The People's Convoy is a group of truckers who are fighting for the rights of American truckers and their families. It started in California and has since grown to millions of people lined up along the interstates and overpasses, and over the bridges. In this episode, my guest, Brian Brazzi, talks about how he got involved with the group and what it means to be a part of it. He also talks about the impact it has had on the trucking industry and the people on the ground who have come together to support the truckers. This episode is sponsored by the People s Convoy and is dedicated to all truckers, their families, and their loved ones who have been affected by the government's anti-vaccine policies. This is a must listen episode to learn more about what it's like to be on the road and to be part of a group that is fighting for our fellow truckers' rights. Thank you so much to everyone who has come out to support this movement, and I can't wait to do it again next week with another episode of the People's Campaign! Thanks to everyone for all the support, stay tuned for the next episode! I'm really proud of all the people who have contributed to this movement and are supporting this movement. I hope you all have a great rest of your day to come back next week! Stay tuned for another episode next Tuesday! - Don't Tell a Friend! Thanks for listening and God bless! Thank You for supporting this Movement! Brian - P.S. - Thank You For Listening and God Blessings, Blessings! - Eternally Grateful! - Blessings - EJ & Blessings. - Kristy & Cheers, Brian - Emanual - Ollie (Alyssa - Thank you for Your Support, EJ - M. M. & Paul - - Paul - E. & P. - B. & D. - R. & R. P. & J. B. - EMAIL - John R. and R. J. & B. . - SONGS - J. OLEK - G. & K. & G. (Thank you for supporting the Movement? - D. & S. G. E.B. & C. & AYO. - S. & M. D.
00:00:00.000I'm really proud that my guest today is Brian Brazzi, who is one of the truckers, who is one of the key leaders of the People's Convoy, which is now in Washington, D.C., and surrounding the Beltway.
00:00:14.000Brian has been a long-haul trucker for five years.
00:00:18.000He's from Pennsylvania, currently residing in Northwest Ohio.
00:00:23.000He is a second-generation trucker and an owner-operator of a small mom-and-pop company.
00:00:37.000Let's start by just talking about how you got involved in this.
00:00:41.000Yeah, I opened up my mouth on a Facebook Live video.
00:00:45.000Basically, I had seen people wanting to put together an American convoy, and I simply did a video that said, don't waste the American people's time and don't waste my time.
00:00:56.000If you're going to do a convoy like they had in Canada, then do it right and hold the line.
00:01:02.000And that received like 24 million views overnight and then Facebook ripped it down.
00:01:08.000But people reached out and said, hey, put your money where your mouth is and we could use some help.
00:01:15.000So I found a group that I thought was best matched up with my way of thinking and how I like to do things.
00:01:25.000And I joined up with them and it quickly developed into what you see now.
00:01:30.000Were you communicating over Facebook, or did you develop other communications lines?
00:01:36.000Well, I've been involved in trucker advocacy for many years.
00:01:41.000About the whole time I've been driving, I've been involved in meetings at D.C., lobbying on behalf of truck drivers.
00:01:46.000So I've made a lot of contacts through that process.
00:01:50.000And basically, I just utilized those contacts to find the right group.
00:01:54.000And some of those contacts were involved in the group that eventually became the People's Convoy.
00:02:00.000And then the convoy started out in California.
00:02:03.000Did you join in Ohio or did you go out to California?
00:02:07.000No, I'm actually like the co-organizer of the whole thing.
00:02:11.000So I ended up starting right out in Atalanto, California.
00:02:15.000I've been with the convoy every day since.
00:02:17.000I was planning it three weeks, about a month before it started.
00:02:21.000I started planning this thing with a group of like-minded individuals.
00:02:24.000So I've been in it from the very beginning and all the way to today, still in it.
00:02:29.000Describe for us what it's been like on the convoy from day one and how it's grown and, you know, what you're doing now.
00:02:39.000Well, it's been an emotional rollercoaster, honestly.
00:02:43.000It started out in Adelanto, California with maybe a couple hundred people that were supporting us from the local community and has now grown to over millions of people lined up along the interstates and over the overpasses, the bridges.
00:02:57.000We've had Multiple communities come out everywhere that we've stopped along the way.
00:03:01.000They've come out by the tens of thousands of people to support us right there on the ground.
00:03:05.000And now we're here in Hagerstown and we have the community almost every single day coming down.
00:03:12.000They're donated dumpsters and porta-potties in the shower house.
00:03:16.000I mean, it's been a total absolute rollercoaster of emotions from excited to sadness because of the stories that you're told about how the vaccine mandate has ruined their career or ruined their lives, whether it be medical issues that have developed or just simply the loss of their income because they decided to stand up for their rights.
00:03:35.000You know, I receive letters from eight-year-olds that say, thank you for standing up.
00:03:39.000So those things like that just make you cry.
00:03:41.000There's a young man that's here on the convoy that just told me the other day that he quit his job and sold off his 401k to fund him being able to be a part of this because he felt it was so important.
00:03:52.000I mean, the level of commitment and the level of community, that unity, that love, that peace that's here on the ground, I've never seen before in my life.
00:04:01.000And I don't know that anybody has ever seen this level of a sense of family like what we have here on the ground right now.
00:04:42.000You know, we're standing up for our constitutional rights, you know, trying to stop the vaccine mandates that exist for our healthcare workers, our DOD and such.
00:04:49.000But on a human scale around the world, this is a violation of your God-given rights.
00:04:55.000To do this to someone, to demand that you have to put this vaccine into your body.
00:05:01.000And that's around the world that's happening.
00:05:03.000And so what we have here is them trying to paint us as one side or the other.
00:05:09.000But when there's Democrats down here, when there's Republicans down here, there's independents down here, there's libertarians down here, there's constitutionalists, there's people from all spectrums here.
00:05:18.000We have every race, every religion, every ethnic background is down here right now.
00:06:03.000I don't care if you're a far right person or you're a far left person.
00:06:07.000To be a part of this, you should understand what our message is and it affects you.
00:06:12.000Whether you're far left or far right, this affects you in a positive manner.
00:06:16.000We're helping to fight for you to continue to have your constitutional freedoms and allows you to be that way.
00:06:22.000You guys can go back to hating each other when this is all over, but for now, we all need to unite.
00:06:26.000We need to work together to continue to protect our Constitution, the United States, and our God-given rights.
00:06:33.000Why did you decide not to go into Washington, D.C.? Well, as you've seen in the past, whether that be January 6th or Ottawa, there's a lot of bad actors that get involved in movements such as this, you know, false flags or people that go down and intentionally try to cause harm or cause mayhem or violence.
00:06:55.000And with that, we have small children with us.
00:06:57.000We have families that are here homeschooling so that they can be a part of this.
00:07:00.000We have people that are peaceful and loving.
00:07:04.000And we have religious, you know, we have ministers.
00:07:07.000We have so many different people here, doctors.
00:07:10.000We just have so many people here that, to put us in downtown D.C., to give them an opportunity to do something that's so negative to us, even though this is so peaceful, we just didn't want to see it.
00:07:21.000You know, up in Canada, they were busting windows out of the trucks, dragging drivers out into the street, beating them.
00:07:29.000There's no way I was going to let that happen to us.
00:07:31.000So we're doing things in a diplomatic way.
00:07:34.000We're circling the beltway multiple times.
00:07:36.000And then, of course, all while trying to have dialogue with our legislators from both parties.
00:07:42.000It's been difficult to bring the Democrats to the table, but I think they're starting to see that this is representing all people.
00:07:48.000And we just wanted to make sure that we didn't give an opportunity for any bad actors to get involved Have you gotten any media coverage, or has it been largely a blackout?
00:07:59.000So early on, we had some great network media.
00:08:02.000We had Fox News and Newsmax, and then it all kind of died off there for a period of time.
00:08:08.000I think meetings with Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Ron Johnson has helped spark that national media attention again.
00:08:16.000Local news is everywhere we've gone, have been covering it.
00:08:19.000And then of course we have dozens of independent journalists that are embedded with us, as well as a couple organizations that have their own team of media that has been embedded with us through this process as well.
00:08:33.000So we've been getting out there through social media platforms and websites.
00:08:37.000But as far as the national TV goes, not so much.
00:08:42.000We still have millions of people supporting us without it ever really being broadcast on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, Fox News or Newsmax or OAN. Now all of these people have covered us a little bit.
00:09:00.000Today was the first day that we've seen anything on Fox News.
00:09:03.000And that was Senator Ron Johnson that was on there.
00:09:06.000Because of our meeting, he mentioned us.
00:09:09.000And that was on Fox and Friends this morning.
00:09:11.000But they've pretty much blacked us out.
00:09:13.000To me, it just tells me that it doesn't matter if it's a right-wing or left-wing media source.
00:09:19.000They're all corrupt and they're all bought off by all these big conglomerates that are running them.
00:09:23.000And if it wasn't true, then they would be down here right now covering the facts, and they're not doing that.
00:09:28.000They all work for BlackRock or Vanguard.
00:09:30.000Ultimately, it's kind of an illusion that they're competing with each other.
00:09:35.000And I want to point out that CHGTV has been embedded in a convoy.
00:09:40.000We have two reporters there, two journalists who are actually doing real journalism and who are reporting daily and just beautiful, beautiful and inspiring films of what's happening at all.
00:09:52.000All of the overpass jammed with people, with supporters, with American flags, peace signs.
00:09:59.000It's really just an inspiring spectacle.
00:10:58.000I would say out of every 10 that join us, about four of them are long-haul people, meaning they're staying with us for the long haul.
00:11:07.000The others are here for a few days and then go home.
00:11:10.000Is it mainly owned and operated, Greg?
00:11:13.000Is there any support from Teamsters Union or other unions?
00:11:18.000No, they're too wrapped up in their funders to be involved in something like this.
00:11:22.000and their funders are wrapped up in the medical industry and many other things out there for them not to be able to come out and support us.
00:11:30.000The thing is, the CEO themselves might be behind what we're doing, but they're too worried about their corporate image or their money that, their customer base and things for who they haul for.
00:11:40.000So the majority of the people that are down here are owner-operator independents or mom-and-pop small fleet companies.
00:11:46.000So you've got who you want here anyways.
00:11:51.000Are most of the truckers vaccinated at this point?
00:12:09.000At this point, what we want people to do is to stand up.
00:12:12.000If you can't be here with us in the convoy at the federal level, then start standing up at the state level.
00:12:18.000I don't care if it's a red state or a blue state.
00:12:20.000No matter what, stand up and help put the pressure on the state governments to put the pressure on the federal governments so that ending the state of emergency can actually hit the House floor because that's where it starts.
00:12:30.000We have to end that state of emergency because there is no emergency.
00:12:35.000That will help us get rid of the vaccine mandates for our healthcare workers and law enforcement that exist out there that have those mandates.
00:12:42.000The DOD, our federal employees, it will help us end those vaccine mandates.
00:12:46.000So the best way that we know how to do that right now, especially since a lot in the Republican Party and the Democrat Party won't meet with us at all, but the Republican Party feels defeated in the House.
00:12:56.000They keep saying things like, well, we're not the majority, nothing we can do.
00:13:35.000But Illinois State Police, in the end, came to bat for us and helped us get across their state with no trouble at all.
00:13:42.000I think we put a lot of pressure on them when they had said that they were going to come after us for convoy.
00:13:48.000I'm going through when they had a press release that they had put out that basically said they were going to come after us for unsafe driving conditions, that kind of deal.
00:13:58.000And once the pressure got put on them through social media, because I speak the truth and I speak from my heart.
00:14:04.000And if you're going to do something like that, I'm going to call you out for it.
00:14:07.000I'm going to tell you that you're messing up and that this is wrong.
00:14:09.000And I'm going to say it out publicly and I'm going to let the public know what you're doing.
00:14:13.000And of course, I did that with Illinois, and they got a ton of pressure.
00:14:16.000And the next thing you know, they escorted us all the way across the state.
00:14:18.000As far as this local area, I work every single day with the Virginia State Police, the Maryland State Police, DC Metro.
00:14:34.000So I let them know what we're doing and I take their advice.
00:14:36.000So when they counsel good times versus bad times to be traveling, I work with them.
00:14:42.000It doesn't mean I listen to them all the time, but I'm working with them.
00:14:45.000And they're working with me in a sense to understand the plan, what we're doing, and how we're going to execute that plan.
00:14:52.000So we have a great working relationship with the local law enforcement, and we have a lot of dialogue going back to multiple law enforcement agencies down here in Hagerstown in the D.C. metro area.
00:15:03.000Ryan Brazzi, thank you for your leadership, for your commitment, for the sacrifice that you're making for America, for our values, for our people, for public health, and all the things that we believe in and make us proud to be part of this country.