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Oct. 12, 2023 - Viva & Barnes
02:09:43
Using Tragedy for Smears; Josh Kruger Update; Trump D.C. Update Five Times August & MORE!
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We're back.
We are in Death Valley.
Gonna go for a jog to the base of those sand dunes right over there.
Now, it's a cool reason why they're there.
Apparently the wind churns around here over millions of years, breaking away at the mountains, surrounding mountains, and just deposits the sand in the middle of Death Valley.
Totally cool.
Forgive the attire, the matching shorts to sunglasses was a pure accident, but once I noticed it, I...
Didn't go out of my way to change it.
Let's do this.
Reminiscing on what the world used to be.
It's two miles to the base of the sand dunes.
Another ominous crow sighting.
I'm going to skip to the good part.
I'm going to skip to the good part while people trickle in.
Well, I'm back at the dunes with everybody and we're boogie boarding.
Down the sand dunes.
At some point.
On some of these dunes.
You're allowed.
Don't worry.
I asked.
These dunes are free for all to slide down, run up.
Let's get to the good s- And I've read what to do if you get stung by a rattlesnake.
So we're all set.
Okay, hold on.
Good?
I want to get to- First attempt.
Down.
Okay.
Oh, I got it.
This actually works!
Bust'em.
Woo!
You want to try?
That is all for the intro, people.
An intro unrelated to anything currently going on in the world, but reminiscent of, um, I don't know, was The World Felt Better back in, that was 2016.
Here, I'll give everybody the link in case they want to see that here.
Viva Frye and family, explore Death Valley.
Coolest place on Earth, like, officially.
If I reminisce about the places I've traveled, I haven't really traveled extensively, but North America, Canada, and America.
Death Valley is up there like immediate reflexive memory.
Grosmoor National Park in Newfoundland.
Mount Robson in British Columbia.
Fraser River, also British Columbia.
And then there was one other one.
Oh, yes.
Saguaro National Park.
And Grand Canyon, obviously.
The most amazing places on Earth.
Good...
Morning, everybody.
Sorry, yesterday was an off day, and tomorrow might be an off day as well, because I've been solo parenting all week.
Three kids, these two wonderful dogs, who between the two of them, we have one functional dog, Winston, blind West Highland Terrier, Pudge, paralyzed Puggle, so my days start early, and I have discovered that one of the roles of being a solo parent, you know, only for the week...
I'm a professional, unpaid chauffeur.
That's why I drive people places.
Drive people places, cook, clean up, and that's it.
And then every now and again, you try to squeeze in a two-, three-hour livestream during the day.
So that is what has been going on with my week.
In a week that has been discouraging.
There is no way to describe what's going on in the world right now.
I keep going back to the cliché, it's always darkest before the dawn, and then the humorous cliché, it's always darkest right before it goes pitch black.
And I don't know where we are, but I know what it feels like.
A world of hell and a world of absolute evil and rubbish.
And I sit here lamenting it, the degree to which innocent civilians...
The innocent civilians are the victims of their governments.
Everywhere.
From Canada, to America, to Israel, to Palestine, to the world.
The innocent civilians are the victims of their governments.
And we're witnessing it now in real time.
Ineptitude of governments, corruption of governments, or whatever you want, spiraling out of control in an endless cycle of violence, destruction.
Breeding another generation of resentment, breeding another generation of violence, destruction, which breeds another generation of violence and destruction.
We all know what's going on in the Middle East.
I was on with Jack Posobiec earlier this week, Human Events, talking about it.
It's sickening beyond words.
Full stop.
You try not to think about it, it's impossible.
You try not to envision what it's like to be living under these circumstances.
It's impossible.
One of my...
Back on 9 /11 and, you know, the day it happened and I remember, I mean, everyone remembers where they were, but during the day, I remember where I was that night with my girlfriend at the time to become wife and my best friend at a place called Hurley's Irish Pub on Crescent in Montreal.
Like, the most beautiful classic Irish pub you can imagine.
And we were sitting there, and we're listening to Irish folk music.
And, like, you could just, well, at least.
I remember having a beer and just closing my eyes and feeling what it must have felt like.
The terror, the horror, and that moment.
That ultimate moment.
And it's impossible not to feel it.
It's impossible not to close your eyes and actually, in your spirit, To the extent that any human can feel it, feel it.
And this is what's going on day in and day out now.
And then you see the way the world reacts to these things, and it's the people with the least to lose, the people with the most protections, the people with the most securest government positions, the people who themselves will hardly, if ever, even potentially be on the front lines talking tough.
Talking tough with other people's children, talking tough with other people's citizens.
And it's easy to talk tough.
And that's where we're at.
Dark times, to say the least.
And I don't want to spend every minute of the shows talking about what can't be avoided.
And then the flip side is, it almost feels, I don't know if trite is the word, disrespectful almost, to try to...
Talk about lighter subject matter.
It almost feels maybe like it's disrespectful to try to even talk about anything else that's clearly not of the same political human cost importance.
But then, you know, it's not going to be whatever.
Those are the dilemmas, people.
But we are going to talk a bit about it because like all, you know, what is it?
The classic principle of politics, never let a crisis go to waste.
And they are not letting.
This crisis go to waste.
Nobody's letting this human tragedy go to waste.
We're going to talk about it because some don't let it go to waste in the legitimate sense of I like to think that people will accuse me of that which I'm faulting others for.
I want to know how the hell this can happen.
And I'm old enough now to have lived through multiple cycles of this where clearly the status quo...
The responses don't work.
And every time they say, this time it'll be different.
And then every time, what ends up happening?
Breeding another generation of.
I don't know what the solution is to such a complex human crisis problem.
But I'm old enough to have lived through it.
At least twice.
At least twice before.
And it's the same cycle every time.
It's the same talk every time.
And the government does what it does.
Innocent civilians die.
Eventually, once the trauma of the event lingers for those who are not directly affected, life goes back to normal to some extent.
But my goodness, are they politicking it and politicking it hard?
And we'll get into that.
Hypocrites, shameless hypocrites, and liars.
Period.
All right.
But just to tell you what we've got going on in the show today.
So we're going to end on YouTube as we do to go over to Rumble.
We're live.
I should have checked.
We are live on Rumble.
Good.
We are live on Locals.
And we're live...
There's a question here from Lord Jesticost at vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
And I'll get to it afterwards, actually.
I'll get to it in the Locals if there's a way to...
How do I...
Not delete.
I want to flag that.
I'll screen grab it and get to it later.
So for those who don't know, we start on YouTube and Rumble.
And on YouTube, go over exclusively to Rumble.
And then at the end, when we're done with the show, we go on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com for an after discussion with our locals community, which, as everybody knows, is wildly above average.
Today's show, I'm going to go through some of the hypocrisy.
Brett Weinstein has had some of the very, very interesting perspectives of this entire last week.
Thoughts that, I'm not saying that I'm a coward, thoughts that I've had that I have, maybe I have shared them and I just don't think I have, but that I'm reluctant to share because when you ask certain questions, people start making certain assumptions as to intentions.
We're going to get into that.
Trump, again being lied about by the most foul, lying, dishonest people on the internet who are consistent in their foulness and dishonesty.
Defiant L's.
We're going to take a couple of Defiant L's.
We're going to talk about the Trump D.C. case where Jack Smith is now asking that Trump be obliged to disclose his affirmative defenses in advance, you know, because you don't want to catch the government off guard when they're persecuting, weaponizing the political system.
We're going to talk about that.
And we'll see what we get through at noon, five times August, who many of you know and if you don't know him.
Darn, gosh darn it, you need to know who he is.
He's going to come on, talk about what's been going on.
We're going to catch up, and he's going to play his latest song.
And I've asked him if he can play the song that always makes me cry, God Help Us.
And then Eva Chippyuk is going to come on.
Eva Chippyuk is the attorney for the Freedom Convoy during the Canadian Commission on Justin Trudeau's invocation of the act.
Works with Keith Wilson.
She's going to come on and give us the update about what's going on with Tamara Leach's and Chris Barber's criminal trial and Brian Peckford and Maxime Bernier's travel ban file, which hits the federal court today.
And I thought I had the link, but it seems that my link expired yesterday.
So I was going to live stream it, but I'm not even sure that you're allowed live streaming it and I don't want to get into trouble.
And then I was going to do like the live stream, listen to, but instead Eva will come on and talk to us about what's going on.
But where do we start here?
Is everybody okay?
Let me see if everyone's okay in the chat.
His new song is good, got to admit.
Oh yeah, I can highlight this.
It says, it's amazing.
The problem is once you have a favorite, like God help us, and the other one there.
He's got them.
They're all amazing.
They're all amazing.
You pick your favorite.
Seriously, Rumble needs to get it together.
Growing pains, they're going to get there.
And constructive criticism.
Okay, now let's see here.
Okay, we're good.
Let's do it.
Okay, so where do we start?
I'm not starting with the lie debunked.
I'm going to start with the lie lie.
The lie mischaracterized.
They are the worst people on...
It's tough.
I call them a piece of SHIT because I can't think...
Oh, and we also have as an update, Josh Kruger, the activist who was killed in Philadelphia.
Very interesting, apparent twist in the case.
We're going to get to that as well.
Starting the show.
Tristan Snell.
There is no word other than a piece of SHI tizzle.
There is no other way to describe this man who consistently is among the worst people on the internet.
At one point I called him a piece of SH because he put out a tweet on September 11th which read...
I forget which way it went.
September 11th.
9 /11 was a terrorist attack.
January 6th was a terrorist attack.
And I said that there is no other way to describe someone who says something like that other than calling them a dishonest piece of SHI Tizzle.
Period.
Well, he's done it again, by the way.
He's done it again.
Because yesterday, like, it's an amazing thing.
You read something and you say, okay, it's false.
I don't yet know that it is, but just reading it...
It has to be false.
Or it has to be a deliberate, disingenuous twisting of whatever in some wildly deranged mind could be considered the truth.
Tristan Snell, who many of you might recall from such prosecutions as Trump, what was it?
Trump University.
Imagine, look at this guy's claim to fame.
Lawyer, fighter for democracy, advocate for innovators and creators, prosecuted at Trump University.
I mean, it's one thing to have done that.
And then it's another thing to have it be your claim to fame in your bio.
If I am recognized for one thing on this earth, Tristan Snell says to himself while drafting his Twitter bio, I want to be known for having prosecuted Trump University.
Oh, he's also a commentator at MSNBC.
And I now know what NAFO means.
It means North American Fela Association, organization, sorry, which has something to do with supporting Ukraine.
They call themselves fellas.
Kinzinger had it in his profile for the longest time.
I had no idea what it meant, and now I understand what Fela means, where they do hashtag Fela, and NAFO is North American Fellow Organization, as far as I understand.
So Tristan Snell puts out a tweet, and it says, Trump just praised Hezbollah as, quote, very smart, end quote, for attacking Israel.
Now, I'm no idiot.
I am no conspiracy theorist.
And it's not because Trump has Jewish members of his family, son-in-law, grandchildren, That I would say that this is a lie.
It's not just because of that.
I would say that this is a lie because nobody in their right mind would praise a terrorist organization, Hezbollah, as being smart for attacking Israel.
Nobody would say that in their right mind, which leads me to believe that if this is accurate, Trump is not in his right mind, which many people...
And therefore, they're going to believe this lie as truth because it already confirms what they already believe.
So they don't even bother to say, this sounds like a lie.
And they believe it.
Well, Trump is deranged.
This is a deranged thing to say.
Therefore, Trump said it.
Therefore, I believe Tristan Snell, when Tristan Snell says Trump said Hezbollah was very smart for attacking Israel.
So I say, OK, smells like bullshit.
It might.
It might.
If it smells like poopoo and it looks like poopoo.
And it feels like poopoo.
Chances are it's a load of political poopoo.
So I found the original clip and will listen to it.
And you will tell me, I'll run a poll, to see who thinks that this thinks that it sounds like Trump praised Hezbollah as being very smart for attacking.
Let's just, you know, be reasonable, open-minded.
Maybe he said it.
The six billion dollars was a tremendous amount of money, but nothing compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars that Biden allowed them.
To make in oil and other things.
Hundreds of billions.
They became a rich nation in three years.
That's why they're doing this.
They have so much money.
They don't know what to do with it.
They had no money.
They were broke.
And then there was the inevitable attack four days later, which I predicted.
And then two nights ago, I read all of Biden's security people.
Can you imagine?
National defense people.
And they said, gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack from the north.
Because that's the most vulnerable spot.
I said, wait a minute.
You know, Hezbollah is very smart.
They're all very smart.
The press doesn't like when they say it.
You know, I said that President Xi of China, 1.4 billion people, he controls it with an iron fist.
I said, he's a very smart man.
They killed me the next day.
I said he was smart.
What am I going to say?
But Hezbollah, they're very smart.
And they have a national defense minister or somebody saying, I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack us from the north.
So the following morning they attacked.
They might not have been doing it, but if you listen to this jerk, you would attack from the north.
Because he said, that's our weak spot.
Whoever heard of officials saying on television that they hope the enemy doesn't attack in a certain area?
Now, unless it's a con job.
But you know what a con job is?
You're waiting there ready.
You want them if you want them.
But they weren't ready.
They weren't ready.
You know, say what you want.
Israel was not ready.
This was a big surprise.
This was a terrible thing that happened.
They weren't ready.
But if you wanted them to attack because you've got a million people there with guns and you're going to blast the hell, then you do exactly.
But they didn't have that.
They didn't have that.
Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, even Brad just days before the attack.
Now we're no longer in the relevant part.
Middle East seems to be quite quiet.
We've all heard that now.
Let's just go in the chat.
Actually, let us go back to what Tristan Snell said Trump said.
Trump just praised Hezbollah as, quote, very smart, end quote, for attacking Israel.
Now, this is not to play.
I'm going to leave that in the back and come back to it.
This is not to play semantics like, you know, wordsmith of the devil lawyer.
There is a difference between saying someone is smart and...
And the idea that one would criticize anybody for, in their view, accurately assessing strategic intelligence, even if it's used for evil, fault them for that, makes that person an idiot.
I was going to tweet it out because it's a decent insight, although I doubt I'm the first person to have it.
Nobody has ever defeated an adversary by underestimating their intelligence.
No, you don't beat someone at chess by assuming they're dumb and that whatever they're doing, they're doing because they're dumb.
You don't win wars.
You don't defeat adversaries or enemies by underestimating their intelligence.
And the idea to think that maybe if people didn't think...
That these organizations were dumb.
Maybe if people operate on the basis that they were in fact intelligent, strategic, that something like what occurred on Saturday might not have happened.
Perhaps one might contemplate the idea that when you underestimate your enemies, when you underestimate their intelligence, their strategery, or dare say their evil inhumanity, when you underestimate it, that's when you get caught off guard.
Trump, you'd have to be an idiot to think and interpret what Trump just said as praising.
Hezbollah for having attacked Israel.
What he's saying, and apparently they were wrong on the attack in the north and it either never happened or didn't happen on the scale that anyone was reporting, but that's what they were reporting at the time.
The idea that he's praising Hezbollah as intelligent for having attacked Israel.
You are an idiot, a liar, or a combination of both for publicly saying that.
For publicly letting other people believe that if they rely on your assessment of facts.
What he's saying...
And it's quite clear to anybody with half a brain is that just because someone is evil, just because someone's a communist dictator, doesn't mean they're dumb.
And in fact, if they are smart, it might make them all the more effective at doing what they're doing.
Intelligence without a moral compass is not an asset.
It is a liability.
But to underestimate, just to assume someone's dumb because they're an enemy, that, I would dare say, might make you ill-prepared and ignorant.
So Tristan Snell comes out with that.
Actually, I want to add it back for a particular reason.
I want to add this back because...
Hold on.
The $6 billion was a tremendous amount of money, but nothing compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars that Biden allowed them to make in oil and other things.
Hundreds of billions.
They became a rich nation in three years.
That's why they're doing this.
They have so much money.
Pausing it there.
There was a talking point, or at least a political talking point, circulating.
Biden had just recently unfrozen $6 billion in assets to Iran.
Iran funds Hamas.
And therefore, you know, that $6 billion was responsible for the attack that occurred on Saturday.
People are not wrong to point out that temporally there probably was not enough time to, you know, even if the retort to that was they didn't unfreeze, they didn't give them cash, they unfroze assets which were only to be used for humanitarian purposes, yada, yada, yada.
As if...
As if by liberating a terrorist regime to not have to take care of its citizens by providing the humanitarian aid doesn't facilitate the terroristic objectives of that government.
As if that's not the case.
Oh, I'm sorry, government.
You have to pay for roads and food and take care of your citizens, but you're not doing that because you're pursuing terroristic objectives.
So the international community will do that for you, but you're not using the money.
For terrorism.
Because we're telling you to use it for humanitarian aid, which thus liberates other finances and other attention efforts for terrorism.
You have to think like a child to think along such simplistic levels.
Like a parent says to the kid, don't spend your allowance on drugs or alcohol.
And then they spend it on drugs and alcohol.
Well, they say, well, that wasn't your money that I spent on drugs and alcohol.
That was my money.
I worked.
You know, I mowed some lawns.
I got 20 bucks.
So I didn't spend your 20 bucks on drugs and alcohol.
I spent my 20. Well, you know what a parent would say?
You're not getting my 20 bucks anymore.
That's how it works.
But, you know, some of these political pundits apparently think like children.
Like the kids saying, that 20 bucks that you just unfroze for humanitarian assets, well, I'm spending on it.
Now I get to spend the 20 bucks I already had in my pocket on something else.
So that being said, even as relates to the 6 billion that was recently unfrozen.
That doesn't respond to the $1.7 billion that was transferred in the dead of night on pallets full of liquid cash by Obama in 2016 to Iran.
But, you know, set that aside.
That was their money.
I don't know what to do with it.
They had no money.
They were broke.
And then there was the inevitable attack four days later, which I predicted.
I don't know how he predicted it.
I read all of Biden's security people.
Can you imagine?
National defense people.
And they said, "Gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack from the north, because that's the most vulnerable spot." I said, "Wait a minute." I'll stop it there.
We are seeing a lot of this.
People going public and broadcasting to the world weaknesses, deficiencies, and areas of lacking security.
We've seen it.
It's an outrage.
I was talking to someone.
It's not like any adversary is waiting on a tweet from CNN or...
A 60 Minutes report to assess the security weaknesses of their adversary.
But there is something odd about coming out and publicly saying something like, I hope they don't attack from the North, or just to pull up that 60 Minutes report from three weeks ago, shortly before this horrific attack.
60 Minutes.
The fight over the court has brought the country to a cold civil war.
This is talking about the internal, call it corruption, scandal that the Netanyahu government has been facing for the last little while.
They want to overhaul the court to, from what I understand, remove some of the power of the court so that the government can function without the supervision or oversight of the court with their alliance with some unsavory characters in government.
And this is 60 Minutes, three weeks before the attack.
Saying, well, geez, this is causing some upheaval in Israel, within Israel, within the government.
Something of a cold civil war, they say.
Listen to this.
In July, the first step of Levine's judicial overhaul passed, severely limiting the court's power to strike down government decisions.
Some 10,000 military reservists were so upset.
They pledged to stop showing up for duty.
When they made their decision...
Okay, so I want to get...
Readiness.
Here, this one.
25 years.
It's in my blood.
10,000 rivers.
I don't...
The military has warned that losing so many pilots and high-ranking reservists could jeopardize readiness and hurt national security.
But several former heads of the military and Mossad support the protest and blame the government for allowing the situation to come to this.
If you did find out that Israel was at risk because of so many reservists leaving, would you step back and withdraw your proposals?
What's the price of democracy?
What are you suggesting me to do?
We'll tell the Israeli citizens, okay, don't go to vote.
There's no need to help.
I played it the other day.
This is 60 Minutes three weeks before.
Now, I don't know if the reservists were in fact not available, if they had in fact not showed up to work.
You have advanced warning and advanced announcement to the world coming on the...
50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
What kind of governments announce to the world weaknesses resulting from political insecurity within a nation?
What kind of governments announce to the world border insecurity or border issues in real time?
It's crazy.
It's so crazy that it makes so little sense that you begin asking yourself questions, and if you ask them publicly, People look at you with a stink eye of a tinfoil hat theory.
And Brett Weinstein, absolutely everybody knows who Brett Weinstein is if you're watching, said a couple of things that are very, very interesting, although thorny statements to make publicly.
Brett Weinstein is a smart man in general, so I do tend to approach everything he says as though it's smart.
Tristan Snell is a lying SOB, so I tend to approach everything he says as And I'm approaching Brett Weinstein as having said something insightful and smart, and I think he has.
This is Brett Weinstein's tweet.
The divisions instantly created by the barbaric Hamas attack were a huge win for the deep state.
That may just be the luck of the draw, but other possibilities exist as well.
We must be able to discuss the full landscape without becoming villains in each other's eyes.
And I said it from day one.
It just doesn't make sense.
And before you talk about reactions that might exacerbate the problem, you need to answer the most fundamental question as to how this could have possibly ever occurred in the first place.
And maybe there's a perfectly...
Non-negligent, non-conspiratorial answer.
But we did the best we could, and this is the result of the best we could, will be a very, very unsatisfactory answer.
And that is the most forgiving.
What's the word I'm looking for?
That is the most charitable, conceivable explanation.
We did our best, and this is the result of our best.
Well, I'm sorry, that won't cut it, and you all have to resign and get a government in there that can do better.
That's at most charitable.
At less charitable, we were aware of certain weaknesses, but we were too busy fighting our internal corruption to do what we are there to do, first and foremost, protect the citizens.
And then you can only go downhill from other interpretations that you can impute there.
Weinstein's asking the questions.
And what is fascinating?
He put out a tweet a few days ago.
The fractions, or I guess the fractions, or the conflict that has now been instantaneously overnight fomented among what were hitherto political ideological allies.
Allies, I hate that word because it almost sounds like party over correctness.
People who were politically and ideologically aligned.
The populist movement on the right has now been fractioned and shattered into a thousand pieces where, you know, if there were a DeSantis versus Trump primary battle, friction, well, holy crab apples, has that now taken on new levels.
If there were, you know, the Christian right and the Jewish right had finally united.
And now, in light of the response coming from Israel, they're fractioned.
The left!
And I've got a couple of these tweets because they're just outrageous.
They just show you...
When you don't understand who you're dealing with, you are always surprised when they bite your hand afterwards.
The left, the Jewish Democrats on the left who aligned with the BLM for the Summer of Love, Taking a Knee, Black Lives Matter, now seeing BLM put out tweets of a paraglider?
Which is what the terrorists did to get into that festival.
Machine gun, wielding paragliders, landing at a festival and slaughtering 260 people.
BLM Chicago, BLM, I forget where it is, puts out a tweet with the paraglider in a silhouette or just the profile.
And I stand with Palestine.
And incidentally, I will not fault anyone ever for standing with Palestine.
But when the response to...
Wanton slaughter is I stand with Palestine.
That's not as simple of a statement as saying I stand with Palestine anymore.
When the CUPE, this union out of Ontario, comes out and says Palestine uprising, something along those lines like supporting the Palestine uprising, you're not just saying I support a Palestinian state and I support the Palestinian people.
You're saying something much different when that is your response to a slaughter.
And now some people are finally realizing that.
But the outrageous thing is, you're seeing it how in real time?
They're seeing it in real time.
Is this it?
This is from Charlie Kirk.
Now, I remember seeing these tweets in real time.
And Charlie Kirk, if he does me wrong by making me retweet a tweet that never existed, I will correct and I will verify.
But thus far, Charlie Kirk has been reliable.
April.
Let's see.
What is that?
April?
I can't tell if that's April or April or May 4th or April 5th or May 4th.
Whatever.
2021.
I will never stop saying Black Lives Matter and may even get a shirt myself.
Two days ago.
F them.
Maybe the right was right about BLM.
After they put out that tweet, which we're going to see in a second.
No, we're not going to see the tweet in a second because I don't have it.
It's just amazing.
It's as though people are now discovering that if you thought that you were on the side of a party that tolerates and condones violence, and then you're shocked when they tolerate and condone violence, it says one of three things.
Either you thought the violence they tolerated and condoned, you know, punch a Nazi, you know.
Destroy fascists, burn buildings.
You thought that the violence would stop at a certain threshold.
And now you're shocked that the tolerance of the violence reaches a threshold that even you find offensive.
Or you didn't think that there was a threshold and it wasn't the violence per se that bothered you, so long as the violence was directed against people you considered your enemies.
The right.
Trump supporters.
Punch a Nazi.
I'm all down for punching a Nazi, but don't punch a Jewish person.
And now you see them tolerating the violence that you tolerated against your adversaries, but they tolerated against your allies.
And you're like, okay, well, now I don't tolerate the violence because it's against me?
Or you just have no foresight.
Just don't understand who you're dealing with.
And it might just be a little bit of all three.
And it's not the first time either that Wiseman, that Wiseman has had some wildly...
Oh yeah, this was it here.
BLM Chicago says, "Yesterday we sent out messages that we aren't proud of.
We stand with Palestine and the people who will do what they must to live free.
Our hearts are with the grieving mothers, those rescuing babies from the rubble, who are in danger of being wiped out completely." To which David Wiseman says, "This isn't an effing apology." Now you know, Dave.
You picked your allies.
Enjoy the company.
But I do have to pull out one hilarious defiant L coming from Wiseman from a while back.
Oh, where is it?
Come on.
No, no, hold on one second.
Hold on.
I'm getting this defiant L. Dave Wiseman had...
I think it's more along the lines of they have no political standards.
They have no...
They have no consistency.
They are hypocrites in that...
They will forgive an ally and never forgive an enemy.
When an enemy does it, it's deliberate.
When an ally does it, it's an accident.
When they do it, it's justified.
When their adversaries do it, it's a crime.
This is classic.
I mean, these are real.
These are real.
This is from Defiant L's who has never done me wrong.
Defiant L's, if you're not following them.
Who does not follow the Defiant L's?
This one is from David Wiseman.
So it's February 28th, 2021.
F you, Donald Trump.
But when he was a more righteous man.
When was that?
Oh no, this is later.
So, F you, Donald Trump.
Righteous.
Tell Trump to go F himself.
What are we now?
We're eight months later?
David Wiseman.
Those who are saying F...
He's such a self-righteous hypocrite.
In this tweet, virtue signaling, he doesn't even say the F word.
Fuck you, Donald Trump.
In February, those who are saying F Joe Biden are showing their hate and ignorance.
Imagine hating a president who wants to improve your life.
So what I might deduce from this, if the weasel wants to weasel out of his hypocrisy, he's going to say, well, you could say F you, president, to a president who wants to destroy your life.
That you can do.
So there I've made the distinction.
You can't say F you to Biden.
Because he wants to improve your life, but you can say F you to Trump because he doesn't.
Or you're just a shameless hypocrite, Wiseman, with no standards, and now it's coming back to bite you in the ass.
I think that's it for the intro portion of this show that we are now going to go and leave.
We're going to go leave YouTube and go over to Rumble.
And for those who are watching now, this will be posted, I mean, not live, but it'll be posted in its entirety to the channel tomorrow, but YouTube will get the leftover stale seconds, not the live show, in all its beauty, in all its interaction, so you can watch it.
But it won't be live.
And for those who are watching now, Five Times August is coming on at noon, Eva Chipyuk at noon 30. And the guy who told off Justin Trudeau, I'm trying to make it happen.
But timing is difficult because not everybody is free during the day.
So the guy who told off Trudeau and said, I'm not shaking your head.
You're a piece of S-H-I-T.
He says what we're all thinking.
All right.
Get your butts on over to Rumble.
VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com.
I can give you that link also.
For those who just want to come directly to the source.
VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com where everyone is above average.
Okay.
Ending on YouTube.
Three, two, One.
And we're good.
Now, did I miss any Rumble Rants?
I did miss a Rumble Rants.
Oh, and I forgot to give the intro.
Who cares?
Super Chats, you know what it is, but no more room for Super Chats.
Rumble Rants.
I see one here, and I don't know what it says.
Can Be Dread says, we are being gaslit in order to divide us.
We cannot allow this.
Both sides are wrong here.
Come on, people.
It's the same.
I don't know what it says.
That's me.
Can Be Dread says, we are being gaslit.
We're having a dream inception.
I'm going to close this.
We're having a dream.
Stream Inception.
Okay.
Anyways, thank you very much.
Let me just get the name there.
Can't be dread.
Thank you.
All right.
All right.
Now, so what do we want to do in order of interest?
I want to do the Josh Kruger update.
This is another story where when it happened...
And the episode, the stream of the day, I said, Schadenfreude is a sin.
Do not ever take joy in the misery of others, even when you consider them to be your ideological adversary.
And for this, I'm called oftentimes a lefty, sissy Canadian.
And maybe I am.
Maybe I am sensitive to a flaw.
Maybe I am thin-skinned to a flaw.
I don't think so.
It's like, you know, hunters don't take pleasure.
In the object of their hunt, they pay respect to it.
Now, that's not to say you should pay respect to the death of your ideological adversary, your mortal adversary, your existential adversary.
But you do not want to become the monster that you are battling.
And even when they killed Osama bin Laden, jumping for joy, I think, is the morally misdirected response.
Even though it might be...
The death of some people might be a net positive for the world.
And I'm not suggesting that's the case in Josh Kruger.
There were people taking political glee in Josh Kruger's demise because they thought it might have proven the hypocrisy or the ill-foundedness of what Josh Kruger was an activist for, which was, you know, I defund the police, call in social workers instead of...
Instead of police, criminal justice reform.
I don't know what his position was on Trump criminal justice reform, but I find a lot of the people who support criminal justice reform for certain demographics are the most vigorously and vehemently and vitriolically lock him up for the rest of his life when it comes to Trump, deny him and deprive him of all of his most basic rights.
So Josh Kruger, I'll get the story for those of you who don't know, journalist, activist.
Living in Philadelphia and ended up getting shot to death at 1:30 a.m. by an intruder in his house, in his apartment.
People were saying this is the result of soft on crime laws.
This is the result of, you know, the war on the Second Amendment.
I bet he wished he had a firearm when he was murdered by someone who clearly had a firearm.
So people were saying this is these are the consequences of the very policy.
That Josh Kruger, Carson, the guy, the activist who just got stabbed to death in New York, these are the consequences of their policy.
You can't defund the police and think you're going to fight crime.
You can't call in social workers all the time to deal with people having mental health crises because they could end up carrying knives and stabbing you to death.
And so people are saying, look, maybe it wasn't schadenfreude, but people were certainly relishing in the irony.
Now, there were some details that didn't really make sense.
Or that caused for concern that this might have not been random crime, this might have not been the direct policies of some of what they were advocating for, defunding the police, etc.
And in which case, if this turns out to be what is being reported now, it'll raise a bunch of other questions.
The story that I have, I know I pulled up the article.
Okay, look, I have the article.
It was...
Not Yahoo News.
It came from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Oh, you know what?
The Philadelphia Inquirer icon looks like the new Twitter icon, except it looks like an I and not an X. Okay.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, I'm not totally familiar with this publication.
I hope it's not on par with the National Inquirer.
So here's the latest update in the Josh Kruger killing.
The family of the man wanted for killing Josh Kruger says the 19-year-old.
And the journalist shared sex and drugs.
Now, why this has a bit of a more serious basis than just rumorings is that Josh Kruger had put out some rather cryptic social media posts in the days leading up to his murder, suggesting something of a dispute with a lover and someone else busting into his house looking for his lover.
So he did make some of these posts which led people to question whether or not this was a random break-in and thus the result of soft on-crime laws or something else.
Okay.
The assertion by Robert Davis' mother and older brother add new complexities to a killing that has garnered national attention.
Okay.
The family of Robert Davis, the 19-year-old who's accused of killing local journalist Josh Kruger, said that Davis was just 15. Now,
be cynical, be skeptical, and don't just take anything for granted because this might play into another narrative that the Schadenfreude gang might be inclined to jump on.
It's apparently a sexual relationship between Josh Kruger, who...
I was gay and this kid.
So now people are going to shift the angle from soft on crime, these are the consequences, to what predilections people will say some people have in terms of comparing it with other tweets that they might have put out in the past.
I'm being a little opaque here on purpose.
And now bear in mind that this is the family of the accused who's saying this, so they have all sorts of reasons to be saying this because they want to believe that their kid is innocent and or, if not innocent, was compelled to do what he did and a victim of the circumstances and not just a random thug who busted in and killed in cold blood Josh Kruger.
Those assertions by Davis' mother and brother in recent interviews with the Inquirer add troubling new complexities to a killing that has garnered national attention.
Their account, they said, is drawn from recent conversations with Davis and from the years of watching his life unravel as he tried to keep the relationship and his drug addiction hidden.
Kruger, 39, was killed after a man entered his Point Breeze home in the middle of the night, police said, and shot him seven times at the base of the stairs.
Surveillance video near the scene and tips from Kruger's friends and family.
This is, again, indication that this is not just some far-fetched theory.
Led detectives to Davis and a warrant was issued towards arrest a few days later.
Police described the pair as acquaintances and said Kruger, quote, was trying to help Davis get through life, end quote.
Families' contentions came as detectives separately discovered and are investigating what multiple law enforcement sources have called explicit photos and messages in Kruger's phone.
The sources who request anonymity, I'm always skeptical of anonymous sources, and sometimes it's the best you can have, but there are some pieces that are making a little more sense to this narrative than to the last one, but this one is still going to allow a lot of people who might be inclined for the schadenfreude or who might be inclined to say, I told you so for other reasons, it's going to fit their story as well, or their narrative, their interpretation.
They requested anonymity, did not say whether the images or messages were connected to David, but said they were disturbing and have been turned over to the department's special victims unit for further analysis.
Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Venor, so we have a name now, said that the contents of Kruger's phones are part of an investigation as detectives seek to learn more about why he may have been killed, but critical details lie with Davis, who remains at large.
I think he could answer a lot of questions if he comes into custody and surrenders.
It might help us put this thing together.
Get out of here.
Close that.
let's see what this Damika Davis said her son called her on Friday just hours after Philadelphia police burst into her South Philadelphia home looking for him she urged him to turn himself in yada yada yada He frantically tried to explain himself, she says, though he stopped short of admitting to the crime.
He was scared, she said.
He said he wanted me to do some stuff I didn't want to do, and if I didn't do it, he said he was going to blackmail me.
How much more do we have left in here?
A difficult past.
Let's scroll down here.
Kruger, for his part, was transparent about his struggles in his own life.
He said he was homeless for years and was addicted to crystal meth and used intravenous drugs.
They apparently did find drugs in Kruger's apartment after the...
Killing.
While on the streets, he wrote in 2017, he relied on sex work, his religion, and the kindness of others to survive.
I saw a lot of trauma and acted out a lot of pain, he said about that time in his life.
Started making changes in 2013.
He said he got sober, wrote for blogs, alt-weekly publications, yada, yada, yada.
He returned to writing in 2021 for various outlets.
Inquire, he typically wrote about issues that intersected with his life, including living as a gay man with HIV, addiction, and harm.
Reduction.
He became known for his strong positions and activity on social media and grew a following.
Police sources say he was concealing parts of his life and that meth was found in his bedroom.
Still, news of his death left many shocked and devastated.
The city's state leaders shared a statement celebrating his life.
Yada, yada, yada.
Police, meanwhile, are working out to figure out how both fits together.
We're looking at everything as part of this case, say Venor.
So that is the latest, and it certainly...
A twist, not in a cynical, exploitive way.
A twist?
The people who were saying, you know, it might play into the anti-Second Amendment types who say, look, if Davis didn't have a gun and it wasn't so easy to get one, he might not have been able to do this.
The pro-Second Amendment are still going to say, if Kruger himself had a gun, maybe this wouldn't have happened.
But my goodness, if this turns out to be the result of...
Nefarious and...
I'm looking for a word here.
Nasty personal issues that might also play into politics.
It will be discovered and we will be seeing it sooner than later on the Twitterverse.
But that is the latest, which is a very, very interesting twist in that story.
All right, before we get into the next one, I forget what it is, but there's two rumble rants to be heard.
And then I'm actually going to...
Hold on a second.
Okay, let's see what we've got here.
We got from Halula.
Viva, I don't agree with everything, but you are the most calm, cool, and collected host.
Today I'm calm.
My dad's telling me I'm yelling too much.
I had someone tell me I'm swearing too much.
To which I say, I'm not a perfect person and there's no...
I'm extremely far from perfect.
I try to be reflective, but my goodness, if the worst thing that I do in this day and age is swear and lose my temper, So be it.
But I'm still struggling to smile, so we'll still try.
We will struggle to try to retain optimism and a healthy amount of if you, you know, if you don't laugh, you cry type thing.
But I have been swearing too much.
Miscusi.
There was a joke there that involved a swear word, but I'm not going to do it.
Okay.
The engaged few says, whether or not violence is the answer depends largely on the question.
It depends largely on the question, but it depends largely on the proximity and accurate assessment of the threat.
That's the problem.
I mean, that's where everybody can justify violence to themselves, depending on what they claim to be the proximity of the threat.
And that's it.
I mean, that's where the game is played.
You know, that dude who shot...
The Trump supporter, the one who ended up getting killed because he did the vice interview and then the police were able to track down where he was and he died in a firefight, suicide by cop.
That guy, his explanation?
I had to shoot that guy because he was a threat to me.
People will fabricate existential threats requiring violence because of ideology.
They'll fabricate it where there is obviously no clear proximity between Any real threat and personal safety.
And they'll say, well, that's an ideological threat, so it justifies violence.
Silence is violence, so therefore that justifies violence.
So, yeah, it depends on the question being asked, who you ask, and how accurate and realistic their assessment of the proximity of the threat is to their personal safety.
I'm not a pacifist.
I'm not going to let myself get beaten, but I'm not going to go looking for a fight when I can run away more easily.
Call me a coward.
You just get traumatized once or twice and that's all it takes.
There's a story that I remember from growing up where a woman was getting mugged in Montreal.
Let them take your fucking purse.
And some hero bystander, jogging by, decides to intervene, gets stabbed and dies.
Why do I remember this story so much?
Because we used to walk our dogs on the summit and the dog...
Would never stop looking for his master on the summit.
A young man, I mean, I was a kid at the time, this guy was like middle-aged, intervening in a fight that is easy to walk away from, dies for no good reason, and the dog spends the rest of his days waiting for his owner to return.
If you could avoid the conflict without it leading to further, you know, immediate existential threat, man.
I want to, you know, pull a Forrest Gump.
Run!
Oh, it'll hurt your ego, but dying for something stupid is stupid.
There does come a point, however, where there may be no retreat, but then you have to be realistic and honest about the proximity of the threat and the level of the threat.
Anyway, so that's that.
Okay, what else do we have now?
So that's the Kruger update.
It's an interesting one.
I'm going to go share screen just to see what I got in the back.
Oh!
There's a couple.
Oh, no, no, no.
Okay.
We got 10 minutes until five times August gets here.
Oh!
Oh, God.
Leticia James...
I mean, I'm saying this, like, not hyperbolically.
After a fair trial, I won't say she deserves to be in jail.
If what she is doing now is lawful...
Then after a...
Well, that would be ridiculous.
If what she's doing is lawful, she wouldn't belong in jail for what she's doing.
To the extent that I believe what she's doing is unlawful, but she's still doing it, logically she deserves to be in jail for what she's doing to Trump.
It's pathological.
She's the Attorney General of New York, Leticia James, the woman who literally, I don't mean literally, campaigned in 2018 off prosecuting Trump.
Can you imagine?
She campaigned.
To get elected as Attorney General off prosecuting the sitting President of the United States of America, who she publicly called illegitimate, a Putin asset.
I mean, she may not have used that word for Putin asset, but illegitimate, dangerous.
She campaigned off prosecuting the President.
I don't know that it would be seditious.
There's got to be a crime in there somewhere.
And then she gets elected.
And then she spends the next five years...
Trying to find the crime.
When she was running for the Attorney General in 2018, she vowed to prosecute Trump for something.
But because she's an idiot and didn't know what the crime was that she was going to find, back then, she said he's an illegitimate president and we all know that banks aren't lending money to him, so where did he get his money?
Suggesting, if not outright stating, foreign money laundering from Russia.
That was her theory of the case in 2018.
That theory of the case, we now know, is a total load of crap.
He was getting loans from banks.
Well, he got a shift.
You're finding the crime.
This is...
What's it?
Lavrenti?
Lavrenti Beria.
Famous communist.
Show me the man, I'll show you the crime.
When it was money laundering that never turned into anything because there was no money laundering, because she either lied or was just wrong on the premise of that theory, that no banks, no domestic banks were lending money to Trump.
Well, now she found out that domestic banks were lending money to Trump, but she's got to find the crime.
And the crime that she's found now is that...
Trump overvalued the assets that he had to secure loans and the poor baby banks lent him money at more favorable rates than they would have otherwise lent him money at.
And there's the fraud, even though he paid back the banks in full on time and the banks made like 40 some odd million dollars off the loans.
So she's prosecuted him as per her promise, found a new theory of the case because she was an idiot, liar, moron, buffoon back in the day with her original theory.
Who I might think is the most judicially corrupt Judge Engron, Arthur Engron, I've showed the highlights of a speech he gave eight years ago to journalists saying he's got all the tools at his disposal to bypass jury verdicts if he doesn't like them, to get to the conclusion he wants to get to because of his own emotions when he's emotionally invested in a trial.
He's got all the tools on earth.
This is the judge before whom Attorney General Leticia James.
Is currently pleading.
While pleading in front of this corrupt judge...
Stop.
Leticia, I'm not done talking yet.
While she is pleading in front of this corrupt judge who, two weeks ago now, issued a summary judgment concluding fraud on certain business transactions.
Summary judgment.
No trial by jury because there's no jury trial on this for reasons which I explained last week.
Summary judgment.
One of the many tools the judge has to avoid pretty much any substantive debate on disputed fact concluded on summary judgment fraud.
Leticia James takes to Twitter every day with her, I mean, it's like parody level updates on the trial.
Listen to this.
I'm going to turn the volume down because it sounded like it was very loud.
This is her latest updates.
We just concluded the seventh day of our trial against Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, and other defendants.
The other defendants, his family.
She's gone after Eric Trump and family for what she claims is business fraud.
I mean, I don't know what goes into what we call under Quebec law piercing the corporate veil, holding the directors and administrators personally liable for the acts of the company, but typically it's a pretty heavy burden to overcome magically.
I'm going after Eric Trump.
Nobody's going after Hunter Biden for foot jobs, alleged sex trafficking, crack cocaine, smoking, dealing, felonious gun.
Well, they might be going after him for the felony gun.
Nobody's going after Hunter for tax fraud.
They're going after him, but not going after him.
They're going after Eric Trump.
But listen, Trump organizations and family.
Look at her.
She's giving a speech.
To an empty room trying to look like she is Julius Caesar talking to a coliseum.
One of those defendants is Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer at the Trump Organization.
The way she talks drives me crazy.
I hear the of her mouth.
She drives me crazy.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Yesterday, we asked Mr. Weisselberg to confirm who had final sign-off on the fraudulent statements of financial condition at the center of our case.
You know what he said?
What?
Good question.
And it was a good question.
One of more than 100 that Mr. Weisselberg could not answer.
Who the hell are you looking at right now, Leticia?
Who are you looking at?
I mean, just tell me.
You're in an empty room.
Are you looking at a wall?
Are you looking at yourself in a teleprompter?
Can you not just look at the camera?
Okay, but it goes on.
Good question.
Oh, fraud!
Boom!
Oh my God!
You cracked the case, Leticia.
You cracked the Russian money laundering case.
But Mr. Weisselberg was able to remember that Donald Trump himself reviewed the statements.
And today, our witness...
Nicholas Heige, a former risk manager at Deutsche Bank, testified that he relied on those statements of financial condition to approve loans to the Trump Organization.
The poor itty-bitty baby at Deutsche Bank.
I think the Deutsche Bank had some problems with Jeffrey Epstein.
I'm going to Google that after we're done with this and I want to get the guy's name.
The poor itty-bitty bank relied on Donald Trump's misrepresentations to give him a loan.
Oh yeah, I'm sure they didn't do any...
Summary evaluations of the asset.
I'm just a stupid little bank who happens to...
Well, before I say it, Nicholas Heig.
Let me just write that down because I want to Google that right after.
Nicholas Heig.
Deutsche Bank.
I'm pretty sure they were the ones involved in Epstein.
Let's just see here.
...manager at Deutsche Bank testified that he relied on those statements of financial condition to approve loans to the Trump Organization.
Leticia, did he cry on the stands?
Did the itty bitty baby cry on the stands?
Oh, the Deutsche Bank lent him money.
We lent him money at a preferred interest rate because of the value of his assets.
If we had known the real value of the assets!
We would have added a half a percent to the interest rate.
We only made $40 million off the loan.
We could have made $44 million.
It would have been $42 million.
The hell?
I don't even know what I'm talking about.
I can't do the math.
People don't understand how absolutely insanely stupid this is.
The fraud is that maybe he got a better term on the loan because of the amount of the loan which he was able to secure by allegedly overstating the value of his assets.
So he got a better term on a higher loan, whereas he would have otherwise gotten a worse term on a lower loan had the bitty-bitty baby bank said it's going to be based on the county appraisal and not what Trump believes fair market value to be.
Does everybody understand that?
And he paid it back.
He didn't default on it.
The bank got paid back.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in loans with unfairly advantageous terms.
Unfairly advantageous terms.
The bank gave him unfairly advantageous terms.
The bank didn't make enough money and Donald Trump made money.
For years Donald Trump evaded justice for his repeated and persistent fraud.
And as we continue to present our case, we will show just how much he unfairly benefited as a result.
Leticia James for president.
Hold on.
Nicholas.
I see five times August in the back.
Nicholas Haig.
Let me just see if that brings up anything.
That's not...
Okay, hold on one second.
Here we go.
Well, I don't know if this is, let me just see here.
Epstein.
Wer ist die Epstein?
Deutsche was the largest single lender to Trump and the Trump Organization between 2011 and 2021, a time frame that includes Israel.
Okay.
Though much changed during that time, Deutsche, a scandal-plagued German lender fined three years ago for its previous relationship with Russian oligarchs and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, remained constant.
Well, That answers the question, people.
Holy crap.
His fraud.
He got unfairly advantageous terms.
Oh, God.
Okay.
We're going to bring up Five Times August in exactly 30 seconds.
I just want to pull up one thing here.
Oh, what's that?
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I might not be able to get it in time.
I should have had this on the backdrop first.
Okay, whatever.
We're bringing it.
Okay, Brad, are you ready to get in here?
I've wasted enough time looking for something that I can't find.
Okay, bringing you in.
Sir, how goes the battle?
Oh, man.
It's crazy times, isn't it?
You're wearing the shirt, God help us all.
I love it.
What does it say?
It says Five Times August.
Yeah, it's one of my shirts.
Hold on.
Where can people get those shirts?
5timesaugust.com Booyah.
I'm going to let everybody tell me if the audio is level.
You sound like you might be a little low to me.
Let me see.
Hold on.
Chat.
I'll go to locals.
It's a little faster.
Is the audio good?
Do a mic check for us because you have to see.
Check one, two.
One, two.
Am I alright?
Am I too soft?
Let me see.
Let me see what's going on here.
Nana, we'll see.
We'll see.
No, I can bring you up on my end.
You can do it.
Okay.
Yeah, I got on my end.
Let me just see if everybody says.
I think it's good.
It says, yeah, a little low.
Okay, so hold on.
Let me go here.
Stop screen.
Go into your avatar.
Edit mic settings.
And I'm going to jack you up to 115.
Okay, there you go.
This should be better.
Let me hear you.
Check one, two, one, two, one, two.
Okay, that's good enough.
Well, I'll take it with it as we go along.
Brad, what's going on?
First of all, for those who may not know who you are, tell us who you are and what's going on.
Yeah, my name is Brad Skistimus, singer-songwriter for Five Times August.
I've been writing, recording music for 20 years and started sort of speaking out the last couple of years, writing what you would call protest music for these times.
Did not expect to be this kind of artist when I started out, but here we are.
I said it the last time, you're the Bob Dylan of our era, because if anybody doesn't know, I mean, I've shared your song so often, I think everybody has to know who they are, but I also think everybody knows who you are as well.
What have you been up to lately since the last time we spoke?
I would say it's a year ago.
It's been a while, yeah.
What have you been doing?
Let's see.
It's been crazy.
I have traveled the world.
I've been to Austria and the UK.
I have met so many interesting people.
I put out an album called Silent War in November last year, which was sort of a collection of all the songs that I had been putting out.
And we put that out on CD, vinyl, and even cassette.
And that's been a cool thing to see.
Trying to sort of fight against the...
Own nothing and be happy idea.
Own your things.
Have your music.
Have your art and bring back culture.
But most recently, I just released a new song with a brand new record label.
The record label is called Based Records.
It's a new label looking for artists like me who aren't afraid to tell it like it is and who are looking for freedom-minded artists who have substance, who aren't just...
Mainstream fluff.
And it's really exciting.
They have a lot of really good things in the works.
And yeah.
Brad, okay.
I ordered it.
I haven't opened it yet.
Oh, there it is.
On vinyl.
So tell me how it works.
This is the producer is...
How do we call it?
The producer or the agent?
Who produces the album?
Well, I made the album.
I mean, we did a crowdfund for that album through a website called Crates.
Q-R-A-T-E-S.
And that was sort of a...
That's actually now...
We have this version.
I have a couple things here.
You pronounce it Crates.
I was pronouncing it Q-Rates.
And I always thought it was like someone asking me for my credit score or something when I was getting emails.
I called it Q-Rates forever, too.
But yeah, it's Crates.
Which makes more sense, like record crates, I think.
But anyway, that copy that you have is now a collector's item, my friend.
That is listed on Discogs now for 150 Bones.
Shut up.
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Well, and I didn't open it just because, not because I didn't want to open it, but my daughter's got a crappy...
A record player.
I didn't want to damage the record by playing it on one of those dinky, not IKEA, but Barnes& Noble's stupid things.
So I just kept it.
Okay, so I should not open it is what you're saying.
Well, you do what you want to do.
Enjoy it.
But, you know, it's pretty cool to see that.
I mean, that's the idea behind doing physical music these days.
It's like, you know, I want you to have it.
I want you to own it and hold it just like we used to because it's so easy to just, you know, do this with our music.
My kid, like obviously behind me, I've got so many records.
my kids love physical music because they, you know, it's not really of their generation and they love putting on records and listening to it.
And it tells you something about, you know, I, For instance, I learned so much about my parents just going through their records as a kid.
And now they have questions.
Where'd you get this?
What was going on in your life at this time?
When did this come out?
And so that's kind of what I like about physical media.
And I knew these songs in particular had to be sort of physically documented anyway on an album.
So anyway.
Well, Brad, not to make you jealous, someone, a fan, sent me this.
Yeah, Peter Frampton.
Yeah, I worked with his keyboard player for a long time.
Time, actually.
He was a good friend.
And Peter Frampton, actually, is the only artist to write me back on Twitter that I've called out and said, hey, you know, on Twitter, I'm like, I'll go back and pull out COVID comments from artists and I'll say, hey, do you still stand by this?
And he's the only one that actually wrote me back.
Granted, he said...
Yes, I do still stand by that disappointment.
Damn it!
A moment of revelation, and now I love...
Peter Frampton was on The Simpsons.
I mean, that's where I also know him from.
And by the way, to whomever...
I don't remember who sent this to me, but thank you.
I will listen to it.
You gotta own Frampton Comes Alive.
It's a staple in any record collection.
Well, someone told me...
I feel almost like a...
The sacrilegious person for saying this, Eric Hunley.
Of course you know Hunley.
So Hunley told me that the Pink Floyd, not Another Brick in the Wall, the one with the cha-ching money sounds on it, was the best album.
No, the whole album.
Dark Side of the Moon.
And I bought it, and I listened to it beginning to end, and I don't think I like it any more now than I did when I first heard it when I was 13. And I don't think it's bad, it never captivated me like...
For example, even Def Leppard or Phish back when they were good.
There's albums like that.
They have a lot of hype behind them.
That is one for me personally.
I like it okay.
And I've really tried to sit and absorb it.
And let myself go, okay, what is it?
And it's fine.
You know, I like it.
I'm not a huge Pink Floyd fan.
My oldest brother is a huge Pink Floyd fan.
So that's why I was like, okay, I gotta get into Pink Floyd.
But they were never really, you know, it just wasn't for me, I guess.
But to each their own.
I mean, I never did any psychedelics and then closed my eyes with headphones and just sat there and experienced it.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, however, that one I got into beginning to end.
But then I hear people say like, The Beatles are the most overrated band ever.
And then I feel like a noob.
Maybe I'm liking the wrong bands.
Blink-182, forever.
That's mine.
So you went on tour.
Tour, like, performances?
Or was it traveling and a little bit more than just touring for performance?
Yeah, so I haven't really done a full-scale tour since, I don't even know, the beginning of COVID stuff.
Because, you know, the world was shut down for a while.
But then slowly, little by little, I was doing these events.
Traveling a little further away from home here and there.
And I ended up on a tour for, it was like an eight-day tour in Austria called the Resilience Tour with Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Ryan Cole.
And it's sort of a merriment of the doctors who had been speaking out and the musicians who had been speaking out.
And each evening was in a, it was a really cool actually experience because each event, Each event was at a venue that was the place where they met up during lockdown.
They tell you these stories.
It's almost like World War II where it's like, this is where we met up when you couldn't go out.
There were these really cool places, but the community there was great.
It was really eye-opening to see.
I live a little south of Dallas, Texas, to go from central Texas all the way to Austria and meet these people that you just feel...
You just went through the same thing together.
You don't know each other, but you feel like your best friends almost, and you can speak freely to one another, and it's really great.
So I went to Austria and did that.
That was a beautiful thing.
I went to the UK in August of this year for a freedom festival called Jam for Freedom, which was three days of music focused around just freedom-loving music and musicians.
The audience, and that was really great as well.
It's something that I want people to know.
There's these little pockets all around the world right now where you can either feel...
You might feel really alone in this time, but you've got to know you're not.
As the world falls apart around us, just know that you're not alone.
There's a community in place.
I don't know.
My problem is you feel alone, but then you're also like...
A lot of us have anxiety about going out.
If people didn't like big crowds before, they sure as hell don't like them now, and those who even did before might have been conditioned to fear them now.
I don't think I'm there yet, personally.
I still like seeing people and interacting, but I understand that people just don't want to leave the house anymore for any number of legitimate reasons that I understand.
That's pretty cool.
And traveling, had you been to Austria before?
No, I had never been outside of the United States.
So, you know, that's one of the silver linings of the last few years is, you know, any opportunity that I lost speaking out, you know, any friends that I lost, like, it's all been reciprocated in different ways.
The friends that I have now are just more substance.
And there and the opportunities to travel abroad and the places and venues that I've played, I never would have played at those places.
So it's been an interesting journey, that's for sure.
Who was it that I just listened to?
Well, just.
It was months ago, but he was on Rogan, had just gotten out of prison after being falsely accused, falsely convicted, wrongly jailed for decades.
And he says, I mean, it's an amazing...
I don't know if it was his, but you can either let the situation make you bitter or better.
And it's a good perspective to have.
How the hell anybody cannot be mildly bitter after having decades of their life stolen is one thing.
How people cannot be bitter after having had their social circles destroyed, their friends basically turned against them.
I didn't have that many friends to lose in the first place.
The truth is I've made a lot more friends than I ever had, so it's kind of net positive.
But my goodness, seeing the way some of them have turned, crazy.
And so the new album, I'm going to ask how many tracks?
I don't know how it goes.
How many songs on it?
So I have the album Silent War that came out last year.
That's 12 tracks.
That's everything from...
The first song I released, which was God Help Us All, up to a song called Lions, which I really feel like if you listen to it top to bottom, it kind of tells the story.
The songs are in the order that I wrote and released them.
So if you listen to it top to bottom, it actually does tell the story.
It ends on this song called Lions that I feel like is...
Kind of just the end of chapter one.
So now I've released this new song called Ain't No Rock and Roll.
And it's sort of my...
I'm calling out all the artists and bands that didn't speak up over the last few years.
And it's kind of the beginning of chapter two.
So it's just one song right now, but it's kind of the beginning of a whole new...
The next phase of things, I think.
See, I was going to say, like, I take it, I was going to take it as a compliment that we've been blocked by many of the same artists, but I think they just have a block list and anybody who gets tracked onto it.
Questlove, Pink, who was the third one?
Gene Simmons?
Gene Simmons?
Oh, I don't think, I don't think I'm blocked by Gene Simmons yet.
Hold on, let me check.
There was another third one.
Gene Simmons.
Yeah, there's too many to keep track of at this point, but...
Gene Simmons seems like way too easy to get blocked from for who he is.
You'd think that he'd have a little thicker skin.
They've all gotten very old and very afraid of dying and very afraid of losing what they have because they don't have as much time left to make whatever they lose back.
That's how the fear of life gets into people, Howard Stern in particular.
It's a weird thing.
You get old.
You know you're approaching death.
You know that you don't have enough time left to make up.
What might be taken from you that has taken your entire life to earn.
And so you become fearful, defensive, and a filthy hypocrite in the case of a great many.
So the Ain't No Wrong.
So, okay.
Now, is that the one?
You're going to...
I say performance sounds very demeaning.
You're going to sing, right?
I'm going to perform for you.
Dance, monkey!
I happen to have a guitar right here.
I didn't expect this.
Let me not make you feel uncomfortable.
How do you do this?
Singing, to me, is like dancing naked.
And maybe I could get used to being naked in front of people, but does it not make you feel like you're exposing your innermost exposed, vulnerable self to the world every time you perform?
It does, but it's like therapy in a way, I think.
Because who I am once I get on stage is a lot different than who I am off the stage.
I think that's the way it is for a lot of entertainers.
But I never really got nervous because I always thought, once I signed up for this gig and I'm like, okay, I'm going to play music for the rest of my life, the bigger the audience, I think, the better.
It doesn't make me go, oh.
Actually, the smaller the audience, the more intimidating it is because you can feel those eyes on you.
Whereas if it's a bigger audience, you can sort of gaze out and just know that it's this mass of people and it's not any one going, "I saw what you did there.
You messed up on that cord." As you do this, let me see how I bring myself out.
That was not the right way.
Hold on.
I hear you.
Oh, no, I've got to go back here, so I'm just going to remove myself.
Okay, that's how it's going to work.
And then the alternative was this.
Hold on, if I can bring you here.
See, that's the alternative.
Okay, that might be good.
That way my mic will be activated.
Okay.
Brad, okay, now I asked you backstage, well backstage, in the chat, if you could do God help us as well, so you'll do that one too.
But all right, this is it.
I'm going to take myself out as you go.
Okay, Brad.
This is from the latest album.
What's the name of the album again?
This is a brand new single called Ain't No Rock and Roll.
Okay, so I'm mistaking single with album.
Is the single on Silent War?
The single's not on Silent War.
This is a whole brand new chapter we're starting with music now.
Now I'm putting it together.
I'm slow, but I got there.
Okay, I'm taking myself out.
Everyone enjoy, and I'll be back when Brad is done.
All right.
All right.
Well, there ain't no rock and roll ever since they've sold out Rolling Stone.
All the words that were stung in the past.
We'll never feel the same when we're looking back.
All the old men sitting in their makeup chairs with their gold record walls really couldn't stand.
All the fame feels the same when you've had enough, so they don't bother standing up.
And there ain't no peace in love.
Ever since the sixties, kids grew up.
All the drugs and the girls in the cash.
After all the songs, it was gone in a flash.
All those bad boy rebels and the attitude.
What a show!
We didn't know that none of it was true.
Only self-serve, entire establishment.
We were all We're all so innocent.
Because there ain't no rock and roll.
And the blues has lost its soul.
All the punks gave the man control.
And every pop star's bought and sold.
No, there ain't no, ain't no rock and roll No Joni, no Bob.
No one stuck around for their protest job.
All the stars in the Big Pharma horse, chillin' for a check from their corporate shorts.
All the actors say what they're paid to say, while the fans take the blame.
All the once cool fools that were me and you, well, they pushed us all away.
Because there ain't no rock and roll, and the blues has lost its soul.
All the punks gave the man control, and every pop star's bought and sold.
No, there ain't no, ain't no rock and roll And there ain't no boss, no queen.
Never was a rage against the damn machine.
No, there ain't no fighter in the fool.
No more rockin' in those free world shoes.
All the high-strung, new, young wannabes.
Yeah, the silence has been deafening.
All the suits licking.
The boots of the government.
What they sang, they never meant.
Because there ain't no rock and roll.
And the blues has lost its soul.
All the punks gave the man control.
And every pop star's bought and sold.
No, there ain't no, ain't no rock and roll
No, there ain't no, ain't no rock and roll.
I'm biased, Brad, but I think you're the Bob Dylan of our time.
Thank you.
There's no album, but now have you other songs that are...
By the way, I had to eliminate the background reduction, but I'm going to add it back now.
Reduce mic.
Now it's better.
It was interfering with the guitar, but now it's just making noise.
Does it work now?
Because I was worried about that.
Sometimes the guitar...
Yeah, I took it off after the first verse, and then it was the music sound.
We heard the guitar better, but when we're talking, it's...
Yeah, crazy.
So how do you go about now writing songs for what is ultimately going to be the next full album?
Are you just writing...
I have a wealth of ideas.
So the way the last album came together was interesting because I would just write the songs as they sort of came to me.
and put them out so it would be like I have an idea and then you would write it and you'd be like yeah that's a good one and then record it make a video for it all within a couple of weeks and then just put it out but the last last year since I released the full album I just keep getting these ideas but I haven't had time to sit down with them so I feel like the next Sort of group of songs will come to me all at once in a way,
and we'll see what happens.
So hopefully I'll just keep writing and recording over the holidays, and then I'll have a new little batch of songs.
You're not by any chance connected to Tom McDonald on Twitter.
I mean, I follow him, but...
And I've written him, but he has not written me back.
Well, I'm thinking if he gets a Twitter barrage of people saying that there should be a...
Do they call it a collab between you and he?
I don't know who the country singer was from the end of the world song.
Oh, John Rich.
John Rich and Tom did a thing together.
It's an amazing song.
I got that album in the car on a CD because the CDs are my records.
It would be amazing.
It would be...
Let's see.
If the Twitter...
Just hint, hint to everybody watching right now.
If there were to be a Twitter thread saying, Tom McDonald collab, do it, it would be amazing.
All right, and so what do you got?
We're going to have to hear God Help Us.
You don't mind doing God Help Us All?
No, I don't mind.
It's a little bit of a long one.
Are you okay with that?
I'm okay with that.
It's interesting because this was the first song that I wrote.
For this, like, era of time.
And I remember when I wrote it, I thought, like, okay, this will be my one say on what's happening in the world, and I'll leave it at that.
Really, it, like, changed the whole trajectory of my career.
But I was reading through the lyrics after you asked me, you know, you were like, will you play the song today?
And I was like, yeah, sure, because I don't really get to play this one that often.
But I was reading through the lyrics going, like, oh, geez, like, it's still just as relevant.
It's now as it was two years ago when I released it, in fact, more relevant.
And so it's just a weird time to think, you know, when you write these things, you think, well, how long will it matter, you know, in the state of the world?
I'm going to give everybody the link because the video is also...
I think I asked you this last time during either our first...
I don't know if we've done more than one, but you put the video together yourself as well, right?
Like you edited the video?
Yeah, I do all the videos for my songs, so it's kind of like an extension of what I want to say musically.
I'm going to give this to everybody because the video itself is also fantastic.
I mean, it's amazing.
So I've got the link there.
Hold on.
And I love it.
I mean, it makes me cry because you realize it's that meme from The Avengers.
What's the woman saying?
What did it cost you?
And the monster says everything.
Did you do the thing?
And then the big, strong, burly guy says, yes, I did it.
And she says, what did you cost you?
And it said everything.
Do you know what that's from?
It's a meme out there.
But the things that we did, and I'll include myself for the first two weeks to give ourselves the sense of safety.
We did everything.
And what did it cost us?
It cost us everything.
Okay, so hold on.
I'm going to give everybody the link to the song so they can watch it and listen to it afterwards.
Right there.
And I'm going to take myself out.
Please sing this one.
It's the most beautiful thing ever.
And then I see our next...
The next Eva Chipyuk is in the backdrop.
So we're going to end with this.
I'll come back and say goodbye.
But it's beautiful.
Okay, I'm taking my cell phone now.
Alright, thanks.
Lock down all towns, everybody slow down, give them everything you have.
Mask up, backs up, get your body trashed up, better do what they ask.
It's alright, okay, sorry, but you can't pray.
Gotta keep the church doors closed.
No superstitions, a saint politician will tell you what you need to know.
Citizen fools and brand new rules make everyone a hero now.
So keep your distance, no resistance, only do what you're allowed.
Cast that check, go dance in the wreck, but just don't speak your mind.
Get your facts from the paid contracts 'cause never would they tell a lie.
They don't own me.
They don't own me.
Oh God help us all.
Look what we've become.
Oh God help us all and fix what we have done.
you See no evil, bow to the needle, didn't we turn out great?
Sick is a new health, poor is a new wealth, truth is whatever they say.
Expert lectures, media protectors, tell me who to love and hate.
Jail in the network, hail to the Zuckerberg, head down, just behave.
Liberty, freedom, angels, demons, someone's in control.
Well, no way, no how.
I wouldn't say it too loud.
Don't you know they're on patrol?
Need more likes, post up, let's fight.
There's no way that you're wrong.
You gotta listen to the science, cause it's all about compliance.
You agree or you're gone.
Well, they don't own me.
They don't own me Oh God help our soul, look what we've become.
Oh God help our soul, and fix what we have done.
Sell my info, hacked and don't know, show me what I need to buy.
Sex consumption, no corruption, just as advertised.
You've been labeled and I've been labeled, better apologize.
Propaganda, racist slander, it's time to organize.
Shot bang, who's next?
Brain dead useless, show it on the TV screen.
Tell me who to vote for, gotta start a new war, wouldn't wanna live in peace.
Divide and conquer.
Weak, not stronger.
Everybody know your place.
Do it now.
Won't hurt.
Dig into your own dirt.
Virtue found its grave.
Well, they don't own me.
They don't own me.
Oh, God, help my soul.
Look what...
Oh God help us all and fix what we have done.
Inside violence, in for silence, mainstream message, won't you guide us?
You know what is best for our own good.
We'll anti this and anti that.
Cancel this and cancel that.
Take it to the streets and the neighborhoods.
Worship actors, food and drugs.
Brand yourself, give them your blood.
Don't believe your eyes, don't look around.
Fake news, rumors, okay boomer.
Ignorance will stain our future.
Will you make it through or burn it down?
long guy yeah yeah but so long guy yeah but so long guy yeah but so long guy oh god yeah but so
long guy help us all I'm going to put myself back on this side.
And Brad, I love it.
And at the risk of being controversial, you as well.
It's amazing.
All right.
Where can people find you?
And what can they do to support you?
And what do you want to say that I forgot to ask you?
So check out 5timesaugust.com if you want to order the record or the CD.
Support the new single, Ain't No Rock and Roll, is out now on iTunes and Amazon.
Let's shoot it up those charts.
And I appreciate everybody's support.
Viva!
I appreciate you as always.
It's a pleasure.
Thanks so much for having me on.
And follow me on Facebook.
I was going to say Facebook.
On Twitter, because that's where I get in the most trouble.
What's an amazing thing is the Twitter persona might contrast with what people are seeing now, but everyone reads things more harshly on Twitter, but you're the conscience that people seem to have lost, and you remind people of the things they've said.
It's fantastic.
And I'm going to put all the links there afterwards, Brad, when this thing goes live.
Not when it goes live, when it's done being live.
So I'll put all your links up.
Fantastic.
All right, man.
Keep in touch.
Come back whenever.
All right.
Thanks so much, man.
All right.
My pleasure.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Oh, it's a good song.
Okay, now, I said we're going to go from beautiful music.
To awful law.
Like, we're going to get legal.
And nobody likes getting legal.
Eva, I see you in the backdrop.
Are you ready to come in?
Okay, three, two, one.
Everybody, for those who have never met Eva, it's Chipiak, right?
And the first name usually people get wrong, so thank you.
You got it right.
So it's not Eva Chipiak.
It's Eva Chipiak.
Perfect.
So first of all, some people are not going to know who you are.
If you can believe it, I know who you are for a long time now.
Who are you?
And why is the practice of law the worst job on the face of the earth?
Sorry, I didn't mean to load that question.
Who are you for those who've never met you before?
Well, thanks.
Yeah, I'd rather just listen to that song over and over again.
Let's just put that on the airs for everyone to hear so we don't have to have this discussion.
But my name is Eva.
I'm from Edmonton.
I'm a lawyer by profession, but in and out of the profession of law a few times.
And I think that's what got me to do the work that I do.
So I got involved.
I was involved in some of the high-profile legal cases that involved COVID.
So, for example, I was on the case with the Honorable Brian Peckford, and you've had Keith Wilson on, of course, who was a colleague of mine.
And I actually dragged him into all of these files to begin with because I knew him from before.
So in the last year, my life has been really busy and surrounded with these legal challenges.
Like I said, With the Honourable Brian Peckford at the Travel Van Challenge.
It started with him and I've changed my role on that.
And then, of course, I got parachuted in to the Freedom Convoy in the middle of the, you know, the heat.
That's over a year ago now.
So we were representing some of the most well-known of the protesters, including, of course, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.
Because of that, we were very involved in the Public Order Emergency Commission inquiry, which was looking at whether or not the government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act was justified.
Because of my involvement in just circumstances, I had the very unique opportunity to cross-examine our Prime Minister.
So that was what I had an opportunity to do at the end of the day.
That proceeding.
And I asked him the question that stands out quite a bit and people have been sharing is when did you and your government become so scared of your own citizens?
And we could get into why and why that question was so important to me and our clients.
And then so I'm actually in Ottawa right now because all of this stuff is coming together.
The Federal Court of Appeal was There was an appeal on the mootness issue, so we could get into that.
I'm also here because Tamera and Chris Barber's criminal case is going on, and today I just hopped into the Supreme Court of Canada to check it out.
Just bouncing around everywhere today.
There's a ton to flesh out in terms of separate issues there.
Just one question, because I have to ask it.
Born and raised in Canada?
Born and raised in Canada.
Yeah, in Edmonton, Alberta.
In Edmonton, Alberta.
Amazing.
And when you said in and out of the practice of law...
Did you stop practicing at any point and come back to the profession?
What did you stop for?
Was it other professional stuff or personal stuff?
Both.
And so another interesting point is I went to law school in Ottawa.
And so graduated Ottawa, went to Toronto for a year to do a master's degree in alternative dispute resolution.
Always found that super interesting, how we can resolve disputes outside of court and litigation.
But so the next time I came back to Ottawa, I was in the middle of the Freedom Convoy after a lot, never thinking that those would be the circumstances that I come back to the city and have been back many times.
So after about five years of...
Really intensive work in Albert.
I was representing landowners in a lot of oil and gas applications or where the government is taking land and expropriation.
Hence how I know Keith Wilson, because we did that kind of work together.
So very familiar with taking on very large corporations and the government on behalf of, you know, the little guy.
And so that was always the kind of work that I ended up doing.
And it was really busy during the oil boom.
And running around the province doing landowner work.
And then I actually had some health issues.
Totally over them now, but pancreatic cancer, which sounds incredibly crazy and scary.
So I just decided I was tired of going from my cold house to my cold office, into my cold car.
And I just decided to quit, become a yoga teacher and travel the world.
And as a result, I had an opportunity really for four years to...
Experience the world and see what else is out there and probably gave me so much more perspective to everything that happened.
That's incredible.
I knew none of that.
Pancreatic cancer typically is not something that most people survive.
Yeah, so it's like actually my one doctor that was fantastic.
Not all of them were as helpful, but one showed me this study because it was a very rare pancreatic cancer that the death fatality rate just, I guess it goes this way on your screen.
I don't know which, but like just downhill.
But what it also showed was generally the people were...
Older alcoholic men, so I was an exception to that.
So I caught it early.
It wasn't the medical profession that caught it.
I did and was able to figure it out early.
Okay, I didn't know that.
And okay, that's interesting.
I mean, that is a wild experience.
Now, but Eva, I'm going to bring it up because you mentioned it and here it is.
Hold on.
I'm going to reboot.
Here we go.
Refresh.
Last question, Mr. Prime Minister.
When did you and your government start to become so afraid of your own citizens?
That's a very unfair...
I am not, and we are not.
Okay, I didn't know this part was...
I'll pause it there, because the rest of it...
Now, Eva, I love the question.
I like the entire...
I call it a cross-examination or examination.
I do know that as far as the internet goes and everyone's a critic...
People were angry.
People were frustrated that you were not more aggressive with the Prime Minister of Canada in your cross-examination or in your examination.
I won't even leave the question.
What was the strategy?
Yeah, so we could talk about this for a full hour.
Yeah, just only question, I promise.
Yeah, no, and just on this question, but it was...
Brendan Miller did a fantastic job with the evidentiary record and we had everything we needed, although...
We could talk about the report itself and what it came out with, but the evidence was clear.
Nobody said they needed the Emergencies Act.
What are we going to get from the Prime Minister of Canada except for political talking points and non-responses?
And we knew that was going to be the case.
We knew we would get nothing.
And so where it was that we wanted to come from, and this was specifically asked by the clients in this case, is this has to come from what Canadians...
We're feeling.
We need to bring the voice of Canadians to the Prime Minister, finally, because that was the whole point of the Freedom Convoy.
And he shut that whole conversation down.
He ran off to his cabin.
He didn't speak to them.
And not only that, he disparaged them.
So let's talk about, let's identify, highlight who it is you disparage.
So that's why we went over some of who it was.
It wasn't just...
Tamira, the terrorist, and Chris Barber, the racist trucker.
These are Canadian citizens that were supporting this action, and let's talk about who they are for a second.
And then let's talk about the options you had, which we got into, but again, we knew we weren't going to get anywhere.
And then at the end, it was specifically a question I had wanted to raise because I was involved with the convoy in January and February.
I was in Ottawa.
And these are regular Canadian citizens that came to their elected officials to be heard.
That was it.
That was all.
And then I was sitting through six weeks of the Public Order Commission with Tamara Leach beside my side most of the time, going in and out with all of these public officials and police authorities.
And I was just sitting there thinking, really?
Has everyone lost their mind?
We've gone through...
This crazy protest we've gone through.
The Emergencies Act, which is the biggest, craziest tool the government can enact.
And then six weeks of this, when there could have just been some dialogue.
What are you scared of to talk to these regular Canadian citizens for?
And we just had to bring that out.
And just also for clarity, I don't fault you at all.
I mean, anyone can do the deposition or the cross-examination anyway.
And it's like everyone imagines they're going to have like a...
I just wouldn't have been able to hide my disdain for him.
I'm going to ask a bizarre question.
Do you recall if you got the smell of cologne that he was wearing?
Very odd.
And no, he was further away.
And just to go back to one thing about it, too, because you are a lawyer.
And tell me, Viva, if you've ever had a cross-examination, if we could call that a cross-examination on live theater with, you know, how it was.
Sorry, live television.
Oh, it was theater.
Don't worry.
Oops.
But it goes to what really happened in the end.
But tell me when you've ever cross-examined somebody and had 10 minutes to do so.
I said the entire format was a joke built for failure.
Ten minutes is barely enough to get an introduction.
Where were you during COVID, Prime Minister?
It was nothing.
It was set up to produce a result, although at the time I thought it was still going to yield the proper result, not an exoneration.
We're on the same page there?
No, it was ten minutes.
And they were strict with the time, too.
It wasn't like you could go 15 or 20. It was like...
12 or 12 minutes and you're in trouble.
So for those who don't, I mean, actually, I realize I should have contextualized that.
That clip was from the Rouleau Commission, the six-week hearing on the invocation of the Emergencies Act, which culminated in Trudeau being exonerated, being pat on the back for having invoked the act, although the attempt to cancel the insurance on vehicles was deemed to be a step too far.
Freezing bank accounts wasn't because it was effective.
Well, on that, though, just so that everyone is really clear, is that that was the rule of report, which really didn't have much legal standing to begin with.
There is still a case in the federal court, which there has been no decision on yet.
So the Emergencies Act was challenged by a number of applicants on whether or not the measures they took as well were reasonable, and we're still waiting on a decision for that.
And that's going to have some weight in court.
So that should be interesting.
The Rouleau report, and that's what we did say to people asking, keep your eyes on it because the best thing that you could do is hear the evidence for yourself and whatever the decision comes out, it's not going to have any standing.
Everybody wanted it to be, okay, this is how we're going to get the Prime Minister out.
But we were very clear with everyone that wasn't going to be the case.
And how hard was your heart beating when you're addressing public enemy number one and rightly so?
Well, we decided at about 10:30 the night before, so it's not like I had too much time to worry and think about it.
Of course, it was beating.
And not only that, it was my first time on that platform, on that stage.
And so, you know, and you have 10 minutes.
That's really the thing.
You just get started as a lawyer, like five, 10 minutes in, and then you could start digging into the issue.
And we were just...
Anyway, so yes, it was beating.
It's not even enough time to catch someone in a lie.
That's the problem.
That's what people don't understand.
It takes time for someone to get lulled into a lie or...
It was bullshit.
Okay.
No need to relive that frustration of our collective lives.
So now you're representing Tamara Lich and Chris Barber in the current criminal trial or not in the current criminal?
Not at all.
Just you're observing.
So I'm far from anything about a criminal lawyer.
I just came to observe because the issues are so close to what I've been dealing with.
And interesting, even though this is clearly an issue that...
People have a lot of opinions on and lots of reporting has happened.
Actually, even in the mainstream media, it's not being on Zoom.
There's no live link to it.
So all we get is somebody's secondhand tweets or article.
So I was planning to come to Ottawa for the federal travel ban, which is another one we could talk about.
And it so happened that...
Tamara and Chris's criminal case was being heard, and I was like, great, then I'll have an opportunity to see it for myself and see what's going on.
Yesterday was a very interesting day, and today is, because some Ottawa citizens are giving evidence against people they've never met or talked to.
So tell us, I had Robert Krejcik, I hope I just didn't close the window.
I had Robert Krejcik from Rebel News on.
That was the first week of the trial.
How many days have you followed now since you've been there?
Well, I've been following it online since the beginning, of course, but I was able to attend yesterday in court and I'll be going this afternoon.
Okay, so now what state of the evidence are they at?
Is it still the prosecution's case being presented?
Yeah, and let me just share with you how the day went yesterday and this is my understanding of how the days have been.
So it's like so hard to see this happen and how the administration of justice is handling this.
I don't think this looks good on lawyers and the justice system.
Court was meant to start at 10 a.m. after a two-week break because of scheduling issues.
So it was meant to start at 10. We went into the court at 11.30.
Actually, if I may just stop you there.
A two-week break in a criminal...
A two-week break in any trial, you don't get to like...
Stay into the file for two weeks.
You take a break.
You got to bone back up.
You got to do other stuff in between.
It's such an absolute breakup of the flow, the continuity, and the ability to remain focused on the trial.
That's preposterous on its own.
Okay, so court's supposed to start at 10 o 'clock.
Yeah, there's technical difficulties, TV, Wi-Fi.
And apparently, and that's what we were told later.
We get in at 1130 or so.
Maybe somebody knew what was going on but otherwise we were just sitting there.
Public and the accused and the lawyers that they have to pay for.
So 11:30 and then the judge renders an oral decision that lasts about 35 minutes or so about whether or not these Ottawa citizens can testify.
And then they acknowledge the technical issues so they took an early lunch.
And said, come back at 1:30.
It's a...
I won't swear.
It's a bloody...
I'll let you read the commentary.
I'll just provide the facts.
No, but this is worse than even when I would practice and court would start at 8:30 or, you know, I forget if it was 8 or 8:30.
You'd have a break at 10. 15-minute break would be a half an hour.
You'd go...
10:30 at 10:45 to noon.
You have a lunch break of an hour and a quarter.
It'd be an hour and a half.
Then you have an afternoon.
You would get, if you're lucky, on an ordinary day in court, four and a half to five hours of actual judge listening, pleading court time.
This is a flipping, but that's only one day, but they're starting at 10 o 'clock and not like 8:30, 8 o 'clock?
Why?
That's my understanding.
So we're supposed to be back at 1:30.
We get there at 1.30.
They're still figuring out the TV and Wi-Fi.
So court starts at 10 after 2 with the first witness.
All right.
Now, what is the issue?
The first witness is the first witness from the first day, from the police, because he didn't have the evidence ready, or I'm not 100% sure, because he had this video compilation.
And then on cross-examination, he was asked, okay, did you look at this?
Did you look at that?
So there had to be a reason not to.
He wasn't prepared with the evidence for some reason.
So then he's recalled back.
Like, this is the never-ending trial of Tamara and Chris.
And it's free for the government, or at least it's on our tax dollars for the government, for Tamara Leach.
She's got to pay it on her own.
And so everybody who might not know, just taking for granted, again, the knowledge base, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber are having their trial for mischief, incitement for mischief, a bunch of, you know, some other non-violent obstruction of justice for their role in...
In organizing the Ottawa protests.
This is after Tamara spent, I think it was a total of 55 or 59 days in jail for the original two and a half week detainment on mischief charges and then subsequent alleged breach of conditions that she was hauled back to jail for.
And it's still the prosecution presenting their evidence of mischief, incitement of mischief and obstruction of justice.
What did you get to hear?
Viva voce while you were there.
Absolutely nothing?
Yeah, so there was about maybe, like I'll give it an hour of evidence from this police officer.
So he was asked by, I don't know if it was the Crown or the Ottawa police, to compile a video of police footage.
And so...
Apparently, because I didn't see it, I didn't witness it, and you can't record anything, of course.
So apparently it was very one-sided, which is interesting.
I don't know if you practice criminal law, but I need to understand more, what is the role of the police here?
Because can they present a very one-sided view, or is it their duty and job to present the facts?
And then, of course, the Crown can argue and...
You know, massage things as they do.
But is that the proper role of the police?
So from what I understand, that video compilation was very heavy with any time the protesters were aggressive.
And again, I haven't seen it.
So what Diane Magus did, she presented a ton of video evidence where...
Protesters, as they were, were calling for freedom!
And, oh, you guys are awesome.
The police officers have been so great.
Thank you so much for your...
These were the words coming out of protesters.
And they were trying to paint a very different picture.
So she was balancing out what was actually going on there.
So that's the kind of evidence I heard.
And again, with respect to the police role, is...
I would expect the police have a very high threshold of being an exemplary witness.
And when he was being cross-examined, he was very short at the beginning.
Even he said when the defense lawyer was presenting one of the first videos, he's like, I don't know why you're showing me this.
This is on social media.
And the judge had to be like, you didn't answer the question.
Did you see this video?
And it's like, why are you being so snippy?
Like, you're here to uphold the law.
Why are you challenging the defense?
Just say yes or no and let's move on.
You'll see that with people that have an invested interest.
Your clients are going to get a little bit snippy.
But in this case, I thought it was very strange to see his witnesses.
He's still getting paid to do his job.
It's not like Mike Lindell, I don't know if you followed this, during his deposition, a little snippy because he's not allowed to run his business while he's wasting his time and money.
It's not to be degrading the guys.
Getting a paid day of work to testify in court, period.
It's no skin off his back.
And he's supposed to be up there, like you say, upholding.
It's when it comes to the prosecution where people think the prosecutor's out there to get a conviction when they're out there, in theory, to get justice, not a conviction.
In this case, oh, that guy, what's his name?
Who was the...
Karimji.
Karimji.
Oh, it's like, ordinarily, I can't forget a name that I want.
This one I can't remember because I think I'm better off.
Karimji.
A guy who's out there for his pound of flesh nearest to the heart.
He wants a conviction.
He doesn't want justice.
But that seems to be what the prosecution is all about.
Yeah, that one was...
Oh, gosh.
Karimji, watching that as a lawyer, too, he was just challenging the judge like I've never seen anyone.
And she even said, I'm going to go to a break and I'm going to have you think about your things.
And he comes back and he's like...
He's even worse.
This is, you're the one in the wrong and I'm just like, what is happening?
I was live streaming that and I couldn't, I couldn't get out.
It was, it was delusional.
I think I was live again.
I think I remember where I went.
Crazy.
But so hold on.
So prosecution's still in here and it's two weeks into the trial.
The two week break was after, that was after.
10 days of hearing, correct?
Yeah, I think it was like 13. So yeah, and this was because of the scheduling.
And like, again, because I do have another one in five minutes.
I know, I know.
I wanted to do the Peckford before.
So not much of an update.
Crown still presenting a losing bullshit of a case.
Sorry, bull cock of a case.
A politicized case.
And then on just scheduling, just so you know, they're already talking about dates into November yesterday.
So like I said, never ending.
No, never ending, because the judge has other trials that are pre-scheduled.
So if they run out of time, they've got to find the next judge's availability, but then you've got to coordinate with all the lawyers, all the witnesses.
It's a load of hurry up and wait rubbish.
Okay, because your time is limited.
Next one is Peckford and Maxine Bernier, federal court on the mootness of the constitutional challenge of the travel restrictions.
This is up to the federal court of appeal and they're appealing the original federal judge, federal court judge, dismissing it on mootness because the impugned restriction Right.
And just so you know, there's two other applicants.
And so Carl Harrison and Sean Rickards were the first two to launch this judicial review in federal court.
And so there were four different applicants.
And Keith and I actually were here in September.
Of last year at the federal court level.
And so what happened was we were in the middle of cross-examinations, and I think Keith was on your show giving you an update on the actual evidence.
And then near the end of our intensive, like, two-month cross-examination, all of a sudden the federal government lawyer is like, there's an announcement today and we're going to have to tackle this later.
And we're like, okay.
You knew what was coming or did it catch you off guard?
No, no.
We heard it on the news and then we came back to our cross-examination.
So she's like, let's take a break.
I think that's how it went.
And then we came back with the information that it was going to be suspended in a couple days.
And so we have a little conference thing at the end and she's like, just so you know, we're going to be bringing an application that this is now moot because the travel ban is suspended.
Let me contextualize this for everybody.
This is now nine months into the litigation, give or take, where they were challenging the constitutionality or wanted to declare unconstitutional the vaccination requirements for plane, train, travel in Canada.
Then the government says, well, we're not even rescinding it.
We're pausing it, suspending it.
And therefore, we make a motion to dismiss on mootness saying, well, there's no longer any object of dispute after months of costly litigation.
This is enough to make your head explode.
Yes, and to contextualize it too, like, Neva, how often do you have cross-examinations for literally day in, day out for two months?
The cost of that alone is just, let's...
And so they allowed us to finish the cross-examinations because they had already been scheduled experts from both sides and so many federal witnesses going through this intense cross-examination, and then it's like, this is over.
And we're like, no.
So they took it to the federal courts saying this is moot.
This lawsuit doesn't have to be heard on substantive issues.
We don't have to look at the evidence of whether or not there was any scientific justification to this.
Let's just ignore it because it's already gone.
And they won at the federal court.
It's shocking beyond words because they say the exceptions to mootness are susceptibility of recurrence in the future.
That's one of them.
What could have been more polarizing and contentious and something like, let's have the court hear it out.
Let's talk about these issues so that people aren't on Twitter yelling at each other.
Let's have a sophisticated establishment like the court do this instead.
But no.
So that starts today.
How many days is that scheduled for?
No, that was yesterday and it was three hours done and done.
Oh my good.
If I was a wedding woman.
It's not going to look good for the applicants.
Shut the front door.
It was yesterday and I missed it.
That's what I get for being distracted with the world.
And one thing, though, apparently 20,000 people, Canadians I'm assuming mainly, registered.
So at least a lot of people had their eyes on it.
But we could talk about that another time in more detail.
But that is one awesome thing.
Very good thing.
Because clearly there was a massive public interest.
This is not a dead issue because...
As you know, another factor for mootness is whether or not there's a live issue.
So 20,000 people.
You were there and your prediction is the dismissal for mootness is going to be maintained.
That's my prediction.
Just based on the questions.
To the applicants, not to the federal court.
And it was, yeah.
Why challenge the government when...
No, it's just another case where the government can do it endlessly, the litigation.
It's not their money.
It was Peckford and Max, or I don't know, it was all the applicants' personal money.
They had to raise funds for it.
And after pissing away their money and our tax dollars, we don't even owe you an answer to the question.
Yeah, and the judge at the first instance in the federal court said, well, if it comes back to this mandate, you can bring it back to court.
What's the problem?
And that's the really most troubling thing from a practical perspective, because some of the applicants funded on their own.
Some were funded through charitable organizations, but it's still on the back of Canadians, as are the taxpayer dollars for the government and the courts.
And what's shocking is a judge would say that because these federal judges, I presume they had to have been practicing attorneys for at least 10 years, they know, come back and then incur another $200,000 to get to where we are now and then have the same thing happen again in the future?
What a load of rubbish.
Judicial dog poo is how I'm calling it these days.
So what do you have on then for the rest of it?
You're going back to trial for Tamara Leach.
Yeah, I want to see now firsthand what these civilians that have never...
Talked to or had any involvement with the two accused, what kind of evidence they're going to be presenting?
Because that's what the reason that she allowed it is she made a very reasoned decision, of course, had to, especially because it's so contentious, was that the Crown can...
Manage their case as they see fit.
You can't prevent them from bringing evidence.
But she said she was going to be very strict, too.
It has to have purposeful value.
It can't be hearsay, of course.
So really, what a part of a witness statement are they going to bring?
And I've seen some of the comments, and it's so far like, I felt afraid.
And then the question is, well, did you ever talk to or have any interaction with Ms. Leacher, Chris Barber?
Of course not.
Now that you remind me, I'm going to go find that soundbite of Lexi Lee in her cross-examination to hesitate for 30 seconds when she asked if she felt unsafe.
I screen grabbed it yesterday.
I was looking for your Twitter handle, but I can't seem to find it quickly enough.
What is your Twitter handle?
It's ForeverEva79.
I didn't think I'd be doing this professionally.
I heard it go a long time ago.
Forever, the number four, and then EVA?
No, it's like for, F-O-R.
Okay, hold on.
I know I'm following you.
It doesn't come up.
And did they ever take care of that problem?
You're not following me.
That's the problem.
Shut the front.
I tell you I was.
I know that I was, Eva.
So that's another thing.
They removed people.
I just noticed that.
I'm telling you I was because I was.
And I'm going to go see if we have any DMs to evidence that.
The next thing I was going to say was, did they resolve the impersonator of your account?
Yeah, Twitter or X has been great.
But I have impersonators on TikTok, on Instagram.
They're all over me.
And on those platforms, they're not very good at resolving them.
On Twitter, very quickly.
But it's happening way too much.
I find it strange.
Well, it's strange with certain political targets, Eva.
And you are one of them.
I'll accept.
Okay, thank you very much.
So you'll come back on periodically, give us updates on what's going on with the trials?
Yeah, happy to.
All right.
Awesome.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Take care.
Have a good day.
Bye-bye.
All right, people.
Now you know what's going on in Canada from some of the chats here.
Someone says, Canada does not deserve to exist.
Where did that comment go?
It doesn't matter.
Canada has a smaller population than California.
That is true, but it's give or take roughly the same.
And I don't know if it depends if you're including legals and illegals in California, but...
California is give or take 38 million.
I think Canada is give or take 36. Something along those lines.
There's California over 40. So that's what's going on in Canada.
What I'm going to do before we bring this party for the après fight to vivabarneslaw.locals.com, the link is there.
I'm going to read a couple of the...
Not a couple.
I'm going to read the remaining crumble rants that I have not read.
They're right here.
Oh my goodness.
The court system is broken.
It's broken.
Okay, WillK667 says, the important takeaway of COVID, I like this, I know I've read this one before, is that we found out who our friends really are and what our governments were really willing to do.
And we found out what some of our friends were really willing to tolerate.
And then I got Judge, so that was from WillK667, and then we got Kathy1010, Judge dismissed the gun charge against Hunter.
My God, I forgot about that.
And Barbara Ariane, I'm convinced you're a good man, Viva.
Thank you very much.
And what else we got?
The engaged few, whether or not...
Okay, so we did that one before.
All right, so I had a couple of things.
You know what?
I had a couple stories left on the back.
No, these are the ones I actually talked about yesterday.
I want to forget these and talk about them on...
We'll talk about it Sunday.
It's nothing good.
It was the Jack Smith motion.
We'll talk about it Sunday.
We'll save it for Sunday or tomorrow, so I'll have something to talk about tomorrow because we've had a good show today, people.
Come on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
And that's it.
What time is it?
It's 1 o 'clock?
We've got an entire day ahead of us.
What, trying to think of a white pill?
Here, hold on one second.
Here's a little white pill.
One second, I'll do this.
Here, here, here, like this.
How the...
Pudge!
I don't know how...
The dog manages to get my shoe into her bed every day of the week.
Okay, here.
There, that's what I'm looking at.
I guess that's a white pill.
Pudge smells terrible.
Winston's like, what are you doing, sir?
Who said you could take a picture?
And that's my shoe.
I don't know how Pudge...
Always gets it into her bed.
Whenever I leave the house, even for a short period of time, I come back, my shoe, my flip-flop, something's in her bed.
That smells like me.
All right.
Okay.
We'll save it for the after-party.
Everybody, if you're not coming over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com, think about it.
But hold on.
Hold on, hold on.
Actually, one last thing.
Viva Frye.
If you want some merch, people.
Some of the best merch on Earth.
That is Mrs. Viva and that is Mr. Viva.
It's still the best merch ever.
Oh, I do have it here.
I'll show you afterwards.
What the heck is that?
It's the best merch on the planet.
Shipping is not cheap, so I understand.
Everything will be optimized, maximized one day.
Get something if you want to support the channel.
Or, best yet, vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
If you want to be a supporter...
It's $7 a month, $70 a year at the discounted rate.
Or you can just be a member.
No financial commitment and you get like virtually everything.
Anyhow.
But if you want to support what we do, that's where we do it.
So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to give everybody the link one last time and take the party on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
Playing catch up just heard there.
Ain't no rock and roll.
Love it.
I never heard the song before.
That's from KKB.
Great working from home, ain't it?
It is.
Although sometimes it gets a little claustrophobic because I don't leave the house, but that's why I go, you know, fill up the car with gas once every two weeks.
All right.
And then we got Linda Mack says, Alberta is going to get used to this.
No, I'm not.
I don't want to get anybody in trouble.
Okay, hold on one second.
What site is that?
Says Fresca Bean.
That is...
VivaFrei.com.
V-I-V-A-F-R-E-A.
FRAI.com.
There's something here.
Okay, I'll leave that there.
So that is it.
What we're going to do now, I'm going to copy that.
Come on over and I will see you all there.
If not, if you don't want to come, understand.
I will see you all tomorrow.
Maybe.
To see if I can go live tomorrow.
But otherwise, Sunday night show is going to be amazing.
So thank you all for being here.
Enjoy the rest of the day.
Get out there.
Exercise.
Sunlight.
Eat healthy.
Be forgiving on yourself.
And deep breath.
This too shall pass.
See you all on vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
Peace.
Locals!
We're here.
Now, I copied a link that I absolutely did not want to take a chance with.
And I'm not going to take a chance with it.
Okay.
Yeah, there was a link.
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