Rebel News Podcast - Putin’s state broadcaster joins Trudeau's CBC in mocking North American ethical oil

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Aren't you in for a treat for today? I'm going to sing you a song.

00:00:04.280 I'm going to sing you a song in Russian. But before I do that, I'm going to play a Russian

00:00:10.760 rock video sung by someone who's an even worse singer than me. So you're probably thinking,

00:00:17.540 I don't want to listen to Ezra singing. I just don't want to put myself through that punishment.

00:00:21.120 Well, you'll listen to the actual Russian singer first, and I will be like relief.

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00:01:06.120 Tonight, Vladimir Putin's state broadcaster joins Trudeau's state broadcaster in mocking

00:01:11.180 North American ethical energy. It's May 30th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:16.000 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:21.860 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:25.900 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's

00:01:30.280 my bloody right to do so. 0.95

00:01:37.220 I came across this on Twitter, and I know there's a lot of junk out there. I mean, this is really 0.96

00:01:41.940 just some random liberal journalist, one of a thousand, just pumping out boring, vanilla

00:01:48.440 leftism from a cubicle in Brooklyn, probably. Anything anti-Trump, anything cynical, and

00:01:53.960 never a patriotic thought, never an original thought, and God forbid, never a dissident thought.

00:02:00.200 This is the tweet here by Ryan Cooper. It says,

00:02:04.020 actual Trump administration, quote, increasing export capacity from the Freeport liquid natural

00:02:10.420 gas project is critical to spreading freedom gas. Freedom gas! He said gas! Or, I don't know,

00:02:20.380 was that the funny part or was it the freedom part? I think it's the gas part. I think that's

00:02:26.020 the junior high school level humor here. Yeah, he said freedom gas.

00:02:30.060 There's a wonderful and exciting world out there when we discover that we don't need TV to

00:02:36.560 entertain us. He thought ain't us. Yeah, look, I don't know what was so funny. Maybe the joke was

00:02:52.040 the gas part. Maybe the joke was the freedom part, which is odd because the town in question from which

00:02:59.040 the LNG will be exported is called Freeport. There are a lot of cities and towns called Freeport,

00:03:04.280 actually, and the name absolutely has to do with freedom. But I guess freedom, it's such an

00:03:09.280 old-fashioned, you know, old white male thing or something. Again, I'm not quite sure what the

00:03:14.420 comedy here was, but this tweet linked to this article in a left-wing website owned by the

00:03:20.160 Washington Post. The left-wing website is called Slate Magazine. I'll read a little bit. I'll just

00:03:26.980 read the headline there. It says, the Department of Energy is now calling fossil fuels molecules of

00:03:31.200 freedom and freedom gas. That's what they said. Now, right away, there's a photo there. You see

00:03:37.040 that photo there? Let me read the caption on the photo. From now on, this is known as a freedom flame.

00:03:43.680 It's actually a natural gas flame in New Mexico. So there's a lot to laugh at. I guess to them,

00:03:49.920 the word freedom is funny. Say the people who enjoy the greatest freedom in the history of the

00:03:55.540 world, the freedom never before enjoyed by their ancestors, a freedom so longed for by most people

00:04:00.940 in the world to this day. But it's funny. I mean, freedom, that's so Trump, eh? He's so stupid.

00:04:07.260 These are people who make up phrases about solar and wind power, being clean energy, 1.00

00:04:12.060 even though solar and wind power often need rare earth metals that are mined in the dirtiest mines

00:04:21.020 in the world, in China. And wind turbines use steel, which cannot be made without coal. So the liberal

00:04:29.440 left makes up words for wind and solar power. They call it clean power, which is not true. But they hate

00:04:37.360 when Trump uses the word freedom in natural gas that is made in a free country. No surprise there.

00:04:43.480 Let me read the story. The Trump administration loves fossil fuels, but apparently has decided

00:04:49.200 that they need some rebranding. Or so E&E news editor Ellen Gilmer discovered Tuesday when she opened up

00:04:54.460 what should have been the world's driest press release. Yeah, I guess anything real, you know, oil, gas,

00:05:00.240 tankers, exports, real life, actual people who work as opposed to just type on Slate website, is dry

00:05:06.040 to people who prefer doing journalism, like the top 10 moments where the Game of Thrones was just

00:05:11.240 like real life in high school, or top 10 ways to argue with your right-wing uncle about trans rights

00:05:17.060 at Thanksgiving dinner. So I guess real life stuff is dry by comparison. Now, Slate links to the actual

00:05:23.260 government press release. Let me read from it a bit. This is the press release from the Department of

00:05:28.040 Energy. Department of Energy authorizes additional LNG exports from Freeport LNG. Now, I'm going to read

00:05:34.420 a paragraph, the one that they mocked. I liked it, actually. Now, remember, LNG, that's for liquefied

00:05:40.000 natural gas. So the gas is fracked that makes tiny little cracks on the ground to release the gases

00:05:45.400 pumped to the surface. Now, they cool the gas to make it into a liquid, which is way smaller in volume.

00:05:53.640 So they make it extremely cold. It makes the gas turn into a liquid. And then they put the liquid on

00:05:58.020 ships. And they sell up to places like Europe, displacing the conflict energy that they import

00:06:05.140 from Russia and OPEC countries. That sounds pretty great to me. And it's what we would be doing in

00:06:12.100 Canada by now if we didn't have a substitute drama teacher blocking anything with carbon in it. So

00:06:16.940 here's the story. Approval of additional LNG exports from Freeport LNG furthers this administration's

00:06:24.400 commitment to promoting American energy, American jobs, and the American economy. Further, increased

00:06:29.660 supplies of U.S. natural gas on the world market are critical to advancing clean energy and the energy

00:06:34.860 security of our allies around the globe. With the U.S. in another year of record-setting natural gas

00:06:40.220 production, I am pleased that the Department of Energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient

00:06:44.860 regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world, said

00:06:50.580 Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Steven Winberg, who signed the export order and was also in

00:06:55.840 attendance at the Clean Energy Ministerial. So that's hilarious, I guess. But it really is clean

00:07:04.780 energy. If you care about carbon, which I don't really, other than I like carbon, because like you,

00:07:10.720 I am made of carbon. Carbon in the form of natural gas burns more cleanly than, say, coal. I like coal,

00:07:17.400 too. And yeah, natural gas from America. I said gas, guys, is cleaner morally than gas from Russia

00:07:26.440 or OPEC. I mean, it's all the same molecule, but it's ethically cleaner. You could call it ethical

00:07:32.060 oil. It's ethical gas. They say freedom gas, same thing. This is huge news, actually. You know,

00:07:37.160 America, I had trouble believing this because I've been studying American oil and gas for about a decade

00:07:42.280 since I wrote ethical oil. America used to be a huge importer of energy, the largest in the world.

00:07:48.940 Now America is a net energy exporter. What a change. A change even from Obama, who threatened

00:07:56.820 to shut down coal, blocked a lot of oil drilling, whether in the Gulf of Mexico or in the Arctic.

00:08:02.840 And if he could, he would have shut down natural gas fracking, too. Trump is full tilt on all of

00:08:07.340 these plus coals. So I guess it has to be fart jokes or something. Let me read from the Washington

00:08:12.540 Post-owned slate again. And now it's the Trump administration's official line, as one of my

00:08:17.900 colleagues put it, spreading freedom gas. Sounds like what happens when you're newly single

00:08:23.700 and suddenly have the apartment to yourself. Which raises the question, did the Department of Energy

00:08:30.440 mean to make a fart joke in official statement? Or are we just lucky? The world may never know.

00:08:36.400 Oh, hey, guys. Now, you might be wondering, why am I telling you about all this stupidity? 1.00

00:08:45.260 Well, because as always, the Washington Post slate is in sync with America's enemy. Just 1.00

00:08:50.980 to get back at Trump or whatever. Because look at this, at the exact same time as the Washington

00:08:57.360 Post slate writers were bashing, ha ha, they said gas, the concept of freedom gas, which is

00:09:05.380 surely what they would call it in the Baltics, in Poland, in Ukraine, which are right now at the

00:09:11.580 mercy of Vladimir Putin's state-run gas company called Gazprom. Because Gazprom has actually turned

00:09:19.140 off the taps for the natural gas as a political weapon in disputes with Ukraine, for example.

00:09:24.520 They've cut off the gas several times in the dead of winter. And when they do deign to ship the gas,

00:09:31.500 they charge extortion of prices when the taps are on. Yeah, I bet the people in Ukraine and Poland 1.00

00:09:37.460 and Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, places like that, I bet they would call gas from Donald Trump freedom

00:09:42.560 gas too. And I'm guessing they're a little bit too busy defending their freedom from Putin to make

00:09:47.800 fart jokes. He said gas. But one of Putin's state broadcasters called Russia Today, RT, I actually

00:09:56.120 follow RT because they have interesting takes if you discount for their Putin bias. Now they have

00:10:02.940 several different Twitter accounts for social media memes. And so RT, Putin's broadcaster, did this

00:10:12.180 tweet. This is from Russia. Introducing Freedom Gas TM, the latest in American ingenuity from the US

00:10:22.020 Department of Energy. And then you can see the little hashtags there, molecules of freedom. And they had

00:10:26.560 embedded in that tweet, this short video, I'm going to show you the whole thing. So this was produced by

00:10:32.200 Russia. Take a look.

00:10:34.400 From the men that brought you Freedom Fries, comes a new product with those same American values.

00:10:44.020 Freedom Gas.

00:10:45.020 Freedom Gas. Exporting US Freedom. Molecule by Molecule. Freedom Gas. Freedom liquefied.

00:11:05.400 Buy America. Stay free. Stay gassy.

00:11:12.020 Now they're a little bit stupid over there because they think that gas, as in natural gas, means gasoline 1.00

00:11:31.180 that you pump at the gas station. But that was their attempt at being funny, I think. Now they 1.00

00:11:39.240 thought it was funny. Here's a follow-up tweet they did. How's that for true American genius?

00:11:45.180 Real Donald Trump in your face! Yeah, they thought they were pretty funny. I mean, America is pretty

00:11:51.520 awesome, let's be honest. And I'm saying this as a patriotic Canadian. They were just mocking

00:11:55.700 American things, like beautiful women in bikinis shooting guns. Now, that's actually not my style. 1.00

00:12:01.880 It's a little over the top for me, but it is actually a lot of freedom, isn't it? I mean,

00:12:07.200 there are no women in bikinis allowed to go out in public in Iran or Qatar or any other OPEC countries.

00:12:14.880 Are they certainly not allowed to shoot guns? They're not even allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. So yeah,

00:12:19.820 America has its excesses. But tell me which country you'd rather be in as a woman, Saudi Arabia 1.00

00:12:25.820 or a country that lets you wear a bikini and shoot a gun. I guess America just can't be as classy 0.75

00:12:31.280 as Russia. And Russia today, when it comes to gas videos, talk about class. Here's the boardroom

00:12:39.280 of the Putin-controlled company called Gazprom. Yeah, that's their style. It's like Studio 54.

00:12:45.740 It's like the Sopranos plus Vegas plus third world thugs. But that's the biggest natural gas 0.97

00:12:52.120 company in Russia, Gazprom. It's 51% owned by the Kremlin, just like that Twitter account video

00:12:59.780 is owned, controlled by the Kremlin. Can I show you a Gazprom video, though? This is an official,

00:13:08.500 real Gazprom video. Did you know they have a music video? They have an official song. Wouldn't that be

00:13:14.820 weird to have like an official song at, you know, I don't know, Petrocan or something? They have a

00:13:20.580 professional soccer team. Gazprom does. Isn't that funny? Like a real team that people go and watch.

00:13:26.420 It's owned. It's like the Gazprom team. I'll come back to the soccer team in a moment. But first,

00:13:33.060 can I play for you a full two minute of Gazprom's official music video? This is real. Now,

00:13:41.800 the singer here, the one with the tone deaf voice, which is why I'm only going to subject you to two

00:13:47.560 minutes of it because I like you. I don't want to hurt you. So I'll only show you two minutes of it.

00:13:52.540 The singer here is Vladimir Tumayev. He's a senior Gazprom executive. He helps run this gas company.

00:14:01.620 Now, he wrote the song. That's a warning sign. He performed the song in the official company music

00:14:10.620 video. You're darn right. Not a single one of Gazprom's thousands of employees dare to say,

00:14:17.540 excuse me, boss, maybe we ought to hire a professional singer. Are you kidding? You tell

00:14:24.740 senior executive of Gazprom, he's not good enough to be in a rock video. You're going to sleep with

00:14:29.060 the fishes. Okay, here's the Gazprom music video. I'm only going to subject you to two minutes of it.

00:14:34.960 I swear this is real. I'll come back in two minutes and I'll tell you what it meant. Take a look.

00:15:04.960 Go for us. Go for you. Go for you. Go for you. Go for the Russian gas company.

00:15:10.500 To not finish, so that it was, even if it was, even if it wasn't easy, it would be easy.

00:15:17.280 Go for us. Go for you. Go for you. Go for you. Go for you. Go for the Russian gas company.

00:15:23.080 For everyone who has lost the earth.

00:15:26.400 The artificial sun.

00:15:30.400 Go for you. Go for you. Go for you. Go for you.

00:16:00.400 Go for us. Go for you. Go for us. Go for you. Go for you. Go for us. Go for everyone who has lost the earth.

00:16:13.300 Go for you. Go for us. Go for us. Go for us. Go for you. Go for us.

00:16:19.600 I know you thought that was two hours.

00:16:44.800 That was just two minutes.

00:16:45.980 But I bet you know the words.

00:16:49.600 Let's drink to you, let's drink to me, let's drink to this russiski gas. 0.88

00:16:56.360 It's a Russian drinking song.

00:17:01.120 And the officer at home.

00:17:03.480 It is a drinking song.

00:17:04.900 Everything in Russia is a drinking song when you think about it.

00:17:08.040 Including the very dangerous industrial work of drilling for an explosive natural substance.

00:17:13.900 Let's have a drinking song.

00:17:14.780 Sung by a tone deaf senior executive for Gazprom that nobody in that whole, I mean, writing

00:17:23.920 the song, producing it, making the video, probably 100 people were involved in that.

00:17:29.200 And not one of them dared to say, hey, can we just try out some professional voice talent?

00:17:37.180 Are you kidding me?

00:17:39.200 So yeah, Russia today, they're all class, unlike Americans calling American energy freedom 0.69

00:17:45.780 energy.

00:17:47.380 Can I read to you, just because it's funny, this was in my book, Ethical Oil.

00:17:51.160 Can I read to you a little bit more about Vladimir Tumayev?

00:17:53.060 It's so great.

00:17:54.580 Like I said, Gazprom has a professional soccer team.

00:17:57.160 It would be as if Petro Canada owned the Calgary Flames or something.

00:18:01.440 Like it's a competitive team.

00:18:02.480 It's a real team.

00:18:03.880 And Vladimir Tumayev, besides being an outstanding oil and gas executive and a rock star, he's

00:18:09.520 also a soccer team manager.

00:18:13.160 And you know he's almost as good at that as he is at singing.

00:18:18.660 And here's my favorite part.

00:18:20.500 And you know this is true.

00:18:22.600 He insisted that he be a player on the team in their matches too.

00:18:29.100 This was in his 40s or 50s.

00:18:30.480 And he's going to play with these 20-year-old professional athletes.

00:18:35.060 And again, you're going to tell him, no, boss, it's not a good idea.

00:18:38.960 You're a little bit old.

00:18:40.240 I like you.

00:18:41.320 We pull it.

00:18:41.820 No.

00:18:42.620 Let me read to you this, all right?

00:18:44.440 Look at this.

00:18:45.640 He is most known for actually playing for his team, making his professional debut at 45 years

00:18:52.640 of age and playing well into his 50s, while his team was playing on the second highest level

00:18:59.760 of football in Russia, Russian First Division.

00:19:01.940 He would usually come in as a substitute close to the end of the game, which was already decided.

00:19:05.640 He played his last professional game so far in the Russian Second Division on October 29, 2005,

00:19:12.240 against FC Neftek-Mech Nisemnecht.

00:19:15.660 I think I said that right.

00:19:17.100 On the last day of the season, scoring a goal in a 3-2 victory.

00:19:21.100 His penalty kick was saved by Neftek-Mech Goldkeeper, who was later sent to Gulag. 0.96

00:19:26.360 But he scored on a rebound.

00:19:27.940 He was 58 years, 10 months, and 19 days old on that day, making him the oldest professional

00:19:33.200 soccer player ever in Russia and possibly Europe.

00:19:37.720 And let me just say, that goaltender who let him score was a very, very smart man.

00:19:45.160 Hey, pro tip, if you're ever golfing with your boss, let him win.

00:19:49.060 If you're ever playing poker with your boss, let him win.

00:19:52.040 And if you're ever playing soccer, if you're this fit professional athlete, 20 years old,

00:19:57.120 and you're playing goal, and this 55-year-old guy with a bit of a punch comes huffing and

00:20:01.960 puffing and maybe even hear him say, the vice of us, the vice of us, and he comes and kicks

00:20:07.380 that thing, let it go in. 1.00

00:20:10.260 Good for your career.

00:20:11.880 Good for your safety.

00:20:14.200 Yeah.

00:20:14.500 One day, the United States of America will be as classy as Vladimir Tumayev and Gazprom and

00:20:22.600 Lassizky gas.

00:20:23.700 You know, I understand why Russia is mocking Freedom Gas.

00:20:28.340 Because Freedom Gas is displacing Russian Gazprom gas and OPEC Sharia gas.

00:20:36.200 Big time.

00:20:36.760 They hate it.

00:20:37.300 It doesn't just take money away from Gazprom and OPEC.

00:20:40.740 It takes political power away from them, too.

00:20:43.300 You can't have an Arab oil shock if America is oil independent. 0.65

00:20:47.060 They can't hold European countries hostage anymore, can they?

00:20:50.580 Look at this.

00:20:51.860 This is from the CIA World Factbook.

00:20:53.600 It's the list of countries by natural gas reserves.

00:20:57.460 Russia is number one.

00:20:59.120 Iran is number two. 0.87

00:21:00.680 Qatar is number three.

00:21:02.580 America is fourth, thanks to fracking.

00:21:04.920 Then look.

00:21:05.760 Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Nigeria, China, Algeria, Iraq, Indonesia,

00:21:11.580 Mozambique, Kazakhstan, Egypt.

00:21:12.800 Canada is in 17th place.

00:21:18.140 America is the only good guy in the top dozen countries.

00:21:20.520 I don't know what God was thinking when he was handing out natural gas, but he gave it

00:21:24.440 to the world's worst countries except America.

00:21:28.760 And a little bit to Canada, too.

00:21:29.940 And Donald Trump is pumping and drilling and fracking and mining as fast as possible.

00:21:36.300 And thank God he is.

00:21:37.860 Jobs for Americans, energy independence for the country, freedom imports for the world's 0.90

00:21:43.300 democracies, now dependent on OPEC and the Russians, taking market share away from dictatorships.

00:21:48.820 What's not to love? 0.98

00:21:49.800 I mean, I know some fool at the Washington Post's slate makes some fart jokes. 0.99

00:21:55.140 Hey, he said gas. 0.99

00:21:56.900 And our own fool, Justin Trudeau, has done his best to stop our own LNG, freedom gas, just 0.92

00:22:04.220 like he stopped our ethical oil from the oil sense. 0.96

00:22:06.300 But for the rest of us, in the real world, this really is great news about freedom gas

00:22:11.680 from America, isn't it?

00:22:14.020 Stay with us for more.

00:22:14.960 Welcome back.

00:22:29.820 Well, censorship and deplatforming doesn't just happen online.

00:22:33.580 It happens in real life, too.

00:22:35.580 In fact, often leftist thugs threaten violence to any theater, any meeting room that dares

00:22:42.900 just let a conservative or even just an alternative voice have a get-together.

00:22:47.820 And today, the current victim of deplatforming is our friend, Phelan McAleer.

00:22:52.680 He's a playwright and a filmmaker, and he's got this great idea called verbatim theater,

00:22:58.660 where in particular cases, he has actors read out actual lines from transcripts in court

00:23:06.640 or historical events of great controversy.

00:23:08.940 It's not fiction, it's just selected readings from the truth, from real life.

00:23:16.920 And so he had pledged to go ahead with a play called FBI Lovebirds Undercovers.

00:23:25.400 It was about the FBI lovebirds, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who conspired to undo Donald Trump.

00:23:36.540 It was a reading of their text messages that were revealed, and he had two big-name actors lined up for it.

00:23:45.120 Dean Cain, known to many Americans as having played the role of Superman,

00:23:49.760 and Christy Swanson, who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

00:23:53.500 These are not minor actors.

00:23:55.020 This is a great story.

00:23:56.660 Well, it was all set to go until, well, I'll let Phelan himself tell you what happened.

00:24:02.540 He joins us now via Skype.

00:24:04.720 Phelan, great to see you again.

00:24:05.960 Welcome to the show.

00:24:07.180 Did I accurately describe your play called FBI Lovebirds Undercovers?

00:24:13.960 Yeah.

00:24:14.340 Yeah, well, it's their text messages, their glorious lover anti-Trump text messages.

00:24:21.520 But also what we've done is they were grilled for a couple of days in private congressional hearings.

00:24:27.500 The transcripts of those have just been released.

00:24:29.440 So I've melded their text with the grilling they got about those texts and their pathetic defenses of them.

00:24:37.420 So, I mean, yeah.

00:24:38.600 So, and then, you know, we were all set to the play.

00:24:41.820 We had a venue booked in D.C.

00:24:44.000 And the thing was, we're going to film it and release it online afterwards.

00:24:48.000 It was just them reading their text, acting out their text, acting out the Q&A from congressmen.

00:24:54.520 And, you know, they didn't, the resistance didn't look well.

00:24:56.960 You know, they were obviously plotting to undermine Trump.

00:25:00.640 As Trump says, they were, you know, Strzok at one stage says, well, it looked like Trump was going to get elected.

00:25:06.300 We need to start the insurance policy.

00:25:08.060 And that's when they started the Russia investigation.

00:25:11.180 At one stage, Page says, he's not going to get elected, is he?

00:25:14.220 And Strzok says, no, we will stop it.

00:25:16.540 This is the head of FBI counterintelligence saying we're going to stop a democratic decision.

00:25:22.240 So, we were all set for this very interesting play.

00:25:24.580 We released it online.

00:25:25.860 Then, on Tuesday, got the word from the theater in D.C., we are cancelling your booking even though we have a signed contract because we don't like the truth because they can't handle the truth.

00:25:36.860 Well, now, I want to zero in on this.

00:25:39.520 I don't think the theater has an excuse to cancel it.

00:25:42.500 If they were getting violent threats from Antifa or whatnot, the proper answer is to work to get security, either Washington, D.C. police or even private security.

00:25:54.380 You can fix a security threat.

00:25:56.400 It's Washington.

00:25:57.200 It's one of the most highly guarded, highly policed cities in America.

00:26:01.560 There's a way to solve a problem of a threat.

00:26:04.640 Did they throw you under the bus?

00:26:07.600 Was it a real threat or was it the theater themselves that got called?

00:26:10.620 The only threat that exists, the only threat that exists is one guy on Twitter who says something and when he was called out on it, he deleted the threat.

00:26:18.820 That's it.

00:26:20.020 Story over. 0.99

00:26:20.560 Now, this is an excuse by cowardly hypocrites, by the theater set, who keep giving themselves awards for bravery. 0.99

00:26:27.640 They keep telling themselves how brave they are and give speeches about how brave they are. 0.99

00:26:31.400 No, you're brave.

00:26:32.120 No, you're braver.

00:26:32.760 I'm braver.

00:26:33.320 No, you're braver.

00:26:34.020 And then the first and you should read the studio theater, the Meade Theater's website.

00:26:40.160 You know, we're going to challenge ideas and challenge assumptions and bring fresh ideas.

00:26:43.680 And the first time somebody challenges assumptions, first time somebody makes them think again, they are cowards. 1.00

00:26:49.380 They are hypocrites. 0.98

00:26:50.800 And you're not even doing anything that isn't a already in the public record. 0.96

00:26:56.960 That's the whole brilliant idea behind verbatim theater is you're bringing to life selected excerpts from actual testimony.

00:27:05.160 So you're democratizing what can be sort of a, you know, a dense legal matter.

00:27:12.740 You're, you know, Dean Cain.

00:27:14.120 I'd go see Dean Cain do anything.

00:27:16.320 He's Superman in my mind.

00:27:17.980 Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

00:27:18.880 So you're not even doing anything other than portraying the truth as spoken by these people.

00:27:27.540 Who could possibly object to that?

00:27:30.720 Well, I think you hit the nail on the head.

00:27:32.780 Portraying the truth is a dangerous occupation.

00:27:35.140 Yeah.

00:27:35.540 And in America these days, it doesn't get you very far, apparently.

00:27:39.020 Yeah.

00:27:39.700 As Dean Cain said, he said he hasn't spoken much about this play, but he did say,

00:27:45.040 I look forward to playing Peter Strzok in the words, I don't know, as written by Peter Strzok.

00:27:50.000 I look forward to playing Peter Strzok as written by Peter Strzok.

00:27:53.400 Exactly.

00:27:54.000 We're adding nothing.

00:27:54.900 We're not adding any drama.

00:27:56.460 It's not based on a true story.

00:27:58.060 Therefore, a lie as that often is.

00:28:00.140 This is actually the true story.

00:28:02.160 This is what they said when they thought no one was watching.

00:28:04.700 And it's not pretty.

00:28:06.320 Now, we've had our challenges with deplatforming too.

00:28:10.600 Sometimes we try and toughen up our vendors in advance.

00:28:15.220 You might get some mean tweets.

00:28:17.400 And sometimes they stand firm.

00:28:19.360 Sometimes they wobble.

00:28:21.100 Did you tell these folks that it might be spicy in advance?

00:28:25.180 Did they just want your money?

00:28:27.120 Or did they?

00:28:29.180 How did this happen?

00:28:30.360 I mean, it's pretty clear.

00:28:32.140 FBI lovebirds undercovers.

00:28:34.440 Pretty clear what the subject matter is. 0.92

00:28:36.400 How come they agreed to it in the first place if they turned out to be cowards? 0.99

00:28:41.340 Well, here, I was just a fool, I guess. 0.95

00:28:43.580 I just read their website and believed them that they were going to challenge ideas and challenge assumptions, you know. 0.59

00:28:48.880 I'm joking there, by the way.

00:28:50.340 I think, you know, it's a bit like Ferguson.

00:28:53.200 When I did the play Ferguson, which, again, was verbatim based on the grand jury testimony,

00:28:57.640 the actors arrived thinking that anything about Ferguson would automatically be a lie and tell a lie that Michael Brown was shot by a murderous cop.

00:29:11.060 When the eyewitness evidence quite clearly showed the opposite, and that's what we're reading.

00:29:15.980 And when they got to the rehearsals and saw the truth, they ran a mile.

00:29:19.800 Remember, nine actors walked out of the Ferguson play during rehearsals.

00:29:24.780 So, yeah.

00:29:25.160 So I think what happens is they see FBI undercovers, FBI lovebirds undercovers, and think, oh, this will be about James Comey's honorable fight against, you know, Trump or Mueller's fight against Trump or whatever.

00:29:39.260 And then when they see the truth, that it's based on actual texts, messages, when they see, they don't want that out there.

00:29:45.940 I mean, they really don't want it filmed and distributed online.

00:29:49.000 That's why they're trying to shut it down. 0.94

00:29:50.680 Well, let me ask you this, because, you know, there's a lot of politically correct censors.

00:29:56.880 I would imagine, unfortunately, that many theaters and artistic groups are the same way.

00:30:01.860 They're overwhelmingly left of center.

00:30:03.700 But Washington, D.C. does have a Republican side, an independent side.

00:30:09.980 I mean, heck, there's ambassadors there.

00:30:11.980 There's embassies there from every country in the world, many of whom are controversial.

00:30:16.340 So there are ways that, you know, dissident ideas like yours can get out.

00:30:23.300 Do you think there's an alternative venue?

00:30:25.880 I mean, wouldn't it be amazing if Donald Trump himself said, I want to see that play?

00:30:30.440 You can play it in the theater at the White House.

00:30:33.040 I mean, I don't know if you can do that.

00:30:34.500 But is there some other way to do it?

00:30:36.940 We're hoping that Donald Trump will do that, actually.

00:30:39.440 And it's not beyond the bounds of possibility.

00:30:41.240 Oh, the Trump Hotel there.

00:30:42.320 It's a beautiful hotel.

00:30:44.260 We're checking out all these options.

00:30:46.420 I mean, the Trump Hotel is very, very expensive.

00:30:48.640 And that's one thing that this has done is really has pushed the costs of this through the roof.

00:30:53.920 We're hoping the Trump Hotel, we're hoping the White House.

00:30:57.320 I mean, a few weeks ago, Trump showed the Gosnell movie in the White House.

00:31:01.140 It was the first political movie to be seen in the White House.

00:31:03.480 Oh, my God.

00:31:04.180 I did not know that.

00:31:05.260 That's amazing.

00:31:07.080 Did Trump himself see it?

00:31:09.980 He didn't come to the screening, but I met him afterwards at the Trump Hotel.

00:31:14.700 He, you know, this is the first movie, first political movie that they've had in the White House was Gosnell.

00:31:20.160 So he's open to this kind of, you know, stirring it up.

00:31:24.440 And I'm hoping that he will come on board this time as well.

00:31:28.700 Yeah.

00:31:28.940 Well, I mean, I say again, listen, your work is outstanding, even with talent that's not world famous.

00:31:35.060 But I'm impressed.

00:31:36.840 Dean Cain and Christy Swanson.

00:31:38.920 I mean, I'm not a stargazer, but those are serious names that a lot of people like that.

00:31:44.340 That is a Trump caliber event.

00:31:46.660 I hope he does the right thing.

00:31:48.780 And wouldn't that be amazing if the Mead Theater was the censor and Donald Trump was the one defending the First Amendment?

00:31:56.460 That would be incredible.

00:31:57.320 Last word to you, Phelan.

00:31:58.780 Well, that's the way it is nowadays.

00:32:00.640 The tolerant ones are really the intolerant ones.

00:32:03.280 I suppose I need to ask your listeners.

00:32:05.440 And I always know, I always see a lot.

00:32:07.480 We've had a lot of donations from Canada.

00:32:09.380 I see them coming through.

00:32:10.740 Go to FBILoveBirds.com.

00:32:13.140 Give a donation.

00:32:13.960 Help make this happen.

00:32:15.120 And, you know, help stop the censors. 0.98

00:32:17.740 Buy a ticket.

00:32:18.620 I mean, when I had Ferguson in New York, a couple and their daughter drove from Ottawa to New York to see Ferguson.

00:32:25.220 So people are very welcome to fly into D.C., drive to D.C. from Canada.

00:32:29.020 I know you have an international audience.

00:32:30.920 So FBILoveBirds.com.

00:32:33.220 Give it a can.

00:32:34.120 Buy a ticket.

00:32:35.260 Let's get the truth out and let's stop the cover-up.

00:32:38.140 Well, that's very exciting.

00:32:38.980 Let me ask you for one more detail.

00:32:41.000 FBILoveBirds.com.

00:32:41.900 We'll certainly put that on screen.

00:32:43.080 You say buy a ticket.

00:32:44.840 Does that mean there is a show that people can come to or is that to be decided later?

00:32:50.600 Oh, no.

00:32:50.980 The show is going ahead.

00:32:52.100 The show is going ahead.

00:32:52.920 June 13th, 7 p.m. in D.C.

00:32:55.740 If we have to do it on the theater outside, on the pavement or sidewalk, whatever you guys call it, sidewalk, outside the studio theater or the meet theater, we will do it there and shame them.

00:33:07.300 But it is going ahead in D.C., let me tell you.

00:33:09.980 Well, Phelan, I'm glad to hear it and I like your confidence.

00:33:13.660 June 13th and it's at 7 p.m.

00:33:16.060 Did I hear you say that?

00:33:17.280 That's correct.

00:33:18.600 And the location will be decided later.

00:33:20.820 Well, Phelan, let me tell you, as you've just told me this seconds ago, we will send one of our roving reporters, Kian Bexte, to cover the event wherever it is.

00:33:33.120 Not only to cover.

00:33:34.280 I mean, he'll review the play.

00:33:36.540 And maybe if you could put in a good word with the boss, we could get a few moments with Dean Cain and Christy Swanson.

00:33:43.020 But just as importantly, he'll review the political situation.

00:33:46.760 So I will buy a ticket right now for Kian Bexte and he'll be there in Washington.

00:33:53.420 And good luck to you, Phelan.

00:33:55.360 Well, thank you, Ezra.

00:33:56.400 Listen, your supporters have always been great supporters of ours and always helped us out.

00:34:00.300 So we're always a great welcome to anybody in Canada who wants to come.

00:34:04.500 All right.

00:34:05.020 Well, that's a deal.

00:34:05.820 Great to see you, my friend.

00:34:06.820 Keep up the fight.

00:34:07.620 Thanks, Joe.

00:34:08.160 All right.

00:34:08.520 There you have it.

00:34:09.400 One of the great freedom fighters of our era who's in a particularly tough battlefield, that of arts and the entertainment, Phelan McAleer.

00:34:16.500 And we will send our reporter.

00:34:18.300 I got to check with Kian if he's available, but I'm sure he will be.

00:34:21.180 So you heard it first, June 13th.

00:34:22.920 We'll be covering that from Washington, D.C.

00:34:24.580 All right.

00:34:25.120 Stay with us.

00:34:25.720 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:34:35.820 Hey, welcome back.

00:34:38.480 On my show yesterday from outside the Alberta legislature in Edmonton, John writes, Notley

00:34:42.920 is gone.

00:34:44.240 Damnatio memoriae.

00:34:46.140 Erase everything she did.

00:34:47.240 Appreciate the visit, Ezra.

00:34:48.420 We need you and Sheila to keep on top of the issues in the West.

00:34:50.660 No carbon tax.

00:34:52.140 Hey, thanks for saying that word, damnatio memoriae.

00:34:55.860 I know it's an obscure thing, and people are probably tired of me saying it, but I think

00:35:01.460 it's the exact concept.

00:35:02.460 We need to, it's like a giant reset button.

00:35:06.200 It's like start, it's like wipe your, you know, there's a button on your cell phone.

00:35:10.160 You can wipe out everything, wipe out your computer, wipe out your hard drive, just remove

00:35:14.600 everything.

00:35:16.180 That's what Alberta's got to do after four years of the NDP. 1.00

00:35:18.840 I truly believe that.

00:35:20.780 Bob writes, you spoke of NDP appointees being paid severance to go away all across the country,

00:35:25.440 whether it is provincial or federal changes to government, Canadian taxpayers are on

00:35:28.520 the hook for millions of dollars in severance pay.

00:35:30.700 Why are these appointees not given a finite agreement that ends with the fall of the political

00:35:34.400 party that appointed them?

00:35:35.540 These people are just being paid back for their support of that political party.

00:35:39.900 Well, look, you have to pay some severance to people, otherwise you're never going to

00:35:43.680 get anyone to work for a government.

00:35:45.120 It would be just too inherently risky.

00:35:48.380 And I'm not even talking about a number of the permanent bureaucracy.

00:35:52.940 I'm not saying fire, you know, a frontline person working at a desk in the, I was going

00:36:00.000 to say the Motor Vehicles apartment, but that was a privatized number.

00:36:02.460 I was going to say the liquor stores, but that was a privatized number.

00:36:04.940 I'm not saying fire, you know, a ground level nurse, let's say.

00:36:10.420 I'm not talking about that.

00:36:11.460 I'm talking about all the tens of thousands of political appointees.

00:36:16.380 Sack them.

00:36:17.100 Pay out a severance. 0.98

00:36:18.000 It's a cost of doing business.

00:36:19.400 But get rid of them.

00:36:20.640 Get rid of them.

00:36:21.460 It's a one-time penalty.

00:36:23.180 Pay out a severance.

00:36:23.620 And get rid of them.

00:36:25.920 Chris writes, about once a week, I call or email my MP or MPP about an issue I was made

00:36:31.340 aware of by you and the gang of the rebel.

00:36:33.060 Frequently, I'm asked about where I got this information.

00:36:36.000 Often, there are two or more sources of information about any issue.

00:36:38.540 Would you prefer that I mention the rebel as often as possible?

00:36:41.740 Well, Chris, I mean, whatever is the actual source of your information, and what you're

00:36:47.340 saying is you have several sources, I mean, sure, mention the rebel.

00:36:51.360 I appreciate that.

00:36:53.540 Sometimes, that can cause a liberal MPP or a liberal MP to close their ears and harden

00:36:59.660 their heart.

00:37:00.260 But I like to say, I like to think that most of our rebel reports have a lot of proof points

00:37:07.620 in them.

00:37:08.360 And by that, I mean, if I say something verbally, at the same time, I like to show you an excerpt

00:37:14.100 from a document or a photo or a video clip.

00:37:17.460 I think rebel reports are well-documented.

00:37:20.780 And we have had literally thousands of access to information requests we've filed over the

00:37:25.480 last five years.

00:37:26.040 And we've published hundreds of them in full.

00:37:30.040 So I think that if you refer to the rebel, you will be doing yourself good in terms of

00:37:35.660 authoritative citations.

00:37:37.860 The only question is, if it's a hard-hearted, closed-minded, intolerant liberal, would that

00:37:43.640 just make them stop listening to you?

00:37:45.280 And that, I can't answer.

00:37:47.080 Well, folks, that's the show from today.

00:37:48.420 It's good to be back in Toronto.

00:37:49.400 I've been flying around too much.

00:37:50.300 I was in Manchester, England.

00:37:51.200 I was in Edmonton.

00:37:52.220 I was just here for a couple days straight.

00:37:54.020 I'm going to have like a whole two days in a row here in our world headquarters.

00:38:00.460 And hopefully I can take a break.

00:38:01.880 I hope you enjoyed the show today.

00:38:03.500 A little bit of Russian, it's true.

00:38:05.980 And I actually am not a Russia hater. 0.98

00:38:07.860 I mean, I think Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian, excuse me, bully. 0.94

00:38:13.200 I don't think he is the menace that China is in the world or Islamism. 0.93

00:38:19.140 In fact, I think Putin has been a better ally than others in the war against ISIS.

00:38:25.080 I think we need to be careful of Russia and stop its territorial ambitions in places like 0.98

00:38:29.940 Georgia and Ukraine and the Baltics.

00:38:32.400 But I think, ironically, the Democrats and the leftists who have been in Russia phobia

00:38:36.860 for the last two years, they actually don't care about Russia in Ukraine or Georgia or

00:38:41.720 the Baltics.

00:38:42.540 They never cared when Barack Obama and George W. Bush let Putin devour those parts of Europe.

00:38:48.560 They only use Russia as a tool to beat Donald Trump. 0.63

00:38:52.640 I've been criticizing Russia since I wrote the book Ethical Oil a decade ago.

00:38:56.740 All right, folks, that's the show for today.

00:38:58.300 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Highquarters, you at home, good

00:39:02.420 night and keep fighting for freedom and freedom gap.

00:39:18.560 Oh, my God.

00:39:28.140 I should know.

00:39:28.780 We'll Bulloughby.

00:39:29.380 He'll be right back.

00:39:29.960 Really?

00:39:30.300 Yeah.

00:39:30.440 I should know.

00:39:31.320 We'll be right back, bit left.

00:39:32.340 We'll be right back.

00:39:33.280 We'll be right back.

00:39:34.340 We'll be right back.

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00:39:34.820 We'll be right back.

00:39:35.860 We'll be right back.

00:39:36.920 We'll be right back.

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Rebel News Podcast - May 31, 2019

Putin’s state broadcaster joins Trudeau's CBC in mocking North American ethical oil

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