Raging Dissident Podcast - HOUSE ARREST ep 30 - JAMES TOPP ”THE TOPPINATOR”

00:00:00.000 If you're carrying a flag, conduct yourselves accordingly.

00:00:04.440 You carry it with pride.

00:00:06.060 What that flag is about, what Terry Fox was about,

00:00:09.720 is about determination, dedication, and perseverance.

00:00:16.400 It's about inner strength.

00:00:18.420 It's not about beating your chest.

00:00:20.440 We understand each other?

00:00:22.360 Give me a hooah. 1.00

00:00:24.680 You're in it for the long haul.

00:00:27.140 I hope you act accordingly.

00:00:28.380 Okay, careful. Cross the street, folks.

00:00:31.540 Okay.

00:00:32.460 Why we're doing what we're doing is to rise, to stand tall,

00:00:38.140 to extend a hand to our fellow Canadians,

00:00:41.460 including all my brothers and sisters in uniform.

00:00:45.100 Because this is a time of national crisis,

00:00:48.180 and the time to overcome our differences is now.

00:00:54.820 Okay, this is how it's done, folks.

00:00:56.800 We're doing it.

00:00:59.660 Hard to believe in you, Hopkins.

00:01:05.680 That's it.

00:01:06.240 The Toppenator is here.

00:01:07.420 I just got to change the screen, change this backdrop here a little bit.

00:01:11.440 James, can you still hear me?

00:01:12.260 Mr. Toppenator, I got your picture there.

00:01:23.280 Hey, how are you doing?

00:01:25.980 Hello.

00:01:26.480 Hello, Ragecasters.

00:01:29.540 Welcome.

00:01:30.280 It's an infamous place.

00:01:32.580 Good to be here.

00:01:33.740 Thank you, man.

00:01:34.340 Thanks for being here.

00:01:36.000 It's incredible what you're doing.

00:01:37.380 I can't even wrap my head around it.

00:01:38.880 I mean, I can kind of wrap my head around it.

00:01:40.620 I wouldn't want to wrap my feet around that.

00:01:42.160 How are yours holding up?

00:01:44.560 No, they're not too bad.

00:01:45.860 They're not as bad as you might have thought.

00:01:47.460 I mean, I had maintained a certain level of fitness, but when I decided to jump into this

00:01:57.080 thing, it was a couple of weeks of preparation while I was running around, not really working

00:02:00.900 out.

00:02:02.780 Started doing the business in them coming out of Vancouver.

00:02:06.940 Back in February 20th, it went really fast, really, really hard, and my feet kind of got

00:02:14.020 bigger.

00:02:15.380 I can imagine.

00:02:16.580 My shoe, but my shoes didn't.

00:02:18.200 So I think what happened was that I caused some complications with swelling.

00:02:23.940 I've run into that.

00:02:25.140 Until I got around to getting some new boots.

00:02:28.560 Excellent.

00:02:28.780 So basically, they swole up, went back to normal, swole up again.

00:02:35.260 My red ankle's a little bit bigger than another one now, but it's all good. 0.55

00:02:39.440 Well, my world record, my all-time ruck record, I think might be 30 or 31 kilometers, so pathetic 0.87

00:02:48.220 compared to what you're doing. 0.93

00:02:50.160 Nah.

00:02:50.460 This is outrageous.

00:02:51.940 When I first saw that you were doing this, I remarked to Morgan earlier that everything

00:02:55.920 that we've done and everything that's happened since, you've just been walking this entire

00:03:01.220 time.

00:03:02.100 We're marching.

00:03:02.500 It's incredible.

00:03:03.780 Marching, exactly.

00:03:05.120 How heavy is that rucksack?

00:03:06.820 Well, we changed over, so I'm hoping that most of your folks are going to know the lingo,

00:03:18.560 but we changed over from fall, winter marching order to spring, summer marching order.

00:03:25.400 So it's a little bit lighter than it was.

00:03:26.900 Perfect.

00:03:27.340 When we were moving through the mountains, because I wanted all the guys to have a sleeping

00:03:32.800 bag, shelter, socks, toques, gloves, windproof clothing, all that crap, and so it was a bit

00:03:42.060 heavier actually going through the mountains, which was kind of slowing us down.

00:03:45.440 Mountains will do that.

00:03:46.640 They typically do slow people down.

00:03:49.400 You are aware that cars break down trying to travel through those roads.

00:03:54.280 Yeah, absolutely.

00:03:55.300 You didn't.

00:03:55.800 Well, well, we did, we did, there was a section where we, I don't know if you've ever been 0.95

00:04:03.080 out this way, and if you haven't, I mean, damn, come on out here, because driving through 0.76

00:04:08.200 the mountains is something to see. 0.95

00:04:09.660 Yeah.

00:04:09.840 There was one section between a place called Manning Park and on Highway 3, Crow's Nest

00:04:16.600 Highway, and a town called Princeton, BC, where it was just, it was too treacherous.

00:04:23.500 Like, the switchbacks were right up there.

00:04:26.160 Like, you would have thought you were back overseas again.

00:04:28.260 Oh, no.

00:04:28.920 And with snow on the shoulders, there was just no way, so we had to cut that section out.

00:04:35.560 So I owe you, I owe you 66 kilometers.

00:04:39.680 That was another thing.

00:04:40.800 I was talking about you on the last episode of the yesterday, Wednesday evening, I've

00:04:46.200 decided, I've been calling you the Topinator now, because this is a very, I was a great,

00:04:51.680 I love those films, and this is, if anyone's a human Terminator, it's you.

00:04:56.000 What inspired you to do it this way?

00:04:59.760 I mean, you'd have to leave it to the infantry in CO to just go, I'm just gonna, I'm just

00:05:02.800 gonna ruck this entire problem to death.

00:05:04.960 I'm just gonna put a rucksack on and march until it's all, so it's destroyed.

00:05:08.840 So, what was the thought process?

00:05:12.040 Um, I just, I'm not sure if you're familiar with my particular story, so I'll fill you

00:05:16.140 in real quick.

00:05:16.760 Like, I had been in the armed forces since 1990.

00:05:22.460 I got out in 94, got back in again in 94.

00:05:26.460 And, you know, I transitioned to the reserves in 2019.

00:05:31.780 And when doing so, that enabled me to get a position, um, as a civilian with RCMP working

00:05:39.940 in Chilliwack, British Columbia.

00:05:42.360 So, uh, as of March, 2021, I was a reservist at a unit in Chilliwack, British Columbia.

00:05:51.260 And I'm now, I have my civilian job working for the RCMP as a range manager.

00:05:57.180 Right.

00:05:57.780 And, uh, this is an indoor range that the RCMP uses to run all of their, uh, RCMP members

00:06:05.380 through, um, their equivalent of PWT, right?

00:06:12.280 So, they're called their annual firearms qualification.

00:06:14.260 So, it was the most amazing job, like, I know, if you've ever watched The Simpsons.

00:06:20.740 Uh, yes.

00:06:22.560 Yeah.

00:06:23.120 Okay.

00:06:23.520 Well, there's an episode when Homer puts his job at the power plant to go work at the polling

00:06:27.300 alley.

00:06:27.920 Yeah.

00:06:28.220 And it was exactly the same.

00:06:34.480 I'll refrain from making any RCMP comments today.

00:06:36.960 Even when I was, even when I was changing urinal pucks.

00:06:41.900 It was exactly the same.

00:06:43.580 I'm going back to the plan.

00:06:45.240 I mean, you know, to go from full-time army crop to doing something like that, you know,

00:06:52.940 730, 330.

00:06:54.600 Yeah.

00:06:55.160 Or, you know, doing a, doing a 330 to 11.

00:06:58.160 Yeah.

00:06:58.740 And just, you know, because you got, you got to, uh, um, do a little bit of shooting,

00:07:05.080 take care of cop guns and stuff, work with some really switched on firearms instructors.

00:07:11.260 Uh, I learned a ton of stuff from, so anyway, really awesome job.

00:07:16.680 Uh, man, you know, come, then now we have the announcement of the mandates in August for

00:07:22.040 federal government workers.

00:07:23.120 And then come November, they're like, well, um, you know, I have an objection to this, uh,

00:07:30.780 to these mandates.

00:07:32.100 Right.

00:07:32.980 For a number of different reasons.

00:07:34.800 And, uh, I, I'm, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to play ball.

00:07:42.780 So I got placed on leave without pay.

00:07:44.940 Okay.

00:07:45.200 So that was the first soccer punch right there.

00:07:47.260 A couple of weeks later, um, I get, uh, I get told by the chain of command of my reserve

00:07:57.840 unit that I'm going to be released now on, uh, item five, but we're not following chief

00:08:03.820 of defense staff direction.

00:08:05.760 I have a feeling that's not going to go over too well with a lot of people here in the near

00:08:09.080 future.

00:08:09.440 Well, I don't, the thing is, I don't think that a lot of people realize what is actually

00:08:15.720 going on and what getting released on an item five F it means.

00:08:21.120 Yeah.

00:08:22.020 I'll just say this.

00:08:23.880 All right.

00:08:25.640 Um, after 28 years, right.

00:08:29.140 For us, um, I, I got out as a warrant officer.

00:08:33.280 Um, you know, it wasn't because, uh, I was a total, uh, you know, excuse my language here. 0.98

00:08:37.520 I wasn't the total shit pump. 0.99

00:08:39.440 I swear constantly on this channel. 0.99

00:08:41.300 It's fine.

00:08:42.160 You can go full barracks mode here.

00:08:44.000 It's fine.

00:08:44.640 They love it.

00:08:45.140 Yeah.

00:08:45.380 Okay.

00:08:46.160 Um, but I did, I did, uh, you know, I did, I got in a bit of trouble back in the day.

00:08:50.920 Okay.

00:08:51.240 I'm not, uh, I'm not a saint.

00:08:53.660 Yeah.

00:08:54.460 I after, you know, keeping my nose clean and doing the business to the breadth of my abilities

00:09:02.180 for, you know, 20 or so years to have, to have me, I'm getting released on a five

00:09:05.980 F.

00:09:07.180 Uh, it was devastating.

00:09:09.860 Yeah.

00:09:10.460 Absolutely devastating.

00:09:11.560 And then, you know, having those two things happen.

00:09:13.960 Uh, it really, it really, uh, I was laid out.

00:09:16.780 Honestly, I didn't, I wasn't in a good place.

00:09:19.320 Uh, so, and I think I have to say, like, one of the things that kind of kept me hanging

00:09:27.280 on was to see in like shows like yours, you know, at least there was other dudes out there

00:09:31.640 that kind of had the same idea that was like, okay, all this, all this stuff is messed up.

00:09:38.760 Yeah.

00:09:39.300 Well, that means a lot to me.

00:09:40.760 Uh, I can't tell you how much, I mean, that's, that's the, that was, that was the beginning.

00:09:45.600 I, the reason why I started doing this in the first place is because there's a lot of

00:09:48.180 us that, uh, you kind of lose your way, especially when you get out of the military.

00:09:51.120 But like, for me, I don't imagine it's much different for you.

00:09:53.520 I know you've mentioned it in some of your videos that, uh, you kind of, it starts kind

00:09:56.940 of a psychological spiral every time you see something like, um, you know, somebody's

00:10:00.680 rights being stripped away or, or something, you know, anything like this that the government's

00:10:04.760 doing.

00:10:05.020 And then you can't help but think like, uh, you know, the guys we left overseas and

00:10:08.740 all the things people had to do and go through.

00:10:11.260 And it's like, you don't, you don't get to make these decisions.

00:10:14.140 Who, how dare you? 0.55

00:10:15.060 You know?

00:10:15.440 So, and, uh, you know, we, uh, I was, I don't know if you followed that when I, when

00:10:19.020 I was in Ottawa, I was, I was there with the, you know, air quote protesters or, well, they

00:10:22.360 all, they're all veterans.

00:10:23.240 They're all wearing their medals and CBC neglect.

00:10:25.000 They called them protesters and said that we attacked the memorial.

00:10:28.560 Uh, you know, I was like, how dare you even think that this belongs to you, that you even

00:10:32.440 get to make this decision that you get to preclude, uh, you know, me and these guys and the

00:10:36.380 rest of the country from visiting, uh, you know, our national war memorial for, you know, it's

00:10:40.820 insane.

00:10:42.280 Oh, I, I don't imagine this.

00:10:44.140 So to go back to your original question, seeing that happen, um, but also I just, I'll

00:10:52.380 just back up a little bit after I was placed on leave without pay, like I am getting a

00:10:55.620 pension, right.

00:10:56.440 And just paying my mortgage.

00:10:57.920 Yeah.

00:10:58.440 Yeah.

00:10:58.620 I have, I have a home and hope, which is, uh, you know, like that.

00:11:03.680 So I got my mortgage being paid for, but that said, like, I still need other income.

00:11:07.800 So I, I got a job as a tow truck driver and I just started to realize, and I'm sure you're

00:11:13.380 seeing this too.

00:11:14.060 And, you know, we spent our lives in the warm embrace of, uh, the, the government given

00:11:19.940 our paychecks and, and, you know, health care, health benefits and all the other stuff.

00:11:24.220 And to see what, uh, you know, folks in the, in the public have to do, um, to make a living

00:11:33.160 he did in this country.

00:11:34.800 I was kind of, I was kind of shocked to be honest.

00:11:37.520 And, um, I just realized that they're the ones paying, they were, they were the ones paying

00:11:43.400 us for our, our, our careers and everything we did.

00:11:47.320 Yeah.

00:11:48.480 I mean, we got to, we got, uh, put our lives on a line, but I don't know, I thought we

00:11:56.740 were paid pretty good for what we did.

00:11:59.660 It wasn't bad, but I know, I know what you mean.

00:12:01.880 I know you feel like I see these people being, uh, a bunch of people assemble.

00:12:08.840 Yeah.

00:12:09.080 Well, like, I feel like a lot of the people in the country are hurting and suffering and

00:12:12.100 no one's really, you know, that was our job.

00:12:13.940 Like you said, like, it's our job to defend these people.

00:12:15.840 That's what we asked to do is what we wanted to do.

00:12:18.060 That's what a lot of these guys are made for.

00:12:19.560 That's who they are.

00:12:20.700 And now, like, as you said, and I agree, this is a national crisis of the country's coming

00:12:24.860 apart at the seams here.

00:12:25.740 Who do, who is, who is expected to, uh, you know, step up and say something.

00:12:29.560 Is it the nurses union or is it Uber drivers?

00:12:32.280 And it's like, you know, people are doing what they're doing, but I mean, at the end of the

00:12:35.020 day, the, the veterans, I mean, guys, uh, you know, I tell all of them that there's

00:12:38.840 a lot, especially the ones that are at home deployed to Ford operating based living room

00:12:42.200 couch and, you know, working on the bottom of a, of a whiskey bottle or something.

00:12:45.640 Like, uh, the country needs you and can really use your, your voice and your, uh, your, your

00:12:49.860 credibility and your support and your leadership.

00:12:51.680 And, um, to see what you're doing is, uh, my, I, I remember when I first saw that somebody

00:12:57.540 sent this to me right before I started whatever episode that was.

00:13:00.760 And I was, I watched it and I was like, is this man insane?

00:13:04.400 He's going to walk.

00:13:05.980 So he's going to march to Ottawa.

00:13:07.960 He's not even going to walk there.

00:13:09.180 He's going to carry a rug.

00:13:09.980 He's going to rock all the way to Ottawa.

00:13:10.960 That is, uh, that's quite something.

00:13:13.840 Did anyone try to stop you?

00:13:15.360 Like, did your family say you'll die?

00:13:17.320 Like, stop.

00:13:17.940 What are you doing?

00:13:19.380 Yeah.

00:13:19.640 Oh yeah.

00:13:20.220 Yeah.

00:13:21.480 Yeah.

00:13:22.060 Um, I mean, I'm not, but that's the point of it, right?

00:13:25.140 Like it's inspire, it's, it's inspire those guys.

00:13:30.900 It's, it's fired the hell out of me.

00:13:32.760 Concern.

00:13:33.040 Like I'm actually still serving, right?

00:13:34.760 Like I'm, I'm, I'm still, I'm still, uh, I'm, I still haven't been released yet because,

00:13:43.160 um, the file is still sitting in Ottawa and also, uh, probably I'm going to be getting

00:13:49.400 court-martialed for, um, um, because I made that announcement in full uniform at a rally.

00:13:58.020 Right.

00:13:58.580 Right.

00:13:59.240 I don't know if all your folks have seen that one, but I've played it for, I'm going to play

00:14:02.520 it again when we're towards the end here after you're, after you're done, I'm going

00:14:05.400 to play that on the way out, uh, cause cause it's a little bit longer and I wanted to get

00:14:08.180 into it.

00:14:08.540 But yeah.

00:14:09.060 And that's another, another huge, uh, um, you know, brick to your credibility wall is

00:14:13.680 that, you know, people say and do things all the time, but not, not often at their own

00:14:17.340 personal expense.

00:14:18.660 I like to tell a story all the time about, uh, a war officer I had when I did basic and

00:14:23.500 or, uh, my, my infantry course.

00:14:25.020 And they do the obstacle crossing section with the razor wire and he demonstrated on his own

00:14:29.480 body, how, you know, a man, he lays across the razor wire and the whole platoon

00:14:32.440 walked across his back and he just got up and was like, that was it.

00:14:35.760 And go off to your next, I caught up with him years later.

00:14:37.720 He's like, dude, I needed like 20 stitches, you know, but I respected him for the rest

00:14:42.960 of my life for that because I knew this guy will literally bleed just to help me.

00:14:46.160 You know, uh, like that's, that's incredible.

00:14:47.980 So to see what you're doing and putting yourself on the line like that.

00:14:50.340 And, um, I mean, of course, yeah, they're going to court martial, they're going to do

00:14:53.640 all the things they're going to do, but that's because, you know, it's, it's, you know,

00:14:57.460 I mean, how can you, uh, how can you see this?

00:14:59.300 And there's so many other people in the CF that I'm sure are aware of what you're

00:15:02.120 doing.

00:15:02.860 Um, that's gotta be giving them something to think about, or at least I hope so.

00:15:06.500 Well, I hope so too.

00:15:07.720 That's the point of all of this as well.

00:15:09.280 I mean, this is, uh, nothing, what I see happening within the, with the CAF and with,

00:15:15.860 uh, you know, within the RCMP to, uh, to the same extent as a civilian employee, it was

00:15:23.840 just, you know, this, this, uh, unquestioning, you know, unquestioning adherence to this policy

00:15:31.400 that, that didn't really make any sense.

00:15:33.860 Yeah.

00:15:34.860 And, uh, it's.

00:15:36.920 Well, that, that's how I was always brought up or trained is like, that's not what we do.

00:15:40.540 That's where, you know, in the Canadian army, you don't just, you don't just do something

00:15:44.040 for no reason.

00:15:44.680 Like you're more robots.

00:15:45.720 We're not automatons.

00:15:46.740 You know, we're supposed to know what we're doing and have a clear understanding of what the

00:15:50.180 mission is and the objectives.

00:15:51.080 And if it's ethical and morally correct, like we don't, uh, we don't do unethical and moral

00:15:55.620 things in the, in the Canadian forces, or at least when I, when I was, uh, when I was

00:15:59.520 trained anyway, apparently things have changed dramatically since then.

00:16:02.300 Yeah.

00:16:05.080 Well, I think, I think what's happened is that, um, we've just, we've just had this new belief

00:16:13.900 system imposed on us.

00:16:15.180 Right.

00:16:15.460 And, and it's that belief system is, uh, the foundation is, is health and, and you

00:16:26.560 need to be afraid of everything in order to maintain your health.

00:16:29.540 Right.

00:16:30.260 This is, this is the same army, by the way, of people listening that, that wouldn't, that

00:16:34.420 refused to adopt stricter, uh, PT standards or health screening.

00:16:37.560 This is the same army now that's really concerned about health all of a sudden.

00:16:41.900 Yeah.

00:16:42.300 Yeah.

00:16:42.660 Yeah.

00:16:42.920 Why don't you just, can you get out of bed in the morning?

00:16:44.640 All right.

00:16:44.840 You pass.

00:16:45.480 We're good.

00:16:48.620 It's, it's, it's, yeah.

00:16:50.340 I, I remember actually I was thinking about, um, the best way to, to answer that.

00:16:57.260 Like what, so what compelled me to do this was that like, I mean, it's a demonstration,

00:17:04.360 um, of, of leadership too.

00:17:09.400 Right.

00:17:09.740 Like of, uh, leading from the front.

00:17:11.620 And then leading by example and stuff.

00:17:14.240 Right.

00:17:14.540 So, yeah.

00:17:15.120 And you're, that's kind of what I'm hoping that the dude's like.

00:17:19.560 Yeah.

00:17:20.900 Still in.

00:17:21.780 They're afraid to get in trouble.

00:17:22.780 They're afraid to say anything.

00:17:23.580 You're sacrificing probably, you know, your job, your body, your time, your, you know,

00:17:27.340 you're doing this all in your own money.

00:17:29.980 Like, um, I, I mean, what can you say?

00:17:32.760 Yeah.

00:17:33.080 And the really crazy part.

00:17:34.720 And I talked with us yesterday or whatever that was that a couple of days ago that there

00:17:39.140 were sections of the highway that you, you know, we, it's just too dangerous.

00:17:42.200 The switchbacks and stuff, you know, we talked about, but so you're, you're planning to, you're

00:17:45.620 going to redo those kilometers.

00:17:47.020 You're not going to skip them.

00:17:48.180 You're going to go back and like circle a building, however many times you have to, to make up

00:17:52.260 for the last.

00:17:52.820 What we'll do is I anticipate, you know, we'll have to do, um, in order to, to maintain a

00:18:00.140 full momentum.

00:18:01.280 So I just, uh, we'll, we'll do some victory laps in, uh, in the national capital region.

00:18:05.920 And that's, Oh, that's incredible.

00:18:09.580 I got, I want to, I want to touch out, touch on a couple of things here for a sec, just

00:18:14.640 so everybody's in, uh, this is another, uh, I want it to be perfectly clear to everybody.

00:18:21.400 That, um, we started this as, uh, as this was, uh, the, the idea of what to do just doing

00:18:29.640 this on his own.

00:18:31.220 And now there's like nine of us.

00:18:34.200 Wow.

00:18:34.720 So, um, there's been a bit of investment on, on, on all the folks that got into this.

00:18:43.400 And, um, we are now kind of realizing that in order for this to go forward, okay, well,

00:18:50.700 yeah, we do kind of need funds in some ways.

00:18:53.640 Yeah, of course.

00:18:54.460 But it's, it's, it's something I'm very, very, I am open and transparent about any monies

00:19:04.480 that we receive and anybody who wants to inquire about it, what I get, we are getting, uh,

00:19:12.200 for example, there's barn, there's barn dads, um, you know, there'll be a donation bucket

00:19:18.080 and we're going to account for that.

00:19:20.740 It gets put into a pot and then we're going to do the same way in the same way that the

00:19:26.420 ranks used to collect funds, right?

00:19:28.400 Right.

00:19:28.520 Uh, the junior ranks and the messes will have a similar type of accounting system, right?

00:19:35.980 So everybody is going to be able to, anybody who wants to, anybody who is, uh, wanting

00:19:41.160 to inquire about how we're using those funds, um, they'll, they'll be able to, you know,

00:19:48.720 they can get ahold of us directly.

00:19:50.460 Sure.

00:19:50.900 Because I was pretty conflicted about that.

00:19:53.880 I still am.

00:19:55.580 Well, in this climate too, right?

00:19:56.920 They, uh, everybody's wanting to follow the money and try to find something wrong with

00:20:01.380 what you're doing so they can, they can shut you down and stuff.

00:20:03.700 Yeah.

00:20:04.620 Um, has anyone, oh, sorry.

00:20:07.500 I just, I was just curious if anyone has ever walked, anyone's ever marched from Vancouver

00:20:11.480 to Calgary for a barn dance before.

00:20:14.380 So are you going to be, you're going to be dancing at this barndance?

00:20:17.400 Like, do you just, uh, yeah, we're actually going to Monarch, uh, so we're going to a

00:20:23.920 town called Monarch, Monarch Alberta, and then we're going to meet some, um, um, organizers.

00:20:31.560 They had been also been in Ottawa.

00:20:33.760 There's, uh, a group there called taking back our freedoms and, uh, they've arranged for

00:20:41.280 us to be a part of this, this, uh, this, this, uh, barn, countryside barn thing was already

00:20:48.560 on the works in order to raise funds for taking back our freedoms and they invited us 0.54

00:20:55.900 to come to it.

00:20:56.940 So we're going to meet them in Monarch Alberta, and then we're going to meet up with the freedom

00:21:02.500 riders.

00:21:03.840 And then there's also a bunch of other folks who want to march with us and do a slow roll.

00:21:07.520 So Calgary is, uh, about two and a half hours north of Lethbridge.

00:21:13.340 So we're not actually going to Calgary until the next day, because we've invited up to a

00:21:20.300 rally there and then we'll go, we're going to drive up to Calgary because, um, the point

00:21:27.000 of this is it's, we're going to stay east on highway three, go through Lethbridge, hit

00:21:33.020 medicine hat, then hit highway one and maintain, uh, the movement eastwards.

00:21:37.680 Like, right.

00:21:38.720 It's, uh, Calgary would just kind of be, um, uh, uh, we'll drive up there, do the business

00:21:46.660 and then drive back down to our end point and then start marching from where we stopped.

00:21:50.780 It's an admin day.

00:21:53.240 Exactly.

00:21:53.800 Yeah, exactly.

00:21:56.560 Oh man.

00:21:57.680 I just got a couple of, uh, messages here from some people, uh, some weekends and Tuesday 0.98

00:22:00.800 says kicking ass, one package of mole skin at a time. 0.99

00:22:04.140 Dan, the raging Canadian says infinite respect, uh, for you, sir. 1.00

00:22:07.640 The blue taco says, James, you're an absolute monster. 0.98

00:22:10.480 I've been following you since you left. 0.98

00:22:11.580 Much respect, sir.

00:22:12.260 It's amazing that the lamestream media isn't saying a word about this.

00:22:15.720 So inspiring.

00:22:16.720 Uh, yeah, no kidding.

00:22:17.840 Right.

00:22:18.320 St. Maurice Barrett says, God bless the infantryman.

00:22:20.660 And, uh, taco again says, ruck, you make me.

00:22:23.180 That's funny.

00:22:23.800 Have you, uh, that was one of the questions I had.

00:22:25.400 Has anyone tried to talk to you or reached out for comment at all from, you know, CBC,

00:22:28.740 global CTV, any, anything like that?

00:22:30.260 I, I have to say that after I made my announcement back in February at that rally and did the

00:22:37.740 TikTok video, there was, uh, a lady did approach me from CBC, but knowing the treatment that 1.00

00:22:49.200 all y'all got back in January, February, right.

00:22:53.460 Wasn't Jillian.

00:22:54.140 I was like, no, the woman from the state, uh, Jillian Findley.

00:23:00.340 I was just joking.

00:23:01.340 No, this woman's name was Judy Trin.

00:23:03.720 Okay.

00:23:05.360 Actually.

00:23:05.860 And, um, I've been actually been advised by, uh, I have a lawyer now.

00:23:09.740 Oh, good.

00:23:10.300 That's a good thing to have.

00:23:11.340 I also have one.

00:23:12.180 Yeah.

00:23:12.400 It's good to have those.

00:23:13.660 He's like, you know, you should, you should make more effort to talk to them.

00:23:17.520 And I'm like, all right.

00:23:18.700 But initially they, that one lady did reach out to me, um, way back when just a full disclosure.

00:23:25.760 And I, I declined because I just, I wasn't at that particular point.

00:23:30.920 Didn't really have, I have to say there was a part of this that was really instinctual.

00:23:36.900 You know what I mean?

00:23:37.500 It was just like, okay, I have to do something.

00:23:39.640 Yes.

00:23:40.200 This is what I'm going to do.

00:23:41.620 I can't fully explain it.

00:23:43.560 Yeah.

00:23:44.100 So I declined to talk to her at that particular point because it was just, I don't think I would

00:23:50.140 have been able to explain it as I can explain it to you now.

00:23:54.080 Right.

00:23:54.860 Yeah.

00:23:55.240 Well, that makes sense.

00:23:55.920 Are you, when you get, when you get into Ontario, you, I mean, I seem to have picked

00:24:01.500 up, uh, you've got like a section plus there.

00:24:03.380 It looks like, are you going to have a brigade amount of people by the time you get into the

00:24:08.680 city or what?

00:24:09.940 What do you mean?

00:24:11.080 Well, you're, you seem to be adding on, like you left by yourself and now there's a, how

00:24:14.820 many people you say there's about a dozen of yous now?

00:24:17.220 Well, there's nine of us, but like the dudes rotate through different jobs.

00:24:21.820 So yeah.

00:24:22.560 Okay.

00:24:22.860 Um, we bought, uh, I put some money down on an RV and, um, I got into like a private

00:24:30.760 installment payment plan for it.

00:24:32.660 So it doesn't actually belong to me.

00:24:34.400 Right.

00:24:34.940 But we're kind of paying it off as we go.

00:24:37.200 Yeah.

00:24:38.460 And, uh, if we hadn't had that, we wouldn't have got it as far as it's bad.

00:24:42.160 And I had to have it going through the mountains.

00:24:44.300 Like there was just no question.

00:24:45.800 Well, so yeah.

00:24:48.160 How, how much, um, I mean, I, I think I learned, I know a little bit about your history.

00:24:52.200 Apparently we were in a third battalion together at the same time, which is ironic.

00:24:55.800 It's funny because all the other guys were, you know, they're chirping me because, you

00:24:59.180 know, of course, yeah, no, Patricia had to, had to step up and fix everything. 1.00

00:25:02.380 And I was like, well, and Hey, now wait, we're going to, we're going to, we get to

00:25:05.140 share them.

00:25:05.560 We've got dual citizenship.

00:25:06.520 Were you a, did you have an RCR hat badge then?

00:25:08.500 Or were you, did we loan you?

00:25:09.860 Yeah.

00:25:10.440 Yeah.

00:25:10.680 No, dude, I was there.

00:25:11.720 I was there.

00:25:12.260 I was in, uh, I was the UMS.

00:25:14.580 Oh, nice.

00:25:15.360 Oh, wow.

00:25:16.300 You probably don't recognize me because I have a beard and I'm not miserable.

00:25:19.820 Oh, right.

00:25:20.880 Well, I have a beard and I'm always miserable.

00:25:22.720 So maybe we've somehow shifted.

00:25:24.360 I don't know what's going on, but yeah, I wasn't, uh, I didn't know too many of the

00:25:27.220 recon guys there.

00:25:28.000 Did you know, uh, do you know Matt Oakley?

00:25:29.760 We definitely passed each other in the hall because I, I, yeah, yeah, totally.

00:25:34.360 Yeah.

00:25:34.680 He's a roommate of mine.

00:25:35.800 I was good friends with him for a long time.

00:25:37.940 Sorry?

00:25:39.760 Pathfinder.

00:25:40.420 Yeah.

00:25:40.740 Yeah.

00:25:41.220 Yeah.

00:25:41.480 I think he's, uh, I think he might be the mic company warrant there now.

00:25:43.980 I'm not sure, but, or OPSO or OPSO or something.

00:25:46.480 Yeah.

00:25:47.320 I remember that.

00:25:48.480 Yeah.

00:25:48.720 Yeah.

00:25:48.920 I think he was JM.

00:25:50.320 That's funny.

00:25:50.740 He went JM. 0.94

00:25:51.580 Yeah.

00:25:51.900 He's, he's does everything.

00:25:53.040 He has a maniac.

00:25:53.880 I remember, uh, do you remember this?

00:25:55.520 I think we, I messaged you on the phone and I've talked, I've talked with a story on the

00:25:58.020 podcast before I was in the canteen there at third battalion and it was the day remembrance

00:26:01.140 day and it was the, the Frank where we had the, the guys made the Sergeant Frank Gervais

00:26:04.660 award.

00:26:05.340 It's kind of a joke for like the worst soldier of the year because you're so bad.

00:26:08.940 You're pretending to be a soldier.

00:26:10.360 The guy that, uh, did the stolen valor thing on remembrance day and not first.

00:26:14.440 He's got the guy in Ottawa with the outrageous epaulets.

00:26:21.660 Yes, I think so.

00:26:23.000 And he had, uh, well, we were there and nobody noticed right away cause they're doing the

00:26:26.360 regular remembrance day stuff and we're just talking and then, uh, somebody, but he had,

00:26:29.600 he had the maroon beret on and the RCR hat on.

00:26:31.520 So we're like, wait a minute.

00:26:32.340 And then you look closer and he's a Sergeant and you're like, wait a minute.

00:26:35.840 And then he's got a Pathfinder badge on.

00:26:37.820 And the other two, the other guys at the table, there's a couple of Sergeants at the

00:26:40.200 table that were Pathfinders and he, and they were like, if you're here and I'm here, who

00:26:45.440 the hell is that guy?

00:26:48.240 He's pretending to be one of like five people in the whole army. 0.95

00:26:51.500 It was hysterical.

00:26:53.460 Oh guys, if you're going to try, if you're going to pretend to be a soldier, pick something

00:26:56.760 much less, much more obscure, you know, just private machine gunner number two, no one

00:27:00.640 would ever know don't, don't impersonate a Sergeant Pathfinder or three or four hog and 0.79

00:27:05.520 become a, you know, full Lieutenant commander of the space Marines or something.

00:27:14.060 Oh man.

00:27:15.240 Did you, did you do any, um, like how, I mean, mentally this has got to be quite a stress.

00:27:21.920 I mean, are you just used to it now?

00:27:23.380 Like I've also found that in my, my career and things I've done where it's like things

00:27:26.600 can start really hard and then you just kind of adapt to it and you become this soulless

00:27:30.340 robot.

00:27:32.920 Well, I got to say that it's been, um, an amazing experience in a couple of different

00:27:38.020 ways in that, like, dude, I was the guy that was going to go live in the forest.

00:27:42.700 Okay.

00:27:43.120 Like I wouldn't, you know, I didn't want to have anything to do with anybody and not

00:27:47.080 here I am.

00:27:47.760 Like I got a lot of those guys.

00:27:49.660 Yeah.

00:27:50.580 You know, folks coming up to me and greeting me and stuff, but it turned out to actually

00:27:57.220 be more of a people person than I thought it was.

00:28:00.100 So that aspect of it is totally new.

00:28:03.900 Right.

00:28:04.400 And, um, you know, like the support, like when, when I did that thing in uniform, like

00:28:11.860 almost immediately folks were like, Hey, I want to help you.

00:28:15.120 And I'm, I'm like, I was overwhelmed.

00:28:17.500 Yeah.

00:28:21.560 And that's, that's the thing I can tell the guys, like there's, there's people, they

00:28:24.860 don't know what to do.

00:28:25.620 And, and, you know, we're kind of in a unique position as veterans and, you know, representatives

00:28:29.080 of a, of an idea or, or the fly or something right.

00:28:32.500 That represents the, you know, the national identity of Canada or what it, you know, what

00:28:36.180 it was or what it should be or what we believe it to be.

00:28:38.800 And there's a lot of people that identify with that, but they don't really know.

00:28:41.040 They want to get behind somebody and then they see somebody like you show up and with

00:28:45.500 their, with your sash on and your medals and everything.

00:28:47.940 And they just, you know, they're ready to go, man.

00:28:49.760 It's, uh, I, it's very inspiring.

00:28:51.700 And, you know, to me as well, I remember used to think this when I was, you know, uh, you

00:28:55.080 know, a lot younger, young, before I visited in the military that, you know, these guys

00:28:58.540 are, uh, they're, they're, they're set apart from, from say the police or definitely,

00:29:03.060 you know, politicians or whatever.

00:29:04.340 It's a, it's its own, it's a class of its own.

00:29:06.240 There's the warriors of the nation that are ready to go fight and die for the people that

00:29:10.040 live here and for everybody that lives here, not a, not a political party or a specific,

00:29:13.980 uh, you know, anything it's, if you're, if you're with me, then get behind, you know,

00:29:18.420 if you're with us, get behind me and we'll, we'll take care of it.

00:29:21.000 And, uh, that's just who we are.

00:29:22.580 That's what we're supposed to do.

00:29:23.600 And, and I mean, God, I can't say enough about how this is crazy what you're doing.

00:29:27.660 And I, I suspect that was where the joke came from.

00:29:29.860 I was like, do you think they're in, do you think they're in parliament right now?

00:29:32.540 Like worried about it?

00:29:33.380 Like he's not going to be here tomorrow or anytime soon, but every day he's getting closer like

00:29:38.040 the terminator, I would, I would, if I was them, I would be concerned because here's

00:29:45.320 the thing.

00:29:46.200 I'm not sure if all your folks are realizing this, but I actually, I am going to pay my

00:29:52.420 respects at the war memorial, at the tomb of the unknown soldier.

00:29:56.620 That's that's part of my mission to take that back for us.

00:30:00.480 Right.

00:30:00.980 And, um, we are, we have a plan.

00:30:04.000 Like I, you know, had a lot of conversations with the dudes that are with me and, you know,

00:30:08.760 with myself, not, you know, usually not out loud, but having a plan when we get there,

00:30:14.820 because it was like, okay, what I had to ask myself, like, what am I doing?

00:30:18.660 Why am I doing?

00:30:19.720 Right.

00:30:22.500 Because we have to remind those folks.

00:30:26.500 Okay.

00:30:26.980 And the government who they actually worked for, because I think they've forgotten that

00:30:32.220 and we're going to do it because that's what we're doing by doing this March.

00:30:37.380 And that's what I did is I posted a letter on the Canada marches.ca website.

00:30:42.980 So that letter is getting sent out by email and regular mail to every single member of parliament.

00:30:50.520 And if we get enough interest and we will, we're not just going to have, um, you know,

00:31:00.020 request an audience, we're going to demand it because that's not right.

00:31:04.540 Yeah.

00:31:06.320 I'll just, uh, and your website pulled up there for a minute.

00:31:08.720 There's even a live tracker on there.

00:31:09.920 If you want to go to Canada marches.ca, you can keep up with, uh, James there and you can

00:31:13.700 find exactly where he is.

00:31:14.960 There's a live tracker.

00:31:15.640 You can click on and, uh, pinpoint exactly where you're at.

00:31:20.120 Um, where are you at now?

00:31:22.500 Let's see.

00:31:23.000 Just outside Fort McLeod, you're, uh, coming up.

00:31:25.780 What's your next, uh, uh, Monarch.

00:31:28.300 Yeah.

00:31:28.680 There you go.

00:31:29.120 Monarch.

00:31:29.480 Monarch.

00:31:30.020 And then you're going through Colehurst and Lethbridge and wow, this is wild.

00:31:34.860 I can't believe it.

00:31:36.000 It's so insane.

00:31:37.300 Oh man.

00:31:38.260 And, and what, what's your anticipated, uh, date of, you know, complete, like, do you,

00:31:42.560 do you have a goal amount?

00:31:43.720 You must have like a, you're shooting for so many farmers per day.

00:31:47.540 Yeah.

00:31:48.120 Well, we, I had initially.

00:31:50.120 I usually planned to get the, you know, I wanted to get there like by June 20th, just

00:31:56.060 because that's my mom's birthday, but I'm realizing now I'm going to have to be a little bit more

00:32:00.500 flexible because, um, there's things like, okay.

00:32:04.520 Uh, my foot was acting up.

00:32:07.020 We, I have to take breaks.

00:32:08.740 Like as much as I would like to be a, uh, unstoppable robot, uh, I do need to fuel up

00:32:15.000 and, um, take a break every once in a while.

00:32:18.620 So, and then there's the aspect of like, you know, the, the Calgary thing, like there's folks,

00:32:24.280 uh, that wanted us to really, they really wanted us to come up and be a part of that.

00:32:27.900 So we'll do that.

00:32:30.780 And, um, I'm thinking end of June, right?

00:32:35.400 That's when I want to get there.

00:32:36.620 Like, what an, what an insane, like they should make a statue of you.

00:32:42.120 This is incredible.

00:32:44.780 I know you would never accept it and neither would I, but I'm just saying, uh, well, and

00:32:49.840 that's, that's why, that's why they love you.

00:32:51.420 And that's why I love you.

00:32:52.080 It's all this.

00:32:52.660 It's that, it's that typical, um, classic infantryman NCO attitude, man.

00:32:57.360 It's, uh, perfect.

00:32:58.840 I'd love everything about this.

00:33:00.200 It's, it's, it's just, uh, wow.

00:33:02.920 And I can't, I mean, I'm probably in a better position to appreciate it more than, more than

00:33:07.120 most, I suppose.

00:33:08.060 There is a, there is a lot of veterans that watch this Americans and, you know, British

00:33:11.100 as well that, uh, I don't know if people understand exactly how, like just a 10, I remember when

00:33:16.920 I first joined the military, I think the first like five or 10 kilometer rucksack march I did

00:33:20.580 was like, uh, I contemplated suicide for much of it.

00:33:24.420 I was not doing well.

00:33:26.920 I was a little guy too, when I got in and to this is, uh, this is crazy.

00:33:30.720 And you went up through these mountains and the whole thing and it's, how, what's the

00:33:33.280 total distance?

00:33:33.820 4,200 kilometers.

00:33:37.440 Yeah.

00:33:37.900 40, 4,293, but that's, that's, that's just, you know, that's a Google map racking.

00:33:45.640 So take it for what it is.

00:33:47.120 Is this a, is this any kind of world record or something?

00:33:49.500 Like there's gotta be some kind of, uh, insane.

00:33:52.580 I mean, David Goggins, hold my beer.

00:33:55.020 You know, this is a crazy, uh, feat of endurance and mental endurance as well.

00:34:00.720 Um, no, but you know what, um, one of the, one of the reasons what inspired me to do this

00:34:07.340 too, because I had spent a lot of time after I got posted out of three RCR, I went to where

00:34:13.800 they got, uh, the advanced warfare center in Trenton, uh, spent a bunch of time working

00:34:20.840 with Norwegians doing winter warfare stuff.

00:34:24.620 And, uh, I met this guy and if you ever want to look him up, his first name is Rune, R-U-N-E

00:34:31.420 Geldes, G-E-L-D-E-S.

00:34:35.600 I believe that's how you spell it.

00:34:38.080 Um, so I didn't use a phonetic spelling there, but, um, Rune, uh, is a Norwegian who actually

00:34:45.400 crossed, um, the width of Antarctica on foot by himself.

00:34:53.220 Yes.

00:34:54.100 Why?

00:34:54.700 So do a Google search.

00:34:58.240 I, cause he's Norwegian.

00:35:00.860 I mean, I had a lot of respect for those.

00:35:03.220 I mean, I get it.

00:35:04.900 I don't know.

00:35:05.840 I get why, you know what I mean?

00:35:07.040 There's, I've done, I've never done anything remotely that difficult, but there is a satisfaction

00:35:10.580 in doing something, uh, very challenging to your, to your spirit and your soul.

00:35:14.280 And then, and then, and then a cotton doing like, why do people climb mountains? 1.00

00:35:17.000 Why do they do anything?

00:35:18.000 Yeah.

00:35:18.380 Um, people like, and you know, Goggins, like I just mentioned that they do these extremely

00:35:21.680 down, challenging, difficult mental tests where it's a much more difficult on your brain,

00:35:26.060 your mind and your body even.

00:35:27.280 Uh, and it's just the guts it takes to even attempt something like this is, uh, something else.

00:35:34.320 So, I mean, I guess, but, uh, two, two months.

00:35:37.040 Yeah.

00:35:37.520 You've never, it's, it's that, it's that, you know, like, I don't know if you ever, uh,

00:35:42.540 got your, your, uh, your wings or not, but, or anything, you know, you ever did repelling

00:35:47.080 or, or anything that we did in the military, you know, even going out.

00:35:52.380 Like, I I'm sure you probably remember the first time you ever threw a grenade.

00:35:56.460 Yeah. 1.00

00:35:56.940 You're probably like, holy shit. 1.00

00:35:59.060 Yeah. 0.99

00:36:00.560 You know, what am I doing here?

00:36:01.980 If I drop this, will I die?

00:36:03.480 Yes, you will. 0.68

00:36:04.340 Don't drop it. 0.86

00:36:04.960 You will both die. 0.82

00:36:05.900 Yeah.

00:36:06.100 Don't do that.

00:36:06.760 Yeah.

00:36:07.400 You know what I mean?

00:36:08.360 So it was kind of like, um, that was one of the scariest jobs ever had was being the

00:36:13.400 grenade pit NCO from 17 year old kids doing this.

00:36:18.320 I'm like, don't please don't.

00:36:22.040 Yeah.

00:36:22.540 I, I mean, you know what I mean?

00:36:23.660 It was just, but once you, once you got out the door, right?

00:36:26.540 Like once you overcame that, that first initial, it becomes normal.

00:36:32.040 Well, I, I wouldn't say it's that cause there's mornings where I'm like, you know, I'm just

00:36:37.980 like, Oh man, can this just be over?

00:36:42.140 Another 2,000 kilometers ago.

00:36:44.180 Well, 3,200.

00:36:46.980 Well, you're a quarter of the way there already.

00:36:48.820 I mean, I say already because I, I, uh, I, uh, I'd read it, I'd heard about it and I played

00:36:53.640 the thing here and I know we talked about it and then I had so much stuff going on and

00:36:57.200 we all, you know, and I just kind of, and then it popped back up again.

00:36:59.660 I was like, Oh my God, that guy's still, he's just been marching this whole time.

00:37:03.060 And, uh, and you were already through the mountains, which is like, gotta be, that's

00:37:05.840 gotta be the most difficult stretch.

00:37:06.900 But, uh, yeah, we were saying before, when, before you came on here, this is kind of like,

00:37:10.340 uh, the endless March to nowhere, you know, you can't even see it.

00:37:13.760 There's no landmarks.

00:37:14.560 It's just, it's going to be like that for a while.

00:37:16.700 I don't know if you've walked through Saskatchewan and Manitoba before, but yeah, it's well,

00:37:23.920 the thing is too, even when we were marching through the mountains, there was times when it

00:37:29.040 just got to be like, you're moving at, you know, four to six kilometers an hour and, uh,

00:37:37.920 you're looking around going, yeah, it's a nice view.

00:37:42.840 Yeah.

00:37:43.440 I would imagine it's gotta be satisfying.

00:37:45.400 And how, how old are you right now?

00:37:46.760 If you don't mind my asking, uh, can we not go there?

00:37:52.240 I'm 36 going on.

00:37:53.760 Well, in army years, I'm almost 90.

00:37:55.680 So I, you know, I don't, I was like, I don't even know.

00:37:58.880 I mean, I'm not, I mean, you probably have a lot of injuries as well.

00:38:02.620 You know what I mean?

00:38:03.020 You get banged up and you get problems and stuff.

00:38:04.980 So no, but it's all, it's all up here.

00:38:07.540 Right.

00:38:07.800 You got, uh, that's true.

00:38:10.140 You know, you, that's, that's what kind of what I want to do with this.

00:38:12.740 You know, it's like get folks to think about what, what is like realistically possible.

00:38:18.760 What, what can you do and not, because I think a lot of the times we've got folks are

00:38:24.680 just like, I can't do this.

00:38:26.180 I can't do that.

00:38:27.180 You know what I mean?

00:38:27.720 And I'm honestly like, I'm sure I've slacked off my training probably the last year or

00:38:32.320 so, cause it hasn't been, uh, but I, I was, I was doing some pull-ups and stuff earlier

00:38:35.920 and I was like, whenever I don't want to do anything, like, I don't really feel like I

00:38:39.560 don't want to do PT today.

00:38:40.780 James top is still marching.

00:38:42.420 The topinator has not stopped.

00:38:44.560 I have to, I'm like, well, I have no excuse whatsoever.

00:38:47.500 So, I mean, it's, it's, it's quite a thing.

00:38:50.260 Yeah.

00:38:50.400 Well, that's, that's what I mean.

00:38:51.660 Right.

00:38:51.900 Like, it's just changing, changing the way we think about things sometimes.

00:38:56.340 And like, I was like, I was thinking of like, you know, going back to the initial question,

00:39:02.320 like, how did I get inspired?

00:39:03.800 Why am I doing this?

00:39:05.440 It's kind of like, okay, well, I, I feel very strongly about what the, what's happening

00:39:11.380 with the, with the truckers and what's going on with the freedom convoy.

00:39:15.800 Okay.

00:39:16.220 What can I do?

00:39:17.440 I could go to Ottawa.

00:39:19.640 Uh, I can't fly there.

00:39:21.860 How could I get there?

00:39:23.120 And, you know, add my voice to this.

00:39:25.300 And I was just like, I know exactly what I can do.

00:39:32.100 Wow.

00:39:32.820 I mean, and there's something inspired and it's like, uh, I learned that from a, from a

00:39:36.760 younger age.

00:39:37.220 Cause I had, um, one of my first, uh, section commanders, uh, you don't know who Teddy

00:39:41.080 Stoneham as many chance to say again, Ted Stoneham heard that name.

00:39:46.620 I'd have to see his name.

00:39:47.840 I'd have to see his face.

00:39:48.720 He was kind of a two RCR legend for a long time.

00:39:50.520 He was in the British military for a long time.

00:39:52.140 And then he came over here.

00:39:53.380 So he's a, he's a British guy, but he was, but he, he'll tell you he's Canadian.

00:39:57.260 He's easy.

00:39:57.980 He is.

00:39:58.480 And he did 20 some years.

00:39:59.840 I don't know how, I think they had to kick him out because he was in for so long.

00:40:02.440 They're like, that's enough, Teddy.

00:40:03.260 You can't, you can't stay anymore.

00:40:05.020 And, uh, he was 50 or 51 when I came to his section, I think I was 19 and he was running

00:40:10.000 around me and was in better shape than I was.

00:40:13.140 And he was just crushing people.

00:40:14.460 And I was like, I, from the, I was like, Oh, okay.

00:40:16.900 So as long as you just keep working, you can, you can be an animal well into your fifties

00:40:22.140 at least, you know, and I've seen these guys.

00:40:23.800 Yeah.

00:40:24.240 So it's that nation.

00:40:26.040 Yeah.

00:40:26.620 Yeah.

00:40:26.960 So, and, and, and, you know, the other guys, there's always, I had lots of those guys

00:40:30.100 too, when I was a young corporal and stuff and they'd be like, Oh, we'll see what you're

00:40:33.620 through.

00:40:33.880 See what you're saying when you're my age when they're 37.

00:40:37.280 I'm like, yeah, we will see, you know?

00:40:39.560 Well, that was, that was the kind of mindset that I tried to avoid because I found that,

00:40:44.700 you know, it was like self-defeating something that was hitting me was like, you know, okay.

00:40:51.580 Guys are telling themselves how they're falling apart and they're in their mid to late thirties.

00:40:59.360 And I'm just like, well, you're in the prime of your life.

00:41:05.380 Like, why, why are you falling apart?

00:41:06.980 Like, you know, I think Muhammad Ali was world champion at that age.

00:41:11.900 I think so.

00:41:12.500 So.

00:41:13.000 Yeah.

00:41:13.320 Yeah, exactly.

00:41:14.200 Like, you're just telling yourself you're falling apart.

00:41:16.240 I don't think you're actually falling apart.

00:41:19.540 So I don't imagine you're the type of warrant officer to give out like MIR chits too easily. 1.00

00:41:23.120 I don't, I don't, I don't, I'm not getting that vibe from you.

00:41:25.600 Well, I didn't give them out.

00:41:27.040 I just had to look at them and, you know, shake my head.

00:41:29.840 So.

00:41:30.080 You just sensed, you'd sense it.

00:41:31.560 I could smell like, I can smell your fear and weakness.

00:41:34.420 I mean, I'll be honest with you.

00:41:36.460 It was, it was, it was at a point where I was like, okay, I'm going to do what I'm going

00:41:42.060 to do and if that's your thing, um, I'm not you, right?

00:41:46.960 I can't, I, I don't have to look at myself in the mirror.

00:41:50.220 You do.

00:41:51.060 Yeah.

00:41:53.060 And then you'd walk away and then that guy would sit there quietly and then then he'd

00:41:58.360 stand up and put his rucksack back on.

00:42:00.180 Like, that's what I thought.

00:42:02.560 I shamed him into continuing.

00:42:04.520 Yeah.

00:42:05.620 Yeah.

00:42:06.100 I like that strategy.

00:42:07.060 I've used that one myself.

00:42:08.420 Uh, Windsor five 19.

00:42:09.700 He says three shots for James top immense respect for you, sir.

00:42:12.360 Thank you for your service by seeds.

00:42:14.660 That's probably good advice says, uh, deepest thanks James for this heroic effort.

00:42:18.740 Uh, seeing the drawings and gifts received from so many children is absolutely heartwarming.

00:42:22.740 You're giving so many Canadians hope and renewal of national pride.

00:42:25.460 Best of luck on your journey and deepest respect.

00:42:27.840 And thanks to our veterans who served so honorably.

00:42:29.780 God bless.

00:42:31.920 Thank you very much.

00:42:32.660 Yeah.

00:42:32.920 It's good to hear from, from dudes.

00:42:34.520 And, um, I always look forward to hearing from the guys I served with too.

00:42:38.840 I've heard that from a couple of them since I was going to started, I was going to ask

00:42:43.840 about that, how, what the reception has been like from, uh, cause I, I get messages from

00:42:47.560 guys that are still in and all the time, but they don't want to, they can't say much

00:42:50.840 publicly or anything because there'll be, you know, how has that been on your end?

00:42:57.340 There's been a couple of dudes who have, who are still serving who have reached out 0.92

00:43:00.980 and said, fuck yeah, get her done. 0.98

00:43:02.940 Yeah. 0.98

00:43:03.900 And, um, there's, uh, there's a lot of guys who I, who I did know, like, uh, I knew, um,

00:43:11.780 a good buddy of mine from back in the day in Afghanistan, actually, he was in my section

00:43:16.540 and recce, he contacted me and, uh, Kieran, if you're watching, hope you're doing all right,

00:43:21.920 buddy.

00:43:22.160 Um, then, you know, I was like, that's, you can curse me or you can, uh, you can, um,

00:43:31.220 hate on me, but I really, once I heard from guys like that, I was like, I don't care what

00:43:35.680 anybody says.

00:43:36.660 I, same thing, uh, for me, I don't, I, I did a, uh, kind of a one man protest sort of thing

00:43:42.520 against Omar Cotter a couple of years ago.

00:43:44.440 And I didn't know how it was going to be received or what was going to happen.

00:43:46.840 I've put my medals on and I went down there, they're giving this guy money and he's, he's

00:43:49.700 doing a speaking tour about how much of a victim he is and all this kind of thing in the city

00:43:53.140 of, uh, you know, where my roommate was killed, Chris Stanix, uh, he's, he's from, you know,

00:43:56.700 the Halifax area.

00:43:57.680 So I was just disgusted by the whole thing.

00:43:59.520 And I, and I went out and did it and then I was like, I don't know how that's going to

00:44:02.120 be received.

00:44:02.560 And I kind of felt weird about it.

00:44:03.780 And I had so much overwhelming, like the only people I really want the, um, you know, the,

00:44:10.600 I don't know if it's approval or is, is your peers, you know, the other guys. 0.98

00:44:13.860 And if they're, if they're behind me, I'm like, I don't care what the fuck anybody says 0.99

00:44:17.280 about anything. 0.99

00:44:17.740 I'm, you know, I'll never stop.

00:44:19.500 So, um, yeah, I know what you mean there.

00:44:22.120 It's, it's quite a, cause you're going to, you're going to have enemies, you know, it's going to,

00:44:25.180 as soon as you take a side on anything, that's just part of the game.

00:44:27.640 And, you know, a lot of people, I just don't understand it.

00:44:32.500 Like I just don't, I do get, you know, it has been not happening as frequently, but, um,

00:44:39.840 there's occasionally, you know, you get a car will come up pretty close or something like

00:44:45.080 that.

00:44:46.260 And you'll get, uh, or if there's, if it's, uh, if we're going into oncoming traffic, like

00:44:52.180 sometimes I do on two lane highways, you know, you'll get the middle finger and

00:44:55.100 that.

00:44:55.380 And then I just, yeah, it weighs on me a little bit because I can't imagine why this would

00:45:01.020 bother you.

00:45:02.560 I know.

00:45:04.520 It's, uh, it's, it's people are just, um, and, and that's, um, I've been blamed.

00:45:09.560 I blame the media for this, you know, because they lie so much.

00:45:13.580 And, uh, you know, these, these politicians and these governmental organizations, bureaucracies,

00:45:17.500 these, they would never get away with any of the things they're doing if it wasn't for

00:45:20.400 the media cheerleading for them and covering for them and lying for them and telling lies

00:45:23.740 about, you know, what they've done, you know, the people in Ottawa and so on.

00:45:26.440 And who knows what they, they, they think something about you.

00:45:28.980 I've had people say things to me that are so off base and so incorrect when they're so

00:45:33.560 sure of themselves because they read it on CBC and it's, uh, you know, it's like I blame

00:45:38.600 them entirely.

00:45:39.100 So it's like, these people are being lied to.

00:45:41.240 I feel bad for them in a lot of ways where it's like, I know what it's like to live in

00:45:44.040 a kind of a false reality where you believe one thing is true and it turns out to be,

00:45:47.840 nope, that's actually not even, it's not true.

00:45:50.280 And it's a terrible, you know, so, uh, it's, it's, it's the, the, the harm that has been

00:45:58.580 done is it's, uh, incalculable.

00:46:03.980 I just, I, I can't, it's like, we have, we have been, uh, divided to such an extent

00:46:10.780 now.

00:46:11.660 I'm not even sure at this point, if it's bridgeable, yeah.

00:46:18.700 Well, you got to try and, uh, you know, that's absolutely you got to try, but I, I agree with

00:46:23.320 you there.

00:46:23.620 I don't know how, I mean, they've done irreparable damage to society.

00:46:26.080 I mean, families have been torn apart, um, for a long time, friendships, divorces, like

00:46:30.720 all over, uh, over this, uh, you know, theater and, and craziness that they've been, you

00:46:35.820 know, uh, peddling in the nonsense and the lies.

00:46:37.980 And I mean, it's not even any, but one subject in particular, it's everything they've divided

00:46:42.160 everybody along any kind of talking point or cultural point or, you know, aged even like,

00:46:47.880 all right, boomers and zoomers have to fight each other. 0.99

00:46:49.900 It's like, there's, there's not one thing.

00:46:51.800 I mean, I, I was joking with this yesterday.

00:46:53.380 You could put a picture of a toaster on Twitter.

00:46:55.620 I'll just put up a picture of a toaster and someone will say, I like toast. 0.99

00:46:58.120 I like waffles and fuck waffles. 1.00

00:46:59.960 Fuck you. 1.00

00:47:00.660 And then it's like, now we're fighting. 1.00

00:47:01.960 You can't have anything anymore where the people will fight over anything.

00:47:04.540 Twitter is the Jerry Springer of social media apps, I guess.

00:47:07.620 Yeah.

00:47:09.360 Oh, there you go.

00:47:10.120 It's crazy.

00:47:10.760 I know.

00:47:11.640 I know.

00:47:12.580 And I'm just, at this point, what I would ask is what do you, what do you think the solution

00:47:19.300 is?

00:47:21.440 What do you, what do you think would repair all this?

00:47:25.820 That's a tough one.

00:47:26.940 I mean, I don't know at this point.

00:47:28.300 It's, uh, ideally you, we need, um, we need, we need transparency.

00:47:32.360 We need accountability.

00:47:33.180 That's, that's number one.

00:47:34.920 Um, people are getting away with things that they shouldn't be getting away with.

00:47:38.020 And there's no, there's not two sides of the conversation.

00:47:39.680 There is no conversation anymore.

00:47:40.760 We're being dictated to, um, by the television, you know, via, via these officials.

00:47:45.600 So like this, that needs to be broken.

00:47:47.540 That needs to, people need to know what's going on.

00:47:49.720 There needs to be open, uh, transparent dialogue and then, you know, and the facts need to be,

00:47:54.440 you know, presented without bias.

00:47:56.260 The police need to act without bias, without political affiliation.

00:47:59.240 I mean, there being a lot, in a lot of cases are acting as political activists, uh, you know,

00:48:03.180 ignoring certain things and enforcing certain other things.

00:48:06.120 And that's not, um, people need to do their jobs.

00:48:08.560 And, uh, we wouldn't have these problems if that was the case.

00:48:11.740 I mean, the, the institutions and everything we have set up, uh, if they were functioning

00:48:15.180 correctly, none of this would have happened.

00:48:16.900 If people did their jobs, if the media told the truth, if the, you know, the police didn't

00:48:20.140 act with bias and, uh, you know, this kind of thing, we would be fine.

00:48:24.220 Um, but that's not what we have now.

00:48:26.340 So I don't know.

00:48:27.560 I think, uh, probably the solution is you just, you know, we got to talk to more people

00:48:31.100 and get more of this, this messaging out because that's, for me, that's, that's what

00:48:34.580 kind of snapped me out of it was, was finding new information that had been hidden from

00:48:37.880 me, um, and, you know, seeing different viewpoints.

00:48:42.340 Well, I, I think you just hit on something there because I think that's what we can, what

00:48:47.380 we can do is try to get people to do more self-reflection because that's what you, that's

00:48:55.140 what, that's what I, you know, kind of got to, how do I know my particular set of truths

00:49:02.580 is more valid than those folks who believe on other things.

00:49:08.960 Right.

00:49:09.800 Well, uh, I made sure that what I believed in was like actually true, you know, by thinking

00:49:15.820 about it and, and, you know, looking at different sources of information and, you know, getting

00:49:24.120 a variety of opinions and, and then, you know, coming to my own conclusions.

00:49:28.540 So I think if we can encourage other people to do that, then maybe we could start that.

00:49:36.280 And I don't know, what do you think?

00:49:37.520 Well, yeah.

00:49:38.080 And that's like you said in one of your videos that, um, people need to have the, the right

00:49:43.500 they do, they should, but it's not being protected.

00:49:45.400 The right to have their own opinion and the right to think and believe and feel what they

00:49:48.500 want and say what they want and express themselves the way they want.

00:49:50.740 I mean, as long as you're not hurting anybody, you know, you're not going out and attack.

00:49:54.280 I, I, I, you know, I have the right to hit people off the head with a pipe wrench.

00:49:57.140 Well, no, you don't, you know what I mean?

00:49:59.480 If you say what you want and, you know, if you don't like it, I mean, I, you know, we're

00:50:03.640 not, you know, I mean, I wasn't born yesterday.

00:50:06.200 I remember the nineties.

00:50:07.160 I remember the days before Facebook and social media is like, you didn't, you didn't like

00:50:10.360 something.

00:50:10.620 You just turned it off.

00:50:11.980 You know, I don't, I don't like this, then turn it off and don't listen to, and that's

00:50:15.000 it.

00:50:15.240 And then it's gone.

00:50:15.940 But now there's a, there's a, there's this urge to this authoritarian desire to control

00:50:21.360 absolutely everything.

00:50:22.920 And if people don't conform to whatever, you know, the current thing is, then they're attacked

00:50:27.520 and, and, and, and punished.

00:50:30.560 You know, and, and, you know, you know, Morgan and some other people are actually in the middle

00:50:36.000 of, you know, trying to get some, some lawsuits and stuff off the ground in, in one of the

00:50:39.540 provinces, because it's extortion.

00:50:40.880 It is extortion.

00:50:41.580 When you say that, um, you know, you need to do this or you lose your job, that's protected

00:50:46.580 under, under the bill of rights and the Canadian, you know, constitution, you can't do that

00:50:49.940 to people.

00:50:50.580 You can't pull a Harvey Weinstein and say, I'm putting you, I'm, you're putting, I'm putting

00:50:53.520 this in you or you're fired.

00:50:55.020 No.

00:50:55.660 And, and that's, I mean, I thought we, you know, that's what I said about the war memorial

00:50:59.880 that they fenced off.

00:51:00.800 I said the rights and everything that we're supposed to be enjoying right now, and they, they were

00:51:04.900 paid for already.

00:51:06.240 That's what the monument's for.

00:51:07.500 That's where all those names, all the blood that we've shed, that's our, the price has been

00:51:10.820 paid.

00:51:11.240 So for you to take something away that we already paid for is, is theft.

00:51:14.960 Okay.

00:51:15.760 So, you know, I, I, to say I'm angry about it is not even scratching the surface about

00:51:21.020 how I feel.

00:51:22.380 Um, you're angry enough to walk across a continent with a, with a front sack on.

00:51:27.580 So, I mean, uh, I, I, you know, kind of predicted that a while ago too.

00:51:31.940 Some people get angry right away and they yell and scream, this kind of thing.

00:51:34.720 And I said, if this keeps continuing, you're going to start seeing some real serious guys

00:51:37.480 get off the couch and they're not going to do little things.

00:51:39.480 They're going to, they're going to really, you know, get involved in a, in a big way

00:51:43.160 here.

00:51:43.400 And I think that's, um, yeah, it sounds like what happened to you.

00:51:46.440 Um, you don't seem like, uh, you seem like a quite, quite a serious fella to me.

00:51:51.080 Absolutely.

00:51:51.520 Yeah, no, it's, it's a serious business and that's what it's, you know, it's not just

00:51:59.200 me either.

00:52:00.480 It's guys like you, it's guys like, uh, I'm in touch with, uh, now the folks who set up,

00:52:07.560 uh, veterans for freedom, who are some organizers of, I was going to ask you about that.

00:52:11.440 Um, yeah, they're, they're, uh, you know, um, police on guard, veterans for freedom, uh,

00:52:21.540 taking back our freedoms.

00:52:23.260 Okay.

00:52:23.860 So I'm just a part of that group of people.

00:52:31.120 And now we're going to, you know, coordinate our efforts.

00:52:34.220 Right.

00:52:35.040 Right. 0.99

00:52:35.380 And, um, it's like, this shit is starting up, like for real. 0.99

00:52:38.320 It is. 0.99

00:52:38.640 I feel like we're at a real tipping point here.

00:52:41.300 I agree.

00:52:41.840 I think it's, uh, it's getting there.

00:52:43.840 Things are starting to pop up like this, this, these things didn't exist a couple of years

00:52:46.840 ago.

00:52:47.060 And now some, like I said, some, some serious guys that are, uh, they're not going to get

00:52:51.200 bored.

00:52:52.240 I mean, these guys did, you know, some of these guys did seven rotos and stuff, right?

00:52:55.480 Like these are serious guys that don't, uh, they're not screwing around.

00:52:58.000 They want to do something.

00:52:58.780 They're going to, they're going to do it until it's done or they're dead.

00:53:00.580 One or the other, um, and we're, you know, and our adversaries are people that, uh, you

00:53:05.740 know, hide behind desks and think that, you know, you know, words are assault and, you

00:53:10.380 know, these kinds of things.

00:53:12.020 So I'm like, I don't know.

00:53:13.180 I don't know if you have the will and the resolve to go toe to toe with these guys and

00:53:16.440 win, but you know, God, good luck to you.

00:53:20.360 Yeah.

00:53:21.140 Yeah.

00:53:21.360 We'll see.

00:53:22.800 I think, uh, with this crew, I got here and working with, uh, with guys, you

00:53:30.520 know, you're going to get folks together.

00:53:32.880 Other people are going to get folks together and it's going to be like, have you ever seen

00:53:37.440 that, uh, uh, that, uh, that movie, the bad news bears, maybe an old one.

00:53:46.160 It's a, it's an underdog story about baseball, but everybody loves those ones.

00:53:49.860 So check it out.

00:53:52.760 Yeah.

00:53:53.520 And the other thing too, is once people like yourself or anybody that's getting involved

00:53:57.060 in your story and any of the, the stuff that happened in Ottawa, people don't get involved

00:54:01.800 and then get bored and do something else.

00:54:03.340 I've noticed over the past couple of years, like once they're in, they're in.

00:54:05.940 And, uh, that becomes a, that becomes a big part of their life.

00:54:09.380 So it's just spreading and becoming more, more prevalent around the country.

00:54:13.820 And I mean, the government's response so far has just been to squeeze harder as if that's

00:54:19.560 going to fix things somehow by, well, just punish people even more to prove how we're

00:54:24.600 not tyrannical.

00:54:25.640 We're going to imprison protesters and freeze bank accounts and hit people with, you know,

00:54:31.200 uh, carbines and trample them with horses and so on to prove how benevolent and, you 0.67

00:54:35.480 know, wonderful we are.

00:54:36.520 It's, it's like, yeah, yeah, it's, it, it really is upside down land.

00:54:42.280 Like, uh, astonishing.

00:54:44.060 And I haven't, I haven't used that word very often until, you know, in and around 2020.

00:54:52.440 Now I use it.

00:54:53.660 Yeah.

00:54:54.260 It's every second sentence.

00:54:55.500 It's, I can't, you know, something like that, something crazy like this would happen

00:54:59.200 every 10 years and now it seems like I'm daily on a daily basis. 0.96

00:55:01.880 I, I, uh, I did like a funny, just a stupid, you know, kind of an advertiser for my channel 0.98

00:55:06.060 once. 0.96

00:55:06.360 It was just, I was just waking up out of bed and I just, I spend probably a good five

00:55:10.240 minutes every morning.

00:55:11.040 I just look at my phone.

00:55:12.140 I'm like, I don't even, I'm not ready.

00:55:13.940 I don't want to know.

00:55:15.080 I don't want to know what night, what fresh hell is awaiting me on that, on that screen.

00:55:19.540 Now what's happening.

00:55:22.500 Yeah.

00:55:23.160 I mean, Oh, we've sold Alberta to China.

00:55:25.680 Have we excellent.

00:55:27.740 Oh God.

00:55:28.580 That's yeah.

00:55:29.220 That, that's why this is in one way, this is a good thing because I can just, you know,

00:55:34.100 I don't have the, I have, this is my mission.

00:55:37.780 I can focus on my mission and, uh, like, uh, you're making good part of it.

00:55:45.240 That part of it.

00:55:46.120 I don't have to, uh, pay too much attention to it.

00:55:48.720 Well, it's, you can only, you can only control what's in front of you and what, what you have

00:55:51.360 in your hands.

00:55:51.880 And, um, I think you're doing a pretty damn good job.

00:55:55.340 Um, yeah, everybody's, uh, a lot of people watching this, having, having a good time.

00:55:59.520 I appreciate you guys, uh, showing up here.

00:56:01.420 Chelsea says, may the road rise to meet you.

00:56:03.580 May the wind be always at your back.

00:56:05.500 May the sun shine warm upon your face.

00:56:08.140 Well, I'll probably get a sunburn here soon, you know, walking across the prairies.

00:56:11.360 Oh yeah.

00:56:11.820 And you left in the winter time, which is equally like, what was the date you left Vancouver?

00:56:16.860 I'm going to walk through the February 20th, February 20th.

00:56:22.880 Yeah.

00:56:23.360 Well, there was a bit of, excuse me.

00:56:25.460 There was a bit of method to the madness there because we did, uh, like, I mean, the weather

00:56:33.460 in the lower mainland is typically mild, right?

00:56:35.920 And then I figured, okay, we're going to get a bit of dicey weather going through the passes

00:56:41.640 and stuff, but I mean, dude, I'm not particularly religious, but there's a lot of stuff that 0.97

00:56:48.880 came together in a really weird way that, you know, sometimes I'm just like, damn, like,

00:56:56.180 I mean, we managed to get under like ahead of, or just underneath a couple of weather systems.

00:57:02.460 Like there was a, there was a winter storm in the Kootenays, you know, I was like, you

00:57:08.320 know, just, just kind of just ran out in front of it, you know, just, and then it came in

00:57:13.840 behind us.

00:57:14.700 Yeah.

00:57:15.100 That's a common thread for a lot of people these last couple of years.

00:57:17.800 I'm not really religious, but some weird things have happened to me.

00:57:22.140 Yeah.

00:57:22.420 It's everything seems to be, you know, it really does feel as though a lot of things

00:57:25.780 are seem to be on a track, like some kind of collision track to a climax or something

00:57:29.300 here.

00:57:29.480 Like people are being drawn together.

00:57:30.780 Networks are being formed.

00:57:31.720 Like things are happening all over the place that, um, you know, had to happen that way for,

00:57:35.920 for this to happen and for that to happen.

00:57:37.440 And it's just, uh, it's beyond my, I just, I'm just riding the roller coaster now at

00:57:41.380 this point.

00:57:42.100 Uh, Shambo says, uh, see you in Calgary, James.

00:57:45.360 Keep on trucking buddy.

00:57:47.140 What was that?

00:57:48.020 Yeah.

00:57:48.500 Yeah.

00:57:48.860 I'll be there.

00:57:50.160 We got to go.

00:57:50.800 The whole crew is going to go out back.

00:57:52.540 We just decided that this morning.

00:57:54.060 Okay.

00:57:54.540 We'll drive up in our, uh, yeah.

00:57:56.560 In our mobile support unit.

00:57:57.800 Yeah.

00:57:58.100 And I also laughed that you, you, you don't even, you don't even take the rucksack off to

00:58:00.940 take pictures with people.

00:58:01.860 Is it just part of your body now?

00:58:03.520 Like, do you just sleep, you know, just never comes off or.

00:58:06.260 Um, I don't.

00:58:08.400 I got to tell you, um, that's, there they go.

00:58:15.320 Um, this, uh, this, this, I don't know if I should plug them or not.

00:58:25.200 This particular rucksack because, uh, I left all my army crap at home.

00:58:30.140 Cause I figured, okay, well, they might, they might go seize that or something.

00:58:35.100 Nobody uses the issued stuff. 0.99

00:58:36.660 Anyway, it's all crap. 0.59

00:58:37.640 But I got this, uh, I got this here just before I left. 0.97

00:58:42.520 Is that a mystery ranch bag?

00:58:45.440 Sorry?

00:58:46.120 Is that a mystery ranch bag?

00:58:47.480 Mystery ranch.

00:58:47.840 Mystery ranch.

00:58:48.540 Yeah.

00:58:48.800 I knew it.

00:58:49.560 And it's, it's the bomb as we like to say, right?

00:58:52.780 Yeah. 1.00

00:58:53.280 They're, uh, it's the shit. 1.00

00:58:54.700 They're priced accordingly for a reason. 1.00

00:58:56.160 They're, they're deadly.

00:58:56.880 And, um, but I mean, yeah, after, you know, with this day 41, so you're going to, if you're

00:59:06.380 going to march across the country, across the continent, you should probably invest in

00:59:10.300 a decent bet.

00:59:11.080 I mean, you know, yeah, I assume you're not wearing flip-flops as well either.

00:59:15.200 You, I can't believe you don't have sponsors.

00:59:17.080 You don't have like a five 11 sponsors by now, or I did, I did have some five 11.

00:59:23.020 Yeah.

00:59:23.820 And, um, I think, uh, I don't know.

00:59:27.560 I switched over.

00:59:28.540 Like, I feel kind of like a wuss cause I switched over to some Hoka one ones. 1.00

00:59:32.220 Okay.

00:59:33.420 And, um, but I had to do it.

00:59:36.760 I mean, it was like the, uh, yeah, I don't know if you've ever done a iron man or a mountain

00:59:43.000 man, but, uh, the mountain man, they just do, they just, uh, they do the pick, uh, the

00:59:50.120 picklies, well, the one brigade, they do a, uh, instead of using combat boots, like we

00:59:56.120 did in Petawawa, they do it with, uh, running shoes and shorts.

01:00:00.520 Yeah.

01:00:00.920 I've done a couple of those crazy.

01:00:02.900 I mean, one, one, we just showed up me and my partner, uh, had no training because

01:00:06.220 they demanded another team from the battalion and it was me and another master corporal.

01:00:11.300 They're like, well, you guys are like, well, when, when are we going to do this?

01:00:13.660 Like, it's Monday.

01:00:14.700 This is Friday.

01:00:15.780 Like, you want me to just, so we did it and we showed up and we were the first, we were

01:00:20.000 like in sixth place when we got to the canoes and we were drinking the night before.

01:00:23.420 Like, we were like, no one expected us to even finish the same thing.

01:00:25.120 Oh, that's hard for.

01:00:26.080 So we were like, whatever.

01:00:26.980 And then we were like in sixth place, we were killing it, but neither of us could work a canoe.

01:00:30.180 We ended up going in circles.

01:00:31.620 The Patricia guys rammed our boat and they tried to sink us. 1.00

01:00:33.980 So one guy threw a donut at my head, you know, anyway.

01:00:36.220 We ended up doing all right, but we were like, we're going to win.

01:00:38.920 You know, now we came like 27th or something, but.

01:00:42.540 Well, that's still pretty good.

01:00:43.920 It wasn't bad.

01:00:44.680 It was one of the Bushman. 0.56

01:00:46.240 It was like the RCR one.

01:00:47.360 It was, it wasn't quite the Ironman.

01:00:48.800 It was like a two thirds of an Ironman or half an Ironman or something.

01:00:51.400 But yeah, I wouldn't try an Ironman on no training and no sleep and no.

01:00:55.980 Yeah. 1.00

01:00:56.300 It was just stupid. 1.00

01:00:58.340 Rob McCallum. 1.00

01:00:59.240 If he's out there, he's listening.

01:01:00.420 I hope you're still alive, buddy.

01:01:01.740 That was, uh, like you have no change.

01:01:06.860 Nope.

01:01:07.160 I'm just going to do it.

01:01:08.240 Yeah. 1.00

01:01:08.560 Oh, the shit we put ourselves there. 1.00

01:01:12.580 Yeah. 1.00

01:01:12.940 And that's, I, I don't anticipate you.

01:01:14.340 There was no workup training for you for this.

01:01:15.980 I don't think you did any kind of, you just kind of.

01:01:18.300 I've done rucksack marches before.

01:01:20.140 You know how many time zones that is, James?

01:01:27.280 It's quite a while.

01:01:28.940 Yeah.

01:01:29.500 Yeah.

01:01:30.040 Yeah.

01:01:30.640 Wow.

01:01:31.660 And the weather's been pretty good.

01:01:33.200 I guess you've missed a lot of these storms and stuff.

01:01:36.380 Well, I mean, we, there has been days where it's been raining and stuff.

01:01:40.300 Absolutely.

01:01:40.840 Especially going through, uh, BC.

01:01:43.560 I mean, my God, there was a couple of days there where I was, you know, uh,

01:01:49.420 three days in a row going up between, um, hope and, uh, and sunshine Valley.

01:01:59.320 That 27 kilometer stretch there was just, you know, pissing down rain every day.

01:02:05.680 Oh, so, you know, awful.

01:02:09.100 Kind of like, uh, being on, being on, uh, fall exercise.

01:02:13.980 Yeah.

01:02:14.440 Back on three Bravo again.

01:02:15.680 Fall exercise, Wayne.

01:02:19.520 Right.

01:02:19.760 Yeah.

01:02:20.320 Oh no.

01:02:20.900 Yeah.

01:02:21.540 Horrible.

01:02:22.660 Oh man.

01:02:23.340 Well, I mean, like today is picture perfect.

01:02:26.720 And, uh, yesterday was a little bit of, uh, sun and cloud mix, but I mean, I

01:02:33.800 anticipate there's going to be some weather events and, uh, we'll work through

01:02:38.700 it.

01:02:39.540 Of course we have with all this.

01:02:42.360 That's why we got all our gear because people, well, that's fantastic.

01:02:45.780 Why are you carrying all that stuff?

01:02:47.780 That was something else.

01:02:48.620 I wonder, because there's always been speculation and no one really knows who

01:02:51.740 controls the weather machine.

01:02:53.220 This has been a, you know, an infantry lore thing going back generations.

01:02:57.780 Probably.

01:02:58.200 We believe it may be in the hands of the CDS.

01:03:00.560 Do you think they'll deploy the weather machine on you, especially as you get

01:03:03.180 through the Thunder Bay area, maybe to try and slow you down or.

01:03:06.020 No, I think he's going to deploy.

01:03:07.600 He's going to send out the black flies, the black.

01:03:10.100 Oh, the shad flies. 0.99

01:03:11.040 Yeah.

01:03:11.260 The insects could be also.

01:03:15.060 If people don't know, it's just what happens, you know, it'll be beautiful

01:03:17.960 weather for a month, you know, and then we'll go to the field and in end of

01:03:21.640 May for a weekend or a week.

01:03:23.760 And then there's a snowstorm and there's locusts and alligator eats a guy.

01:03:27.180 You're just like, what in the hell?

01:03:28.460 And it's like, oh, the weather machine was turned on.

01:03:30.200 And, you know, it has to be horrible.

01:03:31.500 I remember.

01:03:32.620 Yeah.

01:03:33.060 I remember being engaged on when you're in August and it was.

01:03:42.260 I was the only man that returned.

01:03:44.540 And no, no, I remember it was bone dry and I had my entire rain suit on

01:03:54.820 including leather combat gloves.

01:03:56.780 Oh, no.

01:03:57.580 Because I was beaten, eaten alive by mosquitoes.

01:04:00.340 They're bad up there.

01:04:01.840 Oh, yeah.

01:04:04.760 Yeah.

01:04:05.240 I had a couple of guys.

01:04:06.880 They were doing PLQ at the time and they were, I don't know if you're

01:04:09.420 familiar with the training area.

01:04:10.420 They're in Sharps Woods.

01:04:11.520 And I had been there once briefly, but they were, when they came out of

01:04:16.560 there, they were, looked like different men.

01:04:17.960 And I was like, what happened?

01:04:19.120 And he just grabbed me by the shirt.

01:04:20.400 He says, McKenzie, for the rest of my life, I don't care what happens.

01:04:23.000 Never again.

01:04:23.740 Ask me what happened in Sharps Woods.

01:04:26.060 I was like, okay, man.

01:04:27.340 He still never told me.

01:04:29.780 I think someone just killed him.

01:04:30.840 Yeah, exactly.

01:04:31.800 Yeah.

01:04:32.200 This, this, the old training area.

01:04:35.740 Those bugs are bad in Gage Town.

01:04:37.260 Panawama, they're not great either.

01:04:38.340 They got that sand hill.

01:04:40.120 Oh, yeah.

01:04:41.820 Yeah.

01:04:42.360 So I, I think that will be the biggest challenge.

01:04:44.740 One of the, I had an interview yesterday and they were talking about,

01:04:47.160 you know, the black flies going through Ontario.

01:04:51.520 And I think that'll be, that'll be interesting.

01:04:55.140 Yeah.

01:04:55.460 Just get one of those nets.

01:04:56.860 One of those.

01:04:59.120 It would help at all.

01:05:00.900 Those giant nets.

01:05:02.460 Yeah.

01:05:04.780 Maybe you could get a guy to go ahead of you with a flamethrower.

01:05:07.280 Maybe Elon Musk could send, send one of those out and just clear the,

01:05:10.700 I don't think Elon Musk is a real person.

01:05:13.480 He, you know, is he a robot?

01:05:14.760 That's another thing.

01:05:15.400 We've, we've, we're not sure.

01:05:16.640 He could be a cyborg.

01:05:17.880 You're, I mean, you, you're a Skynet product yourself.

01:05:21.040 Are you have any insight on this?

01:05:24.440 I should probably be careful what I say.

01:05:28.780 He's a secret.

01:05:30.300 He thinks Elon Musk is a robot.

01:05:32.260 He's a prototype.

01:05:32.960 We don't, we don't, everything you say is true,

01:05:36.180 is taken as fact immediately.

01:05:37.560 Yeah.

01:05:37.900 The left has no sense of humor whatsoever.

01:05:39.660 He's saying anything.

01:05:40.220 He will.

01:05:41.120 Yeah.

01:05:41.500 James Topp rambled insensibly for hours about Elon Musk being a robot.

01:05:45.820 We know how this guy thinks.

01:05:48.160 Oh, every radio guy ever.

01:05:50.480 Every TV person.

01:05:52.140 My God.

01:05:53.500 No.

01:05:53.800 So, so what kind of pace are you doing?

01:05:55.780 50, 60, 70 kilometers a day?

01:05:57.420 Well, no, I mean, typically I have, I have to,

01:06:04.920 I have between 38 and 43 kilometers a day to achieve in order to meet the

01:06:10.160 target date of, you know, around end of June.

01:06:12.120 Right.

01:06:12.780 Right.

01:06:13.740 So what's been happening is that by going through the mountains,

01:06:20.580 we had to shorten stuff up, pick up the pace and parts where the terrain was a

01:06:28.240 little bit more favorable.

01:06:29.600 So some days we would go like, you know, 27, 32, and then the next day,

01:06:34.360 you know, go 40 or 45.

01:06:37.160 Cause it's an average I'm trying to do.

01:06:39.600 Right.

01:06:40.080 Right.

01:06:40.700 Yeah.

01:06:40.920 And I think what's going to happen after we hit Lethbridge and do the

01:06:46.580 Calgary thing.

01:06:47.600 Those are, we're going to stop flying for real.

01:06:49.580 Especially for new guys in the military.

01:06:51.580 If they're around, they're listening.

01:06:52.880 That's those are some of the scariest words you're ever going to hear.

01:06:55.320 It was when the recce warrant says, we're going to pick up the pace. 0.98

01:06:58.140 Your life is about to suck really bad. 0.91

01:07:00.580 I can, I can tell you there's a, I can feel the fear when I say that. 0.98

01:07:07.440 I only got a little taste of it.

01:07:08.960 I only ever got to be a section commander.

01:07:10.240 I can only imagine the, the, the, the fear stick you could wield as the,

01:07:14.020 as the recce warrant or the, or, you know, a CSM or an RSM or something

01:07:17.280 must be quite satisfying.

01:07:18.480 I imagine.

01:07:20.020 But yeah, I, I don't like, you know, if the thing is, this is a target we

01:07:25.160 have to achieve.

01:07:25.920 So we'll probably make best use of the terrain.

01:07:29.100 It's nice and flat.

01:07:30.140 Yeah.

01:07:31.720 Got, we got our spring, summer marching order on.

01:07:34.620 We'll pick up the pace.

01:07:35.500 Cause today we're only going, you know, 25 in the Monarch.

01:07:40.560 Oh, is that all?

01:07:41.560 Yesterday we, yeah.

01:07:42.560 Yesterday we only did 32.

01:07:44.380 Only.

01:07:45.560 So we got to get up that, uh, we're going to get those miles up.

01:07:48.740 There's people in this country that refuse to park any further than three or four spaces

01:07:54.080 from the entry doors to Walmart because it's too far to walk.

01:07:56.760 And you're like, it's only 32 kilometers.

01:07:59.740 I'll just, why?

01:08:01.640 Yeah. 1.00

01:08:05.440 It's so shit. 1.00

01:08:06.580 I mean, wow. 1.00

01:08:07.640 It's, it's, it's incredible, man.

01:08:09.200 I just, I can't even, I'm going to check this live tracker thing all the time.

01:08:12.060 I'm just going to maybe get it on my phone and be like, I wonder where he's at now.

01:08:15.220 I wonder how, I think it has your pace on there as well.

01:08:18.540 Oh.

01:08:19.160 Yeah.

01:08:19.340 I'm not sure.

01:08:20.120 I mean, we're going a little bit slower now cause, uh, we're doing this, but you know,

01:08:25.900 I tell you, I try, I'm trying to keep it up to, you know, between like five and a half,

01:08:30.340 six and a half kilometers an hour.

01:08:32.080 Has your altitude, has your time.

01:08:33.740 It doesn't have your speed, but, uh, you know, we could probably, probably guess that.

01:08:37.280 Where are we going?

01:08:37.820 We're on the crown set highway.

01:08:39.800 No, crow's nest highway.

01:08:41.960 Yeah.

01:08:42.420 I've never been.

01:08:43.100 The only place in Alberta I've ever been was, uh, Edmonton, uh, in Lloydminster, I suppose.

01:08:47.100 But coming up Lethbridge and then Tabor, Tabor is coming up on the docket.

01:08:51.560 That's a friend of mine, uh, Brendan Black, your, uh, uh, Danger Cats, Uncle Hack is from

01:08:55.840 there.

01:08:56.160 So I wonder if he'll be home.

01:08:59.420 Tabor, Alberta.

01:09:00.900 Oh man.

01:09:01.460 What do you do to stay like entertained?

01:09:03.640 Like, do you listen to music or I guess maybe you're doing this.

01:09:05.740 Are you just talking to people every day?

01:09:08.260 Yeah.

01:09:08.660 Well, folks drive up like occasionally, like we're, we're going through a more of a built

01:09:12.100 up area.

01:09:13.020 Yeah.

01:09:13.540 You'll meet some people on the side, but I mean, uh, I'm focused, right?

01:09:18.920 I'm focused on the mission.

01:09:20.100 I keep my head up to maintain situational awareness, look to the left and right and maintain 360.

01:09:26.280 It's, uh, uh, it's good exercise for the mind.

01:09:30.320 It's good exercise.

01:09:32.480 I would imagine it's like escape from Siberia.

01:09:35.100 You're just going to march all the way to Poland or something from a good, the Soviet 1.00

01:09:38.520 gulag in Northern Siberia.

01:09:40.320 My God.

01:09:41.080 So, yeah, I mean, you know, the, uh, I got, we do that eight to 10 hours a day.

01:09:47.420 We, we maintain a march discipline of about 45, 15 or 50 and 10.

01:09:53.580 Right.

01:09:54.080 So, um, and what are you doing for food?

01:09:58.880 Well, this is where, you know, we got, uh, we got the RV and we prepare food.

01:10:04.180 Okay.

01:10:04.580 Um, for ourselves, because we have the, good, like we were guys, we had food.

01:10:09.220 I assumed you were just like eating souls, like just consuming the souls of your enemies

01:10:13.220 along the way as they did, they become demoralized and like it just strengthens you.

01:10:17.560 I, I'm crushing donuts too.

01:10:22.580 Carbs, they're going, you can burn them right off.

01:10:24.520 It doesn't matter.

01:10:25.040 It was like, yeah, it's car.

01:10:26.240 Yeah.

01:10:26.740 Yeah.

01:10:26.900 Absolutely.

01:10:27.540 Yeah.

01:10:27.920 Probably the hardest thing.

01:10:28.920 Some of the hardest things I ever done.

01:10:30.020 I, you know, I did the, uh, the selections and stuff in the military and they were, you

01:10:33.000 just eat everything because you're burning it all off.

01:10:34.820 Anyway, it doesn't eat it.

01:10:36.180 Eat it all.

01:10:36.680 It's fine.

01:10:37.020 I actually, once I overdid it and, um, they had these little cases of, uh, uh, not, not,

01:10:42.560 not Joe Lewis's, but something like that.

01:10:44.480 Like passion flakes, you know, the little passion flaky boxes. 0.99

01:10:47.520 I fucking ate them all. 0.99

01:10:49.220 I fucking ate all of them. 1.00

01:10:50.580 And on, on, in seesaw. 0.99

01:10:52.100 And then I was like, I almost went into a diabetic coma walking somewhere.

01:10:55.860 I don't feel good.

01:10:57.120 I probably ate 5,000 grams of sugar.

01:10:59.740 Look at him.

01:11:00.440 Heart attack.

01:11:01.880 Oh, my.

01:11:03.800 I hurt my pancreas.

01:11:06.820 My insulin levels are damaged.

01:11:09.260 Oh, man.

01:11:11.120 Some weekends on Tuesday says I quit drinking years ago, but I'll gladly buy this legend

01:11:15.420 of all a legend, all of the beers for what he's doing.

01:11:18.820 Mad respect.

01:11:19.540 Yeah.

01:11:19.720 I'm seeing a lot of that.

01:11:20.720 A lot of people are pretty pumped with what you're doing.

01:11:22.120 And I am too.

01:11:22.920 I couldn't, I mean, I just, ah, my God.

01:11:25.820 I mean, I think I did 30, 31 K once.

01:11:27.840 And that was like, that was tough.

01:11:28.820 That was rough.

01:11:29.460 And then you're just, this is your, this is Tuesday for you.

01:11:31.700 I'm just going to do that every day.

01:11:34.640 You could do it.

01:11:35.760 I know you could do it.

01:11:37.520 If you were, don't, don't, don't challenge me.

01:11:40.880 Why isn't he doing it?

01:11:42.720 I'm going to get shamed into it now.

01:11:43.880 You could, you could do it.

01:11:44.900 You could leave New Brunswick and meet me in Ottawa.

01:11:46.780 I'm in Nova Scotia.

01:11:47.740 I mean, I don't know.

01:11:48.680 I've maybe, that's even better.

01:11:50.740 Great.

01:11:51.180 Yeah.

01:11:51.440 Extra.

01:11:52.120 Oh my God.

01:11:52.840 Yeah. 0.99

01:11:53.240 I've actually, I got a shit right now. 0.99

01:11:55.280 Warren. 0.98

01:11:55.600 Sorry.

01:11:55.900 I can't, it says no uneven ground.

01:11:58.860 You know, I can't go to the field.

01:12:00.320 I can't, you know, I have to stay home and play video games.

01:12:02.960 It says right there on my.

01:12:04.960 Yeah.

01:12:06.920 Yeah.

01:12:07.240 I would like, I would like to come in, uh, come down that way when you get close though.

01:12:11.020 I think that's going to be quite the thing.

01:12:12.960 I think a lot of guys would, you should.

01:12:14.420 And as this goes great game steam, I would imagine as you get closer.

01:12:19.360 Yeah.

01:12:20.380 Yeah.

01:12:20.700 It's going to be, uh, it's going to be something special.

01:12:23.000 I think.

01:12:24.480 I don't, I don't think anything like this has ever been done.

01:12:27.720 And you know, you made the, uh, the Terry Fox references and you know what Terry Fox is about.

01:12:31.560 This is a very similar thing.

01:12:33.440 Um, yeah, but I, I don't like, I can't, I can't make that.

01:12:37.360 Comparison.

01:12:37.900 Cause I know you're not, I'm making the comparison, you know, I'm not going to ask

01:12:41.260 you to, but, but, uh, you, you left the memorial, I think right in Vancouver and, um, in, in

01:12:46.640 comparison in the way that a man is, is willing to put his body on the line, uh, you know,

01:12:50.560 and Terry Fox wore the Canadian flag on his shirt as he, you know, he did his, uh, you

01:12:54.340 know, his marathon there.

01:12:55.440 And, and, you know, you, you're embarked upon quite a marathon isn't even the right word.

01:13:00.220 You've embarked on, on quite a mission yourself and, um, you know, your body, your, your

01:13:04.800 mind, your career, your experience.

01:13:07.240 Your employment and all of this stuff, um, for the, for the sake and the betterment

01:13:11.280 and the, you know, the hopes of the Canadian people.

01:13:13.240 And I can't even, uh, I mean, this is, this is, I mean, find me something more impressive

01:13:18.860 and compelling than this.

01:13:20.220 Uh, I don't know what CBC is busy talking about right now.

01:13:23.000 Um, something else, but the Will Smith fiasco, I suppose, is much more engaging.

01:13:26.260 Hang in, hang in there with me with, we'll go, uh, say hi to these folks over here.

01:13:30.800 Sure.

01:13:32.860 Uh, the government, he's a friend of mine and he's in, he's in Ottawa, he's an RCR guy

01:13:36.540 and he says, respect James, see you in Ottawa.

01:13:38.980 Another two RCR guy.

01:13:43.560 We're going to have a...

01:13:44.820 Good.

01:13:45.100 How are you?

01:13:45.640 We're live streaming.

01:13:46.580 Are you okay?

01:13:47.980 How you doing?

01:13:48.440 Damien, really nice to meet you, man.

01:13:49.760 What's your name?

01:13:50.340 Damien.

01:13:50.760 Nice to meet you, Damien.

01:13:51.980 Mind if I join up for a while?

01:13:53.280 Sure.

01:13:54.280 Uh, well, I'm a...

01:13:56.060 Yeah, I'm getting pretty close, uh, so we're going to, uh...

01:13:58.540 Do you know where the RV's at?

01:14:02.000 I'm going to have to follow in.

01:14:03.940 Where are you from?

01:14:05.500 From Calgary.

01:14:06.760 Calgary, okay.

01:14:07.860 What are you doing down here?

01:14:09.180 Just came down to give you a little scare.

01:14:11.540 Wow, I appreciate it.

01:14:13.160 Thank you.

01:14:15.900 I got...

01:14:17.340 Still with me?

01:14:22.160 Hey, how you doing?

01:14:23.700 Good, good.

01:14:25.100 What's your name?

01:14:26.280 Trevor.

01:14:26.680 Nice to meet you, Trevor.

01:14:27.180 So...

01:14:28.180 Great to see you.

01:14:33.080 Paco says,

01:14:33.640 how far did he walk during just this interview?

01:14:35.420 Probably, uh, a few kilometers.

01:14:37.540 We're in an hour and an hour and 15 minutes, though.

01:14:42.120 Yeah, so far since we left this morning,

01:14:44.040 we got, uh,

01:14:45.820 we got 15 kilometers on the clock.

01:14:48.860 When did you leave this morning?

01:14:50.420 Do you just get up and eat and go right at 7 a.m.?

01:14:52.620 Yeah, we usually get up at around 6.

01:14:55.940 Of course.

01:14:57.180 And then we get, um, um, go on around 8.

01:15:01.960 Like, I mean, I'm working, most of the fellas are, are, uh, like, they're not as familiar

01:15:08.440 with military as I am.

01:15:11.100 Right.

01:15:11.320 And you are.

01:15:11.960 So, you know, I try not to make it really hard timing, right?

01:15:15.680 So we leave at 8 or so and...

01:15:17.700 There's no, there's no inspections or anything.

01:15:19.760 There's no, you know, you're not too...

01:15:21.360 Well, I... 0.99

01:15:23.480 What kind of fucking sideburns are those, Mackenzie? 1.00

01:15:26.060 I don't know. 1.00

01:15:27.220 I thought I could get away with it.

01:15:28.700 Well, you didn't.

01:15:29.360 And you're doing extras all weekend.

01:15:31.040 Yep.

01:15:31.960 Probably.

01:15:32.280 Yeah, we're going to, uh...

01:15:38.280 Yeah, no, so, you know, I got to respect that, you know, folks are...

01:15:43.540 They're not, they're not, uh, indoctrinated like we are, right?

01:15:48.200 So...

01:15:48.940 They're not dead inside.

01:15:51.060 Yeah.

01:15:52.140 Yeah.

01:15:53.340 So we just, uh...

01:15:56.140 We just keep, uh, I keep it kind of, uh...

01:15:58.940 Okay, we're going to leave at 8.

01:16:01.480 And then, uh...

01:16:03.120 If we leave at 8, it's that bonus.

01:16:05.740 And if we leave at 10 after...

01:16:08.180 We're going to have to pick up the pace, and you don't want that.

01:16:12.620 Yeah.

01:16:14.800 Through the swamp, you know.

01:16:16.900 Oh, man.

01:16:17.460 Oh, jeez.

01:16:19.160 I don't know if there's anything else. 0.90

01:16:19.980 What a crazy...

01:16:21.200 I mean, I just still can't...

01:16:22.460 I mean, and this is wild.

01:16:23.680 Like, this has never been done before, I don't think.

01:16:25.580 You're doing interviews while...

01:16:26.720 Like, there's no time to stop at all.

01:16:28.400 It's like, you can interview me while I'm marching.

01:16:30.920 If I can squeeze it in.

01:16:32.560 It's amazing.

01:16:35.240 Yeah, people think they're getting flashbacks to the Forrest Gump movie,

01:16:37.900 where he just ran across the country forever.

01:16:40.620 But Forrest Gump was just doing it purposelessly for no reason.

01:16:43.860 This guy is on a pretty serious mission here.

01:16:46.100 And, you know, I just...

01:16:50.140 I'm speechless.

01:16:51.180 I mean, what you're doing, to me, is astonishing.

01:16:55.140 But at the same time, I understand why you're doing it,

01:16:57.260 and I get where it's coming from.

01:16:59.880 I mean, I've been...

01:17:00.480 I'm just...

01:17:00.840 This is what I've been doing, because I felt the same way.

01:17:02.900 I had to do something.

01:17:03.760 What can I do?

01:17:04.400 How do I...

01:17:06.020 You know?

01:17:06.660 I hate this feeling of sitting around and seeing everything that's happening

01:17:09.260 and feeling helpless.

01:17:10.100 Like, I have no...

01:17:11.160 I mean, I'm not going to save anything or do it,

01:17:13.260 but if I can help, you know, push the ball up the field an inch or two

01:17:15.920 in whatever way I can contribute,

01:17:17.720 then I would much rather do that than not.

01:17:20.880 Well, yeah.

01:17:21.620 It's about, you know, going to bed with a clear conscience.

01:17:24.880 Like, at least you tried.

01:17:25.960 Right?

01:17:26.200 Right.

01:17:26.380 I didn't sit here and do nothing, as everything was, you know,

01:17:29.000 burned down and destroyed, and I kept my mouth shut,

01:17:30.800 and I kept my head down and said, you know,

01:17:32.700 well, maybe they'll eat me last, you know.

01:17:34.380 If I just do nothing, I'll be the last one to get eaten by the alligator,

01:17:37.440 or whatever the Churchill quote is about appeasement,

01:17:40.040 is thinking the alligator will eat you last, you know.

01:17:43.100 Yeah.

01:17:43.660 So, it's right.

01:17:44.820 I mean, I agree.

01:17:45.700 You said it's a national crisis.

01:17:46.720 I think it is, too.

01:17:47.580 It's...

01:17:48.100 A lot of people are hurting and suffering,

01:17:49.520 and they're pretty teary-eyed, you know,

01:17:53.860 seeing you doing what you're doing,

01:17:56.080 and it's bringing a lot of hope and inspiration to people,

01:17:58.380 and I've, for one, I think it's heroic and...

01:18:01.400 This is a legendary thing.

01:18:02.840 This is never going to happen again.

01:18:04.000 This is outrageous.

01:18:05.320 In a good way.

01:18:07.400 Yeah.

01:18:10.400 Yeah, well, that was one thing I found out, too.

01:18:13.740 Like, I mean, I had to...

01:18:16.240 For a lot of years, you know,

01:18:18.320 especially if we're asked in the infantry what we did as a soldier,

01:18:23.680 you know, you kind of put your...

01:18:26.080 put compassion in the back seat a lot of the times, right?

01:18:30.740 Yeah.

01:18:31.660 And, you know, we know the definition of the word,

01:18:35.520 but we don't really practice it, I think.

01:18:37.860 Right.

01:18:38.220 And, I don't know, I just got to that point, I think,

01:18:41.660 where...

01:18:42.360 Yeah.

01:18:43.080 I really...

01:18:43.620 You know, I was suffering,

01:18:44.680 and I realized there were a lot of other folks

01:18:46.240 who were in the same boat.

01:18:48.360 Yeah.

01:18:49.860 There sure is,

01:18:50.560 especially in the military as well.

01:18:53.400 It's...

01:18:53.440 It's...

01:18:53.920 It's sad to see what they're doing,

01:18:56.880 and there was a time,

01:18:58.660 maybe in the fall,

01:19:00.320 at their...

01:19:01.620 I don't even want to say it.

01:19:02.920 One of the units in Petawawa,

01:19:04.460 I think it might have been 3rd Battalion,

01:19:05.860 I can't remember,

01:19:06.400 but they had the unjabbed guys

01:19:08.700 sitting out in a mod tent,

01:19:12.400 separated away,

01:19:13.020 segregated away from everybody,

01:19:14.080 and that's where they would go

01:19:15.000 because they wouldn't let them work,

01:19:15.920 wouldn't let them do anything.

01:19:16.440 They would just put them in there all day,

01:19:18.280 and they'd sit there.

01:19:18.580 Oh, my God, I didn't know that.

01:19:20.120 And they had them cleaning up cigarette butts

01:19:21.480 and putting them on GD

01:19:22.480 and this kind of stuff.

01:19:23.220 It's like, oh, so you're like POW,

01:19:24.380 like you guys had done something wrong,

01:19:26.160 like you're being punished.

01:19:27.660 And, you know,

01:19:28.520 CTV tried to get down there and investigate,

01:19:30.320 and they wrapped it up quick

01:19:31.640 and shuffled them back inside,

01:19:32.820 and I think the engineer RSM on the base

01:19:35.640 had to come down and chew out the RCR RSM.

01:19:38.000 I don't know what happened,

01:19:38.620 but I was like, oh,

01:19:39.260 did the engineers have to come save us?

01:19:41.100 We'll never live this down, guys.

01:19:42.400 It's like, we can't have this.

01:19:45.860 But, you know, it's sad.

01:19:48.320 Oh, man.

01:19:48.840 That they won't, there's, you know,

01:19:50.920 what's really disappointing and frustrating to me

01:19:52.400 is that there's so many,

01:19:53.160 how many officers do we have?

01:19:54.980 You know, we've got more generals

01:19:55.980 and senior staff officers now

01:19:57.440 than we ever did in World War II

01:19:58.660 when we had a million troops or something,

01:20:00.700 and I'm still waiting for any of them

01:20:02.040 to find some kind of, you know,

01:20:03.960 moral fiber or backbone or character

01:20:05.600 to stand up and say anything

01:20:06.900 on behalf of these people

01:20:07.740 that they're supposed to be,

01:20:09.620 these guys trust them to look after them

01:20:11.220 and take care of them and lead them.

01:20:12.400 And they're just leaving,

01:20:13.820 hanging them out to dry

01:20:14.560 and letting them burn.

01:20:15.340 It's horrible.

01:20:18.740 I don't get it.

01:20:20.860 I just, I don't understand it.

01:20:23.620 And, but I don't know, you know,

01:20:26.420 like I'm thinking,

01:20:28.960 if I'm inspiring anybody,

01:20:35.440 then if I can inspire one dude in uniform,

01:20:39.000 or, you know, to be that, you know,

01:20:42.040 that stormtrooper that kind of like,

01:20:46.340 you know, takes his helmet off

01:20:47.620 and is like, hey, I'm not a clone.

01:20:53.420 Yeah.

01:20:53.860 I'm not a zombie.

01:20:55.500 Yeah.

01:20:55.860 Some of them did.

01:20:59.380 Some of them have.

01:21:00.140 And I'm sure there'll be,

01:21:01.160 there'll be more in the future,

01:21:02.020 but, you know,

01:21:03.000 there's just not enough.

01:21:03.780 And it's crazy that it's going to take

01:21:04.940 something like this.

01:21:05.640 And I guarantee this is going to have,

01:21:07.620 especially as this continues,

01:21:09.200 as the legends continues.

01:21:10.800 I mean,

01:21:13.220 I don't know how you ignore something

01:21:15.740 this, this, this crazy.

01:21:16.900 And I mean, I'm personally,

01:21:18.200 I'm going to do everything I can

01:21:18.980 to support this

01:21:19.960 and keep keeping this

01:21:21.080 in the public consciousness.

01:21:22.040 I'd like to check in with you

01:21:22.980 every little once in a while

01:21:23.820 and see how you're making out.

01:21:24.840 Yeah, absolutely.

01:21:25.760 Let's do that.

01:21:27.540 I'm sure the veterans.

01:21:29.160 It's important for me.

01:21:30.240 Like, I know you got good contact

01:21:31.600 with, with guys still serving

01:21:34.260 and guys recently retired and stuff.

01:21:36.080 Right.

01:21:36.280 Like, and those are,

01:21:38.240 that's, that's my people.

01:21:39.140 I mean, I want to let them guys

01:21:42.180 know what I'm doing.

01:21:45.080 Absolutely.

01:21:47.900 Yeah, we're going to,

01:21:52.200 we're going to come up

01:21:53.000 on a break here.

01:21:53.980 So, yep.

01:21:54.640 Well, that, that wraps up nice.

01:21:56.200 Why don't we,

01:21:57.180 it's a really good conversation,

01:22:00.060 Jeremy.

01:22:00.360 And let's do another one.

01:22:02.060 Absolutely.

01:22:02.540 Thank you so much, James for,

01:22:03.860 or sorry, warrant.

01:22:04.960 I mean, don't, you know,

01:22:06.120 I don't know.

01:22:07.320 I'm, I'm, I'm not deprogrammed yet.

01:22:08.660 It's only been a few years.

01:22:09.700 I don't remember how to do this.

01:22:11.900 Yeah.

01:22:12.220 I appreciate you so much

01:22:13.660 for coming on

01:22:14.600 and taking the time

01:22:15.300 to talk to me

01:22:15.740 and everybody else.

01:22:16.280 And for what you're doing

01:22:17.140 is, is absolutely

01:22:18.120 impressive and inspiring.

01:22:20.460 And I'm going to go do

01:22:21.620 some more pull-ups right now.

01:22:22.920 And I'm probably going to complain.

01:22:24.180 I'm going to,

01:22:24.600 I'm going to quit after 20 or so,

01:22:26.160 but then I'm going to feel

01:22:26.660 bad about myself.

01:22:27.300 Like he's still out there walking

01:22:28.480 and it's going to be

01:22:29.400 throughout the day,

01:22:30.820 you know, so hopefully

01:22:31.520 this will, you'll have inspired me

01:22:32.920 to be some slightly less lazy,

01:22:34.340 I suppose.

01:22:34.780 But I appreciate it so much

01:22:37.020 what you're doing

01:22:38.180 and cheers to you

01:22:39.440 and your crew

01:22:40.060 and everybody.

01:22:41.780 Absolutely.

01:22:42.380 So I can let you go here.

01:22:43.780 If you have anything else

01:22:44.340 you want to say

01:22:44.740 before I let you go.

01:22:46.680 Yeah, I just want to say

01:22:48.240 like if, if, you know,

01:22:49.760 we knew each other

01:22:50.440 back in the day,

01:22:51.540 you know,

01:22:53.100 like I said

01:22:53.660 in a couple of videos,

01:22:54.440 I wasn't always.

01:22:57.940 Me either.

01:22:59.440 I could, I could have been,

01:23:00.540 I could have been,

01:23:01.240 I could have done

01:23:01.900 a little bit better job.

01:23:02.940 Me too.

01:23:04.680 As a, as a supervisor

01:23:05.900 and a leader.

01:23:06.700 Yeah.

01:23:07.500 I hope that doesn't

01:23:08.680 stop you from,

01:23:09.500 you know,

01:23:11.320 reaching out to me

01:23:11.980 if you want.

01:23:13.420 Well, tomorrow's a new.

01:23:14.340 I know that there's

01:23:15.200 dudes hurting out there

01:23:16.140 and sometimes, you know,

01:23:17.180 they need somebody

01:23:17.620 to talk to, so.

01:23:18.680 Absolutely.

01:23:19.260 I feel the same way.

01:23:20.880 That's a,

01:23:21.300 that's a great message.

01:23:22.120 Thanks a lot, James.

01:23:23.040 Best of luck.

01:23:24.380 Good weather.

01:23:26.020 I mean, you know

01:23:26.780 what you're doing.

01:23:27.400 I don't have to tell you

01:23:28.380 anything.

01:23:29.420 Actually, could you help

01:23:30.540 me with something?

01:23:31.220 I'm just kidding.

01:23:31.780 Have a good,

01:23:33.480 the rest of your day.

01:23:34.060 If you need anything,

01:23:36.220 you let me know too.

01:23:37.260 Well, I would be

01:23:38.200 out of my mind

01:23:39.020 to ask you for anything

01:23:39.880 right now.

01:23:40.280 I think you're a little busy

01:23:41.060 crushing the continent,

01:23:43.320 but I'll,

01:23:44.900 I'll keep that in mind.

01:23:45.660 Thanks.

01:23:45.880 And enjoy your barn day.

01:23:46.840 You're going to go

01:23:47.160 dancing later tonight.

01:23:48.160 Is that the plan?

01:23:49.080 Is your feet just,

01:23:50.200 or.

01:23:50.420 Yeah, I'm going to,

01:23:51.480 I'm going to,

01:23:52.120 I'll probably have to

01:23:54.360 utilize my escape

01:23:55.740 and evasion skills

01:23:56.980 at some point

01:23:57.860 before the dancing

01:23:58.720 starts.

01:23:59.080 You did,

01:23:59.920 you brought smoke grenades,

01:24:01.060 I'm assuming.

01:24:01.500 You just slam one of those

01:24:02.240 down and go right out

01:24:02.900 the nearest one.

01:24:05.200 Yeah.

01:24:05.940 Throw some,

01:24:06.460 throw some arty sims

01:24:07.460 around.

01:24:07.820 It'll be,

01:24:08.140 you know,

01:24:08.360 the confusion,

01:24:09.200 you'll be able to escape.

01:24:10.420 That'd be a hell of a way

01:24:11.060 to leave a party too.

01:24:12.360 I mean,

01:24:12.640 I imagine.

01:24:13.380 Yeah, totally.

01:24:14.200 All right.

01:24:14.640 Pop smoke for real.

01:24:15.700 Thanks very much.

01:24:16.500 At,

01:24:16.800 at Canada Marches,

01:24:18.220 I think on Twitter,

01:24:20.900 Instagram,

01:24:21.980 all the other relevant,

01:24:23.660 you know,

01:24:24.520 social media poisonous

01:24:25.500 things we do.

01:24:26.600 CanadaMarches.ca

01:24:27.600 is the website

01:24:29.020 and I think that's it.

01:24:30.600 If you want to follow

01:24:31.420 James and support

01:24:31.960 what he's doing,

01:24:32.980 go there and find those.

01:24:35.340 I miss anything?

01:24:35.800 Is that all of them?

01:24:37.220 No,

01:24:37.480 that's good.

01:24:38.420 And yeah,

01:24:38.940 we'll set something up

01:24:39.660 in the future

01:24:40.100 and how we got contact.

01:24:41.700 Awesome.

01:24:42.120 Thanks a lot,

01:24:42.560 man.

01:24:42.700 Appreciate it.

01:24:43.080 Have a good day.

01:24:44.320 Okay,

01:24:44.640 Jeremy.

01:24:45.200 Take care.

01:24:49.840 There we go.

01:24:51.400 Well,

01:24:51.580 that was cool.

01:24:52.460 I was looking forward

01:24:53.040 to talking to that guy.

01:24:53.740 what a crazy thing

01:24:55.340 that he's doing.

01:24:57.080 I mean,

01:24:59.160 wow.

01:25:00.140 I'm just gonna,

01:25:00.860 I'm just gonna,

01:25:01.760 and what a,

01:25:02.460 what a poetic thing.

01:25:07.000 Because these are the guys

01:25:07.920 I looked up to

01:25:08.460 my,

01:25:08.760 my whole career.

01:25:09.580 Like,

01:25:09.840 it's like,

01:25:10.180 I didn't want to be

01:25:10.900 an officer for a reason.

01:25:11.920 I wasn't really

01:25:12.620 an officer type guy.

01:25:15.360 Maybe I should have,

01:25:16.220 I don't know,

01:25:16.760 but,

01:25:16.920 but there's something

01:25:17.720 about the hardcore NCO,

01:25:19.860 you know,

01:25:20.300 the Sergeant Major Plumleys

01:25:21.580 from the,

01:25:21.920 you remember that movie

01:25:22.380 We Were Soldiers

01:25:23.120 and these kinds of guys

01:25:24.220 where it's just like,

01:25:24.960 that's the guy

01:25:25.540 that's gonna get it done.

01:25:26.440 That's the guy

01:25:26.820 that's gonna win the war

01:25:27.620 for you and get things done.

01:25:28.720 The NCOs are the backbone

01:25:29.760 of the army

01:25:30.340 and it's such a classic,

01:25:33.760 you know,

01:25:34.020 how is this gonna happen?

01:25:35.040 I'm just gonna throw

01:25:35.760 on my rucksack

01:25:36.480 and I'm gonna walk 0.99

01:25:37.800 all the fuck, 0.92

01:25:38.340 I'm just, 0.99

01:25:39.000 you know,

01:25:39.700 like,

01:25:41.300 maybe they didn't answer

01:25:42.020 his phone calls.

01:25:42.680 He's like,

01:25:42.880 fine, 1.00

01:25:43.140 I'm gonna fuck him down there. 1.00

01:25:44.720 And he's walking 1.00

01:25:45.840 to Ottawa,

01:25:46.360 from Vancouver.

01:25:47.420 It's incredible.

01:25:48.020 It's amazing.

01:25:50.420 It is.

01:25:51.040 He's a legend.

01:25:51.760 Don't know what else

01:25:53.640 to say about that.

01:25:54.380 You can go to,

01:25:55.180 follow him on his website,

01:25:56.560 canadamarches.ca.

01:25:59.880 There's a live tracker

01:26:00.800 here you can go to right now

01:26:01.620 and you can follow

01:26:02.100 where he is

01:26:02.800 and what he's doing.

01:26:04.340 There's a home about blog,

01:26:05.460 how you can join

01:26:06.060 and support.

01:26:06.900 You can buy some stuff,

01:26:07.800 how to,

01:26:08.040 you know,

01:26:08.300 contact all of it's there,

01:26:09.200 canadamarches.ca.

01:26:10.300 He's on Twitter as well

01:26:11.700 and Instagram

01:26:12.300 and all of that

01:26:14.760 kind of stuff.

01:26:16.260 I think I,

01:26:17.020 I think I got

01:26:17.840 the rest of these.

01:26:18.860 No,

01:26:19.020 I missed a couple,

01:26:19.480 some week on Tuesday.

01:26:20.080 He says,

01:26:20.140 pretty sure we have

01:26:20.620 more generals

01:26:21.120 than leopard twos.

01:26:22.060 That's probably correct.

01:26:24.180 Blonde Libertarian says,

01:26:25.060 thanks for lining it up

01:26:25.680 and giving us a chance

01:26:26.380 to hear his story.

01:26:28.820 Typical,

01:26:29.220 you know,

01:26:29.840 typical good guy,

01:26:30.740 you know,

01:26:31.020 infantry guy.

01:26:31.840 It's,

01:26:32.280 you know,

01:26:32.860 always more worried

01:26:33.660 about the things,

01:26:34.320 you know,

01:26:34.460 you can do,

01:26:34.980 you can do 900 things right

01:26:36.860 and you do one thing wrong

01:26:37.660 and that's the one you always,

01:26:38.700 you know,

01:26:38.820 that's just what you think about

01:26:39.620 for the rest of your career.

01:26:40.420 It's the one day you didn't do, 0.83

01:26:41.400 you fucked something up 0.98

01:26:42.260 or did something wrong. 0.95

01:26:43.280 I'm the same way.

01:26:44.160 I mean,

01:26:44.460 I,

01:26:44.720 you know,

01:26:45.060 ruminate over things like that

01:26:46.020 and he seems to be

01:26:46.500 that kind of guy too

01:26:47.220 and that's how I know he's,

01:26:48.420 he seems like a pretty 0.97

01:26:49.200 fucking good guy to me. 0.96

01:26:50.820 So, 0.99

01:26:51.340 I mean,

01:26:53.020 unless you guys,

01:26:54.100 unless,

01:26:54.540 I'm sorry,

01:26:55.060 CBC,

01:26:55.680 you know,

01:26:56.220 unless there's someone else

01:26:57.620 just,

01:26:59.080 you know,

01:26:59.680 torturing their body

01:27:00.940 and mind

01:27:01.440 on a daily basis

01:27:02.320 and sacrificing their,

01:27:03.500 you know,

01:27:03.920 work and career

01:27:04.740 and,

01:27:05.140 you know,

01:27:05.300 everything else

01:27:05.920 for the sake of the people

01:27:07.100 of this country.

01:27:08.060 If you have somebody better,

01:27:09.400 you know,

01:27:09.700 I would love to hear from them

01:27:10.940 but I don't think

01:27:11.820 that's the case

01:27:12.700 right now

01:27:14.300 and shame on you

01:27:15.160 for not,

01:27:15.580 for not giving this man

01:27:17.200 the proper attention

01:27:18.660 and respect

01:27:19.040 that he deserves,

01:27:20.000 that he's earned

01:27:20.760 and so,

01:27:23.040 that being said,

01:27:24.460 I'm going to play this.

01:27:25.860 If you,

01:27:26.380 if you don't know,

01:27:27.040 now you know

01:27:27.460 and if you missed it,

01:27:28.220 this is a great little intro video.

01:27:29.740 This is the video he posted

01:27:30.680 shortly before he,

01:27:32.960 he stepped off

01:27:33.740 and I'll play this

01:27:34.660 and then we're going

01:27:35.900 to get out of here

01:27:36.240 and I got to get some stuff

01:27:37.100 ready for later this evening

01:27:38.160 for whatever,

01:27:40.000 now what are we on now?

01:27:40.700 Episode 222,

01:27:43.060 episode 222,

01:27:45.140 something like that

01:27:45.680 so check this out

01:27:46.620 and we'll be right back.

01:27:51.680 My name is James Topp.

01:27:58.140 I'm a warrant officer.

01:28:00.160 I served in the regular army

01:28:01.620 for over 25 years.

01:28:03.720 I transferred to the reserves.

01:28:05.940 I got a job

01:28:06.660 with the public service

01:28:07.680 working for the RCMP.

01:28:09.420 I was placed on leave

01:28:11.420 without pay

01:28:12.040 and I am in the process

01:28:13.360 of being released

01:28:14.220 from the armed forces.

01:28:16.580 I am not authorized

01:28:17.940 to wear this uniform right now.

01:28:21.400 I accept full responsibility

01:28:23.240 for what I am doing

01:28:24.580 and what I am saying

01:28:25.600 and I am willing

01:28:26.460 to suffer the consequences.

01:28:27.720 this is hard for me.

01:28:29.560 This is hard for me.

01:28:30.080 I may suffer repercussions

01:28:31.620 for what I am doing right now

01:28:33.560 by wearing this uniform

01:28:34.720 for our Republic.

01:28:36.460 But something needs to be said

01:28:37.840 and I think I speak

01:28:39.480 on behalf of a lot of people

01:28:41.200 when I say enough is enough.

01:28:44.020 I do not speak on behalf

01:28:45.780 of the Canadian Armed Forces

01:28:46.980 or the regiment

01:28:47.980 that I have served with.

01:28:49.820 but I want to honor them

01:28:52.360 and I need to wake them up.

01:28:54.700 I do not like the direction

01:28:56.460 that this country is going.

01:28:58.280 I disagree with the government

01:29:00.480 imposing mandates on us.

01:29:02.560 I am not here

01:29:03.960 to speak on behalf

01:29:06.300 of any political organization

01:29:08.220 or group.

01:29:09.440 I am here for me.

01:29:11.240 I am here for the people

01:29:12.480 of this country.

01:29:13.320 It's the people of this country

01:29:24.140 who work for a living

01:29:25.280 that make this country run.

01:29:28.920 I work for them.

01:29:31.120 I also am here

01:29:32.540 to pay my respect

01:29:33.520 to the veterans of this country

01:29:34.960 that have given their lives

01:29:36.620 and their limbs

01:29:38.960 and their minds

01:29:40.020 in the service of this country.

01:29:41.740 I am doing this

01:29:43.740 for them as well.

01:29:45.300 So this is my message.

01:29:47.680 We as Canadians,

01:29:48.880 all Canadians,

01:29:50.480 need to stand up

01:29:52.520 for what we believe in.

01:29:54.500 First Nations,

01:29:55.940 immigrants

01:29:56.320 and the people

01:29:57.220 that were born here.

01:30:01.720 This country is ours.

01:30:05.500 It is not the property

01:30:07.300 of the moneyed few.

01:30:09.960 There are people out there

01:30:11.220 who risked their lives

01:30:12.300 every day.

01:30:13.640 They're truck drivers.

01:30:15.100 They're construction workers.

01:30:17.160 They put the power lines up.

01:30:19.340 They lay the telephone lines

01:30:20.560 that enable us

01:30:21.280 to communicate with each other.

01:30:23.980 I'm here for them.

01:30:26.780 I put this uniform on

01:30:28.660 for them

01:30:29.900 to defend this country.

01:30:31.600 So I want everybody to know

01:30:34.020 what I intend to do

01:30:35.680 as a form of protest

01:30:36.980 against overbearing

01:30:38.700 government mandates

01:30:40.260 is to march

01:30:42.740 from Vancouver

01:30:43.660 to Ottawa

01:30:44.560 on foot,

01:30:49.020 under my own power,

01:30:50.340 and on my own dime.

01:30:52.100 This is peaceful.

01:30:53.420 This is constructive.

01:30:54.940 This is setting an example

01:30:56.380 for anyone

01:30:58.620 that they have the power

01:31:00.840 to stand on their own two feet

01:31:02.700 and make their voices heard

01:31:05.680 if they have a problem.

01:31:07.680 They have the right

01:31:08.500 to do that.

01:31:10.000 Am I afraid?

01:31:11.660 Yes.

01:31:12.840 Absolutely I am.

01:31:13.980 But I'm going to work through it.

01:31:17.740 I am not

01:31:19.160 encouraging,

01:31:22.420 lashing out

01:31:23.140 with violence,

01:31:26.200 with coarse language,

01:31:28.660 with profanity.

01:31:29.940 I am not making

01:31:30.900 inflammatory statements

01:31:32.400 to any person or group.

01:31:34.760 I want us all

01:31:35.980 to come together,

01:31:37.420 everyone,

01:31:39.780 to recognize

01:31:41.680 what we have

01:31:42.280 in this country.

01:31:42.940 and that's the freedom

01:31:44.180 to speak out

01:31:45.540 and disagree

01:31:46.520 and make our voices heard.

01:31:49.140 I disagree

01:31:49.820 with what the government

01:31:50.800 is doing

01:31:51.480 right now

01:31:53.280 with citizens

01:31:54.940 of this country

01:31:55.940 who have chosen

01:31:56.660 to go to Ottawa

01:31:57.380 and make their voices heard.

01:31:59.600 It's time

01:32:00.440 to reach out

01:32:01.680 with an open hand

01:32:03.000 and not a raised fist.

01:32:05.320 So on the 20th of February,

01:32:07.380 I am leaving

01:32:08.060 from Vancouver

01:32:08.900 and I am marching

01:32:09.940 to Ottawa.

01:32:11.080 I've not always

01:32:13.240 got along

01:32:13.760 with the people

01:32:14.200 that I work with

01:32:15.120 and I've said

01:32:18.640 the wrong things

01:32:19.400 and not acted

01:32:21.580 in ways

01:32:22.420 that were professional.

01:32:23.320 I just want them

01:32:28.340 to know that

01:32:29.020 and if they want

01:32:31.140 to reach out to me,

01:32:32.120 I would love

01:32:32.620 to hear from them.

01:32:34.840 If what I am doing

01:32:36.160 is offending you,

01:32:38.740 then I apologize.

01:32:42.620 But something

01:32:43.460 needs to be done.

01:32:44.420 I have spent

01:32:46.640 the last two years

01:32:47.880 sitting back

01:32:50.000 saying nothing

01:32:51.180 and that time

01:32:53.780 is done.

01:32:55.120 It's time

01:32:55.620 for me to do something

01:32:56.980 in support of Canadians

01:32:58.740 and in support of soldiers.

01:33:02.320 Being a soldier

01:33:03.540 isn't just about

01:33:04.360 taking up arms,

01:33:05.520 it's about mobilizing

01:33:06.700 your inner resources

01:33:07.760 to do something

01:33:10.420 and make a stand

01:33:13.260 and not just that,

01:33:15.120 to march forward.

01:33:18.240 And that's what

01:33:19.100 I'm going to do.

01:33:20.440 I serve this country

01:33:21.620 by putting the uniform on.

01:33:31.220 I've regained the pride

01:33:32.760 in this uniform

01:33:33.720 and what it means

01:33:35.460 and that flag right there.

01:33:39.300 But any of my brothers

01:33:40.300 and sisters in uniform, 0.84

01:33:42.640 why I am here

01:33:43.780 is I want you to understand

01:33:45.560 that you have a right

01:33:47.460 to make yourself heard as well.

01:33:49.780 I'm proud of everybody

01:33:50.960 that came down here.

01:33:53.000 I am proud of everybody

01:33:54.600 who is holding a flag.

01:33:58.780 And if you want to support me,

01:34:00.740 I welcome him.

01:34:03.680 But if you want to insult me,

01:34:06.140 twist my words

01:34:06.920 and my message,

01:34:08.360 that's your right.

01:34:10.380 If you want to hate me,

01:34:12.160 that's your right too.

01:34:14.380 You have the right

01:34:15.360 to your own opinion.

01:34:18.120 So say what you're going to say

01:34:19.680 and I'm going to say

01:34:20.780 what I'm going to say right now.

01:34:34.100 I did it again.

01:34:35.280 It wouldn't be a proper production of mine

01:34:38.920 if I didn't mute myself

01:34:39.720 at some point in time.

01:34:41.040 How do you not find that guy inspiring

01:34:42.500 and how do you not,

01:34:44.200 I mean,

01:34:44.880 how do you not?

01:34:46.120 It's incredible.

01:34:47.080 It's a wonderful thing

01:34:47.820 that he's doing

01:34:48.280 and what a guy,

01:34:50.180 you know,

01:34:50.520 it's,

01:34:50.940 thank you guys for being here

01:34:53.920 and thank you so much for that

01:34:55.140 and thanks to James

01:34:56.340 for everything he's doing

01:34:57.380 and,

01:34:57.800 but more importantly,

01:34:58.720 for being the guy,

01:35:00.420 being the kind of warrior

01:35:01.480 and example

01:35:03.460 of this country

01:35:05.280 that,

01:35:05.680 you know,

01:35:07.140 I'd always hoped

01:35:08.660 that we'd had

01:35:09.260 and he's exemplifying it

01:35:11.880 right now. 1.00

01:35:12.580 God damn. 1.00

01:35:19.800 Incredible, 1.00

01:35:20.400 incredible stuff.

01:35:21.440 I have got to go get ready.

01:35:23.200 I got to get some things done

01:35:24.480 and we're going to be back

01:35:25.660 this evening

01:35:26.020 for whatever,

01:35:27.380 whatever we're doing,

01:35:28.300 whatever we're doing. 0.56

01:35:28.960 Clown world. 0.97

01:35:30.360 It's a nightmare. 0.98

01:35:33.040 CanadaMarches.ca

01:35:34.040 at CanadaMarches

01:35:35.560 on all the social media

01:35:36.640 platforms

01:35:38.520 and places

01:35:39.000 and things

01:35:39.500 you can go and find

01:35:40.320 and support the man

01:35:41.700 and what he's doing.

01:35:46.500 All the relevant places.

01:35:49.900 Outside of that.

01:35:51.140 Thanks guys for being here

01:35:52.020 at RagingDistant.com

01:35:53.040 as always.

01:35:54.060 The links to all my stuff

01:35:54.920 are there

01:35:55.580 and I'll see you this evening

01:35:58.700 unless it's not really

01:36:00.140 your kind of thing

01:36:00.820 then in which case 0.99

01:36:02.080 I don't fucking care. 0.99

01:36:04.040 There's no way 0.99

01:36:06.740 but the hard way.

01:36:08.280 Get used to it.

01:36:09.900 Tried and true.

01:36:12.240 Worked before.

01:36:13.900 We're doing it old school. 1.00

01:36:15.340 Fuck it, 1.00

01:36:15.700 we'll do it live. 1.00

01:36:16.560 We're putting rucksacks on

01:36:17.500 and we're marching

01:36:17.920 all the way to Ottawa.

01:36:18.760 We're just going to

01:36:19.260 cross the continent

01:36:19.980 on foot.

01:36:21.360 It's no big deal.

01:36:22.640 It's what I do.

01:36:23.360 It's what we do.

01:36:24.600 This is what we do.

01:36:28.140 Amazing.

01:36:29.080 Alright guys,

01:36:30.160 Pro Patria,

01:36:30.940 big time.

01:36:32.260 And sorry, 1.00

01:36:33.020 you dirty patricians. 1.00

01:36:34.980 He is in our 1.00

01:36:35.500 Sarah Hatbatch too.

01:36:36.460 So we've got

01:36:36.860 dual citizenship.

01:36:37.560 You're going to have

01:36:38.080 to share them.

01:36:39.020 You have to share

01:36:39.680 the toponator

01:36:40.340 with the chicken

01:36:41.380 redactives.

01:36:43.280 Alright?

01:36:45.800 It's got to sting

01:36:46.540 but it's true.

01:36:47.260 You just got to learn

01:36:47.820 to live with it.

01:36:52.080 Alright guys,

01:36:52.740 cheers.

01:36:52.900 See you next time.

01:36:53.700 Bye.

01:36:54.020 Bye.

01:36:55.240 Bye.

01:36:55.700 Bye.

01:37:08.160 Bye.

01:37:12.140 Sugar.

01:37:14.460 Bye.

01:37:17.240 Bye.

01:37:18.360 Bye.

01:37:18.420 Bye.

01:37:19.840 Bye.

01:37:20.380 We'll be right back.

Raging Dissident Podcast - April 01, 2022

HOUSE ARREST ep 30 - JAMES TOPP ”THE TOPPINATOR”

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