SNP9 Chris Barber Testimony at the Public Order Emergency Commission
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On this episode of the Western Standard, we are joined by Chris Barber, a long haul truck driver, business owner and TikTok star. We talk about the Public Order Emergency Commission, censorship, and much more.
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Good evening and welcome to the Sean Newman Show on the Western Standard. Tonight we're talking
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Public Order Emergency Commission along with a little censorship. I'm joined tonight by a long
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haul truck driver, business owner, and maybe more known as a TikTok star, Chris Barber. So first
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off chris uh thanks for uh hopping on with me good to see you sean hope things are well
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yeah things man things are good on this side i was saying to before we started it was it was
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episode 236 on the podcast where you pulled over on the side of the highway and we had this i would
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call about as harmless a chat as you're gonna have uh i didn't think there was anything too crazy in
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it um you know considering some of the things that i'd had on and and you know doctors and things
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that have been said and everything else and it was shortly after that my entire
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YouTube channel got removed because of views good sir so that shows where we're
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at in the world certainly back then and the world has progressed since then I
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don't know how it's progressed that much though well definitely in the world of
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social media and the in the bias towards you know certain people like yourself and
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I out here I can tell you I've been censored a lot of social media mostly
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for my own doing I want to say you know breaking community guidelines and being
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kind of an ass on social media but i take full responsibility for that but you and our you know
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our conversation was nothing to be banned over uh yeah i um it's funny uh the the world of
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censorship is interesting because um uh just asking questions is dangerous these days i don't find
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like i don't mean dangerous in the sense of harm from anyone you know i get the odd angry uh
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listener but for the most part it's dangerous in the sense that you just get removed from
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platforms the community guidelines and when you push on the guide well what what did i say i said
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a word you know uh there was this word ivermectin back in the day that you really got people uppity
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uh that was a bad one um and then of course uh what we were talking about at the time
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was uh was the upcoming trucker convoy and that certainly um as everybody saw was censored pretty
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hard and pulled from everywhere it was interesting watching tom or as i've been with him for the
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week and as he was leaving the inquiry in ottawa this is where i am by the way i'm in ottawa right
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now taking part in the inquiry for the emergencies act taking part in watching every day my testimony
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was a few days ago november 1st yeah november 1st yeah i think things went well as tom was leaving
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the the inquiry yesterday the media asked for a comment and he says i don't know if he's seen
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it or not he put his hand up he said you guys haven't told the truth in three years i don't
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to talk to you and he kept walking well i mean from your side from tom's side from a lot of
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the people that are at least getting an opportunity to get up on stage be asked questions uh share
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their part of the story and actually be televised like so that people can go watch it has that been
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in um i don't know interesting is it is it like um enjoyable i don't know what the word to put
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there Chris because I mean for so long you know you weren't really asked any questions you were
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put in a box and shoved under the the bed so to speak and kind of left there to rot
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and I think that's I was watching a bit of Pat King's testimony yesterday too and he kind of
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you know he summed it up quite well he said a lot of our freedoms have been taken away from us
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because Tamara and I were charged we still face we're facing six indictable offenses right now
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my conditions are that I'm not allowed to support a convoy
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and I've got to be really careful of what we say
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from some of the injustice that's been set against us.
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You know, sitting on this side, I've been saying,
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To sit and watch like 9, 10, 11 hours of testimony is a lot.
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like, you know, today as we speak, Tamara's going to be on today.
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I think there's going to be a whole bunch of people
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Because, I mean, you haven't heard boo from her in how long, right?
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I spent the night with her last night in the hotel or in the apartment with the lawyers.
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And we've taken this opportunity to do a lot of work together that we haven't been able to talk about things that happen.
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That girl is like a spitfire, and she can't wait.
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well how was the experience on stage because i'm curious you know i was gonna say like from my end
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i kind of enjoy having 10 different lawyers try and grill you right because they each have what
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they're trying to get out of you um was the experience the same sitting on stage or were
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you like man by you know hour two you're like oh this is a bit much you know and keith told me this
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beforehand he said you know you're you're three or four hours whatever you're on the stand for
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was going to go by really fast and i found that was accurate i was nervous as can be i didn't sleep
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awake the night before keith asked me in the morning as we were walking he says did you sleep
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i said not awake keith i'm exhausted and he said good because that makes for a good a good testimony
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you need to be tired you need to be nervous and i definitely was i kind of got into a routine
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i felt comfortable talking everybody was there um the inquiry lawyers he was really he was good he
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was looking for the truth he wasn't looking to bury anybody or or mislead anyone he was fair
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awesome to deal with paul champ i mean paul he's got a i think he's he's got a 400 million dollar
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lawsuit on myself and and a lot of other people right now so his questions were pretty fair i
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thought he was he was decent um and the government lawyers i was expecting some hard questions from
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some of them and whether they were hard or not i kind of i kind of went past them and didn't feel
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like they were they were that hard to answer we we have the truth john like we have the absolute
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truth so we have nothing to hide nothing to be scared of as far as i'm concerned yeah well that
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that's the that's the one thing i was going to say when you're not trying to concoct a story
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um i don't think you really have too much to worry about you know like uh um i speak awfully high you
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you know my thoughts on you i speak awfully highly of you because i got to interact with you before
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And then while I was there for my brief time, and you've always been a guy, I think, at least from what I've seen, who conducts himself in the right way.
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Now, I was chuckling because you said, you know, you've violated some community guidelines.
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And in your testimony, you even said, you know, if, and I'll butcher the words, Chris, but something along the lines of, you know, I've really learned some things since before and after the convoy.
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um has that uh been ushered in on social media then as well absolutely um yeah in the testimony
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the other day we played uh one of the videos i'd put out during the convoy and then i apologized
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to justice for the language in it and so that was something else that i've improved since then too
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you know i think uh i think seeing some of the the young kids that look up to me and the knowing
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that some people look at me as a role model has really changed my my attitude when it comes to
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social media uh i'm still you know somebody comes at me on social media i'm still going to give it
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back to him i'll just do it a little bit different now without the language and uh in in the heart
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i'm still a troll but it's it's a different kind of troll i don't usually go after people that
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don't deserve it and i've never done that i go after the people that come after me or the people
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that i i respect or like so yeah i think it's a good thing if if like i said the other day if
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anybody's grown a lot you know nobody's grown as much as me um morally and it's just it's just a
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different feeling well so many eyes on you right like i mean uh you think chris chris barber of
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january whatever that date was you know episode 236 was i i joke in the start of it i'm like i
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have no idea who you are i'm like i'm pretty sure nobody knows who you are right being a little bit
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tongue-in-cheek because obviously you had a tick tock following back then but i mean over the
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course of the next you know since that date of talking you know over the course of a month
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you've kind of been on a rocket ship to uh you know infamous if nothing else right like your
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name has become um uh on the same page as tamara and tamara is the one who who go you know they
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issue across canada warrant come get her yank her back right like just some wild stuff has gone on
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um how has being back in ottawa been you know uh you haven't been there uh since you left i assume
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um to go back into that city um how has that been i can honestly say it's been it's been really good
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In saying that, right, the people in Ottawa, I can see there's some people that are not happy,
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I've seen positive, and I see a lot of people positive in a day,
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and it's good to connect those people again and visit and get along.
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and I'll probably be heading home sometime on Monday, I'm sure.
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None of them said you couldn't be hard working, I don't think.
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I got home and it was immediately, I think I took a week off
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just to kind of regain a little bit of composure
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and i jumped back in red and we've been trucking ever since so this is the first winner
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he's my baby yep i almost didn't know whether to introduce you chris is big red or chris
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you know it's funny uh i don't know if i told you this story or not um but when when we caught up
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to you guys uh geez i can't remember now i think it was after thunder bay i think it was the day
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we left thunder bay anyways there was a stop at some you know one of the the stops and i was
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saying to my sister at the time i was like man i gotta find chris barber and uh uh we're walking
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around trying to find you anybody seeing chris barn who chris barb okay yeah who yeah okay and
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finally somebody's like who did you say and i'm like uh i'm looking for chris barber and they're
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like you mean big red and i'm like oh yeah yeah yeah and they're like oh yeah and as soon as i
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said big red 10 hens turned around that i'd asked like oh yeah big red he's standing right over
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there um you know your your truck became just as famous as you were at one point well that that's
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my my truck right uh big red has been known around the prairies for a number of years for the amount
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of stuff that i haul the big stuff that i haul um i've been quite prominent on social media for
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for a few years and uh like i said i've known around saskatchewan for being that guy i guess
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in alberta and and then things just kind of blew up from there but you know this the real story
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behind big red would be for my kids my uh my jonathan is here and my two children when they
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were just toddlers and little ones and i'd come home with the big red they would try and say here
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comes the big red truck and then the way they said it of course was hilarious because i couldn't
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pronounce it so it was big truck truck and anyway big red was just known as big red after that and
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i've adopted that name because of it that's uh how long have you had that truck then for
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I bought that truck brand new November 27th of 2003.
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Big Red has about 3.2 million kilometers on it.
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How many engines has that sucker gone through?
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Well, we did an in-frame on the engine at 1.7 million kilometers.
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And then just the last number of months here, we did an engine transplant.
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It was going to be about an $80,000 bill to rebuild the engine.
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And so what I did was I found a donor truck with an older,
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It's an older model, pre-emissioned yet, and we did a swap on it.
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So now she's got a healthier motor in it and a little bit cheaper to rebuild.
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right now i got a group of truckers listening going oh that is and then i got a bunch of people
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going sean who cares i'm going at the end of the day i'm going why why i mean obviously sentimental
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value but why not just why not just get a new big red why not just go find you know uh the next
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latest edition of big red and carry on ah it's my baby i fell in love with that truck the the moment
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and I've seen it, and I'm still friends with the salesman
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He's retired now, and he sends me messages every now and then.
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You know, that was the worst truck that he ever sold
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or the worst deal he ever sold because it never came back.
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I don't think I ever took the truck back for warranty or anything.
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Like, it has been the best truck a guy could, you know, I love it.
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I've bought trucks and run them and put drivers in them
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And I have a thing kind of, and this is, my wife
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a fascination with redheads, right? But I've never,
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i'm gonna pull you back to the commission now i've talked about trucks yeah man that's that's
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that's pure gold i might just release that as a clip that that right there is perfect um what are
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you hoping comes out of the commission chris you know you've you've got to test uh testify um you
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know you've got to see tom uh marazo uh you know keith wilson was uh yesterday uh today's tamara
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like do you got a couple more dates you you've penciled on like i'd really like to see these
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people obviously tomorrow will be a big one um and then aside from people you want to see or
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people you want to see get on the stand you know i mean you got the prime minister at one point's
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going to be up there which should be i think should be interesting i don't know like i i think
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that'll be good um what are you hoping comes out of it i'm honestly accountability and the truth
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is my biggest the biggest thing that's for me um you said people that i'm looking forward to
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And Danny Bulford, as you know the history of Danny Bulford,
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we're talking ex-RCMP sniper on the roof that used to do the job for the Ottawa,
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you know, the City of Ottawa, the Parliamentary Committee of the People.
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Danny's a powerful man, and he is a very well-spoken man.
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So it should be a little different to listen today.
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I know James Bowder's on today with Canada Unity.
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and there's going to be some really harsh questions
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and everything I've said, I've said for a reason
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with the amount of stories that are coming out now
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How is that guy going to sit on the stand and try and defend himself?
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There was innocent people that were beaten and hurt.
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Have you watched, what were we on, day 15 right now, I want to say?
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How much of it have you watched, and has anything surprised you?
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Bridget did pretty good yesterday, I think, for her.
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on the stand compared to a week for law enforcement
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for the convoy people and then a week for the for the politicians so i i think this is about the
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truth and the answers and i think that's gonna still come out so we're working on it man
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how's the how was the atmosphere you know uh to the listener over here watching the screen
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you get to kind of get a feel of the room it kind of feels like um i don't know maybe a stage and
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and then the commissioner and, you know, and then just a grouping of chairs.
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Like, you can't get a feel for if it's, like, this somber place to go
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or if it's, you know, like, were there protesters outside?
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Like, give a listener a little bit of an idea, Chris, of going to this building
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I'm trying to get a feel for what actually happens from the moment you step off the plane to get in this building.
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Well, so we're just at the hotel just south of the building, so we literally walk down the street and in.
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So as Tamara, Keith, Eva, and I, and Tom are walking down the street to the paparazzi,
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you can see them clicking their cameras as they're coming, and there are microphones in front of your face trying to get your comment.
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I can actually say that I've got like a deal here.
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I got to tell you, security inside the building, they're amazing.
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They're always talking to you, patting you on the back.
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You kind of walk into the room and yeah, last week was pretty quiet.
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You know, I've heard a lot of people that have said, you know, like he's handpicked by Trudeau.
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You know, I actually, I think this guy's an honest guy.
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And from what I've seen of him, his conduct up there, you know,
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when I got off the stand and I went to walk away, I reached a hand out.
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He took it happily and, you know, he's talkative and he's smiling.
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You can tell he's got a good head on his shoulders.
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yeah honestly um uh i think everybody pointed that out when he first got announced everyone's like
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oh man this isn't gonna be good but i haven't watched i haven't watched i can't sit here and
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say i've watched every hour of testimony but i've watched uh i'm gonna say more than the fair share
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of canadians and um he's impressed me even with some of the questions he has at the end i don't
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want to give the guy a complete uh you know you're the the man who's been on stage and and and you
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know sat by him and watched him uh firsthand but honestly everything i've seen um from the live
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streams he's he's handled the situations pretty good even the even the can we say bizarre at times
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uh bridget's lawyer i forget her name but there was a couple of times there where i'm like oh man
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this is off the rails like maybe they just need to take a break let them figure out what they want
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to do and he just you know calm as you know just like water off a duck's back like and i was like
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as the watch jane scarf she brought her dog into the courtroom the other day and she's not a lawyer
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she's a paralegal apparently and her and her sidekick uh broke back to something like that
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they've taken the task because you know keith schooled them yesterday is what keith did in my
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opinion i'm not a lawyer and i'm not a paralegal but i can tell you what i kind of had a visit with
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bridget afterwards and i said you know what you gotta be careful with that one because um if you
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watch their social media feeds and the amount of trouble they cause and the amount of disruption
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they've caused in the in the system they don't know what they're talking about and they're talking
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shit about everybody and i mean everybody like they're going after keith now and they've gone
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after myself in the past just stop like it was almost embarrassing and then there i heard i
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wasn't there that day i actually went after my testimony went back and had a nap because i was
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so damn tired i missed part of it but you know the dog started barking in the courtroom like what
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kind of conduct is that i don't have an answer for you i once again i i was just i was just the
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common viewer and watching it go i've watched you know has there been times where you're like oh man
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this cop or or or politician or whatever like you're like oh my goodness this was on a different
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level um for the listener who hasn't watched that that would be uh november 1st uh the same day
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chris testified you can go back and watch it and um it's just and the crazy thing is there's a ton
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of what bridget says that is so meaningful so important um but the questioning that she had
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from her own paralegal lawyer whatever counsel um was was painful was was very painful and and
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i think anytime that happens uh it does probably more harm than anything because up to that point
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i think you could pick out uh um you know a couple citizens of ottawa that were painful
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and you could pick out maybe in the odd police that was a little bit painful but not in the sense
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of like uh unorganized and not asking questions that were relevant and and you know bogging it
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down it was more of like wow this testimony is something else you know um you're gonna be back
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home here uh very soon a few days you're gonna leave ottawa you're gonna head home uh what's
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next for chris uh is there's in the back you know in the purview you mentioned being sued by paul
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champ and not just yourself but others um you know you got uh work coming back up i'm sure
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and it'll be a pedal to the metal um but what's next for chris uh in regards to all this is there
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much are you paying attention to much do you got to be back out in ottawa at any point in time
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what's next for chris well tamara and i will be charged we are charged together our court dates
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are set for september 5th 2023 we're going to be uh we'll be tried together and it'll be about a
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three-week trial from what they say so we've got trial prep for that coming up we're going to get
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ready for that we've got a what do they call it now a charter rights violation that we petitioned
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for for my cell phone evidence being released to the crowns and to the media and to the general
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public the 4,200 pages it was dumped out to the public through you know my personal conversations
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with you know a lot of people let's say a lot of people that shouldn't have been on there and it
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was a privacy breach of course in my opinion so we've got that coming up in february march something
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like that um i got i gotta get back to work i gotta help jonathan he's trucking at home
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running the business i told him i'd help him on the icy roads for his first year
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i've got a pilot truck that i can run i got paperwork i can do for the winter until i fire
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right up in the spring uh most excitingly i'm gonna go to calgary for november 9th 19th sorry
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19th of november jamie soleil and theo flurry um it was what a couple months ago you and i were in
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calgary for the for the grand opening for canadians for truth for joseph for go um yeah i get to be on
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that show on 19th for for jamie and theo's fire and ice episode so i'm excited it's going to be
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kind of cool tickets are on sale now of um i think it's called event right war through canadians
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for truth.com i believe yeah that um i was saying to beforehand uh anytime you get on stage i you
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know if i can make it there i i uh not to sound like a fanboy folks but uh and just enjoy the
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conversation because you've seen you know yourself and tamara and tom and i mean you can extend it to
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bridget and and dan bulford i mean daniel uh i almost forgot that he's going to testify how sad
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is that i'm supposed to be having him back on here after he's done as well because uh dan uh has been
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on the podcast multiple times and once again i met him for the first time in ottawa and what a
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beautiful family and and uh man he is um and he'll be very interesting because he has an
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interesting perspective but anytime you guys get on the stage you're one of very few people that
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have such an insight into one of the biggest events in canadian history uh i mean it's sure
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to it's sure to be uh a fantastic listen i would think i mean you're gonna stick you're gonna stick
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theo flurry and jamie slade i laugh because i was on stage with those two and i can't see that
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not being entertaining if nothing else well it's kind of funny i was talking to theo yesterday i
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did this patriot warrior show and just give him a hand with that and he said i said i can't wait
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for it buddy it'll be nice once i get past the nervousness of being on the stage and knowing
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that there's like 200 people watching in the audience and he said well jamie's gonna be the
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that's easy on you i'm the asshole remember that and i hey listen i i used to be nervous at the
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stage and now it kind of i'm saying this the other day it uh it feels almost like a little bit of a
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second home you know this this weekend coming up i'm on the stage with quick dick mcdick and uh
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222 minutes we got a little bit of uh smp presents um a comedy show if you will uh i think it'll be
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followed by a live podcast right so that the the i'm gonna like quick dick in 222 minutes to do
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their thing and then we get up and we we we uh we do a live podcast at the end which should be a ton
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of fun but uh i remember being terrified of the stage and then i don't know something clicked in
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my head maybe where i just uh i decided it was like it was the next rink you know like i played
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hockey all my life it's just the next here's the ice sheet now i get to walk around it instead of
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you know whatever to me just picture big you know picture that redhead you're running away
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with every weekend and you'll be fine you know like uh you get in the comfy chair and you sit
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back and away you go i think you'll be well you'll be a natural your your testimony was fantastic
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yeah i was really i was really happy the way that turned out so i'm hoping it was uh i hope
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we got the right light across i've seen somebody criticizing me the other day on tiktok and i went
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dude i you know like you weren't there but uh everybody's got an opinion right there's a saying
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about that i won't say it because there's some some bad words in this thing but well and the
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other thing is uh chris you're not um it's not like you you haven't had your moments you even
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meant you know we talked about it right early on uh about some things you've released on on
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on uh social media you're kind of like yeah that was that was uh that wasn't inappropriate or you
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just growing and one of the tough things about society right now is uh is allowing you know
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indiscretions from the past right like yeah like that was like five years ago i hope i've grown
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since then or you know etc etc it's just tough because uh uh most people can go back on anyone
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at this point i'm sure if somebody wants to dig something up on the podcast there's almost 400 of
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them now there will be something stupid i said i guarantee it and uh and if they want to pull that
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out of context or just pull it out and say this is what he thinks instead of going to you and
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finding out what you actually think it's easy to really take somebody and put them in a certain
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light and and expose that to the world when instead of just going on out and finding out how
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they actually think as of today um jeremy mckenzie is going to be an interesting guy on the stage
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Because he is a guy that has a lot of things in his closet, so to speak,
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because he's a man who does a three-hour show and likes to drink
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and likes to say things that make us all a little uneasy at times.
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I'll be the first to admit, I've been one of the worst out there,
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probably just as you know, maybe even worse than Jeremy.
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I don't know, but I can tell you, I told this to my son a couple weeks ago.
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I said, you know what, bud, there's one thing I've learned as an adult now,
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I guess maybe going through this experience is be careful what you post on
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I mean, honestly, think before you post because, you know, in the past,
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anybody that knows me, knows my personality, knows what I used to do,
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It's a side that you don't necessarily need to take part in anymore.
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I realize that now, but I told Jonathan, I'm like,
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he'll come back and bite you in the ass someday,
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regardless of how innocent you think it is at the time.
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100% true, and he's not very vocal on social media.
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but they don't post controversial things like their dad did.
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this is maybe one of the things I should have brought up,
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I don't know if you're willing to talk about it, Chris,
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or easy, whichever way it goes, for your family, for your wife, for your kids.
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My family history, you know, I'm a divorced guy.
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I remarried my beautiful wife, Raelle, with her.
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And then, of course, I brought my two children into the mix.
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I've got a beautiful relationship with my ex-wife.
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I've always been something that's something I've always been proud of.
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um my 17 year old daughter was uh was you know almost fell lonely she lives with her mother and
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stuff current when i'm home on the weekends or home whenever she's usually out at the farm but
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now she's 17 she's got a job you know she goes to youth a couple times a week and then and she's on
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on sunday she's busy with church and the family there i don't see her as much as i used to i don't
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think and it's just because she's becoming that teenager the busy teenager so a little bit i gotta
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to put a little more effort into it now i gotta send her the messages i gotta i gotta spend she
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was pretty upset knowing that i was coming to ottawa she was thinking you know last time it
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wasn't such a good experience so i took her out and spent the night with her and had a good time
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my son he's got his own truck now and he's trucking with me i couldn't be prouder of that kid
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he uh he's really stepped up and he's he's really a smart intelligent kid
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my wife would like to go back to the days of old when it was just her and i i know that
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it's definitely hard to have that balance now because you're pulled in 15 different directions
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and she's probably the one that takes the it hits the most i say um so i try and give her those
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nights you know before i flew out here we went to regina we okay went out for supper at red
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lobster in regina and on the way to the bathroom somebody recognized me so um and he was at the
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table a couple times telling me and telling us how you know thanks you know and and this and that
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and it's awesome to see that he bought a supper and my wife was like we can't get a minute you
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know that right she says it with a smile on her face and there's a hint of sincerity there too
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um I took her out for a movie and and uh popcorn and and filled into the hotel that night and I
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give her those nights and at home during the summertime we spend a lot of time on our side
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by side out ripping through the river hills having a gale time a lot of times where we go there's no
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cell service so that makes her even happier so it's a balance i say and uh it's just trying to
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find that balance to fit everybody's needs it's it's tricky i'll be the first to admit that
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well from one canadian to another i certainly do appreciate uh you know you leading the way i i uh
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there's very few things i try and throw too much of a bias behind because uh i try to you know
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state i always say i got my biases i mean i'm not perfect but when it came to uh to to this cause to
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what um the group of you did i think i said it best on the last podcast when it's like why had
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none of us thought about this you know it's it this makes perfect sense my father uh grew up
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trucking and he would always said and i'll say it again you know you want to shut down a country
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piss off the truckers well i think that was done in spades and you saw what happens and uh i mean
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from one canadian to another chris and i i hope one day uh maybe on the 19th of november i'll get
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to calgary and i'll get to see you again but uh do appreciate you hopping on the show and do
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appreciate what uh what you've stood for and i'll be watching um you know as the commission goes on
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because we still got weeks to go uh i'll be continuing to keep up on that but you've brought
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up a good point uh with your with your uh court cases and that coming in 2023 i think there'll
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be a lot of canadians paying close to uh close attention to that uh because i think i would
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love nothing more than to have you be able to speak freely again and uh not worry about uh
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conditions and you know different things that can get you you know in a real pickle you know
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yeah yeah i've been i've been extremely careful i've done everything in my power to you know to
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to watch what happens i'm hoping i like i said it's something that i don't sleep well with the
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night knowing that i had that over my head but um coming from my past i have uh you know as much of
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an ass as i've been on social media i've never been arrested before i've never been in the back
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of a police car i've never been in a jail cell before so a lot of things have happened in the
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last year that have changed the dynamics of me quite a bit i'd have to say but it is what it is
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and we're here for the long haul so all right on well chris i'll let you get back to uh your
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morning and make sure that uh you uh or make sure you get back to uh uh you know the testimony
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that's coming up here very shortly but i appreciate you giving me some time this morning
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making this work when you're back out in saskatchewan make sure to shoot me a line
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because i'd love to take you for a beverage if you're in if you and big redder are cruising
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through the border city if i ever get there buddy i will definitely call you i just see you have a
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text me here now saying hey where are you we're walking over to the courthouse so it's an infamous
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walk we do each morning where we get to come down the street tamara and i am in heaven so
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awesome thanks for having me on today sean was much appreciated it's good to see you
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you bet good to see you as well thanks thanks chris take care man be safe guys
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