Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ A left-wing CBC insider says the place has gone absolutely nuts — I’ll read to you from her amazing resignation letter

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I'm going to take you through an extraordinary resignation letter

00:00:04.480 by a longtime left-wing CBC journalist who just can't stand working there anymore.

00:00:10.540 She says it's just too woke. It's obsessed with race.

00:00:13.460 And my favorite criticism, she says the CBC has really warmed over student journalism.

00:00:18.120 It's that juvenile. I think she's right on all those points.

00:00:21.340 I'll take you through it, and then I'll especially interview with our Rebel, Matt Brevner.

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00:00:55.900 Tonight, a left-wing CBC insider says the place has gone absolutely nuts.

00:01:01.720 I'll read to you from her amazing resignation letter.

00:01:05.080 It's January 4th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:09.300 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:13.080 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:16.700 The only thing I have to say to the government, the why I'm publishing,

00:01:20.940 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:24.880 I honestly never heard of Tara Henley before.

00:01:30.800 Apparently, she's been a CBC journalist, a reporter, and producer for nine years.

00:01:36.360 Then again, the CBC has 7,500 staff.

00:01:39.620 You can't be expected to know them all.

00:01:42.040 Here is her official CBC biography page, which I'm slightly surprised that they haven't deleted yet.

00:01:53.340 So she's a real person, and it reads like you'd expect it to read.

00:01:57.960 Here, let me just read to you from one of her stories at the CBC.

00:02:01.700 This one goes,

00:02:04.080 I never set out to make a radio doc about my private crisis,

00:02:10.520 about staring down 40 and being single and childless and baffled by my life.

00:02:16.740 I didn't even really want to talk about it with family and friends.

00:02:20.620 So if you told me six months ago that I'd produce something this personal,

00:02:25.340 I wouldn't have believed you.

00:02:27.480 But here's the thing.

00:02:30.280 Sometimes you don't go looking for a story.

00:02:33.080 Sometimes a story finds you.

00:02:36.380 So it's the usual, a CBC reporter who thinks she's the most interesting story there is.

00:02:42.740 It's always about them, isn't it?

00:02:44.280 I don't think she meant it that way,

00:02:46.200 but to me it reads like an anti-feminist letter of regret.

00:02:50.580 Here, I'll read it some more.

00:02:51.760 In the year or so leading up to my 39th birthday,

00:02:56.080 I kept winding up in coffee shops with women my age,

00:03:00.700 having the same conversation over and over again.

00:03:04.060 Everywhere I turned, there were smart, successful women 1.00

00:03:07.580 who hadn't found a partner or a family life

00:03:11.160 and felt like time was running out.

00:03:13.960 Acquaintances, friends, colleagues, it didn't seem to matter.

00:03:17.680 Give them a cup of coffee at half an hour,

00:03:20.420 and they'd inevitably open up about this 39th problem.

00:03:25.500 They all articulated the same frustration.

00:03:28.060 As daughters of this feminist revolution,

00:03:30.640 we'd been told that we didn't need to seek out marriage and motherhood.

00:03:34.940 Our job was to go to school, get a career, fulfill our potential.

00:03:39.360 The rest would fall into place.

00:03:41.840 Spoiler alert, she's unhappy.

00:03:44.040 Now, I'm not picking on her.

00:03:45.140 I'm just telling you what her work was like at the CBC.

00:03:51.520 Solipsistic, leftist, trendy.

00:03:54.860 The kind of thing that you and I might put in a private diary

00:03:57.820 or on a Facebook page just for our friends and family.

00:04:01.020 We would never presume that we could earn a living

00:04:04.000 complaining about our personal lives and our choices

00:04:07.280 and getting paid handsomely by taxpayers

00:04:10.320 to do things the private sector wouldn't report on.

00:04:13.980 I mean, that's the whole rationale for the CBC.

00:04:17.400 We have to pay them to do this work because no one else would do it.

00:04:20.320 Yeah.

00:04:20.780 So an absolutely representative CBCer, wouldn't you say?

00:04:25.320 So why would someone like that,

00:04:28.640 who really gets to run a feminist blog for a living 1.00

00:04:31.720 at taxpayers' expense,

00:04:34.620 why would she quit a job for life 0.98

00:04:37.240 in a burst of fury?

00:04:40.500 Because that's exactly what she did yesterday.

00:04:44.720 You take a look at this.

00:04:47.380 Speaking freely.

00:04:49.220 When I resign from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

00:04:53.500 I like how it starts, eh?

00:04:55.260 I'll admit this much.

00:04:56.720 The woman can write. 1.00

00:04:58.100 Or maybe I just like reading what she has to say.

00:05:01.720 I'll read some.

00:05:03.060 For months now, I've been getting complaints

00:05:05.380 about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,

00:05:07.540 where I've worked as a TV and radio producer

00:05:10.080 and occasional on-air columnist

00:05:12.300 for much of the past decade.

00:05:14.380 People want to know why, for example,

00:05:17.420 non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog

00:05:24.180 is an editorial priority for the CBC

00:05:26.720 when local issues of broad concern go unreported.

00:05:30.680 Or why our pop culture radio show's coverage

00:05:35.620 of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special

00:05:37.920 failed to include any of the legions of fans

00:05:41.780 or comics that did not find it offensive.

00:05:45.880 Or why exactly taxpayers should be funding articles

00:05:49.920 that scold Canadians for using words

00:05:52.640 such as brainstorm and lame.

00:05:55.920 Everyone asks the same thing.

00:05:58.460 What is going on at the CBC?

00:06:01.700 That's just great.

00:06:03.760 That last reference, by the way,

00:06:06.200 it was to this story here,

00:06:08.660 this unintentionally hilarious news report

00:06:11.580 about how staff at the CBC brainstorm

00:06:14.900 a list of 18 words you shouldn't use.

00:06:17.640 That's what they do over there at CBC News.

00:06:21.540 They come up with a list of words that they didn't like.

00:06:25.100 And then they interviewed experts

00:06:27.220 on why those words should not be used anymore.

00:06:30.200 You'll recall I did a show on that hilarious story.

00:06:33.320 Anyways, here's what Tara Henley had to say about that. 0.99

00:06:37.340 I'll read a bit.

00:06:37.800 When I started at the National Public Broadcaster in 2013,

00:06:43.760 the network produced some of the best journalism in the country.

00:06:47.960 By the time I resigned last month,

00:06:50.060 it embodied some of the worst trends in mainstream media.

00:06:53.540 In a short period of time,

00:06:55.020 the CBC went from being a trusted source of news

00:06:58.220 to churning out clickbait

00:07:00.100 that reads like a parody of the student press.

00:07:03.520 Hey, that is so true.

00:07:05.000 I mean, that article about bad words,

00:07:08.920 words I really, really don't like,

00:07:11.560 that's the kind of thing you'd expect

00:07:13.700 to see in a childish student newspaper

00:07:16.840 by someone who just got a piercing

00:07:19.240 or a tattoo to make their parents mad,

00:07:23.240 but still takes their laundry home on weekends

00:07:25.440 for their mom to do.

00:07:26.400 Like, it's just so childish

00:07:27.820 that the CBC's doing that.

00:07:30.660 And this part of her resignation letter

00:07:32.780 was really something.

00:07:33.620 Let me quote a bit more.

00:07:35.880 Those of us on the inside

00:07:38.220 know just how swiftly and how dramatically

00:07:40.680 the politics of the public broadcaster have shifted.

00:07:44.160 It used to be that I was the one furthest to the left

00:07:48.060 in any newsroom,

00:07:49.760 occasionally causing strain in story meetings

00:07:53.320 with my views on issues like the housing crisis.

00:07:56.600 I am now easily the most conservative,

00:07:59.820 frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics.

00:08:05.400 This happened in the span of about 18 months.

00:08:09.260 My own politics did not change.

00:08:12.660 That's quite something.

00:08:14.120 She says she was the most left-wing person in the newsroom a decade ago.

00:08:18.420 Now she's the most right-wing and she didn't do any changing. 1.00

00:08:22.920 Now don't let me slow down.

00:08:26.320 I'll read some more.

00:08:27.620 To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance

00:08:33.500 and to abandon journalistic integrity.

00:08:36.720 It is to sign on enthusiastically to a radical political agenda

00:08:41.340 that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States

00:08:46.360 and spread through American social media platforms

00:08:49.060 that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions.

00:08:52.940 It is to pretend that the woke worldview is near universal,

00:08:58.120 even if it is far from popular with those you know

00:09:00.620 and speak to and interview and read.

00:09:03.700 Hey, don't blame America, sister. 0.72

00:09:06.280 Political correctness is just as much a Canadian problem 0.55

00:09:09.540 as it is in America.

00:09:11.080 Here's the key line in her whole thing. 0.95

00:09:12.920 Look at this.

00:09:14.900 To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea

00:09:17.540 that race is the most significant thing about a person

00:09:21.100 and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others.

00:09:25.480 It is in my newsroom to fill out racial profile forms

00:09:31.640 for every guest you book,

00:09:33.920 to actively book more people of some races and less of others.

00:09:38.540 To work at the CBC is to submit to job interviews

00:09:41.220 that are not about qualifications or experience,

00:09:43.840 but instead demand the parroting of orthodoxies,

00:09:46.920 the demonstration of fealty to dogma.

00:09:49.100 It is to become less adversarial to government and corporations

00:09:53.360 and more hostile to ordinary people with ideas that Twitter doesn't like.

00:09:58.800 Can you believe it?

00:10:00.720 They fill out forms racially profiling the people they invite on their shows.

00:10:06.740 How gross is that?

00:10:08.300 By the way, what if someone is mixed race? 0.97

00:10:10.920 You know, half white, half black, or something like that.

00:10:14.140 Now, what if they merely identify as black but are really white, 0.79

00:10:17.840 like Sean King or Rachel Dolezal?

00:10:20.860 What if they simply refuse to answer such a rude question?

00:10:25.300 I mean, do you have to guess about their race if they won't tell you?

00:10:28.720 There are light-skinned black people and dark-skinned white people.

00:10:32.720 Do they have some sort of color swatch at the CBC

00:10:35.680 that they hold up to the person's photo to figure them out?

00:10:38.380 Imagine being booked for an interview and being asked about your race.

00:10:42.340 Would you go through with such an interview?

00:10:44.980 I wonder if it matters, though,

00:10:46.860 if they're interviewing people who are privileged or working class.

00:10:51.020 That seems to be a real thing, a real divide, don't you think?

00:10:54.420 More real than the color of someone's eyes or skin.

00:10:58.440 There are many black millionaires.

00:11:00.240 Do you think they need a leg up?

00:11:02.380 Anyone with a PhD is obviously privileged enough

00:11:05.040 to spend 10 years at a university.

00:11:07.260 Are they hard done by in 2022?

00:11:10.220 There are white working class people.

00:11:14.200 That elitism divide is probably a greater factor

00:11:17.740 as to someone's role in Canadian society

00:11:20.200 than their race, to be honest.

00:11:21.720 I mean, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver are majority minority cities.

00:11:25.220 As in, most people are not white.

00:11:27.840 It's no longer a thing to have a minority as a CEO

00:11:31.640 or a politician or someone in high society.

00:11:36.880 You know, urban, rural, rich, poor,

00:11:39.100 higher education versus high school education,

00:11:41.940 trades versus professions.

00:11:43.500 That's the real divide.

00:11:45.200 I don't think the real divide is on race anymore.

00:11:47.500 And I don't think it's really solving it

00:11:49.060 by being super racist yourself.

00:11:51.800 Is the goal diversity?

00:11:53.480 Is that the goal?

00:11:54.940 Or is it just plain old racism?

00:11:56.880 Tara Henley would say it's just plain racism

00:12:01.260 or even just being bitter and aggrieved.

00:12:06.040 I'll read some more.

00:12:07.140 It is to endlessly document microaggressions,

00:12:10.000 but pay little attention to evictions,

00:12:12.920 to spotlight companies' political platitudes,

00:12:15.640 but have little interest in wages or working conditions.

00:12:18.920 It is to allow sweeping societal changes

00:12:21.460 like lockdowns, vaccine mandates,

00:12:23.760 and school closures to roll out with little debate,

00:12:26.860 to see billionaires amass extraordinary wealth

00:12:29.600 and bureaucrats amass enormous power 0.96

00:12:31.700 with little scrutiny,

00:12:33.600 and to watch the most vulnerable amongst us

00:12:36.040 die of drug overdoses with little comment.

00:12:38.980 It is to consent to the idea

00:12:40.740 that a growing list of subjects are off the table,

00:12:43.560 the dialogue itself can be harmful,

00:12:46.020 that the big issues of our time are already settled.

00:12:49.420 It is to capitulate to certainty,

00:12:52.600 to shut down critical thinking,

00:12:54.200 to stamp out curiosity,

00:12:55.640 to keep one's mouth shut,

00:12:57.340 to not ask questions,

00:12:58.440 to not rock the boat.

00:13:00.400 This, while the world burns.

00:13:02.780 Wow!

00:13:03.580 She actually expressed some doubt

00:13:05.620 about forced vaccines,

00:13:07.520 or at least an interest in a debate

00:13:09.880 about that subject and other things,

00:13:12.240 like the establishment's love for billionaires

00:13:15.680 and big pharma.

00:13:17.540 This woman says she hasn't moved to the right, 0.54

00:13:20.820 and perhaps I believe her,

00:13:22.520 those used to be things that leftists cared about.

00:13:26.100 Not anymore.

00:13:26.740 Let me read some more.

00:13:28.120 How could good journalism

00:13:30.060 possibly be done under such conditions?

00:13:32.640 How could any of this possibly be healthy for society?

00:13:36.440 All of this raises larger questions

00:13:38.300 of the direction that North America is headed,

00:13:41.060 questions about this new moment

00:13:42.640 we are living through,

00:13:44.080 and its impact on the body politic

00:13:45.740 of class divisions

00:13:47.360 and economic inequality,

00:13:49.180 on education,

00:13:50.220 on mental health,

00:13:51.100 on literature,

00:13:52.020 on comedy,

00:13:52.680 on science,

00:13:53.440 on liberalism and democracy.

00:13:55.100 These questions keep me up at night.

00:13:57.960 I can no longer push them down.

00:14:00.280 I will no longer hold them back.

00:14:02.380 This Substack is an attempt 0.57

00:14:03.960 to find some answers.

00:14:06.680 I won't read the rest.

00:14:07.700 Substack, by the way,

00:14:08.660 is a publishing site.

00:14:09.700 It's like a little blog,

00:14:11.220 a bit like an email system,

00:14:12.480 so she's apparently starting one of those.

00:14:16.600 I think I'm going to follow her, you know?

00:14:18.560 I'll do more than that.

00:14:20.220 I think I'm going to invite her on

00:14:21.340 as a guest to the show,

00:14:22.500 and who knows if she would accept,

00:14:24.580 maybe even,

00:14:26.720 I know this is nuts,

00:14:27.640 maybe to have her as a contributor

00:14:29.340 from time to time.

00:14:31.800 I don't think we need more leftists

00:14:33.280 in the media,

00:14:33.720 and she describes herself as a leftist.

00:14:35.760 There are already 7,499 of them

00:14:38.260 still left at the CBC,

00:14:40.300 but if she really believes

00:14:42.420 in diversity of opinion

00:14:43.680 and following the facts

00:14:45.040 where they lead

00:14:45.740 and asking tough questions

00:14:47.840 about things

00:14:48.300 and having a debate,

00:14:49.180 you know,

00:14:49.860 maybe

00:14:51.000 she might actually be a rebel after all. 0.98

00:14:56.180 Stay with us for more.

00:14:57.180 I can't help but look around

00:15:16.560 and feel like things

00:15:17.300 are getting out of hand

00:15:18.780 We've been told to trust the science,

00:15:22.480 but the science

00:15:23.100 just doesn't make sense

00:15:24.680 They say it isn't mandatory,

00:15:28.100 but they also say

00:15:28.960 you jabber your job

00:15:30.120 But if it doesn't stop the spread,

00:15:33.580 it makes you feel like

00:15:34.360 this is just a facade

00:15:35.660 What about the healthcare workers? 0.92

00:15:40.280 What about the frontline nurses? 1.00

00:15:42.200 How quickly we forget

00:15:44.760 that they were working

00:15:45.600 18 hours a day

00:15:46.940 What about informed consent?

00:15:51.580 What about due diligence?

00:15:54.440 It seems the country

00:15:55.520 that I used to call home

00:15:56.800 is surely slipping away

00:15:58.180 Well, that is an excerpt

00:16:01.300 from an amazing new music video

00:16:03.040 made, incredibly,

00:16:04.680 by one of our rebels.

00:16:06.840 Matt Brevner is a journalist

00:16:08.420 in our B.C. Bureau

00:16:09.980 And that's his rap video.

00:16:12.240 I don't know if rap

00:16:12.900 is the right phrase.

00:16:13.700 I think it's beautiful.

00:16:14.580 Joining us now

00:16:15.220 via Skype from Vancouver

00:16:16.200 is Matt Brevner.

00:16:17.520 Matt, great to see you again.

00:16:19.320 Thank you so much

00:16:20.200 for having me on the program.

00:16:21.780 It's a pleasure.

00:16:23.080 Well, you know,

00:16:23.740 I've watched that whole video.

00:16:25.480 You gave us a sneak preview

00:16:27.020 at our Christmas party

00:16:28.620 and the whole room

00:16:29.440 was shocked.

00:16:30.640 I mean, you work for us

00:16:32.580 as a journalist.

00:16:33.480 You cover the news.

00:16:34.600 You're a cameraman.

00:16:35.540 You're an editor.

00:16:36.120 You're on screen sometimes.

00:16:37.700 I sort of forgot.

00:16:39.920 You know how to sing.

00:16:41.900 That's actually

00:16:42.720 your first profession.

00:16:44.660 You're a singer.

00:16:46.780 Yeah, it's my history.

00:16:49.380 That's actually how

00:16:49.920 I came to Rebel

00:16:50.980 was my music pass

00:16:53.240 and getting canceled

00:16:55.960 a year and a half ago

00:16:56.920 or whatever that means now

00:16:58.240 and I spent kind of

00:17:00.140 the last year

00:17:00.760 hiding behind the camera

00:17:01.980 and ducking my past career

00:17:05.060 but I felt like

00:17:06.280 there was a lack of artists

00:17:07.900 speaking out against

00:17:08.920 what's happening right now

00:17:10.100 and you would hope

00:17:11.180 that the arts would be

00:17:12.100 the first line of defense

00:17:13.620 for this sort of thing

00:17:15.100 and I just felt like

00:17:16.060 I had to write about it.

00:17:17.540 I'm so glad you did

00:17:18.720 and it's a good point

00:17:20.020 because artists

00:17:20.960 require gatherings.

00:17:23.060 I mean, sure,

00:17:23.620 you can stream

00:17:24.780 and be digital only

00:17:26.060 but a lot of artists

00:17:27.460 get started

00:17:28.480 hard work

00:17:30.000 in a small club

00:17:31.000 at a small venue

00:17:32.040 heck, even at a wedding

00:17:33.380 or a bar mitzvah

00:17:34.300 I mean, to pay the bills

00:17:35.420 to get some exposure

00:17:37.020 to get some experience

00:17:38.020 and when you shut down

00:17:39.660 every theater

00:17:40.460 every concert venue

00:17:41.580 every gathering

00:17:42.720 every cycle of life event

00:17:44.580 I think a lot of times

00:17:47.160 we think about

00:17:47.740 the restaurant

00:17:48.680 or the hotel

00:17:49.460 but we don't think

00:17:50.240 about the artists.

00:17:50.960 I think artists

00:17:51.920 have been devastated

00:17:52.780 in the last two years.

00:17:54.880 Well, it's not only

00:17:55.900 not being able to tour

00:17:56.960 there's been a muzzling 1.00

00:17:59.160 especially of Canadian artists

00:18:00.880 because so many Canadian artists

00:18:02.200 are fully dependent

00:18:03.860 on the Canadian grant program

00:18:05.520 so if you step out

00:18:08.040 of the line of that

00:18:08.760 you don't get funded

00:18:10.800 and if you don't get funded

00:18:11.800 you can't pay your rent

00:18:14.620 and it's difficult

00:18:16.220 as a musician

00:18:16.820 even with streams

00:18:18.380 you know, a million streams

00:18:19.760 will pay you about $4,500

00:18:20.920 and that's straight

00:18:23.680 to the label

00:18:24.240 not including

00:18:25.040 the labels cut

00:18:25.900 publishing

00:18:26.480 all expenses

00:18:27.640 so you know

00:18:28.900 an artist could be

00:18:29.700 clocking millions of streams

00:18:30.940 on your favorite platform

00:18:32.420 and in fact

00:18:33.260 still be, you know

00:18:34.060 hard-pressed to get by

00:18:36.000 so

00:18:36.440 You know, you mentioned

00:18:38.600 censorship

00:18:39.640 when we have to live

00:18:40.680 our life virtually

00:18:41.820 when we don't live

00:18:43.260 our life in real life

00:18:44.700 then there is always

00:18:46.000 that middleman

00:18:46.720 and it's a censor

00:18:48.280 quite often

00:18:48.880 I don't want to live

00:18:49.720 in the metaverse

00:18:50.600 I want to live

00:18:51.600 in the real universe

00:18:52.700 and just before

00:18:53.920 we turn the camera on

00:18:54.780 you were telling me

00:18:55.560 that because your video

00:18:57.220 takes a contrarian

00:18:58.540 point of view

00:18:59.120 to the master narrative

00:19:00.800 about the pandemic

00:19:01.680 and the vaccines

00:19:02.500 that you had some problem

00:19:04.660 promoting it online

00:19:06.180 obviously a big tech algorithm

00:19:09.580 censoring it

00:19:10.400 like they would censor a tweet

00:19:11.660 tell our viewers

00:19:12.680 a little bit about

00:19:13.700 this new kind of throttling

00:19:16.260 that you saw

00:19:17.140 on this music video

00:19:18.200 Yeah, this is the first time

00:19:20.060 anything like this

00:19:20.720 has happened to me

00:19:21.360 and this is developing

00:19:22.240 literally in the last

00:19:23.180 the last 30 minutes

00:19:24.280 but typically

00:19:25.100 in an industry standard

00:19:27.080 music video rollout

00:19:28.400 you would run a Google

00:19:29.700 AdWords program

00:19:30.660 and a pre-roll

00:19:31.980 and you would market

00:19:32.940 the song to

00:19:33.640 like-minded people

00:19:34.800 or people that

00:19:35.540 have similar

00:19:36.320 musical interests

00:19:37.320 and that's

00:19:38.820 very essential

00:19:40.240 in getting the message

00:19:41.360 out there

00:19:41.800 and getting it

00:19:42.340 to not only

00:19:42.920 your fans

00:19:44.080 but new fans

00:19:44.860 and Google

00:19:46.060 blocked the video

00:19:47.100 they won't let me

00:19:47.820 promote it

00:19:48.320 so unfortunately

00:19:49.920 if you know

00:19:51.060 if we want to get

00:19:51.620 the message out there

00:19:52.440 and we want people

00:19:53.160 to hear it

00:19:53.600 it's just going to

00:19:54.100 take some

00:19:54.540 some grassroots

00:19:55.320 sharing and liking

00:19:56.740 and sending to friends

00:19:57.940 because

00:19:58.340 yeah obviously

00:20:00.100 big tech doesn't

00:20:00.880 want this message

00:20:01.400 to get out

00:20:01.840 it sounds a little bit

00:20:02.560 cliche at this point

00:20:03.460 but it's the reality

00:20:04.520 and I'm looking

00:20:05.800 at my ads manager

00:20:06.960 and my Facebook manager

00:20:07.960 right now

00:20:08.380 and they won't

00:20:09.180 let me promote it

00:20:09.900 so I'm not sure

00:20:11.000 actually who's actually

00:20:11.820 seeing the video

00:20:12.980 but if you are

00:20:14.020 seeing it

00:20:14.600 and you like it

00:20:16.080 I would just

00:20:16.540 leave a comment

00:20:17.480 and like

00:20:17.960 and whatever else

00:20:18.620 so I can know

00:20:20.000 but it's going to

00:20:20.740 make it tricky

00:20:21.200 to promote it

00:20:21.900 to be honest

00:20:22.720 well you know

00:20:24.360 we've dealt with that

00:20:25.100 of course on the news side

00:20:26.400 we've been

00:20:27.080 blocked and throttled

00:20:29.480 and downranked

00:20:30.400 by Google

00:20:30.940 it's just shocking

00:20:32.260 but not surprising

00:20:33.140 that they've applied

00:20:33.800 that to artistic

00:20:35.240 and creative endeavors

00:20:37.140 like music

00:20:37.720 you say Google blocked

00:20:38.860 what are the other

00:20:40.060 platforms

00:20:40.900 you've put it on

00:20:42.280 I mean there's

00:20:42.860 there's different ways

00:20:43.940 to get music out there

00:20:45.020 I like the video format

00:20:46.440 but a lot of folks

00:20:47.660 listen just to the audio

00:20:48.920 where else is your song

00:20:50.960 right now

00:20:51.480 well currently

00:20:52.880 the song is on a platform

00:20:54.360 called Van Camp

00:20:55.460 and the reason why

00:20:56.280 I decided to release it

00:20:57.260 with Van Camp

00:20:57.860 rather than Spotify

00:20:59.080 or Apple Music

00:20:59.960 immediately

00:21:00.460 is because they have

00:21:01.800 a pretty amazing

00:21:02.740 platform set up

00:21:03.520 where people can

00:21:04.100 download your song

00:21:04.860 for free

00:21:05.320 or they can pay

00:21:06.520 what they want

00:21:06.980 to donate

00:21:07.480 and get the download

00:21:08.940 so whether that's

00:21:09.580 a penny or a dollar

00:21:10.640 or whatever they want

00:21:11.860 and that goes

00:21:13.020 basically

00:21:13.780 after some service fees

00:21:15.620 basically goes directly

00:21:16.620 to the artist

00:21:17.180 so you know

00:21:18.240 it really goes

00:21:19.660 a long way

00:21:20.600 if you're going out

00:21:22.000 of your way

00:21:22.340 to pre-save

00:21:22.940 the Spotify link

00:21:24.220 share the Spotify link

00:21:25.360 you could play that song

00:21:26.340 a thousand times

00:21:27.080 and the artist

00:21:27.480 might not even see

00:21:28.180 a dollar off of it

00:21:29.020 so this way

00:21:30.580 you know

00:21:31.100 I figured it would be

00:21:32.400 a good way

00:21:32.800 to kind of bypass

00:21:33.500 the system

00:21:34.700 in a sense

00:21:35.440 this whole rollout

00:21:36.360 is going to be

00:21:36.780 a counter-cultural rollout

00:21:38.000 and I was expecting

00:21:38.660 that to happen

00:21:39.260 and I'm actually

00:21:40.080 excited by it

00:21:40.860 so if you like

00:21:42.000 the song

00:21:42.480 and you want to

00:21:43.000 you know

00:21:43.400 contribute to me

00:21:44.360 and my grassroot

00:21:45.320 marketing efforts

00:21:46.360 directly

00:21:46.920 you can go to

00:21:48.060 Brevner.com

00:21:49.080 and follow the

00:21:50.520 band camp link

00:21:51.120 and get the song

00:21:51.920 there

00:21:52.220 Brevner.com

00:21:53.400 B-R-E-V-N-E-R 1.00

00:21:55.720 dot com

00:21:56.240 of course

00:21:56.600 Matt Brevner

00:21:57.320 is the artist

00:21:58.460 well listen

00:21:59.020 I'm very excited

00:21:59.740 about this

00:22:00.320 sometimes these

00:22:01.980 counter-cultural

00:22:03.520 I'm not even going

00:22:04.100 to call it

00:22:04.480 counter-culture

00:22:05.040 because it's

00:22:07.020 authentic culture

00:22:08.700 in response

00:22:09.940 to the

00:22:10.520 manufactured

00:22:11.760 narrative

00:22:12.400 of advertorials

00:22:14.300 I saw the other day

00:22:15.080 all these

00:22:16.180 late night

00:22:16.920 comedians

00:22:17.820 ran the exact

00:22:19.240 same

00:22:19.800 sponsored content

00:22:21.320 by Google

00:22:22.440 and YouTube

00:22:22.920 and it was

00:22:23.860 sort of a mashup

00:22:24.820 of like

00:22:25.580 five different

00:22:26.880 late night

00:22:27.400 comedians

00:22:28.040 who actually

00:22:28.920 have the same

00:22:29.500 jokes

00:22:30.180 and it was all

00:22:31.000 brought to you

00:22:31.760 by Google

00:22:32.460 and that's

00:22:34.160 not mainstream

00:22:35.060 content

00:22:35.640 that's corporate

00:22:37.500 PR

00:22:38.340 and

00:22:39.660 I think

00:22:41.140 sometimes

00:22:41.820 an authentic

00:22:42.760 grassroots person

00:22:43.820 can fight back

00:22:44.500 in the states

00:22:44.980 let's go

00:22:45.780 Brandon

00:22:46.320 some songs

00:22:48.440 with that

00:22:49.020 in their name

00:22:50.120 have zoomed up

00:22:51.300 as a way

00:22:51.640 people fighting

00:22:52.420 back against

00:22:53.120 the corporate

00:22:53.620 message

00:22:54.000 I'm hopeful

00:22:55.420 that your song

00:22:56.280 could do the

00:22:57.320 same thing

00:22:57.880 I mean if it

00:22:58.380 catches on

00:22:58.980 I think there's

00:22:59.500 millions of

00:23:00.260 Canadians and

00:23:00.880 Americans and

00:23:01.600 people anywhere

00:23:02.180 around the

00:23:02.660 world

00:23:02.840 who would

00:23:03.420 say yeah

00:23:03.860 I'm going

00:23:04.200 to listen

00:23:04.480 to that

00:23:05.020 it could

00:23:05.840 happen

00:23:06.280 well I hope

00:23:07.940 it inspires

00:23:08.540 people to

00:23:09.060 just have

00:23:09.380 conversations

00:23:09.980 with one

00:23:10.420 another

00:23:10.680 because

00:23:11.140 something I

00:23:12.300 really noticed

00:23:12.880 is a big

00:23:13.980 public sentiment

00:23:14.860 shift

00:23:15.520 and the cracks

00:23:16.500 are starting

00:23:16.900 to show

00:23:17.360 in the narrative

00:23:18.260 especially over

00:23:19.100 the Christmas

00:23:19.560 break where

00:23:20.120 people who

00:23:21.160 you know

00:23:21.440 they trust

00:23:21.840 their government

00:23:22.300 they trust

00:23:22.780 the news

00:23:23.320 they've just

00:23:24.600 been doing

00:23:24.980 what they've

00:23:25.340 been told

00:23:25.800 over the past

00:23:26.420 couple years

00:23:26.960 and it's

00:23:28.200 still not enough

00:23:28.940 so people are

00:23:29.780 starting to get

00:23:30.320 fed up

00:23:30.780 I just hope

00:23:32.160 that something

00:23:32.680 like this

00:23:33.240 like the way

00:23:33.960 the song's

00:23:34.320 packaged I

00:23:34.780 wanted it to

00:23:35.320 be moderate

00:23:35.900 and just speak

00:23:37.000 to questions

00:23:37.480 that everybody's

00:23:38.160 having reasonable

00:23:38.880 questions that

00:23:39.620 we can't even

00:23:40.180 have any ask

00:23:41.000 anymore and I

00:23:42.040 hope it inspires

00:23:42.640 people to have

00:23:43.220 you know these

00:23:44.260 similar conversations

00:23:45.200 even pipe up a

00:23:46.020 little bit with

00:23:46.460 people they love

00:23:47.220 or friends or

00:23:48.360 family or whatever

00:23:49.140 and you know

00:23:50.020 that's I believe

00:23:51.060 that's the way

00:23:51.500 we're really going

00:23:51.980 to get over

00:23:52.480 all this mess

00:23:54.040 well that's very

00:23:55.120 exciting I'm very

00:23:56.100 hopeful tell me a

00:23:57.300 little bit about

00:23:57.720 the title of the

00:23:58.620 song the name of it

00:23:59.540 how did you come up

00:24:00.180 with that

00:24:00.560 sure I mean

00:24:02.700 it's a lot of

00:24:04.760 the footage was

00:24:05.420 gathered by just

00:24:06.760 Drea and I out

00:24:08.140 at Vancouver

00:24:08.640 protests or BC

00:24:09.680 protests over this

00:24:10.700 past year and

00:24:11.720 it's it's it's

00:24:14.420 crazy especially

00:24:15.180 I remember the

00:24:16.060 major one and then

00:24:17.240 the summer in front

00:24:17.780 of City Hall and

00:24:18.460 just the thousands

00:24:19.080 of people and it

00:24:20.440 really makes you

00:24:20.960 realize how many

00:24:21.700 how many people

00:24:22.760 there are that

00:24:23.960 are passionate about

00:24:24.900 freedom and these

00:24:26.380 are like the

00:24:26.820 outspoken ones

00:24:27.560 never mind the

00:24:28.580 people that are

00:24:29.060 like speaking

00:24:29.760 quietly or what

00:24:30.800 have you and it

00:24:31.880 really is like the

00:24:33.080 the group of

00:24:33.720 people that are

00:24:34.300 that are driving

00:24:35.360 segregation and

00:24:37.000 oppression and

00:24:38.000 and hatred and

00:24:40.080 vitriol into the

00:24:41.180 public zeitgeist

00:24:42.720 they're really a

00:24:43.620 minority you know

00:24:44.860 it's a we've

00:24:46.260 created this sort

00:24:47.400 of like cultural

00:24:48.100 hegemony where

00:24:48.980 one percent of the

00:24:50.480 population claim to

00:24:52.020 speak for the

00:24:52.800 the 99 and I

00:24:54.160 truly believe that

00:24:54.980 with just a spark of

00:24:56.340 of hope or a dash

00:24:58.120 of inspiration it

00:24:59.400 may encourage the

00:25:00.200 other 99 to stand

00:25:01.320 up and speak up

00:25:02.760 and and stand up

00:25:04.100 for themselves so

00:25:04.760 more of us I

00:25:05.560 believe that I

00:25:06.120 truly believe that

00:25:06.660 there's more of us

00:25:07.400 that that are

00:25:08.140 passionate about

00:25:08.720 freedom and

00:25:09.860 passionate about

00:25:10.680 family and want

00:25:12.100 to keep this

00:25:12.560 country and the

00:25:13.340 and our social

00:25:14.080 fabric together

00:25:15.000 than want to

00:25:15.640 destroy it so I

00:25:16.760 truly believe that

00:25:17.780 well there you

00:25:18.640 have it the song

00:25:19.680 is called more of

00:25:20.760 us the artist is

00:25:22.380 our friend Matt

00:25:22.920 Brevner who

00:25:23.440 happens to be a

00:25:24.240 rebel out in

00:25:25.280 Vancouver you can

00:25:26.220 get the track

00:25:27.120 yourself at

00:25:28.200 brevner.com and

00:25:30.200 we'll end the show

00:25:30.860 today by playing it

00:25:31.800 for you in full

00:25:32.240 Matt great to see

00:25:32.860 you congratulations

00:25:33.500 it's it really is

00:25:35.180 thrilling to have

00:25:35.700 someone of your

00:25:36.720 talent in our

00:25:37.840 shop I mean I

00:25:39.100 mean we know you

00:25:39.900 as a news gatherer

00:25:41.100 and an editor and

00:25:41.880 a journalist it's

00:25:42.960 really fun to see

00:25:44.020 your artistic side

00:25:45.160 come up thanks

00:25:45.800 thanks very much

00:25:46.500 for this and and

00:25:47.480 good luck on the

00:25:48.400 song I think it's

00:25:48.980 going to do great

00:25:49.560 thank you so much

00:25:51.540 I really appreciate

00:25:52.340 the opportunity to

00:25:53.640 share this and and

00:25:54.820 this is my

00:25:55.260 contribution to the

00:25:56.200 to the fight to

00:25:57.160 the front and it

00:25:58.300 really feels like a

00:25:59.040 full circle moment

00:25:59.880 so for that I'm

00:26:01.340 truly grateful to

00:26:02.400 you Ezra thank you

00:26:03.260 well I've done

00:26:04.060 nothing other than

00:26:04.740 enjoy the music and

00:26:05.980 encourage our our

00:26:07.800 viewers to do the

00:26:08.480 same folks there

00:26:09.580 aren't a lot of

00:26:10.220 artists on our

00:26:11.180 side of this idea

00:26:12.240 battle who are

00:26:13.020 willing to stand

00:26:13.720 up and stand out

00:26:15.100 so I would encourage

00:26:16.360 you to go to

00:26:17.000 brevner.com and

00:26:18.500 chip in as Matt

00:26:20.600 said it could be a

00:26:21.720 penny could be a 0.96

00:26:22.340 dollar whatever it

00:26:23.120 is just to help

00:26:24.180 an independent

00:26:25.000 creator fight the

00:26:28.140 power with truth

00:26:29.180 and I would

00:26:29.800 encourage you to do

00:26:30.480 that Matt congrats

00:26:31.440 we'll talk to you

00:26:31.960 soon thanks Ezra

00:26:33.660 all right you're

00:26:34.460 welcome there you

00:26:34.880 have it Matt

00:26:35.280 brevner go to

00:26:36.420 brevner.com stay

00:26:37.240 with us more ahead

00:26:37.940 hey welcome back

00:26:51.380 your viewer feedback

00:26:52.120 Belmont family says

00:26:54.120 so Kenny says no

00:26:55.840 one should protest at

00:26:56.920 a politician's house

00:26:57.920 that they will arrest

00:26:59.100 a pastor at his

00:27:00.140 house in front of

00:27:01.240 his crying children

00:27:01.900 or arrest pastor

00:27:03.200 swat style on the

00:27:04.080 side of a road or

00:27:05.500 arrest a business

00:27:06.160 owner for protesting

00:27:07.060 unjust laws which

00:27:08.600 are crushing his

00:27:09.140 business you started

00:27:10.740 the fight Kenny but

00:27:11.540 Albertans will finish 0.75

00:27:12.320 it there's a lot of

00:27:14.100 truth there by the

00:27:14.760 way there is no law

00:27:15.800 against protesting

00:27:17.180 anywhere on public

00:27:18.580 property you can

00:27:19.840 protest outside the

00:27:20.880 legislature you can

00:27:21.640 protest outside a

00:27:22.560 shopping mall you can

00:27:24.000 protest if you're on

00:27:25.100 public property in a

00:27:26.500 residential neighborhood

00:27:27.300 I mean I'm not

00:27:27.880 recommending it for

00:27:29.760 the main reason is

00:27:30.640 that there are other

00:27:31.140 people on that street

00:27:31.960 besides a politician

00:27:32.820 there's his wife and

00:27:34.620 kids or her husband

00:27:36.320 and kids I mean you

00:27:37.760 don't want to drag the

00:27:38.620 family into it that's

00:27:39.560 true that's but that's

00:27:40.360 an aesthetic and moral

00:27:41.560 and taste issue there

00:27:43.160 is no law in Canada

00:27:45.000 that says you cannot

00:27:46.360 have a peaceful

00:27:47.080 protest outside

00:27:48.480 someone's house and

00:27:49.480 Jason Kenney lied

00:27:50.540 when he said there was

00:27:51.680 trespass or at least

00:27:52.680 the crown prosecutor and

00:27:54.300 the police did not say

00:27:55.340 there was trespass I

00:27:56.700 think they cooked that

00:27:57.720 up to excuse an

00:27:59.160 unlawful arrest

00:28:00.440 Ian Anderson says

00:28:02.540 policing used to be a

00:28:04.000 noble profession

00:28:04.800 these days just about

00:28:06.360 any warm body with a

00:28:07.780 fragile ego in

00:28:09.340 possession of a

00:28:10.040 borderline average

00:28:10.840 intelligence will do

00:28:12.100 Canadian police services

00:28:13.540 are not looking to

00:28:14.960 recruit Rhodes scholars

00:28:16.400 you know I don't know

00:28:18.940 if I agree with all of

00:28:19.880 that I think that a lot

00:28:20.800 of great people are in

00:28:21.780 policing but the last

00:28:23.060 two years two things

00:28:24.700 have happened to the

00:28:25.500 best of them anyone

00:28:27.500 who truly believes in

00:28:28.740 civil liberties has

00:28:30.320 either been demoted or

00:28:32.760 shuffled or quit because

00:28:34.560 they don't want to

00:28:35.100 participate in this

00:28:36.380 political biomedical

00:28:37.640 security state none of

00:28:39.740 the things we talk about

00:28:40.740 here are crimes unlike

00:28:42.000 what that cop says

00:28:43.000 Pastor Arthur Pawlowski

00:28:44.580 was not arrested charged

00:28:45.620 or convicted with any

00:28:46.700 crime keeping your church

00:28:48.020 open is not a crime

00:28:49.000 show me where it is in

00:28:49.780 the criminal code so

00:28:50.940 cops who were squeamish

00:28:52.580 about this kind of thing

00:28:53.460 have either been

00:28:54.540 transferred or reassigned

00:28:56.440 or retired or quit or

00:28:58.000 were fired and then

00:28:59.440 secondly any any cop who

00:29:01.920 doesn't want to take a

00:29:02.740 forced jab has been put

00:29:04.480 on leave or fire too so

00:29:05.820 I think you've had the

00:29:07.940 police do two culls of

00:29:10.460 anyone who believes in

00:29:11.640 thinking for themselves or

00:29:13.020 civil liberties so I think

00:29:14.680 that while there are still

00:29:15.780 some good police out there

00:29:16.960 I think a lot of the good

00:29:18.280 ones have been removed

00:29:19.260 someone with the nickname

00:29:21.700 construction crony says

00:29:23.240 this is insane they had no

00:29:25.120 reason to take him down 0.82

00:29:26.340 like this usually you will

00:29:28.000 get a chance to turn

00:29:29.000 yourself in first with

00:29:30.740 breaches this is making a

00:29:32.460 statement and it's an

00:29:33.320 abuse of power you're

00:29:35.180 exactly right I mean the

00:29:36.920 only reason to have 20

00:29:38.500 cops and 10 police cars

00:29:39.800 stop someone on the road

00:29:41.460 pull him out of the

00:29:42.800 vehicle and onto the

00:29:43.600 street as other cars

00:29:44.380 whiz by in the snow at

00:29:45.960 night is if there is if

00:29:47.740 that is the safest way to

00:29:49.400 do it if there's a

00:29:50.580 terrorist and if you let 0.52

00:29:51.680 him drive one more block 1.00

00:29:52.900 he might kill someone or 0.91

00:29:54.580 if someone is actively

00:29:55.880 speeding away and they're

00:29:56.940 going to escape if you

00:29:58.340 don't catch him if you're

00:29:59.240 in hot pursuit they were

00:30:00.840 not in hot pursuit of

00:30:02.140 Arthur Babzowski he was

00:30:03.680 meandering on his way

00:30:05.040 home they knew where he

00:30:06.260 was coming from they knew

00:30:07.240 where he was going to

00:30:08.200 they knew his phone

00:30:09.400 number they knew his

00:30:10.080 lawyer's phone number

00:30:10.980 that was done for

00:30:12.140 purposes of shock and

00:30:13.420 awe and if Calgary police

00:30:15.580 have so many policemen

00:30:17.620 and police cars at their

00:30:19.080 disposal that they've

00:30:20.280 just got an extra 20

00:30:21.280 kicking around for a

00:30:22.520 routine traffic stop

00:30:23.900 like this well maybe

00:30:24.980 their budget is too high

00:30:26.340 and they're being too

00:30:27.140 wasteful if they don't

00:30:28.160 have real crime to

00:30:29.220 catch and this you know

00:30:30.640 what it was all

00:30:31.280 political and I believe

00:30:32.740 it is fair to say that

00:30:35.180 that Arthur Pawlowski is

00:30:37.680 a political prisoner I

00:30:40.560 believe that is fair to

00:30:41.680 say and I know that

00:30:42.760 sounds crazy in Canada

00:30:44.320 but you tell me

00:30:45.600 differently if you watch

00:30:46.500 that tape well that's

00:30:48.680 our show for today on

00:30:50.480 behalf of all of us here

00:30:51.400 at Rebel World Headquarters

00:30:52.400 so you at home good

00:30:53.180 night and keep fighting

00:30:54.460 for freedom and here as

00:30:55.540 promised is the full

00:30:56.640 video of Matt Brevner's

00:30:59.120 new musical hit more of

00:31:01.300 us enjoy

00:31:02.240 I can't help but look around

00:31:09.920 and feel like things are

00:31:10.800 getting out of hand

00:31:12.140 we've been told to trust the

00:31:15.400 science but the science just

00:31:16.760 doesn't make sense

00:31:18.040 they say it isn't mandatory

00:31:21.100 but they also say you're

00:31:22.500 jabber your job 0.97

00:31:23.460 but if it doesn't stop the

00:31:26.620 spread it makes you feel like

00:31:27.700 this is just a facade

00:31:29.000 what about the health care

00:31:32.240 workers what about the

00:31:34.440 frontline nurses how quickly 0.99

00:31:37.520 we forget that they were

00:31:38.620 working 18 hours a day what

00:31:42.380 about informed consent what

00:31:45.200 about due diligence it seems a

00:31:48.560 country that I used to call home

00:31:50.140 is surely slipping away I can't

00:31:54.220 help but look around and feel

00:31:55.220 like minds are slowly starting

00:31:56.220 to change cause even if you're

00:31:59.220 triple vaccinated know that

00:32:01.220 segregation isn't the way

00:32:03.220 freedom is a choice and it's

00:32:06.220 available to all if we choose

00:32:08.220 but first things first we gotta turn

00:32:13.220 off the news yeah what about the

00:32:16.220 healthcare workers what about the

00:32:19.220 frontline nurses how quickly we

00:32:22.220 forget that they were working 18

00:32:24.220 hours a day what about informed

00:32:28.220 consent what about due diligence it

00:32:33.220 seems the country that I used to call

00:32:35.220 home is surely slipping away if you're

00:32:39.220 late to the party there's plenty room

00:32:41.220 at the table this side don't

00:32:42.220 discriminate I'm calling on every

00:32:45.220 single man woman child of the able 0.66

00:32:47.220 it's time to take the streets and

00:32:48.220 liberate but please don't be a part of

00:32:50.220 the problem staying willfully 0.79

00:32:52.220 ignorant cause there's just way too

00:32:54.220 much at stake yo it's okay to change 1.00

00:32:56.220 your mind you can admit you were wrong

00:32:58.220 cause where there's perfect love there

00:32:59.220 ain't no shame heavenly father show me

00:33:03.220 what I don't understand yet I got my

00:33:05.220 marching orders I don't fully know the

00:33:07.220 plan yet hold onto my bible before bed

00:33:09.220 no it ain't been yet did you know the

00:33:11.220 makers of the vaccine make the xanax

00:33:13.220 I would never lean on corporations for

00:33:15.220 morality cause they put their profits

00:33:17.220 over people for their salaries know 0.71

00:33:19.220 they wanna make you bend the knee for

00:33:21.220 your normality I know you feeling all

00:33:23.220 all alone but in reality there's way more

00:33:27.220 of us than them there's way more of us

00:33:33.220 than them there's way more of us than them

00:33:37.220 there's way more of us than them

00:33:41.220 there's way more of us than them

00:33:49.220 there's way more of us than them

00:33:51.220 There's way more of us than that

00:33:56.000 There's way more of us than that

00:34:02.420 There's way more of us

00:34:07.320 There's way more of us than that

00:34:21.220 That's really me, that's really me

00:34:51.220 That's really me

00:35:21.220 That's really me

Rebel News Podcast - January 05, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ A left-wing CBC insider says the place has gone absolutely nuts — I’ll read to you from her amazing resignation letter

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