Rebel News Podcast - Rebels against the lockdown： Will Canada crush Adamson BBQ？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. There was an act of rebellion in Canada today. Very exciting.

00:00:04.460 Our David Menzies was on the scene. There was a barbecue shop in Etobicoke, Ontario that decided

00:00:09.860 it was going to stay open, lockdown be damned. David was there. So were the cops. So was the

00:00:15.040 media party. That's today's episode of the Ezra Levant Show. Before I get out of the way, let me

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00:00:36.800 Menzies. Pardon me. And I think the knowledge that you're keeping our independent journalism 1.00

00:00:43.400 going. One of the things we'll talk about today is how the media party smeared and sneered. 0.97

00:00:49.400 And we just went and reported. All right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:56.160 Tonight, I think that maybe, just maybe, people are rebelling against the lockdown.

00:01:14.500 It's November 24th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:19.120 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:22.660 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:26.980 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody

00:01:31.860 right to do so.

00:01:37.660 Look at this story from Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster. You know them. They love lockdowns.

00:01:44.600 They love fear. They love liberal politicians. And yet, they embarrass the mayor of Windsor,

00:01:51.860 Drew Dilkens, who went out to a big dinner party with his friends, no masks, no social distancing,

00:01:59.000 literally hours after demanding zero tolerance for any of his subjects doing the same.

00:02:07.180 And look at this from lovely Huntington Beach, California. Mass public demonstrations, a street

00:02:14.900 party, really, in defiance of Governor Gavin Newsom's curfew. After all, Newsom himself went

00:02:23.040 out to a dinner party, no mask, no nothing. And his sociopathic explanation, he blamed his

00:02:29.040 wife in part, naturally. But basically, he said, I'm more important than you. And my friend is more

00:02:34.920 important than you. And it was his birthday. And that's more important than you. So shut up.

00:02:40.060 A few weeks ago, I was asked to go to a friend's 50th birthday. My wife and I, a friend that I've

00:02:46.800 known for almost 20 years, and a friend that had, well, put a lot of time and energy into his 50th

00:02:54.480 birthday. It was in Napa, which was in the orange status, relatively loose compared to some other

00:03:00.220 counties. It was to be an outdoor restaurant. And we started the, well, the program started at four

00:03:07.980 o'clock. It was one of those early reservations. I got there a little bit late at 430. And as soon

00:03:13.520 as I sat down at the larger table, I realized it was a little larger group than I had anticipated.

00:03:19.680 And I made a bad mistake. Instead of sitting down, I should have stood up and walked back, got in my

00:03:29.460 car and drove back to my house. Instead, I chose to sit there with my wife and a number of other

00:03:36.420 couples that were outside the household. You can quibble about the guidelines, et cetera, et cetera. But

00:03:41.860 the spirit of what I'm preaching all the time was contradicted. And I got to own that. And so I want

00:03:47.660 to apologize to you because I need to preach and practice, not just preach and not practice. And

00:03:55.020 I've done my best to do that. We're all human. We all fall short sometimes. Yeah. As you could see

00:04:00.960 from those photos, even that excuse was a lie. It was all indoors. What a liar. No one believes

00:04:06.580 the lockdowners. Ontario Premier Doug Ford goes to a wedding when he wants to, but you can't.

00:04:14.200 So now we come to the second major lockdown. And you know what? People don't believe it anymore.

00:04:22.840 Certainly not in the United States, land of freedom. Here's a video of one bar in the U.S. that was

00:04:28.400 supposed to be shut down, but look at it is jammed full. No one cares. No one seems to be scared of the

00:04:36.160 virus with a 99.99% recovery rate for people under 70. No one believes the hype. Or if they do,

00:04:42.780 maybe those are the folks who stay home. Maybe some people even detected that it was just a little

00:04:48.800 fear-mongering to help get rid of Trump. And that's all over now. Some places it's a little bit

00:04:55.380 tougher. Look at these Americans here who know enough about their rights and their constitution 1.00

00:05:01.060 to give the bums rush to the coppers. These people actually work for their money and they 0.98

00:05:06.560 don't want to lose their livelihood. I've lost friends. I've lost family who've killed themselves.

00:05:11.200 I've seen clients die because they've lost their livelihood. I'm sorry to hear that. I know you are.

00:05:15.980 And I'm just, I'm asking for you to guys have some compassion for the people that have lost

00:05:19.960 everything. We do have compassion for people. Okay. Well, you need to go have compassion out in a

00:05:24.400 parking lot. This is private property. This is private property. This is private property. It's

00:05:30.600 private property. Listen, man, this is private property. They're not wanted here. So do your

00:05:36.760 jobs. Well, her job is. Well, no, no. Your job is to remove people that are not wanted here. 1.00

00:05:41.640 We're wanted here. They're not. She's hiding her name. I'm not. It's right here. It's my name.

00:05:47.800 They're just doing that job. There we go. You should not be wearing masks. I'm not doing anything wrong.

00:05:52.080 Don't worry about my health. My health isn't your concern. You're meant to be wearing a mask.

00:05:55.500 Is it going to be wearing a mask? Okay. Well, then write me up. It's the law. Okay. Then take me to jail.

00:05:59.680 It's not the law. Then take me to jail. Show me the law. Show me the law. Show me the law.

00:06:06.240 Well, I think we've got to go down. You have to leave. You guys have to leave. You have to leave.

00:06:11.900 Right now you're trespassing without a warrant. You need a civil disobedience. You need a

00:06:15.740 trespassing. You're not trespassing. You're trespassing. It doesn't matter. We have a right to be

00:06:19.900 doesn't matter. Get a warrant. Go get a warrant. Go get a warrant. Yes, you do. Come back with a

00:06:25.140 warrant or leave. Don't write the law. No, go on your phone outside. Go on your phone outside.

00:06:31.040 I would really like it if you would stop shelving it. Where did you hear a request from? Okay, we

00:06:33.900 didn't look if you didn't write the law. Leave. Who reported it? Leave. Who reported it? Who reported

00:06:40.960 it? You know what? I don't know. It's anonymous, right? It's anonymous. It can't be anonymous.

00:06:46.460 You need to know you're accusing. It cannot be anonymous. You gotta go get a warrant.

00:06:50.820 It cannot be anonymous. You gotta go get a warrant. You gotta go get a warrant. You gotta

00:06:54.520 go get a warrant. It's code enforcement. This isn't the same as that. You don't circumvent

00:06:59.780 or subvert the Constitution. So we're calling new. Okay, meth, you need to leave.

00:07:02.980 Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. 0.92

00:07:11.600 Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. That is powerful. I have watched

00:07:22.960 that many times. I still got the chills. Good for them. It's happening a bit in the United

00:07:28.680 Kingdom too. Pubs are now putting up posters denouncing the lockdown as a sham. Police there

00:07:36.960 are still out of control for sure. We've shown you that for years actually. But they did that

00:07:41.880 this morning in front of Parliament and that was their mistake. They were locking up an old

00:07:48.340 lady and an MP just happened to see it. And watch what happened. 0.98

00:07:53.620 You don't need to. You don't need to. You don't need to. You don't need to. I am on the order

00:07:56.760 as police officers. You must have others. What an outrage. What a disgrace.

00:08:05.340 What a disgrace. What a disgrace. What a disgrace. What a disgrace. What a disgrace. What a disgrace.

00:08:17.760 Now in Canada, MPs probably would have helped the police load the old lady into the back 1.00

00:08:24.120 of the police van. But in the UK, that MP, Charles Walker, he went right into Parliament and tore

00:08:30.760 a strip off the government, which just happens to be his own party. He's a Conservative. Now

00:08:36.220 the room was empty naturally, but still take a look. Charles Walker. Madam Deputy Speaker,

00:08:40.480 I have just witnessed an elderly lady peacefully protesting with a handful of other people be 1.00

00:08:47.860 arrested and carried spread eagle to a police van just outside the precinct of the House of

00:08:54.520 Commons. This is a disgrace. This is un-British. It is unconstitutional. And this government,

00:09:04.240 our Prime Minister, needs to end these injustices now. Madam Deputy Speaker, will you bring the

00:09:10.840 Prime Minister and or the Home Secretary here today to sort this out? She was an old lady robbed of her 1.00

00:09:21.160 her dignity for having the courage to protest about having her fundamental rights and those

00:09:27.760 of my constituents and others removed. All right. So what about us here in Canada? Are we

00:09:33.040 submissive and passive, as our national caricature suggests? Do we always say sorry, sorry for

00:09:41.340 everything? Well, check this out.

00:09:43.340 Talk to your supervisor.

00:09:45.340 Sounds good.

00:09:47.340 All right.

00:09:48.340 Sorry, guys. Go ahead.

00:09:49.340 Excuse me. Sorry.

00:09:50.340 I don't know where you have to identify yourself.

00:09:53.340 I wouldn't bother.

00:09:54.340 Do I have?

00:09:55.340 Yeah, I don't think.

00:09:56.340 No, you don't have to show ID at all.

00:09:57.340 Yeah, you're public health, right?

00:09:58.340 Yeah.

00:09:59.340 Yeah, that's okay.

00:10:00.340 Yeah.

00:10:01.340 Okay.

00:10:02.340 Okay.

00:10:03.340 Okay.

00:10:04.340 Okay.

00:10:05.340 Okay.

00:10:06.340 I understand.

00:10:07.340 Okay.

00:10:08.340 Sorry.

00:10:09.340 Is that true?

00:10:12.340 What did we say?

00:10:13.340 Is that true?

00:10:14.340 It is.

00:10:15.340 Do I have to give them my identification?

00:10:16.340 Can you please quote the section?

00:10:18.340 Yes.

00:10:19.340 Yes.

00:10:20.340 What is the ostensible policy reason in the first place of shutting down a little mom-pa operator

00:10:25.340 like you, and yet the Costco's, the Walmart's, the Loblaws's of the world, they get to open.

00:10:31.340 It seems to be a double standard, doesn't it?

00:10:34.340 Don't ask me, man.

00:10:36.340 How am I supposed to know?

00:10:37.340 I don't make policy.

00:10:38.340 I'm just supposed to enforce it at my restaurant.

00:10:40.340 I don't know why that's happening, but it doesn't feel right to me, and I know there's

00:10:43.340 a lot of other people that doesn't feel right to them either.

00:10:45.340 Well, I'm looking at this lineup, Adam.

00:10:47.340 How soon are you going to run out of food?

00:10:49.340 If we haven't sold out of some meats already, I'm sure we're going to very soon.

00:10:53.340 We had a lot of support today.

00:10:55.340 We have some freedom-loving patriots that are here to support.

00:10:58.340 I'm sure we'll be out of food in no time.

00:11:00.340 And no fines so far, right?

00:11:01.340 No, sir.

00:11:02.340 Not a single fine issue today to my business, myself, or anybody who came here to support.

00:11:06.340 Well, that's some excitement today in Etobicoke, a suburb of Toronto.

00:11:11.340 A man standing up for himself and his family and his customers and the business he has built

00:11:17.340 from scratch, and maybe he's standing up for a lot more people than he originally thought.

00:11:23.340 Now, the mean girls from the media party were, they were absurd. 0.99

00:11:27.340 They were mocking him.

00:11:28.340 They were hating him.

00:11:29.340 Their coverage of him was crazy, insane.

00:11:32.340 How dare he break the narrative?

00:11:34.340 How dare he do so popularly?

00:11:36.340 How dare he speak out against the Theresa Tams and her mini-me's across the country?

00:11:42.340 You know, these public health officers, they're doctors by training, but they have no patients.

00:11:47.340 They're just politicians now with an MD.

00:11:49.340 A lot of them are making north of $400,000 a year.

00:11:54.340 That's the ruling elites.

00:11:56.340 And they're telling the working schmoes to knuckle under. 1.00

00:11:59.340 Or what? Or else?

00:12:02.340 I think the public has to know this is one of the worst-case scenarios in terms of an infectious disease outbreak

00:12:09.340 in that their cooperation is sought.

00:12:12.340 If there are people who are non-compliant, there are definitely laws and public health powers

00:12:19.340 that can quarantine people in mandatory settings.

00:12:24.340 It's potential you could track people, put bracelets on their arms, have police and other setups

00:12:31.340 to ensure quarantine is undertaken.

00:12:34.340 Oh, don't think they're not contemplating it.

00:12:36.340 So we're at an interesting tipping point.

00:12:39.340 Does the quality of the elites outweigh the quantity of the working class?

00:12:44.340 The blue-collar folks, the entrepreneurs, the skeptics, the guys running a smoked meat business.

00:12:49.340 The elites have the power of their position.

00:12:52.340 The media, the bureaucracy, the politicians, everything, official.

00:12:55.340 The grassroots, they have their numbers.

00:12:59.340 And I think they have common sense on their side.

00:13:02.340 I trust someone these days, frankly, with a high school diploma and street smarts over a PhD,

00:13:10.340 at least when it comes down to some of the lockdown insanity.

00:13:15.340 We'll see what happens.

00:13:17.340 I won't lie, I'm pessimistic.

00:13:19.340 Canada has its own deep state, especially on public health.

00:13:23.340 I think they're going to try and crush this barbecue guy mercilessly.

00:13:26.340 Let's see.

00:13:27.340 Stay with us.

00:13:28.340 David Menzies is next.

00:13:30.340 He was there today.

00:13:32.340 We're fighting for their future, so they have the same opportunities that I was provided.

00:13:48.340 Hey, Adam, what did the police and bylaw officers say to you?

00:13:51.340 They were all very respectful.

00:13:54.340 They made sure that we, they took a look through and a little overwhelmed right now, brother.

00:14:00.340 They made sure, they took a look at the different rules that we're supposed to be complying with.

00:14:05.340 They found that we were in non-compliance of people eating inside.

00:14:08.340 Everything else was good.

00:14:09.340 We're contact tracing.

00:14:10.340 We have the signs posted so that the customers maintain social distancing.

00:14:14.340 But it looks like there's a little bit of civil disobedience happening today.

00:14:17.340 They decided not to enforce that and it sure isn't my job as a guy who cooks brisket to enforce government regulations.

00:14:24.340 Adam, do you think you're a catalyst for so many other businesses in the same position you are,

00:14:29.340 with your backs up against the wall, just trying to earn a livelihood, that they will look upon what you've done today

00:14:35.340 and they will also open up in civil disobedience?

00:14:38.340 Of course.

00:14:39.340 I know I'm going to be the catalyst for this.

00:14:41.340 When everybody stands up and says enough is enough, that's when we're going to see this end.

00:14:45.340 Well, that is some footage from when our friend David Menzies went out to Adamson's Barbecue in Etobicoke.

00:14:52.340 I have not eaten at that outlet, but I've eaten Adamson's in Leaside, Toronto.

00:14:56.340 The finest barbecue north of Dallas.

00:14:59.340 And believe me, as you can tell by glancing at me, I've checked.

00:15:04.340 David, how was it today?

00:15:06.340 It looks like there was more than 100 people at the barbecue owner who wouldn't lock down.

00:15:12.340 Well, or a CFRB News Talk 1010 would say, Ezra, about two dozen people.

00:15:17.340 There was clearly more than that.

00:15:19.340 I know.

00:15:20.340 It was part rally, part lunchtime.

00:15:22.340 Oh, and Defiance was on the menu, and man, did it smell good.

00:15:27.340 I'd like to say tastes good, but the fact is, boss, if I was going to bring you back that brisket you asked for, that turkey, I'd still be in a lineup right now.

00:15:35.340 The lineup went out the store, through the parking lot, and down the street.

00:15:39.340 I think there's three things.

00:15:40.340 First of all, people want to live a normal life and going out for a restaurant's a normal life.

00:15:44.340 Number two, they want to support a guy who's trying to make a go of it in these tough times.

00:15:49.340 And number three, it was a way of sticking it to the man.

00:15:54.340 This restaurateur was a seed crystal around which others could form.

00:15:59.340 That's how it looked to me.

00:16:00.340 And number four, it showed the double standard, the hypocrisy.

00:16:06.340 If you continued walking down the road, as I did, because I had to park there, there was no street parking available, you hit a Costco.

00:16:13.340 That Costco was jammed to the rafters, Ezra.

00:16:16.340 We're talking less than 400 meters away from this restaurant.

00:16:19.340 Oh, yeah.

00:16:20.340 And they serve food in Costco.

00:16:21.340 Of course they do.

00:16:22.340 They have fantastic French fries.

00:16:24.340 Yeah.

00:16:25.340 Riddle me this.

00:16:26.340 How is it that a Costco, a Walmart, can stay open and serve the public?

00:16:34.340 And ostensibly, I know what the policy reason is, it's because there are supermarkets, right?

00:16:38.340 Well, this came up at the Premier Ford press conference today.

00:16:42.340 Well, if you're selling groceries, you also sell electronics, you sell flowers, you sell footwear, right?

00:16:49.340 Those aren't essentials.

00:16:50.340 So why not rope that off?

00:16:52.340 And the Premier basically said, well, I hear what you're saying.

00:16:55.340 It isn't fair.

00:16:56.340 And in terms of roping aisles off at the Costcos and the Walmarts of the world, it would be a logistical nightmare.

00:17:02.340 Oh, a logistical nightmare?

00:17:03.340 You know what a logistical nightmare is for me, Ezra?

00:17:06.340 It's getting bills coming in for paying the hydro, paying the rent.

00:17:09.340 And I am being forced by the government not to open because I'm a little mom-paw shop.

00:17:14.340 But Costco, Walmart, Jeff Bezos, heading towards trillionaire status.

00:17:19.340 Yeah, he doubled his net worth in this mess.

00:17:23.340 You know what?

00:17:24.340 There were other reporters there with you.

00:17:26.340 Am I correct?

00:17:27.340 I was following on Twitter.

00:17:29.340 You were talking to the restaurateur with lots of filming.

00:17:34.340 Did he kick the mainstream media off his property?

00:17:36.340 That's what they say on Twitter.

00:17:37.340 What did they say on Twitter?

00:17:38.340 Oh, if he did, I didn't witness that, Ezra.

00:17:40.340 But he was happy in the interview.

00:17:42.340 He was so busy.

00:17:43.340 I mean, he was cooking.

00:17:44.340 He was dealing with police.

00:17:46.340 He was dealing with City of Toronto bylaw.

00:17:48.340 No tickets laid as of now.

00:17:51.340 But according to the officer at the press conference, after they complete their investigation the days down the road, there likely will be some charges.

00:17:59.340 They probably didn't want to ticket him when there was a hundred revved up supporters there.

00:18:04.340 And I think, frankly, wisely, because they might have, I mean, who knows what would have happened.

00:18:10.340 The anger at, like you say, Costco down the way.

00:18:14.340 Hey, no problem.

00:18:15.340 Big foreign owned mega box store chain.

00:18:18.340 Give them your money, but not Joe Average restaurateur.

00:18:21.340 I want to read to you some tweets from Jennifer Pagliaro of the Toronto Star, the paper of the working man.

00:18:28.340 They can't stop their mockery of the working class restaurateur, his staff and those who went there.

00:18:35.340 I'm on my way to Adamson Barbecue in Etobicoke, where owner Adam Skelly, making false claims about the severity of this pandemic, has vowed to open.

00:18:45.340 So they're demonizing him, they're calling him an idiot, even though it's the government models that are wrong.

00:18:51.340 Let me just read some of these.

00:18:52.340 There are now people eating inside in direct violation.

00:18:58.340 Oh, I like this one here.

00:19:00.340 We've been asked to stay off the property, so I can't see what enforcement is up to.

00:19:05.340 But I'm told one possible patron has a Trump hat on.

00:19:10.340 Oh, my God, there's nothing worse than that.

00:19:13.340 There's probably, I bet you that's going to be front page of the Star.

00:19:16.340 Ezra, how is that relevant?

00:19:17.340 A guy wearing a Trump hat.

00:19:18.340 Because, you know, it's just so crazy.

00:19:20.340 And then there's the news going on there.

00:19:23.340 I just want to read, I mean, I just want to read a couple more of these, because it's just an alternative universe.

00:19:28.340 This is the Star reporter for obvious reasons.

00:19:32.340 I'm not going inside with a bunch of unmasked people who don't believe in a pandemic.

00:19:39.340 Well, why don't you put your mask on if it's such a bulletproof vest for you, lady? 1.00

00:19:43.340 Oh, a family with small children continues to enjoy their food at a windowside table as a country tune play.

00:19:54.340 There's so many things there.

00:19:56.340 Does she hate the kids?

00:19:57.340 That they're enjoying themselves?

00:19:58.340 Or that country?

00:20:01.340 Oh, one more.

00:20:02.340 Give me one.

00:20:03.340 Let me show you one more.

00:20:04.340 This is too good.

00:20:05.340 This is too good.

00:20:06.340 The Toronto Star.

00:20:07.340 This person driving an official city of Toronto truck just honked and fist bumped the pro-Adamson folks.

00:20:14.340 You know what?

00:20:15.340 Oh, my God.

00:20:16.340 The working classes support having a guy making a living. 0.98

00:20:20.340 Let me know when the Toronto Star is shut down and how quickly Jennifer Pagliaro, if she lost her income, would freak out. 1.00

00:20:27.340 Yeah.

00:20:28.340 I'm actually concerned about that last tweet, because if she goes on a jihad to find out who this worker is, 0.96

00:20:34.340 she can make his life a living hell, Ezra.

00:20:36.340 Well, yeah.

00:20:37.340 She posted a picture with that guy's license plate number.

00:20:41.340 I mean, we know she wants to shut down the restaurant. 1.00

00:20:43.340 Yeah.

00:20:44.340 She probably wants this guy. 1.00

00:20:45.340 Again, this restaurant is illegally allowing indoor dining and breaking city orders around mask wearing.

00:20:51.340 And they were smiling.

00:20:53.340 I could see their smiles.

00:20:55.340 Oh, my God.

00:20:57.340 All right.

00:20:58.340 I'm getting too revved up.

00:20:59.340 You've done a whole video.

00:21:00.340 I'll invite people to watch that on YouTube.

00:21:02.340 But give our people a little bit of an insight.

00:21:05.340 Does this guy look firm?

00:21:06.340 Does he look like he's going to wobble?

00:21:08.340 Did he look like he was encouraged by the public turnout?

00:21:11.340 What's going to happen?

00:21:13.340 He was over the moon.

00:21:15.340 I could tell he couldn't contain his smile.

00:21:18.340 I asked Adam Skelly.

00:21:19.340 I go, what does it feel like to be serving up defiance on the menu?

00:21:23.340 And I got to censor it.

00:21:24.340 He says, it feels effing great.

00:21:27.340 He was totally stoked for this.

00:21:30.340 Here's the thing, Ezra.

00:21:31.340 He can't be, in my opinion, for this to work a one man gang.

00:21:35.340 Right.

00:21:36.340 There's a whole piece of catalyst that gets ones and twos and dozens and hundreds and thousands.

00:21:41.340 What can the authorities do?

00:21:43.340 Write up tickets?

00:21:44.340 Fine everybody?

00:21:45.340 Imprison everybody?

00:21:46.340 Well, I guess the jails have room now because the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has been trying to get as many offenders out there to practice social distancing so we can get the violent offenders out of the jail.

00:21:57.340 And we can put the restaurateurs into the jail.

00:22:00.340 Yeah.

00:22:01.340 You know what?

00:22:02.340 It's so frustrating to me.

00:22:03.340 I did my show last night on the fact that for five hours news magazines were banned in Manitoba as non-essential services.

00:22:12.340 And the Canadian Association of Journalists freaked out.

00:22:16.340 How dare they?

00:22:17.340 How dare they?

00:22:18.340 Five hours later the province relented and then the journalists were back into the lockdown because it only affected everyone else doing less important things.

00:22:26.340 You know what?

00:22:27.340 I can go without reading Vice Magazine or the Huffington Post a lot longer than I can go without food.

00:22:33.340 Yeah.

00:22:34.340 And you know what?

00:22:35.340 The classism here.

00:22:36.340 Yeah.

00:22:37.340 There's a snobbery here.

00:22:39.340 By the way, all these fancy...

00:22:43.340 Let me just say one thing about Adamson's barbecue.

00:22:45.340 Don't mind me.

00:22:46.340 I happen to know them.

00:22:47.340 They're where all the hipsters go. 0.85

00:22:49.340 It really is the best barbecue north of Dallas.

00:22:51.340 I'm not just saying that to be dramatic.

00:22:53.340 It's amazing.

00:22:54.340 In the before times before the lockdown, I would go with my family.

00:22:58.340 It would be a half hour standing lineup to get in.

00:23:01.340 And it was hipsters all the way down.

00:23:04.340 The same people who are now scowling.

00:23:07.340 How dare you stay open if I were the proprietor of Adamson's barbecue?

00:23:11.340 I would have a rule.

00:23:12.340 Anyone who called for him to be canceled, they're not welcome there.

00:23:16.340 Like, you know, you have little pictures sometimes in restaurants of someone who dined and dashed.

00:23:20.340 A little picture.

00:23:21.340 Don't serve this guy if we catch this guy.

00:23:23.340 Occasionally, you see those in bars or restaurants.

00:23:26.340 A photo of someone who dined and dashed.

00:23:28.340 I think they should put photos up of all these Toronto Star and CTV reporters who are sneering at this guy.

00:23:35.340 They shouldn't be allowed to go to his restaurant.

00:23:39.340 God willing, it survives the pandemic.

00:23:41.340 And the good thing about that, Ezra, is he doesn't need them.

00:23:43.340 Yeah.

00:23:44.340 I mean, without ever having seen Adam's books, I will bet you today is the best day of his restaurant's history.

00:23:52.340 And I want to say one other thing.

00:23:54.340 Once upon a time in a different life, for seven years, I covered the food service and hotel business.

00:23:59.340 The one thing I learned about that, Ezra, was never to get in the food service business.

00:24:04.340 That's not a slam on the food service.

00:24:06.340 Oh, it's the highest business in the world.

00:24:07.340 Exactly.

00:24:08.340 You know what?

00:24:10.340 What's the stat?

00:24:11.340 One in seven restaurants last seven years.

00:24:13.340 I believe in the first three years, 80% of startups will go out of business.

00:24:17.340 And that's in the before times.

00:24:19.340 Before times, I'm talking about a roaring economy.

00:24:22.340 Yeah.

00:24:23.340 I'm talking, you know, minimal unemployment.

00:24:25.340 You're on your feet the whole time.

00:24:26.340 Yep.

00:24:27.340 You've got to worry about shrinkage, which is another way of people saying, people eating your profits, people's hand in the tills.

00:24:32.340 Yep.

00:24:33.340 You've got to worry about rent.

00:24:34.340 You've got to worry about labor and training.

00:24:36.340 You've got to worry about every single thing.

00:24:39.340 It really is.

00:24:40.340 Taxes, crime.

00:24:41.340 And now you've got these fancy pants saying, no more eating at Adamson's barbecue, but go eat at Walmart or the big box stores.

00:24:50.340 I'm so mad.

00:24:51.340 But hopefully, this is a call to rebellion, a peaceful rebellion of civil disobedience.

00:24:59.340 And we'll see.

00:25:00.340 I mean, the trouble is, he's not in Alberta.

00:25:04.340 Yep.

00:25:05.340 He's in Toronto, which is one of the most submissive, afraid cities in North America.

00:25:14.340 Well, not today.

00:25:15.340 And that's another key factor, Ezra.

00:25:17.340 Was this a flash in the pan?

00:25:18.340 Or tomorrow and then Thursday, Friday, are we going to see those similar lineups?

00:25:23.340 I hope so.

00:25:24.340 Yeah.

00:25:25.340 That'll be important because there is a constituency.

00:25:29.340 People were telling me, you know, our friend Jason from the Minden 50s Diner, he drove three hours just to come and buy some brisket in solidarity.

00:25:38.340 So there's so much pent-up support, so much frustration of these lockdowns.

00:25:44.340 And let's face it, you know, the biggest lie, I think, of 2020, Ezra, is the phrase, we're all in this together.

00:25:51.340 Oh, you're so right.

00:25:52.340 Because little mom paws are getting slammed. 1.00

00:25:54.340 Yeah.

00:25:55.340 The public sector, has anyone lost a job?

00:25:57.340 No one.

00:25:58.340 Has anyone taken a pay cut?

00:25:59.340 No, no, no.

00:26:00.340 It's business.

00:26:01.340 Yeah.

00:26:02.340 While they get paid, they watch the latest Netflix series, and they put on a mask to scowl at everybody.

00:26:08.340 Yeah.

00:26:09.340 I'm, you know what, I didn't grow up working class.

00:26:11.340 I grew up, as the Brits would say, middle class.

00:26:15.340 But more and more, and class is sort of a British concept in many ways.

00:26:19.340 But my time in the UK has taught me there is such a thing as class.

00:26:22.340 And it's not race, and it's not gender.

00:26:25.340 Yeah.

00:26:26.340 It's, do you work with your hands?

00:26:28.340 Do you work on your feet?

00:26:29.340 Do you, how do you, are you blue collar?

00:26:31.340 Yeah.

00:26:32.340 And there is a condescension in this country that flows from the parliament through all

00:26:37.340 the institutions.

00:26:38.340 And, I don't know, it's interesting because police in their own way are working class.

00:26:43.340 Yeah.

00:26:44.340 On their feet, physical danger.

00:26:45.340 They deal with this stuff in a way.

00:26:47.340 I mean, garbage men are the, it's one of the toughest jobs in the world.

00:26:50.340 In a way, policemen, they have to deal with garbage situations sometimes.

00:26:54.340 Yeah.

00:26:55.340 Things that we would, so they have a real working class ethos about them.

00:26:58.340 And they're being pitted by their political masters against other blue collar guys working

00:27:05.340 hard.

00:27:06.340 I wonder what those cops were thinking when they were taken off the gun crime beat, the gang

00:27:11.340 land beat, and put on the shut down the restaurant beat. 0.86

00:27:16.340 It must, I hope it rubbed them the wrong way.

00:27:19.340 What I think they were thinking, Ezra, is I didn't sign up for this.

00:27:23.340 I didn't come to put a little mom-paw business out of business. 0.99

00:27:27.340 When, like I said, 400 meters down the road, there was a Costco jammed to the gills.

00:27:32.340 It makes no sense.

00:27:34.340 Yeah.

00:27:35.340 How is he the second coming of Typhoid Mary, whereas a warehouse where people are shoulder 0.88

00:27:41.340 to shoulder and, you know, the company, the big companies, they can say all they want.

00:27:45.340 Oh, we're practicing social distancing.

00:27:47.340 We've got arrows on the aisleways.

00:27:48.340 There are people rubbing shoulders in these places.

00:27:51.340 Yeah.

00:27:52.340 You can tell by the parking lot.

00:27:53.340 It's a zoo.

00:27:54.340 And that's okay.

00:27:56.340 But Adam Skelly's barbecue is not, no, I'm not buying that.

00:27:59.340 And I don't, and I think the police hate being put in that situation.

00:28:03.340 They didn't, by the way, they didn't get a rough ride, you know, coming there.

00:28:06.340 The media did.

00:28:07.340 Yeah.

00:28:08.340 That's telling.

00:28:09.340 You know, it's funny in LA County, I see all the sheriffs in the area say, we're not

00:28:13.340 enforcing these stupid social distancing mask.

00:28:16.340 It's American Thanksgiving.

00:28:18.340 No, you know, the governor says no thanksgivings.

00:28:21.340 There's a lot of American law enforcement officers who were saying, yeah, no, thanks.

00:28:26.340 We're not going to obey your ridiculous orders.

00:28:28.340 New York City police were amongst the first to say that, although some of them are relenting.

00:28:32.340 In Canada, I'm worried our police are too political.

00:28:37.340 I would like to see a police chief somewhere sometimes say, you know what?

00:28:41.340 We're in the crime-fighting business.

00:28:43.340 We'll leave the social virtue signaling business to, you know, the mayor can hire his own snitches. 0.94

00:28:51.340 We're not in that business.

00:28:53.340 I think the public love and respect for police would go up.

00:28:57.340 We've talked a lot about this.

00:28:58.340 Stay on the file.

00:28:59.340 Next time you're out there, bring some brisket back.

00:29:02.340 I swear.

00:29:03.340 I'm kidding around.

00:29:04.340 And I leave a nice tip.

00:29:06.340 I'll cover the tip.

00:29:07.340 You got it.

00:29:08.340 I admire Adam Skelly and his team.

00:29:12.340 I can imagine the stress they're under.

00:29:15.340 I know he's being ripped to shreds right now by the mainstream media.

00:29:19.340 But you know what?

00:29:21.340 Who cares about the mainstream media if the people are with him?

00:29:24.340 And we're with him and we'll do our best to help him.

00:29:26.340 Including if he needs the help, we will offer him legal help.

00:29:31.340 I would love to cover that story.

00:29:33.340 And whether he takes our legal help or somebody else's, we'll cover that case when it gets to trial.

00:29:38.340 Ezra, and like I said, my wish, the dessert on this story for me would be for other businesses to look what Skelly did and say, I'm putting my open sign into the door.

00:29:49.340 Well, and let me say to our folks, if you haven't heard of it yet, we've got a website called IWillOpen.com.

00:29:55.340 It's businesses saying, I'm going to open.

00:29:57.340 I'm just going to do it.

00:29:58.340 I'm a death's door anyways.

00:29:59.340 I may as well go down and fight him.

00:30:01.340 What do you have to lose?

00:30:02.340 Yeah. Well, great.

00:30:03.340 Thanks for going out there on that important mission.

00:30:05.340 Sounds like a very exciting time.

00:30:06.340 Stay with us, folks.

00:30:07.340 Your letter's down.

00:30:19.340 Hey, welcome back on my show last night.

00:30:21.340 Gilly writes, Jane Fonda, Justin Trudeau, and all the others that look at COVID as a great opportunity are vile and no respecters of life, except maybe their own privileged ones.

00:30:31.340 And the question I keep asking still remains, what actions can the average citizen take to begin riding the ship?

00:30:36.340 How do we fight back?

00:30:38.340 I think it starts with where it ought to start, the opposition.

00:30:42.340 The opposition should oppose.

00:30:44.340 I have not heard a lot of opposition opposing.

00:30:46.340 In fact, in some parts of this country, the opposition wants the government to go harder against freedom.

00:30:51.340 So Erin O'Toole is the new conservative leader and a lot of conservative MPs.

00:30:55.340 Where are they?

00:30:56.340 So I would think step one is to get them to be more conservative.

00:30:59.340 Patricia writes, they say that the hospitals in Toronto are filled to capacity.

00:31:04.340 But after some research, I found out that they were almost always filled to capacity before the pandemic.

00:31:08.340 The virus was planned.

00:31:10.340 The lockdowns are to weaken us, close small businesses, get the economy ready for the socialist great reset,

00:31:15.340 and make us more government dependent and the vaccine launcher to restrict us, tag us and perhaps even shorten our lives.

00:31:21.340 Well, I agree with some of what you say there.

00:31:24.340 I know for a fact that the hospitals are not packed.

00:31:27.340 Every day, all the provinces in Canada publish how many pandemic patients, virus patients are in the hospital and how many are in ICU.

00:31:35.340 And you can compare that pretty quickly with the stock of hospital beds, acute care beds, emergency beds in the province.

00:31:41.340 There is no province in Canada that they're overwhelmed.

00:31:44.340 There just are none.

00:31:45.340 And frankly, if there were seven months into the emergency now, shame on the health bureaucrats.

00:31:50.340 I disagree with you when you say the pandemic was planned.

00:31:53.340 I know that there were some people planning for a pandemic.

00:31:57.340 And I am absolutely sure that China misled and undermined and tricked the West. 0.93

00:32:03.340 For example, they hid the true nature of the virus.

00:32:06.340 They cut off flights to and from Wuhan from within China, but let Wuhan citizens fly around the world. 1.00

00:32:12.340 I agree with that.

00:32:13.340 We don't yet know what will happen with the vaccines.

00:32:16.340 You have the worst case scenario, and that may well happen.

00:32:19.340 But I think we should criticize what facts we know.

00:32:23.340 There are enough facts that we know that deserve criticizing before we engage in some speculation that goes beyond the facts that we know.

00:32:31.340 Bruce writes,

00:32:33.340 Both segments of tonight's show prove that this Wuhan flu is a political weapon against us. 0.96

00:32:38.340 Remember that the extreme left consider us enemies.

00:32:41.340 Their worldview is based on envy, lies, and conquest.

00:32:44.340 But they aren't hiding their warped agenda either.

00:32:46.340 Free people are their enemies.

00:32:48.340 Well, listen, the shock doctrine of the left is take any crisis and turn it into an opportunity.

00:32:55.340 Remember, the income tax itself was temporary just till we get through this First World War.

00:33:00.340 You know, there is some hope.

00:33:02.340 As Orwell said, the hope is with the proles.

00:33:05.340 That was his nickname for the proletariat.

00:33:07.340 If you reread 1984, he says the hope is with the common people, not the fancy pants.

00:33:13.340 And we're fairly populist over here at Rebel News.

00:33:16.340 Hey, can I leave you with something before I say goodbye?

00:33:19.340 I was just surfing on the internet, and I came across this video on Twitter.

00:33:23.340 It's only a minute and 20 seconds long, and I thought it was perfect.

00:33:26.340 Now, I don't know the name of this young woman.

00:33:28.340 I spent about half an hour trying to find it.

00:33:31.340 In fact, her name, and I've got it here on my phone, is What's Her Face.

00:33:36.340 That's her stage name. 0.98

00:33:38.340 That's her internet name.

00:33:40.340 That's what she's called on Instagram and YouTube and Patreon.

00:33:43.340 I can't find her real name.

00:33:45.340 I can't even find her email address.

00:33:47.340 I sent her a message saying, hey, would you want to do videos for Rebel News?

00:33:52.340 But in the meantime, here is What's Her Face, a video she did on masks.

00:33:58.340 It'll make you laugh, and maybe it'll give you a bit of hope, too.

00:34:01.340 I'll leave you with this.

00:34:02.340 I'll say goodbye now.

00:34:03.340 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here, keep fighting for freedom.

00:34:06.340 Oh, my apologies.

00:34:09.340 I was wearing my mask because I just got back from a full day of being a good person.

00:34:13.340 I love my mask because it's a simple yet effective way to display my righteousness.

00:34:17.340 Am I concerned that two children in China drop dead because they were forced to wear masks in gym class?

00:34:22.340 Nope.

00:34:23.340 Am I concerned that we're creating a generation of children who will be socially awkward and conditioned to fear their fellow man?

00:34:28.340 No.

00:34:29.340 Am I concerned that I'm contributing to an impending socialist technocracy that will enslave the global population?

00:34:35.340 Not even a little bit.

00:34:36.340 Am I concerned that my mask is symbolic of my compliance to the social conditioning that will eventually lead to the forced vaccination of every man, woman, and child on planet Earth?

00:34:45.340 Not a chance.

00:34:46.340 And why am I not concerned, you ask?

00:34:48.340 I'm not concerned because I decided a long time ago that shallow and significant gestures are a much easier way to showcase my morality than actually being moral.

00:34:57.340 Because in order to be a real good person, I gotta stand up to a real bad person.

00:35:01.340 And I don't like standing up to or for anything.

00:35:03.340 I've decided that it's much easier to trick my own mind into thinking compliance is a virtue instead of what compliance actually is.

00:35:10.340 Cowardice.

00:35:11.340 I prefer to float through life completely ignorant to the fact that every socialist takeover has always begun in the exact same way.

00:35:17.340 With government overreach, public shaming, censorship, and a toilet paper shortage.

00:35:22.340 Don't believe me?

00:35:23.340 Google toilet paper shortage in communist Russia.

00:35:25.340 Did you think you were having a unique experience?

00:35:27.340 I prefer to pretend history never repeats itself so that I can stand by and turn a blind eye every time history repeats itself.

00:35:34.340 I prefer to call anyone who speaks up, fights back, or stands their ground a lunatic or a conspiracy theorist so that I don't feel obligated to do my own research.

00:35:42.340 Research takes away from me time.

00:35:44.340 And lastly, I prefer to put on my mask and stand among a sea of masks so that I never have to be seen, be free, or reveal the deep dark shadows that lurk within me.

00:35:54.340 Research takes away from me to me to me.

00:35:55.340 Research Club

Rebel News Podcast - November 25, 2020

Rebels against the lockdown： Will Canada crush Adamson BBQ？

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