Ep# 192 Remembering, Awakening and STANDING!
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On this episode of the crusty canuck podcast, I reflect on Remembrance Day and reflect on the sacrifices of those who paid the ultimate price for our freedom, and what we should still stand for, regardless of the politics that have been plaguing us as of recent years.
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good evening ladies and gentlemen it's a beautiful 12th november 2022 day after the
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remembrance day yes come on the podcast this episode 192 remembering awakening and standing
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my take on remembrance day and the politics that have been plaguing us as of recent all that more
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the show please stick around listener and viewer discretion is advised i do smoke cigarettes and
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hit it sweetheart because i am hard you will not like me
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canuck podcast a canadian veteran's point of view on political social economic issues and life
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that's right ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode 192 crusty canuck podcast
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remembering awakening and standing how i remember how i have been awoken or awakening and how i'm
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still standing that's right ladies and gentlemen i'm your host crusty canuck on this beautiful 12th
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of november 2022 now this is not an episode where i'm just going to sit and rant and rave as always
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i'm going to reflect on some personal experiences and share with you some of my inner how do you say
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nightmares and stuff when it comes to my experiences overseas now a lot of experiences have varied over
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the years uh no way am i in comparison to some korean vets or world war ii vets they were in
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country for a matter of years um i was in theater my first tour uh about four months
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didn't see much uh it was more of a uh you know uh presence if anything uh my second tour
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uh yeah i saw action i was the radio guy and i was with a team called the omelet
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operating uh operating and mentoring liaison team basically we showed some of the afghan
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military guys how to do things from a canadian perspective uh needless to say we did see some
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action uh we lost a lad and uh we had our share of drama and turmoil and chaos and the results of that
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tour uh led me into some very very dark places needless to say i'm still here i'm still alive
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and well i'm employed there's food in my fridge i'm married to a great lady i've got a great family
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i got great friends so the support is there per se um but yesterday it gave me some time to reflect
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and hang out with some fellow vets uh some british vets uh from their own experiences uh some other
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vets from other operations on the tours and just the camaraderie was fantastic it's it's always good
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to reflect and remember uh what we are and what we have in this country and what people before us
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have stood for and what we should still stand for regardless of how you personally feel about this
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situation or that situation or this party or that party uh we should be thankful there's people that
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come before us that paid the ultimate price and sacrificed more than you can ever imagine
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some of us uh from my tours sacrificed quite a bit too there's a few lads i think of from time to
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time they're not with us today because of their ultimate sacrifice and there's a few lads i know
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personally that ended their lives because of some of the demons and the trauma they've had to deal with
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and it's it does sometimes get hard to explain that ladies and gentlemen but the more i talk about
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the easier it gets um i've had a great support network in regards to getting my words out there
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and expressing how i feel and what's going on in my mind and all that good stuff and you my wonderful
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audience out there too ironically enough i've been a big pillar of support as well
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one of the reasons i do this podcast is to get information out there to speak my mind
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and i'm grateful that i have some listeners and some subscribers such as yourselves out there that
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take the time to listen to what i have to say and appreciate what i have to say with some of the kind
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comments and and emails i've been receiving the past little while but let's get the meat and potatoes
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of this episode uh remembering i do remember a lot of things uh things i wish to share things i wish
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not to share there's a few people in my life in my life that i've shared with um that been there and
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there's some other people in my life that have not been there um i'm not going to point fingers or
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play the blame game or anything like that but remember stay gives you a time to reflect on the
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people that just don't really care too and david the menzoid menzies at a rebel media uh put together
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a pretty interesting video he was on the streets of toronto talking to people about poppies and all that
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and i'll just say that there was one person who had the audacity of saying oh no i don't believe in
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it because if canada's colonial past okay well you know you're entitled to your belief lady
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whoever you may be whatever hustle and bustle you promote and what you do
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it's about people that sacrifice their lives for what they believed in people that gave you the freedom
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to say that to somebody and regardless of how you feel about this or about our history or about
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this country you're still living in this country and you're getting paid canadian dollars and someone
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had to sacrifice something in order for you to walk around in that city to say those things
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so regardless of how you feel about it or not someone paid the price for your freedom to say that
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with your growth or not that's just the reality we live in here too and i had a few conversations
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over the past few days in regards to canada's colonial past and i'll remind you my listeners too that
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north america and south america were colonies one way or the other at one time so we can't keep using
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that as an excuse uh not to look further and to embrace our history and embrace all of our cultures
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you know like it's i still shake my head when people are talking about colonialism and it's like well
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we could have been french we could have been spanish we could have been dutch we could have been belgian
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we could have been any one of the big empires that thrived back in those days what if england went
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broke and france got rich what if spain kicked france's butt what if uh spain kicked france and
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england's butt then what would be spanish would be much like south america what if portugal just sat
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quietly and watched for a long time and then attacked and took over everything who knows right who
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knows but that's history that's our part as canadians and to my american listeners too and british
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listeners and listeners from all over the world to embrace our history and to learn from it regardless
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of who the bad guys were whether it be the english the french the spanish the dutch the belgians
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in some cases the germans any empire for that matter now when i look at our country's history
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we still lack real leadership our own prime minister is over in asia right now he'd rather be in asia
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and take part in remembrance day ceremonies even though he swore to look after veterans
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right which we you know you and i both know he's full of shit it doesn't really matter he doesn't really
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care and he explains that that he does care but his actions speak louder than words in fact you look at
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all these leaders in our country their actions have spoken louder than the words so when we reflect
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about the people that have sacrificed uh their lives for this country really really sit and just look
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at what the leaders are really doing about it some have said some kind words some have just sat in
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their hands some just don't care stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook twitter
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platforms and please comment like and subscribe in the meantime like i said this is episode 192
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remembering awakening and standing yes i do remember all the time every day in a way is kind of like
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remember state of me certain thoughts certain gestures certain actions you know it's true they
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say you hear a loud thump your reaction is the duck i get that sometimes a few of my friends still get
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that and not because we're scared it's just the way things go right there's still a lot of stigma out
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there too with ptsd you know and i'd like to reiterate uh too ladies and gentlemen you don't get ptsd from
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reading bad paragraphs or reading news stories that you disagree with or reading some kind of slander about
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yourself you know or slander about this person or slander about this situation you can get mad you can
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disagree and you might want to throw a table over or something but you're not going to get ptsd from that
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you get ptsd from actual experiences not reading words okay because that's the case that everyone who read a
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horror novel would have ptsd or everyone who wrote uh who read a terrible story would get ptsd
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so when you hear a writer or a so-called quote-unquote journalist claim that he or she gets ptsd from
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bad words and they're full of shit and they've got no guts and they got no gumption and they got no
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integrity and they've got a weak character so that being said so uh later on in the show i'm going to play a
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a little video of some combat footage from 2006 and uh just to give some of my listeners and viewers
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to some insight on what canadians have done in afghanistan and the camaraderie and the excellence
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and the coherence that our troops have promoted regardless of what the political situation was
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at the time or what political situation is now i can verify and validate there are a lot of canucks
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out there that are willing to stand on guard for the regardless of what politicians say or what the
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social media platforms say or what the mainstream media says because when i look at our politicians
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as i mentioned earlier i'm not seeing a lot of a lot of strength there might be some leaders out there
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in the woodwork hiding in the corner haven't come out yet but i'm not seeing a lot of strength and
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this remembrance day proved it now regardless of who you agree with or who you want to vote for who
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you think is going to come to surface uh come the next federal election if we do have one or if
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someone steps down hint hint wink wink justin you know what i mean um i'm not seeing real integrity
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i'm seeing a healthy opposition and i'm seeing the bantering in parliament but what are these
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individuals going to do for you and me i'm still a firm believer in not filing for certain politicians
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because i won't and i highly recommend you my wonderful audience out there that you don't file either
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and not because of roads or schools or the projected health crisis they keep talking about
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i'm talking about principle because i know for a fact that every blue collar worker in this country
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gets a lot taken off his or her check every two weeks yours truly gets a lot taken off his check
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every two weeks plus i get a lot taken off my pension too for my 20 years of service and why should we file
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more papers come april for an ungrateful government that just wants to spend and piss the money away
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when there are things that need to be done in this country things that need to be looked after
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right so i'll propose that to you submitted for your approval my wonderful audience not to file i'll
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leave the links in my description and you decide what you want to do now i've had numerous debates with
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people in the twitter world and out in public in regards to filing one's taxes
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and what you must do and civic duties and all that good stuff and my awakening is this
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why should i be giving money to something that's going to be giving it away to somebody else later
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on right and that somebody else is somebody outside of canada or some other group outside of canada or
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some virtue of some sort to make a handful of politicians look like they really care
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when they're doing nothing but squandering our resources and wasting our effing time
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stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook twitter gab telegram youtube and podbean
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yeah really wasting our effing time and for what because the past couple of weeks there's been uh
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loops here about uh strike here and a strike there and people complaining about their human rights and
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yet we still fail to realize that there are a lot of human rights violations over the past
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two and a half years in this country in regards to the jibby jab and the pandemic and everything else
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people have lost their jobs lost their businesses been fined ridiculous amounts of money
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for what now whether they went to court and prove their innocence or not
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they still had to go to court to prove their innocence spent a lot of money doing so
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a lot of businesses went bankrupt a lot of people lost their jobs a lot of people lost hope lost
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their minds hit drugs hit each other and some took their own lives is this the canada i fought for
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is this the canada i put 20 years of my life into is this the canada that my comrades and my brothers in
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arms put their lives into even the ones that didn't return from my tour from other tours
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from other operations is that what they sacrificed their lives for
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puts things in perspective now doesn't it ladies and gentlemen
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it's like the old adage why should i give 110 to you and you can't even fathom 20 for me
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and from what i've gathered and what i've seen and what i've witnessed and the people i've talked to
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over the past couple of months there's a lot of people that feel that way why should i give 100 to
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you you can't give 20 back to me something to think about anyhow i'll put this video up here for you
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all to uh to uh watch and then uh inside amongst yourselves now this is it's not gory there's no
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blood and guts in this but there's combat and uh to my listeners listen carefully to my listeners
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and viewers alike watch and listen carefully please uh gives gives you a pretty good perspective
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of what our men and women went through in that country
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Got a lot of pacing in that direction right now.
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Fucking Wayne was throwing grenades into the corner.
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that's a reality ladies and gentlemen pardon the pause there but that was the reality that
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some of the companies and some of the battle groups went through over there
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now that's just a small taste of what some lads have seen what a lot of lads have seen
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on a bigger scale too on a daily basis now if men and women are willing to volunteer and fight
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in a foreign nation for this country why can't our leaders step up and fight just a little bit
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more for us for you and me okay why can't they promote liberty why can't they promote
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proper freedom why can't they promote democracy they've all said oh you know democracy at stake
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if we do this or democracy is at stake if we don't let this protest happen or allow this
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protest to happen democracy is at stake when you stifle anybody who has something to say in this
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country regardless if you agree with it or not now i'm guilty of disagreeing with people and
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bantering online too okay but that's the freedom to do it that's the freedom to choose that's the
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freedom of expression freedom of speech regardless of how you feel about hate speech or not people
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are going to say hateful things regardless people are going to say some stupid things that's just life
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right in the schoolyards kids used to say stupid things some of the teachers used to say stupid
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things you go to a hockey game you hear stupid things any soccer games baseball games any kind of
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conglomerate of people you're going to hear stupid things we're adults we're supposed to handle it
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unfortunately we have adults in power that don't want to handle it because they have some virtue
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those men in that footage their virtue is this standing on guard doing their job fighting the
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enemy winning the firefight so they can go home go home to their loved ones remember their loved ones
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remember the fallen too unfortunately we have a lot of people in this country that forget that
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or they just don't want to pay attention to it and that's fine you don't have to nobody in their
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right mind agrees with warfare as far as i'm concerned but there are necessary evils in our
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history that proved they had it had to be done world war one world war two korea peace support
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operations peacekeeping operations peace enforcement operations vietnam regards of how some of my american
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friends disagree or or not there are a lot of people that stepped up the plate and thought they're doing
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the right thing because they thought it was their duty they're people that served in capacities that
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needed the adventure that needed the job and wanted to do it because they believed in it
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and you can't condemn people for doing that so to me every day is remembrance day because of what i did
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what i saw what my friends did what they saw to our fallen brothers and sisters did
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service and that should be respected regardless of what decade you're in what generation you're in
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you can sit there and call soldiers murderers people don't join the military for the sake of killing
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people join the military because they want the job they have an aptitude for it and they like what
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they do some people join the military because they need adventure they need something else they want to
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try something else on and during that time while they're trying something else on they're called to
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go over here they're called to go over there that's life you think police officers join the police
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departments canada wide because they want the adrenaline rush to arrest somebody they want the
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adrenaline rush to pull out their their service pistol to shoot somebody or they want to serve
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do you think firefighters join the fire department because they want to watch things burn
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right do you think doctors become doctors because they want to have the power to cut somebody open
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to see their innards people make the choice to do things in the name of serving humanity
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and every one of those jobs we get lost along the way one way the other but i'm not saying every soldier
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out there is a nut bar nor is every doctor nor is every police officer nor is every firefighter
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paramedic anyone who's in public service but that's being taken for granted and this past
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remembrance day that's proven to me especially when our leaders fail to show up
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okay now veterans affairs apparently there's a 43 week waiting list for some guys to get their
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benefits that's pitiful that's unacceptable that's not the taxpayers fault that's the government's fault
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and i've said my last episode too the lackluster leadership um miss freeland talking about the whole
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well maybe you should cut back on your tv shows save some money that arrogance is self-explanatory
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so a lot of people just showed up to get their roundy points and a lot of people just
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just don't care now i'm not expecting every canadian out there and every listener to this this podcast
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they care 100 but next remembrance day do yourself a favor and just spend a minute or two
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thinking about the men and women that did fall for this country
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and i'm talking all canadians i'm not just talking about one group or this group or that group
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i'm talking about all canadians all black all white all first nations all asian all east indian
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yes we are imperfect that's democracy it's imperfect
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than a totalitarian state any fucking day of the week
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at least we can still speak our minds in this country hopefully
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all i can say about my time there is that i will never ever forget
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i never forget the looks in their faces when i crack some jokes and when they crack some jokes
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that's my reflection on this 12th of november 2022
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ladies and gentlemen i hope nothing but good things for you and yours
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