Greg Wycliffe - LIVE on Unwoken Podcast hosted by Nico Lagan

00:00:00.000 right it's greg with the g that's right okay that's right because i'm a frenchie i fuck up 0.90

00:00:05.280 names all the time so i'm trying to learn french i've been doing the daily uh duolingo for a couple

00:00:10.920 months why why honestly french girl you're trying to impress i no i think it's like more of like

00:00:17.580 the dream of maybe one day i'll be able to unite with the quebecers against what's happening and 0.98

00:00:24.420 not the why and uh overthrow the government peacefully of course that's uh that's of course

00:00:30.160 just my accent that's not the actual french right but uh yeah i i hope so because because that is

00:00:36.800 the retarded version of french that you don't want to learn you don't want to sound like that at all 1.00

00:00:41.280 right so you're looking to so basically you want to unite with the with the frenchies

00:00:48.600 in order to build a bigger amount of people to i wouldn't say that's the main i wouldn't say that's

00:00:56.940 the main reason i think it's more like i'm kind of saying that as a joke the main reason is like

00:01:00.880 i would like to be bilingual in some sense right but uh but at the same time part of me is like

00:01:07.000 hey you know they say that if you really truly want to engage in canadian politics you got to

00:01:11.440 be bilingual or whatever um but uh yeah yeah you do french lessons or what nico no i i no i'm

00:01:23.420 french i was raised french but i barely speak it anymore like i can still speak it obviously but

00:01:28.840 my wife my wife is english and it's a lot easier to deal in english than it is in french you do

00:01:34.220 right right french is a painful language it is hard to read it's hard to write it's hard

00:01:41.840 there's so many it's hard to interpret i find yeah like so many similar sounds and uh the

00:01:50.500 apostrophized words too it's uh it's it's tough to learn but um uh yeah but hey what did you want

00:01:59.980 to talk about other than uh le français well you know it's interesting because i definitely want to

00:02:06.200 hear more about your the documentary that you're working on because oh boy it is um it is definitely

00:02:14.280 a problem like people getting censored in canada is it used to be a conspiracy theory like i've

00:02:21.280 been speaking about this for four years it used to be a conspiracy theory but having mark zuckerberg

00:02:27.080 last year that came out and just said you know what biden slash harris the biden slash harris

00:02:33.740 administration has been putting pressure on meadow to censor people i'm like told you but in canada

00:02:41.240 it's not quite the same right we we have a prime minister that did you know it was brilliant as 0.78

00:02:47.440 much as i disliked the man i gotta give him that he is not stupid or the people that are around him

00:02:52.740 are not stupid because they were very good at passing bills to censor people and prevent our

00:02:59.580 news from getting out or accessing news because i travel in the u.s i'm in the u.s right now and i 0.66

00:03:05.980 spend half my time down here there's things i can access when i'm down here and when i go back to

00:03:11.120 canada there's certain accounts on instagram i can't even access anymore and it will say it

00:03:15.720 right there that because of your government you can't access it so it is blocked by meta

00:03:22.820 because you know you remember justin trudeau is like oh they don't want to pay our journalist

00:03:28.900 he basically used the fact that he knew that meta would not give him money to pay the journalists

00:03:35.540 because they're like go yourself that's that content's for free we're not gonna pay you for

00:03:39.460 this and then he turns around and say oh to protect you guys i will put we meta unfortunately i try

00:03:46.100 to fight for you guys but meta is blocking our news now and blah blah but this was all him like

00:03:52.020 it was brilliant what he did it was brilliant and as a drama teacher it actually worked out like

00:03:56.500 people believed it it's yeah that whole that whole debacle was was totally insane the way

00:04:03.300 i describe it it's like having a marketplace where you can show up to sell your tomatoes

00:04:10.500 or your produce and then but being people who sell tomatoes and being like you have to pay

00:04:15.460 instead of us paying you to be there you actually have to pay us to show up that's how entitled it

00:04:21.220 And it's like, that's that's insane. You can come here for free and sell your tomatoes. It's like, no, you have to pay us to show up. It's like, why? Why would we pay you to show up? What? So and but you're right. It's it's it's so maddening how our politicians or Trudeau specifically, anyone who's liberal aligned seems to get away with.

00:04:42.220 just presenting to the public a total mischaracterization of of what's happening 0.53

00:04:48.780 and and yeah it's just we have a dumb uninformed populace because of it and i really think that 0.91

00:04:55.840 you know when it comes to the pitiful state of the country a lot of it comes back to the the 0.94

00:05:02.700 media being so compromised subsidized by the government since 2018 um when you don't have

00:05:09.600 that pillar when you don't have that institution of the news media investigative journalists doing

00:05:15.000 their job a lot of the corruption kind of goes by the wayside a lot like the apathy of the public

00:05:21.860 goes up the ignorance goes up and uh i mean we'll just look at the mess we're in now you know it's

00:05:29.400 uh it's it's quite it's quite tough out there it's tough out there for people who actually

00:05:34.400 care about this country you know but i think it's more than that though because you know i'll

00:05:40.420 challenge you on this a bit because as as much as i agree with you with you take cbc for example

00:05:45.440 that's sponsored by the government at 1.4 billion dollars a year and now they want more like they're

00:05:52.520 at least they've been between 1.2 1.4 billion for like seven years now now they want more money so

00:05:57.860 they're basically the propaganda machine of the liberal party but at the same time you look at

00:06:05.420 let's say uh it's now juno but true north you look at um rebel news they will the same way cbc

00:06:17.140 doesn't talk against the liberal those two platforms will not talk against the conservatives

00:06:22.020 and you got guys like me that's in the middle i'm like uh pi poliev is repeating the same thing

00:06:28.020 that mark carney is saying word for word let's go at war dollar for dollar and let's take the

00:06:34.860 revenue generated by those tariffs to take care of our workers ubi so basically you have a

00:06:41.540 conservative guy that is tanking saying he's because he's a conservative but he's just a

00:06:46.140 liberal he's as liberal as the liberals are but he wants to open he wants to make sure the trade

00:06:52.120 is working between the provinces and oh let's build the pipeline there you go that's the difference

00:06:57.620 between but his main values now are the same as liberals but you won't hear rebel news call him

00:07:02.860 out on that you won't hear true north calling up calling up on and that's my problem right we're so

00:07:08.840 tribal that no like when i'm in the middle now i've been creating content for let's say four years

00:07:15.740 i've been talking about wokeism a lot i'm like hey bro that's marxism right there if you don't

00:07:20.340 that that's how you become communist is by pushing this stuff now that at least in the u.s because a

00:07:26.900 lot of my content are for americans now i'm just like hey guys you got to be careful you can't go

00:07:30.980 too much right because i'm in the middle i'm just like hey left be careful now that it's going right

00:07:35.720 i'm like hey righties be careful don't you can't go too far right but in canada now i'm getting

00:07:40.860 hammered by conservatives and i'm air quoting here telling me that oh you're gonna split the vote

00:07:48.320 hey bro it's not my fault he's a liberal i'm calling it as it is i'm not i'm i don't represent 0.95

00:07:53.480 the party i will call bullshit on everything and applaud whoever is right no matter the party they 0.53

00:08:00.220 they represent but we have that problem in canada we have some people on the left we have the news 0.80

00:08:05.040 on the left the news on the right but there's nothing in the middle right now no i i totally

00:08:09.740 agree with a lot of what you said however you know being you were just saying how the the right

00:08:16.780 wing or the conservatives are basically liberal so it's like are you in between them because for

00:08:21.360 me i see myself as outside of them further to the right than the liberals and the conservatives

00:08:25.940 because the conservatives are so much like the liberals and the biggest problem i think with

00:08:30.360 the conservatives you could talk about different policies they don't oppose the u.n agenda items

00:08:35.440 But for me, the big thing is you're not opposing wokeism, actually.

00:08:40.300 Like, you know, over the past 10 years, Trudeau has pushed this progressivism, this wokeism.

00:08:44.820 It's basically been a huge success.

00:08:47.800 Every single institution in this country, corporate culture, you name it, is marching to the same beat of because it's 2015, you better be a feminist. 1.00

00:08:56.260 You better be gay. 1.00

00:08:57.120 You better be trans. 1.00

00:08:58.400 You better be pro-diversity.

00:09:00.160 All of our institutions are like this now after 10 years of Trudeau.

00:09:03.520 and polyev's opposition to that is not really anywhere to be found i would say like like he

00:09:09.720 talks like he's against the wokeism but like hardly at all he can barely even say there's uh

00:09:14.260 there's two genders but uh before i get a throw back to you though i i totally agree and i'm glad

00:09:20.040 that you and others are recognizing this which is sure we have the subsidized mainstream media

00:09:25.400 and it's fake and it carries water for the liberal party primarily uh but also some of

00:09:31.640 this alternative media it seems to just be carrying water for the conservative party and it's almost

00:09:36.620 like there's this interesting relationship where the mainstream cbc you know government officially

00:09:44.060 government subsidized news will say oh the conservatives are so horrible and they'll do

00:09:49.040 all this kind of like lying and then the alternative news will be like yeah no like we're telling you

00:09:53.620 the real truth and it's like well you're actually not telling the real truth about the conservatives

00:09:58.640 though and no one's actually telling the real truth about the conservatives except for people

00:10:02.760 like me and nico who will probably get smeared as something or other uh right and which is actually

00:10:08.440 related to the documentary i'm making because this this whole this whole dynamic of anybody

00:10:13.980 who's actually a dissident anybody who's actually criticizing the right person in the right way

00:10:20.300 gets smeared as this hateful person and then less of the canadian public support the dissident less

00:10:26.260 of the public support goes behind the person who's actually has the correct opinions and the

00:10:30.080 correct criticisms um and we need to we need to change that dynamic and the documentary is going

00:10:35.520 to be educating people about how this this is a very sort of a real systematic thing and how they

00:10:40.580 target dissidents so i i bro i'm a christian conservative so i'm not so what do you mean

00:10:49.760 in the middle what are you talking about in the middle you're not in the middle

00:10:51.880 i don't know i mean i'm called the far rightest all that all that crap but i'm right of i'm right

00:10:58.860 of middle i'm still canadian at the end of the day my values i don't push on people as long as 0.96

00:11:03.480 you leave leave the children out of your bullshit you can say do do whatever you want i i don't the 0.97

00:11:09.380 bible can say that gays are wrong and this is wrong at the end of the day it does not impact me 1.00

00:11:14.660 personally it does not impact me leave me alone i'm a libertarian by nature i'm just a christian

00:11:19.800 but i i don't believe in abortion like this is but this is a topic that i don't address on with

00:11:25.400 canadians because it's nowhere to be found it's not even a conversation in the u.s though i create

00:11:30.660 most of my content for the u.s so i talk against abortion all the time but it is not something

00:11:36.620 that's going to move the needle in canada so i try to keep it common sense somewhere in the middle

00:11:41.360 and the other show that i run the political orphans i run it with a lefty and it's been

00:11:46.280 very successful so he's a lefty i'm a righty and we talk about the news what's going on in the news

00:11:50.840 and you know we don't agree on abortion so it's a subject we don't really approach because we're

00:11:55.360 not moving the needle in canada right so as much as i am a conservative christian at the end of the

00:12:01.820 day i'm still i still have common sense i know where my values apply and i'm not there to preach

00:12:06.420 to people i'm not there to try to convert you if you want to know more i'm happy to talk about it

00:12:11.200 i record a lot of content with christians but at the end of the day it's not what moves the

00:12:16.560 needle in canada right so i'm you know i'm a libertarian at the end of the day i'm going to

00:12:22.020 be a bit more right than middle but i'm not like i'm in the middle i'm just more a bit more right

00:12:27.460 than middle i can but there's no such thing in canada like if you're libertarian in canada you're

00:12:33.200 like far right in the u.s i'm like really in the middle compared to i'm in alabama bro

00:12:39.360 so yeah so i'm used to i spent we we did 23 countries and 23 states in the u.s over the

00:12:48.260 past three years and most of it is like we've done like virginia colorado is as north as we stayed

00:12:54.200 so we did a half of the u.s lived in all these places or just traveled we traveled and stayed

00:13:00.420 yeah we haven't this is an rv where i'm in right now so when so we've moved we've driven something

00:13:06.620 like 20 000 miles to be somewhere so i've seen it all i've seen and and you know what most of the

00:13:14.620 country is not that divided it's really the news the news is making it sound like we're so divided

00:13:19.900 but at the end of the day man people don't care they they don't care about your religious views

00:13:27.220 they don't care about your political party they if you need help they're going to help you that's

00:13:31.580 what i've seen throughout the country obviously there's places that are worse than others like 0.96

00:13:35.840 anywhere but it's it's a lie we're being we're being sold so much bullshit tribalism like we're 0.95

00:13:41.780 saying by the media they're telling us oh this is what you need to believe oh we're showing you the 0.95

00:13:47.240 truth yeah no you're not you're showing us what aligns with your agenda but hey one comment though

00:13:55.580 before we go there's uh steven that said i've had enough of the wokeism it's insulting i don't want

00:14:01.840 be treated like a special class because i'm gay we fought for decades to just be normal people

00:14:08.560 a men brother amen man hey stevens by the way thanks for showing up we record between two

00:14:16.080 uh 12 and two every day and he was there during our whole podcast good for you for not being tired

00:14:22.640 of hearing my french accent bruh jesus jesus so talk about your documentary man like let us know

00:14:30.480 know what it's about yeah well i'll jump off something you just said because i think it's

00:14:35.640 really important uh in terms of trying to you know turn this country around i've been following

00:14:41.220 politics i would say in canada for about a decade uh but i've been involved more intimately since

00:14:47.820 2018 2019 uh that's when i joined the ppc and i guess um i can go over all those stories but i

00:14:54.860 kind of want to hone in on you were saying how hey you know i got like you're being libertarian

00:15:02.240 i don't want to have that conversation in canada it probably doesn't fit for canada

00:15:07.080 is would you say that's yeah so it's just that you know you know somebody explained it to me

00:15:13.400 the other day and i absolutely loved i i had one of the two guys from blender news you know that

00:15:17.700 show right yeah yeah so i had one of the two guys on the show and explained it to me kind of blew my

00:15:23.180 mind on that one he's like we have five parties in canada right if you consider that the conservative

00:15:29.160 like you consider that the green is as left as they go like it's literally like imagine communism

00:15:35.920 is the green and then you have the ndp that's like we're gonna talk about socialism they're

00:15:41.900 just a step over from come from the green and then you have the the liberal party that's pretty much

00:15:47.960 the center in canada which is way far left but it's our center in canada then you have the

00:15:53.540 conservative but you know they're still all on the left and then you have the ppc that's

00:16:00.020 somewhere in the middle because the ppc i would consider them like i've speak i had a podcast

00:16:04.500 with max and bernie like two weeks ago and we i've spoken to a lot of you guys a lot of

00:16:10.740 representative for the ppc and you guys are more libertarian but this is the needle right we have

00:16:15.600 the green that is our our far left and the ppcs are far right so the debate is being done between

00:16:22.160 the liberals and the conservative although they're almost identical so we're not even outside of the

00:16:26.960 left spectrum so a ppc is considered far right so that's the way he explained it then for the

00:16:32.960 people for for that whole party for that whole system to move to the right that means that the

00:16:38.960 liberal needs to take over where the conservatives are right now so that the conservative can

00:16:43.840 actually become real conservatives because right now they're not so it's such a big needle to move

00:16:50.000 that i don't think it's a fight i can win that is worth having because you need to take it step by

00:16:54.940 step by step like i'd rather i'd rather have a guy like maxim bernie on stage at the debate

00:17:00.720 if i could make that happen if that could happen it would open the door but i also want people to

00:17:06.540 realize that poliev is a liberal like just just an example like let me read this tell me where it

00:17:13.540 comes from if to anybody that's watching this i'm going to read two sentences tell me who said it

00:17:18.480 was it a liberal or was it a conservative dollar for dollar u.s tariffs that's number one number

00:17:26.500 two help affected workers and businesses with tariff revenue is that a conservative or is that

00:17:33.840 a liberal that said that help them with tariff revenue what does that even mean like i can

00:17:41.540 explain it we we did a full podcast on this today and i i presented videos upon videos upon quotes 0.97

00:17:48.680 of all our leaders and where they're going with this it's fucking scary bro it's absolutely scary 0.91

00:17:53.920 and is it this is from the conservative i'm guessing powell right there canada first 0.96

00:17:59.760 that's plenty of you know um yeah i mean they're just gonna give they're gonna give money to to

00:18:10.240 workers and businesses affected by the tariffs they're gonna put tariffs in place okay hold on

00:18:16.840 remember the word workers okay workers this is a guy that in my opinion is even worse

00:18:25.980 than trudeau i think that guy is even worse than trudeau mr mark carney yep this so the post i

00:18:34.560 just showed you was from yesterday this post is from mark carney march 3rd so two three days ago

00:18:40.880 he said canada should retaliate with dollar for dollar tariffs let's retaliate dollar for dollar

00:18:48.980 it is exactly the same sentence and then here he's saying the proceed from our tariffs should

00:18:56.240 be used to protect our workers no no hold on it gets worse no no it gets worse let me blow your 0.96

00:19:02.280 mind even more then you opened a can of worm on that one bro but just listen to it i talk about 0.91

00:19:09.140 this all the time on on my channel i love did you on polyev so okay i crap on everybody like if 0.99

00:19:16.760 you're right you're right but if you're wrong you're wrong so i like the crap i like the crap 0.93

00:19:21.900 on polyev though because a lot of people on the right wing and alternative media yeah will not 0.98

00:19:26.900 but listen to this listen to this listen to this want to vote down at the government at your

00:19:34.820 earliest opportunity do you still stand by that statement and do you think now is the time for an

00:19:39.740 election now is the time to put workers first we're literally in a trade war and i can't imagine

00:19:46.720 any opposition leader that wouldn't want to support a package to help workers impacted by this

00:19:52.060 we did that during the pandemic we came together we need to have that same approach now so

00:19:56.720 my answer to that is we need supporter workers first put in place in place working an election

00:20:03.040 afterwards that's amazing so who are you voting for does it make a difference let's put that back

00:20:10.980 in perspective march 3rd and i'm gonna show the proof here march 3rd canada should retaliate with

00:20:20.680 dollar for dollar tariffs the proceed of those tariffs should be used to protect our workers

00:20:25.660 mark carney that was on march 3rd what we just saw here was on march 4th where we have sing using

00:20:35.100 the same word take care of our workers he's not saying canadian he's not saying citizen he's not

00:20:41.740 saying anything else workers and then you have the supposedly leader of the conservative

00:20:49.500 retaliate dollar for dollar he literally stole what mark carney said and that was

00:20:55.980 posted yesterday and help affected workers and businesses with tariff revenues when you put

00:21:02.400 those three posts like the first post sing and him together you're like ah they're trying to

00:21:08.520 install ubi so they're basically going to destroy our economy by putting tariffs take our own money

00:21:16.020 give it back to us so that we're dependent on them and they're gonna buy the next election 0.99

00:21:21.420 but you know what's fucked up about all of this and this is what blows my absolute mind 0.98

00:21:25.820 is that people cannot see this i could put the two posts to get one next to you i could do exactly

00:21:32.620 what i did there mark carney sing and you're gonna show uh polyev and they're like oh no no

00:21:40.020 but it's not the same that's not what they're gonna defend that guy and i'm like uh word for 0.99

00:21:45.700 word word for word yeah people are dumb people are stupid and uh part part of the what i've 1.00

00:21:54.000 learned from politics is that um you need to appeal to the common man the every man or another 1.00

00:22:02.440 more crude way to put it is the person who's like to medium to low intelligence you know that's why 1.00

00:22:07.580 people are stupid do you i just want to stop you there do you really think people are stupid or 1.00

00:22:12.520 they just don't care i think statistically they are stupid yes like you know half of people are 1.00

00:22:17.780 medium intelligence and then like even more than that are lower intelligence that's just that's 0.99

00:22:22.160 just like the stats of it like most people are medium to low intelligence just by virtue of like

00:22:26.640 statistics right so that's but i think the i think what you're getting at is the added sort of problem

00:22:32.900 is that and you know like don't don't flinch don't like if you're watching this podcast

00:22:37.880 you're not one of these people who is like low iq it's the people who are not paying attention

00:22:42.580 who are just consuming cbc these are the people you know i you know sorry not sorry that's just

00:22:47.880 like the reality of politics and you spoke about it earlier how you know as much as you hate trudeau

00:22:53.640 he's really good at corralling the shape dislike dislike i'm a christian i don't hate i don't hate

00:22:59.260 whatever whatever no it matters all right those are words words matter to me so i dislike trudeau

00:23:05.840 sure dislike uh detest he's a villain anyway but uh um but it's important it's but you know

00:23:15.140 speaking to that you're like as much as you hate him he's really good at what he does

00:23:18.100 and part of that you know has anything trudeau said actually really made sense no but he's

00:23:23.040 appealing to the medium to low and tell you know he's appealing to the common whatever like you

00:23:28.320 know and anyone who's good at politics does this you know even even trump when he rose to power in

00:23:32.960 2016 he didn't say stop immigration immigration what a big ugly how many syllables is an immigration

00:23:39.540 it's like four syllable word like what is this science class he's like build a wall build a wall

00:23:45.420 and all the people are like yeah build a wall like that that makes sense you know he spoke to 1.00

00:23:50.060 the more common person and you know maybe it makes you feel uncomfortable to say like they're stupid 0.97

00:23:55.040 but uh that's just the way it is that's just kind of what's effective and i'm telling you this nico 0.98

00:24:01.960 because like that's what makes our job difficult we see these things we see these patterns we see

00:24:07.180 what's going on a lot of people don't and unfortunately a lot of people don't even have

00:24:10.860 the time to like look into it and it's almost easier to just get what's spoon-fed to them

00:24:17.760 which is going to be what's at the top of the algorithm or on the top of the tv

00:24:21.040 and it's going to be the more sort of fake nonsense which supports you know these team

00:24:26.340 canada people who are uh lying to us and trying to sell us ubi um but hey you're a christian you

00:24:34.860 know god why do you give me my toughest battles it's like don't worry just wake up early and keep 0.81

00:24:40.780 working and things will work itself out um what's the worst that's gonna happen i'm gonna die and

00:24:46.220 i'm gonna meet my maker so at the end of the day you know i'm a big fan of uh alan watts and years

00:24:52.120 ago i heard one of his um one of his old presentation and he was talking to his students

00:24:56.620 and he was saying that in buddhism because for the longest time i was a buddhist and he was like

00:25:01.700 you have to treat this world like it was a joke you want to play the role of the jester

00:25:07.720 you want to understand that this world is all a comedy but you're part of it but remember that

00:25:14.020 it's a comedy because what else are you going to do right yeah because you're going to die at one

00:25:20.500 point you're going to die you're going to meet your maker whatever that maker looks like to you

00:25:24.000 so what's the worst that's going to happen here laugh at it bro you you need to be able to laugh

00:25:29.640 at this stuff so i love alan watts i'm a big fan of the i read the bibles i'm somewhere in the

00:25:34.440 middle i like to mix both together because i'm a big fan of alan watts but at the end of the day

00:25:38.000 man what am i going to do am i going to i will try god wants me to do this so i will do it i'll

00:25:43.480 do the best that i can at doing it but can i really save people i don't know that's a good

00:25:47.940 question i don't know yeah you think you can do you think you can because obviously you're putting

00:25:53.280 time into it you're you're producing a documentary i was talking to another digital the other day on

00:25:58.640 the phone uh because he was talking about like you know how few solutions there are especially

00:26:03.580 in canada like how few viable sort of like positive visions there are for the future

00:26:07.780 and and i told him like well we have to try because we have nothing else to do until we die

00:26:14.460 like what else are we going to do you know like oh maybe we'll watch the marvel movies there's a

00:26:19.060 new marvel movie coming out oh captain america yeah i could collect a little funko pop doll and

00:26:26.160 put it on my wall and start collecting funko pop dolls but that's um you know i recently i've

00:26:31.440 started to identify as a christian as well and what really resonates me is is the sort of idea

00:26:36.900 that we're here to suffer we're here to try and bring people to god or bring people like into the 0.67

00:26:43.300 light and to kind of live a more meaningful life and i i like this the sort of stakes too that's

00:26:49.720 added to the christian lens which is evil is a real thing actually good and evil like these are

00:26:56.300 real these are real sort of poles that exist within ourselves and of course within everybody

00:27:01.040 else and within the world and uh you know smiting evil and like doing good is actually like the best

00:27:07.220 thing you can be doing with uh your time um not to say that not to say that like you know a marvel

00:27:12.820 movie isn't entertaining and like can help you relax and that sort of thing but um but yeah so

00:27:18.720 i i think it's certainly worthwhile uh and and that's honestly part of the reason i got involved

00:27:23.520 in politics is because i saw a negative trajectory for canada i saw significant cracks in our so-called

00:27:32.120 democracy i saw the bias the like very flagrant bias of the mainstream media and no one was really

00:27:39.260 talking about it um and i and like i was going back to my day job at the time and i'm like

00:27:44.700 i i can't really ignore this actually this is really like gnawing at the back of my head

00:27:51.980 constantly because i guess i have the foresight to be like this is gonna get worse and sure sure

00:27:59.440 enough seven years later yeah it's wow much worse my gosh but it's gonna get worse too right like

00:28:08.280 it's hard to it's hard to imagine that it's gonna get if you if we look i don't know if you're a fan

00:28:13.460 of uh the fourth turning that the theory from um william strauss i'm aware it's not gonna get

00:28:19.360 like we are in the fourth turning right now and it always you know the the the the theory is that

00:28:26.920 we go through four steps from you know the old expression that uh hard times create good men

00:28:34.880 good men create good times good times create hard times and good times create weak men and weak men

00:28:41.520 create hard times so that cycle is supposedly somewhere 80 to 120 years old and strauss went

00:28:47.920 through all history and found that that pattern repeats to every single civilization that's out

00:28:54.600 there so we're at the end the last great men were 1945 at the end of the second world war

00:29:00.400 bang on 80 years right now so it's like i i think to me and i i'm curious to know your opinion on

00:29:06.400 this because i i know it's going to get worse i think that what we're seeing right now just the

00:29:10.000 response that we're seeing on the way our politicians in canada are basically they have

00:29:14.480 a united front pointing at trump like he's the problem when they've been destroying our economy

00:29:20.880 for nine years and now that a guy's in power for six weeks it's all his fault like he's good like

00:29:26.720 Like he's only been there in six weeks and he's been able to go back to go back into time and destroy our economy.

00:29:33.120 But, you know, to me, just the way that they're going, they're just going to make it worse.

00:29:38.620 And Mexico just proved it.

00:29:40.160 Mexico just was able to make a deal through USMCA today with Trump.

00:29:46.380 Trump is like, yeah, we're going to bag the tariff because she picked up the president, picked up the phone and they made a deal of some type.

00:29:54.060 we don't know what the deal is yet but the point is that he's up to negotiation that's what i've

00:29:58.900 been saying for weeks now that trump's a business guy at the end of the day he's going to try to

00:30:03.720 piss you off because he has the biggest leverage we don't have any and he's going to piss you off 0.96

00:30:08.400 until you say you know what i'm going to come back with my tail between my legs just like 1.00

00:30:12.980 zelinski did after getting smacked like a little bitch last friday right that's trump for you but 1.00

00:30:19.180 it's interesting that we still don't realize that and you think it's stupidity and you know 1.00

00:30:27.320 as steven says steven says that he's the leader of the medium to low iq club so i'm gonna trust 0.99

00:30:32.760 you guys i want to believe that people are more intelligent than that that they're just they 0.84

00:30:36.780 are willing ignorant like they were you know ignorance is bliss like if you don't have to 0.55

00:30:42.780 ask the question you're like that's where the marvel movies are so important because they will 0.96

00:30:48.940 numb your brain but i i just cannot believe that what happened between 2020 and 2024 did not wake

00:30:58.740 up more people i really thought that it would have smacked people in the head and just like

00:31:04.160 oh there's the same pattern here yeah it's right there yeah no kidding no kidding and i think uh

00:31:14.480 You know, just to kind of clarify my statements about like low IQ, I was kind of more speaking from almost a marketing standpoint, like when it comes to messaging, when it comes to political messaging, you want to appeal to like the common person.

00:31:27.720 But I think when it comes to sort of Canada's problems, I think you're right.

00:31:31.380 I think it's it's it's not necessarily an intelligence thing.

00:31:34.240 I think I would actually kind of tend to believe that maybe Canadians are a bit more intelligent than Americans.

00:31:39.180 I would maybe buy into that stereotype. 0.54

00:31:40.740 However, they're more apathetic, and even worse than that, Canadians are more apathetic, and even worse than that, there is a very deep, deep, deep spiritual problem here with Canadians. 0.86

00:31:52.240 There's a very, very deep lack of honor in who they are that Americans just have. 0.75

00:31:58.560 They just have this sort of connection to my constitution, my freedom.

00:32:02.340 We saw it during COVID.

00:32:04.040 We saw that, and that's when my sort of anti-Americanism was gone.

00:32:09.220 I'm like, I want that. Actually, I want that autonomy of being an American to be my freedom.

00:32:15.800 I don't care. You know, call them boisterous. Call them call them arrogance, maybe.

00:32:21.400 But guess what? They're patriotic and they're proud. They have conviction and they're brave and all these things.

00:32:27.860 And what do we have? We got what do we have? We have people who have never been more brainwashed.

00:32:34.700 we have people who have been victims to the psychological terrorism of ctv news who are now

00:32:40.780 probably never going to be the same again it's nuts um so yeah you know just yeah we explain it

00:32:48.500 because they lost we lost our war of independence having spent a lot of time in the u.s this is where

00:32:53.440 it comes from and they are told from a young age that they won they're free like they fought for

00:33:00.120 their freedom and that's why the constitution is probably the most brilliant political paper ever

00:33:07.280 written free speech is the number one important importance the government cannot take it away

00:33:12.540 from you if they do you have all the guns possible to to get it back that's it you want to understand

00:33:18.440 the constitution this is what it's about free speech government wants to take it away from you

00:33:23.780 you take your guns and you kill the government that's it that's what the second amendment and

00:33:29.100 the first amendment are but we don't have that in canada right we're a bunch we're still under

00:33:33.200 the king most canadians don't even realize that we have the king needs to stamp our stuff and say 0.96

00:33:39.360 yeah i approve of what the little kids are doing in canada but we are a bunch of losers like we

00:33:44.960 lost our war of independence and that's why we're so complacent you look at the us they're patriotic

00:33:50.260 why because they won we lost do we ever have a war of independence i'm not even aware yeah like

00:33:57.780 the british fought the frenchies and it was you know everything we do is a bit smaller scale right

00:34:04.940 we can't compare it to what they do it was colder up here people were like you know what it's too

00:34:09.680 cold for this let's actually just you know what you know let's do it there's a snow storm right

00:34:14.600 now let's take a week off of this continue exchanging goods and services but let's take

00:34:20.600 a break but we're gonna get back to this but it's everything's bigger in the u.s if there's

00:34:25.120 one thing that's true they'll be held to pay in the spring let me tell you but we did we did not

00:34:30.840 win we're still under the king we're still under england and it shows in the way that we are

00:34:35.900 this to me is how i explain how complacent we are and how americans are so patriotic because 0.99

00:34:42.220 they're like you know what my forefathers fought for this shit we have guns to defend it and that's 0.98

00:34:49.540 why we're americans like they're very proud to be americans like certain places in the u.s jesus 0.98

00:34:55.360 christ has an as an ar-15 bro this is how proud they are jesus is ready to go yeah well in the

00:35:04.320 bible they say he's going to come back with a sword maybe it'll be an ar it'll be an ak god 0.96

00:35:09.440 will come down with a bayonet at the top yeah with an ak but uh yeah i mean i don't think that

00:35:17.620 being like a a commonwealth country is necessarily the main problem because i think that we you know

00:35:23.860 we we were a self-respecting dignified nation for some time it's just kind of in the past like

00:35:29.060 half century that things have really started to uh to kind of deteriorate um but but yeah kind of

00:35:36.420 kind of getting it back to my documentary or at least like sort of like how i've diagnosed the

00:35:40.860 problem is we are still we start with pierre polyev i have been ragging on this guy for over

00:35:47.680 two years ever since ever since the trucker convoy yeah we saw the authoritarian mask or sorry the

00:35:54.780 authoritarian face of our government the mask slipped off and it's like wow so you will beat

00:36:00.280 your citizens who are peacefully protesting you will throw people in jail for their opinions

00:36:05.100 by the way that opinion of not needing vaccine mandates is pretty well widely uh supported by

00:36:11.160 most canadians and most institutions now so these people who they threw in jail for opposing the

00:36:16.320 mandates actually all the institutions agree with the people that they threw in jail but they still

00:36:20.880 just threw them in jail for disagreeing with the government at the time like this is not a

00:36:25.220 characteristic of a free country is the point and i have been crapping on polyev because he's hardly 0.96

00:36:30.760 actually ever talked about it in that frame he's hardly ever said trudeau you are a disgrace to 0.56

00:36:37.720 democracy he's never actually said those words and somebody from germany who actually did say

00:36:43.880 those words christine anderson uh she came over to canada after because she was so popular for 0.99

00:36:50.420 saying trudeau you're a disgrace to democracy spare us your presence he actually called her 0.78

00:36:54.840 like a nazi uh poly have called um christine anderson a nazi all these things so the problem 0.99

00:37:02.740 starts with polyev in that he is not fighting back against trudeau he's not fighting back

00:37:09.080 against this woke spell that he has cast on the nation and until not just politicians but even

00:37:15.940 more so the canadian population until the culture changes to actually oppose quote-unquote wokeness

00:37:22.800 um then nothing is going to change and to me you were saying you know hey i don't want to be too 0.93

00:37:28.780 i you know i don't want to say too much about divorce fuck that we have to actually no we 0.89

00:37:32.980 need to like reject that whole notion in canada completely i'm so tired of it so like what you

00:37:38.360 think we need so to think i'm not saying this to you specifically to be like offensive but like

00:37:42.520 i i see people like this and it's like okay so we need to be more politically correct 0.97

00:37:47.100 we need to be more of a pussy to help the situation actually no it's the complete opposite 0.99

00:37:52.340 it we need to be more boisterous more aggressive more not afraid of cancel culture not afraid of 0.99

00:37:59.820 the uh you know the far left you know i want to make it a short tiktok cartoon about this or

00:38:05.600 something because you know you'll see all these right wingers in canada or conservatives in

00:38:09.460 canada and they're like yeah i'm so proud of our patriots our our fallen veterans our fallen

00:38:14.400 soldiers i'm ready to fight for this country and then some like 70 pound little you know bipolar 0.94

00:38:21.080 uh you know non-binary lesbian communist shows up and says you're racist and then they're like 0.94

00:38:27.940 running the other way just because they got called a racist and it's like are you really 0.99

00:38:31.740 ready to fight for your country some 70 pound lesbian called you a word and now you're nowhere 1.00

00:38:36.580 to be seen you're terrified for getting called a name because that's what it is like you know 0.97

00:38:40.660 these terms racist homophobe this prevents us from talking about anything like has people have 0.79

00:38:46.280 people notice this like you can't talk about abortion because you're uh you're anti-woman 0.71

00:38:51.040 you're a woman hater you know you you can't talk about what i do i do hate women so 0.99

00:38:56.140 they're absolutely right you're absolutely bang on i don't like women 1.00

00:38:59.480 uh but love our mothers though love mothers women though can be a little annoying um but that's 1.00

00:39:08.740 that's a joke on my other podcast they're like nico why do you hate women so much 1.00

00:39:12.980 it's but that's the answer for everything now but you know to go back i like what you said

00:39:17.840 about polyev and that's something you know he's been in politics since he's 24 years old he's

00:39:22.300 worth millions upon millions upon millions of dollars that's one thing that really bothers me

00:39:27.500 about him like he has a net worth of above five million dollars and i'm like hey bruh how'd you

00:39:33.400 make that much money on a 200 000 salary because warren buffett wants your investment tricks like

00:39:39.760 he he's probably following nancy pelosi in the u.s and like the the best trader of all time

00:39:47.040 but he always bothered me like there's something about him that i do not like i still had hopes

00:39:53.180 for him but there's a fakeness to him there's a sort of fake sort of but but the freedom convoy 0.86

00:39:58.580 showed it because he started using he showed up i remember the fucking video where he showed up to 0.98

00:40:04.460 an overpass where they were the truck passing in the back and he's like he's photo ops with 0.95

00:40:09.440 the people and then people started trusting him i was at the freedom convoy in ottawa i was at all 0.94

00:40:14.740 those fucking protests in canada and ontario and you know what he wasn't fucking there the only guy 0.91

00:40:21.400 that was in protest at protest was pi i was um maxim bernie i met him in 2017 when he tried to 0.99

00:40:29.100 become the leader of the conservative party in montreal i went to one of his stock i've always 0.91

00:40:33.220 been i've always had respect for him because he never changed his fucking tune he's the only 0.98

00:40:38.820 politician in canada agree with him don't like him disagree with his comments he never changes tune 0.95

00:40:44.900 he's always said the same thing so i have respect for him but at the same time

00:40:51.700 pi poliev used the freedom convoy to build himself a base and the people that are still

00:40:58.740 conservative today that are voting for him still think that he's that guy that was on the top of

00:41:04.020 the of that overpass trying to praise the the freedom convoy but he was nowhere to be found

00:41:12.580 he never stood up to the lockdowns he never stood up to the convoy to what trudeau said he never

00:41:18.260 said that christia freeland freezing people's account was an outrage that is not a fight he

00:41:24.020 fought because it was not popular at the time pi poliev looks at the polls and he's like what 0.94

00:41:30.340 should i be talking about today and that's what he does if it's popular he's fucking talking about 0.95

00:41:35.820 it that's not what he had for you and it's it's people should be way way way more pissed off i 0.60

00:41:41.300 think because if there's any opportunity because because the excuse you always get the excuse you

00:41:46.300 always hear is split voting well he you can't say that he can't say that because then the media will

00:41:52.920 call him names and it's like okay so now so we're just going to be slaves to cbc then so everyone's 0.57

00:41:59.220 going to be a slave to the cbc and and you've seen the trickle effect where polyev doesn't upset the

00:42:03.800 cbc and now all polyev supporters are like well we can't upset the cbc so it's like okay so now

00:42:08.820 we all agree with the cbc like this is the same cbc by the way that in a way casually dehumanizes

00:42:16.120 casually dismisses and encourages hate towards conservatives like they don't say it explicitly

00:42:22.240 but there's always a casual kind of backhanded thing towards conservatives this is the cbc that

00:42:27.380 we're being submissive to by the way and uh it really pisses me off and why like it totally

00:42:32.940 like why i targeted uh polyev so hard after the convoy is it was the perfect opportunity to

00:42:39.460 actually change the paradigm it was a perfect opportunity to change the paradigm and the way

00:42:45.360 to most simply put this is um everyone is still stuck in the trudeau paradigm where being called

00:42:51.640 racist is the worst possible thing okay i think that banning your own citizens from leaving the

00:42:57.420 country for not being vaccinated i think that's way fucking worse actually i think that's way worse 0.88

00:43:02.040 i think that dehumanizing canadians for not being vaccinated i think i think toronto star 0.93

00:43:07.300 saying that i don't care if unvaxxed people die is worse i think that they were trying to tax the

00:43:12.920 unvaxxed in quebec i think that's worse i you know like and i think putting masks on children

00:43:18.220 I think that's worse. 0.61

00:43:19.940 Call me racist all you want.

00:43:21.220 I don't care.

00:43:22.480 That's the sort of moral paradigm shift that I want, that we should want to happen and should still try to push for in a way.

00:43:29.580 Because so many, it's crazy how many conservative, especially some of the influencers too, are still like this.

00:43:37.540 Where they're like, oh, well, I'm not racist. 0.94

00:43:39.760 It's like, just shut up about that.

00:43:42.020 Like, you shouldn't be apologizing for that. 0.97

00:43:44.800 Like, put that aside.

00:43:45.880 Stop playing into, like, the framework, this moral, this fake morality of Justin Trudeau.

00:43:52.880 Throw it out and change the framework of these people are traitors.

00:43:57.920 Treason is a crime, and it sounds like some of them might be guilty of that in the House of Commons. 0.98

00:44:03.580 I don't care if you think I'm fucking racist, actually, and neither should you. 0.99

00:44:07.740 These people are supposed to be representing us, and they are traitors. 0.99

00:44:11.900 we don't know who but you know it sounds like there's enough evidence this is like a fit the

00:44:16.800 official report so this is what's officially been found who knows what's actually like you know just

00:44:22.040 under under the surface that has not even been identified yet sheesh this is that's why i said 0.96

00:44:28.640 i hate women earlier i'm anti-gay empty lesbian i'm anti lgbtq i'm anti black people i'm anti 0.98

00:44:36.300 everything so call me whatever you want i've said it before you did make a clip about it i don't care 0.99

00:44:41.460 this is the thing right this is what's funny i i'm i'm being called names on a daily base 0.89

00:44:46.140 i don't care i don't give a fuck that you're calling me name because people who can't argue 0.94

00:44:51.420 insult that's it it's the oldest playbook in the world and as soon as you start insulting me 0.98

00:44:57.680 instead of debating me i know exactly who i'm dealing with and the you know i always think

00:45:03.260 about this i'm a massive troll if you stop if you go to my page and you start trolling me 0.99

00:45:08.040 bitch please i've been doing it for a long time i will troll you and troll you and you will leave 1.00

00:45:13.920 my page i don't go to a stand-up comedian and heckle him during his show because i know what's 1.00

00:45:19.540 going to happen i'm going to look like an idiot so you know insult me all you want that's fine i 0.90

00:45:24.700 have a comeback for every single one of them and i don't even need to at the end of the day because 0.98

00:45:28.360 i probably said it somewhere i'm racist use it i don't give a fuck doesn't even need to be true 0.90

00:45:34.980 that makes you happy make videos i don't care i've never actually maybe i should try that new uh 0.96

00:45:40.240 comeback of hey greg you're racist i know what you are but what am i i know what you are but 0.68

00:45:46.480 what am i i'm rubber you're glue whatever you say bounces off me sticks onto you right go even go 0.98

00:45:52.120 even further call me racist you know what actually sorry i'll respond to your comment later i'm just 0.99

00:45:56.940 on my way to a clan meeting right now talk to you later like i don't give a fuck what are you gonna 1.00

00:46:01.500 like what are you gonna what are you gonna do seriously like steven is gay 1.00

00:46:08.240 clearly i i don't like gays clearly if he's there i'm anti-gay i fucking hate gay people clearly 0.99

00:46:16.200 right he's like and he's still responding like same there and but you know what i'm saying it's 0.99

00:46:22.780 it's an oh that's why because there's somebody that says i'm i'm homophobia i'm not homophobe

00:46:29.380 i am homophobia and a gay guy is saying he's homophobia he's homophobia incarnate right yeah 0.65

00:46:37.860 but but this is i've become anti-semitism i've actually i'm not even a person anymore 0.62

00:46:43.620 that's right nope i took a i took a form but this is this is how you beat it right this is how you

00:46:50.340 beat it it's just by saying you know what i will call myself so much worse that you can even imagine

00:46:55.620 so you have nothing for me absolutely and this is totally the energy this is the energy of not

00:47:02.120 caring the energy of messing around with your buddies and uh being having a lightness of spirit

00:47:09.360 and not taking things so deathly seriously all the time people are tired of the cancel culture

00:47:14.620 they're tired of walking on eggshells they're tired of all these like thought policing everywhere

00:47:19.680 and i like to call it like the linkedin culture everybody's like all about oh well no that's not

00:47:26.000 a you can't it's like i'm sorry are we constantly on linkedin all the time is that a place you want

00:47:32.740 to live in do you want to live in a society that's like everything is a linkedin post that sounds

00:47:38.320 miserable okay and that's where we're headed unfortunately well i would say that the pendulum

00:47:43.240 is actually slowly just starting to like change direction now but um it's it's this sort of

00:47:49.920 energy and it's this sort of conversations that people need to kind of be celebrating more this

00:47:54.000 sort of like jovial actually we do have a first amendment actually you should chill the hell the

00:47:59.920 fuck out and uh you know focus on other things like it's it's so it's so uh annoying when there's 0.90

00:48:06.500 like real evil out there there's real corruption there's real crime and you're going to be upset 0.99

00:48:11.560 that i said the n-word is that that's the worst thing that happened today me saying the n-word are 0.63

00:48:15.320 you sure about that there was like a there's an epidemic of break and enters happening in the gta

00:48:20.040 and you're hung up on me saying the n-word like your priorities are no offense kind of 0.91

00:48:24.440 fucked if that's what you think is the worst thing going on right now linkedin is amazing because i 0.97

00:48:29.800 i was in business forever right for 20 years i worked for some of the biggest corporations so 0.96

00:48:34.840 everybody all the connections i have on linkedin or old business and i called people all the time

00:48:41.560 i'm like you to the people that told me i needed to get to get vaccinated and that's why i lost my

00:48:46.280 job you to all of you i don't care ipo i don't say you to all to them directly but i'm like

00:48:52.200 you made me if it wasn't for the fact that you guys forced me to quit because i wouldn't take

00:48:57.480 the vaccine i wouldn't be creating content today so it's all because of you thank you i've been

00:49:03.800 insult like i don't care it's not sorry it's not that i don't care it's just that what i believe 0.76

00:49:09.480 in is more important than people's feelings what i have to say is more important than if you if

00:49:15.800 your feelings get hurt by my comments check the mirror it's not my i'm am i the trigger sure

00:49:23.480 that's what i do i'm meant to trigger people but if you're insulted by the words of somebody you've

00:49:28.280 never met in real life that you don't even know if i exist for all you know i'm ai i'm not even

00:49:33.480 real if that's all it takes to control you you're very easily controllable and you need to check

00:49:40.360 the mirror and that's what it comes down to it's i mean there's probably a better sort of summary

00:49:46.040 that people have made of this over the years but other people's feelings actually aren't that

00:49:51.800 important you know it's the actions the actual actions that people take that's important the

00:49:56.360 The only reason to fear an ist-phobia accusation is because you yourself think you might be.

00:50:02.680 I love it.

00:50:05.880 Steven is saying that, but that is, that's great.

00:50:09.060 I was raised in the 90s.

00:50:10.080 I treat everybody the same. 1.00

00:50:11.340 Yeah, I'm an asshole to absolutely everybody. 1.00

00:50:13.660 I don't care what you like in your bed. 1.00

00:50:16.780 I don't care the color of your skin. 1.00

00:50:18.120 I'm just an asshole to everybody. 1.00

00:50:19.740 I don't care. 0.99

00:50:20.460 I'm not going to somehow be called a bigot for not giving anyone special treatments.

00:50:26.360 amen bro absolutely and you know we're joking about this now but there's a lot of people

00:50:33.800 especially in politics that uh do take everything very very seriously well polyev can't say that

00:50:40.540 uh he can't be like trump although he is like trump right uh he's not he's no he's not at all

00:50:47.460 it's a total joke okay when people say this it's crazy like i almost feel like the best people

00:50:53.460 for campaigning for polyev is the mainstream media because you're like wow polyev is like

00:50:59.240 trump and it's like wait is he cbc it's like you're making him look cool right now like what

00:51:03.460 are you doing like he's not like that at all like that's a total lie uh it's like fake news for the 0.99

00:51:08.920 wrong reason or something but steven is i think steven is saying i'm an asshole because i'm 0.97

00:51:14.080 french fuck you steven but you're probably right actually you're probably good point yeah i think 0.97

00:51:20.860 right bro i think you might be right but you know let me ask you this if you look at what's going 0.99

00:51:28.620 on right now like we're laughing right now because sometimes i don't know what else to do like i can

00:51:32.300 only be pissed off for so long that i have to be laughing at this because remember the the jester

00:51:37.820 analogy from alan watts but at the same time what do you think that canadians will learn because

00:51:47.340 this i struggle with this i ask myself this question day in day out is there something

00:51:52.140 that we can do to really wake people up in canada if what happened between 2020 and 2023

00:52:02.220 did not wake them up already where they're not recognizing the pattern like they're not right

00:52:08.620 it's the same like it's the same same they create a problem then they sell us the solution

00:52:16.140 and we always pay with our rights there's always a consequence to wanting to feel secure your

00:52:23.340 rights i think it's benjamin franklin that said and i'm gonna bastardize the quote but that said

00:52:28.540 that if you prioritize security you don't deserve freedom like it's and it's right but

00:52:37.660 what what's supposed what are we supposed to do in canada like for two and a half years i couldn't

00:52:41.980 leave my house because i wasn't vaccinated i couldn't teach martial arts anymore i could only

00:52:46.300 go to the grocery store and the pharmacy while wearing a face diaper that's the only way i could

00:52:51.580 but i couldn't go to the restaurant i couldn't teach martial arts anymore i lost my job like i

00:52:56.060 couldn't do anything anymore so how do we go from this that happened three years ago it's not like

00:53:03.100 that was oh when i was young no no that was like three years ago it's not that far and now we're

00:53:09.580 we're seeing our governments trying to put ubi in place by blaming the book the orange boogeyman in

00:53:17.180 the us and yet we're just like oh yeah here's a problem we forgot what happened like three years

00:53:24.860 ago not even three years ago like what's happening so i'll first say that i think that a lot of very

00:53:32.140 very important seeds were planted during covet and i think that uh even right now with this sort

00:53:39.180 of trade war happening and the sort of threat of annexation from the u.s i think this is actually

00:53:44.700 planting even more seeds and and i mean seeds as in uh i think canadians are waking up in various

00:53:52.060 degrees at various paces but it's going to take a while it's going to take a while for those seeds

00:53:56.700 to grow but i think that we are already starting to see um we're already starting to see sort of

00:54:05.260 like some of these seeds starting to like sprout and you know uh what do we do is build we need to

00:54:15.220 build think of it almost like a pipeline or think of something that uh doesn't really exist yet

00:54:22.200 like that's that's what needs to happen it's going to be a lot of work because i think what we have

00:54:27.400 up against us in canada is a population that's not very has not been very um passionate or engaged

00:54:37.560 with politics and you we described it earlier how we have these institutions that aren't really

00:54:43.860 serving the people they're serving i don't know foreign interests they're serving lobbyists we

00:54:49.640 have a media landscape that caters to that we have an alternative media landscape that caters to that

00:54:56.240 And it's not to say that it's, you know, that we have to give up or anything, but the way I like to kind of explain it to people is, you know, sure, activism is important, but we need to be long-term minded.

00:55:11.200 We need to be long-term minded.

00:55:13.300 It's not, we're not just going to run out into the streets and like, you know, shoot something into the Death Star and the whole Death Star explodes and all of our problems go away.

00:55:19.860 No, no, no, no, no.

00:55:21.080 It's going to be a lot of hard work.

00:55:23.100 to be a lot of hard work to slowly corral more people to into waking up like it's not going to

00:55:29.740 happen all at once but you know you know i would even say like blender news is a good example

00:55:34.320 they've propped up or propped propped up they've popped up and they're slowly but surely they're

00:55:40.140 starting to like build an audience they're starting to really educate people on things

00:55:43.260 that are going on and it's going to it's going to take more and more people like that popping up

00:55:48.600 and also kind of creating other organizations that might not have to do with media and might

00:55:54.100 not have to do with news might not even have to do with politics necessarily you know I always

00:55:58.480 tell people that because people are like oh Greg what should I do and it's like well what are you

00:56:02.340 already passionate about what are you already skilled at maybe you can do something that has

00:56:08.740 to do with like you know I don't know a dad's club or a men's club or maybe it's like some sort of

00:56:14.020 sports thing maybe it's some sort of basket weaving I don't know but it's like you know

00:56:17.660 create something that will help your local community or that's like something you're

00:56:22.540 passionate about and then go from there because um i feel like almost like the major problem

00:56:29.680 especially since the convoy is there's obviously the apathy but the people who get it the people

00:56:35.220 who get it they've been demoralized traumatized and they're full of fear and because they're

00:56:41.800 fearful it's like you don't have any good ideas because you're full of fear you're not thinking

00:56:46.460 of the long term you're only thinking of the short term you're only thinking of the short spurts

00:56:50.000 and i i've been there okay i'm not acting like i'm any better than the people who have been

00:56:56.200 fearful and dramatized okay i saw my friends go to jail i had friends leave the country

00:57:00.600 i was in a dark hole okay for a little while after the convoy i actually stopped posting content 0.96

00:57:06.300 because i was terrified i didn't know if the fucking police were going to show up and arrest 0.97

00:57:08.920 me or what the fuck was going on uh there was a there was a heartbreak of like does my country 0.99

00:57:14.000 even love me anymore i'm i even wanted here should i get an rv and move to the states you know like 0.94

00:57:20.120 all this thing is all these things were passing through my head and i'm sure many other canadians

00:57:24.720 heads but for the people that do get it the first thing is to like not be caught up in the fear

00:57:31.100 and to open the bible no but uh you know you do need to have more of a long-term mindset

00:57:39.120 of building something and the other thing too is like sometimes being too focused on trying to like

00:57:47.580 fix everything you can just torment yourself with that you know like like if you focus just on one

00:57:52.920 thing that you can do to like better improve the situation then that's great what i'm focusing on

00:57:57.340 with the documentary just to segue is we are focusing on uh you know people being empowered

00:58:04.280 to speak truth to power right we need that and the problem is there's this organization

00:58:11.220 called the canadian anti-hate network and they're basically a smear factory they smear people they

00:58:16.960 smear people who are outspoken on different issues if you if you if you criticize the

00:58:21.900 the uh transgenderism in schools they will systematically go after you and smear your 1.00

00:58:26.560 reputation and uh what reputation what reputation well i mean reputation is important reputation is

00:58:35.020 important and i should maybe add add some context to what we were saying before about you know

00:58:39.720 saying that we hate women and making all these jokes because there is another side to that 0.99

00:58:43.500 especially when it comes to politics and being taken seriously which is like you do

00:58:46.720 when you go into the realm of politics or like trying to get a lot of people moving in the same

00:58:51.520 direction reputation is a thing you know having a having an important like relationship with the

00:58:59.280 public having the public perceive you in the right way that's very very valuable and very

00:59:03.320 very important and it's something that's not even it's just a psychological thing

00:59:06.980 you know like like human beings follow people because we trust them because we identify with

00:59:12.460 them blah blah blah that's why i'm not a politician not interested in being a politician

00:59:18.220 i'm not a journalist never claim what i will be one i'm a commentator hey it's fine you know

00:59:25.220 you're charming you're funny people like that human beings like like like that so but i appreciate 0.94

00:59:32.200 that but yeah so no homo no homo no eye contact because that'd be gay just saying 1.00

00:59:39.320 it's through the camera it's all good i don't know how that works if i have to say

00:59:46.200 no homo too i don't know the rules but uh but yeah before you go like uh there's a couple of 0.92

00:59:55.360 comments and there's one that was actually making your that was agreeing with you we survived the

00:59:59.460 biggest psychological operation in history agreed couldn't agree with you more darren but steven

01:00:04.840 said i felt helpless when i woke up in 2018 or 2014 but it's definitely started changing since

01:00:10.520 then very slowly but surely so that goes to your point right to that it's a change that

01:00:16.460 i think we have to remember and i think that's where i get frustrated is we have to remember

01:00:21.940 that this has happened over decades and decades and decades we find ourselves in this shithole

01:00:27.100 that we're in not because it started happening two years ago it's been happening for decades and

01:00:33.520 decades and decades so of course it's going to be slow but see darren even darren agrees with you

01:00:38.800 we need to bring back men's club and he's asking when your documentary is out so i'm just

01:00:43.320 those are questions for you but i didn't mean to to cut you off as just i always make sure to take

01:00:49.080 the comments because people take it take i without people listening to this we wouldn't be doing this

01:00:55.240 so i will always read every single of your comment and make sure that your voices or if you take the

01:01:01.060 time to comment i'll take the time to post them yeah absolutely so documentary we still have about

01:01:06.640 half a dozen interviews to collect. Some of them are in people in Alberta and done remotely. So

01:01:13.320 that'll probably take us another month to collect the rest of the interviews. And then it's going

01:01:17.500 to take another month to edit everything together. So we're looking at probably April, May by the

01:01:24.840 time it's available. It'll be called the Hate Network, or at least that's the working title.

01:01:29.760 we'll see what it looks like when it's done but um yeah it's uh the speaking of of sort of

01:01:36.720 the the building uh and things kind of what was i going to say turning things around slowly

01:01:42.340 is uh shoot i've lost it now but i'm sorry my apologies there is going to be a trailer coming

01:01:51.740 up for the documentary soon though if people want to check it out uh let me know when it's out i'll

01:01:57.000 i'll post it everywhere i'll reshare it oh yeah absolutely absolutely we need to stick together

01:02:02.420 fundraiser at givesango.com slash say free speech um yeah if they want to check that out there

01:02:10.200 what do you want people to know because we've been going for about an hour and an hour and

01:02:16.440 five minutes i'd love to have you back on i think it would you and i can make for very easy content

01:02:21.220 i i i see so love to have you back on but is there something you want the people to know

01:02:26.720 is there something you want to leave them on what do i want people to know uh i want people to know

01:02:35.520 that to not be afraid don't be afraid of of um you know people judging you or people thinking

01:02:46.640 the wrong way uh because i really think that the more fearful we all fearful we are the less we

01:02:52.900 actually speak up the way the less we speak out and on our own personal spiritual level i think

01:02:58.480 that actually hurts you it actually hurts yourself you're not being you're not honoring yourself

01:03:02.480 you're not being honest with yourself you know although people don't like me and maybe they

01:03:07.680 don't like you nico uh they call you names or whatever people get mad at you people i bet you

01:03:13.160 sleep like a baby i sleep really well i sleep really really well because i got everything off 0.86

01:03:18.800 my chest during the day. And then I just, you know, I, I, I don't, I don't lose any sleep over

01:03:22.640 it, uh, whatsoever. And I think that, um, you know, especially if you're somebody who is honest,

01:03:30.560 if you're somebody who is, who is like a, you know, a good person, it's like, you of all people

01:03:35.440 should be speaking up actually, because you have a good heart. And I saw it at the convoy. I don't

01:03:40.920 know if I told you, but like, I interviewed over 300 different people on camera at the convoy

01:03:45.020 and some of the best canadians out there amazing hearted people who are doing things for the right

01:03:53.500 reasons totally generous honest people who just wanted their government to stop acting like evil

01:04:00.000 tyrants right and uh i bring that up too because there's all this talk with all this trade war talk

01:04:07.280 they're invoking all this talk like all these politicians are are uh what's the word not

01:04:12.920 They're posturing all of this stuff about Canadian pride, Canadian this, Canadian pride.

01:04:19.020 And it's like, you guys tried to memory hole the trucker convoy.

01:04:23.200 You tried to completely flatten that, act like it was nothing at all.

01:04:28.660 These were like the trucker convoy were Canadians who had a sense of camaraderie and unity and sacrifice to push back against the tyrannical government.

01:04:38.540 And that and and a lot of people I spoke to felt like they they they said they felt Canadian pride for the first time in a long time at that convoy.

01:04:46.760 And everyone in the parliament building tries to make you forget what the convoy was.

01:04:52.160 No one has championed the convoy who's in the House of Commons, even the conservative party, hardly at all.

01:04:58.380 So it's there. Canadian pride is there.

01:05:01.700 don't take your cues from the uh from the ottawa bubble from the mainstream media or even the

01:05:09.320 alternative media necessarily for that for that matter and i guess like one thing actually i'm

01:05:14.440 remembering now i got the impression from you earlier that you're like oh there's so many

01:05:19.260 liberals canada's so liberal that's a total farce that is a total that's totally fake that's totally

01:05:25.200 what the mainstream media wants you to believe that we're all these liberal passive sheep it's

01:05:30.400 not true. Over 65% of Canadians want deportations and want to stop mass immigration. Is that a

01:05:37.260 liberal viewpoint? The majority of Canadians? And that's another reason why I have so much hope,

01:05:43.020 by the way, is because Canadians have started to risk being called racist. They're actually

01:05:49.680 opposing immigrants. This has never happened before since I've joined politics. I joined the

01:05:54.720 ppc in 2019 i got called racist all the time people thought i was a villain for even suggesting

01:06:00.660 that we lower the immigration levels in 2019 now it's a popular sentiment now now the majority of

01:06:07.020 canadians have a ppc talking point from 2019 like we are moving in the right direction i think the

01:06:12.780 reason why it's so hopeless is because there's so little quality leaders that are actually in the

01:06:19.120 political arena right now right it's impossible to be in the political arena when you're not

01:06:27.480 going to apologize for your opinion i don't i will if i'm right i'm right if i'm wrong i will

01:06:32.720 apologize but i stand by my opinion this is why i can't be in politics because i will not become a

01:06:40.740 politician to appease politicians this is the problem with politics today is there's not enough 0.99

01:06:46.220 guys like me they're ready to tell people that you're wrong if you're not happy you can go fuck 0.99

01:06:51.680 yourself because it's your problem your feelings don't belong to me i'm not responsible for tip 0.99

01:06:57.400 toeing around your feelings because i might hurt them bro my feelings are hurt all the time that's 0.99

01:07:03.460 how you learn you don't learn by being catered to you learn by somebody calling your bullshit and 0.99

01:07:09.300 saying you know what bro you're wrong here's why you're wrong you don't like it go back home and 1.00

01:07:14.680 think about it and then you're like if you have a critical thinking add-on you're like oh shit

01:07:20.240 maybe he did have a point yeah yeah okay there you go i'm i'm i'm i'm better now so i man i would 0.97

01:07:27.900 rip this shit up in in politics it's just people don't want the guy they're not ready for guys like 0.97

01:07:33.280 me to just call the bullshit the way it is i i i totally disagree i think it's the opposite i think 0.99

01:07:39.920 people are so ready i think people are so ready for that we saw it with trump in 2019 that being 0.96

01:07:45.800 said there is a balance there is a balance of traditional politics presenting in a suit you

01:07:51.440 know being personable all that stuff you know you can't be like you know a total belligerent

01:07:56.500 like that out of hell but it's with those calculated like runs of like well yeah because

01:08:01.900 you'd be in jail hillary like you know comments like that that are just explosive and like they're

01:08:06.980 funny uh people love that people are starving for that but doing but that's why doing what i'm doing

01:08:13.100 makes sense to me because i don't have to worry about what i have to say and i'm not endorsing

01:08:17.260 any party like i'm not backing any party if if justin trudeau wanted to record an interview with

01:08:24.800 me i would take it because i would take the opportunity to question it would be a hard

01:08:29.020 interview he would not enjoy it but you know same thing with pierre poliev as much as i dislike the

01:08:34.500 guy i would love to have him on to be able to question him same thing when i had maxime bernie

01:08:39.320 on as much as i like him we asked him real questions that he had to answer and he did a

01:08:44.480 good job answering them so that's the thing i love what i do right now we need guys like me in

01:08:51.460 politics but i don't want to be that guy because i don't want to have to like tone it down because

01:08:58.960 i understand that you need i used to wear a suit every day man that's what i did for more than 12

01:09:02.940 years so you don't go in a meeting it was up like you're not gonna sell anything like that he was

01:09:08.300 in sales guys he was in sales yeah exactly he was not he was not in hr no but but you have to be you

01:09:15.980 have to read the crowd and know who you're talking to just when i do this when we do what we're doing

01:09:20.380 right now i don't have to because if you don't like what i say guess what don't watch it it's

01:09:25.420 really that simple scroll just go away i gotta push back with what you're saying here a bit nico

01:09:31.500 because it reminds me of exactly how I felt when I joined politics in 2019.

01:09:36.260 I ran as a candidate.

01:09:37.460 I didn't want to run as a candidate, but I got pushed into it.

01:09:40.940 And I met all these people, and it was, like, in politics.

01:09:45.440 And I'm like, man, there's a lot of, like, weasels. 0.85

01:09:47.180 There's a lot of weirdos.

01:09:48.320 Like, no offense, but, like, there's a lot of interesting characters in politics.

01:09:51.980 And the thing is, I had just come.

01:09:54.140 I had just come as, like, an urban professional in Toronto.

01:09:58.100 And it was so disappointing.

01:09:59.560 because when you're in a you know a city center like toronto and you're a professional i was in

01:10:04.640 sales as well you're meeting all sorts of bright people who are passionate about what they do

01:10:09.420 and they're really focused and and they love what they're doing and they're good at it

01:10:13.680 and then i went over to politics and i'm like what happened how come how come none of these

01:10:19.720 canadians who are bright and passionate and good with how come none of these people made it into

01:10:24.200 politics you know and that's the whole problem right the brilliant canadians are there they're

01:10:29.960 just not in politics you know like they're they're making a living because they don't want the stress

01:10:34.540 probably and the headaches of uh of having to go into politics but i guess the point is if we can

01:10:39.840 try to like correct that equation somehow and realize like hey i know your paycheck's important

01:10:44.840 i know you want to you know have a carefree life but uh the country's at stake actually

01:10:49.860 you know like this place that you love this place that gave you so much and that i hope you're

01:10:54.360 grateful for um it's at stake it's actually getting undermined by you know the foreign 1.00

01:10:59.940 influence and all sorts of corporate interests that are undermining the the quality of life

01:11:04.040 for the people um so maybe your job at ibm or facebook headquarters you know maybe maybe you

01:11:12.080 could we we need to coach people how to to to go into the fray of the the toxic minefield uh of

01:11:21.480 politics and and it and trust me i'm someone who does not belong in it at all because i'm there

01:11:28.120 and i'm like these people are being so dishonest why are they lying all the time you know and i'm 0.57

01:11:32.960 like that's totally not in my nature at all so it's it's been quite the sort of uh treacherous

01:11:37.840 journey for me so far of being like wow there's a lot of nasty people out there but anyway great

01:11:43.620 comments on your uh i'm just checking out your youtube you got some great comments on there

01:11:48.360 yeah if you don't mind i'll read this uh this super chat oh that's exactly why i'm bringing

01:11:53.000 it up like i always read my comments go for it man so uh nicholas with five dollars thank you

01:11:58.780 so much nicholas for the for the donation thanks for keeping it real greg it's hard to stay positive

01:12:03.600 sometimes but people like you keep me sane happy to hear it man we'll be checking out nico now

01:12:09.660 too god bless with the uh with the cross with the with the cross i am a christian not only

01:12:17.100 does politicians don't like me but christians don't like me either because i i i call them

01:12:23.000 out the same way i call i call up politicians so if you're a christian nicholas uh hopefully you 0.96

01:12:29.720 have some wire for your hat because it's gonna blow off your head i do not a puff i want to 1.00

01:12:37.520 reform christianity so that's another thing i do oh really oh that were a bunch of fucking pussies 1.00

01:12:43.580 oh that way okay cool oh yeah christians are pussies and even in in alabama where it's the 1.00

01:12:50.300 bible belt people are they crumbled during covid churches closed and i'm like did you not read your 1.00

01:12:59.240 bible did you not read your bible you will always be prosecuted if you follow jesus christ 0.99

01:13:06.000 keep your fucking doors open they hated me first is what is what when when was it when was religion 1.00

01:13:13.220 more needed than when people couldn't be six feet from each other you know what i did during covid 1.00

01:13:19.040 and it when you were at the the convoy did you see a bald-headed guy giving hugs to people because

01:13:24.540 That's what I did at protests.

01:13:26.100 I showed up to all the protests in Quebec and Ontario with my sign-free hugs,

01:13:31.120 and I gave thousands, at least 5,000 hugs during COVID when we couldn't be six feet of each other.

01:13:39.500 I was still working for corporate. 0.99

01:13:41.420 My buddy was following me with a camera, and I would post that shit everywhere. 0.99

01:13:45.120 You know, you were saying that you were worried about your post during that time of day. 0.99

01:13:50.440 I did not care.

01:13:51.320 I was posting that everywhere.

01:13:53.340 I didn't care.

01:13:53.980 and but you know you know what i got the most you know what i got the most from there and i think 0.86

01:13:59.140 this is what i got yeah no shit but what i got the most of were older people like men and women 0.60

01:14:07.440 above 60 they're like my my kids my grandkids don't want to see me right now because of what's 0.66

01:14:13.820 going on i live alone so i'm always like i never have anybody like our bubble remember that term

01:14:20.460 like i have nobody in my bubble so i would have men and women in their 60s 70s and 80s i've had

01:14:27.260 people cry on my shoulder and all i did is giving i walked around with a sign free hugs and whoever

01:14:33.380 wanted some i'd give you hugs that's it that's all i did but man you should have seen the people

01:14:38.040 just man it's been a while since somebody i touched somebody else i've been close to somebody

01:14:43.700 else like i got some videos that i can't even watch to this day like i'm gonna start without

01:14:47.520 crying and i'm the one that recorded them and edited them i know what they are but still it's

01:14:53.680 so fucking tough i tried to do it after covid like doing free hugs it's not the same because

01:14:59.340 it's not that impactful like giving free hugs to people is whatever but doing it when people were 0.91

01:15:04.120 not allowed six feet from each other bro the videos are so so so powerful but that's what i

01:15:10.960 did in um at the freedom convoy it was just a big party like people were making it probably crossed

01:15:17.320 we probably crossed paths at one point i was there for most most of the three weeks so damn good for

01:15:23.880 you you're not you where are you from by the way are you from ottawa you're from toronto ottawa i'm

01:15:28.240 in toronto i'm in toronto i went for the first weekend and then me and my cameraman igor shouts

01:15:33.440 out igor we got uh we got we booked an airbnb there for like 10 days after that and then we

01:15:39.680 came back again to get uh beaten up by cops i didn't get beaten up by cops but uh we got to

01:15:45.140 see that we got to witness we got to witness the police violence uh yeah insane but um 0.99

01:15:54.100 damn somebody just dropped 100 bucks to you wow are you serious yeah why do you what do you have 0.98

01:16:01.660 to do for them oh my gosh silverman and buddy thank you so much i'm pretty sure half of that 0.99

01:16:09.580 is mine i'm pretty sure half of that is mine you're welcome greg welcome thank you so much

01:16:18.300 silverman and buddy for the huge donation i appreciate it thank you so much sir uh

01:16:25.580 uh yeah no this this this this is great there's a lot there's a lot um there's a lot of bills to

01:16:32.900 pay for the documentary so it's it's always that's interesting sandy clean is saying

01:16:39.020 i saw those videos back then because my videos went viral bro they were everywhere like people

01:16:45.160 were sharing well i did it live like at one point my buddy showed up we had the massive camera and

01:16:50.700 i had my cell phone and do you remember maximo elet the the police officer from quebec that

01:16:57.820 quit during covet started talking about how the police were so corrupt they were trying to force

01:17:02.940 him to to get vaccinated and all that stuff i became friends with him and he restreamed he

01:17:08.620 shared my post on facebook it just went absolutely viral so i wouldn't be surprised sorry was he a

01:17:15.260 sitting uh police officer yeah yeah what happened he quit his job he's in florida now talk to him

01:17:22.060 not too long ago he's in florida like when when he stood up and said hey these people are corrupt

01:17:26.760 was he working at the time oh yeah and he was everywhere in the news bro everywhere in the

01:17:31.900 news we're just bashing him uh he quit his job he had um luckily enough he was luckily enough he was

01:17:39.380 running a uh he has a side business he had a business that he was investing in as a police

01:17:43.960 officer so he had a side business and now that's all he does so he was he wasn't a he wasn't a good

01:17:49.860 position but he was talking how people were just going with it because they didn't want to lose

01:17:55.020 their pensions and all that stuff it's just that it's possible that she did see my videos because

01:18:02.240 they went viral back then and they were just like three four minutes long right i have hundreds of

01:18:08.060 hours of recording but it's just you you take the bet you know how it is you take the best one and

01:18:12.600 They're just little clippets that you put together. 0.97

01:18:14.920 And il parle français dans les videos?

01:18:19.440 Like, was he speaking French or English?

01:18:21.860 No, no, no, there's no video.

01:18:23.620 There's no talking.

01:18:24.540 It's me hugging people.

01:18:26.080 No, I meant with your friend who was a police officer.

01:18:30.580 Oh, yeah.

01:18:31.280 No, what I mean is that we started talking.

01:18:34.520 I approached him because I record a lot of podcasts, right?

01:18:36.340 So I approached him, and then we recorded something.

01:18:39.160 But then he started sharing my stuff.

01:18:40.500 and then it just went absolutely like those videos went absolutely viral but man i need

01:18:46.220 to re-watch those because some of those videos are there's a few of them that are powerful as

01:18:51.080 shit i still have a number of uh interviews from the convoy that i actually have still have not

01:18:58.120 seen the light of day a lot of good ones too oh man some of them will probably make it into 0.86

01:19:05.500 this to some of this next doc but yeah can i check do you have like three minutes four minutes

01:19:11.900 for a video because i keep everything right i just found probably the best video i made like

01:19:17.380 it's a three four while we're talking it was there was a hundred a hundred thousand people 0.97

01:19:22.580 at that uh protest where i was like it's insane it's just it's it was in montreal it was fucking 0.99

01:19:28.540 massive but i just found it if you want to see it i'm not just we're talking man i haven't brought

01:19:33.080 up those videos in a long time wow okay i i don't i can't promise not to cry though because those

01:19:39.800 things make me very uh very emotional just saying uh damn let's see it let's see it yep it's loading

01:19:48.920 right now so it should show up in a minute i think it's a bigger

01:20:18.920 We'll be right back.

01:20:48.920 We'll be right back.

01:21:18.920 We'll be right back.

01:21:48.920 I don't know.

01:22:18.920 What a terrible edit. 0.77

01:22:47.020 that was really at the beginning of me editing content damn gotta learn somehow that was

01:22:52.960 beautiful though that's a lot of that's a lot of hugs i definitely recognize that sign um yeah

01:22:59.020 and i used the same i still have the sign right here in alabama and it's the same sign i created

01:23:06.440 almost three years four years ago it's all fucked up all battered but they made it through 0.96

01:23:13.320 it made it through but your people seem to like it man i'm just looking at your your youtube feed

01:23:18.680 they seem to just i posted your uh your website in chat so people can find your different socials

01:23:24.560 there but um yeah i still have uh just speaking of like the sentimental uh sign uh oh i have it

01:23:32.160 where is it this is this is the the pixel for this is the phone that i had uh at the convoy

01:23:39.160 that captured all the interviews i just plugged a microphone into this and the microphone is like

01:23:45.020 a little lav mic and i wrapped it around a little like uh canadian flag but uh the lav mic is now

01:23:50.500 broken but i still have the old lav mic that captured all of the conversations down there

01:23:55.540 uh yeah a little bit of a you know sentimental memento of uh i mean a very very historical

01:24:04.000 event right like it's it was very very unique but um yeah we'll have to do this again sometime 0.86

01:24:11.400 man i'm kind of emotional right now damn it's it's that time was sucked but it was beautiful

01:24:19.780 at the same time it was very interesting times right when you go back to that time because 0.97

01:24:24.120 i was at the freedom convoy it was a massive party there was white people there were black

01:24:29.280 people they were indian people they were native people they were people that were asian men women 0.99

01:24:36.640 kids they were all far right monsters every 100 all racists all a bunch of racists obviously 0.96

01:24:44.160 racists homophobes but it was just a beautiful time like it did not matter the protest that i 0.95

01:24:50.800 went to i always went there with the optic of being uh in a good heart spirit that's why we

01:24:59.680 were doing the free hugs because i did not want there to be to produce negative energy i wanted

01:25:04.480 to bring something positive to it and i wasn't the only one like the like you can tell like that is

01:25:10.960 i probably have two hours of those videos that i just showed you from that single protest

01:25:16.880 yep same thing in the convoy and i've been to multiple of those protests so the spirit was

01:25:22.640 there people weren't there to be pissed off they just wanted to show that they did not stand for

01:25:28.320 what they were for what the government was doing that's it it's really that simple they were just

01:25:32.400 right and look from the video it's just regular people that you find everywhere in canada they

01:25:38.480 weren't supremacists they weren't coming back from a meeting they weren't on their way to a meeting

01:25:44.160 there were just people from man i got videos where kids wanted hugs like six years old and

01:25:50.960 i'm looking at the parents i'm like am i supposed is that okay like the kids looking at me like i

01:25:55.280 want to hug i'm i'm on my knees and i'm like i'm hugging i'm looking at the parents is this okay

01:26:00.160 like am i supposed to be able to do this but yeah it's um it was a cool time at the same time right

01:26:08.000 very interesting time i mean i thought the convoy was a great time it was it was just such a low

01:26:14.420 low after like you know low after the convoy was like that was that was a big low but even even

01:26:20.740 all of the politics and even the mandates aside i have somebody from my hometown i grew up in

01:26:28.300 kingston ontario and he doesn't even follow politics he wasn't even into politics but he

01:26:34.000 was unvaccinated and so i on the way on the drive to ottawa from toronto i called him i'm like yo

01:26:40.720 i'm like yo i'm going to this pro like this trucker protest and he was like uh like we'll be

01:26:47.540 like we'll be passing kingston like three hours and it's like okay i'll think about it and he

01:26:51.940 called me back an hour later he's like yeah i'll come i like i have nothing else to do and that's

01:26:57.020 thing if you're unvaccinated at that time you had nothing else you could even do so and hug

01:27:05.920 yeah i would love to sure let's hug oh my god i forgot what this felt like right so and it's and

01:27:12.760 it's true like aside from all the politics of it and the mandates it was just a relief to actually

01:27:18.840 do something and to actually be with people and to actually hug people and interact with people

01:27:24.820 with no masks on like it was so it was so nice for like a whole other reason aside from like

01:27:30.380 the purpose of like protesting the evil government it was just like a relief for like a on a human

01:27:34.760 being level so and i had a massive mustache if you saw in the movie like it was out of control

01:27:41.620 it was like this long and aggressive people would people would recognize me from those videos because

01:27:48.860 i was at all the protests but i was there with a sign and they're like hey i saw you i've seen you

01:27:54.160 can i have a hug yeah but i i think at one of them we were six giving free hugs i like i did not

01:28:02.340 have the audience that i have today like nowhere for i had a couple thousand followers back then

01:28:07.440 but i can only imagine if i had the following i had today i would have put like i would have

01:28:14.000 wanted 40 50 60 100 people show up with signs just free hugs like just let's just give hugs

01:28:21.720 the people and change their change their day because you know we can finish on this but you

01:28:26.800 said something earlier that is absolutely absolutely right and you said something along

01:28:31.340 the lines of you change you know the most important thing that people can do is try to change their

01:28:37.580 communities get involved at the local level because this is where you live this is where the

01:28:42.920 people that you care about are probably are probably located and this is where you change

01:28:47.760 the world right you change the world one community at a time people look at let's say what you and i

01:28:52.980 do or they look at politicians they're like how am i supposed to change the world i don't have

01:28:57.720 their power i don't have their reach i don't have the views that those guys get

01:29:03.620 yet you know what changed the world a good father a father that's home there to raise their kids

01:29:09.200 that right there you know how many i grew up my father left when i was young and you know what 0.94

01:29:14.920 it fucked my whole life. It's not until my 20s. Like I was a

01:29:17.560 drug addict. I was an alcoholic. I sold drugs. I was I quit

01:29:21.480 school. I was 15 years old. It's not before my 20s, where I went

01:29:25.200 back to school, found martial arts, found the gym. And my

01:29:29.020 chain, my life surrounded myself by strong men that my life

01:29:32.780 changed. So for all the people out there that you think that

01:29:35.700 you're not changing anything, or you don't have that power, bro,

01:29:38.780 being a good father being a good brother, just caring for your

01:29:42.560 neighbors it's really really that simple that's where it starts right if you don't like what's

01:29:47.480 going on in your in in your community go to school meetings if you have kids in school boards

01:29:53.720 in school meet in school make sure to be part of that board run for your mayor's office like

01:29:58.680 there's so many things that you can do just think local level you don't need an audience for that

01:30:03.200 you definitely don't need to how did you uh this is kind of a more personal question but

01:30:07.420 how did you uh how'd you get clean um you know i step programs or looking back it was god

01:30:17.660 i did not know it back then it took me a long time it's when i spent two and a half years in

01:30:23.060 the woods that i came to that realization that from i've had a lot of highs and a lot of lows

01:30:28.940 in my life like i i have a very interesting background and you know i haven't told this

01:30:37.220 story in a long time but i was i must have been 20 21 i'm sitting in my apartment like i i grew

01:30:45.320 i left my house i left home i think i was 17 years old like i quit school i was 15 by 16 i was a drug

01:30:52.460 addict i was doing i was an alcoholic i was a thief i was doing well i was not a nice kid right

01:30:57.440 and i had been living by myself for probably four years by then and i had been evicted from

01:31:04.880 apartment to apartment i was always having parties selling drugs so nobody wanted me as a tenant

01:31:10.580 right so every time that came out i got kicked out and i was literally my boxes are all packed

01:31:17.220 i'm homeless i have no place to go i'm literally i'm looking at my boxes and i gotta leave

01:31:22.380 the phone rings i'm sitting on the floor looking at all my shit and i'm like i don't know where 0.76

01:31:27.820 i'm gonna go from here and the phone rang and it was my mom my mom was calling out of the blue 0.84

01:31:34.220 she did not know the situation that i was in my mom was not aware of what i was doing she had an

01:31:40.340 idea she's not stupid but she did not know where i was and it's interesting because um at that point

01:31:47.420 i had a lot of friends that that that were really connected back then and i had an opportunity to

01:31:54.000 learn a skill that is definitely not legal but that is extremely extremely lucrative like you

01:31:59.760 know back in the days where weed was not legal people used to grow it well i was in the works

01:32:06.480 to get my own house to grow that stuff so i'm sitting there i'm sitting there so imagine this

01:32:12.660 i'm sitting on the floor of my apartment i have an opportunity that's coming but it's not there yet

01:32:17.300 i'm a homeless and my mom calls me and she asked me the most simple of questions not knowing what

01:32:24.180 she was actually telling me that's why i don't think it's her i think god used my mother to tell

01:32:28.940 me because my mother is not like that we did not have i don't have a good relationship with my

01:32:32.880 mother to this day so she just called me asking are you happy and i just like bro i'm gonna start

01:32:42.060 crying i haven't told this story in a long time but i'm just sitting there and i'm like

01:32:45.800 it just put it back in perspective and then she continued and she said

01:32:50.400 if you're not happy with where you are come back home i can't like i can't take care of you but i

01:32:58.480 can give you a roof over your head and maybe you can find a job maybe you can go back to school

01:33:03.600 i'm 21 years old with three years of high school like i didn't even have my third year of high

01:33:09.240 school so my mom just offered me the opportunity and that same night i left i went back to my mom

01:33:17.700 i stopped smoking i stopped taking drugs i stopped smoking i stopped drinking i cut connection with

01:33:24.340 all of my friends that were involved i literally that night i'm like all of it cold cold turkey

01:33:29.480 cold turkey it's like god this is why i can look back now and say that was not my mother talking

01:33:35.860 that was god talking and the strength that i developed overnight was not mine i never had

01:33:42.400 that strength before it just i chose to stop within two years bro i i had gone back to school

01:33:49.560 i had a high school equivalency i had a small job on the side making donuts at tim hortons back in

01:33:54.920 the days where we actually made the donuts in the back i was one of the bakers and i was working as

01:34:02.180 a baker on the weekend religious no oh fuck no until until i left for the u.s which was about 0.86

01:34:10.640 three years ago until we we began traveling i could count on one hand the amount of time i had 0.99

01:34:15.760 been in a church now what about your what about your mom is she religious no no like i said i i

01:34:22.940 could count on one hand the amount of time i've been so my mom that's why i looking back i'm like

01:34:27.820 that was my that was god because i changed overnight i went back to school i did my

01:34:33.900 equivalency without studying i basically showed up for the test passed everything applied for

01:34:39.000 technical college in ottawa like you know one of those the vrys type of situation it's sure 1.00

01:34:43.840 but it's just like a regular community college type of deal i took a fast i took a fast track

01:34:52.580 course on um computers on computer technology because my my biological dad's an engineer so

01:34:59.560 i was rebuilding computers when i was a kid i've always been around technology so i'm like what

01:35:04.940 can i do i'll study this and i started i within two years bro i was i was not only clean but i

01:35:13.240 had a high school i had my high school diploma i had a college diploma i started working in a call

01:35:19.140 center within seven years i was an i was a sales engineer making multiple hundreds of thousand

01:35:24.940 dollars so this is just i'm a very ambitious guy right like i just i just went from being a drug

01:35:32.280 addict to making really good money just because i'm dedicated but it doesn't again it doesn't

01:35:38.180 come from me i don't i don't think it's mine it's just i just roll with it i just follow that voice

01:35:43.660 that's telling me what to do and i just i have faith i've always been very faithful i just didn't

01:35:48.260 know i thought it was intuition but i realized that it was not intuition it does not belong to

01:35:54.540 me it's just something tells me what i'm supposed to do and i faithfully do it i don't ask questions

01:36:00.820 i just fucking do it how hard it is it's it's always difficult because i can't but i can't 0.93

01:36:06.500 explain it right but you know i gotta i gotta tell you it's a powerful story thank you for sharing 0.96

01:36:12.000 that but you know what the mo what i'm great the most grateful about is probably my wife today and

01:36:18.720 we're in an rv so she can hear me she's literally right there but she's stuck by me by all the hard

01:36:24.220 times that we've been through over the past five years like me quitting my job as an engineer i

01:36:30.580 was in works to work for amazon man we were talking three four hundred grand american that's 0.97

01:36:36.140 the job i had lined up when i said fuck you i'm out so i went from having an investment house to 0.99

01:36:43.900 buying multiple ones that was that was the point to losing absolutely everything because god sent 0.99

01:36:50.340 me on that path and i had to learn that money didn't mean shit because that's all i was chasing 0.51

01:36:54.620 after was money money money money money so my wife has been around this i've been with me since then

01:37:01.520 like so i'm still on the path of trying to figure out what's happening but you and i we met through

01:37:07.740 a group because we're gonna build something amazing like we'll talk about this but bro like 0.97

01:37:13.800 i i know how to build that shit from the get-go and this is gonna be fucking i was in that world 0.99

01:37:19.620 i have all the skill like everything has brought me to this just because i listen hardest thing 0.98

01:37:25.760 i've ever done by far by far but i'm very very grateful and i thank god for my wife every day

01:37:33.200 because she trusted me as hard as it was as hard as it got and it's still hard right now she always

01:37:41.300 been there hasn't been easy bro but i know that i can trust her with anything i have no doubt in my 0.98

01:37:47.880 mind that if we could go through that and still be together fucking bring it fucking bring it 0.95

01:37:58.120 and and this is sort of similar to what i was saying with like the planting the seeds during 0.98

01:38:02.060 the convoy um because that that's that's not necessarily a planting of the seeds yours is

01:38:07.140 more of like a hardening of of the or like sort of like a uh maybe not hardening but um what's

01:38:14.520 the word like stronger resolve i guess like you've established a stronger resolve with like what you

01:38:20.360 think is important and like how you want to live your life i think that happened for a lot of

01:38:25.500 people a lot of people were like hey i'm on lockdown now that i think about it i'm kind of

01:38:31.700 living a meaningless existence and i hate my job and this is actually an opportunity to kind of

01:38:36.960 pivot and change and i do think there was a kind of a small uh you know creative revolution online

01:38:43.340 a little bit a lot of people went to tick tock people started to call me a comedian because i

01:38:47.960 started to post a bunch of tick tocks making fun of stuff and uh it's totally changed the trajectory

01:38:53.120 of of the way that i look at my career as well because it's like wow people are actually you

01:38:58.880 know looking at me as like an artist and a creator because i always used to poo-poo that that idea

01:39:03.720 um beforehand before before the pandemic and kind of just what i was doing with my sales career and

01:39:09.540 that sort of thing but uh god works the mysterious ways you know the best thing i've ever done was

01:39:17.640 the hardest thing by far was to when covid happened i was in montreal and as a sales engineer all i

01:39:23.800 did is meet with customers day in day out face to face that's all i did i spent most of my days in

01:39:28.040 my car going meetings to meetings right and then they put that nose within six feet so the company

01:39:35.960 went virtual so everything we did was online we weren't interacting with people we didn't know

01:39:42.680 because back then we thought there would be zombies everywhere right yeah so i had a i used

01:39:49.200 to have a house that's think about log house in the middle of the woods on the top of a mountain

01:39:55.400 wow this is i had investment house that was on airbnb like i had bought it as an investment house

01:40:01.280 but i always had the feeling that it would be meaningful when i bought it like i i got a super

01:40:06.360 good deal on it i renovated it all but it was on rbnb and when that happened when they started

01:40:11.660 telling me that i couldn't do anything anymore i literally got rid of my place in in montreal and

01:40:16.980 i live i went to the woods by myself with my dog i had a small german shepherd puppy back then and

01:40:23.340 i just moved there so but this is what changed everything is spending time with myself

01:40:28.000 in nature there's no bullshit when you're alone bro that's such great timing though like because

01:40:33.580 that's that was that was totally the move if you could afford to do that during the pandemic

01:40:38.000 go to the middle i had bought i had bought the house probably a year and a half prior to that

01:40:45.740 because i wasn't the best with money but i made enough that if i invested it in something

01:40:52.920 i wouldn't touch it like if it's out of my account it doesn't matter to me i don't see it

01:40:57.960 so i thought to myself i let buy a house as an investment and just just rent it on airbnb

01:41:05.300 whenever you can because it's like a bank account right you can a house i literally paid 150 grand

01:41:12.280 for it and when i was done about four years after it was valued at 450 or 500 000 so i i'm just

01:41:21.120 going through i saw the house and i'm like you know sometimes there's just something telling you

01:41:25.440 you need that house like you need that this is something that it will be very valuable to you

01:41:31.060 at one point and i've always listened to my intuition so i saw the house needed help but

01:41:36.040 i'm just like you know what let's fucking do it i'm gonna get it because i've renovated multiple 0.95

01:41:40.200 house in my life like from from bottom to to top right i just learned how to do it and i just did 0.96

01:41:45.820 it so i saw that house i'm like fuck that's perfect but there was something inside me like 0.86

01:41:49.920 it will be very valuable to you not money-wise just it will be very important to you and i ended 0.90

01:41:56.880 up moving there i think it was a year and a half after i bought it something along those lines

01:42:01.240 i moved i i was living i had a super small apartment so that i could invest the money

01:42:06.240 on the house and renovating it and then one day that happened i'm like yeah okay cool i get it

01:42:11.700 i understand i'm out that's where i found so yeah i'm excited to see uh what's next

01:42:18.360 and maybe maybe when we when we close up the stream here we can have a quick

01:42:22.140 private chat about what's yeah man well you know what we're supposed to go an hour we've been an

01:42:27.600 hour 45 so i will cut it there but we'll have to do it again i i like your vibe like i think you

01:42:33.440 and i can shoot this shit for hours and just yeah we definitely we definitely got a lot in common 0.91

01:42:39.520 you can teach me french hopefully and i'm just kidding but um no yeah like uh absolutely man 0.98

01:42:48.260 absolutely i i would love to talk again soon yeah man um i always close out my show with a prayer

01:42:54.740 so i will do that and then i'll let all of you awesome people go god thank you for everything

01:43:04.900 that you do for us we are grateful for all your blessings please give us the courage to stand up

01:43:13.540 for what we know is right the words to speak what needs to be said and the will to help

01:43:21.780 and serve others amen amen amen beautiful

01:43:32.660 we know is right the words to speak doing what needs to be said it kicks you off at

01:43:38.580 and the will to help and good times

Greg Wycliffe - March 07, 2025

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