Rebel News Podcast - Ezra Levant's Battleground： September 07, 2018

00:00:00.060 Oh, hi. It's September 7th. I'm Ezra Levant, and you're watching Battleground.

00:00:11.200 Oh, hi, folks. It's Battleground. Every Friday, we have a little live chat on something called Google Super Chat.

00:00:18.860 And I'm so casual this Friday, I took my jacket off. I don't mean to scare anybody.

00:00:22.860 But that's what's going on here.

00:00:25.360 Sure. We've got a lot to talk about. Just a reminder of what Super Chat is, because I wasn't here last week.

00:00:33.200 My friends Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies did it. It's live, and you can make live comments as usual on the right-hand side of the screen.

00:00:43.760 But what Super Chat is, is if you chip in a couple of bucks, your comment is made in a bright, highlighted color that I can see out of the corner of my eye.

00:00:52.040 And it's appended also to the top of the little box there.

00:00:57.960 So not only will every other chatterbox see it, but I will too.

00:01:03.300 And I make a point of reading the highlighted ones, because as you may know, this is a revenue source for the rebel.

00:01:09.460 We get to keep, I think it's 70% of the dough from the Super Chats. 0.85

00:01:14.120 Google takes the other 30%, which I suppose is fair.

00:01:16.280 Speaking of YouTube, we just got our million subscriber plaque.

00:01:26.000 Can you put up the B-roll of me unpacking that thing?

00:01:28.480 We don't have to have the sound on tape for that.

00:01:30.700 But I would never have imagined that we could get a million subscribers on YouTube.

00:01:37.980 Now, of course, we don't get paid for these subscribers.

00:01:39.960 It's not like they're subscribing to our paywall.

00:01:42.380 Our paywall is eight bucks a month.

00:01:44.960 People get the premium shows.

00:01:46.080 That's not that.

00:01:46.880 Imagine having a million people paying eight bucks a month.

00:01:49.980 That's, that would be, I mean, that's not quite Netflix huge, but that would be quite something.

00:01:54.220 No, I mean, we don't get paid, but it's a proxy for the depth and breadth of our support.

00:02:02.980 The fact that a million people not only want to see our stuff, but actually sign up so they get notified about it.

00:02:09.040 It's, it's pretty cool.

00:02:11.120 And I just want to show you what that looked like.

00:02:14.180 That, um, yeah, it's rolled at any time, the B-roll.

00:02:17.680 It was sort of neat.

00:02:18.360 We got the hundred thousand subscriber plaque.

00:02:21.860 That's the one there.

00:02:23.200 You can see it's sort of nice, but it's not much bigger than an eight and a half by 11 piece of paper.

00:02:28.160 And it's silver in color.

00:02:29.360 So that's me reading the hundred thousand subscriber plaque that we got.

00:02:35.720 We only got that a few months ago, actually.

00:02:38.100 But skip ahead near the end there where I, yeah, right.

00:02:41.280 So there, look at that.

00:02:43.440 Look at that.

00:02:44.560 I think it's four times as big.

00:02:46.680 I didn't measure it, but if I'm comparing it to paper, that's like an 11 by 17 piece of paper.

00:02:51.440 Look how big that is.

00:02:52.780 That's the million subscriber plaque.

00:02:58.500 And I've seen these unboxing videos on YouTube where people unbox stuff they buy.

00:03:05.860 And I never understood why they were popular.

00:03:07.980 Okay, you're unboxing.

00:03:08.660 The box was sort of cool.

00:03:09.640 But what was fun was not the unboxing, but that we had earned that.

00:03:16.400 I mean, anyone can buy something on Amazon and have it given to you, but we earned this.

00:03:22.380 And you earned it, really, by being amongst the million.

00:03:27.040 What's interesting is that many of our viewers are still not subscribers.

00:03:29.940 So we're being discovered every day by people.

00:03:34.580 So what do we do on Fridays?

00:03:35.840 You know, we used to do the Battleground every single day, but I just simply could not sustain that

00:03:39.820 because I'm traveling, again, a little bit more than I did.

00:03:43.440 I was, in fact, in London for a day this week where I met up with Tommy Robinson.

00:03:48.320 And it was good to actually, I mean, I saw him the day he was released from prison, you may recall.

00:03:55.300 So it's been, it's been just over a month.

00:03:58.180 He was released, if memory serves, on August 1st.

00:04:01.100 And I saw him just hours after he was out of prison.

00:04:05.440 I got to tell you, he did not look good that day.

00:04:08.760 He told me that when he went into prison, he was about 190 pounds.

00:04:14.340 And he's not, and he was muscle, like he was a boxer, right?

00:04:17.700 He's pretty muscly.

00:04:18.820 And when he got out, he was about 150 pounds.

00:04:23.740 I couldn't believe it when I saw him.

00:04:26.080 Anyways, I saw him again on Tuesday, and actually we had lunch.

00:04:30.980 It was really nice to see him.

00:04:32.520 And he's put on about 10 pounds, which is good.

00:04:36.680 He's still, you know, and he's obviously been sleeping better.

00:04:43.780 He's sleeping on a real bed, spending a lot of time with his family.

00:04:47.120 He really hasn't reengaged fully yet.

00:04:50.220 And on his mind, of course, is the court case, as you recall, the Court of Appeal victory

00:04:55.880 on August 1st that quashed the original contempt of court charges against him and freed him

00:05:00.620 from prison and utterly rebuked the trial judge, regrettably has commanded that Tommy appear

00:05:07.240 for another contempt of court hearing that was originally scheduled for September 4th, but

00:05:12.400 now it's being scheduled for September 27th.

00:05:15.860 And so on his mind is that trial, as you can imagine.

00:05:22.480 And I will be going out there again for that trial, unless, of course, it's delayed again.

00:05:28.760 That's something I don't understand.

00:05:30.120 I mean, I'm trained as a lawyer in Canada.

00:05:32.180 I went to law school, U of A, practiced law for not that many years, and I sort of retired.

00:05:37.540 I haven't done law in over a decade, but I know enough about Canadian law, you don't

00:05:42.840 have to be a lawyer to know this.

00:05:43.840 We all know this in Canada, that if the prosecution delays and delays and delays and delays your

00:05:50.740 case, you can have your criminal matter thrown out because we have a constitutional right

00:05:58.020 to a speedy trial.

00:06:00.580 And if it's a reasonable delay, the court will say, all right.

00:06:03.880 But if it's unreasonable, the judge will act, the court will actually say to the prosecution,

00:06:08.240 tough luck, tough luck.

00:06:09.660 If you actually cared about this, you would have brought it to trial now because we don't

00:06:12.380 want the stigma of a court case hanging over someone improperly long.

00:06:17.960 We don't want facts to be forgotten.

00:06:20.320 We don't, there's a lot of reasons why justice must be swift.

00:06:24.520 It shouldn't be hasty.

00:06:26.240 But remember, Tommy was arrested for his comments on May 25th, and it is September already.

00:06:36.220 And there's not, it's not a complicated case.

00:06:39.020 He said certain things.

00:06:40.380 Is it a contemptuous of court or not?

00:06:42.800 The fact that it's, he's not actually going to have a hearing till it's June, July, August,

00:06:48.140 September, four months.

00:06:49.320 It's, it's absurd.

00:06:51.580 I will be out there again.

00:06:53.600 And I guess that's just under three weeks from now.

00:07:00.400 And hopefully Tommy will be even better.

00:07:02.820 It's, it was really nice to see him actually.

00:07:04.860 And he's, he's getting his energy back and he's, he's sharp.

00:07:07.640 And I'm not, I'm not saying he's, I mean, he's not physically recovered yet.

00:07:12.060 You can't lose 40 pounds in 10 weeks without that just rocking you.

00:07:15.920 And the psychological abuse he was subjected to at the hands of the prison, if it were anyone

00:07:20.560 else in the United Kingdom, I should tell you, there would be a, a parliamentary, a judicial

00:07:25.720 inquiry.

00:07:26.300 I can assure you of that.

00:07:28.460 Anyways, that's a little ramble on my part.

00:07:30.640 I didn't even mean to get into the Tommy story other than I'm explaining why I cannot

00:07:34.500 do these daily chit chats, which I've really enjoyed every day.

00:07:38.260 Because for example, I mean, and by the way, to go to the UK from Toronto, that's a seven

00:07:42.520 hour flight each way.

00:07:43.620 And then you got to go to your airport time and, you know, Heathrow to London is an hour

00:07:47.900 each way.

00:07:48.520 So, you know, even though I was only in London for 10 hours, it took me about 24 hours to

00:07:56.040 get there, including my time there.

00:07:58.320 So it's, my point to you is that's why I can't do these things daily, but I like doing them

00:08:03.680 on Fridays.

00:08:04.800 So thank you for that.

00:08:06.400 So it's, it's only 12.08.

00:08:07.840 I've got a few things I'm going to show you if, if the mood moves me.

00:08:12.020 I have some, some images, some little vids, things I've been following, but I do like

00:08:18.280 the banter.

00:08:19.340 I like the questions.

00:08:21.180 I like the comments.

00:08:22.860 Sometimes I like the jokes.

00:08:24.180 So I'm just going to take a minute.

00:08:26.400 I'm going to go through the comments on the chat box there.

00:08:30.400 And I'm really enjoying not wearing a jacket.

00:08:33.280 Because when you're the boss, and boy, I'm the boss, you don't have to wear a jacket if

00:08:37.320 you don't want to on Fridays.

00:08:38.440 You know, for some reason, I was just thinking back when I ran the Western Standard, I was

00:08:44.080 the publisher of a little magazine about a dozen years ago called the Western Standard.

00:08:48.120 We had 40,000 subscribers.

00:08:50.420 That was, you know, the internet was starting to really pick up then.

00:08:54.580 I mean, it was the absolute worst time possible.

00:08:57.040 Imagine starting a magazine in 2004.

00:08:59.960 You know, the internet's growing, but you're not quite sure what it's going to do.

00:09:04.140 And, you know, of course, it devastated the entire industry.

00:09:06.620 I guess it would be crazier to start a print magazine in 2018, but 2004 was a rough time

00:09:11.560 to do it.

00:09:12.160 But I was the publisher of the Western Standard from 2004 till its demise three and a half

00:09:16.800 years later.

00:09:17.760 And I was just thinking, you know, I'm the boss, the boss of a teeny tiny magazine.

00:09:22.180 Well, I was the boss.

00:09:23.120 And I remember we had an event at Conrad Black's house.

00:09:26.180 And this was when he was at the height of his empire with Hollinger.

00:09:29.700 And so there he is, the mighty Conrad Black tycoon who had newspapers in Jerusalem, in London,

00:09:36.200 and all across Canada, he had interests around the world.

00:09:41.880 And I had the teeny tiny Western Standard magazine, but we were both skippers of our

00:09:47.040 ships.

00:09:47.420 And I felt, I thought it was very funny.

00:09:50.040 I mean, but it's true.

00:09:51.260 You can be the captain of a canoe and you're as much the captain of the canoe as the captain

00:09:56.860 of a mighty battleship.

00:09:57.920 You're both captains.

00:09:58.620 And so I am indeed the captain of the rebel.

00:10:01.360 And so if I don't want to wear my jacket, I don't have to.

00:10:04.780 Let's read some comments now.

00:10:08.880 Tammy says, hello.

00:10:10.060 Hi, Tammy.

00:10:12.260 El Mera says, hi.

00:10:13.560 Everyone's just saying hello.

00:10:16.500 Mike Joyce.

00:10:17.420 I'm from the UK, but currently staying in the USA.

00:10:19.320 And I can't believe how biased against Trump the US media is.

00:10:22.180 Oh, well, if you think that's bad.

00:10:23.820 At least they've got Fox News, at least they've got talk radio, and at least they have some

00:10:28.500 robust internet sites, whether it's Breitbart.com, The Daily Caller is excellent.

00:10:37.780 You know, I mean, the Drudge Report is very important.

00:10:41.220 Rush Limbaugh, the biggest thing in radio, is very conservative.

00:10:45.800 So America, at least there is the other side of the story. 0.50

00:10:48.540 Not so much in Canada, and even worse in the UK.

00:10:54.120 I see Ingrid K. Warner has chipped in five bucks for a super chat. 0.99

00:10:57.680 That's what it does.

00:10:58.380 I don't know if you can see that.

00:10:59.680 So her comment is in bright green, and it's appended to the top of the box there.

00:11:03.200 So it just popped right up, and I saw it immediately.

00:11:05.680 Ingrid says, math scores in Ontario dropped over five years in standardized testing, yet

00:11:09.560 people are still freaking out over sex ed.

00:11:11.500 Thoughts?

00:11:11.760 Well, let me tell you, as a dad with kids in the school system, it is absolutely appalling

00:11:18.740 how bad the schools are here.

00:11:22.080 And, you know, it's not much better in the private system, because you're still following

00:11:27.420 the awful curriculum, and you're still subject to the kooky theories and the peer pressures,

00:11:33.820 teachers, and this new style of teaching, you know, at the variety of schools where kids

00:11:39.280 have been to, you know, you have pajama day, and sports day, and all these days, and I

00:11:45.940 keep saying, let me know when there's a math day, or a spelling day.

00:11:49.960 They never have them, you know, I remember the first, don't get me started, you know,

00:11:53.420 I better stop there, because if I keep talking about, if I keep talking about schools, it's

00:12:02.380 going to take up the whole hour.

00:12:03.180 Yeah, it's awful. 1.00

00:12:03.860 Ontario has the dumbest and most expensive schools in Canada. 0.99

00:12:08.240 I'm not going to say in all of North America, because I'm sure there are examples of it being 1.00

00:12:11.460 worse, but they're pretty bad.

00:12:13.400 Jonathan Bryant says, Dave and Sheila were great.

00:12:15.380 Give them a live show.

00:12:16.500 You know what?

00:12:17.020 I actually went back and I watched it, because they had a banter, didn't they?

00:12:21.760 They had the banter, they had the back and forth, and they obviously like each other.

00:12:25.740 In fact, I was at the pleasure of being with both of them this summer when we went to Israel,

00:12:32.400 and I don't think they'd actually ever spent any time together, because Sheila, of course,

00:12:35.680 holds the fort for us in Alberta, and David's based here in Toronto.

00:12:39.160 So I think they didn't really know each other, even though they've been colleagues for a few

00:12:44.100 years, but I think they're sort of chummy, and I think it came across.

00:12:48.220 They have that fun banter.

00:12:49.420 I'm using that word banter a lot, but that really was what it was, wasn't it?

00:12:54.980 Panzerkampfwagen 4, Ausf something.

00:12:57.260 Please talk about Chemnitz. 0.88

00:12:58.440 Chemnitz is a town or a city in Germany where Muslim migrants have murdered Germans. 0.83

00:13:06.580 Now, that happens all across Europe, and it's actually coming to North America, too. 0.82

00:13:12.200 But I think it hit the tipping point in Chemnitz.

00:13:14.760 I don't know if we can call up some B-roll of the protests in Chemnitz, including the very

00:13:21.560 interesting protests where people wore the large placards.

00:13:24.180 Can we get some B-roll of that?

00:13:25.780 So it's, I think it's in Saxony.

00:13:29.940 I don't know my German geography that well.

00:13:34.320 But people have just had enough.

00:13:37.720 They've had enough of the murders.

00:13:40.520 And there's one, actually, if you can get one sound on tape.

00:13:43.200 Alex, I tweeted it.

00:13:46.260 It was some regular guy, some middle-aged German guy, who was explaining he can't even take 1.00

00:13:54.260 his family into the town square anymore.

00:13:56.760 He can't even go to the street downtown because Muslim migrants shout out to any undercover 1.00

00:14:04.200 women, uncovered women. 0.99

00:14:06.400 Want to F-U-C-K? 1.00

00:14:07.480 Like, it's just so, the threats of rape, the invitations to rape, give me the B-roll of 0.99

00:14:14.040 the protests if you can. 0.81

00:14:15.160 Give me the, give me that. 0.80

00:14:16.860 I would have retweeted that vid, or you could probably find it pretty quick under Voice of

00:14:22.900 Europe on Twitter.

00:14:23.560 I just want to show the thousands and thousands of severely normal Germans with their protest.

00:14:32.200 And the police response was huge, massive paramilitary riot squads.

00:14:39.180 And my first thought was, why don't you use that massive military riot squad business to stop

00:14:45.180 the invasion of unvetted, unrestricted, unfiltered migration?

00:14:55.020 Like, why don't you deploy your German military against invaders?

00:15:01.740 Why are you deploying it against German citizens?

00:15:04.840 But what was also telling, and if we can find the clip, we'll show it to you, is how the

00:15:13.260 media has become a target for the protesters because the media, I mean, in the States, you

00:15:22.200 do something conservative and you're called alt-right.

00:15:25.880 In the UK, they use the phrase far-right.

00:15:29.260 So here's, they have pictures, this is one of the protests, and the police, okay, that,

00:15:38.560 I think those are, yeah, those are the riot police.

00:15:41.740 Look at that.

00:15:42.700 They're coming in with their, and you can see the headline there on RT, politicians called

00:15:49.180 for the AFT party to be monitored for extremism.

00:15:51.880 So the German government says, let us know, look at this, you see, these are people who

00:15:57.680 have been murdered.

00:15:58.740 Look at these silent protests. 0.97

00:16:01.000 These are all people who have been murdered or raped.

00:16:06.580 The AFT is an insurgent party called Alternative for Deutschland, and they're concerned about 0.96

00:16:13.660 mass Muslim migration.

00:16:14.680 And so did you see that little banner there on RT that said, the government wants to spy

00:16:21.760 on them?

00:16:23.380 That's not a good look for Germany, the country that had the Stasi and the Gestapo.

00:16:30.380 It's not a good look to be discussing spying on political minorities.

00:16:36.180 It's not a good look.

00:16:37.080 So that's Chemnitz.

00:16:37.800 And of course, the media denounces it as, my point I was going to say before the clip

00:16:43.100 came up, was they call Canadians and Americans alt-right.

00:16:46.860 They call Brits far-right.

00:16:48.460 In Germany, they call them neo-Nazis.

00:16:51.260 Those protesters didn't look like neo-Nazis to me.

00:16:53.560 They looked like moms and dads who were sick of their kids being murdered on the altar of

00:16:57.340 diversity.

00:16:59.360 All right, let's keep on looking at some of the comments here.

00:17:05.820 Oh, yes, that's right.

00:17:08.240 Rami Tobinson says, yep, I'd love to go on that cruise with Katie and Tommy.

00:17:13.200 Can we call up, we have a little short promo vid for the cruise.

00:17:20.300 I think I saw it on Twitter.

00:17:21.940 I don't know if it's on a YouTube page, but I forgot to mention this.

00:17:26.880 Why don't you go to, I'd like to find that clip.

00:17:30.420 It's probably on YouTube.

00:17:31.620 I know for sure it's been on Twitter.

00:17:32.940 Did I tell you, I mentioned the Israel trip that David and Sheila and I and Katie Hopkins

00:17:40.680 went on with, I think it was 61 of our most enthusiastic viewers.

00:17:44.980 It was a really fun trip.

00:17:46.120 It wasn't just fun.

00:17:46.840 It was very educational.

00:17:47.560 We met with a member of the Knesset, that's the Israeli parliament.

00:17:55.720 We went to an air show.

00:17:57.640 Sorry, it wasn't an air show.

00:17:58.820 It was the graduation of the Israel Air Force Pilots Academy.

00:18:04.640 And so, yeah, they had an air show, but it was the graduation.

00:18:06.700 The prime minister was there.

00:18:07.500 The president was there.

00:18:08.380 The defense minister there.

00:18:09.260 We were the only people there who weren't friends or family of the graduates.

00:18:13.140 It was amazing.

00:18:14.180 We went right down to Sterot, which is a town right near Gaza that all the attacks come in.

00:18:18.480 So it was a great trip.

00:18:19.540 61 people came with us to Israel.

00:18:21.800 We are doing another trip now to Europe.

00:18:25.880 Let me know when we have that video.

00:18:28.980 And this one is in Eastern Europe.

00:18:33.500 It's a river boat cruise on the Danube River.

00:18:36.580 Now, we've done cruises before the Rebel and the Sun News Network and even at the Western Standard in the Caribbean, in the Pacific Ocean.

00:18:44.380 And also, we did a cruise up to Alaska.

00:18:46.940 Those are fun.

00:18:47.860 But the thing about big boat cruises, there's two things about them, three things about them.

00:18:51.440 First is, they're huge boats.

00:18:54.540 Give me one, I'll call for that clip in one sec, but let me just finish my point about the cruise we've done in the past.

00:18:59.840 In the past, we've gone on these big cruise lines, usually Holland America.

00:19:03.120 So they've got like 1,800 people on the boat.

00:19:06.900 So our group would be 100, 200, 300.

00:19:09.400 But we would be a small group within the larger boat, so we wouldn't have the boat to ourselves.

00:19:14.340 Secondly, you're at sea for a few days.

00:19:17.420 Like, you do the Caribbean cruise, it's a week long.

00:19:19.760 But there's two or three days where you're just bored.

00:19:21.620 You're just at sea because you're just going between islands.

00:19:23.640 There's no port.

00:19:24.520 And the third thing, obviously, is that you're susceptible to political interference.

00:19:27.980 We had booked a Caribbean cruise last winter, but some alt-left trolls managed to scare off Norwegian Cruise Line from having us.

00:19:36.620 So what we've done this year is we have booked an entire boat.

00:19:45.100 Now, obviously, it's not this huge Holland America-style 1,800-person cruise ship.

00:19:49.900 It's actually only 68 cabins, which means, you know, there's not going to be more than 120 people on the boat because some people will have cabins just themselves.

00:19:58.120 So there's probably going to be 120 of us max.

00:20:00.220 Wouldn't surprise me if there's only 100 of us.

00:20:02.520 We have the whole boat to ourselves.

00:20:04.100 It's private.

00:20:05.680 I have a letter from the owner of the ship, the owner, saying you will not be deplatformed, I promise you.

00:20:11.160 So we've chartered the whole boat.

00:20:13.740 And because we're not on the high seas, we're not going between islands.

00:20:18.660 We're on a river.

00:20:19.820 So you're never bored.

00:20:22.160 First of all, you can look out your window the whole time and see things.

00:20:24.860 And you stop and all the time in port cities.

00:20:27.400 And we stop and we get out and we go into the town.

00:20:30.680 And we, you know, without further to do, let me show you a little ad we put together for this boat.

00:20:37.460 Take a look.

00:20:41.160 It is time we work together to defend our history, our culture and our children's future.

00:21:11.160 And I'm going to adopt second at the street. 0.71

00:21:17.620 I don't want to go, adopt Sharia is alive enough. 1.00

00:21:20.400 Okay.

00:21:21.620 Yeah.

00:21:22.160 I'm going to adopt second at the street. 0.99

00:21:26.620 And he's going to adopt second at the street.

00:21:31.000 I want to go adopt Sharia's island. 1.00

00:21:31.840 And Iondar.

00:21:33.080 We'll be right back.

00:22:03.080 I didn't hear any, was there any vocals there, or was there just the soundtrack on that?

00:22:08.600 There was or wasn't?

00:22:09.580 Yeah, there was.

00:22:10.060 Okay, I didn't hear them in my ear.

00:22:11.260 So what do you think of those images?

00:22:13.020 What do you think of those gorgeous, gorgeous cities?

00:22:14.900 Can you go to rebelcruise.com and put the map on?

00:22:17.940 Go to, we've got this website, and I know I'm talking about this a lot, but I want to let you know,

00:22:22.340 do you see those four people we had?

00:22:24.160 Oh, this is the map.

00:22:25.500 So we fly into Munich, Germany.

00:22:29.320 We go to Regensburg.

00:22:30.440 I've never been there.

00:22:31.000 That's on the river.

00:22:31.640 And you can say, we see, we sail a couple of cities.

00:22:35.300 Then we go to Linz, Melk.

00:22:38.480 I don't even know these places.

00:22:40.180 Vienna.

00:22:40.960 So you can see we're actually, we're going to a lot of different places.

00:22:44.040 Vienna, obviously one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

00:22:47.160 We're Bratislava in Slovakia.

00:22:48.940 I've never been there.

00:22:49.600 And Budapest, Hungary, that's where Viktor Orban is, and Austria is where Sebastian Kurz is, and Germany is where that alternative for Deutschland party is.

00:23:03.920 So these countries, Slovakia, these are the countries that are on the leading edge of dealing with the mass migration that is transforming the traditional culture and demographics of Europe.

00:23:21.240 So not only do we want to go and see, do you want to scroll up the page just to show the other things here?

00:23:29.220 So it's June 9th, 16th.

00:23:31.620 It's Daniel Pipes, me, and Katie Hopkins.

00:23:35.680 And we've got Tommy Robinson on, too.

00:23:37.420 In fact, we should get Tommy's picture on there.

00:23:41.140 But he's coming.

00:23:41.880 And he said he wants to bring his missus, take a break.

00:23:44.580 So he's coming as our guest.

00:23:46.640 I'm happy to have him on.

00:23:49.740 We've got the monarch, Empress.

00:23:51.460 Yeah, scroll down a bit.

00:23:52.860 Keep scrolling.

00:23:54.500 The boat itself is pretty cool.

00:23:57.560 If you want to see more, go to the website itself.

00:23:59.960 You can see a little hint of what the boat is like there.

00:24:02.760 There's our itinerary, the different cities we go to.

00:24:09.600 The boat's going to be good.

00:24:10.840 Anyways, thanks for going through that.

00:24:14.580 I should tell you, we have, we haven't even really pushed this.

00:24:21.780 We've only started to talk about it.

00:24:23.360 And it's almost half sold.

00:24:27.000 So if you are interested, you should go to rebelcruise.com and poke around.

00:24:32.920 I'll tell you, the prices start.

00:24:35.680 It's not cheap.

00:24:36.600 It's not cheap because it's a gorgeous tour.

00:24:38.660 You've got to get to Europe.

00:24:40.320 And it's a fundraiser for the Rebel, too.

00:24:42.840 I forgot to mention that.

00:24:44.580 So we pay for the boat, but we tack on a few hundred bucks per cabin because that's how,

00:24:50.400 so if we've got 68 cabins, that's how we're going to make money off this.

00:24:53.280 It's one of the things we do to live because we don't get handouts from the government or

00:24:56.680 we're not financed from any big corporations.

00:24:58.840 So if you wonder what the price is, it's not cheap.

00:25:01.720 It starts at 3,500 bucks U.S. per person.

00:25:06.820 So that is not cheap.

00:25:08.700 But I think it's going to be the trip of a lifetime.

00:25:12.340 I have never been to Budapest.

00:25:14.600 I've never been anywhere in Slovakia, anywhere in Hungary.

00:25:17.220 I've been to Vienna, Austria, gorgeous city.

00:25:19.220 I haven't been to Regensburg, Germany.

00:25:21.880 And you're coming along with Daniel Pipes, Katie Hopkins, myself, Tommy Robinson.

00:25:27.360 And we will be meeting with local political activists and leaders.

00:25:33.460 I don't want to reveal names yet.

00:25:35.340 We're still making organizational plans for who we will meet with.

00:25:39.880 But it is my goal that when we're in Hungary, we'll meet with people from Viktor Orbán's government.

00:25:46.440 It's my goal that when we're in Austria, we meet with people from Sebastian Kurz's government,

00:25:52.500 people from Alternative for Deutschland when we're in Germany.

00:25:56.400 Not just politicians, though.

00:25:57.840 I don't want just politicians.

00:25:59.020 Other people with their finger on the pulse of what's going on in those countries.

00:26:04.680 So this is a vacation.

00:26:07.540 This is an education.

00:26:09.880 This is touring.

00:26:12.240 This is hanging out on the boat just with the hundred of us in the bar, in the lounge, whatever.

00:26:17.620 I think it's going to be amazing.

00:26:19.280 I'll stop talking about it.

00:26:20.200 I mean, I wasn't, I didn't really mean to go that deep on it.

00:26:24.160 But I just thought, geez, we're going to those places.

00:26:26.220 I'm showing you a video of Germany.

00:26:27.840 And I thought, shoot, we're going to be there in June.

00:26:30.340 So my only point for raising it here is if you're considering going, think about it over the next few weeks.

00:26:40.840 Because if we've almost sold half of the cabins and it's only September 7th,

00:26:45.680 I think there is a chance we're going to sell them all out in the next month.

00:26:51.220 So think about it.

00:26:53.700 Go to rebelcruise.com.

00:26:55.220 I can tell you that people are coming from all around the world.

00:26:58.040 I just had an email from three ladies from Australia who are considering making the journey.

00:27:03.980 We have other Australians already booked on the trip.

00:27:06.140 People from all around.

00:27:07.560 It was sort of neat on our Israel trip to see where people were from.

00:27:10.500 V. Zick says, Britain First is suing Facebook for targeting the right.

00:27:16.000 I am unaware of that.

00:27:17.220 Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

00:27:19.780 It does not surprise me because Facebook is becoming more and more capricious and political.

00:27:26.740 And we know that.

00:27:27.460 What I didn't know is that the lawsuit was filed.

00:27:30.500 I don't know what the likelihood of their success is because the terms of service of a lot of these companies are very one-sided.

00:27:37.820 And in the U.K., if they're suing in the U.K., I would say good luck to them because the U.K. establishment is very censorious

00:27:44.640 and it's very hostile to groups like Britain First.

00:27:48.200 If there was a lawsuit in America, maybe it has a fighting chance given the First Amendment.

00:27:52.780 Lord Rupert Everton chips in two bucks.

00:27:54.980 Thank you very much for that.

00:27:57.460 Okay, it's 12.27.

00:27:59.920 Let's get back on track.

00:28:00.800 I didn't mean to go on at such length about the cruise, but once I started talking about it, of course, I didn't stop.

00:28:11.480 Okay, I'm going to read some more comments and then I've got some vids I might play, but I like the comments.

00:28:19.480 Politico, Ezra, you should hook Tommy up again.

00:28:22.340 No paywall, doesn't work.

00:28:23.660 Keep him fully free to view.

00:28:25.700 You're a good combination.

00:28:27.460 Well, thank you for that.

00:28:28.960 You know, I'll be candid with you and I've said this before.

00:28:30.740 When Tommy was in prison, my only role was to crowdfund for the family.

00:28:37.800 I didn't even talk to Tommy when he was in prison.

00:28:40.140 He only had, I think, two phone calls a week.

00:28:41.800 And obviously, he's going to spend that on his family and his lawyer.

00:28:44.980 So I only talked to his family.

00:28:47.320 And they passed on messages and whatever, and I talked to his lawyers.

00:28:50.640 And of course, I did journalism and went to the trials and the hearings.

00:28:59.620 But now that he's out, Tommy is not built to have a boss.

00:29:04.100 I think he would agree to that.

00:29:06.320 Would you not agree with that?

00:29:07.660 And especially a boss, what, 3,000 miles away or however far Toronto is from Luton.

00:29:16.440 It's not going to work that way.

00:29:18.060 I'm happy to do projects with him.

00:29:20.220 I'm happy to help him on the crowdfunding side.

00:29:22.720 That's something we'd like to do here.

00:29:24.180 We're used to fighting legal fights, so I can give him what advice I can there.

00:29:30.360 Happy to do some journalism with him as the need be.

00:29:33.900 But I think the idea of actually working with Tommy in a formal business relationship,

00:29:41.980 I just, you know, I've never been better friends with Tommy than I am now.

00:29:46.060 We had just a great lunch on Tuesday, and it was really nice to see him.

00:29:50.420 And we sat there right on the River Thames, obviously.

00:29:54.800 He came into the city, and we sat right there and shooed the pigeons away as we had lunch.

00:30:01.060 And I'd say it's never been friendlier.

00:30:03.920 And I want to keep it that way.

00:30:05.840 I don't want to try and be his boss, and I don't want to say, do this, don't do that.

00:30:10.780 Because that is not fun.

00:30:11.960 Imagine how unfun that is.

00:30:14.380 But I encouraged Tommy.

00:30:15.620 We talked a little bit, and I encouraged him to do things.

00:30:18.940 And I, you know, give him whatever advice I had.

00:30:22.300 And he knows my views on things.

00:30:25.680 So, no, I've never, I don't want to be his boss again.

00:30:28.360 But will we do TV with him?

00:30:30.300 Sure, on an ad hoc basis.

00:30:32.180 But nothing, you know, we're not going to get married again.

00:30:35.300 We'll be good friends, though.

00:30:38.080 I hope.

00:30:41.000 SynthWorks says Tommy might miss the cruise.

00:30:42.740 Well, I mean, God forbid, but, you know, we'll do what we can to help keep him free, and he'll do what he can to stay free.

00:30:52.520 Calvin Arndt, is there any reason why Rebel doesn't support Britain first the way it did Tommy?

00:30:57.680 In your opinion, is there any real difference between them?

00:31:00.260 Money aside, even interviewing them would help.

00:31:02.360 I have met Jada Franson and Paul Golding once in London, and we talked a little bit about things.

00:31:11.200 But I have to tell you, my main reason for not engaging with them is that I simply don't know them enough.

00:31:17.580 And so I don't want, I haven't done my due diligence.

00:31:21.180 And I think you have to be very careful about these things, because we don't want to, and so I'm not judging them.

00:31:27.320 I'm saying I don't have enough information yet upon which to make a judgment.

00:31:32.500 And Tommy is certainly enough to keep me busy and keep my hands full.

00:31:36.640 So that's the reason.

00:31:39.720 I just don't have enough information.

00:31:44.520 Matthias Rodriguez, is Rebel Media anti-Jewish?

00:31:47.820 Well, I hope not, because I'm Jewish, so it would be weird and uncomfortable for me if it was anti-Jewish.

00:31:57.320 Mr. White 3.0, Britain first can't make money for Ezra.

00:32:04.480 Well, it's not, it's not about making money or not.

00:32:07.680 Do we interview them?

00:32:08.980 Do we promote them and support them?

00:32:12.760 I just want to know more about them first.

00:32:15.320 That's the answer there.

00:32:19.500 Lauren Southern, you are not wrong.

00:32:23.740 We need to go back to free markets and currency based on gold.

00:32:27.320 I don't know a lot about monetary policy.

00:32:29.680 I know there's a lot of real gold bugs out there, and I think that's, a lot of them have moved to the crypto currency idea, and I just wish I knew more about that stuff.

00:32:39.100 I can't be an expert on everything.

00:32:41.460 El Chappacabra says Bernier for PM.

00:32:45.420 I like Maxime Bernier.

00:32:47.100 As you know, I disagreed with his decision to leave the Conservative Party.

00:32:50.280 I think he would have been more powerful within the party.

00:32:53.360 I think he would have been the leading energy in the party, both in terms of policy.

00:32:59.480 He's the truest conservative.

00:33:00.820 And he's got charisma.

00:33:03.180 I mean, he's got a certain brio and charm and energy, and he knows how to communicate in a way that gets attention.

00:33:10.360 And my advice, which I gave publicly through my videos, was that he should have stayed in the party, you know, worked the convention, shaken hands, a thousand of them, worked the hospitality suites, worked the debate floor, and really made the parties his de facto.

00:33:32.420 And if Andrew Scheer loses the next election, which I think is quite possible, then he would be the heir apparent.

00:33:40.640 The idea of starting a new party from scratch is so monumental a task in terms of work and organizational effort and fundraising.

00:33:49.060 It's such an enormous barrier to entry.

00:33:53.000 I don't get it, because had he stayed within the party, he would have inherited all the infrastructure, all the fundraising, all the brand value.

00:34:01.500 And a team.

00:34:04.000 And frankly, that moment of truth will come within a year, right?

00:34:07.840 The next election.

00:34:09.420 So I have reached out to him twice, inviting him for an interview.

00:34:15.120 And he hasn't responded yet.

00:34:19.000 I should check to make sure his response hasn't gone to my spam folder or something like that.

00:34:24.340 Anne Barnes, is Tommy joining UKIP?

00:34:28.360 You know, I didn't ask him that.

00:34:31.500 I know that in the past they've been at arm's length from him, but their new leader, Gerard Batten, who I've interviewed and who I saw at Tommy's last court case, he came to the courthouse, is much more sympathetic to Tommy.

00:34:47.720 And I should tell you, can we call up this headline, Nigel Farage in the UK, called Tommy Brave.

00:34:54.500 I'd love to show you a website that showed that.

00:34:56.820 So even Nigel Farage, who has been very reluctant to be affiliated with Tommy or anything like that for fear of being called far right himself.

00:35:06.260 When he was down in Australia, he still says Tommy is misguided, but he called Tommy Brave.

00:35:16.720 I'd like to show that headline, Alex, if we can call that up.

00:35:21.780 All right, let's see.

00:35:22.900 It's 12.35.

00:35:23.660 I'm going to keep going through the comments.

00:35:29.820 John Zeeland, Max will be naming the party next week.

00:35:32.780 I look forward to seeing that.

00:35:34.460 And I see that there is some report that maybe he would be talking to the Libertarian Party.

00:35:39.600 And they do have a lot of policy overlap.

00:35:43.600 It'll be interesting to see.

00:35:44.920 El Chavez, I think Tommy should run.

00:35:48.780 I'd vote for him if I could.

00:35:51.360 That is not Tommy's plans, I don't think.

00:35:55.940 And I don't think he's built for it.

00:35:57.580 Tommy's not built for endless meetings and processes and haggling over party constitutions and policy platforms.

00:36:08.040 Tommy's not built for that, don't you see?

00:36:09.840 He's built for action and energy and kinetic motion and just Google Nigel Farage Tommy Robinson Brave.

00:36:17.560 I just want to show the headline.

00:36:22.880 Thanks.

00:36:24.600 There we go.

00:36:25.600 Nigel Farage calls Donald Trump a friend for life and changes tune on Tommy Robinson.

00:36:30.860 Nigel Farage told an audience in Australia Donald Trump would be his friend for life

00:36:34.800 before praising EDL founder Tommy Robinson as brave.

00:36:41.520 So maybe Nigel Farage himself became a little more brave when he was in Australia

00:36:48.440 and went a little further than he had before.

00:36:55.900 I'm just going to go through some more comments.

00:36:57.580 I like reading the comments, even the tough ones.

00:36:59.560 Lisa is happy to be sane.

00:37:04.000 I love how Trump's trade with Mexico screwed Trudeau for backstabbing Trump.

00:37:09.560 I don't even think that was Trump's goal.

00:37:12.600 I mean, I follow Trump as closely as anyone.

00:37:15.600 I mean, I know all of you do.

00:37:17.140 The whole world follows Trump closely.

00:37:19.000 It's riveting.

00:37:20.880 Whether you like him or oppose him, no one can stop watching him or talking about him

00:37:25.600 because he is the chief political force in the world today.

00:37:29.040 And Twitter's amazing because we get insights into his mind,

00:37:34.560 sometimes scripted and planned, sometimes very off the cuff.

00:37:39.320 I remember when Trump first came onto the scene, I went back through,

00:37:42.820 you know, on Twitter you can do an advanced search.

00:37:45.760 So you can search for anything that someone on Twitter has said

00:37:49.140 about any particular word or phrase.

00:37:51.420 So I went to the advanced search engine.

00:37:53.820 I typed in real Donald Trump.

00:37:55.300 And then I checked China and Mexico and Iran.

00:37:58.900 And I just read every single tweet Donald Trump had ever written about those key subjects.

00:38:04.660 Don't you think that's a good way of taking his temperature?

00:38:07.400 Because while these days he's more cautious and he has staff,

00:38:11.560 things that Trump would have said or done five years ago,

00:38:14.740 I can't remember when he joined Twitter,

00:38:17.260 would have been much more spontaneous and probably quite an accurate reflection

00:38:20.820 of his true heartfelt feelings on these subjects.

00:38:23.600 So I went back and I read every single thing he ever said about China,

00:38:28.380 Mexico, Iran, global warming.

00:38:32.060 Those are a hoot. 0.91

00:38:33.280 He calls it a scam endlessly.

00:38:35.780 He says it's about, it's a hoax, it's a Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme.

00:38:39.420 You got to read Donald Trump on global warming.

00:38:42.720 He's perfect.

00:38:45.000 And he hates saying climate change because he knows that's a scam, even the words.

00:38:49.840 So I went back and I did that for Canada.

00:38:52.400 And you know what?

00:38:53.540 It will not surprise you.

00:38:56.380 Donald Trump didn't think about Canada.

00:38:58.320 It was not on his radar.

00:39:00.760 It's like the wallpaper or the carpet.

00:39:03.000 You just don't notice.

00:39:03.840 It's just there.

00:39:04.960 And you know what?

00:39:05.580 That's a good thing.

00:39:06.400 When Donald Trump is ornery and crotchety and he's looking to pick fights with things,

00:39:11.420 why not let him fight Mexico, China, Iran?

00:39:14.120 Let him fight with Russia and North Korea. 0.92

00:39:16.880 Why would Canada want to get in a boxing ring with him?

00:39:19.520 Why not just stay very quiet?

00:39:21.640 And Stephen Harper showed us how to do that with Barack Obama.

00:39:24.440 He bit his tongue.

00:39:25.940 And even Jean-Claude Chen showed us how to do that with George W. Bush.

00:39:29.700 Both of those combinations were oil and water.

00:39:33.140 Harper and Obama couldn't be more different.

00:39:34.680 But in both cases, the Canadian pretty much said, all right, let's do no harm.

00:39:45.360 Trudeau just couldn't keep his civil tongue in his mouth.

00:39:47.600 He just couldn't shut up about it, could he?

00:39:50.040 And so he would disparage Trump.

00:39:52.700 And it became normalized within Justin Trudeau's circles to disparage Trump.

00:39:58.540 And Trudeau's cabinet started doing it and Trudeau's staff started doing it.

00:40:04.700 And it became the official culture of the Canadian political establishment.

00:40:09.840 You saw it in Trudeau's state broadcaster, the CBC.

00:40:13.100 You saw it even in the government comedians in Canada.

00:40:15.520 They work for the state broadcaster.

00:40:16.540 Absolutely everyone in Trudeau's circle despises Trump and says so.

00:40:24.700 I'm sure that many of Harper's team despised Obama.

00:40:28.060 But they didn't say so because they knew what was at risk if they had a rift.

00:40:32.560 Trudeau went from being ignored by Trump to being a burr in the saddle.

00:40:37.740 And look what happened.

00:40:38.780 And Trump went ahead and did a deal with Mexico.

00:40:41.680 And now he's saying, yeah, Canada, you can come into that one too or not.

00:40:45.220 And I don't know if you saw the show I did with Manny Montenegrino a few weeks ago.

00:40:50.480 Manny said, Ezra, Trump wants the deal to fail.

00:40:56.320 And Trudeau wants the deal to fail.

00:40:59.320 Trump wants the deal to fail so he can slap a 20% tariff on Canadian cars

00:41:03.220 and move those factories back from Ontario and Quebec to Michigan and Pennsylvania.

00:41:09.880 There's no electoral college seats, votes in Ontario and Quebec for Trump.

00:41:15.380 But you bring factories back from Canada into Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana,

00:41:19.700 places like that, you're going to win those things in those states in 2020.

00:41:24.900 And Trudeau bizarrely thinks it's a win for him

00:41:27.580 because he can campaign against the evil Donald Trump in the 2019 election.

00:41:31.360 So Manny Montenegrino convinced me that both men actually want this thing to fail.

00:41:36.360 Whereas if Trudeau just was a, you know, spoke no evil, you know, just shut up,

00:41:44.580 we'd probably have a NAFTA renewal deal with Trump already

00:41:48.460 and he would be fighting with other people.

00:41:50.360 Too bad it didn't happen.

00:41:54.800 Oh, Politico responds and says, yes, I understand.

00:41:57.620 He's tough to work with.

00:41:58.440 I do think you two as a combination are stronger.

00:42:00.560 Tommy boosts Rebel's membership, Rebel promotes Tommy's work.

00:42:03.180 Fair enough if it's not going to happen.

00:42:04.680 Listen, I like Tommy.

00:42:05.500 I just want to stay that way.

00:42:07.720 I don't want to be his boss.

00:42:08.980 Don't make me be his boss.

00:42:12.120 I'd rather be his ally than his partner.

00:42:16.380 You know, I mean, there will probably be little discreet things.

00:42:19.380 Like he's coming on the boat, right?

00:42:20.480 He's coming on the cruise I talked about.

00:42:22.320 That's a one-off, right?

00:42:24.080 That's not I'm your boss.

00:42:25.360 It's come on the cruise, bring your wife. 1.00

00:42:26.640 He's going to bring his wife. 0.52

00:42:27.400 That's going to be great.

00:42:28.040 And hang out.

00:42:29.620 But that's a fun thing.

00:42:30.660 And it's a one-week thing.

00:42:32.280 And it's just boom.

00:42:33.380 It's not a lot of ways I can go wrong, right?

00:42:36.940 So when I was in London on Tuesday, we talked about his plans.

00:42:43.580 I'm not going to give them away.

00:42:44.480 He's got his own plans.

00:42:45.460 He'll let you know when he wants to.

00:42:47.060 He'll let you know when he wants to be the boss of that, you know?

00:43:01.740 I don't want to say, don't do that or run that by a lawyer.

00:43:06.600 I don't want to be that guy.

00:43:07.900 Who would want to be that? 0.96

00:43:09.240 Who would want to be the one saying, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't?

00:43:13.620 No, no, no.

00:43:14.660 The fun thing with Tommy is saying, go, go, go.

00:43:17.280 But if you're the boss, you can't do that because all you're thinking about is keep Tommy safe from litigation, including prosecution,

00:43:25.040 and contempt of court proceedings, and keep him safe from being stabbed.

00:43:28.740 That's all you think about when you're Tommy's boss.

00:43:30.120 Just for one second, pretend you were Tommy's boss.

00:43:34.120 Okay, just for one second.

00:43:35.760 Now think, Tommy's going to do an event.

00:43:39.940 All you're thinking about is what can go wrong and how can we protect against that.

00:43:45.820 And so every word you're going to say to the guy is dial it back, dial it back.

00:43:50.240 Compare that to you as a viewer.

00:43:52.700 You're saying rev it up, rev it up.

00:43:54.460 You see?

00:43:55.140 So which is more fun?

00:43:58.060 It's more fun to be a friend of Tommy than a boss of Tommy, and that's what I want to be.

00:44:05.120 I think I missed the super chat.

00:44:06.800 Let me take a look.

00:44:08.680 See, Lord Rupert Everton, what happened to John Cardillo?

00:44:12.520 John had great commentary, and he was with us for almost a year.

00:44:15.880 He just didn't get the ratings.

00:44:17.860 So we left, we wrapped up the show he did.

00:44:22.000 But I know he's still very active on Twitter, and he also appears on Newsmax, which you can

00:44:28.540 get in the States.

00:44:29.180 I'm not sure if you can get that up here, but I think it's just a ratings issue.

00:44:34.880 Count Cliff, Ezra, you were just using this format to promote Israel. 0.95

00:44:37.700 So the war is with you as well.

00:44:39.800 I'm not sure what war you're talking about.

00:44:42.200 We have published over 9,900 videos on YouTube.

00:44:47.200 I used to say 9,700, but we've published 200 more since then.

00:44:51.440 Of our 9,900 videos on YouTube, I'm going to guess that 200 of them are about Israel.

00:45:04.040 What is that, 2%?

00:45:06.280 Let's say 500.

00:45:08.920 5% of our videos are about Israel.

00:45:11.160 I think that's proportionate, given its centrality in the news.

00:45:16.600 Don't you?

00:45:18.140 If you were to say, Ezra, all you talk about is Trump, I'd say that's a criticism, because

00:45:24.380 of our 9,900 videos, at least 1,000 are on Trump.

00:45:29.920 And we're Canadians.

00:45:32.220 So listen, if you're curious, if you haven't figured it out yet, we're pro-America, even

00:45:38.220 though we're Canadian, we're pro-Britain, even though we criticize it, we're pro-Australia,

00:45:45.080 we're pro-Taiwan, we've been tough on China, when others haven't been, we're pro-India,

00:45:51.200 world's largest democracy, part of the British Commonwealth, an ally against terror, especially

00:45:55.740 Pakistan, we're pro-democratic reform in India, I don't want a war against, sorry, I

00:46:02.740 meant to say Iran, I don't want a war against Iran, and we're pro-Israel.

00:46:08.220 And I'm a Jew, so I have an ethnic affiliation with Israel, religious affiliation, but I

00:46:16.480 can make the case for Israel the same way I make the case for Taiwan.

00:46:19.360 I have no ethnic, religious, or historical ties to Taiwan, but the analogy to me is a

00:46:25.000 little democratic country, surrounded by big, bad dictatorships that want to kill it,

00:46:29.780 obviously I'm for Taiwan. Same arguments with Israel. 0.93

00:46:34.900 I see another super chat from Nida, five bucks, who says, new to rebel, Canadian want to sub, 0.74

00:46:39.240 do you spend time on Canadian content? Being a conservative family in Vancouver is very

00:46:42.920 hard, we need good content. Well, Nida, thank you very much for saying that, and I'm glad

00:46:47.380 you said that, because it is true, we talk, today, haven't I been talking a lot about Tommy?

00:46:52.440 And I'm sorry, the only reason I got on that is because I was explaining why I don't do

00:46:57.660 this show daily, because I was in London on Tuesday, that's an example of traveling.

00:47:01.340 And then that reminded me of the tour with Tommy, the boat cruise, so then I'd probably

00:47:05.480 talk for 20 minutes about it.

00:47:08.020 But yeah, okay, I was getting, so what's our mix? Well, go on our YouTube page, 9,900 videos,

00:47:13.120 and at least half our content is Canadian, I think. We've got, we do about two videos,

00:47:24.180 three videos a day from the UK. We do about 10 videos a day, right? Two or three a day from

00:47:31.920 the UK. And I think some of them are international themes. I mean, sometimes they're just really

00:47:38.400 UK-centric, but sometimes they're about international themes, free speech. I would say three to five

00:47:47.160 videos a day are from Canada, and probably two or three a day are from America. Oh, and

00:47:54.180 we have Tanvir Ahmed, who does videos for us from Australia, and we have Rob Shimshak, who

00:47:59.640 does a video a day from Washington, but he's got a campus focus. So that's our mix. So my show,

00:48:08.400 is about 60% Canadian. That's my guess. I saw a comment. I don't remember who made it. I'm just

00:48:21.800 scrolling up, but it just said, talk about Alex Jones. So I'm sorry, I don't recall who put that

00:48:28.260 up there, but I can answer that question without quoting who said it. I just want to say thank you

00:48:36.920 for bringing that to my attention. Oh, Amanda Joy. Ezra, can you talk about Alex Jones? I sure can.

00:48:46.200 I've talked to Alex Jones a couple times in my life, and he's a big personality. He's an info-tainer,

00:48:55.240 which is the best kind of... It's the way it is. It's Rush Limbaugh. You have to get people's

00:49:01.400 attention before you can tell them something. It's why the CBC is so awful. It's not just that

00:49:07.560 it's left-wing. It's just so bloody boring. And as I've said before, I think Alex Jones is a 0.87

00:49:16.920 omni-skeptic. You tell him something, he'll challenge you just for the sake of challenging

00:49:22.060 him. He doesn't believe anything government or the establishment says. I don't know how much of

00:49:28.860 that is a shtick or how much of it is rooted at its core. I want to give him the benefit of doubt

00:49:33.900 and say most of it is rooted by his own observations and experience. And we've shown it on Battleground

00:49:38.740 4, and I don't want to do it again today. But I encourage you to go on YouTube and look at his

00:49:43.280 documentary investigation into the Bohemian Grove. Bohemian Grove. It's a secret society in

00:49:49.200 California that he actually infiltrated with a camera and showed their crazy pagan rituals. And

00:49:53.600 I know that sounds conspiracy theory crazy, but it's real life. And it actually happened. And that's

00:49:59.680 my point, is that a lot of the conspiracies he alleges, they are conspiracy. They're conspiracy

00:50:07.920 facts, not conspiracy theories. Now the thing is, when you're an omni-skeptic, and you apply

00:50:13.220 that worldview to 9-11, to, there was a school shooting, I forget where, and you get it wrong,

00:50:24.340 it looks bad. But so what? So what? We don't shut down the National Enquirer when they go over

00:50:30.720 the top, the tabloids. That's part of the media ecosystem. If you don't like it, don't follow

00:50:36.520 it. 2.4 million people followed them on YouTube, yet they were deleted. Not just going forward,

00:50:42.600 but all their historical work was deleted. And just yesterday, Alex Jones was kicked off

00:50:46.900 Twitter because nothing he did on Twitter, but for what he did in person. But look who's,

00:50:54.820 you can see on the screen right here, Louis Farrakhan and Hamas are still on Twitter. Louis Farrakhan,

00:50:59.900 racist, crazy, he's really the black clan. And Hamas, of course, a terrorist group, they are still on 1.00

00:51:05.920 Twitter. But Alex Jones fired yesterday from Twitter for nothing he did on Twitter, but for

00:51:10.480 the fact that he accosted a CNN journalist in real life, Twitter banned him for that. Just insane.

00:51:16.120 I see a couple more super chats. The Corker, CBC News Network is carrying an Obama speech live right

00:51:22.680 now. Oh my God, I totally believe you. On the weekend, they carried the full McCain funeral,

00:51:29.020 CBC deflecting for Trudeau. Well, not just that, but Barack Obama is not the Canadian Prime Minister.

00:51:35.920 And he's not even an American president. He's an ex-president. So to actually carry that live

00:51:43.600 shows, betrays their partisan agenda so much. When was the last time the CBC carried a speech

00:51:51.040 by the actual president of the United States live? And by the way, they're very entertaining

00:51:55.480 speeches because they're not really scripted. He actually breaks news almost every time he gives

00:52:00.400 a speech, don't you think? Trump, when he goes to these huge rallies. But more to the point,

00:52:06.000 it's relevant because he's the sitting president. But that's just the CBC going full Democrat

00:52:11.940 resistance. And the McCain funeral was the same thing. Yeah, John McCain. So he's one of 100 US

00:52:19.240 senators. Why did they love him? They despised him when he ran against Barack Obama in 2008.

00:52:25.820 He was challenging the precious. But he lost. So that's their favorite kind of conservative,

00:52:30.580 a losing one. And he became an anti-Trump activist. That's why they loved him. And that's why they

00:52:37.720 covered his funeral, because it was an anti-Trump campaign moment itself, wasn't it?

00:52:42.240 Um, so thank you for that news. That's just so it absolutely doesn't surprise me at all.

00:52:50.600 Uh, let me just see. I think there's another super chat. There we go. Crypto Well, what do you think

00:52:57.680 about the Faith G media blackout during the Toronto mayor race? Also, how about them Kavanaugh hearings?

00:53:04.100 Pretty amazing, eh? Well, I've, I'm always asked about Faith Goldie on the super chats. And so I've given

00:53:10.880 the same answer probably three times before, so I'll give it a fourth time. Um, I saw a poll. Can

00:53:17.100 you find the poll, please, and put it up? Uh, there was a poll. I'm sorry, I forget the name of the

00:53:23.100 pollster on Twitter. I think Faith Goldie herself might have retweeted it. That it was the first time

00:53:30.260 I've seen, uh, an actual professional pollster, I think it's a professional pollster, um, put Faith's

00:53:36.880 name to, uh, to the test. Um, the two leading candidates for, um, mayor are John Tory, the incumbent,

00:53:47.140 who's awful, and Jennifer Kiesmat, a liberal challenger, who's awful. And then there are literally

00:53:55.480 dozens of minor candidates, independent candidates, and some of the others. You may have had

00:54:02.940 more support, like putting Faith Goldie's name to people. In my view, that would make people more

00:54:10.000 likely to say that name than just saying other. Um, and if you would have listed a fourth name,

00:54:16.020 I think it would be more likely. So I think that that is slightly enhanced. And put the other one

00:54:20.920 where they have the undecideds in there. There you go. So 43% for Tory, 21% for Kiesmat, 2% for Faith

00:54:31.620 Goldie, 1% for other, and 33% undecided. Now, if this were a key federal election, if this were the,

00:54:41.720 uh, 2016 election in the United States, presidential election, that undecided vote is likely to show up,

00:54:50.080 and I would have said at the time they would break for Trump. If this were the 2018 Ontario provincial

00:54:58.320 election, I'd say they'd show up and vote either for Doug Ford or Andrea Horvath, the NDP. But when

00:55:06.480 you have 33% of people in a boring municipal election for mayor, in a fairly apathetic town,

00:55:14.780 saying undecided, I don't believe those 33% are going to force themselves into the other columns.

00:55:21.580 I think they're just going to stay home. Um, I think historically, turnout for municipal elections

00:55:28.300 are, are low, much lower than for provincial or federal elections because, um, the issues seem more

00:55:36.220 abstruse. The differences between the candidates, not as stark. I've said before that I think Faith will

00:55:42.540 get less than 5%. I may be wrong. I saw an online report that said she's campaigning,

00:55:48.060 that she has a campaign manager now, although we don't know his identity,

00:55:52.140 that they are actually canvassing. They have seen a picture to that effect.

00:55:55.580 So it's not just a virtual campaign as it started. It's not just a Twitter campaign.

00:56:00.540 There is some door knocking going on. But, um, at this point, I mean, there's still

00:56:06.300 over a month ago. I think that my early prediction that she will get 5% or less holds. We'll see.

00:56:17.180 Uh, Ezra's first irregulars. Have you looked into norovirus? Nearby government biolab.

00:56:22.380 Discussing more on this after the battleground. Join in. Keep up the good work, Ezra.

00:56:25.740 Uh, thank you, Ezra's first irregulars, and thanks for the chip in. I've heard a little bit about

00:56:30.540 norovirus, I think. Is that the same as the Norwalk virus? Perhaps I'm revealing my own ignorance.

00:56:38.860 Uh, and I don't know any political, uh, things to say about it. So, um, I guess my answer to your

00:56:45.900 question is more accurately, no. Um, Aaron Smith. Ezra, have you seen the CBC vote compass for the New

00:56:55.420 Brunswick election? No, I haven't. I know what you're talking about. This is such an unethical

00:57:01.500 tool the CBC has. Uh, it asks you a bunch of leading questions, and if you give the right answers,

00:57:08.540 it tells you who you should vote for, and inevitably it steers you towards the state broadcaster's own

00:57:14.940 choice, which is the parties of the left. So, uh, I remember back at the Sun News Network we would mock them.

00:57:20.700 Um, um, Charles Duran, next event in Ottawa. Hey, great idea. We did an event in Toronto. We had the

00:57:31.020 Rebel Live, very successful. We're having a Rebel Live event in Calgary in November, and I'm pleased to

00:57:38.860 say we're already booking speakers. Lindsey Shepard just, uh, confirmed today, for example. Um, I'm not quite

00:57:44.940 ready to give you the details of that. We're putting together a bit of a, we're confirming a few more

00:57:49.100 speakers, but that's coming up on November 10th. So, if you are in Calgary or would make the journey

00:57:54.540 to Calgary, um, pencil that in November 10th. But Ottawa is a good city for us. Uh, in terms of

00:58:01.980 Canadian cities, our number one is Toronto. Uh, Calgary and Edmonton are sort of tied for next,

00:58:07.500 and then I think it goes Ottawa and then Vancouver. That's where viewers are. Uh, so I'm 59. I'm almost done.

00:58:12.860 I'm just checking to see if I've missed any super chats. Have I missed any super chats? No, I think I got them all.

00:58:17.180 Uh, I'll end with Dwayne Jane, who says CBC sucks, and I think that's a good way to end the show. 0.93

00:58:22.700 Um, well, there you have it. Thanks for chit-chatting with me today, and I hope you don't mind me not

00:58:28.380 wearing a jacket. I think next time I will wear a jacket because the jacket helps hide how fat I am.

00:58:36.860 So the jacket's going back on next week. Um, thank you for chatting. Thank you to everybody who chipped

00:58:41.660 in with the, uh, a few bucks here and there for super chats. We use that to help pay the bills.

00:58:46.220 I do want to say, come on the cruise with Tommy. If you've, I, you know, I'm getting, I spent a lot

00:58:52.860 of time on this yesterday. I responded to a bunch of emails. I'm getting excited about it. Uh, I think

00:58:58.460 it's going to be amazing. I've never been to Eastern Europe before. I, I would call

00:59:02.940 Czech, Czech Republic Eastern Europe, or Hungary, excuse me, Hungary, Slovakia. You can see the map at

00:59:07.820 rebelcruise.com. I want to go to Budapest. I want to see the city. I bet it's beautiful.

00:59:12.460 And I want to learn more about Victor Orban and not just from our slanted left-wing media. I want to

00:59:17.340 hear from Hungarians themselves. I want to hear from people in his own government, don't you?

00:59:21.900 And I want to be in that room, not just by myself. I want Tommy there. And I want Daniel Pipes there.

00:59:26.940 I want Kitty Hopkins there. And I want to listen. You know, there's only 68 cabins. I want the hundred of

00:59:31.900 us to have a real briefing firsthand. That's actually the most important. I mean, I could go to Budapest if I

00:59:36.860 want it for a holiday. I don't think I would, but a cruise of all these cities. And it's to be there

00:59:41.500 with Tommy and Daniel Pipes and Katie and learn these things. That's why I'm excited. I know I

00:59:46.700 talk too much about it, but that is on my mind. And you can get that info at rebelcruise.com.

00:59:51.100 All right. It's 1 p.m. Eastern time. Time to say goodbye. But if you are still so inclined,

00:59:57.500 you should tune in at 8 p.m. Eastern. I've already recorded an interview for tonight.

01:00:01.340 It's a fun one. It's about the CBC and Justin Trudeau and Christy Freeland. If you can tune in

01:00:08.220 tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, I think you'll like it. Until then, on behalf of all of us here at

01:00:12.780 Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home and around the world, keep fighting for freedom. Bye-bye.

Rebel News Podcast - September 07, 2018

Ezra Levant's Battleground： September 07, 2018

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