Reflecting on 2024, here it our top 10 starting with 7 - 10. These stories highlight substantial shifts in societal dialogues, underscoring the challenges and reflections that shaped our year.
00:00:01.441 --> 00:00:06.685 You know we've talked about this for a while it's time for the top 10.
00:00:06.685 --> 00:00:09.305 It's that time of year that means we're wrapping it up.
00:00:09.305 --> 00:00:14.833 This is what our fourth year of doing it, our fourth wrap-up, amazing David.
00:00:14.833 --> 00:00:34.881 Four long years, every Monday, wednesday, friday, the two of us have been ranting about all kinds of stuff in the media, many times being ahead of the curve before it happens, like the war in Ukraine, or actually getting the experts that were from the Champlain Tower.
00:00:34.881 --> 00:00:41.613 You know it's been a wild and crazy run and we've seen wars break out, death, carnage.
00:00:41.613 --> 00:00:44.087 We've also seen a lot of good things and Dave.
00:00:44.106 --> 00:00:50.679 I want to say it's a really screwed up year, stuart, but I think this was A pivotal year in our history.
00:00:51.442 --> 00:00:54.354 And I want to thank you For doing this for yet another year.
00:00:54.354 --> 00:00:57.979 Likewise, welcome everybody to the Rant Network.
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00:01:53.814 --> 00:01:58.492 David, you know I grew up like you in Canada.
00:01:58.492 --> 00:02:00.805 You know I got to tell you.
00:02:00.805 --> 00:02:03.111 You know we used to be proud to be Canadian.
00:02:04.364 --> 00:02:05.674 We wore a maple leaf.
00:02:05.975 --> 00:02:24.889 as an athlete that swam on the team, you know, getting a maple leaf tattooed on the left breast or a girl on her hiney, you know, was something proud to be canadian, whether it was watching the montreal canadians to spur 25 stanley cups in the history or 24.
00:02:27.574 --> 00:02:28.194 I wish you were right.
00:02:29.723 --> 00:02:31.710 And or the Maple Leafs with 11.
00:02:31.710 --> 00:02:38.132 But today we stood here with a Canadian team that hasn't won the Stanley Cup.
00:02:38.132 --> 00:02:38.993 In how long, david?
00:02:38.993 --> 00:02:41.968 31 years, wow, all right.
00:02:41.968 --> 00:02:44.663 So, david, almost as long as you've been alive.
00:02:44.663 --> 00:02:52.895 Canada, who used to be the beacon of light, seems to be on the wrong side of history.
00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.225 Yeah, well, this time, stuart, I got to tell you so low.
00:02:55.225 --> 00:02:57.131 Welcome back to our top 10 and number 10.
00:02:57.131 --> 00:03:02.304 Yeah, Stuart, we've talked about how Canada's consistently been on the wrong side of history, and I shan't say the whole country.
00:03:02.304 --> 00:03:03.990 Let's talk about our government.
00:03:03.990 --> 00:03:09.764 How many stupid decisions have been made by the government?
00:03:09.784 --> 00:03:12.354 In our last rant, we talked about Justin Trudeau attacking Donald Trump and American voters.
00:03:12.354 --> 00:03:13.560 Folks Like what a dum-dum.
00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:22.645 What are you jumping down voters' throats because they picked Donald Trump over a socialist, left-leaning crazy.
00:03:22.645 --> 00:03:29.643 It didn't matter that she was a woman, it didn't matter that she was African-American or whatever.
00:03:29.643 --> 00:03:36.704 She whatever what she was was not competent for the job, and I think that that's where Donald.
00:03:37.085 --> 00:03:42.104 You know, justin keeps getting it wrong, but Justin Trudeau has been on the wrong side a lot this year.
00:03:42.104 --> 00:03:45.131 His stance with Israel has been another proof of that.
00:03:45.131 --> 00:03:47.301 He's on the side of the terrorists.
00:03:47.301 --> 00:03:52.842 He's on the side of the terrorist steward, the people who are causing the anarchy.
00:03:52.842 --> 00:03:56.751 He has made decision after decision not to stop crime on the streets.
00:03:56.751 --> 00:04:00.365 He's made the decision not to handle immigration.
00:04:00.645 --> 00:04:05.233 We've had fentanyl problems in Canada, very similar stories to what you have.
00:04:05.233 --> 00:04:10.568 We are the anti-Semitism crime city of the world in Montreal.
00:04:10.568 --> 00:04:12.570 We are the crimes like.
00:04:12.570 --> 00:04:20.000 We send wonderful BMWs from our ports to all over the world because of the car theft and so on and so on and so forth.
00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:21.442 And what has Canada done?
00:04:21.442 --> 00:04:23.848 Sweet bugger, all story.
00:04:23.848 --> 00:04:29.649 And that is why this year, you know, continues to be and hopefully, in 2025 we'll be able to talk about the next story.
00:04:29.649 --> 00:04:38.771 But let me, stuart, let's go into number nine here, because one of the things that we also talked about consistently is trust in traditional media.
00:04:38.771 --> 00:04:42.843 I think we're hearing taps, do-do-do.
00:04:42.843 --> 00:04:47.254 Can't hear you stewart, you're on mute.
00:04:47.274 --> 00:04:52.358 Of course, you know, because they don't want you to hear me going clickety-clack on my keyboard, like I always do.
00:04:52.358 --> 00:04:53.682 But you know what?
00:04:53.682 --> 00:04:55.730 Let let us just understand.
00:05:00.002 --> 00:05:03.029 I don't know what, is it a horde of 15 million dollars?
00:05:03.690 --> 00:05:07.860 abc, not nbc abc, abc million dollars?
00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:08.620 whoops, what's?
00:05:08.620 --> 00:05:10.024 $3 million to Donald Trump?
00:05:10.024 --> 00:05:10.564 Not much.
00:05:10.564 --> 00:05:16.115 And the editor decides to go silent and disappear from the headlines.
00:05:16.115 --> 00:05:20.184 Is the media, is trust in media dead?
00:05:20.184 --> 00:05:21.692 Well, let's talk about it.
00:05:21.692 --> 00:05:26.132 The notion of the media dead sparks a compelling conversation about the role of journalism.
00:05:26.132 --> 00:05:35.197 Today, David and I joke about it in a podcast that is almost like a satire of the events of the week that David and I grabbed.
00:05:35.197 --> 00:05:40.947 But you want to know something that's no different than the editorial journalism that you're watching on the networks.
00:05:40.947 --> 00:05:43.134 You see people have given up.
00:05:43.134 --> 00:05:46.805 They don't read the newspaper, they don't buy magazines.
00:05:46.805 --> 00:05:53.237 They get three second and 15 second blurbs on TikTok and you know when other governments control what you see.
00:05:53.237 --> 00:05:55.096 It basically is what controls you?
00:05:55.096 --> 00:06:00.338 Sounds like World War II media, Sounds like communist media.
00:06:00.338 --> 00:06:02.117 I cannot tell you more.
00:06:02.117 --> 00:06:08.021 Any trust in media is dead so long as political bias sits in the media.
00:06:10.663 --> 00:06:20.194 I don't know why I hear an echo, but as long as it sits in the media, this way there will not be trust and media is dead and they go hand in hand.
00:06:20.194 --> 00:06:27.673 And, david, just to throw this in here because I've said it for four years Walter Cronkite, may he rest in peace.
00:06:27.673 --> 00:06:29.113 Who was a left-leaning person.
00:06:29.113 --> 00:06:50.004 Walter Cronkite, may he rest in peace, who was a left-leaning person, at least always acknowledge that there are two sides to the story, and you can't get a conclusion, or even base a conclusion, until you hear both sides, and one of the requirements in this process is accepting that the side that you favor may actually be wrong.
00:06:50.004 --> 00:06:52.425 David, let me punt it to you now.
00:06:52.425 --> 00:06:55.466 The left has gone mad.
00:06:55.466 --> 00:06:56.487 That comes in.
00:06:57.288 --> 00:07:05.944 I know, I know, yeah, and you'll get into your part of the number seven, but let me talk about number eight here the woke versus reality.
00:07:05.944 --> 00:07:12.367 We've seen wokeism Unbelievable.
00:07:12.367 --> 00:07:15.091 We have seen wokeism Unbelievable.
00:07:15.091 --> 00:07:16.033 We have seen woke mindset.
00:07:16.033 --> 00:07:17.154 We've seen it gone crazy, stuart.
00:07:17.154 --> 00:07:18.177 We've seen AOC statements.
00:07:18.177 --> 00:07:21.903 We've heard from the squad, we've heard from academia.
00:07:21.903 --> 00:07:25.615 But more so recently was in the corporate world.
00:07:25.615 --> 00:07:37.242 Disney admitted that they lost over a billion dollars with their DEI, with that woke ideology, that they wanted to put it in their movies and whatever, and it cost them a billion.
00:07:37.242 --> 00:07:53.745 Well, this past year a whole bunch of corporations decided to cancel and most recently, walmart decided to cancel its woke mindset, its whole ideology, because really it's done, for People are looking at woke and saying we're done with it, stuart.
00:07:54.271 --> 00:07:58.721 The reality out there is that the woke ideology doesn't work.
00:07:58.721 --> 00:08:00.776 People are fed up of being yelled at.
00:08:00.776 --> 00:08:05.641 Okay, I mean, if you've walked on university campuses lately, you get yelled at.
00:08:05.641 --> 00:08:09.480 If you were to talk about the wrong, you know gender pronoun.
00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:10.930 Yell that.
00:08:10.930 --> 00:08:12.553 If you were to talk about the wrong, you know gender pronoun.
00:08:12.553 --> 00:08:17.062 If you were to talk about, you know anything to do with what which is woke, whatever you get yelled at.
00:08:17.062 --> 00:08:23.463 Reality is when these people get out into the workforce, when they get out of their bubbles, reality bites.
00:08:23.990 --> 00:08:32.039 And in 2024, people have pushed back on woke and I think that the we will talk, you know, in one of our next episodes about Kamala Harris.
00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:42.383 But she tried to invoke woke and she continued to push that and the American people said we're not interested in your woke philosophies, your woke ideologies.
00:08:42.383 --> 00:08:50.341 We saw what happened with Tim Waltz Stuart with his woke ideologies, with his concepts, and you kept calling him Temp on Tim.
00:08:50.341 --> 00:09:01.676 Okay, stuart, and I mean I was in Ottawa and I saw in a men's bathroom, you know, women's hygiene products and this woke ideology.
00:09:01.676 --> 00:09:08.782 It's got to go and I think that 2024 was the beginning of the end of wokeism At least I hope so.
00:09:08.782 --> 00:09:15.216 Which leads us to number seven, stuart, where the left has gone simply mad, whether it's media or politicians or academics.
00:09:15.216 --> 00:09:17.181 Have we seen the end?
00:09:17.181 --> 00:09:19.418 Have we seen the end of DEI?
00:09:20.049 --> 00:09:31.322 Well, this election cycle where the Tangerang man took down the house, I think the left-wing self-reflection may be on steroids.
00:09:31.322 --> 00:09:42.602 Many of them are grappling with their identity and impact of the radical rhetoric that led them down this rabbit hole that David just so nicely called before woke.
00:09:42.602 --> 00:09:48.863 And the reality of the woke is, it's common sense.
00:09:48.863 --> 00:09:58.655 You know, many times throughout the years I've been using the same cliches over and over and over again kind of frustrates the hell out of David and it goes to the left's gone mad.
00:09:58.655 --> 00:09:59.719 Well, you know what?
00:09:59.719 --> 00:10:00.621 The left's gone mad.
00:10:00.621 --> 00:10:06.822 If you do the same thing over and over and over again again and you don't like the result, maybe you should just stop doing it.
00:10:06.822 --> 00:10:12.990 And you know, for a while we all decided we all wanted to be more politically correct, and I'm sorry, you know.
00:10:12.990 --> 00:10:29.397 In Canada, you know, growing up I mean, they always thought they were more politically correct than the world and the US thought they were always better than everyone in the world and they both ended up down this woke rabbit hole.
00:10:29.417 --> 00:10:33.549 The US seems to have cured its cancer by evicting the Democratic Party, which really isn't a Democratic Party of the 1960s.
00:10:33.549 --> 00:10:37.638 Most Canadians are not understanding American politics.
00:10:37.638 --> 00:10:42.778 You know the Liberal Party isn't synonymous with the Democratic party Number one.
00:10:42.778 --> 00:10:45.817 First and foremost, they are very different in every way.
00:10:45.817 --> 00:10:58.359 However, they've sort of merged into this socialist, communist tone tonality of we're going to accept you, but we're going to do it by dividing all of you so that you capitulate to our demands.
00:10:58.359 --> 00:11:03.485 You know, it was for the people, by the people and not for the people.
00:11:03.485 --> 00:11:14.423 For the people that managed for the people, and that's where you know the government has gone wrong, whether it's in the United States, whether it's in Canada or whether it's in just about every single country.
00:11:14.423 --> 00:11:22.501 The world has been infected by this woke, and the left on all sides have gone mad.
00:11:22.501 --> 00:11:23.244 David Stewart.
00:11:23.264 --> 00:11:42.715 I'm going to add a story I'll add to you and it's funny because all four of these themes all kind of wrap around the same thing, and this is really kind of sick because we've gone in four different directions on the same theme is that this left control the media is controlled by the left, academia is controlled by the left and a lot of politics is controlled by the left.
00:11:42.715 --> 00:11:44.077 And there's been pushback.
00:11:44.077 --> 00:11:46.484 Now, yes, in the UK it flipped.
00:11:46.484 --> 00:11:51.360 The UK went right, sorry, went left, because the conservatives screwed up over there.
00:11:51.360 --> 00:12:04.442 But you look in the United States and you see the hard pushback, not just by, let's call it, those redneck states, or the deplorables that Hillary likes to call them, or the what was the idiots?
00:12:04.442 --> 00:12:05.173 What did he call them?
00:12:05.173 --> 00:12:06.057 Biden the idiots?
00:12:06.057 --> 00:12:11.211 What reality is is that the left is really.
00:12:11.211 --> 00:12:12.331 There's a pushback.
00:12:12.331 --> 00:12:16.913 Finally, and their pushback is your ideology is cockeyed.
00:12:17.494 --> 00:12:27.557 And, folks, these four themes about the left gone mad, woke versus reality, death in the media and Canada on the wrong side of history, all fall into the same bucket.
00:12:27.557 --> 00:12:36.740 It's all about the people deciding to cut the cord or, for that matter, for that matter, to vote in another direction.
00:12:36.740 --> 00:12:39.568 Because, look, Stuart, take a look at what just happened.
00:12:39.568 --> 00:12:44.051 Right, the media lost its shit because we went to podcasters.
00:12:44.051 --> 00:12:49.546 Podcasters had more influence in this election than they did and they try to keep control.
00:12:49.546 --> 00:12:58.404 So people from the View who are supposedly media, all the way to MSNBC and the rest of these loonies they're finished.
00:12:58.404 --> 00:12:59.850 They are finished.
00:12:59.850 --> 00:13:03.109 More and more people are running away and going somewhere else.
00:13:04.100 --> 00:13:09.163 You know when Joe Rogan has more listeners than Taylor Swift.
00:13:09.163 --> 00:13:15.307 You know that podcasting is here to stay and that the likes of Taylor Swift and the Swifties.
00:13:15.648 --> 00:13:18.289 You know, listen, let them shut up and do what they do.
00:13:18.289 --> 00:13:19.850 They dance and wiggle their ass.
00:13:19.850 --> 00:13:24.413 You know, and at the end of the day, you know they have a political vote like everyone else.
00:13:24.413 --> 00:13:25.754 But you know their microphone.
00:13:25.754 --> 00:13:29.317 We need to cut it out because they're just nonsensical, stupid idiots.
00:13:29.317 --> 00:13:30.197 And you know what?
00:13:30.197 --> 00:13:40.924 I'm very happy that Joe Rogan came out, offered everything to the vice president, or current vice president, of the United States and she declined.
00:13:40.945 --> 00:13:42.326 She basically put the nail in her coffin and ended it for her.
00:13:42.326 --> 00:13:51.160 You know, you want to show you how powerful podcasting is, so, uh, so, kylie kelsey and you're like going, who is she?
00:13:51.160 --> 00:13:57.211 Okay, kylie kelsey is, uh, the wife of the former philadelphia eagles player.
00:13:57.211 --> 00:14:03.370 You know, uh and I forgot his name, kelsey and she's the number one podcast.
00:14:03.370 --> 00:14:07.303 She knocked Rogan out of the top spot.
00:14:07.303 --> 00:14:09.629 Ok, she talked.
00:14:09.629 --> 00:14:10.770 She knocked him out.
00:14:10.770 --> 00:14:19.624 Ok, kylie Kelsey talks about everyday life stuff, and she knocked Joe Rogan out.
00:14:19.624 --> 00:14:28.250 This is the power of podcasting today, and I think that that would be in 2025, we're going to be definitely talking more about podcasting and AI, as you started.
00:14:28.250 --> 00:14:32.695 So, stuart, let's wrap up From seven to 10, folks, it's really simple.
00:14:32.695 --> 00:14:34.576 Number seven the left gone mad.
00:14:34.576 --> 00:14:36.057 Number eight woke versus reality.
00:14:36.057 --> 00:14:38.663 Number 10, media trust is dead.
00:14:38.663 --> 00:14:42.880 And finally, number 10, canada on the wrong side of history, stuart.
00:14:42.820 --> 00:14:43.038 I can't wait.
00:14:43.038 --> 00:14:43.176 Trust is dead.
00:14:43.176 --> 00:14:43.553 And finally, number 10,.
00:14:43.493 --> 00:14:44.368 Canada on the wrong side of history.
00:14:44.307 --> 00:14:44.803 Stuart, and that's a wrap.
00:14:44.743 --> 00:14:44.961 And that's a wrap.
00:14:44.961 --> 00:14:46.386 Four, five and six coming up.
00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:48.044 Oh, let's get there.
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