Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:00 All right. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Mac city morning show. I am your host Elliot, Pierre. Uh, thank you very much for tuning in. We are going to start this off the same way we start every episode off with a moment of gratitude. I know you could be doing a million other things with your time, but the fact that you're spending with us truly does mean the world to me. Um, so yeah. Thank you very much. Now on that note, Tanner hit him with the intro.
Speaker 1 00:00:24 Oh, she caught me loves you're listening to the next <inaudible>
Speaker 0 00:00:34 All right. Fort McMurray, wood, Buffalo in the rest of the world, you are in for a treat today. We have, I think hands down the most popular person in Fort McMurray here today. I'm excited to have him on the show because although myself and him have bumped into each other numerous times, we both follow each other on social media. I've never actually had a chance to sit down and have a chat with this gentleman. So I'm super pumped about today's episode. As you know, I don't introduce my guests. I let them do that themselves. So on that note, can you please introduce yourself to the people at home? So
Speaker 2 00:01:04 I am, uh, Mike Jones from, uh, Edmonton, Alberta been here at Fort McMurray for about eight years now. Obviously you had a little radio gig for a while there at country 93, 3, and decided it was time for a change. And now I'm working at the, uh, Canadian mental health association with Buffalo, doing marketing comms event planning a little bit of everything. It's kind of like a, it's sort of a dream job that I didn't even know. I had a dream
Speaker 0 00:01:25 For. There we go, man. That's awesome. Amazing. It's my first time in front of the live microphone in three weeks. <inaudible>
Speaker 3 00:01:33 I'm like, oh, how do I do this again? That's awesome.
Speaker 0 00:01:35 Yeah. So, yeah. So you've been here for eight years and the impact that you've had on this community is huge. You like, I don't know how you do it. You go to everything, you're a man about town. Like, where'd you get the energy to do this?
Speaker 3 00:01:52 Uh, I don't, I don't know. I mean, I, you know,
Speaker 2 00:01:54 I'm not a big fan of sitting at home. I mean, obviously I do love my TV shows and my movies when I get a chance to watch them. But I find like I just get that restless energy. Like, do you ever have, like say maybe you had a big Saturday and then you're kind of just lazy all day, Sunday, and then you lay around the house and you're like, this is perfect. This is just what I needed. And then it becomes like nine o'clock, 10 o'clock at night, and you're just sitting there, like, there's gotta be something going on. I got to go to an event or something. I gotta do something here at home. Yeah. So I just, I I'm really an extrovert. I mean, as, as I'm sure most people can tell, like I tend to feed off of other people's energy. And so there's some times where you do go into that Monday morning meeting and like, I'll be dead tired. And if everybody else is dead tired and just not having it, that's not going to help me. I'm going to stay the same way. But if I, if I go in like on like two hours sleep and like people are flying jokes and like jumping up and down and stuff like that, then I'm like, I build off that energy and I'm going to go.
Speaker 0 00:02:49 So Fort McMurray, you said you're from Edmonton. How did you find yourself here?
Speaker 2 00:02:55 Well, I was taking the radio program at Nate right down in Edmonton. And at the time you obviously knew exactly what port Macquarie was or thought I did. I had a lot of friends from high school who came up here to work in the oil sands. Right. Or I thought I called, I used to say they
Speaker 3 00:03:09 Worked on the rigs and then, you know, there's no rigs up here. I'm like, I didn't know that if I lived in Edmonton four and a half hours away. Right. Right.
Speaker 2 00:03:18 My dad actually had, had worked a little bit like he does security and he worked at the Peter pond hotel. I think it was used to be called. I think that's where Bailey's is now the Stonebridge. I said he was up here for like a month or two before I was born. But, uh, didn't even tell me that until I moved up here. Right. So I was in radio, the radio program at Nate's and, uh, I got an internship in grand Prairie. And while I was there at the rock station, uh, rock 97, 7, there was a positioning opening up within the same company within Rogers, uh, here at country 93, 3 for the, uh, uh, swing swing, announcer position. So I applied for that. Got it. Moved up and uh, yeah, the rest is kind of history.
Speaker 0 00:04:00 That's awesome. So why radio? Like what, what, obviously from a young age you must have been attracted to it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:04:07 I used to, I used to listen to, you know, whether it was the bear back in the day or a little bit later on when Sonic 1 0 2 9 launched. That was a big fan of them as well. Even, actually, even before the bear, I was like power 92 used to be the, that was my, that was my jam back in the day. Right. And I would just, I was always fascinated with the, the announcers. They always had like cool names and cool segues. And they were just like, you know, I mean, it's a bit more casual these days, but they were all just like, so like half and kind of like, yo, what's up, you're listening to power 92. And I just listened to that. I'd be like, man, this is, this is fun. Like, I don't want to do this. And I remember like, I actually had a tape recorder at one point and I would like go around and like record myself, introducing songs. I hope those tapes have been, uh, disposed of
Speaker 3 00:04:50 Forever personally. Cause they were probably terrible.
Speaker 2 00:04:52 But uh, yeah, I used to just like, it was always something I wanted to do. And I was like, this, this sounds like the kind of job where it's not work. Like it's just, it's just all fun. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:05:02 And it was for you, you loved what you were, you are super passionate about that and what you were doing.
Speaker 2 00:05:08 What I discovered when I came up here was that radio was, I mean, I mean, I guess I learned this in college too, it's it? Wasn't all about sounding cool on the radio and having a good voice and you know, talking about the music and stuff. It was about community and that didn't really land until I got up here and I saw, you know, a guy like Jerry Neville, or I saw a guy like Steve Reeve and I saw how much they were out in the community and they were out doing events and they were going to everything and people knew them. Uh, obviously they do them for what they did and what they said on the radio, but they knew them particularly for, for just seeing them. They're like, I see them at the grocery store all the time. I see him at the movie theater, things like that. Right. Just that essence of community. So I quickly just started decided I'm like, I'm gonna go to every event, you know? And I started doing that at first. Cause I was bored and I didn't have any friends, but then once you start to make friends, you're like, well, I'm going to see them all of these events anyways. So let's go make more friends. That's right.
Speaker 0 00:06:02 Yeah. Yeah. Like you have tons of friends, everybody knows you. And the one thing about you that I know you're a celebrity is nobody calls you Mike it's Mike Jones. That
Speaker 2 00:06:13 Is actually even, even back to my high school days. Uh, they use the full name anyways, which is funny because, uh, in high school I was far from, I, I mean, I still don't like, I don't know the term celebrity, maybe stretching it a little bit, I guess, whatever. But back in high school, I was definitely not a celebrity at all. Um, but there was a rapper that came out around 2002, 2003, Mike Jones
Speaker 3 00:06:37 And he wrapped up his phone number and the song Mack Jones. So literally everyone would just Mark Jones and still to this day, still
Speaker 2 00:06:46 Tuesday I'll call like Canadian tire or something like credit card. Or they were like, Hey, and then like the guy on the phone and be like, we've never been like, Hey Mike Jones. Yeah. Constantly 20 years.
Speaker 3 00:07:02 I know exactly who you're talking about. I like you're tagged in the means all the time. It's like the Al like shouting who, and I'm yelling like Jones. And I'm like, I saw that before means were a thing I think. Yeah. That's hilarious. I never put that together. That's hilarious. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:07:21 He used to shout out his cell phone number and it was like a legit cell phone number. Yeah. It still
Speaker 2 00:07:28 Is. But you could definitely call it back in the day and like get his voicemail or
Speaker 0 00:07:31 His band club or something. Yeah. So the one thing you were passionate about in this community, like you do trivia, how did you get into trivia?
Speaker 2 00:07:40 Um, well, I've always been a fan. Like I always used
Speaker 0 00:07:44 To play trivial trivial procedures back in the day.
Speaker 2 00:07:46 It was, uh, we had like a really old, like the, probably the original version of trivial pursuit. So like as much as some of the science and history categories were like, okay, you probably learned about this in school. The entertainment categories were very difficult, right? Like, you'd be like answering questions about Ben Hur. It's like, I haven't even seen Ben Hur yet. So at this point in my life. Right. So, but I always use, we used to play that a lot growing up. And then, uh, when I moved up here, it was one of the first regular activities I did is I got invited out by a couple of friends and we went out on every Monday night and it was Steph link back in the day, she would host trivia nights at a Tavern and Steph and I ended up becoming roommates a little bit later on. And now Zach Barrett does it every Monday as well. So it was just sort of doing that. And then, you know, I filled in a couple of times and I got a gig at the brew house, kind of doing Tuesdays on, uh, you know, it was more playing around on your phone. And then, uh, tipsy trivia came up and they said, well, we want someone to do the friends trivia nights and the Grey's anatomy trivia nights and stuff, which was hard for me because I've never watched an episode of Grey's anatomy.
Speaker 0 00:08:49 But luckily they gave me the question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I ask you that? How do you come up with the questions for all these? Do you come up with some, are they supplied or how does this work?
Speaker 2 00:08:59 I know that like when, uh, when I would fill in for staff at, uh, at, uh, Tavern trivia and same with what Zach does today, they come up with all the questions themselves. And obviously they, you know, they'll be looking on the internet and there'll be like reading things and Wikipedia. And sometimes you'll go on like a trivial pursuit and like, look up some questions. You're like, okay, that'd be a good question to ask. Right. That would be a good question to ask. But like the, the specific genre ones, like when I did the friends trivia, those are all like, I swear, like they, those guys would like sit there and watch like episode by episode. And they were like, let's see if people remember what color shirt Rachel was wearing when she broke up with Ross. And it's like, it's, it's hardcore,
Speaker 0 00:09:38 But people get it right. That's right. You'd be surprised how
Speaker 2 00:09:41 Well people do at these trivia nights.
Speaker 0 00:09:43 Yeah. Like, I, I, I'm horrible at trivia, horrible. Like my team never wins, but I like to go cause like the questions I'm like, there's no way anybody's going to get this. Right. And somebody gets these questions. Right. It's amazing what people retain. I
Speaker 2 00:09:59 Remember when this was before I was doing it and we went to a, it was with Buffalo brew pub at the time. And they had a Seinfeld trivia night and me and two of my best friends, Jess and Dan Lipton, we were hardcore Seinfeld bands. Like we are quoting Seinfeld fans to each other back and forth all the time, all the time, the three of us. Right. And so Dan actually, Jess actually ordered a puffy shirt for Dan, like the one that Jerry wears in the episode. And I dressed up like a Georgia stanza with like the swim goggles on, because he forgot his glasses that one time or they got stolen. And so we went in like, we're just all cocky walking in, like strutting in like, yeah, we got this. And even when the question sort of happened and we missed a few, but we're getting, all of them were like, we're nailing. This turns out the table. Next to us was getting all the ones we were missing too. And we got like fourth place or something, big
Speaker 3 00:10:46 Ego hit. Do we even know this show
Speaker 0 00:10:51 Time to go back and rewatch, which we do constantly, you know, watch, um, comedians in cars.
Speaker 2 00:10:59 I, I really like the format of the show. I just find sometimes it's like when they get into the car stuff, not as interested in the cars, aren't really my thing. Right. When they start talking about comedy, that's always fascinating. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:11:10 Now, in regards to what you went to school for and what you're doing for so long radio, is there you name some radio stations in Edmonton that you inspired to when you listened to, is there any kind of personalities made be people on the internet or on the radio back in the day that you watch and you're like, this guy is crushing it. I like it.
Speaker 2 00:11:30 Yeah. I used to listen to, uh, like I said, you know, back in like power 92, uh it's like Gary, James and ADI lens, I want to say were like, they were the morning show for the longest time. I'm like, yeah. I remember like seeing pictures of them later and being like, man, those guys were in their like fifties, but they were like appealing to me as like a 12 year old, you know? So, and like Rick Dees, Rick Dees, and a weekly, top 40 used to jam that all the, and then as I got older into like into high school and college, I really loved fearless. Fred was doing, he was the afternoon guy on the bear and now he does the edge in Toronto and he does like, he hosts tele tune at night. Like that guy has got to go home
Speaker 3 00:12:08 Cause he's like, he's always talking.
Speaker 2 00:12:09 And I was like, how much he loves like robot chicken and these adult part tunes. And then they're like, Hey man, why don't you just come on and host television at night? And they're like, okay. Yeah. So he's got it, Nate. They're in Toronto and doing really well for himself. It's
Speaker 0 00:12:20 Crazy. The opportunities that present yourself when you throw yourself into the public a
Speaker 2 00:12:26 Hundred percent guys. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing is, you know, with radio you can, uh, you can get swallowed up in the, the busy-ness of it. And sometimes, you know, I sort of the way that radio is going now, um, at least for a lot of the major changes, a lot of people are now doing shows in like six markets, right? It's like, you're doing your morning show and then your voice tracking for this market and then your voice tracking for this market. And you're filling up your entire eight hours just sitting in a booth by yourself. Right. And I found to me that was my, by far, my least favorite part of radio was when you're just sitting there as much as it's good when you're making connections and you've got a good conversation going and people are texting and calling back. But when you're just sitting there and you're like voice tracking for like a weekend show or something like that, it's just like, you know, trying to have that enthusiasm. It's, it's hard when there's nobody there. Right. So when you get a co-host or something like that, it's a lot easier entertainer.
Speaker 0 00:13:21 Um, the one thing that you did, which I find fascinating, and I want to know why you decided to do this. Um, you were on radio, it's a traditional medium. Yeah. But what you have done extremely well better than anybody informant Murray in my personal opinion is you transition over to social media excellently and started posting stories. And now you write this beautiful, good news posts on a daily basis. Like, and you really like leaned into this new medium in your own way and carved your own lane. And it's so good. And like, I go out of my way not to look at stories. Like I know social media is like bad and I know how addictive it is based on the business I'm in. So like I go out of my way, not to look at certain things, but your stuff is how I figure out what's happening in Fort McMurry. Why did you transition into that? And how did that occur?
Speaker 2 00:14:19 They found is, is early on. Like I said, you know, you would go to all the events that you would go to every event and, uh, for whatever reason, whether it was cause, you know, you were with a certain group of friends or whatever. Like I found like a lot of times you would go to an event and you wouldn't necessarily get a chance to interact with the people that put on the event. Right. And I totally understand why now having put on events, like when I did, uh, I mean, I wasn't the one putting on wood, Buffalo rib Fest as an example that was of course Dennis and Brad, Brandon max, and Laura <inaudible>. But, uh, I was, you know, helping out a lot with the band. I was dealing with trooper and Dan Davidson and making sure everything was all to their content, making sure everything was happy, making sure the sound was working, making sure the stage was all on time, all that stuff. So I would run into people all weekend long. And like, I remember at one point like during trooper set, I was like, I'm just going to like chill here and have a beer and kind of admire. And I was don't all these people come from. Right, right. Right. But like, people
Speaker 3 00:15:13 Will still be like, oh yeah, man. I remember like seeing you, we had a chat,
Speaker 2 00:15:16 We had a conversation. I'm like, don't remember. I was like, probably I was probably like,
Speaker 3 00:15:20 Yeah, cool. I got to go. Yeah. Call calling. You know? So when you're on
Speaker 2 00:15:24 Those events, I find, uh, you're kind of tunnel vision a little bit. You're sort of getting through the event, making sure everything runs smoothly. But I did find that you do make a lot of connections with social media. I mean, you know, when you go to the event and then you tag them and then you kind of get to know the movers and shakers, the people running the social media in many cases, that is the ma the, the owners or the managers in this town. Right. So you get to meet people and network that way. Right. So I felt like, you know, it's important to start documenting, I guess when you, when you do go to all these events. Right. And I also find, it's just, it's really helpful. Like, you know, if you go to, uh, you know, Mitchell's, or even like recently we ordered from dedicates and they have this pile of flour cross pizza, I was thinking like, I could tell, like, I could tell people this, about this in person, but I could also like tell everyone at once and like post about it on social media and like people are messaging me, like, how is it?
Speaker 2 00:16:15 Is it any good? And it is, it's amazing, by the way, I can probably one of the best pizzas in town I would say. Yeah. So, um, I just really like yeah. That interaction with people and just sort of, um, it's good. You can have a conversation with folks and especially now with COVID and not being able to see people in real life, uh, it's been really helpful. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 0 00:16:35 No, man, you kill it. Like, I mean that genuinely like a super appreciate it. It's a really, really good job of what you do online. Like it's, it's you kill it?
Speaker 2 00:16:43 The good news only thing was just, that was me looking for good news. There was so much bad news on Facebook and everywhere. And like, you know, COVID numbers were shooting up and then you have like, uh, people are fighting about it and people are fighting about politics and everything. And it's like, and then there's always, you know, crime stories and stuff. And I'm like, there's, there's definitely good news stories. They don't get the traction on their own. Right. You know, when like sink crew does a big donation and, you know, get some likes and stuff, but it doesn't get headline news, like everything else does. And the other thing I found was a lot of people were asking me because I did have, I had worked up and have a pretty good following on Facebook. And they're like, Hey, can you share this thing about my golf tournament?
Speaker 2 00:17:20 Can you share this? And I said, yeah, sure, absolutely. I, you know, I'm down to share whatever, that's what I would go and share it. And then I found like maybe I'm posting too much because suddenly the traction on the post is going down and it's like, Facebook's starting to flag you. And it's like, if you share everything, you know, it's not gonna, it's not going to have the same effect of sharing one or two things. So then I sort of combine those two ideas and I, I did good news only one day. And I was like, we need some positive news and it kind of really took off right
Speaker 0 00:17:46 Away. So it's a great concept. I'm about promoting positivity too. Hence like the max any morning show positive here a little bit. But uh, yeah. I started reading this thing and I'm like, this is genius. It's such a good idea. And when people say like, yeah, because the algorithm shows you what you want to see, it's a mirror of what you're looking at. And so yeah. Sometimes you see a lot of negative stuff because that's where you get kind of
Speaker 2 00:18:09 Yeah. You get caught up in like, I I've, I've really made an effort to stop going into the comments section.
Speaker 3 00:18:16 I mean, sometimes it can be fun, you know, like guys up or whatever. And it's like, what am I doing? What good is this doing really
Speaker 0 00:18:22 In the long run? Right? Yeah, man. No, it's awesome. I love it. So we are definitely going over time, but that's okay. But we have a segment on the show. It's Tanner segment. It's called the Mac city minute. Okay. So he's going to hit you up with five questions. That's luck to you. I have no idea what he's going to ask. Oh boy. Tenor max, 30 minute. My man.
Speaker 4 00:18:37 Question number one. What is your most memorable behind the scenes moment from your time at the radio?
Speaker 2 00:18:44 From my time at the radio, um, you know, it's, it's memorable, not in a good way, uh, at all, but I, you know, obviously the fire was a wild day and the weeks that followed, but I remember like literally going home at one point to pack a backpack. And I was thinking like, oh, I'm probably just going to stay at the radio station and keep broadcasting tonight. Not thinking we were going to have to evacuate fully. And that like houses were going to burn down and everything. Right. So I did grab a few things that I was, I grabbed my, uh, uh, ticket stub diaries, cause my, from my concerts and I just threw them in my backpack. I was like, just in case this can't be replaced. And you know, fortunately I did because our house was unfortunately the spots. Um, and yeah, but it just that day and like, and then we ended up broadcasting from the, uh, RCMP detachment in Timberly and you know, I just, so many people just reached out and were like, it was just good to hear a familiar voice. Like somebody I know, rather than just that stuck, like this is the Alberta emergency alert. Uh, not
Speaker 3 00:19:43 Like a pleasant memory, like I said, but definitely
Speaker 2 00:19:45 The most memorable moment that happened in the radio world. Cool.
Speaker 4 00:19:48 Okay. Question number two. What is one thing you learned at radio school that would shock people? Ah,
Speaker 2 00:19:56 That's good. There's a lot of things. I think one of the things that I learned pretty early on when we first got into radio and I saw our schedule, cause I went in right away and I'm like, I'm going to be an afternoon guy or I'm going to be the evening guy. I'm going to be talking to people. And then I found out that like, there's all these other elements of radio too, which of course I knew, but I didn't think that people went to radio school for, I thought everyone that went to radio school wanted to be on air. I didn't realize you could also go to radio school and become a producer, which is what Richard does at the radio station at our station or not my station anymore 97, 9. Uh, he does all the, you know, puts all the commercials together and everything. You can go to radio school to be a writer. So you write, uh, segments or you write commercials. You can go there to be, to do sales. A lot of salespeople have a marketing background, but some people come out of radio school and they just go into that naturally cause they want to make a little bit more money. And uh, yeah. So I found that was pretty fascinating. Hmm.
Speaker 4 00:20:50 Question number three. What is your favorite event you've attended in Fort McMurray? Oh,
Speaker 2 00:20:56 There's so many. I mean, I actually used to get called out by my boss. Cause I would say on the air, I was like, this is my favorite event in Fort McMurray. It's happening this weekend. And it'd be like, didn't you say that about this, this and this? And I'm like, yeah, probably. Yeah. I know. I've definitely said it about, uh, I always liked the Banff mountain film festival, which is just a fun weekend at piano. Super inspiring. Right. You get on the big screen. You're just like, yeah, I'm ugly sweater party. You got to give props to that. It's just one of the funnest events. And I find that I love every gala and every event, but that one in particular, you know, you see, you see the regular gala crowd and you also are seeing a lot of, uh, folks that you wouldn't normally see at those $200 ticket nights. Right. You get to see everybody, everyone gets a shot. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:21:40 Question number four. What does <inaudible> mean to you?
Speaker 2 00:21:48 Um, I'm kind of thinking about the game show in the nineties with wink Yahoo and the Punisher,
Speaker 3 00:21:53 Which is looking at that as an adult. Now the Punisher character, pretty weird. I don't know where they got his, his outfit, but
Speaker 2 00:22:00 I don't think it was child appropriate anyways. Uh, reflections on what the nineties were. Yeah, no, I I've had a few moments. You put your foot in your mouth on the radio? Yeah. I mean, I still, it's funny. I still do on like Facebook sometimes and I'm like, you know, sometimes you're just kind of typing a rant and you're like, I probably shouldn't have worded it like that. You have regrets. But uh, uh, luckily I haven't had anything too, too major right happen in my life. I mean, I think I might, the only time I ever swore on the radio was in like college radio very early on. And then I learned very quickly. It's like, man, that felt not good trying to do because I was like, even if nobody heard it, I was like, oh, what if somebody did? Right.
Speaker 4 00:22:41 And your final question, what is your favorite story from your time working at the Safeway gas bar?
Speaker 3 00:22:50 Someone's looking through the Facebook or the LinkedIn. I don't even know if I put that on my LinkedIn. Oh man.
Speaker 2 00:22:58 10 are crushing it. We had some moments there at the Safeway gas bar, for sure. I don't know how many of them were. Uh, uh, we, we, we used to, there was this, this older, uh, security guard. Um, but then even Jimmy and he used to just come in and uh, he would just come in and scratch lottery tickets and uh, you know, just chat with us all the time. And he was just, uh, just a kind soul. Right. And it was just sort of interesting to get his perspective and like, especially on those evening nights, like a lot of times, especially back in the day, back at this like 10 years ago, not even, uh, you know, pay at the pump was a thing, but it wasn't mandatory. So people would still be coming in to pay. But at the same time in the evenings, you know, you get to nine, 10, o'clock you're getting like three or four customers an hour. So he would just kind of sit there and scratches tickets and talk with us. And like I learned a lot from that. Yeah. Yeah. So that's one of my favorite memories.
Speaker 0 00:23:47 There you go. Those have been your five questions, man. Always, I'm always impressed at the dig. I'm always depressed. The thing about me and Tanner, and we've said it a few times on the show and I truly do mean this. We do zero preparation, zero on the fly. So I know he's coming up with these questions like as you and me are talking and it's all it blows my mind when he asks these questions. Yeah, man. Good deep dive in like 15 minutes.
Speaker 3 00:24:13 Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. But yeah,
Speaker 2 00:24:17 I did a little prep cause I was just writing down like dates, like, so I could remember when these events are happening.
Speaker 0 00:24:22 We don't do any of that here. We
Speaker 2 00:24:24 Don't plug. You can check all my Facebook. We'll have all the plugs.
Speaker 4 00:24:27 We just don't remember. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:24:30 Yeah. It's funny that you said the Ben film festival. I love that, um, event and actually this year was virtual. Yes. And I didn't actually end up getting
Speaker 2 00:24:39 It to this year, but I did hear, it was pretty fun.
Speaker 0 00:24:42 He did in regards to, you could like I bought tickets to it. And so you had your membership for like a week and so you can watch it at any point in time from your home. So I invited like my mom over and uh, we were able cause she was in the bubble and um, yeah, it was cool. It was obviously not as good as like going down to the theater at Kiana. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:25:04 One was they had the biggest screen. I mean, I think that screen is like, it's it puts, it's like right up there with landmark screens. Oh yeah.
Speaker 0 00:25:11 And like just the environment. Yeah. It's you get so hot in there with all those people, especially during the tense moments. Like you feel it.
Speaker 2 00:25:19 So yeah. It's, it's such a great festival if you've never been get tickets for next year because it always sells out. It's usually in January. Hopefully it won't be virtual this year.
Speaker 0 00:25:30 Knock on wood. I don't know. We'll see. I hope not. I, I know you, you have to be like myself and struggling with this down. Not going out and doing things on that. I'm itching.
Speaker 2 00:25:41 I am too. And I'm kind of thinking like, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna live my best life this summer. And you know, obviously is going to be working hard with the new job and refining a golf tournament and everything and yeah. Just want to get out there and just, uh, yeah, just enjoy every second. So like, you know, it's a kind of a cloudy, rainy day this morning, which isn't the best. But like when, whenever that Sunshine's out, it's like, even if I have to take my laptop on the back deck, I'm spending as much time outdoors as I can. Yeah. This summer. Cause it'd be cooped up all winter. That's right.
Speaker 0 00:26:08 Get that vitamin D. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's important. It'll keep you healthier. So I know we're going to go over, but I got it because I used to love radio. When I was a kid, I love it. I used to have my own radio station. Just like you. I have horrible tapes, but in that tape, I know where they are and me and my buddy pero used to have pop that's what? A pop radio station. Oh my gosh. Do other people know where these tapes are?
Speaker 4 00:26:36 There might be one or two people who showed up here. Parents give me those tapes.
Speaker 0 00:26:39 Yeah. We had lots of us do an air check. Yeah. But what inspired me to do it was there was a television show. Um, w KRP in Cincinnati, have you ever seen this show?
Speaker 2 00:26:50 Oddly? Not until about four or five years ago. Just I had a boss at the time, shout out John Knox when he was our PD, he would constantly quote from that show. And you would just be like, even in air checks, he would say something and I'm like, what? And he's like, you've never seen how are you in radio and never saw the show. And I'm like, I actually saw a news radio before I saw it. And another
Speaker 3 00:27:10 Great Rogan on that. Andy daddy
Speaker 2 00:27:14 Is today and Andy Dick. Yeah. Phil Hartman too. That's right. Um, yeah. W KRP. I like, I just decided, I was like, all right, I'm going to watch it. And you know, now of course I get most of the references and now I'm like, oh, that's why people sales guys are always making jokes about Turkey.
Speaker 3 00:27:30 Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:27:34 Oh man. Okay. So you've watched it. I just assumed that everybody in radio would know that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:27:39 I think even just from being in radio and hearing the older guys make the references, you're like, okay, I better go back and, and watch this show so I can understand now. Right. There you go.
Speaker 0 00:27:47 So, uh, this is the end of the show we've went over and that's okay. It happens from time to time, but this is a part of the episode where you do your shameless plug. Okay. So whatever you got going on or whatever you want to talk about, tell everybody out there what's going. Absolutely well,
Speaker 2 00:28:00 I've got a couple of things going on. We have our, a golf tournament happening for the first responders through the CMHS currently working on that. It's been postponed, which gives me a little bit extra time to find some more sponsors it's happening on Friday, September 3rd at miscon on golf course. So, uh, by all means hope to, uh, see some folks out there. Uh, tickets are going on sale pretty soon. Uh, personally I'm may be bringing back named Matt tune on, uh, the 16th of June, Wednesday night. So, uh, we're very excited now that the restrictions have lifted and, uh, folks can gather back in cohorts and don't have to be from the same household inside the bar anymore. Awesome. So we're going to be bringing that back. It's always a huge success. Uh, people have been loving it. Uh, it kind of came from the trivia days, but now, you know, combined my love for music and my love for trivia. And I found this, you know, this group in Fort McMurray, we have about seven or eight teams that come every single time we do it and they wait for
Speaker 0 00:28:53 It. They practice for it. So a lot of pressure, I got to find new songs
Speaker 2 00:28:58 To be able to try to stump these guys. Cause they're pretty good. So that's happening and uh, yeah, we're working on some things for food festival right now. Uh, it'll be a more modified year this year, but hoping to do a golf tournament, maybe some other events and, uh, you can always check out all my stuff with the good news only, and a little thing I do called stream of the week, uh, by subscribing to the Wyman magazine weekly
Speaker 0 00:29:19 Newsletter. Okay. Do it, their website. Cool. Awesome. Well then
Speaker 3 00:29:23 That's not everything. I know you got way more. That's what you remember the iceberg. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 0 00:29:29 Well, thank you for coming on show, man. Like there's so many things I still want to talk to you about that we didn't get to touch because it's a 20 minute format, but please, please, please come back again. We'd love to have you more and more. Absolutely. I'm always down for a part two. There we go. Awesome. Well for McMurry wood, Buffalo and the rest of the world. Thank you very much for tuning in. It's been the max city morning show. I've been your host Elliot Pierre, and from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for taking the time and spending with us, hopefully having a great day and we'll see you tomorrow. Peace.
Speaker 5 00:30:15 Talk about quenching your ugly thirst.
