HOUSE ARREST ep 31 - TOPPINATOR TWO (James Topp)
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 57 minutes
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178.24863
Summary
James "Toppinator" Toppin is back from his journey across the Canadian border. James talks about his journey and the events that have taken him there, and how he has been impacted by the support he has received. He also talks about the DND's decision to charge him with two counts under the National Defense Act.
Transcript
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Okay, everyone, it's the end of day 79, and we are well into Ontario.
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We're at Burma Road in TransCanada, just outside of Kenora, Ontario, so we're going to call
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the day, 40-kilometer kind of day at 40ish, just with the festivities at the Ontario-Manitoba
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border, and meeting various folks, and I've got a meeting tonight, virtually, with my
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buds at Veterans of Freedom, so I'm going to go get that done, and then we're going to
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fire it up again tomorrow, see how far we get, and we're on our way to Ottawa, folks,
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we're in Ontario, full reel, so, have a good one.
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You know, multiple folks have come forward to help and be a part of this, and it's just
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been incredible to witness it and be a part of it, and be on the receiving end is, you
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I can see it in your face, man, I can see it's really, it's really taking an impact on
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you, and you're emotional about it, and that's awesome, because that speaks to the character
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This is not just me doing this, this is about a number of Canadians who feel the same way
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I do, who are adding their voice to mine in a number of different ways.
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They're contacting their members of Parliament, they're writing their own letters, and a lot
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of them are expressing interest in joining me in Ottawa, so they're also, should they say,
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completely ignore us, they're basically turning their nose up to a segment to a population
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of veterans and Canadians alike, and they're saying, we're not interested in you, or anything
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you have to say, and I think the optics of that are going to speak, and it's going to
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That is, that is James Toppin, he's back, he's the Toppinator, we're going to do Toppinator
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too here, I'm happy to have James back here, can you still hear me?
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Sorry, I lost you there for a second, seeing what you do, got kind of a poor connection here,
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I'm doing pretty good, I got, we got into Ontario, we made it across the prairies, I
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think the last time we talked, I had just, we had just gotten into Alberta, and, you know,
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we're across, or how do I, I can't remember, this whole experience is like being in the
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Time, time and space is just distorted in ways I can't possibly explain.
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Well, anyway, I definitely would agree with that, you've definitely transcended dimensions
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here, I don't know what kind of world you're in now, most of us will never know.
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By the way, rumors of my incarceration are greatly exaggerated.
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I've heard that, yeah, someone messaged me that last night while I was doing my podcast,
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I was like, did you hear what happened to James, you got arrested?
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No, what it is, is I think, I think that the DND, there was a, as I understand it, a
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press release from a public affairs officer in Ottawa, put that out there, kind of a delayed
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reaction on their part, because they probably weren't following my journey until I got over
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So they're like, I released the fact that I've been charged two counts of 129, under the
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National Defense Act, and that was something that went back to February, but those two videos
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was one with TikTok, another one that went out on, at the rally.
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And so that's, you know, that's old news, just been released.
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I don't know why they would have waited that long, but maybe they didn't want to give me
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I thought it was funny, because I've, oh, there's a video running here or something.
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The, yeah, I thought it was funny that they chose now all of a sudden to finally, and they
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didn't acknowledge anything else, just barely your name.
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I was saying last night, not even a picture of the man, nothing.
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It's like, you know, they obviously know who you are.
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They must have looked at this and then went, you know what?
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Nah, I'm just going to put up this stock photo of a sideways Canadian.
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It was, it's one of those shoulder shots of just a random uniform with the flag sideways,
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And your video outside of, uh, Winnipeg CBC, did you talk to any of them?
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Did they even like come out to speak to you or was it just, uh,
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So I had a video, I had a picture of the notice on the front door of the building,
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which, uh, I don't know if I uploaded it or not, but basically, I need to send it to you.
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It basically says due to COVID-19, only people with, uh, uh, appointment who are allowed access
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So it's basically locked and, uh, you go up to the front door.
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And of course it's like that there's notice there, right?
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Your connection went pretty wild there for a minute.
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You went kind of slow motion, but it seems okay.
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So I tried to get in, uh, I don't know if you got that last part.
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Basically, it sounded like, uh, because COVID, we don't care who you are and go away.
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But that's basically what the sound of the door.
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So, so, you know, we stood outside, did the little video.
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Um, we got, uh, we got ghosted, um, by, uh, a CTV news channel.
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Uh, news van later that day, actually, as we were heading out of, uh, Regina.
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So they, so they, they didn't see you or they talked to you or they just avoided you.
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So, yeah, that's the kind of, uh, I, I was getting all kinds of messages.
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Yesterday, because, uh, you know, I guess it got released or reported yesterday.
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And, um, you know, I, I want to just, you know, with your help and a bunch of other people,
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he just put this rumor to rest that this is like, you know, I'm not in jail.
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I think it's because they said you were charged and, you know, civilians don't understand what
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Like, I mean, as far as good journalism goes, it's obviously not being practiced in that.
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Well, how, how, let me, let me back that up a little bit, not by global or CTV because nobody,
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However, I was contacted by a guy at Canadian press who I'm going to be talking to later this
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Like, yeah, that's, that's kind of how they like to, that's how they kind of like to do
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I've done that with lots of people, myself included.
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And first they, they'll, they'll find something that they can use that makes you look bad.
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And then as you're referenced again in the future, they always start with that.
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Who's currently being charged with these offenses and the military, you know, it's like, Oh, great.
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So we've set the stage where, you know, this is just, it's a greasy thing to do.
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And we were joking on the podcast and some of the other guys, they're like, man, if someone
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was walking across the country in, in support of genocide, I would at least be like, well,
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I respect the effort, at least acknowledge, you know, how far someone's willing to go.
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And they, you know, they won't even acknowledge that you exist at this point, which is, well,
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I guess they've done that, but not what you're doing.
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And I'm sure there's one of those things, you know, it's like, uh, how do you put it?
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So, I mean, maybe we, we kind of share this to a degree is that, um, um, I don't know if
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you're aware of, you know, the meme country of diagonal on seems to be the, which I invented
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once when I was stoned, um, is, is apparently one of the primary causes for the emergency
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And we were laughing about, I still laugh about it that I'm like somebody in really high
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And now I yourself, I guarantee at the highest parts of the D and D they're like, what are we,
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It's funny when you can just do something so simple, it's just me on my own, like you're
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And it just, the ripple effect goes all the way to the top.
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Well, to say that I have used the word astonish and, uh, you know, astonishing and, uh, you
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know, to say that if you've overused those words in the last two years would be an understatement,
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Our government is, uh, no, no problem at all putting together, uh, you know, a board of
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inquiry and short notice on, uh, something that doesn't exist as opposed to, you know,
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the impact that something has had on all our lives.
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Then that's something else I've been talking about.
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Like why there's all of these people aren't so upset and protesting all like you've done
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something wrong somewhere, you know, as in, in a leadership position where people are virtually
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revolting, um, your first move should be, well, what's the problem?
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I mean, that's not really generally a sign of, you know, benevolent leadership that cares
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It's your, it's initial reaction is crush these people rather than even bother to talk to them
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or acknowledge what their grievances are or anything like that.
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I got a couple of, uh, a couple of messages here for you.
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Uh, we got this one, this one guy, I'm going to say he's 613.
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His name is 613 bigot says you're an inspiration to a young man like myself.
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Whenever I'm doing anything difficult or I'm ready to quit, I tell myself, James top is still
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I look forward to shaking your hand when you arrive in Ottawa.
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It's that was kind of the, like I, I, the first time we spoke, I was like, I was
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out doing pull-ups and stuff in the basement and I was like, I don't want to be doing
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this right now, but I was going to talk to you in half an hour.
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It's like, I'm not in the mood to do 10 pull-ups.
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I can do, I can do some pull-ups for half an hour.
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So I just, I just effectively shame myself into doing something because you know, what
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Uh, Harris, uh, another friend of mine, um, in PEI, have you guys talked to him?
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He says, uh, thank you for acknowledging this amazing human exists.
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No, they're still connected, but, uh, I don't hear much of anything.
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Uh, he's in the black hole of, uh, the Dryden, Ontario area.
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Um, yeah, I'm just going to resize these windows here.
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It's all, there's always an issue with like, uh, the internet, you know, no matter what
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I'm doing, it's like, it's an infamous, uh, nothing ever goes smoothly.
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I got to say, um, you know, we're on the, yeah, we're on the outskirts of civilization
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What's the, uh, the best part that you've liked so far, um, terrain wise.
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Oh, uh, well, BC, uh, kind of had it, uh, um, it was really, it was, was good.
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I mean, I've always kind of been part of the mountains.
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This is a land of the lakes here that the prairies are something special as well, but it's nice
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That must be, it would be kind of hard in the head, I think, to be just marching that
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Like at any point in your head, were you like, I feel like the Germans in Operation Barbarossa
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or something just marching across Russia endlessly forever.
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I was like, I was like, there was a couple of times while Christian, he's got the camera
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right now, but we came into, uh, onset of winter part two in Saskatchewan.
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And, uh, there's kind of two vague looking great lines in the horizon.
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I'll never forget this because I said, this is, if this is what purgatory, we must, we
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I mean, I'm sure other people can like, uh, it's different when you talk to other infantry
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guys, it's funny that you just can say certain things and you'll just laugh because you know
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how horrible it is without anyone explaining it and, uh, just the idea that like when you're
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in, in like, so where you're at now or any kind of regular, you know, terrain, you can
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pretend and lie to yourself that you're almost there.
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Like around this corner, over this, you know, we're almost there, not in the prairies.
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You can't open your eyes and it's just this over the head.
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It's like a bad dream where you just, yeah, two more horizons.
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Just walk off the face of the earth several times and you'll get there.
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And I've heard you're, you've got, you're up to, uh, foot, foot sizes.
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Well, I, I, I like to compare it to the Grinch You Stole Christmas.
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I stopped hating my, I stopped hating myself and my heart grew three sizes and sort of my feet.
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Cyberdyne had your feet replaced with the new T2000 implants.
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What an insane, uh, I mean, the worst I ever had to do was cut off a toenail, but I mean,
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that was, you know, there's always, there's always that every infantry guy I know has a
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Like there's something that went horribly wrong at some stage in his career and something
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My, my feet are the real heroes in all of this.
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That's, and that's the most important thing to take care of.
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Then I got, you went through three pairs of shoes I've heard now.
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How do you not have a, how do you not have a shoe sponsorship at this point?
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Well, I would welcome it, but, uh, they don't want to hear what I have.
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If you're listening, I'm just saying being the shoe, you know, being the sponsored, you
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know, um, uh, you know, what are the, what are the ones that most guys were the hiking
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You could be the company that carried James top to Ottawa.
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You'd be, you know, but no, no, there's probably no money in it there for you at all.
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And this, um, and this just kind of proves something about quantum physics.
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And this just kind of proves the point to a bit where it was like, it's confirming what
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a lot of us, um, felt as veterans, especially that, uh, you know, we're not appreciated really
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in the ways like that, um, you know, a lot of guys feel as though, you know, their, their
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opinion, like they don't even get a right to an opinion.
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Um, there's an, there's a sense, especially from the state and the, in the government that
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And then once you're all used up, they just kind of throw you away and that's that.
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And nothing speaks more to that than, you know, they've got the veterans for freedom
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group, which is, you know, great in what you're doing and all of those years combined sacrifices
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and, you know, battle wounds and everything else put all, what does that, all of that add
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And they can't even be given the time of day to have an interview or ask, you know, what
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If you can't, if they don't have valid opinions or something that's worth listening to in the
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name of, you know, where the country's going and the opinion of, you know, all these guys
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that have like fought, literally fought wars for it, then what are we, what's going on?
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Yeah, we're just, we're getting lip service at this point.
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So just to, just to let your guys know, or everybody knows watching.
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So we do have a pretty strong partnership going with Veterans for Freedom.
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And they're the ones that are spearheading, you know, organizing events in Ottawa for us.
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And I, I, I suspect, you know, as my, my intent anyway, it wants, uh, you know, as long as
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I get the approval of the directing committee at, uh, Vets for Freedom, you know, I just want
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to amalgamate, you know, this kind of my little organization with theirs so that we can really
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become a, you know, really robust organization.
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It's crazy that you're physically like merging them.
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Like we'll be there in Ottawa and you'll just bring everyone with you and then we'll
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just be in the same place and be like, there, done.
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That's the fastest posting I've ever, well, maybe not for you, but, uh, we don't have nearly
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It's, uh, don't get, don't break down or you'll, you may die.
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There's that's the funny thing to driving through that area.
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I've never seen so many abandoned motels in my life.
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There's just creepy, like abandoned murder hotels, every all over the place.
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Like, you know, the motels off the side of the highway.
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Well, the state of the economy has not been good for Northern, Northern Ontario.
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I, yeah, there hasn't been a lot of traveling through there.
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I don't think, especially, you know, with gas prices or that's the real reason.
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So everyone wants to know, like, why did he choose to rock all the way to Ottawa?
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It's because you use your power of wisdom and foresight and go, well, it's going to be
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way cheaper than driving gas is going to be $2 a liter here in a couple of months.
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But I mean, there's, uh, it's been a journey and, uh, I've really, you know, I have to
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say, despite the physical hardship and everything, and sometimes, you know, the stress of, uh,
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you know, I was kind of concerned getting across the ferries about my timings and whether I
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was going to make my target date, but I have a pretty good feeling about it now.
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Um, uh, he was a soft operator, uh, an assaulter actually.
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And it was like, uh, he wants to, wants to be there at the end of, um, the end of June,
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you know, maybe for Canada day or something, but he's not sure if he's going to make his
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And like, I don't think he'll go faster or anything.
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Um, I can't imagine how, I mean, just a mental challenge of it alone, let alone the, which
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You know, I said last night, I was like, he probably doesn't want to be doing this.
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Like who's, who looks, who looks forward to that?
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I want to do this winter, spring, and summer is march across the country in all weather conditions.
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And destroy my feet, you know, essentially for, you know, yeah, that sounds fun.
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And I can't tell you how inspiring and crazy it is.
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And like I said, um, it, there's the, that aspect of it is definitely there.
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But the other thing is that, you know, the folks I've met along the way and the encouragement
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and the support, you know, it's like pretty amazing to witness.
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I had been thinking about it and I'm hoping, you know, I'm not going to jinx myself when
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I say this, but you know, at this point about, it's probably going to, it might change a little
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bit here in this area, but crossing the prairies about a minimum of four times a day, somebody
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would pull over and jump out and say, thank you for doing this.
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You know, you're inspiring and, and, and just, you know, congratulate me and the team and
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thank, you know, God, you know, offering a donation or, you know, put us up for the night.
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Like, it's just, at this point after 82 days, I can say hundreds of people now I have encountered
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on a day-to-day basis who have done that and the amount of people.
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So guess how many people have pulled over to say, uh, you know, with a cogent and coherent
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argument, uh, you know, please stop what you're doing.
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I thought some of them might have the balls, but I guess not.
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And, and, and that's like, that's what the limited media exposure that you guys have gotten.
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I mean, outside of alternative, you know, media and podcasters and stuff like that, like
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there's, and yourselves advertising it, like there's no, you know, if this would receive
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the coverage that it deserves, it had national media attention, it wouldn't be hundreds of
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I mean, look at the, uh, look at the convoy demonstrations.
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They tried to pretend like to be there on the ground and to drive there and see everybody
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in support of it on the way versus what they're saying.
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You know, the, the, the pretend reality they're trying to carve out on TV is, uh, it's, it's
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It's so much the opposite of what's actually happening that it's, it's bizarre to live in.
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Like what, what, cause you know, what's it like to, it's like, you, you know, this is
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a bit, like, this is a crazy, this is a big deal.
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And they're just straight pretending like you don't exist.
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I honestly, I didn't expect to get much attention.
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And, uh, and it, to be honest, I was expecting a lot of negative attention.
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And, um, you know, it's, I have to say too, that, you know, I spend all day doing this
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and I haven't really watched television or been immersed in, uh, in the media info stream
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It's pretty, what's really crazy is that you're doing two things at once.
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Like you're doing what I do, but you're also marching across the country at the same time.
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I just sit here and talk all day and you do that while conquering the nation with a ruck
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Well, I mean, I only do this for having that disconnect from the, from the screen.
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Uh, I have to say, you know, my reaction is that they can say whatever they want because
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If you don't pay attention to it, it doesn't affect you.
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You see them taking breaks from, I'm leaving Facebook because, you know, or I'm deactivating
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You should take a break for a while or, or, you know, limited at all or something.
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And I mean, I'm, you know, we all people that are, they love to attack us.
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I put up with shit like crazy and I'm sure there's, you know, that kind of thing.
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And it can kind of throw your whole day off sometimes when you, when you get just nasty
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You know, how does this compare to like, I don't want to say your worst day, but I guess,
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I was trying to, I was thinking of the question as I was taught, as I was speaking, I was just
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how difficult is this compared to like whatever the, you know, you're, what would you comparatively
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It's just like, it's just like managing a platoon or a section.
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Like, so basically there's 10 of us on the ground right now.
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And it's, it's like everything that I've done in the military prepared me for this in
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You know, he, he, he triple and quadruple hats as a camera operator and finance operator
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And then, you know, I got a morale officer and a flag bearer.
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Uh, you know, so, um, you're, you're on the, it's just the longest NAVX ever.
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What kind of, what kind of qualification badge do you get for this?
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You get a little sleeve thing with two, two worn up boots on it.
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I could see this, uh, being like an annual thing for some people.
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Um, you know, once this is over, like I wouldn't be next year, there may be people that want
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to recreate this or try it, you know, like as a challenge and they'll try and beat your
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Look, I'm going to go, I'm going to make the best possible time.
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Cause someday somebody else is going to try and do this too.
00:29:44.880
Just the competitive, uh, you know, I want to make the best time possible.
00:29:50.300
I, I have, I have divided my thought patterns up, you know, typically because, you know, I've
00:29:55.780
been severely institutionalized because everything is, everything is in a, so, you know, my thought
00:30:03.480
patterns are divided up into near middle and far ground.
00:30:05.860
So, and the near ground, um, all I, all I care about in the near ground is getting some
00:30:14.200
lunch, you know, far ground has put my head down or sorry, middle ground has put my head
00:30:19.980
And then far ground is, uh, what we're going to do in, uh, in Ottawa and beyond.
00:30:27.800
So as you know, you kind of break everything up like that, it gets more indistinct the further
00:30:35.780
So, uh, it's kind of like, it's, it's funny that you mentioned that because I was kind
00:30:42.340
of thinking about, you know, how about 40 K out of Ottawa, you know, we'll make that an
00:30:51.700
It's, it's something that, um, a lot of guys have, I mean, we're talking about it, like
00:30:56.180
how, what this is going to look like or feel like, or, you know, and, and, um, I've mentioned
00:31:04.280
This is what I think, you know, how, how it should go.
00:31:06.200
But, um, you know, the bunch of the guys will be there and, and march into the city with
00:31:10.280
Um, but then, you know, for the last few hundred meters, um, whatever it is, you know, pick
00:31:18.340
I would like to see everyone just line the streets and just be absolutely silent as you
00:31:23.180
conquer that last few hundred meters on your own.
00:31:25.820
Um, because that's gotta be what you think about all the time.
00:31:28.520
Just the last, the final, you know, climbing to the top of the mountain.
00:31:32.460
I wouldn't want to see anybody, you know, I mean, this is your achievement.
00:31:36.660
You deserve all of the, you know, you know, guys get emotional thinking about it just to
00:31:45.980
Um, that's how I, you know, maybe you'll have a pipe band, you know, and then just absolute
00:31:51.980
The last, the last little bit would be, would be amazing.
00:31:56.300
I'm kind of like, um, all I can think of when I put my, uh, I have a limited imagination.
00:32:14.000
It's just, you know, getting to the, the pocket of pomp and circumstance.
00:32:18.420
And I have to tell you, my, the most thing that I disliked about the army was drill and
00:32:31.700
If you're thinking about, you know, some kind of, I don't know.
00:32:38.520
If it's, if it's remotely parade oriented, just forget about it.
00:32:43.880
No, I would like to just see everybody kind of just be there and just witness it.
00:32:51.220
I like getting everybody in formation because then you, you know, that, that I can deal with.
00:32:56.580
But anything else, like, you know, if it involves a pay stick, then forget it.
00:33:05.940
All of a sudden, they're just like, Oh, how dare you say they're clutching their pay sticks
00:33:16.560
So, you know, they're very proud of that stuff in the RCR.
00:33:21.320
The discrepancies between certain units, all the guys I know from the Patricia's are like
00:33:24.860
They're kind of like, I don't care for any of that shit, you know?
00:33:26.960
And then, but it's like a point of pride for a lot of the other, the guys OD.
00:33:31.380
And then the French are just, you know, who knows what they're up to?
00:33:34.120
Cause they don't, they refuse to speak English and always doing secret stuff.
00:33:43.520
I got like, uh, we work together all the time and, uh, you know, we all got a little
00:33:48.020
into a secrecy, you know, I remember I was, I almost said it, I almost said it.
00:33:59.300
Now you've got dual citizenship, so we're going to lay claim to this.
00:34:03.700
I'm going to have somebody slip a regimental cipher or something on your bag without you
00:34:09.120
noticing on the, before you get into town, I'll jump up beside you with the RCR flag
00:34:27.140
And we're, we're looking forward to being there.
00:34:28.420
The Vets for Freedom guys are really, everybody's really excited and pumped about this.
00:34:32.000
And, uh, I think you're quite famous at this point in the ranks, uh, in the military, they're
00:34:37.000
Like, uh, I talked to one of the guys the other day spinning and, uh, they were saying
00:34:41.060
like, yeah, the, uh, like the OCs are talking about it and their own O groups.
00:34:44.660
And it's like, if the major knows what's going on, then everybody in the ranks is talking
00:34:48.740
Something like this comes, usually comes from the bottom up.
00:34:51.220
Um, yeah, I, that, that's the one thing I try, you know, to get too wrapped around the
00:34:56.840
actual about this, uh, this is, um, something that had to be done.
00:35:04.280
The troops gotta, the troops gotta know that, uh, you know, they're human beings.
00:35:23.860
I, you're definitely having an effect for sure.
00:35:25.900
And I think you're, you're accomplishing exactly what you set out to do, which was,
00:35:30.640
And, um, I mean, me personally, I mean, I'm blown away by this and I'm not even in anymore.
00:35:35.240
I can't imagine, uh, you know, seeing this is really, I mean, how do you, you know, we
00:35:40.340
talked about this last night a little bit with some people that, um, you know, kind of
00:35:44.140
in, in the, in the warrior culture, especially a lot of the people that you respect most are
00:35:47.720
the ones that have sacrificed the most, you know, um, those are the ones that kind of
00:35:52.320
hold the highest esteem because those are the ones that have given, and you know, who
00:35:55.240
can say, you know, um, you know, these, you know, kind of bureaucrat type officers and
00:36:01.580
stuff can say, you know, whatever they want, but did you throw on a rucksack and march
00:36:06.780
You know, like it creates a, it's a very difficult to legend really to, to, to tackle.
00:36:13.940
And it's, uh, it's, it's incredibly inspiring to myself and a lot of my friends and all the
00:36:18.120
V4F guys are just, we just, uh, I go on the website every, almost pretty much every
00:36:31.980
yeah, it's, uh, in a way, you know, that was, that's what this is about.
00:36:37.120
This is a demonstration of, uh, of what you can do.
00:36:44.460
You got to, you know, you put your mind to it and you focus on what you think you can
00:36:54.040
Um, I got another, uh, I mean, I don't know what else to say about it, except that there's
00:36:59.120
lots of, uh, you know, back in the day there, I, I got, uh, you know, I worked with officers
00:37:05.860
who, uh, they talk the talk and they walk the walk.
00:37:11.020
I've, I know some, I've known some, uh, some pretty intense guys for sure.
00:37:15.560
But yeah, man, I just, it's, it's, you know, you've become a legend.
00:37:19.240
I don't think anything is in multiple military circles at this point.
00:37:23.020
This is, um, uh, it's, it's historic to watch and we're all very much looking forward to,
00:37:30.440
I got a message from another guy, NYC bit, uh, two, one, two says, I heard a rumor that
00:37:34.960
the final round of vetting for V4F is that one of tops crew shows a picture of you to
00:37:47.460
James will just inspect you visually for three or four seconds and he'll know immediately
00:37:55.240
That's how he sits on a throne of bones and we marched them up a mountain and we just,
00:38:05.160
Listen, if you're a vet and you wore the cop badge and whatever you did, you're all right.
00:38:14.280
And we're, they're taking everybody from all in them.
00:38:16.660
Um, I was told to even, um, foreign service, like American guys, Australian, uh, British,
00:38:21.240
If you're in the country, send it and you want to get involved and send an application,
00:38:25.100
veterans for freedom.ca, uh, fill that out and someone will get back to you.
00:38:29.120
Um, there's, there's more applications than they have time to process.
00:38:31.780
Now they're over a thousand, uh, already in a month with very limited, you know, time
00:38:36.760
So I'm doing everything I can to try and get it out as mentioned as much as possible.
00:38:40.920
And it's a, there's a lot of interest in this a lot.
00:38:44.780
And, um, that thousand, I think soldiers are soldiers.
00:38:52.780
They're all looking forward to, uh, they're all interested.
00:38:56.540
And I, I heard a, um, I don't want to say it's probably more than a rumor, but between,
00:39:02.380
uh, April of 2021 and this past one, 22, the CF is letting go 10,000 personnel, which
00:39:11.000
is, uh, I mean, I can tell them how they can get 10,000 back.
00:39:24.800
Look, uh, listen, like I said, I don't, I'm not even getting any press coverage.
00:39:31.000
And, uh, I get, I get, I'm, I've, you know, hundreds of people have stopped giving me support
00:39:36.860
So, Hey, look, don't throw me out and, uh, I'll, I'll recruit some dudes for you.
00:39:51.840
You have a, you can single-handedly solve the attrition problem of the Canadian for it.
00:39:59.440
That's quite the powerful, uh, stick you're wielding.
00:40:06.980
But yeah, and, and that's, especially with the environment, we're going into, um, the
00:40:14.660
government's, uh, rhetoric towards the Russians and everything is, is really, you know, we're
00:40:19.480
sending them weapons and, uh, guns and money and all of this stuff.
00:40:22.780
We were all but participating in the war against the Russian Federation.
00:40:25.580
And at this time you want to let, uh, thousands and thousands and thousands of people go.
00:40:29.960
Um, it's the same, you know, it's almost self-destructive.
00:40:33.560
It's almost, it feels like at time you have to feel like, is this intentional?
00:40:36.800
Like, are they intentionally the stupid, um, like during, you know, over the previous
00:40:41.400
year or so, they were firing healthcare staff for their vaccination status.
00:40:45.280
It's like, well, you're in the middle of a situation with your healthcare and you're
00:40:49.240
Now you want to go into a war and fire a fifth of your military.
00:41:17.280
I'm going to say these people, I mean, us, okay.
00:41:24.520
so I don't know how much of you, uh, you caught, but it broke up there.
00:41:30.760
And then it, uh, I was like, well, we hope, we hope there's thinking.
00:41:35.300
Well, they are, they're, we're all human beings.
00:41:37.440
We all have thoughts and dreams and hopes and fears and everything.
00:41:42.580
And, uh, but when you smash them together into a bureaucracy, uh, collectively,
00:41:47.580
it's capable as a collective mind of suffering and sadness.
00:41:53.640
And that's a fact, despite the fact that individual minds, uh, compose the entity,
00:42:03.180
the entity itself that is composed of all these individual minds can suffer a mental breakdown.
00:42:13.180
You think it's like a collective state of kind of, uh, a mental breakdown, like systemically.
00:42:31.940
I think it's a collective, uh, mental breakdown.
00:42:34.760
Cause there's always, you know, the conspiracy theory, you know, these kinds of things.
00:42:40.500
There's definitely people that are, have a vested interest in, in seeing this country
00:42:45.480
But the majority of these people, I think are honestly just confused and don't know what
00:42:50.580
And they're, um, afraid and under pressure and they're just making bad decisions and
00:42:56.260
And you, we've both seen it in the military happen.
00:43:02.420
And what's it all held together by it's held together.
00:43:05.220
It's not held together by any kind of spirit of, of, uh, you know, unit pride or,
00:43:15.140
Which just adds to the, the, you know, folks don't want to speak up because they're afraid.
00:43:20.160
They want, they're afraid of, you know, they're afraid of getting sick.
00:43:30.140
And I had this thought the other day or a little while ago that like almost, it's
00:43:34.440
almost like, cause people, a lot of people lament, especially the women, where did all
00:43:41.320
And you know, it's a weak generation of people and this kind of thing.
00:43:43.560
And it's almost as though like strength itself being sucked out of a people in a society is
00:43:49.260
so badly detrimental to it that it'll destroy you.
00:43:52.160
And now you've got entire generations of people in positions of power who are, who should be
00:43:57.260
the strongest to have the, the moral courage and strength to say, no, this is incorrect.
00:44:03.740
If we had those people, we wouldn't have made it this far, but they're just too afraid to
00:44:07.940
do their, I mean, you've got all these, like the premiers, for example, um, do their, you
00:44:16.040
And I wouldn't be surprised if someone's like, well, who's he, he said that they're doing
00:44:20.400
We, we better do the, it's like a group, you know, a group think, um, fear response or
00:44:34.420
And then you have that, um, thrown in into the mix.
00:44:40.080
It's, uh, these overlapping policies and procedures that kind of hem you in, um,
00:45:05.300
Otherwise you were, you're not going to get your, you're not going to get that PR point
00:45:10.440
You know, it's crazy how just different people just think differently and it doesn't occur
00:45:21.560
And I don't really like referring to pop culture a lot, but, uh, there was a little
00:45:40.420
I, you know, the reason why is because RoboCop, uh, he suffered a calamity at the beginning
00:45:46.300
of the movie was put back together by a corporation and was unable to function due to, uh, conflicting
00:45:55.660
and, uh, diametrically opposed programming that was installed in him in order for him
00:46:02.560
He went to a power station and short circuited his own brain.
00:46:17.660
Even though it wasn't the greatest movie, but I mean, come on.
00:46:22.360
It's like, well, we'll just reset to default and go from there.
00:46:33.280
We need to get every citizen in the country to sit out and watch RoboCop two.
00:46:51.240
We'll, we'll start a new campaign and we'll say, we have the secret.
00:46:55.280
And then you go from, and then they don't like that.
00:46:58.900
Listen, if you don't do, if you don't do RoboCop two, you're going to get Terminator two.
00:47:08.660
This has to be reset now before we go off a dark, dark path to some kind of sci-fi dystopia
00:47:26.020
Are you saying I have to go electrocute myself?
00:47:44.160
And, uh, well, that guy used to be a medic, you know, 25 years ago in Cyprus, right?
00:49:03.000
The first time wasn't so bad, but the later on it got.
00:49:24.840
Jim freedom says he got short circuited by telco.
00:49:35.580
If anybody has any questions, uh, hopefully we'll be able to get it back here in a moment.
00:49:40.880
You can go there and send a message if you'd like.
00:49:50.940
You went through the, uh, one of the Ontario's many, uh, communication triangles of death.
00:50:01.620
I don't know how, um, cause there's a part there.
00:50:03.460
I think you're going South obviously through that.
00:50:05.480
Uh, I can't remember the name of the highway, but the one that skirts the, uh, the lakes there.
00:50:09.600
Are you taking that way or are you going the other way through Timmons?
00:50:13.040
And you'll be, you'll be there just in time for the bugs, which is going to be interesting.
00:50:23.700
You have to battle the government's army of insects.
00:50:28.660
So that's the, there's multiple machines that they use to turn on.
00:50:31.520
The weather machine is one of them to try and break morale.
00:50:40.620
It says, thank you, James, for heating the call in your heart to do something truly incredible
00:50:46.600
Millions of Canadians are rooting for you slash salute to you and your entire team for making
00:50:51.540
you bring hope to all who stand for freedom, lest we forget our beloved veterans and all
00:51:23.600
The ferryman's toll says, how much character can one man build?
00:51:42.960
We'll just go on the website and see if it catches up on its live ground
00:51:49.280
So this is where you'll know to not go if you want good cell service or
00:52:06.860
Maybe it hasn't even updated his GPS because the signal so bad.
00:52:31.180
I don't know if you could hear me the entire time or not.
00:52:48.620
Yeah, I was just trying to figure out exactly where you're at.
00:53:12.040
My map recce skills are not that badly deteriorated yet.
00:53:49.860
You know, he's, he's the slow motion version of the convoy.
00:53:55.260
All the people came out to see the convoy trucks on the overpass and now they're coming
00:54:00.020
I imagine there's going to be a lot more as he gets closer.
00:54:02.080
There's, there's no way they can avoid this, especially as it gets into the past North
00:54:10.180
Yeah, I think Sudbury has the potential to be a big deal.
00:54:15.900
That's the first real, a lot of people I've talked to are looking for, are going to be
00:54:58.560
Well, I'm just going to, we're going to take a break and then, uh, then we, yeah, for a
00:55:06.540
I was going to take 10 minutes and then we can go.
00:55:23.300
I'll, I'll give you a tour of my, uh, traveling, uh, support unit here.
00:55:31.840
So here's, most people call it an RV or a trailer or something.
00:56:38.700
That, uh, Jeremy's most impressed with your beard.
00:56:55.940
That's something that, uh, a lot of the trucker guys and stuff said in Ottawa is that all the
00:56:59.980
messages and things they would get the most, the ones that meant the most of them were
00:57:02.520
the, were stuff from, from, you know, basically families and kids.
00:57:11.880
And, um, yeah, I mean, it's just, this was given to me by a lady and back in BC, a little
00:57:21.100
And this was, uh, veterans community of British Columbia, um, uh, for, for this was issued
00:57:45.580
So do you, do you actually allow yourself to sleep inside the, uh, the RV or the, or do
00:57:50.300
you just, uh, you know, hooch out in the woods off to the side of the road because you don't
00:58:01.680
Like this is, we've been able to bed to bed down pretty much in shelter every night because
00:58:07.780
folks are, you know, offering up their homes and stuff to us and church basements and town
00:58:14.440
Um, and to be honest, if I had to hooch it the entire time, I'd still be back in BC.
00:58:21.320
Like, I mean, yeah, do, uh, you know, there's, there's, uh, what I came to realize is how
00:58:28.380
important this is to, to a lot of people and they want to be a part of it.
00:58:32.440
Um, and initially I had said, you know, this is, this is it, I'm just going to do this by
00:58:38.040
And, um, to be honest, I don't, you know, I, I, I am confident in my ability to have
00:58:43.500
done it by myself, but then it would have just been me.
00:58:46.400
And in order for me to have had the impact that I've had so far, I had to come to grips
00:58:52.040
with the fact that I need to allow, um, other people to be a part of this.
00:59:01.340
It's very difficult to, first of all, asking for help is almost forbidden.
00:59:07.860
And then accepting help, even when it's offered to you is, uh, it's like you're instinctively
00:59:11.900
supposed to not want to, um, it is tough, but, uh, yeah, I mean, there's, there is a
00:59:16.440
ton of people that are just blown away by this and everybody, you know, asking how they
00:59:19.940
can help, how they can, is there any, anywhere they can donate money to or anything to help
00:59:23.340
pay for you guys is like food and fuel bills or.
00:59:25.600
Um, well, we got, we got, um, uh, our website up.
00:59:33.020
We're working on getting, uh, like a business account and all this other stuff.
00:59:36.960
Cause I know it's, it's touchy for people, especially in this climate we're living in
00:59:41.460
after the emergencies act, you know, you had all kinds of folks that are worried about
00:59:44.920
getting their bank accounts frozen and stuff like that.
00:59:47.640
Um, and, um, so that's one of the reasons why I never started up like a GoFundMe or
00:59:56.760
Um, so like, I mean, if you're in the area and you want to directly donate, that's fine.
01:00:02.020
And then we, we are trying to get these kinds of little meet and greets going on between
01:00:07.680
So we just had one in Kenora and if it's in your, your, uh, geographical area, you know,
01:00:13.380
you could come on out and meet the team on, we announce it.
01:00:16.220
So maybe we'll have one in Dryden and then in all of the, you know, the kind of smaller
01:00:21.520
to many, some middle-sized towns from here to, um, to Ottawa.
01:00:41.040
And, and like I said, there, you know, you can contact us on Canada marches.
01:00:46.220
We've been able to do the e-transfer thing to a limited extent.
01:00:49.840
And then we also got a merch store up and running.
01:00:52.120
I would just ask for folks to give us a little patience on that because the mass producing
01:00:55.740
t-shirts and stuff is up to like, I think there's one or two guys trying to handle that.
01:01:01.360
And then, you know, it's just like these folks pulled up here.
01:01:03.840
Like they want to, um, the ones that we ran into outside, like, I mean, we're in the middle
01:01:10.600
They want to march for a little bit and say hi.
01:01:13.560
And, you know, that's the kind of encouragement that keeps us going to.
01:01:20.020
And, uh, if you have, uh, ideas or suggestions about, you know, how we can have like a meet
01:01:26.920
and greet and your town, if you're in, uh, Northern Ontario and between where we are in
01:01:32.900
Ottawa, then get up, get ahold of us at the Canada marches.ca website.
01:01:42.860
And we, uh, are pretty getting a little bit more diligent on answering those emails and
01:01:50.460
Like if you want to offer support or, or get it, if you're a part of an organization
01:01:55.580
that is interested in having us, um, you know, speak at, uh, an event or something that you're
01:02:03.760
Cause, uh, we got some things to say with regards to everything that's happened, uh, over
01:02:08.180
the last two years and how it's affected us, how it's affected folks in the government.
01:02:11.740
And also, you know, people that I'm running into along the way, it's, you know, like I'm
01:02:17.780
talking to folks who have worked for West jet, right.
01:02:21.760
Um, um, pilots, uh, stewardess who, uh, uh, you know, they've been forced out.
01:02:28.820
So it's the, you know, folks can go there, leave their personal accounts.
01:02:33.900
Like, I mean, detailed personal accounts is what we're going to Ottawa to do is to have
01:02:40.020
these conversations to lay out clearly, um, exactly the damage that's been done here.
01:02:47.100
So yeah, this is what, uh, this whole endeavor is about.
01:02:51.420
This is about making our representatives in the house of commons, the ones who are paid
01:02:56.880
to, to speak on our behalf, they need to do what they need to do to reestablish communication
01:03:02.820
with, you know, through me with, with the folks, uh, in this country who have been affected
01:03:07.920
by all of this, you know, regardless of what your opinion of the pandemic or vaccination
01:03:12.980
statuses or passports and stuff like this, there's a, there's millions of people who have
01:03:17.640
lost their jobs and we are worsening, uh, facing a worsening economy with, uh, this, this simmering
01:03:26.000
And I'm sure you're aware of it and sensing it and, uh, needs to be addressed.
01:03:30.580
Like, I mean, uh, this is, this is what this is all about.
01:03:37.660
This whole thing is, um, evolved from a dissatisfaction with mandates and how, you know, we want to
01:03:44.680
talk about how it's affected us to just general discontent with the system as a whole.
01:03:51.020
And, um, it's, it's, uh, you know, if you're, it's hard to get across to folks who are just
01:04:00.180
getting their information from CBC or CTV, you know, it's, uh, they, there's a lot of folks
01:04:07.180
out there who don't actually realize that there are still a segment of our society who was unable
01:04:11.940
to fly, who is unable to get on a train in this country.
01:04:15.960
They don't understand it and they don't realize it because it's not reported.
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And it, and it hasn't affected them personally.
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So, um, this whole thing is turned into something much bigger and, uh, more involved than, you
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know, I had initially imagined and, uh, I'm, I'm okay with it.
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You know, like I got all the, like, I got guys like you with me.
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And, uh, because the, because I have this kind of, uh, support, uh, you know, I'm okay
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with the going forward with this and talking about these issues to whoever chooses to lower
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themselves to my level from a high office is right.
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And that's kind of, I was talking about this just last night, like this isn't something
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Um, like you said, it needs, it needs to be addressed.
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And I've been kind of talking about this for a couple of years now, but it's gotten really
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to the point where it's like, people are not doing well in this country anymore.
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The murder rates at a record high, the suicide rates at a record high, you know, child suicide
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attempt is over 400% increase over previous years.
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Like by any metric you can judge how things are going, it's not good and, and it's not
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So people aren't going to, they can't just ignore this, you know, ignoring it is making
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And, um, I don't think any of us want to see, um, how far this is going to go.
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If they, they continue to do that, like, I don't want to see this turn into a nightmare
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If they just continue to ignore the problem, it's like walking around with a, you know, a tumor
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It's like, you need to deal with this or it's going to kill you.
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It's, it's going to take over your life and, um, you can't just ignore it and hope it goes
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And, and the ironic thing is, is that, you know, while you're being investigated for
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insurrection or something, I don't know, they're just going to be ignored.
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Um, and, and you're the ones and you're the one.
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And while we, you know, uh, so am I to an extent, we're the ones talking about restoring,
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you know, a functioning democracy, um, because it is there, it works, you know, we're not
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And, and when they do things like, um, you know, they've done it to themselves, you know,
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So like, I'm not allowed to say certain names in certain contexts of, as part of bail conditions
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for being, uh, anyway, um, you know, I was like, they're talking about, uh, oh, this is
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wrong with the country and that that's why we're doing this legislation or that it's like,
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Like look and look in the mirror, you, you people cause this, this didn't used to be how
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it was like, if you're going to do something as extreme as invoke the emergencies act, you'd
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And they, and they refuse to give one that doesn't create trust and, and make people
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So we're going to, uh, we're going to fire it up again here.
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So we'll, uh, here we are, Percy Lake, nice little spot.
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Do you, um, do you have a lot of people that, that show up and go, you know, I'm going
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to, I'm coming to, and then they make it not nearly as far as they thought they would.
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I think there's some folks who are a little bit shocked.
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It looks like about a six kilometer an hour average.
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I've heard you say you're, you're going longer than that.
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Um, when, when we're doubling it up, it's going to be, uh, and, uh, just so, uh, when we,
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when I say that, I mean running or, you're essentially jogging with a backpack.
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It's going to do a great, it's going to be awesome.
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We get up to about nine, 10 K where we're, uh, like, uh, there's a, there comes a point
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in time when I'm doing this after about eight or nine hours, it also almost becomes like
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a necessity to, to change your pace and do a little bit of running so you can engage some
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When do you, uh, like, do you have any fat left on your body at all?
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You must just be completely like the leanest you've ever been.
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I imagine people at home were like, I bet he's just living on the healthiest food.
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Peanut butter cups, you know, Snickers, Snickers and coffee.
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You should, someone should sell that as a, like a brochure, the James top diet plan.
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It's like three chocolate bars a day, an apple, some coffee, you know, uh, Reese's peanut butter cups.
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Uh, a lot of nutritionists are like, no, but you know, it, Hey, don't tell us how to do it.
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It's been, uh, like I said, with the help of the folks, uh, who are with me back in that, uh, uh, RV.
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Uh, and folks that we've met along the way, um, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's really like that's, that is inspiring to me, right?
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The fact that, you know, folks, uh, feel that strongly about what I'm doing and they're, you know, reaching out to me like this.
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It's, it's, it really is, uh, I mean, to that point, I was, you know, in a really bad place.
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Um, earlier this year, and then, you know, I decided, well, I'm going to do this thing.
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You know, I kind of reignited my faith in humanity and in Canadians in general.
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I think a lot of people felt that way about the, uh, the convoy demonstrations and stuff in, uh, in Ottawa.
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Well, that was one of the things that, you know, fired me up too.
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And, but to see it yourself though, and, and, and, you know, kind of receive that energy from people that are so, you know, it's not lip service.
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It's not like a cheap kind of, um, you know, pretend, uh, show of support.
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You can feel how genuine and sincere people are about it.
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And it's, it, you know, I, you know, Ottawa was a life-changing experience for me.
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Um, what do you think about, um, and, and there hasn't been a lot.
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I don't imagine like the, really, I was going to say, you know, detractors or enemies are really, but it really, they're, they're just kind of insisting that you don't exist.
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Um, but that's, you know, what would you say to these people if you could get a message to them?
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What do you, what do you mean to our officials and CBC to, you know, the, the neo-communist mob that wants to pretend these kinds of things don't exist because in their minds, all of the Canadian forces, like we're just crazy people.
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And the overwhelming vast majority of the Canadian forces to the 99th percentile is all fully supportive of what the government's doing and, and, and, you know, what I would say to them, okay.
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Is that you are missing out on the story, um, with this, uh, to, you know, um, I don't even know how to describe it.
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Like, like I said, since I started this thing and the folks that have come around, are we still connected?
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Okay, so the folks that I've come around to, you know, like I said, every, in every way, shape or form, almost offer, offer us support.
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The story and the people and, and, and the, and the, and the, and the country itself that they're missing out on.
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I mean, all they needed to do was just send a camera crew.
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No reporter, just send a camera crew to follow us around for a week or three days.
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And, and the, the things that they're going to see, uh, would blow them away.
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You know, instead of just terrorizing folks on, on TV with all of this, uh, you know, the endless, uh, fear of Russia, of viruses, of, of, of God knows what, you know, climactic disaster.
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You know, you can, you know, you can just follow us along and you're going to see amazing scenery.
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You're going to be part of something that is, uh, you know, genuinely inspiring to the entirety of the Canadian, uh, population.
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What you're missing out on right now, uh, would probably, I say that I probably, probably actually, um, bring you some actual ratings.
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It's such a crazy, they're willing to sacrifice, uh, like they're, they're this committed to their, their ideological push that they're willing to.
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Ignore everything like things like this, that, that, that show that should fly into their face, showing them that you're on the wrong path here.
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And they're still, they, they still resist like, you know, um, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's wild to, to see this play out in real time.
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Like the denial people, it's like, it's like dealing with a drug addict or something.
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They know they just don't, uh, you know, they're in denial or something.
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And they're like, no, everything's, everything's fine.
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Uh, the boog blue taco says, James, no matter what the lamestream media does, you'll never be forgotten for your amazing feet of strength and will a true Canadian.
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Again says, uh, as a question, actually says, what has been the best advice you've received to keep mentally strong in the face of adversity or backlash?
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How many people have the right to disagree and would appreciate any tips on dealing with cruelty from those who may not fully understand the severity of this sad situation in Canada?
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Um, I, I, I, the first question, I don't know how, how to answer that.
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Just like, like, I have to say that has been my exposure to the people that we were both of us.
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The, the first thing that we worked with throughout our careers, how, as a private up until, you know, really, uh, it's been a number of, uh, folks that I've met in all branches that have, you know, just probably, you know, layer by layer.