Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Guests Ezra Levant, Ben Davies, & Sheila Gunn Reid!

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at

00:00:04.140 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels. I'm your host, David

00:00:08.900 Menzies. So, is it global warming? Or is it climate change? Or are we perhaps on the cusp 0.78

00:00:15.020 of another ice age? Whatever. The world is going to end in precisely 12 years, according to the

00:00:21.140 UN's climate hucksters. Sheila Gunn-Reed shall explain all. Yet another attack on Tommy Robinson.

00:00:28.120 The British military is going after those young army lads who posed with him recently as if this

00:00:34.820 was some sort of act of treason. Rebel Commander Ezra Levent will weigh in on this latest outrage

00:00:41.300 regarding the Tommy file. And at first blush, Venom is just another big budget action movie.

00:00:48.460 Ah, but because this is 2018, even a superhero movie can get infected with leftist propaganda.

00:00:56.280 Ben Davies shall share his thoughts. And finally, letters. We get your letters every minute of

00:01:03.280 every day. I'll share some of your responses to my commentary about the hateful speakers that

00:01:09.240 attended the Islamic Carry the Light conference in Toronto last weekend. Those are your rebels. 1.00

00:01:15.580 Now let's round them up. Nikki Haley just resigned her post as American ambassador to the United 0.65

00:01:28.960 Nations. And she says she'll leave by the end of 2018. The UN is such a cesspool and she was one of

00:01:34.660 the few lights in it. All that's left behind are the dimmest of bulbs flickering on about the two

00:01:40.000 things the UN seems to obsess most over. Israel and climate change. The doomsday oracles that the

00:01:46.900 United Nations are predicting. Wait, no predicting. Predicting is the wrong word to use here. The UN

00:01:54.600 climateers are promising that if humanity, sorry I mean people kind, doesn't take great steps immediately

00:02:02.760 to stop climate change. Life as we know it will be over in just 12 years. Look at this article from

00:02:10.460 The Guardian. The world's leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global

00:02:17.940 warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius, beyond which even half a degree will

00:02:23.840 significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of

00:02:30.860 people. The authors of the landmark report say urgent and unprecedented changes are needed to reach

00:02:38.180 the target which they say is affordable and feasible. Although it lies at the most ambitious end of the

00:02:45.840 Paris agreement pledge to keep temperatures between 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2 degrees Celsius. And Justin

00:02:52.560 Trudeau's liberals, well they are pushing this UN report as a reason we should all get back on board with

00:02:58.140 their carbon tax and then support any subsequent increases to it. Why is the United Nations

00:03:04.320 increasingly resembling that nutter from central casting? You know, that guy with the unkempt beard 0.90

00:03:10.120 standing on a downtown street with a sandwich board proclaiming the end of the world is near.

00:03:16.740 Well, there's no better person to ask than our very own intrepid Sheila Gunn-Reed, a journalist who has

00:03:22.620 tried to cover UN climate change conferences only to be turned away at the door for not drinking the PC

00:03:29.960 Kool-Aid that is routinely served up by the United Nothings. So, Sheila Gunn-Reed, apparently we've got 12 0.67

00:03:38.580 good years left. Unless, of course, we start paying more carbon taxes, I suppose. Well, my friend, are you

00:03:45.720 going to get cracking on checking off items on your bucket list before it's too late? Or, like me, do you think

00:03:51.980 civilization will still be around come 2030, even if we don't pay more carbon tax?

00:03:58.620 Well, I'd love to be around in 12 years, but I died from the nuclear fallout from Chernobyl, I died from the

00:04:06.040 coming Ice Age, I died twice from the hole in the ozone layer, the CFCs in my spray cheese also killed me. 0.93

00:04:13.040 That stuff will kill you, but not the way the government says it will. I can't list it, like,

00:04:18.580 the end of net neutrality. Remember when net neutrality was going to kill us all? I mean,

00:04:23.000 these people at the United Nations are like a very well-dressed doomsday cult. They're not wearing

00:04:29.540 the matching tracksuit, they're not wearing the matching running shoes. They have $1,200 running

00:04:33.860 shoes, but they sound exactly like a doomsday cult. You know, this is a great point you raise, Sheila.

00:04:39.300 You know, what it reminds me of is in 1999, when the clock was ticking, remember Y2K? That when those 1.00

00:04:48.600 digits turn over to 0, 0, 0, 0, planes were going to fall out of the sky, elevators were going to

00:04:54.640 plummet. And really, people made hundreds of millions of dollars, you know, basically gaming the

00:05:02.120 system, going around and having conferences of what to do. And of course, none of that came to fruition.

00:05:07.900 It's kind of an overlap with this, wouldn't you say?

00:05:11.260 Well, yeah. And it's interesting that you brought up the whole money-making scheme in all of this,

00:05:15.560 because now the same scientists who are telling us that the world is going to end in 12 years,

00:05:21.880 like what a weird arbitrary number, 12 years. You know, they can't tell me the weather tomorrow,

00:05:28.940 but the world is going to end in 12 years. But they say that it is necessary to have

00:05:34.140 a $5,500 per ton carbon tax just to save the world from impending doom in 12 years. And Catherine

00:05:44.960 McKenna, our environment minister, she's saying that Canada is going to meet and then beat our

00:05:50.920 Paris Accord targets. Now, those are the targets that gave her the carbon tax. She says we're going

00:05:56.820 to meet and beat those because she knows Canada has to do more. So, you know, it's interesting

00:06:02.300 that you hammer home on that point that, you know, a lot of money was made around Y2K. A lot of money 0.74

00:06:07.580 is made by doomsday cults. He just gives the leader your money and he puts off the apocalypse for you.

00:06:12.900 And the exact same thing is happening here. But they want a $5,500 per ton carbon tax.

00:06:18.060 And Sheila, Ms. McKenna is going to fail spectacularly in trying to fulfill that promise. 0.99

00:06:25.620 You go back in the timeline to 1988, when this nonsense began with the Mulroney

00:06:30.260 conservative government doing a commitment to climate change targets. And every regime

00:06:38.720 federally has never met those targets, including the current one in power right now.

00:06:44.780 Yeah, I mean, emissions did fall under Stephen Harper without a carbon tax. And they're rising

00:06:52.700 under the liberals with this looming carbon tax over top of us. The Americans right now,

00:06:58.500 they are seeing a reduction in their CO2 emissions, if you care about those sorts of things. I really

00:07:03.840 don't. But they're doing it without a carbon tax because they're pushing more fracking and more

00:07:09.480 natural gas. So there are ways to lower emissions again, if you care about those things. But the answer

00:07:14.640 to lowering emissions is not less fossil fuels, but more.

00:07:18.280 Yeah, indeed. Sheila, when we look at Canada, it is a huge landmass, sparsely populated. It's cold.

00:07:28.320 We rely on the development of oil and gas for a major component of our GDP. I mean, what are we

00:07:34.940 supposed to do to meet these targets, freeze in the dark and shut down our oil industry?

00:07:39.140 Well, it's funny that you say that we rely on oil and gas for a large portion of our GDP. But

00:07:45.760 where I'm from, we rely on oil and gas for a large portion of our staying alive and not freezing to

00:07:50.640 death. You know, when you think about how, you know, just how unwelcoming the Canadian climate is,

00:07:58.900 I mean, without fossil fuels, people will die. Right now in northern BC, they're seeing a shortage of

00:08:06.160 natural gas because they had a pipeline rupture. And it is a very scary, serious thing as the weather

00:08:12.160 gets cold to know that you just can't flip on the switch and turn the furnace on. But that's what

00:08:18.080 these, frankly, these UN elitists and government elitists want for us. At a $5,500 per ton

00:08:26.640 carbon tax, can you imagine what that looks like for the normal person? That's not driving. That's not

00:08:33.220 putting your kids in hockey. That's no medicine. That's no refrigeration for your food. It is,

00:08:40.180 you know, really just the people at the top surviving comfortably while the rest of us suffer

00:08:46.020 and die. Yeah, I guess until we find a planet with the lithium crystals to mine, like they do in Star

00:08:51.340 Trek, we have to rely on oil and gas. But, you know, Sheila, our friend at the Toronto Sun,

00:08:57.260 Laurie Goldstein, last time I talked to him, I think he was up to more than 40 books that he read

00:09:02.560 on climate change. I don't know how we could survive one. But basically, his conclusion,

00:09:08.640 with all that data, it comes down to this, this industry, if we can call it that, it boils down to

00:09:13.920 a multi-billion dollar taxation and wealth redistribution program. Would you agree with that

00:09:20.640 analysis? I absolutely would agree with that analysis. This fear mongering ramps up every time

00:09:28.080 there's a major United Nations climate change conference coming up. And with the amount of

00:09:32.920 rhetoric and doomsday occultism coming out of the United Nations and our politicians, it's almost like

00:09:40.700 there's another one coming up around the corner in Poland in December. Yeah. And, you know, last

00:09:45.260 question, let's just briefly touch upon that, Sheila. You're off to Poland in December to get

00:09:51.520 into the latest UN all you can eat buffet known as a climate change conference. First of all,

00:09:57.820 do you think they'll let you in? And secondly, I kind of hope they don't, because I think you'll

00:10:03.500 die of boredom listening to these self-important people ramble on for hours about nothing. And also

00:10:11.100 the fact that when you were shut out before at a climate change conference, the sidebar stories

00:10:16.700 you found were so fascinating that these, you know, bureaucrats from the world over couldn't even

00:10:23.340 take the time to sort their garbage between, you know, organics, waste, and recycling. So I think

00:10:29.980 they do you a favor when they slam the door on you, my friend. Yeah, they're doing me a big favor.

00:10:35.200 For real. When I went to Morocco, they had these, like, little breakout sessions about conserving

00:10:44.780 water. And I thought it was really ironic and strange that nobody noticed that in Morocco,

00:10:51.020 they had built this little village in the middle, and it wasn't little, it was large,

00:10:56.280 village in the middle of the desert. And every morning, they were trucking in water

00:11:02.200 to water the grounds to keep the dust down so that the dignitaries didn't ruin their $1,200

00:11:08.460 shoes with the dust as they were walking in to these conferences to tell the rest of the world,

00:11:14.600 if it's yellow, let it mellow. Like, I just, it was, it was so terrible. And then when,

00:11:21.200 so they banned me, of course, from going to the next one. And then when I go to the next one,

00:11:25.500 they don't let me in. But that's fine, because I discovered what all the whirring noises were

00:11:31.640 all around the conference. And it was these big, massive diesel generators and diesel powered

00:11:36.220 light. It's so, they're so oblivious to the things that normal people notice. And I felt like I was

00:11:44.500 the only normal person there. Oh, man, you couldn't make this up. Well, we'll talk before December,

00:11:49.020 Sheila, but good luck in December. And let's hope that there's no offended soy boys from Greenpeace 0.87

00:11:54.280 that are going to call the cops on you this time for being offended like they did last night.

00:12:01.120 Sheila, thanks so much for, uh, for joining me here and a great report as always.

00:12:06.520 Thanks, David. Have a really great weekend. You too, my friend. And keep it here,

00:12:10.220 folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:12:12.960 Most honourable morning I've ever had, anyway.

00:12:22.120 That's it.

00:12:31.000 Class, eh? Makes it all worth it. An honour.

00:12:36.600 So, no big deal. Friendly selfies. No politics were discussed, really. This was just young lads.

00:12:41.520 Junior soldiers. I don't know if that's afraid. I think they're more than cadets. They're just young

00:12:45.800 soldiers. Probably most of them in their late teens. So they wouldn't even probably even have

00:12:50.980 a deep knowledge of Tommy's whole political career dating back a decade. I bet they know him more from

00:12:55.700 our YouTube videos and from his Facebook page, something he's only really been doing in earnest

00:13:00.620 for a couple of years. So Tommy's a citizen journalist who loves soldiers and stands for

00:13:06.660 British values as opposed to Sharia values. That sounds good to me. Sounds good to those soldiers. 1.00

00:13:11.520 Of course they want a selfie with him because Tommy's like them. He comes from a patriotic

00:13:15.540 British working class background. Tommy stands up for the forgotten Britain, what in America 0.55

00:13:20.520 would be called flyover country or the rust belt, you know, people who the British singer

00:13:25.320 Morrissey would sadly call nobody's nothings in the eyes of the fancy people. So yeah, these

00:13:31.020 working class Brits love the last vocal patriot in the British public square.

00:13:35.960 And so as surely as day follows night, people who don't like Tommy Robinson and don't like

00:13:42.400 the military and don't like working class Brits, well, they freaked out. But about what did they

00:13:48.700 freak out? Did these troops say something political? Did they do something political? Did they endorse

00:13:56.180 a candidate in an election? I mean, just brainstorming here. Did they, oh, I don't know, stand next to

00:14:02.200 the flag of a banned terrorist group called Hezbollah and give an approving speech? No, no,

00:14:08.640 that would be Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the Labour Party and possibly the next prime minister over

00:14:12.680 there. Did these lads do that? Did these young soldiers do that? No, they did not. Did they

00:14:17.320 themselves say anything, in fact, other than a few complimentary greetings and chanting his name

00:14:21.780 briefly? Well, welcome to the so-called new normal folks, a bunch of young soldiers, men who are

00:14:27.260 expected to put their lives on the line to protect the country if need be, find themselves in the

00:14:32.920 crosshairs of the guns of political correctness. And for what? Posing for a selfie with Tommy Robinson?

00:14:40.380 Well, already one of those soldiers you saw kibitzing with Tommy has been discharged. It's a safe bet 0.98

00:14:46.300 there will be more disciplinary action coming down the pike too. But the question arises, just what

00:14:52.860 exactly were these young lads guilty of? What are they being punished so harshly with to begin with?

00:14:59.980 Joining me now with more on this latest disgraceful attack on free speech in the UK is our rebel

00:15:06.500 commander, Ezra Levant. Welcome to Rebel Roundup. Thanks very much. Ezra, I'm trying to square this

00:15:14.120 circle in terms of what's happening in the UK, especially when it comes to Tommy Robinson and

00:15:19.440 freedom of speech. First and foremost, as I said in the preamble, what exactly did these young lads do

00:15:25.500 that was so wrong? They were just at a truck stop, like a gas station with some restaurants at the

00:15:30.440 side of the highway, four buses of these young British soldiers. And Tommy was there at the same

00:15:35.080 time. He saw them, they saw him. They recognized him from his YouTube videos. And they recognized him

00:15:40.060 because he's a pro-troops guy, pro-military guy. It's one of the things that got him involved in politics

00:15:45.080 a decade ago. And so they, you know, and even if they didn't really know who he was, they saw him or heard

00:15:50.360 about him and they posed for selfies. These soldiers are, some of them are in their late teens. And about a hundred

00:15:57.180 of them posed for pictures with him, just shook hands. And it was no big deal. There wasn't an ideological

00:16:02.780 meeting. They're just guys having a sandwich. And they posted some of these selfies to their own private Facebook

00:16:08.440 pages. They didn't join any campaign. But the Muslim Council of Britain complained. And a Muslim 1.00

00:16:17.200 imam in the British military, their Muslim advisor complained. And these men were, I think arrested is

00:16:26.840 too hard a word, but they had their cell phones seized by their commander who searched their cell phones for

00:16:33.380 any contraband pictures with Tommy. And one of the men, I don't know if the right word is charged or

00:16:39.340 brought up on charges, but he's being drummed out and is expected to be discharged from the army.

00:16:45.660 He's just a teenager, overtaking a selfie, like kicked out of his career.

00:16:51.520 Incredible. And let's talk about what you've just raised, Ezra, the Muslim Council of Britain.

00:16:56.640 The UK armed forces are taking their marching orders from this organization, an organization

00:17:01.460 that signed a declaration saying that the Royal Navy was an acceptable target for jihad.

00:17:09.340 Yeah. Oh, they're extremists. I mean, I was just poking around and studying them a little bit.

00:17:14.480 It wasn't until just a few years ago that they even accepted the notion of a Holocaust Memorial Day.

00:17:20.080 I don't know if it's because they denied the Holocaust or supported the Holocaust. It was really weird.

00:17:24.640 Like, if you're that far out there, that's so far out there. And like you say,

00:17:29.740 they're anti-military to begin with. So for them to tell the British military what to do

00:17:34.840 and to knock out soldiers from the military, I wrote a little tweet. I said, this Muslim Council 1.00

00:17:40.520 of the UK will probably wind up taking more British soldiers out of commission than a jihad

00:17:47.380 from a Taliban terrorist. Obviously, it's not why.

00:17:50.680 Without firing a single bullet.

00:17:52.040 Yeah. So if the Muslim Council of Britain can knock out 1, 5, 10, 20, theoretically 100 soldiers 0.98

00:17:58.800 from the British Army just by saying, oh, they're Islamophobic, for doing what? For taking a picture

00:18:03.360 with a private citizen. Now, I agree that people in uniform should not in uniform do partisan things.

00:18:09.340 You wouldn't want a police officer on duty wearing a uniform to campaign for this party or that party,

00:18:14.560 because we all have to be able to trust that police officer as a neutral authority,

00:18:20.780 that he's not a liberal cop or a conservative cop. He's just a cop. Same goes for the military.

00:18:26.200 But I'm sorry, when you're on a lunch break at a truck stop and you take a personal selfie with a YouTube star,

00:18:33.260 that is not tantamount to destroying the neutrality and integrity of the British Army.

00:18:40.320 This is a politically correct witch hunt. And Ezra, let's talk about the double standard

00:18:44.980 when it comes to crime and punishment in terms of the British Army. Tommy has pointed out there

00:18:49.740 was one soldier who was found with tens of thousands of pounds of crack cocaine. No discharge.

00:18:56.380 And the pounds there refers to dollars, not the weight.

00:18:59.520 Correct. Yes. Pounds sterling. Two other soldiers caught molesting children. No discharge for them.

00:19:07.960 Yeah. A kid goes in front of Tommy, takes a selfie. You're out, mate.

00:19:12.620 Yeah. Well, this is a disproportionate amount of punishment given the precedent that's being said, I think.

00:19:18.780 Yeah. And it's insane. I have evidence that I'm not permitted to use for it.

00:19:27.020 I don't want to get anyone in trouble right now, but evidence that hopefully I will be able to share

00:19:31.600 with our viewers one day that this isn't just being handled at the local platoon or squad level.

00:19:37.420 This is being handled at the general level. And even the Ministry of Defense in the United Kingdom

00:19:43.260 has got involved. And that's insane, by the way.

00:19:47.300 Right. And right now, there's a shortage of recruits to the British Army. And I think part of it is

00:19:54.160 they're so politically correct. And who would normally go and sign up for the Army? Well, patriots.

00:20:00.060 Yeah.

00:20:00.160 And especially, by the way, working class Brits. It's a military tradition. And sometimes for kids

00:20:05.820 from a poor background, it's the way out of an economic situation. And there's all sorts of

00:20:11.540 wholesome reasons to join the military. They're having a tough time filling their ranks. And they're

00:20:15.580 drumming out these working class, patriotic British kids. And by the way, at the same time,

00:20:20.520 and I showed this the other day, and our viewers can find it very quickly online. They're having

00:20:25.480 specific Muslim targeted recruitment ads. One of them is just incredible. The British Army shows a

00:20:30.800 recruitment ad of a Muslim man out on exercises, out on patrol, and everyone stops while he takes off

00:20:39.720 his boots, takes off his helmet, and does the Muslim prayers. And all the other soldiers wait for 0.76

00:20:45.560 him. And then only when he's done do they move. In fact, during the prayer, there's some commander

00:20:51.360 who crackles in on communication, and the soldier says, shh, we're waiting. I know that sounds like

00:20:57.120 I'm making it up. Just go to British on YouTube, go to British Army. Maybe we can play some right now,

00:21:04.140 in fact, British Army faith. And it's about, I can be a British soldier and pray five times a day,

00:21:11.700 including while we're out on patrol. That's crazy. But it's no crazier or no less crazy

00:21:20.040 than kicking someone out of the military because he took a selfie with Tommy.

00:21:24.000 That's, I didn't know about that, Ed. I mean, I have a book at home, How to Lose a War. There's

00:21:28.720 now an updated version of that coming out because here's another way in which to lose. Ezra, what's

00:21:34.420 wrong with this picture? We have in the UK, as you know, hundreds of police officers basically

00:21:40.060 eavesdropping on the internet to see if anything offensive is being said about Islam. We have,

00:21:45.720 we know, 23,000 jihadis walking the streets of the UK. And yet, that's, well, that's in the

00:21:54.400 periphery. Here's a kid that poses with Tommy Robinson. And as you said, it's gone all the

00:21:59.540 way up to the Ministry of Defense. What is going on in that country?

00:22:03.560 They've gone mad. And it's funny you mentioned these hate speech cops or hate crimes or feelings

00:22:08.560 police. The city of London itself, which is quite a large city and they have a quite a large

00:22:12.400 police force, the Metropolitan Police. They boast that that one city, London, there's other big

00:22:19.260 cities in the UK, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, whatever. London alone has 900

00:22:25.560 police who do nothing but work on hurt feelings offenses. 900. And that's just the officers.

00:22:32.200 That's not the support staff. That is larger than many police forces for entire city. 900 people.

00:22:39.220 And they are paid to suss out hurt feelings, mainly in two species, transgenderism and Islam. 0.90

00:22:49.020 So if you say something on your own Facebook page to your own friends, you can get a knock

00:22:56.000 on the door. In fact, my show last night was about some Hollywood style comedy writer, not

00:23:02.420 Hollywood, but in the UK, who called a transgender male to female transgender activist, called them

00:23:10.380 by their male name, Steve, instead of their female name, Stephanie. And the police went to caution

00:23:19.240 him. The police went to caution him. And they put a note on his criminal record. It's not a criminal

00:23:27.680 conviction. But it's on his police record now that they went to caution him for saying Steve instead

00:23:35.580 of Stephanie. That's a true story. Ezra, I can barely contain my anger. So we're going to have

00:23:41.680 to wrap it here. And folks, we're not just ranting about it. Please go to our petition, standwithourlads.com.

00:23:50.560 We have more than 140,000 signatures, and it was just launched a few days ago. Tommy will be

00:23:56.740 personally delivering that petition to the British military and to 10 Downing Street. So again,

00:24:03.120 standwithourlads.com and please sign that petition. We'll be back with more of Rebel Roundup right after

00:24:09.280 this. As a critic, I give enemy three out of five. The movie itself was a mess. The plot was just so

00:24:22.260 chopped with things added, it was frustrating because what worked, worked. Tom Hardy fighting

00:24:26.800 with a dark alien mirror version of his own personality, while they then buddy cop their way

00:24:31.240 through conflict, romance, and action. All of that works really well. But because it's 2018, that was

00:24:36.800 more like a blip. And they had to add side characters with their own moral conflicts to try

00:24:40.480 to slow down the movie to a crawl. I mean, literally in an interview, Tom Hardy said the

00:24:44.640 best 30 to 40 minutes of the movie were cut out, I guess, to make time for all this other stupid 0.98

00:24:48.900 nonsense that doesn't do anything. No, I'm not kidding. And literally, the second time this has 0.99

00:24:53.280 happened, the reason why the bad guy is doing what he's doing is because, of course, the world is

00:24:57.700 being destroyed by man-made climate change, and it's going to be over in like 25 years. And they say

00:25:02.820 like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we know. Yeah, we're done. One generation, we're done. 0.59

00:25:07.500 Holy political correctness, Batman. Is nothing sacred? Does even a superhero action movie have

00:25:14.540 to be politicized with left-wing propaganda? Uh, yeah, because that's how Hollywood rolls these

00:25:20.920 days. And with more on the leftist lecturing served up by a movie about an alien symbiote,

00:25:27.740 of all things, is our Tinseltown rebel, Ben Davies. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ben.

00:25:34.100 Thank you so much for having me. Can't wait to talk about it.

00:25:36.660 Indeed. Ben, earlier this year, I had to sit through a horrible, awful movie called The Hurricane Heist

00:25:44.120 that was made all the more awful by a lecture on climate change. And now we have the superhero

00:25:50.480 genre being contaminated this way as well. What gives, my friend?

00:25:54.760 It's not, it's not a, I don't know. You're asking people, you're telling people, I'm going

00:26:04.340 to make my art worse. It's just the most lazy way to create jeopardy in a story. And it's part of it

00:26:10.720 is because the left is so pushing its own religion, almost of leftism and everything is so valuable and

00:26:16.980 so important that we must include it in the story, even at the cost of the narrative itself.

00:26:21.000 And this happened in Predator most recently for me, where the villain was coming back to Earth

00:26:25.600 and this whole thing is like, you know, we're destroying our planet anyway. So the Predators

00:26:28.620 have to come back now and like take us because we're going to destroy ourselves. And it was just

00:26:32.300 like, so matter of fact. And they literally said, you know, how long are we going to last? One

00:26:35.720 generation. And then in this movie in Venom, when they're setting up why the symbiotes are coming

00:26:39.640 there or why we have to fuse ourselves with these symbiotes is because, well, obviously we're going to

00:26:44.400 kill ourselves with global warming in what? One generation. And I'm like, what? Are you kidding me?

00:26:49.280 And it's only because this is something being pushed. And it's a mix between people really

00:26:53.260 believing it and then downright laziness as well. Well, that's incredible. I didn't know the

00:26:58.340 Predator reboot had this kind of climate change contamination as part of it too. And kind of the,

00:27:04.400 I guess the impetus for the Predators is Earth is about to become extinct. We better hunt them

00:27:08.820 while they're still alive. But, you know, Ben, there was, aside from the climate change element in

00:27:14.920 Venom. I mean, my goodness, a superhero movie about a villain. There was also a scene you

00:27:21.440 referenced in your commentary. There's a lecture being given by the bad guy, Drake, and a young

00:27:28.180 black girl interrupts the lecture and people in the audience are hushing her, as you should, 0.82

00:27:34.520 because it's not your time to speak, honey. And Drake says words to the effect of,

00:27:39.400 don't ever let anyone silence you. This is the qualities of a villain. Was this sort of a

00:27:45.420 nod, Ben, to Black Lives Matter and their disruptive techniques that they subscribe to? 1.00

00:27:53.020 Oh, 100%. And what you, one of the things about film, any director you talk to, any editor,

00:27:59.960 the hardest thing to do is when you make your film and then you cut it down. Like in Courageous,

00:28:04.220 the movie I did in 2011 that made like $40 million, it was a three hour movie on the cutting room floor

00:28:09.000 and they had to cut it down to two hours because you cut everything that is unnecessary. And they

00:28:13.760 deemed this scene that does nothing for any character development, does nothing to drive

00:28:17.640 the story forward. They deemed that necessary to put on the screen and bog down the first 40 minutes.

00:28:22.400 And everyone that sees the movie, we are all lie detectors when you're in the theater. You don't

00:28:26.220 even know why you get bored or why you don't like a character. But when you step back and really assess

00:28:31.100 it, you can see why it's when it's something is unnecessary. It's forced. It would never normally

00:28:35.620 happen even in that story. Like it's just unrealistic. It takes you away from what the

00:28:39.600 narrative is about. And this is one of those scenes that bogged down the movie in the first 40 minutes

00:28:43.340 that was just there to make a point. And everyone in the audience knows it, even if they not don't

00:28:48.760 agree with it. Like, even if you think, oh yeah, it's great that she spoke up, you're still sitting

00:28:52.140 there like, why am I so bored? You know, and this happened in multiple scenes, multiple characters,

00:28:56.060 they added, but then once the story started, it was fantastic. But it's just, they cannot help but

00:29:00.940 shoot themselves in the foot. But it didn't affect them that much because it did break the all-time

00:29:04.740 October box office record this past weekend. Yeah. And you know, we should touch upon that,

00:29:08.960 Ben. I mean, to me, it's kind of weird doing a movie about a Spider-Man villain without, oh, I don't

00:29:16.920 know, having Spider-Man have a scene in it. But here's the thing. I have a theory, and it's based on

00:29:24.340 my own son who, I haven't seen the movie, but he went to see Venom on opening night. And he absolutely

00:29:30.400 loved it once to go see it again. I have this theory, Ben, that there is a subsection of

00:29:36.040 Hollywood that is making movies for 12 to 16-year-old boys that, you know, and they go to

00:29:45.200 these movies. Do you think Venom falls into that category? Because on Rotten Tomatoes, it only scored

00:29:50.280 30%. But if you look, it has almost 90% from viewers. Correct. People that got in, got in to see it,

00:29:56.340 like your son, people in high school that want to go see it or whatever, it definitely landed. And

00:30:00.900 they really had the formula down. Like this movie could have been really interesting. You had arguably

00:30:05.680 one of the top actors in the past 10 years as this lead. You have one of the most ridiculous looking 0.99

00:30:10.580 CGI, amazingly done technological things on screen I've seen a long time in the outfit and costume 0.84

00:30:16.240 of Venom. And then you have the crazy dialogue and situation of having someone inside your head

00:30:21.260 that has stakes with you, but it's not actually who you are. Because if one of you dies, you both die

00:30:25.800 kind of thing. So it's this interesting battle. And also with like the relationships with like the

00:30:29.700 actual love interest is interesting because it's two different perspectives going on in his head.

00:30:33.020 And you have a great actor doing this on screen. And so moments of it are awesome and really fun

00:30:38.100 to watch. And then some things that Hollywood just cannot help itself will bog down the movie like

00:30:42.660 that. But they definitely hit their demographic. Like you said, the people they wanted to get in the

00:30:46.220 seats, got in the seats clearly because it was able to break the record. And one last point,

00:30:51.320 Ben, when it comes to the superhero genre, my all time favorite film is The Dark Knight Rises.

00:30:58.420 And it's not just because it is such a brilliant end to the Chris Nolan trilogy, but it's also

00:31:05.560 because although I don't base my opinion on liking the film exclusively on this, I would argue that

00:31:11.840 The Dark Knight Rises is the most right wing superhero film you could ever watch. It's a condemnation of the

00:31:18.140 Occupy movement. And it's also the the underlying theme is when someone is in bad circumstances,

00:31:25.760 you can choose to either through the will of the individual rise above it, or you succumb to it and

00:31:32.260 go down a dark path. What is your opinion of that film, Ben? And do you think we'll ever see

00:31:38.520 another superhero film made in the Hollywood of today, which leans right?

00:31:44.300 I 100% agree with you. The Dark Knight series is the most conservative superhero, even trilogy,

00:31:50.880 like even every every movie of that is telling a different aspect of something that we know to

00:31:54.780 be true. There are archetypal characters and stories that we can all latch on to that are truthful.

00:31:59.300 Any movie that is truthful is going to be somewhat right wing, but that has it's more clear,

00:32:03.540 especially The Dark Knight Rises, because one of the villain in it, it's like it comes in the shape

00:32:08.220 of Bane. But really, what causes people willing to die in a plane crash just to keep this facade going

00:32:14.000 is because it's more than them, because it's an idea. It's like it's a new it's a the way that

00:32:18.980 people should live. It's it's it's based like Marxism, basically. It's a super version of that

00:32:23.300 in in Bane's ideology. He's trying to impose on Gotham to make this point. And you can there'll be

00:32:28.980 more and more movies like this. You can see that bleed in with some of the Captain America movies,

00:32:32.800 but it's not going to be as on the nose. I don't think unless a director has enough control

00:32:38.160 as someone like Christopher Nolan or maybe Michael Bay's kind of conservative, but you're gonna have to

00:32:43.260 have to someone that is actually conservative is also big enough to tell the to tell all the

00:32:48.600 studios to shove it and let me make my movie because it's going to be better because I'm not 0.68

00:32:52.200 going to add all the stupid stuff to bog it down for 40 minutes, just like in Venom and not these 1.00

00:32:56.800 stupid characters that mean nothing, that do nothing. I'm gonna make a great movie my way and you'll reap 1.00

00:33:01.460 the benefit of it. But you're gonna have to let me take the reins and it's going to take a great

00:33:05.180 director and a really good story to do that. But I mean, The Dark Knight Rises, that whole trilogy is

00:33:09.580 just once every in a lifetime, probably. Oh, I agree. And maybe also part of the part of the

00:33:16.100 formula, Ben, is convincing the studio that this is a moneymaker because ever since the inception of

00:33:21.060 Hollywood, the biggest star in Tinseltown is, of course, the dollar sign. That's typically what

00:33:27.160 drives things, right? So we shall see. Well, anyways, Ben, thank you for sitting through

00:33:32.000 Venom for us so that we don't have to. And the second half is actually fun.

00:33:37.920 Okay. That's great. And hopefully the next film will be a little better. So thank you again,

00:33:44.520 my friend. Absolutely. Great. That was Ben Davies in Hollywood, folks. And keep it here.

00:33:49.820 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:33:52.040 Excuse me, ma'am. Hi, ma'am. Can I not ask her? No, no, we are not allowed to. I'm not allowed to ask a question of this lady? 1.00

00:34:07.000 Okay. This is hazardous? Pardon me? You're stopping, the car's coming in, and there are people with the kids.

00:34:20.040 I'm on a sidewalk, sir. You're interviewing on the road. Like, you just came outside, and...

00:34:23.640 Well, that was one lady with a stroller. I'll stand here. Okay, then. I can do that. 0.67

00:34:28.340 Yes, you can. But why would you do that, sir? This is private property.

00:34:31.920 Okay. All right. Your star speaker, Linda Sarsour, is the biggest proponent of Sharia law in the United States. 0.99

00:34:38.300 So, what's the big deal about it? What's the big deal?

00:34:42.100 Well, who cares about the Sharia law? We are not here for Sharia law. We are here to live as a Canadian citizen,

00:34:49.000 with law-abiding citizens. We want to live in a pluralistic society where we can coexist with each other.

00:34:55.880 We have nothing to do with Sharia law. Is Sharia law compatible with Canadian law?

00:34:58.920 This place. Please live this place.

00:35:00.400 Well, sir, you have no authority to make me leave.

00:35:02.360 Well, from the conference centre entrance to the parking lot to here on the sidewalk of Airport Road,

00:35:10.380 we have been pushed as far as we can go. And even though we are on a public sidewalk,

00:35:18.200 we're still being shadowed by security guards.

00:35:22.500 But you know what, folks? They couldn't stop the truck.

00:35:26.000 Thanks to your generosity, that jumbotron-equipped truck made certain passersby were informed of the toxic comments

00:35:34.400 by those hateful speakers who had gathered within the confines of Toronto's international centre.

00:35:41.560 Well, we indeed tried to cover the Carry the Light conference last weekend,

00:35:46.200 which was staged by the Canadian arm of the Islamic Circle of North America.

00:35:50.940 But alas, ICNA's head honchos didn't want us to shed any light on Carry the Light.

00:35:56.520 And given the roster of hateful speakers headed up by the odious Linda Sarsour, is that any wonder? 1.00

00:36:03.100 Sarsour, of course, is a feminist who supports Sharia law in the West and has no qualms when it comes to female genital mutilation, 1.00

00:36:13.160 so long as the victims are her ideological foes.

00:36:17.400 Yeah, Linda is a regular Susan B. Anthony, isn't she? 1.00

00:36:21.300 In any event, here's what some of you had to say about ICNA's little Thanksgiving hate fest.

00:36:27.420 Regarding the hoped-for implementation of Sharia law, Michael H. writes,

00:36:31.660 There is a misconception, really?

00:36:34.560 So it is a misconception when, according to Sharia law,

00:36:38.280 a woman who gets raped is then stoned to death for the act while the man walks away, 0.87

00:36:43.540 or being gay means an automatic death sentence. 0.97

00:36:47.240 Those kinds of misconceptions are pretty far spread,

00:36:51.220 so Islam better start clearing those misconceptions up rather quickly.

00:36:56.240 Yes, Michael, we heard time and time again from the Sharia apologists

00:37:00.320 that Sharia law, well, it's not really all that bad,

00:37:03.480 that it might even be compatible with Canadian law and the Canadian Constitution.

00:37:08.320 Does one laugh or cry or just get really angry?

00:37:12.780 Evermore writes, 0.97

00:37:14.140 Sarsour wanted to take away the vaginas of a woman who disagreed with her. 1.00

00:37:19.100 Indeed, folks, she actually did say that,

00:37:21.320 and one of her targets was none other than Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 0.97

00:37:25.720 a victim of female genital mutilation.

00:37:29.180 Again, Sarsour is really one special kind of feminist, isn't she? 1.00

00:37:34.420 Jim Dandy writes,

00:37:36.020 Duh, there's a reason the Liberals wanted M103,

00:37:39.360 so you can't criticize Islam.

00:37:41.780 You know, Jim Dandy, this is the ultimate irony.

00:37:44.000 If M103 were to become the law,

00:37:47.460 just merely reporting on this conference, as we did,

00:37:51.100 could be deemed as an act of Islamophobia,

00:37:54.220 and we'd be charged with a criminal act.

00:37:57.260 Meanwhile, the likes of Linda Sarsour and her mentor,

00:38:00.780 Siraj Wahaj,

00:38:02.220 who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing,

00:38:07.700 well, they can waltz into Canada

00:38:09.480 and spread their toxic hatred with impunity.

00:38:12.600 Thank you ever so much, Ikra Khalid.

00:38:16.660 And Mike Iznipe writes,

00:38:18.900 Sharia law will never be in any Western country. 0.99

00:38:21.980 That's a fact.

00:38:23.660 Um, I'm afraid that's not a fact, my friend.

00:38:26.460 In the United Kingdom alone,

00:38:27.800 there are already more than 80 Sharia courts.

00:38:31.700 And as the Muslim population increases in the West, 0.88

00:38:34.400 expect some members of that community

00:38:36.340 to push ever harder for more Sharia. 0.99

00:38:40.100 And King of Ireland,

00:38:41.400 It's My Island writes,

00:38:43.360 Great, great work here.

00:38:44.840 Bravo.

00:38:45.360 Well, thank you, King.

00:38:46.900 But you know what, folks?

00:38:48.200 Bravo to you,

00:38:49.720 because we could never have rented that Jumbotron-equipped truck

00:38:53.000 without your generous donations.

00:38:54.960 And hey,

00:38:55.480 if anyone still wants to chip in a few bucks

00:38:57.720 to help us cover our costs,

00:38:59.460 we're much obliged.

00:39:00.400 Oh, and by the way,

00:39:01.960 there's still time for you to visit our website,

00:39:04.440 lindasarceur.ca,

00:39:06.460 to sign our petition.

00:39:08.220 This petition isn't out to ban or muzzle Sarsour and her ilk.

00:39:12.320 Rather, we want to call on any politician

00:39:15.460 who has worked with IGNA

00:39:17.320 to renounce their support for this organization.

00:39:21.060 Supporters of this extremist group

00:39:23.000 should own their decisions and defend their actions,

00:39:26.360 or admit they were wrong and disavow.

00:39:29.620 And folks,

00:39:30.320 next week,

00:39:31.040 I'll be personally delivering this petition

00:39:33.140 to ICNA's Canadian headquarters.

00:39:36.140 Stay tuned for that one.

00:39:38.180 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:39:40.660 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:39:41.960 See you next week.

00:39:42.700 And hey, folks,

00:39:43.320 never forget,

00:39:44.360 without risk,

00:39:45.200 there can be no glory.

00:39:46.980 Good night.

00:39:47.580 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - October 13, 2018

Rebel Roundup： Guests Ezra Levant, Ben Davies, & Sheila Gunn Reid!

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