Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:00 So, uh, what kind of car do you drive out then? It will
Speaker 1 00:00:04 Beautiful Nissan Altima all arrested the 92 and I was like, I was giving it, I miss dot God. That's awesome. I just spent two years on, around the Fort Mac with it.
Speaker 0 00:00:17 It's funny, like, as you get older, you get these cars that I guess are quote unquote nicer. You know what I mean? But you remember those first cars that like you said were full of rust, like gave you a problem, but you know, that, that was the car.
Speaker 1 00:00:30 Yeah. That was the one you just try to stick to it as much as you can, because you know what, with those optimists, I will say you can hit a wall and just back up and keep driving. Right. Try that with the newer one. Now
Speaker 0 00:00:45 I had a horrible car, so this is a, I don't, this is a newer passion for you. So did you take like in high school, like woodworking or did you go to, do you have a trade in carpentry? Like how did this,
Speaker 2 00:00:58 So interestingly enough, uh, I have a, uh, I have a, uh, what's the best way to put it. You know, I have an interest in just about everything. Okay. You're a Renaissance man. You got her. So, you know, science, mathematics, uh, building design, uh, art, uh, all of it, uh, you know, going to high school. Uh, I took a lot, I took all this, you know, sciences and mathematics and calculus, art, uh, all that, all that stuff, you know, uh, you know, maybe I should have went to college. I don't know. I never did. And oddly enough, I took a, uh, I took a summer job, uh, as, uh, helping my uncle out who had happened to be, uh, a mechanic and a little later on, I became a mechanic myself. Okay. So by trade, I'm actually a, an automotive mechanic. I can fix cars and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2 00:01:52 Right. But as you get into, and when you learn about being a mechanic and as you go through a trade like that, you know, you start to discover that it's more than just nuts and bolts. It's, there's a lot more to it. It's, you know, it's, it's a little bit of carpentry. It's a little bit of plumbing. It's a little sort of really appealed to my, the nature I already had. Um, but I always loved to craft and build things and make things and puzzles and designs. And, and so, um, you know, this had been something that had been ongoing for a while for me. And then, uh, with the, you know, unfortunately the advent of COVID coming into everybody's life. Um, it left me with more time to just be able to, I've got to get some of this creative juices out of my head right here. So I started just making stuff and, and then, you know, eventually we, we launched the business rate.
Speaker 0 00:02:40 That's awesome. That's awesome. So you talked a little bit about where we grew up. So I grew up like yourself here in Fort McMurray, but where in town did you grow up?
Speaker 3 00:02:49 Uh, Dickins fields. Yep. Yeah. I grew up on Lee Crescent. Um, and oddly enough, I still live in Dickins field now. Just one street over I'm on McLaren. So yeah, I loved growing up in Dickins field
Speaker 0 00:03:02 The best, like I no longer live in Dickens field. I live in Timberly and I miss Dickins field tremendously. Um, yeah, I grew up on McConaughy Crescent.
Speaker 3 00:03:11 Yeah. It was just such a small community, obviously in the bigger community, but, uh, all of our friends lived there, like everyone we went to school with, so it was just, yeah, it was a great neighborhood to grow up in with the Birchwood trails right there. And yeah.
Speaker 0 00:03:24 Yeah. How do you find now as an adult living on Dickens field or indeed concealed?
Speaker 3 00:03:28 Um, well, I mean, now that the trees are gone, we back onto the Greenbelt, so that part stings, but, um, yeah, I find it very much the same, actually very community minded. Uh, we know all of our neighbors and to the point where if we go out of town somewhere, we know that somebody is looking out for our house. We never have to worry about any of that stuff. So
Speaker 0 00:03:49 It's awesome. Yeah. I've been fortunate enough to live in a few different places in Fort McMurray, from Addison to thick wood Timberly beacon hill before the fire was awesome. I love my beacon hill home, but yeah, there's the, I feel the older communities in town just have, like, they still have that sense of small Fort McMurray. Nice. Okay. So let's rewind. How long have you been in the community for
Speaker 4 00:04:18 About 10 years. 10 years
Speaker 0 00:04:20 Now. Okay. So where did you come from originally?
Speaker 4 00:04:23 I'm originally from winter peg, man. It's cold out. I love it. Yeah, it's really cool. It's so it's very similar to Fort McMurray in the winter he sends.
Speaker 0 00:04:35 Yeah. I love what a pick. Yeah, I do too. I've been there a number of times. Um, we have some friends that, uh, were in Fort McMurray, moved there. So prior to the pandemic we would go and we would visit them often. Um, I love Winnipeg, the forks. Amazing. I went to some, uh, they had this old school toy, um, shop. They're amazing. Like when it pegs really
Speaker 4 00:05:00 Nice, it is really nice. So I have a brother there and sister-in-law and his kid. So that is, um, you know, people say, you know, they can't wait to go home. I wouldn't say that Winnipeg is home. I say, Fort McMurray is home. It's where I am with my son and where I have a circle of great friends and a great community. Um, they say, would you ever go back? Yeah, I probably, you know, maybe go back, but right now, as of right now, I really like it here and see myself here for a long time.
Speaker 0 00:05:36 Well, you just Q five questions. I have no idea what he's going to ask. So that's the luck
Speaker 5 00:05:41 Question. Number one. What is your favorite part of traveling the world? Playing sports?
Speaker 4 00:05:48 Um, uh, the people I meet that I'm still friends with. Yeah, definitely the people I meet
Speaker 5 00:05:56 Question number two. What is your favorite fast food item you've tried in your travels that isn't available in Canada?
Speaker 6 00:06:04 No, this the other day in New Zealand, you can get a burger and it's got beets in it, like a hamburger at McDonald's. I can't remember what it's called, but it's so good. Okay.
Speaker 5 00:06:16 Question number three. What is one thing be in Fort McMurray that you haven't noticed in rugby anywhere else?
Speaker 6 00:06:24 Hmm, good question. Um, I think the, the willingness to try, cause there's not a lot of rugby players up here. Right? We get so many people just wanting to get involved and wanting to make friends and wanting to make connections with people. So we got a lot of new girls and guys out here, um, which is nice, which is a hard thing to do at our age to start a new sport. So yeah, the willingness to try, I think,
Speaker 5 00:06:54 What do you do to celebrate a rugby, win,
Speaker 6 00:07:00 Um, a boat, race, boat, race, go into detail. Maybe you do a boat race if you win or lose, I guess, but, uh, it's where you there's like, I don't know, four or five people on each team and each person has a beer in the first to start. And as soon as you're done your bag, put it on your head and then the next person goes, and then, yeah, there's a winner at the end. There's the winner thing. So we definitely, I drink. Yeah.
Speaker 5 00:07:30 And your final question, what is your best memory from rugby off the field,
Speaker 6 00:07:38 Off the field? Um, all the tours I've been on, for sure. Like, I'll talk about this all day is the people that I meet, but like getting the lead up to the world cop, I, I, we went on quite a few tours and, and just the, the relationships that I got to, to, um, to create with all those girls are something that I will never forget. Yeah.
Speaker 5 00:08:04 Those have been your five questions.
Speaker 7 00:08:06 I just dies that desk. Another Mac city morning show, Don,
Speaker 8 00:08:15 You talk about quenching your ugly.
