Ezra Levant slams the Toronto Star’s Sri Paradkar for winning Penn Canada’s Free Speech Award despite her censorship, anti-white rhetoric, and support for SLAP suits against critics of Israel—including trivializing the Charlie Hebdo massacre. He calls her a "racist bigot" and "anti-Semitic foreigner," mocking her claim that free speech needs "reasonable restraints." Levant also criticizes Canada’s C-11, C-18, and C-63 laws for stifling debate while Paradkar remains silent. The episode shifts to U.S. election callers: some back Harris for progressive policies, others Trump for border security and Israel, while a few reject both as tools of entrenched power. Levant and Avi Yamini tease their RV Across America project, a grassroots 2024 road trip to uncover unfiltered American voices beyond media spin. [Automatically generated summary]
I love the free speech organizations, but most of the time, I think they've been corrupted and perverted from the inside.
They've been taken over by their enemies.
Case in point, Shri Paradkar, the censorious, hateful, crazy lady at the Toronto Star, she just won the Free Speech Award from Penn Canada.
Well, hang on.
She's one of the most brutal censors around.
I'll take you through it.
I'll show you the prize she won and the things she said that the Penn Canada people either missed or didn't care about.
It's really gross.
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Tonight, a leading censor and cancel culture advocate wins a free speech prize.
George Orwell wouldn't believe it himself.
It's October 10th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you sensorious bug.
I saw this news in the Toronto Star, naturally, the Red Star, as I sometimes call it.
The headline reads, Star columnist Sri Paradkar wins Penn Canada Prize for advancing freedom of expression.
Now, I know a little bit about Penn Canada.
I've actually been a member of it, I think, for more than a dozen years.
Sometimes I might have forgotten to renew, but I try whenever I can.
They were one of the very few free speech groups that at least 15 years ago was in favor of the freedom to publish the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.
That's what I did back then, and I was pleased to see them at least make a tepid show of support for me.
So I joined.
I've been a member ever since, but I was puzzled by this because I know Sri Paradkar a little bit.
I'm not a close follower of hers.
I don't know if anyone is.
She just talks about racism all the time.
And she talks about racism from a reverse racism point of view.
That is, she calls any white person racist.
I think she truly hates Canada, or at least everything that Canada is.
She wants to transform it into something else, which I find very odd for a new immigrant to this country.
If you hate Canada so much, why did you come here?
So I've never really seen her write anything interesting.
And I'm certain I haven't seen her do anything to promote freedom of speech.
Sort of the contrary.
Let me read from the story, though.
Here's what her company says.
They're so proud of her.
Paradkar won the prize after being nominated by other journalists at the star, okay, for her work advocating for and mentoring reporters from minority communities.
Okay, I'm all for mentoring reporters from different communities, black, white, red, whatever.
What's that got to do with free speech?
Freedom of speech is to stop censorship of people, usually government censorship, but sometimes corporate censorship.
What's that got to do about the fact that she is an affirmative action hire herself and wants affirmative action for others?
What's that got to do with it?
I'll keep reading.
Toronto Star columnist Sri Paradkar has won Penn Canada's 2024 Ken Philco Prize for advancing freedom of expression in Canada.
Paradkar won the prize after being nominated by other journalists at the Star and elsewhere for her work advocating for and mentoring reporters from marginalized and underrepresented communities.
Penn Canada told the Star on Wednesday: Her active and committed support of young journalists of color is fundamental to expanding free expression for those who are often excluded from the means to articulate marginalized experience of an unequal society, Penn Canada said in a statement, quoting from the Ken Philco Prizes jury citation.
Okay, can you do me a favor and just not call it a free speech prize?
You can call it anything else.
You can call it a DEI diversity, equity, and inclusion prize.
You can call it an affirmative action prize.
You can call it, you can phrase it positively.
A prize for bringing along minority reporters.
Of course, they're not a minority anymore in Toronto.
Toronto is now a minority, majority city.
The minority in Toronto and Vancouver and soon other cities are white people.
So it's a little bit of chutzpah for someone in the year 2024 who just moved here from India to talk about civil rights.
There were some civil rights battles.
I mean, Canada was always a hospitable place, but it's a bit rich to call yourself a civil rights battler in 2024 for racial equality.
We've had that here for quite a while.
It's a little bit of stolen valor by Shri Paradkar.
Let me read just a little bit more.
According to Penn Canada, the prize is awarded to people or organizations who have advanced freedom of expression at the expense of their own safety or reputation.
The organization noted that Paradkar has received death threats and harassment due to her work.
Is that true?
I mean, is it really true?
Has Shri Paradkar been beaten up by Antifa or by Hamas thugs?
Has she been arrested or jailed by authorities?
Or is it just mean tweets?
Has she really faced death threats?
I'm open to learning the facts about it, but I've never heard that before.
Were they serious enough that she reported them to police and police investigated?
Or are these just mean tweets?
What a laugh.
So who exactly is Sri Paradkar?
I mean, she's the official racism reporter at the Toronto Star, but that actually means it's not like she's calling out racism.
It means that she's in charge of racism, or at least the acceptable racism in 2024, which is basically defacing and defiling anything from Canadian history.
She would be the kind of person who would cheer the tearing down of a statue.
If you read her own columns and tweets, and I find them too tedious to read other than the headline, it's just a hurricane of anti-white and anti-Canadian rants.
Even though, like I say, she came here as a new immigrant herself, but apparently she's an expert on the way this country should be.
And over the past year, especially, it's basically like reading the news feed of Al Jazeera or some other anti-Semitic state broadcaster.
I mean, it's just nuts.
I don't know if she actually has a readership.
But I thought I would sort of look into the kind of free speech credentials that she has.
Starting with, for example, this story: quote: Giving Maxime Bernier a platform legitimizes his dangerous ideas.
So this is her a couple years ago writing about how her own newspaper should never have allowed Maxime Bernier, who is a newsmaker, to meet with their editorial board.
Let me say that again.
I mean, there are some people in the news who are good people and some people in the news who are bad people.
Of course, opinions vary on who is in which category, but all of them are newsworthy.
And we don't just report on good news and we don't just report on people we like.
I don't think that Maxime Bernier is evil or a bad person.
He just has firmer views.
I don't agree with him on all of them, but he's a newsmaker and he was more of a newsmaker several years ago.
And apparently the editorial board of the Toronto Star thought he was a newsmaker enough that they wanted to call him in, not to give him some award, but to ask him questions.
And that's what you do in journalism.
But Sri Paradkar was outraged by it.
Let me excerpt from what she wrote.
She said, platforming does not defeat ideas.
If there is anything U.S. President Donald Trump is a shining example of, it is the danger of free speech arguments that validate hate speech and the failure of the concept of sunlight as a great disinfectant of bad ideas.
All platforming does is legitimize the speaker.
And when that speaker is polished or perceived by the audience as authentic, the platform elevates their stature.
Yeah, let's give this woman a free speech award.
Can you believe it?
Penn Canada is such an embarrassment.
Here she is.
I'm just going to go through some of these.
This took me maybe five minutes on the Google machine to find these.
Here's Sri Pradgar, the new Free Speech Award winner, trivializing that mass murder of the journalist at that French magazine called Charlie Hebdo.
I don't know if you remember, but several years ago, their office was literally attacked by Islamic assassins, terrorists, who murdered people because they drew little cartoons of Mohammed.
And here she is about that.
She says, when I think of the wall-to-wall coverage, the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the outrage in our newsrooms about the attack on press freedom, wall-to-war coverage of the tragedy, editorials, cartoons, and now radio silence.
Way to show what this is all really about.
So she's talking now about the Gaza war.
So she thinks it was a bit excessive that people were so concerned about the murder of cartoonists.
And where are they now furious, drawing the equivalence with the Israeli Defense Forces' response to the terrorist attack?
She's implying that we weren't really concerned or shouldn't have been concerned about the murder of cartoonists because those same people who were concerned are not being noisy enough about condemning Israel.
So she's not really for free speech, but she is really anti-Semitic, isn't she?
Here she is promoting a slap lawsuit against politicians who say mean things.
SLAP stands for strategic litigation against political public participation.
She says, new, why Sarah Jamma's libel notice to Doug Ford is an act of courage that serves to break the silence around criticizing Israel and stands as a de facto defense of dissent.
Got it.
So suing someone into silence is a defense of dissent.
Got it, got it, got it.
Here she is objecting to a debater being allowed to go to a debate.
I say again, this is a debate, the monk debates.
They're classic debates, two people versus two people.
So guess what?
They're going to disagree.
And if you care about the issue at hand, you might sympathize with the pro and oppose the con or vice versa.
No, no, no.
The winner of Penn Canada's Free Speech Award doesn't like the fact that spicy and prickly people get to debate.
Here's what she wrote.
Never forget that monk debates platformed Steve Bannon and Canadian media defended it because apparently you can just debate people out of hate.
What?
What does that mean?
Why don't you go and crush Steve Bannon in a debate if he is so odious?
I mean, aren't you happy that he's going to be crushed?
Or do you just want to have the conviction and sentence first and not even bother with a trial?
Can you believe this kooky woman won Penn Canada's prize?
Here she is, Canada's worst journalist, calling out Canada's best journalist, the late Rex Murphy.
She said, Rex Murphy getting a platform to air opinions on racism, a subject on which he has neither study nor experience, while completely qualified, racialized people don't get jobs in newsrooms, is peak white privilege.
Canadian media is so white.
Hey, you know what?
Canada is a largely white country.
If you hate that about us, why did you come here?
Did you not know what Canada was like that you would encounter the odd white person, including the owner of the Toronto Star?
What a racist bigot.
And how bizarre to say that free speech only should be apportioned to those who are the right color.
What a racist bigot.
What a censor.
Even Dr. Seuss needs to be reined in.
She says, look at this laughable tweet.
If it's a given that to be an essential pillar of democracy, free speech needs reasonable restraints.
All debate occurs within the macro possibilities that reside in that one word, reasonable.
What is reasonable?
So she's even censoring Dr. Seuss.
What a loser.
I can't even believe Penn Canada gave her an award.
I care about censorship.
I care about free speech.
I do study it.
I read it.
I look at the laws.
Sometimes I engage the laws with lawyers.
And I look at the civil liberties bonfire in this country over the last few years, especially ramping up now.
C-11, the law by which Trudeau took jurisdiction over the internet just with the wave of a wand, including the right to order internet companies to boost or throttle things he likes or doesn't like.
C-18, which shakes out $100 million a year from Google and apportions it, but only to journalists that Trudeau approves of through the QCJO, Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization.
And then C63, which is in parliament right now, which would include a life in prison jail sentence for hate crimes and has $20,000 bounties payable to complainants if you take someone to the Human Rights Commission for heardy words.
I haven't seen Shri Paradkar and I did some searching today.
I didn't see her say a word about any of these.
She didn't say a word when reporters were banned from the leaders' debate.
Not a peep.
Shri Paradkar is not a particularly compelling journalist.
She only talks about herself and racism she's found in the most pluralistic country in the world.
She's an anti-Semitic foreigner ranting in Canada's most subsidized newspaper, The Star gets more money than any other paper.
While world sits and wrings its hands over labels, Israel's barbarity in Gaza continues.
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May all those silent in the face of it and those cheering it on never know a day of peace.
Got it.
You little Jew hater.
Go back to whatever Jew-hating place you came from.
You're not welcome in Canada, and you're certainly not welcome to tell us we're not allowed to have free speech.
She got the prize not because she's ever stood up for free speech.
As I've just shown you, on half a dozen occasions, she has failed the test of free speech.
She's called for the deplatforming of her enemies.
What a deep embarrassment to Penn Canada.
You know, I don't think I'm going to bother renewing my membership to those frauds anymore.
Stay with us for more.
Ezra Levant here in sunny Venice Beach, California.
I'm asking folks, who do you support?
Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?
And why?
Here's what they said.
Who are you thinking of voting for in this election, Trump or Harris?
I'm not thinking of voting for Harris.
I am voting for Harris.
Can I ask you why?
She believes in everything I believe in.
Like what?
Like, obviously, like, women's rights, concern for poor people, higher taxes on the rich.
I mean, you name it and whatever is in platform, and I favor it.
Today, I'd probably go Trump.
What's that?
The VP debate.
You watch that, eh?
Yeah, I watched most of it.
Concrete answers versus kind of wishy-washy stuff, it sounded like.
Who are you thinking of voting for?
Harris or Trump?
Harris.
Why is that?
Because I don't like Trump.
What do you don't like about him?
His policies.
Like, can you give me an example?
Building a wall.
I don't like, there's no point for it.
You're not worried about mass immigration?
Some people are.
They say the border's out of control.
What do you think of that?
I think they could do a better job at keeping care of the border for sure.
But just not with a wall?
No.
Like with maybe a fence instead?
I mean, not necessarily.
Maybe more guards on the border.
So it's the physical wall you're against.
It's not.
Yeah, I don't think we need to spend billions of dollars on a wall.
So it's a money thing.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
I haven't heard that one.
Do you guys plan to vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?
Neither.
I don't know.
Neither.
They're going to choose a day of.
Really?
Yeah, from the Trump family, so.
You do?
And why is your family pro-Trump?
I don't know.
My dad's a business owner.
I don't know.
I guess that's why.
And are there any issues you care about?
The way that he makes the country look, I guess.
You know, that's sort of a neutral statement that could be taken either way, right?
Yeah, yeah.
What do you think?
No comment.
No comment.
Who you like better, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?
Kamala Harris.
F ⁇ Trump.
Why is that?
Oh, he's a prejudiced-ass white man.
Can I ask you who you're voting for in the election?
I'm not voting.
Can I ask you why?
That's a decision in itself, right?
It's a shit show anyways.
Doesn't matter who you vote for.
It's all smokescreen.
Is there any issue you care about?
Well, it doesn't matter what.
Because everything's already dictated for.
You don't think Trump and Harris are pretty different?
Well, I think they're probably different, but they both don't give a shit.
Are you worried about anything?
Like, what are the issues?
You just sort of in your own zone and you don't pay attention or do you follow it?
I think the world's going to go just basically it's already controlled by the same people that run it.
Either way, they just try to make everyone think that each side fight each other.
So that's so that way they can do all the things they want to and have everyone fight each other when really it's all they're already they're already getting what they want anyway anyways definitely um Harris.
Why's that?
Because I don't like Trump mainly.
I think he's a real menace to society for a number of reasons.
So it's not so much that you're pro-Harris, you're more anti-Trump.
Yeah, I would say so.
I like her though I'm really supporting her but what do you like about it Mainly, I don't like Trump.
Fair enough.
No, I like Harris.
I shouldn't say I don't like Harris, so I'm going to be a proud voter for her.
We're asking Americans who they're voting for.
Donald Trump.
I think the only good case that you have for Kamala Harris is for making the Supreme Court even.
So I think right now with Trump getting in there, it does set up the Supreme Court to be centered around, you know, the right, which I think that there should be balance.
I don't like the two-party system in general, but if I had to choose one person, I would pick strength over lack of clarity.
And I think she's been a legislator, I mean, a litigator for her entire career.
So she says whatever she needs to say to win.
That's her whole memorandum, right?
May I ask you if you voted for Trump before?
I did.
Now, does that make you an anomaly here in California?
I think.
To be honest, I'm not really a political person.
I don't really, I don't know too much about politics, honestly, to give like a valid answer to you guys.
Fair enough.
Would you call yourself liberal or conservative or you're not that focused on it?
I'm definitely not a liberal.
I'm more like in between kind of.
I agree with some of the viewpoints of the liberals, and then I agree with some of the Democrats.
I'm just not like a hard left and a hard right.
I feel like people take politics too serious.
It's not that serious.
But yeah, that's pretty much it.
What is it about Trump that you don't like?
Everything.
Seriously, I don't think, I mean, I think he's very dangerous.
Can I ask you one tough question?
You can ask me.
I think back to the four years of Trump and there were no wars.
Of course there were wars.
There wasn't the war in Ukraine.
There was a war before and after Trump.
Trump didn't start any and he did the peace deal in the Middle East.
And what Trump wants to do in Ukraine is give in to Putin.
And you ask me a question, I'm going to give you the answer.
And if he gives in to Putin, Putin is going to feel unbound by any fears of the United States.
And we're just going to have more wars as he's going to go into Poland and he's going to go into other NATO countries.
So yeah, I think it's dangerous.
It's scary.
Hey, can I ask you who you're voting for in this election?
Donald Trump.
Can I ask you why?
Is there a policy or personality?
What would you like about him?
I think he's a far more authentic person than Kamala.
I think the border is in big trouble.
I think we need somebody to clean that up on both ends, the North and the South.
That's true.
I'm actually Canadian, but I still have an opinion.
And I really think Trump needs to save this country.
It's in some serious trouble.
How about you?
Do you have any views on Trump or Harris?
Trump 2024, baby.
And why do you disagree with your friend on that?
I think it was a better America when he was elected.
I think he's for the people, even though most people don't agree with that.
I can see where he doesn't like him.
I think that's just like the news telling people that.
He gets put on the spotlight a lot more than other presidents have.
It's tough to come out for Trump.
There's a bit of peer pressure, isn't there?
Cancel culture even.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
But you're not worried about Santa.
How come?
I used to care, but I realized there's plenty of people out there like me.
And the culture wants you to not speak up.
But if you speak up, it's better.
Now, you're here in California, which is a Democrat place.
You don't seem to be shy about saying you're for Trump.
Is it easier to say you're for Trump now?
I would have thought it was socially difficult.
To be honest, you're the first person I've talked to about it.
My friends don't really talk about politics.
Everyone just kind of keeps it themselves because once again, it's just going to make you start butting heads.
And I don't really care who anyone votes for.
I really don't.
I don't want to say I don't care who wins, but I'm just living my life.
Harris or Trump?
We're British, so we can't buy it.
Well, okay, let me ask it this way.
Who do you prefer?
Who would be better for the Brits, Trump or Harris?
I'm going to say Harris.
Why is that?
Because she's weak, and so the UK would be strong.
I don't know.
Can I ask you who you're voting for in the election?
Trump.
Why is that?
I like him more.
He supports Israel.
Is that important to you?
Yes.
Who are you thinking of voting for?
Trump or Harris?
We're not from you.
We're tourists.
Oh, yeah.
Well, if you had a preference.
Where are you from?
Germany.
Who would be better for Germany to be the president of the United States?
Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?
Probably Kamala Harris.
And why is that?
Give the answer.
Give the answers.
Do you like Trump or Harris?
I'm not into politics.
Is there a reason why?
Is there something you like about her?
Trump is like too extreme with his opinions.
And that's why people probably don't like him.
Who are you thinking of voting for?
Trump or Harris?
Oh, I'm French.
I don't vote here.
Okay.
If you had to choose which candidate you preferred, Trump or Harris, who do you like better?
I think Trump.
Why is that?
I think when Trump was president, there is no war.
So I think it's better for the world than the peace in the world.
From a UK point of view, who would be better for the Brits?
Trump or Harris?
I think the majority prefer Trump.
And why is that?
Because he's not a politician, he's just a businessman, which I think is a better thing.
Hi, guys.
Who are you thinking of voting for?
Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?
They're from Italy.
Oh, well, who would you prefer?
Il Trumpo or Kamala Harris?
Can I say?
I would say Trump.
Oh, now, why do you like Trump?
Why do you support Il Trumpo?
Because I think he's like more an entrepreneur than politicians.
And like, you know, it's a state, it's a big company at the end of the day.
Do you support Giorgio Maloney?
Yeah.
How about you?
Giorgio Maloney?
Not personally, but Elon Musk likes her.
I thought they were dating.
Yeah.
No, they were not.
That was just gossip.
Kind of.
And how about you?
You prefer Kamala Harris?
I'm a Democrat.
So the vision, we have the same vision.
Well, who do you prefer, just as a French person, who would you prefer to have as president?
I think it's Kamala.
Can I ask why?
Is there something you like about her?
No, because Trump is don't worry about Europe.
Is he a little bit mean to Macron?
Yeah.
You voting for in this election, boss?
I'm English, so I'm not voting.
Do you have an opinion on who would be better for the UK?
I think I have a feeling that Kamala Harris would probably be better.
Why is that?
Because she stands for a stronger Europe, because she's a supporter of NATO.
Although I kind of agree with Donald Trump that NATO countries should pay for their defense, at least Kamala Harris is an avowed defender of NATO.
You know, like him or hate him.
Russia didn't start any wars when Trump was president.
I think they were maybe afraid.
North Korea, China, they all sort of watched their P's and Q's.
When Trump was president, the war started after he left.
What do you think of that?
Yeah, I think having a very reactionary president who makes decisions on the fly can be very off-putting for American.
For the bad guys.
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Yeah, I agree.
Well, so maybe you want Trump after all.
Maybe he actually makes the enemies think twice.
Well, you know, I'm a great believer in using alternative methods to bring peace.
Like saying don't.
I think that's what Kamala Harris said to Iran, right?
Don't.
No, I'm more into things like we should be using.
I tell you what, we should be using comedy, we should be using...
Do you think the Ayatollahs care about comedy or Xi Jinping?
I don't think so.
I think we should definitely ban men from having any power anywhere near the Middle East.
That is the beginning of the only solution because between religion and men.
Golden by ear and Benazir Buto running the place.
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
If you put women in charge of everywhere, there would be a lot less war, a lot less carnage.
Let me ask you one last question.
I don't want to take up too much of your time.
You look like a cool dude.
You got a ponytail.
You're here on Venice Beach.
You sort of, contrary to the stereotype, I would have guessed, just based on appearances, you'd be a man of the left.
Well, the left has changed.
What was the left 20 years ago is not the left now.
I was considered very far to the left back then, but now I'm thought of as a right-winger, and it's pretty crazy.
And my views really haven't changed.
It seems like everybody else's have.
I'm just a person of common sense, and I call it like I see it.
And I don't think that's happening today.
Well, as you can see, I'm back in our world headquarters in Toronto.
Yesterday, I was in San Francisco with Avi Yamini launching his Avi Across America tour.
We've rented an RV, a recreational vehicle.
We've got a driver, Lyndon Dunkley.
We've got a videographer, Lincoln Jay, and Avi, the three of them, are going to take that RV across America going town to town.
And it's great.
Of course, they can live in the RV.
They can cook in it.
They can sleep in it.
So it's a fairly affordable way to spend a month on the road.
Their mission is to basically do a conservative reality show, going town by town to report on the state of America.
And I think it's going to be fun because Avi, of course, is Australian.
He's got a great sense of humor.
So I was with him yesterday in San Francisco to welcome him to this side of the ocean and get the lads all set up.
And we took him out for a nice lunch.
And I'm excited to see, I'm sort of jealous.
Imagine a one-month road trip in America.
It's tough to do that, to take away that much time from your family and your home.
But I think they're going to give us great journalism.
I hope you think so too.
Before that, as you know, we were in Los Angeles, and it's great to be back in our home country.
Let me close with Avi's launch video for his reality show.
Take a look.
You will not believe where I am and who I'm with.
Hezra Levant.
Avi, great to see you.
You are one of the wonders of the world.
And behind us is another architectural wonder.
It's the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
This was the closest place for you to fly from Melbourne, Australia to the United States.
Welcome to North America.
Thank you.
And I got in.
Can you believe it?
But for all the details, AviacrossAmerica.com is the website designed to this exciting project.
And I'm genuinely excited.
I've been really excited about it for weeks.
I've kept tight-lipped about it because you know how the detractors love to get things like these canceled.
What are we doing?
What's the plan?
Well, we've rented an RV, a recreational vehicle, and you and videographer Lincoln J and master of the RV Lyndon Dunkley are going to go on a one-month tour across America, town by town, city by city.
It's sort of a reality show where you'll talk about America.
You'll discover it as an Australian fan of America.
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And of course, the backdrop behind it all is the U.S. election.
Perhaps the most momentous election in over a century.
You're going to get to know Americans in real life and politics might come up, but it's going to be a travelogue, it's going to be reality TV, it's going to be a comedy, it's going to be politics.
I think it's going to be amazing.
Ah, there you are.
Check out my home for the next month, just so you understand.
There's three of us.
We've got Lyndon driving, Lincoln on the camera, and of course myself.
This is my bed.
We've got the office workspace here where also converts into a bed.
And because Lyndon is about triple my size, he gets the big bed.
But that's it.
We've got a little tiny perfect for someone half a human size like me.
And this is going to be home.
This is how we're doing it.
This is how we're traveling the entire country to talk to everybody, middle America, anybody that has an opinion about politics or just about day-to-day life here in America.
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Now we're starting here in San Francisco in what I'd argue is probably what America broadly can expect if Kamala Harris wins across the country and we're going to land at the end in Miami in Trumpville.
Yeah, it couldn't be more different.
San Francisco is actually where Kamala Harris rose to power in part with her affair with the mayor Willie Brown.
She then moved to the Senate, now the vice presidency.
San Francisco has not had a Republican governor in 60 years and it shows that drug culture, the crime, the urban decay.
It's almost the personification of Kamala Harris.
Florida, the same thing for Donald Trump.
Free, strong, patriotic.
So we'll be moving from the dark to the light.
We'll be talking to people all throughout.
Now, I won't be here for most of it.
You and Lincoln and Lyndon will be in this thing.
This will be your home for the next month.
There's so many amazing things you can discover about America when you go mile by mile as opposed to flying over it.
Yeah, 100%.
And I think, I guess the most exciting part for me in this mission is that we see so much filtered media like in Australia and around the world I imagine about this election and about what people in America think.
I really want to get a feel for what the average person thinks, what the average person's actual, as they say, lived experience is and where it's kind of guiding to get a feel for where are we really being, where are we heading in this election.
I think one of the tools is what we call streeters or man on the street interviews.
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You're great at it because you've got a sense of humor and you're friendly.
If this is a one-month tour approximately, I don't doubt that you will personally say hello to and give a mini interview to 1,000 real Americans.
And I think by talking to 1,000 real people you find randomly big cities, small towns, at a gas station, at a restaurant, at a sports event, whatever, I think you'll probably get a better feel for real America than the regime media journalists who never leave their offices.
So I'm looking forward to watching it for fun.
But I think everyone's going to learn a little bit about America.
I'm very excited.
Well, I want to thank you firstly for trusting me with this month mission and I want to thank the viewers in advance because obviously yes we're doing it as budget as can be.
We're in an RV.
We're not saying any fancy hotels or anything like that.
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