Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:00 Good morning for McMurry wood, Buffalo, and the rest of the world. You've tuned in to the Mac city morning show. I'm your host, Elliot Pierre. And we're going to start this episode off the same way we start every show off with a moment of gratitude. I know you could be a million other places doing a million other things. So the fact that you're spending with us truly does mean the world to me on that note, Tanner hit him with the intro. All right. And we're back. Okay. I'm excited. We got a good one. We got to repeat guests. This guy's full of energy. It's going to be an awesome show. Sarah, please introduce yourself again to the people at home. My name
Speaker 1 00:00:43 Is Dan talk, uh, local principal musician for McMurry enthusiast. There we go. Here we go. Yeah. Well, I was for vacation, a little different attire this time on summer vacation. So no suit full load. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:00:57 So how are things going, man? It's summer things are opening up. I see you're performing places.
Speaker 1 00:01:02 21 gigs in July. Woo crazy. Ah, no things are over. Things are good. People come back to life. Like people are happy to be out again. That's right. Uh, it's fantastic, man. It is. It is incredible right now, but yeah. Yeah. It's good. It's good. Nice.
Speaker 0 00:01:18 So the people at home, if they don't know, you're a principal. So now you got two months off. Well, not really, no 6, 5, 5 weeks as an administrator. You got to go back. Yeah. So let's talk about how you enjoy your summers. Cause you guys got, you have nice summers. So what do you do? What have you been up to? Well,
Speaker 1 00:01:39 This year is a little different, so we kind of invested the deck, get the deck ready, like thousands only summer deck living, then everything opened up. So it was it wasn't. Oh no, this is all it's money. My deck like a little water fountain, little thyre table. But then when everything opened up, we, I gig, I travel that's it. We gig and travel. I really go hard in on the shows because you know, you have the weddings, weddings are super, people are getting married, like mad, I guess. Like they've been cooped up for 17 months. So they've been yeah. Then getting ready to go. Then, uh, just got back from bathtub. My little girl, a band went kayaking, not kayaking, canoeing, kayaking with more than one person. Right, right. Okay. Uh, and now Greece in nine days. What? Yeah, Greece nine days from now going to Greece for what? Just for traveling. Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 0 00:02:25 Super excited. You and the fam I'm assuming
Speaker 1 00:02:27 Just the wife and I. Okay. Yeah, we do this every year important. Cause I mean, you know, there's been people, we have people in formats of busy city. People live these really hectic lives and it's good to take that time to reconnect. Right. And, and, and have that time to just
Speaker 2 00:02:39 Focus on yourself
Speaker 1 00:02:41 And your wife and your, and your family right off the grease for 11 days. Quick trip. Nice. Have you been to Greece before we booked this before? COVID right. And then, so what the grazing of this trip is? Yeah. We paid for like two years ago. Right. We saved up, we're planting the summer and now it's just like, Hey, cool. We're good to go. That's awesome.
Speaker 0 00:03:03 Your sense of jealous.
Speaker 1 00:03:05 We social media, man. I follow the Instagram. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:03:07 I've been, uh, looking at some plane tickets to different places. Myself. I was planning seriously planning on going to Cuba. And then all of a sudden Cuba started to pop off. Yeah. So now I got to, like, I literally was about to hit that book button and went to sleep and I was like, yeah, you know, I'll book it tomorrow kind of deal. And then the next day a house and these news articles started popping off. I'm like, all right, I ain't going to Cuba anymore. So I'm on the lookout for some locations. Cause the one thing COVID has taught me is in regards to what I missed, I missed traveling. Absolutely. And so now that things are getting better, I'm going to learn from what I, what I miss and be like, Hey, I'm not going to be one of those guys who were like, oh yeah, you know, I'll get there. I'm like, no, no, no. It was taken away from me. Yeah. I'm getting on that plane.
Speaker 1 00:03:59 That's one thing I realized. Well, I think that's the thing I really liked about COVID is that it took stuff away. That's right. Again, literally it literally kind of book-ended us for 15 months and all the things that we appreciate. Music, friends, restaurants, all of the things that I kind of see as that integral part of my life yeah. Were literally taken away. And as, as an extrovert. Yeah. That was weird, man. Like it was a weird time. Totally. And that's why I'm so glad. Let me, I love you have a great setup here. I got so tired of playing the cameras. Like I wasn't on the Facebook shows I was doing, you know what we all did to stay alive. And I was a man there's no, that, that, that interaction that, you know, that energy that comes from a crowd, it's incredible.
Speaker 0 00:04:38 Can't beat it. Yeah. Even going out to restaurants again, like this weekend, I think I ate out, which is horrible for like my, my body. But I, I, I think I ate out every meal. Yeah. Like I was at a bar or a restaurant just like, Hey, how are you doing? I haven't seen you in a bit. And uh, what I love about is people are walking by and you're like, Hey,
Speaker 3 00:04:59 I like this, this you amigo
Speaker 0 00:05:01 Out. But all of a sudden, it's just like, you're talking to 15 other people as you're out, just like that. See you in 15 months, like what's going on? Like you can't beat it. I mean, I've experienced the shake hand has, I was like, ah, ah, yeah. Well, I just decided I am not going to play this game of like, are we shaking hands? Are we doing the fist bump? I'm hugging everybody. I'm just going for it.
Speaker 4 00:05:25 We just got back from, uh, from a concert this weekend and everybody like random strangers. I just walk eye contact and be like, give me a hug. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:05:34 I'm just going for it. And then like, if you go for the hug and you can see, like they're not comfortable, like, oh, you don't want to hug. That's okay. But like this whole, uh, I don't, I don't know. I'm just like, no, just come in, come in for it. I
Speaker 1 00:05:46 Made the joke joke for both kids. Yes <inaudible>.
Speaker 5 00:05:54 So
Speaker 0 00:05:55 This is a crazy amount of gigs. You were able to book in a short amount of time. Like, was this like, did all of these venues just start calling you up as soon as things change? Or how
Speaker 1 00:06:04 Does that it was, it was, it's kind of a double-edged sword. Yeah. And so in some sense, I was always booking gigs. Like every gig was tentative. I'm like, okay, cool. I got, you gotta be booked this weekend if it opens. Right. Right. Um, and then the weddings, the golf course, I was like, oh cool. We can have people in again. And there's that strange demand that people just wanting entertainment. They want to see people. Right. So people started calling and, and that's the thing. It sounds like a lot. But once you take every Friday and Saturday was that's eight a month and you do a smoke mix and you do some stuff. It, it, it fills up really quick. Right. But it's, it's really cool. And this is my normal summer, summer schedules. Like once I get back into the school year, you can't, I can't do this. I can't play Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Yeah. Friday and Saturday. Right. That's right.
Speaker 2 00:06:46 Yeah. I didn't know you do weddings. Yeah. I didn't either
Speaker 1 00:06:51 Was like you blaze then what's the answer always say yes. I guess music's like improv when we say he has an add something. He's like, yeah, sure, sure.
Speaker 0 00:06:59 I guess so. So is this a new addition to your bag of tricks?
Speaker 3 00:07:03 No. I mean,
Speaker 1 00:07:04 Usually I was with friends. Like I would do like all, can you play my wedding? You're my buddy. Like yeah, of course I can. Yeah. Now it's like, Hey, can you play my wedding? You're you're Dan. I'm a guy, I guess.
Speaker 0 00:07:12 So that's awesome. So what's the difference between how, how is it different between playing at a bar and or,
Speaker 1 00:07:21 Okay. This is a great, I thought it was a lot. Okay. So there's tears playing at like your background music. No one cares. You could play the same song for 40 minutes when you're, when you're completely background like a jazz kind of show, then you can do a pub when people are singing along, they can catch you. If you miss some words, you've got another song better than them. But no one really pays a lot of attention. That's right. A wedding. The bride is paying attention. Oh she, and she's picked some songs. So like last week I played a great wedding for this wonderful couple and they want some, each year in tune. It's like, okay. So it's actually got, so you've got to folks, yo learn some stuff you gotta, you gotta, cause you know what? This is her day, man. I don't his day to let's be upfront, but it's her day.
Speaker 1 00:08:02 Right? Yeah. She wants that song to sound like she wants that song to sandwich. He comes down the aisle, that first dance that's right. So you gotta pay a little attention. The most nerve wracking thing is national anthems because you can't mess that up. If I sing brown that girl, I sing the wrong verse. Like, you know, no one cares, but you messed up. Oh Canada or the Star-Spangled banner. That makes, that makes YouTube that's right. Yeah. That's, that's the one that I really nervous, uh, weddings and only the like bridal procession and the first dance make me nervous. And the daddy like the father, daughter, dance makers, somebodies, the mother, daughter, mother, son dance. And they're okay with it. Some sons. Yeah. Um, but yeah, you wanna make sure you give that, that lady that day she wants.
Speaker 0 00:08:44 Oh, that's right. Yeah. So when you're playing this, you're playing, like when you do a wedding, you're the live band. It's just you you're playing from start to finish. Oh.
Speaker 1 00:08:55 Sometimes depending on what they want. It's, I'm tired literally to just do the, uh, like the broader procession or like, uh, sing a song for the dances. I'm there. Like I'm literally there in the morning and I stay the entire day, you know, full pastor to like Adam Sandler.
Speaker 0 00:09:13 That's awesome. Yeah. I didn't know you did weddings, but that makes sense. Why not? Why not? That's right.
Speaker 1 00:09:18 We save on foods. I'm like, yeah. He just loved to play that guitar. That's great. Right. That's it. That's
Speaker 0 00:09:23 Great. He just loves to play that guitar. Okay. So now you like to travel, let's go back to that topic because I followed your last trip on Facebook, but not everybody did. Where did you go last time?
Speaker 1 00:09:34 Like the last big trip. Yeah. Vietnam.
Speaker 5 00:09:37 So it was great hearing all about that.
Speaker 1 00:09:39 We started travel channel. I know I watched it talking around. Uh, I, I remember my wife because I put my iPhone under a train, like under a train, the train was coming. I was like, what does the train? And she said, you're gonna lose that. I felt like it was what happens to like falls off the train or the train knocks over. I'm like, is it worth the shot, dude? Whatever. It'd be good. Yeah. Oh, Vietnam was cool. Cool experience. I would go back to Asia a minute. Like I said to my wife, let's go back to Vietnam, but then you look at the world, like you said, there's so many places to see and you know, you're, you're I find travel odd that way. And I fall in love with the place. I'm like, oh, I could retire here. I want to come back here.
Speaker 1 00:10:12 And then you think, well, there's so many other places to see. There's only a limited amount of time in your life. That's right. So yeah. I don't know. I'll go back to Asia again. I maybe will back to Vietnam again. You know, if the stars align. Yeah. Right. Opportunity there, man. Yeah. Travel's great. What's your hit list right now. Okay. So Greece right now, top three for Greece right now, obviously that was the top three because we're going to spend a weekend or five days and Athens do the tours and stuff and a week in the islands, head back. Um, I think I want to get Thailand, Japan, Japan. Japan is where I want to go. And then, uh, I want to do like the Eastern Europe and a block. I block country. Yeah. We're on, we're on,
Speaker 0 00:10:52 We're on the same page. Yeah. Prior to COVID listen to this privately or during COVID I should say there was a seat sale that I got a ticket to, to go to Japan. It went from Edmond or sorry. Yeah. Edmonton, Vancouver direct Tokyo. Oh man. Air Canada. Yeah. $537 return. That's incredible return. Yeah, but it was, uh, it didn't pan out because I was supposed to go in February and things were hot there. If I did go to Japan, you had to lock down for 14 days. The trip was only 10 days, but 537 bucks return on like not a milk run just straight through straight.
Speaker 1 00:11:34 That's the thing, man. And that's the problem we were worried about. COVID because the 14 days, like if you have to do the 14 days here, the 14 days there. Yeah. You
Speaker 0 00:11:42 Can't do it. Just allow that. Yeah. Tanner just hit me up. Umi could talk for days. Yeah. I'm stealing his shine a little bit. Here's the Mac city minute. It's his shine Tanner. It was Maxine. Minute
Speaker 4 00:11:55 Question. Number one. What is one song you want to learn to play?
Speaker 1 00:12:02 I've always wanted to master, like I wouldn't add acoustic Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh, I've tried. I don't think I can, but I'm going to try. I'm going to keep kicking at it. Queens of man Queens is an amazing band. Freddie mercury is the best front man ever. And I just want to, if I could do a one man. Well Hemion Rhapsody. That would be my dream too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:12:22 Question number two. If you could play one venue in the world, what venue would that be? Great question. <inaudible>
Speaker 1 00:12:37 Wow. Tatter. I don't even know. Like, I mean, I like to say Windley stadium, but that's, that's not true. Like Madison square garden. Be cool. Yeah. Maybe the grand old opera, but the grand Ole Opry full. Not necessarily playing country, but just like full of like people like an old historic venue. Okay. I like playing like old churches and like small pubs and stuff. I love that interaction that visceral, like people are here. They're with me. I like big shows, but I don't look for just like once those white lights come on, I can't see anybody. I'm like, oh, I miss you guys. So that would be it. I would play like some massive old cathedral or old pub in Ireland or something, but it's full of 28 people and that's full because that's how big the pub is. And there you go. Question
Speaker 4 00:13:18 Number three. What is one gig that stands out to you? The most
Speaker 0 00:13:26 Tenders on his game? No man tent. Like we, we are on a bit of a hiatus there, but Tanner to key nails it every time. Yes.
Speaker 1 00:13:34 Yep. Giga stands out, man. Okay. When I was a young kid playing my first shows in the fortune arena, forge Newland and like a thousand people, 1500 people. And they had a big band, like a big by our standards band at that time. And I got to play like my, my band, the black roses, which is my high school band got to play like on a full stage where like a full, like, like a real stage. And you felt like it was knowing the audience that'd be like 40 people. My mom, but I felt like, like a rock star. Right? Yeah. I remember. And I say this, uh, I'm going to tell you these guys, my buddy Glenn and my buddy mark, who I grew up with who were in, in the black roses with me, my favorite time plan. He had a spare bedroom in his basement and we would go down there and play the same seven, 1990s grunge rock songs over and over again. And that was the epitome of music for me. Like it was just the three of us, crappy amps, crappy guitars, crappy drums, and just having the best time in the world. So that's why we go back to that was the best game. Three of us in a room, just being in love with music, no questions.
Speaker 4 00:14:40 Number four. What is one moment you've had in Fort McMurray that makes you feel like a local celebrity?
Speaker 1 00:14:49 I was walking. I was getting groceries the other day and some guy stopped me. He's like, what are you doing? Getting groceries. Cause again, why are you getting groceries here was like, cause it's next to my house. And he's like, why do you live in Fort McMurry? I said, what do you mean? He goes, aren't you famous? I was like, no principle. And this guy was convinced. I was just like a Luke Bryant. Like somebody, like, I was just like a normal, famous person. I was like, dude, not famous. Yeah. Or like when your, when your face is on a beer can, that's weird. Uh, I remember eating lunch at the Tavern and like, they have the posters of above. Like who's playing that weekend. They're like eating your, your chicken, cheese, your fish and chips. And some guys like looks at you and it looks up and looks down. You're like, yeah, it's always, always slightly out when people now at the point where I'm sure you're the same. I always just assume you know who I am when someone meets me. Like, I just, it's just, it's easy to assume that you know my name. Right. And don't get weird. And I went to was like, I know where you live. Like that's weird, but was a small town. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:15:55 And your final question. What is the craziest story you have from your time traveling?
Speaker 1 00:16:05 G-rated show now sheltered. My travels are pretty good. Craziest trip traveling. My wife and I anniversary. I lived in England in 2005 and 2007. Right. I lived in this really cool residence in Essex because a university and my wife wanted to see that on our honeymoon. We fly to England, missed the train because we get there in the middle of the night. And I was used because I would go to London quite often. Then the train leaves at like 12, midnight or 1:00 AM. And if you miss the train, you miss the train and you stay in the train station all night. Yeah. So the craziest trip I'm sitting there at our backpacks. Wait, who is this wonderful, amazing, she's an incredible person. And I say, well, I'll have him to our honeymoon. We got to sleep in a train station tonight. What do you mean?
Speaker 1 00:16:50 Like full out, we're sleeping at a train station. So I like a full-out ready. I could get cuddled into like when me and Tanner were talking earlier, I'm a hairy, ugly guy. I feel quite comfortable. People are going to avoid me and Trey stations. She had the other hand is like, she's like, this is not cool. So I was like, ah, do we really have to go find a coffee shop of seven hours? So I had to go out and find a 24 hour coffee shop and then like buy French fries every like every half hour stay up all night because fair enough. She didn't feel competent in the train station, not romantic trips. She had wanted everybody, a heads up. Everybody. If you're traveling with your snippet, other on your honeymoon, get a hotel, don't avoid sleeping in train stations. There you go. You always set them up, set them up to understand what life's going to be like with you, with you. And that's right. She should have known better. That's the bar. The bar is low
Speaker 0 00:17:34 And those have been your five questions. That's awesome. Yeah. It's when you get note I'd happened to me yesterday at the grocery store, there was this, um, nice, nice lady, um, senior citizen. And she just kept following me and like looking at me and I just was going on. Cause you forget, like, I, I know I do something that's out there, but I don't take it as that serious. Like you forget long story short. And after like aisle number five, she just finally just came over. She's like, hi Elliot. And I was like, oh hi. How, how are you? And she's like, good. She's like, you don't know me. I'm like, okay, good. Cause, but they know your name. And then she's like, I just want to say, I watch a show and I think it's great. And I was like, oh, thank you so much. She's like, okay. And yeah, you just take it for granted and this is cool. It's cool to people like what you do. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:18:24 That is weird that when someone calls you by name, oh, then you have to do like, you have to do the thing where it's like, okay, do I know? Yeah. And I forgotten or do you know me? Because you want to come across as like someone who thinks all your heart. Yeah. That's right. I'm always know. Hi. Nice to see you. And um, I always find it's better to err on the side of caution and be friendly and honestly, Hey, I'm sorry. Do I don't do I know you I'm like, Hey, nice to meet you. How are you other things. And then if they tell me, yeah, you don't know me. I'm like, oh, that's cool. That's
Speaker 0 00:18:56 Cool. Yeah. I never, ever anymore. Especially based on my last career, human resources hiring so many people, I've hired thousands of people. And I know like when you hire somebody that's, um, a life-changing event. So they remember the person that gave them that opportunity. Um, but for me, I'm just like, I hired a hundred people this week. Like I'm really sorry. It doesn't mean the same thing to me. I never say, oh, nice to meet you. I'm never, I'm just like, oh, Hey, how are you today? Because you don't know the one telltale telltale sign for me though. If I've never met the person. If somebody says hi, Elliot, Pierre, and they go the Elliot Pierre, I'm like, okay, I don't know
Speaker 1 00:19:32 This person, Dan talk. I get, when my name becomes den,
Speaker 0 00:19:35 Like, okay, you're new, you know me because of what I do. Not because of we've interacted nice to meet you. And then you go from there. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:19:43 Exactly. But then this thing you always, and I, this is, I struggled because I saw this not to, not to drop Justin Bieber here, but I saw like, you know, he said, this is my home. I don't appreciate you being here. Oh, I saw that video. I always, I always am really appreciative because you hit the mic stands, can make up all that. Um, what, what we do is dependent on them. Watch it that's right, right. I mean, I'm so appreciative for the Murray. I'm uh, I've been doing this in town for 12 years, like this at this level of gaming, like this many gigs. I'll probably not this many, but last seven years I have. Yeah. And that that's completely dependent on people coming to see you a hundred percent. And so I'm so appreciate this town is so awesome. And I love the connections.
Speaker 1 00:20:19 Um, I might to the story last time. I mean, I, man, I played for this couple at Patty's didn't even know, I wasn't aware I'd paid them at patties. And then their kids, they came and saw a show with their kid at avenue coffee. And then the kid was dancing and I was like, oh yeah, we met at your show one night and now we have a kid and they kicked him. The show format is so amazing. Music is so amazing. These connections, the connections we make with people be that on the max, in the morning show or music or as an educator or you know, like saying human resources, the little impacts we have on people are incredible. And you never know what impact you're going to have on somebody. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm appreciative people. People are awesome. Yeah. They are. And I'm glad we can see him again. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. I was getting lonely, man.
Speaker 0 00:20:59 Dude, you have no idea.
Speaker 1 00:21:00 And my wife was getting sick of wagon. Well, can I play you a geek? Can you just get here? Let me play your game. Can you dance?
Speaker 0 00:21:05 Uh, he like, my, my wife is an introvert, so she was fine with this. Her life didn't change that much because of COVID. Uh, but for me I was like, oh my God. So when I got my double vacs and then things started to open eyes out and she's just like, you're going out all the time. What's going on? I was just like, what do you mean what's going on? I'm like, you're never going to see me again. It's like, you, you can come with me. She's like, I don't want to. I'm like, you need to recognize I have to live your life for over a year. And it's nice. Don't get me wrong. It was okay. But that's not, that's not who I am.
Speaker 1 00:21:38 Yeah. All in the exact same boat. My wife is amazing introvert. Yeah. Um, yeah, but it like, I can go I'm down to you. Yeah. Go. Where you going? Everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere, everywhere.
Speaker 0 00:21:47 Everywhere on that. No, man. Thank you for coming. We've burned through the 20 minutes again. You're going to come back again. So anyways, everybody had, oh wait, wait, wait. Time out. You got a shameless plug, go shameless, plug, whatever you
Speaker 3 00:22:01 Want to shout out. Yeah. Whatever you want to promote. Oh, this is your, your
Speaker 1 00:22:04 Role now. Oh, okay. Cool. So what we've got going on now? Uh, can I plug anything, anything in anyone? Uh, Dan talk shows, what am I playing on an Earl is this Friday 57, this Saturday and 57. This Sunday for trivia. Okay. Uh, also some great things. Pick up some artists ale. That's a beer I worked on with 57 north in association with summer solutions and uh, proceeds from the cans go directly to the Susan hotline stuff. Just really helping the community out. Yeah. Lots of cool stuff. Shouldn't music video. This uh, Sunday nights for the Buffalo. So life is good, man. Like you're busy.
Speaker 0 00:22:39 Awesome. Well, everybody at home, Fort McMurry, wood, Buffalo, the rest of the world. Thank you for tuning into another episode of the Mac city morning show. Uh, hopefully you're having a great day and we'll see you tomorrow. Peace another max, any warning show dog.
