Rebel News Podcast - March 24, 2022


EZRA LEVANT | A curious opinion poll shows an important divide in society. Which side are you on?


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A poll commissioned by a left-wing pollster suggests that people who are skeptical of vaccines are also skeptical of the Russia-Ukraine war. Is it an attempt to smear anti-vaxxers as Putin s people, or does it go to something deeper in people s skepticism, and how maybe we're all too gullible?

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I want to take you through a very interesting opinion poll
00:00:03.140 commissioned by the left-wing pollster called ECOS.
00:00:07.520 But they have an interesting observation.
00:00:10.760 People who are skeptical of vaccines are also skeptical of the Russia-Ukraine war.
00:00:17.120 Is it an attempt to smear anti-vaxxers as Putin's people?
00:00:22.380 Or does it go to something deeper in people's skepticism and how maybe we're all too gullible?
00:00:26.840 I'll take you through it at some length.
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00:00:50.700 All right, here's today's podcast.
00:00:56.780 You're listening to a Rebel News Podcast.
00:01:00.000 Tonight, a curious opinion poll shows an important divide in society.
00:01:11.920 Which side are you on?
00:01:13.280 It's March 23rd, and this is the Ezra LeVance Show.
00:01:15.660 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:21.520 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:25.600 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:31.460 I saw an opinion poll in the Toronto Star the other day.
00:01:40.320 It was meant, I'm sure, to embarrass people like me and maybe like you.
00:01:45.300 It was a sort of weaponized poll, I think.
00:01:48.560 But I don't mind it because I think there's some truth in it, just not in the way that maybe the star in the pollster meant it.
00:01:55.180 Conducted by a liberal polling firm named ECOS, run by Frank Graves.
00:01:59.880 The story is headlined, How Vaccination Status Might Predict Views on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
00:02:07.120 Huh.
00:02:07.720 New poll indicates that vaccine refusers are much more sympathetic to Russia.
00:02:15.180 Isn't that odd?
00:02:17.580 Huh.
00:02:17.780 You know, a few months ago, another poll taken by another liberal-linked polling company called Abacus.
00:02:26.420 I mean, are there any conservative polling companies?
00:02:28.600 I don't even know.
00:02:29.860 Abacus said that the typical vaccine-hesitant person in Canada was actually a 42-year-old mum in Ontario who votes liberal.
00:02:39.880 I'll come back to that Abacus poll later maybe, but let's focus on the new poll in the Star.
00:02:47.780 Unvaccinated Canadians are about 12 times more likely than those who received three doses to believe Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine was justified, according to a new survey by national polling firm ECOS.
00:03:01.400 Three doses?
00:03:03.460 That right away makes me want to make a joke, only three doses?
00:03:07.760 Because, of course, Pfizer's CEO is out pitching a fourth dose, did you know?
00:03:13.080 You've mentioned you are close to filing with the FDA for a fourth dose.
00:03:19.320 Tell us about where the latest on that stands, what the data show.
00:03:24.160 I think we are going to submit to FDA a significant package of data about the need for a fourth dose, and they need to make their own conclusions, of course.
00:03:33.820 And then CDC also to see that clearly there is a need in the in an environment of Omicron to boost the immune response.
00:03:43.120 I don't think that we would be a need in Delta.
00:03:45.880 I was thinking always that after the third dose, we will need annual revaccinations.
00:03:50.980 With Omicron, the situation is more challenging, so we may need the fourth dose.
00:03:55.340 But that's something that FDA needs to decide and the CDC needs to recommend.
00:03:59.880 The same is with every other country.
00:04:01.620 Many countries already started recommending a fourth dose, and we will see how the authorities here will think about it.
00:04:09.800 Did the data that you have suggest a fourth dose may be needed for everybody or perhaps just certain populations, the elderly or more vulnerable?
00:04:18.120 I think the data will show that the immune protection against Omicron is very good after three doses when it comes against hospitalization or deaths.
00:04:30.960 Not as good, but pretty good also against infections.
00:04:34.560 But hospitalization, this is very good, the third dose, but doesn't last long.
00:04:39.400 After three, four months, it starts waning.
00:04:42.580 That's Omicron, I agree.
00:04:43.860 And clearly, the risk when you have waning immune responses is higher for people that they have high AIDS, they are older or they have underlying conditions.
00:04:56.940 But the immune responses are waning for all.
00:05:00.300 So if I got him right, he's saying your vaccination dose only works for three or four months.
00:05:05.420 Guys, I'm not sure if that can be called a vaccine if you've got to take three or four shots of it every year.
00:05:11.440 But, hey, the CEO needs a new yacht.
00:05:14.240 Anyways, back to the story.
00:05:16.520 The poll found 26% of those who are identified as unvaccinated agreed the Russian invasion is justified, with another 35% not offering an opinion.
00:05:27.060 This compared to only 2% of surveyed Canadians who said they had three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and who supported the attack, and 4% who offered no view.
00:05:43.140 At first glance, it's a strange question to ask, isn't it?
00:05:45.480 There is no connection.
00:05:47.200 I mean, why not do a poll correlating vaccination status with, I don't know, whether you prefer Star Wars or Star Trek better, something completely unconnected.
00:05:58.000 It's a non sequitur.
00:05:59.560 It doesn't follow.
00:06:00.340 Except it's immediately obvious what the political goal of the story and the poll is in the star, right?
00:06:08.080 Why are they doing this poll?
00:06:10.080 We got a glimpse of it when the truckers were in Ottawa and the media party let her rip. 0.99
00:06:14.280 I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.
00:06:35.380 Well, again, I'm going to defer to our partners in the public safety, the trained officials and experts in that area.
00:06:44.620 These aren't real people, these truckers.
00:06:46.760 They aren't good Canadians who simply have a different opinion from the establishment.
00:06:50.880 These are bad-faith actors.
00:06:53.060 They might even be spies.
00:06:54.520 They're in service of a foreign leader. 0.66
00:06:56.260 I mean, I actually have this memory when I was a child.
00:07:00.380 I don't know why it stuck with me, but there was a former CBC journalist, their chief correspondent, actually, Knowlton Nash was his name, who was asked why he kept interviewing a Soviet spokesman.
00:07:14.440 I think it was this guy, Vladimir Posner.
00:07:16.960 Posner grew up in America, so he speaks perfect English and he understands American thinking and American culture.
00:07:23.600 He moved back to the Soviet Union, became one of communism's most effective propagandists in the West during the Cold War.
00:07:32.940 Anyhow, I remember as a young child, can you believe it?
00:07:37.000 Knowlton Nash was asked why he interviewed Posner, this propagandist, so much.
00:07:44.500 And this was during the Cold War, remember.
00:07:46.660 Nuclear, mutually assured destruction, proxy wars everywhere, from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Nicaragua.
00:07:53.600 Why was Knowlton Nash giving so much airtime and why was he so gentle with him, too?
00:08:00.460 Nash answered snidely, and I've remembered this since I was a child.
00:08:05.020 Well, maybe we wouldn't interview him so much if he hadn't had so much to say.
00:08:10.280 It was something like that.
00:08:11.060 We're interviewing because he has a lot to say.
00:08:14.000 That's not a reason.
00:08:14.820 That's not an excuse.
00:08:15.580 It's an insult to the questioner.
00:08:17.780 It's a laugh, really.
00:08:18.680 Every propagandist has a lot to say.
00:08:21.040 Endless amounts to say, actually.
00:08:23.100 Endless propaganda to normalize the Soviet dictatorship, to normalize in the West, to pretend that Soviet Russia was a paradise. 0.53
00:08:32.660 And that the free West was morally corrupt.
00:08:36.880 The CBC loved doing it.
00:08:39.220 So did Pierre Trudeau, of course, who visited the Soviet Union with his boys and declared Siberia the land of the future.
00:08:45.800 It's quite something to see that the same CBC that was in league with Russian propagandists is now calling everyone a Russian spy when they literally platformed a Russian spy.
00:08:59.780 Just incredible.
00:09:00.900 But back to the Red Star.
00:09:02.500 I mean, the Toronto Star.
00:09:05.020 ECOS President Frank Graves said vaccination status strongly predicts views on the war,
00:09:09.780 from seizing the property of Russian oligarchs to providing non-military aid to Ukraine.
00:09:14.960 In each case, a vast majority of vaccinated Canadians agreed with measures to help Ukraine and oppose Russia,
00:09:21.980 a view held by only a small minority of unvaccinated people.
00:09:26.920 Tor Star was granted access to results of the ECOS data that show a correlation between vaccination status and attitudes towards a host of political issues,
00:09:37.320 including the war in Ukraine.
00:09:39.420 Now, just a reminder who Frank Graves and ECOS are, in case you've forgotten.
00:09:43.700 He gets enormous grants, contracts, rather, polling business from the liberal government.
00:09:49.580 Always has.
00:09:52.580 He's a reminder of what he thinks of conservatives.
00:09:57.380 You know, a few years back, he denounced members of the Conservative Party as racist and homophobic.
00:10:03.140 He's not exactly neutral, which is something you would probably want in a pollster.
00:10:06.580 But not that he just hates conservatives.
00:10:12.160 He actually gave secret advice to the Liberal Party.
00:10:15.540 I mean, I guess I give advice to parties every day, but I do it publicly.
00:10:19.500 You know what I'm saying.
00:10:20.900 Frank Graves was giving private strategic consultations to the Liberal Party.
00:10:26.720 He's a player in the political game.
00:10:29.400 He's not a neutral observer.
00:10:30.460 So, always know that ECOS and Frank Graves are just liberal activists.
00:10:35.400 But still, let me tell you what these liberal activists claim in their poll.
00:10:41.700 Let me show you the chart, which I thought was pretty interesting.
00:10:44.700 You can see it on the screen here now.
00:10:46.140 Take a look.
00:10:47.180 Let's keep that up there for a little bit, and I'll read through it.
00:10:51.720 Look at the questions they asked.
00:10:54.480 Do you want tougher sanctions on Russia?
00:10:58.060 86% of the triple-vax people say yes.
00:11:00.640 Only 13% of unvaxed people do.
00:11:02.640 I wonder what the double-vax would say, or if they're considered unvaxed now.
00:11:07.620 Seize assets of the oligarchs.
00:11:09.300 85% of the vax say yes.
00:11:11.600 13% of the unvax.
00:11:12.760 That's quite a difference.
00:11:13.920 Cut off shipments, oil shipments from Russia.
00:11:17.800 Well, I'm unvaxed, and I agree that we should cut off oil from Russia,
00:11:21.700 replace it with ethical oil from the oil stands.
00:11:24.740 81% of vaccinated people do, too.
00:11:26.940 But how many of those people are opposed to pipelines from the oil stands instead?
00:11:31.100 I'm guessing most of them.
00:11:32.920 The next one is quite something.
00:11:34.360 52% of vaccinated people believe in giving fighter jets to Ukraine
00:11:39.660 compared to 15% of unvaxed people.
00:11:42.500 Now, that's not even a thing.
00:11:44.540 Canada has a few dozen CF-18 fighter jets.
00:11:47.520 We took delivery of the first ones in early 1983.
00:11:51.120 So they are almost 40 years old.
00:11:54.040 We bought a few used ones from Australia more recently
00:11:57.060 when they upgraded their air force to modern F-35.
00:12:00.220 So I'm not sure how they would do in a war against the Russian air force.
00:12:04.520 I don't know. Maybe they do okay.
00:12:05.380 But the Ukrainian air force does not fly F-18s.
00:12:09.800 They fly old Russian jets.
00:12:12.400 So they've never flown on CF-18s.
00:12:14.900 They've never trained on CF-18s.
00:12:16.520 The ground crews have never worked on CF-18s.
00:12:20.640 It would literally take years for Ukrainians to learn how to integrate a new jet 1.00
00:12:26.220 into their air force.
00:12:28.040 The whole thing is a weird hypothetical scenario.
00:12:31.860 It's impossible, really.
00:12:32.820 But still, 52% of vaxed takers are really excited about it.
00:12:36.700 Only 15% of unvaxed people are.
00:12:38.920 30% of vaxers actually want us to go to war in Ukraine against Russia.
00:12:45.540 And look at the next line.
00:12:46.520 52% of Canadians who are unvaxed say that Canada shouldn't do any of these things.
00:12:51.960 Only 2% of vaxed people say Canadians shouldn't do any of these things.
00:12:56.840 That actually is a stunning divide, isn't it?
00:13:00.380 Now, I note that the liberal pollster Frank Graves of the liberal polling firm ECOS
00:13:04.380 didn't seem to ask any non-belligerent options.
00:13:08.880 Like, would you think Canada should mediate peace talks?
00:13:13.580 Which other countries like Belarus and Turkey have done.
00:13:16.680 I think Israel is trying to do that. 0.72
00:13:18.240 So that would be a constructive thing that's not violent.
00:13:22.120 That's often how wars are ended with peace talks.
00:13:25.580 That wasn't an option that Frank Graves had put to people.
00:13:29.300 There was no humanitarian aid option.
00:13:32.440 Or even revving up our own oil science to displace Russian oil.
00:13:37.140 Not just their exports to Canada, but what if Canada exported oil and gas to the world?
00:13:42.760 Our imports from Russia are modest.
00:13:44.560 But if we could relieve Europe, especially Germany, from reliance on Russia, 0.85
00:13:48.560 that would be something we could really do to help.
00:13:50.720 It was a carefully selected list of options, all of which involved hostility towards Russia,
00:13:56.540 much of which was fantastical or unrealistic, like the jets part.
00:14:01.220 And most of which Trudeau himself would never do in any event, or would be pointless.
00:14:06.760 I mean, sure, we have sanctions on lots of Russian oligarchs.
00:14:11.240 I'm just not sure that any Russian oligarchs have ever put money in the Royal Bank or Scotiabank
00:14:18.180 or sailed their mega yachts up the St. Lawrence River.
00:14:22.080 I think it's a combination of wishful thinking and virtue signaling and demonizing an enemy,
00:14:27.820 who, by the way, may, in fact, be a demon.
00:14:31.640 But I just want to point out that what the options had in common here, they were all aggressive.
00:14:38.160 Whereas the one thing the anti-vaxxers agreed on is don't fight.
00:14:42.060 They're not saying they're pro-Putin.
00:14:44.140 They're just saying don't do all those hostile things,
00:14:47.280 especially the ones that might start World War III, because it's not our fight.
00:14:52.240 It's not pro-Putin. That's isolationist, you could call it.
00:14:55.060 By the way, I wonder what those same vaxxers and anti-vaxxers would say
00:14:59.260 about sanctions against Chinese oligarchs for a number of reasons,
00:15:04.220 from their crimes against humanity to their industrial espionage
00:15:08.360 to taking Canadians hostage to their role in the virus labs in Wuhan 0.91
00:15:12.040 to their concentration camps for Uyghurs. 0.99
00:15:14.360 Just curious.
00:15:15.400 Graves and the star says these unvaxxed people can't be correct.
00:15:22.240 He says they can't have a legitimate point of view. 0.99
00:15:25.220 He explains these answers by saying they're just dumb. 0.99
00:15:29.460 Let me quote. 0.97
00:15:31.280 The study concludes the results point to
00:15:35.220 the highly corrosive influences of disinformation.
00:15:39.680 This is definitely a new and bluntly insidious force
00:15:43.300 that is contributing to polarization and disinformation
00:15:46.060 and poor decision making, and it doesn't seem to be going away.
00:15:50.820 Things are getting worse, said Graves.
00:15:52.720 I don't think this is because those people had an ingrained sympathy
00:15:56.520 to the Russians.
00:15:57.780 They're reading this online.
00:15:59.820 They're consuming this from the same sources
00:16:02.120 that were giving them the anti-vaxx stuff.
00:16:04.880 Got it. 1.00
00:16:06.920 So anyone who disagrees with the Toronto Star is just stupid. 1.00
00:16:11.960 That's the only option. 1.00
00:16:15.060 Disinformation.
00:16:16.240 We're all too easily tricked.
00:16:19.220 Pfizer is pitching the fourth dose of a vaccine
00:16:21.900 that doesn't really vaccinate,
00:16:24.020 but you're still calling the skeptics?
00:16:26.720 The kooky ones?
00:16:28.180 All right.
00:16:32.120 The entire province of Quebec, may I remind you,
00:16:35.620 was put under a lengthy prison-style curfew
00:16:37.780 for health reasons.
00:16:40.200 The media and the government promoted it,
00:16:42.080 total cheerleading,
00:16:42.860 but it recently emerged that there was no medical basis
00:16:46.320 for a curfew, never has been in the history of mankind.
00:16:49.220 All the health experts who were asked
00:16:50.940 said there was no justification.
00:16:52.960 They told the public health officer this,
00:16:55.040 told them they couldn't back up his political curfew
00:16:58.540 with any medical reasons,
00:16:59.700 but they launched it anyways.
00:17:02.480 And you're saying the skeptics were the misinformed ones?
00:17:06.860 You know, yesterday we played a short fun clip
00:17:09.020 from me 10 years ago at an eco-protest.
00:17:12.180 I don't know if you saw that.
00:17:14.020 Where the protesters had no clue about anything.
00:17:16.100 They were just told to show up, so they did.
00:17:18.080 And they were handed their placards to carry.
00:17:19.940 They probably didn't even read it.
00:17:20.740 No clue.
00:17:21.280 That one gal who was there specifically to protest me, 0.72
00:17:24.540 but when I came up to her,
00:17:25.840 she didn't recognize me when I spoke with her,
00:17:28.180 that rent-a-mop professional protesters 0.95
00:17:29.920 do what they're told.
00:17:31.640 That is truly disinformation.
00:17:33.500 They don't know what they're doing.
00:17:35.920 But you go to any anti-vaccine mandate rally
00:17:39.100 in this country,
00:17:40.500 there's no one like that.
00:17:42.580 You ask someone,
00:17:44.120 why are you here?
00:17:45.380 They will talk your ear off for an hour.
00:17:48.760 They've read more studies,
00:17:50.280 watched more videos,
00:17:51.660 listened to different sources,
00:17:52.800 read more journalism than anyone.
00:17:56.040 But hey,
00:17:56.640 if it makes you feel better to call them 1.00
00:17:58.620 uninformed and stupid, 1.00
00:18:00.760 well, fill your boots. 1.00
00:18:01.680 You're the Toronto Star.
00:18:04.180 Unvaccinated Canadians are also more likely
00:18:06.240 to have a profound distrust of government,
00:18:09.080 science,
00:18:09.660 and professional health experts,
00:18:11.180 Graves said,
00:18:11.860 and are more likely to support the protest convoy
00:18:14.300 that occupied Ottawa for nearly a month.
00:18:17.100 Now that,
00:18:19.620 I think that's true.
00:18:22.160 Distrust of government.
00:18:23.180 Is there any institution
00:18:24.660 that has failed more in the past two years
00:18:27.500 than government?
00:18:28.900 Well, the media, of course,
00:18:30.340 but in Canada,
00:18:31.380 the media are government funded.
00:18:32.980 Science?
00:18:34.340 Well, sure,
00:18:35.060 science being the word that politicians
00:18:36.660 have stolen
00:18:37.500 to apply to their politics,
00:18:39.860 science has some sort of shield
00:18:41.100 against asking questions.
00:18:43.160 Science is about questions.
00:18:44.580 It comes from the Greek word to know,
00:18:46.740 to investigate,
00:18:47.720 to the scientific process,
00:18:50.140 experimenting.
00:18:51.500 There's no end in science, by the way.
00:18:53.360 There's no unquestionable thing in science.
00:18:55.520 If you can't question it,
00:18:56.560 it's not science anymore.
00:18:57.580 It's something else.
00:18:58.340 I don't know, politics,
00:18:59.380 ideology, faith, whatever.
00:19:03.000 Superstition. 0.92
00:19:03.700 Anthony Fauci is the worst.
00:19:05.900 He actually says
00:19:07.020 that criticizing him
00:19:09.220 is tantamount to criticizing science itself.
00:19:11.940 And that's so dangerous,
00:19:12.880 so stop doing it.
00:19:14.580 I mean,
00:19:15.300 anybody who's looking at this carefully
00:19:17.460 realizes that there's a distinct
00:19:20.180 anti-science flavor to this.
00:19:23.680 So if they get up and criticize science,
00:19:26.420 nobody's going to know
00:19:27.200 what they're talking about.
00:19:28.480 But if they get up
00:19:29.560 and really aim their bullets
00:19:31.420 at Tony Fauci,
00:19:32.580 well, people could recognize
00:19:33.540 there's a person there,
00:19:34.720 so it's easy to criticize.
00:19:36.860 But they're really criticizing science
00:19:38.680 because I represent science.
00:19:41.080 that's dangerous.
00:19:42.960 To me, that's more dangerous
00:19:44.720 than the slings and the arrows
00:19:46.700 that get thrown at me.
00:19:47.940 And if you damage science,
00:19:49.900 you are doing something
00:19:51.460 very detrimental to society
00:19:54.020 long after I leave.
00:19:55.900 Imagine saying you represent science.
00:19:59.740 You're its only interpreter on Earth.
00:20:02.340 That right there is anti-scientific,
00:20:04.220 unscientific,
00:20:04.900 but also imagine saying
00:20:06.140 that the scientific consensus
00:20:07.360 cannot withstand criticism.
00:20:08.840 I'll let the ghost of Galileo know that.
00:20:12.660 Back to the Toronto Star
00:20:13.600 and their ECOS poll.
00:20:15.420 Put aside the conclusions
00:20:17.020 they came to,
00:20:18.260 likely before they even did the poll. 1.00
00:20:20.240 Unvaxed people are dumb brutes 1.00
00:20:22.600 who aren't good like us. 1.00
00:20:24.320 Put aside their pathetic explanation 0.99
00:20:26.280 and their Russophobia. 0.99
00:20:28.000 But look at what I presume
00:20:29.480 is accurate data.
00:20:32.220 Unvaccinated people are skeptical
00:20:33.580 of government and government solutions,
00:20:35.660 and they're willing to stand up
00:20:37.660 against the crowd.
00:20:38.620 I think that's right.
00:20:41.100 Remember when we talked about this before,
00:20:45.140 August Landmesser,
00:20:46.060 the one German who wasn't Sieg Heil-ing.
00:20:48.960 Who amongst us would have been able
00:20:51.380 to fight the peer pressure
00:20:52.460 and not Sieg Heil,
00:20:54.040 go against the grain?
00:20:56.240 Precious few.
00:20:57.840 It's so hard.
00:20:58.620 It's so hard to go against the grain
00:21:00.040 at the best of times.
00:21:02.060 But now imagine if you're threatened
00:21:04.560 that you'll be fired from your job
00:21:06.240 or kicked out of university
00:21:07.820 in your last year
00:21:08.540 before you get your degree,
00:21:09.380 denied the right to go to a restaurant
00:21:11.100 or store,
00:21:11.740 denied the right to fly
00:21:14.200 or take a train.
00:21:15.180 Very hard.
00:21:17.740 So it is actually true,
00:21:19.420 I think,
00:21:19.840 if you are a person
00:21:21.220 who can resist all that,
00:21:23.680 all the propaganda,
00:21:24.940 all the peer pressure,
00:21:25.980 all the influencers
00:21:27.380 bought by tax dollars,
00:21:29.160 all the demonization,
00:21:30.380 if you can face that
00:21:32.300 without bending,
00:21:34.040 you're probably going to have
00:21:36.260 those same qualities
00:21:37.620 when you face other observations,
00:21:41.040 decisions,
00:21:41.620 other issues,
00:21:42.180 especially if the same people
00:21:43.940 who have abused you
00:21:45.220 and lied to you
00:21:46.340 for the past two years
00:21:47.220 are now asking you
00:21:48.520 to trust them
00:21:49.400 on the new thing,
00:21:50.380 whatever the new thing is.
00:21:51.840 I mean,
00:21:51.980 just a few weeks ago,
00:21:53.540 Justin Trudeau
00:21:54.160 and Chrystia Freeland
00:21:54.880 put our country
00:21:55.800 under a form of martial law.
00:21:57.620 They seized bank accounts
00:21:58.840 without legal process.
00:22:00.320 They put hundreds
00:22:01.380 of paramilitary-style police
00:22:03.060 in the streets.
00:22:04.800 They even shot
00:22:05.700 one of our reporters
00:22:06.360 in the leg.
00:22:08.120 And then,
00:22:09.020 we're supposed to
00:22:10.000 suddenly believe Trudeau
00:22:11.380 when he transforms himself
00:22:12.360 into a civil rights advocate,
00:22:13.880 criticizing Putin
00:22:15.100 for doing similar things.
00:22:17.980 Yeah.
00:22:18.740 Yeah.
00:22:19.040 Chrystia Freeland, 0.88
00:22:20.000 whose own grandfather
00:22:20.860 was a Nazi, by the way,
00:22:22.820 accused the truckers
00:22:24.120 of being Nazis.
00:22:25.640 So did Trudeau.
00:22:26.440 Trudeau and his new ally,
00:22:28.280 Jagmeet Singh.
00:22:29.720 The truckers weren't Nazis,
00:22:30.940 of course.
00:22:32.420 But we have learned
00:22:33.420 that Chrystia Freeland
00:22:34.220 and Trudeau and Singh
00:22:35.240 support the Azov Battalion,
00:22:37.400 who actually are Nazis.
00:22:39.360 They say so.
00:22:40.800 They actually have an army.
00:22:42.860 Sorry,
00:22:43.080 was I supposed to
00:22:44.220 forget them lying
00:22:45.800 and demonizing me
00:22:46.920 just a few weeks ago
00:22:48.160 and now embrace Trudeau
00:22:50.020 and company
00:22:50.560 as honest and fair dealers now?
00:22:52.420 I know how Trudeau
00:22:54.220 and his liberals
00:22:54.920 despise and disparage
00:22:56.800 the military.
00:22:57.580 We all know that.
00:22:59.340 Am I supposed
00:22:59.800 to suddenly believe
00:23:01.120 that they're serious
00:23:02.460 about anything military?
00:23:05.580 I was prepared
00:23:06.720 to be killed in action.
00:23:09.060 What I wasn't prepared 0.91
00:23:11.240 for, Mr. Prime Minister,
00:23:12.900 is Canada
00:23:13.560 turning its back on me.
00:23:20.540 So which veteran
00:23:22.040 was it that you
00:23:23.100 were talking about?
00:23:26.280 Why are we still
00:23:27.680 fighting against
00:23:29.300 certain veterans groups
00:23:30.820 in court?
00:23:31.820 Because they're asking
00:23:34.020 for more than we are
00:23:35.040 able to give right now.
00:23:36.120 I know that the
00:23:38.080 ECOS poll
00:23:38.720 didn't actually ask people
00:23:40.140 if they liked
00:23:41.140 or disliked Putin
00:23:42.060 or liked or disliked
00:23:43.880 the invasion
00:23:44.420 or maybe it did ask that
00:23:45.460 but it started
00:23:45.940 and published those parts.
00:23:47.180 I don't like Putin
00:23:48.180 and I don't like
00:23:49.160 the invasion.
00:23:50.760 I just don't think
00:23:51.740 we should go to war 1.00
00:23:52.700 over it here in Canada.
00:23:53.980 I suspect many other
00:23:54.960 skeptics feel the same way.
00:23:57.880 Let me leave you 0.94
00:23:58.860 with one fact.
00:24:00.700 It's from the
00:24:01.480 Organized Crime
00:24:02.620 and Corruption
00:24:03.500 Reporting Project.
00:24:04.820 They're a registered
00:24:06.340 American charity.
00:24:07.240 They're a globalist
00:24:07.980 NGO.
00:24:09.760 Here's a little bit
00:24:10.300 of information about them
00:24:11.500 if you're curious
00:24:12.160 as to who they are.
00:24:14.060 Just so you know,
00:24:15.080 they're funded
00:24:15.700 in large part
00:24:16.700 by the U.S. government,
00:24:18.220 the U.K. government
00:24:19.380 and also some
00:24:20.680 left-wing globalist groups
00:24:21.900 like the Rockefeller Brothers
00:24:23.120 and George Soros.
00:24:24.260 So it's all right there
00:24:25.840 on their website
00:24:26.480 just so you know
00:24:27.060 who they are.
00:24:27.500 This is not some
00:24:28.020 right-wing group.
00:24:29.460 And look at the
00:24:29.960 front-page story today.
00:24:31.960 You can see there
00:24:32.680 against Putin.
00:24:34.140 Sanctioning an oligarch
00:24:35.840 is not so easy.
00:24:37.680 Why the money trail
00:24:38.640 of Alisher Usmanov,
00:24:40.260 one of Russia's 0.89
00:24:41.140 wealthiest men,
00:24:41.900 is difficult to follow.
00:24:42.840 So you can see
00:24:43.400 they're very tough
00:24:44.560 on Russia.
00:24:46.360 But look at this story
00:24:47.060 from the same group
00:24:47.820 just a few months ago.
00:24:49.560 Just a few months ago.
00:24:52.420 Pandora papers reveal
00:24:53.640 offshore holdings
00:24:54.520 of Ukrainian president
00:24:55.580 and his inner circle.
00:24:57.980 Ukrainian President
00:24:58.920 Vladimir Zelensky
00:25:00.080 rode to power
00:25:00.940 on pledges
00:25:01.480 to clean up
00:25:01.920 the Eastern European country,
00:25:03.040 but the Pandora papers
00:25:04.740 reveal he
00:25:05.420 and his close circle
00:25:06.400 were the beneficiaries
00:25:07.980 of a network
00:25:08.800 of offshore companies
00:25:10.240 including some
00:25:11.280 that owned
00:25:11.700 expensive London property.
00:25:13.880 It's an extremely
00:25:14.740 detailed report
00:25:15.780 in a corruption
00:25:16.800 by Zelensky
00:25:17.540 and his oligarch friends.
00:25:19.920 What?
00:25:20.520 You thought only Putin 0.77
00:25:21.440 had corrupt
00:25:22.720 oligarch friends? 0.54
00:25:24.340 I'll read more.
00:25:25.080 The documents show
00:25:25.720 that Zelensky
00:25:26.360 and his partners
00:25:27.220 in a television production
00:25:28.380 company called
00:25:29.500 Kvartal 95
00:25:31.840 set up a network
00:25:33.760 of offshore firms
00:25:34.700 dating back
00:25:35.200 to at least 2012,
00:25:36.940 the year the company
00:25:37.880 began making
00:25:38.560 regular content
00:25:39.420 for TV stations
00:25:40.340 owned by
00:25:41.120 Ihor Kolomoisky,
00:25:43.360 an oligarch
00:25:44.200 dogged by allegations
00:25:45.320 of multi-billion dollar
00:25:46.840 fraud.
00:25:48.680 The offshores 0.99
00:25:49.320 were also used
00:25:50.220 by Zelensky Associates
00:25:51.480 to purchase
00:25:52.720 and own
00:25:53.580 three prime properties
00:25:54.960 in the center
00:25:55.560 of London.
00:25:56.000 I'm not going
00:25:58.460 to read more of it
00:25:59.220 and by the way
00:26:00.280 I'm not saying
00:26:01.080 being a kleptocrat
00:26:02.120 makes Zelensky
00:26:03.720 the wrong man
00:26:04.800 to lead Ukraine.
00:26:05.660 I don't know.
00:26:07.060 I don't know
00:26:07.780 if there are
00:26:08.180 any good guys
00:26:08.800 waiting in the wings
00:26:09.500 over there.
00:26:10.260 I just don't know.
00:26:11.240 But don't pretend
00:26:12.060 he's a saint.
00:26:13.540 Can you do me
00:26:13.980 that one favor?
00:26:16.360 Banning his
00:26:16.920 political rivals,
00:26:18.140 banning media
00:26:19.080 that doesn't parrot him.
00:26:20.360 I think if you're
00:26:21.320 a dissident,
00:26:22.400 if you're a skeptic,
00:26:24.480 if you realize
00:26:25.260 you've been lied to
00:26:26.120 and bullied
00:26:26.640 and gaslit
00:26:27.320 for two years,
00:26:28.980 you sort of know
00:26:30.100 what to look for now.
00:26:31.300 And if you see stories
00:26:32.900 like these
00:26:33.560 out of the corner
00:26:34.620 of your eye,
00:26:35.380 you don't brush them off
00:26:36.860 and then just repeat
00:26:37.640 what you heard
00:26:38.060 on the CBC.
00:26:39.120 Zelensky and Putin
00:26:40.020 are at war
00:26:40.740 with each other.
00:26:41.640 That's all I know
00:26:42.280 for sure.
00:26:43.320 I'll accept
00:26:44.000 that Putin 0.98
00:26:44.480 is atrocious, 0.86
00:26:45.700 though I can understand
00:26:46.640 why he maybe
00:26:47.400 doesn't want
00:26:47.980 U.S. military bases
00:26:49.520 right next to his borders
00:26:50.720 in the same way
00:26:52.060 that America's 0.73
00:26:53.000 Monroe Doctrine
00:26:53.860 made Americans
00:26:55.400 root out the missiles
00:26:56.980 that the Soviets
00:26:57.680 were putting
00:26:58.220 in their backyard
00:26:59.420 in Cuba.
00:27:01.360 On Friday,
00:27:02.800 day four of the crisis,
00:27:04.540 low-level reconnaissance
00:27:05.660 aircraft over Cuba
00:27:06.680 brought back
00:27:07.280 ominous new evidence.
00:27:09.500 The photos revealed
00:27:10.380 a site for a much
00:27:11.320 longer-range
00:27:12.300 Soviet missile
00:27:13.160 which could hit
00:27:14.040 98% of the U.S. mainland.
00:27:17.220 Soviet technicians
00:27:18.040 were working
00:27:18.680 round the clock,
00:27:20.040 pressing to get
00:27:20.780 the missiles operational
00:27:21.820 before they were discovered.
00:27:26.280 Faced with this
00:27:27.280 new evidence,
00:27:28.200 Kennedy felt
00:27:28.760 forced to act.
00:27:30.340 That day,
00:27:31.140 he secretly ordered
00:27:32.120 the armed forces
00:27:32.960 to prepare for action
00:27:34.200 and the Navy
00:27:35.300 to impose a blockade,
00:27:37.400 a line beyond
00:27:38.420 which ships carrying arms
00:27:39.860 would not be allowed.
00:27:41.420 It was a plan
00:27:42.260 McNamara had analyzed
00:27:43.580 with Roswell Gilpatrick.
00:27:45.500 I took the part
00:27:46.420 of the Soviet planner,
00:27:47.640 McNamara took the part
00:27:48.720 of the U.S. planner,
00:27:49.720 and we sort of,
00:27:51.840 we just war-gamed
00:27:52.940 each other there
00:27:53.820 on the back
00:27:54.640 of the envelope
00:27:55.240 at our lunch table
00:27:56.280 and what we essentially
00:28:00.440 came up with
00:28:02.040 was this idea
00:28:02.960 of a naval blockade
00:28:05.620 and downplaying it
00:28:09.860 so we weren't going to,
00:28:11.900 unless we had to,
00:28:12.980 seize or fire
00:28:14.360 Soviet vessels,
00:28:15.700 but to show
00:28:18.960 in as many ways
00:28:19.940 as we could,
00:28:20.500 including mobilizing forces,
00:28:22.720 moving forces around
00:28:23.900 overtly,
00:28:25.100 that we were
00:28:26.460 very serious
00:28:27.620 about this
00:28:28.620 installation of
00:28:30.920 medium-range missiles
00:28:32.040 in Cuba.
00:28:34.540 I accept that there
00:28:38.020 is a coronavirus,
00:28:39.180 obviously.
00:28:39.620 I don't deny
00:28:40.120 that it exists.
00:28:40.820 I wonder where
00:28:41.880 it came from
00:28:42.460 and I think
00:28:42.900 Fauci himself
00:28:44.100 is hiding
00:28:44.620 the facts from us.
00:28:45.980 I think he might
00:28:46.940 have been involved
00:28:47.460 with his gain-of-function
00:28:48.960 research in China.
00:28:50.740 We see now
00:28:51.580 that so many statistics
00:28:52.960 were inflated,
00:28:54.620 that the claims
00:28:55.260 that we're all at risk,
00:28:56.640 that really isn't true,
00:28:57.900 that only the old
00:28:59.480 and the fat 0.79
00:28:59.980 and the sick
00:29:00.500 are at risk.
00:29:02.440 There's so many things
00:29:03.940 from the unscientific
00:29:05.780 six-foot separation rule,
00:29:08.580 there's so many
00:29:09.020 pandemic profiteers.
00:29:10.880 I mean, look at
00:29:11.280 this story here.
00:29:12.480 It's incredible.
00:29:14.380 I see a liberal
00:29:15.100 cabinet minister's
00:29:16.140 husband getting in
00:29:17.400 on fat coronavirus
00:29:18.860 contracts.
00:29:19.720 I see the obedient courts.
00:29:21.420 I see colleges
00:29:22.300 of physicians
00:29:22.960 and surgeons
00:29:23.640 brutalizing any
00:29:25.000 dissident doctors
00:29:25.720 or nurses 0.81
00:29:26.140 and then claiming,
00:29:28.540 because they've
00:29:29.200 silenced those doctors,
00:29:30.400 that, oh,
00:29:30.920 medicine is unanimous
00:29:31.900 on this.
00:29:32.200 I see all that.
00:29:34.300 I see all that.
00:29:36.380 And so how can I
00:29:37.080 not see the same
00:29:38.160 things in the
00:29:39.520 Ukraine and Russia
00:29:40.220 story?
00:29:41.920 I don't deny
00:29:42.860 that there is a
00:29:43.440 coronavirus,
00:29:44.020 and I don't deny
00:29:44.640 that Vladimir Putin
00:29:45.400 is an authoritarian
00:29:46.080 ruler,
00:29:46.880 a former KGB agent,
00:29:48.560 an imperialist,
00:29:49.500 a warmonger.
00:29:50.180 I don't deny any of that.
00:29:51.600 But Frank Graves
00:29:52.480 and Ecos and the Star
00:29:53.680 didn't ask that,
00:29:55.220 did they?
00:29:56.660 They asked if we
00:29:57.700 were ready to go to war,
00:29:58.900 militarily or economically,
00:30:00.460 I mean.
00:30:01.420 If you're not,
00:30:04.080 you're probably
00:30:04.580 some Russian agent,
00:30:05.580 right?
00:30:06.420 No.
00:30:07.140 I don't think the
00:30:08.100 real story in this
00:30:09.240 poll is how dissident
00:30:10.280 and skeptical
00:30:11.040 unvaccinated people
00:30:12.140 are.
00:30:12.900 But I agree that
00:30:14.260 it is an important
00:30:15.140 fact.
00:30:16.940 I think the more
00:30:18.000 important fact,
00:30:19.320 and the scarier one
00:30:20.440 in this poll,
00:30:21.940 is that so many
00:30:23.380 people are not
00:30:24.020 skeptical,
00:30:25.880 is that so many
00:30:26.480 people are gullible
00:30:27.240 and peer-pressurable
00:30:29.600 and obedient
00:30:31.480 and just go along
00:30:33.300 to get along.
00:30:35.180 The same people
00:30:36.340 that triple-vaxxed
00:30:37.960 themselves,
00:30:38.720 that forced masks
00:30:39.720 onto their own
00:30:40.500 young kids,
00:30:41.280 that cheered along,
00:30:43.920 they're ready
00:30:45.320 and up to cheering
00:30:47.440 for the next thing,
00:30:48.160 whatever the next thing
00:30:48.860 is, whatever Trudeau
00:30:49.760 and social media
00:30:51.240 tells them to do
00:30:52.040 on any given day.
00:30:53.000 That's the news here.
00:30:55.840 Just how obedient
00:30:56.960 and compliant
00:30:57.700 so many Canadians
00:30:59.400 have become.
00:31:01.480 Stay with us
00:31:02.160 for more.
00:31:03.300 Well, yesterday
00:31:19.460 in our talk
00:31:20.000 with James Lindsay,
00:31:20.700 we talked about
00:31:21.240 how few people
00:31:22.040 in the creative
00:31:22.860 industries,
00:31:24.100 movies, comedy,
00:31:25.800 singing, music,
00:31:27.860 are conservative
00:31:29.000 or maybe at least
00:31:30.020 they're afraid
00:31:30.520 to reveal themselves.
00:31:31.600 Maybe that's,
00:31:32.280 maybe country music
00:31:33.220 is the one exception,
00:31:34.400 but even in sports,
00:31:35.960 wokeism is the way.
00:31:38.300 There is one
00:31:39.320 very bright exception
00:31:41.060 to that darkness
00:31:42.180 and it's the Babylon Bee,
00:31:44.980 which I have to say
00:31:45.780 is the funniest website
00:31:46.780 on the internet.
00:31:47.400 It has a Christian flavor,
00:31:49.620 but most of the jokes,
00:31:50.960 I think,
00:31:51.620 are for anyone,
00:31:53.420 for anyone who follows
00:31:54.280 politics
00:31:54.820 and follows social media.
00:31:56.880 I used to follow
00:31:58.760 The Onion,
00:31:59.700 which was another
00:32:00.280 satirical site,
00:32:01.320 but I think they stopped
00:32:02.300 being funny a decade ago.
00:32:03.440 I don't know quite why,
00:32:04.280 but the Babylon Bee
00:32:05.240 has been crushing it
00:32:06.420 and you know
00:32:07.640 they're having an impact
00:32:09.080 in the broader society
00:32:10.600 when,
00:32:11.600 and this is,
00:32:12.260 I'm not making this up,
00:32:13.660 when their jokes
00:32:15.380 are fact-checked, 0.93
00:32:18.400 including ridiculous, 0.80
00:32:20.220 absurd jokes.
00:32:21.840 The official fact-checkers
00:32:22.980 get right on it
00:32:23.760 to tell you people
00:32:24.440 know that's not true.
00:32:25.920 They're fact-checking jokes,
00:32:27.180 which shows you
00:32:27.860 the importance of what
00:32:28.880 Andrew Breitbart said,
00:32:30.660 culture,
00:32:31.960 politics is downstream
00:32:33.260 from culture.
00:32:34.360 If you can get people laughing,
00:32:35.820 if you can get people,
00:32:36.940 normal people,
00:32:38.000 talking about something
00:32:39.220 that's going to have
00:32:40.160 an effect in the polls,
00:32:41.080 people know that
00:32:41.800 and that's why
00:32:42.520 the Babylon Bee
00:32:44.100 has been targeted.
00:32:44.860 Now they had a hilarious joke
00:32:46.180 the other day.
00:32:47.400 They named Rachel Levine
00:32:49.900 the Babylon Bee's
00:32:51.760 Man of the Year
00:32:52.800 and the big joke,
00:32:53.900 of course,
00:32:54.260 is that Rachel Levine
00:32:55.360 was born a man
00:32:56.720 but transitioned
00:32:58.300 and now goes by
00:33:00.100 Rachel Levine,
00:33:01.100 has long hair
00:33:02.040 and has become
00:33:02.900 an admiral
00:33:03.540 in the United States
00:33:05.420 government,
00:33:05.900 believe it or not.
00:33:06.860 It was a joke,
00:33:07.960 transgenderism,
00:33:09.320 of course,
00:33:09.640 being an issue
00:33:10.220 since Will
00:33:11.300 or Leah Thomas
00:33:12.240 crushed the girls 0.97
00:33:13.200 in the NCAA competition.
00:33:15.120 A joke on a satirical website,
00:33:16.860 well,
00:33:17.360 it was considered hateful
00:33:19.020 by Twitter
00:33:20.660 which not only
00:33:21.660 deleted that joke
00:33:22.480 but suspended
00:33:23.240 the entire account
00:33:25.900 of the Babylon Bee
00:33:27.620 and joining us now
00:33:28.300 to talk about that
00:33:29.000 is their managing editor
00:33:30.140 down there,
00:33:31.380 Joel Berry,
00:33:32.040 who joins us now
00:33:32.920 via Skype.
00:33:33.920 Joel,
00:33:34.280 I'm thrilled
00:33:35.580 to talk to you
00:33:36.700 and I admire
00:33:37.920 the Babylon Bee
00:33:38.660 so very much.
00:33:39.680 I have to tell you
00:33:40.400 I mainly did follow it
00:33:41.800 on Twitter.
00:33:42.420 That's where I
00:33:42.960 saw the headlines
00:33:44.300 which were often enough
00:33:45.480 to get me laughing
00:33:46.200 and I would click through.
00:33:47.000 Tell me how this
00:33:49.580 all went down
00:33:50.160 and tell me
00:33:50.680 your reaction to it.
00:33:52.040 What's the company doing?
00:33:53.860 You guys haven't
00:33:54.500 bend the knee.
00:33:55.400 You haven't apologized
00:33:56.560 or groveled.
00:33:57.360 That's very rare.
00:33:59.760 Yeah.
00:34:00.540 Well,
00:34:01.060 you know,
00:34:01.580 in one sense
00:34:02.700 we kind of
00:34:03.880 feel like this
00:34:05.340 has been a long time coming.
00:34:07.900 You know,
00:34:08.360 we have always
00:34:09.400 kind of had
00:34:10.360 a long running joke
00:34:11.320 when it comes to
00:34:12.320 trans ideology
00:34:13.920 and we've told
00:34:16.860 a lot of jokes
00:34:17.380 about it.
00:34:18.580 This one
00:34:19.620 for one reason
00:34:20.620 or another
00:34:21.020 whether it's
00:34:21.680 because it's in the news
00:34:22.780 or, you know,
00:34:23.560 it's a hot topic
00:34:24.280 right now
00:34:24.800 because of people
00:34:26.000 like Leah Thomas
00:34:26.660 and Rachel Levine.
00:34:29.160 Twitter
00:34:29.600 informed us
00:34:30.940 that we'd be locked
00:34:31.560 out of our Twitter account
00:34:32.700 unless we
00:34:33.780 admitted
00:34:35.080 that we had
00:34:36.180 involved ourselves
00:34:38.440 in hate speech
00:34:39.240 and take the tweet
00:34:40.360 down ourselves.
00:34:41.000 So instead of just
00:34:42.420 deleting the tweet
00:34:44.140 themselves
00:34:44.640 and saying,
00:34:45.280 okay,
00:34:45.420 we deleted this tweet
00:34:46.320 and here's why,
00:34:47.100 they're requiring us
00:34:48.160 to do that
00:34:48.740 and acknowledge
00:34:49.300 it was wrong
00:34:49.980 and, well,
00:34:50.460 we decided
00:34:51.220 we're not going
00:34:51.700 to do that.
00:34:53.700 You know,
00:34:54.040 the truth is the truth.
00:34:57.160 You know,
00:34:57.520 we are just a bunch 0.98
00:34:58.200 of goofballs 0.96
00:34:59.000 telling jokes 0.88
00:34:59.700 but, you know,
00:35:01.000 our satire
00:35:01.700 is meant to point
00:35:02.480 to the truth
00:35:03.040 and we're not willing
00:35:03.900 to compromise on that.
00:35:05.480 So we decided
00:35:06.620 we're not going
00:35:07.040 to take the tweet down
00:35:07.960 and it did kind of
00:35:09.520 have a domino effect
00:35:10.340 so our editor-in-chief,
00:35:12.120 Kyle Mann,
00:35:12.800 he also got suspended
00:35:14.040 for a tweet
00:35:16.620 that said,
00:35:17.420 maybe Twitter
00:35:17.860 will let us back on
00:35:18.760 if we throw
00:35:19.320 a few thousand 0.99
00:35:20.120 Uyghur Muslims
00:35:20.700 in a concentration camp.
00:35:22.620 They suspended him
00:35:23.600 for that tweet
00:35:24.160 and then our founder,
00:35:26.380 Adam Ford,
00:35:27.320 got suspended as well.
00:35:29.580 Our owner,
00:35:30.380 Seth Dillon,
00:35:31.000 he's still on
00:35:31.680 but we feel like
00:35:32.720 it's only a matter of time
00:35:33.740 so it has kind of
00:35:34.560 been this cascade,
00:35:35.660 this domino effect
00:35:36.460 and it's really,
00:35:37.960 you know,
00:35:39.260 what we're dealing
00:35:40.380 with here
00:35:41.260 is a cult ideology.
00:35:43.940 We're dealing
00:35:44.780 with religious people
00:35:46.480 who have constructed
00:35:47.320 a worldview
00:35:47.980 that doesn't
00:35:49.160 hold up
00:35:50.160 under scrutiny,
00:35:51.600 whether that be,
00:35:53.120 you know,
00:35:53.960 moral scrutiny,
00:35:55.520 scientific scrutiny
00:35:56.740 or logical questioning.
00:35:58.980 It doesn't hold up
00:35:59.700 under any of those things
00:36:00.520 so the only way
00:36:01.260 that that worldview
00:36:01.940 is going to survive
00:36:02.820 is through force
00:36:03.680 and so,
00:36:04.860 you know,
00:36:05.860 for a lot of reasons
00:36:06.920 we could talk about
00:36:07.640 all day,
00:36:08.620 this ideology
00:36:09.280 has kind of crept
00:36:10.100 into the institutions,
00:36:11.320 the media,
00:36:12.000 universities,
00:36:12.900 corporations
00:36:13.380 and there's a lot of fear.
00:36:16.480 There's a lot of fear
00:36:17.040 at the top
00:36:17.580 and they bow to these
00:36:20.140 interests
00:36:21.060 and this ideology
00:36:22.400 and it's,
00:36:23.960 after a while
00:36:24.500 we knew it was going
00:36:25.080 to come and burn us
00:36:27.400 at the B
00:36:27.880 and eventually it did.
00:36:29.800 Why do you think
00:36:30.880 that Twitter
00:36:32.160 and other media platforms
00:36:33.500 are so white-hot
00:36:35.300 on transgenderism?
00:36:36.820 I mean,
00:36:37.320 there are a lot
00:36:37.780 of soft spots out there,
00:36:39.760 sensitive issues
00:36:40.700 in Silicon Valley censors.
00:36:42.960 For example,
00:36:43.480 they've been all over
00:36:45.200 the pandemic
00:36:46.400 and any skeptics
00:36:47.660 of the official narrative
00:36:48.660 of the lockdowns,
00:36:49.640 they really hit hard
00:36:50.660 on that.
00:36:52.240 If you say
00:36:54.020 that Trump's election
00:36:55.300 in 2020 was,
00:36:56.860 the fact that he lost
00:36:58.140 was in somehow
00:36:59.200 due to widespread fraud,
00:37:00.980 that'll get you nuked
00:37:02.040 on YouTube.
00:37:02.560 We simply played
00:37:04.160 a 30-second clip
00:37:05.580 of Trump as president
00:37:06.600 and we were taken off
00:37:08.540 YouTube for a week
00:37:10.260 if I recall.
00:37:11.100 So those things are hot
00:37:12.780 but nothing comes close
00:37:15.360 to the absolute
00:37:17.080 intolerance by the left
00:37:19.440 for any jokes
00:37:20.440 about transgenderism.
00:37:21.720 If you quote
00:37:22.420 misgender someone,
00:37:23.960 like say a boy's a girl
00:37:25.140 or a girl's a boy, 0.54
00:37:26.040 if you quote
00:37:26.540 dead name someone,
00:37:28.880 it's more brutal
00:37:33.220 than all those
00:37:34.280 other issues
00:37:34.740 and believe me,
00:37:35.260 I know about
00:37:36.160 other censorship issues.
00:37:37.220 I've been fighting
00:37:37.680 my whole life.
00:37:38.460 Why is transgenderism 1.00
00:37:39.740 so acute to them?
00:37:42.920 That's a good question.
00:37:44.580 You know,
00:37:45.460 I think it goes back
00:37:47.960 to kind of what I said
00:37:48.680 about it being a culture
00:37:49.640 or a religion.
00:37:50.180 It is so,
00:37:53.020 the worldview itself
00:37:54.380 is so core
00:37:56.680 to how human beings
00:37:58.580 define themselves,
00:37:59.840 how they see themselves
00:38:01.460 in the world.
00:38:02.700 It speaks to
00:38:03.900 a human being's
00:38:05.040 innate worth
00:38:06.380 and dignity.
00:38:07.420 Where does our dignity
00:38:08.220 come from?
00:38:08.860 Where does the worth
00:38:10.160 of a human being
00:38:10.940 come from?
00:38:11.500 I mean,
00:38:12.100 these are like
00:38:12.520 fundamental questions
00:38:14.220 of the universe
00:38:15.540 that human beings
00:38:17.420 have been arguing
00:38:17.960 about for thousands
00:38:19.120 of years.
00:38:19.880 And so,
00:38:20.860 there's a lot
00:38:22.000 of emotion around it.
00:38:23.060 There's a lot
00:38:23.700 of passion
00:38:25.220 around issues
00:38:26.640 like this.
00:38:28.080 You know,
00:38:28.240 and what we're
00:38:28.620 dealing with
00:38:29.240 in the trans movement,
00:38:30.340 it seems,
00:38:31.100 you know,
00:38:31.320 I don't know,
00:38:32.360 it seems to be
00:38:33.800 a very small minority,
00:38:37.780 a very loud people
00:38:40.060 who are very
00:38:42.220 well organized.
00:38:43.700 And it would seem
00:38:45.400 that a lot
00:38:45.880 of the people
00:38:46.440 at the top
00:38:48.080 either
00:38:48.940 placate this group
00:38:51.900 to protect themselves
00:38:53.180 so that they can,
00:38:54.520 you know,
00:38:55.200 there's a lot
00:38:56.100 of talk right now
00:38:56.700 about,
00:38:57.020 you know,
00:38:57.560 woke ink,
00:38:58.340 you know,
00:38:58.540 woke corporatism
00:38:59.400 and how corporate
00:39:01.440 entities are using
00:39:03.380 this as kind
00:39:04.280 of a shield
00:39:04.860 to show forth
00:39:06.400 virtue to the world
00:39:07.360 so that people
00:39:07.980 won't bother them
00:39:08.660 while they use
00:39:09.180 slave labor 0.98
00:39:09.680 in China
00:39:10.140 and treat
00:39:11.460 their workers
00:39:11.920 terribly
00:39:12.340 and do all
00:39:13.860 kinds of shady
00:39:14.320 business things.
00:39:15.060 So it's just
00:39:17.200 kind of like
00:39:17.600 this perfect storm
00:39:18.560 of, you know,
00:39:20.060 corporate interests,
00:39:22.580 you know,
00:39:22.880 a worldview movement
00:39:24.460 that is gaining
00:39:25.560 steam,
00:39:26.820 you know,
00:39:27.840 a cultural movement
00:39:28.760 that is in a lot
00:39:29.700 of ways trying
00:39:30.240 to replace religion,
00:39:32.000 trying to replace
00:39:32.620 Christianity
00:39:33.160 and traditional values.
00:39:34.960 And it's kind
00:39:35.680 of all coming
00:39:36.220 together
00:39:37.000 in this kind
00:39:38.580 of this one moment
00:39:39.400 over this one question,
00:39:40.760 what is a man?
00:39:41.920 You know,
00:39:42.200 how do you define
00:39:42.920 a man and a woman?
00:39:45.060 And that seems
00:39:46.140 to have been
00:39:46.560 the breaking point
00:39:48.320 for a lot of people
00:39:49.360 on both sides
00:39:49.980 of the issues
00:39:50.500 and there's no
00:39:52.420 budging on it.
00:39:53.500 You know,
00:39:54.020 you make me want
00:39:54.700 to show a little
00:39:55.640 video clip
00:39:56.200 from the
00:39:57.100 confirmation hearings
00:39:58.500 of Joe Biden's
00:40:01.240 proposed next
00:40:02.280 Supreme Court justice
00:40:03.520 who was asked
00:40:04.700 a very simple
00:40:05.600 question,
00:40:06.260 a question that,
00:40:07.340 you know,
00:40:07.880 a three-year-old
00:40:08.580 can answer.
00:40:09.300 What's a woman? 1.00
00:40:10.460 Let me just show
00:40:11.140 you that clip
00:40:11.800 and her answer.
00:40:15.420 It's not honest.
00:40:17.960 She knows
00:40:18.580 what a woman is. 1.00
00:40:19.820 She can answer
00:40:20.880 it accurately.
00:40:22.080 She can answer
00:40:22.660 it politically.
00:40:23.420 She refused
00:40:24.220 to answer
00:40:24.700 because she knows
00:40:25.660 it's a mad question.
00:40:28.940 Here,
00:40:29.080 take a quick look.
00:40:29.780 Can you provide
00:40:32.240 a definition
00:40:32.900 for the word
00:40:33.780 woman? 0.96
00:40:36.020 Can I provide
00:40:37.160 a definition?
00:40:38.140 No.
00:40:38.420 Yeah.
00:40:39.520 I can't.
00:40:41.240 You can't?
00:40:44.020 Not in this context.
00:40:46.300 I'm not a biologist.
00:40:47.580 If a justice
00:40:48.620 on the Supreme Court,
00:40:49.820 if she's
00:40:50.740 confirmed,
00:40:53.500 cannot tell you
00:40:55.020 what a woman is, 1.00
00:40:55.960 that shows you
00:40:56.620 how terrifying
00:40:57.480 this issue is
00:40:58.340 or how powerful
00:40:59.420 or who knows,
00:41:00.360 maybe she's
00:41:00.900 on a different
00:41:01.400 side of the issue.
00:41:02.300 But you would think
00:41:03.340 such a basic question
00:41:05.180 is answerable
00:41:06.000 by someone
00:41:07.460 who seeks to be
00:41:08.140 on the Supreme Court.
00:41:09.240 I don't know.
00:41:09.920 I've just never
00:41:10.920 seen anything like it.
00:41:12.660 Yeah.
00:41:13.340 It is a bizarre
00:41:14.680 phenomenon
00:41:15.500 to see
00:41:16.100 a worldview
00:41:17.200 that is probably
00:41:18.080 only held
00:41:18.740 by 10%
00:41:19.920 of the population
00:41:21.100 to see
00:41:22.920 the other 90%
00:41:24.200 that don't believe
00:41:25.600 in this stuff
00:41:26.300 going along
00:41:27.740 with it.
00:41:29.220 Just kind of
00:41:29.940 going through
00:41:30.340 the motions,
00:41:31.000 saying the right
00:41:31.940 words,
00:41:32.960 whether to protect
00:41:33.740 themselves or
00:41:34.420 because they're
00:41:34.820 too scared.
00:41:36.020 It's a wild
00:41:37.100 thing to see.
00:41:37.900 And part of
00:41:38.440 why we decided
00:41:39.600 to do what we
00:41:40.300 did at the B
00:41:40.760 and not taking
00:41:41.360 down our tweet
00:41:42.020 is we hope,
00:41:43.280 we feel that
00:41:44.320 courage is contagious.
00:41:46.660 If you are
00:41:48.260 willing to stand up,
00:41:49.220 we hope that
00:41:49.720 there are other
00:41:50.440 people who are
00:41:51.100 willing to stand
00:41:52.120 up as well.
00:41:52.720 And then as
00:41:53.460 those numbers
00:41:54.000 grow,
00:41:54.480 you can't
00:41:55.740 ignore us
00:41:56.180 anymore.
00:41:56.840 I think
00:41:57.580 you guys
00:41:58.880 at Rebel Media
00:42:00.020 in Canada
00:42:00.420 have been a
00:42:00.760 great example
00:42:01.320 of that.
00:42:01.740 The courage
00:42:02.080 that you've
00:42:02.380 shown in
00:42:02.680 your journalism
00:42:03.200 has been a
00:42:03.820 huge inspiration
00:42:05.140 to me personally
00:42:05.860 here as I've
00:42:06.780 written jokes
00:42:08.100 for the B.
00:42:08.560 I love watching
00:42:09.100 you guys.
00:42:09.680 So I feel
00:42:10.640 the more people
00:42:11.460 are willing
00:42:12.040 to just speak
00:42:13.040 the simple
00:42:13.480 truth,
00:42:14.100 you know,
00:42:14.400 Captain Picard,
00:42:15.300 there are four
00:42:15.840 lights.
00:42:18.960 Hopefully more
00:42:19.720 people will catch
00:42:20.460 on to that
00:42:21.000 and be willing
00:42:21.700 to do the same.
00:42:22.720 Your allusion
00:42:23.560 to there are
00:42:24.240 four lights,
00:42:24.820 I think that's
00:42:25.420 rooted even
00:42:25.920 deeper in George
00:42:27.800 Orwell's 1984,
00:42:29.040 like to deny
00:42:29.780 what your own
00:42:30.440 eyes see.
00:42:31.180 How many fingers
00:42:31.900 am I holding
00:42:32.480 up?
00:42:32.960 You know it's
00:42:33.600 two,
00:42:33.860 I know it's
00:42:34.500 two,
00:42:35.560 I know that
00:42:36.340 you know
00:42:36.740 and you know
00:42:37.140 that I know,
00:42:38.260 but I am going
00:42:39.000 to make you
00:42:39.740 say it's three
00:42:40.720 just to show
00:42:42.260 that I can
00:42:42.820 bend your mind
00:42:43.680 to it and
00:42:44.740 that you will
00:42:45.220 actually come
00:42:45.760 to believe it
00:42:46.480 or at least
00:42:47.540 to disassociate
00:42:49.580 yourself.
00:42:50.080 And I think
00:42:50.960 that's what it
00:42:51.520 is and that's
00:42:52.080 why they make
00:42:52.700 you delete
00:42:53.340 it.
00:42:54.280 They didn't
00:42:54.740 delete your
00:42:55.380 tweet because
00:42:56.460 you know,
00:42:57.420 that doesn't
00:42:57.800 prove anything.
00:42:58.560 They're powerful,
00:42:59.200 they own the
00:42:59.580 platform,
00:43:00.040 you don't.
00:43:01.020 But to make
00:43:02.020 you accept
00:43:03.360 that that's
00:43:04.380 wrong,
00:43:04.760 that's hateful
00:43:05.340 and for you
00:43:05.920 to censor
00:43:06.460 yourself,
00:43:07.080 it's bloody
00:43:08.220 brilliant in
00:43:08.880 a way.
00:43:09.760 It's like one
00:43:10.520 of those Maoist
00:43:11.300 struggle sessions
00:43:12.160 where you have
00:43:12.700 to confess.
00:43:14.340 And of course
00:43:14.840 you have an
00:43:15.520 enormous Twitter
00:43:16.280 account.
00:43:16.480 How many
00:43:16.840 followers are
00:43:17.980 there on the
00:43:18.480 Babylon Bee
00:43:18.920 account?
00:43:20.140 About one
00:43:20.760 and a half
00:43:21.040 million currently.
00:43:21.800 I mean,
00:43:22.200 just to build
00:43:23.120 that up,
00:43:23.540 the effort
00:43:24.000 and labor
00:43:24.520 and cost
00:43:25.080 and time
00:43:25.620 and the
00:43:26.360 goodwill
00:43:26.860 and the moral
00:43:27.540 capital you've
00:43:28.440 built up,
00:43:28.880 like that's a
00:43:29.280 million and a
00:43:29.640 half people
00:43:30.180 who, I mean,
00:43:32.020 it's taken years.
00:43:33.760 And you,
00:43:34.680 so you're famous.
00:43:35.620 If you were a
00:43:36.620 quiet private
00:43:37.420 person, it would
00:43:39.180 still be odious
00:43:40.040 because you would
00:43:40.720 know that you
00:43:43.080 called yourself a 0.92
00:43:44.620 liar, a hater, 0.92
00:43:45.680 a thought 1.00
00:43:46.580 criminal, but
00:43:47.640 they want you
00:43:48.560 to bend the
00:43:49.100 knee so that
00:43:50.140 your 1.5
00:43:51.200 million followers
00:43:52.240 know that you
00:43:53.120 know and see
00:43:53.900 that you self-denounce.
00:43:55.180 There's nothing
00:43:55.860 more wicked than
00:43:56.600 a jailhouse
00:43:57.500 confession
00:43:58.060 self-denunciation.
00:43:59.980 I agree.
00:44:00.920 And you mentioned
00:44:01.580 Mao.
00:44:01.960 You're exactly
00:44:02.600 right.
00:44:02.900 It goes back
00:44:03.660 all the way
00:44:04.300 to this
00:44:04.960 ideology, this
00:44:05.840 neo-Marxist
00:44:06.680 ideology.
00:44:07.360 We saw it in
00:44:07.920 Soviet Russia.
00:44:08.620 We saw it in
00:44:09.100 Mao's China. 0.62
00:44:10.240 This idea,
00:44:11.200 it's really an
00:44:12.000 anti-human idea.
00:44:13.520 This idea that
00:44:14.100 there is no such
00:44:14.740 thing as free
00:44:15.680 will, there is
00:44:16.200 no such thing
00:44:16.700 as the human
00:44:17.160 soul.
00:44:17.620 It's a
00:44:17.840 materialist
00:44:18.520 ideology.
00:44:19.680 This idea that
00:44:20.320 human beings
00:44:20.880 are hackable.
00:44:22.040 If we get the
00:44:22.680 right people up
00:44:23.580 at the top,
00:44:24.140 the experts who
00:44:24.880 can just kind
00:44:25.420 of make society
00:44:26.180 work how it
00:44:26.840 should, we can
00:44:28.100 hack the
00:44:28.860 populace to
00:44:30.180 do what they're
00:44:31.340 supposed to do,
00:44:32.020 to believe what
00:44:32.940 they're supposed
00:44:33.320 to believe and
00:44:33.860 say what they're
00:44:34.300 supposed to say.
00:44:36.100 And we saw how
00:44:37.500 that failed so
00:44:38.680 catastrophically in
00:44:41.200 these places, in
00:44:42.280 China and Russia.
00:44:43.160 But I feel like
00:44:43.720 the West really
00:44:44.320 just kind of
00:44:44.820 hasn't had their
00:44:46.380 own reckoning with
00:44:47.220 this ideology
00:44:47.940 yet, like we
00:44:49.560 did with, say,
00:44:50.300 fascism, Nazism. 0.79
00:44:52.440 It's mind-boggling
00:44:53.860 to me to see that
00:44:54.540 it's still alive and
00:44:55.440 well and we're
00:44:57.040 still participating
00:44:57.820 in this kind of
00:44:59.140 cultural pressure,
00:45:03.100 this charade to
00:45:04.360 conform.
00:45:05.500 You know, Orwell
00:45:05.960 talked about a
00:45:06.640 telescreen.
00:45:07.440 It was a big TV
00:45:08.260 that was always on
00:45:09.060 in your room.
00:45:09.820 You could turn it
00:45:10.360 down, but you could
00:45:10.920 never turn it off.
00:45:11.760 And Big Brother
00:45:13.420 was on it and
00:45:14.180 it could see you.
00:45:15.200 That was very
00:45:15.680 prescient.
00:45:16.320 It's amazing what
00:45:17.860 he foresaw writing
00:45:19.080 that book more
00:45:20.700 than 70 years ago.
00:45:24.080 I wonder what he
00:45:25.500 would make of the
00:45:26.300 fact that we're all
00:45:26.940 plugged in willingly.
00:45:28.280 So we take our
00:45:29.100 telescreens everywhere
00:45:30.040 and it's not just
00:45:31.280 visual.
00:45:32.300 It's everything we
00:45:33.100 see.
00:45:33.540 It's everything we
00:45:34.060 write.
00:45:34.380 It's everything we
00:45:34.880 shop.
00:45:35.560 It's our credit
00:45:36.340 card.
00:45:36.620 It's our bank
00:45:37.040 statement.
00:45:37.320 In Canada, if
00:45:38.680 you donated to
00:45:39.600 the truckers, your
00:45:40.380 bank accounts were
00:45:41.340 seized and all of 0.96
00:45:42.560 that happened because
00:45:43.480 of the matrix, the
00:45:45.020 internet.
00:45:45.840 I don't know if
00:45:47.120 George Orwell had
00:45:48.120 the imagination of
00:45:49.980 a single network
00:45:52.700 that, like a
00:45:55.400 panopticon, that
00:45:57.020 saw everything, knew
00:45:58.060 everything.
00:45:58.600 In fact, in some
00:45:59.800 ways it knows you
00:46:00.540 better than you know
00:46:01.220 yourself because you
00:46:02.400 don't remember every
00:46:03.240 single thing you ever
00:46:04.080 saw, heard, said,
00:46:05.220 wrote, bought.
00:46:05.980 You just can't
00:46:06.740 remember it all, but
00:46:07.540 the system can.
00:46:08.940 It's there in your
00:46:09.440 database.
00:46:10.340 And so the Chinese 0.97
00:46:11.540 social credit system,
00:46:12.580 which I think this is
00:46:13.260 sort of akin to or
00:46:16.460 a cousin of, I
00:46:17.780 wonder what Orwell
00:46:18.620 would have thought if
00:46:19.380 he thought it would be
00:46:20.140 beatable at all.
00:46:21.240 I don't know.
00:46:22.000 So you talk about
00:46:23.660 past fascisms and
00:46:24.960 communisms and the
00:46:26.380 communist revolution in
00:46:27.400 China, the cultural
00:46:29.280 revolution.
00:46:31.260 None of those
00:46:32.260 totalitarians had the
00:46:34.020 internet.
00:46:34.460 internet as, to use
00:46:38.380 your Star Wars
00:46:40.000 analogy, a tricorder,
00:46:41.300 like an everything
00:46:42.080 machine.
00:46:43.040 The everything
00:46:43.820 machine, which we
00:46:45.520 can't break away from
00:46:46.740 when you've got such a
00:46:47.440 habit, the everything
00:46:48.600 machine is enslaving us
00:46:50.180 and it's very easy.
00:46:52.420 Yeah, it almost has
00:46:54.500 become a bit of a
00:46:55.620 combination between
00:46:56.680 1984 and Huxley's
00:46:59.440 Brave New World where
00:47:00.360 we have these things
00:47:01.740 that are monitoring us
00:47:02.880 and controlling us, but
00:47:03.800 we're also addicted to
00:47:05.120 them and we also
00:47:06.320 really enjoy them and
00:47:07.540 they give us pleasure.
00:47:08.720 So it's this kind of
00:47:11.760 this weird meshing of
00:47:12.940 these two dystopias that
00:47:15.220 we've seen.
00:47:19.240 I wonder often where
00:47:21.960 this will go.
00:47:23.520 I get asked that a lot.
00:47:24.880 Where do you think this
00:47:25.460 is going to end up?
00:47:26.340 You know, it could very
00:47:29.680 well get a lot worse
00:47:31.280 before it gets better.
00:47:33.180 But I think, you know,
00:47:34.800 even if we end up in a
00:47:36.960 society that is under
00:47:38.260 complete control, that is
00:47:40.940 completely, you know,
00:47:42.520 electronic, our bank
00:47:43.560 accounts are electronic,
00:47:44.660 you know, the government
00:47:45.180 can switch us off just by
00:47:46.960 flipping the switch.
00:47:47.700 There is something
00:47:50.820 encouraging to me and
00:47:51.860 hopeful to me, knowing
00:47:53.840 that the human soul, the
00:47:57.940 human spirit is real, that
00:47:59.700 we do have free will and
00:48:00.820 that ideas cannot be
00:48:03.760 destroyed.
00:48:05.000 They don't live in the 0.51
00:48:07.080 internet.
00:48:07.620 They don't live on a
00:48:09.380 cloud server somewhere.
00:48:10.700 They live within each one
00:48:12.080 of us.
00:48:12.600 And I think that this
00:48:13.940 wokeness, this ideology that
00:48:16.020 has kind of taken over our
00:48:17.320 culture right now, it is
00:48:18.160 self-defeating and it will
00:48:19.760 ultimately be defeated.
00:48:22.200 I'm hopeful for that.
00:48:23.300 The only question is how
00:48:24.160 much damage will it do in
00:48:25.900 the meantime?
00:48:26.880 Yeah, well, I sure hope
00:48:27.620 you're right.
00:48:28.200 Listen, you're very generous
00:48:29.120 with your time and it sure
00:48:30.160 is nice to meet you.
00:48:31.540 I have one last question
00:48:32.860 for you and it's the most
00:48:33.760 depressing question of
00:48:34.820 them all.
00:48:36.580 And maybe you have an
00:48:37.920 answer.
00:48:39.900 There are conservative
00:48:41.820 oriented or free speech
00:48:43.260 oriented alternatives in
00:48:44.700 social media.
00:48:45.340 Getter might be one
00:48:47.120 example.
00:48:47.860 Truth Social, Trump's
00:48:49.080 Project.
00:48:49.880 On the video side, there's
00:48:51.060 rumble.com.
00:48:52.860 And these, some of these
00:48:54.080 are explicit.
00:48:54.860 And then there's Gab and
00:48:56.400 Parler.
00:48:56.920 There's a lot of them.
00:48:58.440 But the thing is, I don't
00:49:01.340 think a lot of liberals are
00:49:02.260 on them or a lot of
00:49:02.960 undecideds or a lot of
00:49:04.140 normal people, so to speak.
00:49:06.240 So the Babylon Bee, if it
00:49:08.060 was on these other social
00:49:09.960 media, which I'm sure you
00:49:10.840 are, you're talking to
00:49:12.820 people who are already
00:49:14.200 awake to the issues that
00:49:16.760 you're parodying and
00:49:17.560 satirizing.
00:49:18.780 Whereas the wonderful
00:49:21.140 nature of you being on
00:49:22.740 Twitter is that someone
00:49:24.180 might have their eyes
00:49:25.520 opened by your jokes or
00:49:27.200 might come over.
00:49:29.600 And that's how I feel
00:49:31.000 about Rebel News.
00:49:32.600 I despise the censorship of
00:49:34.440 YouTube.
00:49:35.320 And we don't put
00:49:35.940 everything on there because
00:49:36.780 we know we would be
00:49:37.640 deleted in a moment.
00:49:38.960 But I want to stay on
00:49:40.200 there as long as possible
00:49:41.140 because there are millions,
00:49:44.440 billions of people who
00:49:45.980 might see the light.
00:49:47.700 I don't want to just talk
00:49:48.940 to people who are already
00:49:50.000 believers.
00:49:50.960 I want to talk to normal
00:49:52.300 people and I want to bring
00:49:54.680 ideas to them new.
00:49:56.360 I mean, it's like the old
00:49:58.540 saying, you make peace with
00:49:59.540 your enemies, not with your
00:50:00.800 friends.
00:50:01.300 You win people over who
00:50:02.860 don't know you or who agree
00:50:04.340 with you.
00:50:04.980 That's why I don't want to
00:50:06.040 be pushed off the mainstream
00:50:07.160 social media, even though I
00:50:08.780 despise YouTube and Google
00:50:10.320 and Twitter and Facebook.
00:50:11.660 I hate them, but I don't
00:50:13.200 want to leave them because
00:50:14.020 everyone else is there.
00:50:14.860 I don't just want to go into
00:50:16.060 the ghetto and talk to, quote,
00:50:18.300 my people.
00:50:20.420 How do you feel about that?
00:50:21.580 That's the one downside.
00:50:22.920 I admire your principle
00:50:24.860 nature.
00:50:25.340 I admire that you won't
00:50:26.180 self-denounce, of course.
00:50:27.980 But I also am deeply sad that
00:50:30.380 1.5 million followers of
00:50:32.160 yours, I don't know how many
00:50:34.620 of those will move over.
00:50:35.860 And even if they all move
00:50:36.680 over, you're losing access to
00:50:38.640 half a billion other users.
00:50:41.020 Yeah.
00:50:41.340 No, I really feel that.
00:50:45.760 And my motivations are yours
00:50:48.840 as well.
00:50:49.520 You know, when the cool thing
00:50:51.420 about our worldview is that
00:50:53.700 when people hear it, they're
00:50:54.800 converted.
00:50:55.520 You know, I remember in the
00:50:56.420 early days of YouTube, before
00:50:57.560 it was all suppressed and, you
00:50:59.100 know, shadowbanned everywhere,
00:51:02.260 you know, conservative clips,
00:51:04.900 you know, Ben Shapiro debating,
00:51:06.280 you know, Ben Shapiro destroys
00:51:07.480 clips would go viral.
00:51:08.420 And my friends were getting
00:51:10.000 won over by these things.
00:51:12.120 They would hear the ideas and
00:51:13.300 they would say, wow, I've never
00:51:14.360 heard that before.
00:51:15.020 It makes sense.
00:51:15.660 So our ideas can win if we're
00:51:18.260 heard.
00:51:18.640 And so I agree.
00:51:19.800 We need to fight for our right
00:51:21.860 to be on these platforms.
00:51:23.100 We can't be relegated to the
00:51:24.780 ghetto.
00:51:25.080 We have to be in the marketplace
00:51:26.480 of ideas, talking with people
00:51:28.040 who don't agree with us.
00:51:29.040 That's extremely important.
00:51:30.820 I think in terms of our decision
00:51:33.740 to not delete the tweet, we are
00:51:36.520 trying to think long term here.
00:51:39.640 And we're hoping that this
00:51:42.380 decision, you know, and we have
00:51:45.420 other things going on in the
00:51:46.320 background, but we're hoping this
00:51:47.380 decision leads to a more
00:51:49.940 fundamental change, more
00:51:51.280 fundamental shift, whether that be
00:51:53.420 legal action or policy change at
00:51:56.920 places like Twitter and Facebook
00:51:58.540 to allow for more diverse, you
00:52:03.180 know, opinions to be shared.
00:52:04.760 And so, you know, our long term
00:52:06.880 goal is not to to to be gone from
00:52:09.400 Twitter forever.
00:52:10.020 We are hoping that this leads us
00:52:12.480 eventually being brought back on
00:52:14.820 Twitter yet free to say what we
00:52:17.760 want to say.
00:52:18.700 I sure hope so.
00:52:20.100 And I know that your team met and
00:52:23.480 talked with Elon Musk, who is one
00:52:26.660 of the world's richest men who could
00:52:29.360 buy Twitter outright if you wanted
00:52:31.360 to.
00:52:31.620 But I think the problem is that half 1.00
00:52:33.560 the staff at Twitter, if he tried
00:52:35.500 to impose a free speech rule that
00:52:37.660 used to be there, they would quit or
00:52:39.580 sabotage.
00:52:40.040 That'll be OK.
00:52:41.320 But listen, I wish you good luck.
00:52:44.260 It's great to meet you.
00:52:45.340 Please pass on our moral support and
00:52:48.340 our, you know, our best wishes to the
00:52:51.940 entire team at Babylon Bee.
00:52:53.860 And I'm going to say goodbye to you
00:52:56.240 now, but I'm going to play a clip from
00:52:58.700 one of the other few unwoke comedians
00:53:01.100 out there.
00:53:01.560 His name is Ryan Long.
00:53:03.000 He's actually originally from Canada.
00:53:05.900 And Joel, I don't know if you know this
00:53:07.760 one, but he he pretended he was a video
00:53:10.540 editor working for Disney.
00:53:12.080 And you mentioned that these companies
00:53:13.960 that are super woke on trans issues, which
00:53:16.720 is a very obscure issue in North America.
00:53:18.860 Often they're misdirecting you from their
00:53:22.760 nasty work they're doing in in China, 1.00
00:53:25.140 including in Xinjiang, where the Uyghurs 0.91
00:53:27.460 are in prison.
00:53:28.120 I mean, Disney literally filled their movie
00:53:30.500 Mulan there and actually in their credits
00:53:32.920 thanked the secret police.
00:53:35.940 Nike, you know, hires a lobbyist to stop
00:53:38.740 an anti-slave labor bill.
00:53:41.060 These countries and companies are so woke in
00:53:42.720 North America and so brutal overseas.
00:53:44.840 I don't know if you saw this one, Joel, it
00:53:47.040 was a Ryan Long, the Canadian comedian
00:53:49.780 pretended to be a video editor who would cut 0.53
00:53:52.280 out all the feminist scenes, gay scenes, any
00:53:56.440 woke scenes from movies to make it get the
00:54:00.300 approval of China's government.
00:54:02.360 And then the kicker in the joke was he would
00:54:05.180 take these things he cut out of the China 0.57
00:54:07.280 version and he would release them in America
00:54:10.360 for Gay Pride Week to show how woke.
00:54:15.180 Anyhow, I'm going to close with that clip
00:54:16.780 from Ryan Long, one of the few other
00:54:18.700 unwoke comedians out there.
00:54:20.440 Joel, great to see you.
00:54:21.440 All the best to your team.
00:54:22.520 And thanks for joining us today.
00:54:24.400 Thanks so much, Esher.
00:54:25.260 Thanks for what you do as well.
00:54:26.500 Right on.
00:54:26.900 I appreciate that.
00:54:27.860 All right.
00:54:28.140 Let me close by showing you this just
00:54:30.460 hilarious clip by Ryan Long.
00:54:33.800 Take a look.
00:54:34.140 My name is Clark and I'm the editor who
00:54:36.020 cuts out scenes from Hollywood movies for
00:54:37.840 the China releases.
00:54:38.720 Clip that out.
00:54:39.260 Whether that be an LGBTQ kiss, something a 1.00
00:54:41.820 little too diverse, they would not want 1.00
00:54:43.720 that.
00:54:44.200 Anything encouraging, protesting or
00:54:45.760 overtly sexual.
00:54:46.880 And once I'm able to isolate those scenes,
00:54:48.880 I put them in a bin right here. 0.94
00:54:50.440 Gay scenes. 0.76
00:54:51.260 And then I'm able to use those exact
00:54:52.740 sections of the films to create little
00:54:54.560 promos for social media celebrating the
00:54:56.560 communities we've just extracted from the
00:54:58.220 China releases.
00:54:59.400 For example, I just removed all of the gay 1.00
00:55:01.040 kiss scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody.
00:55:02.740 That was a big no-go for China.
00:55:04.260 Back in for the China release.
00:55:05.800 And the Star Wars lesbian kiss scene, of 0.96
00:55:07.460 course.
00:55:07.660 And I was able to use both of those scenes
00:55:09.300 for my Love is Love compilation for the
00:55:11.280 studio's Pride Month socials.
00:55:12.860 Yeah, I work with all the big studios.
00:55:14.180 Disney, Paramount.
00:55:15.060 If you've ever watched a progressive scene
00:55:16.420 in a movie, just know that I'm the person
00:55:17.900 who removed it for audiences in China.
00:55:19.860 I'm sort of like a utility player for some
00:55:21.380 of these studios.
00:55:22.200 Like on the topic of Star Wars, I was doing
00:55:23.760 the graphics recently.
00:55:25.060 See, I had two different posters here.
00:55:26.580 So what I did was I was able to isolate the 0.94
00:55:28.460 black actor in the American version.
00:55:30.400 We're able to make John substantially smaller
00:55:32.980 here.
00:55:33.300 And then I was also able to take that isolated photo
00:55:35.820 for a We Celebrate Diversity social media post
00:55:38.400 that we're working on here in America.
00:55:39.820 007 Skyfall.
00:55:41.020 I got rid of some references to prostitution.
00:55:43.320 We're in talks to use some of those select clips
00:55:45.400 as part of our Sex Work Is Real Work campaign.
00:55:47.580 I like to think of myself as a general fixer.
00:55:49.400 Just recently, I edited out the Tiananmen
00:55:51.420 Square footage from Activision's Black Ops Cold War trailer.
00:55:56.040 See right here, we had know your history
00:55:57.720 or be deemed to repeat it.
00:55:59.560 We're doomed to just get rid of that altogether.
00:56:02.460 I'm going to take that and use it for
00:56:04.000 a We Support protest domestically post.
00:56:06.440 You know, sometimes me and the studio heads
00:56:07.920 will joke around that on the editing floor 0.99
00:56:09.600 it's no homo and China's homo. 1.00
00:56:12.000 Or diversity when not overseas.
00:56:14.280 It's a very complicated puzzle.
00:56:15.720 I mean, recently America has made huge moves
00:56:17.760 to support LGBTQ and diversity initiatives at home.
00:56:20.800 But it goes without saying that progress
00:56:22.340 can't come at the expense of these studios' profits.
00:56:24.700 So we have to tread a fine line.
00:56:26.160 You know, sometimes we're just tampering with something small
00:56:28.240 like changing the back patch in Top Gun
00:56:30.060 so no one thinks Taiwan's a democracy.
00:56:31.980 Popping out a few kiss scenes in Mulan
00:56:33.840 or getting rid of a couple uncomfortable scenes
00:56:35.920 in Django Unchained.
00:56:37.080 This scene was a big no in China.
00:56:39.180 And sometimes it's something massive
00:56:40.440 like changing every single Chinese flag
00:56:42.540 to a North Korean flag in Red Dawn.
00:56:44.580 That was my handiwork right there.
00:56:45.780 In industries outside of Hollywood,
00:56:47.220 this game could be a little simpler.
00:56:48.760 You know, Google's CEO, for example,
00:56:50.160 was able to vocalize his support for protests domestically
00:56:52.960 while removing any protest-related apps
00:56:55.060 from the App Store in China.
00:56:56.340 And Nike can sort of slide under the radar
00:56:58.040 with the Kaepernick thing here
00:56:59.340 and the you go to jail for protesting over there.
00:57:01.360 They remove a few jerseys
00:57:02.360 and it goes relatively undetected.
00:57:03.880 But in the movie business,
00:57:04.960 it's a more difficult puzzle to solve.
00:57:06.720 The actors in these films
00:57:07.800 have been recently very vocal
00:57:09.220 of their participation in the movement.
00:57:10.880 So it's very important to those actors
00:57:12.240 that we still appear to be supporting those movements here
00:57:14.620 even though they're being wiped
00:57:15.700 from the films entirely abroad,
00:57:17.300 thus preserving their public image domestically.
00:57:19.520 Pirates of the Caribbean,
00:57:20.560 we cut a lot of stuff out.
00:57:25.060 Welcome back to your viewer mail.
00:57:35.760 Colin Crampton says,
00:57:37.080 I can smell a reread of Animal Farm
00:57:39.280 in the very near future.
00:57:40.740 Oh, absolutely.
00:57:41.780 You know, Animal Farm is a great book.
00:57:44.220 1984.
00:57:45.040 Those, it's unbelievable.
00:57:46.680 Some of the language,
00:57:47.340 I mean, those books were written
00:57:48.180 almost a century ago, actually.
00:57:50.380 Some of the language is slightly dated,
00:57:52.360 but my God, was he prescient, wasn't he?
00:57:55.160 Orwell, just terrifying.
00:57:57.340 Bruce Atchison says,
00:57:58.620 what an exceptional show this was.
00:58:00.540 I'm saving the podcast of it
00:58:01.960 and burning it to CD-ROM for a friend
00:58:04.720 who can't afford watching much
00:58:06.940 on her unlimited internet plan.
00:58:10.080 Moreover, I'm keeping it for future reference.
00:58:12.540 I love it when people who are denounced
00:58:14.380 as cranks or conspiracy theorists
00:58:16.400 are proved right.
00:58:17.880 Well, both James Lindsay and myself
00:58:22.780 have been denounced as those things.
00:58:24.560 And I actually say I don't like being proved right.
00:58:28.160 You know, in personal things,
00:58:29.880 sometimes maybe you like saying,
00:58:30.980 I told you so.
00:58:32.260 You should have ordered the hot wings 0.75
00:58:34.180 instead of the ribs.
00:58:35.800 I told you, you know,
00:58:37.020 in trivial matters and personal matters,
00:58:39.520 I told you so is a really fun thing to say.
00:58:42.060 I hate saying I told you so
00:58:45.280 because odds are I was giving
00:58:47.040 some apocalyptic warning
00:58:48.600 that no one heeded
00:58:50.220 and it came true, I told you so.
00:58:52.620 Those are the worst words anyone could say.
00:58:56.440 John DeLonge says,
00:58:57.760 all isms are predicated
00:58:59.320 on the non-existent of the creator,
00:59:01.440 God, the great lie.
00:59:03.500 Well, that's the thing.
00:59:04.320 I think nature abhors a vacuum.
00:59:07.300 That's true in physics.
00:59:09.020 I think it's true psychologically,
00:59:10.460 emotionally, spiritually.
00:59:13.120 You will believe in something,
00:59:14.900 as James Lindsay pointed out,
00:59:16.760 one of the original proposed titles
00:59:18.200 for Das Kapital was,
00:59:21.000 the Communist Manifesto rather,
00:59:22.480 was to call it a faith.
00:59:25.320 I think a lot of environmentalism
00:59:27.220 has sort of a Gaia,
00:59:28.800 pagan faith elements to it.
00:59:32.000 And, I mean,
00:59:34.300 you will believe in something.
00:59:37.340 You will believe in some sort of a God,
00:59:39.520 whether you use the phrase mother nature
00:59:41.220 or whether you yourself
00:59:43.140 have become your own God.
00:59:44.280 You will believe in something.
00:59:45.760 Everyone does.
00:59:46.460 Everyone has to.
00:59:48.380 And what have we replaced
00:59:49.660 Christianity or Judaism 0.98
00:59:51.580 or the old religions with
00:59:53.680 in the new ones?
00:59:55.740 Well, that's our show for today.
00:59:57.840 Until tomorrow,
00:59:58.760 on behalf of all of us here
00:59:59.820 at Rebel World Headquarters,
01:00:00.940 to you at home,
01:00:01.540 good night.
01:00:02.620 Keep fighting for freedom.
01:00:03.500 And let me leave you
01:00:04.140 with our video of the day
01:00:05.100 from Avi Yamini.
01:00:07.040 Shocking story from down under.
01:00:09.600 Unvaxxed siblings
01:00:10.600 banned
01:00:11.340 from visiting their dying dad.
01:00:13.940 This is a terrible story.
01:00:15.640 All right, good night.
01:00:16.440 You're saying this is a couple years ago
01:00:17.840 and he looks happy and healthy.
01:00:19.720 Oh, we had pictures from him in December
01:00:21.320 looking perfectly fine.
01:00:22.620 He was fine in Christmas.
01:00:24.300 You know,
01:00:24.460 they keep telling us
01:00:25.300 to listen to the experts.
01:00:26.100 I want one expert,
01:00:27.800 one,
01:00:28.460 to explain to me
01:00:29.800 how that makes any sense.
01:00:32.260 Where being that cruel to somebody
01:00:34.120 has become that easy
01:00:35.720 for institutions.
01:00:37.440 How?
01:00:38.200 Why?
01:00:38.900 For what?
01:00:39.940 It feels like
01:00:40.920 they're just punishing those
01:00:42.380 who went against the grain.
01:00:44.200 It definitely feels like that.
01:00:47.960 Are you angry at the hospital?
01:00:51.740 Um.
01:00:56.100 Yes.
01:00:58.760 Yes, I am.
01:00:59.960 This truly is a heartbreaking story
01:01:02.480 that everyone needs to see.
01:01:04.060 So,
01:01:04.700 please watch it through to the end
01:01:06.320 and head over to
01:01:07.240 changethecruelrule.com
01:01:10.240 to sign and share the petition
01:01:11.640 to ensure
01:01:12.380 that it never happens again.
01:01:14.260 My father was diagnosed
01:01:15.480 with
01:01:16.180 stage 4 lung cancer
01:01:18.380 on the 6th of January
01:01:20.740 earlier this year.
01:01:23.120 And on
01:01:24.180 it was either
01:01:25.820 March the 6th or 7th
01:01:27.320 he was put into palliative care.
01:01:29.000 Palliative care
01:01:29.660 is where terminally ill
01:01:31.080 patients are transferred
01:01:32.220 for end-of-life care.
01:01:34.360 And if you look
01:01:34.980 on the Olivia Newton-John
01:01:36.360 Centre website,
01:01:38.360 they claim to work with you
01:01:40.040 to meet your emotional,
01:01:41.240 spiritual,
01:01:41.720 and practical needs
01:01:43.500 in a holistic way.
01:01:44.820 Promising
01:01:45.340 their support extends
01:01:46.840 to the family too.
01:01:48.280 Out of my family,
01:01:48.980 there's 10 of us
01:01:49.700 overall
01:01:50.200 and 7 of them
01:01:51.240 are vaccinated.
01:01:52.160 So,
01:01:52.460 the vaccinated
01:01:53.140 part of our family
01:01:54.920 they were allowed
01:01:56.680 to go see Dad.
01:01:57.760 We called up to ask,
01:01:58.900 you know,
01:01:59.580 what does it take
01:02:00.560 for an unvaccinated
01:02:01.940 person to get in?
01:02:02.980 And
01:02:03.200 at first off,
01:02:04.280 they
01:02:04.560 refused us.
01:02:07.020 So you understand,
01:02:08.060 the current guidelines
01:02:09.200 from the government
01:02:10.260 stayed on their website
01:02:12.000 right now.
01:02:13.040 It says,
01:02:13.520 hospital visitors
01:02:14.260 must have at least
01:02:15.560 two doses
01:02:16.080 of the vaccine
01:02:16.900 or show evidence
01:02:18.360 of a negative
01:02:19.620 rat test
01:02:21.040 that is taken
01:02:22.080 on the day
01:02:22.840 of the visit.
01:02:23.700 The brothers
01:02:24.080 should have never
01:02:24.880 been banned
01:02:25.960 but for some reason,
01:02:27.300 the Olivia Newton-John
01:02:28.460 Palliative Care Centre
01:02:29.880 in the Austin Hospital
01:02:31.040 has its own
01:02:32.440 callous
01:02:33.180 and irrational rule.
01:02:34.960 Patients who are receiving
01:02:35.800 end of life
01:02:36.360 terminal care,
01:02:37.860 they would have to apply
01:02:39.120 for an exemption.
01:02:40.320 That's exactly
01:02:40.820 what they did.
01:02:41.800 After fighting
01:02:42.700 to be able to see
01:02:43.700 their dying father,
01:02:45.020 the brothers received
01:02:45.900 an exemption
01:02:46.480 to visit him
01:02:48.180 once,
01:02:49.320 separately,
01:02:49.720 in full PPE
01:02:51.160 for maximum
01:02:52.520 an hour
01:02:53.100 after producing
01:02:53.900 the negative rat test
01:02:55.740 at the hospital.
01:02:56.920 Obviously,
01:02:57.640 when your father
01:02:58.580 is very close
01:03:00.500 to passing,
01:03:02.220 you know,
01:03:02.520 he wants to see you
01:03:03.500 and we want to see him
01:03:05.160 and for them to
01:03:06.520 at first refuse us
01:03:10.040 and then
01:03:11.660 once they gave us
01:03:13.700 an exemption
01:03:14.160 for only one hour
01:03:14.980 and a one-off visit
01:03:15.840 for the entirety
01:03:16.600 of his stay,
01:03:17.460 that's
01:03:17.920 an unbelievable
01:03:19.940 cruelty to
01:03:20.840 us
01:03:21.420 and dad.
01:03:22.720 Following their visit,
01:03:23.500 the brothers
01:03:23.860 then called the hospital
01:03:25.140 to see if there was
01:03:25.980 any chance
01:03:26.700 that they could
01:03:27.240 revisit their father
01:03:28.680 before he dies
01:03:29.660 within the expected month.
01:03:30.900 We came in
01:03:31.600 and we had an exemption
01:03:32.400 to see
01:03:33.000 my father.
01:03:34.500 Now,
01:03:35.220 the exemption,
01:03:36.500 is it just once
01:03:37.520 or can we come in again?
01:03:38.640 It's a one-off
01:03:39.200 for his whole admission
01:03:40.300 and that was explained
01:03:43.060 to your mother 0.77
01:03:43.600 when I got
01:03:44.540 those exemptions
01:03:45.960 granted.
01:03:46.380 Can you explain
01:03:50.080 why that is?
01:03:51.740 It's a hospital policy
01:03:53.360 with a COVID situation.
01:03:55.400 To be honest,
01:03:55.880 dad,
01:03:56.120 when I saw him,
01:03:56.620 he was like,
01:03:56.900 I can't believe
01:03:57.300 they let you in.
01:03:58.100 Like,
01:03:58.300 that was his mindset.
01:04:00.420 Like,
01:04:00.480 they've been so cruel
01:04:01.860 to unvaccinated people.
01:04:03.900 Just,
01:04:04.580 it even,
01:04:05.460 it's so telling
01:04:06.060 when he said that.
01:04:06.860 It's like,
01:04:07.080 I can't believe
01:04:07.440 they even let you see me
01:04:08.480 when I was dying
01:04:10.700 for one hour.
01:04:11.480 So,
01:04:13.040 you know,
01:04:13.600 obviously that was
01:04:14.940 really heartbreaking.
01:04:15.960 I just don't understand
01:04:16.800 because we take
01:04:17.420 a negative rat test.
01:04:19.960 But it's still
01:04:21.620 limiting the risk
01:04:22.640 to both patients
01:04:23.820 and staff.
01:04:25.420 So even if we
01:04:26.500 have a negative rat test,
01:04:27.780 we're still a risk?
01:04:28.280 Yes,
01:04:28.820 they only allow
01:04:29.600 that one off.
01:04:30.680 But are we still a risk
01:04:32.180 even if we have
01:04:32.740 a negative rat test?
01:04:34.480 Yeah.
01:04:34.680 it's what the,
01:04:36.560 it's limiting risk
01:04:37.620 and that's what
01:04:38.400 the policy is
01:04:39.500 of the hospital.
01:04:40.500 I have actually
01:04:41.080 taken it to the executive
01:04:42.180 and I even spoke
01:04:43.200 to the executive today
01:04:45.280 because your mum
01:04:46.240 said it's unfair
01:04:47.100 and executive
01:04:48.860 has said no.
01:04:50.780 It's what the policy is
01:04:52.400 and it was explained
01:04:54.660 to your mother 0.77
01:04:56.120 that it is a one-off
01:04:57.280 exemption
01:04:58.260 for the one hour
01:04:59.900 and that's all
01:05:00.860 we can do.
01:05:01.700 They didn't explain
01:05:02.360 the science behind it.
01:05:03.280 Pretty much the way it goes
01:05:04.580 is you get a nurse
01:05:05.340 and she just speaks
01:05:06.180 for the hospital
01:05:07.380 and they'll just say,
01:05:08.600 you know,
01:05:08.780 this isn't what I believe.
01:05:11.120 These are just the rules
01:05:12.100 that I've been given.
01:05:13.020 Well,
01:05:13.760 I did put the questions
01:05:14.660 directly to the hospital
01:05:16.260 including
01:05:17.120 why they stop
01:05:19.220 unvaccinated family members
01:05:20.680 from visiting
01:05:21.340 dying relatives
01:05:22.180 when the government's
01:05:23.660 guidelines
01:05:24.160 specifically permits it
01:05:25.860 with a negative rat test
01:05:27.000 and
01:05:27.420 I asked them
01:05:28.820 what the science is
01:05:29.540 behind
01:05:29.980 allowing vaccinated people
01:05:32.080 to visit
01:05:32.720 while banning
01:05:34.100 the unvaccinated
01:05:34.960 when vaccinated people
01:05:36.000 can carry
01:05:37.300 and spread
01:05:37.980 the virus too.
01:05:39.220 We would have done
01:05:39.840 any tests
01:05:40.420 they required.
01:05:41.060 This is not an issue.
01:05:42.000 Like we would have
01:05:42.400 taken multiple rat tests
01:05:43.520 in a row
01:05:43.900 because
01:05:44.300 if you take about three
01:05:45.660 the percentage jumps up
01:05:46.800 to a really high
01:05:47.800 percent accuracy.
01:05:48.460 So you're happy
01:05:48.900 to do that?
01:05:49.320 I can do anything.
01:05:50.220 PCR tests.
01:05:51.320 So your problem
01:05:52.160 is not doing this.
01:05:53.080 Are you the same?
01:05:54.420 Yeah, yeah,
01:05:54.780 I'm happy to do
01:05:55.560 whatever they want
01:05:56.480 to give me.
01:05:56.880 I mean my dad's dying
01:05:57.600 so like obviously
01:05:58.300 I would be.
01:05:59.340 And that's understandable
01:06:00.420 but I'm just
01:06:01.720 I just can't work it out
01:06:02.920 then.
01:06:03.340 If you guys were willing
01:06:04.040 to do three in a row
01:06:04.860 which they say
01:06:05.420 is over 95%
01:06:06.620 accuracy
01:06:07.380 then
01:06:08.720 how can they
01:06:10.020 stop somebody
01:06:10.700 because they're
01:06:11.360 unvaccinated?
01:06:12.500 What is the science
01:06:13.300 behind it?
01:06:13.720 I will pose the question
01:06:14.800 to them
01:06:15.340 but I'm just
01:06:16.260 I can't for the life of me
01:06:17.800 figure out the science
01:06:18.840 behind that.
01:06:19.500 Look, if you get the answer
01:06:20.600 you let us know
01:06:21.380 because we
01:06:22.360 we're having a hard time
01:06:24.240 trying to figure that out
01:06:25.060 as well.
01:06:25.500 It's been
01:06:26.080 more than two days
01:06:27.160 and the hospital
01:06:28.680 has yet to explain
01:06:30.160 the science
01:06:31.280 that allows vaccinated
01:06:32.220 people to enter
01:06:33.640 as many times
01:06:34.260 as they wish
01:06:34.880 without even
01:06:35.880 a single test
01:06:38.140 yet bans
01:06:38.700 unvaccinated
01:06:39.400 loved ones
01:06:39.980 from entering
01:06:41.080 no matter how many
01:06:42.300 tests
01:06:42.820 they're willing to take.
01:06:44.220 It seems
01:06:44.920 what you said
01:06:45.580 your mum called
01:06:46.200 it illogical
01:06:47.000 it seems
01:06:48.240 unscientific
01:06:49.380 if you're willing
01:06:50.660 to let the other
01:06:51.640 seven members
01:06:52.260 of the family
01:06:52.820 in as many times
01:06:53.780 as they want
01:06:54.260 without any tests
01:06:55.400 so they could likely
01:06:56.780 be carrying the virus in
01:06:58.200 you're happy to let them
01:06:59.680 in and out
01:07:00.300 without a test
01:07:01.080 but you're going to
01:07:02.120 ban the unvaccinated 1.00
01:07:03.420 who are willing
01:07:03.920 to do three rat tests
01:07:05.340 who are willing
01:07:06.040 to do a PCR test
01:07:07.100 who are willing
01:07:07.560 to do whatever test
01:07:09.380 you want
01:07:09.780 to make sure
01:07:10.320 that they're coming
01:07:10.860 in clean
01:07:11.580 but you're going
01:07:12.660 to stop them
01:07:13.300 only because
01:07:14.660 they're unvaccinated.
01:07:15.840 There's absolutely
01:07:16.740 no science
01:07:17.620 to explain
01:07:18.140 the hospital's policy
01:07:19.300 and it's
01:07:19.980 clearly designed
01:07:21.080 to punish
01:07:22.260 the unvaccinated
01:07:23.160 in the most
01:07:24.280 inhumane
01:07:25.520 way possible.
01:07:26.780 I don't know
01:07:27.260 how people
01:07:27.840 can be so cruel
01:07:29.960 to others
01:07:31.600 and just be
01:07:33.500 so heartless
01:07:34.160 so look
01:07:34.660 it's tough
01:07:37.580 to understand.
01:07:38.440 It sure is.
01:07:39.620 Sadly their father
01:07:40.360 passed away
01:07:40.880 last weekend
01:07:41.540 and while the hospital
01:07:43.500 hasn't responded
01:07:44.680 I shared their story
01:07:45.960 with Olivia Nugent-John's
01:07:48.380 daughter Chloe
01:07:49.520 who even though
01:07:50.260 her mother
01:07:50.700 has nothing to do
01:07:52.520 with the draconian
01:07:53.900 rule being implemented
01:07:55.140 in the hospital
01:07:55.880 she sent back
01:07:57.700 this powerful message
01:07:59.180 to the brothers.
01:08:00.100 Hello Marco
01:08:00.740 and Ivan
01:08:01.340 my name's Chloe
01:08:03.580 I heard your story
01:08:05.100 and my heart
01:08:06.800 absolutely
01:08:07.480 broke
01:08:08.500 for you
01:08:10.660 your family
01:08:11.260 and your father
01:08:11.940 that you missed out
01:08:13.080 on
01:08:13.760 your last
01:08:15.120 precious moments
01:08:16.300 with him
01:08:16.940 and that he missed out
01:08:17.940 on those last
01:08:18.700 precious moments
01:08:19.500 with you
01:08:20.060 such a hard time
01:08:23.720 in the world
01:08:24.100 right now
01:08:24.620 and the most important
01:08:26.060 thing is love
01:08:26.760 and family
01:08:27.380 so my heart
01:08:30.000 really really broke
01:08:30.800 for you
01:08:31.240 that you missed that
01:08:33.180 so I wanted you
01:08:34.600 to know that you
01:08:35.180 were thought of
01:08:35.920 and that your story
01:08:37.400 matters
01:08:37.840 and that your family
01:08:38.700 matters
01:08:39.180 and I really hope
01:08:42.780 that these policies
01:08:45.820 are changed
01:08:47.800 they don't make sense
01:08:49.040 and I hope
01:08:50.620 no other family
01:08:51.300 has to go through
01:08:52.040 what you went through
01:08:52.860 sending so much love
01:08:56.460 and light your way
01:08:57.560 beautifully put
01:09:00.300 good on her
01:09:01.000 I hope she inspires
01:09:02.100 the hospital
01:09:02.460 to also apologize
01:09:03.420 and more importantly
01:09:04.740 at least from
01:09:05.960 the family's perspective
01:09:07.140 encourages them
01:09:08.480 to change
01:09:09.500 the cruel rule
01:09:10.500 what mum would like 0.84
01:09:11.980 even more than an apology
01:09:13.120 was what I previously stated
01:09:14.540 was for them to change
01:09:15.400 the rules
01:09:16.020 so people in the future
01:09:17.600 don't have to experience
01:09:18.340 what we did
01:09:18.960 if this story hits you
01:09:23.120 in the way it did for me
01:09:24.100 make sure to head over
01:09:25.020 to changethecruelrule.com
01:09:27.200 to sign and share
01:09:28.980 the petition
01:09:29.520 in our best attempt
01:09:30.760 to stop this
01:09:31.380 from happening
01:09:31.860 to any other family
01:09:33.540 it's the least we can do
01:09:34.700 changethecruelrule.com
01:09:37.140 we'll see you next time
01:09:39.100 bye
01:09:40.060 and more
01:09:40.420 until next time
01:09:41.040 we'll see you next time
01:09:41.880 We'll be right back.