Hey everyone, I may have cursed just a little bit in this episode, so you've been warned.

As someone who cannot stand to be stuck in traffic, I've been thinking about how much

I would hate to be an Ottawa candidate these days.

Kids of big rigs have poured into the city and parked right in front of Parliament to protest

COVID restrictions. They call themselves the Freedom Convoy. There's been a lot of honking

involved.

They even erected a little structure where they kept diesel fuel and they have people

bringing them fuel so they could basically live in their vehicles indefinitely.

Nessie Brown is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Canada Land. That's a news site and podcast

network.

There have only been a few hundred trucks at the height of it, but these are big rig trucks

and it's you got to hand it to them at least in terms of like political theatre and just

the physics of this.

When I read about what's happening in Ottawa, to me it seems like shitposting come to life.

By which I mean, there are so many absurd things happening, but also kind of on the edge

of danger, like I've read about bouncy castles being set up and hot tubs, but then also

local residents who are really aggrieved and have real complaints.

Yeah, all of that is true. There is a carnival-esque aspect to this. They're lighting off fireworks,

hot tubs, barbecues, and if you read their accounts, they're like, hey, we're happy

warriors here and nobody's getting hurt.

I mean, some people have called it an occupation. Would you go that far?

Yeah, I don't think that that's the wrong term. There's no question that this has been

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