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Best of the Program | Guests: Ezra Levant & Miad Maleki | 4/13/26
13 Apr 2026
Chapter 1: What are the latest developments in the Iranian conflict?
There is so much. There's the war, the bang-bang that's going on in the war, and then there's the bang-bang happening with Eric Swalwell. Gosh, what a surprise. Good thing that CNN is on the case, and this is good journalism that ratted that out. No, it's not. It has nothing to do with journalism.
It has everything to do with he was hurting the progressives in California, and so they decided he's no longer worth it. Let's go ahead and let him pay for all of the mistakes that we have been covering up. But you'll notice... There's 50 people that came out and said that he was sexually abusing me while he was in office. You will never see anybody go after who covered this up. Never.
Because it's only about the gubernatorial race in California at this point. Also, we talk about the Strait of Hormuz, how it may end up actually benefiting us. Is there another way that the president may be looking at this? And Ezra Levant talks to us about what happened in Ireland. There are protesters on the streets and freedom and freedom of speech is really on the rocks in Ireland.
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Chapter 2: How is President Trump responding to the situation in the Strait of Hormuz?
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I'm going to give you a poll from the insiders, and this does not reflect, I think, the average American, but it shows... If you are told the bigger picture, if you understand what I told you a few minutes ago about oil prices and what Donald Trump is actually doing in the Middle East, which would explain his tweet from last week that nobody talked about, the biggest reset in history.
Once you understand what he's doing, you have more tolerance. So we ask, are temporary high gas prices acceptable in the fight against Iran? Most people knee-jerk no. But if you understand what's going on and see the bigger picture, 95% of the insiders say, yes, I'll tolerate high gas prices if it resets the world toward America.
Chapter 3: What protests are currently happening in Ireland?
No, Americans are already struggling. We shouldn't be forced to struggle more. 5%. I think that's wildly out of step with the average American. But that shows once you have an understanding... you begin to say, I'll take the short-term hit. Now, In Ireland, and it's beginning in France, they are having so many problems with the price of oil.
To fill up a truck now in Ireland is about $1,000 if you're a semi. $1,000 to fill up a truck.
Chapter 4: Who is Ezra Levant and what insights does he provide?
It's $200 to fill up an average car. How are you going to do that? Especially in Ireland where the economy has been decimated for so long. The problem is not the price of oil per se. The problem is just like California. Half of what they're paying is going to taxes. And so the people started standing up against this to say, you got to give us tax relief here.
And the government started to say, we're going to arrest these protesters. And it's only gotten worse. This weekend in Ireland was our good friend Ezra Levant. He is from Rebel News up in Canada. And Ezra, thank you for going and helping us understand exactly what's happening. Tell me, tell me, the press is going to make these people into dangerous radicals and revolutionaries.
Who are the people that are protesting?
Well, I tell you, first of all, thanks for having me on the show. Second of all, I've become such an Ireland fan boy. I've been there nine times over the last two years and I've, it's a small country, only 5 million people. You can drive across the whole island in less than a day. So, um, they have a real communal connectedness. It's almost like everyone knows a cousin somewhere.
And the reason I mentioned that is it's almost as if the whole country has collectively over their dining room table decided enough is enough and it's sort of incredible because all across the country ordinary farmers and truckers
It's almost like a spontaneous movement because, you know, they're not represented in parliament, either by the government or the official opposition, but just grassroots, ordinary Irish farmers and truckers have started blocking roads and blocking other key infrastructure, slowing the whole country down to a crawl. But here's the incredible thing. The people who are inconvenienced by it
They're supportive of it. Most Irish support, I'd almost call it a national strike. And we were on the highways and it was extremely inconvenient. And we would stop and chat with the people blocking the roads. None of them have ever been to a protest before in their lives. They're all wearing their working clothes, like farmers dressed in their high-vis vests.
And it's the realest people you've ever met. I asked every one of them two questions. The first is, why are you here? And they all said the fuel taxes are just too much. So this is a tax revolt, sort of like, you know, the Tea Party or the, you know, it's a little bit, I don't want to call it American style because the Irish are rebellious in their own way.
And the second question I asked each one, like these people are blocking major highways, I understand. So I said to every one of them, what are the cops saying to you? Every single one said the cops are giving them the thumbs up, not telling them to move. Now, there have been some incidents where the cops have gotten a little rough. But in the main, the country is being shut down.
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Chapter 5: What triggered the downfall of Rep. Eric Swalwell?
You have to get the support of incumbent members of parliament before you're allowed to run. So there was this conservative woman who wanted to run named Maria Seen. She was not allowed on the ballot, but more than 200,000 Irish voters either spoiled their ballot or wrote her name in. So those are three crazy examples of the entire Irish establishment being against the people.
And I think this fuel tax was just the straw that broke the camel's back. And the whole country at the same time said, enough.
So I am really concerned. You know, I'm going over with Tommy Robinson. I'm going to be speaking at his rally in London. They expect this to be the largest rally ever in England. And I'm a little nervous about it, honestly, because I don't know exactly who is also going to be speaking, etc., etc. And I know that they are going to blame anything on this group of people.
And so I just want to be really, really careful, and I know Tommy is being very, very careful, to make sure the right message is sent. Because the freedom of speech over in England and Great Britain is, to say it's on the ropes is almost a comedic understatement. Go ahead.
no no you're so right and i i think that the u.s administration has scolded the uk for its censorship and but ireland is even worse than the uk by some measures so tommy's half irish but he really is um i think uh his home base is the uk which is where you'll be speaking i didn't know you'll be speaking and that's amazing
Ireland is still in the European Union, and that means a whole bunch of crazy things ranging from their obligation to take in mass immigration and asylum seekers to they're part of the European-wide censorship program. Ireland is at war with Elon Musk because Ireland is part of the European Union. They get involved with Europe-wide censorship. And Elon Musk is public enemy number one.
And by the way, as you know, Elon Musk is now helping Tommy by covering his legal fees. My point, Glenn, is that Europe, I mean, Ireland and the UK are sort of a race to be who can be the worst censor. But the thing to remember is neither of them have the First Amendment. Neither does Canada. Neither does Australia and New Zealand with their censorship.
No.
Glenn, if there's only one message I would have your listeners remember, it's do not give up that First Amendment. It is the strategic freedom upon which all other freedoms are based. What use is an election if you don't have free speech? What use is freedom of association or freedom of assembly if you don't have the right to speak freely at those assemblies? Never give up your First Amendment.
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Chapter 6: How did the media handle the allegations against Swalwell?
He said he would. And he's the same cut from the same cloth. He said he would rather be at Davos in the World Economic Forum than in his British parliament. And I think the Irish leaders are the same way. They want to swan about with other EU leaders. That's another reason to break up the EU is you need your politicians to listen to their own people. That's part of sovereignty.
Don't run errands for foreign organizations. I'm excited about Ireland because they have that rebellious spirit. just like Americans do more than others. Anyhow, sorry, I'm going on because it's very exciting.
Well, I mean, you know, the EU just last week or the week before just passed in their own parliament a rejection of the open borders and started saying some of these people have to start now being deported and get out. I mean, it was very Trumpian in a European standard. And it looks like there is a beginning of something. So is this, how does this end?
Ezra, is this just a quick fire that's put out, or does this spread, do you think?
Well, I sure hope it spreads. Ireland is a pretty small place, just 5 million people. Um, and so I don't know if it's going to spread in France cause there's the different language, the different demographics. There's so, there's so many differences, but if Ireland is able to stand up and shake off its globalist government, I think that'll at least be an inspiration to other countries.
Super quick comment about the other Eastern side of Europe. As you know, Victor Orban of Hungary finally lost an election after 15 years. And I was sort of depressed about that cause he held the line on immigration. Well, the good news is, a white pill moment for the kids would be that the man who won, he supports Orban's view on immigration. So that wasn't, he was part of the party.
That's right. Yeah. So I think that it was about corruption. Exactly. And you know, 15 years, any, any government's going to get a little bit stale and a little bit too accustomed to power. So I'm hopeful for Ireland. They have a problem that a lot of the farmers told, It is almost completely Ireland. There's only one small independent outlet called Gripped, and they're wonderful, by the way.
If you're not following them, G-R-I-P-T dot I-E. That's their internet suffix there. They're a great little band of citizen journalists, but there's only like half a dozen of them other than Gripped. I don't I mean, it's just their state broadcaster is so dominant and it's such a propaganda tool for the government. They need independent journalists bad.
OK, so what is the address again? G.R.I. P-P-T-G-R-I-P-T.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of high gas prices in America?
I will look him up. And I urge everybody to support Ezra, what he does. He's rebelnews.com, rebelnews.com. I want to have you back later this week because Canada has like literally gone insane. Ezra, you know this, but boy, it is getting scary what's happening, how fast it's happening. We'll have you on later this week if you have time. I know you're going back to Ireland.
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Vance called it bad news for Iran. Everybody else said, I don't know. Looks like Donald Trump is going to get us out of there.
Honestly, it's like the internet has rabies.
Stop it. Stop it. Remember last week, everybody was saying, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, he's just wimping out. He's going to give in to all of it. He's going to be a wimp, and we did this all for nothing.
Did you see why Iran walked away? Because everybody who said he was a chicken hawk last week
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Chapter 8: How do domestic divisions affect U.S. foreign policy?
Navy was going to enforce a full blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Now, what does that mean?
Because I thought we were here to stay. We've got to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. Yeah. Oh, God. From a little feet.
Think, people. Think. He's meaning he is going to make sure that it is open, but if you get any oil from Iran, you're not moving. If you are paying a toll to Iran, you're not going anywhere. But he will keep the Strait open for everybody else. That's what he's talking about. He's going to interdict any ships paying the illegal tolls. He's clearing the mines.
He did that as soon as they sat down at the table. He went in there and he started clearing the mines. And he's going to prevent entry and exit for any ship that is headed towards Iran. Two-week ceasefire now on life support, especially with Israel still hammering Hezbollah and Lebanon. But... You know, Iran is saying, we don't control them. Yeah, well, we can say we don't control Israel.
One of us is telling the truth. The other one's not. This is exactly the leverage that Trump telegraphed. He said it was coming. Iran came ready to negotiate, but believed it held enough cards. And when you look at it, you've got to ask yourself, what cards do they think they hold? What cards do they hold? Oh, I'll tell you here in a second. But here's what we learned.
So far, Iran is not suicidal in the conventional sense. I told you these are 12ers. They believe that chaos and martyrdom will hasten the return of the promised one and end of the times and blah, blah, blah. They still believe all of that crap. However, it's not hard line, hard line. What's happening here is... They are looking at this and saying, that's real.
However, there's enough people at the table who are like, yeah, you can frame suffering as sacred destiny, but we'd rather not all die. The delegation that showed up proves that they calculate survival. There were enough people at the table. They brought everybody they needed to bring. This was not a joke of a ceasefire or a peace hearing, okay? But they weren't purely death cult.
They're a hybrid. They're also not purely regime preservation and proxy leverage. They're a hybrid, okay? So I'll show you here in a minute. We have a guest who's done the math, and he'll show you the suffering that they will actually have. The U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is going to cost Iran approximately $276 million a day in lost exports, $159 million a day in imports.
That's a combined economic damage of $435 million a day, or $13 billion a month. 90% of their annual trade comes through there. So they are in trouble. They're in real, real trouble. So why? Because collapse is coming. Pain is ensured. What do they see that we don't? You're not going to like the answer. It's not missiles. It's not that they have secret weapons. What do they see that we don't?
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