Shaun Newman Podcast - #888 - Rob Schneider

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

Rob Schneider is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live (1990–1994), where he was a cast member, he gained fame for his comedic roles in films like Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), The Animal (2001), The Hot Chick (2002), and Grown Ups (2010). To watch the Full Cornerstone Forum: https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcastGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: [e-mail] Grahame: [phone]Bow Valley Credit UnionWebsite: www.BowValleycu.comEmail: [e-mail] Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: [e-mail]

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Today's guest is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live during the 90s. I'm talking about Rob Schneider. So buckle up, here we go. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast. Today I'm joined by Rob Schneider. So, sir, thanks for sitting down with me for a few minutes. My pleasure is nice to hear some...

We got some... That's Stan Gets in the background. I don't know if we paid for the rights for it, but it certainly gives a nice mellow feel to the interview. That Stan gets the famous saxophonist who did a lot of Basinova. That's the only reason I'm born. It was because of my parents, you know,

my mother wasn't supposed to have any more babies, but then in 1961, 62, the Stan Gets, Antonio Carlos Jobeam album came out with the very famous the girl from Empanema. And that was it. A lot of baby boomers. The end of the baby boomers went out with a bang on that one.

A lot more babies were born because of that album. You've written, wrote your book, and if I had my notes here, I'd read it to you. But you know, you said something like the money goes, the homes go, But the stories, that's what you're there for. I think houses that women go. And women go, yes.

Fame goes. Fame goes, too. Yeah. Houses go. I enjoyed that line, you know, because when you've come, you know, I grew up watching your movies and seeing you on S&L. And, you know, you got some great one-liners. It was, before I came here, I was telling a shout out to Nick Moriano's for getting me here. I was telling him a story about getting asked to be the officiator at a wedding.

and I used your, it's a circle line, you know. There's no beginning. There's no aim because it's a circle. It's not like a triangle. You get stuck in the corner. No, I, you know. Man, I don't know. I was very lucky to be in that era before the culture gave in to weaklings

and, you know, overly sensitive people. And, you know, as my friend John Clee says, you know, the most sensitive members of society shouldn't be the ones that get to decide but everybody else gets to listen to or watch. So I hope that kind of covers that. It does. I was, you know, I had my own awakening through COVID.

And certainly I was, you know, here in Canada as we sit. I was big in hockey. I was, you know, podcasting with a lot of hockey players. And then, you know, I just wouldn't relent. And finally I just finally gave it. I'm like, we've got to start talking about this. You know, I was mentioning James Lindsay. But there's just a whole host of.

doctors, lawyers, officials? Tyranny sneaks in. Not so sneaky, but the idea is to take away your rights. The idea is to, you know, government will keep growing until you beat it down with a stick. And the idea that these rights and liberties that we have that they were just given to us, they weren't. They were earned through blood. And sometimes Americans and Canadians specifically forget that.

And while they're all gravitating towards their new, worse than Justin Trudeau Prime Minister, I would just hasten to say, you don't really know this guy. He does not have your, of all the things he wants to do, your individual liberties are not on that list, Canadians, so beware. In your book you talk about 2014, roughly the time you started to speak up if you would.

Yeah. What was it back then for the audience that kind of like opened your eyes? Well, I mean, tyranny, well, you know, there was a, under Woodrow Wilson, President Woodrow Wilson, he ran under, Wilson kept us out of war. And as soon as he was re-elected in 2016, I'm sorry, in 1916, he got us directly into the war and then through anti-exam. war protesters into prison and rounded them up.

And the closest thing I saw to that was more so than whatever Nixon did in the Vietnam era was Biden, me shutting down, you know, literally shutting down, forcing, I know that the lockdown originated under President Trump, but the firing of federal workers, nurses, doctors, frontline workers, was the Democrats, and it really was a fascistic totalitarian response to the flu. And I really do think it was aimed to continue. And we were never supposed to get out of COVID. one benefit from warp speed that was a gigantic benefit. But this other words, at least, ah, we got the vaccine,

you can't keep a shut down anymore. Whatever the clot shot, you know, myocarditis shot, ineffective in stopping or, you know, curing or spreading the illness or prevention, it was able to give reason to open up society. And that was thanks to Thomas Cahill, who was in charge of the Operation Warp Speed. But truthfully, I must give credit to finally what awakened the Americans, you know,

rousing spirit of protest was Canadians. Was the trucker's protest? Was the trucker's protest? That's what ended it. I mean, the response is sickening to me. The fact that Justin Chardot and Freelander aren't in jail because they froze their bank accounts under some, as if these were terrorists and treated them. called terrorists. To me that's the most sickening thing Canada's ever done.

And, you know, put aside the horrible lies that, you know, there were no bodies buried. There were no children buried in 80 churches. 80 churches were burned because of a lie of indigenous people that those no bodies were ever found. And there was, why aren't they doing, why aren't we trying to find out who burned those 80 churches down? So it's, you know, Canada is in the middle of a, of a war for its own soul. And you better bless your lucky stars that you have Donald Trump as president and the Republican Party to buttress your flirtation

with communism that you guys are experiencing here in Canada. Yeah, well, certainly here in Canada We're socialism, right? The word communism, people don't. But socialism, everything we do is just further and further into the whole. Well, socialism, they won't even say, well, in any communism, which has never succeeded anywhere. But the idea somehow is that, you know, what's, what about my, what's your, what's your, what's your, utopia comes from the Greek, actually meaning no place. That's what utopia.

Look it up. It's from the Greek. It means no place, because there is no place. There is no utopia. There's always the promise of it. The idea is, well, we've got to share, fair share. Like, how much, as Thomas Sol says wisely, how much of your hard work is somebody else's fair share? How much more can the Canadian government take from working people?

And how much more can they distribute and redistribute before people just don't want to even work anymore? So that's the question for Canadians. I mean, yes, this is an incredible country, incredible people and an incredible spirit and incredible resources and I am blown away by the by Canadians and but I they're their fixation on solving problems that don't exist like this equity and diversity equity inclusion and this the nonsense about global warming it is nonsense yes there is global warming

It was colder this morning than it is right now. But the idea that your idiotic prime minister is going to zero emissions is stupidity. And thankfully that Alberta is the only thing holding up your whole country, the only province that's profitable. It's a service society without Alberta. So good luck without Alberta. There's no coincidence that all the money. company is coming from Alberta and it's the freest province. That's not a coincidence.

I would agree. I would argue that Saskatchewan folk being born and raised there and then coming now and living in Alberta are, would argue they very similar, you know. Okay. Well, I'll need to learn more about Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan's a group of hearty people. It's a beautiful place.

I was in Saskatchewan. It's very woke. The city is very woke. I chuckled because, you know, like, you're talking about the comedy show you did in Regina for the SHA, if I recall. There's the shitheads in Regina, as I like to call them. But if there was a group that hated what I did in the middle of COVID, it'd be the Saskatchewan Health Authority. I don't think there's any mince and words about it. I think that they behave horror.

I think the health authorities, along with your terrible media in Canada, behaved miserably during COVID. And I think your health authorities should lose their authority. and I think there are a bunch of, I regret nothing. I think, until I did not apologize, I did not, I mean, until, until, and it was only one guy, really, that complaint. If you go back to the news, it's just one idiot that was talking to the news and stuff. And of course, the CBC, the shitty organization of captured news, which is the government mouthpiece for the liberals, you know, tried to turn it into a big story. But clearly, it's just, it was jokes, and I'm never going to apologize for jokes.

And if jokes is what threatens people, then you have bigger problems than my jokes. But it's funny to me because it'd be like the Democrat Party inviting Rob Steidering. Yeah, no, I mean, I wasn't going to change my act for them and I wasn't going to do. And, you know, they can kiss my ass. I was there to help raise money for a pediatric. you know, a p.jadric ward at their hospital under their invitation. So do your fucking research and don't blame me. You got the wrong guy for your event.

That's my, that's my news to the medical establishment in vagina-rugina. If I go back to 2014, when you first started speaking of, you know, There's a lot and a small man, I guess. You're not a big six-foot-eight, you know, but you speak louder than so many people that, you know, I would think would maybe want to, but we know that fear has its place in society and how it controls people.

It does. Fear does. But losing your reputation or your place in society or your place in show business or your, you know, the lessening of your bank account is such a small price to pay. for trying to cajole, remind, instill, and the support what freedom and the free speech. I mean, the idea that freedom is just this thing is going to take care of itself. No, as our founding fathers in the United States, it requires eternal vigilance.

And so while whatever misfortunes I may have suffered reputational by people I have no respect for in showbiz, I don't feel a sacrifice. A real sacrifice are the cemeteries that are littered with real heroes who sacrificed, and you see them row after row after row of people who died very young fighting for these rights so that I could speak my mind, so that I could continue the idea that human beings have inalienable rights. rights and that we are made under God and that we have a country that is founded on liberty and liberty for the individual. And so the idea that whatever, you know, reprisals that I suffered, we're not allowed to have governmental reprisals. But that was what's interesting was the

encroachment of under the Biden administration, and Biden to begin with as well, of, you know, real censorship, which was antithetical and illegal. So, you know, for tyranny to raise its ugly head in any society, as it's doing in Canada now, and as it was doing in the United States, you have to go back to the Athenian lawmaker Salon, who said that, who decreed it a crime, for any citizen to shirk from controversy. You are a citizen. You are imbued with rights.

You are also imbued with responsibility. When your nation is under attack and your rights are being attacked and your children's rights are under threat by your own government, you must speak up, whatever that costs you. And so, you know, when you saw the global push for closing society, as we saw under the great scam-demic. The people have woken up to it. There's been no apologies.

Where's the apologies for the lockdown and closing of schools? I mean, my mother was an educated for 30 years. I mean, she would be horribly disappointed and heartbroken that the gains that poor children made, African-American children specifically. It took decades for them to come up to par and reading and math with their classmates. And then to lose it so quickly because of the ignorance of this,

for a flu that was dangerous for people if they were really unhealthy, most of the people who died over 70% were 75%, up to 85%, were obese or had three to four comorbidities, life-threatening illnesses that took them out, like, hey, a normal flu. So I think it's a, we must. You must stand up and speak for your country no matter the cost. And I am not one of the people my grandchildren one day will say,

what did grandpa do during the great scamdemic? Well, I wasn't silent and worried about doing Duce Bigelow 4. You know, one of the things that impressed me about your book, and like, once again, I keep bringing up, people should, you can do it. you know you can find it I I push people not everybody loves listening to a book but when you can find a book that's voiced by the author well thank you I did I worked my ass off on that I tell you what your impressions you're I was I was real playing here right so I come here from Minneapolis from family holidays

and I'm sure the guy sitting beside me was like what is this guy listening to but your impression of Christopher Wachin but well thank you more specifically your story about Chris Farley I don't normally just like burst out laughing but I I thought, I thought it was great. I mean, I grew up watching, like I said, S&L and Chris Farley was, yeah. I was a young man. We were all young. We were kids trying to figure out, you know, if we were really in show business or not.

And sorry, where I was going was one of the things I enjoyed about your book is I didn't realize, you know, you play the goofy character in so many films. Very well, I might have. Thank you. But I didn't realize how well read you were. And it should have dawned on me that, you know, being. being a comedian, you just don't walk up and start shooting from the hip. There's a ton of prep time that goes in there. You know, you brought up Woodrow Wilson right at the start,

and if people go listen to your book or read it for that matter, you'll see there's a depth there of like, oh man, this isn't the Rob Schneider I know from maybe some of the films you're in it. I believe, like, I agree with Norm McDonald, but any comedian who's like goes on stage or in a movie trying to show how smart he is, none of the great comedians ever did that. But I'm not just a comedian. I'm an American citizen.

I feel like I, for whatever reason, whatever fame I've managed to get sucked into, I think it does come with some responsibilities to it. And for what we've been through, it's particularly a unique time. And I think it, for people who, who have whatever small influence that I may have, I think it's important to be one of conscientiousness,

to perhaps cajole, criticize, as any, the great comedians and the great social critics, you have to be a critic of your times, about your times. Otherwise, what are you doing? So that's where, I mean, well, I love Norm, a great Canadian and, you know, probably the best comedy of the 21st century. But I think as a tack. I deviate there in the sense of, I feel I must speak my mind, though he would probably hate it. And like, hey, why do you, who cares with Deuce Bigelow things?

Well, apparently a few people, but I don't, it's not that I'm trying to impress anybody. I just think we have to, you know, it's going to take people, whether it's myself or other people, to kind of buttress and not, so other people aren't the first people to say it. And to say it in a safe way. I mean, be careful at work, you know, be careful how you voice it, but voice it. You have to, we have to get this culture back to a place of, I wouldn't say normalcy, because what does it mean? place where people, if free speech means anything, it is the right for me to say something that could make somebody else angry, pissed off, or questioning their, you know, foundational thinking about some subject.

And so that's why it's so critical. I mean, there's no coincidence that, you know, America with all its peccadillo, and imperfections is the technological and financial engine of the world. And I think that innovation comes from that conflict that you get when you have a society that allows free speech. You think we'll ever get back to a time in Hollywood specifically where you're going to get great, not only performances, but, you know, like... Great comedy against you. Yeah.

Maybe. I hope so. I hope so in my lifetime. I think so. We're going to try to do a few things. As a matter of fact, the new studio that we have now, a friendly fire studio. We're trying to do exactly that. But we'll see.

I mean, if audiences want to come to it, yeah. Stand-up has been more or less reinvigorated because I think the audience is go to see comedians, whether it's Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, or Louis C.K. or when Norm McDonald's still alive. Like, hey, make sense of the world for me. And I think that that's been the purpose. And that's why I think stand-up's been so, I don't want to say, you know, never been bigger,

but it's never been bigger. And probably more vital, not in its importance, but it's the vitality in its excitement. And because it's a thrill. Because you can actually talk about what people are still experiencing in this tumultuous cultural upheaval that we have. And I would say right now it's a counterculture.

I'm sorry, a countercultural revolution because the cultural revolution very much in the guise of being better for society, but truthfully a communistic totalitarian, takeover of our culture and society, that's really just very Maoist, if you think about it, as Dave Lindsay talks about it way more interesting than me. I'm sorry, James Lindsay. If you have one more question on you. Yeah. I always ask, like, everybody's always interested in the red pill moment of when people start

to see the world for the way it is. I don't like that term red pill. I just think it's something that's an obvious fact. If you want to categorize it in a political party or a political affiliation, you can't. But I think it's just common sense. Well, I guess the question I was wondering, you're a God-fearing man, correct? I think any person worth his own salt should think of himself not excluded from the world, but a part of it made in God's image.

I think that's pretty foundational thinking. What's the moment? For most of Western civilization, yes. Was that something that you believe back in the SNL days? or is that something that's changed over time? I think I drifted from God, but Jesus only let you go so far before you get pulled back into the fold.

And when did he pull you back into the fold? I think around 2014 in that era. And then more recently now, as a member of the Catholic Church, Catholic Church just meaning, I mean, if you're a believer in Christ, you're my brother. But, I mean, Jesus wrote a specific prayer

of all the apostles. He picked Peter for a reason. made a prayer about him, gave a prayer just for Peter, not for anybody else. So there's something special about Peter. So that's why the Catholic, that's why, first of all the Catholic Church is attacked all over the world for a reason. And I think we can understand why, because it's the closest to the actual words of Jesus Christ. And I think as one of the opportunities in this time is, and one of the wonderful observations, He's seeing so many people coming to the church now.

It's beautiful. Young people wanting to belong to something. If you want to see godless hopelessness, go to these communist countries, talk to anybody who lived in them. You will see a hopelessness, a separateness from everything. Whereas in Christianity, we're part of the whole. We are. We're part of the church.

And we are loved. I would hope that as this expansion in the church continues to grow, because it's a beautiful gift that we have, the greatest gift ever, Jesus Christ, the price he paid for all of us. Thanks for doing this drop. Thank you, brother. Wish you all the best.