Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds are joined by guest Bobcat Goldthwaite to examine Lebanese Canadian Eddie Haymour and his dream. Recorded in Vancouver.
Based on Omar Mouallem's article The Kingdom of Haymour
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Eddie pay more
born and Beggar Valley. The Lebanon was an very rich farmlands, hills, lakes and Roman ruins call
His father was a muslim mother, a Christian and they moved to bear
root when Eddie was very young man, that's if they were to be a sitcom. That would be the lyrics to their interests,
How is it, how does the Sancho
father was a Muslim.
My mother was a Christian. Now they
debate route, that's
shows about start hand down
but that last lyric in there the that one, oh well, that they'll punch it up. Don't worry about that, gets punched up and posts.
the post job, but I honestly just with the start. I can't imagine anything bad happening. Nope seems pretty salary up no issues here they can. We actually went.
I don't know this is gone between you and I, but let's go to Beirut. He's got Beirut, decide
in Beirut. Eighty became a barber.
But he wanted more alive. So a nineteen fifty five he emigrated to Canada, where's sister was already living.
Where, where were you guys come in the black face country.
Glad you guys did that. So we have something.
Do you remember when you know came out of this? Family was hiking,
any came out of a cave shirtless. What what
and so he sneezes he could have got out of this whole mess. He could have said I'm the real judo I never put on blackface. I had to kill the evil. Trudeau he's in there. They'll shoot out
so
when I was twenty five. When I arrived here in Canada, he had seventeen dollars to his name right, but is
It must become very rich cherry on
yeah
new two words which he wrote on a sign. This is,
and carried it around sure and an that help them we're not a pronounced
the words and the words were me: barber. Ok, so
Now you guys Roland. He got so much business from Tarzan,
we need your service. Viable needs are then
conversations though they made it so badly needs
so he walked around Edmonton until someone gave him a barber job. So some again
a proper job brought Barbara job. I very shy and gave an hour you with finances are never mind.
He was a very hard worker. He had a lot of energy and he as soon after awhile opened his own barbershop me Barbara.
The barbershop! Meanwhile, remember me by we're having cut here before and could even someone that was transitioning me.
Well,
it was called for Hay moors full
hey Moors, lessening, hey more ok, sure
so so he it was successful.
But a home, he more here to see open, hair salon
open a style of school schools in both Calgary Emmett and so is killing and he's
a few other words in those other word right: ok, otherwise, you harbour
franchise. That's it that's enough.
he walked through the sign, a sign that said franchise people like alright, okay yeah. What is it the upstart me Baba franchise?
so he's living the dream right, Eddie, he's very charismatic, is very charming is very good. Looking he married a canadian woman Lorien, who was nineteen years old, raised on a farm in Alberta. They would go on to have four kids okay, so they like fuckin
me finish inside
me come on phase
made pigs two's enough
appeal again. You should
I think if he, if he came, he went to me barber get off. Get off me. Get off of me, get the fuck off! I'm a.
so out of four kids, like I said any became canadian citizen in nineteen sixty he was so excited
and he threw a giant lavish Middle Eastern theme party. Well, two hundred and fifty people attended. There were ballet dancers. The image and mayor came the lieutenant governor was there that he wore a white tie.
so the boat tie, the Provincials secretary toasted, him quote, I can assure Eddie
he will never be disappointed with Canada,
I feel like that's foreshadowing. When is a brown
for a person with brown skin ever been disappointed in Canada. Well, we've been talking a little bit about it on this show so Eddie said quote: it was the best day of
My life, but all of us a fall.
Yes, apart at the wheel, is there about the very day of my life? They never
say that yeah gear shift now for Dave to go, but
a few years. The marriage was a few years. The marriage was going, great, Eddie was successful and he worked.
constantly in this put a strain on the march a late night sixties. They separated Eddie response.
by kidnapping the children get smart. Now that makes sense. That's what you do, yeah! That's how you do it.
I must admit, I mean it's not like traditional kidnapping. It's not like that.
they didn't like any leaving higher varnish shall have now making a Michael Jordan Joke, but is that like? Can you described? Kidnapper, Yad death, no Adele?
kidnapping as one that just kind of like slowly dawns on you again ride you like it's like they shouldn't
three days, dad's crying a lot more than usual. Why we in Michigan we're not?
so we're not going to Disneyland. But it's not a kidnapping.
Why cutting letters that of a magazine? Don't worry, guys leave your mom
just getting an m e, a couple bees and an hour and another our enemy.
My classic sign off me.
sorry Nancy. I took the kids me. Barber Eddie me
there's suddenly quote. We all thought we were going to totally
like how awesome I gotta go: rafting Calonna,
we're going to Cologne over the day, but
We were soon on a plane to Lebanon. Oh my guide
wow this is very different
is the flight to Kalulu dead like a day,
Eddie, but when they got
eleven on job, the kids off at a private boarding school and then went travelling around the Middle EAST. What kind of move as this he had a perfect get equal could get
she wanted to divorce. He could go do this, but in studies like no it's the principal yeah
me. If you don't want him, neither of us get em.
someone's going to learn a lesson here for people,
Eddie said he was travelling to quote, establish a network of political connections in the lebanese parliament. Here we can let the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Jordanian Palace
appeal, o lebanese parliament, king. It took me sure the trifecta empty
It is often said he was a descendant of the hay more dynasty that rule the Yemen three thousand years ago.
all that shit, all the thirty five successive.
In queens. No one can verify it but
Eddie was true quote this narrative and filters every story about himself through his imagined bloodline or I should say all almost every quote is from Omar a movement
move em, who wrote an article for eighteen, bridges, dot, com, barely Argentina. Every sign me.
king. It did this.
Could you argue their care wants its? In writing.
So
soon returned home with the kids, because Loreen Loreen was like ok, we'll go get back,
when new kidnaps, your children to take some do another nation. You like Al Hale, Mary, this so they're gonna, give it
they're gonna give it another shot shot he, but he decide they knew that change
so in nineteen. Seventy Eddie moved to the command Valley and British Columbia. It's near here right,
well everything's,
That is very true.
Nice work David, it's ok, Mr Geography
I don't know much, but I know when it's blue.
area was beautiful, reminded him of where he was born. The Bekaa Valley in Lebanon is also a very conservative place in nineteen. Seventy, the
Claude. I have about nineteen thousand people and a rich Lebanese do
The dude with a big personality, stood out a little bit sure he's still in the White tux right yeah it has to here.
So he was happy living nearby peach, lend which was near repealing people and people other peaches there. There really are peaches.
we're gonna, be real goal, should have their word of it.
You can dream, can it.
So everything moves low impeach than the speed limit can get as low as thirty kilometers and our on higher ninety seven
I know it. I know we and let's just translates to me
five miles an hour. I think it's five hundred fifty miles an hour
anyone listening that the conversion and then
He really stood out besides is being
lebanese guy? He built his dream house on a rocky ridge, TAT overlooked the lake. The house was massive towered over everything at seven bedrooms, three living rooms to elevators.
What one goes down on goes up. What are you just got one up after a year or Lord
This is due to come a long way from the meat barbarous to elevators, and it was not
Exactly architecturally consistent, it looked like part
Orange Castle and part german
the toe
combined the looks which go
the same was yet that any built it.
the spot. There was visible for miles, so everyone in the valley could see it.
Could see how monstrous it was yeah people, so people didn't like it. They called it vulgar looking at an eyesore, so they're not happy with them already. Okay, but Eddie is not close to being done. She's he had plans,
with the house no mode dammit
cited he was going to build a middle Eastern seemed amusement park to bring tourists to the area wow and is
Turkey,
on the kidnapping ride where you take for your children not arrived, they don't know about
why the whole time to their bases given,
I put the bag on your head. Alright, you wanna go real fast. All the kids. It's boarding school get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get I'll, be back on the ride. To pick you up get out I'll be back in a week,
I want to give people and understanding of its heritage entertain, entertain them. That is so ones
now one Sunday effort and has taken a drive, and then he sees an island near petulant. It's a rather Baron empty island, perfect for amusement park.
lot Iraq a lot of scrub. Five acres quote: it looked like the mountains, severed misshapen digit,
where little grew, but for a lopsided pine tree, one or pine tree. How ok and any thought? Well, that's the perfect location to build. My
amusement park. They quickly learn. Island was not zone for anything which many good develop.
anyway. He wanted the, I think.
known for was the local first nations tribe, mythical creature, the West Bank, which is like a Loch ness type thing that apparently in a cave under the island over Burgo Hogan power.
Is one of the canadian move to give tee how go pogo? It's not it's not called the West Bank,
That's weird, there's a whole statute to go POGO,
you yeah
and I think that was where
I sincerely thank that's where I performed and first of all,
the Marquis, it's a gold flake.
And it's just godlike would be great and a stupor opened up and bomb.
I want to see a mood woman, so your baby, like she was like EU word in Havana. Yes,
and then I got on stage and as I hit the MIKE there is a hockey game.
it puts money in it, and oh Canada
its entirety place. I do I do my act. I take my hat off what I love you.
I don't care before I came here. They kill you legally
we respect the country. So that's right. We inflated to be the most important thing. You gotta get your clothes
So any paid the owner of Ireland, ten thousand dollars and he bought the island is not really a bargain considered. It was a good. You know. Rock cupboard island in local pub is going to eat. His brain
owning island Eddie went to a people in detail,
our meeting in eighteen. Seventy one.
Not really well received. First, he was the guy
the big rush hours on the rock on the cliff for me and now
in a town. All new plants, one counts,
said, Eddie was wearing a quote: Zeus suit. All that is
That's how you show up and say you mean business. I doubt I think you
I just wearing colored suit in the guys, like a white races, canadian guy, with your fuckin zoo,
suit. Brown guy was a thing like that the mask out, yet it might have mascara trying to figure out. I know I shaped my wardrobe after the mess for years so
so they went ahead and explained his plans for the new property rattlesnake Island rise, it would be.
All the Moroccan shall do theme park. Oh I was worried. The name would be crazy, but then so then, okay, so let's find the name's fine. Okay, that's a relief, because I was like what is he going to name it? We amusement park, one rolls
The tongue you're not gonna, forget that one, even though I forgot what it was called what's out there,
How can we shall do theme park there? It is due
Lula, great on a shirt, and he said it would bring to
whether his cultures is arabian and canadian right, okay
It was also exactly the kind of mulch multiculturalism that Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, was championing at that time. Papa there everyone knows the church,
it was bigger than just in Ireland Amusement Park. Eddie quote: I had a vision to do something good for the country. Ok, he told
councillors. It would have an eighteen whole. Many golf course which would be partly on the world.
as well as on the island that some so Jesus can play.
Each whole- would celebrate a different aspect of middle eastern culture like this, it's eighty it would
I'm through two manager, great pyramids, every twenty feet. There would be
a storyteller. Oh my god.
as if, because now, for many goals,
doesn't suck enough. We gotta we gotta slow it down my ball back, not yet out there
Three blind traveller MIKE. I thought the windmill was hard to get through.
If Babylonia, I don't want to play anymore, I'm going to swim back to the regular I'm going back to Canada. I can't do this.
One story, teller would be on a donkey its
tell pitching all that at the meeting? This is too specific. You just gotta be like I'm. Building an amusing partners can be great. Another bewailing ok when it
we're talking about very donkeys
there will be a couple doggies, maybe we'd be but it'll be involved in the storytelling. It's for this
retailers
Amira it'll, the story? Maybe it's the suits, you don't know what's going on, but I was sworn in my world should a baby is hot out and sports.
Another story, teller would be making bread
belong, I mean it will be.
to be charming snakes
hold on. It's not in here, oh no
Are we talking charming leg hip
the timing, or just like you really
it's like hitting on it
you know I'm actually a lot of my good friends or snakes and if you ever want to get together to take your brain a little bit. Events
venom pseudo and how you dislocated ends,
Europe now I just want a fascinating, so
here I am rambling, but I'm just a big fan.
and then there were then
this is great, and so it gets weird can think Dave. Yet if there had been noted something strange about director
and there was the giant concrete, camel thirty
expect all by twenty six feet: wide wisdom
go into his stomach and, let's thirty, nine flavors of ice cream inside the guide,
in Iraq,
a good match them.
heads of such a thing: where's the ice creep, yeah
This idea is fucking banal.
Yes, I can,
I do you expect from us
having a random belly inspection?
we're just supposed to be in the water you we're done. We are leaving Europe racist
I will build a camel with ice cream name it I've got it
questions is the camel on the water. No camels, I'm a well go because that would have been we.
I also have a question: has he ever been to an amusement park, though? Okay so far, it feels like he's missing the mark. A lot you know, storytellers at many Gulf Arctic ICE cream filled, camel
This is what happens if a guy goes to a barren annihilated. Take my takes mushrooms. Well now, I'm back on board I had
head trauma recently. Still this was
is weird, but it's all telephone- and I know you I did you- have a concussion and I was lay gurney in hospital and I actually Raymond
Bird, my life like wagon waves,
and I had this moment went he is the President
It was like election they all over. I was I had left
before our window. Where things are pretty good, I was
Tom Nurse whose
what year is it? Who is the president not allowed to tell you that you might go to shock? Forget the doctor, the fuck you to have again the harder you first, you do me.
That allows the present.
When you have a concussion everything you say after people, though, is this the concussion
I didn't recognize my daughter. I was out whether one night and she came back and she took her person. I got that's my daughter's earth and I start fighting you in
Then I realized it was my daughter and she got really upset.
and in my head as this is the cause magic trick. I've ever seen
I've already on the way they do that again, so Bob Analysis but
I'm a daughter
so he isn't the president.
All that remains is so. I stole a lady's purse, whether you might tell them.
Does your daughters
I live in family guy
so there is also a swimming pool and restaurants that would serve delicacies from Yemen
a cave and pretend submarine
it can be a better ride, a ferris wheel in the mixer, maybe cups, now you've got the pyramids and the target donkey talking donkey guy the the Ferris wheel, yeah,
It was some opposition from the council. The peach one council agreed to help
with an onshore doc for a water taxi would very visitors to the theme park LAO, but it still
I guess it's not zone, it is property and with some people on board
peachland other people are not sure. I watch
with one guy he's like they're gonna? Have boats coming across people be thrown there
diapers in the lake? While can nobody just be like? You should not have a huge camel with ice cream and it's got
get away it. Doesn't it there's just some guy worried about diapers viper letter is getting skyrocket, Randy, that's your problem with everything I've just dahlia, they get, God put it and then they start down their diaper. Sir out you say you're. The elaborate may now, but just say, are these baby
there's, no or adult Digest Canadians when they got on both put our diapers. It's my understand.
Well, if you're eating ice cream out of a camel's stomach, you might want to have a contingency plan. It's because,
he's gotta diaper selling section is: where was so? The diapers
it's a small medium large.
So the people are against. It were very vocal. They wrote letters to local papers to the counsellors, some
the amusement park would disrupt the peace and quiet of the area. Others were upset that one of the first
Eddie had done was to begin building a barge made out of tyres. Here's the thing
The only difference between him and assertive viable crazy person is, he has money, guess,
People with money there eccentric get this guy should have been locked up
Hardly anyone in area knew that Ireland was privately owned by Eddie and there was no zoning and those who did no didn't care, but any move forward with his plans. He drafted em up and started building
and he didn't I architects. He just walked around the island and started sketching on his own. By the way, my guess is any architect he was meeting with those like I'm absolutely passing. What is your plan
would be all in
It's a camel with ice cream. These
flavors of ice cream that genius the genius
Sluggish concern of all came from a school teacher and conservationists name, Desmond alone. In his opinion,
This was desecration of the land and
owner was on the town council. He didn't care that
purchased the land loan in the council
who had already designated the island as a picnic cite the what
you know what I do. I wanna go get under that one tree.
Just relax? I just.
On that rock lay with the tree
One Dree have a pair get sandwich under the one leaning pine
the very canadian like objection, export picnics
come on a good Lord
told reporters that this plan would turn Rattlesnake Island Data Coney Island and he lay
The valley and, according to his daughter, wanted it turned into a national park. So too
a ridiculous theme park was horrifying and he said,
Eddie is the guy who just wanted to make money and didn't care about the land.
now a friend who new loans at court does was strongly opposed to the development on Rattlesnake Island and I believe he disliked Eddie until the day passed away, but when they
so that law
was still alive.
if we get it off, so they were
Ok, still we miss him
you can visit of a life?
bracket.
It slowly, I didn't die slowly rely by we. I am slowly. We think of you have three.
Hours left. How do you feel about Eddie
took away my right to picnic,
God given right to have a sandwich on a blanket with some presided.
like jump in
so
what say you hate him to the day you die a bs, but well I don't know how I feel in a few hours, I can't see
my opinion. Changing
wouldn't mind a little there's camel cream, though that's pause, let that good good turn me around. Maybe
It just skirts out of the way. It is
I want to say it, but will you gestured, like a huge dawn, was drizzling it on you? Wouldn't you
I'd say
insinuated hard
We should be a charades team that was magic. I could think I could hang on another day finally got a purpose
two words
dying,
how does it work?
oh, oh dear,
authority by you really liked him
expiring. I'm gonna throw my diaper out hold on. I become what I loved you
Eight at all
So any had an end engineer, draw up plans for the theme park and according to both Eddie and the engineer was structurally and environmentally sound.
a lot of carbon coming out of the gambling ice. Didn't it didn't matter, people protest. Is there
concern about sewage disposal that pollute the water supply.
and loan really didn't buy. Annie's engineers report and loan was connected descent.
To his brother in law, British Columbia, Health minister, re low for low loaf mark and
The letter had been
Fred around for other departments of the canadian government, as well as the provincial chief medical officer and the premiers office.
Kay the career, Lyra, the premiers distant.
Include about people and aroused snake island and the chief
A gloves are sent out an internal memo saying they quote, could scotch it by export expropriation,
Everyone in the local government seemed on board with ending eddies theme park, idea. It wouldn't be
stretch to say this was in part being done because Eddie was not a white guy there, it is there it is,
and they started putting up roadblocks for the development of local government officials began a campaign to stop.
There was suddenly an endless stream of red tape and some of it was just made up there
made it up as they went along and he suddenly need approval for a sewage system and it was startled bureaucracy the highway. I would ministry blocked access to the fairy doc, the prevention,
government retroactively zone, the island, as quote a forest and grazing reserve,
they have a tree. I read to be fair and I
the animals Lovey rock perfect for raising this car
jump down how well the cow has five stomachs and one is a gizzard and its filled with stones and that's right, the other full of ice cream. I believe a phone number snake them Jimmy's, yes, sprinkles in one year and what man? Let's
baseball has to put it- is yeah cool. At one point, municipal affairs tried to stop Eddie by sending him a telegram informing him of an amendment to the pollution act clearly drafted just to thwart him but
which hadn't even been passed at that point. It was just intimidation, plain and simple, and he thought it was bullshit and he ignored it the whole time and he just kept building yeah. I want
thing built began, I know now you want to be there.
So. As far as zoning recent changes have been made that allow local districts to create undefined zoning law so that the federal government was like, let's pass it off
to their peoples on their own, but because of bureaucratic nonsense,
no I've, got around to make those laws, so they couldn't stop Eddie building as long as he didn't stop construction for more than ninety days,
as long as he didn't. So if he stopped construction and waited ninety days to start up again, then they could stop them, but it was the only black guy he's. Not stopping this man has a dream: yeah. They took it
court three times they lost each time, Eddie
in June, one thousand nine hundred and seventy two tried to bring several hundred guests as a preview. So he's got some stuff built Scott. I think I think at least one of the pyramids he's got a lot of the golf course built:
He's got an empire pit fire pitcher camels go only one home,
the budget. Just imagine there's do so. Are you guys are be thrown off, but that's actually appear to hamper by the time we're done, and that is why
but this point is she like I'm glad we tried this again. This is just makes sense. I'm glad we took another spin. I can see that you are
doubt whatever problems you I like
his new stable Eddie. So he throws this
Maybe for its several hundred guess invites- and I am
see MP officers came in,
because we love cops
I came and stayed the entire day on the water taxi dock telling people they shouldn't go to the island ooh, so the fucked up his day, but he keeps them one for it. It keeps building
This is very similar to a Billy Jack, a film. You don't hear that a lot. Maybe they base it off, as I feel they did. I think they Tom Laughlin, owes Bill Eddy, some money I'll take it.
So so it goes on for three years like this totally lie down and trying to the thing their ground
Eddie down, and he felt the country of Canada was conspiring against.
Jim. Do you think he just had one of those feel the dream voices in his head the whole time? I hope so because if you build her
Giant ice cream camel. I tried it
His people think it's so crazy, going to be weird but they're going to come. You're the only friend I have Skype. Sorry, the camel is going to come. You want the camel yeah, a listen
it's just that. I'm alienating everyone around me so much that I fear for real, because I'm urban rural here I dont like
when you say Bro, it feels weird. It feels like you're. Okay, just just listen! Okay! So when the camel comes, I'd rather not hear the rest, but ok, it's not going to be white. It's going to be like a nea
Orton just load assets like a sample spoon. It's it's just going to come out. Ok,
back to the council there and kids.
going to be so happy. I dunno. If they I dunno, if the kids should be over there, should they be the year that no? This is where the kids belong
you're in charge. I hope to meet you Sunday, yea,
right now, I'm on my island. But if you just look me up, Epstein
good.
So at this point the
Millbank heard all about the delays in the shit with the construction and they pull this loans. The Moroccan
I do theme park was dead and I spent
hundred and seventy thousand dollars no way to get it back. He can't pay as bills. His finances are, are exhausted by both because
The court costs the fight over the island maiden completely focused on winning the battle. That's all he then focused on and then because of that he neglected his family
so finally Loreen and had it for real. This is our data
in eighteen. Seventy three she laughed and took the kids. They just had a new baby and she moved the family to Alberta
they're here tonight I wouldn't I just wouldn't I just wouldn't you
Much. Does the government situation
and
lawyer, told them he could fight for the kids and win, but
Didn't have any money left quote. My advice is to go to Victoria and kissed there ass and buy them and let them by the island and then go back to Edmonton. Other lawyers like give up take the money go back to your fuckin family. It's done right, so I gave in
but the government was not about offer him anything close to what he had already put it. The offer was just forty k, so he rejected it and I was fuckin pest come on.
and was really gonna. Build is finally ceo. There then,
so Eddie held a press conference. So yes, of course, why not? I hope you bitches like camels, that isn't how there's gonna be a bunch of camels, because let me tell you pitch sixty four flavors: that's all he is announcing, I'm here to announce something huge, we're doubling the flavor in the camel Joe Cox, one hump, two gox, take that God
That's ok with me,
who's? The other guy I keep talking, do he's Birds Burke as here.
they up and up no well I've spent three years. These are.
Freak.
came across. I only made one of him he's bad.
I put him on an island sayer.
I'm a little turned on
getting involved in anything like this say: let's keep it where it is pocus scheme.
Sorry, I did a little weird I've been.
Gus gets robotics say these having Gus threat. I haven't Gus, do you know Gus, I don't know who he is
but I think I wanna hit
so he holds a press conference and one reporter shows up yes down front,
you again yet you know you any longer we're pretty. Does us he's
colonial capital news
in Eddie goes ahead. The press conference first pulled out a birthday cake.
And he lit the candles and he said
it was very strange children's birthdays and then he blew it out what you wish nevermind
we're discharges. What are really sad occurring,
the only reporter Eddie said quote. If he were
allowed to proceed with its development. He would drink human blood and eight human flesh to mark a black day. For Canada
How do you transition for birthday cake to that? What's? Yours is egged way, speaking
evading eating things.
So the reporter was like. I am glad I showed up to this shit slowdown,
you remember, Sir Kay spoke about again
piracy against them by the government, but no
and everyone thought TAT, he had lost his mind because he's a dream,
blood and eat person, yeah, there's that
the conspiracy talk, it's all crazy everybody
Obviously eddies Ben Fucking
using it over the island battle to areas
I ve been a rich guy with a family to now a poor man,
the baron island. He had no family, he blew the government's conspire against them.
Mostly because the government was literally conspiring against it,
it is theme park, but as goals it changed where he wants want to share his culture and make a place where people have fun. He now want to build the Moroccan shall do theme park purely for revenge.
So he's. Making fuck you island way on board and its thoughts began to turn the violence.
Laurie knew this and she said it's one of the reasons she left
years later. She would write a book about their relationship and sure that any was physically SEC physically abusive sexually crazed, a swindler, but
book is also a serious anti muslim hate fast pity,
in time, ITALY's as a festival of honour killings and full of
a mental is so it's hard to take. What is it seriously Betty am.
Recital e said his father's truce. Truth is closer to reality and his mother's truth is the lesser truth
they said o eddies
In reality, it is not a great here. I heard there is not a great leap says you think. My day
what was the loose cannon? The bird really? She was nuts,
at this point. Eddie essentially had one close friend into British Columbia is
was Ralph a shooting and Iraq
he told Ralph he was going to the Middle EAST for six weeks and there
What use his political connections to get support for its theme park cots?
He planned or even visit King Abdullah boy, and he was gonna, get Oliver
The political connection to write letters saying that he was great
supported him and his theme park, and he hoped this would quote. Shame the British Columbia government into letting him bill this park or offer him a better deal K. So he gets how things work
Yes, you get a bunch of letters from a bunch of lebanese part
guy leverage and then again
Ok, sorry, we didn't know you were great,
We apologize
so he,
to the Middle EAST Africa,
letters from lebanese ministers, including former lebanese Prime Minister. I mean our habits and then he flew back Canada and he says the day he got back. Shootin came to his house
unannounced, which was very weird, because no one knew he was back yet Kay
Eddie said he then decided to test shoot because he thought some was up. He said he'd come back with quote six letter bombs. What a test raises
and he told shootin. He needed him to get official arse
MP envelopes, so he gets
and the letter bombs and they would get through. Ok now,.
Putin's, not anybody. Official he's institute re so shootin
Like other sounds good I'll go, get the envelopes
it didn't take him long. You came back that same morning with the official level. Ok, so then you're like weight or are you out of your mind? What are you doing? We can't do that
Which was even more suspicious to any, and he was
to be suspicious, because Eddie been talking and violence this for a little while, as became unravelled, which led the
am RCMP to put them under surveillance and then said shootin who was actually an undercover cop to become his friend well, his only friend yet as an undercover cop. Yet you gotta take him where you can get them.
So shootin introduced himself pretending to be an angry ex flight attendant who wanted to revenge on on an airline for firing in partaking money from tickets else. What a dumb back story! What
its workers and were exterminated services still like a man like daddy brass going but you're like a flight attendant. Now what he asked you about, that you're gonna need to say you did service three times with the court way. When then you pick up the tab
Should the plastic bag,
going to know this shit. How do you put on the life? Am I fast
the mask Trot, who you put it out? First, the killer, you
it's not as I do yes and then what do you do?
it, can set down, put Dodgers super for God, like a coke better.
we're getting married, only have Pepsi good,
I will come back tomorrow, a hammer. This little more we're gonna get you there. You can't smoke in the bathroom. You can't smoke on that.
God damn plane playing in the play,
stop hitting that lady seat.
I remember, asked permission before you recline, that's how we do it now.
Turn around your neighbour, and so may I recline and when he says no go fuck you I I paid. Why did you do?
now with this was really got on it. It's a fucking plain and
Its move to
in choose, God can do images,
We need to isolate the cooperatives.
Oh god, we can't handle two inches said that now it's all over Twitter, that's my phone!
we need to edges. Are we need two inches or we need doing just what's up David? Nobody like what, with all the come talk
I've done that's the one thing that you think quickly
so, both over your come talk,
Still now Eddie saying he thought the shooting was acting suspicious,
isn't completely add up because later that day, Edie after all this,
Still goes to eddies house with all the envelopes which were addressed
the premier, Lorraine and quote
other and sworn enemies.
just what's written on the address, other sworn enemies, you'll know what Eddie I know they are ya, know what I mean Eddie
He did this to test shootings loyalty which turned out to be
I'd idea because cops are rating right outside the house to arrest him ass soon ass. He walked out that there was a prank chidden reported that Eddie said that you want to get an m for
one hundred thousand rounds of ammo and grenades. He said he
contacts with an explosives expert in the states, that's easy and
and that he had a few passports and had made connections with guerrillas. Okay, now assume,
their actual girl isn't real.
No, I don't know
again, the cocoa
so smart very excited because sooner
embargoes, or I ll
of you?
and I want more ice cream. You know I could cook a Robin Williams as my pal and he met Coco Twitter videos, amazing, but the first day reads: Koga Koga saying and then the second time he met code
Go they just she she's signing to Robin and then they, the wranglers, grabbed Robin and pulled them out of the cage and they go he's like what did? What did? What did she say and she said she won't
they take you in the back. Those would happen, then, because anything, cocoa
Why
oh go, and I read I do you ever India gag debris like may I have him, no cocoa get get rabbit, get
You get the fuck out of here.
Let me just say I got it. That's a maze
that's a real name drop story are arriving, haven't bacon here. If you are in charge you let that happen for this stand a bit
Standing up magic, that's an all time.
That is amazing, though the video and then they tell Coco, of his passing and Coco is genuinely, but but you I I don't he when he had a heart problem and they they put a a pig valve, and that was like. I was like talking to people we're in and he's like. You know they gave me a pig valve and I was like yo what's wrong with that it goes. Oh, I wanted
the tenacious felt like. I wanted that chimp that rip that woman's face off. I wanted. I wanted that Chimps Val is what is that, and I was like he's okay,
It's gonna be okay
So
way over what Vancouver graphics are so so they they arrest him and with the letters they think that this ties into all the statements he's made, that it makes it worse than physical evidence to go with the threats
and they're gonna put away for a long time, but then they open the letters and they're just letters, although
once for the politicians like he said, although Eddie unwrapped each letter and cloth, so it would seem really heavy. He claims this was a prank, so he really did claim. It was a prey.
It's a guph, I'm having fun with you guys, so they would think their bombs court.
a quote. I want to show them, they were fools, but they hit Eddie. With thirty seven charges. Court document stated the letter bombs were quote.
but realistically resemble resembled letter bombs. What and that he told shootin that they were indeed letter bombs, but Eddie said he meant they were bombs in the sense that the letters when
big impact wow. That is like he meant that.
He meant that they were dough is that IRAN has been ruled by a bomb. They pushed for
judge to declare Eddie Insane bold, move.
what evidence do they have?
the judge judgment not given bail and he spent six months in jail where he worked. As a barber.
things yells circling life, so prison was hell
prison is a nightmare, is dream home, was destroyed and is suspicious fire the insurance?
It will form had reached him in jail, so we had. No coverage shows houses,
crazy. Over months, several court ordered psychiatrists testified that Eddie was delusional and believe quote. There is conspiracy on behalf of certain people in the government too, for it is business attempts really crazy,
Above all the evidence. True one doctors, that this behaviour is due to a cultural background, quote that accepts violence as a way of life.
While there was a recess during a hearing, the government once again pressured Eddie to take the forty thousand for the sale of Rattlesnake Island, which is not thing to do to a man.
If just don't try to declare legally insane because that means it would hold up where the government did anyway
now Eddie just wanted Oliver any thought it would help. So he agreed to sell his island dammit quote. They join for fifteen minutes and make, and they brought me the paper and asked
assign I will have sold it back for a dollar anything to get get the hell out of there, but he didn't get that didn't. Let him go.
for their doctors said: Eddie had paranoid schizophrenia and other psychosis, so yeah
they're, all they're, all lined up against and bread. He was constantly being moved between different jails. Pretty much everything you have is gone, but as the case one on his
threats were clearly either delusional or hyper hyperbole and charges kept being dropped and dropped and dropped, and so by the time the case was done by the time they rated to prosecute. He was only charged with one misdemeanor possessing to child
sized brass knuckles who makes brass knuckles for kid. It's the
lebanese
think like like from Bugsy Malone right. Millions at issue here is why this based on racism
as yet they had a problem with his camel and they're like you can't build a camel, it's gonna take away from our
Giant sea serpent, stags turn
He had bought the child size, brass, knuckles, fifteen cents and Lebanon to give to a suddenly that's just to get that
with actually thirty buddy. I lived there
No time in hand and lay still said, the mother was the crazy on society.
I wanted to plead guilty of this point of the misdemeanor and have it over with and then he'd get a fine and walk out of court. Sure that certainly is what would have happened in any normal situation, but the judge found Eddy in soon
insane and insane duties, beliefs of a conspiracy and crazy claims that he was a danger to the people. He threatened particular govern officials, even though all of the that's our, even though all of the case fell apart at set there. I mean amazing, to make a person.
paranoid about that shit and be like you seem a little parents. Are you ok, but.
The one thing he wasn't crazy about is the thing they attacked him. Yeah guess
they are illiterate and their literally greek. There are literally
still doing it.
You're doing it now saying goes against the Iraqi. My conspiracy against wilder dissidents, brazier in the corridor right so
Is he was put into a notorious mental facility river view
you got some alarm and I
sat out.
where he was a remedy like William Lippy who went on a killing spree landscape. The ninety seven do, but he said he was with literally fucking. You know, people out of their mind right, Eddie cut Harry did arts and crafts. He built a very detailed miniature plywood glue model of a development which he told was a mock up of rattlesnake island.
Never let it go an attorney who held helped. Many people are stuck in a brute river view. Robert gardener took up eddies case and got em released after twelve.
Jesus Eddie was under the impression part of the deal was that he had to leave the country.
We know that wasn't part of the deal, but clearly they someone told him right so before leaving and he took his plywood miniature model to a construction, firm, called sin, cloyd metal products and he pretended he was a lebanese businessman and showed the model to the president of the firm who became very excited about building this project overseas to any commenced. The president. He was going to raise millions of dollars through his connections in the Middle EAST and they would build it in Lebanon and the guy. The head of the firm, actually consider opening up an office in Beirut to help facilitate this allowed. Eddie to get to Lebanon and Op Operate
A man who had an actual project going on- and this allowed him to spend a lot of time at the canadian consulate going over plan ray. He also convinced his cousins in Lebanon to help him and then on February. 23Rd he's been there about six months, one thousand nine hundred and seventy six adding his cousins enter the underground parking lot of the canadian embassy in Beirut
and he was holding a cave. Forty, seven Jesus Christ, this causes all had guns is again
what dark yeah. Maybe it wasn't kidding about the letter bombs. He told two of his cousins to go to the third floor. Another cousin was told to hold the elevator while another went with Eddie to the second floor.
Eddie charged up the stairs through the steel
worse at pointed and a k is eighteen, forty, seven at the first guy he saw who turned out to be an old guy who was just sitting in a chair waiting for a visa.
Eddie quote: stand up put your hands on your back and get your face to the wall. The man did not know what was happening and just sat there.
And then Eddie repeated in Arabic and the guy fell to his knees and begged for gods, mercy, embassies staff came out to fight
and what all the commotion was and they discovered
we're under some sort of attack, one staff member, admit Eddie a few.
I'm since he arrived in Lebanon, they discuss how we could sell construction materials on behalf of a canadian manufacturer and the staff or look at when is this a joke
and yes, another pray. Do
what do you care
yeah, it's so for it would have been
so bad that just let them make is park.
Yeah. I totally they just want the guy want to make a park Eddie
the guy with the butt of is a k and then
let everyone into a stairway onto the third floor there on twenty diplomats, staff and canadian citizens on the third floor as cousins. Already had more hostages, salty other thirty three hostage-
but the one that he wanted. The I don't know how to say this charge a day affairs to the arab region was not there any quote where Sullivan staff he's not here, Eddie Bulshit.
for my apartment? Because for the last six months, Eddie I've been living across the street.
From the building watching all of the kid, even staff and what they did constantly. Oh, my god, it's very normal. No so
any new. There is only one place saw them could be hiding and that was in his office. They went to the office and its empty, but then he sees a pet leg sticking out. He sees it.
Ik leg pant leg. Apparently he had a pant leg and a parrot okay yeah. They are on her hair. You fucking shit
and a pause on the leg and tells them to come out and so Sullivan crawls out on his hands and knees, but he took it to where the other hostages were quote, if anyone as a weapon to throw it down otherwise you'll be wiped out. No one had one Eddie, then lowered his gun and he said to solve and quote I didn't come here to hurt you, because if any of you get hurt
be the first to lose. I came here to ask for your help. Here's my story
Eddie started by telling him that he was a descendant of the hammer dynasty. Oh my god,
rule the german three thousand any we close at seven. Can we maybe there?
to be nice.
so it doesn't doll story of his life.
And after illicit Eddie story, Sullivan called Ottawa and Eddy demanded to speak with Prime Minister Trudeau, but that didn't happen.
Sorry is putting on black face big event, but
eleven was given permission to negotiate with Eddie on the other demands that he had now occurring?
the times there was a public apology from the crown and from the psychiatrist declared him insane five honey,
Thousand dollars, that's a good way to get an apology from a psychiatrist that you're not insane. I was so mistaken Eddie what a crazy thing for me to think any
let the hostages go.
Only one in five hundred thousand dollars for the island. He wanted a pardon from the
lebanese government for what he was doing right now,
when you're negotiating for your current crime that we want to anyone in custody of kids.
Surely is gonna get that either way what
the cousins doing that you like. What's in it for them, it's I don't know, and can you be a car and asked for maple syrup?
and we demand a thing of maple syrup. The two things keep: let's not get crazy so
the canadian government says they never considered the demand for the kids but Lee whose fourteen at the time hardest mom talking on the phone to the canadian Minister of Defence, Lee quote
were scared. We thought we were going to get traded and would have to go back there. We were just
Are we get traded for hostages? Oh my god,
hey guys.
is daddy another
A government officials said she was told that day that a plane was actually waiting to take Loreen and the children to Lebanon. Save another government said they did not. They were clearly negotiating wow,
now there's total panic in Lebanon, because
Lebanon is on the brink of a civil war that amusement parks.
I feel,
analyze and so
my things than seems crazy said nobody,
nobody knows who's doing this or what's happening
The militias start role
down towards the canadian embassy
They show that from also all the militias from all sides shut up. They they had rocket launchers rocket launchers. They had tanks
thanks to their literally in the neighborhood, like all squaring off signal.
Ethic and everyone's getting concerned that if it contains much longer, Eddie, might literally be responsible for kick
off the lebanese civil war
Judy Amusement Park gonna get that into your belt, let until the year let him fill this
the way how how did the lebanese civil or stopping okay so is a really big camel.
Have you ever regard to the snake charmers? Wouldn't that be somethin
You ran away to play through for bed, debate, bread debate like me by the wave
dial down the ideas, allow yeah they would let us build a part in its mood,
God you like manager, got great bigger dead, don't mention the snake.
I've got for the big closer if he agreement
it's gonna be a big hockey stick and there's ice cream inside their onboard.
Beaver. So after fourteen
beekeepers
fourteen hours that demands are agreed to. He gets amnesty
taking the hostages allow he could return to Canada and and fight for compensation of his land. You know he's ready,
turning wines to unite the government agreed to an apology,
He was only find a very small amount for what he had done, but any came back to Canada, a free man, then
I really did what kind of that
The most canadian negotiation ever like any other you'd, be like
give us the gun, you dumb fuck our right now, none of it, but it again or like a deal's, a deal to look.
He was good. Work come on over good work
we've got to apologize to this guy
sorry it's well, then it
back to the same valley, an errand
How people are alike by was hard
By like they were now they're like respecting their like, the guy had a hard time. We will have great. This is not how you curve
and violence? It's a feel, good story where everybody wins.
So he he returns. He built a small house after buying some money from friends and after a while
finds a lawyer. One who love to take on the establishment, how said only one elevator that time of year it doesn't go up or down because there's just one floor, but we got delivered a good day.
Push about bridging on it,
because I know open it's a ranch housing. They are its cost, a lot of money,
So after ten years, his case was heard before the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on August seventh, one thousand nine hundred and eighty six, and when it was over quote Justice, Gordon Mckinnon delivered a devastating judgment, including the government had
I am against any hey, more and harass them into poverty and a mental institution wow the
Judge wrote a seventy five page:
o thou judge, judgment
slamming the government quell.
They to sell the property at a low price during his criminal proceedings was unconscionable. At least six government departments were part of the conspiracy. The actions were quote,
highly improper, illegal and even cruel. Eddie was awarded a hundred and fifty five thousand dollars, but then there is a further investigation by a provincial ombudsman and he got another hundred
forty thousand dollars and a public apology from the government now area. Fifty six he got married again divorced again.
Too late. He used the money to build CASA, hey more a bed and breakfast and restaurant.
It was like a small version of his island plan, he would create great guest
sometimes in arab style robes.
We ran a yak that has three eyes creams in it. He had
a statue made of himself pointing at Rattlesnake Island
yeah. The middle finger
roused again is now was now part of a park
ready for the next twenty five years, mythologies himself and truly believe too, but he would he would be taught to children in canadian textbooks.
that's very possible, but it was pretty well
just forgotten, as spent recent years trying to get writers,
turning story, no movie,
at John Lazarus wrote a play about his life, but after nine eleven said it was really difficult to make people feel for a guy who took over the canadian embassy with guns. You did it, it's a it's
I'm like you feel, like you have a concussion again. If dog day,
afternoon was Canadian a lot happier.
Research in that, so good yeah
Only Canadians are like we get it
there was a guy. I it's fine where's, our back to clearly sorry where the bad guy we're sorry we didn't let you will do.
We're sorry. Would you like to meet the cast of Degrassi?
at
to make. This is already a spike. This is Eddie Caitlin. This is already the names.
So at he's still alive,
a full length come on now
something throwing a diaper right away at a that's that's so they thing named David aired area that so they feared that's the best,
a
The document is just made about him. I it's only been
It was just shown at the Victoria Film Festival last week that the first place it prepared so
not out anywhere yet oriented, but it's called eddies kingdom.
So maybe a movie will be made at the end. So that's that's it. That's
story main sources of this article for eighteen bridges, dot com called Eddie? Hey more emigrate terrorism.
That's not let us call that, since the best of luck
Side, but it's written. I know I'm pretty glad it's like all that
and then also a book called dead ends, pc crime story
by Paul Wilcox.
what
build this island yeah, the other one.
We get a builder
The articles called the kingdom of hay. More so is yeah. That's the craziest
I was just reading all kinds of your history which is fucked up, but I was like this is fucking insane.
If you told me at the beginning that I would be heavily on that guy side idea, you crazy. I was like what are you talking about so so when he, when he did it there wasn t
poorest. Wasn't a word rang like here
came back and the like. Some government took over a place right if human labor
the terror regime would be totally ever really, but back then there like
and he got mad. He is here with some other gotta. Here is disgruntled disgruntled, but even then like even if terrorism had been a thing or terrorists had been a word, I dont think you would be over used or you know, manipulated and away where you would just start beings at a full, but just for no reason. No, I don't think that would be. I mean them
emulation on that level. A minnow it would take, sociopaths actually push them.
Throw and make that a wrinkle in our society, and you know some
There continues and snowballs and seems like it's never ending because its perpetuated by the people that are in charge
Flowers me crazy. I want you good ones,
You can try Tine ethnicity to a you, know a certain bad act or some sort of illness or you know, don't eat chinese food right. Innovation.
Fucking Chinatown get some chinese food all their fucking. Businesses are closing Christ they're. Not here
it's happening all over the world, England and while we're doing it, what you said
and while you're at it goes by Corona beer, their herd, and they really,
about a victim but corporation, that's naked, and only in this,
This whole story just reminded me of a story that I don't think I ever shared on a public level. Oh god,
considering the shit. You have shared, I'm terrified,
Do you know the dinosaur on the way the Palms Yang, when it is a pity we do in this area, so I went in there and now its own.
These Christians that believe that their it was created in seventy six days and they have like they have a night on a dinosaur and
Are they suggesting that night
dinosaurs arrive at the same time and there is a german a chip, a real alive, to know no, never be weird, and then so
I went in there and says
now its own by these christians- and I was
up in the top,
The dinosaur-
with a woman who is, I would say, however, to say artistic, and so
She wanted me to take artistic I'm trying to make me look like the vigour, but the reason I was fine with this. Take some artistic photos in T Rex head sure, so she
was TAT, was in
Dinas taking pictures in them
Things got a little heated up and
I was
being service in that yeah. You got ahead in the head and christian dinosaur and
What was the night saying about all the so then
As this is going out
I'm seeing this view out the dinosaurs mouth and about
its filming this now I would have a snap zuma my face and then I'd ever flashed back to buying the ticket because
behind the guy
There is a monitor the same
view that arm. Why so?
somewhere. There's footage of me
this guy
and
I
I don't know how to describe that. For the listeners.
journey around looking into a lens of a camera with a horrified expression, and then I go. We
I go and
we ran out of the bag and it was great, like all the doors relax and we had to go by that guy that we bought the dig in Rome. That's going and my Frank Kate and was yelling at me. She goes you could be. I guess sex offenders is if they got you arrest, I go where nobody was there. It's a
forget it. I shall put at night in a dinosaur rang out I'll get my dick sucked invited me. If I like that, I think
The fundamental dearest Christians just rolled with it.
So they went, there is no way, there's no other showing that tape and churches right now going. This is what they're like disease,
I can't
well now trump, and this is the shepherd of goodness from the Bible. This is the man the testament spoke of. I wasn't hard to track, so I think yeah right hand while yeah yeah. I dunno I've never told that story well, because
it's a sex crime.
That's probably is probably a statue limitation that I hope will
stay easy, wiped the heart,
dries every once in a while. They wipe southern
poor guy he's got clean the inside of the dynasty. This point my life yeah,
be fun, yeah, a case that I agree yeah. I would just be recap: dinosaur theme park, vs you for the blow job, yeah I'd. Watch that probably don't want that publicity Uday
I just want to live in the same neighbour. Is eerie, walk up and knock on my door. Gozo
I'm a sex criminal
if on a dinosaur and and chimp I got- I guess I did
complete, your fine is the beginning of a good
blown and ahead of the dinosaur there Isn t a big adventure.
Like I used to run away from the theme park. Much like I'll pay. We had to exit. I like that
Paul Rubens is there and I'm responsible for the weirdest thing. That way. Thank you guys salvage, given up our back. Thank you, Canada beg you may go away. Abrasion beg you guys, Prijedor truly.
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