CONVOY DOC DIARY AND IRELAND'S GLOBALIST TROUBLES

on the road again and back

This is what happens to your house when a documentary crew comes calling. It gets old pretty quickly.

November 29, 2023

Prepped for a busy day in Ottawa and was up at 4 am which is standard when one is on the road for a documentary film. The days are long in order to maximize filming time and increase the amount of story actually committed to video. Pressure to produce and capture certain moments is immense at this stage of a production. Failing to bring one’s “A” game can cost the film money and credibility.

Thankfully I’m working with Jacqueline Bynon — an old friend and one of the best true-crime producers and interviewers in the business. Although Tamara and Chris are the ones on trial — most Canadians might say the crimes lie elsewhere. Also, Dave Draper (sound) and Sasha Jordan Appler (DOP) — are both artists in their own right. Hardworking, kind and fun! Dinner on the road out West at Trukkers Cafe near Medicine Hat. Sasha is hungry after shooting beautiful visuals that capture the vast prairie landscape.

Jacquie and I have been shooting with soundman Dave, on the left, for decades. During true crime victim interviews he always finds a box of Kleenex for our subject and us! Best in the biz and God help the errant leaf-blowing man who thinks he can outsmart Dave and our need for silence!

Got in to Ottawa by VIA late because the train was running, oh, about an hour behind. This followed a two-hour struggle session the night before just to book tickets on VIA’s new improved system. The trains and tracks are shabby as hell and it always feels a little bit like the breadlines of Moscow in the 1980s. But the people who work there are pretty great and keeping a stiff upper lip despite management’s flops. The new reservations platform is VIA’s version of the tragic ArrivCAN, now the subject of parliamentary investigation.

I’ve spent twenty years thinking that people who design these things have some genius component that I’m missing but given how bad most of them are — I wonder if I should take a shot at it. How much worse could it be? Do they test them with actual humans? Are the people who design them actual humans? They seem to get rich by driving all of us crazy. It’s clear user friendly is not part of the app developer’s lexicon or stated goals.

Later in the day, we recorded some great material that explores the core of why the Freedom Convoy was so uplifting for many Canadians but we also looked at why so many people, especially in Ottawa, felt threatened by it. There are two solitudes in this country divided up by class and framed by the media they consume. Sadly, legacy news felt its role was to thwart and smear — and many of them appear to have believed their own propaganda, virtually all of which was debunked later at the POEC.

One of our interviews was with Gord Magill, a lifelong trucker who attended the protest in Ottawa and has some deep thoughts about the cultural and political divide in this country.

Here is an old photo of him with some kind of behemoth logging truck. How do they do it, day after day, these self-reliant Kings of the Road.

December 4, 2023

I was so busy in Ottawa I’m finishing this back home and settling back into the routine of podcasting, writing, investigating and doc producing. Tonight I am giving a presentation at a free speech event with Meghan Murphy, Bruce Pardy and Jonathan Kay. I am always happy to attend these things because I get to meet some of you there.

I recorded this week’s show from Ottawa with my new portable mic set up and it worked well. Irish political philosopher, David Thunder weighs in on the new round of troubles in Ireland. Waves of migrants are put up in hotels while Irish locals are feeling the economic pinch of being left behind. Dublin has become an increasingly dense hub of Big Tech campuses — Google and Apple are just two — full of highly paid, hoodie-wearing programmers who drive up real estate prices and throttle the city with like-minded wokeisms.

The recent stabbings of three school children by an Algerian immigrant who’d been on the dole — erupted into some ugly scenes of rioting and looting. Thunder says many of those acting out were hooligans already but this rapid change foisted on struggling Dubliners is like a match to tinder.

New hate speech laws will prevent the citizenry from even complaining about the government’s far-left agenda. And of course all of this betrayal and heartbreak is supported by media who are in the tank for mass immigration and deride those complaining as racist and, of course, far right.

When will the globalist leaders and their scribes begin to care about the citizens? This is not sustainable and although I abhor all violence, I do understand why so many are angry.

In the future, much of the convoy doc, insider stuff will be pushed out through our doc-supporter lists as a thank you! Tales from the road and photos plus thoughts about our editorial content will appear every couple of weeks that we are in production.

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Off to write my free speech - speech for tonight.

Glad to be back and in the podcast zone with y’all.

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