Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:00 Good morning, Fort McMurray, wood, Buffalo, and the rest of the world. You've tuned into the Mac city morning show. My name is Elliot, Pierre, your host, 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 and from the bottom of my heart, the fact that you're spending with us really does mean the world to me on that note, Tanner hit him with the intro.
Speaker 1 00:00:22 Oh, she caught me, loves near listened to the next show.
Speaker 0 00:00:31 Okay. Now we got a good show today. I'm excited about this one. Uh, this guy I've never actually met in person before, but we've been following each other on social media for quite some time. So I feel like I know him. So this is always an interesting one. When you have like a relationship with somebody online, but you don't really know him. I'm about to meet him today and find out all about his company and what he's about. So as you guys are already aware, I do not introduce my guests. I let them do that themselves because they do a better job. So on that note, Sarah, can you please introduce yourself and tell people who you are?
Speaker 2 00:01:01 Everybody at home? My name is Travis barber. I'm the owner of North 63 electric. Not only that, I'm the loving father of two beautiful tops at home. Probably watching me on Facebook right now. Hey guys, how are you doing? I'll be home soon. Sarge stay out of the garbage.
Speaker 0 00:01:14 That's awesome. All right, so let's get into it. Now, let's talk about your company first and foremost. What's your company all about?
Speaker 2 00:01:23 Um, my company's all about, uh, well basically I'll, I'll just get into it. We do commercial, residential. We're getting into industrial as well. We do lots of service and maintenance work as well around the city. Uh, you know, we're, we're big on, uh, you know, we're big on community right now and we're just due to the fact that so many people have given to me, we're just trying to give back to the community and, uh, we're doing our best job. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:01:47 It was a newer company for you, like maybe a year, year and a half at this point.
Speaker 2 00:01:51 I, you know what, we're probably like a year today. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:01:54 Oh, congratulations. Yeah. Yeah. Cause like I used to post a lot of stories about you doing work and I saw you doing work at camps and different sites and all of a sudden you started a, this brand and uh, what made you take that leap? I think like I'm an entrepreneur myself. I love it. So what about like your career? Did you want to transition in from working with somebody to actually like being the dude?
Speaker 2 00:02:16 You know, I, when I first got here, I, uh, I was operating equipment onsite, like everybody else. And then, you know, it, it came a time where I had to decide what, what did I really want to do with my life? And it's, it's kind of hard to step back out of the oil industry because you're so used to living that life or you're making so much money and stuff, but, you know, I knew there was something else that I had to do with my life. And I'm, I'm such an active, uh, ATD person that I need to be moving. I need to be doing my own thing. And you know, I just wanted to challenge myself as I get older. You know, as you get older, you start to think like, is this really what I should be doing in life? Am I doing the right thing? Right. And so I found my calling and uh, I took the challenge. I took the leap. Cool. I love what I love about
Speaker 0 00:03:00 Your company. And I don't know, as far as the service and everything, I've heard, good things. I've read the reviews. I love the marketing that you do for it, man. I love the brand. Like I saw outside. Now you have a, you have a nicely cube van. It's nice and big look, super fashionable. I see it all the time. It's nice and white. You always keep it clean. Um, but you love to push the swag. There are so many guys and girls rocking your hats and uh, your logos, every time I go to the barbershop, I see your stuff. So good on you, man.
Speaker 2 00:03:27 Yeah. Thanks. I appreciate that. Uh, the swag thing is, uh, you know, it's, I have so much support in this community I really do. And I'm so thankful, uh, because that's, that's my favorite part about this community is how much love everybody gives and that give back. And if it wasn't for everybody, uh, wearing my hats and shirts or, and tuques or whatever, you know, I just wouldn't really be a company without all these people that are helping me out. Um, and you know, I, I also, uh, I kind of liked the swag too. It looks good. It looks sharp. People get to people, see it around town and they go, Oh, Hey, that there's an electrical company. They asked the people about it. And then all of a sudden I'm getting more work. So it's good. And when you got, when you got employees defeat and you've got to get them working, you do what you can to get out there and get your name out there. So that's important to me,
Speaker 0 00:04:15 One thing that I saw online, which I thought was hilarious, because you obviously have a lot of bros in this community that you hang out with, they were taking pictures of every time you pulled into a fast food joint. Like that's like, that is something that my boys would do. Like the hazing and the harassment that your friends give you is hilarious. So like personally, so tell me how this started with your friends, taking pictures of you and fast food joints. You know, I don't know how it started when you start a business. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:04:45 You have no time. Your life is over. You're not cooking. You're not doing anything. You're if you get a second to eat, you're jumping into a and w and you're eating some burgers and eventually people just started catching me there and taking pictures and making jokes about it. It's actually a super funny story because it got so carried away. So many people are taking pictures and posting them all over Facebook. Then I actually got a phone call from one of the owners of fast food restaurant in town. And he's like, Hey man, how's it going? I'm like, Hey, how's it going with the K you know, I'm the owner of, uh, the so-and-so establishment. And I said, Oh, right on, how are you today? And we started talking and I basically said, you know, how can I help? And he's like, you know, I see so many pictures of you working on the intercoms at, uh, at the end w drive through, like, I also, I'm having some issues with mine.
Speaker 2 00:05:30 I was wondering if I'd be able to have you come down and check them out. And I was like, what do I, what do I say to that? You know, I had to Dom, I started laughing. I said, you know what, let me just be honest with you. I'm like, I got a fast food addiction, uh, this, that they're actually just making fun of me when they see me rolling up to eight w no way, but it ended up getting me a whole bunch of work out of him. Uh, you know, and it was great. So you even, uh, any publicity is good publicity. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:06:00 I just thought it was hilarious. Cause, um, my previous job, um, before I started my company, I was in human resources and my buddies knew it. And early in my career, I was a recruiter. And so like I had to talk and interview and I used to fly all over Canada to like interview and get people to come back to Fort Mac. So constantly my boys would be calling in doing different accents and like, pretending they're looking for jobs and, and they would record it. And so I would be like, I pick up the phone and somebody's like, Hey, I'm looking for a job, not going to do the very racist accents, but, uh, and then I'd have to go through this whole thing. And sometimes like, they were so good. I'm like, I don't know if this is real or not, so I'd have to go with it. And then Friday night we'd be partying together. And all of a sudden they hit play on the CD player. And there I am interviewing one of the boys. So when I saw them taking pictures of you, it just like shocked me right back to just like, you know what guys having fun, you know? Uh,
Speaker 2 00:06:59 It's good to have friends like that. They, they, they make fun of me all the time and you gotta be able to take it with a grain of salt and get it back a little bit and laugh. I mean, that's what life's all about. It does. It keeps you grounded. You know what I mean? And, uh, you know, when you don't get to spend a lot of time with them, you'll, you'll even take, get made fun of, to have a little bit of a conversation with someone
Speaker 0 00:07:18 Now you, and like on the same topic, you and your crew, you guys seem like pretty tight. Like you guys vacation together, you guys prior to COVID like, hang out together, like party and go to all different places. So how did that all, like, is this a crew that you moved to Fort McMurray with? You just met here? How did that evolve? You know, it's a
Speaker 2 00:07:39 Moved here at a young age. I moved, I moved away from home at a young age. I was just turning 16. Oh wow. When I left home and set out to be a man. So, you know, I've spent all my life pretty much since I was 16 on away from my family. So you build a family and your community, uh, and the people I go away with, you know, I go away with, uh, Sandy Bowman who's, uh, up and coming from air. Sure. You guys vote for him. He's great guy. Uh, we spend Christmas with each other every year in Puerto Vallarta. I started training with him and fighting under him, uh, professionally at a younger age, in my young twenties. I also, uh, the owner of Jim nation, Jess, Alan's great gym. Uh, we, we go together there too every year. And there's also some other friends that always come and join and jump in and leave. Uh, we have a new member to the group too, that started coming with this year. Uh, Mark Taplin, the owner of Northwest construction. So, you know, we've built a very tight family over the years and, uh, that's how we like to spend our Christmases. Uh, that's a family. I got, you know, I don't love my own family and go back home to visit them. But you know, everybody, when you live so far away, you, you make your family where you live. And that's a, that's a beautiful thing about Fort McMurray.
Speaker 0 00:08:43 That's cool, man. So where's your family? Where are you from? I'm from Vancouver alley. I am no way. Part of that Cooper, Iowa,
Speaker 2 00:08:50 You know, I was originally born and raised in Victoria for half of my life and then moved to Campbell river for the other half of my life where we, uh, grew up, we got a beautiful farm back home, lots of horses and check-ins and goats and miniature horses. And it's, it's an incredible place to go. I mean, our house is like completely surrounded by beautiful waterfalls. My mom's got, you know, she'd made this farm herd, her dream land, you know, there's, there's big ramps so that the horses could walk into the house and say hello to you. It's a pretty cool place to grow up and be around. So I was super thankful that I grew up like that. I'm super proud of where I came from.
Speaker 0 00:09:25 What was the pull to come to Fort Mac? How did that all happen? Especially at such a young age man.
Speaker 2 00:09:29 True. You know, um, growing up, uh, before obviously my mother met my stepfather. We grew up with not very much money, you know, we didn't have a lot. And so my goal when you don't have the things that you see other kids have, your goal is I want those things I'll show up and get those things myself. So I was just super motivated to work hard at a young age. And, you know, I was told the oil field was where it's at, there's money there. So, you know, I packed my cartridge bag and I jumped on the first bus a day 16. I might've instilled in 15 and started working on the rigs at 16. They're like, what are you doing out here? Young men? Like I came to work. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 0 00:10:05 Yeah. So you started off as like labor, then
Speaker 2 00:10:07 You, I start, I started off as a roughneck, working on the railroads. Okay. Grown men. I was like a skinny little 16 year old kid. Right.
Speaker 0 00:10:14 How do you transition into a trade then? How did you pick the trade that you transitioned into?
Speaker 2 00:10:19 You know, I have a lot of my best friends are electricians and they always told me, they're always like, you know, they're like, I think you'd be good at, I think you should do it. And I've always thought of it as something like something that I couldn't do. I've heard how hard the schooling was and you know, it was intimidating to me, super intimidating. And I got to a point in my life where I was like, you know what, I'm going to challenge myself. I'm going to go for it. And that's what I did. And I just never turned back. I went after I struggled and I struggled and I struggled and, you know, I found a way to get by and to learn. And, uh, I did all the extra things that other people weren't doing, you know, struggle. I joined the science and math Academy here in Fort McMurray. And I taught myself and got taught by the teacher there as well. Right. Science and math and English. And then, you know, off to the races.
Speaker 0 00:11:01 That's awesome, man. Yeah. So, uh, Rick camps now a lot of guys talk about like, ah, my camp is this, my camp. Is that in form of Murray, you lived in rig camps.
Speaker 2 00:11:10 You live in recap. I actually got to live at home cause it was provost. I mean you're right out there. Wow. Yeah. So you would basically just, uh, you know, jump in your vehicle and drive to the drive to the shop in the town and then they take you out there in a pickup truck.
Speaker 0 00:11:27 You got lucky because I was just, I was just about to talk about rig camps with you. Oh man.
Speaker 2 00:11:32 The stories they're wild really? Oh yeah. Have you been out to any or just her?
Speaker 0 00:11:37 I don't know, like my background, like I said, human resources. So, um, I used to work for this company. Um, Eveready there at clean harbors now water trucks, back trucks on and so forth. And we used to have guys come up and work in the recounts on the winter roads and whatnot. Right. And well, if I'm hiring guys to come out and live in these things, I got to live it myself. So, uh, one, one weekend I said, yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to go live I camp for four days. And so I went out to the rig camp and I lived there for four days and it was a very different experience. Like it was great. It was clean. It's this, that and the other. But like you're literally in the middle of nowhere, your room is really tight to say the least, right? Like the walls they're thin communal washrooms. There's no Jack and Jill there's no independent. Like it was, I, it was, I knew what I was getting into, but it was something on another level. Especially like if the guys next door is snoring, you're hearing him now. I just won't be sharing a bed. We, how long ago was this? This is like, how old am I? I'm 30. I'm horrible at math town. You might have to bust out the calculator on this one. I'm 38. Now this is when I was 24 years old.
Speaker 2 00:12:51 Okay. So back then they probably didn't have gyms or anything to do. You're probably you go there, you eat your food and you go back to your room and you're lucky to get a TV in a tiny little jail bed. That's right.
Speaker 0 00:13:01 That's exactly it, there was like a little rec room that had like a bigger television and it had a foosball table out there. I love foosball. So I was like, okay, this is good. But it was still tight and not much bigger than the living room that we're in. And I think the camp held like a hundred plus guys. So like not everybody could be there at the same time, but yeah, like it's
Speaker 2 00:13:21 Not anymore though. I mean, you go to the camps and they're like beautiful facilities, beautiful gyms, restaurants. It looks like three star hotel out there.
Speaker 0 00:13:30 Yeah, absolutely. These camp, the permanent camps. Yes. The rig camps. Yeah. Different ballgame. We'll still find a way to complain though. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 00:13:39 I complained. I mean, when you're lucky to be staying in the camp like that, I understand that being away from your family to be completely hard. That's I mean, compared to the camps like that, you experienced exactly one time. I experienced one when I was young too. I just remembered when I worked on the pipeline. So I know what you're saying. It was almost just like a big line, giant a trailer. What are those things called? The used to do school. And then when you were a kid
Speaker 0 00:13:59 Portables, portables, portables, that's right.
Speaker 2 00:14:02 That was our camp. This is home for the next six months. That's right.
Speaker 0 00:14:06 So it was funny. Uh, fast forward, I'm working forever. Eddie. Then I started, I became the HR manager for accurate. And so, um, the guys one day were complaining about their camps. They were in the executive lodge and they had been demoted to like, whatever the non-executive and they're complaining. So I went out to site and like Elliott camp facilities, this, that, and the other. And I said, okay, somebody throw me their keys to the executive lodge. And then the other guy threw me the keys okay. To the regular lodge. Okay. So I got the two keys. I was like, I'm going to go check out both of these rooms and I'll come back and we'll have a discussion. I was like, that being said, boys, I've actually stayed in a rape camp. So like my expectation of what I'm going to see is a little bit different.
Speaker 0 00:14:49 So, uh, just so you're aware, my sympathy might not be there because I know what a rig camp looks like. And both guys don't want me back the keys over here and I throw them back. Cause they knew like these camps out here, they're nice. They are nice. Especially like the executive counts where you have like your own individual washroom, you might be sleeping in a double bed, not like a single, like he got, he got some space, like he said, the Jim's camp life in town or out of town. However you want to call it. Not as, not as rough as Ray camp, like, Oh no. So you're working with camps. Then you come to Fort McMurray. I just followed the money. Or how did that happen
Speaker 2 00:15:29 As a young man? You know, I was getting in a little bit of trouble back when I was living in Calgary. I somehow fast forward I'm somehow in Calgary. Uh, my big brother, Kyle, he calls me up and he says, you know what, it's time to pack your bags. We're going to Fort memory and you're going to come work for me. And I said, okay, perfect. So I packed a garbage bag and, and jumped on a, uh, I think I jumped on a bus and met him and I had met tin and then, uh, started my Fort McMurray life. I believe it was about 20. When I got here. I've been here for quite a bit. I think I'm going on 17 years now. Okay.
Speaker 0 00:15:57 Yeah. So you were getting in more trouble in a Calgary then
Speaker 3 00:16:01 Marie absolutely fun place. It's a fun place at the lot of girls and fun bars,
Speaker 2 00:16:07 Too much fun. And not to mention the house we were renting is it was phenomenal. There's like four of us there, me and my best friends. And the whole backyard was like a big, giant swimming pool with big, beautiful Mexican fences around and stuff. So it's like, you're looking for trouble to have a party there. And it got to a point where it was like, okay, okay. I need to straighten my life out. And then I came to Fort McMurray. It's not like I came here and everything, just the dust settled. I was still young and still had a lot of fun here. But you know, as you get older, you get too tired to do you work and you want to go home and relax.
Speaker 0 00:16:45 That's hilarious. Yeah. I've I usually hear the opposite. I like me and my boy Tanner here. We grew up here in Fort Mac. And so yeah, in your twenties, especially like Fort McMurray has like blessed me in a lot of other, uh, individuals with like great careers. Great stability. Right. Um, so yeah, I remember in my twenties, man, you can, you can get us in trouble. You can get in trouble anywhere. But yeah, I got in some trouble in Fort Mac, you know,
Speaker 2 00:17:12 That's who your friends are too, I think should throw me and my friends in a back alley with a bunch of those, uh, Ravens and we'd have a good time.
Speaker 0 00:17:18 Exactly it. Well, that's what I tell, like I love traveling and COVID is tough on me cause obviously you can't travel, but I'll travel anywhere. And so me and my business partner had a trip booked to go to Winnipeg. And my boys were just like, why? Like, because every quarter we fly somewhere different. Right. And some were fun. And so when we told them we're going to Winnipeg, they're like dude, and all the places in all the world, why would you pick Winnipeg? I'm like, man, you could send me to Mariana lakes. Is there a bar? Am I there with somebody? Some people that I like yeah. Game over. So yeah. I can go anywhere and have a good time. But yeah, our game plan is to actually try to hit every province and every territory. So that's why I was just on, on the hit list. So I've hit all the territories or sorry, I've hit all the provinces already. My business partner hasn't but I haven't been to any of the territories yet. So I'm excited for, for that part.
Speaker 2 00:18:11 Yeah. My self as well. I haven't hit any of the territories either. Um, traveling, traveling is what I love to do. We spend a lot of time traveling. Me and my girlfriend, uh, when we first met, actually I that's how we met. And I was like, Hey, you know, like I'm going to, I'm going off to Asia in two weeks. I'm gonna be gone a long time. And she's like, we just started a relationship. I don't think it's good for her. I'm like, well, you know, you could quit your job and come with me. And she's like, okay. And jumped on a plane. And we took off to Asia and traveled all of Asia. It was a blast the whole time we were there for like 40 days, it was phenomenal. So we're just patiently waiting to have, uh, have the world open up again so we could do what we truly enjoy and truly love. And I think the thing that I love the most is traveling. I mean, if you have anxiety, you're working too much, traveling just takes all that and it makes it go away. It gives you a whole bunch of new things to worry about.
Speaker 0 00:19:00 That's right. Yeah. That's exactly it. They're exciting. And they grew at least, you know, my thing about traveling is it gives you perspective in regards to we're spoiled here in Canada and especially in Fort McMurray for goodness sakes. Oh my Lord. We're in a little bubble. So I love to travel and just see like other perspectives of culture and how people deal with things. My favorite like part of traveling is the countries where they're not on the same fast paced we are here. Right? We're we're always like, go, go, go get things done. All of a sudden, you go to a different country and like you're in a lineup waiting to buy your groceries. And like, this has taken forever. Why is this taking forever? And you get up there and the cashier is having a chat with the person and they're just having a chat. And you're like, Hey, come on. Like, where's the efficiency here. And they look at you like, Hey man, you need to relax. Sometimes you got a real lax and you're like, Oh, okay. Yeah, I get it. So I liked the different perspective I get when I go to different places,
Speaker 2 00:19:58 The real world's a lot more chill than we imagined because we live such crazy rushed lives. You know, we're working, we're doing this, we're doing that. We don't take time to smell the flowers. Don't you notice in other cultures, they take so much time and pride in their family time and their downtime. I think, uh, when I was in Italy, I noticed everything was shut down at like noon till like three or something. I can't remember. It was, that's kind of an arbitrary numbers. I'm throwing out there for time. But, uh, yeah. And what I was told is they go home, they have a glass of wine and they spend time with their family. And I was like, that's brilliant. Know what I mean? Uh, it probably helps the home life out a lot better too.
Speaker 0 00:20:35 No doubt. And like, yeah, money is not like the end all be all right. My family's from, uh, South America and same kind of thing. Like when things like they shut down at weird times and you're just like, but I'm here now. Like you're losing money. The fact that I'm here to purchase something and you're not here, it's not good for your business. Your business could be doing better. And they're like,
Speaker 2 00:20:58 Oh,
Speaker 0 00:20:59 Okay. It takes a second to get used to it. It takes a second, but it's a beautiful thing to see. There's no doubt about that. So we're at the point of the show. This is Tanner segment. It's called the maxi minute. He's going to ask you some questions. I don't know what he's going to ask you. Best of luck there always interesting Tanner hidden with the maxi minute
Speaker 4 00:21:15 Question. Number one. What is your most, what is your most interesting?
Speaker 2 00:21:23 Oh, this is a good one. I'm going to tell this, tell the truth. Uh, I think I was probably about 22, my, uh, my best friend, big brother type of guy. Uh, he got a new tattoo gun and we're like, this is, uh, this is a great idea to have drinks and tattoo each other. And so like him and a couple of my other buddies, they pretty much had to hold me down dignity across my butt. Yeah. You don't know the reason why I got that? Uh, you know, we had to have a, um, when we used to fight, when I was younger, I had some professional fights and they phone you and they're like, they're getting your name and your information. And uh, they're like, uh, you know, what's, what's your nickname? What do people call you? And I was like, you and I was like, I don't know when we were younger, my friends would make jokes and they'd be like, Hey, be diggity. What up? So I was like, okay, I'm going to go with that. Yeah. And I got tattooed on my butt for the rest of my arm.
Speaker 0 00:22:20 That's hilarious.
Speaker 4 00:22:21 Yes. Question number two. What is your favorite? What is your favorite?
Speaker 2 00:22:28 So, whew. That's tough that one's tough because I love the snapback hats. I really do. Those are, those are my favorite hands down, but the new sweaters that we got going on right now, the ones that we're doing for families in need for charity, for charity and forth to gone with the, you know, color match it, it looks really good. It looks really sharp and everyone else seems to be enjoying them too. So nice. Sorry. I didn't have a specific answer. I liked them all.
Speaker 4 00:22:56 No answer is wrong. Question number three. What is your go-to guilty pleasure. Fast food order.
Speaker 2 00:23:03 Everybody already knows. It's a w but you know, there's, there's another secret one too. I like pizza, but, and w so easy, but what do you get? What do I get? Unless you want to get the Papa burger and add the bacon and the cheese on an unseated bond and get the diet Coke and the fries that he got. I go in an order, this big unhealthy meal, but no, hold up. I got to get a diet room.
Speaker 4 00:23:30 Question number four. What was it like spending time at monkey Island?
Speaker 2 00:23:36 Oh, how'd you know about monkey Island. Monkey Island was crazy. Let me tell you, so we're in Asia, right? And, uh, it is, it's so hot. Like it's unbearable at certain times of the day. So we would get up at like 4:00 AM and we would go, we jump we'd rent a boat and we just take off and we're like, Hey, we plan everything. My girlfriend, she's really smart. She's always on her computer finding things for us to do, uh, which is good. Cause it keeps us busy during the trip. She's like, we gotta check out monkey Island. And so it was like 4:00 AM. We went out there, we got there and there was no monkeys. And I was like, Oh man. I was like, we're not going to get to see any wild monkeys. But then we jumped back on the boat. We went around the corner and all of a sudden, there's all these monkeys coming.
Speaker 2 00:24:14 They're coming at us. And, uh, you could see this mother and she's got her little baby monkey on the poach and I'm grabbing chips and I'm feeding them. They're taking it right from the hand. It was a little scary, but it was also like the most beautiful thing in the world. And the reason why I was a little bit worried about is, cause I've talked to other friends that went there and one of my friends actually got their nipple bit by one of the monkeys. Right. So I was like walking up to the monkeys, trying to cover my tits.
Speaker 5 00:24:36 And your final question. What was your favorite story from owning your red Dodge Viper Dodge Viper shit. I'm just gonna do it. Uh,
Speaker 2 00:24:49 And it was really slick out one day. This is actually, isn't my favorite story. This is my worst story, but it's a good story. And I came out from shell on Greg wire and you know, I wasn't even driving bad. I didn't even mean to, but I just, you know, stepped on it just a little bit, going around the corner and it spun off the road and went right into the ditch. Oh no, it wasn't too bad. But it was in the ditch and everybody going by me, I just hit the mic. I just broke a golden rule. I'm sorry, breaking all the time. Everybody going by me, they're just taking pictures and videoing and I got my hood up and I'm hiding. And so I'm getting these phone calls like Barbara, is that you, is that you? And I'm like, no, that's not me. Cause there was another one in town. Exactly. Like I was like, mine's in the shop right now. I don't even have it. I'm like, that's that other guy that owns it. I'm like what
Speaker 5 00:25:31 An idiot. I
Speaker 2 00:25:33 Denied it forever. Now everyone knows that I lied. But uh, yeah, it got me through a lot of, uh, embarrassment.
Speaker 5 00:25:41 And those have been your five questions. Right?
Speaker 0 00:25:43 That's hilarious. So a Dodge Viper man that is sick. Yeah. There used to be that television show. Viper. Yeah. Where the Guidewire got it. Yeah. That's cool. How long did you own that thing for?
Speaker 2 00:25:54 I owned it for a few years. Actually ended up selling it to the owner of Dodge in town. And the issue was, is that not that I didn't love it. Not that wasn't beautiful. The roads in Fort Murray are a little rougher card and it was, it was almost like racetrack. It was super low to the ground. And I remember it was like $10,000 damage just driving around town normal. Right. And I was like, damn, it's like getting in an accident, but it was just from the fall. So I said, Hey, uh, you know, I love Fort Murray. It's time to stick to trucks. So
Speaker 0 00:26:21 That's right. So I have a little, a sports car. I have a 1979 mg midget. Oh wow. It's like, it's, it's the smallest thing on the planet, but yeah, in the summertime, like you gotta be paying attention like for those potholes. Right. Cause when you hit them, they hit you back. Yeah. Man, with my car, they're like, it's so tiny. I fall into the potholes. So said an order. What is up with the unseated bond? Why, why are we going to unseat it?
Speaker 2 00:26:48 It's just always thinking it's something I've always done. I don't like seeds. It may. It may. It tastes weird. I guess. I don't know. I've always done it that way. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:26:55 You're the second person to come in and say that I've never had, I've never ordered the unseated version. Right? Like I've had cheeseburgers from McDonald's that don't have the seeds in and they,
Speaker 2 00:27:04 That's why I liked the, the cheeseburgers there. They don't have seeds all over everything. Right. It's kind of weird. You go to a restaurant. Sometimes the order is a beautiful meal and it doesn't say anything about Sesame seeds and all of a sudden it comes out. It's just like a whole bunch of Sesame seeds, all everything. I'm like, I don't remember ordering Sesame seeds. You know what I mean? Sesame seeds here. Then there was food that bothers me so much. And you don't want to be a jerk, but I'm like, you gotta take this back and you gotta write that on there. You gotta put that on. You gotta put that on the menu too.
Speaker 0 00:27:27 Like, this is nothing I've never even thought about this before, about restaurants having to have buns that don't have Sesame seeds on it. Cause it's so prevalent. You just, so you must have to like go out of your way. Hey hamburger, no Sesame seed bun,
Speaker 2 00:27:40 The unseated Bundy. It's like they know me. They know they know me at w so like yeah, no problem, Barbara. They know they ain't no seeds on your bond, right? No, but, or you could just take two of the bottom buns. Right. And you get less bread too. So it's healthier for you. I could be wrong, but it looks like it looks healthier. Hey, it looks healthy.
Speaker 0 00:27:56 Whatever makes you feel good in your head perception is reality. Perception is reality. So are you only ane w or do you mess with other
Speaker 2 00:28:05 Everything? Okay. I mess with this. I mess with that. I like, I love McDonald's too. All right. Let's hear your McDonald's order. Six to 10 McNuggets. Yeah. Uh, know double bacon cheeseburger. And uh, then you know what I love, I love the smoothies or the bananas. The banana strawberry smoothie. Yeah. That's my hangover meal.
Speaker 0 00:28:25 Yeah. Listen, man. You work out obviously like if you're willing to put in the work, you can treat yourself with some bad food. Every so. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. My McDonald's orders are ridiculous because I'm a small guy, but everybody always asks Kelly, why do you run so much? Tanner's like, why do you exercise in the morning? It's because I order stuff like this, I get 10 nuggets, double cheeseburger made like a Mac, large fries. And then I don't really like pop or Coke, but I love the ice. So like tell them, fill the thing up full ice and only give me like a half a Coke. So like the Coke soaks into the ice. And I dumped the Coke out and I just chew on the Coke ice. Super weird. But yeah, the thing about it,
Speaker 2 00:29:07 It's not like I love fast food. I would love to have time to sit down and eat a real meal when you're running a business. Or if there's other things that you're busy doing, like you don't always have time to stop and cook, but you got to put something in you. If you want to keep functioning, that's it. Sometimes fast foods is right there for you. So I take that off
Speaker 0 00:29:22 Me too. And you have to enjoy what you're eating even when it's fast food. So dude, that's it. 20 minutes. We're over 20 minutes. Oh really? I wonder. Oh yeah. Let's hear it. Pause.
Speaker 2 00:29:33 Yeah. So what we're doing right now is, uh, we got a charity going for families in need, uh, due to the fact that, you know, when I started business, uh, I could have been that guy as well because I had no job. Uh, and you know, the potential job that I wanted was no longer there due to COVID as well. So, you know, everybody, uh, got together in Fort memory and really helped my business out and gave to me, it feels like they gave to me cause they kept sharing my stuff or wearing my gear. And it's, it's really, it's given me, it's given me a job to have my own business. So what we did right now is we got these sweaters. Uh, we got gray, you know, we got, uh, we got the gray on the black ones right now and uh, all the money and earning is going towards families in need and Fort McMurry.
Speaker 2 00:30:17 That's awesome. And so if you guys want to purchase one, uh, you could reach out to me on Facebook or Instagram. These are them anyway. And it's a, it's a great cause. And uh, it's going to people that are, you know, having issues right now with money and, uh, yeah, it's just super important for us to give back to the community. So I thought I would just share that with everybody. And uh, I really appreciate being on the show by the way, I watch it quite a bit. And I think you do such a wonderful job with everybody. You make a, you make everyone feel good.
Speaker 0 00:30:44 That's awesome. Thanks so much for the kind words. Yeah, man. And real talk, come back as many times as you want. Like there's a whole bunch of other things I wanted to ask you, but that's the whole point of the show. It's only 20 minutes, just a snapshot in somebody's life. So feel free to be a recurring guest. Perfect. Thank you guys so much. So one shout out shameless plug. Before you leave, let's hear all about your company, phone number website, Facebook page. How can people support you and get in contact with you to help your business?
Speaker 2 00:31:10 Absolutely. You guys can find me on Facebook or Instagram at the Barbara myth for Instagram. You guys can find us at WW dot North, North 63, electric.com or feel free to give us a call at (780) 381-7011 and me or one of my employees. I would be, you know, happy to help you guys out with whatever electrical, uh, issues you guys are having. Uh, thank you so much Fort McMurray and thank you for having me on the show. Uh, I love the city.
Speaker 0 00:31:39 There we go. Sweet. All right. On that note, Fort McMurray, wood, Buffalo, and the rest of the world. That's another episode in the bag. So thank you very much for tuning into the Mac CD morning show. I've been your host Elliot Pierre. And once again, I know you could be doing a million things. So the fact that you sharing your time with us really does mean the world to me. So thank you very much. Have a great day and we'll see you tomorrow. Peace.
Speaker 4 00:32:02 <inaudible> talk about quenching your ugly thirst.
