Greg Wycliffe - May 06, 2024


have any Canadians noticed this?


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

57.30818

Word count

241

Sentence count

3

Harmful content

Hate speech

3

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

This song is about a guy who was only 17 when he realized something was wrong with his country, and decided to write a song about it, and it's really awkward to admit something is wrong with your country, but what happens if you wait too long?

Transcript

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Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 This song is about...
00:00:04.000 I'm just going to play the song.
00:00:17.000 He was only seventeen
00:00:21.000 So sweet and so naive
00:00:27.000 A Canadian kid 0.93
00:00:31.000 He wasn't racist at all
00:00:37.000 He wanted to get a job
00:00:42.000 He was told the lines were so long
00:00:48.000 But he went down to the local job fair
00:00:54.000 And he just stared
00:00:58.000 Three hundred Indian men
00:01:06.000 There was three hundred Indian men
00:01:18.000 Small town Ontario
00:01:20.000 There was that diversity
00:01:24.000 When a lot of them are named pen sheets
00:01:30.000 Sorry for asking, was there a racist?
00:01:36.000 But still he did persist
00:01:40.000 Became an intern in an office
00:01:46.000 Country kid
00:01:48.000 Commuting downtown
00:01:50.000 But when he looks around
00:01:52.000 But when he looks around
00:01:54.000 All he can see is the color brown
00:02:00.000 Three hundred Indian men
00:02:12.000 Three hundred Indian men
00:02:14.000 Three hundred Indian men
00:02:24.000 Canada, can we face this?
00:02:28.000 Without screaming and shouting racist
00:02:32.000 It's really awkward
00:02:34.000 It's really awkward
00:02:36.000 To admit something's wrong
00:02:38.000 I didn't want to write this song
00:02:42.000 But what happens if I wait too long?
00:02:46.000 Can you imagine?
00:02:50.000 Fifty years on
00:02:52.000 Oh, Canada will be sung
00:02:58.000 In Punjabi
00:03:00.000 In the House of Commons
00:03:04.000 It runs
00:03:06.000 With three hundred Indian men 1.00
00:03:18.000 Three hundred Indian men
00:03:20.000 Three hundred Indian men
00:03:24.000 and likely it will be all men because culturally indians from india are quite sexist 1.00
00:03:40.160 and they also have a caste system
00:03:44.480 i'm gonna look that up if you want
00:03:46.320 a pure polyethic government will axe the carbon tax