Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:00 Wood Buffalo and the rest of the world. You've tuned in to the Mac city morning show. I am your host, Elliot, Pierre, and we're going to start the show off the same way we start every show with a moment of gratitude. I know you could be doing a million other things with your time. So the fact that you're spending with us truly does mean the world to me on that note, Tanner
Speaker 1 00:00:17 Hit him with the intro. Oh, she caught me loves you're listening to the next every morning show.
Speaker 0 00:00:27 All right. And we're back. All right. Me and this young lady, we have lots of good conversations on and off camera. So anytime she comes to the set, I know it's going to be a good one. I don't introduce my guests as you know, they do that themselves. So on that note, can you please tell people who you are and what you're about?
Speaker 2 00:00:42 Hey guys, my name is Renee. Uh, Renee manners. Some of you see me at comedy shows and things like that. I've been in Fort Mac for man, I think like 14 years now. Uh, I'm an artist. I'm a mom. I'm a comedian entrepreneur, I guess.
Speaker 0 00:01:00 There you go. Yep. So I just want to get into the conversation last time we were hanging out and we won't drop your client's name, but, uh, you're doing some painting in a house like, so I know you as a painter, I know you paint. And you do like, um, drawings on windows and such around the Christmas break and Halloween and stuff. But you were like legit painting a home for someone. Yep.
Speaker 2 00:01:21 It's a skill that my mom gave to me when I was a little girl. So my mom was a single mom and I would come with her to work just like my son does with me. And, uh, she started me really young, like three, four painting, the insides of closets at like, I remember we, uh, she got a contract for an old folks home and we were there for months and I would like hang out with all the old people. And she would teach me, she taught me how to paint when I was really young. So it's a skill that I've been able to fall back on when I need to. Um, so, you know, obviously with everything that went down, I lost my sources of income. So it's been something that I've been able to fall back on for.
Speaker 0 00:02:01 And you're like talented at it too. Like, and the w the house that we were in, which was mind blowing to me, like had huge, like, it was high. Like, I was just like, how the hell are you getting up there to paint all of these corners? Like it was,
Speaker 2 00:02:19 I did it. Yeah. It was a ladder. It's a crazy invention. I know, but still it's, it's freaky, but I just, you just adapt and you get it done. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:02:29 So you were happy with the end product when it was all. I didn't, I only saw it when it was probably like halfway halfway done. So I haven't seen the, it's still
Speaker 2 00:02:38 A little bit ways to go, like, not, not totally finished, but it's awesome opportunity for me because, um, there's a, she wants to do a custom, a feature wall in her bedroom with you, have you seen the fads online with all the, uh, they take like the baseboards and put them in all different kinds of directions on the walls and then paint it all flat. I'll show you. So she wants to do that in her bedroom, and I've never done it before. So it's, it gives me these opportunities. I always say, get paid to learn. So it gives me opportunities to try things and be creative, um, that I wouldn't normally do on my own. And I just bought my very first power tool, which I'm really pumped about everybody. Oh, what kind of power tool? I just got a nail gun. Okay. Uh, I wanted my own tools for a really long time. Like woodworking was my favorite subject in school. And I love, I love to be creative and stuff. I've never been able to bite the bullet and they're expensive. Right. So I need it for work. So I had to get it so right off it, yeah. There you go.
Speaker 0 00:03:43 I'm terrified of power tools. Personally. They freak me out just like guns in regards to like there's consequences, consequences to your actions. I'm kind of flighty. So
Speaker 2 00:03:54 Kind of just have to do it. I just, I just cut down a tree in my, in my backyard a couple of days ago with a chainsaw. And I was like, you just have to, like, you went it, you want the tree down. So you have to, you know? Yeah. I just find people to cut the tree down, but that's, that's my
Speaker 0 00:04:10 Thing. Find somebody there's. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:04:13 I'm too independent, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:04:15 Yeah. I, I don't suffer from that, uh, that I don't know, issue or debilitation on. I'm more than happy to ask people, even strangers for
Speaker 2 00:04:24 Help. Yeah. Yeah. I I'm just like, eh, I'll just get it done right now. It did kick back. I hit the shed and it kicked back and I was like, whoa, but I'm like, Hey, the trees down. We're fine. Everyone has their limbs. Yes. The tree. Yeah. The trees, the trees
Speaker 0 00:04:40 Down. Oh, you got some good firewood meets room
Speaker 2 00:04:45 Setting up the pool. So kind of pool. Just like an above ground pool. Yeah. The biggest one you can get. Wow. I know. Nice. Yeah, I got it off marketplace there. 1800 bucks regular. I got a hunt for 150 bucks. What? With a pump and a vacuum. Wow. I know the pump alone is 300 bucks. I always tell Mason. I'm like leverage people, buy it first. We'll we'll get it second. That's just some, like, I don't know, a retired lady who just wanted to float around in the pool for the summer and then her husband wanted his yard back. So she's like, I dunno. It was 150 bucks. Good. I'm like, oh yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. So it, well, we've had it for a couple of years. Um, but it's awesome. Cause Mason's nine. Right? So he moved the trampoline next to the pool and they jumped. So it's, it's convenient.
Speaker 0 00:05:37 That's sweet. I thought you were talking about just like a little blow up. Well, that's, that's what I got. Yeah. I have like one of those, you know, your, a little, those, um, plastic pools, like the little slide. Yep. That's
Speaker 2 00:05:48 My speed. Oh, we have a full, like, I have like scaffolding setups. So they hidden Cannonball and it's pretty awesome. It's a party in your
Speaker 0 00:05:54 Backyard. Sure. Yeah. I I'm inviting myself.
Speaker 2 00:05:59 Anytime. Teakwood outdoor outdoor activities are allowed.
Speaker 0 00:06:03 There we go. I like it. Yeah. With the tape. We can do that now. Yeah. We can do that. Now. Now the other thing that you brought up after hours after we finished filming the last episode was you're into martial arts. You might be going to martial arts tonight. Yes. Explain this to me.
Speaker 2 00:06:21 What, in what regard, what martial arts are you into? I mean, Brazilian jujitsu and I love it. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me. And it totally changed my life. And yet my son is in it as well. And I actually got rid of my master bedroom. I moved all my bedroom furniture downstairs and set up a gym in our bedrooms so that we can do martial arts together in the house. Um, it's awesome. I highly recommend everyone try it. Why? Uh, because it, like, it's just such a incredible, like, it meets all my needs. So it's like a spiritual, it affects me spiritually, physically and mentally. So it feels like you're, it feels like you're meditating when you're rolling with someone, um, you have to, you have to be present. You have to focus. It's great. Exercise. It's quick. It's I don't know. You just have to try it. And once you, once you get into it, you're just like, and you're just constantly learning, constantly trying new things, you learn moves. And then when you accomplish them, you get that feeling of like, accomplish like a good golf swing. You're like, yeah. Keep trying. It's just such an incredible sport. I'm so lucky I fell into it because I'm not normally an athlete. So just the idea that I'm even doing martial arts surprises me, but, uh, yeah, it's awesome for back on and I'm really excited about it.
Speaker 0 00:07:48 So how did you stumble into this as a non-athlete to like, this is, yeah. How did you fall? How do you fall into this one?
Speaker 2 00:07:54 So here's a side note quick before I go into that. So there's actually, this is a huge deal for me, but I'm training to go compete in Vegas in for the worlds. If I'm good enough, if I can get good enough, I'm going to go and try and compete, which is just like mind blowing for me. Is that something that I would have ever seen myself, you know, doing, but I, I actually got into it. Um, my friend, Sean dragged me down to Bowman's for some kickboxing one night and I was like super intimidated, um, because I'm not athletic, but I got into it after my mom passed away. I was trying to figure out how to deal with depression. I didn't know how to deal with depression and because I'm not someone who exercises regularly, I didn't understand the, the, um, I wasn't at the time, like I was always active.
Speaker 2 00:08:44 I played softball and I had a landscaping company, so it was active, but it didn't put the two together. And, uh, so I started doing kickboxing that way and it was a huge, like mental relief or depression. Right. Um, and I regret this, but I remember watching the jiu-jitsu crew after our kickboxing classes and they would be doing more mops. And I thought, man, those guys are nuts. Like, look at these crazy, like doing all these wild crab walks and like kicking the crap out of each other. And all the women were super ripped. And I was like, I could never do that. That looks way too hard. And then her seven years I watched, and then for my 35th birthday, I promised myself that I'd do something that it was afraid of. So I just, I just, I didn't, I wasn't even wearing, I was wearing like sweatpants and a t-shirt and like just like went and sat in the cage with the other people.
Speaker 2 00:09:35 And they were just kind of like, Hey, do you want to roll? I'm like, what's that? And then just, yeah, I've been doing it for two years now. And I'm just starting to feel like, like, I'm not like if I, if I wear do do t-shirt, I'm not a poser, like I'm feeling like this is a reality in my life. And it's like slowly taking over, uh, I, I make a big effort to attend class and you know, it's, there's a lot of, you have to be really prepared. Like your stuff has to be clean. You have to be clean, you know? So there's, you have, there's a lot of effort to it. And I'm proud of myself that I that's cool work. Cause it's not my nature. I'm not typically consistent.
Speaker 0 00:10:17 Right. Oh, oh. We all struggle with that one. Yeah. You're not the only person there was a Jason King was on the show. He was saying the same kind of deal. I think it's very interesting in regards to, you said the same thing when he first found it out about it, he went to the parking lot. He just parked and looked and he was scared to go in. And it took him a few times to actually like go in there. I don't know if it was quite seven years, but
Speaker 2 00:10:43 It didn't, it's an intimidating thing. Right. When you don't know what you're doing or anything about it, did you just go in and be like, you feel at a place? And Jason's a fantastic guy. Him and I have rolled bots and he's taught me so much and made me feel like a confident and proud of, of trying, like starting as the hardest thing.
Speaker 0 00:11:02 That's right. So this is something like, you just kind of dovetailed into the question for me. You can do this men versus women, women versus men. Vice-versa how does that like, cause I, I, I have to be honest, I don't even know what this looks like. I've never even physically seen it. No, I definitely, yes there's no.
Speaker 3 00:11:22 So how cause
Speaker 0 00:11:23 Like, does he, there's a weight class there.
Speaker 2 00:11:26 Yeah. But that doesn't matter if you have technique. So the way that I describe it is, um, it's like chess with your body. So there's a defense and offense. Right. And so every diff every offense has a defense and vice versa. So we were just kind of constantly, do you remember on the old, um, cartoons, uh, where the, when the animals would fight and it would just be like that ball of smoke in the arms? Correct. It kind of feels like that, but, uh, it's more so like the objective is to submit your opponent. So you submit through like a choke or a tap like your arm. Uh, you can like, um, do, uh, like you can bend people's wrists, you can bend their ankles, their knees, their arms, like there's all sorts of ways to get them to tap. So you want, you want them to submit, you can, you can, uh, restrict their airway or their blood, like, uh, there's all different ways.
Speaker 2 00:12:23 So it's, it's basically then like a tussle of your trying to get me in a position where you can submit me. And I'm trying to get you in a position where I can submit you. So, and it's exhausting because you're pushing against their weight. So it's common for me to roll with somebody that's 200 pounds. I'm like six foot. And even though they're bigger and stronger, my advantage is, you know, like I'm lanky so I can use my legs a lot. So I choke people with my legs a lot. Um, so if a guy goes to like, pick me up, I can just like, use my legs and get an arm bar him like a, like a little squirrel, like, right. So, so they could squish me. Yeah. But only if I'm in the position, if I don't let them squish me. So if I'm quicker and I can get into a position where I can get on their neck then. Right. Yeah. So it's really technique and, and, um, experience. So like we have women, there's a friend of mine, she's a brown belt and she's, you know, she's, she came in third in, in worlds in the whole world. Uh, yeah, no, not well, she's from actually she's from Lacome I think, but, uh, uh, in Vegas. So like everybody goes and yeah, so, and she's one step before black belt, which is like the ultimate goal, but sometimes it can take like 10, 15 years to get together,
Speaker 4 00:13:51 Get to become a full black belt until you die.
Speaker 2 00:13:54 Yeah. Like it just keeps, it just keeps going.
Speaker 4 00:13:58 Uh, so in your belt system, you're rated stars throughout your belt. So you can be a one, two or three star colored belt. And as a black belt, the highest star achievement, you can reach as a two-star black belt and you get your third star when you die.
Speaker 2 00:14:12 What is that for jujitsu different? Or that might be take though. Yeah. Jitsu's a little bit different, but you can just constantly keep leveling up. And then it, the sport is like constantly evolving. Right. So it's, and it's just, it's, it's like, uh, because you're thinking, what can I do here? So you have to be quick, your body has to be quick. Your mind has to be quick and you're in it's primal play essentially. So you are, uh, invoking your, your primitive nature in that sport. Right. So that's why it's so addictive. And it's so like, uh, you want to do it because you're doing what you would have done 500 years ago. That's right. It's really interesting.
Speaker 0 00:14:59 Yeah. I hear a lot about it just because I watched Joe Rogan's podcast and he talks about it constantly. And then a few days ago, a week ago, whatever he had Russell Peters on and Russell Peter is a big and Jonah hill.
Speaker 2 00:15:11 It does. You did too. He talks about like, it just changes your life in a positive way. This is something that I've been waiting to have in my life for my whole life, like a healthy athletic outlet that keeps me in shape, you know, keeps me strong. And like the other day a Mason. And I was like, Mason's like, mommy, want to climb this tree with me? And I felt like lethargic and unhappy, unhealthy. And I was like, yeah, I guess. And then I was like, right to the top. I was like, well,
Speaker 3 00:15:39 How did that happen? Yeah. Doing better than I thought. That's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:15:45 So highly recommended everybody. Try it once. At least it's very close contact. So you have to be cool with personal space. Yeah. That's right. Elliot.
Speaker 4 00:15:55 Me and you let's just go into the parking lot. Yes. Just throw down
Speaker 0 00:16:00 Max city morning show, fight club. Yeah. Don't talk about it. Don't talk about it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:16:05 Come down to, to the club and see it for yourself,
Speaker 0 00:16:08 Baby. That's why I don't like to, I don't like to like impact, impact any pain or physical damage to my, my body.
Speaker 2 00:16:18 I would try to say like, you don't really get hurt, but yeah. It's definitely a different breed of people. When you started
Speaker 4 00:16:23 Working out and you woke up in the morning, you just felt great. Yeah. Never. You were never sore
Speaker 0 00:16:29 Or stuff, but not because of somebody impacted. That's my thing in regards to, I actually like to like do pushups and run and I'm doing tons of chin-ups now. Like, I, I like doing that. And like I zone out when I do that. Um, and then like, I meditate and so I'm just like, okay, well I can work out. And I meditate. So I get my, my fix. I don't need somebody to like, be bending my thumbs or <inaudible>
Speaker 2 00:16:57 See the idea of like, just doing a buttload of pushups and like, chin-ups, I won't do it. I need it. I need my exercise to be hidden. That's right. That's right. And I'm usually laughing the whole time. So I don't know if I'm like sadistic or it's funny to me, like, yeah. And I'd like to say, you don't get hurt, but you get hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 0 00:17:17 Of course you do. Yeah, of course you do. You're going to get a little bit hurt. Yeah. I'm going to die, but
Speaker 2 00:17:24 No, like that's not, you're going to realistically, there's a risk in anything you do, but, uh, yeah. And we respect each other as opponents. Like you're not going to serve me if you're, I'm not going to serve anybody as their opponent. If I'm like ego sickle or hurting someone on purpose. Right. Like we want each other to, as, as we both improve, then
Speaker 0 00:17:45 Yeah. That's fine. Like the best person in the world, but they're going to not lower their level, but they're not going to go out of their way just to like destroy you. Yeah. It's a learning experience
Speaker 2 00:18:00 For both that doesn't serve you to show someone what you can do. Right. Like,
Speaker 0 00:18:05 So that's pretty cool. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Okay. We're at the part of the show where Tanner has his segment. It's called the Mac CD minute. You know what it's all about? I don't know what he's going to ask and neither do you, so a good luck Towner hit her with the max. Any minute
Speaker 4 00:18:20 Question. Number one. What is one form of art you would want to try that you haven't yet
Speaker 2 00:18:26 Tattooing. You want to tattoo something. If anybody wants to get me a tattoo gun, I will gladly accept that gift
Speaker 4 00:18:36 Question. Number two. What is your favorite way to spend a summer day in Fort McMurray?
Speaker 2 00:18:42 Oh, that's a great question. Uh, there's so many different ways. I love the sun. I don't like having a lot of pressure to do a lot of things when it's a sunny day. So I'd probably just like, hang around my yard or go to the beach and just chill, read a book and get some sun. And then I would probably finish it up with like going to a patio and socializing and visiting with friends. I think
Speaker 4 00:19:06 Question number three. What is your most memorable moment from a show
Speaker 2 00:19:12 Here? This show for a show in general. So you've done. Oh, like a, like a comedy
Speaker 1 00:19:18 Show. Um,
Speaker 2 00:19:21 Oh, there's so many. I probably. Okay. So my favorite, this is unusual, but my favorite thing about comedy is hecklers because to me it's like game on because my wit is, is one of my favorite attributes. Uh, and every single time that I've had a heckler try to heckle me, I've burned them back and they've either bought me a shot or given me a tip. There you go. So, so that's, I think probably that is strokes my ego a little. Nice. Okay.
Speaker 4 00:19:50 Question number four. What is one piece of art that is important to you and why?
Speaker 1 00:19:56 Um, I would,
Speaker 2 00:19:59 Have you guys ever go to the Jamaican restaurant that was here
Speaker 0 00:20:04 Max? Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:20:05 So I would probably say off the top of my head that was, was a huge, um, opportunity for me because I designed an entire restaurant and it painted it all myself. And that really proved to me what I was capable of. So there's lots of, there's so much that I could say, but that for me was like a huge tipping point in my own confidence in my abilities. So I would say if anybody ever went to the Jamaican restaurant while I was here, I designed it. And it was a lot of fun too. I hit a lot of these drafts in the, in the, in the walls and the art, there was a lot of like perverted stuff and like jokes and stuff.
Speaker 0 00:20:42 So nobody really knew about that's. Cool. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:20:46 And your final question, what is one thing you do when looking for creative inspiration? Um,
Speaker 2 00:20:56 I look at other artists, so I look at other, other creative people and I see, try to see things from a different point of view. And I'll ask friends and talk to a big question that really helps me when I'm designing anything, a mural or a space. Um, I'll always ask people like, how do you want this to make you feel? How do you want this room to make you feel? How do you want this? Like, like, uh, I did a coffee shop, um, and I asked the owner like, how do you want people to feel? Do you want it to feel like, is it going to attract like business people or is it going to attract like teenagers? What you, how do you want people to make this feel? So probably that I just try to get into people's heads on how they want to feel in the space.
Speaker 4 00:21:36 And those have been your five questions
Speaker 2 00:21:38 You're so creative with. Oh,
Speaker 0 00:21:40 He's so good. Now I'm going to build on one of these questions. So when it comes to tattooing, yeah. You've never tattooed anybody before you feel you, you can do this. Like where would you get the gun and like, practice on like a pig, like, like a dead pig. Like first
Speaker 2 00:21:55 You kind of hard to hold a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:21:58 That's exactly. It, it might be a bit problematic.
Speaker 4 00:22:00 Probably just use the skin to old dead
Speaker 0 00:22:03 Pig. Yeah, that's right. My have
Speaker 2 00:22:06 My nephews actually own tattoo shops in Ottawa and surround, I have friends and stuff like that, but I've never actually done it myself. I would be curious to see, I would handle that, uh, medium, because I feel like I'd be able to hold onto the gun. All right. You know, like straight lines and things like that, but I would be more interested in like how it goes into the flesh. I would probably just tattoo myself without ink. Like just to see like on my own legs and stuff. You
Speaker 0 00:22:35 Have tattoos. Yeah. Okay. Oh, interesting tattoo. Tanner has a bunch of tattoos as well. That is one thing like, I think tattoos are so commonplace now almost. I would say, I would say almost the majority of the population have them. I don't have a single one. Yeah. Not a single tattoo that I'm special, but yeah. Interesting. So you want to tattoo somebody three little ones?
Speaker 2 00:22:58 Well, I just want to try it. Like, I feel like so, uh, for my own personal artistic creativity, I really like realism. I like to draw faces and people and, and um, so I think that that could be interesting to feel that I couldn't imagine what it feels like to feel a tattoo. That's right. Yeah. Interesting. Like somebody that they care about is on their body now because of you. Yeah. That's cool. But I wouldn't want to do it unless I was good at it.
Speaker 0 00:23:23 Right. It's kind of permanent. And I've
Speaker 2 00:23:25 Had a lot of people offer up their butt cheeks to me. So I feel like there'd be enough. Yeah. Trial. Yeah. That's
Speaker 0 00:23:32 Funny. All right. We're at the end of the show. Thanks for having the problem. Thanks for coming back. So before you leave, and I don't know what you're going to shamelessly plug, but you've got a shameless plug. So what do you want to talk about? Who do you want to shout out to this, your few seconds,
Speaker 2 00:23:47 Five seconds of fame. I want to thank you guys for, for having me. I always have such a great time coming here. I hope I was entertaining. Um, and then comedy comedy is coming back. We already have comedy shows booked. So I, if you don't know, um, I kind of gone to this, uh, bad manners, art nights and bad manners, bingo nights. Um, and then my girlfriend, Erica, uh, does comedy as well. And we collab a lot. So we've got a lot of stuff already planned in book at Bailey's pub for September, October, November, and December. So we've got, uh, I've got an art night and a bingo night already planned for every month. And she's got some stuff in the works too. And so we're really excited to get back to making people laugh and getting socializing. And so that would be it. There
Speaker 0 00:24:38 We go. Comedy. I love it. So closer to the date, you'll come back and promote deaths more than sure. Yes, everybody there, medicine. There you go. All right. Well, form of Murray wood, Buffalo in the rest of the world, thank you very much for tuning in. This has been another episode of the Mac city morning show. Like I said, at the top of the show, I know you could be doing a lot of things. So the fact that you're spending with us truly does mean the world to me. So, uh, on that note, hope you hope you're having a great day and we'll see you tomorrow. Peace.
Speaker 5 00:25:23 Talk about quenching your ugly thirst.
