Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Rebel News is hiring EIGHT new staff — maybe you might be one of them!

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels.

00:00:00.660 Today, I'm going to take a bit of a detour.

00:00:02.200 I'm not going to talk about a political news item.

00:00:04.740 I'm going to tell you a bit of a Rebel News plan

00:00:07.040 for our own company.

00:00:09.020 We're actually hiring seven or eight new positions.

00:00:11.940 We just updated our rebelnews.com slash careers page.

00:00:16.420 And frankly, I'm hoping that someone listening

00:00:19.100 to this podcast says, hey, that could be me.

00:00:23.040 Some of these positions are at our Toronto headquarters.

00:00:26.380 Others are located in Ottawa, London, England.

00:00:29.560 And one can be pretty much anywhere.

00:00:31.760 So do me a favor and listen to this podcast.

00:00:34.260 It's a little bit longer than normal

00:00:35.920 because I go through each of the positions.

00:00:38.920 And I really would appreciate your help to,

00:00:41.240 you know, pass this around, tell someone about it.

00:00:44.820 Maybe it's you, or maybe it's someone you know.

00:00:47.660 All of the job descriptions can be seen

00:00:49.700 at rebelnews.com slash careers,

00:00:51.720 or listen to this podcast as I tell you about them.

00:00:54.680 Here's the podcast.

00:00:59.560 Tonight, Rebel News is hiring eight new staff.

00:01:14.520 Maybe you might be one of them or know someone.

00:01:17.200 It's July 22nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:20.020 Why should others go to jail

00:01:23.720 when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:25.940 There's 8,500 customers here,

00:01:28.220 and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:29.980 The only thing I have to say to the government

00:01:31.920 about why I'm publishing it

00:01:33.640 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:35.860 Well, I gave you a Rebel News update a few weeks ago,

00:01:43.900 telling you my thoughts on our editorial focus

00:01:46.660 for the months and years ahead.

00:01:48.440 I think it's clear that we're going to continue

00:01:50.300 our civil liberties focus

00:01:51.820 with the vaccine passports now becoming a reality.

00:01:55.800 That's going to be both a news story

00:01:57.700 and a civil liberties battle.

00:01:59.700 Of course, the election is coming sooner than we think,

00:02:01.960 and I'm worried that Justin Trudeau will win again

00:02:04.860 with a greater majority,

00:02:06.860 and he'll proceed on some of his more outrageous attacks

00:02:10.060 against our norms in Canada,

00:02:12.440 including freedom of speech.

00:02:14.160 In my report to you,

00:02:15.580 I also alluded to some business ideas,

00:02:18.460 including a possible IPO.

00:02:20.940 And by the way, I got some emails

00:02:22.300 from viewers interested in that.

00:02:24.200 I'm sorry I haven't written back to everyone yet.

00:02:27.020 But one of the questions

00:02:28.320 when you're looking to raise funds in a public offering

00:02:30.680 is what would we use the money for?

00:02:33.040 Would we turn Rebel News into a real business,

00:02:37.460 not just a cause that we love?

00:02:40.380 How do we businessify what's really a project of the heart?

00:02:45.680 Well, I think we have to be more businesslike

00:02:48.540 in the staff we have.

00:02:50.920 I love all the reporters we have.

00:02:53.900 I love all the people who follow their heart.

00:02:56.740 But we probably need to add to that

00:02:59.220 people who, you know, make money to help pay the bills.

00:03:03.300 You know the saying,

00:03:04.660 you can't save the world if you can't make the rent.

00:03:07.380 Now, we are looking to hire some new reporters too.

00:03:11.500 And we put the new reporters we're looking for,

00:03:14.280 plus the new business positions,

00:03:16.560 all on one website.

00:03:18.720 And I'd like to encourage you to go there

00:03:20.940 to rebelnews.com slash careers

00:03:23.860 and look at that job description

00:03:26.500 for those different positions.

00:03:28.580 Actually, I think it adds up to eight different positions.

00:03:31.800 And maybe you're someone who might apply

00:03:33.700 or maybe you know someone.

00:03:35.520 Some of those jobs have to be here

00:03:37.480 at our Toronto head office.

00:03:39.200 It's just to integrate it with the rest of our team.

00:03:41.600 But other jobs can be around the country

00:03:44.060 or even in other countries.

00:03:45.760 So please go to rebelnews.com slash careers.

00:03:48.900 And I'm going to put this monologue

00:03:51.340 outside the paywall too.

00:03:53.280 I'm going to email it around

00:03:54.700 in the hope that I can encourage people to apply.

00:03:58.520 Because I think finding people who believe in Rebel News

00:04:01.720 and our mission and our project

00:04:03.400 and have business talent,

00:04:05.320 it's trickier than you think.

00:04:07.020 It's hard to hire for anyone.

00:04:09.300 But for Rebel News,

00:04:10.120 we want people who believe in our project

00:04:12.600 and won't be politically scared

00:04:14.900 of affiliating with us in this era of cancel culture.

00:04:18.900 So as you can see on that careers page,

00:04:22.680 we are hiring for three new reporting positions.

00:04:26.960 And frankly, we'd be looking to fill these positions

00:04:28.960 for a while.

00:04:29.880 So this isn't new to you.

00:04:31.340 You may have heard me talk about these before.

00:04:33.820 We're looking to hire a reporter full-time in Ottawa.

00:04:38.060 Now that's not as important

00:04:39.460 as it would have been in the before times

00:04:41.740 because Parliament doesn't meet as often

00:04:44.140 or as freely as it does before.

00:04:46.040 So much is just decided by public health officers

00:04:49.300 without debate, let alone votes.

00:04:51.720 But we still believe it's important

00:04:53.320 to have a reporter on the ground in Ottawa all the time.

00:04:57.060 In the last six months,

00:04:58.200 we've hired reporters in Quebec

00:05:00.220 and it's been wonderful.

00:05:02.460 Alexa Lavoie does reports

00:05:03.780 in both English and French

00:05:05.360 and Yankee Pollock is being more active there too.

00:05:07.660 Plus we've sent reporters there from Toronto.

00:05:10.500 I'd like to have a permanent force in Ottawa.

00:05:13.180 Do you know someone who would fill that position?

00:05:16.420 If so, have them apply.

00:05:18.300 We're also looking for a China affairs reporter.

00:05:21.700 I think I've told you that before.

00:05:23.260 That's someone who is probably a Chinese person themselves

00:05:27.220 because they would need to know the Chinese language

00:05:30.440 to read Chinese language media

00:05:32.620 and social media in this country

00:05:34.460 to report on China's influence in our own country,

00:05:38.200 on universities, in politics,

00:05:41.260 and to look at the battles between communist China

00:05:45.440 and democracy activists,

00:05:47.800 whether they're Hong Kong democracy activists,

00:05:50.360 Uyghur Muslims or Tibetans.

00:05:52.020 I think that's a very important story.

00:05:53.800 But I think the key asset,

00:05:55.860 the key characteristic in that reporter,

00:05:58.020 besides loving freedom

00:05:59.220 and being a skeptic of the Chinese Communist Party,

00:06:01.760 is to know the Chinese language

00:06:03.700 because that's where this battle's happening.

00:06:05.220 If you know someone who fits the bill,

00:06:07.520 let us know.

00:06:08.300 I would love to have a China affairs reporter.

00:06:12.020 And finally, in the United Kingdom,

00:06:14.400 it's been so hard for us to cover those stories

00:06:16.560 because we can't travel there freely

00:06:18.180 because of the quarantines.

00:06:19.540 If you know someone in the UK,

00:06:21.080 please let me know.

00:06:22.820 But those are reporting jobs.

00:06:24.820 And again, I love those.

00:06:27.040 That's the heart of what Rebel does,

00:06:28.640 our journalism.

00:06:29.980 Those are not going to be money-making projects.

00:06:33.220 Those are cost-centered.

00:06:34.780 If we are going to pay our reporters

00:06:36.840 and pay their expenses to travel around,

00:06:39.360 they're not going to be selling ads.

00:06:41.300 They might talk about crowdfunding campaigns sometimes,

00:06:43.820 but I don't expect reporters to make money in particular.

00:06:48.800 But that's what we have to do as a business

00:06:51.240 if we're going to be perpetually successful.

00:06:53.720 We're so grateful to our crowdfunding supporters

00:06:56.540 and to you who watch my show every night

00:07:00.280 and Sheila and David and Andrew show weekly.

00:07:02.900 Your subscription of $8 a month means a lot too.

00:07:06.000 But as I was thinking about the proposed IPO,

00:07:08.440 I was thinking,

00:07:09.060 what would a real business do with the Rebel?

00:07:12.300 Well, they'd probably put in parts of the company

00:07:14.700 whose job is to be a profit center

00:07:17.480 so that we can afford to hire all these great reporters

00:07:20.500 to be more businesslike.

00:07:22.000 Now, the problem is we don't have other Canadian role models

00:07:27.500 in this media political space, as they say.

00:07:32.120 We have some allies, that's for sure,

00:07:34.140 some friends, our friends at TNC.news, True North.

00:07:38.100 They're probably the closest thing we have to a buddy.

00:07:41.820 They're smaller than us

00:07:43.160 and they're less activists than us,

00:07:45.600 but they have a similar model

00:07:47.500 based on subscriptions and donations,

00:07:49.740 and we admire them.

00:07:50.680 But I think our scale and our scope

00:07:53.300 and our ambitions are a little bit different

00:07:55.200 and in some ways a little bit larger.

00:07:57.400 We just don't have someone we can look up to as a model.

00:08:00.220 I'm not going to look to post media.

00:08:02.600 That's what I would look to

00:08:03.540 if I wanted to be a government grifter getting a bailout.

00:08:06.520 We can't look to the TV companies.

00:08:08.780 For a while, Sun News was amazing,

00:08:10.620 but that was killed by the CRTC.

00:08:13.220 Who do we have to look to for inspiration

00:08:15.960 as a business model?

00:08:17.880 There's a lot of great American examples,

00:08:19.600 whether it's The Blaze or Daily Wire,

00:08:22.520 but they have something we don't.

00:08:24.120 They have the American scale market.

00:08:27.340 I mean, they have 10 times as many people

00:08:30.240 and probably 20 times as many conservatives.

00:08:33.480 If we were naturally an American company,

00:08:36.380 if we had an American history and American reporters,

00:08:40.060 we would surely be successful

00:08:41.660 because just add a zero to all our revenues,

00:08:45.080 but our costs wouldn't particularly be bigger.

00:08:47.500 We would have the same,

00:08:49.220 I mean, we have about 31 staff right now,

00:08:51.960 about a third of whom are on air.

00:08:55.100 That would be enough to cover America well, 0.96

00:08:57.640 and we would just have 10 times the market.

00:08:59.280 So one of the things about being a Canadian conservative,

00:09:02.400 besides being attacked all the time

00:09:04.260 for having different opinions,

00:09:05.740 is that we have a smaller market to support us,

00:09:08.420 so we don't really have American examples.

00:09:10.920 So I'm trying to think,

00:09:12.660 what would a real business do to be more sustainable,

00:09:17.280 not just to be crowdfunding?

00:09:20.200 And I thought of four positions that we could hire,

00:09:24.160 and this would be a use of funds

00:09:25.520 when we, God willing, do a public offering.

00:09:29.760 Four business positions.

00:09:31.540 You wouldn't necessarily see these people on TV.

00:09:34.660 They certainly wouldn't be journalists

00:09:36.060 running out to cover stories,

00:09:37.320 but each of them not only would bring more value

00:09:40.280 to Rebel News, but to Rebel News viewers,

00:09:42.720 and would help us secure revenue streams

00:09:45.520 so we could continue to grow on the passion side,

00:09:48.800 on the content side.

00:09:50.700 Again, we will never take a dime from Trudeau,

00:09:53.280 so we've got to be creative.

00:09:54.720 Let me list for you four or five positions

00:09:57.880 that we have put on our careers page today.

00:10:01.620 The first one, I think, by far is the funnest one.

00:10:05.220 It's our events coordinator.

00:10:07.320 We haven't really had events in two years

00:10:10.100 because of the lockdowns.

00:10:11.960 We had one book event for China virus

00:10:15.460 in the Edmonton area in the middle of the pandemic

00:10:18.900 before the lockdowns really clamped down.

00:10:21.140 It's sort of incredible to think about it,

00:10:23.840 that we had an event at a restaurant

00:10:26.360 and everyone was fine,

00:10:28.080 and then the lockdowns came extremely heavy after that.

00:10:31.840 But I want to get back into the events business big time.

00:10:34.700 As you know, in the before times,

00:10:37.160 Rebel News had these big day-long conferences,

00:10:39.980 typically on a Saturday.

00:10:41.360 We would have a big auditorium,

00:10:44.000 and we would have like a Canadian version

00:10:45.920 of what they have in the States called CPAC,

00:10:47.960 the Conservative Public Political Action Committee.

00:10:51.040 We would have a day-long, we called them Rebel Live,

00:10:54.260 where we would have some of our favorite speakers,

00:10:56.660 not only our own Rebel talent,

00:10:58.420 but some of our favorite guests.

00:10:59.760 In past years, we've had quite some big names.

00:11:04.140 I mean, Jordan Peterson, before he was big globally,

00:11:07.960 he was big at Rebel Live.

00:11:09.920 Even Doug Ford, before he became a Liberal,

00:11:12.460 when he was still a Conservative,

00:11:14.040 he spoke at Rebel Live.

00:11:15.720 We've had some great speakers

00:11:17.160 and great events in Toronto and Calgary,

00:11:20.260 and I would hope to revive those two cities at least,

00:11:23.540 and perhaps more.

00:11:25.040 Our events coordinator would run those.

00:11:27.320 Also, would run our cruise. 0.88

00:11:30.140 Remember, we had a cruise before.

00:11:31.880 That was canceled again because of the pandemic.

00:11:34.080 I'd like to start that again.

00:11:36.320 Book launches and book talks around the country.

00:11:40.020 And also, events for people who are subscribers

00:11:43.140 or Producers Club members.

00:11:44.800 There's so many events I could think of, frankly,

00:11:47.960 to have them all across Canada,

00:11:50.460 perhaps in the U.S. and maybe the U.K. too,

00:11:53.040 maybe even an Australia event.

00:11:54.560 We have so many supporters down there.

00:11:55.980 I think for sure that's a full-time position,

00:11:59.160 events coordinator.

00:12:00.340 And if I had to describe what an events coordinator

00:12:02.300 would look like,

00:12:03.360 it's probably your stereotypical wedding planner,

00:12:06.640 someone who loves details,

00:12:08.900 is excited to book venues,

00:12:11.380 thinks about every little thing,

00:12:13.580 shows up there,

00:12:14.420 makes sure everyone's in their places.

00:12:16.120 You can see our detailed job description

00:12:18.100 at rebel.com slash careers.

00:12:20.040 I think being the events coordinator

00:12:21.920 is probably one of the funnest jobs at Rebel News.

00:12:25.160 Plus, you'll get to go to the events.

00:12:27.280 Now, you'll be working.

00:12:28.400 But some of them are pretty fun.

00:12:29.640 Like I say, those of you who've been on Rebel Cruises before

00:12:31.940 know that it's just a little bit of work

00:12:34.180 and a lot of play.

00:12:34.920 So that's a great job.

00:12:36.420 And I'm really looking forward

00:12:37.360 to seeing the applicants for that.

00:12:39.540 Why is that important to Rebel News?

00:12:40.880 It serves our viewers.

00:12:42.300 It gives our viewers a connection

00:12:43.920 with the Rebel talent on TV.

00:12:46.620 And financially, it helps our company be strong

00:12:49.120 because these events make money.

00:12:51.500 So these aren't just things I want to do

00:12:53.720 for the moral of it.

00:12:55.680 These are things that I believe

00:12:57.000 will make Rebel News a stronger business.

00:12:59.680 Now, we'll have to go out there and hustle and work,

00:13:01.940 but that's much better than getting on bended knee

00:13:04.200 for Trudeau's bailout, don't you think?

00:13:06.320 The next position we're hiring for

00:13:08.000 is called Campaigns Manager.

00:13:09.420 Again, you can read the details at rebelnews.com slash careers.

00:13:13.580 A campaign is what we call any one of our projects.

00:13:16.680 Usually, we have a vanity website like, you know,

00:13:20.880 freesavearthur.com or shameonshandro.com

00:13:25.460 or we have actually more than a hundred,

00:13:28.180 actually several hundred, little campaigns like that.

00:13:31.320 And a campaign can be as simple as having a petition

00:13:34.020 that we would deliver to that person we're petitioning

00:13:37.700 to crowdfunding for a poll

00:13:40.380 or helping someone with a lawyer

00:13:42.900 or renting a jumbotron truck

00:13:45.300 or putting up a still billboard on the side of the highway.

00:13:49.120 There's about 10 different things

00:13:50.920 that we've done over the years

00:13:52.600 that we call campaigns.

00:13:54.900 But that whole project,

00:13:57.080 there's lots of little pieces,

00:13:58.300 setting up the little microsite,

00:13:59.900 getting the domain name.

00:14:01.680 If it's renting a truck or hiring a lawyer

00:14:05.020 or fixing a problem,

00:14:07.240 there's lots of things to do very quickly.

00:14:09.660 A campaigns manager probably has some experience in politics

00:14:13.900 because you've got to move very quickly,

00:14:16.940 get things done,

00:14:18.240 just blaze a trail because time is of the essence

00:14:20.840 and you have to be thinking about,

00:14:23.120 well, what's the end product here?

00:14:25.060 I think it's similar to political work.

00:14:28.160 It is a campaign.

00:14:29.500 It's just not a campaign for a political party.

00:14:31.880 It's a campaign for Rebel News.

00:14:34.180 We've even had lawn sign campaigns, right?

00:14:36.720 For Sheila Gunn-Reed's book,

00:14:38.360 The Destroyers, about the Alberta NDP,

00:14:40.500 and my own book,

00:14:41.400 where we had lawn signs for the Libranos.

00:14:45.040 The third job I'm going to tell you about

00:14:47.080 is director of development.

00:14:48.880 That's a fancy way of saying

00:14:50.260 someone in charge of thanking our donors.

00:14:53.680 Now, the average donor to Rebel News,

00:14:56.060 I haven't checked lately,

00:14:57.060 but last I checked, it was around $63.

00:15:00.440 That's very generous,

00:15:01.500 and there's a lot of people who chip in,

00:15:04.280 and I tell you that's generous

00:15:05.280 because, you know,

00:15:06.720 you don't actually have to donate anything to Rebel News.

00:15:09.480 You have to pay eight bucks a month

00:15:10.580 to get a subscription to my show,

00:15:12.380 but the rest of our videos are free.

00:15:15.220 So it's pretty incredible

00:15:16.480 that someone would voluntarily give us money

00:15:19.560 when 90% of our content is free.

00:15:22.540 You don't have to give us anything.

00:15:23.900 So thank you to them.

00:15:25.120 But we actually have some donors

00:15:27.100 who give 10 times that,

00:15:28.820 and the odd donor who gives 100 times that.

00:15:32.500 We have people we call Producers Club subscribers.

00:15:35.460 They don't just give eight bucks a month.

00:15:37.100 They give 250 bucks a year.

00:15:39.540 How do we properly say thank you

00:15:42.040 to all these people?

00:15:43.180 I have to admit,

00:15:44.060 if I look back over the last six years,

00:15:46.340 the one thing I've done most poorly,

00:15:48.400 and I'm just confessing it to you,

00:15:50.060 is I haven't properly thanked people,

00:15:52.180 and I have my excuses

00:15:53.560 that I'm so busy doing other things,

00:15:55.400 but that's not a good excuse

00:15:56.820 because if people voluntarily give $63 or $630,

00:16:02.500 they deserve to be recognized.

00:16:04.080 The director of development

00:16:05.040 is basically VP thank you in the company.

00:16:08.620 We've done some of it.

00:16:09.820 We have plaques on the wall of our boardroom

00:16:12.220 for people who made significant donations

00:16:14.520 to help us pay down our debt last year.

00:16:17.280 We have countless bricks on the wall

00:16:20.200 with little messages,

00:16:21.240 and I got to tell you,

00:16:22.260 I read those every day.

00:16:24.600 It's really the only thing on our walls.

00:16:26.760 So little things like this,

00:16:28.620 but also constant updates for donors,

00:16:32.460 maybe an annual impact report

00:16:37.100 just showing people what we've done

00:16:38.880 with their donations,

00:16:40.340 little get-togethers in different towns,

00:16:42.580 a thank you for donors.

00:16:44.900 Some of that stuff stopped

00:16:46.180 because of the pandemic,

00:16:47.520 but that's not an excuse

00:16:48.580 for not thanking people through other ways,

00:16:50.460 whether it's a private thank you video

00:16:52.600 or a thank you mailing.

00:16:53.900 So the director of development

00:16:56.080 is someone who likes to talk to people

00:16:59.060 on the phone and in person,

00:17:00.640 is warm and friendly,

00:17:02.200 and from a business point of view,

00:17:04.720 will hopefully turn one-time donors

00:17:07.320 into repeat donors

00:17:08.840 because ideally,

00:17:10.380 Rebel News can perpetuate itself 0.96

00:17:12.040 in the future and even grow.

00:17:13.780 A director of development

00:17:14.840 is someone who takes care of details

00:17:16.980 when I didn't say thank you

00:17:19.100 when I should have.

00:17:20.040 They say thank you all the time

00:17:21.540 and get me to say thank you.

00:17:24.160 The next position I'd like to tell you about

00:17:26.020 is called outreach coordinator.

00:17:27.960 It's basically someone

00:17:29.200 to spread the word about Rebel News.

00:17:31.620 My view is that we've really spent

00:17:33.820 very little money marketing

00:17:36.000 or advertising Rebel News

00:17:37.660 over the last six years.

00:17:38.960 And the main reason for that

00:17:40.220 is we just haven't had the money.

00:17:41.660 And if we had the money,

00:17:43.240 I'd rather spend it

00:17:44.380 on hiring a reporter

00:17:45.900 or when bumps in the road happen

00:17:48.060 like a week or so ago,

00:17:50.080 our key piece of hardware

00:17:52.340 called the TriCaster,

00:17:54.380 it's just the brand name

00:17:55.500 of this basically a fancy computer

00:17:58.180 that combines the video

00:17:59.920 and the Skype calls

00:18:01.120 and the graphics.

00:18:02.100 It's the system

00:18:02.940 that puts the show together.

00:18:04.360 After six years,

00:18:05.400 it just broke down.

00:18:06.920 It was actually conking out on the air

00:18:09.060 and in one hour,

00:18:10.220 it went down three times.

00:18:11.100 We knew we had to replace it.

00:18:12.980 38 grand.

00:18:14.740 So if you were to say, Ezra,

00:18:16.160 do you want to spend 38 grand

00:18:17.640 advertising the Rebel

00:18:18.900 or 38 grand fixing the hardware?

00:18:20.940 Well, we have to fix the hardware.

00:18:22.300 We have to get new computers

00:18:23.620 because our computers are so old.

00:18:25.180 That was my excuse

00:18:26.320 for not spending money

00:18:27.840 marketing and advertising

00:18:29.360 the Rebel before.

00:18:30.520 And I felt okay with that

00:18:32.380 because the number one way

00:18:33.960 Rebel News spread

00:18:35.300 was through word of mouth,

00:18:37.780 peer-to-peer sharing,

00:18:38.820 people sharing our videos,

00:18:40.520 sharing our emails,

00:18:41.640 sharing our Facebook

00:18:42.320 because our content

00:18:43.680 was so interesting,

00:18:44.800 people passed it around voluntarily.

00:18:47.640 We didn't have to pay for that.

00:18:49.480 I'm not proposing

00:18:50.560 to getting into spending ad money,

00:18:53.360 but that outreach coordinator, 0.70

00:18:55.240 here's what that position does.

00:18:56.980 Every day we produce,

00:18:58.280 let's say,

00:18:58.700 10 videos here at Rebel News.

00:19:00.660 Now, I think they're all good

00:19:01.680 and they're all interesting.

00:19:02.920 Otherwise,

00:19:03.280 we wouldn't make them.

00:19:04.140 But if there's a video

00:19:06.140 that's of particular interest,

00:19:07.520 for example,

00:19:08.060 to Christian broadcasters

00:19:09.480 when we cover the stories

00:19:10.740 about Christian pastors

00:19:11.720 being jailed,

00:19:12.840 maybe that's a story

00:19:13.800 that we can call up

00:19:14.840 some Christian radio station

00:19:16.600 or Christian TV show

00:19:17.660 and say,

00:19:17.940 hey,

00:19:18.360 we're not a Christian outlet

00:19:19.840 ourselves at Rebel News,

00:19:20.880 but we're sympathetic

00:19:21.520 to Christians

00:19:22.600 and the persecution

00:19:23.340 of Christians.

00:19:24.400 Like, for example,

00:19:25.100 when I went on

00:19:26.080 Tucker Carlson's show

00:19:27.140 the other day

00:19:28.000 to talk about

00:19:28.640 the 40-odd churches

00:19:30.600 that were torched

00:19:31.480 in Canada,

00:19:32.920 getting on

00:19:34.340 Tucker Carlson's show,

00:19:35.600 getting on

00:19:36.140 Glenn Beck's

00:19:36.820 The Blaze,

00:19:37.800 getting on

00:19:38.820 not just American shows,

00:19:40.180 but the other day

00:19:41.520 I was on

00:19:42.200 Richard Surrett's

00:19:43.340 radio show

00:19:44.020 in Mississauga.

00:19:45.060 I think we need

00:19:46.100 a person

00:19:46.660 all day

00:19:48.140 looking at

00:19:49.240 what our most

00:19:49.820 interesting videos are

00:19:51.000 and saying,

00:19:51.600 that's an oil and gas story.

00:19:53.900 Let's see if we can

00:19:54.720 get that picked up

00:19:55.580 by some oil and gas media.

00:19:57.420 That's a story

00:19:58.260 about military

00:19:59.980 and defense issues.

00:20:01.180 So it's getting

00:20:02.300 other people

00:20:03.600 to pick up

00:20:04.420 Rebel News stories

00:20:05.660 with credit to us,

00:20:07.100 to interview

00:20:08.060 our Rebel talent,

00:20:10.280 get Drea on TV, 0.83

00:20:12.360 get Sheila, 0.99

00:20:13.420 get Andrew Chapados

00:20:14.700 just did a show

00:20:15.400 the other day.

00:20:16.420 So what I'm talking

00:20:17.200 about is

00:20:17.780 not paying

00:20:19.160 for ads,

00:20:20.700 but getting

00:20:21.500 our talent

00:20:22.540 on other networks,

00:20:23.920 including American

00:20:24.820 and Australian

00:20:25.580 and British networks.

00:20:26.900 I was on

00:20:27.440 GB News

00:20:28.100 the other day

00:20:28.720 in the UK

00:20:29.700 to spread

00:20:30.820 the word

00:20:31.160 about Rebel.

00:20:31.820 I think

00:20:32.260 that's actually

00:20:33.120 a better expenditure

00:20:34.640 hiring a full-time

00:20:35.880 staffer

00:20:36.520 to do nothing

00:20:37.380 but pitching

00:20:38.120 Rebel stories

00:20:39.200 to other media.

00:20:41.200 We also,

00:20:42.540 I think,

00:20:43.260 need to make

00:20:43.940 our internship

00:20:44.720 program year-round.

00:20:46.900 I'm really excited

00:20:47.820 by what our interns

00:20:48.820 have done.

00:20:49.220 I don't know

00:20:49.460 if you know this,

00:20:50.080 but our head

00:20:50.580 of video,

00:20:51.520 Efron Monsanto,

00:20:52.620 started as an intern

00:20:53.660 right out of school.

00:20:55.080 In fact,

00:20:55.420 I think he was

00:20:56.000 actually still

00:20:56.620 in school

00:20:57.320 when he started

00:20:58.320 with us

00:20:58.640 and now he's

00:20:59.140 our boss

00:20:59.620 of video

00:21:00.100 and he brought

00:21:01.100 other classmates

00:21:02.140 with him,

00:21:02.640 including

00:21:02.900 Moka Buzirgan,

00:21:04.080 our chief videographer

00:21:05.020 and Lincoln J.

00:21:06.560 So I think

00:21:07.680 it's great

00:21:08.160 to get interns

00:21:09.040 because they

00:21:10.000 haven't been

00:21:10.680 steered wrong

00:21:11.740 by other media.

00:21:12.880 I would much

00:21:13.300 rather hire

00:21:14.020 a really bright

00:21:14.900 student

00:21:15.380 right out of school

00:21:16.680 who's got

00:21:17.140 the skills

00:21:17.940 and hasn't

00:21:19.060 been warped

00:21:19.740 yet by,

00:21:20.360 like I wouldn't

00:21:20.840 want to hire

00:21:21.360 someone who worked

00:21:21.960 at the CBC

00:21:22.520 for 10 years.

00:21:23.560 I'd have 10 years

00:21:24.400 worth of unlearning

00:21:25.680 bad habits to do.

00:21:27.200 So I think

00:21:27.940 a real gateway

00:21:28.780 to young talent

00:21:29.800 is by having

00:21:30.620 an internship program

00:21:32.220 where they can

00:21:32.800 see our style,

00:21:34.020 putter around here,

00:21:34.820 do odd things,

00:21:35.900 run out with the camera,

00:21:37.140 you know,

00:21:37.340 just errands really,

00:21:38.740 starting at the ground floor

00:21:40.180 and if they're as talented

00:21:41.720 as Efron,

00:21:42.460 Amoka and Lincoln,

00:21:43.400 they'll rise very quickly

00:21:44.480 and I think

00:21:45.540 that can be

00:21:45.980 a great source

00:21:47.200 of new talent

00:21:49.680 either on the TV side

00:21:51.200 or the editing side

00:21:52.240 or the behind the scenes side.

00:21:53.620 So I want to make

00:21:54.240 our internship program

00:21:55.580 year round.

00:21:57.420 There are other things

00:21:58.920 that I would like

00:21:59.880 to do on a business side.

00:22:01.300 I think we do need

00:22:02.100 to do better marketing

00:22:03.140 for the show

00:22:03.760 and not just

00:22:04.380 outreach as I described.

00:22:05.920 I think we need

00:22:06.360 to increase subscriptions

00:22:07.640 for the paywall shows.

00:22:09.540 I think that's how

00:22:10.780 Americans like

00:22:12.100 Blaze TV do it.

00:22:13.560 They just have

00:22:14.140 a ton of subscriptions.

00:22:16.100 Like I said though,

00:22:16.700 they have 10 times

00:22:17.580 the market.

00:22:18.520 There's creative ways

00:22:19.240 of doing it.

00:22:19.640 There are other

00:22:20.360 conservative groups

00:22:21.120 in Canada.

00:22:22.020 Maybe we give them

00:22:22.740 a commission

00:22:23.440 for affiliate marketing

00:22:24.640 if they sell

00:22:25.340 a subscription

00:22:25.900 on their website

00:22:27.140 for a Rebel News

00:22:28.340 premium subscription

00:22:29.640 to Rebel News Plus.

00:22:30.860 Maybe we give them

00:22:31.820 a payment.

00:22:32.820 There's a lot

00:22:33.280 of businessy things

00:22:34.540 that I think

00:22:35.220 we need to do

00:22:36.360 and here's the thing.

00:22:37.680 Today's show

00:22:38.680 feels a little weird

00:22:39.800 because I'm not

00:22:40.920 railing against

00:22:42.260 you know,

00:22:43.060 a vaccine passport

00:22:44.000 discrimination

00:22:44.620 or I'm not

00:22:45.580 complaining about

00:22:47.040 censorship plans

00:22:48.260 by Trudeau

00:22:49.660 or Joe Biden.

00:22:50.520 I'm not talking

00:22:51.300 about the things

00:22:51.980 that make us

00:22:52.480 passionate.

00:22:53.480 I'm talking

00:22:54.220 about the business

00:22:55.300 plan that finances

00:22:58.140 the passion projects

00:22:59.620 because you can't

00:23:01.140 save the world

00:23:01.780 if you can't

00:23:02.340 pay the rent.

00:23:03.500 At Rebel News

00:23:04.440 we've been lucky

00:23:05.300 in that we've had

00:23:06.280 thousands of

00:23:07.200 grassroots crowdfunders

00:23:08.580 pay our rent for us

00:23:10.380 while we were out

00:23:11.340 slaying dragons

00:23:12.200 and I want that

00:23:13.800 to keep going on

00:23:14.980 but I think

00:23:15.940 that with these

00:23:16.460 positions I've

00:23:17.240 just outlined

00:23:17.940 that we can actually

00:23:19.440 make Rebel News

00:23:20.100 stronger.

00:23:21.320 I started by talking

00:23:22.880 about the reporting

00:23:23.760 positions in Ottawa

00:23:24.980 in the United Kingdom

00:23:26.300 if we can

00:23:26.960 and the China Affairs

00:23:28.120 report.

00:23:28.480 I think those are

00:23:28.880 great and important

00:23:30.120 roles and I want

00:23:30.900 to do them.

00:23:31.800 That won't actually

00:23:33.340 make us any money

00:23:34.920 if anything.

00:23:36.140 It's going to cost

00:23:37.020 us money

00:23:37.560 but the other

00:23:38.640 positions I've

00:23:39.460 outlined that's new

00:23:40.600 an events coordinator

00:23:42.420 to really get us

00:23:43.380 going again

00:23:44.060 so we can interact

00:23:45.320 with our viewers

00:23:45.980 get people FaceTime

00:23:47.360 with the talent

00:23:47.940 they like

00:23:48.380 and all of those

00:23:49.800 events make money

00:23:50.920 a campaigns manager

00:23:52.760 to help us do

00:23:53.660 more little

00:23:54.780 crowdfunded projects

00:23:56.400 which do make money

00:23:58.140 for us

00:23:58.660 through our terms

00:23:59.280 of service

00:23:59.780 a director of

00:24:01.360 development

00:24:01.740 or VP thank you

00:24:02.900 as I call them

00:24:03.960 to help me stay

00:24:05.300 in touch

00:24:05.840 with the most

00:24:06.760 generous of our

00:24:07.520 patrons

00:24:07.880 who I frankly

00:24:08.940 should thank more

00:24:09.680 often and should

00:24:10.500 be kept in the loop

00:24:11.380 not just donate

00:24:12.480 and sit back

00:24:13.060 and watch

00:24:13.420 but donate

00:24:14.220 and be thanked

00:24:14.900 and be told

00:24:15.460 what's going on

00:24:16.160 on the inside

00:24:16.740 an outreach coordinator

00:24:18.720 to spread the word

00:24:19.540 about Rebel News

00:24:20.160 including to American

00:24:21.160 outlets

00:24:21.800 and an internship

00:24:23.100 program in-house

00:24:24.300 to get talent in

00:24:26.220 if you know

00:24:28.480 of someone

00:24:29.360 who fits

00:24:30.660 these jobs

00:24:32.020 have them go

00:24:33.100 to rebelnews.com

00:24:34.020 slash careers

00:24:34.680 now I have to tell you

00:24:36.000 most of them

00:24:36.780 are here

00:24:37.600 in Toronto

00:24:38.400 and I apologize

00:24:39.160 for that

00:24:39.780 believe me

00:24:40.980 I live here

00:24:41.760 I know how bad

00:24:42.900 it is

00:24:43.300 in the most

00:24:43.820 locked down city

00:24:44.760 in the world

00:24:45.820 according to the BBC

00:24:47.080 it's a politically

00:24:48.520 correct city

00:24:49.200 with terrible traffic

00:24:50.260 high crime

00:24:51.320 a shooting

00:24:52.040 every other day

00:24:54.000 it's just a really

00:24:55.380 rough place

00:24:56.320 I think

00:24:57.100 all the

00:24:58.140 all the ills

00:24:58.980 of California

00:24:59.800 are happening

00:25:01.160 here in Toronto

00:25:02.700 and for some

00:25:03.380 of the same reasons

00:25:04.000 so I apologize

00:25:04.820 that we have to have

00:25:06.940 at least four

00:25:07.980 or five of those

00:25:08.660 positions based here

00:25:09.680 in Toronto

00:25:10.800 but let me tell you

00:25:11.700 on the plus side

00:25:12.500 you get to work

00:25:13.540 with some of the

00:25:14.060 most interesting

00:25:14.860 warmest

00:25:15.880 funniest

00:25:16.400 funnest people

00:25:17.380 around

00:25:17.820 there's a real

00:25:18.740 sense of purpose

00:25:19.580 here

00:25:19.880 plus we have

00:25:21.240 excellent snacks

00:25:22.300 so I'd encourage

00:25:23.420 you or someone

00:25:24.120 you know to apply

00:25:24.920 for those Toronto

00:25:26.040 positions

00:25:26.520 there is one more

00:25:29.260 job I want to mention

00:25:30.180 and it's not

00:25:30.920 a rebel news job

00:25:31.980 it's a job

00:25:32.960 with our friends

00:25:33.640 at the

00:25:34.280 Democracy Fund

00:25:35.180 and if you go

00:25:36.120 to the

00:25:36.280 democracyfund.ca

00:25:37.520 slash jobs

00:25:38.660 you'll see

00:25:39.760 the job description

00:25:40.600 for a project

00:25:41.720 manager

00:25:42.240 as you know

00:25:43.120 that's an

00:25:43.500 arm's length

00:25:44.180 charity

00:25:44.720 with its own

00:25:45.760 board of directors

00:25:46.500 and its own

00:25:47.120 mandate

00:25:47.520 that helps

00:25:48.980 with the

00:25:50.020 fight the fines

00:25:50.800 project

00:25:51.340 and other

00:25:52.360 civil liberties

00:25:53.100 work

00:25:53.480 the Democracy Fund

00:25:55.580 is hiring a

00:25:56.520 project manager

00:25:57.320 to oversee

00:25:58.480 that civil liberties

00:25:59.560 work

00:25:59.900 the civil liberties

00:26:00.860 litigation

00:26:01.680 civil liberties

00:26:03.200 education

00:26:04.440 because no one

00:26:05.180 else is doing

00:26:05.700 that in Canada

00:26:06.480 plus other

00:26:07.540 projects that you

00:26:08.340 can see on the

00:26:08.960 Democracy Fund

00:26:09.740 website

00:26:10.140 so if you

00:26:11.220 would rather

00:26:11.660 be in the

00:26:12.220 charitable sector

00:26:13.040 rather than

00:26:13.740 the rebel news

00:26:14.800 journalism sector

00:26:15.780 that's a job

00:26:16.680 too

00:26:16.960 boy that's a lot

00:26:18.320 of jobs

00:26:18.820 and you might

00:26:20.140 be thinking

00:26:20.680 how are you

00:26:21.460 going to pay

00:26:21.940 for those jobs

00:26:22.840 well that's a

00:26:23.660 good question

00:26:24.200 but as you can

00:26:25.360 see at least

00:26:26.760 four of those

00:26:27.820 jobs we hope

00:26:29.480 and we plan

00:26:30.200 will actually

00:26:31.620 pay for the

00:26:32.860 other stuff

00:26:33.780 our events

00:26:34.960 won't just be

00:26:35.660 fun

00:26:36.120 they'll be a

00:26:37.240 source of funds

00:26:38.080 our campaigns

00:26:39.580 won't just be

00:26:40.260 interesting

00:26:40.860 they'll be a

00:26:41.840 way we pay

00:26:42.360 the bills

00:26:42.940 our promoting

00:26:45.300 of our stories

00:26:46.260 will spread the

00:26:47.300 word for free

00:26:48.220 about rebel news

00:26:49.060 to save us

00:26:49.960 advertising money

00:26:51.200 our internship

00:26:52.520 will help us

00:26:53.560 recruit talent

00:26:54.420 I believe that

00:26:55.900 these are things

00:26:56.760 that a real

00:26:57.500 business would do

00:26:58.560 sometimes I daydream

00:26:59.680 what would happen

00:27:00.260 if rebel news

00:27:00.900 merged with a

00:27:02.380 real media company

00:27:03.660 was taken over

00:27:04.620 what would they

00:27:05.940 do to business

00:27:07.040 justify what's

00:27:08.080 become a

00:27:09.020 project that we

00:27:09.760 love how would

00:27:10.620 they bring their

00:27:11.640 hard nose or

00:27:13.440 hard you know

00:27:14.600 as my old boss

00:27:15.460 Preston Manning

00:27:16.060 would always say

00:27:16.760 soft heart hard

00:27:18.880 head we've got

00:27:20.340 the soft heart

00:27:21.000 we love the we

00:27:21.980 love these

00:27:22.700 passionate projects

00:27:23.640 but if someone

00:27:24.360 with a hard head

00:27:25.180 a hard nose you

00:27:26.500 know sharp pencil

00:27:27.240 came along and

00:27:27.920 took over rebel

00:27:28.560 news what would

00:27:29.360 they do to make

00:27:31.000 us financially

00:27:31.680 stronger it was

00:27:33.180 with that thought

00:27:34.020 project that thought

00:27:35.580 experiment that I

00:27:36.380 came up with

00:27:36.980 these positions

00:27:37.600 we know about

00:27:39.260 some of them

00:27:39.680 already because

00:27:40.160 we've done events

00:27:40.960 and cruises and

00:27:41.800 stuff before and

00:27:42.800 they're great we

00:27:44.100 once made a

00:27:44.900 hundred thousand

00:27:45.860 dollars from a

00:27:46.860 cruise and I

00:27:48.280 mean people say

00:27:48.840 well that's just a

00:27:49.460 luxurious getaway

00:27:50.340 no it's what pays

00:27:51.920 the freight for the

00:27:52.780 rebel we can hire 0.97

00:27:53.900 two reporters that 0.77

00:27:55.660 one cruise besides

00:27:57.220 being super fun can

00:27:59.000 pay for two whole 0.53

00:28:00.860 reporters so maybe we

00:28:02.660 should do two cruises

00:28:03.680 a year maybe we

00:28:04.940 should do more rebel

00:28:05.880 lives across the

00:28:06.700 country so what I've

00:28:08.320 just presented to

00:28:09.060 you is actually a 0.62

00:28:11.180 kind of a business

00:28:12.160 plan also I think

00:28:13.940 it's going to give

00:28:14.580 you rebel viewers a

00:28:15.820 lot of fun things to

00:28:16.860 do and places to go

00:28:19.120 and people to meet

00:28:20.060 and I didn't even

00:28:20.920 talk about the rebel

00:28:21.800 store where we have

00:28:23.260 more shirts and other

00:28:24.620 cool stuff almost

00:28:25.540 every day well there

00:28:26.860 you have it I didn't

00:28:28.060 talk about Trudeau

00:28:28.900 much today I didn't

00:28:29.740 talk about Joe Biden

00:28:31.160 I didn't talk about

00:28:32.200 the news of the day I

00:28:34.260 just spoke to you a

00:28:35.120 little bit about my

00:28:36.020 thinking for what

00:28:37.240 rebel news has to do

00:28:38.560 in the months and years

00:28:39.560 ahead to become a

00:28:40.580 durable sustainable

00:28:42.080 business whether or not

00:28:43.680 we stay private as we

00:28:44.880 are or if we want to

00:28:46.520 really expand and do a

00:28:47.840 public offering where

00:28:49.240 we would actually sell

00:28:50.640 shares to people who

00:28:51.560 want to stake in us

00:28:52.480 we're six years old now

00:28:54.240 we've had our ups and

00:28:55.320 downs but I think we've

00:28:56.120 been on a real tear for

00:28:57.600 a couple years now we've

00:28:58.640 had success after success

00:28:59.980 I'm trying to think a

00:29:01.520 little bit more

00:29:02.020 business-like because I

00:29:03.420 hope rebel news endures

00:29:04.500 for a very long time

00:29:05.640 we're in for a lot of

00:29:07.600 battles politically and

00:29:09.260 journalistically and

00:29:10.700 the number one

00:29:11.660 requirement to win those

00:29:13.340 battles is that we're

00:29:15.120 still around fighting

00:29:16.580 every day we've got to

00:29:18.700 make our payroll we've

00:29:20.140 got to make our rent

00:29:21.260 that's why we're hiring

00:29:23.660 these business positions

00:29:24.940 if you know a talented

00:29:26.480 person or if that person

00:29:28.160 is you go to rebel news

00:29:29.580 dot com slash careers

00:29:30.980 and get in touch with

00:29:32.400 us I'm going to put

00:29:33.820 this video on YouTube

00:29:35.140 odyssey super you dot

00:29:37.500 net and rumble I'm

00:29:38.760 going to email it out to

00:29:39.800 all our friends because I

00:29:40.840 want to meet some of the

00:29:42.320 most talented people around

00:29:44.420 to come and help us I

00:29:45.740 hope to work with you

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00:29:58.160 welcome back what CNN

00:30:01.520 hosted a town hall style

00:30:03.860 interview with President

00:30:05.720 Joe Biden I thought it

00:30:07.060 was odd that the room

00:30:08.740 was half empty I don't

00:30:09.820 know maybe they didn't

00:30:10.520 try to fill it you would

00:30:11.420 think that a convention

00:30:13.860 style town hall style

00:30:15.200 meeting with the

00:30:15.700 president would be full

00:30:16.600 it wasn't it was I don't

00:30:20.000 know modestly interesting

00:30:21.340 but I thought what was

00:30:22.180 much more interesting than

00:30:23.140 the content of what Joe

00:30:25.040 Biden said was how he said

00:30:26.940 it or more precisely how

00:30:28.920 he didn't say it how he

00:30:30.380 forgot what he was

00:30:31.620 trying to say how he

00:30:32.860 lost track of where he

00:30:34.640 was going the Republican

00:30:35.980 National Committee war

00:30:37.300 room put together what

00:30:38.840 they call a 49 second

00:30:40.080 compendium of the worst

00:30:41.640 of and yes they were

00:30:43.720 cherry-picking it out of

00:30:44.920 a longer event but I ask

00:30:47.260 you if this had been

00:30:48.860 Donald Trump if this had

00:30:50.940 been a conservative of

00:30:53.080 you know getting on in

00:30:54.340 age in his upper 70s

00:30:56.340 would he have been given

00:30:58.180 a pass I have to tell

00:30:59.320 you watching this

00:31:00.480 compilation this short

00:31:03.360 summary of last night

00:31:04.820 I can't imagine how the

00:31:06.600 top story emerging from

00:31:07.640 the evening isn't Biden's

00:31:09.480 mental health take a look

00:31:10.600 I mean everybody thought

00:31:11.920 I was a little nuts is in

00:31:13.440 fact it's going to be what

00:31:17.680 can a kid say you got the

00:31:20.480 vaccination or you know

00:31:22.500 whether those aliens are

00:31:24.160 here or not we know that

00:31:27.560 this virus is in fact it's

00:31:32.820 going to be what could they

00:31:35.200 do Portman is a congressman

00:31:37.320 from this area Xi Jinping in

00:31:39.160 China he's a bright and really

00:31:40.940 tough guy over 600,000 people

00:31:43.380 out there signing six million

00:31:45.200 people whether or not there

00:31:46.960 were there's a man on the moon

00:31:49.060 or whatever you know something

00:31:50.600 four years old when you see a

00:31:51.720 red light cross the street

00:31:52.840 whoa boy you are why can't the

00:31:58.520 the the that was edited for

00:32:00.860 humorous effect I watched

00:32:01.980 actually longer excerpts

00:32:03.140 directly and actually the

00:32:05.060 unedited version was was more

00:32:07.100 worrisome to me listen we're

00:32:09.080 having a little bit of fun but

00:32:10.600 it's actually a deadly serious

00:32:11.840 point Ronald Reagan was

00:32:13.300 savage for his later term later

00:32:16.060 years when he had onset of

00:32:19.140 Alzheimer's no such discussion

00:32:21.240 seems to be permitted in the

00:32:22.400 mainstream meeting about Joe

00:32:23.660 Biden well let's move away from

00:32:25.260 his style and talk about a

00:32:26.440 substance and to do that let's

00:32:27.560 bring in our friend Joel Pollack

00:32:28.680 senior editor-at-large at

00:32:30.160 Breitbart.com Joel great to see

00:32:31.460 you maybe maybe that

00:32:33.120 exaggerates his cognitive decline

00:32:35.760 but I actually think it

00:32:38.200 happened it happens more often

00:32:40.300 than it doesn't happen and you

00:32:42.340 have strange things like either

00:32:43.680 the shouting outbursts or the

00:32:45.640 whispering I I think it's

00:32:47.740 troublesome and I'm having I'm

00:32:49.640 having a little bit of fun of

00:32:50.520 at his expense but I actually

00:32:52.120 think there's a real issue

00:32:52.980 there do you think so there is a

00:32:56.260 real issue although if you read

00:32:57.420 the transcript of the whole

00:32:58.400 town hall he does seem to be

00:33:00.640 able to string concepts

00:33:01.740 together he's out of touch in

00:33:03.280 general like much of his party is

00:33:04.780 out of touch I mean when you look

00:33:05.660 at the substance of his answers

00:33:06.860 they're not more out of touch than

00:33:09.140 the Democrats policies and a

00:33:10.740 number of other things you can

00:33:12.380 get more articulate Democrats but

00:33:14.020 basically the policies are just as

00:33:15.920 out of whack I will say that you

00:33:18.060 don't have to go back to Ronald

00:33:18.880 Reagan to find a press corps that

00:33:20.480 was very concerned about the

00:33:21.720 president's mental state they were

00:33:23.360 constantly questioning Trump's

00:33:24.880 mental ability and they insisted on

00:33:27.140 cognitive tests remember he had to

00:33:28.900 roll out the White House position

00:33:30.480 who's now a member of Congress by the

00:33:31.820 way but he had to roll out the

00:33:33.400 White House position to talk about

00:33:36.400 how Trump had scored on a

00:33:37.920 cognitive test and people made fun

00:33:39.540 of Trump for giving people the

00:33:41.800 details of the cognitive test it

00:33:43.100 was something like woman man camera

00:33:44.920 whatever it was I can't remember

00:33:46.780 but that became a punchline among

00:33:48.380 Democrats who took it for granted

00:33:49.580 that Trump was crazy and yet we're

00:33:51.340 not allowed to talk about Biden's

00:33:54.200 possible cognitive decline it's not

00:33:55.780 even something people make fun of on

00:33:57.040 Saturday Night Live they have been

00:33:58.540 very hands-off with the new

00:34:00.220 president and he doesn't come across

00:34:02.520 very well in some of those

00:34:03.660 sequences for example the joke

00:34:05.460 about the four-year-old boy crossing

00:34:07.980 at a red light Biden was talking

00:34:10.680 about how absurd it was to have

00:34:12.220 someone cross on a red light so he

00:34:14.160 was saying that's something you

00:34:16.400 shouldn't do and of course the

00:34:17.680 little highlight reel presented it as

00:34:19.460 if it was something he said you

00:34:20.240 should do it was a little weird

00:34:22.180 though and he does come up with

00:34:23.380 these strange examples from the

00:34:25.700 recesses of his memory he calls

00:34:27.440 children you know little Johnny and

00:34:29.480 that sort of thing it's just weird

00:34:31.120 so he does seem to be losing his

00:34:34.500 grip a little bit although I think

00:34:36.660 in terms of his relation to his

00:34:38.880 party's policy he's still very much

00:34:41.680 aware of what the policy is it's just

00:34:43.420 that the policy is so bizarre take

00:34:45.060 for example his response to a

00:34:46.740 restaurant owner who said what about

00:34:48.600 the labor shortage and Joe Biden

00:34:50.400 said well maybe people have just left

00:34:52.580 your industry for more lucrative

00:34:54.480 industries and that's basically the

00:34:56.640 democratic position I mean they don't

00:34:58.480 really care about small business they

00:34:59.820 want this $15 an hour minimum wage

00:35:01.940 and they're not so concerned about the

00:35:04.000 restaurant industry or other

00:35:04.940 industries that might have tight

00:35:06.320 margins so Biden sort of says the

00:35:08.880 quiet part out loud I mean he says

00:35:10.720 that you know well we don't really

00:35:11.660 care about your industry and that was

00:35:13.180 very dissatisfying not just to the

00:35:15.120 restaurant owner but to some of the

00:35:16.640 journalists who brought it up again

00:35:17.700 at the White House press briefing and

00:35:18.780 said look this wasn't a good answer

00:35:20.060 but that's the answer his party is

00:35:21.760 giving they're just not concerned

00:35:23.100 about people who invest in

00:35:25.460 businesses grow businesses create

00:35:26.920 jobs for other people I think jobs

00:35:28.400 come from the moon to use another

00:35:29.800 Biden reference the man on the moon

00:35:31.680 and they can just set wages wherever

00:35:34.480 they want to and you know it's going

00:35:36.300 to be fine and and so Biden is a little

00:35:39.640 odd when he tries to explain these

00:35:41.300 policies but that's partly because the

00:35:42.660 policies are so crazy

00:35:43.620 if my math is right we're six months in

00:35:48.960 to Biden's presidency the inauguration of

00:35:51.720 course being in mid-January so six

00:35:55.300 months it's time to fill most of the

00:35:57.680 appointments set his high priorities

00:36:00.420 start a few make make a name for

00:36:02.160 himself he's no longer in a quote

00:36:04.700 honeymoon although in my view the media

00:36:06.720 honeymoon for Democrats is perpetual

00:36:09.000 in is it too early and maybe it's not

00:36:15.380 is it too early to get a sense of how the

00:36:18.600 midterm elections in 2022 might go that

00:36:21.900 there might be a reaction to Biden a

00:36:24.520 pulling back or an endorsement an

00:36:27.340 enthusiastic endorsement of them

00:36:28.980 I mean I'm watching from a foreign 1.00

00:36:32.480 country and through the filter of the

00:36:34.640 media I'm not on the ground there

00:36:36.260 how do you think the midterms are

00:36:39.340 shaping up I know it's only I know it's

00:36:41.500 still 18 months away for that but what

00:36:43.020 would you think the conventional wisdom

00:36:46.380 right now is that Republicans will win

00:36:48.040 the House back and fall short of winning

00:36:50.180 the Senate back it might be very much

00:36:51.580 like the first midterms of the Trump

00:36:53.060 administration where there's so much

00:36:56.760 dissatisfaction and within the country

00:36:59.620 with the direction of how Nancy Pelosi is

00:37:02.180 leading it was just it was a different

00:37:04.040 problem under Trump yet Paul Ryan not

00:37:06.440 exactly leading the Republican led House

00:37:08.720 anywhere in particular he got the tax

00:37:10.560 cuts done very little else with Pelosi

00:37:12.680 she's leading the country into a

00:37:15.080 dangerously radical path and people are

00:37:18.460 reacting against it but there are also

00:37:19.820 some technical reasons she's going to lose 0.99

00:37:21.380 seats Republicans control the redistricting

00:37:23.460 process in many states for example

00:37:25.260 Democrats did not do well in the 2020

00:37:27.080 elections at the legislative level at the

00:37:29.220 state level so they are going to lose

00:37:32.020 control of the map you could even just

00:37:33.920 redraw the district lines and cost the

00:37:36.580 Democrats control of the House without

00:37:38.200 even having an election or before having

00:37:40.600 an election then you have the election and

00:37:41.800 Democrats are really not doing very well

00:37:43.240 the Senate's a little tougher map for

00:37:45.100 Republicans this year so I think the

00:37:46.880 Senate's conventional wisdom in many ways

00:37:48.480 the Senate will remain in Democratic hands

00:37:50.000 although barely look I think the Biden

00:37:54.860 administration is running out of steam

00:37:56.360 the big picture is they don't have much

00:37:58.820 left in the tank you talk about a

00:38:00.000 honeymoon period Donald Trump had no

00:38:01.840 honeymoon and he filled several key

00:38:03.540 appointments a lot more quickly than

00:38:05.080 Biden is doing and Biden has everybody on

00:38:08.520 board to pass pretty much anybody he

00:38:10.440 wants right now there's an eco-terrorist

00:38:12.560 I'm not kidding a former eco-terrorist

00:38:14.940 someone who was a sort of unindicted

00:38:16.640 witness but who was participating in some

00:38:19.240 of this eco-terrorism in the 1990s she's a

00:38:21.600 nominee a legitimate nominee for the

00:38:24.040 Bureau of Land Management which is one of

00:38:25.440 the largest land management agencies in

00:38:28.160 the world manages enormous tracts of land

00:38:30.760 in the American West and she hasn't been

00:38:33.840 withdrawn she's in front of a Senate 1.00

00:38:35.640 committee right now and there are

00:38:36.640 Democrats who say they're going to

00:38:37.580 support her and and that's the kind of

00:38:40.180 friendly audience they have in Congress

00:38:41.720 or even an eco-terrorist is a possible

00:38:43.780 nominee I mean it's it's awful but they

00:38:46.300 have so much support in Congress they

00:38:47.920 can do whatever they want and yet he's

00:38:49.060 slow filling these posts we heard

00:38:50.820 yesterday that reassuring news that the

00:38:53.520 Biden administration is going to fill

00:38:54.980 the post of a monitor of anti-Semitism

00:38:58.420 so they're going to have an anti-Semitism

00:38:59.860 monitor don't worry in just a few weeks

00:39:01.600 not like the problem is urgent or

00:39:03.380 anything I mean we've only been seeing

00:39:04.580 anti-Semitic attacks on the streets of

00:39:06.080 the country for the last several weeks you

00:39:07.480 know take your time guys you know no big

00:39:09.260 rush so they're just taking an awfully 0.99

00:39:12.660 long time to fill a lot of important

00:39:14.060 positions they were caught flat-footed in

00:39:16.020 the war between Israel and Hamas they

00:39:17.860 didn't have an Israeli ambassador in May

00:39:19.600 Trump had one in March and that was

00:39:21.600 despite congressional opposition for all

00:39:23.980 the opposition Trump had and all the

00:39:25.320 nominees that Chuck Schumer held up and

00:39:27.040 refused to allow to go through Trump

00:39:28.840 was quicker actually in filling some of

00:39:31.180 these positions than Biden and it's

00:39:32.680 striking because Trump got negative

00:39:34.040 press all the time for how long he was

00:39:35.740 supposedly taking on filling all these

00:39:37.420 roles what you're seeing is Biden's

00:39:39.500 agenda grinding to a halt there's not a

00:39:41.440 lot of enthusiasm he may get this

00:39:43.220 infrastructure deal done but it failed a

00:39:44.960 key vote this week they're going to have

00:39:46.320 another chance at it but there isn't

00:39:49.320 much left that this administration can

00:39:51.000 do they've lost that honeymoon edge and

00:39:53.800 I think they've lost it permanently they

00:39:56.100 may get an infrastructure deal done but

00:39:57.580 it's going to be with a lot of hair

00:39:58.700 pulling and arm twisting and so forth and

00:40:01.940 he's not really leading the country

00:40:03.080 anywhere the country wants to go so I

00:40:04.520 think the midterm is looking pretty bad

00:40:05.620 for Democrats although again I think the

00:40:07.360 Republicans at least according to the

00:40:08.620 conventional wisdom are going to fall

00:40:09.620 short in the Senate now I see little

00:40:13.540 clips posted on Twitter of exchanges in

00:40:17.520 the White House press briefing room and I

00:40:20.860 think there's one reporter from Fox's

00:40:22.620 his name Steve Ducey am I getting the

00:40:24.040 name right there he's Steve Ducey's son

00:40:25.740 he's Peter Ducey Peter Ducey thank you

00:40:27.340 I'm sorry I'm not very familiar with him

00:40:29.480 but he seems to put questions fairly

00:40:31.400 fairly well fairly thoughtfully and he

00:40:35.300 actually gets asked fairly often I think

00:40:37.800 he's much more substantive and much more

00:40:40.200 polite than say Jim Acosta who was Trump's

00:40:44.820 main antagonist that Trump just loved to

00:40:46.700 call upon there was some some strange

00:40:48.700 symbiosis there but other than Ducey is the

00:40:52.800 rest of the press gallery engaging in any

00:40:55.860 skeptical or critical or even curious

00:40:58.800 journalism obviously not the war on Trump

00:41:02.800 style journalism that we had until six

00:41:05.700 months ago but is there is there I see Glenn

00:41:08.460 Greenwald an independent journalist I see a few

00:41:11.240 independent journalists like that but are

00:41:13.280 there any institutional legacy media news

00:41:16.320 agencies obviously Breitbart's the exception

00:41:18.780 is anyone holding Biden to account

00:41:21.120 journalistically or is it just the media

00:41:23.740 party as I sometimes call it no there's nobody's

00:41:26.520 really holding him accountable I mean you have

00:41:27.820 Peter Ducey who's become a fixture in the White House

00:41:30.040 briefing room so she calls on him because I think

00:41:31.960 it would look bad if she didn't but she really

00:41:34.000 bristles at it she doesn't like him it's clear

00:41:36.460 she doesn't like his questions even though

00:41:38.140 they're straightforward now there have been a

00:41:39.800 few means mainstream outlets that have asked

00:41:41.960 some more challenging questions this week

00:41:43.560 because well maybe because they feel personally

00:41:45.520 threatened with a COVID outbreak at the

00:41:47.660 White House they're not being told how many

00:41:49.240 people are affected in the White House

00:41:50.840 they're not being told who was affected

00:41:52.360 remember the Biden administration was going to

00:41:54.500 handle coronavirus so much more responsibly

00:41:56.980 they weren't going to be reckless like Trump

00:41:58.700 walking around outside without a mask they weren't

00:42:00.620 going to let this sort of super spreader event

00:42:03.100 happen at the White House now they've got a

00:42:04.720 COVID outbreak at the White House after they

00:42:07.080 met with these Texas Democrats who ran away

00:42:08.900 from their state and got COVID and they're not

00:42:11.980 revealing anything to the press the press is

00:42:13.980 going to work every day in the White House and

00:42:16.860 I think they're worried about their own personal

00:42:18.600 safety and there's nobody else wearing masks in

00:42:20.540 the briefing room really so there's there have

00:42:23.600 been a few extra more pressing questions this

00:42:27.200 week about that issue but in general no nobody's

00:42:29.500 holding the Biden administration accountable on

00:42:31.200 issues that are important to the national

00:42:32.900 audience important to the general public

00:42:35.220 basically Peter Ducey and Breitbart and a couple

00:42:37.840 other people occasionally you get a good question

00:42:40.280 in from someone else but most journalists see their

00:42:43.840 job as trying to further the agenda of the Biden

00:42:46.120 administration seeing where they can be

00:42:47.560 helpful and maybe speaking for the left-wing

00:42:49.880 grassroots you know the Yamiche Alcindor who

00:42:53.280 who is the journalist for PBS often asks questions

00:42:57.660 that attempt to enforce the left-wing line as do

00:43:02.160 several other journalists now if you have a genuine

00:43:04.160 leftist asking a tough question that can also be

00:43:06.700 entertaining because sometimes left and right

00:43:08.200 converge you mentioned Glenn Greenwald who while I

00:43:11.240 disagree with a lot of his views has substantive

00:43:13.600 criticisms of the media and of the administration

00:43:15.860 that I think are worth listening to and that

00:43:17.300 conservatives can agree on but in general there is no

00:43:20.200 process of holding Biden accountable I mean the

00:43:22.600 reporting is largely of a quality of talking about

00:43:25.040 how many scoops of ice cream he had yeah I don't

00:43:27.680 want to keep you too much longer but there I have a

00:43:30.140 few more things I wouldn't mind bouncing off you I

00:43:32.320 saw this exchange between Senator Rand Paul who who I

00:43:35.980 really my admiration for him grows every year him

00:43:39.920 versus Anthony Fauci about gain of function research

00:43:43.220 which is a strange way of saying biological warfare I

00:43:47.560 think that really is a fancy way of saying take a

00:43:49.760 virus and add new functions to it that it didn't

00:43:53.200 have in nature I just want to show you this

00:43:55.900 exchange I I thought Rand Paul came out the better

00:44:00.040 of it how is Fauci regarded in America is he

00:44:05.600 discredited is he a polarizing figure is he has he

00:44:09.940 become a liability or is he a saint a secular saint to

00:44:14.440 the left here here's that exchange Dr. Fauci as you are

00:44:19.320 aware it is a crime to lie to Congress section one zero zero

00:44:23.660 one of the US criminal code creates a felony and a five

00:44:27.620 year penalty for lying to Congress on your last trip to

00:44:30.600 our committee on May 11th you stated that the NIH has not

00:44:34.760 ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the

00:44:38.140 Wuhan Institute of Virology and yet gain of function research

00:44:43.380 which was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi and was

00:44:48.020 funded by the NIH I'd like to ask unanimous consent insert into

00:44:52.360 the record the Wuhan Virology paper entitled discovery of a rich

00:44:56.400 gene pool of bat SARS related coronaviruses please deliver a copy

00:45:00.840 of the journal article to Dr. Fauci in this paper Dr. Shi credits the

00:45:07.040 NIH and lists the actual number of the grant that she was given by the

00:45:11.300 NIH in this paper she took two bat coronavirus genes spike genes and 0.76

00:45:19.880 combined them with a SARS related backbone to create new viruses that

00:45:24.580 are not found in nature these lab created viruses were then to

00:45:28.320 shown to replicate in humans these experiments combine genetic

00:45:33.080 information from different coronaviruses that infect animals but

00:45:37.020 not humans to create novel artificial viruses able to infect human cells

00:45:43.200 viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the Wuhan lab to

00:45:49.800 gain the function of infecting humans this research fits the definition of the

00:45:56.100 research that the NIH said was subject to the pause in 2014 to 2017 a pause in

00:46:02.940 the moment and the end of the week and the end of the day that the NIH failed to

00:46:07.580 recognize this defines it away and it never came under any scrutiny Dr. Richard E. Bright a

00:46:14.960 molecular biologist from Rutgers described this research in Wuhan as the Wuhan lab used

00:46:21.520 NIH funding to construct novel chimeric SARS related coronaviruses able to infect human cells and laboratory animals

00:46:29.700 this is high-risk research that creates new potential pandemic pathogens potential

00:46:37.980 pandemic pathogens that exist only in the lab not in nature this research matches

00:46:44.220 these are Dr. E. Bright's words this research matches indeed epitomizes the

00:46:50.120 definition of gain-of-function research done entirely in Wuhan for which there was

00:46:56.160 supposed to be a federal pause Dr. Fauci knowing that it is a crime to lie to

00:47:02.000 Congress do you wish to retract your statement of May 11th where you claimed

00:47:06.240 that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan

00:47:16.940 Senator Paul I have never lied before the Congress and I do not retract that statement

00:47:24.480 what do you make of that I is Fauci still helping the Dems do they still love him

00:47:29.980 the Democrats and the establishment media love Anthony Fauci conservatives hate him because they

00:47:36.820 don't like the fact that he turned on Trump they don't like the fact that he spends all his time in

00:47:41.360 the media when he's supposed to be running the coronavirus response and they don't like the fact that his

00:47:46.640 advice has been called on to justify all of the restrictions the mask mandates etc now the question of gain of

00:47:54.140 function research I was reading into this a year ago or more than a year ago at the start of the

00:47:58.140 pandemic and there were experiments being done where they would add spike proteins to a virus the spike

00:48:05.780 protein basically is the active part of the virus and it's a legitimate field of research you know not

00:48:10.860 just for biological warfare but to test the effects of a virus and to study how it operates there was a

00:48:16.460 point at which Fauci as the director of some of the funding for this research instituted a pause in gain of

00:48:22.540 function experiments because they were concerned about the ethical problems of security at the

00:48:28.140 labs what happens if a virus escapes a lab you could have a pandemic so they suspended or they were

00:48:33.500 supposed to have suspended gain of function research for several years until some of these ethical concerns

00:48:37.980 were ironed out they then resumed it so it is an area of research that that is active and ongoing

00:48:43.260 but I think the question here was why did this particular study at Wuhan that was published why did that

00:48:49.260 go along why did that get published why was that study continuing during the pause during the period

00:48:54.140 where there wasn't supposed to be gain of function research and Fauci's answer is well we studied that

00:48:59.020 particular experiment before we funded it and we determined that it wasn't gain of function and Rand Paul

00:49:05.180 described the experiment and said this is gain of function research there's no difference between this

00:49:10.540 and ordinary gain of function research so Fauci's position is that what was being done in Wuhan

00:49:16.060 basically creating new coronaviruses wasn't gain of function research and Dr. Paul is saying yes it is

00:49:23.260 and you're just pretending it isn't because the National Institutes of Health wanted to continue

00:49:28.540 funding this research without going through the normal oversight process so it's it's a bit of an

00:49:33.580 obscure debate but what people don't like on the right and if you could summarize all the things

00:49:38.540 that don't like about Fauci is that he ignores political and economic considerations he was once

00:49:45.580 in an exchange with Jim Jim Jordan representative Jim Jordan and Jordan asked Fauci about liberty and

00:49:50.860 and the compromises to personal liberty religious freedom freedom of speech and assembly that come from

00:49:55.820 some of these restrictions from coronavirus and Fauci said point blank he doesn't care about that

00:49:59.660 that's not his job but Fauci doesn't think it should be anybody else's job either he only cares

00:50:05.660 about the public health question how many lives can we save that's obviously a legitimate question

00:50:10.780 but there are also questions about at what cost and cost in terms of economics and cost in terms

00:50:15.420 of liberty and all of those decision makers were in the same room under Trump Trump balanced those

00:50:20.540 people out against one another and with Biden I think Fauci's been given free reign to sort of

00:50:25.260 declare what will be the gospel and and it's all about eliminating the risk of any kind of transmission

00:50:31.740 and and so he's a target for conservatives because he's kind of arrogated for himself a

00:50:37.100 political authority that people think is unchecked and ought to be checked yeah very interesting last

00:50:42.540 question I appreciate you stinking around so long um Donald Trump uh issues the odd press statement and

00:50:49.820 it's covered by the Trump base of course it's censored on all social media uh he gave a speech like

00:50:55.500 he gives speeches that are in that Trump style he can still fill a room or even a stadium

00:51:01.340 but um I wonder if Trumpism is proceeding without him especially in the manifestation of Ron DeSantis

00:51:10.380 I've seen some straw polls by Republicans saying who they're hoping runs next time and Trump still

00:51:18.540 does very well usually comes in first but DeSantis is very close after him and I look at DeSantis

00:51:25.660 increasingly as someone who has many of the assets of Trump but without some of the flaws and someone

00:51:33.580 who's a generation younger who's running a state very successfully an important state a battleground

00:51:40.540 state and although I believe that Donald Trump was unfairly dealt with I I feel like perhaps it's time to

00:51:48.380 pass the baton to the Trumpist who's not Trump but is Trumpian if I can make a whole bunch of words

00:51:56.780 what do you what do you think I don't know that we're there yet I think the straw poll at CPAC in

00:52:03.180 Florida showed DeSantis doing very well second place to Trump as you mentioned not not too far behind

00:52:09.340 but the recent CPAC straw poll in Texas showed Trump far far ahead of DeSantis in the rest of the field I

00:52:15.100 don't know if the rest of the conservative movement is sold on DeSantis and frankly I don't know that

00:52:19.820 DeSantis is yet a national opposition figure Trump is still the most important opposition leader in

00:52:26.060 America and it's up to him really whether he cedes his place to another candidate or not I think

00:52:32.220 the disadvantage of having Trump as a candidate in 2024 is it will largely be about the 2020 election

00:52:39.820 he'll be talking about election fraud and so forth and I'm not sure the country really cares anymore

00:52:43.580 however that could also be an advantage whatever you think of Trump's claims and they could all be

00:52:49.660 empty or bogus they are a strong unifying theme in the same way that Biden's hoaxes were a unifying

00:52:56.220 theme I'm not comparing Trump's message to that because Biden was making things up out of whole

00:53:01.580 cloth and I do think there are reasons to believe there were problems in the 2020 election but you know

00:53:05.820 what Biden teaches is that you just need sort of a narrative that describes the world as you see it

00:53:10.780 and there can be problems with the narrative there can even be severe factual problems with the

00:53:13.900 narrative but Trump has a strong narrative in complaining about the election even though

00:53:18.380 the the evidence isn't yet there for any kind of fraud that would have changed the outcome

00:53:23.500 the idea that things were rigged against him I think is one people find compelling I think that's

00:53:30.060 probably true so great to see you I hear the phone is ringing our time is up thanks for joining us

00:53:35.740 today my friend thank you there you have a Joel Pollack senior editor large at breitbart.com

00:53:41.100 boy so many topics south of the border it was great to catch up stay with us more

00:53:57.100 hey welcome back on my show last night Lane writes Ezra did we see an investigation into SNC

00:54:02.700 Lavalin no did we see an investigation into we scandal no should the non-political appointed

00:54:07.820 commissioner of the RCMP conduct said investigations yes so to answer your question the FBI political

00:54:13.500 bias is already here and led by the PM appointed commissioner of the RCMP I think you're so right

00:54:18.620 at least in the United States they have something called an inspector general it's sort of like our

00:54:23.740 auditor general but I think they have a far wider scope the FBI is an inspector general all the

00:54:29.260 government agencies it's basically a fraud hunter a reviewer an auditor of every agency I don't think

00:54:36.300 we have that in Canada our auditor general has far more limited powers far more limited budget and

00:54:43.900 you know investigations can be killed with a phone call by the prime minister's office

00:54:48.940 or a justice minister can be turfed for not bending the knee as in SNC Lavalin I'm afraid that we have

00:54:57.740 just as corrupt a system in Canada as they do in the United States but we just don't know about it

00:55:02.780 there's less chance to catch it and less chance to stop it

00:55:08.300 uh Iverson says the FBI has investigated itself and found nothing wrong well that's the thing I mean all

00:55:15.340 the deep state agencies the alphabet soup of FBI and CIA and NSA they all seem to be in it together the

00:55:26.060 permanent as Eisenhower called it industrial military complex they're there whether it's

00:55:33.500 Trump or Biden or Clinton or whomever they're there permanently and I think they're friends

00:55:39.180 socially they share an ideology and their self-preservation we have the same thing in Canada

00:55:45.260 it's a little bit scary and if Eisenhower himself warned about it more than 50 years ago imagine how bad it

00:55:50.780 is now well folks that's the show for today what do you think of my long-winded

00:55:56.620 call for businessy positions at Rebel News I always like to hire more reporters and I do want to hire

00:56:03.500 someone on the China beat on the Ottawa parliamentary beat I think that's important and someone in the UK

00:56:09.660 that's sort of a wish or a dream of mine but really those business positions although like events are

00:56:17.260 really fun the purpose is to raise more dough so we can do the journalism I don't know I think we have

00:56:24.780 to do that because in my mind I think if a real grown-up were to run Rebel News with with making a

00:56:30.780 profit as their central goal what would they do and I think these are some of the answers well

00:56:35.820 shouldn't we do them too we should do all the heart stuff the emotional stuff the stuff we love

00:56:41.340 and are passionate about we should do the freedom fighting but we also have to make sure we pay the

00:56:46.460 bills so I hope that someone out there says that's a job for me and applies and you never know it might

00:56:53.500 be you that's our show for today I'm going to be away tomorrow on a very special reporting project

00:56:59.420 so my friend David Menzies will be hosting the Ezra Land Show in my absence but we'll have a big report

00:57:03.980 when I return in a few days until then on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to

00:57:09.420 you at home good night keep fighting for freedom

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