Greg Wycliffe - LIVE with Clyde Do Something the REAL News in Canada

00:00:00.000 we're live on the other platforms but youtube still waiting the chats in there but um as as

00:00:05.840 we're getting into this you can figure that out um so it was an interesting uh journey on youtube

00:00:13.280 and content creation in general we are live now we're live welcome to the chat everybody we were

00:00:19.840 just a little tardy on this platform we're going out to all the other platforms

00:00:24.080 i don't know if you want to yeah technical difficulties there i hit go on youtube

00:00:28.720 took an extra second but we all know clyde do something and um i asked him about his uh he just

00:00:35.920 had 100 000 subscribers uh on youtube not too long ago and i asked him about initial experience

00:00:43.360 with starting to cover the news some digging on his channel back uh back when the trucker convoy

00:00:49.760 started and it looks like that was when you first started to do uh news content is that

00:00:55.680 um on my channel that's correct um just want to weigh this in though you you're not like this

00:01:01.920 bad technical guy because i wrapped i wrapped you up for about 30 minutes before we did our

00:01:07.360 record session just so the record's straight i flubbed this too so we we're both on the same

00:01:13.120 page here anyways boomers boomers two boomers yeah it happens we're here we made it work it's

00:01:18.960 It's working. We made it work. We made it work. So what happened with that was I did content in

00:01:24.860 a few other locations. Clyde do something wasn't my first channel. I was on another channel called

00:01:31.080 Paps Boys Roadhouse and it was like a DIY parody channel and it was it was fun and it lasted a

00:01:37.740 while. It made up to like 32,000 subscribers, which which was decent. And it led to like some

00:01:43.280 other other like fun world experiences where bbc actually had me come on there on a television

00:01:50.660 broadcast for a pilot show and then ended up a real show and that was fun and it was uh and then

00:01:58.060 it was canceled immediately because whatever it sucked and uh i i was on the history network for

00:02:04.920 some other clip and and that that was fun it was all a lot of fun but it was all just entertainment

00:02:09.460 and stuff and not talking about the news. And then when I started, what is now Clyde do something

00:02:15.240 was actually called Clyde's soapbox. And, and it was like a new thing for just me to do content

00:02:22.440 creation. However, I felt like doing at the time, it was a lot of vlogs, a lot of just like DIY stuff,

00:02:30.560 stuff, tips on how to do little tradesmen tricks, stuff like that. And then I actually got pulled

00:02:36.860 over by some other content creators to talk about U.S. politics for a while. And I jumped around

00:02:46.180 on other people's channels talking about this on live streams and whatnot. It was like when

00:02:50.540 YouTube's advent of live streaming content came out. And I jumped around and I got my little taste

00:02:57.660 for talking about politics, a Canadian talking about American politics, which most of us normally

00:03:03.180 did. And I think we got into this in our chat earlier today and didn't get to really focus

00:03:08.760 much on Canadian issues, even though like that's where I live. And this is the heart

00:03:12.940 of everything that matters to me. Of course, you know, U.S. politics kind of bleeds into

00:03:19.560 our realm. But at the same time, it's like I never really had an avenue for talking about

00:03:26.360 that. And so I was doing some other content and then and that kind of fell through. You

00:03:31.620 know you have partnerships and and those those don't end up working out and I found myself free

00:03:36.500 agent again and I was I was almost about to quit doing content entirely I was kind of I

00:03:44.320 at a point it left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth having you know worked with people and then

00:03:49.860 it doesn't work out and then it's it's all creative stuff creative people are really hard

00:03:53.920 to work with it's true I'm probably just as hard to work with as everybody else but um and it's

00:04:00.200 convoy i was gonna say it takes a lot more out of you than just a regular job too it really is

00:04:05.880 just like a clock in clock out a lot of like your heart and soul that you have to

00:04:10.060 behind the scenes that a lot of people surface but anyway continue so the funny funny story about

00:04:18.280 that is the last project i was working on was uh i got involved with the guy who wanted to do

00:04:22.420 video game streaming and i'm not super into video games but i like the creative aspect of building

00:04:27.400 a stream and being a producer so i was doing that and it was marginally successful it wasn't great

00:04:32.700 but uh during that process i found myself doing a lot of the back end stuff and it became a meme

00:04:39.740 within the community of people telling me in the chat or telling us both hey clyde do something

00:04:46.360 and and so that that was sort of the joke is is like clyde you never do it anything except i was

00:04:54.360 like pulling all the weight and and and it was a funny meme and it became part of that and then

00:05:01.080 when I when that when that endeavor ended and we we discontinued making that project I went back to

00:05:10.020 YouTube and I wanted to rebrand and just like call it Clyde or something right and there was another

00:05:14.460 guy who had a channel called Clyde with a lot of subscribers and he talked about anime and I'm like

00:05:18.600 Japanese wife guy talks about anime I know people confuse the both of us and and so I was like okay

00:05:27.800 I'll just make up a name for now I'll change it later and I just I wrote in the meme the Clyde

00:05:33.880 do something that's the channel name and I thought I'll just change it like before anything takes off

00:05:40.720 and before I ever do anything and then the freedom convoy happened and I was so enthralled with what

00:05:46.020 was happening there that I said I have to weigh in on this there's there's no way I can't I have

00:05:52.640 to say something and I have to tell people about it I know I know how it works with the internet

00:05:57.940 if you if you take what you what you understand about what's going on and you put it out there

00:06:05.360 the more you put it out there the more the story gets uh you know passed out there the more it gets

00:06:12.580 reach. If, if only a few voices are saying everything, then it's easy to squash it. So I

00:06:19.760 was like, well, I'll just be one of the many, many voices that are talking about it right now.

00:06:23.840 And I'll just get that message out there as much as I possibly can. I'll do as many videos in the

00:06:28.300 morning before I go to work, just talking about the things that matter to me and, um, get it out

00:06:34.460 there. I didn't, I didn't expect it to take off like it did. I really didn't. And what was your

00:06:40.420 experience talking about canadian politics before the uh before the trucker convoy because i like

00:06:47.440 is this kind of your first foray into talking about that and and and was there any fear around

00:06:53.540 that because let's face it there kind of is a culture of uh well you're not allowed to have

00:06:57.480 that opinion you know don't have that opinion here in canada you know don't don't speak out

00:07:01.620 don't ruffle the feathers yeah so oh man i i've always been a cheeky sort of black sheep

00:07:09.860 like even within my family i just tell it the way it is and i don't i don't it gets me a lot

00:07:16.320 of trouble like it really does i just don't like i can't lie like i can't look at a thing and say

00:07:22.440 that it isn't the thing that i see right so i gotta call a spade a spade and um canadian politics

00:07:30.100 has been tricky uh it's really easy to criticize the americans i find for a lot of people because

00:07:36.480 you could just like, it's that external thing that you can talk about. Hey, that those guys

00:07:40.820 are doing that thing over there. And I disagree with that, but they, that you just ignore the

00:07:45.440 same crap happening right in your own backyard. And, and, uh, I just, I couldn't shut up about 0.80

00:07:52.280 it. I couldn't shut up about it. I had to say something. And as, as much as, um,

00:07:59.940 as much as like being afraid to say it, I mean, at first I, I actually gave my boss the heads up.

00:08:05.680 I said at my, at my auto garage, I'm like, Hey, I'm thinking about giving my public opinion

00:08:12.600 about politics in Canada on the internet.

00:08:15.620 What do you think of that?

00:08:16.860 And he's like, whatever, do you, I don't care.

00:08:19.500 I say, well, you know, there could be repercussions.

00:08:21.520 Like people might get mad and call, find out where I work and where I live and call the

00:08:26.900 shop and, you know, threaten and, and leave bad Yelp ratings or whatever.

00:08:32.820 and he said you know who answers the phone forget it go for it dude whatever you got it whatever you

00:08:38.900 want do it it's you i'm not gonna stop you no that was great i just went full bore and that's

00:08:45.100 and that's great to have that support because there really is this sort of uh this cancel culture

00:08:50.920 especially over the past few years where people might not be as uh be as lucky uh in terms of

00:08:56.700 letting people have their own uh their own voice which is crazy to say because this is supposed to

00:09:01.560 be like a free country i thought where you can yeah i thought the liberal ideal was uh free

00:09:07.080 speech and and open society and all of that stuff but it turns out people who purport to be liberals

00:09:13.500 are not liberals everything's backwards these days it's crazy and you have to point it out though

00:09:18.360 you have because because people will get wrapped up in in the you know sophistry tricks of the

00:09:23.960 linguistics game and and you know you just you end up like there is serious gaslighting you you think

00:09:30.800 well they're the liberals they should be the the people that enjoy freedom and and that's

00:09:36.260 but everything's everything's orwellian and and and backwards you yeah let's don't mean what they

00:09:42.840 what you think they the liberals are now the authoritarians don't you know yeah that's how

00:09:46.880 this works yeah the new democrats want to limit the the the ideas of democracy the conservatives

00:09:54.540 are progressives and they don't really care about conserving anything really yeah and let's let's go

00:09:59.780 back to to the trucker convoy i because you were covering um really important stories um when it

00:10:07.460 comes to the trucker convoy the misinformation surrounding the convoy and you know you weren't

00:10:12.480 in ottawa but it looks like you were kind of scouring the internet and social media of getting

00:10:16.280 like the facts and the truth of what was going on at the time and i guess uh kind of two parts

00:10:22.720 to the question number one you know how did you kind of feel as a canadian to see this movement

00:10:26.660 happening and then also how did you feel as a canadian to see how uh it was not being reported

00:10:32.260 at all properly by our legacy i predicted it is what it was i i predicted it and i i knew in my

00:10:42.960 gut that that's what was was happening and because i was kind of first on the scene or one of the

00:10:48.940 first on the scene to to be reporting it in the way that i did like there was so many people on

00:10:53.820 the ground and that was great and it was fantastic for tuning into it but there wasn't a lot of

00:10:59.280 people putting out like 10 minute videos talking about exactly what was going on but we've seen

00:11:03.680 this across many cultures not just like i said i i talked about u.s politics that was that was a big

00:11:10.000 thing um i i watched this go down from the days that i ron paul i was a big fan of he was running

00:11:18.500 for the Republican nomination to run for president, and they crushed him. They crushed him in the

00:11:25.680 media. And it wasn't because his ideas were bad. And this is the whole thing. And I've always

00:11:32.340 believed in if bad ideas exist, give them the time of day so that they can bury themselves,

00:11:38.900 right? Because bad ideas will just get crushed by sunlight and people realizing that they're

00:11:44.260 terrible and you ridicule everything, right? But no, this guy had great ideas and people bought

00:11:51.080 into him and they liked these ideas, but then they were gaslit and the media came after him and

00:11:58.000 said, oh, he's the big R word and all this stuff, which was unsubstantiated. And they tried every

00:12:04.400 trick in the book to take this guy out, who was just really, at the end of the day, a liberty

00:12:09.380 oriented hard money guy whether that was like what you think the leadership should be going for

00:12:16.820 is a valid argument you know what i mean you could you could argue for or against it but what

00:12:22.080 they did was they they didn't argue for or against the thing they they demonized the guy in the public

00:12:28.540 eye and then they they pushed him to they pushed all of his followers to the fringes of society or

00:12:34.500 made them appear that way or whatever. And then people ostracized them. And I saw this as like,

00:12:40.900 holy cow, we're doing it now in Canada. We've been doing this American thing. We get these

00:12:47.000 accusations from the left all the time that the right is bringing American style politics. No,

00:12:52.500 that's not the case. It's the media machine that's bringing the American style

00:12:55.900 politics to us. And they're doing it by not allowing people to have open discussions and

00:13:02.540 decide for themselves what ideas are good and what direction we should go with our country.

00:13:08.540 But but force feeding you BS, it's really that's what it is, BS. And and and they want to they want

00:13:16.440 to gaslight people and again, push people into the margins of society so they'll be ostracized 0.81

00:13:21.680 by their by their peers for for daring to speak out against the orthodoxy. And and that's what I

00:13:30.000 really want to showcase i really want to show people without having to say all those words

00:13:34.560 that that's what's going on here yeah yeah and and that's really scary when you can't even

00:13:40.740 question it anymore like that like that is really the really horrifying thing of how far

00:13:46.020 uh you know sure we have freedoms in canada but it's like there's almost like so much social

00:13:50.780 pressure it created this sort of like weird culture of social pressure and social acceptability

00:13:56.600 and and to be honest like it might go further back than we even realize in terms of canadian

00:14:01.820 culture and like how how long that's been the case but um to focus on the convoy once again

00:14:07.660 what would you say was the most egregious or maybe overlooked story uh that you reported on

00:14:16.120 because i know there was a lot of different kind of good videos you had that were talking about

00:14:19.940 things that weren't being talked about is there is there one out of all of them one video out of

00:14:24.200 all of them that you think is is the most important or overlooked uh by like you know the

00:14:29.800 canadian public as a whole that like want want them to know about the convoy the biggest lie

00:14:34.720 of the convoy the biggest overlooked item because i know there's a lot there's too many a mention

00:14:40.380 holy cow i mean there's a bunch coming to mind immediately um there there was these guys they

00:14:46.840 were i think they were called seek seek for truth but it's spelled like seek like uh the the uh

00:14:53.340 indian zeek guys yep yep and the media just ignored them because it didn't follow the the

00:15:00.400 narrative and there were there were a bunch of zeek canadians that were all for what was going 1.00

00:15:07.100 on at convoy convoy but they they you know the media labeled them racists and all these other

00:15:11.860 things there was also the stories that came from polish immigrants like you'll never see the story

00:15:18.780 about the the Polish churches that got together and all these ladies came out in big vans 1.00

00:15:24.220 with Polish like fresh hot Polish sausages and buns and all this stuff just to feed everybody

00:15:30.000 because they're like well you know if we can't donate we'll give however we can we'll drive down

00:15:35.240 there and and do that and just like the the the mass of just kindness and humanity and everything

00:15:44.040 that that people believes what canada once was and was great for exists and it was there it was

00:15:53.720 all there and it was being painted as this other thing that it wasn't and and i think i think that's

00:15:59.700 the most important thing to to know about about what went down at the convoy versus what what

00:16:05.820 story was was told about it and i i'll do what i can to scream it from the hilltops you know what

00:16:11.360 i mean let everybody know that's what actually went down yeah but just this the this the opposite

00:16:16.840 the absolute opposite of the the concept of you know the r word right everybody's you know

00:16:24.060 everybody's a this no it was it was people from different religions different creeds different

00:16:30.480 colors different everything the thing that we're all told that it's supposed to make canada so

00:16:36.360 great that people came from all over the world as to Canada as a bastion of freedom to get away

00:16:41.880 from oppressive places. The government itself has become this oppressive thing, but the people are

00:16:46.980 still dying to to breathe free. And that's what they did for those three weeks. Absolutely, man.

00:16:55.080 Absolutely. And I'm I, along with many other Canadians, are so grateful that you were there

00:17:00.560 to to tell the story. I was saying before I put the cameras on, I was like really complimenting

00:17:06.160 Clyde like this is exactly what we need the content that you create is exactly what we need

00:17:11.380 you you sift through the research you sift through the facts the stories the different clips

00:17:15.980 and you read between the lines of the legacy media and and you stitch it together into a concise

00:17:22.060 video to tell people what's going on in about 10 minutes and you're you're doing a service for the

00:17:29.620 country. It's so it's so easy to let people stroke your ego. Right. And but I like I get I get people

00:17:36.520 that criticize me because because I'm not writing the articles. I'm not a journalist. I'm not getting

00:17:41.240 out on the street. And there's there's a lot of criticism. And I think it's granted to it to an

00:17:44.980 extent. You know, people people say you're not really doing much like Clyde. Clyde just says

00:17:51.060 something into a microphone. Clyde did nothing. I did nothing. Right. He didn't do anything.

00:17:55.880 Yeah, I do. I get that. I get that criticism. And, you know, some of it's warranted, I guess, to an extent. But I think with the service that I do is I actually just, I bring things together, like you said, and I'll make a story, not a narrative, but I'll let people know a story that's happening at any given time and put it out there.

00:18:17.780 Because they the amount of effort that's going into squashing these stories and making sure that this this is not part of the narrative is great.

00:18:27.960 And I'm just a cog in the wheel fighting against that that machine.

00:18:34.840 You know what I mean? And I'll do what I can. I'll do what I can.

00:18:38.000 And I'm glad it's people are receptive to it. I really am.

00:18:40.800 Yeah. Yeah. But it's interesting.

00:18:42.840 uh i i kind of want to like parallel what both of us went through during the convoy i i was never

00:18:49.240 thought of myself really as a reporter or a journalist but i started to do the interviews

00:18:53.400 and live streams on the ground and uh during the final days of the convoy uh a friend of a friend

00:18:59.520 of mine sent uh my live stream link to my parents and to give you an idea my parents uh were not

00:19:05.580 happy about this convoy and they weren't happy about their son being there like my dad actually

00:19:10.460 hung up on me on the phone at one point because he was like you know ranting about windsor and

00:19:15.580 what they were doing at windsor and it's ruining our economy and i'm like ruining our economy how 0.51

00:19:19.480 about the past couple years anyway uh i grew up in windsor just just for the record and and all

00:19:25.340 my friends were for it and they work they work for the big three they work on the floor they're not

00:19:31.500 they're not the union reps they're not the union guys that work hand in hand with the politicians

00:19:37.120 and the big business they're they're just the plebs on the on the floor of the of the assembly 0.98

00:19:43.960 line and they were all for the convoy but clyde ctv news told me that the majority of canadians

00:19:49.600 were against the com yeah nanos nanos doing their their job yeah right but um but somebody sent this

00:19:57.840 live stream link to my parents the final days of the convoy my parents just wanted to make sure i

00:20:02.260 was all right not being arrested but when they saw me interviewing uh regular people people who

00:20:08.200 just lost their jobs or like you know people from all different backgrounds they're they got red 0.64

00:20:14.120 pilled and they're like oh my god ctv is fake news oh good oh yeah you're that and the thing is

00:20:20.060 getting red pilled is just the beginning you start to question your reality and again i don't want to

00:20:25.240 gush over you too much in front of everyone here but it's so important because as on my parents

00:20:31.500 journey to being red pilled they're to got the youtube algorithm they're starting to watch more

00:20:36.340 news on youtube and with your consistent distance is key if they're consistent news videos you have

00:20:44.340 given them a place to go from the legacy meeting prison if you're you're helping create this kind

00:20:50.560 of new destination for people to go and i think that is so so so so so important because if we

00:20:57.180 don't have you know something that tethers us to reality where we can regularly get our news and

00:21:03.120 our sort of connection to which what what's happening in our country then these people are

00:21:06.960 kind of lost people get lost and they and they and they don't know what to believe or maybe they're

00:21:10.720 just on you know on their conservative twitter feed but it's great to have someone like yourself

00:21:14.740 you know uh doing this service and and you know you're you're being modest and i appreciate that

00:21:20.360 but um you know you you have earned a hundred thousand subscribers for a use for a reason i

00:21:25.340 I think you're well-earned.

00:21:26.700 Thank you.

00:21:26.960 And yeah, just another congratulations.

00:21:30.920 Do you want to talk about electric vehicles?

00:21:34.460 Oh, I'm happy to talk about electric vehicles.

00:21:36.480 Because-

00:21:37.040 Absolutely.

00:21:37.460 Let me hit that point that you made, though.

00:21:39.240 Sure, sure.

00:21:40.760 My parents are-

00:21:42.380 My dad's a huge fan of what I do.

00:21:45.880 And so my parents have always been on board with the freedom message and that whole thing.

00:21:53.280 And the idea of the government overreaching, being the worst thing possible in our society.

00:22:00.440 So I've been fortunate with that.

00:22:03.020 My parents were the ones that taught me to question everything, right?

00:22:07.380 And sometimes that was trouble for me growing up because I questioned them a lot.

00:22:14.860 But they're thankful at the end of the day that that's what I did.

00:22:18.420 And and here I am. Here I am making these videos and putting it out there. But like I said, anybody could do what I do. It's just about putting in the legwork. And and to your.

00:22:29.400 to you're talking talking about journalism it kind of dawned on me it's it's funny

00:22:34.060 because what i what i do i don't i didn't really consider journalism and then and then i thought

00:22:40.320 about it i was like well to pursue the stories that i wanted to tell people i started having to

00:22:45.560 make phone calls and cold call people and make and send emails and and actually like get people

00:22:51.680 to respond to things and and interview people and bring people on the channel and let them speak

00:22:56.480 their mind for themselves and then let the people decide on what they what they see in that whole

00:23:01.140 thing and if that's not journalism i you know i don't know i don't know what to say like it what

00:23:07.760 i was doing was just trying to give people information it turned out that i was i was

00:23:11.280 doing more of a journalistic job than what the journalists uh are doing uh for the the mainstream

00:23:17.940 media outlets i think i think it it really it really goes to show what what they're doing is

00:23:24.440 because they're they're only taking the talking points from one direction is is propagandistic

00:23:29.980 but at the same time you have to be very careful when you're doing this stuff because it's so easy

00:23:34.820 for the for the sake of like getting views and and and all this stuff to to just really

00:23:40.300 sensationalize stuff i do it sometimes with the thumbnails and i'll be like you know but i'll

00:23:45.760 try to keep it on point try to like reel it back a bit because uh it's it really is easy to uh

00:23:54.040 sensationalize things just for the for the sake of the you know the attention so just keep all

00:24:00.140 that stuff in mind moving forward yeah no that's good because it is a lot of responsibility right

00:24:05.580 people do trust you with um with this a sort of accurate reflection of what's happening and i i

00:24:13.200 would definitely make the argument that you do a better job than the legacy media and you know to

00:24:18.380 speak to the journalist mistake really yeah at the end of the day it's like by mistake i'm just

00:24:23.100 trying to find out what's really going on and that's journalism that really what is what that

00:24:27.480 is yeah and it speaks to how much uh the legacy media has failed when uh someone like you an

00:24:34.340 auto technician uh dad of two you know busy family man you're the one having to do all the research

00:24:41.880 and all the digging and all of the you know fact checking it's like that's the job of the journalist

00:24:46.340 like that like the whole news media institution is supposed to be doing that for us but uh it

00:24:53.780 turns out it's actually an auto technician on the west coast that's going to be doing it for it

00:24:58.280 i can't take all the credit for it like the internet is such a great place for people to

00:25:02.760 come together and um and share information now i get a lot of info a lot of tips a lot of leads

00:25:08.700 from a lot of people and some some of it like i i sift through it i'm like oh my god like you

00:25:13.680 fell for that like oh no that's that's bs man or you know there's a lot of stories and you really

00:25:19.380 have to work your way through it because um there's a lot of bad info out there and um and it's

00:25:25.580 really hard to to discern what's good and what isn't but like i have i have a whole team of

00:25:30.620 great people behind me and and a lot of people are just motivated to just see canada be better

00:25:35.940 And, and that's, I mean, you, you, you couldn't, you couldn't pay a whole organization to do that. These people that, that, that talk to me all the time are so passionate about it because this is their future. This is the future for their kids. And this is why they're, they're messaging me about information as it comes, comes to light. It's great.

00:25:57.640 Yeah. And that trust is important, right? Like when people come to you, they trust that you share it with the world. That's that's that's an awesome thing.

00:26:07.120 um uh or even not share certain aspects of it that's another thing is when it would be so easy

00:26:16.960 to just you know run with a story and and out somebody for a thing that they they don't want

00:26:22.600 to be outed for there are some stories that i just have not even told to the public because

00:26:27.260 there's details to it that would that would let information about that person know and i'm hanging

00:26:34.660 on to stories waiting for you know people to retire from their jobs and things like that it's

00:26:38.780 that's a hard one to to just hang on to you know yeah yeah and and and that's um that's that's

00:26:46.840 again speaks to the responsibility right speaks to the responsibility um and i can talk cars we

00:26:53.500 can talk cars and and and real quick uh you know you are an auto technician you're somebody who's

00:26:59.900 definitely into uh the tech behind media for sure i i was actually watching one of your oldest

00:27:05.840 older videos how much you're into into keyboards yes i found that i found that very interesting

00:27:12.520 but uh yeah okay nice nice i don't want to i don't want to get off too much money i don't

00:27:17.920 want to go off on keyboards but i guess i do want to ask just to kind of like put a bow on the

00:27:22.040 conversation do you think of yourself differently now you think of yourself like

00:27:29.280 like a journalist like look at what you do uh differently i think um it's really easy to get

00:27:39.700 your ego wrapped up in everything that you do and it's it's really easy to let that really take

00:27:45.800 take uh take the reins and run and just roll with that um i struggle with that one all the time and

00:27:55.720 And I always want to make sure that I keep my ego in check because it really, at the end of the day, it's not about me.

00:28:00.680 I just, you know, I have I have a channel and a voice and I and I put this out and I have, you know, just the motivation to make sure I keep putting videos out.

00:28:12.600 And and that's really what's doing it. But it's just really.

00:28:17.560 it's too easy to to to get an ego and i and i i have i have to make sure that it's not about me

00:28:27.000 i really need to do that because at the end of the day youtube google can just turn me off and

00:28:32.780 then i'm gone and then you'll have to find me elsewhere and i want to i want to more

00:28:38.800 more than anything encourage more people to do what i'm doing instead of be that guy i don't

00:28:44.960 want to be everybody's guy I want I want to be a guy in a sea of guys that are doing the same thing

00:28:51.440 you know what I mean and ladies I'm not you know but uh canceled yeah yeah right no I want more 0.94

00:28:58.480 people to have their voice out there and and I and I'd love to bring more voices on so at the end of

00:29:04.180 the day it's not about me it really isn't it's um it's about all of us and it's about bringing Canada

00:29:10.600 it back together. That's what I really want to see. It's it's about a movement around the world

00:29:15.300 to to see the ideas of liberty and self-determination, self-reliance reigning as a more

00:29:26.060 sought after principle in life rather than this security state that will take care of you until

00:29:35.220 you you're no longer useful to them. Yeah. And speaking of that, I've actually thought of

00:29:43.300 the idea of maybe creating content to coach others of how to make content and how to do

00:29:49.540 the stuff that that you or I do. But that's a whole other topic altogether. Let's talk about

00:29:55.460 electric vehicles. I'm just going to turn my light on here in a second. But before you go

00:30:02.500 to the negatives you're a car guy are there positives to are there any positives at all

00:30:08.880 about electric vehicles in uh in your opinion yeah there's lots actually i have i have uh a lot

00:30:15.900 uh of faith in electric cars i think they're fantastic uh it's a fantastic innovation um the

00:30:23.000 the biggest whoa you got your white balance just went right over to the solar eclipse holy cow and

00:30:32.160 And yeah, so I have a lot of faith in electric cars.

00:30:35.060 I think they're great, but they have their limitations and their limitations will not

00:30:39.620 get us to the point that the government wants to take us.

00:30:43.240 I think if you're if you live in a fair weather place, I think the biggest innovation here

00:30:50.760 is is the the way we can convert stored energy into, you know, motion, kinetic energy that

00:31:00.900 That's been a huge innovation when it comes to the technologies with lithium and then

00:31:07.940 changing direct current into AC, so DC to AC.

00:31:12.960 So I might get a little technical on this.

00:31:15.420 And then with three phase brushless motors that are fantastic when it comes to efficiency.

00:31:24.140 it's it's it's a long stretch from the old nicad days to a dc bat motor in a car that was super

00:31:31.620 inefficient terrible these are really efficient we have from how much stored energy that's in the

00:31:37.680 battery we can see up up to in the 90s percentile that gets actually converted to moment motion

00:31:45.160 which is a long stretch from a gas engine which is like 40 percent or sub 40 percent most is lost

00:31:53.680 to heat and diesel engines, which are just above 40%, which again is most of which is

00:31:59.600 lost to heat, we see a much better efficiency in the use of energy.

00:32:05.880 I mean, we're getting closer to like seeing, well, we see a lot better use of the energy

00:32:13.440 where that's stored, but that doesn't take us away from like some of the things that

00:32:17.580 we're actually trying to do with it or what we're being told that we're doing with it.

00:32:21.760 and to, i.e., the environmental thing.

00:32:28.120 So, and I separate environmental from climate stuff.

00:32:31.620 I think the climate alarmism stuff is just out to lunch.

00:32:34.740 And I think that environmental is actually very much a worry

00:32:38.160 that we should worry about.

00:32:39.940 We shouldn't be damaging our environment.

00:32:41.340 And you'll only see that people care about that

00:32:45.060 when they're rich.

00:32:47.360 And that's just a thing, right?

00:32:49.820 Poor people in poor countries don't care.

00:32:51.420 They're just going to beat the stones until the stuff comes out of the stones and they don't care how much how dirty it gets.

00:32:57.680 Right. Until they're rich. And then they're like, oh, it looks like crap around here.

00:33:00.980 Let's clean it up. But. And and and this this is a thing that it's very helpful to selling people on the the electric thing is, you know, dumb people that think they're smart in cities don't see stuff coming out of a tailpipe. 0.95

00:33:16.960 they think super clean they don't see the lithium mines they don't see the 0.89

00:33:21.040 cobalt mines they don't see the how the energy is produced before it's stored

00:33:25.600 they don't even understand the concept of how energy is not even stored in a

00:33:29.840 grid like you store energy in your battery but that and and that's that's

00:33:34.960 got a shelf life to it but I mean you can store it for a X amount of time but

00:33:40.460 when you're producing energy in in the grand grid of things the energy is

00:33:46.000 either used or it's just it's gone you've wasted it so there's no

00:33:51.280 capacitance in the system like all the faith in what electric cars are gonna do

00:33:55.480 is just it's a pipe dream now that being said they are good so if you if you use

00:34:02.620 them in the in the applications that are the that work well for them it's great

00:34:08.020 it will our our grid be able to handle the the storage capacity or like the the

00:34:15.580 draw that people are going to want for pulling energy into these batteries at the rate that they

00:34:22.740 want to introduce that? I don't think so. So there's going to be lots that will have to be

00:34:26.320 invested in the grid. Is that a public utility? Is that something that's a private business

00:34:30.520 enterprise thing that should be seen or looked into? That's another story. I mean, there's so

00:34:36.600 many aspects to this whole thing. And then at the end of the day, you could live in the prairies

00:34:41.140 and you've done your conversion and it's january and it's minus 40 and the thing won't move

00:34:47.220 it's just you're not getting rid of the combustion engine sorry it just like

00:34:54.480 it's the way this it's the way the the cookie crumbles when it comes to physics like you can't

00:35:02.180 will things in into existence it's just not possible so electric vehicles definitely have

00:35:07.660 its utility they're definitely useful but this idea of replacing the combustion engine is just

00:35:11.980 a pipe dream yeah so i mean like look at look at japan for example or europe they used to run

00:35:19.340 coal trains like the trains used to run on coal and then they were diesel and then they switched

00:35:24.300 to electric it was just more efficient to have the trains run electric it it it is more efficient

00:35:30.060 but it's it's an infrastructure issue so you can't you can't just always switch everything

00:35:36.500 overnight to a new technology, and then discount other technologies that may not come into play.

00:35:42.020 So what we're talking about with the federal government is by the year 2026, 20% of all new

00:35:48.560 vehicles produced and sold in Canada, not produced, but sold in Canada, have to be, and I'll get to

00:35:55.480 the point on why that's absurd, is they have to be electric, not zero emissions, not another

00:36:06.280 alternative to whatever no electric is is what they're putting forward then in 2030 60 of all

00:36:13.440 cars sold in canada have to be electric that's a thing and then in 2035 100 of cars have to be

00:36:21.820 electric not hydrogen not some other technology that may come out in the meantime but electric

00:36:27.520 it's crazy so it is crazy it's it's a it's a ludicrous plan it's going to cause all kinds

00:36:33.300 of damage to the economy um it's gonna make me rich like don't get me wrong i'm gonna do fantastic

00:36:40.200 because people will be fixing their old cars because they can't buy new cars like that's

00:36:45.480 that's the thing there's gonna be a shortage on electric cars we're not even gonna be able to fill

00:36:49.240 those quotas so all it's gonna do is it's gonna create this huge shortage of new cars that's it

00:36:55.200 and do you foresee obscenely long lineups to get your car charged because i feel like you know if

00:37:01.340 this transition were to happen then everyone's lining up to charge their cars like is there

00:37:05.400 going to be enough chargers and and just to kind of add to the point like i saw this tweet maybe

00:37:09.500 six or nine months ago uh stephen gilbo i think it was who's now the uh he's the environmental

00:37:15.920 minister or whatever he said he tweeted out hey we finally we finally have the infrastructure

00:37:22.220 so you can drive a electric vehicle the entire way across the country like this this just happened

00:37:29.660 where they just got enough uh charging stations to drive an electric vehicle across the country

00:37:36.000 and i thought this is almost like completing the railway and saying okay let's get let's get rid

00:37:42.000 of horse and buggy we got the rail you know we just got across the country with electric vehicles

00:37:47.000 we don't need the combustion engines anymore um call the horses call them all yeah yeah get rid

00:37:52.480 of the horses we got the train tracks now um do you know what i mean no i do know exactly what

00:37:58.820 you mean and well what's his what's his metrics based on even like i i i i even question his

00:38:05.000 metrics so yeah maybe in the middle of summer and when the weather is nice you can drive across the

00:38:10.540 entire country but if you if you try driving in cold weather your charge rate is is completely

00:38:17.800 different than if you're driving in fair weather like cut in half in some cases yeah yeah i'm

00:38:24.640 cases i remember just being in ottawa with my phone right and like it just zaps the battery

00:38:29.560 when it's cold it's it's crazy well i have friends that have teslas and one of my friends was telling

00:38:34.620 me he was just you know comes out of his house fully charged his car is fully charged gets out

00:38:40.420 of his house it's like minus 15 that day and it says 40 he's like no i know it's fully charged

00:38:45.840 yeah at home so he plugged it in he plugged it in at home yeah and it's

00:38:54.360 and not to mention batteries degrade too over time like so you have a battery that you drove

00:39:00.680 right off the lot with your brand new car and it maybe it'll make it on a fair weather day across

00:39:05.300 a fair weather week or whatever it takes a long time to get across canada but it makes it across

00:39:09.680 canada by gibbo's standards right and and well you turn around you try to go back say you stay

00:39:18.900 there for a year and then you turn around try to come back well your battery's degraded by

00:39:22.820 x amount because you know things aren't new all the time and cells give out and they don't charge

00:39:28.240 up right and there's balancing methods that you can to balance these charges but they they give

00:39:33.320 out it's not going to be as good as it was on day one so there's gonna be all kinds of

00:39:39.440 problems with this i think it's also worth mentioning too when you are driving a long

00:39:43.440 distance you don't just fill up and you're done like charging takes time it adds hours and hours

00:39:49.920 and hours to uh to your trip uh like i find that surprising because no one ever told me about that

00:39:56.320 until i had a friend with an electric car he's like yeah i'm gonna take a couple more hours and

00:39:59.680 i'm like a couple more hours he's like yeah i gotta charge and i'm like hey i didn't even realize

00:40:04.240 that you know like no one no one told me um yeah and it's got a it's got an elaborate map system

00:40:09.820 inside the car that'll like tell you where the next charger is and you should go to this one

00:40:13.620 like all that kind of info but uh it's uh i know you got to get going here um is there anything

00:40:20.820 else you wanted to talk about before we go on electric vehicles well i would like to advocate

00:40:24.860 for um because this would go against what the government wants but i think uh diesel electric

00:40:30.280 is, is the way of the future. I think that would be the best way and the best move forward. Now

00:40:35.780 there, there, there could be all kinds of cars that run around in cities and do their thing in

00:40:39.840 short range trips. Um, because it makes sense. You can plug it in. You don't even use a full

00:40:45.300 charge in a day. You know, you charge it once a week or that kind of thing. I have an electric

00:40:49.680 bike. I drive that to work, you know, like that's, I live like three K from my, from my house. It

00:40:54.620 takes me eight minutes it's amazing and so i'm pro-electric but i but i think we can we can find

00:41:02.600 efficiency in in bringing technologies together like having a diesel engine in a vehicle it only

00:41:09.520 run like any engine runs at an optimum um output in one particular rpm range and load range and

00:41:18.900 you're not gonna you're not gonna see the ultimate you're not gonna see your best performance in a

00:41:23.500 diesel engine when you're stopping and going you'll see it at a particular rpm range and a

00:41:28.240 particular load range like truck drivers will know this because they'll get the most bang out of the

00:41:31.760 buck for the diesel that they can but if if you were to design a small tiny little diesel engine

00:41:39.840 that could ramp up and put a selected load on on a generator to charge your electric batteries to

00:41:48.040 drive your electric car you probably get the most amount of people adopting this technology and then

00:41:55.660 because they'll get better returns because you'll save the most amount of money on fuel costs and

00:42:01.300 then you can plug it in as well there's all these things and then you won't have range anxiety you

00:42:05.740 have a lot of stuff I think if if we went the route of I mean locomotives have been doing diesel

00:42:11.860 electric for generations you know it's been a long time that they switched over to that and uh

00:42:18.640 that's that's definitely a way to go and i see in the chat and nuclear but that's that's the

00:42:23.340 that's the grid when it comes to automotive application i think diesel electric would be

00:42:27.920 the best way to both you know clean up the environment you're not spewing like dirty

00:42:35.400 stuff out of a tailpipe the modern engines are pretty clean and like forget i'm not an alarmist

00:42:42.960 i don't i don't dig the alarmism stuff i think those people are environmental and and like there

00:42:50.720 be be concerned about the environment be concerned about that but like the the sky's not falling

00:42:56.920 chicken little it's just it isn't and like you you can you can look into this information and

00:43:02.940 And a lot of a lot of good, you know, activists and not not just activists, but scientists are coming out in and rejecting the alarmism theory, like this whole idea that the world's going to end in a short order.

00:43:20.180 The climate is changing and we have something some bits to do with it, but there's other factors and we should just really be bracing for what happens next.

00:43:28.700 it's not gonna it's not i just yeah it's not it's y2k it feels like y2k all over again it's insane

00:43:36.080 to me so you don't think i should be throwing uh cans of soup onto van gogh paintings in the museum

00:43:42.040 you don't think that's gonna help that pissed me off actually a lot um you you can see this 0.73

00:43:47.840 painting behind me of van gogh i'm a fan i'm a fan it's uh yeah it's crazy how ignorant it's gotten

00:43:55.360 right like this it's it's ridiculous because at the end of the day what it is is people not listening 0.53

00:44:01.040 to um uh well okay it's the church of science you know and we've seen it when it comes to the

00:44:08.160 pandemic it's happening with this climate change thing as well the climate's changing and it has

00:44:12.600 changed for a long time we're still in the pleistocene ice age it's and we we've had warmer

00:44:18.160 days and and we've had we've had colder days with more co2 it's it's it's a really interesting

00:44:24.220 dynamic i recommend people really look into how things actually work uh for for people who are

00:44:31.700 like i i don't know i'm not here i'm an empiricist you know like i i want empirical data for why it

00:44:38.960 goes one way and when other people come in and say no it doesn't work that way and they're like

00:44:43.140 well-renowned uh climatologists and they're like yeah but this chiropractor came and told me that

00:44:48.140 it's all gonna end next week and i'm like well let's let's look at the facts and weigh it in

00:44:53.380 Some, uh, some seven, some grade seven, uh, blonde little girl told me the world's going 0.98

00:44:58.700 to end.

00:44:59.340 Uh, she's in grade eight.

00:45:01.020 Uh, what about that?

00:45:02.300 Right?

00:45:02.760 Well, she's, she's 18 now.

00:45:04.360 She, we can, we can make fun of her and not get in trouble. 0.66

00:45:07.060 Yeah.

00:45:08.060 Yeah.

00:45:09.140 Uh, we'll still get, uh, we'll still get attacked.

00:45:11.940 And actually before we go back to the, back to the, you know, the, the journalism stuff

00:45:16.420 and the news that you're doing, you were saying that, uh, there are people who are, who try

00:45:20.420 to intimidate you.

00:45:21.420 There's a lot of haters that you get.

00:45:22.900 what what has that been like uh dealing with the trolls so i think i think i'm lucky because

00:45:29.500 the the opinion that i put out there is really open-ended and i i really don't tell people what

00:45:35.300 to do and i i don't hold their hand and say you should have this ideology you know what i mean i

00:45:40.160 i i do introduce in in my live streams and talks about you know where i stand ideologically and

00:45:48.480 And and and where I stand is is really open ended, like somebody could come tomorrow and change my mind completely by showing me a better way.

00:45:57.100 And I'd be happy to if if if it if it turns out to be better, adopt that because I'm more interested in the truth than I am interested in in an ideological like my team, your team, that kind of thing.

00:46:10.940 I'm the the versus game is just annoying for me.

00:46:13.720 It's an aspect that I'd rather not deal with.

00:46:16.620 i'd just rather deal with this but there are people with those ideological bends and they

00:46:20.760 and and they they they've attacked me in different ways and and i i i want to say i've been pretty

00:46:28.520 lucky because i don't i don't get it too bad like some people get it pretty bad like pretty pretty

00:46:33.900 pretty harsh uh but i think it's because when you feed the trolls though they'll come at you more

00:46:39.540 and because because i i feel like i'm pretty decent at handling them i what's almost got

00:46:47.040 me a number of times though is what what people call concern trolls have you and i'm sure you've

00:46:51.180 seen it as well and what concern trolls do is they come in and they're they're disingenuous

00:46:56.680 they'll say like you know i was a fan of you's of yours for so long but then until you said this

00:47:02.260 one thing and it really turned me against what you're just trying to get you to to back walk

00:47:07.400 walk back like a thing that you said or something like that trying to get you to crack on on what

00:47:13.120 you believe in uh because of this and i call it concern trolling it's it's i get a lot of that

00:47:19.200 i get i get a bunch of those i got a lot of that when i talked about made and that was um that was

00:47:24.980 really uh yeah yeah but people i think a lot of the trolls could see that i was actually getting

00:47:32.220 like pretty choked up about covering those stories that it's it's just ah i'm gonna get

00:47:38.460 them with that it's just too bad because you know even though maybe these people are maybe

00:47:43.600 slightly more right-leaning or slightly more conservative they're still exercising or pushing

00:47:49.560 this sort of social silence this kind of social pressure don't have that opinion don't have this

00:47:54.720 opinion no you shouldn't say that because of and it's uh yeah i don't know we i think we got to

00:48:00.660 continue to shake that as uh as canadians i mean in some cases maybe it's warranted but um

00:48:06.120 it's uh yeah i just feel like there's like a culture of of silence and uh submission and

00:48:12.040 control that uh that's gone unchecked for a long time but you got to realize that it's on all sides

00:48:16.920 too right so like you'll you'll get together with with people that are you know maybe more

00:48:22.140 right-leaning and and they'll have a hard time accepting certain ideas oh like for there might

00:48:28.760 have been some people who said you know i really i really liked what you were saying clyde but you

00:48:32.420 supported uh electric vehicles too much you needed to wholesale just not like them at all

00:48:37.340 you know something like that yeah there might be some people out there that you know it's pick pick

00:48:41.820 a team man you're on my team or you're on the other team and i i really want people to be able

00:48:47.060 to make up those decisions for themselves and and come to the conclusions that they come to not

00:48:51.060 because their team is doing a thing and i i think that's what's wrong with our politicians in canada

00:48:56.360 or around the world right now is just this huge dichotomy of this or that and then you've got the

00:49:01.560 ndp which latch on to another thing is kind of like a bernie sanders thing of like the grocery

00:49:07.760 stores are bad yeah they got a new gimmick each week it seems yeah it's all new gimmicks and and

00:49:14.760 it's you really got to see through those gimmicks and um and and it's hard because it's it's easy

00:49:20.720 to get caught up in in it because we were social creatures and we always want to find our

00:49:27.060 commonalities. And those are the things that distinguish us in and and build to our character.

00:49:34.120 But they can often tear us down because they they lump us into groups. And and we need to we need

00:49:40.880 to really focus on being individuals here. Absolutely. On that note, let's wrap it up.

00:49:46.500 You can obviously find Clyde at youtube.com slash at Clyde do something.

00:49:52.020 Is there anything else that you want to promote or talk about?

00:49:55.240 Oh, follow me on Twitter.

00:49:56.040 I like having conversations on Twitter.

00:49:57.760 It's really fun.

00:49:59.120 I liken it to having a deep intellectual conversation with an angry chihuahua behind a chain link fence.

00:50:06.060 It's such a fantastic place to hang out.

00:50:08.880 That's a great description of Twitter.

00:50:11.180 And there will be a chat that I have with Clyde on his channel as well.

00:50:15.700 so you'll be able to get tuned into that maybe tomorrow or that'll be up tomorrow morning yeah

00:50:20.040 so check that out awesome awesome great well thanks so much uh for coming on on the stream

00:50:25.460 man it's uh i'm looking forward to seeing you you know continue to do your content and just kind of

00:50:30.720 be help help canadians be tethered to the correct or more accurate i'll say uh version of reality

00:50:37.820 so people can step out of the you know the legacy media prison as i called it thanks for putting me

00:50:43.340 on the other side of this for once i'm usually the one asking the questions yeah no problem no

00:50:48.340 problem and we'll be able to do it again sometime as well yes yes i look forward to having you on

00:50:53.460 for a podcast and we'll have like a long conversation about all kinds of stuff yeah

00:50:57.640 clyde's doing long form podcasts guys look keep your eyes peeled it's going to be exciting it's

00:51:02.640 going to be exciting exciting time to be an alternative media in canada i gotta say

00:51:06.380 yeah until they shut us down well we'll see nah not gonna happen not gonna happen all right

00:51:13.000 Thanks for coming on, Clyde.

Greg Wycliffe - December 28, 2022

LIVE with Clyde Do Something the REAL News in Canada

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