Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:01 Good morning, Fort McMurry, wood, Buffalo, and everybody else who's tuning in. My name is Elliot Pierre, the host of the Mac city morning show. And we're going to start this off the same way we start every show off from the bottom of my heart. I want to say thank you for everybody tuning in. I know you could be doing a million other things with your time, and there's a million other things you could be watching online. So the fact that you were watching us definitely means the world to me. Now on that note, Tanner hit him with the intro.
Speaker 1 00:00:30 Oh, she caught me loves you're listening to the next anymore. All right.
Speaker 0 00:00:38 And then we are back. Okay. I'm excited about this show. I have seen this man in the community over the years. Many times I've always wanted to stop and chat with him because I find him fascinating in regards to what he does and his family. But every time I bump into him, he's busy working. So this is my first time having a real conversation with him and I'm really excited to do it. So I don't introduce my guests. I let them introduce themselves. So sir, can you please introduce yourself to the people at home and tell them kind of what you're about?
Speaker 2 00:01:08 Well, my name is clean, old terrorists, um, born and raised in Fort wary. I'm proud to call the city, my home and yeah,
Speaker 0 00:01:15 There you go. Sweet. All right. So let's just get into it. There is a video of you shooting guns and it was the coolest thing I've ever seen. I don't know if you did it here in town. Me personally, for the people at home, I've never shot a gun. I've never held a gun. I'm going to have to dig. Like I know nothing about guys, literally. Um, I, there was a gun show in beacon Hill back in the day and I picked up, uh, it was the heaviest thing ever. It really, the myth of holding a gun sideways and like jumping and running. I'm like, I don't think that's really anymore. So there was a video of you that I saw that you were going through a course kind of like SWAT. And I'm like, I got to ask him about that. So, cause yeah, yeah. Explain this.
Speaker 2 00:01:58 So I compete in the sport called <inaudible>, uh, it's the international practice, practical shooting Federation. It's an international shooting sport. Uh, it pretty much started off as only law enforcement and military competitors, but then it branched off into the civilian world. So now it's worldwide. You could actually travel the world and shoot competitions.
Speaker 0 00:02:20 Right? Yeah. Cool. And so that course that I saw and maybe there's more than one video, I'm not sure. Um, but I saw one video and it keeps popping up in my feed, so yeah. So you're welcome for all the views. It's me. Was that here in town or where did you do that?
Speaker 2 00:02:37 Uh, so I there's some videos of the competitions in town. Um, but there's some other videos, uh, other competitions.
Speaker 0 00:02:44 Yeah. So when they have a competition in town, they come here and they set it up. But, or is there a course, like how do you practice this?
Speaker 2 00:02:50 So honestly our local gun range is honestly one of the best gun ranges in Alberta that I've seen so far. Um, so yeah, like on my weekend or my days off, I'll go there and practice. So you pretty much set up like a mock chorus, what you would expect or just wake on, uh, work on your basic fundamental skills. Um, so when the competition comes up here, it's actually held by Alberta IPSec. Uh, so it's the sanction event. Uh, they actually come up, they pay for like all the props, everything. Um, our local volunteers actually helped set up the course. Right. But upcycle, Alberta is in charge of it.
Speaker 0 00:03:30 Okay. Very cool. Yeah. I went to the gun range. I've been to the gun range twice. Now once when I was a kid, cause they had safe grad there. So that was the first time I went and my little guy, we went this past summer, um, to shoot a bone arrow. And as we were shooting bow and arrows, um, all of a sudden you hear pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. I'm like, what is that? Because, uh, the people that took us out, they said it was like for bone arrows. And they're like, no, no, no, it's the gun range in general. You shoot, not just bone arrows, but guns. I'm like, yeah, I didn't know for Macquarie had a gun range. Like I thought, cause I was young and dumb when we went out there for safe graduate, like, Oh, we're going to the gun range. I'm like, ha ha like nickname. Maybe that's what it was back in the day. But no, it was like a legit gun range. It's cool, man. So my next question for you on the same topic is how did you get into that?
Speaker 2 00:04:23 Um, so my uncle actually started it, uh, I think like back in the nineties. Um, so he would actually come here to shoot, uh, one of the competitions here. He actually lived in Calgary at that time. Uh, but I'd come watch him and then watch him do his thing. Like, cause he was like one of the Tom crack, top ranch shooters in Canada, like fourth in Canada. That's right. Wow. Yeah. Um, so I like it. I was pretty much like his caddy I'd, uh, go around and like help move his equipment. Like after every course or a stage and actually pick up his ass, which is, was expelled casings that you can actually reload bullets into, but actually pick them up for him. So like he had had bullets to remake, so cool. When I was like five years old. So like,
Speaker 0 00:05:14 Yeah. So you just saw it happening forever and you just kept going. Yeah. That's cool. It's amazing. What like influences, you know like your uncle probably never thought anything of it that you'd pick it up. You're just a little kid falling around. Yeah. Cool. I'm going to get back to the gun topic, but I don't just want to talk about guns cause you do so many other interesting things. Um, I've seen pictures of you on like during the flood you're on boats, like going around on boats and stuff. Why are you on boats? Why, why do you get to like float in the water when there's a flood and nobody else's floating on the water?
Speaker 2 00:05:44 Yeah. So I'm from Fort McMurray search and rescue. Uh, I've been with them for the past three years now or two. Sorry. Um, so I'm the SAR liaison officer and I'm a team slash medic. Okay.
Speaker 0 00:05:59 So explain this is a world I don't live in, man. You got to talk to me like I'm a child. What is searching? Cause to me, I'm just like you have police officers, you have firefighters. I what's going on here. So what is this branch about? What do you guys do?
Speaker 2 00:06:12 Search and rescue? Uh, I like to say like we're in between police and fire. So when people are missing, we assist the RCMP to search for that person. And that's not just searching for people. It can be searching for evidence. So we help them with evidence searches. If it was it being a crime or something, it's juice. And then the rescue component that's when we assist either the RCMP when they just need rescue personnel. Right. Because we're usually in the wilderness, the fire departments, more municipality, they don't really branch off to the wilderness area. Um, but we also assist the fire department with whatever they need also
Speaker 0 00:06:56 Is this volunteer based? Do you get paid for this? How does this all work
Speaker 2 00:06:59 Volunteer based? You do get government grants, like tax credits, um, or like gifts, just say yeah, but yeah, it's mostly just all volunteers. So like pretty much going into it. You actually have to pay to become part of the group. You have to have all your own gear. They do issue you uniform, but like all your survival equipment it's like that you would need in the field. You have to have that yourself. Right? Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:07:28 So it's not all volunteers, like you got supplied equipment. This is like you're paying to help. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Cause you guys, I see you guys in the winter on Ski-Doos you guys. I see,
Speaker 2 00:07:40 We have video of skidoos. AGVs uh, we have Marine, uh, we worked with the helicopters launch, uh, pretty much do everything. The reason why it's volunteer is like, there's such like there PR professional organizations, um, specifically like the military, but there's not really enough calls to make it correct. A professional organization, like a paid because it's like once in a blue moon, someone goes missing and there's no, there's no justification to
Speaker 0 00:08:12 Yeah. I have somebody sitting on like call exactly the answer that so many people are involved in that organization with you, Ralph, roughly obviously
Speaker 2 00:08:18 We typically have 50 on the roster, um, just with everyone's work schedule. Um, we have that many people that way we have someone that's available to go out and go, right.
Speaker 0 00:08:31 And so a little shameless plug if somebody wanted to get involved in this very interesting, um, group that you're in. How, how, how does one get involved?
Speaker 2 00:08:41 So anyone's a lot of joking, uh, but you just need your basic first aid. Okay. Uh, incident command systems 100, it's actually a online course that you could actually take, uh, through the Alberta government. It's essentially teaching you how command structure works, uh, just ranks or logistics and all the time. Uh, once you do that, uh, if you do need your criminal record, um, check, then once you have all the free, uh, you actually get put into a basics program, which takes about 10 weeks. Okay. So once you complete that program, you're actually allowed to go on searches for rescues in all over Alberta,
Speaker 0 00:09:22 Right? Yeah. Cool. Very cool. Yeah. Okay. So that's how I look because I'm like, like, because your primary job, you work at McDonald allowance. And so that's, I see at all these events and then I, I follow I'm online a little bit. Um, and I see you doing these things and I'm like, ah, it's not. And doing this, like I don't get it. You are, you do some pretty neat things. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So that's how search and rescue. All right. Um, search and rescue. What's the, uh, the most unique thing you've had to go search and or rescue,
Speaker 2 00:09:56 Uh, the last spring during the flood, uh, I got to jump out of a helicopter, um, into floating water, ice shelf. And then, uh, the military came in and actually had to get hoisted up. So that was probably the craziest call lag though.
Speaker 0 00:10:12 That is really easy. Yeah. So where does this, uh, like we, we both grew up here. Yeah. And so I think a little bit of growing up here, like you're surrounded by woods, so you're a little bit adventurous. Um, I feel like the cold makes you like a little bit like crafty as well. When you gotta, you gotta deal with the elements here. Oh, totally. That being said I'm soft and you're not. Um, so what, what's your drive? How did you really get into all of this outdoor adventurous stuff?
Speaker 2 00:10:44 Uh, well just growing up in front of where we're surrounded by the boreal forest. Uh, of course I just loved being outside. I mean, our doors been like my girlfriend jokes about it. Like I'm just like one big gay man. Your city friends always make fun of me that I'm like a Canadiana. Like that's awesome. But yeah, I just love being outside. Uh, like it's those little adrenaline rush when you're just out there in the woods, like
Speaker 0 00:11:08 Right. Yeah. Right. Okay. I got some more questions before I get to my questions. Tanner has a segment called the Mac city minute. He's going to ask you five questions. Uh, I don't know what he's going to ask you. I'm always impressed. So Tanner hit him with the Mac CD minute.
Speaker 3 00:11:24 Alrighty. You ready? Is that it? All right. Question number one. What is one thing in Fort McMurray you've noticed that hasn't changed?
Speaker 2 00:11:34 Hasn't changed, you know, the winters are cold.
Speaker 3 00:11:41 Question number two. What is your favorite gun to shoot?
Speaker 2 00:11:45 Uh, I don't know if you guys know brands, but I'm a big six hour guy. Uh, so I shoot the sick two to six for my competitions. Um, it's pretty much the gun, uh, special forces Navy seals use. Um, but now it's being replaced because of newer stuff, but that's my go-to gun. Uh, I pretty much shoot that every time I like I have multiple styles of it also. So like it's, it's my go-to
Speaker 3 00:12:14 Question. Number three. What is your favorite outdoor activity you take part in?
Speaker 2 00:12:19 I love just going out into the woods and just having a fire, um, and just kicking up some hotdogs and sitting around the fire and nothing better than that
Speaker 3 00:12:30 Question. Number four. What is the most interesting thing you found on your search and rescue adventures?
Speaker 2 00:12:37 Ooh, I want to say anything. Um, <inaudible> uh, so one search we had to actually do. Um, I won't see the location to give it away, but we found a suitcase full of sex toys. Hm.
Speaker 0 00:13:03 Interesting.
Speaker 3 00:13:05 Was it pertinent to what you were looking for?
Speaker 2 00:13:08 Uh, no. It did not have anything to do with random, random suitcase of dildos on here. Pretty much.
Speaker 3 00:13:16 All right. And your last question, what do you like to snack on when you're in the outdoors?
Speaker 2 00:13:22 Uh, I'm a big spits guy. Like I'll go through a bag of dill, pickle spits in like one sitting like I'll just be walking or sitting around a fire or fishing. Just spirits. Those have been your five questions.
Speaker 0 00:13:36 Good question. So you kind of stole one of my questions. I like that you did that. Oh yeah. I know nothing about guns. Like I said, I picked up all gun that was empty at a gun show. One time it was super heavy. So when you're shooting guns, what do we, what are we talking about here? We hand guns, rifles, shotguns, like where are you shooting them all.
Speaker 2 00:13:56 I shoot everything. Okay. Um, so my Parbery gun, I shoot for competition would be my hand gun. Um, but I also compete in three guns. So three gun is obviously three guns that you have on you or around the course. Um, so you have your, your hand gun, shotgun and semiautomatic rifle. So particularly if the air 15, but since the register restrictions now that have been placed, uh, you're not allowed to use them anymore. Okay. But like we still own them, so
Speaker 0 00:14:27 Great. Oh, they're decorative, decorative.
Speaker 2 00:14:33 Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:14:34 I, uh, this is my next question. And I'll give you a little bit of background story to this. I used to work with, uh, primarily Texans. Oh yeah. A lot of Texans and boy do they like their guns and uh, one day my boss, uh, JC, um, he was talking about buying a present for his wife and he bought her a gun and I was like, you bought your wife a gun for like a birthday. And he's like, Oh, she loves it. And she did, she did love it. And I was like, JC, how many guns you own? And he's just like, for answer that question, Elliot, how many guns do you own? And I was like zero. And he looked at me like zero, not a single one. And I was like, Jason, how many guns you own? He's like, at least 50. And I'm like 50. He's like, yeah, if we count my kids and my wife, like, it goes up more than I'm talking about me. And so I just started asking other gun owners how many guns they own and his number. Wasn't actually that shocking. Yeah. So I'm going to have posed the question to you. How many guns do you own?
Speaker 2 00:15:42 I actually was in that realm where it had almost 50, but over the years I've actually sold off a few of them. Uh, just cause they were just collecting dust. Uh, I'm more of a practical guy. Like if I have something I'm going to use it. Right. So, and the, those ones I've got were like, I only bought them because they were a good deal or like I wanted it, like, it was the new thing. Like, well, once you actually start using it, it's like, there's no app practical application for it. So I was like, Oh, this is just a can collect us. Like I want to use. Yeah. So now I'm down to about, uh, probably 10. Okay.
Speaker 0 00:16:20 Yeah. It's still 10 more than I own. That's crazy. That's awesome, man. Hey, listen, whatever your hobby is, go for it. That's cool. Okay. Now before town, how much, how much time we got am I killing four minutes left. Okay. One thing I want to talk about getting off guns, getting off like the cool stuff you do. You have one of the coolest families in town, like hands down, you guys are the closest family ever. You guys still like cohabitate together from time to time in regards to like living, you guys have bangers of parties, the foods are all the food is always off the chain. Yeah. Like what is it about your, how does your family stay so connected? And so like in love with one another, it's a beautiful thing to see.
Speaker 2 00:17:04 I know it's pretty much derived from Filipino culture. Um, but beyond that, like we're just tight. Like we've always been together, like growing up, like our nickname or with my siblings or like we call ourselves the four CS. Cause we all start with the letter C. Right. So like we're like a big group. Um, yeah. We just love each other and like it's pretty much a village.
Speaker 0 00:17:30 It really is. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't want to put your, uh, your home location on blast, but you guys have like a beautiful home, um, in town and you guys like, I've been to, I've been lucky enough to go to a few of the parties there for like your brother-in-law and your sister and whatnot. And it's just like, I remember in Fort McMurray, back in the day, we used to have like pollinate to see. Um, but then like you guys have taken it to like this other level as like adults, you still do it. So I just want to say that it's super cool. And uh, really expiring as a father with a kid and my parents still live here. Like we don't do it as good as you do. And I'm like, I got to help my family game a little bit. So you guys are killing it.
Speaker 0 00:18:22 So good job to your parents for like cultivating such a cool family. Yeah. So definitely wanted to put that on there. If you're ever lucky enough to go to one of their bangers, listen, you're going to leave full. Yeah, exactly. You get to take food home, like expect you like when people come, like we tell them like, bring your containers. That's right. So you can take some judo and like get to you have to, well, that's it. You have to, you have to, cause I don't want to eat the next day. Yeah. The food is so long quantity for the next month. Yeah. That's true. Sometimes it just gets tiring and you guys, cause there's so many, it's like, anytime I go over there even, uh, just to pick something up, it's like, Oh, come in. I'm like, are you guys throwing another party? And then they're like, Oh, this is just, this is brunch day.
Speaker 0 00:19:06 And they're like, how come there's so many people here. Like, it's awesome, man. It's just really cool to see. So that's the end of the time that we have, dude. Thank you very much. I honestly, and I I'm super genuine. When I say this, I've been wanting to sit down and chat with you for a very long time. So thank you for making the time to come and talk to me today. I really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. This is the end of the show where most people do a plug. I know you don't have anything to necessarily plug, but one more time tell the people who you are and some of the cool stuff that you do. So clean, all terrorists, uh, work for Mac Allen, Fort Murray, search and rescue. And I'm a competitive shooter. Here we go. Awesome. All right, well guys, that is the end of the show. Mac city morning show finished another one. Once again, I want to thank everybody tuning in. It means the world to me, I literally taken a back. When I look at the numbers of people tuning in and for the guests who continue to show up so big, thanks to everybody watching big, thanks to everybody who comes and all the people who want to continue to come and watch, uh, truly it's breathtaking. And it means the world to me. So thank you very much. I'll be having a great day and we'll see you tomorrow. Peace.
Speaker 4 00:20:14 <inaudible> talk about quenching your ugly thirst.
