Ezra Levant Show May 30 2018
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Summary
Two black men were arrested in a Starbucks in Philadelphia for not buying a cup of coffee. They were not customers, they were just waiting for a third person to join them. Did Starbucks really need to handcuff someone to make them leave the coffee shop because they weren t paying customers?
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Tonight, Starbucks shut down their whole chain of coffee shops to have a day-long
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sensitivity workshop. We've got video footage from the inside.
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It's May 30th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my
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A couple of months ago, two men sat down in a Starbucks in Philadelphia.
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They didn't order anything to drink. In fact, they brought in their own bottle of water from
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outside the store. A Starbucks employee came over and asked them if they wanted to buy anything,
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and they said no. They were there for a business meeting about a real estate deal, and someone
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else was going to come enjoy them. They were just enjoying the place, but they weren't paying
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customers. They weren't customers at all. So, Starbucks called 911. And I think calling 911
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is a bit much, don't you think? They weren't ruffians. They weren't making a scene. I mean,
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I understand the idea. It's like people who go to a bookstore or a magazine stand. That used to be a
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thing, magazine stands. And they just stood there and read the magazine or newspaper without buying it.
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It's not a library. It's a magazine shop. You have to pay for things. It's a business.
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Starbucks isn't really a clubhouse. I mean, they make money selling coffee and other stuff.
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But Starbucks is really weird. It's a bit culty sometimes. They have this idea called the third
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place. What? Yeah. Here's Starbucks kooky chairman, Howard Schultz.
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We do everything we can to build that third place in your store.
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The third place. It sounds like some Scientology thing. And it actually means to Starbucks people,
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there's your home and then there's your work and there's Starbucks. That's the third place in your
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life. Not a church, not a school, not a community center. They are your third place. It's a bit culty,
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but don't you think that two guys sitting down in the Starbucks waiting for a third guy to join them
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and not buying a drink right away? Maybe they would later. That's sort of third place-ish.
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Maybe we need a high priest to interpret the third way of this third place now that we're in the third
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millennium. Where are my crystals? The men who were arrested were black and it was caught on tape.
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What did they do? What did they do? Did someone tell me what they did?
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They didn't do anything. I saw the entire thing.
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Did you really need to handcuff someone to tell them to leave a coffee shop for not buying a cup of coffee?
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They were just sitting there quietly. I don't think so.
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But add the layer of race to it. And the thing went viral, of course.
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The two men did the media circuit with a lawyer and politicians got in on it soon.
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And they soon came to a confidential settlement with Starbucks.
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You know that real estate deal they were meeting about?
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I say again, I'm sympathetic to any store owner who wants people in his shop to buy,
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not just to browse. But I also understand that browsing is part of shopping.
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When it comes to clothes, for example, at least for women,
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I think men, if they need some shoes, drive to the mall park, walk to the shoe store and buy the shoes,
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For women, it's more about the journey, isn't it?
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That's the shtick Starbucks is selling with its third place business.
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They want you to hang out there, sounds like to me, for hours.
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You literally could not be drinking coffee the whole time you'd float away.
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So I think they're inviting people to lounge around, aren't they?
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And these guys weren't even in there for 10 minutes.
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But holy cow, has Starbucks bent over the other way now?
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If you thought they were politically correct to begin with,
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and that kooky cult leader of theirs, Howard Schultz,
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he's constantly being touted as a candidate to run for president, by the way.
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Like I say, the chain shut down for some re-education over this.
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They probably do need some clarification where kooky cult talk by a millionaire CEO
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and real-life situations by a minimum-wage coffee worker where they connect.
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I mean, how long do you wait for someone to order coffee?
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What if they're there all day and they never do?
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is that different than if they're just there goofing around?
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is that different than if there's, I don't know, 20 people just hanging out?
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What if a whole group of people, like a whole sports team,
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or maybe a whole gang, I don't know, I'm just brainstorming.
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What if they sat in the Starbucks and took up all the seats,
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What about if they were there for the whole day?
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Their new third place, a free clubhouse that they don't have to pay for.
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with 27,000 Starbucks locations around the world,
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I bet you're going to get a lot of situations that need clarity.
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Well, I obviously wasn't invited to one of these re-education sessions,
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so that employees can receive racial sensitivity training.
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This after the arrest of two black men at one of its Philadelphia stores
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Let's say a black man walks up to order a coffee.
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Rule number one, never assume someone's gender.
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Yeah, I know he's a guy because I already asked him his pronoun
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You asked the fictional character in your head if he was a man.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I did, Todd, because I need that.
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Because we've got to go one step higher with our sensitivity training, everybody.
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That was a satirical video, as I think you could tell, but just barely.
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Here's a clip from the real video actually released by Starbucks.
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Without a doubt, the events in Philadelphia prompted us to bring 8,000 stores
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529 is an opportunity to renew our commitment to the third place.
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Because we understand that racial and systemic bias have many causes,
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sources, and ways of showing up within each of us and in our communities.
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So to get things going, Kevin will welcome teams.
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We are here to make Starbucks a place where everyone, everyone feels welcome.
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And Common, one of our guides, will help folks start exploring their own identities.
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Helping people see each other fully, completely, respectfully.
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Once partners have gotten warmed up, they will start to explore the third place
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And how dare you assume he's a guy without asking him for his gender, for reverence?
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Did you see the use of the word folks in there too?
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It is a fancy way of saying men or women that is not so sexist.
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It's Starbucks' version of Trudeau's word, people kind.
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We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind.
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And boy, are they ever into that third place thing, aren't they?
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I'm surprised it's in a giant, novelty-sized book.
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You'd think it would be tiny, pocket-sized, maybe red, maybe printed in China.
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I don't know, sort of like Mao's little red book.
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We are here to make Starbucks a place where everyone, everyone feels welcome.
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Is it true that everyone, absolutely everyone, he said everyone, everyone, is everyone, everyone
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Regardless of how they treat Starbucks customers or Starbucks staff.
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Do you think that everyone, everyone's allowed applies to the corporate head office of Starbucks
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That anyone, anyone can just come into their place of work and hang out and be welcome
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The Starbucks head office is for the important people.
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The front line Starbucks workers, they must now put up with everyone, everyone.
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Because to not do so might embarrass the virtue signalers at head office.
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I say again, I don't think that Philly Starbucks should have called 911 and I don't think the
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cops should have used handcuffs based on what I saw in that cell phone video.
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But the answer is clearer standards, clearer rules, not no rules.
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Okay, listen, I don't know how many times I have to say this, but we have to treat everyone
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You might as well just call a protest yourself, Lisa.
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Like this is the kind of stuff that's going to get us in trouble.
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I bet if he was a white man, you would have just said, how can I help you?
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I feel like you're being a little bit insensitive to Lisa.
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We can't afford to be sensitive in a sensitivity training.
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Again, here's a clip from the real video, but it's hard to tell the difference.
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So I think we would say the structural work is something that has to be done for far longer
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That's the work the company has to do to support the partners in the individual work.
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Because one of the things we don't want to see is for each person to have to bear this
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After a bit of learning and inspiration, partners will explore a bias personally and how it shows
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When I first started working there, I had to deal with difficult homeless customers all
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Did you understand a word of that corporate gobbledygook they were saying at the beginning
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of that clip there around the head office boardroom?
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But I sure understand those last two real workers there, both of whom looked like they
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I won't make you watch the entire video, but I can assure you they never actually answer
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the questions, what do you do with homeless people, and what do you do with people shooting
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Before I take your order, I would like to apologize on behalf of my white ancestors.
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All right, let's move on to the second question.
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Do not assume that just because he's a black man that he wants black coffee.
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Now if you have anything black, it's just plain and boring?
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If you stop eating mayonnaise all day and watching Gilmore Girls and Dawson's Creek, I
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bet you'd finally be able to open up your eyes and see that the world is full of exciting
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All right, if I were a woman, I would throat punch you, Lisa, and wake you up from your entitlement.
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You don't need something white to make something good.
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All right, I won't show you any more from that funny video.
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Okay, maybe just a few more seconds because there was a nice Canadian plot twist here.
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Do we have to start off every order apologizing for what happened in America?
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Yeah, I mean, shouldn't we just treat everybody equal?
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All right, I expected to have to mansplain to Lisa over here, but not to you, Todd.
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Sometimes you have to treat some people special to treat everybody equal, and that's what we're
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Get your notebook out and turn to what makes me me, and you, you.
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Together, partners will explore inspiration, partner stories, and problem solve using new
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tools to reiterate our commitment to the green apron, what we look like in action when we
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Oh, so there's a green apron thing now, as well as a third place thing?
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When the postmodern left abandoned religion and heritage, they thought they were freeing
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themselves, didn't they, from all those old rules and old symbols and old rituals and
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Well, I think people crave rules and codes and symbols for life, and look what the leftist
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They've replaced any real traditions with the third place, the green apron, old codes of
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conduct, I don't know, hand commandments, or even customs built up over centuries, like
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the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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Aren't those traditional conservative values not only saner, but maybe actually more helpful
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I mean, some Seattle millionaire is saying, every single thing is permissible, everyone,
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Can you imagine telling those minimum wage coffee pourers from a moment ago, the ones
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talking about homeless customers and drug shooting customers?
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Yeah, we don't have time to answer those specific real life questions, because we have to spend
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some time now with the big coloring book, learning about what makes me, me, and what makes you,
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I mean, if I worked for Starbucks, I might enjoy being paid to not work for a day and
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I mean, few things are sillier than, you know, corporate team building exercises like this
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So being paid to sit around and listen to your cult leaders expiate their own racial guilt.
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Well, I mean, if you pay me, I guess, and I guess it's a welcome break from having to
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Oh, by the way, just like a religion, Starbucks has named yesterday's date as some sort of holy
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We say 9-11 to sanctify that horrific day of the attack and memorialize it.
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Tradition names important days like Christmas and Easter and Remembrance Day or Memorial Day.
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The Starbucks cult has their new holy day, 529.
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In the coming weeks, months, and years, we will address many other facets of what makes
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The work will grow to reflect the realities of our abilities, ethnicities, gender identities
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and expressions, sexual identities, class, language, citizenship, political views, religious
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They're going to do this for years, she warned.
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Do you believe for one second that Starbucks and this kooky cult would tolerate conservative
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political views in their buildings amongst their staff?
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Now, hey, I'm not telling you not to go to Starbucks, but you know what?
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If they're going to turn their stores into homeless lounges and they're going to turn
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their bathrooms into drug shooting dens or who knows, places for sexual hookups, I don't
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know, everyone, everyone, it wouldn't be a bad thing if thousands or even millions of
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Starbucks customers said, yeah, your logo always looked a little bit like a cult.
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And you've become this really weird place now where guilty white millionaires pay race
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hucksters huge cash to come up with non-solutions to non-problems and non-solutions to real problems
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So we're just going to go to normal stores to get our coffee run by normal people.
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Wouldn't it be great if Starbucks collapses upon itself and it drove its customers back
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into the arms of independent local coffee shops, coffee shops who have a real sense of community,
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not corporate manufactured third place robot community.
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real people who you would respect and they would respect you back.
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And if Starbucks became by accident, by wonderful accident, the world's largest private corporation
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that decided to turn itself into a homeless shelter, providing free facilities for the marginalized
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people in society, whether they're drug users, prostitutes, homeless people, whatever.
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I think that would be wonderful if Howard Schultz, the social justice warrior, wants to save
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the world with his own money and his own company.
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Let him use his money and that of his foolish shareholders who stick around to do that.
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Have safe injections, shooting galleries right in there.
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Let him welcome all of society's marginalized peoples, everyone, everyone, and let him care
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He's the new atheist culty Mother Teresa, and I think it looks great on him.
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The federal government has reached an agreement with Kinder Morgan to purchase the existing
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Trans Mountain Pipeline and the infrastructure related to the Trans Mountain Expansion Project.
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Apparently, the purchase price is $4.5 billion.
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Why did we need to purchase an existing pipeline that's already in the ground and happily pumping
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Isn't the challenge the proposed $7.4 billion expansion?
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And if the answer is us, how does that move it forward any?
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The problem was not money, but rather constitutional problems.
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I don't quite understand, but I've never understood government bailouts of companies or government
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nationalizations here via Skype to join us now to maybe shed some light on things is our
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friend Aaron Woodrick, the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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Aaron, I don't even understand the full scale of what's going on.
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I mean, I think that if you add in the $4.5 billion and the $7.4 to build it and indemnities
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for delays in politics, you're looking at, well, you're getting close to $15 billion, probably?
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That's assuming that the government can actually keep to the timelines and do everything as
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efficiently as the private sector company could, as Kinder Morgan could.
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I think it's fair to say the odds of that are pretty low, given government's track record
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This is a situation that the Trudeau liberals have put themselves in.
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They made a series of bad decisions that have put us into this mess, and now they have tried
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to buy their way out of it, and they're using taxpayer money to do it.
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Well, and that's the thing is money was never the problem for Kinder Morgan, or for that matter,
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Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline or TransCanada's Energy East Pipeline.
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Those guys are professionals at raising money, and building pipelines is not the actual construction.
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I don't think the federal government even knows basic things like how to do their own
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We've just solved a problem that wasn't there, but we didn't solve the real problem that is
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there, which is the constitutional or political impasse with BC.
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Do you think that's ever going to come, or do you think this whole thing is just a,
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a holding pattern to get Trudeau and Notley through their next elections by saying, oh,
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we did something, we bought a pipeline, don't you know?
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Yeah, it's hard not to start drawing that conclusion, because you're right when you say
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The reason for the problem was you have the government of British Columbia and some of
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their allies in the indigenous and environmental communities who seem to be willing to do anything,
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including breaking the law, try to stop this pipeline.
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That is the reason that Kinder Morgan got cold feet.
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And that was the thing that Kinder Morgan wanted addressed, addressed by the federal government.
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So I don't really know what has changed, Ezra, other than the fact that the risk is no longer
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But otherwise, people who are opposed to the pipeline are not just still opposed.
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They're probably more opposed to it now, because now they're actually paying to build it.
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First of all, I read in the Globe and Mail that the Royal Bank estimates that Canada overpaid
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And that does not surprise me at all, given how poorly Justin Trudeau negotiates with, say,
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But the second thing, and let me just throw this in.
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Now, I know it's a small point, but I've got a, I'm not going to call him a close friend,
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And I really like the way he thinks about things.
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I haven't interviewed him in a while, but I should again.
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And he's just tweeting up a storm and talking to anyone who'll talk with him about how there's
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a lot of Aboriginal bands who totally support Kinder Morgan.
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And often they're the ones along the route, often the ones who don't support the pipeline,
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So I just want to point out that while there are some noisy Aboriginal opponents, I think
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many of them are professional activists and local chiefs.
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Look, they've been living with this pipeline since the 50s.
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I think blocking this pipeline actually harms Aboriginal people.
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I think of the Northern Gateway, 10% of that pipeline was owned by the Aboriginal community.
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Anyways, I'm worried that this thing is being stopped for bogus reasons.
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Yeah, no, you're absolutely right to make that point about the Aboriginal community.
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There are some who oppose it, but there are many who support it as well.
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And that's something we don't hear about often enough.
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I want to go back to your first point, talking about the strategic masterstroke of Justin Trudeau
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I mean, not only have they bought this pipeline that they didn't need to buy, the way they
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went about it, I mean, I'd love to play poker with these guys.
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They show you their cards before the game even begins.
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The first one, Kinder Morgan came out and said, oh, we have concerns.
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What was the first thing that Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau did?
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They came out and said, we will do anything to save this pipeline.
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So is it any surprise that Kinder Morgan took them to the cleaners when it came to the sale
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And now that they own it, Bill Morneau has said, well, we don't want to own it for long.
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I mean, try selling your house by advertising the fact you're desperate to get rid of it
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You know, there's one more thing that's related to that.
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Both Rachel Notley in Alberta and Bill Morneau federally, by the way, Justin Trudeau is
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hid from this issue, have said this is proof that Canada is open for business and this
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is going to strengthen the investor confidence.
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I don't know how anyone would possibly come to that conclusion.
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This is proof of the opposite, that even a mighty, well-funded, regulatorily approved company
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And the best they can hope for is to be bought out by the government.
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I can't imagine any boardroom of any industrial company in the world saying, let's spend, I
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think they're in five, almost five years in regulatory processes, a billion dollars sunk
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They got to sell it now to the government, even if they're making a billion dollars out
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Who would say, let's invest in Canada knowing it can't get through unless the government
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And by the way, maybe they won't decide to do that.
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Energy East and Northern Gateway were both left to die on the vine.
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I don't know how this goes anywhere near building investor confidence.
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It says Trudeau has no clue how to get things done if it's a private sector investor.
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Yeah, I don't know how you can conclude that because the government has to step in and buy
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it off Kinder Morgan, that that in any way demonstrates that Canada is a country where you can come invest
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and build a project if you're a private company.
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And if anything, it might actually start inducing people to say, hey, you know what?
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Because if we go in there, even if we have no intention of building something, but we just
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say we are, we can make a little bit of noise and hold the government hostage.
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And hopefully they'll come use taxpayer money to take it off our hands.
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Well, I think most companies will say we just don't need the drama.
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We're in the mining business, the forestry business, the pipeline business, the marine
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terminal business, not the political games business.
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Even I think Kinder Morgan will do just fine here.
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I think they already profited a billion dollars, courtesy of you and me.
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But I think any other prospective investor is saying, yeah, I don't need the five years
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I'll just go to somewhere less stressful, like, you know, Kazakhstan or something.
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Listen, Aaron, I'm glad you're fighting hard on this one.
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I just I'm worried that the four point five billion is just the appetizer and the main
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It's a big mistake that's entirely caused by the choices this government made.
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And taxpayers are going to have to pay the price for it, it looks like.
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Aaron's director for the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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And I know there has been a bit of a generational clash going on between generations.
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And I just want to say it is an honor and a white privilege.
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I am surprised that has not yet been made illegal to tell jokes like that in Canada.
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I think we might have met before, but it's nice to see you more officially now.
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But these days, anything that you would laugh at, well, you're not allowed to laugh at anything anymore.
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You have great comedians, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, saying they don't even want to do shows on campus anymore because of political correctness.
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I mean, if you tell the joke and somebody goes, oh, I'm offended by that, fine, right?
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But the way it is now is like, you know, you get hired for a gig and they'll say, well, we don't want any jokes about this.
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And I love that, too, because you'll, you know, you'd be working for like a steel company and they'll say, no, you know, we have a certain reputation here.
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And, you know, 10 minutes earlier, they're in the boardroom going, what the fuck?
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So we don't want anything sexist and we don't want anything racist and we don't want anything.
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And not that I'm going to do anything like that.
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But if you touch on those subjects, it's a danger zone, too, right?
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Because usually it's like, we don't want this and we don't want that and we don't want that and I'll be like, well, then you don't want me.
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And the thing is, I mean, the most racist jokes are often told by, I mean, if you took the N-word out of Chris Rock, his routines, he wouldn't have anything.
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But certainly if you took profanity out and half of the jokes people make.
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In the States, there are clubs that say, we don't want any Trump jokes.
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But it's also the fact that it's so polarizing.
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You know, I mean, if you took Jewish jokes out of the mouths of Jewish communities, like all of Seinfeld is a form of a Jewish joke.
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If he wasn't allowed to poke fun at ethnic stereotypes, he did a whole movie called Zelig that I think was a metaphor for Jews trying to fit in or something.
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He's really, and is it, is a bad joke good if someone laughs?
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Or is a joke not racist if it laughs or if it's told by the person of that race?
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Yes, he's a rapist, but does that make him any less funny?
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And, you know, you can have two people sitting next to each other watching a comedy evening, and one will laugh and the other saying, I don't like that.
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And then the other will laugh and the other says, that's not funny.
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And there's these people right now, they're like, oh, what should we laugh at?
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So, to me, and the other one I love is, oh, I shouldn't have laughed.
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Yeah, you shouldn't have sneezed, you shouldn't have farted, you shouldn't, right?
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But, you know, it's like you say, it's subjective.
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You know, I think it was, was it Orwell or was it Solzhenitsyn who said, every joke, every
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laughter, every huge comedy is a little revolution.
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And on the other hand, Ayatollah Khomeini said, there's no humor in Islam.
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So, and Stalin, he sent Solzhenitsyn to the gulag for writing a joke about Stalin's mustache.
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He wrote a letter saying, da, da, da, the whiskered one.
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He was sent to seven years because he told a whisker joke about Stalin.
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And if you can mock, when you laugh at someone powerful, all of a sudden you've taken a little
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That's the obsession these days, too, is truth to power.
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Half of late night comedy doesn't feel like comedy anymore.
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It feels like political talking points with a laugh track.
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I haven't watched it in quite a while, actually.
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I'm excited to announce that you will, I mean, I think we've announced it on our website,
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but I don't know if I mentioned it on the show, that you are coming to The Rebel Live
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this Saturday to do a politically incorrect comedy.
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Which would be interesting because if I'm doing politically incorrect comedy for people
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who are against political correctness, will it have the same punch?
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I'm going to make a prediction is that people are going to be so refreshed by having someone
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This hour has 22 minutes, and I know, I casually know a couple of the people on that.
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Boy, they love making fun of Donald Trump, but he's not the president of Canada.
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And so they're very bold about mocking the powerful in another country.
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I've never seen them take a really good hard run at Justin Trudeau, and I think it's
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Well, this is the thing, and I work for the state broadcaster on occasion as well, and
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I have noticed everything I've ever done for the CBC, when I listen back to it, for some
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You know, can I ask you, can I throw something at you?
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I'm not a scholar on this subject, but I'm interested in it.
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My understanding is that historically, the role of the court jester, or the fool, was
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not just for entertainment, but he had a special immunity that he could say things to the king
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that no one else was allowed to do because it was just joking, and so he had an incredibly
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important role in that he could basically be the one saying the emperor has no clothes.
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Like, if everyone was afraid to tell the king something, the fool could say it in a ta-da,
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goofy, ridiculous joke, and the king would say, oh, all right, and I'm not going to kill
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Well, that apparently is the original role of the jester, that it was speaking truth to
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power, and he was the only one who could get away with it because he was the jester, but
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Which would you rather you lose, your tongue or your hand?
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I mean, I want to study that a little bit more, but that's an incredibly important thing,
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We are losing that because of all the pre-censorship.
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The issue that Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, all they have with these colleges is that they're
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so left-dominated that you can't go into a comedy show without them saying, now, you
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And if you don't want to be, then maybe don't go to comedy night.
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Maybe you can get one of those adult coloring books that are on the way.
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Now, by the way, besides doing the Rebel Live, this afternoon.
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And I don't know if this is going to go out in time, but if you want to see the Thursday
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night show, call and make a reservation, use the code Canadian1, and arrive Thursday half
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an hour before showtime, you get your tickets for half price.
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Okay, that's good to know, because this airs Wednesday.
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For the folks who haven't signed up, it's at therebellive.com.
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Well, I'm really looking forward to seeing you at the event.
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And it'll be a change of pace, because we've got some heavy-duty political talkers.
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I mean, I've watched your stuff on, I mean, I remember the Sundays, and I watched your
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I think people are going to feel great about it.
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And he'll be the entertainment at The Rebel Live this Saturday.
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I caught my monologue yesterday about the worst business deal in Canadian history, the
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Before the purchase, we heard over and over again how the government had jurisdiction over
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the provinces, and the pipeline would be built.
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Today, Morneau said they had to purchase the pipeline to have jurisdiction to build it.
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Well, the government has always had the jurisdiction.
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That happened in 1867, under Section 91 of our Constitution Act.
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That applies to both publicly owned or privately owned enterprises that have a national or international
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I use the example of the CP Rail and the CN Rail.
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Paying $4.5 billion for an existing pipeline is weird to begin with.
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The Royal Bank says they overpaid by at least $1 billion on its real market value.
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That does nothing to actually build the expansion pipeline.
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That's another $7.4 billion if it was done by the private sector.
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And what on earth does that have to do with any jurisdictional issue?
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I mean, I think the number one response by environmentalists I've seen is, this changes nothing.
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And it's true, other than it changes who's on the hook for it now.
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Grieg writes, just like PetroCanada and the gun registry, the taxpayers are going to take a huge hit.
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The Royal Bank estimates that the government of Canada paid more than $1 billion too much for the existing pipeline.
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The next pipeline, how's that even going to be built?
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There is no will, political will, legal will, policing will, on behalf of Ottawa to get this done.
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And so what has happened, other than a few billion dollars have enriched a Texas pipeline company so that Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley have a few months of talking points, I still hold by my predictions this pipeline will not be built.
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Billy writes, Justin will also slow walk construction or stall it, blaming Horgan's court challenge, so he can cancel the whole project after he wins another majority.
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We are, what, maybe 12 months away from both a federal and Alberta election.
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This is just kicking the can down the road so they have a talking point to get both Notley and Trudeau through their elections.
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I think Trudeau will stall this and say, well, we're doing it.
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We've given so much to the province of Alberta.
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No, you didn't give to the province of Alberta.
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You gave it to some shareholders in Texas and you overpaid by a billion dollars.
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This pipeline, I predict, will not be built until the government has changed.
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The Keystone Extel was killed by Barack Obama, but Donald Trump revived it.
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But yeah, this pipeline ain't being built as long as Gerald Butz is running the PMO.
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There was a point there I bet you couldn't tell when I was switching between the satirical one and the real one where that guy says,
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we're going to spend some time talking about what makes me, me, and what makes you, you.
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And how does that help those two minimum wage coffee slingers who are saying, so what do I do if a hobo comes in again?
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So what if I do if a guy starts shooting drugs into his toes in the bathroom again?
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Well, you've got to figure out what makes you, you, and then ask what makes him, him.
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Well, you've got to just talk to him about the green apron in the third place.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.