Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Disney Goes Woke, Jonathan Yaniv BACK in Court with a New Name

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00:01:23.600 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:37.020 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.

00:01:41.800 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:44.320 Cue the theme from Jaws.

00:01:46.380 It is back.

00:01:47.680 Yes, Jonathan Yaniv, a.k.a. Jessica Yaniv, a.k.a. Jessica Simpson.

00:01:55.300 Well, he, she, it is still trying to get unwilling female esticians to wax his male genitals. 1.00

00:02:02.640 And after striking out at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, 0.87

00:02:06.560 Yaniv is now seeking justice in a real court of law.

00:02:11.580 Drea Humphrey has all the grotesque details. 1.00

00:02:14.820 Holy backflip!

00:02:17.200 Mega entertainment giant Disney is discovering that going woke with its Marvel superhero films

00:02:23.300 and its Star Wars franchise is suddenly not as lucrative as it used to be.

00:02:29.400 Andrew Chapados will explain why being uber woke for Disney is thankfully losing its appeal.

00:02:36.820 And finally, we get your letters.

00:02:38.660 We get your letters every minute of every day.

00:02:40.780 And I'll share some of your responses regarding my commentary on Air Canada's ludicrous Wuhan virus safety protocol

00:02:49.200 regarding the Wuhan virus, which is to say passengers are forbidden to stand while the aircraft is grounded

00:02:57.160 because they are more susceptible to getting the virus if they're upright as opposed to sitting.

00:03:03.600 And no, I swear, I'm not making this up.

00:03:06.600 Those are your Rebels.

00:03:07.660 Now let's round them up.

00:03:10.780 Drea Humphrey here with Rebel News, and I'm here to report to you the latest of the never-ending saga

00:03:20.700 that is Jonathan Yaniv, except apparently it's no longer Jonathan Yaniv.

00:03:25.320 In fact, it's no longer Jessica Yaniv. 0.97

00:03:27.300 You see, the individual who takes pride in extorting immigrant women who won't shave her male genitalia to earn a living 0.98

00:03:36.120 goes by the name of Jessica Simpson now.

00:03:39.220 You can see the new surname here on the recent civil court document where Yaniv is now suing three of his previous esthetician victims.

00:03:48.620 Again, I guess it doesn't matter to Yaniv that he lost already due to his disturbing conduct against the hard-working women

00:03:57.960 and was condemned by the judge of the BC Human Rights Tribunal just last year.

00:04:03.120 Nope.

00:04:03.800 Yaniv is out for blood, suing his victims to pay him back the $2,000 each that the judge ruled Yaniv paid to each woman due to the conduct against him.

00:04:14.960 It's hard to keep up. Yaniv, the changing names on paper, it really doesn't change the sort of individual predator Yaniv is.

00:04:24.160 No matter how many times he changes his name, but that isn't what the appearance here today was about.

00:04:30.160 This is going to be a long and crazy video with lots of twists and turns,

00:04:35.300 but would you expect anything less when we're dealing with Jonathan Yaniv?

00:04:40.640 If you'd like to see all of our coverage about Jonathan Yaniv and his reign of terror, please go to yanivetrial.com.

00:04:50.120 Now, Yaniv was here today for not one, but two other reasons that showcase just how dangerous of an individual he is.

00:04:58.840 The first appearance scheduled today in room 100 at 9 a.m. was to be for the assault against my colleague, Kian Bexty.

00:05:07.060 Kian was simply reporting and asking a very simple question from a distance, I might add,

00:05:13.920 and Yaniv trotted over and pummeled Kian right in the head in front of this very own courthouse in Surrey, B.C.

00:05:22.360 I'm not exactly sure what is worse.

00:05:24.600 Is it that or what happened to David Menzies when he was hacked over the head with a pink metal cane?

00:05:32.140 You're going to go to jail.

00:05:33.480 You're going to jail. 0.94

00:05:34.740 Go away.

00:05:35.040 I know.

00:05:35.760 Don't touch me.

00:05:37.120 You're going to jail.

00:05:38.220 How is this person not already locked up?

00:05:41.480 And joining me now to discuss this further is Drea Humphrey.

00:05:45.340 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Drea.

00:05:47.380 Hi.

00:05:48.780 I'm glad you're not behind bars.

00:05:51.480 Yeah.

00:05:52.340 It'll take more than just five police cruisers to haul me in, Drea.

00:05:55.620 But, you know, speaking of someone that should be behind bars, you know, Drea, as always, there are so many angles to any Yaniv story.

00:06:05.660 But let's begin with this inexplicable name change.

00:06:10.460 What in blue hell is he trying to pull here by appropriating the name of the famous singer and actress?

00:06:17.840 I don't know.

00:06:19.840 Maybe he thought, since she's not as relevant as she was at some point, that he could just kind of ride her fame a little bit.

00:06:28.140 I don't know what he was thinking.

00:06:29.600 It's not generic at all.

00:06:31.480 If I was going to change my name, I would have come up with something, you know, a little bit more unique than Jessica Simpson and something that wasn't already taken.

00:06:39.420 Yeah, it is a mystery.

00:06:42.680 I mean, maybe is he hopeful that when anyone puts in the words Jessica Simpson in the search engine, expecting to see a woman and someone who is beautiful and someone who is talented, instead they get Jonathan Yaniv, who is neither of those three things.

00:07:01.860 I don't know.

00:07:03.040 But, you know, what's more important, Drea, what I find fascinating is this idea that he is pursuing this litigation against these spa owners through a real court, not a kangaroo court, such as the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

00:07:22.600 Now, he already lost at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

00:07:26.460 In fact, incredibly, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal actually awarded damages to the people he went after, and so they should. 0.99

00:07:35.960 But the point is, Drea, the benchmark for the burden of proof and how a court operates, it's so much lower at a human rights tribunal.

00:07:46.340 He's going to a real court.

00:07:48.160 Is this thing going to get thrown out in a New York second, or what's going to happen?

00:07:53.680 Well, it better, but the problem is this isn't New York, it's B.C., so you never know.

00:07:59.700 To lose in court and then to try to get the money back that you were ordered to pay, it's like, why don't you just give up?

00:08:11.140 I mean, I can't get inside the Yaniv's head at all. 0.94

00:08:16.080 Like, it doesn't make any sense at all.

00:08:18.480 And these poor women, like, just leave them alone. 1.00

00:08:22.380 How much more do you have to victimize them?

00:08:26.360 You know, and I couldn't help but notice, once again, Mama Yaniv, they're kind of like Batman and Robin in a grotesque sense. 0.96

00:08:35.160 She's always there as his sidekick.

00:08:39.000 And, you know, he's really put on a bit of weight.

00:08:44.680 I know a lot of us have been inactive because of the shutdown with the Wuhan virus, but I'm trying to think of this through the Jonathan Yaniv thought process.

00:08:53.600 Is he perhaps pregnant, Drea?

00:08:55.600 I mean, several months ago, he tweeted out that he couldn't go swimming on a certain day because he was experiencing his first menstrual cycle. 0.94

00:09:06.700 I'm just wondering, is this guy crazy or is he just pretending to be crazy? 0.73

00:09:14.500 Well, I don't know.

00:09:17.040 One thing I did notice, though, I didn't quite notice how much weight he had put on until you just pointed it out.

00:09:21.720 But he, Mama Yaniv, seemed to be wearing almost matching dresses.

00:09:26.720 I don't know if you noticed that.

00:09:28.400 It's like you said, Batman and Robin, but two different colors.

00:09:33.340 So that was one of the things I picked up on right away.

00:09:36.580 You know, maybe floral is really in or whatnot.

00:09:39.120 But it was the same length, almost the exact same pattern.

00:09:43.340 And is he hiding a baby bump?

00:09:45.560 I guess he'll tweet out it soon.

00:09:47.380 Well, you know, I know our colleague, Sheila Gunn-Reed, she always points out that I think Jonathan Yaniv is in his 30s.

00:09:56.060 And for someone in his 30s to buy the kind of clothing that a woman maybe in her 70s wears,

00:10:04.440 it seems really strange if he's trying to position himself as a fashion plate.

00:10:09.480 But this is all incidental stuff.

00:10:11.340 One of the things I always try to get an answer to, Drea, and I don't expect that you have an answer.

00:10:16.900 And if you do, this might be the scoop of the month.

00:10:20.420 It's always about following the money with every story.

00:10:24.920 And this person doesn't seem, as far as I can tell, to be gainfully employed.

00:10:30.580 And yet he's got all kinds of money and all kinds of time to pursue cases that, as far as I can tell, are no-hopers.

00:10:40.760 Where is the do-re-mi coming from when it comes to this Yaniv clan? 0.99

00:10:46.100 You know, that is such a good question.

00:10:48.120 Who's paying for all of this, especially if you're losing and you think you have enough funds to try again?

00:10:54.500 And I would love to know the answer to that question.

00:10:57.980 I don't know, maybe fell into some inheritance or something like that.

00:11:02.280 I can only guess at that.

00:11:04.640 But I, like, don't think the money's going to fashion or anything like that.

00:11:09.100 So maybe everything.

00:11:11.720 Or it could be served.

00:11:14.700 Yeah, really.

00:11:15.740 You know, you might be on to something with the inheritance.

00:11:17.960 I never see Papa Yaniv, and I'm sure he must be a proud father of that son.

00:11:25.040 But the other thing, too, on a serious vein, Drea, is the fact that throughout the Yaniv saga,

00:11:33.180 there seems to be a double standard when it comes to justice being enacted against him.

00:11:39.480 He's gone on a website and bragged about having an illegal weapon.

00:11:44.400 He has assaulted Kian.

00:11:46.920 Again, he's assaulted me with a weapon.

00:11:49.780 He's made multiple false 911 police reports, including a month ago when I confronted him

00:11:56.500 and his mother outside the Pantages Hotel and actually said I was pointing a gun at him,

00:12:03.120 at his mother, a handgun, that is, and that the only reason I wasn't arrested is that

00:12:08.080 when the police showed up, I threw the handgun down a sewer grate.

00:12:12.060 Well, Drea, I can tell you this.

00:12:13.740 Not only does the handgun not exist, there's no sewer grate outside the hotel either.

00:12:19.140 What I'm getting at is why is this guy getting away with such nonsense that any regular person

00:12:28.760 would be fined or even criminally charged if they were doing and saying these outrageous things?

00:12:35.280 Yeah, and to add to that is, you know, the inappropriate propositions to young girls as well.

00:12:43.860 I think it has to do with political correctness.

00:12:47.020 I think he's getting away with a lot because he's portraying himself as a transgender woman,

00:12:54.900 but a lot of transgender people don't even buy that act either because of how much he victimized women,

00:13:02.100 victimizes women and immigrant women at that and putting them out of business and, you know,

00:13:08.020 going after little girls and all of this.

00:13:10.200 So I think it really just has to do with the whole political correctness thing,

00:13:15.120 and that's why Jonathan's gotten away with so much so far.

00:13:19.580 You know, I think you're right, and I think the majority of trans people who, you know,

00:13:24.100 whether they're wanting to live their life as a male being a female, a female being a man, whatever,

00:13:30.280 I can't see them wanting to rally around this particular individual as a symbol of their community.

00:13:38.240 One last question, and it's on the positive side, Drea.

00:13:40.600 I noticed that unlike the nonsense Sheila and Kian went through in terms of dealing with the sheriff at this courtroom

00:13:48.820 that was quoting fictional regulations to bar the media from coming in and covering the trial,

00:13:56.880 you didn't run into any of that, did you?

00:13:58.580 No, I didn't.

00:14:00.460 They treated me the way they should.

00:14:02.880 It was very easy.

00:14:05.900 I got in there.

00:14:07.340 They knew who I was.

00:14:08.960 Yeneef tried to wave the cops over in the beginning.

00:14:11.620 They didn't really care.

00:14:13.340 And inside, one of the sheriffs said, no, Rebel News can be here and kind of put him in his place.

00:14:21.000 So it was really nice, actually, to see them behave like that.

00:14:24.880 And I don't know, maybe they watched the Rebel coverage and thought, yeah, we're going to act appropriately now.

00:14:32.600 Yeah, maybe once they saw that we called their bluff that you're banning us for, as I said, regulation that doesn't exist.

00:14:38.920 We're not going to bend the knee to that kind of nonsense.

00:14:40.920 Well, Drea, I hope you'll be going back to the courtroom when the Yeneeves are back in. 1.00

00:14:45.400 I think the vast majority of people, regardless of what politics you embrace, want to see justice enacted against this particular individual who is so odious.

00:14:57.680 So thank you so much for covering this trial, and I look forward to your future reports.

00:15:02.840 Okay, thank you.

00:15:03.980 Bye, everyone.

00:15:04.800 Thank you so much.

00:15:05.720 And that was Drea Humphrey in Vancouver.

00:15:08.380 Keep it here, folks.

00:15:09.520 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:15:12.080 Disney is ready to de-woke its studio and purge themselves of social justice storylines, according to insiders.

00:15:23.420 Disney, who owns Marvel, Star Wars, ABC, FX, and way more than that, is apparently done being woke due to declining movie sales, merchandise, and fan dissatisfaction.

00:15:34.200 I don't want to play with you anymore.

00:15:36.920 In its 2018 financial report, Disney reported revenue for their consumer products division was down 4% from 2018 to 2017, and down almost 16% from 2018 to 2016, which includes Star Wars and Marvel Comics and products.

00:15:53.240 Executives don't want to leave any chances anymore, and they are going to focus on two things only, money and what the fans want.

00:16:00.220 Now, if you're asking, why weren't those the focus all along? 1.00

00:16:03.360 Well, the answer is obviously, shut up, you fascist. 0.97

00:16:06.300 As reported by writer Matt McGloin, this news is from a reliable source who has broken news on leaks from everything from Star Trek movies and the well-documented saga of drama from Brie Larson, who plays Captain Marvel. 0.99

00:16:17.940 She is very woke, if you guys didn't know.

00:16:20.120 So woke, in fact, that she previously stated that she's so sick of being interviewed by white guys.

00:16:24.940 The 100 highest-grossing movies in 2017 were white males.

00:16:30.980 Less than a quarter were white women, and less than 10% were unrepresented men.

00:16:35.800 Only 2.5% of those top critics were women of color.

00:16:41.740 And as you can imagine, white guys make up a pretty large portion of Marvel fans, and they didn't find that as being, like, the coolest thing to say to them.

00:16:49.480 Larson and other studio employees have been causing a lot of woke-related issues for the studio for a while now.

00:16:55.000 Here's Captain Marvel herself saying that she regularly texts with Samuel L. Jackson about hating the people she works with on set.

00:17:01.220 You and Sam Jackson have been traveling all over the world together.

00:17:04.080 Yes.

00:17:04.600 And I would imagine that that's fun.

00:17:07.080 Oh, it's the best.

00:17:08.140 Do you text each other?

00:17:09.740 Of course.

00:17:10.400 You do?

00:17:10.860 They deal mostly with people that we hate.

00:17:13.000 Oh, is that right?

00:17:13.920 Mm-hmm.

00:17:14.460 I won't even ask you who those people are.

00:17:15.940 Yeah, we're pretty stealthy about it.

00:17:17.100 But there are people that you mutually hate.

00:17:19.500 Of course.

00:17:19.920 That would mean, because I am a detective, I'm going to say, you know those people from the movie King Kong.

00:17:26.840 Uh, well, we've done three movies together, so there's a lot of people to hate in three movies.

00:17:30.400 I see.

00:17:31.700 Yeah.

00:17:33.600 I don't think this is the message that Marvel wants to spread to children.

00:17:37.660 That's not all, of course.

00:17:39.240 Why would it be?

00:17:40.380 Star Wars director Rian Johnson and star John Boyega called their fans, quote, man babies,

00:17:45.680 and said that they didn't care about their opinions at all on Twitter.

00:17:48.360 Not to be outdone by these two was Star Wars writer Chuck Wendig.

00:17:52.760 He called the fans white supremacists, because of course they are.

00:17:56.720 Disney allegedly had a virtual meeting recently to explain their new approach,

00:18:00.500 which unsurprisingly includes not insulting or antagonizing the fans.

00:18:04.340 And hopefully, no more political messaging will be involved in the scripts.

00:18:08.140 And I know we are all praying that that means getting rid of that robot from Star Wars that reminds everybody of Leslie Jones.

00:18:14.720 I'm going to flip your switch.

00:18:17.080 Good luck finding it.

00:18:19.840 Well, lo and behold, it seems that the sci-fi and comic book demographic, which is predominantly male, by the way,

00:18:28.040 has had it up to here with Disney wokeness.

00:18:31.160 And it looks as though Disney is less enamored with the PC force-feeding, too, if only for one reason, declining revenues.

00:18:40.860 Hey, that's no surprise, really, folks, because behind that joyful Mickey Mouse costume is a bean-counting barbarian. 0.99

00:18:48.880 And joining me now on what is most certainly great news on the fantasy front, should it come to fruition,

00:18:56.060 is Andrew Chapitose.

00:18:57.980 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:18:59.820 You know, it's always great to be here, David.

00:19:02.340 I'm just so excited whenever I get to be on camera with you.

00:19:05.400 Oh, well, thank you so much.

00:19:08.100 Now, you know, there is a saying, Andrew,

00:19:10.500 Go Woke, Get Broke.

00:19:12.940 I don't think we're ever going to see Disney, the Leviathan entertainment giant that it is, enter into Chapter 11.

00:19:21.520 However, those figures you mentioned, your commentary, especially that one of Disney declining sales from 2016 to 2018, down 16%.

00:19:35.640 Those kind of numbers get attention, don't they?

00:19:38.760 For sure.

00:19:39.320 And what we're seeing across a bunch of corporations is the Get Woke, Go Broke thing.

00:19:44.100 I believe Tim Pool coined that.

00:19:45.560 I'm not sure.

00:19:46.340 But it's a journalist.

00:19:47.780 You might want to check him out, David.

00:19:49.280 But this is happening all across these different industries.

00:19:51.900 We've seen it with Goodyear recently.

00:19:55.120 We've seen it with Red Bull, who actually fired their people for being too woke.

00:20:00.080 And now we're seeing it with Disney.

00:20:01.940 As you mentioned, the sales are down.

00:20:03.800 Merchandise is down.

00:20:04.500 People are sick of the storylines that don't make any sense in the canon of the videos and of the storylines.

00:20:12.280 So they're trying to take characters away.

00:20:13.640 Now I've read that even Captain Marvel, they've gone as far as, and this is going to get pretty nerdy, but de-ranking her power. 0.94

00:20:20.520 So they're making her no longer the most powerful superhero.

00:20:23.760 They're making other more popular characters more powerful than her. 0.76

00:20:26.480 Interestingly enough, just before we film this, the star of one of the Star Wars movies, John Boyega, he's the black guy who plays one of the stormtroopers.

00:20:36.200 He's a really good actor.

00:20:37.520 He has recently accused him of being racist and not knowing how to write a black character.

00:20:41.980 So that's certainly going to bring a lot of joy to Disney's front offices, I think.

00:20:47.300 Well, and you know, what I found fascinating in your piece, Andrew, is that it was Rian Johnson and John Boyega being unnecessarily harsh to their fan base.

00:20:58.760 There was the term man babies being used.

00:21:01.980 I mean, talk about the biting the hand that feeds.

00:21:05.320 What are they thinking?

00:21:06.780 I don't know.

00:21:07.820 I think they got into this Hollywood echo chamber where they think this is the norm, and everybody talks this way, and everybody thinks this way.

00:21:14.760 Captain Marvel herself, Brie Larson, also said that she doesn't want to be interviewed by more white people.

00:21:19.980 And guess what?

00:21:21.060 Most Star Wars nerds and all Marvel nerds, I'm going to go ahead and say 75% of them are white guys, just population-wise in North America and the Western world.

00:21:30.340 So I don't know why you would just go out and bash your fans like this.

00:21:34.020 She was talking about how she talks to Samuel L. Jackson about hating her co-workers all the time.

00:21:39.340 It was appalling, the feeling of entitlement.

00:21:42.340 But you know, I mean, I'm a comic book reader from decades ago, and I'll be the first to say that traditionally, in yesterdecade, comics weren't too minority, diverse, if you will.

00:21:58.640 Almost every character was a white male.

00:22:01.280 And then there was this period, Andrew, in the 70s, where they kind of jumped the shark.

00:22:07.880 They were introducing more black characters, which is good, but it was in an exploitive way.

00:22:14.760 So DC had Black Lightning.

00:22:16.800 Marvel had Black Goliath.

00:22:18.920 Look, just call him Lightning.

00:22:20.640 Just call him Goliath.

00:22:21.540 It's not Caucasian Daredevil and white Spider-Man, right? 0.82

00:22:24.660 And now we're at a point where we're reimagining characters, traditional characters, instead of introducing new, diverse characters, which I think is the route to go.

00:22:38.420 And to bring it full circle, Brie Larson, you had a clip of her making that speech where she was complaining about the number of visible minority women. 0.97

00:22:46.360 Well, two things there.

00:22:48.160 One is, well, Brie, as a entitled rich white woman, why didn't you decline the role of Captain Marvel? 1.00

00:22:56.360 And B, Captain Marvel, believe it or not, in the 80s, there was a brief period where that character was a black female.

00:23:02.660 So, you know, why not lead by example instead of taking these mega million dollar contracts and then decrying how racist everyone else is?

00:23:12.500 Well, this is how it goes. Even in colleges and universities in the United States when they're complaining that there's not enough diversity, the white kids, which is always white Democrats, they don't want to give up their, not my space.

00:23:24.720 I'm not going to give up my privilege for this.

00:23:26.860 We all have white privilege, but I'm not going to give up mine. That's crazy.

00:23:29.920 It's the same thing with these actors.

00:23:31.240 They get up in the award show ceremonies, they thank everybody, and they say, you know what, there's not enough diversity here.

00:23:36.940 Well, then give up your job.

00:23:38.340 Give up your salary.

00:23:40.200 Give away half your salary.

00:23:41.260 And to your point about the black characters and other characters, there was people who complained about Black Panther being so popular.

00:23:49.440 If young kids need or want a black character to look up to, that's fine. 0.99

00:23:54.520 Like, you shouldn't have a problem with that.

00:23:56.200 It is, though, the reimagining where you're forcing it.

00:23:59.440 That's what people don't like.

00:24:00.360 And I think the best example of that is Ghostbusters.

00:24:03.580 Oh, that's a fantastic example.

00:24:06.100 But, you know, even in the print product, and I mean, this kind of breaks my heart as an old comic book reader, is that once upon a time, and there's a great book called The Untold History of Marvel Comics.

00:24:17.160 And there's a story about the writer was in hospital as a child in the early 70s, and the DC superhero comics that they left out for the kids were in mint condition.

00:24:27.940 Nobody was reading them.

00:24:29.040 The Marvel comics were so tattered because they were being so read by the other kids in the hospital.

00:24:33.900 Now, Disney looks upon comics almost as like sort of a burden, you know, and you can tell by the, for the most part, that they're horribly written and even horribly drawn.

00:24:48.820 Really, the money is in the movies and the merchandise and the video games and so on.

00:24:52.780 But, I mean, it just, you know, I'm not sure what point I'm making here, but other than the fact that the content, the root content, I should say, for all these megabillion movies is being neglected, A, and B, it's being done in a way, Andrew, where they turned Thor into a woman.

00:25:17.960 Iron Man was a black female teenager.

00:25:20.980 Iron Man, it's preposterous, and the fan base is not responding.

00:25:26.460 Well, from what I understand, maybe it's different from the Archie and Jughead days of your time.

00:25:33.260 Jughead, let's not get political here.

00:25:35.080 Wow, unbelievable.

00:25:36.560 David Menzies, everybody.

00:25:38.960 From what I understand, they try to use the comic books now as a testing ground for new characters because that's where the hardcore fans are.

00:25:45.240 And they come up with their stupid social justice characters a lot in there and then see how the hardcore fans like it. 0.91

00:25:52.180 Now, when they do this, though, and when they change characters from black to white, let's say, or white to black, sorry, that's being more diverse. 0.98

00:26:01.260 But if you do it the other way, it's cultural appropriation or it's whitewashing, like Mulan or any given character.

00:26:08.300 I think it should be just stick to what the original story is unless it makes sense.

00:26:12.460 If the race of the person doesn't matter to their story, then it shouldn't matter to viewers.

00:26:17.280 But a lot of these stories have 30, 40, 50 years of backstory and to just immediately change.

00:26:24.020 Like, if you just change Mulan, that's a good example.

00:26:27.140 If you change Mulan to be a girl from West Hollywood, that doesn't make sense because she's Chinese. 0.96

00:26:32.400 But the actor playing them, I don't think that should matter.

00:26:35.180 No, you're 100% right.

00:26:36.540 And up until now, they were very preachy about this reimagining.

00:26:41.780 I remember when they made Thor a woman, you know, they went out of their way to say, this is not she, Thor.

00:26:48.160 This is not Lady Thor.

00:26:49.420 This is Thor, Thor.

00:26:50.780 No, it's not.

00:26:51.920 Thor's a dude, not a chick.

00:26:53.660 One last question, Andrew.

00:26:56.140 They're saying, and at least the source material you referred to, is that this de-woking process is going to kick in primarily because, A, it's bad for business.

00:27:06.220 And, B, the traditional fan base is not responding, which makes it even further bad for business.

00:27:11.780 Do you think Disney is going to put its money where its mouth is?

00:27:15.600 We're going to see a return to tradition and not be so politically correct with all their various properties ranging from Marvel to Star Wars. 0.93

00:27:25.720 I think, well, first of all, the source that is used in that article, the guy himself is ridiculous. 0.77

00:27:30.860 I'm not going to lie.

00:27:31.440 If you look into the guy who says this stuff, he wears, like, a helmet when he does his videos.

00:27:36.560 But he's been proven to be right on previous leaks.

00:27:39.160 Like, he's got a source inside of Marvel and Disney that has been proven to be accurate in the past.

00:27:44.060 Having said that, do I think that they're going to actually change?

00:27:47.900 I think it'll be progression over time because you see a lot of these things happening.

00:27:51.240 The one Star Wars movie where it was all women and one of them with pink hair in charge of the fleet, which made no sense.

00:27:59.080 These characters came out of nowhere.

00:28:00.940 And the actions they took, all of a sudden, they're just light-speeding through other ships.

00:28:06.700 Like, if that was possible, you've just ruined the whole movie for all of time because they could have just been doing that from the beginning.

00:28:12.140 But are they going to keep going in the direction they're going to go?

00:28:14.900 So I think they'll slowly turn it back.

00:28:16.460 Like I said, these characters and these actors, you can't keep making fun of the fans.

00:28:21.040 You can't keep calling everybody racist.

00:28:22.900 Another one of the writers for Star Wars, I believe it was, called a bunch of their fans white supremacists, as you will.

00:28:29.680 As is natural.

00:28:31.040 But I think they're going to have to slowly start doing away with it or else they're going to face the consequences.

00:28:35.200 People didn't like the last bit of Star Wars movies.

00:28:37.360 They've got 75 different Spider-Man characters out right now.

00:28:42.240 Same with Batman and DC.

00:28:44.040 And DC seems to be going in the direction where it's more gritty and less woke.

00:28:47.960 People hated Justice League.

00:28:49.760 They hated the last Superman and Batman movies.

00:28:53.300 And they're going away from that.

00:28:54.480 They're going back towards, like, the Christopher Nolan style.

00:28:57.180 I know that you and I both like Batman Begins and such.

00:29:00.360 So I think it goes in waves.

00:29:01.960 I can't speak to the 80s because, you know, I was barely alive.

00:29:07.360 If that.

00:29:07.920 19, everybody remember that.

00:29:09.780 But in the early 90s, they had Batman was pretty gritty.

00:29:13.000 And then they had Tim Burton, which is a different kind of dark.

00:29:15.640 And then they went super cheesy with Batman and Robin and Batman Forever.

00:29:21.020 Remember Kiss from a Rose on a Grave, your favorite seal song for Batman Forever with George Clooney and Arnold.

00:29:28.260 Almost killed the franchise.

00:29:29.720 And let's not forget the bat costume with the embedded nipples. 0.89

00:29:33.180 Exactly.

00:29:33.860 So they changed from that to Batman Begins and Christopher Nolan.

00:29:36.620 And then they went back super crappy and cheesy and woke.

00:29:40.100 And I think it'll swing back.

00:29:41.480 And it's a...

00:29:42.040 I hope you're right, Andrew.

00:29:43.720 Listen, a great commentary.

00:29:45.540 And, yeah, let's see if Disney is serious about this in terms of the de-woking process.

00:29:50.700 Because, you see, whether it's comic books and comic book movies or science fiction properties, I think these are forms of escapism.

00:29:59.480 We're trying to leave the awful politically correct world in which we live.

00:30:04.460 We're trying to get entertainment not to get preached to.

00:30:07.940 So, come on, Disney, put those phasers on fun and let's get on with it. 0.96

00:30:12.800 And, yeah, nerds, I know phasers is a Star Trek term, not a Star Wars term.

00:30:17.300 But, you know, just go with the flow.

00:30:19.520 Keep it here.

00:30:20.240 We'll have more Rebel Roundup right after this.

00:30:22.360 Send him his Archie comics.

00:30:23.640 Here's the deal.

00:30:31.460 My cameraman, Mocha, and I were on a flight to Thunder Bay from Toronto a few days ago.

00:30:38.240 The flight was jam-packed, every seat taken.

00:30:41.600 So, so much for social distancing.

00:30:44.660 Alas, we could not land in Thunder Bay due to fog.

00:30:48.320 So, the pilot pulled a U-turn and brought us back to Toronto to refuel and retry our landing later that afternoon.

00:30:57.480 We were on the ground at Pearson for more than half an hour.

00:31:01.600 So, passengers began to get out of their seats and stretch their legs.

00:31:06.860 That's when a flight attendant, assuming the tone of a kindergarten teacher lambasting her naughty students, 1.00

00:31:14.180 gave us all an earful via the public address system.

00:31:17.600 We were told to return immediately to our seats due to COVID-19 health precautions.

00:31:26.700 What the?

00:31:28.380 Gee, that Wuhan virus, he's such a smart cookie, isn't he? 0.99

00:31:33.520 It can tell when you're standing or sitting and it takes umbrage apparently against those who dare to stand for whatever reason.

00:31:42.520 Now, when the flight finally did touch down in Thunder Bay, I politely spoke with the flight attendant who made that announcement.

00:31:50.620 I just wanted to know what difference does it make if a passenger is sitting or standing in what is essentially an immobile, hermetically sealed aluminum tube.

00:32:03.720 And here's how our conversation went.

00:32:07.100 Thank you.

00:32:07.800 Take care.

00:32:09.120 By the way, I was just going to ask you something.

00:32:10.560 Yeah.

00:32:11.380 There was an announcement not to stand up when we landed because of COVID-19, but I'm wondering in a packed airplane where we're sitting, how does it make any difference?

00:32:19.820 It's just what the company tells us to say.

00:32:21.960 Oh, really?

00:32:22.440 Yeah, it's in our announcements.

00:32:24.020 Okay, because it's...

00:32:24.880 I don't know.

00:32:26.000 Yeah, just, I know.

00:32:27.200 It doesn't make sense.

00:32:28.020 It's like this is a really smart virus that can tell if you're sitting or standing.

00:32:32.160 Exactly.

00:32:33.260 Yeah.

00:32:34.120 Policy.

00:32:35.020 Okay, so I reached out to the Media Relations Department of Air Canada slash Jazz.

00:32:40.700 Here's their statement.

00:32:42.220 Quote,

00:32:42.480 Does that make any sense to you?

00:33:07.320 Again, once you are confined to quarters in a very confined space like an aircraft, how does standing or sitting make any tangible difference?

00:33:20.620 Weird.

00:33:21.500 As in weird science.

00:33:24.000 Is it just me, folks, or do you think the authorities are just pulling stuff out of their collective butts these days when it comes to the Wuhan virus rules?

00:33:32.080 How else can you explain the Air Canada sitting-standing rule?

00:33:37.740 In any event, here's what you had to say about a policy that seemingly makes no sense whatsoever.

00:33:45.260 Tony DeMania writes,

00:33:47.380 Australia has a curfew because the virus can tell time and only comes out at night.

00:33:53.760 Yeah, Tony.

00:33:54.620 And don't get on the wrong side of those Australian cops these days.

00:33:58.520 I hear they are even raiding the homes of pregnant women who have the temerity to organize anti-virus restriction rallies. 0.80

00:34:07.320 Crazy.

00:34:09.420 ZTPI writes,

00:34:10.980 I feel bad for the flight attendants having to walk through all that COVID-infested air above sitting level.

00:34:17.720 Gee, you know, I never thought about that.

00:34:19.840 I hope they are getting danger pay.

00:34:21.640 Or do you think that the Wuhan virus recognizes their uniforms and realizes that these folks are hard at work and therefore don't deserve to be infected?

00:34:31.340 Who knows?

00:34:33.160 Kenneth Malinchuk writes,

00:34:34.900 David, perhaps you could also mention that the Wuhan virus is also afraid to infect people whilst they are eating, drinking, exercising, or swimming.

00:34:44.400 Indeed, and it also tends to give a pass to mass congregations of people attending things like Black Lives Matter protests.

00:34:53.580 Funny that, eh?

00:34:55.320 Frank Rustico writes,

00:34:57.520 Aren't you standing when you are talking to her?

00:35:01.420 Yeah, right you are, Frank.

00:35:03.140 Say, how's this for a new Air Canada deplaning policy?

00:35:07.120 Ladies and gentlemen, when exiting the aircraft, please ensure that you are crawling on all fours.

00:35:13.300 Jeff Taylor writes,

00:35:15.340 I will now use a wheelchair everywhere I go just so I can keep sitting. 0.98

00:35:20.340 I'm more determined now than ever to outsmart that darn Wuhan virus. 0.97

00:35:25.220 Brilliant, Jeff. 0.96

00:35:26.180 Does that mean you can now legally park in a handicapped spot too?

00:35:30.380 Maybe there is a silver lining to this pandemic after all.

00:35:34.280 And Tame Thing writes,

00:35:35.700 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:35:59.980 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:36:01.420 See you next week.

00:36:02.180 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:36:05.900 Good night.

00:36:06.300 Good night.

00:36:10.480 You're Tony.

00:36:15.260 Good night.

00:36:18.400 Good night.

00:36:21.460 Good night.

00:36:22.240 Good night.

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Rebel News Podcast - September 05, 2020

Rebel Roundup： Disney Goes Woke, Jonathan Yaniv BACK in Court with a New Name

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