Your favourite Cape Breton duo are taking their viral hijinks to the big screen. Premiering in Toronto today at the Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, Tracy & Martina Goin’ Out West follows these two best friends on a dream trip to Alberta that quickly goes south. 

Directed by Brendan Lyle, the wildly entertaining mockumentary follows Tracy (Justine Williamson) and Martina (Greg Vardy) as they leave the comfort of the East Coast behind for the chance to make it big in Alberta, opening for a local band. But as old tensions bubble and their cash dwindles, the girls soon find themselves stranded, broke, and desperate—with no return ticket.

The fun-loving duo are booked and busy this year. In addition to the theatrical release of the film starting June 5 (and dropping on Crave later in 2026) Tracy and Martina will be performing at Just For Laughs in Montreal this summer, going on a Canadian tour this fall, and continuing to shoot the shit on their weekly podcast.

While the duo was in town for their film premiere, SheDoesTheCity sat down for a slightly chaotic chat with Tracy and Martina about all things Cape Breton, their adventures out west, and their ideal day in Toronto.

Without giving too much away, what can you tell us about your film, Tracy & Martina Goin’ Out West?

Martina: I’ll tell you everything. 

Tracy: It’s kind of like a road trip, almost. 

M: Well, they’re calling it a documentary, Tracy. We went to Alberta for the first time, and basically we brought somebody with a camera along with us. His name’s Brendan Lyle. He also goes by the name Sydney Mines, and he followed us along. Just what it took for us to get from Cape Breton to Alberta, and then once we’re in Alberta, what it took to get back to Cape Breton. 

T: We learned a lot of lessons along the way, like having a credit card to travel is important. 

What was the biggest culture shock from being in Alberta? 

M: Not very friendly. 

T: That, and everyone was driving a $150,000 truck.

M: Yeah, beautiful trucks. Big truck culture.

T: Back home we got an aging population, like a lot of seniors. It was weird seeing men our age working jobs.

Your film reminds me of the saying ‘you don’t really know someone until you travel with them.’ Did that apply to you two on this journey?

T: I thought for a second you were stealing from me. 

M: Yeah I always knew you were a little paranoid, but then as we’re travelling, I’m like, God, Tracy’s really paranoid. 

T: Well, it’s funny, I had this here coat on, and I guess it got a secret compartment in it, and I didn’t know. 

M: People are buying merchandise and everything from us. Yeah, and I’m divvying it out, and I’m putting mine in my purse, and putting Tracy’s in her jacket for safekeeping, because we don’t trust people out on the road. I’m wearing a money belt right now, just while we’re out and around in Toronto. But I gave Tracy her money, and she starts losing it on me. Just like flipping out, saying, ‘You’re stealing from me, I need to be able to trust you, Martina,’ and I’m just like, ‘Okay, hold your horses miss,’ and I’m trying to be very patient with you.

T: That’s just how we are, like we could tear each other’s fucking heads off, and then we’re good, like two hours later eh? 

Martina, you mentioned your money belt—do you two have any other travel essentials?

M: You should get a credit card if you qualify. 

T: Yeah, credit card. Can’t go anywhere without my makeup, obviously. 

M: Yeah I see a lot of pictures and videos on my Facebook of people putting air tags on their kids.

T: Air tags, yeah. But it’s a big learning curve for us, because we’ve flown more in the past two months than I’ve ever flown in my entire life. Never flown before this, before the tour and all that. It’s just little things you learn, right? Like you can’t take over 100 mls of liquid. Yeah, little annoying fucking things, but you live and you learn, eh?

M: Trial and error.

What would Tracy and Martina’s ideal day in Toronto look like?

T: Staying in. I would be staying in. I’m not fussy for it here. 

M: No, there’s too much going on. I wish we stayed at a hotel with a pool and a slide.

T: You know what, I need the ocean, because this makes me feel claustrophobic.

M: The ocean’s right there, Tracy. 

T: That’s just the lake. Big dirty lake.

M: Oh, I had no idea.

T: Yes Martina, it’s filthy. I’d be staying in. I’ve seen the big tower yous got there, took a picture of that, so I don’t need to be going up that.  

M: I know. The taxi driver took us underneath it, and I looked up. I got that disoriented. I said no. 

T: Vertigo. 

M: Yeah, I got vertigo. I could not go up that. I’d be vomiting, nauseous. 

T: I’ve seen what I need to see here. 

M: Oh, you see one skyscraper, you’ve seen them all. Just glass towers. Yous very proud of them and I’m happy for you—but get me home.

For our Toronto-based listeners, what is something you wish more people knew about Cape Breton? 

T: We’re funnier than everyone else in the country. 

M: Yeah, not the Newfoundlanders, we’re right on par with the Newfoundlanders. I don’t want to start that competition. 

T: But we kind of got our own thing going on out there. And I love it just the way it is.

M: Yeah. If you come to visit, just have an open mind. Don’t come and try to boss us around and tell us what’s what, the right way to do things, and the right way to talk, because we’re not gonna warm up to you. We like to do what we’re doing.

T: Big tea drinkers.

M: Love tea. Cakes.

T: Now I’m not a fiddle player, I can’t play any instrument, but the highest amount of fiddle players per capita in the entire world reside in Cape Breton Island so that’s kinda cool.

M: And some people still speak Gaelic. That’s the language over from Scotland. A lot of ancestors from Scotland.

T: They do the Highland Dancing. 

M: Yeah. I mean, you and me speak English. And then there’s people that talk French, they’re Arcadian. There’s a little pocket of people that speak Gaelic, and then there’s the Mi’kmaq community.

T: It’s a mixing pot, eh? 

M: A lot going on. Not a lot of jobs. Lot of culture. We have a lot of fun, we have a lot of laughs.

T: Yeah, we do.

You’ve done your first film together now, and you’re going on tour as well. You also have your podcast and a book. So what’s next for Tracy and Martina? 

T: I wanna do a show.

M: Yeah, a TV show. That wouldn’t be bad, eh Tracy?

T: I wouldn’t mind getting over across the pond, too.

M: Oh, over to England. That’d be nice. 

T: That’d be cool. Yeah, or Dublin. Seeing the world, right? 

M: I’d love to go to Times Square. M&M store.

T: I’d like to be a household name. We’re looking to get as famous as possible at any means.

M: I don’t care about the money, I just want to be very famous. Yeah, I was saying to her, I want to be the next Minions. 

T: Yeah, I got a lot of people to prove wrong. I was bullied a lot, so that’s why I’m doing all this.

What would the series be called?

M: It would probably be called Tracy & Martina’s TV Show. 

T: Oh, that’s good. I can see that now, clicking through the Bell Fibe. Tracy & Martina’s TV Show on satellite. It’s got a ring to it. 

M: I don’t know who to call to make that happen. So, if you’re watching…

T: She might be able to make something happen.

M: Oh, yeah. Where do you work?

 SheDoesTheCity. 

T: SheDoesTheCity. It’s like Sex and the City?

M: I think so. 

T: Oh, I’m supposed to be talking about my romps around, eh?

You can if you want to!

T: No, I’m a private person like that. 

M: You’ll do the town. 

T: She does the town. 

M: She does the whole town.

T: I’m not doing the whole fucking city.

M: You’d be run ragged, girl.

Is there a city you would want to do?

T:  I couldn’t take on a whole city, I don’t think.

M: Moncton. Handsome men in Moncton. We’re going to Winnipeg.

T: Yes, we are. Saskatchewan. What goes on up there? 

M: Yeah, Saskatoon. Tracy does Saskatoon. No, I would like to get over and see Big Ben and England and all of that. Imagine we go to Hollywood, Tracy?

T: Hollywood. Oh my god. Carve our faces into the mountain there.

I know there’s gonna be some guest appearances in the film. Can you give us any hints as to who that might be? 

T: Yes, it’s Terry from FUBAR.

M: She said give a hint. 

T: Oh, sorry. He’s in here though. 

M: He’s in FUBAR.

T: Iconic movie. We’re like the new Terry and Deaner, eh?

M: Imagine that.

T: We are.

M: I think they make money, Tracy.

T: They don’t look like it. Sounds like they’re doing anything for attention these days. 

M: Yeah, but we’re no better.

T: The female Terry and Deaner? 

M: That’s not bad. 

T: I love that. I like that we’re women. 

M: We are. I got two kids, now I’m getting back out there in the world.

Is there anything else you want to share with us?

T: I was looking for the nearest McDonald’s.

M: We passed something on the way here.

T: I need an ice cream. It’s cone season, baby. 

M: You can follow us on social media. I’m @yourgirlmartina. 

T: I‘m @itstracyhun.

M: And we got all of our tour dates posted on tracyandmartina.com so check that out. Come see our movie when it’s playing near you, and come see us live if we’re doing that wherever you’re at. 

T: Yeah, that’d be nice. 

M: We love yous!

The Toronto premiere of Tracy & Martina Goin’ Out West will take place at the Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival on May 27 at TIFF Lightbox and virtually in Ontario from May 28-31.