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May 12, 2022 - Raging Dissident

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HOUSE ARREST ep 31 - TOPPINATOR TWO (James Topp)

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	Okay, everyone, it's the end of day 79, and we are well into Ontario.
	We're on Burma Road in the Trans Canada, just outside of Kenora, Ontario.
	So, we're going to call the day a 40-kilometer kind of day, 40-ish, just with the festivities at the Ontario-Manitoba border and meeting various folks.
	And got a meeting tonight virtually with my budget and Veterans of Freedom.
	So I'm going to go get that done, and then we're going to fire it up again tomorrow, see how far we get.
	And we're on our way to Ottawa, folks.
	We're in Ontario, full reel.
	So have a good one.
	You know, multiple folks have come forward to help and be a part of this.
	And it's just been incredible to witness it and be a part of it and be on the receiving end.
	You know, yeah.
	I can see it in your face, man.
	I can see it's really taking an impact on you and you're emotional about it.
	And that's awesome because that speaks to the character of Canada.
	This is not just me doing this.
	This is about a number of Canadians who feel the same way I do, who are adding their voice to mine in a number of different ways.
	They're contacting their members of parliament.
	They're writing their own letters.
	And a lot of them are expressing interest in joining me in Ottawa.
	So they're also, should they say, completely ignore us, they're basically nose-up to a segment for population of veterans and Canadians alike.
	And they're saying, we're not interested in you or anything you have to say.
	And I think the optics of that are going to speak.
	And it's going to definitely change something.
	That is...
	That is James Toppin.
	He's back.
	He's the Toppinator.
	We're going to do Toppinator 2 here.
	Happy to have James back here.
	Can you still hear me?
	Which is what I wanted.
	Getting a fishy connection.
	How you doing?
	Sorry, I lost you there for a second.
	Got kind of a poor connection here, but we'll work around it.
	It's all good.
	How are you?
	How are you making out?
	I'm doing pretty good.
	We got into Ontario.
	We made it across the prairies.
	I think the last time we talked, we had just gotten new to Alberta.
	And, you know, we're across, or how do I, I can't remember.
	This whole experience is like being in the edge of a black hole.
	It's never ending.
	Time and space is just distorted in ways I can't possibly explain.
	Well, I definitely would agree with that.
	You've definitely transcended dimensions here.
	I don't know what kind of world you're in now.
	Most of us will never know.
	Oh, it's nuts.
	It's nuts.
	By the way, rumors of my incarceration are greatly exaggerated.
	I've heard that.
	Yeah, someone messaged me that last night while I was doing my podcast.
	I was like, did you hear what happened to James?
	You got arrested.
	I said, no, that's impossible.
	That can't happen.
	Yeah, no.
	No, what it is, is I think the DND, there was a, as I understand it, a press release from a public affairs officer in Ottawa.
	Put that out there.
	Kind of a delayed reaction on their part because they probably weren't following my journey until I got over the border there.
	So they're like, released the fact that I've been charged to Council 129 under the National Defense Act.
	And that was something that went back to February with those two videos.
	One with TikTok, another one that went out on at the rally.
	And so that's, you know, that's old news just been released.
	I don't know why they would have waited that long, but maybe they didn't want to give me the publicity too early on.
	I thought it was funny because I've...
	This is on your slideshow.
	Yeah, I thought it was funny that they chose now all of a sudden to finally, and they didn't acknowledge anything else.
	Just barely your name.
	I was saying last night, not even a picture of the man, nothing.
	It's like, you know, they obviously know who you are.
	They must have looked at this and then went, you know what?
	Nah, I'm just going to put up this stock photo of a sideways Canadian.
	Doesn't it drive you nuts?
	It's one of those shoulder shots of just a random uniform with the flag sideways or threads going everywhere.
	You're just like, oh, for God's sakes.
	This is the bare minimum amount of attention.
	Well, we'll let anybody pay attention to it.
	Yeah.
	Well, and that's all they could do.
	And your video outside of Winnipeg CBC, did you talk to any of them?
	Did they even come out to speak to you or was it just so I had a video?
	I had a picture of the notice on the front door of the building, which I don't know if I uploaded it or not.
	Basically, it basically says due to COVID-19, only people with appointment who are allowed access can go into the building.
	So it's basically locked.
	And you go to the front door, and of course, it's like that.
	There's this notice there, right?
	but it's not open to the public.
	Right.
	Yeah, your connection went pretty wild there for a minute.
	You went kind of slow motion, but it seems okay.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So I tried to get in.
	I don't know if you got that last part.
	A bit of it.
	Basically, it sounded like because COVID, we don't care who you are and go away.
	That's what it sounded like.
	Make an appointment, make an appointment, and then yeah.
	Make an appointment, I'm sure.
	Yeah.
	But that's basically what the sign on the door.
	So, you know, we stood outside, did the little video.
	We got ghosted by a CTV news newsman later that day, actually, as we were heading out of Regina.
	So they didn't see you or they talked to you or they just avoided you?
	They just rolled past.
	They rolled past the RV.
	Did they bury their heads in shame?
	Go, oh, that's the guy.
	Don't let him see us and kill us all.
	No, I don't know, man.
	It's bizarre.
	The whole thing is so bizarre.
	So yeah, that's the kind of I was getting all kinds of messages yesterday because, you know, I guess it got released or reported yesterday.
	And, you know, I want to just, you know, with your help and a bunch of other people, just put this rumor to rest that this is like, you know, I'm not in jail.
	We're all good.
	The internet's a wild place like that.
	I think it's because they said you were charged and, you know, civilians don't understand what that means militarily.
	Like they just criminal charges, right?
	And assume you were arrested.
	I think it was done for that reason too, right?
	Like, I mean, as far as good journalism goes, it's obviously not being practiced in that.
	Let me let me back that up a little bit, not by Global or CTV because nobody contacted me from those organizations.
	However, I was contacted by a guy, a Canadian press, who I'm going to be talking to later this afternoon.
	Right.
	Yeah, that's kind of how they like to, that's how they kind of like to do things.
	I've done that with lots of people, myself included.
	And first, they'll find something that they can use that makes you look bad.
	And then as you're referenced again in the future, they always start with that.
	You know what I mean?
	They would be like, oh, here's James Topp, who's currently being charged with these offenses in the military.
	It's like, oh, great.
	So we've set the stage where, you know, this is just, it's a greasy thing to do.
	And we were joking on the podcast and some of the other guys, they're like, man, if someone was walking across the country in support of genocide, I would at least be like, well, I respect the effort.
	At least acknowledge, you know, how far someone's willing to go.
	And they, you know, they won't even acknowledge that you exist at this point, which is, well, I guess they've done that, but not what you're doing.
	Oh, yeah, they know I exist.
	Sure they do, and I'm sure there's more.
	Yeah.
	It's the elephant in the room.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, maybe we kind of share this to a degree is that I don't know if you're aware of, you know, the meme country of Diagalon seems to be the, which I invented once when I was stoned, is apparently one of the primary causes for the Emergency Measures Act.
	And we were laughing about, I still laugh about it, that I'm like, somebody in really high levels of power are talking about this.
	Like, it's something to worry about.
	And now yourself, I guarantee, at the highest parts of the DND, they're like, what are we doing about this?
	How do we handle this?
	It's funny when you can just do something so simple.
	It's just me on my own like you're doing.
	And it just, the ripple effect goes all the way to the top.
	It's, it's to say that I have used, yeah, well, to say that I have used the word astonish and, you know, astonishing.
	And, you know, to say that I've overused those words in the last two years would be an understatement.
	But this, the reaction.
	There you go.
	Yeah, our government is no problem at all putting together a board of inquiry at short notice on something that doesn't exist as opposed to the impacts that something has had on all our lives.
	Let's not do an inquiry on that.
	Right.
	Let's not find that.
	And that's something else I've been talking about.
	Like why there's all of these people aren't so upset and protesting and all like you've done something wrong somewhere.
	You know, in a leadership position where people are virtually revolting, your first move should be, well, what's the problem?
	Not destroy them.
	I mean, that's not really generally a sign of benevolent leadership that cares about you and your welfare.
	Its initial reaction is crush these people rather than even bother to talk to them or acknowledge what their grievances are or anything like that.
	I got a couple of messages here for you.
	We got this one, this one guy.
	I'm going to say he's 613.
	It sounds like Ontario.
	His name is 613 Bigot.
	It says, you're an inspiration to a young man like myself.
	Whenever I'm doing anything difficult or I'm ready to quit, I tell myself, James Topp is still marching, but I give it my all.
	I look forward to shaking your hand when you arrive in Ottawa.
	Yeah, there's a lot of that.
	I've been saying that for a while.
	Yeah, I've been saying that for a while.
	That was kind of the, like, the first time we spoke, I was like, I was out doing pull-ups and stuff in the basement.
	I was like, I don't want to be doing this right now, but I was going to talk to you in half an hour.
	It's like, I'm not in the mood to do 10 pull-ups.
	This man's marching across the country.
	He's doing it right now.
	I can do some pull-ups for half an hour.
	So I just effectively shame myself into doing something because, you know, what you're doing is absolutely insane.
	Harris, another friend of mine in P.E.I.
	Have you guys talked to him?
	Not sure.
	He says, thank you for acknowledging this amazing human exists.
	How can you not?
	How can you not?
	Oh, did we lose him?
	We may have.
	Danced to hear me?
	They're in the black hole.
	Check here.
	Thank you.
	No, they're still connecting.
	But I don't hear much of anything.
	I'll give it a minute and see if they come back.
	He's in the black hole of the Dryden Ontario area.
	There's very reported signal interior.
	I can still hear him.
	James, still there?
	There you go.
	I can see you again.
	Thank you.
	Old Canada.
	I'm still here, yep.
	Okay.
	Yeah, sorry.
	I didn't get that.
	I didn't hear that last message.
	I got cut off.
	Yeah, I don't know what happened.
	It's not a news, bro.
	I can't remember.
	Yeah, I'm just going to resize these windows here.
	There's always an issue with the internet, you know, no matter what I'm doing.
	It's like it's an infamous, nothing ever goes smoothly.
	I don't know why, but this is.
	Well, I gotta say, we're on the outskirts of civilization here as well.
	Yeah.
	But I mean, look at the view.
	It is beautiful in that area.
	What's the best part that you've liked so far, terrain-wise?
	Oh, well, BC kind of had it.
	It was really was good.
	I mean, I've always kind of been partial to the mountains.
	They are beautiful.
	This is Lando, the lakes here.
	The prairies are something special as well.
	But it's nice to get back into some terrain.
	Yeah, I imagine.
	It would be kind of hard in the head, I think, to be just marching that long over just nothingness like that.
	Like at any point in your head where you're like, I feel like the Germans in Operation Barbarossa or something just marching across Russia endlessly.
	Every single day.
	Every single day.
	Man.
	I was like, I was like, there was a couple of times while Christian, he's got the camera right now.
	But we came into onset of winter part two in Saskatchewan and kind of Eastern Alberta there.
	And we got the sky through there.
	There was just whiteness and this kind of two vague looking great lines in the horizon.
	And I was like, I turned to him.
	I'll never forget this because I said, this is, if this is what purgatory, we must, we might well be in purgatory.
	There's just no time.
	There's no space.
	There's nothing.
	It's just the endless void.
	Wow.
	And you conquered it.
	That's crazy.
	Just mentally.
	And like, I can't imagine.
	And crystallized eyes blowing right into your face.
	And the challenge with that too.
	I mean, I'm sure other people can like, it's different when you talk to other infantry guys.
	It's funny that you just can say certain things and you'll just laugh because you know how horrible it is without anyone explaining it.
	And just the idea that like when you're in like, so where you're at now or any kind of regular, you know, terrain, you can pretend and lie to yourself that you're almost there.
	You know what I mean?
	Like around this corner, over this, you know, we're almost there.
	Not in the prairies, you can't because you open your eyes and it's just this over the head.
	You will never get anywhere.
	It's like a bad dream where you just two more horizons.
	Just walk off the face of the earth several times and you'll get there.
	Yeah.
	My goodness.
	I can't imagine.
	And I've heard you're up two foot sizes now.
	I've never heard of this happening.
	My foot story is pale in comparison.
	I've got a couple of nasty ones.
	Well, I like to compare it to the Grinch You Stole Christmas.
	So I think I might have told you that last time.
	I stopped hating myself and my heart grew three sizes and so did my feet.
	Yeah, that's a side effect.
	It's just going to get you there faster.
	You're evolving, sir.
	That's what's going on.
	Yeah.
	Cyberdyne had your feet replaced with the new T2000 implants.
	Yeah, what an insane.
	I mean, the worst I ever had to do was cut off a toenail.
	But I mean, that was, you know, there's always, there's always that.
	Every infantry guy I know has a horrible foot story.
	Like there's something that went horribly wrong at some stage in his career.
	Something happened, right?
	It's funny.
	And yeah, I had to cut off a toenail.
	It's one of those.
	Well, the feet.
	Yeah.
	My feet are the real heroes in all of them.
	And that's the most important thing.
	I've been put through a lot, but you know, they're coming around.
	It's the most important thing to take care of.
	And you went through three pairs of shoes, I've heard now.
	Oh, Morton.
	How do you not have a shoe sponsorship at this point?
	This is outrageous.
	Well, I would welcome it, but they don't want to hear what I have.
	Again, anyone that's just out there, if you're listening, I'm just saying, being the shoe, you know, being the sponsor, you know, what are the ones the most guys were the hiking shoes?
	Whatever it is, right?
	You could be the company that carried James Topp to Ottawa.
	He could be doing commercials for you.
	But no, no, there's probably no money in it there for you at all.
	Don't worry about it.
	Somebody's going to pay attention one of these minutes.
	No, nothing happening here.
	Don't need to.
	And this just kind of proves.
	Something about quantum physics.
	And this just kind of proves the point to a bit where it was like, it's confirming what a lot of us felt as veterans, especially, that we're not appreciated really in the ways that a lot of guys feel as though they don't even get a right to an opinion.
	It doesn't matter.
	There's a sense, especially from the state and the government, that it's like, what have you done for me lately?
	Kind of a feeling.
	And then once you're all used up, they just kind of throw you away.
	And that's that.
	And nothing speaks more to that than, you know, they've got the Veterans for Freedom group, which is, you know, great in what you're doing.
	And all of those years combined sacrifices and, you know, battle wounds and everything else, what does that, all of that add up to with all of those guys?
	And they can't even be given the time of day to have an interview or ask, you know, what their grievances are.
	If you can't, if they don't have valid opinions or something that's worth listening to in the name of where the country's going and the opinion of all these guys that have like fought, literally fought wars for it, then what are we, what's going on?
	Yeah, we're getting lip surface at this point.
	Yeah.
	So just to just to let you guys know, or everybody knows watching, so we do have a pretty strong partnership going with Veterans for Freedom.
	And they're the ones that are spearheading, you know, organizing events in Ottawa for us.
	And I suspect, you know, it's my intent anyway, once, you know, as long as I get the approval of the directing committee at Vets for Freedom, you know, I just want to amalgamate, you know, this kind of my organization with theirs so that we can really become a, you know, really robust organization.
	I think that's.
	And that will probably happen.
	It's crazy that you're physically like merging them.
	Like we'll be there in Ottawa and you'll just bring everyone with you and then we'll just be in the same place.
	I'm like, they're done.
	Yeah.
	Form up.
	That's the fastest.
	Yeah, that's the fastest posting I've ever, well, maybe not for you, but for the rest of us, we don't have nearly as far to go on foot.
	Yeah, they're great.
	I was at their first time.
	No, go ahead.
	It's like sending messages to the moon.
	That's where he is in Northwest Ontario.
	It's crazy out there.
	Don't break down or you may die.
	There's nothing.
	There's no cell towers.
	There's so like lack of service.
	That's the funny thing, too, driving through that area.
	I've never seen so many abandoned motels in my life.
	There's just creepy, like abandoned murder hotels all over the place.
	Like, you know, the motels off the side of the highway.
	I don't know how many there is, but.
	Well, the state of the economy has not been good for northern Ontario.
	Yeah, there hasn't been a lot of traveling through there, I don't think, especially when gas prices are.
	That's the real reason.
	So everyone wants to know, like, why did he choose to rock all the way to Ottawa?
	It's because you used your power of wisdom and foresight and go, well, it's going to be way cheaper than driving.
	Gas is going to be $2 a liter here in a couple of months.
	So I'm just going to march there.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's nuts.
	It's nuts.
	But I mean, there's, it's been a journey.
	And I've really, you know, I have to say, despite the physical hardship and everything and sometimes, you know, the stress of, you know, I was kind of concerned getting across the prairies about my timings and whether I was going to make my target date, but I have a pretty good feeling about it now.
	I think so.
	I spoke to another guy.
	He was a soft operator, an assault actually, and was like, he wants to want to be there at the end of the end of June, you know, maybe for Canada Day or something, but he's not sure if he's going to make his other commitments.
	And he said, I wish this fucking guy would slow down.
	He's going too fast.
	I want to be there.
	Just slow down a little bit.
	I don't think he'll go faster or anything.
	He seems to be picking up speed, if anything.
	I can't imagine how, I mean, just the mental challenge of it alone, let alone, which is probably much more difficult.
	You know, I said last night, I was like, he probably doesn't want to be doing this.
	Like, who's, who looks, who looks forward to that?
	Like, oh, you know what?
	I want to do this winter, spring, and summer is march across the country in all weather conditions and destroy my feet, you know, essentially for, you know, yeah, that sounds fun.
	Let's do that.
	It's, it's intense.
	And I can't tell you how inspiring and crazy it is.
	That aspect of it is definitely there.
	But the other thing is that, you know, the folks I've met along the way and the encouragement and the support, you know, it's like pretty amazing to witness.
	I had been thinking about it and I'm hoping, you know, I'm not going to jinx myself when I say this, but, you know, at this point, about it's probably going to, it might change a little bit here in this area, but crossing the prairies about a minimum of four times a day, somebody would pull over and jump out and say, thank you for doing this.
	You know, you're inspiring and just, you know, congratulate me and the team and thank, you know, God, you know, offering a donation or, you know, put us up for the night.
	Like it's just at this point after 82 days, I can say hundreds of people now I have encountered on a day-to-day basis who have done that.
	And the amount of people.
	So guess how many people have pulled over to say, you know, with a cogent and coherent argument, you know, please stop what you're doing.
	So guess how many?
	I'm going to guess two.
	How about zero?
	Okay.
	Yeah, that makes four cents.
	Nobody.
	I was being too generous.
	I thought some of them might have the balls, but I guess not.
	I guess not.
	And that's with the limited media exposure that you guys have gotten.
	I mean, outside of alternative media and podcasters and stuff like that, and yourselves advertising it, like there's no, you know, if this received the coverage that it deserves national media attention, it wouldn't be hundreds of people that had stopped.
	It would be tens of thousands.
	I mean, look at the convoy demonstrations.
	They tried to pretend like to be there on the ground and to drive there and see everybody in support of it on the way versus what they're saying, you know, the pretend reality they're trying to carve out on TV is it's jarring.
	It's so much the opposite of what's actually happening that it's bizarre to live in.
	So how do you feel about that?
	Because, you know, what's it like to it's like you know this is a big, like, this is a crazy, this is a big deal.
	And they're just straight pretending like you don't exist.
	Well, I don't, I, I expected it.
	I honestly, I didn't expect to get much attention.
	And to be honest, I was expecting a lot of negative attention.
	And, you know, it's, I have to say, too, that, you know, I spend all day doing this and I haven't really watched television or been immersed in the media info stream really in any way.
	That's probably good.
	It's probably a good thing.
	And it's great.
	It's amazing.
	You know, it is pretty incredible.
	It's pretty good.
	what's really crazy is that you're doing two things at once.
	Like, you're doing what I do, but you're also marching across the country at the same time.
	So I feel even more pathetic now.
	I just sit here and talk all day and you be while conquering the nation with a ruckback on.
	Way to make me look bad.
	Well, I mean, I only do this for having that disconnect from the screen.
	I have to say, you know, my reaction is that they can say whatever they want because I don't care.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	If you don't pay attention to it, it doesn't affect you.
	Exactly.
	That's just the easiest way to do it.
	I mean, people do it all the time.
	You see them taking breaks from.
	I'm leaving Facebook because, you know, or I'm deactivating my, it's like, yeah, man, it's very toxic.
	Like, it's normal.
	You should take a break for a while or, you know, limit it at all or something.
	It's not easy on the head for sure.
	And I mean, I'm, you know, we all people that are, they love to attack us.
	You know what I mean?
	I put up with shit like crazy and I'm sure there's, you know, that kind of thing.
	And it can kind of throw your whole day off sometimes when you, when you get just nasty shit.
	So it's better to just not even engage.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, man.
	So you're coming up towards Dryden.
	I saw you were out in the rain all day.
	How does this compare to like, I don't want to say your worst day, but I guess nobody's trying to kill you.
	So, I mean, it's not that bad.
	I was trying to, I was thinking of the question as I was talking as I was speaking.
	I was just, how difficult is this compared to like whatever the rest, you know, your, what would you, comparatively in your career, is there anything that even?
	Oh, yeah.
	It's just like, it's just like managing a platoon or a section.
	Like, so basically there's 10 of us on the ground right now.
	And then there's and then I got, you know, an online division.
	And it's like everything that I've done in the military prepared me for this in a way.
	So thank you for that.
	You know, I got a 2IC.
	I got an opso.
	Perfect.
	He triple and quadruple hats as a camera operator and finance operator and everything.
	He's the CQ.
	Yeah.
	And then, you know, I got morale officer and flag bearer.
	You know, so you're on the long it's just the longest Nav X ever.
	Oh, yeah, it's an actual photographer right there.
	Yeah.
	What kind of qualification badge do you get for this?
	Like, what does that look like?
	Because this is something to pin to a uniform somewhere.
	You get it.
	Yeah, you get for your CFs.
	You get a little sleeve thing with two warm-up boots on it.
	It's just a bloody destroyed foot.
	I wouldn't imagine, I could see this being like an annual thing for some people.
	You know, once this is over, like I wouldn't be next year, there may be people that want to recreate this or try it, you know, like as a challenge and they'll try and beat your time.
	Do you think about stuff like that?
	I got to make the best possible time because someday somebody else is going to try and do this too, and they're going to try to beat my record.
	Just a competitive.
	I want to make the best time.
	I have divided my thought patterns up.
	You know, typically because I've been severely institutionalized because everything is.
	I know what that's like.
	Everything is in a.
	So, you know, my thought patterns are divided up into near, middle, and far ground.
	So in the near ground, all I care about in the near ground is getting some lunch.
	You know, far ground is putting my head down or sorry, middle ground is putting my head down tonight.
	And then far ground is what we're going to do in Ottawa and beyond.
	So as you know, you kind of break everything up like that, it gets more indistinct the further out you look, right?
	So it's kind of like it's funny that you mentioned that because I was kind of thinking about, you know, how about 40K out of Ottawa, you know, we'll make that an annual thing for veterans.
	Yeah.
	40K marching to the War Memorial.
	Yeah, it's something that a lot of guys have to, I mean, we're talking about it, like how, what this is going to look like or feel like or, you know, and I've mentioned this to several people.
	This is how, this is just my opinion.
	This is what I think, you know, how it should go.
	But, you know, a bunch of the guys will be there and march into the city with you.
	But then, you know, for the last few hundred meters, whatever it is, you know, pick an arbitrage, 200 meters, 300, 400 meters.
	I would like to see everyone just line the streets and just be absolutely silent as you've conquered that last few hundred meters on your own.
	Because that's got to be what you think about all the time.
	Just the last, the final, you know, climbing to the top of the mountain.
	I wouldn't want to see anybody, you know, I mean, this is your achievement.
	This is your accomplishment.
	You deserve all of the, you know, guys get emotional thinking about it.
	Just to stand there and watch you complete this would be absolutely insane.
	I won't miss that for anything.
	That's how I think, you know, maybe you'll have a pipe band, you know.
	And then absolute silence, the last little bit would be, would be amazing.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I'm kind of like all I can think of when I put my, I have a limited imagination, okay?
	I can supplement that.
	Yeah, I've got a crazy one.
	Anyway, all I can think of is just, you know, getting to the pocket, pump, and circumstance.
	And I have to tell you, the most thing that I disliked about the army was drill and parades.
	Yeah.
	Like, never.
	You're definitely Patricia there.
	If you're thinking about, you know, some kind of, I don't know, parade.
	If it's remotely parade-oriented, just forget about it.
	Okay.
	No, I would like to just see everybody kind of just be there and just witness it.
	Three racks, maybe.
	Yeah.
	I like getting everybody information because then you, you know, that I can deal with.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But anything else, like, you know, if it involves a paystick, then forget it.
	A lot of RCR guys are very insulted all of a sudden.
	They're just like, oh, how dare you?
	They're clutching their paysticks at home right now.
	I get it.
	These dirty patricians, how dare they?
	So royal traditions.
	You know, they're very proud of that stuff in the RCR.
	It's funny.
	It's funny the discrepancies between certain units.
	All the guys I know from the Patricias are like that.
	They're kind of like, I don't care for any of that shit.
	But it's like a point of pride for a lot of the other guys out east.
	So it's just funny how.
	And then the French are just, you know, who knows what they're up to because they refuse to speak English and they're always doing secret stuff.
	So, but I don't know what the Vando's.
	They're a little weird.
	Ah, they're all our brothers, man.
	We work together all the time.
	You know, we all got our little idiosyncrasies.
	You know, I remember I was, I almost said it.
	I almost said it.
	I was RCR for a few years, right?
	So.
	Yeah.
	Well, too bad.
	Now you can't get rid of us now.
	You've got dual citizenship, so we're going to lay claim to this.
	It's all good.
	Yeah.
	I was about to serve with them.
	You're going to have somebody slip a regimental cipher or something on your bag without you noticing on them before you get into town.
	Yeah, right.
	I'll jump up beside you with the RCR flag.
	Yeah.
	All the Patricians will be mad.
	No, how dare you?
	Well, beat you to it.
	Oh, that's funny.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah.
	And we're looking forward to being there.
	The Vets for Freedom guys are really, everybody's really excited and pumped about this.
	And I think you're quite famous at this point in the ranks in the military.
	We're hearing from people like I talked to one of the guys the other day spinning and they were saying like, yeah, like the OCs are talking about it in their own O groups.
	And it's like, if the major knows what's going on, then everybody in the ranks is talking about it.
	Something like this comes from the bottom up.
	Yeah, that's the one thing I try not to get too wrapped around the axle about this.
	This is something that had to be done.
	You know what I mean?
	The troops got to know that, you know, they're human beings.
	They have rights.
	That's right.
	They deserve to be listened to.
	And, you know, this is what it's about.
	Yeah.
	And I think you're inspiring a lot of guys.
	You're definitely having an effect for sure.
	And I think you're accomplishing exactly what you set out to do, which was that.
	And I mean, me personally, I mean, I'm blown away by this and I'm not even in anymore.
	I can't imagine, you know, seeing this is really, I mean, how do you, you know, we talked about this last night a little bit with some people that, you know, kind of in the in the warrior culture, especially, a lot of the people that you respect most are the ones that have sacrificed the most.
	You know, those are the ones that kind of hold the highest esteem because those are the ones that have given, and, you know, who can say, you know, these, you know, kind of bureaucrat type officers and stuff can say, you know, whatever they want, but did you throw on a rucksack and march across the country on my behalf?
	You know, like it creates a, it's a very difficult legend really to tackle.
	And it's, it's, it's incredibly inspiring to myself and a lot of my friends and all the V4F guys are just, we just, I go on the website every, almost pretty much every day and go, where's he at now?
	Jesus Christ.
	It's insane.
	It's incredible.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's in, I mean, yeah, it's in a way, you know, that was, that's what this is about.
	This is demonstration of what you can do.
	You gotta, you know, you put your mind to it and you focus on what you think you can accomplish.
	I got another.
	I mean, I don't know what else to say about it, except that there's lots of, you know, back in the day, yeah, I gotta, you know, I work with officers who they talk to talk and they walk the walk.
	So they're out there.
	Yeah.
	Oh, they are.
	Oh, yes.
	I know some, I've known some pretty intense guys for sure.
	They're, they're everywhere, yeah.
	But yeah, man, I just, you've become a legend.
	I don't think anything is in multiple military circles at this point.
	This is it's historic to watch, and we're all very much looking forward to seeing you when you get there.
	I got a message from another guy, NYCBit212, says, I heard a rumor that the final round of vetting for V4F is that one of Top's crew shows a picture of you to Top, and he nods yes or no.
	Is this true?
	He just, yes, James will just inspect you visually for three or four seconds and he'll know immediately if you're.
	No, yes, no.
	He sits on a throne of bones and we march them up a mountain and we just know.
	Not worthy.
	Yeah.
	Listen, if you're a vet and you wore the cop badge and whatever you did, you're all right.
	Yeah, and we're, they're taking everybody from all in.
	And I was told to even foreign service, like American guys, Australian, British, whatever, if you're in the country, send it and you want to get involved, send in an application, veteransforfreedom.ca.
	Fill that out.
	And someone will get back to you.
	There's more applications than they have time to process now.
	There are over a thousand already in a month with very limited time and exposure.
	So I'm doing everything I can to try and get it out, just mention as much as possible.
	And there's a lot of interest in this, a lot.
	And that thousand, I think.
	Soldiers are soldiers.
	It doesn't matter what flag you're under.
	Yeah.
	You're a troop, you're a troop.
	They're all looking forward to they're all interested.
	There's a lot of people interested.
	And I heard a I don't want to say It's probably more than a rumor, but between April 2021 and this past 122, the CF is letting go 10,000 personnel, which is.
	I mean, I can tell them how they can get 10,000 back.
	How would they do that?
	Oh, look, listen, like I said, I'm not even getting any press coverage.
	And again, I get, I'm, I've, you know, hundreds of people have not been giving me support since I started this.
	So, hey, look, don't throw me out.
	And I'll recruit some dudes for you.
	I'm like, I can't do that.
	And you...
	And do that.
	You can single-handedly solve the attrition problem of the Canadian force.
	Like, that's what's in the rucksack.
	That's quite the powerful stick you're wielding.
	Let me stay and I will make it stop.
	I'll make the bleeding stop.
	That's crazy.
	But yeah, especially with the environment we're going into, the government's rhetoric towards the Russians and everything is really, you know, we're sending them weapons and guns and money and all of this stuff.
	We're all but participating in the war against the Russian Federation.
	And at this time, you want to let thousands and thousands and thousands of people go.
	It's the same, you know, it's almost self-destructive.
	It's almost, it feels like at times you have to feel like, is this intentional?
	Like, are they intentionally this stupid?
	Like during, you know, over the previous year or so, they were firing healthcare staff for their vaccination status.
	Like, well, you're in the middle of a situation with your healthcare and you're firing your critical people.
	Now you want to go into a war and fire a fifth of your military.
	Right.
	Well, allow me, if I may.
	Sure.
	To draw an analogy.
	So any bureaucracy is filled with thinking people.
	Right?
	And these people, how do I say these people?
	I mean us, okay?
	So I don't know how much of you caught.
	It broke up there.
	It said thinking people.
	And then I was like, well, we hope.
	Well, they are.
	We're all human beings.
	We all have thoughts and dreams and hopes and fears and everything.
	And we have to acknowledge that.
	But when you smash them together into a bureaucracy, collectively, it's capable as a collective mind of suffering and sadness.
	That's a fact.
	Despite the fact that individual minds compose the entity, the entity itself that is composed of all these individual minds can suffer a mental breakdown.
	And I think that's what's happening.
	You think it's like a collective state of kind of mental breakdown, like systemically?
	Oh, we lost him again.
	Essentially, yeah.
	Yeah, I do.
	Yeah, and that's a collective mental breakdown.
	That's something I think is fun because there's always, you know, the conspiracy theory, you know, these kinds of things.
	And there's definitely an element to that.
	I don't disagree with that at all.
	There's definitely people that have a vested interest in seeing this country go the way that it is.
	But the majority of these people, I think, are honestly just confused and don't know what they're doing.
	And they're afraid and under pressure.
	And they're just making bad decisions.
	And it's just kind of group thing.
	And we've both seen it in the military happen.
	And what's it all held together by?
	It's not held together by any kind of spirit of unit pride or national pride anymore.
	It's held together by fear.
	Exactly.
	Which just adds to the, you know, folks don't want to speak up because they're afraid.
	They're afraid of, you know, they're afraid of getting sick.
	They're afraid of losing their jobs.
	They're afraid of getting ostracized.
	They're afraid of getting a bad PER, right?
	Or getting charged.
	Yeah.
	And I had this thought the other day or a little while ago that like almost, it's almost like, because people, a lot of people lament, especially the women these days, they're like, where did all the men go?
	Everyone's gotten soft and weak.
	And, you know, it's a weak generation of people and this kind of thing.
	And it's almost as though like strength itself being sucked out of a people in a society is so badly detrimental to it that it'll destroy you.
	And now you've got entire generations of people in positions of power who should be the strongest to have the moral courage and strength to say, no, this is incorrect.
	We're not going to do this.
	If we had those people, we wouldn't have made it this far, but they're just too afraid to do their, I mean, you've got all these, like the premiers, for example, do their, you know, whatever decisions they take.
	And I wouldn't be surprised if someone's like, well, who's he?
	He said that.
	They're doing this over there.
	Okay, we better do that.
	It's like a group, you know, a groupthink fear response or something.
	And there's just nobody to.
	Yeah.
	The group, the group mind.
	And then you have that thrown in into the mix.
	Okay.
	It's these overlapping policies and procedures that kind of hem you in cognitively.
	So you can't even thinking outside the box.
	What?
	That doesn't happen anymore.
	Yeah.
	It's like you must be in the box.
	Yeah.
	You must be in the box.
	Otherwise, you're not going to get your, you're not going to get that PR point in a way.
	It's crazy how just different people think differently.
	And it doesn't occur to them that that's even.
	I don't want to date myself.
	I don't want to date myself.
	And I don't really like referring to pop culture a lot, but there was a little movie and a Metabotomy.
	And that movie was RoboCop 2. It wasn't Terminator 2. Damn it.
	I'll allow it.
	Well, okay.
	Okay.
	the reason why is because RoboCop, he suffered a calamity at the beginning of the movie, was put back together by a corporation and was unable to function due to conflicting and diametrically opposed programming that was installed in him.
	In order for him to sort himself out, he went to a power station and short-circuited his own brain, thereby resetting himself.
	So that is why it has personal meaning to me.
	Interesting.
	Huh, that's a crazy analogy.
	I never thought.
	Even though it wasn't the greatest movie, but I mean, come on.
	Yeah, it's interesting when you're that confused.
	It's like, well, we'll just reset to default and go from there.
	So there you go.
	We can save ourselves.
	Need to get every citizen in the country to sit down and watch RoboCon 2. The secrets of feeling the nation.
	Yeah.
	It was RoboComp the whole time.
	All we needed to do is.
	We'll start a new campaign.
	And we'll say we have the secret.
	Yeah.
	And then you go, and then they're like that.
	And we're like, well, I don't know.
	Listen, if you don't do Robocomp 2, you're going to get Terminator 2. And that's way more.
	Play the first 10 minutes of that.
	Is that what you want?
	You want Robocomp stepping on heads?
	No, I don't either.
	This has to be reset now before we go off a dark path to some kind of sci-fi dystopia where there's robots.
	We'll get a bus.
	We'll put a little screen in there.
	You want to know the secret?
	Should everybody RoboCup too?
	Are you saying I have to go electrocute myself?
	Maybe, yeah.
	You might have to.
	We'll have a charging station.
	We'll just be like, yeah, come here.
	We'll just chalk you back to.
	It's a little technical.
	Strange medical procedure.
	Yeah, we've cured it.
	We just got to electrocute you.
	We've got a battery.
	We've got a truck battery hooked up out back.
	And well, that guy used to be a medic, you know, 25 years ago in Cyprus, right?
	Was that where it was?
	I don't know.
	He's an old guy, but he'll take care of you.
	fun.
	Bye.
	Didn't catch that.
	Oh, we lost the connection there again.
	Tin foil.
	Yeah, I lost you there for a second.
	The connection.
	You still hear me?
	Wait till that catches up.
	Poopa platter, thanks for that.
	Greg Knight, thank you very much.
	And BC Big as well.
	BC is an amazing country, that's for sure.
	I got to get out there and visit it soon.
	Danger still there?
	I can hear him.
	I can hear him walking.
	Maybe you can't hear me.
	This is the internet.
	Oh.
	Oh.
	Thank you.
	There we go.
	Went through a dead spot.
	It could have been Skynet.
	I hate driving through the part of Ontario.
	So, just, I don't know.
	It'll probably be easier.
	The first time wasn't so bad, but later on it got it.
	James, can you still hear me?
	Come back a little bit.
	I can still hear him.
	We'll wait till the chat catches up.
	Oh.
	Yeah, Jim Freedom said he got short-circuited by telco.
	That could be.
	Maybe they short-circuited him.
	Bandwidth is low.
	No kidding.
	Yeah, if anybody has any questions, hopefully we'll be able to get it back here in a moment.
	Entrystream.live slash raging distant.
	You can go there and send a message if you'd like.
	Oh, can you hear me?
	Yeah, yeah, man.
	Are we back?
	Yeah.
	You went through one of Ontario's many communication triangles of death.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's going to be interesting, too.
	I don't know how because there's a part there.
	I think you're going south, obviously, through that.
	I can't remember the name of the highway, but the one that skirts the lakes there.
	Are you taking that way yet?
	Are you going the other way through Timmins?
	Okay.
	And you'll be there just in time for the bugs, which is going to be interesting.
	Oh, yeah.
	Character building.
	You have to battle the government's army of insects they're going to send after you now, too.
	The weather machine didn't work.
	So there's multiple machines that they use to turn on.
	The weather machine is one of them to try and break morale.
	That one didn't work.
	So now they're going to send the bugs.
	We'll see if that works.
	I got a message here from Buy Seeds.
	Thank you very much.
	It says, thank you, James, for heeding the call in your heart to do something truly incredible for our country and future generations.
	Millions of Canadians are rooting for you.
	Slash salute to you and your entire team for making this historic march happen.
	You bring hope to all who stand for freedom, lest we forget our beloved veterans and all they did and still do.
	Thank you for that.
	Mr. or Mrs. Seeds.
	See where you can hear me.
	You still there?
	Another one.
	We're in a dead spook.
	I heard that last one.
	Oh, you did?
	Thank you very much.
	Oh, good.
	Excellent.
	Yeah, the connection's pretty spotty.
	Let's see what's going on.
	The ferryman's toll says, how much character can one man build?
	That's a good question.
	Sky's the limit.
	Oh, they're going silent there again.
	James is now, let's see where he's at.
	I'll check his GPS.
	Where are we going here?
	We'll just go on the website and see.
	Let's see if it catches up on its live ground tracker.
	So this is where you'll know to not go if you want good sell service or anything like that.
	There you go.
	Pass Canora on the way to...
	458.
	Oh, it hasn't updated.
	Or has it?
	It was from last evening.
	Somewhere on the road here.
	maybe it hasn't even updated his GPS because the signal is so bad.
	There's not even GPS service where he is.
	Oh, you still there?
	The world.
	We're b out of our canora.
	Oh, you're back.
	I don't know if you can hear me the entire time or not.
	You're just coming in and out very briefly.
	Yeah, I can hear you.
	It's coming in and out.
	Yeah.
	But I can still hear you.
	Okay, that's all right.
	Yeah, I was just trying to figure out exactly where you're at.
	The website hasn't updated since last night, it looks like.
	But yeah, it looks like quick.
	Where is Kenora here?
	Ooh, you're a little ways out from Kenora.
	Yeah.
	40 kilometers or so, maybe?
	Yeah, about 30. Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That sounds about right.
	Okay, so my 40k.
	My map reckey skills are not that badly deteriorated yet.
	Oh, there we go.
	There you are.
	Okay, so there we go.
	You're right here.
	We can zoom right in.
	Oh, look at all those lakes.
	That's a lot of insects.
	Look at that.
	Nice.
	That's lovely, everyone.
	Look at all of that.
	Wet.
	Oh, check it out.
	We got the lake right here.
	Wet part of Ontario.
	Oh, I got to go back to the see.
	You can see it here.
	Yeah, I'll go say hi to those folks.
	Sure.
	Just tell them we're live streaming.
	Okay, no problem.
	Okay.
	Got some people waiting for him up here.
	He's the slow motion version of the convoy.
	All the people came out to see the convoy trucks on the overpass, and now they're coming out to see him on foot.
	I imagine there's going to be a lot more as he gets closer.
	There's no way they can avoid this, especially as he gets into the past North Bay, Sudbury area.
	Yeah, I think Sudbury, Sudbury has the potential to be a big deal.
	Yeah, I think so.
	A lot of people are looking forward to that.
	That's the first real, a lot of people I've talked to are looking for, are going to be there whenever you show up.
	They're looking forward to it.
	So I think you'll get a big reception there.
	Thank you.
	Hello.
	What a crazy thing to witness.
	Yes, I am.
	Thank you.
	Hi.
	So happy to meet you.
	Nice to meet you, too.
	Very good.
	Wow.
	Thank you.
	From Port St. John, BC.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, yeah.
	My sister used to live there.
	Hi, how are you doing?
	Ivan.
	Yeah, what's your name?
	Ivan.
	Ivan, nice to meet you.
	Can I walk with you for a bit?
	Yeah, well, I'm just going to, we're going to take a break and then we, yeah, for a while if you want to.
	5K or 10K, can I?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I'll do it.
	Tell them about RoboCop.
	It's going to take 10 minutes and then we can go.
	They need to know about RoboCop.
	We've got to stick with it.
	We're going to get outside of Kenora.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	We're doing it.
	you You So yeah, let's take a break.
	I'll give you a tour of my traveling support unit here.
	Nice.
	Traveling support unit.
	Army guys are fun.
	So here's an RV or a trailer or something.
	It's nope.
	It's a traveling support unit.
	Yeah, here's our logistics.
	This is our CQ.
	Wow.
	I'll just sign out a pop here.
	What is that, Fanta?
	It's an aha.
	An aha?
	I've never even heard such a thing.
	Sparkling water.
	Sparkling water.
	We're going to be really happy.
	I got hooked on it.
	Yeah, she's hooked on it.
	I'm hooked on it service.
	Yeah, we're going to take 10. All right.
	So this is the entrance.
	It's protected by a high-tech security system.
	Is it you?
	Are you the high-security system?
	I'm going to check this button right here.
	Yeah, it's you.
	You're the high-tech security system.
	I knew it.
	Okay, so welcome aboard.
	Beth, meet Jeremy.
	Hello.
	Dallas, hard at work.
	How you doing, man?
	There's a beard.
	Look at that.
	Jeremy's most impressed with your beard.
	He says thank you.
	Excellent.
	I got my swag, just some of my swag here.
	Oh, look at that.
	That's something that a lot of the trucker guys and stuff said in Ottawa, that all the messages and things they would get, the ones that meant the most to them were stuff from, you know, basically families and kids.
	Yeah, and that's the support.
	That's the support I've been getting.
	And yeah, I mean, it's just, this was given to me by a lady back in BC.
	Her little prayer book inside there.
	Wow.
	And this was Veterans Community of British Columbia.
	For this was issued to guys going to World War II.
	Wow, really?
	Yeah.
	Gave me that for the trip.
	It's pretty, pretty amazing.
	Yeah.
	So do you actually allow yourself to sleep inside the RV or the or do you just hooch out in the woods off to the side of the road because you don't want to soften yourself up too much?
	Oh, listen.
	I'm soft.
	Okay.
	Like this is we've been able to bed down pretty much in shelter every night because folks are, you know, offering up their homes and stuff to us and church basements and town halls.
	And to be honest, if I had to hooch you the entire time, I'd still be back in BC.
	Like, I mean, you know, there's, there's what I came to realize is how important this is to a lot of people and they want to be a part of it.
	And initially I had said, you know, this is, this is it.
	I'm just going to do this by myself.
	Yeah.
	And to be honest, I don't, you know, I am confident in my ability to have done it by myself, but then it would have just been me.
	And in order for me to have had the impact that I've had so far, I had to come to grips with the fact that I need to allow other people to be a part of this.
	Yeah.
	It's hard to accept help, too.
	I think that's part of the culture as well.
	It's very difficult to, first of all, asking for help is almost forbidden.
	You almost never can do that.
	And then accepting help, even when it's offered to you, it's like you're instinctively supposed to not want to.
	It is tough.
	But yeah, I mean, there is a ton of people that are just blown away by this and everybody, you know, asking how they can help, how they can.
	Is there anything anywhere they can donate money to or anything to help pay for you guys is like food and fuel bills?
	Well, we got our website up.
	We got our incorporation status.
	We're working on getting like a business account and all this other stuff because I know it's touchy for people, especially in this climate we're living in.
	After the Emergencies Act, you know, you had all kinds of folks that are worried about getting their bank accounts frozen and stuff like that.
	And so I can respect that.
	And so that's one of the reasons why I never started up like a GoFundMe or a, what's the other one?
	Anyway, so like, I mean, if you're in the area and you want to directly donate, that's fine.
	And then we are trying to get these kind of little meet and greets going on between here and Ottawa.
	So we just had one in Kenora.
	And if it's in your geographical area, you know, you could come on out and meet the team and we announce it.
	So maybe we'll have one in Dryden and then in all of the, you know, the kind of smaller to middle-sized towns from here to Ottawa.
	So excuse me.
	Sparkling water.
	So class act all around, right?
	So that's one way they can do it.
	And like I said, you can contact us on Canada Marches.
	We've been able to do the heat transfer thing to a limited extent.
	And then we also got a merch store up and running.
	I would just ask for folks to give us a little patience on that because the mass producing t-shirts and stuff is up to like, I think there's one or two guys trying to handle that.
	So there's the different ways.
	And then, you know, it's just like these folks pulled up here.
	Like they want to, the ones that we ran into outside.
	Like, I mean, we're in the middle of nowhere and, you know, they're past us.
	They want to march for a little bit and say hi.
	And, you know, that's the kind of encouragement that keeps us going too.
	So that's all the different ways.
	And if you have ideas or suggestions about, you know, how we can have like a meet and greet in your town, if you're in Northern Ontario and between where we are and Ottawa, then get a hold of us at the Canadamarches.ca website.
	And it's one word, Canada Marches.
	You can send us an email there.
	And we are pretty getting a little bit more diligent on answering those emails and keeping track of them now.
	So that's just a different way.
	Like if you want to offer support or if you're a part of an organization that is interested in having us speak at an event or something that you're putting on, then reach out to us because we got some things to say with regards to everything that's happened over the last two years and how it's affected us, how it's affected folks in the government.
	And also people that I'm running into along the way, it's like I'm talking to folks who have worked for WestJet, right?
	Pilots, stewardess who've been forced out.
	So it's the, you know, folks can go there, leave their personal accounts.
	Like, I mean, detailed personal accounts is what we're going to Ottawa to do is to have these conversations to lay out clearly exactly the damage that's been done here.
	So this is what this whole endeavor is about.
	This is about making our representatives in the House of Commons, the ones who are paid to speak on our behalf, they need to do what they need to do to reestablish communication with, you know, through me, with the folks in this country who have been affected by all this.
	You know, regardless of what your opinion of the pandemic or vaccination status is or passports and stuff like this, there's millions of people who have lost their jobs.
	And we are worsening, facing a worsening economy with this simmering discontent under the surface.
	And I'm sure you're aware of it and sensing it.
	And it needs to be addressed.
	Like, I mean, this is what this is all about.
	This is what I've seen.
	This whole thing is evolved from a dissatisfaction with mandates and how we want to talk about how it's affected us to just general discontent with the system as a whole.
	Yes.
	And it's hard to get across to folks who are just getting their information from CBC or CTV.
	You know, it's, they, there's a lot of folks out there who don't actually realize that there's still a segment of our society who is unable to fly, who is unable to get on a train in this country.
	They don't understand it and they don't realize it because it's not reported.
	And it has affected them personally.
	Exactly.
	So this whole thing has turned into something much bigger and more involved than I had initially imagined.
	And I'm okay with it.
	You know, like I've got all the, like I got guys like you with me.
	I got the guys at Vets for Freedom with me.
	And because I have this kind of support, you know, I'm okay with going forward with this and talking about these issues to whoever chooses to lower themselves to my level from high office, right?
	And that's kind of, I was talking about this just last night.
	Like, this isn't something that's just going to go away.
	Like you said, it needs to be addressed.
	And I've been kind of talking with this for a couple of years now, but it's gotten really to the point where it's like people are not doing well in this country anymore.
	Their murder rate's at a record high, the suicide rate's at a record high.
	You know, child suicide attempt is over 400% increase over previous years.
	Like by any metric, you can judge how things are going.
	It's not good and it's not getting better.
	So people aren't going to, they can't just ignore this.
	You know, ignoring it is making it worse.
	And I don't think any of us want to see how far this is going to go if they continue to do that.
	Like, I don't want to see this turn into a nightmare.
	And that's what it's going to become if they just continue to ignore the problem.
	It's like walking around with a, you know, a tumor or something.
	It's like, you need to deal with this or it's going to kill you.
	It's going to take over your life.
	And you can't just ignore it and hope it goes away.
	Yeah.
	And the ironic thing is, is that, you know, while you're being investigated for insurrection or something, I don't know.
	They're just going to continue to be ignored.
	Yeah.
	And you're the ones and you're the one and well, you know, so am I to an extent.
	We're the ones talking about restoring, you know, a functioning democracy because it is there.
	It works.
	You know, we're not looking at dismantling the country.
	We're looking at making it run again.
	Yeah.
	And when they do things like, you know, they've done it to themselves.
	You know, I was listening to them talk the other night.
	I got to be careful.
	Like, I'm not allowed to say certain names in certain contexts as part of bail conditions for being anyway.
	You know, I was like, they're talking about, oh, this is wrong with the country and that.
	That's why we're doing this legislation or that.
	It's like, no, you're the problem.
	Look in the mirror.
	You people caused this.
	This didn't used to be how it was.
	Like, if you're going to do something as extreme as invoke the emergencies act, you'd better have an explanation.
	And they refused to give one.
	That doesn't create trust and make people think, you know, that you're on the level.
	It's going to do exactly the opposite.
	You're going to make everything worse again.
	100%.
	So we're going to fire it up again here.
	Was that 10 minutes exactly?
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	Well, I mean, those gifts?
	So, So here we are.
	Percy Lake.
	Nice little spot.
	And we're on our way.
	Back on the road again.
	What kind of rucksack is that, by the way?
	There you go.
	Oh, we talked about this last time.
	Mystery Ranch.
	That's right.
	We caught that last time.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	No problem.
	Do you have a lot of people that show up and go, you know, I'm coming too?
	And then they make it not nearly as far as they thought they would.
	I think there are some folks who are a little bit shocked.
	Yeah.
	The pace.
	Yeah, you're setting a decent pace.
	It looks like about a six kilometer an hour average.
	That's not slow.
	I've heard you say you're going longer than that, seven, eight, ten sometimes.
	And so you're just flat out jogging, I guess.
	Yes, please.
	Thanks.
	Yeah.
	When we're doubling it up, it's going to be an just so when we when I say that, I mean running or leg jogging.
	Essentially jogging with a heavy backpack on.
	It's great for your knees and your back.
	It's going to do a great, it's going to be awesome in the future.
	So if no one's tried that, I recommend it putting 65 centimeters bag on and just go run around.
	It's not that, it's not that heavy.
	It's not that heavy.
	But it's, yeah, I eat a lot of calcium.
	So yeah, we get up to about 910K.
	We get up to about 910K if we're if we're like there's a there comes a point in time when I'm doing this after about eight or nine hours, it also almost becomes like a necessity to to change your pace and do a little bit of running so you can engage some different muscle groups.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	You're doing this eight, 10, 11 hours.
	That's a good point.
	When do you like, do you have any fat left on your body at all?
	You must just be completely like the leanest you've ever been.
	You must have to eat, I don't know, 10,000 calories a day.
	Well, I eat a lot of chocolate bars, okay?
	So there's plenty of stored fat.
	It's funny.
	I imagine people at home were like, I bet he's just living on the healthiest food.
	And it's like, it was mostly Mars bars.
	That's pretty much got me there.
	Peanut buttercups, you know.
	Lickers and coffee.
	It's such a career.
	28 years of built-up spite.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	One apple, one apple a week.
	That would sell.
	Someone should sell that as a like a brochure.
	The Jamestopp diet plan.
	It's like three chocolate parts a day, an apple, some coffee, you know.
	Yeah, Reese's peanut butter cups.
	Yeah.
	Head of lettuce.
	A lot of nutritionists are like, no, but you know, hey, you don't tell us how to do it.
	Have you marched across the country?
	Hey, it worked for him.
	So Kobe's amounts of sugar is a superpower.
	I knew it after all.
	Yeah, I mean, honestly, I eat really good.
	It's been, like I said, with the help of the folks who are with me back in that RV and the folks that we've met along the way, you know, it's really like that's that is inspiring to me, right?
	The fact that, you know, folks feel that strongly about what I'm doing.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, reaching out to me like this.
	It really is.
	I mean, to that point, I was in a really bad place earlier this year.
	And then, you know, I decided, well, I'm going to do this thing.
	What can I say?
	You know, It kind of reignited my faith in humanity and in Canadians in general.
	I think a lot of people felt that way about the convoy demonstrations and stuff in Ottawa.
	Well, that was one of the things that, you know, fired me up too.
	Yeah.
	And, but to see it yourself, though, and, you know, kind of receive that energy from people that are so, you know, it's not lip service.
	It's not like a cheap kind of, you know, pretend show of support.
	You can feel how genuine and sincere people are about it.
	And it's, it, you know, you know, Ottawa was a life-changing experience for me.
	And this has definitely got to be for you.
	I can't imagine.
	And what a, what a crazy ride.
	What do you think about, and there hasn't been a lot, I don't imagine.
	Like, really, I was going to say, you know, detractors are enemies or really, but really, they're just kind of insisting that you don't exist.
	But that's, you know, what would you say to these people if you could get a message to them?
	What do you mean to our officials and CBC to, you know, the neo-communist mob that wants to pretend these kinds of things don't exist?
	Because in their minds, all of the Canadian forces, like we're just crazy people.
	And the overwhelming vast majority of the Canadian forces to the 99th percentile is all fully supportive of what the government's doing.
	Oh, right.
	You know.
	What I would say to them, okay, is that you are missing out on a story with this to you know I don't even know how to describe it like like I said since I started this thing and the folks that have come around are we still connected yeah I still hear it okay
	so the folks that I've come around to you know like I said every in every way shape or form almost offer offer us support the stories and the people and and the and the and the and the country itself that they're missing out on I mean all they needed to do was just send a camera crew no reporter just send a camera crew to follow us around for a week or three days and and
	the things that they're going to see uh would blow them away you know instead of just terrorizing folks on on tv with all of this uh you know the endless uh fear of russia of viruses uh god knows what you know climactic disaster well you know you can just follow us along and you're going to see amazing scenery you're going to see great people you're going
	to be part of something that is uh you know genuinely inspiring to the entirety of the canadian uh population that's what i would say to them what you're missing out on right now uh would probably i i say that i probably actually um bring you some actual ratings yeah from people yeah
	right when it's such a crazy they're willing to sacrifice um like they're they're this committed to their their ideological push that they're willing to ignore everything like things like this that that that show that should fly into their face showing them that you're on the wrong path here yeah and they're still they they still resist like you know um yeah it's it's it's it's wild to to see this play out in real time like the denial people it's like it's like dealing with a drug
	addict or something you know they just don't uh you know they're in denial or something it's like dude you need help and they're no everything's everything's fine i got a couple more messages here uh the boog blue taco says james no matter what the lamestream media does you'll never be forgotten for your amazing feat of strength and will a true canadian we stand with you 100 by seeds again says uh has a question actually it says what has been the best advice you've received to keep mentally strong in the face of adversity or backlash thank you very much i love how you addressed that people have the right to disagree
	and would appreciate any tips on dealing with cruelty from those who may not fully understand the severity of this sad situation in canada um i i the first question i don't know how to answer that just like i have to say that has been my exposure to the people that we were both of us okay that we work with throughout our careers as a private up until
	you know really uh it's been a number of folks that i've met in all branches that have you know just probably you know layer by layer um taught me and probably in ways didn't even recognize you know what what it takes to you know just persevere and get the job done and you know who i'm talking about uh that once that we came across training or
	in operations you know just busy now damn it it's uh breaking up again i don't know uh how much you caught of that last piece but a little of 47 percent or so okay anyway i'll just um reiterate it was it was the folks that i think that i worked with in uh all branches and
	all the you know span of my career that kind of embedded in me this this this kind of uh attitude right yeah you get that part yep and uh so the second part like we're dealing with cruelty or you know the comments and stuff um it's difficult for for somebody like me to just uh how do i put this um let it let it uh to bounce
	off, right?
	I mean, there was those times, like I said, I'll refer back to my early example where I got folks here in the middle of nowhere.
	Well, not middle of nowhere, middle Ontario.
	They're here, they're supporting me.
	And the folks who have had bad things to say are usually cruising past, shouting something unintelligible out of the open window of a car moving 100 kilometers an hour.
	That kind of thing happens.
	And I have to say, it stymies me because I can't understand why what I'm doing is bothering me that much.
	How do you deal with it?
	Well, it's reflecting on folks like this behind me who are here with me and they've felt so strongly in what I'm doing here that they feel like marching for a little while.
	So I don't know.
	Do you think that answers the question?
	I think in a way, yeah.
	And it's how I personally like to try, or I mean, it's challenging, right?
	Because it's, you know, people can get under your skin and piss you off, especially.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But to a degree, it's like, as I kind of mentioned earlier, like the it's the strength versus weakness thing.
	Like we've got kind of a weak society of people and they're very easily, they're frightened and they're ignorant.
	It's really the problem.
	And they kind of attack things that maybe make it work, confuse them and frighten them even more.
	Because in their world, everything's fine and there's no problem and it's just a bunch of crazy people.
	So every time they get confronted with something like this that doesn't compute, the only way they know how to respond is by attacking it and lashing out.
	Yeah.
	And the thing is, what I found about this too is when it comes to that kind of attitude, I can't, you know, let myself get bitter about it.
	Because I did.
	I did that for two years.
	I was really unhappy with that kind of attitude and the unwillingness of folks to kind of be able to, you know, think for yourself, right?
	And I mean, I know exactly what you mean.
	It made me mad.
	And I just, yeah, and so I just let it go.
	I just let it go.
	And I had to realize that this notion that some folks have, especially when as a shin that there's, you know, not everything that we've been told is accurate.
	Not everything we've been told is on up and up.
	And, you know, a lot of us knew that right from the very beginning.
	And then it's folks who have come along and realizing this after the fact and they think they got to go out and, you know, wake people up.
	And I'm not saying that you shouldn't have conversation with folks, but myself, I think that it's not going to wake anybody up.
	Okay.
	Folks got to come to their own realizations in their own way in their own time.
	And we have to accept the fact that they may not do that.
	Because what has happened here is that we've had a new belief system imposed on us.
	And a lot of it is just based on superstition.
	A lot of it is superstition masquerading as preventative medicine.
	And this is superstition is one of the most difficult things to dislodge because it's irrational.
	And this is where we're at.
	It does feel like a cult at times.
	And yeah, again, more to the fear thing.
	And yeah, I agree with that.
	I mean, I kind of do what I do, but I don't force it on anybody, you know, and that's something they want to stop too.
	Like people just saying things.
	Like, I'm not going over to people's houses and saying, you have to, you know, be aware of this or that.
	Like, I'm just saying it.
	And if you want to listen to it, go ahead.
	And if you don't, turn it off.
	But if people aren't prepared, they don't want to find out for themselves.
	If they're not curious, if there's not that part of them that's like interested to figure it out, they're not, you know, they don't want to.
	You can't force someone to, you know, see something they don't want to see.
	It's just, you know, how it is.
	And you're not making it better.
	You know, you're just going to end up fighting with people.
	So I mean, you know, I try not to, I just kind of, you know, when you run into people like that, I'm just like, you know, that's just where they're at, man.
	And whatever.
	It's not worth it.
	Yeah.
	If they ask me, it's a different question.
	You know, they're like, hey, what?
	You know, I'm like, sure, I'll tell you, but I'm not going to listen to somebody like, this is what I believe.
	I'm like, okay, no, that's what you go ahead.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And that's just the way it is.
	I mean, if you, if you have a dialogue and a conversation, you can ask each other questions.
	Because when I started this and I encouraged the guys who are with me and girls, you know, to make sure that you understand your own mind and you're confident about your own beliefs.
	You can intelligently talk about why you think what you think is true and right, as opposed to what we're told is true and right.
	Yeah.
	And one of your helpers there was talking to us last night, the woman from Texas, and she was saying that it's almost as though it should be a human right, not it should be like a human right to have access to information, because if you don't have all of the information that's available out there, then how are you going to know what's true?
	And if you don't know what's true, how can you possibly make good life decisions?
	You're going to make the wrong moves because you don't understand.
	It's like having half the map or no intelligence.
	It's like, well, I don't even know what I'm going into.
	I'm lost in the woods and I have no way.
	I have no idea which way is which.
	I'm just guessing.
	And that's, you know, especially if it's not a guess.
	It's like we know all of this information exists, but they want to prevent people from saying or hearing or talking about certain things and not allowing an entire segment of the population's voice to be heard.
	That's a communication breakdown.
	And anyone can tell you in any kind of that's the number one most important thing in running anything.
	If there's no communication or if there's a one-way communication, things are going to go sideways very, very quickly.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And the thing is, right now, the information is available to anybody who chooses to look for it, which is kind of it's this unfortunate situation that we're in where it just becomes a struggle for some folks to kind of like, okay, well, I don't, you know, I don't know what a virus is.
	So, you know, when it comes to that kind of stuff, I'll just let other people do the thinking for me.
	And the fact is that you can find out these things fairly easily.
	However, you know, so it's the folks who are trying to break down the reality of things like that who are getting censored.
	And that's, you know, right now it's kind of a soft censorship in some ways.
	But if we don't, you know, this is one of the things I'm kind of talking about, too, as I go along on this journey, is that we get the time to start fixing this stuff is right now.
	Yes.
	Like right now, because you and I both know that there's legislation being put in place, you know, to online safety bills and whatnot, you know, and that's just.
	I'll have to leave the country probably.
	I'll be a fugitive.
	Well, I mean, when we're pursuing that much safety, then yeah, we got a problem.
	So, um, and you know, it goes to the saying a lot of people, you know, I've seen a lot is, you know, people trying to censor others in history have never been the good guys.
	Well, and it's also self-censorship, right?
	Because there's also that.
	And I think this is one of the issues that we have within, yeah, we have this issue within the military.
	And with like, you know, for my brief time working with the RCMP, you know, it's just you're not going to, you have an opinion or an idea and you're probably, you may be in a position where you're not going to talk about it because it's.
	And that's because they've encouraged and fostered and, you know, promulgated an environment of fear where it's like people, that alone, that's something I've been saying, you know, going to these rallies and talking to people that just looking around, like, I don't need to be any kind of scientist or expert or something like that, but I'm, you know, a person that's lived in this country for quite a while.
	And I don't ever remember a time when people were literally just afraid to say what they think out loud.
	That's not good.
	You've got a lot of, like, everyone, there's just this undercurrent of fear everywhere.
	And it's not quite to the level that, you know, say Cuba or the Soviet Union, where you would literally whisper about the government under your bed sheets to your wife so they don't hear you.
	But it's getting to this creepy, like people are afraid to say what they think.
	And now, like you said, they don't want to donate money or they don't want to get involved or help any causes or anything because they're afraid their bank accounts will be frozen or something like this.
	So they'll be fired or like that creates a chilling effect on society.
	And it's, you know, not, this isn't good.
	This isn't, these are not malevolent, you know, beneficial things that are happening, no matter how the government wants to try and spin it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	So this is, and I get it too, though, because I was in that position like that, you know, it's not easy for a moment on what I would say to anybody who's having, you know, okay, I agree with everything you say, but you're talking about going up against Doug Godfrey.
	So I, okay, I'll stop doing airport dates.
	Yeah.
	So they're like, well, you know, it's impossible.
	It's, you can't do that.
	It's, you know, it's, this is a monolithic entity.
	It's unchangeable.
	You will not have any impact.
	And to that, I would say, no, you can.
	It takes a concerted effort.
	You're probably going to enlist the aid.
	You're going to have to enlist the aid of minded people, but it can be done.
	And, you know, to prove that point, this is happening right here and now.
	Yes.
	You know, if a lot of folks think that the truckers convoy was unsuccessful, I beg to differ.
	So do I. Because I'll tell you what, if they hadn't done what they had done, I believe right now we would be in full-blown passport, electronic passport territory right now.
	That these mandates, you would be required to testify to your third and fourth shots.
	You would need passports to get into shopping malls because they were trying to roll it out.
	You probably remember there was a supermarket trying to get that in.
	I think it was in Dubunda.
	Yes, several of them.
	They were trying to, you know, and if this business with the truckers had this whole freedom thing, if that hadn't coalesced like it did, that's where this would have gone.
	So trust me, you can make a difference.
	Anybody can.
	Yeah, I think it was one of the quotes of the founding fathers of America or something.
	It's, you know, the tireless few, really, that's who get things.
	It's never a majority of people.
	If there was, you know, 85, 95% of people always agreed on the right things to do, then nothing bad would ever happen.
	It would be impossible.
	Anytime, you know, history has moved or changed or, you know, crisis averted was because of the efforts of a tireless minority of people were able to write the ship.
	And there's lots of examples of that.
	I was talking to a guy the other night who was saying how I think he made a call in.
	I can't remember, but the Renaissance in Europe was actually traced down to the actions of just about 100 guys, like 100 men, really, in their own way, having these influential, right?
	So, you just it adds up and it would take much less than people think.
	And, you know, if everybody just did what they could and pitched in however they can or, you know, tried to do something, you'd be very surprised.
	I mean, I can't believe I still laugh, I will laugh at this until the day I die, which hopefully isn't soon, but you know, it's the government, right?
	So who knows?
	I mean, I'm sitting around making jokes about a pretend country, you know, whose, you know, vice ruler is a time-traveling evil goat figurine is now being spoken about in the house, the halls of power in the Senate and the House of Commons as a threat to national security.
	And I'm like, this is crazy to me.
	So, I mean, it's very, it's much easier than you'd think to have an impact on, you know, what's going on around you.
	So, and, and the other thing.
	Sorry?
	You have to sell the rights to that story.
	Like, because it would make the best, the best comedy movie ever.
	I was saying last night, it's a Will Farrell movie and John C., if I've ever seen one, you know, it's absolutely ridiculous.
	It's a comedy for sure.
	It's not a serious movie.
	It's like, oh, what was the movie about the meteor?
	Don't look up or something.
	It'd be kind of like a dark comedy, you know, where it's just like unbelievable.
	One of my nicknames when I was still in the army was Frank Grimes.
	You remember that F. Simpsons episode?
	Where I would just be like, why are we doing?
	You know, something really dumb would be happening, right?
	And I'm just like, why are we doing this?
	Like, just do it, Homa.
	But it's retarded, you know?
	And eventually you just go crazy.
	Like, that was kind of, they're just kind of waiting for me to snap a lot of the time.
	But yeah, it would be funny.
	But to your point about the trucker thing, you know, people think it was a failure.
	I don't think so at all either.
	And for a number of reasons, you know, I've been saying that, you know, force a tyrant to act like one.
	If they're the benevolent rulers they claim to be, why wouldn't they just come out and talk to these people?
	Instead, they deployed police forces and martial law and beat them down.
	But second, so there, you know, I don't know how many people witnessed that and all of a sudden have a very different opinion of how things are going in this country.
	And secondly, it's networked together and it's inspired you to do what you're doing.
	All of the people that networked and came together there in Ottawa are now, I mean, a ton of these people I didn't know before.
	And now we all speak regularly.
	So now there's like a cross-national network of people trying to work together now, which is much stronger before.
	Veterans for Freedom didn't exist.
	Now it does.
	So we didn't win the war necessarily, but what's the term?
	And it's like a Pyrrhic victory or I don't know how to pronounce it, but you might win, but you've shot yourself in the belly to do it.
	No, no, it was a probing, okay?
	And I don't mean that in the probing kind of way.
	I know what you mean, but other people are getting excited.
	We're looking for, we're looking.
	Yeah.
	I have to be careful with the language here.
	No, it was an initial adventure because I want to use all this language from back in the day, and I don't want anybody who might be watching to misinterpret what I'm saying.
	Yeah, they love to do that.
	They do it on purpose.
	They did what they did.
	There was strengths and weaknesses on both sides that were discovered.
	And I think that's where we're at right now.
	Yeah, this was just the beginning of a longer struggle, I think.
	And I think what the state did was maybe it did accomplish its objectives in getting rid of the protests for now, but the damage it caused to itself in order to do so was irreparable, in my opinion.
	And now they're trying to, you know, the RCP commissioner, the director of CISIS, I'm watching all these people in real time talk about my pretend country as a threat to national security.
	And I'm just like, this is eventually going to come out.
	And I mean, I can't wait to, what kind of a spot are we in right now?
	This is ridiculous.
	You know, they went too far and exposed themselves.
	And, you know, people are noticing.
	So it's not going to happen overnight.
	But I'm cautiously optimistic about the direction things could go in the future, hopefully.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm optimistic in a way that I haven't been in quite some time, to be honest.
	You know, part of that, and I'll tell anybody else who's listening, was just, you know, being a part of something that is, you know, that you believe in.
	This is, you know, restored hope for me.
	I mean, I'm aligned now with you and that's for freedom and a bunch of other awesome groups, police on guard, getting back our freedom.
	And knowing that you're out there doing something, it's just, you know, you don't have to march across the country.
	Okay.
	No.
	But just knowing that there's people out there.
	I mean, I remember, you know, a couple of years ago when I first started, like a lot of us were just kind of yelling into the wind by ourselves.
	And knowing that now there's this network of great, you know, capable people that have formed, especially at V4F2, like that's, you know, I met all those guys and all those guys.
	And I'm, you know, I'm happy with it.
	You know, these aren't, you know, buffoons and lazy, like LARPing kind of guys talking, you know, trash from the couch.
	Like, these are capable dudes that are, you know, it's like the cavalry has arrived.
	You know, it's a feeling of, you know, relief where like the fight isn't over, but you're like, oh, thank God.
	Like, okay, there is a fight now, though, at least.
	And, you know, we have a chance here to do something.
	And you're not just going to get overrun by yourself, you know, in a bunker somewhere waiting to die, which was kind of the feeling there for a while until this convoy stuff happened.
	It reignited and reinvigorated a lot of people.
	And there were some dark moments there leading up to that where it was like, is anything ever going to, is there ever going to be any kind of like anything sign that the country's alive at all?
	And that personally, you know, and I'm sure, well, it inspired you to do what you're doing.
	It's done that to a lot of people.
	And so, you know, you may have, they may have put that fire out in a way, but you've spread it to two dozen other places.
	And if it comes back, it'll be 10 times the size.
	I had another message here from HadEnough One.
	It says, James, thank you for being a voice for many Canadians.
	And Jeremy, thank you for doing MSM's job of getting James' voice out there.
	You both are epic in your own right and deserve much more cheers.
	Thanks, man.
	You know, I appreciate that.
	I'm sure James does as well.
	I'm just a trash talking clown, really.
	But what this guy's doing is incredible.
	I don't want to take up all your time, but I mean, I can keep going if it's cool with you.
	But I do want to say that what you've been doing is incredibly inspiring.
	I know how it's, I wouldn't want to do it.
	I don't think I could do what you're doing.
	It's incredibly inspiring and impressive and is just even guys, what's so effective about it is even if you're in the ranks still, you're retired and you don't agree with a lot of this stuff, you can't sit there in a straight face and not at least, you know, take your hat off to the fact that a man's put a rucksack on and marched from Vancouver to Ontario.
	I mean, that's impressive in its own right.
	And the fact that they won't give you the, acknowledge that or even give you the time of an interview really shows people who they really are, especially in the, in the, you know, CBC and so on.
	Well, I got a few more minutes.
	And I just, so I just touch on a couple of things.
	First of all, you're not a trash talking clown.
	And I know you know that.
	You're an educator, despite what anybody says.
	Oh, no.
	Things have gone.
	If I'm an educator, things have gone real sideways.
	Get your lesson plans out.
	But they have.
	Your next 45-minute lecture will be on neocommunism with Warren Officer Top in room 231.
	You have a 10-minute break.
	Yeah.
	Be there five minutes before I hand.
	Yeah.
	Or he will kill you.
	So there's, so I got a few more minutes.
	Thank you to everybody for your kind words.
	This is, and, and you know what?
	Anybody, you know, with the right forethought and planning and with the people behind you, you can do this too.
	It's entirely achievable.
	That's why I like to tell folks like, you know, just you concentrate on what you think you can do.
	Maybe marching is not your thing.
	Maybe letter writing is your thing.
	And maybe organizing folks is your thing.
	You know, like you can make a difference on your own right.
	And if, you know, for me, don't worry about me getting attention.
	It's not, you know, from the from the scorpion media structures.
	It's like, that's not why I'm doing this.
	It's a demonstration for the people who choose to look at it and take take heart from it.
	And, you know, at the end of the day, one of the reasons why I went out and why I'm getting charged is because I went out in uniform because I wanted to show dudes in uniform that you have the ability to speak your mind.
	You can choose to.
	Lead by example, and you're doing a great job of that.
	So there's that.
	And like this is an effort, but like I said, I have faith in my ability to have done this completely on my own.
	I wouldn't have made it this far.
	I wouldn't have made it this far this fast.
	I'm without the folks like this dude holding the camera right there, Christian.
	We've been doing it for now like almost two hours.
	Here, let me know for a second.
	Getting exposed.
	How you doing, man?
	There he is.
	Okay.
	So he's been walking in front of me holding his camera now for almost two hours.
	And, you know, like this is the kind of support and that I have was one of the things that's encouraging me to keep going.
	Because if it weren't for guys like him and them, then like I said, I wouldn't have been able to do this.
	And you know what?
	And with the folks in the online, nobody would have even known at all.
	I would have just been some freak.
	I would have found out.
	I would have been awakened.
	I would have been shaken awake at bed one night by lightning and known that something epic was happening.
	And I must know what it is.
	It would just be, it would go off in some kind of internal detector.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And I'm the same way.
	Like I, I would have stopped a long time ago if it wasn't for the support and encouragement from everybody around in the community and the people I've made friends with and the people that have supported me and everything.
	Like it keeps you going knowing that you've got people that have your back and support what you're doing.
	Cause when you if you have these thoughts of you want to give up or stop what you're doing, you remember that there's people out there that are counting on you to keep doing what you're doing for whether they rely on what I'm you know stuff that I do for entertainment or for peer comfort or something or for the inspiration that you provide.
	That reminds me of when I did the Seesaw selection back in 09, I think, yeah, it was 2009.
	There was a part right near the end, last day, like a sack.
	I almost was like, you know what, I think I'm going to tap out here.
	Because the guys I was with in this debt that they put me in were all long-legged psychos, probably like yourself.
	They're all just recon guys.
	I was just a mech infantry guy.
	I was like a 23-year-old corporal, 22. And these guys are all like season killers.
	They've all got like four tours, you know, and they're just setting a pace of like lightning for, you know, 30K.
	And you're going to like all these different stands and doing some kind of punishing.
	And this is at the very end.
	This is the last day of this.
	I already had to cut a toenail off my boot.
	I'm just a mess, right?
	I'm just barely hanging in there.
	And I just, I could have kept going, but what really killed me was the fact that I was slowing these guys down and, you know, hurting them and this kind of thing.
	So in that little bubble, I felt like the shittiest piece of garbage.
	Like I was like, I'm terrible.
	I shouldn't even be here, you know, all this kind of stuff.
	And I started wavering enough that I was like, you know what, I think?
	And the staff comes over and he's like, yeah, like they smell blood and they can't wait for you to come over and quit.
	Right.
	And then they all, like most of them, a couple of these guys didn't like me, but most of them, to my surprise, were like demanded that I fall in and fucking carry on and continue.
	So I did.
	And it just fired me up enough that I was like, that knowing that these guys are here and they'll support me.
	That's all I needed to know.
	And then anyway, we finished it.
	And funny enough, that our dad had finished the selection First, by like six hours.
	So I had thought I was like at the worst, I was the biggest piece of garbage, you know what I mean?
	And I almost, you know, quit on an achievement, you know, in my life that I wouldn't have had if it wasn't for the support and encouragement of the guys around me.
	So that taught me a lot about, you know, how your mental state can affect, you know, what you perceive to be true and what's actually true.
	You can think that you're somewhere when really you're in a totally, it's where you're looking at it from and you're the only one that can control, you know, your own mind.
	So I guess that's that's something else that somebody asked earlier, how to deal with adversity and cruel people and that kind of thing.
	You know, lean on the people around you when you need to.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And just one other point, we'll cut this short soon because with everything I was saying, I do actually have a call coming up with my member of parliament from Hope Chilliwack, BPC.
	So it took some effort, but with a bunch of folks helping me, we got through.
	So we do have more members of parliament responding to our request to come and have a sit-down in Ottawa.
	And I'm actually going to speak to one personally, my own.
	Excellent.
	In about 45 minutes.
	So we go from sitting on Ford Operating Base living room couch to having a sit-down with an elected official about the fate and the destiny of the country.
	So don't let anybody tell you you can't do something because, you know, I'm just a guy.
	And, you know, I think James will tell you the same thing.
	We're just, you know, we just wanted to help and do what we could and try to do something.
	We know, neither of us came from money or power or influence or anything like that.
	We're just people like anybody else.
	And, you know, that's just, this is what you can do.
	You don't have to do what he's doing.
	You don't have to do what I'm doing.
	But if you might be good at something else, you know, there's everybody.
	And you need everybody.
	You need all hands to do all kinds of different things.
	Some people are networkers.
	Some people can finance things.
	Some people can do.
	It depends on where you come from and your own individual life experience.
	You know, my girlfriend Morgan has done an incredible job networking a ton of people and doing what she's doing.
	And it's just everybody's different and everybody comes at it from their own unique kind of way.
	But the important thing is that you do it, that you try, you know, and together, like if we all keep pushing this together, I think we'll get there.
	So I don't want to keep you any longer.
	I know you've got to take a break to.
	The other thing, too, I'll just say that I know there's a fella, his name's Brent Ginther, and he's probably watching right now.
	And I don't know if I had said this on the last show or not, but I met him just outside of Colddale, Alberta.
	That's where he's from.
	And he's a Pickley, and he was critically wounded in Afghanistan in 2006, lost his leg.
	And he came up and it was a particularly dark day that day for me personally because it was one of these things where I was like marching along.
	And it was a gray, gray Alberta spring slash winter day.
	And I just noticed this fellow walking towards me and he had a bit of a limp.
	And we had got into a conversation and that, you know, he's one of the guys.
	He said, this is important.
	And, you know, I was just like, instant power up right there.
	So if you're watching, Brent, thanks, Brent.
	Thanks for that.
	And if you're going to be in Ottawa, I look forward to meeting you again.
	Say Dutch.
	I know a lot of the other fellas are probably watching.
	And again, for all of you who have reached out and offered support, send emails.
	Tech, Kieran, and the Ives.
	And there's just tons.
	I mean, Rudy, we were in Croatia together back in the day.
	If you're watching, I say hi to you guys.
	And looking forward to seeing you.
	It's incredible.
	It's incredible.
	And I want to thank you again for your time and for what you're doing.
	And, you know, I'm sure I speak on behalf of a lot of people, but for me personally, it's incredibly inspiring what you're doing.
	It's given me a lot of motivation and hope for the future.
	And I'm excited to see where this goes and what can be done here.
	So just thank you so much for what you've done.
	And the pain and the suffering that you're putting yourself through is not going unnoticed, that's for sure.
	So just know that there's quite a few of us behind you and we're all rooting for you.
	And we're going to be there for you in Ottawa when you show up.
	Awesome.
	Yeah, it was a good time.
	Thanks, Jamie.
	No problem, man.
	I'll see you again soon.
	Maybe I'll check in with you again, maybe when you're Sudbury area or when you get close to the objective, we'll RV somewhere.
	Observing.
	Or RV.
	That's right.
	That's going to be the attack position is Petawawa.
	We'll go on from there.
	Don't say that word.
	Attacking with love.
	That's what it is.
	Yeah, we're.
	Yeah, we'll be attacking our pillows.
	There'll be some wounded feet that need attacking by medicine.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Support staff, I'm sure.
	All right.
	If you don't know, now you know.
	You can go to Canadamarches.ca.ca.
	Yeah.
	And most of the social media links and everything are there.
	If you want to support James, you can try and get in touch there.
	You can go to the website.
	There's a contact for him and support for him.
	There's a merch shop and all of that stuff.
	Canadamarches.ca, you can go and get real-time updates on his progress and where he is.
	Right now, according to this website that I'm just refreshing now, it says you're 1,898 kilometers to go.
	Probably less than that.
	I think it hasn't quite updated yet, but incredible what you're doing, man.
	Thanks so much for your time.
	Best of luck going forward.
	Hopefully your feet don't go any more.
	I don't know what size of your feet now?
	12. 12. So I don't know how can it wide?
	12 wide.
	So it could have 15, 16. Like, I don't know.
	Is this just what happens?
	I think they've reached out to the Mid of Xbox.
	Let's hope.
	If not, we'll have to contact the RoboCop people.
	What was the name of that company?
	Or Cyberdyne Systems or somebody to come in?
	Oh, yeah.
	I need to use some of the liquid metal.
	Right on.
	Okay.
	Well, I'll let you go, man.
	Have a good rest of your day, and good luck with your meeting here with who was it, which MP?
	Sorry?
	Which MP is it you're speaking to here in 40 minutes?
	Mark Straw.
	Mark Straw, conservative MP out of hope you're gonna like right on.
	All right, well, good luck with that, and we look forward to following you here in the future on your on your pages and stuff.
	So thanks again.
	Awesome.
	Thanks, Jamie.
	Thank you so much, man.
	Cheers.
	We'll see you next time.
	My guy, man, that's crazy.
	Isn't that crazy?
	Man, I'll never we're living through quite a time right now, guys.
	I can't when you've got recon warrant officers marching across the country in, you know, in protest of, you know, government mandates.
	And, I mean, you know, something's gone sideways, but something also has straightened out in a way that, you know, we've got people that are, you know what I say, once you start seeing dad get off the couch, things are going to start happening.
	And that's what's going on.
	You're getting, this isn't just the realm of screeching, you know, angry, you know, people on the internet anymore.
	There's the dissent is real.
	The dissatisfaction is very real.
	And it's inspiring men like that to do what they're doing.
	You know, go ahead, government.
	Keep doubling down.
	Keep making it worse.
	Keep making it worse and thinking this is all going to go away.
	It's not.
	We'll see who takes the glory from this field.
	Anybody else, thanks so much for the donations and questions.
	I think I don't think I missed any.
	A little late now.
	He's gone.
	Yeah, and go to that member of parliament, St. Gene says, in YouTube, for taking the time to talk to this guy.
	He's the first one, as I'm aware of.
	Hopefully it leads to bigger things and more exposure.
	And not that, you know, like he said, he's not doing it to try and be famous or anything like that.
	And I 100% know what he's talking about.
	But there's a lot of people in this country that would love to support and have that inspiration and have that feeling of hope that he's giving a lot of people that don't have it.
	And that's what really upsets me about CBC and the media and stuff.
	You're not only minimizing and marginalizing what he's doing and who he is, but you're also depriving a lot of people of something that they could really use right now.
	They could really veterans as well.
	There's probably tons of guys that have no idea what's going on and don't know about this at all and wish they did.
	And they wish they did.
	And so shame on you for being cowards.
	It's, you know, it hasn't made anything better.
	You think you're helping by doing what you're doing?
	You're not.
	You're making it much worse for a lot of people, but you can't hide forever.
	All right.
	That's it for me.
	I got to go.
	I got to eat something.
	And then I'm going to be on live from the shed, I understand, with Dave in a few hours, 3 p.m.
	Eastern, I think.
	I'll have to set that up on Telegram here shortly.
	I'll put the links there.
	t.me slash raging distant the links are down here the telegram page and the website as well ragingdistant.com for all kinds of I don't know where it is up there it had the old overlay but I'll deal with that later has all my social media links and stuff on there as well please share this if you can if you'd like to for you know for James's sake and get the message out there and tell everybody you know about it tell your you know who doesn't know let them know let them know that especially if there's somebody you think is you know depressed and not doing well you know or being broken by this whole thing
	or crushed just let them know that there's a there's a legend of a man out there who's very literally you know in a well in a metaphorical sense I suppose carrying you on his back to Ottawa for your behalf and there's a ton of people that support him and you know we're all out here and you know they can try to hide us all as much as they want but they can't do it forever yeah force multipliers indeed yes he is all right guys that's gonna be it for me and you're doing great kid thanks uh buy seeds
	all right last one says it's an honor to be here and be able to tune into such brilliant minds and hearts and learn what moves honorable warriors forward thank you for all your efforts and teletruth thank you for the support guys i appreciate it um you know we're gonna go i can pay groceries buy groceries now thanks uh i appreciate it and uh i'll see you uh uh live from the shed i think it is 3 p.m eastern four o'clock atlantic i'll be over there and then this evening at um nine or ten o'clock eastern atlantic um uh mark
	fries and i'm gonna be on his channel for a little while so i gotta take a break i got lots to do today uh so uh where's my where's my stuff uh james uh good luck continue doing what you're doing and um looking forward to seeing him and uh everyone else in ottawa uh he'll be arriving near the end of june if not sooner if he doesn't uh stop if he goes faster i don't know he's going pretty goddamn fast he just left what seems like not

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