are. 0.76

00:26:18.700 Help me riddle that one out.

00:26:20.780 Well, there is this...

00:26:23.480 I guess it's easy, Ezra.

00:26:27.560 It's easy for people that don't parse through all the facts to simply knee-jerk and dislike Trump, and it works.

00:26:35.220 It just works.

00:26:36.480 There are 83 million Iranians that want this government done, gone. 0.90

00:26:40.920 My problem is I'm old enough to remember in 1980, when the Shah of Iran was toppled, this theological group, the mullahs, they took over Iran. 0.81

00:26:56.720 They took over the U.S. Embassy.

00:26:58.880 Canada played a large role in helping America.

00:27:02.480 Canada was there standing against this theocracy that's trying to take over and remove people's rights.

00:27:09.480 I remember the Iran before this religious zealots are running the country. 0.97

00:27:15.280 It was a country that Canada would admire with our values of equality of women, equality of people.

00:27:25.800 There was no push of religious ideologies.

00:27:28.620 These were wonderful, beautiful, smart people.

00:27:31.660 They've been crushed.

00:27:32.700 They are rebelling on the streets now.

00:27:34.520 We don't see it, but the rebellion is getting stronger as a result of the lies and as a result of the negligent criminal killing of the 176 people on board that plane.

00:27:47.100 There is, I hope, I hope that through this great tragedy that 83 million Iranians get back to the lives that they once enjoyed and this government is gone and this government kills 300 people for protesting, puts thousands in jail and creates and killed hundreds of Americans. 1.00

00:28:08.960 So it's that easy.

00:28:11.340 I think it's just if you don't think it out, you don't know what's happened in the last 30 or 40 years, you don't care about the 83 million Iranians.

00:28:19.180 I mean, my Iranian friends tell me, and here's a great line. 1.00

00:28:22.620 When we saw the supreme leader crying at the death of General Soleimani, she said to me, are they going to cry for the 300 people that they killed that were protesting?

00:28:35.380 Are they going to cry for the 176 people that were shot down in the plane?

00:28:40.200 Will the supreme leader cry for these people who are innocent?

00:28:44.280 And the answer is no.

00:28:45.280 They know what they feel.

00:28:46.800 And I think it's time that we, and I don't know why our Canadian government doesn't care about the values that we love in Canada that should be spread to the Iranian people who are seeking it.

00:28:58.620 But I do think, I do hope and I pray that this tragic event will lead to the less killing of protesters in Iran, the less dominating their lives.

00:29:11.640 I don't even think they have the internet ability there.

00:29:14.760 They've been in prison.

00:29:15.820 83 million Iranians are living in prison under this regime.

00:29:20.520 And maybe out of this ugly tragedy that killed a few, maybe many more lives will be saved and maybe Iran will claim its former glory of this great nation that it once was. 0.98

00:29:33.700 I hope you're right.

00:29:34.400 Yeah, Iran actually, it does have a glorious history.

00:29:37.120 And I think of all the countries in the region, the one that's most likely to become modern, progressive, integrated, peaceful with the rest of the world, I think is Iran.

00:29:45.680 I'm so glad you reminded me of Canada's role during the hostage crisis where Canadian diplomats helped free American hostages.

00:29:55.900 Clearly, we were on the side of the good guys, both the Americans who were held hostage and also of the previous government that had been kicked out by the violent revolution there.

00:30:08.460 That was a more noble Canada than the one that's siding with the bad guys.

00:30:13.640 Manny, it's great to talk to you as always.

00:30:15.000 Thank you for taking the time with us today.

00:30:16.840 No problem.

00:30:17.760 That's right.

00:30:18.260 Thank you.

00:30:18.900 My pleasure.

00:30:19.600 That's our friend Manny Montanegrino.

00:30:21.400 He's the CEO of ThinkSharp, and he joined us today from Ottawa.

00:30:25.340 Stay with us.

00:30:25.940 More ahead.

00:30:35.460 Hey, welcome back.

00:30:36.340 On my monologue yesterday about Maple Leaf Foods CEO Michael McCain being mad at Donald Trump but not mad at Iran, Kevin writes,

00:30:43.240 hit them in the pocketbook.

00:30:44.840 Plenty of better sources of meat in Canada.

00:30:47.960 I think you're right.

00:30:50.200 I think actually the pain will come from investors, big, you know, corporate investors, banks, pension funds saying,

00:31:00.600 whoa, if that's the temperament, if that's the bad judgment of your CEO, I think I'm going to switch Maple Leaf Foods from buy to hold or from hold to sell.

00:31:13.740 It's hard to boycott something so ubiquitous that has such market share in so many different brands.

00:31:20.340 And, of course, there's related brands.

00:31:22.660 There's the McCain brands.

00:31:24.060 So it's like trying to boycott Loblaws.

00:31:27.240 I am outraged at Loblaws and the fact that they stole money from the poor with their bread price-fixing scheme

00:31:34.100 and then stole money from taxpayers, you know, in that case with the permission of the environment minister buying them new fridges.

00:31:43.640 But try boycotting Loblaws in some communities, some neighborhoods.

00:31:47.400 It's the only food market there is.

00:31:49.400 But I agree with you.

00:31:52.120 It has certainly lowered my esteem for Maple Leaf Foods, if I had any.

00:31:58.000 Karen writes, leftists hate Trump so much they will blame him for absolutely anything.

00:32:02.780 They probably think he's responsible for the Australia fires, too.

00:32:06.140 Michael McCain is clearly another Canadian NPC who voted for Trudeau.

00:32:11.320 NPC stands for non-player character.

00:32:13.520 It's sort of an online way of saying just like a robot zombie, just someone who's going and doesn't even have a speaking role, like a cameo, like an extra in a movie.

00:32:23.780 I think so, except for he probably thinks he's exquisitely well-informed.

00:32:28.960 I mean, he grew up in a life of luxury.

00:32:31.760 He lives in the lap of luxury.

00:32:33.760 He probably has the fanciest friends.

00:32:35.400 But I think sometimes it's people like that who actually know the least about the wider world because they're in some sort of a bubble.

00:32:45.760 On my interview with Mark Morano, Stan writes,

00:32:48.640 Extinction Rebellion members should be arrested and prosecuted when they cause disruption.

00:32:52.840 Sooner or later, someone is going to be hurt or killed because of their actions.

00:32:57.680 Yeah, well, listen, let me be clear.

00:33:00.100 I think that they should be arrested and prosecuted when they break the law.

00:33:03.520 They should be allowed to protest. 1.00

00:33:06.080 They should be allowed to have their stupid climate strike. 1.00

00:33:08.720 I don't think that extremist lobbyists like that should be allowed into schools, which really irritates me. 1.00

00:33:16.700 But I think it should be legal to be wrong.

00:33:20.880 Where I differ, and this is what Mark Morano and I were talking about, is when they do things like block roads,

00:33:27.580 you saw when they block that subway.

00:33:29.780 I think in that case, shut them down.

00:33:32.920 Arrest them.

00:33:33.840 Charge them.

00:33:34.660 You can't stop hundreds of people from getting to work so you can make some stunt.

00:33:38.780 I agree with prosecuting them. 0.85

00:33:40.620 And prosecuting them hard.

00:33:42.060 Like they're a fundraising machine.

00:33:44.000 Prosecute them and take away their ill-gotten gains.

00:33:47.060 Well, folks, that's the show for today.

00:33:49.720 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:33:54.320 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:33:55.300 Keep fighting for the occasion.

00:33:55.900 Thank you.

00:33:56.440 Thank you.

00:33:56.520 Thank you.

00:33:56.540 Thank you.

00:34:00.520 You can see, thank you.

00:34:08.440 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - January 15, 2020

CBC's advertising revenues down 37% as ratings for Trudeau's state broadcaster plunge

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