Rebel News Podcast - Miss Understood No. 39 — Recycling Is A Scam

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for the culturally and politically misunderstood

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00:00:33.940 I forget. We are your hosts. I'm Nat. It, it. I am Kat. Her, sure. For sure. For sure.

00:00:43.740 Um, and, and this week, this week we're talking about climate, the death of the liberal and

00:00:53.520 briefly, possibly briefly, uh, how the pandemic has changed us. Hmm. It's fascinating. And we

00:01:00.480 don't have a culture shock yet again. It's going to be shocking enough. You guys, I'm shocked.

00:01:05.720 Well, this one is shook. This one shook me to my core, to my apple core. Okay. Um, which

00:01:13.320 you should compost, by the way. Yes. Uh, there's a new study out that, uh, okay. Well, the

00:01:19.660 article title is plastic recycling is a disaster and a myth. And this was written by vice y'all.

00:01:25.000 Yeah, guys. So that's interesting. It's not even like we're like right wing extremists saying

00:01:28.800 this. This is vice. Like as left as it gets. And Greenpeace USA are the ones who conducted

00:01:34.720 the survey. So crazy times. Or maybe they didn't conduct a survey. I think they did. They did

00:01:42.180 a report. They did a report. It was a report. So a new report from Greenpeace USA paints

00:01:46.680 a dire picture for recycling efforts in the United States. They've fundamentally failed.

00:01:51.380 Yeah. Ouch. I mean, as shocking as it is, I also think it's kind of obvious in a way

00:01:56.640 because there are so many limitations to what you can and cannot recycle. And it's unfair

00:02:00.560 to expect the everyday average person to know how to separate, like you can't plus, you can't

00:02:05.480 recycle black plastic, for example, or your coffee cup with the lining. I've recently learned

00:02:09.960 those. Right. And it's exactly, but it's not intuitive at all. So it's like, of course

00:02:13.560 we failed. It's also interesting that, that like it changes depending on your jurisdiction.

00:02:18.360 I didn't know that. Yeah. So you have to actually look up in your riding what the recycle rules

00:02:23.700 are. Oh, that's silly. Yeah. They're setting us up for failure. Yes, they are. They're literally

00:02:27.860 setting us up for failure. But according to this report, the U.S. plastic recycling rate was

00:02:32.740 estimated to have declined to about five to six percent in 2021, down from a high of 9.5 percent

00:02:40.620 in 2014, sorry, 2014 and 8.7 in 2018. But listen to this. When in 2018, when the U.S. exported

00:02:50.160 millions of tons of plastic waste to China and counted it as recycled. Oh, sure. That's not a lie

00:02:57.400 at all. What? Like I've heard people say that recycling is a scam and I'm like, okay. Tinfoil

00:03:04.440 hat. Yeah. I'm like, I'm like, I'm still going to rinse out my yogurt tub and put it in the

00:03:08.220 recycling bin. But like. Well, also it could smell if you don't. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So you're

00:03:13.080 doing yourself a favor too. Yeah. But like five to six percent. That's crazy. I guess that's better

00:03:19.320 than zero. Is it worth still, like, is it, are you going to continue doing this, like recycling after

00:03:24.540 this? I probably will not, to be honest. Although there is, I guess maybe it's a force of habit at

00:03:30.000 this point. But the article even says that the plastic and product industries have been promoting

00:03:35.180 plastic recycling as a solution to plastic waste since the early 1990s. Some 30 years later,

00:03:40.860 the vast majority of U.S. plastic waste is still not recyclable. So it's like we know this. But don't

00:03:45.960 you find it strange that the government and like the activists aren't trying to maybe come up with a

00:03:50.440 new solution? Like, why aren't we, you know, maybe creating different kinds of plastics that are

00:03:55.020 all recyclable or incentivizing businesses to use those plastics? Like, why are we changing? Well,

00:04:00.120 it's it's why you'll go to like a yogurt shop and get a wooden spoon instead of a plastic one. And

00:04:05.600 honestly, I have no problem with that. Oh, me neither. As long as there's no splinters in it. Yeah. Like

00:04:09.040 the paper straws, they're they're stinky and horrible. Yeah, those are bad. Those are bad. But

00:04:13.260 they're getting the technology is improving with the paper straw. They're making them thicker. It's true.

00:04:16.720 It's true. Like that is something that it sucks. But it's like, okay, I can make my piece and the

00:04:21.240 new Starbucks lids with the iced coffee. People are kind of cute with carrying them. They always

00:04:24.880 look a little chic to me. Yeah, exactly. So I can make my piece with making those changes. But like

00:04:29.300 the plastic lid is still plastic. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. Paper straw. It wrapped in plastic. Put

00:04:34.280 it in the plastic cup. Yeah. And you're like, wait, this can't be good. No. But I don't know. Like,

00:04:41.000 don't you think it's weird that they haven't come up with a way or a solution to recycle either all

00:04:45.540 types of plastic or just like ban certain kinds of plastic? Yeah. Well, that's what

00:04:50.180 they're different. That's what they're doing in Canada. I think starting in 2023, I believe.

00:04:54.300 Yeah. I believe plastic is going to be banned. And we were I think we were talking about that

00:04:58.320 on the live stream a couple of weeks ago. But I again by the end of 2021 was the original

00:05:02.480 goal. OK, well, we're lagging. Yeah. But I do. I do think like apparently microplastics have

00:05:09.420 been found in like human bone marrow or something. Yeah. Something. We're a science man. But

00:05:15.140 some some deep some deep part of the human body in postmortem have found that there's

00:05:22.200 like microplastics in our bodies that where there weren't before. So every time I'm using

00:05:26.400 like a paper plastic spoon or something, I'm like, I try not I try to avoid it because

00:05:31.400 it's like, hold on. Oh, yeah. Sorry. It's coming. Bless you. It's gone. OK, that was good. Very

00:05:49.000 satisfying. So every time you're using plastic, every time I'm using a plastic spoon or eating

00:05:53.760 out of something plastic, I'm like, this is the microplastics they're talking about.

00:05:57.240 It's literally like drawing pen on your skin. It's going in. It's literally disgusting. Like

00:06:02.220 do not microwave your food in the plastic container that you got your takeout in, guys. Like

00:06:07.540 I am guilty of that. Take out. Don't do it now. I'm not going to. Don't do it. I'm going

00:06:11.700 to stop. Yeah. Also, like the fact that so much takeout still comes in plastic, it's really

00:06:16.280 gross because you're like the food is hot. Like you can store food in plastic as long as it's

00:06:20.440 cold. But once it's hot, like it's hot and you put it in the plastic like it's picking

00:06:24.900 up little micro particles. It's really, really bad for you. So. Yeah, that's a good point.

00:06:28.500 Like Swish LA has changed to like the cardboard. It's still like plastic line, though, I think.

00:06:33.500 Right. And so you can't recycle it either. So it's basically all these businesses are just

00:06:37.560 virtue signaling. Yeah, I do recycle it because I feel like I should. But like probably it's

00:06:42.260 probably going in the garbage. It's in China by now. Yeah. So it would be nice to see or 1.00

00:06:47.440 even the tin foil ones. Those are. Oh, yeah. Those are better. Right. Yes. Yeah. The aluminum

00:06:53.400 foil ones. Exactly. Yeah. So we should be working towards reducing our single use plastics because

00:06:59.000 I know I sound like a hippie douche, but. Well, I don't think. OK, I'm sure conservatives will

00:07:03.560 get mad at us for talking about it from this point of view. Come at us, bros. But I mean,

00:07:07.960 we are called the steward of the earth. I want to take care of the earth. I don't want I don't

00:07:11.200 want garbage everywhere. And yes, I do think that a lot of the a lot of the data about all

00:07:16.500 of this stuff has been wildly inflated, wildly inflated. And I think the climate change agenda

00:07:20.780 is a scam. A hundred percent. But I'm not against recycling. I'm absolutely not. No.

00:07:26.400 I think what's interesting, too, is and I saw this somewhere on the Internet once is that

00:07:31.040 it seems like we've created more stuff that cannot be recycled as time has progressed.

00:07:37.240 Whereas like back in the day, people would like get their milk in glass bottles and stuff

00:07:41.920 like that. And yet and I understand glass is not the safest. Like if it breaks, it can be

00:07:45.640 harmful. I still buy my glass, my milk in glass. Right. Exactly. It's very thick. I've dropped

00:07:49.920 it. It's so thick. Yeah. And you get a two dollar deposit on it. Right. Exactly. Like

00:07:53.840 so maybe trying to utilize things like that. And it tastes better. Yeah, of course it tastes

00:07:58.460 better because it'd be cooler. Yeah. Like all these things like. So, I mean, there are

00:08:02.920 it's interesting how we've gotten worse, even though the hysteria around climate is also increasing

00:08:08.180 day by day. You're like, I don't understand. And also like your phone. Hello. Like how much of this

00:08:14.860 is recyclable? Oh, yeah. What what metallic components that we got from slave labor in

00:08:20.260 Africa are recyclable in that phone? And then the we're like it'll be like Telus or Bell 0.94

00:08:25.680 or Rogers being like today is like we recycle day. Do you also the next day they're like you

00:08:32.020 need a new phone because we made your phone in such a way that it will die in two years

00:08:37.660 or you can't plug in your headphones anymore. And you can't recycle it. Right. And it's the same

00:08:41.260 with like electric vehicles. Any electronics. Yeah. Electric vehicles, the batteries. They don't

00:08:45.380 decompose, you guys. It's a scam. It's a scam. It's unfortunate. It really is. But it is interesting

00:08:51.340 that Vice is acknowledging that recycling is a scam, yet they're still like perpetuating

00:08:56.520 this climate hysteria narrative. And it's like, well, maybe if we're questioning recycling

00:09:00.400 plastics, we should also question what else the government is telling us about, you know,

00:09:04.980 climate change and all that. I don't know. Question nothing. Yeah. Trust the government. Right.

00:09:09.920 Just wait for Vice to tell you what to do. Yeah, exactly. And then you'll be good. And then

00:09:13.400 another article from Vice about those young climate activists who were throwing soup on the Mona

00:09:19.340 Lisa and whatnot. Now, my biggest takeaway from this article, which is a big relief, is that all

00:09:26.120 of those paintings that have been destroyed were protected by glass. Yeah. Guys. Thank God. Thank

00:09:31.480 God. Because I was thinking like, shouldn't they? Priceless. Priceless art. I'm like, they should

00:09:36.620 either hack off the arms of the people who are doing that. Yes. Or we should put them behind

00:09:41.760 glass. So it's like, okay, they're at least they're making like a theatrical statement. But

00:09:45.780 really, the only people they're hurting are themselves because they're super gluing themselves

00:09:50.840 to stuff, which I don't understand. It's absurd. And there's so many things to say about this. But

00:09:55.700 it's also like, are you actually like, what is this accomplishing? Like, when did raising awareness

00:10:01.040 ever actually do anything tangible that benefited the cause? I've never, I can't think of one

00:10:06.280 example. Like, cool, you got a bunch of clicks on Twitter and whatever, but what do you actually

00:10:10.780 do for the environment? It's raising awareness. Right. Because we don't hear enough about climate

00:10:15.280 change. Yeah. It's never talked about. It hasn't been a decade long scam. It hasn't been addressed.

00:10:20.000 It's never been addressed. Yeah. There aren't documentaries. It's not something that the Prime Minister of

00:10:24.140 Canada literally talks about every single day on Twitter. Ugh. And we've done a sketch about

00:10:30.840 Extinction Rebellion, but I didn't know that. So in this article on Vice, they talk about the group

00:10:35.740 Extinction Rebellion, whose single demand is that the government commits to ending all licenses and

00:10:40.580 permissions for fossil fuel projects. Like, give me a break. Like, what are we going to do in the

00:10:49.060 meantime? Like, in the meantime, people will die. Yeah. Because they can't drive anywhere. They can't

00:10:55.100 heat their homes. Which is funny because they're so scared about the earth dying and they'll die by

00:11:00.120 climate change, yet they're willing to sacrifice themselves for the cause. It's like- And us.

00:11:04.760 All of us. Exactly. At our expense as well. And there's a lot of cognitive dissonance here. I think

00:11:10.360 it's maybe brainwashed a little bit. A little bit. It's something brain related. Well, and of course,

00:11:15.280 it makes sense from, like, a secular perspective because these people are- they've found something

00:11:20.540 to put their hope in and they've latched onto it and now it's their entire life and their identity.

00:11:24.980 And it's pretty sad, but honestly, it just- these kids are brats? Yeah, they're brats. More-

00:11:30.380 They're climate brats. Mostly that's what I take away from it. Yeah. I think also the first article-

00:11:34.820 sorry, the first sentence in this article is, for most of us, doing our bit for the climate means

00:11:38.820 giving up meat, remembering to take the recycling out, and avoiding shrimp rack cucumbers in the

00:11:43.160 supermarket. Okay, so I'll recycle. I will buy cucumbers that aren't shrink-wrapped because

00:11:47.580 why does it need to be? It's already in, like, a thick, waxy skin. It's hard to find them. Sure it is.

00:11:51.300 But if I could find one, I'd buy it. Sure. But for most of us, doing our bit means giving up meat.

00:11:57.060 No. No. No. No. No. And it's very, very arguable that by eating processed, like, soy and canola oil

00:12:08.200 products that are, like, mushed into something that looks like meat, it's actually a lot worse for the

00:12:12.260 environment. And yourself. And yourself. Meat is 100% meat. Beyond meat is a bunch of other

00:12:18.180 crap. It's a bunch of stuff that- It's like 30 ingredients. Apparently, impossible burgers are,

00:12:21.680 like, maybe not suitable for eating. Oh. Like, this is, like, new. They're like, oh, it might not

00:12:27.240 actually, you probably shouldn't eat that. That's great. Great. That's great. That's great. So,

00:12:32.820 please don't eat impossible. They're literally called impossible burgers because they shouldn't exist.

00:12:38.300 Yeah. And they're disgusting. I've never had one. Have you had one? No. I refuse. I refuse. I love

00:12:45.200 meat. I'm a flaming carny. And I will eat cows till the cows come home. Wow. Ethically, of course.

00:12:55.680 Yes. Well, that's the thing, though. My husband and I buy ethically raised, sourced meat from our local

00:13:02.100 butchers. So, not only are we- That's so based. We're supporting our local economy. It's all from

00:13:05.680 Ontario. That's- It's good. It's- You can't get any better than that. You can't get better than

00:13:09.860 that. You literally- Unless you go out and shoot it yourself. Yes. Of course. That is the best you

00:13:13.180 can do as a city- As a city slicker like that. Yeah. It's true. But- Not me, though. No. She's-

00:13:17.540 She's out hunting. I'm hard. Yeah. I'm- I'm hunting. She's already taught her baby

00:13:20.900 out of his arrival. So, she's- Claps. Soon. Claps for cat. Yeah. There's also another thing I wanted to

00:13:28.480 talk about. Yes. So, okay. So, in this article, they kind of profile a couple of people who have

00:13:33.680 been arrested doing these Extinction Rebellion stuff. Oh, yeah. One of them is super funny.

00:13:38.080 Yes. So, this guy, I wrote his name, but then I- I didn't. I thought I did, but I wrote

00:13:43.400 XX. So, whatever. That's his name. His name is XX. He's like 21, and he's been in prison

00:13:48.540 since March. And so, this is his quote about living in prison. Oh, good. I wake up every

00:13:53.940 morning and exercise in the yard and spend an hour or two socializing with my neighbors who

00:13:57.840 show me kindness and care. I'm sure they do. I spend most of my days reading and watching

00:14:01.680 TV and play pool and snooker with my friends in the wing. The vegan food is pretty good

00:14:06.080 and the culture is jovial and positive. My-

00:14:08.780 Prison sounds great. Yeah. Like, honestly, this person's life is probably better than

00:14:13.500 it would be if he wasn't in prison. Yeah. Because he's a 21-year-old.

00:14:16.500 21-year-old with probably no skills. Wow. Maybe. Who, like, in the UK- Sign me up.

00:14:23.060 This is, like, UK-based. And in the UK, the cost of living is extremely high. Yeah.

00:14:27.100 Like, this one girl who's 29 said she came back from living in Thailand with her partner

00:14:30.820 to come home and the cost of living was too expensive, so she immediately joins Extinction

00:14:34.600 Rebellion and gets arrested. Naturally. That's what you do. Yeah. Like, so, basically,

00:14:39.760 you are watching TV, playing pool, socializing, eating vegan food while the taxpayers are funding

00:14:46.100 it. Yeah. And you don't have to worry about bills or anything. No.

00:14:48.480 All you have to do is pretend to worry about the climate and blame everyone else while you're

00:14:54.000 in prison. It's genius. It's yucking it up, basically. It's genius. It's like a male going 0.99

00:14:57.860 to a female prison. It's genius. It's pretty, like, you know, maybe in America the prisons 1.00

00:15:03.560 would be rougher. Perhaps. I don't know. But it's, like, maybe they're literally just getting

00:15:08.740 arrested so they don't have to deal with the real world. I don't blame them. Sign me up.

00:15:11.980 There's this other girl, too, how she was asked if she's concerned about the impact this

00:15:16.140 will have on her future, and she's, like, she's 20, by the way. I'm a little bit, yeah.

00:15:20.120 Yeah. I'm in my 20s, so I do have a long future career ahead of me.

00:15:24.020 No, that's the girl who's 29. 0.88

00:15:25.540 Oh, really?

00:15:26.100 Yeah. She's 20. She's 20?

00:15:27.720 Oh, she's in her 20s. Sorry.

00:15:28.760 Yeah, I know. But it's just, like, 29, girl. You're not in her 20s anymore.

00:15:31.000 Oh, yeah. Sorry. Okay, yeah. So, she's in her 20s, she says. So, I don't have a long

00:15:34.440 future career. I do have a long future career ahead of me. A lot of the activists that went

00:15:38.260 to prison are retired. There's a reason that the older generation gets involved with this

00:15:42.380 high-risk kind of stuff. Yeah, so, basically, old, miserable hippies whose lives

00:15:46.440 are over. Like, yeah, do it. Do it. Because they want you to be miserable just like them.

00:15:50.440 That's what I'm getting from this. And stinky. Yeah, and really stinky. These old farts don't 1.00

00:15:53.880 care about you. Yeah. Like, and, um, ironically, I was listening to Joe Rogan on the way to work

00:15:58.740 today, and he had Bridget Phetasy on, and they were talking about this exact same, not this

00:16:03.680 exact article, but they were talking about the brats throwing the soup on the paintings

00:16:06.740 and whatnot. And she was like, she was like, just clean up a beach. Yeah. Just go clean up

00:16:11.260 a beach. Show me pictures of all the stuff you got off the beach, all the plastics you took

00:16:15.460 out of the ocean. It's so true. Do something. That's the thing, though. It's like when

00:16:19.060 Jordan Peterson says, like, you got to make your own bed first. Like, why, if you want

00:16:22.180 to inspire change, why don't you start with yourself? Like, if you want to be a climate

00:16:26.500 activist, I guess so. But, like, I don't know, you start recycling. Set a positive example.

00:16:31.300 Maybe people will follow suit if you don't, like, you don't have to have a temper tantrum

00:16:34.900 and ruin, try to ruin paintings. Yeah. And then in this article, they talk about how being

00:16:38.460 a climate activist is a lot of sitting around, like, on the phone with lawyers, being

00:16:42.900 in jail, sitting in front of a bulldozer or whatever. So just wasting time and taxpayer

00:16:46.500 dollars. Yeah. So you're basically a climate inactivist. You're just sitting on your butt

00:16:49.860 doing nothing, complaining that the world is screwing you over, and then going to prison

00:16:53.260 where you're getting fed vegan food and playing pool. That's funny. That should be the title

00:16:56.760 of the show. Write that down. Cool. I don't know what I said. But anyways. Climate inactivist.

00:17:00.500 Inactivist. There we go. Nailed it. Okay. Anyway. Anyways. And by the way, I agree with

00:17:04.960 their right to protest. Sure. And I know you do, too. But, like, vandalization for the sake

00:17:09.260 of cliques is way different than protesting for your rights and freedoms or just protesting

00:17:13.760 to raise awareness for something. I can live with that if you want to. Yeah. Yeah. But

00:17:17.740 protest away. Not at the expense of people's safety and at the expense of priceless paintings.

00:17:23.020 No. There's not much to enjoy in 2022. It's nice if we can just look at the beautiful art.

00:17:28.100 Yeah. Look at the art that's priceless. The priceless art. It's not bad. Anyways. Great.

00:17:32.580 Let's talk about how the old libs are dead. They've died. Shocker. They're gone.

00:17:37.080 Shocking. Shocking. I'm shocked. Where did they go? Yes. So, this article's from the Daily

00:17:41.760 Wire. It's the anti-war left is dead and gone, if it ever even existed. So, basically, the

00:17:46.960 whole point of this is, like, my takeaway was, like, these three things. Like, the left

00:17:53.160 is now pro-Big Pharma, anti-free speech, and pro-war. Yeah. And that's, pro-war is specifically

00:18:00.340 what they're talking about in this article. Because a couple weeks ago, the Democrat,

00:18:05.020 Washington rep? Yeah. Congresswoman Pramila J. Apple. Yeah, J. Apple. She had a letter

00:18:13.340 co-signed by 50 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, CPC, asking Biden to proactively

00:18:18.640 seek peace talks with Russia and Ukraine. Yeah. Oh, but wait, what happened to the letter?

00:18:24.900 Well, she pulled it because the letter was chiefly because calling for peace talks appeared

00:18:31.180 to line up with GOP, Republican, talking points. So, basically, they're willing to forego peace

00:18:36.620 because they don't want to be in line with the Republicans. Oh, my gersh. Oh, my gersh.

00:18:43.640 By the way, there are Republicans who are pro-war in Ukraine. There's a lot of them. Yeah,

00:18:47.220 it's sus. It's sus. A little too many, in my opinion. A little too many, yeah. And that's also

00:18:52.640 what I took away from this because it's like, we have to be so discerning when it comes to

00:18:57.040 politicians just because they slap a nice label of Republican or Democrat or Conservative or Liberal.

00:19:02.600 That doesn't mean anything. No. You can't be in a cult like that. Yeah. You have to question

00:19:09.620 everything because, like, and that's why I think when Trump refers to the swamp, it's unlikely he was

00:19:15.560 just pointing fingers at these Democrats because there are so many politicians, especially in

00:19:21.520 Canada. You notice this, too, when you have the same politicians winning over and over again. Like,

00:19:25.180 these people are just in it for the paycheck. I would love to know what they've actually

00:19:29.220 accomplished and what they've actually, as Conservatives, have conserved in the Conservative

00:19:33.320 sense. Like, it's like, I don't know. We just can't get caught up in the words they say. I think we

00:19:37.160 need to pay attention to the legislation they pass and all that sort of stuff. And that's what I took

00:19:41.100 away from this article, even though it's about the death of the liberal, in a sense. It's kind

00:19:46.880 of like, well, actually, it seems like it's the death of politicians with integrity.

00:19:51.280 Were there ever. I don't know. Did they ever exist, as per the article? Yeah. But, like,

00:19:55.980 we've probably said this before, but, like, you can't just be in a cult where you agree with

00:20:01.220 any... In lockstep. Exactly. Like, if maybe a Conservative candidate that you like is like,

00:20:06.960 oh, I feel this way on abortion. You're like, I agree with that. But that does not mean that you

00:20:10.000 have to co-sign on all of the other things that they agree with just because they're on your side

00:20:14.600 on one issue. Like, you have to use, like, Nat was just saying, you have to use critical thinking

00:20:19.420 and, like, look at each issue and make these decisions. They're important. An informed decision.

00:20:23.600 Exactly. They're important decisions. And I think that's what's interesting about bipartisan...

00:20:29.020 Partisan... Part... Bi... That's what's interesting about bipartisanism.

00:20:35.600 Shut up. Shut up. Whatever. Whatever. 1.00

00:20:38.880 That's what's interesting about the two parties, the left and the right, is that we hate the

00:20:44.520 opposition so much that we're willing... We're blinded by our hatred. So we're willing to vote

00:20:49.380 in the Conservative Party or the Democrat Party or the Republican Party just to get someone

00:20:53.800 out. And it's like, that is silly in a way because it's like... It's silly.

00:20:56.580 You have to vote for your values. Like, you got it. You owe it to yourself.

00:21:01.240 And also, like, not just that they're willing to vote in the other guy who's the opposite or

00:21:06.360 whatever. They're willing to bring us to the brink of nuclear war with Russia just to not 0.70

00:21:13.540 be a Republican, not to line up with the Republican values on this. Like...

00:21:16.860 What the heck? You guys, like... Talk about putting the people last.

00:21:22.080 Yeah. Like, people are worried about the climate. They think that's an imminent threat to them

00:21:27.080 when literally we're like 10 seconds to midnight on nuclear war right now.

00:21:32.080 Yeah.

00:21:32.700 But...

00:21:33.500 Yeah. It's mind-boggling.

00:21:36.040 It's mind-boggling.

00:21:37.080 Yeah. And it's, like, is there some secret room where all these politicians are going

00:21:41.280 to get to if this nuclear war erupts?

00:21:43.320 Probably.

00:21:43.880 Like, I guess we're not invited as regular folk.

00:21:46.520 But don't worry. Keep gluing your head to a painting.

00:21:48.980 Yeah.

00:21:50.160 That's going to change the world.

00:21:51.440 It's going to solve all our problems.

00:21:52.160 Instead of actually calling on your...

00:21:54.080 The people that you've voted for.

00:21:56.300 Local representative, yeah.

00:21:56.760 To...

00:21:57.260 This is exactly what they should have been.

00:21:59.420 Writing a letter asking Biden to proactively seek peace.

00:22:02.980 Yeah.

00:22:03.820 That is the best thing we can do.

00:22:05.600 That's all we can do.

00:22:06.460 So, there will...

00:22:07.020 Like, I'm not an expert on Russia-Ukraine by any means.

00:22:10.000 But my understanding of it is Russia big, strong.

00:22:13.680 Yeah.

00:22:13.920 Ukraine, small, weak.

00:22:16.020 Probably not going to win an arms war with Russia.

00:22:19.520 Yeah.

00:22:19.680 So, like, even Russia's the bad guy. 0.93

00:22:23.380 We need to make a negotiation.

00:22:25.700 Like, on the weekend, I woke up and went on Twitter and I saw that Justin Trudeau had

00:22:29.620 just sent more military vehicles to Ukraine.

00:22:32.040 And they're like...

00:22:32.560 And he said, we're going to train them how to use them.

00:22:34.460 And we're going to support Ukraine every step of the way.

00:22:37.340 And we're going to give them as much aid as they need.

00:22:38.720 It's like, you're signing our death warrant right now.

00:22:41.760 Yeah.

00:22:41.860 Because...

00:22:42.180 Yeah.

00:22:42.360 You can't just...

00:22:43.400 You can't just keep, like, sending money and arms to...

00:22:47.140 Which is causing...

00:22:48.240 I mean, the cost of living in Canada is insane right now.

00:22:51.680 Yeah.

00:22:51.740 Let's just keep sending more money overseas.

00:22:53.740 Let's not get to the root of the issue of...

00:22:55.520 And even if we had unlimited money...

00:22:57.160 But even still, like...

00:22:58.260 You're bringing us to the brink of nuclear war.

00:23:00.120 Yeah.

00:23:00.240 What we need to do is negotiate.

00:23:01.660 But Zelensky has literally said, negotiation is not on the table.

00:23:04.600 And that's the person that we're funding.

00:23:06.660 Yeah.

00:23:07.280 That's...

00:23:07.760 It's not great, you guys.

00:23:10.000 But, like...

00:23:10.420 And so they had an opportunity here.

00:23:12.700 Sure, it's just a letter.

00:23:13.620 But it's a step in the right direction.

00:23:15.440 Yeah.

00:23:15.460 And because they didn't want to be seen as Republican, they pulled it.

00:23:19.560 Yeah.

00:23:19.820 They care more about how they're perceived...

00:23:21.820 Yes, exactly.

00:23:22.500 Than literally your face melting from a nuclear blast.

00:23:25.420 It's pretty disgusting.

00:23:26.960 Anyways.

00:23:27.500 Didn't think that would go in that direction.

00:23:28.780 There's no hope for politicians, I guess.

00:23:31.780 They're all bad.

00:23:32.520 Yeah.

00:23:32.780 Sorry.

00:23:33.300 Yeah.

00:23:34.160 Even you, if you're a politician and you're watching this.

00:23:36.000 Yeah, you're terrible.

00:23:36.780 You're kind of bad.

00:23:37.320 You are the problem.

00:23:38.020 You are the problem.

00:23:38.380 Unfortunately.

00:23:39.240 What else do we got here?

00:23:41.380 You know, the economists talking about the illiberal left.

00:23:45.460 There's so much jargon in this.

00:23:46.880 Yeah.

00:23:47.280 It was...

00:23:47.740 It's a lot.

00:23:48.840 But basically, classical liberals are now conservatives.

00:23:53.880 Yes.

00:23:54.060 And lefties, who once identified with classical liberalism, are now so far left that they're

00:23:59.600 just mad people.

00:24:01.060 They're crazy.

00:24:01.860 Yeah.

00:24:02.000 That's what I took away from it.

00:24:03.200 Yes, pretty much.

00:24:04.120 Yeah.

00:24:05.860 Basically, also, one interesting part about this is Milton Friedman once said that society

00:24:10.960 that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither.

00:24:13.500 And that's, that's something, I mean, because the far left right now is so into equity and

00:24:19.100 equality and diversity and shpoobity, shpoobity, shpoob.

00:24:23.320 And like, it's not doing anything good.

00:24:26.840 Yeah.

00:24:27.080 Like, it's done.

00:24:28.020 It's only created more divide.

00:24:29.640 And I think in 2022, even though we don't have vaccine mandates and all that stuff, it

00:24:34.340 still doesn't feel like we're really free because we're under the bondage of these social

00:24:38.920 expectations.

00:24:39.680 Yeah.

00:24:40.320 You know?

00:24:40.820 It's better than it was a year ago, but you're absolutely right.

00:24:43.320 But like, even still, you know, the, the left, the mob gets woker and woker and bigger

00:24:47.200 and bigger and cancel culture.

00:24:48.900 How much woker can you get?

00:24:49.420 I know.

00:24:49.900 And, and we're, you can get canceled for everything or doxxed or whatever it is.

00:24:54.020 And it's, it is scary.

00:24:56.020 Yeah.

00:24:56.240 They've become totalitarian.

00:24:57.420 That reminds me of another quote from this article, um, which is extremely left leaning.

00:25:02.320 This whole article is talking about how like Trumpism ruined the world and whatever, but

00:25:05.360 there's some nuggets here.

00:25:06.540 So here's a nugget.

00:25:07.280 They say they have also, they being the left, they have also brought along tactics to enforce

00:25:12.420 illogical purity by not, no platforming their enemies and canceling allies who have transgressed 0.78

00:25:17.880 with echoes of the confessional state that dominated Europe before classical liberalism took

00:25:22.440 root at the end of the 18th century.

00:25:23.800 And it's like, yeah, like if you've seen the movie Braveheart, like, you know when he's

00:25:27.780 getting tortured at the end and spoiler and they're like ripped, they're disemboweling

00:25:32.860 him and they're like, confess, confess.

00:25:35.060 It's literally that like, you're not getting disemboweled on a table in front of a crowd,

00:25:38.660 but you're getting dehumained on a massive platform and canceled.

00:25:42.780 And like, you could lose your job.

00:25:43.820 You could lose your banking account.

00:25:45.760 Like you can lose your ability to take part in the public discourse.

00:25:49.920 Your jobs, everything.

00:25:50.300 Exactly.

00:25:51.440 And unless you confess, like, just like we talked about last week with Taylor Swift.

00:25:55.740 Exactly.

00:25:56.220 Like she did nothing wrong, but she had to like confess to her sin of saying sometimes

00:26:01.400 she's worried that she's fat, like because she has an eating disorder and they had, and

00:26:06.000 she had to confess lest she be canceled.

00:26:08.240 Yeah.

00:26:08.740 It's disgusting.

00:26:09.680 That's the thing.

00:26:09.820 There's just no grace.

00:26:10.840 These people offer you no grace, no room to grow or change.

00:26:14.300 Even if you do actually say something that's truly wrong, like I think, you know, I believe

00:26:20.080 in repenting.

00:26:20.920 Yeah.

00:26:21.020 We all make mistakes.

00:26:21.500 And that's the thing with social media being as big as it is.

00:26:24.040 Like if I'm on Twitter every day popping off.

00:26:26.060 Yeah.

00:26:26.240 You know, I'm going to say something stupid eventually.

00:26:27.980 Yeah, exactly.

00:26:28.000 Like that's why we have to be careful with our words.

00:26:32.060 But people make mistakes.

00:26:33.580 Are we not above like forgiving people?

00:26:36.680 Yeah.

00:26:36.880 Like our politicians are in rooms right now bringing us closer and closer to nuclear war

00:26:42.460 and no one cares about that.

00:26:44.840 But if someone like Nat misgenders someone or I say.

00:26:48.200 Or the pulse was so fat.

00:26:48.980 Yeah.

00:26:49.200 Or I say climate change isn't real.

00:26:50.800 Like that's the biggest threat going on right now.

00:26:53.180 Like that's what we need to cancel each other for.

00:26:56.240 Gosh darn it.

00:26:57.260 Gosh darn it.

00:26:57.920 Gosh darn it.

00:26:58.560 Just cancel them.

00:26:59.540 Cancel them.

00:27:00.380 All right.

00:27:00.780 All right.

00:27:01.140 Speaking of being canceled.

00:27:03.400 The pandemic.

00:27:04.020 It's canceled.

00:27:04.740 Yes.

00:27:04.960 It's over.

00:27:05.380 So new research provides evidence that the pandemic changed our personalities.

00:27:10.080 So a new study published in PLOS One.

00:27:13.500 I don't know.

00:27:13.960 I don't know what that is.

00:27:14.300 Suggested the COVID pandemic was indeed triggered.

00:27:16.340 Has indeed triggered much greater shifts in personality than we would expect.

00:27:19.800 So the researchers found that people were less extroverted, less open, less agreeable,

00:27:23.320 and less conscientious in 2022 and 20.

00:27:26.320 Oh, sorry.

00:27:26.740 2021 and 22 compared to before the pandemic.

00:27:30.880 So I personally witnessed this in my friends and my family.

00:27:34.560 Well, absolutely.

00:27:35.800 Because it was the most polarizing time, especially if you were someone who was questioning the

00:27:40.320 narrative from the get-go.

00:27:41.600 Yeah.

00:27:41.780 You were automatically deemed a bigot or a right-wing or a conspiracy theorist.

00:27:47.480 And then these people who were mostly tended to be on the left in my experience, they were

00:27:52.660 like, peace out.

00:27:53.460 We're not friends anymore.

00:27:54.580 Yeah, literally.

00:27:54.900 You literally spent years on the defense, basically.

00:27:57.760 And before the pandemic, you could have, I could have interesting political debates

00:28:02.160 with my friends where it's like, I think this.

00:28:04.460 Yeah.

00:28:04.900 I think this.

00:28:05.700 Like, climate change was always a touchy issue.

00:28:07.260 Yes.

00:28:07.640 But there were things you could talk about where you're like, I don't know about that.

00:28:11.220 I've heard this.

00:28:11.880 And it's like, oh, okay, maybe.

00:28:13.300 But once the pandemic hit, all of that discourse was completely gone.

00:28:17.440 It's like, oh, you don't believe in the science?

00:28:19.400 You want to kill grandma? 0.99

00:28:20.900 Like, you're not getting vaccinated?

00:28:22.400 Like, you're done.

00:28:23.320 Exactly.

00:28:23.960 You're not invited to Christmas anymore, Catherine?

00:28:27.000 Like, seems like the reasonable response.

00:28:29.320 And it totally makes sense, though.

00:28:30.880 We were trapped in our homes.

00:28:31.940 Some people were trapped in their homes listening to various conservative commentators.

00:28:36.300 Some others, it was CNN and CBC.

00:28:39.340 Everyone was just polarized, yeah.

00:28:39.400 On both sides.

00:28:40.180 Exactly.

00:28:40.680 Absolutely.

00:28:41.300 So there wasn't a lot of well-roundedness.

00:28:43.500 And it's fair.

00:28:44.840 I mean, of course, people were just, they wanted to know what was going on with the world.

00:28:48.360 It was an uncertain time.

00:28:50.160 But, and then you, like, exactly.

00:28:52.780 You have, like, if you're one of the people not just mentioned listening to CBC or the

00:28:56.880 opposite or whatever, you are being inundated, is that the word?

00:29:00.700 Yeah.

00:29:01.060 And with, with a message that you are, you should be scared of your fellow man.

00:29:05.040 Like, were you ever walking on the sidewalk?

00:29:07.560 And they crossed the street.

00:29:08.340 Yeah.

00:29:08.620 Yeah.

00:29:09.560 Yeah.

00:29:10.360 Absolutely.

00:29:11.040 That was so normal back then.

00:29:12.360 People were crazy.

00:29:13.220 They were crazy.

00:29:14.060 People were yelling at each other in elevators.

00:29:16.740 Yeah.

00:29:17.460 Like, yelling.

00:29:19.100 Yeah.

00:29:19.500 Things that you would never have done.

00:29:20.720 You would only do that on Twitter in the past.

00:29:22.040 But now people are screaming at each other in their, like, I had a lady, I had a, like,

00:29:26.060 I have a really bad back sometimes.

00:29:27.240 So sometimes I use a cane.

00:29:29.320 Like, it's very rare.

00:29:30.640 But sometimes I need my cane.

00:29:32.040 It's terrible.

00:29:32.500 It's embarrassing.

00:29:33.600 So this one time I had to use my cane and in my apartment building, you were, during

00:29:37.560 COVID, you had to go downstairs to get your food dropped off, like, from DoorDash.

00:29:41.520 Yes, they wouldn't bring it up to you.

00:29:42.200 They wouldn't bring it up.

00:29:42.880 So I asked the guy, the DoorDash guy, to bring mine up to me because I was crippled.

00:29:48.820 And there was a lady in the lobby when the guy tried to come in and use the elevator and

00:29:53.000 she yelled at him. 0.98

00:29:54.260 And so the guy calls me, the Uber delivery driver calls me and he was like, oh, there's a,

00:29:58.980 I can hear her in the background yelling. 1.00

00:30:00.400 There's a woman here. 1.00

00:30:00.960 She won't let me get in the elevator.

00:30:02.080 I was like, I was like, fine, just leave the food there.

00:30:04.520 I'll come get it.

00:30:05.080 So I waited five minutes because I was like, I want her to go away.

00:30:07.320 Yeah.

00:30:07.640 So I get my cane, like, hobble down in the elevator.

00:30:11.440 Like, I'm literally like, this is crippling pain.

00:30:13.360 Get out of the elevator.

00:30:14.720 And this woman in a mask, right up in my face, like, two feet from my mouth is like, 1.00

00:30:21.020 is this your food?

00:30:21.920 Is this your food?

00:30:22.840 And I was like, yeah.

00:30:24.120 She's like, don't you know the rules?

00:30:25.520 And I was like, don't you see my cane?

00:30:28.580 Where's the humanity?

00:30:29.620 I was like, I can't walk.

00:30:31.160 Like, I'm sorry.

00:30:32.520 She was horrible.

00:30:33.740 But that's crazy.

00:30:34.940 And that's something masks did.

00:30:36.340 And I think we've talked about this before, just how that, like, it, like, empowers you

00:30:40.400 to be bolder because you're hidden.

00:30:42.640 You're a mask.

00:30:43.460 You're anonymous.

00:30:43.880 So you're able to say things that you wouldn't normally say.

00:30:46.180 That's like being on Twitter.

00:30:47.980 You're able to say things you wouldn't normally say in the public sphere because you are an

00:30:51.500 anonymous troll.

00:30:52.100 But, like, the fact that we've got to get to this point where there's just, you're not

00:30:56.580 a human being to her anymore.

00:30:57.800 You're just an anti-masker, anti-vaxxer, or just you're breaking the rules.

00:31:02.000 You're going to kill grandma.

00:31:03.080 Yeah, I'm going to kill.

00:31:03.640 Well, it's like, lady, just leave the freaking lobby. 1.00

00:31:06.500 Like, you're spitting particles in my mouth right now.

00:31:09.120 It's just so insane that they've minimized people to be just these labels.

00:31:13.060 And it's like, man, like, you are human beings.

00:31:16.120 Like, you, like, I can't even fathom how it's come to this.

00:31:19.480 Well, we're all in this together.

00:31:20.620 Yeah, of course.

00:31:21.180 Remember that?

00:31:21.740 Remember how fast that went away?

00:31:23.520 Oh, yeah.

00:31:25.320 It was like, we're all in this together unless.

00:31:28.860 Yeah.

00:31:29.800 The list is too long.

00:31:31.300 Yeah.

00:31:31.600 The list is too long.

00:31:32.380 So we're all in this together over here and you guys can just die.

00:31:35.280 Yeah.

00:31:35.560 As per the Toronto Star.

00:31:37.100 And the government did this to us.

00:31:39.260 Yeah.

00:31:39.640 The government did this to us.

00:31:41.040 Yeah.

00:31:41.320 So.

00:31:42.020 Politicians are to blame.

00:31:43.220 Yes.

00:31:43.340 And the media, legacy media went right along with it.

00:31:46.420 And everyone went along with it.

00:31:48.160 Celebrities.

00:31:49.480 Um, our institutions are once trusted institutions.

00:31:52.440 Yeah.

00:31:52.740 Although I feel liberated knowing that we shouldn't trust them now.

00:31:56.340 And then you see someone like Justin Trudeau who has literally called out Rebel News by name

00:32:01.840 saying that we're, we are the cause of division in Canada.

00:32:05.740 Yeah.

00:32:05.980 Like, what?

00:32:08.720 No.

00:32:09.260 Like, what are you talking about?

00:32:11.420 You literally said like, those people, those disgusting unvaccinated people, like, they 1.00

00:32:15.620 shouldn't be allowed to do this.

00:32:16.400 And then they're like, but Rebel News is causing division in Canada.

00:32:20.800 And we need to shut down their misinformation, even though the things that we said six months

00:32:24.440 ago are now proving to be true.

00:32:25.800 Yeah.

00:32:26.080 Not just us, but like.

00:32:26.640 And the mainstream media is saying it all loud.

00:32:28.900 Like, so many people are coming out being like, hey, by the way, they were maybe right.

00:32:33.060 Those tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists.

00:32:35.100 Maybe they were a little bit right.

00:32:36.640 Yeah.

00:32:36.860 Maybe.

00:32:37.460 No.

00:32:37.680 Yeah.

00:32:38.000 No.

00:32:38.360 Okay.

00:32:38.700 That's okay.

00:32:39.320 I think that's the sure.

00:32:41.460 I think that's the sure.

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00:33:19.220 Look at us.

00:33:19.620 We're literally dressed the exact same today.

00:33:21.280 I know.

00:33:21.720 That was a coincidence.

00:33:22.680 It was an accident.

00:33:24.500 Twin day.

00:33:24.840 Because we're at a close.

00:33:26.160 Yeah.

00:33:26.600 Try having a new outfit every week.

00:33:28.040 Try it.

00:33:28.560 It's pretty hard.

00:33:29.300 And this is our 39th episode.

00:33:31.100 That's 39 weeks.

00:33:32.280 That's 39 outfits.

00:33:33.140 That's 39 outfits.

00:33:33.600 We have not repeated.

00:33:34.440 And with inflation, I will not be able to buy more clothes.

00:33:37.420 You're going to start seeing repeats.

00:33:38.540 You're going to see repeats.

00:33:39.600 As long as we don't repeat the same outfit on the same day.

00:33:42.240 Yes.

00:33:42.520 That would be embarrassing.

00:33:43.300 Oh, should we?

00:33:43.920 In order?

00:33:44.620 Yeah.

00:33:45.040 We'll just go back to episode one.

00:33:46.780 And just, I was thinking about it.

00:33:48.160 Actually, it kind of makes sense time-wise.

00:33:49.580 Yeah.

00:33:49.660 Because our first episode was like February.

00:33:51.060 So it's going to be like winter look.

00:33:52.120 Let's do it.

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Rebel News Podcast - November 08, 2022

Miss Understood No. 39 — Recycling Is A Scam

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