Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Three weeks ago, north of
Speaker 1: the border, a new kind of protest emerged. The trucker
Speaker 1: convoy has arrived in Ottawa. This city, in the downtown corps,
Speaker 1: remains gridlocked. Some residents here say that they really can
Speaker 1: take no more. So I traveled to Ottawa expecting to
Speaker 1: find some Canada nice but their messaging was a bit
Speaker 1: more coarse. These trucks shut down businesses and made roads impassable.
Speaker 1: Can I go? I go around here? How do I?
Speaker 1: How do I get around? But? How long were the
Speaker 1: protesters planning to paralyze Canada's cape best city? David? How
Speaker 1: long you been here? I've been here since day one,
Speaker 1: holding down the fort pretty much. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: I'm coming in from New York. I go by Brooklyn's
Speaker 1: kindness on the same baby, you're able to stay here
Speaker 1: up to two years. You're you're committed to be being
Speaker 1: here for two years? Because two years is nothing? Are
Speaker 1: you gonna keep up the energy to be here for
Speaker 1: two problem? People stimulants, the people bring it. I smuggle
Speaker 1: on a weed. Yeah okay, right, yeah, but that's just
Speaker 1: to calm me down, to keep me, keep me centered.
Speaker 1: Are you ordering it all with weed paranoia that might
Speaker 1: creep in? No? No, do you think the government is
Speaker 1: coming for you? Oh? Yeah, costly there are do you you
Speaker 1: like night a little tactics? They try to look, they
Speaker 1: move around, they move in, they add more. Look kind
Speaker 1: of stuff do you haul? I haul everything? In two
Speaker 1: thousand twenty, I haled from food to building supplies to
Speaker 1: medical supply. You have my end table that I ordered
Speaker 1: from Wayfair like three weeks ago. Is probably a city
Speaker 1: either in Montreal or Toronto orders it would really like
Speaker 1: grant in my apartment? So what exactly was the point
Speaker 1: of interrupting the supply chain? So what is this all about?
Speaker 1: You know what? I'm sorry? What is this all a boot?
Speaker 1: This is about our freedoms? Can you be any more generic?
Speaker 1: You know, if you are vaccinated, you get to do
Speaker 1: certain things. If you're not vaccinated, you don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think people should be divided. We should all be together united.
Speaker 1: We're setting up essentially a truck barrier to keep everybody
Speaker 1: together so they can be united. Yes, god, yeah, we
Speaker 1: might as well lock them in. It's sort of like
Speaker 1: a parent who locks the door and says, you guys
Speaker 1: are in here until the water runs out, you become
Speaker 1: friends or democracy crumpas. Yes, And if you're not vaccinated,
Speaker 1: you're literally a second class citizen in this country. I
Speaker 1: can't go to the restaurant, I can't go play hockey,
Speaker 1: I can't go watch the Ottawa Senators. We don't live
Speaker 1: in Germany. We don't live a Nazi Germany. Those days
Speaker 1: are over. To show me your papers don't happen anymore.
Speaker 1: That's a freedom that every should happen. Is the Germany
Speaker 1: comparison a stretch here in Canada? Are you afraid of
Speaker 1: cultural appropriation? Probably American cultural appropriation because we use the
Speaker 1: German excuse all the time. Oddly enough, that wasn't the
Speaker 1: only thing Canadians were appropriating. Yeah, I hate to use
Speaker 1: that slogan, but meg, north America great again? To meet
Speaker 1: North America great again? And I don't mean to you
Speaker 1: who's that guy's word? But it's true, To be honest,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even his. He's told from another guy before Heaven.
Speaker 1: I see the Q army on your head? Is it que?
Speaker 1: The American thing trying to find JFK Jr? Yes? What
Speaker 1: qu ship is going down here? Us? No que is
Speaker 1: amara us. Oh so this isn't like a Yankees hat exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: the que thing might just be a fashion choice, but
Speaker 1: they're definitely reading the same Internet as many Americans. And
Speaker 1: it's laura than just a keen past part. What else?
Speaker 1: The attend to thirty is a good steridy? What's agenda?
Speaker 1: The world's tend towards? Joan government? You want to sterilize?
Speaker 1: I said only certain people can have kid drilling. You're
Speaker 1: afraid the government will sterilize you? Probably not me, but
Speaker 1: down the line. Yeah, but in two weeks of the
Speaker 1: cab of the truck psiting a mountain duke, can camp
Speaker 1: be too good for the sperm production? Probably? Ny? So
Speaker 1: what to do? So Margaret Atwood? Audio books are apparently
Speaker 1: a thing with Canadian truckers, and while shutting down a
Speaker 1: city seems to have many obvious downsides. Hey okay, great,
Speaker 1: Hey hi, Yeah, and you've seen a prius around here,
Speaker 1: sub scene, an opportunity coming from liberal gridlock. The truckers
Speaker 1: are bringing in customers, are bringing in tourists from Montreal,
Speaker 1: from all across Canada. Everybody wants to check this out.
Speaker 1: It's essentially a tourist right now, you can feel the
Speaker 1: tourism in the air, right. You can smell and it
Speaker 1: smells like amphetamines and uh drift or blood. The flood
Speaker 1: of eighteen wheeler driving tourists and their Canadian A f
Speaker 1: outfits created legitimate tension with residents of the city knowing
Speaker 1: what you here. The downtown was shut and there was
Speaker 1: palpable anger directed at local media. There's still lying guys,
Speaker 1: and even at the day A show getting food over here,
Speaker 1: We've been walking around here. Uh, there seems to be
Speaker 1: a real distrust of media here. Well, for sure, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of cameras up in your face, cameras on
Speaker 1: cameras and while Canadian authorities have finally enacted emergency measures
Speaker 1: to try to clear the convoy, so far the trucks
Speaker 1: are still there, and a well funded, never ending street
Speaker 1: party infused with misinformation and nationalism feels remarkably possible in
Speaker 1: our own land of the free. Where does this movement
Speaker 1: and go from here? I believe it's going to be worldwide.
Speaker 1: It's gonna come to America. Yes, definitely think this is
Speaker 1: inspiring the dick heads of America. Part of me, this
Speaker 1: is inspiring the dick head to America. It's inspiring ful
Speaker 1: of America to join together to stand for freedom. Okay,
Speaker 1: if they do come to America, then maybe I'll finally
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