Greg Wycliffe - November 08, 2022


News Media IGNORES visible minorities at Trucker Convoy


Episode Stats

Length

12 minutes

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238.33543

Word Count

3,087

Sentence Count

1

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 because we've been having a blast and now counter protesters came and thank goodness the cops are
00:00:03.680 here because they were aggressive they're throwing stuff at my two-year-old yelling at my wife like
00:00:07.740 really so you know and i said why are you so angry and they said this needs to stop and i said what
00:00:13.080 needs to stop and they said the honking and this was this was day five and i said really and i
00:00:19.080 said yeah i said imagine we did it for two years this is uh sunday evening and i just ran into bow
00:00:24.340 and you're about to leave town you said you've been here for a few days you said yeah i think
00:00:28.220 we're we're probably kicking off tomorrow i've been here since last saturday yeah with my wife
00:00:32.700 and my little two-year-old i mean we can kind of see your signs here you said you had an interaction
00:00:36.760 with the media or they didn't want to talk to you or something yeah i've been like i said i've been
00:00:41.140 here for 10 days now and we've been standing in front of parliament and they go up the stairs
00:00:45.740 where we can't go and talk with the politicians and then people they've brought up that they're
00:00:50.260 deciding to interview and i've been standing out there saying you can ask me any question you want
00:00:55.520 you can interview me as long as you want i don't you know and they just ignore me and just walk
00:00:59.680 straight cbc ctv city news all of them yeah day after day they won't even talk to us ask me anything
00:01:06.620 anything anything any question i said you know ask us why we're here ask me anything they would not
00:01:10.760 ask a question and i'm here to to do their job for them so what uh what do you feel this protest is
00:01:16.700 about what does it mean to you this protest is about freedom period period period there's no other
00:01:22.560 way to explain it's just freedom freedom of speech freedom of expressions freedom of choice
00:01:27.100 freedom for canadians like we had before yeah you know and freedom for the whole world which
00:01:31.660 everybody's waking up and getting on board which is fantastic because you don't need to try to spread
00:01:37.460 it you know like it's organically growing because that's what the world wants world wants to be happy
00:01:42.760 and free like like we're meant to be so absolutely and were you born in canada yeah i was born in
00:01:47.880 ontario i was born in toronto and then uh grew up out in bc and now we live in calgary nice some
00:01:52.680 people i've spoken to this week are saying they're feeling canadian pride for the first time in a long
00:01:57.260 time can you relate to that 100 you talk to everybody that's the theme yeah i mean uh i've
00:02:03.380 had a lot of friends that moved to texas moved to florida like just recently oh this last year
00:02:07.580 like everybody we had an exit point before trudeau said he's locking in his own citizens
00:02:11.480 you know by november 30th all of them took off yeah and they text me and say come to florida it's
00:02:16.320 amazing it's amazing it's what life used to be like and everybody's amazing here and i keep
00:02:20.960 wanting to go because i thought my country was gone it was lost you know i it felt like it was
00:02:26.240 slipping away and and there's no patriotism left and i kept saying where did where do our people go
00:02:30.420 where did canada go and then this week came along and i've cried more this week than i have when i
00:02:35.300 can remember there's something about hugs and love and and so much unity and really it feels like what
00:02:40.160 it feels like to be a canadian so proud you know to be a canadian that this this sparked something in
00:02:44.940 the world which is amazing i'm glad we were the ones that sparked it you know yeah and it turns
00:02:49.220 out turns out we're not alone right because it's like the media the social media algorithms but try
00:02:53.920 to make us feel like we're crazy and alone and that's we see that problem i mean you get some
00:02:57.320 people like complaining you know but they're perpetuated by fear and that fear is a big thing
00:03:01.020 and once you've been fear has been shoved down your throat by every angle for two years what are you
00:03:06.300 going to do you're going to get scared you're going to get scared of everything you get scared of us
00:03:09.260 thinking we're going to do some damage by taking away the mandates because you've been told that's what's
00:03:13.680 going to keep you safe so i don't blame the people here that are upset but trust me for every person
00:03:18.140 in ottawa right now that's mad that we're here just know there's about 40 or 50 of you that are happy
00:03:23.140 we're here i get cops every day coming up to me going thank you thank you for being here cops are on
00:03:29.480 our side they're happy we're here there's nurses i met today and there's tons of them everybody's here
00:03:34.380 in support but you're not going to see it right yeah if you look for it you'll see it yeah and that and
00:03:39.600 that's a great point because people want to speak up there's a lot of people that we speak for who
00:03:43.740 who can't speak cops have a job and we don't deny it we're glad they're here yeah because we've been
00:03:48.700 having a blast and now counter protesters came and thank goodness the cops are here because they're
00:03:52.500 aggressive they're throwing stuff at my two-year-old yelling at my wife like really so you know and i
00:03:57.740 said why are you so angry and they said this needs to stop and i said what needs to stop and they
00:04:01.960 said the honking and this was this was day five and i said really and they said yeah i said imagine
00:04:07.960 we did it for two years how would you feel then because that's how we feel we've been suffocated
00:04:12.440 and held hostage some guy had a sign i don't won't be held hostage in my own town i said we're held
00:04:17.080 hostage in our own country i don't know any other country other than north korea and a little bit of
00:04:21.700 australia now where you can't leave your own country i can't drive or fly out of my own country that's
00:04:25.900 messed up yeah it's and it seems as though these people that are stricken with fear like their brain
00:04:30.640 stops working you know like their memory goes to crap you know what you know you can go down the
00:04:34.940 very many times and gotten conversation and feel like i'm spinning my wheels and they're just not
00:04:40.060 figuring it out and i'm thinking how how can you not figure it out when there's all the information
00:04:43.660 is there all the science is there all the statistics are there it's plain sight how can you not figure
00:04:48.220 it out and i get mad you're just not thinking's right and i think nope it's fear it's just fear it's
00:04:54.160 like a person who's definitely scared of spiders they're not thinking that spider's this big and
00:04:58.020 they're huge they're thinking i'm scared of this spider what can i do to get away from this spider
00:05:01.860 that's all they're thinking is one track mind so you get stuck in this loop your critical thinking
00:05:06.000 starts going right i'm really worried about trudeau right now like his mental state is messed up
00:05:10.520 because i think he needs to see a psychologist or something because there's no detox center maybe well
00:05:16.860 nobody in their rational mind goes down the path he's going down you can get paid off i understand
00:05:21.720 politicians get paid off and he of course is but you're still a father
00:05:25.900 you're still a canadian you know where's the humanity your kids are growing up in this world
00:05:31.200 you're creating as well and where's the foresight right like where's the foresight of where things
00:05:35.260 are going it's just it's scary and so i think either he's getting paid way more than i think to be
00:05:41.020 doing it but you know or there's this there's a mental lapse in judgment and you know for that alone
00:05:46.280 he shouldn't be in power of a country um you know he can't deal with it and he doesn't know how to deal
00:05:50.940 with it and either he believes what he's saying which is very hard to believe um or there's
00:05:56.100 something wrong something wrong upstairs so and but um do you watch the news in this country i do
00:06:02.540 and how do you feel about their portrayal of this trucker convoy you know what i love to say i'm i'm
00:06:10.800 disappointed but i'm not i'm not surprised it's it's pretty disgusting how like how little they have
00:06:15.880 to go on you got a million people in the streets for over a week and you got nothing you're pulling
00:06:20.300 at threads you got terry fox has a flag on his back and you know and some guy that they paid to
00:06:25.880 have a confederate flag like that's all you have a million people here every day for this long and
00:06:30.260 nothing's happened talk to the cops every cop will tell you the same thing yeah nothing going on we're
00:06:34.000 all peaceful no no problem so it doesn't surprise you though doesn't surprise me i mean there i mean
00:06:38.560 trudeau has a video of himself telling there's a whole video about him saying how they're not lucky
00:06:43.200 that the media is on their side he's like this isn't by accident you know we paid him 600 million
00:06:47.300 dollars but they let us off the hook for a very good reason because we paid them 600 million dollars
00:06:53.740 of course they're going to tell our story like it's out there yeah videos out there him saying it it's
00:06:58.220 not it's not conspiracy theory you know it's you're gonna you're gonna do they're not gonna lose their
00:07:03.940 jobs i talked to one guy interviewed me he used to work for cbc he was a foreign correspondent and he
00:07:08.600 left from his morals and now he's you know freelancing and trying to get paid for what he does best
00:07:13.360 but uh he he couldn't take it he can't understand why more like him aren't leaving the media but
00:07:18.040 you can't blame them either they got jobs they got to feed families too just like the rest of us
00:07:21.980 right so it's hard for them but the morals they got to come back man yeah what do you think people
00:07:27.200 can do watching what do you think they can do to better support what's going on say is that um just
00:07:31.660 get the truth get the truth look for the information out there because it's out there all the real
00:07:35.620 information is out there and challenge yourself whether you believe us and you're on our side or you're
00:07:40.860 not it doesn't really matter just challenge yourself to think outside the box challenge
00:07:44.600 yourself to get information from both sides and then make a critical decision i talked to a girl
00:07:47.840 the other day wearing a mask she was hiding in the back a couple streets back and she was scared to
00:07:51.040 come up here i said come up man no one is going to judge you for wearing a mask there's a lot of
00:07:54.640 people wearing masks that's good for them if they want to and ask any question you want anybody will
00:07:58.860 answer it no one's here to spread any hate and we had a long conversation for about an hour and by the
00:08:04.260 end of it she was a science major so you know she was not she was an educator she knew what she was
00:08:08.080 talking about she didn't refute any of the things i was saying she goes yeah you got a point on all
00:08:12.200 that and by the end of it all she said is i'm going to make a better effort to not just look at my
00:08:17.900 sources of information but look outside those for other information to deduce a narrative and i said
00:08:23.360 that's all i ask because i'll look at the other side too i'll look at mainstream media because even
00:08:27.160 though i don't agree and i know they're lying i want to see what the other side is seeing so i can
00:08:30.760 understand their viewpoint you know that's important and i've always felt a red flag that i try to explain
00:08:35.980 to people is you know you can't even question certain things anymore and that's a problem it's
00:08:42.200 a real problem if you can't start to question i mean science is based on questioning that's what
00:08:47.060 science is you pull out some science you question it you review it you re-engineer it and you go again
00:08:53.060 and that's what science is but when you can't question science and you can't question opinions
00:08:56.440 that's a real problem that's not freedom of speech anymore because everybody has a right to believe
00:09:00.940 and think and say whatever they want that's the point that's the whole point if you're not
00:09:05.500 questioning things if you're not questioning things you're just burying your head in the sand
00:09:08.840 i said if they tell you tomorrow the air is toxic yeah that's it air is toxic you might get sick from
00:09:14.540 it you might not but if you do you could probably die you should wear a helmet around your head for
00:09:18.660 the rest of your life people will do it there will be a lot of people do it they have no science to say
00:09:23.680 that it's true or not but the fear that it might be a possibility is enough for someone to change
00:09:29.840 their behavior and they know that that's why there's been a war in afghanistan for 20 years
00:09:33.740 that's why so many things go on forever and ever and ever because fear will always
00:09:37.920 be a perpetuent of action people get scared they will act in a certain way and they know that
00:09:44.080 and even to extend that analogy a bit more it's not it's more layered than that because it's not
00:09:49.240 just oh toxic air or you'll die it's like if you believe it's not toxic air you're racist as well
00:09:54.780 of course yeah i'm a racist misogynistic because i'm here yeah you know like i i don't get that
00:10:00.780 that leap that leap is so bizarre to me it's like you asking me about what's happening here
00:10:06.240 and i start telling you you know the tree is green because like that's the answer is like it makes no
00:10:11.100 logical sense that i don't know why people don't question that when there's no logical leap to what
00:10:16.080 they're saying because soon it's like in court when people are arguing an argument sometimes a lawyer
00:10:20.960 will say something and the judge will say strike it from the record yeah well they know it's going to
00:10:24.920 get stricken but they said it because it's heard you know so same thing trudeau will say things even
00:10:29.280 they're asinine and completely false they've been said right once they've been said they've been
00:10:33.380 hurt and that's the point exactly how does it feel to be part of the fringe minority hey man proud proud
00:10:40.220 to be part of this massive fringe minority that's taken over the entire world it's crazy it's amazing
00:10:46.260 but again asinine things that get you know you say something and then it just gets parroted parroted
00:10:52.140 parroted you know two weeks to flatten the curve two weeks to flatten the curve six feet apart six
00:10:55.960 you just keep saying these things over and over and then they start you know fringe minority fringe
00:11:01.060 minority and then people believe it you know even if they never look out their window i guarantee
00:11:05.260 there's people that live in the city and i know i've talked to them they live here they haven't walked
00:11:09.200 up three blocks to see what's happening but they have an opinion on what's happening yeah yeah so look
00:11:13.580 for yourself and bow when are you running for politics oh i don't know if i can go down that path
00:11:21.000 i've been asked a few times now but i don't know my message would be guys look past all the bs look
00:11:28.780 past all the little things that you can see that this negative that negative whatever whatever
00:11:33.280 just look at the baseline message the baseline message is freedoms for canadians freedoms for
00:11:40.860 the whole world freedom of choice that's it it's super simple super basic and this whole like
00:11:45.480 we'll look at removing the measures next week next month it's all bs yeah it doesn't take anything
00:11:50.620 to remove the measures you put in place one stroke of countries managed to do it overnight
00:11:53.620 one stroke of a pen that's all it takes that's all it takes trudeau one quick it was very quick to
00:11:57.840 bring them in it's just that quick to take them out you don't have to do anything to take them out
00:12:01.360 but you know so don't start believing that you know just because they're saying oh it might
00:12:06.960 happen down the road no it's not that hard just do it for the people locally that are upset with
00:12:10.720 us honking i understand i understand we're being disruptive um but that's the point and we're sorry
00:12:16.680 that's affecting you but it's been affecting us for a long time somebody said they were really upset
00:12:20.420 it's been five days of honking you know and they're really upset i said imagine we did it for two
00:12:24.360 years how would you feel then you'd lose your mind like we are because it's going crazy it's insane at
00:12:29.540 this point and we've been talking to our local mlas we've been talking to local politicians it's not
00:12:34.440 working and so we have to make a stand and make them make a message that can be heard and it's being
00:12:39.100 heard all around the world except for up the hill which doesn't make any sense it's being heard it's
00:12:43.860 just not being acted on honk honk thanks for your time man thank you so much who is justin trudeau's
00:12:50.940 daddy everybody knows castro's his dad come on who doesn't know that yet