Greg Wycliffe - June 25, 2025


Two interviews and driving 7 hours - Alberta vlog #4


Episode Stats

Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

151.83139

Word Count

1,484

Sentence Count

3

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 first full day in alberta and we got a lot of driving we got a lot of driving to do
00:00:10.020 of course of course i got a truck oh fuck don't gotta hold her for my phone though
00:00:21.520 that's definitely not gonna hold yeah all righty that's gonna have to do
00:00:28.280 so i don't crash uh but no big big day today huge day this might actually be the biggest day of the
00:00:38.340 trip because we have two two interviews lined up in one day and you might say greg you've you've
00:00:46.600 done dozens and dozens of interviews in one day at the trucker convoy yeah it's a little different
00:00:53.400 though because uh that's just running gun man on the street interviews simple enough this is for a
00:01:00.000 production this is for we are going to be submitting this to film festivals for the tech geeks out there
00:01:06.460 that means three different camera angles three different tripods recording in 4k uh making sure
00:01:13.740 the miking is good making sure the the image is good making sure the picture looks good and crisp
00:01:19.180 and picturesque and so it's setting up all of that which takes time and then of course it's it's
00:01:25.560 like having a um just gonna make sure uh i stay on the road here uh it's having a a a a what's the word
00:01:36.960 a fruitful conversation i need to bring out the stories in these people that uh the emotions in
00:01:47.680 these people that are going to you know paint the picture for people we need to kind of it's it's
00:01:53.740 part of it is summarizing but another part of it is just kind of like just like bringing people there
00:01:58.260 to the emotions and and and uh capturing that and as i said it's uh there's a lot more than just
00:02:07.760 kind of these running gun interviews so doing two in one day is big there's also hours of driving
00:02:13.040 in between them alberta is a big province and of course the people i want to interview are far
00:02:18.500 apart uh but the first one on this first day especially uh i'm not going to say where but um
00:02:27.220 yeah i'm glad that i'm going to be getting this person out of the way because then i can stay more
00:02:33.820 local to calgary for the most part uh but of course we'll see we'll see how that goes because there are
00:02:39.960 people away from calgary that i want to speak to well yeah the other thing too is i'm i'm oh i'm
00:02:48.380 driving edmonton right now right so i left left calgary driving to edmonton gonna get there for noon
00:02:53.560 and i'm looking ahead of me uh and i'm seeing clouds seeing clouds i looked at the weather
00:03:02.480 and there might be rain and thunderstorms and this is kind of like agonizing me i'm like oh my god
00:03:11.260 because you know a lot of i've learned anything like in politics and in life in general it's like
00:03:17.000 you everything's out of your control everything's out of your control and i need to accept that
00:03:23.480 and i definitely can't control the weather you know i'm not jewish it's a joke guys um but i
00:03:32.140 can't control the weather so i need to accept that and kind of just work with what i got work with what
00:03:38.100 i got like we have a plan but it involves being outside so that's not good so for the rest of the
00:03:46.720 drive here i'm going to very safely i'm actually going to be calling restaurants that are nearby
00:03:53.700 restaurants to see if they have private dining rooms and then to see if they can help us out
00:04:02.160 hey can we borrow a room i'll pay by the hour i'll pay an entree in an hour here's the best thing
00:04:09.220 you don't gotta wash any dishes uh it's the middle of the day if you don't have a crazy lunch rush
00:04:15.040 here's here's money for what was otherwise uh an empty dining room i'm gonna go for that angle
00:04:21.560 and uh yeah so hopefully we have a backup plan it's my first time driving a diesel that's pretty
00:04:28.720 exciting um and just so much respect for the blue collar the blue collar guys out there who actually
00:04:38.980 make this country run and of course you see it in abundance especially when you're in alberta
00:04:44.280 but uh yeah it's uh it's one of those things where they they never get enough credit and even
00:04:53.360 when you do give them credit you're still really not doing it justice um and it just makes me think
00:04:59.900 of like the vampire soul-sucking bureaucrats who are like the polar opposite of these people
00:05:04.620 you know they uh they don't work with their hands they have soft hands they're total pussies they have
00:05:13.380 no idea how the world actually works and they're they're stuck in their head they're obsessed with
00:05:17.580 all the stupid um you know theory and ideas and making the world a perfect place and any any plumber
00:05:26.440 any blue collar guy knows knows the world's not a perfect place knows that things fucking break all
00:05:32.420 the time and uh that's kind of like not only do we know the world is not a perfect place but
00:05:39.840 understanding on a fundamental level that it is not a perfect place is like the most important thing
00:05:46.720 to understand anyway this is getting into like some pseudo philosophical uh religious nonsense so i think
00:05:55.160 that's my cue that's in red deer alberta red deer alberta the rest stop breakfast sandwich is
00:06:06.500 busting right now where is this i don't know but uh freaking unbelievable and boom just like that
00:06:18.460 just like that somebody called me back from yesterday i landed yesterday and i knew it was
00:06:25.440 gonna rain in edmonton so i started to call some places leaving some voicemails and i'm like i don't
00:06:30.580 even know if this is gonna work but sure enough someone called me back 33 bucks an hour to make sure
00:06:39.160 that i can have an interview and not get rained on that's that's worth it so uh yeah so i'm excited
00:06:45.220 now we have a rain check we have a we have a plan for if it rains uh i'm pumped about that i'm pumped
00:06:51.480 about that uh yeah things happen i really feel like everyone's so friendly here i don't know if
00:06:57.540 i'm just getting lucky but so far the people i've been interacting with in uh in calgary and alberta
00:07:04.320 have been uh just great people great people very friendly very helpful um yeah oh yeah a little bit of rain
00:07:13.640 little with a little bit of rain in etan
00:07:17.640 in 600 meters merge onto alberta 216 north all right uh we stopped in white court
00:07:38.380 gotta fill up on diesel gas just letting the thing cool down a bit i'm learning how to drive
00:07:45.440 a diesel truck gotta let it warm up for a few minutes and even if you've been driving for a
00:07:51.180 bit you gotta let it cool down for a minute so i'm just gonna do that before i shut it down or
00:07:56.740 fill up with diesel um for some reason i had this nightmare that it's like i'm gonna forget
00:08:02.440 i'm gonna forget it's a diesel truck and i'm gonna fill it with gas and ruin the car and like
00:08:07.240 what's wrong with me why don't why am i worried about making such a huge error like that's just
00:08:13.000 such a huge error to make it even says diesel right on like how could you not how could you
00:08:19.660 this up bro how could you kind of just feel it when you're driving it's just such a beast
00:08:26.340 that it's crazy to think that i would forget that uh yeah i did an interview in edmonton
00:08:33.520 that went well went very well if you want to find out who it is well maybe you should maybe
00:08:41.560 you should support the project i'm not gonna let you know who it is but secret but i'm also going
00:08:49.520 to meet someone up near grand prairie as well very great person as well i'm doing two interviews
00:08:57.040 today two that's a big day it's a huge day so far so good and uh yeah but i'm about to fill up on diesel
00:09:05.660 gas here here comes the pitch if you want to support this documentary being produced then please help help
00:09:13.340 my road trip across alberta uh interviewing these people who are persecuted for uh what they believe
00:09:20.820 and what they say yeah oh go to give send go.com slash save free speech give send go.com slash save
00:09:28.080 free speech that's enough time cooling her down and i'm gonna go fill up
00:09:34.260 free speech that's enough time cooling her down and i'm gonna go fill up and i'm gonna go