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You know, on Tuesday, Nick, before we brought on Sarah Kensier, which, you know, I think people enjoyed that interview, and she's wonderful.

Before we got to that, we spent a minute talking about this developing situation

with the Canadian convoy of truckers who had started to occupy the capital city of Ottawa.

We had talked about the possibility that this occupation would not only last, but also that it could

possibly extend to cutting off, you know,

roads in from the United States and over across the border. Well, that happened. We now have

three bridges between the United States and Canada blocked off. On top of that, the auto industries in both the United States and Canada, both have been brought to a complete standstill. The United States is asking Canada to put an end to this thing. Meanwhile, the convoy, a lot of them brought along their kids. Turns out also that the Canadian trucking groups are now saying that the people

involved are not actually truckers, not actually parts of their group. On top of that, the dark

money that is providing millions of dollars for this entire thing to be carried out, turns out,

Nick, they're funding similar operations in the United States of America.

There's now a possibility we're hearing from the Department of Homeland Security that they

might carry out an American convoy that might disrupt the Super Bowl, head to Washington, D.C.,

possibly in March, and do the exact same thing here. Just a barrel of laughs, man. Just great what's going on right now.

You know, I meant to mention it in the last pod that we talked about this, that the truckers

association had come out and said then that virtually, like almost every single member of their

group was vaccinated. Sure. Which is another part of this proof.

It's like this is not, you know, you need a lot of people to get involved with shutting down.

So actually, you know what the irony is.

You probably don't need that many truckers themselves to cause a lot of havoc,

even though they might be a tiny fraction of the overall population

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