Greg Wycliffe - February 08, 2022


Ottawa Resident Tears Up at Trucker Convoy

Topics
truckers
Hosted by
Greg Wycliffe
Mentioned
Glebe
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Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

191.13

Word count

704

Sentence count

57

Harmful content

Toxicity

6

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk to a man who has lived in the city for 15 years and has been a part of the pro-choice movement. He shares his story of how he got to where he is now, and how he feels about the government's decision to shut down the strip mall in protest of the truckers.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I need depression! Do you want healing?
00:00:02.800 Explain your sign, if you will. It's for a YouTube channel.
00:00:05.000 I saw the sign abandoned. I saw the sign abandoned.
00:00:08.000 Someone, you know, having too much fun, so maybe they dropped it.
00:00:12.000 But, yeah, I've been waiting a long time for this, and just, yeah, super emotional.
00:00:17.000 So, I can't believe it, you know, a lot of, you know, we've seen a lot of the division,
00:00:22.000 and, you know, especially against, I don't want to really bring it there, but, you know, 0.99
00:00:27.000 a lot of these guys, Caucasian, white guys, and, you know, they've taken a lot of shit for a long time. 0.99
00:00:33.000 Yeah, I wanted to come here to observe. I lived downtown my whole life, 0.99
00:00:38.000 but I will be coming here even more.
00:00:41.000 If they say we're shutting it down, then you know I'm coming even harder.
00:00:46.000 It's just incredible.
00:00:47.000 What do you think about the citizens of Ottawa who are complaining about the honking,
00:00:51.000 and this is not the right way to protest and all that? What would you say to the Ottawa citizens?
00:00:56.000 Well, because I know these areas a lot, the Glebe, the downtown.
00:01:00.000 We have been living very comfortable downtown.
00:01:03.000 Lots of, you know, the upgrades.
00:01:05.000 You know, we live very nice, very good downtown.
00:01:08.000 So, I'm very shocked that people cannot take two weeks of noise,
00:01:13.000 but they can take the three years of all the changes.
00:01:18.000 So, I'm very disappointed, honestly.
00:01:20.000 But I forgive them because they are also being, not brainwashed, but they're also being told different things.
00:01:28.000 So, very emotional. I've been up and down all day, crying, happy, sad, but it's just incredible.
00:01:34.000 And I always dreamed when I was a kid that Ottawa would, I would hope that Ottawa would be a place where something would happen.
00:01:41.000 But, you know, there's so many other major cities in the world, so it would never happen in Ottawa.
00:01:46.000 So, I just can't believe it, that Ottawa, and I'm older now, and I can fight, and I can, I just can't believe it, man.
00:01:54.000 Ottawa is the place where it's happening. I honestly can't believe it, man. It's crazy.
00:02:00.000 A lot of people are saying they're feeling Canadian pride for the first time in a long time here. Can you relate to that?
00:02:05.000 Yeah, yeah, and I go all the way with work, you know.
00:02:11.000 So, you know, 15 years, you know, and they threatened for the fire and everything.
00:02:17.000 So, you know, off work with no pay and stuff, and I didn't prepare a lot in my life,
00:02:21.000 because a couple chronic illnesses, you know, mistakes with the money, so I wasn't prepared a lot for, you know, this.
00:02:28.000 So, it's really strange for them to get rid of these guys, the truckers, you know.
00:02:34.000 Everything I own is from these guys. I remember as a kid, you know, the TV shows, commercials,
00:02:40.000 they always made these guys seem like, you know, the worst guys, and now they're here, man.
00:02:45.000 And they're not getting paid for sure, so it's just crazy. I'm talking way too much.
00:02:50.000 No, bring it in, man. Bring it in.
00:02:52.000 I was talking to a normie friend last night. Thank you for sharing that.
00:02:54.000 I was talking to a normie friend last night, and he was like, oh, I don't like what the government's doing, 1.00
00:02:57.000 but those truckers, like, that's all, they're dumb. They're idiots. 1.00
00:03:00.000 And it's just so, it's so, like, disheartening to hear how they are, like, brainwashed, 1.00
00:03:06.000 or they're in that, like, they're so close-minded, you know.
00:03:09.000 Yes. If things are of such a certainty, then we would all be getting the vaccine.
00:03:14.000 If it was of a certainty, then we would all be doing the Band-Aid.
00:03:18.000 But when there's the doubt and everything, then, you know, you can't do it like this.
00:03:24.000 It's quite clear, and I'm praying, I'm asking these guys, don't move.
00:03:28.000 If you guys don't move, we don't move.
00:03:30.000 So, don't leave us with the insane, don't leave us.
00:03:34.000 You know, these guys, they never take a day off so we can.
00:03:38.000 The evil, you know, they never take a day off.
00:03:40.000 The evil.