I’m actually embarrassed by nearly all of them when I compare them to today’s standards, but I said the other day, these old PTBC YouTube videos (now transferred to free-speech-tolerant Rumble) are from, like, as far back as 2007, when making internet videos was a new horizon.
We obviously stopped making videos a while back and probably for good reason, but there were dozens of them, with one of them getting over 6.4 million views on YouTube. There were many more that had to be deleted and hidden due to legal threats from the state-owned CBC division of the Liberal/NDP party. And some of them were doozies. Doozy enough that the state-owned CBC’s legal department were on high alert for the dreaded new PTBC videos. They warned us that they would be “monitoring the site.” Maybe they still are! I hope they are! Hi CBC lawyers! Say high to Justin and Chrystia!
The one below is one of my favorites in terms of embarrassment —if that makes any sense. You have to remember the context is that Paul Martin was Liberal Party leader, and he constantly said “in fact” (kind of like the way Justin Trudeau says “uh” 8,000 times per minute in between his overt — and dramatic? — gulps for breath which he does three times per sentence for some reason only a psychologist could explain).
These kinds of speech affectations really grind me. Ask my wife.
Anyway, this vid is a little special in that we never actually made it public on YouTube — so embarrassed about it were we. It remained “private.” So this one did not have 6.4 million views. It had zero. On Rumble it will probably get like four views. And you’ll see why we were embarrassed. (Note the fancy PTBC swag the woman on the right is wearing. PTBC swag used to be a thing too!)
Here’s the link to the PTBC channel at Rumble
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