The gang at The Produce Stand are joined by Terry Ryan, who plays Ted Hitchcock on Letterkenny and Shoresy.
Chapters:
- 00:00:00 – Opening
- 00:01:12 – Introduction
- 00:02:15 – Part 1 – Beginnings
- 00:44:25 – Part 2 – Letterkenny
- 00:52:42 – Part 3 – Shoresy
- 01:08:02 – Final Comments
- 01:10:29 – Outro
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Hey everyone, Al here.
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Now, here’s our chat with Terry Ryan.
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That fresh produce stand there, that’s a beauty.
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What do you listen to?
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My favorite murder podcast.
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Taggart and Doran’s podcast.
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The produce stand.
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Ah, fucking sexy.
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Thirsty Thursday and we are once again
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hanging at the ProtoStand.
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Podcast paying tribute to everything in the universe.
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Now I know what you’re thinking.
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There are many other Blutter Kenny podcasts out there,
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but this one here, two thirds of us
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has been screeched in
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at the George Street Festival this summer.
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So there you go.
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I’m Al, your host, and joining me in the room
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as always is a lovely Tanya,
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and online we have Squirrelly Matt,
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but not the very busy Victor he’s still working.
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But joining us this week,
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he is a first round NHL draft pick,
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chosen eighth overall by the Montreal Canadiens in 1995.
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He’s a media personality, an author,
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and an actor appearing in shows like
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Little Dog, Hudson and Rex,
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and the film of Fire in the Cold Season.
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But we all know and love him as Ted Hitchcock,
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which is kind of funny,
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because if you say it fast,
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it sounds like 10-inch cock.
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Please join me in making some noise for Terry Ryan.
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Wondrous.
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Oh my God.
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Oh my God.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Welcome to the Protestant Terry.
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Thanks a lot for having me, guys.
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Really, it’s interesting to be here.
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Oh.
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You’ve got a unique podcast
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and it’s a privilege to join.
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It’s an honor to have you here, sir.
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And I mean, it’s about time too.
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We’ve been talking since,
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since I met you in person back in,
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was it July or August when we went to a new film?
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I think it was July.
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July, yeah.
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It was George Street Festival, right?
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And I mean, you’re a busy man,
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and so we really appreciate
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that you made the time to join us.
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It’s no problem.
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You know, I get asked to do these,
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and now you realize, like, we really tried.
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And I’m telling you, that’s how busy I am.
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But I’m busy in the sense of,
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well, my daughter, she left for Calgary today.
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Her mom lives in Calgary,
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so I’ve got her most of the time, the vast majority.
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You know, she lives with me in Mount Pearl,
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you know, Finland.
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And, you know, everything I do,
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whether it’s acting or writing or podcasts,
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and I also do some,
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I work on a podcast in Edmonton,
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Got Your Back with old junior opponents and buddies,
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Ryan Rashog and Jason Strudwick.
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Right.
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So, it’s busy, but a lot of it,
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I just kind of do, you know, I make my own schedule.
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So I’m like, okay, well, maybe this particular night,
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but, you know, it just, time slips away from me.
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And I gotta try to get my,
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I do two a week myself.
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I do one solo mission podcast early in the week,
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and then I have a guest later in the week.
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And setting that up is hard enough.
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So I’m sure better late than never.
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But honestly, we’ve been talking about this
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for four months, haven’t we?
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Absolutely.
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And that’s great.
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And I’m not, I mean, I’m not complaining.
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We’re just happy to have you on.
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We actually just had Max Buffard on,
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like earlier this week.
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So we’re slowly collecting our sluts.
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Great.
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I like that I can make sense out of that sentence.
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Yeah.
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And Terry, we were starting to joke that,
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Al posted the picture when he met you
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at the George Street Festival.
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We’re like, okay.
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And he said, he’s been talking to you.
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We’re like, yeah, sure you have, sure you have.
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So it was like, for a while,
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it felt like just a stalker moment in Newfoundland,
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but you’re here.
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So it brings a story all together now.
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Listen, no, that happens all the time.
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Sure.
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Because, you know, George Street,
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and I like that area anyway, even if there was no,
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I mean, it’s great for drinking and partying,
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but that part of St. John’s to me is where it’s at.
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I mean, St. John’s is the oldest city in North America.
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That Water Street is right there,
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connected to George Street.
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And that’s the oldest, I mean,
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the oldest street in St. John’s.
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So I’m guessing one of, if not the oldest street
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in North America, just doing the math.
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So, and you know, it’s really European down there.
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It’s our, I don’t know.
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I really love that area of town.
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I love history.
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And, you know, the further you get away from that,
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and it’s a big area.
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I’m not just saying downtown,
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but the older part of St. John’s,
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it starts to get, I’m in Mount Pearl,
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a cabin type of a house in lower Mount Pearl,
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but for a lot, you know, there’s a lot of subdivisions
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that could be anywhere, and that’s great.
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I mean, a lot of my friends live there,
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but I like spending my time.
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If I’m gonna go for a coffee,
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if I’m gonna do some research,
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I just go downtown to any number of local bars
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or restaurants during the day and do my thing.
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So, and the thing is that’s the biggest tourist area.
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So every, that’s been for years.
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I mean, here, people are kind of numb to the presence of me.
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You know, it’s like, you know, we’ve been there, done that.
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I know a lot of people.
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It’s not a huge place.
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I guess 200,000 people, give or take.
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And, but everybody goes to George Street.
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So whether it’s a Canadians fan or then my book,
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you know, there’s a lot of people that enjoyed that.
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So, and Letter Kenny before Shorsie,
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I mean, I knew just that one scene.
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But, you know, Letter Kenny fans are really into it
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and they’re some of the most passionate fans
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of any TV show I know.
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So a lot of people recognize me from that.
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Like I said, the hockey thing.
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So I often run into people that share stories.
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I love it.
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It’s people from all over the world.
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I like airports.
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A lot of people don’t, but I like talking to people.
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You know, if you can’t tell, I talk a lot.
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So that sort of thing happens all the time.
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It was honestly, it was great to meet you.
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That’s great.
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Well, I mean, we had an amazing vacation there.
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It was our first real family vacation
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in a couple of years, thanks to the pandemic.
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And we were still not, you know, leaving the country.
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So I was like, well, let’s go visit a place in Canada
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that we’ve never been to before.
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Newfoundland came highly regarded.
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And I got to say, it lived up to every standard.
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It was amazing.
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Well, this summer in particular, we had great weather.
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I’m assuming.
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Yeah, it was hot.
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It was hot as balls.
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I don’t remember two bad days in a row.
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No.
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Yeah.
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So it’s always hit or miss here.
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People say we get bad weather.
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We might, but I think it’s over-exaggerated
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because I think we just get our seasons late.
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Now that comes, that helps in the fall.
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You know, right now I’m looking out the window.
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It’s a little tiny bit of snowfall.
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Two days ago, it was eight degrees.
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It’s rained here more than anything.
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It’s fairly mild.
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But you see in the spring, the icebergs come down.
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Well, they might or they might not.
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You never know how much ice is gonna pass by.
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And, you know, St. John’s being
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the furthest easterly point in North America,
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Cape Sparrow, but you know, St. John’s.
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So I think when people picture the ocean,
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Atlanta, Canada, they think that the icebergs
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just go everywhere, but they don’t.
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It’s not like they go and deke around
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and go into PEI and, you know,
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I guess technically some ice can go in.
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But for the most part, we get the icebergs.
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You know, the Titanic went down off of,
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I think 150 miles off the coast of Newfoundland,
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which is close in nautical terms.
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And so you see that, but it’s beautiful.
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And the whales tend to follow it in the seals
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and there’s wildlife.
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I mean, it’s wild to look at,
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but the wind coming off of it,
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if there’s a lot of them, then it creates fog.
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It’s cold.
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It might be June and you can tell
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that it wants to be 22 degrees,
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but the wind is coming off the ocean
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and it’s a chill in it.
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So that often happens and it pushes back
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our really good weather.
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But this year, it was virtually,
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it was like 25, 30 degrees,
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which is also usually peak temperature.
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But I mean, two or three months,
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it was those temperatures.
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It was wild.
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Yeah, well, we went with a local guy
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from Newfoundland and we went to visit
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some of his family in Trinity.
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I forget the name of the bay,
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but it’s not Trinity.
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There’s three names to it.
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Warham, Centerville, Trinity.
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Yeah, and his uncle has some property on an island
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that we spent time on,
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which is completely off the grid,
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which was a lot of fun.
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But then he took us even further out to-
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Fox Island?
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No, Pork Island, wasn’t it?
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Oh, we were on Pork Island.
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Oh, we were on Pork Island.
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Whatever the, Silver Fox Island or something like that.
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And this island here, I think had one of the oldest
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houses in the country still standing
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and we got to tour it and stuff.
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And just walking around that
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and feeling how remote that place was
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and thinking about how those settlers had to live there
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through those winters.
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And I mean, if anyone got sick,
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there’s no going to the mainland to see a doctor.
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You’re being buried in the shallow grave there
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and that’s it.
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It’s crazy.
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I truly believe that Newfoundlanders
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have a comradery amongst us.
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I never noticed in every province
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there’s a Newfoundland,
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I’d say Newfie, but that term is kind of derogatory now,
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I guess.
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I think it’s just how you do it.
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Well, you said it.
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I mean, you’re allowed to say it.
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We’ll follow your lead.
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I never took offense.
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People that called me that were teammates
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that said it with endearment.
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So it’s how you use it, right?
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But anyway, let’s say Newfoundland bars.
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So all around, even when I travel to Pittsburgh
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and Boston, if people know I’m going there,
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Newfoundlanders will show up because it’s like,
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we’re all brothers and sisters.
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Of course I’m coming to see you, Terry.
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I’m from Fox Harbor and I know someone
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that knows your cousin.
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Of course I think it’s a unique dynamic,
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but over the years, think about it.
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So that area, the very, very oldest,
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the first community settled from European settlers
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was 1602 or three and that was Cupid’s
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right around it.
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Hockey fans out there where Danny Cleary
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is from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland.
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Part of that is Cupid’s,
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which isn’t far from Trinity.
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So the whole area started to get settled.
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And for years, I mean, I’m talking to 1600s,
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think about that.
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So for 300 years really with no electricity.
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And you’ve got to come up with stories and traditions
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and there’s a level of bonding and there’s,
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I think if you didn’t have that,
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you wouldn’t be able to survive.
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So these people that came before me,
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we tend to be in a bubble now a little bit,
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but I like to do that.
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I like to go to those places.
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And just because it does,
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it’s almost like a snippet back in time.
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I’ll tell you this,
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there’s a place not far from there
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where you just mentioned it’s in the Trinity Bay
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on the way to Bonavista where Michael Ryder
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and Adam Purdy are from, those hockey fans.
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And it’s called Keele’s and they do K-E-E-L-S’s.
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For the most part, honestly, it’s a ghost town.
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A lot of people bought what remains of the town
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and what I realized when we were out there
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was some American tourists that really enjoy,
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I mean, because relatively speaking,
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these places on the water are fairly inexpensive
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compared to the rest of the world.
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I mean, it’s beautiful spots,
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but, and it’s very remote.
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So we were out there,
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I was working crew on locations
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doing a show called Maude, Ethan Hawke
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and Sally Hawkins, I think her name was.
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They both did unbelievable performances.
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It was, and it was one of these locations
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that once we were there, we were there.
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So I was on crew, but once we were set,
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I got to watch Ethan Hawke and Sally at work.
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It was wild, but there was no reception.
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So I was sitting down one day,
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but I was like, jump how high when you’re on locations.
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So I was one of the crew.
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Only so many people could stay in Keele’s.
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Everybody else went back to Trinity or Bonavista
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or Clarenville, wherever they stayed.
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Particular weekend, I can’t remember,
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but we were out there for a week, I think.
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And because there was no reception
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and there was nothing to really do,
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I mean, hang out and it was nice.
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It was a nice break.
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Couldn’t use your phone, let’s say, right?
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So Ethan Hawke walks up behind me
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and I was like, no way.
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And I was reading a book that he was kind of mentioned
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in that kind of was Mick Jagger’s book.
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And I was just sitting on a cliff.
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It was like October, late October.
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And like I was saying, we have late summers.
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So it was like 20 odd degrees.
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I remember just being a real nice night looking out
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and it was almost like a movie set sun going down.
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And Ethan comes up and sits there
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and I’d had my books and I threw a book
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in his chair in the green room.
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I really didn’t think he’d read it,
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but I did remember in Montreal,
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I didn’t meet him,
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but I remember being at more than one game.
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He’s friends with Kiefer Sutherland
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who goes to a lot of Habs games.
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And I did meet Kiefer out after a game a few times.
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So I had that in common
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and I might’ve wrote a note, written a note.
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Anyway, he came up behind me and he said,
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dude, I read your book.
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It’s great.
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I said, what?
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He said, well, there’s nothing.
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I can’t get a hold of my wife and my kids or anything.
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You know, I’m kind of enjoying this vacation.
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So he said, I played some solitaire or whatever.
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And he said, I read your book.
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And he walked up behind me and he kind of encouraged me.
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That was right before,
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right before I did a scene on Frontier.
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He really encouraged me to try acting.
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I was like, what?
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I was in the, again, I was in the industry.
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People think that there was this goal.
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I would have loved to be an actor.
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It just wasn’t possible.
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I was locations for four or five years.
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It was good money.
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I got accepted to do education,
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but I really, it took two year program,
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one year accelerated and I just didn’t have that time.
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I needed to provide for people.
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That’s kind of what happened in Ethan Hawke.
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So if it wasn’t for such a remote place,
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like Kiehl’s with no reception
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and felt like we were going back in time, you know,
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but it was, I got to sit and was chat with them.
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We came back in town, speaking to George Street
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and we went out one night
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to a place called the Bull and Barrel.
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I took them in and we had four or five drinks,
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at least that.
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And I called a few friends.
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I said, yeah, can I do an audition?
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And that’s kind of how it all started.
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I know you didn’t ask me that question.
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Oh, it was going to be asked,
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but thank you for getting there.
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And by the way, Bull and Barrel,
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I’ve been there and it’s a great place.
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Ah, my favorite little,
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well, there’s lots of my favorite.
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That’s my favorite music bar.
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It’s owned, operated by Tino Borges,
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who’s a local magician, my friend for years.
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Last night, Mick Davis played, Andrew Ulos.
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There’s always some great music
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and when there’s not live,
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he queues up the old school.
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I was going to say, we loved just sitting there
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watching all those old school videos.
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It was great and he’s got great taste in music.
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So just to go back to the interview here,
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where are you?
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You’re speaking to us from your home in where?
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Mount Pearl, Newfoundland.
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Mount Pearl, Newfoundland.
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Sorry, sorry, Newfoundland, you know.
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I’m right outside.
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If you were driving through,
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I don’t think you would tell that it’s not St. John’s.
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It’s just greater, greater areas.
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And is this where you grew up?
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I grew up here in Mount Pearl.
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So the house I’m in now that I,
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I mean, I bought this house in the spring, but it’s tiny.
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In this bottom part of Mount Pearl,
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what it first was, my mom’s father, my grandfather,
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Bill Norris, Bucky Norris,
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who actually fought in the war
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and was on the HMS Bulldog,
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the HMS Bulldog collected the Enigma machine,
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which ended up leading to, I mean, it was a huge, huge.
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Wow.
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Turned the tides into war.
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2571.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that’s it.
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That’s it, exactly.
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They glorified it up and made it American in the movie.
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I know exactly the story you’re talking about though.
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Wow.
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Yeah, that’s the story.
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So my pop was like, he actually lost his arm.
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He only had his left arm and he’s right-handed.
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He blew it off, it blew off in a cannon.
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So I like, he seemed always a step ahead of the game.
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So he came back from the war.
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They lived in downtown St. John’s at South Side,
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actually you’d call it.
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And Mount Pearl, there’s a nice little river
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running through where I am now.
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I mean, there’s things built up around it,
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but back then it was almost like a cabin.
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So he just saw some cheap land.
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He got back, I can’t remember,
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but he got some kind of severance for pay
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and he started the Mount Pearl Legion.
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I know that it was just up the road.
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And we were probably, I don’t know,
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now there’s probably 40,000 people in Mount Pearl.
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I think we were the fourth or fifth house
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and my parents still live in that house.
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So I bought a place just up the road.
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There’s a tiny little spot, 650 square feet.
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My daughter and I love it.
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There’s a river out back.
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It’s old school, right?
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There’s not too many places around town now
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that are, what’s the word, so protected.
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It’s a little bit like you’re living in the country here.
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There’s parts all around St. John’s,
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but they’re quickly, I mean,
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the population of the island isn’t increasing,
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I don’t think, but what’s happening
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is all those fishing towns that are now ghost towns,
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there’s different industries.
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A lot of people come into St. John’s.
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A lot of people fly away now
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and work in Fort McMurray, for example,
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but live in St. John’s.
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So they come back.
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So it’s just a lot of the small towns
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are something of the past.
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That’s why I like visiting them.
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Would you ever leave?
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Good question.
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I think if I left Newfoundland right now,
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say I could make more money,
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just, you know, my daughter wanted to live here.
502
00:16:58.580 –> 00:16:59.280
I love it.
503
00:16:59.280 –> 00:17:00.480
I mean, I came back for a reason.
504
00:17:00.560 –> 00:17:02.520
The last professional team I played on was Orlando.
505
00:17:02.580 –> 00:17:03.680
We won the championship
506
00:17:04.740 –> 00:17:08.020
and I was offered to stay in any number of jobs.
507
00:17:08.079 –> 00:17:08.740
It was Orlando.
508
00:17:08.800 –> 00:17:10.000
I just found it a bit transient.
509
00:17:10.079 –> 00:17:11.359
Like I said, you’re from here
510
00:17:11.359 –> 00:17:14.160
and there’s something in your blood, man.
511
00:17:14.160 –> 00:17:16.240
You’re from Newfoundland and, you know,
512
00:17:16.900 –> 00:17:19.119
I love that I’m from here
513
00:17:19.119 –> 00:17:22.400
and there’s a comradery that I don’t want to escape.
514
00:17:22.700 –> 00:17:26.200
Now, would I, if my daughter had gone to Calgary,
515
00:17:26.200 –> 00:17:27.280
but she didn’t really want to,
516
00:17:27.319 –> 00:17:29.040
it was, you know, six months ago,
517
00:17:29.240 –> 00:17:30.460
she said, Daddy, like,
518
00:17:30.460 –> 00:17:32.080
I really, really don’t wanna go.
519
00:17:32.080 –> 00:17:34.120
It wasn’t that she didn’t wanna be with her mom, obviously.
520
00:17:34.180 –> 00:17:35.000
She’s not there now.
521
00:17:35.040 –> 00:17:36.020
They have a great relationship.
522
00:17:37.700 –> 00:17:39.980
But Danielle and I have a, my ex,
523
00:17:40.140 –> 00:17:42.120
a real unique way we came about,
524
00:17:42.500 –> 00:17:43.420
being together and everything
525
00:17:43.420 –> 00:17:46.120
and we have a unique approach on life that works.
526
00:17:46.520 –> 00:17:47.640
But Penny Lane wanted to be here
527
00:17:47.640 –> 00:17:49.500
and I know, I know, I look back.
528
00:17:49.640 –> 00:17:50.800
I’m like, I’ve always said it.
529
00:17:50.820 –> 00:17:52.560
I’m so happy to have grown up here.
530
00:17:53.900 –> 00:17:55.360
Just so many, she plays sports.
531
00:17:55.380 –> 00:17:57.340
She doesn’t like hockey, but she’s into soccer.
532
00:17:57.560 –> 00:17:58.440
She’s on the provincial team.
533
00:17:59.420 –> 00:18:01.180
So she takes that really seriously.
534
00:18:01.180 –> 00:18:02.700
Her and her friends are,
535
00:18:04.140 –> 00:18:06.220
I know she could play sports anywhere,
536
00:18:06.280 –> 00:18:09.440
but it’s just something about, you know,
537
00:18:09.500 –> 00:18:11.000
growing up here and there’s a camaraderie
538
00:18:11.000 –> 00:18:13.220
and a sacrifice and you,
539
00:18:15.140 –> 00:18:16.960
I think, what am I getting at?
540
00:18:17.340 –> 00:18:19.480
Like, it feels to me like,
541
00:18:19.660 –> 00:18:21.000
just being a Newfoundlander,
542
00:18:21.680 –> 00:18:23.540
you’re like part of a team already.
543
00:18:25.980 –> 00:18:28.100
And where I’m from in Mount Pearl,
544
00:18:29.840 –> 00:18:32.600
we would be, so we’re our own city, really.
545
00:18:32.600 –> 00:18:33.880
But like I said, you wouldn’t really tell
546
00:18:33.880 –> 00:18:34.400
if you were looking,
547
00:18:34.420 –> 00:18:36.420
but we would play against St. John’s back in the day
548
00:18:36.420 –> 00:18:38.120
and St. John’s because of population sites.
549
00:18:38.340 –> 00:18:40.120
Let’s just say ice hockey, for example.
550
00:18:42.660 –> 00:18:44.080
We would be the Mount Pearl Blades,
551
00:18:44.260 –> 00:18:45.000
all of Mount Pearl.
552
00:18:45.040 –> 00:18:46.420
So you got to play for Mount Pearl.
553
00:18:46.520 –> 00:18:47.480
You’re the Mount Pearl Blades.
554
00:18:47.560 –> 00:18:48.240
You get your jacket.
555
00:18:48.580 –> 00:18:49.760
You know, you’re proud of it and everything.
556
00:18:50.040 –> 00:18:51.620
Mount, St. John’s would have like,
557
00:18:53.500 –> 00:18:56.680
Kilbride, Goulds, St. John’s A, St. John’s West,
558
00:18:57.600 –> 00:18:59.360
Hooch Cove, Torbay, you know,
559
00:18:59.360 –> 00:19:00.680
there’s all these little factions.
560
00:19:00.920 –> 00:19:02.940
So I’m not saying like as a whole,
561
00:19:02.940 –> 00:19:04.020
we’re proud to be from Newfoundland,
562
00:19:04.220 –> 00:19:08.380
but Mount Pearl itself, I think, is a fantastic place.
563
00:19:08.540 –> 00:19:09.720
It’s geared towards families,
564
00:19:10.000 –> 00:19:13.140
a lot of money into programs, community programs,
565
00:19:14.060 –> 00:19:15.660
family-driven stuff, sports.
566
00:19:15.920 –> 00:19:16.800
I don’t know if,
567
00:19:16.880 –> 00:19:18.220
some people out there have been to Kamloops.
568
00:19:18.380 –> 00:19:19.500
It reminds me of that.
569
00:19:20.060 –> 00:19:22.700
Kamloops, BC gives me the same kind of feel.
570
00:19:22.840 –> 00:19:24.680
You know, it’s a good spot to grow up.
571
00:19:24.680 –> 00:19:26.640
And anyway, would I leave?
572
00:19:28.160 –> 00:19:29.480
You’d have to pay a lot of money to-
573
00:19:29.480 –> 00:19:29.800
I don’t know.
574
00:19:29.800 –> 00:19:30.780
It’d have to be a lot of money,
575
00:19:30.840 –> 00:19:32.140
a lot of money or a lot of opportunity.
576
00:19:32.400 –> 00:19:33.580
My daughter maybe would, you know,
577
00:19:33.580 –> 00:19:35.040
I don’t know, she gets older or something.
578
00:19:35.820 –> 00:19:36.560
Outrageous happens.
579
00:19:36.760 –> 00:19:39.160
Maybe she plays pro soccer in Toronto or something.
580
00:19:39.360 –> 00:19:43.280
Hey, but I don’t see getting up and leaving anytime soon.
581
00:19:43.340 –> 00:19:43.720
That’s fine.
582
00:19:43.740 –> 00:19:46.200
You leave for opportunity and work and cool experiences
583
00:19:46.200 –> 00:19:46.940
and this is home.
584
00:19:47.560 –> 00:19:49.760
Yeah, and I love that I can do my podcast.
585
00:19:50.260 –> 00:19:51.600
I know now that being an actor,
586
00:19:51.600 –> 00:19:53.720
I just finished a lifetime movie
587
00:19:54.040 –> 00:19:54.840
called Made to Kill.
588
00:19:54.980 –> 00:19:55.620
That’ll be out soon.
589
00:19:55.760 –> 00:19:56.220
It was an honor.
590
00:19:56.520 –> 00:19:58.060
It was a great privilege to be in there
591
00:19:58.060 –> 00:19:59.260
with some awesome actors.
592
00:20:00.040 –> 00:20:01.160
I get into the game late, man.
593
00:20:01.480 –> 00:20:04.060
So people look at me as an actor,
594
00:20:04.100 –> 00:20:05.420
but I still am in awe of,
595
00:20:05.520 –> 00:20:07.460
it’s like when I first skated in the NHL.
596
00:20:07.680 –> 00:20:10.140
I mean, I’m not usually stuck for words,
597
00:20:10.200 –> 00:20:12.160
but I was when I met Vincent D’Amfus,
598
00:20:12.960 –> 00:20:13.700
Sakukoivu, you know,
599
00:20:13.700 –> 00:20:15.480
I still feel like that in the acting world,
600
00:20:15.580 –> 00:20:16.600
but I can do that.
601
00:20:16.660 –> 00:20:17.380
I get a great support.
602
00:20:17.500 –> 00:20:18.680
Like I said, Penny Lane,
603
00:20:18.680 –> 00:20:20.160
I can leave for a week and her friends,
604
00:20:20.460 –> 00:20:22.040
like, you know, your soccer team,
605
00:20:22.060 –> 00:20:23.300
they hang out, they sleep over,
606
00:20:23.300 –> 00:20:23.960
they have sleepovers.
607
00:20:24.120 –> 00:20:25.580
My parents live just down the road.
608
00:20:26.280 –> 00:20:27.320
I don’t like to rely on it,
609
00:20:27.320 –> 00:20:28.100
be gone too long,
610
00:20:28.100 –> 00:20:29.900
but you know, I still get to go and do my thing.
611
00:20:30.900 –> 00:20:35.440
And you know, I love Toronto and it is my hub.
612
00:20:35.520 –> 00:20:37.140
It’s only a couple hours on a plane.
613
00:20:37.260 –> 00:20:38.340
I’m there often.
614
00:20:38.440 –> 00:20:40.540
Every month it seems I’m at least there a weekend.
615
00:20:40.560 –> 00:20:41.600
I got my agency there.
616
00:20:41.600 –> 00:20:43.000
I got real good buddies there.
617
00:20:44.380 –> 00:20:46.020
There’s a number of reasons to go.
618
00:20:46.080 –> 00:20:48.360
So it’s not like I have cabin fever.
619
00:20:48.520 –> 00:20:49.880
I love the island, but I get to leave.
620
00:20:50.240 –> 00:20:51.680
Yeah, well, I mean, I can quickly say,
621
00:20:51.780 –> 00:20:53.200
I mean, I follow you on Instagram
622
00:20:53.200 –> 00:20:53.560
and stuff.
623
00:20:53.720 –> 00:20:54.920
I know a lot of our listeners do.
624
00:20:55.760 –> 00:20:57.640
It seems really from our perspective,
625
00:20:57.640 –> 00:20:59.060
you’re living your best life right now.
626
00:20:59.120 –> 00:20:59.500
And I don’t know,
627
00:20:59.560 –> 00:21:01.180
has this always been the tone of Terry?
628
00:21:01.360 –> 00:21:03.880
Like, are you always just go, go, go,
629
00:21:03.880 –> 00:21:04.880
looking for experience,
630
00:21:05.000 –> 00:21:06.360
living the best life?
631
00:21:07.160 –> 00:21:08.280
It’s fun to watch,
632
00:21:08.340 –> 00:21:10.360
but it’s something else, man.
633
00:21:11.080 –> 00:21:11.660
Thank you.
634
00:21:11.980 –> 00:21:13.340
I never thought of it like that.
635
00:21:14.040 –> 00:21:15.880
And most of the things that I did,
636
00:21:16.020 –> 00:21:17.680
like people, I know what they think.
637
00:21:17.680 –> 00:21:18.700
They look and they go like,
638
00:21:18.820 –> 00:21:21.020
oh man, like, I can’t believe you tried standup comedy
639
00:21:21.020 –> 00:21:22.760
and you opened for Jerry D
640
00:21:22.760 –> 00:21:23.660
and you know,
641
00:21:24.040 –> 00:21:24.780
Did you really?
642
00:21:25.060 –> 00:21:27.020
Guys, yeah, I’ll tell you that story in a sec.
643
00:21:27.080 –> 00:21:30.060
This was wild, but these are things.
644
00:21:30.200 –> 00:21:33.420
He read my book and we were writing a hockey thing.
645
00:21:33.500 –> 00:21:35.780
And he said, you know, I said, can you,
646
00:21:36.380 –> 00:21:37.900
he wanted me to go to Toronto for the summer.
647
00:21:37.940 –> 00:21:39.440
This was 2015 or 16.
648
00:21:39.440 –> 00:21:40.640
And I was like, wow, I mean, I can,
649
00:21:40.700 –> 00:21:41.480
but can you get me a job?
650
00:21:41.500 –> 00:21:42.460
And then I got there and he said,
651
00:21:42.500 –> 00:21:43.340
yeah, you’re opening for me.
652
00:21:43.380 –> 00:21:46.900
I went down and I opened for him my first show
653
00:21:46.900 –> 00:21:48.940
in like a, so I did,
654
00:21:48.940 –> 00:21:50.940
I practiced the night before I went to Yuck Yucks
655
00:21:50.940 –> 00:21:52.660
downtown Richmond, there in Toronto.
656
00:21:53.940 –> 00:21:55.600
And got absolutely gone.
657
00:21:55.780 –> 00:21:58.300
Like I just didn’t want to, I mean, I talk a lot,
658
00:21:58.320 –> 00:21:59.660
but I was terrified to get up there.
659
00:21:59.780 –> 00:22:01.300
I don’t mind public speaking even.
660
00:22:01.360 –> 00:22:01.680
Right.
661
00:22:01.920 –> 00:22:02.960
That took a while to get over that,
662
00:22:03.060 –> 00:22:05.100
but standup comedy, you know, is this thing on?
663
00:22:05.140 –> 00:22:06.440
Like I was like, Jesus.
664
00:22:06.840 –> 00:22:09.840
So I went up and I just said, I’m Terry Ryan.
665
00:22:10.020 –> 00:22:11.520
I’m going through a divorce and people kind of chugged.
666
00:22:11.620 –> 00:22:13.660
I said, I got a folklore degree.
667
00:22:14.320 –> 00:22:15.360
People were like, what the hell’s folklore?
668
00:22:15.420 –> 00:22:16.140
They started, they were like,
669
00:22:16.180 –> 00:22:17.080
where’s this guy coming from?
670
00:22:17.120 –> 00:22:18.600
And I said, I’m the biggest sports disappointment
671
00:22:18.600 –> 00:22:20.180
in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador.
672
00:22:20.180 –> 00:22:21.860
And people started cheering.
673
00:22:22.060 –> 00:22:24.060
I said, do you want to hear my last shift in the NHL?
674
00:22:24.360 –> 00:22:25.720
You want to hear the Taitomi story?
675
00:22:26.020 –> 00:22:27.380
You want to hear how I knocked my teeth out
676
00:22:27.380 –> 00:22:29.100
with a hammer and people are going mad?
677
00:22:29.360 –> 00:22:31.820
So I just told stories and I was overcharged,
678
00:22:31.820 –> 00:22:33.460
but I didn’t realize that,
679
00:22:33.560 –> 00:22:35.000
I thought it was a bucket list thing.
680
00:22:35.000 –> 00:22:36.780
I was talking with Jerry the week before.
681
00:22:37.300 –> 00:22:38.980
And I still thought he was going to get me a job,
682
00:22:39.480 –> 00:22:41.220
like, I don’t know, organizing his summer.
683
00:22:41.400 –> 00:22:42.800
I don’t know what he, I don’t know,
684
00:22:42.860 –> 00:22:45.600
could have been holding a sign on the side of the road.
685
00:22:45.680 –> 00:22:46.520
I just needed money.
686
00:22:47.460 –> 00:22:48.440
So that was it.
687
00:22:48.440 –> 00:22:49.460
He said, meet me in Oshawa.
688
00:22:49.460 –> 00:22:51.080
And I went out there and he said, you’re opening tonight.
689
00:22:51.240 –> 00:22:53.060
I came out, there was 4,500 people strong.
690
00:22:53.120 –> 00:22:53.780
It was wild.
691
00:22:54.080 –> 00:22:55.800
And I, yeah, it was wild.
692
00:22:56.060 –> 00:22:58.020
And again, people again look at that and go,
693
00:22:58.020 –> 00:22:59.320
it’s great for Terry trying that guy.
694
00:22:59.320 –> 00:23:00.980
I didn’t want to do it, but I said, I gotta,
695
00:23:01.100 –> 00:23:02.140
I gotta take advantage of this.
696
00:23:02.480 –> 00:23:03.560
Jerry Dee, one of the best comedians
697
00:23:03.560 –> 00:23:05.520
in Canada or anywhere really,
698
00:23:06.540 –> 00:23:07.840
his show is dynamite, man.
699
00:23:08.340 –> 00:23:10.320
And I said, I can’t not do this.
700
00:23:10.340 –> 00:23:13.120
So I just did what I always do when I’m terrified.
701
00:23:13.840 –> 00:23:16.100
And I just looked in the mirror and spoke to myself.
702
00:23:16.220 –> 00:23:18.240
I looked right at my eyes in the mirror and said,
703
00:23:18.240 –> 00:23:20.000
you do this, you gotta get out there.
704
00:23:20.120 –> 00:23:21.360
Cause I said no at first.
705
00:23:21.900 –> 00:23:23.320
But anyway, those things happened.
706
00:23:24.360 –> 00:23:25.320
It was, it was survival.
707
00:23:25.720 –> 00:23:27.540
Like I was offered decent money.
708
00:23:27.680 –> 00:23:28.440
I had no job.
709
00:23:28.860 –> 00:23:30.780
I, you know, I was, I guess,
710
00:23:31.700 –> 00:23:33.720
I was bouncing around on film crews
711
00:23:33.720 –> 00:23:35.780
cause I was, I got in the union in Iatzi,
712
00:23:36.140 –> 00:23:38.780
but I didn’t, you know, there’s often a break.
713
00:23:39.000 –> 00:23:40.320
I needed, I just needed money.
714
00:23:40.340 –> 00:23:42.680
And we made some bad financial decisions
715
00:23:42.680 –> 00:23:44.340
at the time, my wife and I.
716
00:23:44.940 –> 00:23:48.860
So, yeah, it was now, I guess I could have just,
717
00:23:49.140 –> 00:23:51.900
I could always take a nine to five or something, I suppose.
718
00:23:51.940 –> 00:23:53.260
I was a Red Bull rep for two years,
719
00:23:53.340 –> 00:23:55.780
nothing against Red Bull, but I hated it.
720
00:23:55.780 –> 00:23:56.480
I just hated.
721
00:23:57.380 –> 00:23:59.000
Didn’t y’all almost get into insurance
722
00:23:59.000 –> 00:24:00.260
or something at one point?
723
00:24:00.940 –> 00:24:02.760
Yeah, I was offered it and I nearly took it,
724
00:24:02.760 –> 00:24:03.480
but it’s not me.
725
00:24:03.740 –> 00:24:06.180
Like I, I gotta be creative in some way.
726
00:24:06.180 –> 00:24:08.800
Even locations, I didn’t mind that
727
00:24:08.800 –> 00:24:11.040
because I’m part of something that’s, that’s creative.
728
00:24:11.620 –> 00:24:12.580
I don’t mind doing work.
729
00:24:12.600 –> 00:24:14.100
I’ll do hardware as you know.
730
00:24:14.100 –> 00:24:16.060
I mean, I do a lot and you know,
731
00:24:16.100 –> 00:24:18.420
the mental and the physical, whatever it might be,
732
00:24:18.420 –> 00:24:19.800
I still play senior hockey.
733
00:24:20.000 –> 00:24:21.100
I love that.
734
00:24:21.820 –> 00:24:23.740
So I like being busy.
735
00:24:23.980 –> 00:24:25.440
I like challenging myself.
736
00:24:25.800 –> 00:24:28.460
The things that presented themselves are otherworldly.
737
00:24:28.500 –> 00:24:29.780
I’m so lucky that way.
738
00:24:30.080 –> 00:24:31.980
And I guess I took advantage of it
739
00:24:31.980 –> 00:24:33.800
because I saw a small window.
740
00:24:33.800 –> 00:24:34.260
Sure.
741
00:24:34.700 –> 00:24:35.740
I nearly, I mean.
742
00:24:35.900 –> 00:24:37.340
It’s the power of yes, right?
743
00:24:37.680 –> 00:24:40.300
Say yes and then try it.
744
00:24:40.580 –> 00:24:43.200
At this point, you know, I get up,
745
00:24:43.200 –> 00:24:45.160
it’s just part of my, yeah, I get up
746
00:24:45.160 –> 00:24:48.860
and I know now the people who follow me, support me.
747
00:24:48.860 –> 00:24:51.400
I know that the reason that I get sponsorship money
748
00:24:51.400 –> 00:24:53.320
is because people like Schorzy,
749
00:24:53.420 –> 00:24:54.460
they like spitting chicklets.
750
00:24:55.160 –> 00:24:59.200
So I try to, you know, that, that’s me.
751
00:24:59.260 –> 00:25:01.200
You know, my character on Schorzy, Ted Hitchcock.
752
00:25:01.300 –> 00:25:02.460
I mean, it is Ted Hitchcock.
753
00:25:02.480 –> 00:25:04.280
I have to go outside myself a little bit,
754
00:25:04.440 –> 00:25:06.380
but I mean, let’s be honest here.
755
00:25:06.400 –> 00:25:07.820
The characters from Newfoundland.
756
00:25:07.820 –> 00:25:08.080
Yeah.
757
00:25:09.320 –> 00:25:10.380
The missing a tooth.
758
00:25:11.700 –> 00:25:12.340
You know what I mean?
759
00:25:12.340 –> 00:25:13.580
Just the way he is in the room.
760
00:25:13.820 –> 00:25:15.740
That’s kind of, kind of the way I,
761
00:25:15.820 –> 00:25:17.760
other than his accent is a little deep,
762
00:25:18.500 –> 00:25:22.660
but you know, I, I’m just kind of mimicking a friend
763
00:25:22.660 –> 00:25:23.960
that we used to grow up imitating.
764
00:25:24.120 –> 00:25:24.780
That’s what I’m doing there.
765
00:25:24.820 –> 00:25:26.200
But I mean, it’s kind of in me anyway,
766
00:25:26.360 –> 00:25:27.640
that I can just talk like this.
767
00:25:27.700 –> 00:25:29.360
If I can start talking like this, no problem.
768
00:25:29.380 –> 00:25:31.060
Cause that’s the way I talk when I grew up.
769
00:25:31.580 –> 00:25:33.900
So it wasn’t, you know, I get to do that.
770
00:25:33.900 –> 00:25:34.560
And it’s wild.
771
00:25:35.320 –> 00:25:38.420
So the people that dig that and it all goes back,
772
00:25:38.420 –> 00:25:40.700
my books and all of this stuff,
773
00:25:41.700 –> 00:25:43.420
the vehicle is hockey, right?
774
00:25:43.420 –> 00:25:46.660
And I got into it and things didn’t go the way I planned
775
00:25:46.660 –> 00:25:47.840
in Montreal, obviously.
776
00:25:48.320 –> 00:25:49.900
But after, at the end of the day, I got hurt.
777
00:25:50.100 –> 00:25:51.280
I do believe I would have,
778
00:25:51.380 –> 00:25:52.400
someone would have given me a chance.
779
00:25:52.460 –> 00:25:53.860
The phone was ringing all the time.
780
00:25:54.140 –> 00:25:55.360
I know it’s easy to say, you know,
781
00:25:55.880 –> 00:25:57.820
and I should have gone back to Montreal camp.
782
00:25:58.040 –> 00:26:00.460
I didn’t, I know that’s not what we’re talking about,
783
00:26:00.460 –> 00:26:04.080
but for a while there, I nearly disassociated.
784
00:26:04.180 –> 00:26:06.080
Like I came back and I was tripping over my bottom lip.
785
00:26:06.240 –> 00:26:08.360
I was seeing people that I played against
786
00:26:08.360 –> 00:26:09.340
that I’m not going to name names,
787
00:26:09.340 –> 00:26:11.320
but I knew, I don’t want to use the word better,
788
00:26:11.360 –> 00:26:13.060
but I knew I was at least as good.
789
00:26:13.160 –> 00:26:14.480
And this was two years ago.
790
00:26:14.560 –> 00:26:16.460
I’m like, nothing happened to me since my draft year.
791
00:26:16.580 –> 00:26:18.040
I had 50 in my draft year.
792
00:26:18.040 –> 00:26:18.980
I can fight anybody.
793
00:26:19.960 –> 00:26:20.880
It’s not fair.
794
00:26:21.000 –> 00:26:22.720
And I really, I was upset,
795
00:26:22.720 –> 00:26:24.920
but everybody has a different timeline.
796
00:26:25.040 –> 00:26:26.700
The people who drafted me in Montreal,
797
00:26:26.760 –> 00:26:29.640
they all got fired when Patrick Wa demanded a trade.
798
00:26:29.980 –> 00:26:32.040
So people came in that I wasn’t necessarily
799
00:26:32.040 –> 00:26:34.500
probably be there trying to work on my skating,
800
00:26:34.500 –> 00:26:36.280
but I still thought I was an NHLer.
801
00:26:36.320 –> 00:26:37.700
I know I was an NHLer.
802
00:26:37.700 –> 00:26:40.600
So, but for two, three years I came back, man.
803
00:26:40.660 –> 00:26:43.960
I got hurt and I didn’t even pay attention to hockey at all.
804
00:26:44.160 –> 00:26:47.140
And then one day, long, long story.
805
00:26:47.220 –> 00:26:48.020
I won’t get way into it,
806
00:26:48.060 –> 00:26:49.480
but my friend put me on a reality show.
807
00:26:49.600 –> 00:26:50.480
It was four in the morning.
808
00:26:50.900 –> 00:26:52.180
I remember I had mustard on my shirt.
809
00:26:52.240 –> 00:26:54.080
I was eating a hot, I was loaded, loaded drunk.
810
00:26:54.520 –> 00:26:56.740
Mike O’Neil, and he was starting a reality show
811
00:26:57.400 –> 00:26:59.220
and he pinned me up against the wall.
812
00:26:59.300 –> 00:27:01.140
And he said, Terry, the sun’s going to come up tomorrow.
813
00:27:01.180 –> 00:27:02.620
No one’s going to feel bad for you.
814
00:27:02.860 –> 00:27:04.020
You’re pissing your life away.
815
00:27:04.060 –> 00:27:04.800
You’re a good guy.
816
00:27:06.180 –> 00:27:09.200
So I went on his reality show called Define Yourself.
817
00:27:09.260 –> 00:27:13.380
I went from 248 to 190, kind of what I am now.
818
00:27:14.320 –> 00:27:18.260
And I called, well, you just do good things
819
00:27:18.260 –> 00:27:19.340
and positive things happen.
820
00:27:20.180 –> 00:27:22.400
The head of the Ball Hockey Canada team
821
00:27:22.400 –> 00:27:23.760
had watched me play ball hockey.
822
00:27:23.800 –> 00:27:24.400
That’s big here.
823
00:27:24.400 –> 00:27:25.260
And he said, can you run?
824
00:27:25.520 –> 00:27:27.640
And for some reason it didn’t hurt at all when I ran.
825
00:27:27.820 –> 00:27:28.880
It was a high ankle sprain.
826
00:27:30.380 –> 00:27:31.460
And he said, yeah,
827
00:27:31.460 –> 00:27:32.980
and he took me to the World Championships, man.
828
00:27:32.980 –> 00:27:34.380
And I got over there, I’m telling you this.
829
00:27:34.380 –> 00:27:36.180
We won in 2003.
830
00:27:36.660 –> 00:27:38.600
And it was such a…
831
00:27:38.600 –> 00:27:40.140
And for 2001, I hurt my ankle.
832
00:27:40.260 –> 00:27:42.120
So those two years were pretty dark.
833
00:27:44.420 –> 00:27:45.940
But I got over there
834
00:27:45.940 –> 00:27:47.500
and I really shouldn’t have been on the team.
835
00:27:47.600 –> 00:27:48.100
I know that.
836
00:27:48.340 –> 00:27:50.740
Now, I work myself into a…
837
00:27:50.740 –> 00:27:51.600
It’s every second year.
838
00:27:51.660 –> 00:27:52.980
By 07, I was an All-Star.
839
00:27:53.340 –> 00:27:54.420
I mean, at the World Tournament.
840
00:27:54.680 –> 00:27:55.980
But I should never have been there.
841
00:27:56.020 –> 00:27:57.340
I got one shift in the final.
842
00:27:57.660 –> 00:27:59.320
When we made it three to one against Czech,
843
00:27:59.620 –> 00:28:01.880
Coach George Gortzos put me out there.
844
00:28:01.880 –> 00:28:04.860
And I was crying during the shift.
845
00:28:05.300 –> 00:28:06.620
And I went to talk to him after I go,
846
00:28:06.720 –> 00:28:07.940
I shouldn’t have been on this team, George,
847
00:28:08.000 –> 00:28:09.100
but thanks so much.
848
00:28:09.460 –> 00:28:10.620
I won a World Championship.
849
00:28:10.660 –> 00:28:11.360
I was bawling.
850
00:28:12.620 –> 00:28:14.420
And he said, this is the long haul.
851
00:28:14.540 –> 00:28:15.760
He said, maybe you shouldn’t have been,
852
00:28:15.800 –> 00:28:18.020
but there’s a reason that I got you here.
853
00:28:18.100 –> 00:28:19.800
And he said, 2005, you’re gonna come.
854
00:28:19.820 –> 00:28:20.240
And I did.
855
00:28:20.300 –> 00:28:21.560
I got myself in the best shape.
856
00:28:22.080 –> 00:28:22.600
I aced.
857
00:28:22.680 –> 00:28:25.480
I came first in the fitness next year.
858
00:28:26.180 –> 00:28:28.720
So that version of me was just…
859
00:28:28.720 –> 00:28:30.440
It was starting to…
860
00:28:30.440 –> 00:28:31.980
It was in the rear-view mirror, the bad version.
861
00:28:32.380 –> 00:28:34.240
Well, the lazy version and the version
862
00:28:34.240 –> 00:28:35.340
that blamed other people.
863
00:28:35.720 –> 00:28:37.740
And then it started to be,
864
00:28:37.740 –> 00:28:39.600
you know, I’m on Team Canada here.
865
00:28:39.660 –> 00:28:40.700
I played in the NHL.
866
00:28:41.040 –> 00:28:42.300
Like, you know, like, no matter what,
867
00:28:42.360 –> 00:28:43.520
no one can really take that away.
868
00:28:43.660 –> 00:28:45.560
And now opinions and years gone by
869
00:28:45.560 –> 00:28:48.080
that my daughter got born and…
870
00:28:48.080 –> 00:28:48.660
Got born.
871
00:28:48.780 –> 00:28:49.600
My daughter was born.
872
00:28:51.080 –> 00:28:52.140
No, it just all faded.
873
00:28:52.720 –> 00:28:54.160
It gets one, my book, a lot of, you know,
874
00:28:54.160 –> 00:28:56.880
I won’t get into it, but a lot of people offered me
875
00:28:56.880 –> 00:28:59.380
good money to kind of talk about
876
00:28:59.380 –> 00:29:00.940
the negative side of being in Montreal.
877
00:29:01.080 –> 00:29:02.700
But the truth is, I loved all of it, man.
878
00:29:03.040 –> 00:29:04.880
I had a problem with Michelle Tarian.
879
00:29:05.320 –> 00:29:06.180
I was a kid.
880
00:29:06.240 –> 00:29:07.380
I should have gone back to camp.
881
00:29:07.480 –> 00:29:09.340
But most of my experience was a great one.
882
00:29:09.420 –> 00:29:10.740
I was like, you know, I used to get up every day
883
00:29:10.740 –> 00:29:11.980
and go in and go, I can’t believe…
884
00:29:11.980 –> 00:29:13.540
I used to look at Brad Brown and Matt Higgins
885
00:29:13.540 –> 00:29:14.280
and Aaron Ashton and go,
886
00:29:14.320 –> 00:29:15.700
can you believe we’re out of Montreal, Canadians?
887
00:29:16.160 –> 00:29:18.520
Like, it never, ever, like, really sunk in
888
00:29:18.520 –> 00:29:19.360
in a cocky way.
889
00:29:20.180 –> 00:29:22.120
So when I was doing my book, I was like,
890
00:29:22.140 –> 00:29:23.560
you know, you guys got it all wrong.
891
00:29:23.960 –> 00:29:25.900
I kept a journal, in case you didn’t know.
892
00:29:25.900 –> 00:29:27.140
And I loved my time there.
893
00:29:27.140 –> 00:29:28.840
And I’m not gonna sit here,
894
00:29:28.840 –> 00:29:33.080
and for the sake of selling my soul, really,
895
00:29:33.080 –> 00:29:34.120
it was a lot more money.
896
00:29:35.320 –> 00:29:37.560
But ECW from downtown Toronto, they let me do it.
897
00:29:37.640 –> 00:29:40.920
They gave me a $2,500 advance that I had to pay back
898
00:29:40.920 –> 00:29:41.960
so I didn’t get any bonus.
899
00:29:42.320 –> 00:29:43.680
They let me do it myself.
900
00:29:43.700 –> 00:29:45.520
I call it tales of a first round nothing.
901
00:29:46.480 –> 00:29:47.900
And, you know, there’s two or three stories
902
00:29:47.900 –> 00:29:48.700
in there about Montreal.
903
00:29:48.760 –> 00:29:49.720
But to me, it was great.
904
00:29:49.940 –> 00:29:51.820
But I loved my time in Hershey and Idaho
905
00:29:52.260 –> 00:29:53.700
and, you know, Salt Lake City.
906
00:29:53.720 –> 00:29:55.660
And I got to travel all over the world playing hockey.
907
00:29:55.660 –> 00:29:58.720
And that really, and it’s still the vehicle
908
00:29:58.720 –> 00:29:59.320
to what I’m doing.
909
00:29:59.480 –> 00:30:00.840
I mean, I’m an actor, what I’m an author,
910
00:30:00.900 –> 00:30:02.840
and podcaster, all came from hockey, right?
911
00:30:03.060 –> 00:30:03.460
Yeah. Amazing.
912
00:30:03.600 –> 00:30:06.120
So 2014, Tales of a First Round Nothing,
913
00:30:06.320 –> 00:30:08.020
My Life as an NHL Footnote.
914
00:30:08.320 –> 00:30:09.380
That was your first book.
915
00:30:09.880 –> 00:30:12.680
And I mean, we could talk about your hockey career
916
00:30:12.680 –> 00:30:13.660
for the whole time,
917
00:30:13.680 –> 00:30:16.020
but our listeners are gonna be like,
918
00:30:16.100 –> 00:30:16.880
get to Shorzy already.
919
00:30:17.300 –> 00:30:19.000
So that’s 2014.
920
00:30:19.120 –> 00:30:21.060
And then in 2020, you put out another book,
921
00:30:21.160 –> 00:30:22.540
Fights, Film, and Folklore.
922
00:30:22.600 –> 00:30:24.600
Can you tell us quickly what that one’s about?
923
00:30:24.600 –> 00:30:26.900
Well, I was looking for something to do
924
00:30:26.900 –> 00:30:27.760
during the pandemic.
925
00:30:28.420 –> 00:30:32.240
And again, the film and everything got shut down.
926
00:30:33.340 –> 00:30:36.720
So, and this is why I don’t complain about being busy
927
00:30:36.720 –> 00:30:39.800
because I know myself and I need to be.
928
00:30:39.880 –> 00:30:40.920
I was going out of my mind.
929
00:30:41.020 –> 00:30:44.400
Well, we all were, but I get real bad anxiety
930
00:30:44.400 –> 00:30:45.840
and that’s the way I deal with it.
931
00:30:45.900 –> 00:30:48.960
So when I was early on, I realized that,
932
00:30:48.960 –> 00:30:51.120
and I remember my dad doesn’t get it at all.
933
00:30:51.120 –> 00:30:52.260
He’s the most laid back.
934
00:30:52.380 –> 00:30:53.300
Mom gets it a bit,
935
00:30:53.300 –> 00:30:56.440
but he would be like, maybe harness that energy
936
00:30:56.440 –> 00:30:58.860
in a positive way instead of, and it would,
937
00:30:58.960 –> 00:31:01.720
I’d be like, just nervous and anxious
938
00:31:02.520 –> 00:31:04.120
and over excited a lot.
939
00:31:04.180 –> 00:31:05.280
I mean, you can tell that talking to me,
940
00:31:05.820 –> 00:31:08.340
but so I take out a paper and pen
941
00:31:09.640 –> 00:31:11.240
and I’ve written most stuff.
942
00:31:11.320 –> 00:31:12.520
We’ll never see the light of day, right?
943
00:31:12.520 –> 00:31:13.180
But I was reading,
944
00:31:13.780 –> 00:31:15.420
I was a creative writer growing up.
945
00:31:15.480 –> 00:31:16.500
I didn’t really tell my friends,
946
00:31:16.500 –> 00:31:18.700
but I was writing like plays and stuff as a kid,
947
00:31:19.120 –> 00:31:20.680
poetry all the time.
948
00:31:23.640 –> 00:31:26.920
So I’m most comfortable in the artistic world as a writer.
949
00:31:27.220 –> 00:31:28.840
So anyway, Penny Lane was there
950
00:31:28.840 –> 00:31:30.980
and I was telling her some stories during the pandemic
951
00:31:30.980 –> 00:31:32.760
and she said, you should do another book.
952
00:31:33.840 –> 00:31:35.520
So the show Hudson and Rex came back.
953
00:31:35.680 –> 00:31:36.700
You know how I wrote that book?
954
00:31:37.060 –> 00:31:38.400
The show Hudson and Rex came back
955
00:31:38.400 –> 00:31:39.560
and I was doing locations.
956
00:31:40.060 –> 00:31:41.680
I still take days on locations by the way.
957
00:31:41.720 –> 00:31:43.460
I don’t mind working on crew at all.
958
00:31:43.600 –> 00:31:44.540
It’s a good day’s work
959
00:31:45.380 –> 00:31:47.260
and I can always work on other things
960
00:31:47.260 –> 00:31:47.980
right when I’m in there.
961
00:31:47.980 –> 00:31:50.240
So I was locking up,
962
00:31:50.300 –> 00:31:53.120
which means basically just make sure people
963
00:31:53.120 –> 00:31:54.260
don’t walk through a scene.
964
00:31:54.400 –> 00:31:54.900
You know what I mean?
965
00:31:55.380 –> 00:31:57.960
So I was like standing around a corner
966
00:31:57.960 –> 00:31:59.060
and there was nothing happening.
967
00:31:59.140 –> 00:31:59.800
It was the pandemic.
968
00:31:59.840 –> 00:32:00.600
It was Petty Harbor.
969
00:32:00.740 –> 00:32:02.500
There might’ve been one car every five hours.
970
00:32:03.920 –> 00:32:06.040
So I realized that I could,
971
00:32:06.360 –> 00:32:08.380
I didn’t even know that you could use word
972
00:32:08.380 –> 00:32:11.600
and you could speech to text on your phone.
973
00:32:11.620 –> 00:32:12.060
Oh, okay.
974
00:32:12.140 –> 00:32:13.520
So I find it a lot.
975
00:32:14.260 –> 00:32:16.660
I was out there and I went, okay.
976
00:32:17.120 –> 00:32:22.160
For me, it’s easier to break down something
977
00:32:22.160 –> 00:32:23.360
the skeleton’s already written.
978
00:32:23.600 –> 00:32:24.840
It’s why the Tales of First Round Nothing,
979
00:32:24.940 –> 00:32:26.540
all of those were journal entries.
980
00:32:26.860 –> 00:32:28.820
Some of them don’t look much like they started,
981
00:32:29.000 –> 00:32:31.200
but it was there and then I reduce
982
00:32:31.200 –> 00:32:34.460
and I add and I try to…
983
00:32:34.460 –> 00:32:35.200
You massage it.
984
00:32:35.760 –> 00:32:36.980
Yes, I massage it.
985
00:32:37.000 –> 00:32:38.700
I try to create some imagery for the reader
986
00:32:38.700 –> 00:32:41.180
and everything, but there’s a base already there.
987
00:32:41.180 –> 00:32:42.400
And this was great
988
00:32:42.400 –> 00:32:45.300
because I just talk into my thing and go, wow.
989
00:32:45.300 –> 00:32:48.420
And I made, so I told like five or six stories
990
00:32:48.420 –> 00:32:49.760
by myself into the phone.
991
00:32:49.900 –> 00:32:51.400
And then I realized, I’m like, you know what?
992
00:32:51.500 –> 00:32:53.400
I got like 200 pages here.
993
00:32:53.440 –> 00:32:54.660
Maybe I could do something else.
994
00:32:54.940 –> 00:32:56.800
So the fights at the beginning,
995
00:32:57.020 –> 00:32:58.920
the first one is all anecdotal really.
996
00:33:00.000 –> 00:33:01.280
And it’s chronological order.
997
00:33:01.480 –> 00:33:02.700
I think of like a boy growing up.
998
00:33:02.800 –> 00:33:05.780
I mean, if you really look at it, hockey was my life,
999
00:33:05.900 –> 00:33:09.680
but there’s some stuff in the first one that again,
1000
00:33:10.040 –> 00:33:11.920
it was her every day revolved around hockey,
1001
00:33:12.600 –> 00:33:14.720
but it was really about me growing up.
1002
00:33:15.760 –> 00:33:18.620
This second one, the first part really, the fights,
1003
00:33:19.220 –> 00:33:21.460
I talk about it and I don’t wanna get way into it here,
1004
00:33:22.120 –> 00:33:23.820
but concussions and I can relate with that.
1005
00:33:23.980 –> 00:33:24.900
I had them and I didn’t get them.
1006
00:33:24.960 –> 00:33:26.240
All those fights I got in
1007
00:33:26.240 –> 00:33:27.820
and I didn’t get them from that.
1008
00:33:28.580 –> 00:33:29.720
It’s like, there’s more,
1009
00:33:30.020 –> 00:33:31.520
I don’t know if G force is the word,
1010
00:33:31.520 –> 00:33:32.480
but when you got your head down
1011
00:33:32.480 –> 00:33:33.440
and you’re skating through the middle
1012
00:33:33.440 –> 00:33:34.520
and you get lit up with a hit,
1013
00:33:34.700 –> 00:33:36.080
that’s how I got my concussions.
1014
00:33:36.180 –> 00:33:38.440
One lasted a full year post-concussion syndrome.
1015
00:33:38.980 –> 00:33:40.520
So I kind of try to talk about that
1016
00:33:40.520 –> 00:33:41.160
and relate with people
1017
00:33:41.160 –> 00:33:42.580
because people think they’re going out of their minds.
1018
00:33:42.580 –> 00:33:45.580
I did it until I talked to other hockey players
1019
00:33:45.580 –> 00:33:48.000
and it was really a weight I was going off my shoulders.
1020
00:33:48.020 –> 00:33:48.860
I was going, oh wow,
1021
00:33:49.080 –> 00:33:50.580
so it’s not just me that feels like this.
1022
00:33:51.220 –> 00:33:53.120
A concussion, post-concussion syndrome
1023
00:33:53.120 –> 00:33:55.180
isn’t always headache.
1024
00:33:56.580 –> 00:33:58.220
It’s often emotional.
1025
00:33:59.340 –> 00:34:00.620
It affects everybody different.
1026
00:34:00.700 –> 00:34:01.560
It’s your brain here.
1027
00:34:01.700 –> 00:34:02.140
It’s your brain.
1028
00:34:02.220 –> 00:34:03.260
It’s a brain injury, yeah.
1029
00:34:03.660 –> 00:34:06.860
I remember really just having a hard time
1030
00:34:06.860 –> 00:34:09.400
focusing on a drink to pick up or whatever.
1031
00:34:09.739 –> 00:34:11.020
It was bad, bad, bad time.
1032
00:34:11.020 –> 00:34:13.159
So, and I tried to relate,
1033
00:34:13.320 –> 00:34:15.280
but I still like the fighting in hockey.
1034
00:34:15.440 –> 00:34:16.520
There’s a respect there
1035
00:34:18.620 –> 00:34:21.199
that isn’t really in the other sports.
1036
00:34:21.340 –> 00:34:22.500
I mean, you can’t fight first of all,
1037
00:34:22.699 –> 00:34:23.699
but there really is.
1038
00:34:24.500 –> 00:34:25.300
So like everything,
1039
00:34:25.500 –> 00:34:26.719
talking to Matthew Barnaby
1040
00:34:26.719 –> 00:34:28.440
after we fought in the penalty box,
1041
00:34:29.480 –> 00:34:30.320
things like that.
1042
00:34:30.400 –> 00:34:31.800
I tried to put in perspective
1043
00:34:31.800 –> 00:34:35.040
what it really means to fight in pro hockey.
1044
00:34:35.159 –> 00:34:36.380
It’s not always what you think.
1045
00:34:36.620 –> 00:34:37.239
It’s not always,
1046
00:34:37.699 –> 00:34:39.139
I hate you and I’m gonna come get you.
1047
00:34:39.260 –> 00:34:40.080
It’s part of the job.
1048
00:34:40.080 –> 00:34:41.679
And I find at this point,
1049
00:34:42.260 –> 00:34:45.000
most of my friends from the hockey days
1050
00:34:45.000 –> 00:34:47.199
that are opponents are the tough guys.
1051
00:34:47.400 –> 00:34:48.800
And they, because they respect it,
1052
00:34:48.800 –> 00:34:49.960
they realize it was a job.
1053
00:34:50.000 –> 00:34:51.380
And they were usually the guys in the room
1054
00:34:51.380 –> 00:34:53.639
to play the music, to gel the team together.
1055
00:34:54.420 –> 00:34:55.760
Shorzy hints on that.
1056
00:34:55.760 –> 00:34:56.960
And it’s not wrong.
1057
00:34:57.840 –> 00:34:59.140
Like that run them up, fill them in.
1058
00:34:59.240 –> 00:35:01.280
When you do that as a team and you do it together
1059
00:35:01.280 –> 00:35:04.080
and you sacrifice and you block shots for your goalie,
1060
00:35:04.080 –> 00:35:04.900
you was having to shut out
1061
00:35:04.900 –> 00:35:07.120
and there’s really something to that.
1062
00:35:07.600 –> 00:35:09.240
And so I just explained that.
1063
00:35:09.780 –> 00:35:11.160
So it’s fights, film, folklore.
1064
00:35:12.460 –> 00:35:16.160
Film was updated into the film world.
1065
00:35:16.420 –> 00:35:20.320
I’d had a lot of things happen and it’s not any,
1066
00:35:21.820 –> 00:35:24.300
ice hockey to ball hockey was an obvious transition.
1067
00:35:24.880 –> 00:35:26.420
Ice hockey to the film world.
1068
00:35:27.020 –> 00:35:28.720
I know it’s becoming a little more,
1069
00:35:30.780 –> 00:35:34.500
I guess normalized, but it’s just not.
1070
00:35:34.620 –> 00:35:36.360
There just wasn’t that many people involved.
1071
00:35:36.520 –> 00:35:37.860
No, I remember seeing some of those
1072
00:35:37.860 –> 00:35:39.700
Wayne Gretzky commercials early on in his career.
1073
00:35:39.820 –> 00:35:41.300
He was not an actor.
1074
00:35:42.420 –> 00:35:44.680
One does not translate into the other.
1075
00:35:45.340 –> 00:35:50.200
No, and you’re always doing yourself some version of it
1076
00:35:50.200 –> 00:35:52.680
for some company, you’re always doing promos.
1077
00:35:52.780 –> 00:35:54.320
You never really have to act, right?
1078
00:35:55.160 –> 00:35:57.180
So a lot of people were interested in that.
1079
00:35:57.320 –> 00:35:59.140
And I said, I think there’s gonna be enough interest
1080
00:35:59.140 –> 00:36:00.700
I can put out the middle part of my book.
1081
00:36:00.760 –> 00:36:02.600
And then the folklore really is just some anecdotes
1082
00:36:02.600 –> 00:36:04.260
at the end that were left over.
1083
00:36:04.360 –> 00:36:06.480
I could put out, honestly guys, 20 of those.
1084
00:36:06.480 –> 00:36:08.880
Everything I’ve talked to you about here today would,
1085
00:36:08.960 –> 00:36:10.160
we’re halfway through a book already.
1086
00:36:10.380 –> 00:36:11.620
And we’re halfway through an episode
1087
00:36:11.620 –> 00:36:13.000
we haven’t touched on letter Kenny.
1088
00:36:13.860 –> 00:36:17.300
But okay, just two more things before we get to Shorzy
1089
00:36:17.300 –> 00:36:19.920
because I’d hate myself if I didn’t get to it.
1090
00:36:20.240 –> 00:36:21.540
Try to be as quick as possible.
1091
00:36:21.600 –> 00:36:23.600
First of all, you took out your own teeth
1092
00:36:23.600 –> 00:36:25.220
with a sledgehammer, why?
1093
00:36:27.480 –> 00:36:28.560
That’s why I heard that too.
1094
00:36:28.580 –> 00:36:29.480
I’m gonna seem insane.
1095
00:36:29.780 –> 00:36:30.160
I know.
1096
00:36:30.200 –> 00:36:30.940
It’s gonna be tough.
1097
00:36:31.320 –> 00:36:32.480
Let’s try to sum it up.
1098
00:36:32.540 –> 00:36:33.460
I’ll give you the main points.
1099
00:36:33.560 –> 00:36:34.000
Yes.
1100
00:36:35.180 –> 00:36:38.120
I did, so I lost my teeth in the summer
1101
00:36:38.120 –> 00:36:41.500
playing ball hockey in 2001.
1102
00:36:41.760 –> 00:36:43.880
It was, I looked like Jim Carrey and Dumb and Dumber.
1103
00:36:43.940 –> 00:36:46.980
They weren’t totally out, but the front two were half.
1104
00:36:48.340 –> 00:36:50.440
So I said, now that particular year
1105
00:36:50.440 –> 00:36:51.660
I was going to Dallas Stars camp
1106
00:36:51.660 –> 00:36:52.900
and I was just coming out of Montreal.
1107
00:36:53.020 –> 00:36:54.800
That’s when I told you I didn’t go back to camp.
1108
00:36:55.560 –> 00:36:58.560
And whatever they, I can’t remember the terms
1109
00:36:58.560 –> 00:37:00.120
of the trade or whatever happened,
1110
00:37:00.120 –> 00:37:02.880
but I was finally going to another NHL camp.
1111
00:37:03.560 –> 00:37:05.960
So I said, I’ll just wait and get it fixed there, right?
1112
00:37:06.000 –> 00:37:08.000
Ball hockey here, I think the insurance covered a thousand
1113
00:37:08.000 –> 00:37:09.200
bucks, I’m like, it’s gonna be more than that.
1114
00:37:09.200 –> 00:37:09.840
So I’ll just wait.
1115
00:37:10.240 –> 00:37:12.860
But it was breathing in is hard to do
1116
00:37:12.860 –> 00:37:13.860
when the nerves are exposed.
1117
00:37:14.120 –> 00:37:15.380
So I had to wear a mouth guard.
1118
00:37:15.380 –> 00:37:15.420
Oh, Jesus.
1119
00:37:16.120 –> 00:37:16.600
Oh, yeah.
1120
00:37:16.600 –> 00:37:17.200
I can feel that.
1121
00:37:17.480 –> 00:37:18.480
I went down to Dallas, you know,
1122
00:37:18.480 –> 00:37:19.840
and I tell the trainer and he’s like,
1123
00:37:19.880 –> 00:37:21.060
yeah, but you didn’t do it here.
1124
00:37:21.060 –> 00:37:22.700
And like, you’re not even under contract here.
1125
00:37:22.980 –> 00:37:24.240
And I just didn’t think about it.
1126
00:37:24.240 –> 00:37:25.540
Like, I was just like, well, I’m going to camp.
1127
00:37:25.560 –> 00:37:26.380
They’ll take care of it.
1128
00:37:26.380 –> 00:37:27.920
Just like they did in Montreal, of course,
1129
00:37:27.940 –> 00:37:29.460
because I was on a huge contract
1130
00:37:29.880 –> 00:37:31.480
and, you know, I had medical and all that.
1131
00:37:32.440 –> 00:37:33.880
So, and now I’m in the state.
1132
00:37:33.880 –> 00:37:35.460
So it’s going to really doubly cost me.
1133
00:37:35.940 –> 00:37:38.040
So I said, okay, like, I’ll see what I do here.
1134
00:37:38.040 –> 00:37:40.220
And then I got the ankle injury.
1135
00:37:40.700 –> 00:37:42.420
I really, really hurt it there.
1136
00:37:42.840 –> 00:37:43.660
That was the biggest,
1137
00:37:44.380 –> 00:37:46.060
that was really the turning point
1138
00:37:46.060 –> 00:37:47.460
for my career ending injury.
1139
00:37:47.620 –> 00:37:48.700
That was where the ankle injury,
1140
00:37:48.800 –> 00:37:49.720
the main part of it happened.
1141
00:37:50.800 –> 00:37:55.400
So now I’m in the hotel and I’m like, okay, I’m hurt.
1142
00:37:55.460 –> 00:37:56.380
Now what am I going to do?
1143
00:37:56.600 –> 00:37:57.520
But they talked to me and they said,
1144
00:37:57.520 –> 00:37:59.880
we want you to go to our affiliate team in Boise, Idaho.
1145
00:38:00.160 –> 00:38:01.360
You know, get this better there.
1146
00:38:01.620 –> 00:38:03.420
We’ll get you on a minor league contract there.
1147
00:38:03.800 –> 00:38:05.720
And you know, who knows if it gets better,
1148
00:38:05.760 –> 00:38:06.540
which it didn’t,
1149
00:38:06.540 –> 00:38:07.760
or maybe you’ll be up in Dallas.
1150
00:38:07.800 –> 00:38:09.200
So I went to Boise.
1151
00:38:09.820 –> 00:38:11.080
Now that was another month, man.
1152
00:38:11.140 –> 00:38:12.720
I came home and I’m like, fuck, I’m sorry.
1153
00:38:14.560 –> 00:38:18.220
I might just get it done down there.
1154
00:38:18.240 –> 00:38:19.540
I don’t mind waiting another three weeks.
1155
00:38:19.580 –> 00:38:21.200
So I’ve been at this point like two months,
1156
00:38:21.200 –> 00:38:22.460
but I was wearing a mouth guard around
1157
00:38:22.460 –> 00:38:23.000
and it was orange.
1158
00:38:23.040 –> 00:38:24.580
So it looked like I was sucking an orange peel.
1159
00:38:25.180 –> 00:38:27.060
And when I got to Boise, same thing.
1160
00:38:27.060 –> 00:38:28.600
I go in and I tell everybody,
1161
00:38:28.760 –> 00:38:30.340
I tell the trainer, Kip Dribnak.
1162
00:38:30.460 –> 00:38:32.080
And he says, well, I’d love to help you,
1163
00:38:32.080 –> 00:38:33.020
but you didn’t do it here.
1164
00:38:33.380 –> 00:38:34.400
And I was like, come on, man.
1165
00:38:34.440 –> 00:38:36.900
So I said, well, what if,
1166
00:38:36.940 –> 00:38:39.460
let’s just say that I just choose to live
1167
00:38:39.460 –> 00:38:40.640
with my teeth like this.
1168
00:38:41.120 –> 00:38:42.880
And I was to get a puck in the face
1169
00:38:43.500 –> 00:38:44.640
and hurt them worse.
1170
00:38:45.040 –> 00:38:46.000
And he said, well, then of course
1171
00:38:46.000 –> 00:38:47.720
it’s taken care of and we’ll fix your teeth.
1172
00:38:48.080 –> 00:38:49.940
And I said, just like a new set of teeth.
1173
00:38:50.540 –> 00:38:51.220
He goes, yeah.
1174
00:38:51.780 –> 00:38:53.140
So that’s all I needed to hear.
1175
00:38:53.280 –> 00:38:54.160
I closed the door.
1176
00:38:54.800 –> 00:38:56.560
His office was connected to our dressing room.
1177
00:38:56.560 –> 00:38:57.900
I came out and I told the guys.
1178
00:38:58.800 –> 00:39:00.740
So I said, it’s either gonna cost me $10,000
1179
00:39:00.740 –> 00:39:02.240
or I need you guys to help me out,
1180
00:39:02.340 –> 00:39:03.620
figure out how I’m gonna knock them out myself.
1181
00:39:03.760 –> 00:39:04.120
Holy fuck.
1182
00:39:04.780 –> 00:39:07.140
Yeah, and I waited another three weeks.
1183
00:39:07.300 –> 00:39:09.360
I was eating like, honestly, milkshakes and soup.
1184
00:39:10.340 –> 00:39:12.060
It was almost three months, man.
1185
00:39:12.140 –> 00:39:14.080
But at this point I’m like, I’ve waited this long.
1186
00:39:14.140 –> 00:39:14.800
I’m gonna do it.
1187
00:39:14.900 –> 00:39:18.560
And it became, normally I like to challenge myself
1188
00:39:18.560 –> 00:39:20.300
with realistic things that like, you know,
1189
00:39:20.320 –> 00:39:21.840
the standup comedy, that was a challenge,
1190
00:39:21.840 –> 00:39:23.000
but that’s realistic.
1191
00:39:23.580 –> 00:39:25.080
Knocking your teeth out with a hammer, isn’t.
1192
00:39:25.080 –> 00:39:27.620
So anyway, we were sitting around the pool.
1193
00:39:27.940 –> 00:39:29.060
You’re making Tanya squirm.
1194
00:39:29.380 –> 00:39:31.680
This sounds like a grownup version
1195
00:39:31.680 –> 00:39:33.360
of tying a string around your tooth
1196
00:39:33.840 –> 00:39:36.040
and closing the door only with a hammer.
1197
00:39:36.040 –> 00:39:36.720
Wait till you hear this.
1198
00:39:37.300 –> 00:39:41.200
So we’re at, we were at, most of us lived,
1199
00:39:41.360 –> 00:39:42.860
there was a communal kind of area.
1200
00:39:43.320 –> 00:39:46.160
It was apartment buildings and in the middle
1201
00:39:46.160 –> 00:39:47.720
there was like a pool and a hot tub.
1202
00:39:48.300 –> 00:39:51.360
And it was, I guess it was November, December,
1203
00:39:51.500 –> 00:39:53.780
but Boise, Idaho, it does get cold.
1204
00:39:55.080 –> 00:39:57.300
But, you know, it’s mild a lot of the year anyway.
1205
00:39:57.460 –> 00:39:58.700
So I guess we must’ve been down
1206
00:39:58.700 –> 00:40:00.860
hanging around the hot tub in the,
1207
00:40:01.040 –> 00:40:03.420
well, we were, so there was kids there
1208
00:40:03.420 –> 00:40:05.520
and one of them had a little nerf hammer, right?
1209
00:40:05.520 –> 00:40:07.040
And I thought that I could just kind of
1210
00:40:07.040 –> 00:40:08.380
chip out my teeth then.
1211
00:40:10.560 –> 00:40:12.560
Yeah, with the guys and that was it.
1212
00:40:12.640 –> 00:40:14.680
Myself, we got Jeremy Oblonski and Chris Graff.
1213
00:40:14.860 –> 00:40:15.860
We said, you know, that’s gonna work.
1214
00:40:16.380 –> 00:40:18.820
So I started it and it didn’t even come close.
1215
00:40:18.880 –> 00:40:21.680
Like, first of all, my teeth, they’re not long anymore.
1216
00:40:21.680 –> 00:40:22.820
So it’s hard to even get them.
1217
00:40:22.820 –> 00:40:24.140
And they’re like so far up.
1218
00:40:24.200 –> 00:40:27.820
There wasn’t any chance, no chance that I would have chipped
1219
00:40:27.820 –> 00:40:28.840
any of my teeth out.
1220
00:40:29.520 –> 00:40:30.460
And I realized that.
1221
00:40:30.460 –> 00:40:32.000
So then I’m like, I guess I’m not going to do it.
1222
00:40:32.000 –> 00:40:33.360
And there was money going back and forth.
1223
00:40:33.640 –> 00:40:35.440
So every player on the team was there,
1224
00:40:35.440 –> 00:40:37.260
but everybody was on the phone or like waiting.
1225
00:40:37.540 –> 00:40:38.820
So make this shit up.
1226
00:40:38.920 –> 00:40:39.500
No, there was.
1227
00:40:39.600 –> 00:40:42.640
And when I saw that there’s 12 or 1300 bucks like going,
1228
00:40:42.640 –> 00:40:44.320
I’m not going to lose that for my buddies.
1229
00:40:44.960 –> 00:40:46.300
Honestly, that’s where my head went.
1230
00:40:46.300 –> 00:40:47.580
I could have paid for your way.
1231
00:40:47.580 –> 00:40:48.300
I’m going to lose you guys money.
1232
00:40:48.380 –> 00:40:49.520
I promise you I was going to do this.
1233
00:40:49.880 –> 00:40:51.660
So now I grab a sledge hammer.
1234
00:40:51.660 –> 00:40:53.400
It brings me a sledgehammer.
1235
00:40:53.540 –> 00:40:54.940
I don’t know where he got it.
1236
00:40:55.660 –> 00:41:00.560
And so I look at the first swing of the sledgehammer.
1237
00:41:02.100 –> 00:41:05.880
I I went with about three inches left, but it was so heavy.
1238
00:41:05.940 –> 00:41:07.380
It kept going. Do you see my lip?
1239
00:41:07.720 –> 00:41:09.300
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
1240
00:41:09.560 –> 00:41:12.820
I have a girl there because it’s a fucking sledgehammer.
1241
00:41:13.020 –> 00:41:17.060
Yeah, I let up, but it hit my lip and now my lip exploded.
1242
00:41:17.060 –> 00:41:18.700
So my tongue can go right through it.
1243
00:41:18.700 –> 00:41:19.900
I have a hole in my lip.
1244
00:41:19.900 –> 00:41:20.520
Oh, no.
1245
00:41:20.980 –> 00:41:23.100
So now there’s blood and now I can hear it.
1246
00:41:23.140 –> 00:41:26.480
There was wives shrieking like 10 years right now.
1247
00:41:26.600 –> 00:41:27.500
Yeah. Oh, my God.
1248
00:41:27.940 –> 00:41:28.740
What’s this guy doing?
1249
00:41:28.820 –> 00:41:30.760
And then I’m like, I got I got to go through with it.
1250
00:41:30.760 –> 00:41:32.200
I just didn’t think I went boom.
1251
00:41:32.260 –> 00:41:34.420
And now I only had two teeth with a problem.
1252
00:41:34.860 –> 00:41:38.220
I knocked out the whole row down because it’s a sledgehammer.
1253
00:41:38.460 –> 00:41:39.060
Oh, yeah.
1254
00:41:39.420 –> 00:41:41.880
And it’s spurting out of out of my teeth.
1255
00:41:41.960 –> 00:41:42.940
It’s spurting.
1256
00:41:43.460 –> 00:41:44.980
People are freaking out.
1257
00:41:45.360 –> 00:41:47.280
I’m going, why? I told you I was going to do this.
1258
00:41:47.340 –> 00:41:48.000
Like, well, why is it?
1259
00:41:48.000 –> 00:41:52.140
I honestly think most people up to that point thought it was a gag.
1260
00:41:52.340 –> 00:41:53.960
They thought it was especially the wives.
1261
00:41:54.220 –> 00:41:55.020
They had no they’re like, why?
1262
00:41:55.420 –> 00:41:56.580
Why is this guy on the team?
1263
00:41:56.580 –> 00:41:58.980
I’m sure it was really early on.
1264
00:41:59.080 –> 00:42:02.000
Now, I got to know everybody at the end and it became a funny story.
1265
00:42:02.120 –> 00:42:04.680
The picture doing that when no one knows what’s happening,
1266
00:42:04.720 –> 00:42:07.160
like, you’re going, what the hell’s going on?
1267
00:42:07.160 –> 00:42:08.640
No context at all, right?
1268
00:42:08.920 –> 00:42:11.200
No. And then I had to not only that.
1269
00:42:11.220 –> 00:42:13.800
And it was a little much, I remember, because it was a bit of a lark.
1270
00:42:13.880 –> 00:42:15.000
But I’m like, man, I’m injured.
1271
00:42:15.120 –> 00:42:16.680
Like, I look like Freddy Krueger.
1272
00:42:17.640 –> 00:42:21.620
So Bobby’s like, now, how are you going to get to the rink and say you did it there?
1273
00:42:21.860 –> 00:42:23.300
And I’m like, yeah, you’re right.
1274
00:42:23.340 –> 00:42:24.760
I didn’t think this out at all.
1275
00:42:26.680 –> 00:42:28.020
So we just went there.
1276
00:42:28.040 –> 00:42:29.340
He goes, this is what we’re going to do.
1277
00:42:29.420 –> 00:42:33.420
New, we’re going to go down to the rink and we’re going to go on really early.
1278
00:42:33.520 –> 00:42:34.740
Like, we’re getting extra practice time.
1279
00:42:34.760 –> 00:42:36.280
It’ll actually probably give us brownie points.
1280
00:42:36.320 –> 00:42:39.220
Practice started at 10, but we could have access whenever we wanted.
1281
00:42:39.280 –> 00:42:41.100
So I remember me and Bobby went there at seven.
1282
00:42:41.440 –> 00:42:42.560
So we walked in.
1283
00:42:42.640 –> 00:42:43.680
We were the first there.
1284
00:42:45.240 –> 00:42:47.920
And coach John Oliver was walking in his office.
1285
00:42:47.940 –> 00:42:49.300
He opened the door for us. He didn’t notice.
1286
00:42:49.300 –> 00:42:50.360
I just kind of did this one.
1287
00:42:50.760 –> 00:42:55.060
And then when Kip Dribnak did walk in, he walked by and I was doing up my skates
1288
00:42:55.060 –> 00:42:56.400
and I said, hey, how’s it going?
1289
00:42:56.560 –> 00:42:58.440
How’s everything today? And I kind of wiped my head.
1290
00:42:59.520 –> 00:43:01.040
And he didn’t catch it.
1291
00:43:01.240 –> 00:43:02.240
And Bobby just looked over me.
1292
00:43:02.240 –> 00:43:03.380
Let’s go out there right away.
1293
00:43:03.380 –> 00:43:05.040
So we went out on the ice.
1294
00:43:05.780 –> 00:43:07.900
He shot one high off the glass.
1295
00:43:07.960 –> 00:43:10.220
You could hear it because there was nobody in the rink.
1296
00:43:10.260 –> 00:43:13.160
And I just kind of fell and we went through the mo.
1297
00:43:13.160 –> 00:43:14.160
Oh, my God.
1298
00:43:14.600 –> 00:43:17.800
I took the teeth that that were knocked out and I just kind of threw them
1299
00:43:17.800 –> 00:43:19.640
all over the all over the ice.
1300
00:43:19.640 –> 00:43:23.760
And I all I had to do was like nick my lip and my mouth just a bit.
1301
00:43:23.780 –> 00:43:25.880
And it would look fresh because I mean, it was only happened
1302
00:43:25.880 –> 00:43:27.380
at seven or eight hours before that.
1303
00:43:28.080 –> 00:43:28.960
So yeah.
1304
00:43:29.240 –> 00:43:30.580
So anyway, that was it.
1305
00:43:30.580 –> 00:43:31.540
So I did it.
1306
00:43:31.540 –> 00:43:35.280
And I got my teeth done and then redone.
1307
00:43:35.480 –> 00:43:37.360
It was well over ten thousand dollars.
1308
00:43:37.880 –> 00:43:39.580
And the book was coming out.
1309
00:43:40.500 –> 00:43:42.580
The book originally was going to come out
1310
00:43:42.580 –> 00:43:45.980
a little earlier. And I remember my lawyer going, you know,
1311
00:43:46.160 –> 00:43:48.440
it wasn’t the reason, but he goes, it’s probably going to help anyway,
1312
00:43:48.460 –> 00:43:50.120
because that’s your limitations. Right.
1313
00:43:50.360 –> 00:43:52.120
You know, you tell the story now.
1314
00:43:52.300 –> 00:43:53.540
I didn’t even think about that angle.
1315
00:43:53.680 –> 00:43:54.960
I had a fraud. It is.
1316
00:43:56.700 –> 00:43:58.780
Right. It’s a major crime, really.
1317
00:43:59.380 –> 00:43:59.960
But whatever.
1318
00:44:00.760 –> 00:44:02.800
Well, it all here is that was the day you realize that one day
1319
00:44:02.800 –> 00:44:03.760
you were going to be an actor.
1320
00:44:05.040 –> 00:44:06.800
Yeah. Yeah, maybe.
1321
00:44:06.800 –> 00:44:08.600
It was a little bit of reacting.
1322
00:44:08.920 –> 00:44:10.960
Terry, we’re going to have to have you on for a second episode
1323
00:44:10.960 –> 00:44:13.260
because we need a part two because, for example,
1324
00:44:13.320 –> 00:44:16.280
I want to hear about a vegans stick burning celebration.
1325
00:44:16.620 –> 00:44:19.700
Or I mean, yeah, that’s your move that he took from you.
1326
00:44:19.780 –> 00:44:22.880
And I’m sure our co-host, Victor, would love to hear it in person.
1327
00:44:23.120 –> 00:44:24.660
So let’s let’s move on then, though.
1328
00:44:25.020 –> 00:44:27.740
You mentioned you had one one scene in letter candy
1329
00:44:27.740 –> 00:44:30.240
in the senior men’s hockey episode.
1330
00:44:30.820 –> 00:44:32.300
How did you get involved with letter candy?
1331
00:44:36.920 –> 00:44:38.500
Well, that’s a good question.
1332
00:44:38.680 –> 00:44:39.780
It came into my radar.
1333
00:44:40.500 –> 00:44:42.800
I was working on set with a guy, Micah Martin,
1334
00:44:42.800 –> 00:44:45.160
and he had worked with Jared and P.I.
1335
00:44:45.260 –> 00:44:46.820
or people involved with this.
1336
00:44:46.900 –> 00:44:48.820
I can’t remember. That’s the first I heard about it.
1337
00:44:48.820 –> 00:44:51.620
It wasn’t like at the beginning when it was on YouTube and stuff that
1338
00:44:51.620 –> 00:44:52.860
I got into that late.
1339
00:44:54.580 –> 00:44:55.760
But I really liked it.
1340
00:44:55.760 –> 00:44:59.180
My favorite The Holy Grail of shows to me ever is Arrested Development.
1341
00:44:59.280 –> 00:45:00.660
I love the word play. Yeah.
1342
00:45:00.900 –> 00:45:02.720
My favorite show and.
1343
00:45:04.140 –> 00:45:07.560
Letter candy, the first time I watched it, I was almost
1344
00:45:07.980 –> 00:45:10.460
so where I was taken by surprise, like, what is this?
1345
00:45:10.500 –> 00:45:11.360
What is it all about?
1346
00:45:12.480 –> 00:45:15.620
And then I realized, like.
1347
00:45:15.620 –> 00:45:18.840
The show is like, you never hear the saying, like, dumb like a fox.
1348
00:45:19.640 –> 00:45:22.820
When you first see it, you’re like, oh, they’re playing off stereotypes
1349
00:45:22.820 –> 00:45:25.020
and maybe as a dumb is the wrong word,
1350
00:45:25.280 –> 00:45:27.480
but it’s dumbed down when it’s explained to you.
1351
00:45:27.560 –> 00:45:28.940
But I thought it was brilliant writing.
1352
00:45:29.220 –> 00:45:30.400
I love the word play.
1353
00:45:30.480 –> 00:45:33.540
I’m like, oh, this is exactly like this is great.
1354
00:45:33.800 –> 00:45:37.620
It took me maybe two or three episodes to realize what was happening.
1355
00:45:37.700 –> 00:45:39.280
And I watched them all out of order.
1356
00:45:39.280 –> 00:45:42.100
So you can kind of do that with you can get by and do that.
1357
00:45:42.200 –> 00:45:43.880
So I love the show.
1358
00:45:44.040 –> 00:45:45.500
I never thought I would be on it, of course.
1359
00:45:45.920 –> 00:45:49.040
But I was here in town and doing stunt acting.
1360
00:45:49.080 –> 00:45:50.640
And I did have some credits at that point.
1361
00:45:51.000 –> 00:45:53.300
Jason Momoa had read my book and gave me some opportunities.
1362
00:45:53.540 –> 00:45:56.100
But I never thought I would be called to go out of province.
1363
00:45:56.120 –> 00:45:57.480
I didn’t have an agent or anything like that.
1364
00:45:57.520 –> 00:45:59.720
I would never have said I was an actor, even though I had credits.
1365
00:46:00.120 –> 00:46:02.820
It was still like a bucket list thing in my head.
1366
00:46:02.840 –> 00:46:03.880
And I got to do it.
1367
00:46:04.060 –> 00:46:06.280
But it was a nice maybe few days pay a year.
1368
00:46:06.280 –> 00:46:11.660
But they called in the summertime and kind of told me what was up.
1369
00:46:11.700 –> 00:46:15.960
They said, you need to send in an audition.
1370
00:46:16.780 –> 00:46:19.780
But I was led to believe it was mine to lose. Right.
1371
00:46:22.100 –> 00:46:24.080
And I don’t want to be cocky when I’m saying that,
1372
00:46:24.080 –> 00:46:26.000
but I really was led to believe that.
1373
00:46:26.040 –> 00:46:26.800
And that’s what happened.
1374
00:46:26.880 –> 00:46:27.540
I mean, I went in.
1375
00:46:27.660 –> 00:46:29.380
So I was on my way to a hockey school that day,
1376
00:46:29.440 –> 00:46:31.260
teaching at Wally Bray’s local hockey school.
1377
00:46:32.280 –> 00:46:35.760
And to my buddy, Scott Bray and Zach O’Brien,
1378
00:46:35.760 –> 00:46:37.420
who played on my team there.
1379
00:46:39.400 –> 00:46:41.140
They helped me shoot a.
1380
00:46:42.440 –> 00:46:45.500
Yeah, I guess, I mean, it was an audition, but it was really out of
1381
00:46:45.500 –> 00:46:46.820
it was a unique way we did it.
1382
00:46:46.820 –> 00:46:50.020
I mean, I had the camera skating around the ice and I was just kind of.
1383
00:46:50.020 –> 00:46:52.760
And I remember they said, you know, you can add your own words if you want,
1384
00:46:54.460 –> 00:46:56.200
because anyway, I’ll get into that in a second.
1385
00:46:56.380 –> 00:46:57.820
But so I did like we did it.
1386
00:46:57.820 –> 00:47:00.060
I didn’t even think it was that great, but I did what they asked me.
1387
00:47:00.180 –> 00:47:05.540
I read the scene and kind of tossed in my own little swagger to it.
1388
00:47:06.120 –> 00:47:08.940
Which you’re not always, I guess, is not always welcome.
1389
00:47:09.400 –> 00:47:10.340
Right. I mean, that’s what I did.
1390
00:47:10.640 –> 00:47:12.740
And I got the call back to go up there.
1391
00:47:12.880 –> 00:47:14.720
So I did. I got there.
1392
00:47:14.780 –> 00:47:15.340
This is funny.
1393
00:47:15.480 –> 00:47:19.040
Like when I got there to do Letter Kenny and it was a real privilege for me
1394
00:47:19.040 –> 00:47:21.520
because again, I’m a I’m a big fan. Right.
1395
00:47:22.200 –> 00:47:24.840
And there was so much I wanted to do, but I’m like, OK,
1396
00:47:24.840 –> 00:47:27.600
I got to get my day over with first and I got to give this.
1397
00:47:28.680 –> 00:47:30.740
You know, the time it deserves, even though I mean,
1398
00:47:30.740 –> 00:47:35.280
this is a version of me, I guess, in a way it’s still acting.
1399
00:47:35.280 –> 00:47:36.400
And I got to remember my lines.
1400
00:47:36.540 –> 00:47:37.380
I have to deliver them.
1401
00:47:37.520 –> 00:47:39.520
You know, I got to act like a professional basically.
1402
00:47:39.860 –> 00:47:42.180
But it happened to be rap day.
1403
00:47:42.720 –> 00:47:45.000
So it was obviously it must have been shot out of order
1404
00:47:45.000 –> 00:47:46.320
because it wasn’t the last scene.
1405
00:47:46.320 –> 00:47:49.120
Yeah, I didn’t know that going in.
1406
00:47:49.760 –> 00:47:50.560
But it was rap day.
1407
00:47:50.960 –> 00:47:52.380
So I had lunch.
1408
00:47:53.300 –> 00:47:55.100
I’d never met Jared at this point.
1409
00:47:55.100 –> 00:47:56.200
He’s on my radar.
1410
00:47:56.480 –> 00:47:58.640
And he’s friends with some people like Marco Bryant.
1411
00:47:58.760 –> 00:48:01.000
There are actors from around here that he’s buddies with.
1412
00:48:01.100 –> 00:48:02.600
But he’s not really.
1413
00:48:02.600 –> 00:48:05.720
Jared is not on social media.
1414
00:48:06.000 –> 00:48:07.640
No, no. At all, really.
1415
00:48:08.120 –> 00:48:09.280
Trust me, we know.
1416
00:48:09.820 –> 00:48:11.160
Yeah, he’s a fan. We’ve tried.
1417
00:48:11.600 –> 00:48:12.540
He’s a phantom, right?
1418
00:48:12.840 –> 00:48:17.540
So it’s I really was excited to meet him and see what made him tick.
1419
00:48:18.180 –> 00:48:20.880
So but I didn’t even get to say that we went in the lunchroom
1420
00:48:20.880 –> 00:48:22.680
and he called me over and we just ate it.
1421
00:48:22.680 –> 00:48:24.200
And I love that he doesn’t go to his trailer.
1422
00:48:24.380 –> 00:48:25.720
He often just eats out with everybody else.
1423
00:48:25.920 –> 00:48:27.840
So we had we sat at the table
1424
00:48:28.320 –> 00:48:30.220
and he went over what I was about to do.
1425
00:48:30.500 –> 00:48:32.180
And he said, you know, I’ve only been there.
1426
00:48:32.180 –> 00:48:34.620
I think he said he’d been to Newfoundland for one day, maybe for a wedding.
1427
00:48:35.420 –> 00:48:39.020
But he said, you know, if you if you want to add, you know,
1428
00:48:39.440 –> 00:48:40.520
obviously, we’ll go through him.
1429
00:48:40.520 –> 00:48:41.960
But he said, like, we’re going to do the scene.
1430
00:48:42.180 –> 00:48:44.540
Was anything you think that maybe you could add to that?
1431
00:48:44.540 –> 00:48:46.120
Give it the flavor. This is where I want.
1432
00:48:46.280 –> 00:48:47.160
This is where I want you to go.
1433
00:48:47.220 –> 00:48:48.260
You’re kind of taunting the bench.
1434
00:48:49.440 –> 00:48:52.200
And the other guy that did a Patrick Cook with me,
1435
00:48:52.200 –> 00:48:54.840
I played hockey with his two brothers, like high levels of hockey.
1436
00:48:54.980 –> 00:48:56.820
They’re real, real good friends of mine.
1437
00:48:57.280 –> 00:49:00.320
I hadn’t seen Patrick in, like, I don’t know, almost 20 years.
1438
00:49:00.320 –> 00:49:01.460
He moved away after high school.
1439
00:49:01.460 –> 00:49:03.160
So I did. I had a bit of a rapport.
1440
00:49:03.760 –> 00:49:07.140
So I went to Patrick and said, look, let’s just I’m going to do it
1441
00:49:07.140 –> 00:49:08.160
like I’m from Monday Pond.
1442
00:49:08.260 –> 00:49:10.040
I mean, there’s townies and there’s Bayman, right?
1443
00:49:10.300 –> 00:49:11.100
That’s the other thing.
1444
00:49:12.440 –> 00:49:13.940
And I know I’m going on, but Jared,
1445
00:49:14.840 –> 00:49:18.280
even my character on Schorzy, Jared is a huge fan of Coldwater Cowboys.
1446
00:49:18.520 –> 00:49:24.200
Right. So the way I understand it is that a lot of the lingo
1447
00:49:24.200 –> 00:49:28.160
that was written for Ted Hitchcock in the Letter Kenny scene
1448
00:49:28.160 –> 00:49:31.020
and then again in Schorzy was based off of that.
1449
00:49:31.020 –> 00:49:33.480
But for example, for example, I believe one of my lines
1450
00:49:33.480 –> 00:49:37.000
might have said center heist because a lot of Newfoundlanders
1451
00:49:37.000 –> 00:49:39.580
will drop an H or add an H like Ed Hurley.
1452
00:49:40.180 –> 00:49:42.680
If you go around the Bay to some days, it’s like head early.
1453
00:49:43.020 –> 00:49:44.540
You see head. Where’s head at?
1454
00:49:45.400 –> 00:49:46.540
Who? Who? Head early.
1455
00:49:46.980 –> 00:49:48.420
Ed Hurley. Yeah.
1456
00:49:48.740 –> 00:49:50.100
Center heist is center heist.
1457
00:49:50.500 –> 00:49:52.200
Well, look, they’re going to drop the puck at center heist.
1458
00:49:52.400 –> 00:49:53.200
Center heist.
1459
00:49:53.720 –> 00:49:56.000
So but they say some of that on Coldwater Cowboys.
1460
00:49:56.080 –> 00:49:57.900
But the one thing I did learn from folklore
1461
00:49:57.900 –> 00:49:59.940
is that there’s a lot of dialects in Newfoundland.
1462
00:50:00.380 –> 00:50:02.200
So I said, well, if you want me to do that,
1463
00:50:02.260 –> 00:50:03.720
I’m going to have to stick to it.
1464
00:50:03.920 –> 00:50:07.520
Like, but I can do a townie now because we used to imitate
1465
00:50:07.520 –> 00:50:10.420
a guy, Fance Fowlow, and if you’ll notice,
1466
00:50:10.560 –> 00:50:13.440
my Letter Kenny scene is a lot slower.
1467
00:50:13.440 –> 00:50:14.820
There’s more of a drawl to it.
1468
00:50:15.600 –> 00:50:16.960
Like, what do you advise?
1469
00:50:17.720 –> 00:50:19.040
What do you want to get on the go?
1470
00:50:19.460 –> 00:50:22.140
That’s what now Fance, ironically, the house I’m sitting in
1471
00:50:22.740 –> 00:50:25.300
on set of stroke years, years ago, I bought it.
1472
00:50:25.300 –> 00:50:29.420
So it’s a real close friend of mine living in his house now.
1473
00:50:29.420 –> 00:50:31.720
He’s who I’m imitating, but I just sped it up.
1474
00:50:32.000 –> 00:50:33.940
We were kids. He was the Zamboni driver.
1475
00:50:34.100 –> 00:50:36.540
We’d get to the rink and we were just kind of brats,
1476
00:50:36.600 –> 00:50:38.460
you know, like fucking around with them.
1477
00:50:39.960 –> 00:50:41.880
But, you know, taunting at him.
1478
00:50:41.920 –> 00:50:43.660
But we all could do a great Fance.
1479
00:50:44.500 –> 00:50:47.240
So I was going to go, Jared, I don’t even have to think about it.
1480
00:50:47.240 –> 00:50:49.820
If if I do a townie slash Fance, right.
1481
00:50:49.880 –> 00:50:50.760
And I just kind of.
1482
00:50:50.880 –> 00:50:54.440
So the first scene is almost is more Fance than in Schorzy.
1483
00:50:54.480 –> 00:50:56.820
I kind of just sped it up and gave my own twang to it.
1484
00:50:58.380 –> 00:51:01.760
That’s that’s a Ted’s for those that don’t know.
1485
00:51:02.320 –> 00:51:04.300
There’s all kinds of Newfoundland dialects, man,
1486
00:51:04.300 –> 00:51:05.780
which depends on where you go.
1487
00:51:06.320 –> 00:51:11.380
But Ted Hitchcock, I’m I’m doing a townie and a pretty.
1488
00:51:12.920 –> 00:51:15.780
It’s a it’s not an extreme.
1489
00:51:16.080 –> 00:51:17.780
I mean, that’s the way people talk here.
1490
00:51:17.840 –> 00:51:20.940
Yeah. But yeah, I’ll just leave it at that.
1491
00:51:20.940 –> 00:51:22.900
I’m doing a townie. So anyway, we did it.
1492
00:51:22.900 –> 00:51:24.340
And it was rap party. I didn’t know that.
1493
00:51:24.360 –> 00:51:26.720
So we went out that night, got bamboozled.
1494
00:51:26.720 –> 00:51:27.680
I missed my flight.
1495
00:51:27.980 –> 00:51:29.480
My flight was at six a.m.
1496
00:51:29.580 –> 00:51:32.420
Honestly, I couldn’t even find the door.
1497
00:51:32.540 –> 00:51:33.940
I was loaded.
1498
00:51:34.120 –> 00:51:35.980
We had a great time dancing on the tables.
1499
00:51:36.080 –> 00:51:37.020
We went to a bowling alley.
1500
00:51:37.240 –> 00:51:40.400
I didn’t know anybody, but but we all became friends. Right.
1501
00:51:40.720 –> 00:51:41.320
The crew and everything.
1502
00:51:41.460 –> 00:51:43.160
A lot of them now are up there working on Schorzy.
1503
00:51:43.400 –> 00:51:44.820
Yeah. Jared said
1504
00:51:46.060 –> 00:51:48.460
Jared didn’t come out to the party, but right before it,
1505
00:51:48.460 –> 00:51:50.400
he goes, look, it was great job.
1506
00:51:50.540 –> 00:51:51.100
Thanks a lot.
1507
00:51:51.560 –> 00:51:53.100
And he said, we’ll get you back.
1508
00:51:53.360 –> 00:51:55.360
But I had no idea anything Schorzy was happening.
1509
00:51:55.360 –> 00:51:56.660
I mean, it wasn’t in my radar.
1510
00:51:57.160 –> 00:51:59.600
I thought the next year, then, when I didn’t get an invite back
1511
00:51:59.600 –> 00:52:03.800
to do Letter Kenny, it was and I mean, I didn’t expect it even.
1512
00:52:03.940 –> 00:52:05.100
I’m just sure he’s being nice.
1513
00:52:05.160 –> 00:52:06.000
A lot of people are.
1514
00:52:06.120 –> 00:52:10.200
I’m glad to me, it was almost as big as saying, you know,
1515
00:52:10.200 –> 00:52:13.060
I played a game or like my first game in the NHL.
1516
00:52:13.300 –> 00:52:14.940
Like guys, I got on Letter Kenny.
1517
00:52:15.040 –> 00:52:18.320
You know, it’s like I’m sure the soup Nazi who’s associated
1518
00:52:18.320 –> 00:52:20.060
with Seinfeld, he’s only in three scenes.
1519
00:52:20.060 –> 00:52:22.980
Yeah. Right. But he’s a he’s part of Seinfeld.
1520
00:52:23.020 –> 00:52:24.020
He’s part of that universe.
1521
00:52:24.020 –> 00:52:27.380
I’m sure he goes to whatever the Comic Con version of the sitcoms
1522
00:52:27.380 –> 00:52:31.080
is, and he can walk in and be as popular as, you know,
1523
00:52:31.080 –> 00:52:33.060
Newman or whatever was in like 80 episodes.
1524
00:52:33.320 –> 00:52:36.520
Like, so I just to be part of the universe.
1525
00:52:37.100 –> 00:52:37.740
I was delighted.
1526
00:52:37.900 –> 00:52:39.240
You could have all ended there.
1527
00:52:39.240 –> 00:52:41.320
And I had an unreal story to tell.
1528
00:52:41.560 –> 00:52:44.240
Not to me. Can can we quickly expand a bit on that one?
1529
00:52:44.940 –> 00:52:47.180
So you got to send that even more into Schorzy.
1530
00:52:47.260 –> 00:52:49.840
And and one of our listeners who goes by awesome
1531
00:52:50.380 –> 00:52:52.060
actually asks, I’m going to paraphrase a bit.
1532
00:52:52.060 –> 00:52:56.200
But it was what was your was Ted Ishcox dialogue
1533
00:52:56.200 –> 00:53:00.840
word for word, or did Jared and team lean on you a lot
1534
00:53:00.840 –> 00:53:04.620
to kind of keep them honest and really put the Newfoundlander
1535
00:53:04.620 –> 00:53:07.340
spin on it to make sure it was more authentic?
1536
00:53:08.640 –> 00:53:10.480
I be OK. That’s a great question.
1537
00:53:12.260 –> 00:53:13.920
Well, I remember going there.
1538
00:53:14.200 –> 00:53:17.240
Jared told me that I kind of had some freedom.
1539
00:53:17.480 –> 00:53:20.000
I will explain to him, like often.
1540
00:53:20.620 –> 00:53:23.480
It might say something that he heard on Coldwater Cowboys,
1541
00:53:23.560 –> 00:53:25.260
or like you said, they’re pretty good at writing it.
1542
00:53:25.480 –> 00:53:28.400
Yeah, I don’t like insult, like I like the show
1543
00:53:29.160 –> 00:53:32.060
because of the wordplay and the creative use of the word.
1544
00:53:32.100 –> 00:53:34.740
So I don’t want to insult anybody by changing that.
1545
00:53:35.100 –> 00:53:37.640
But in my particular case,
1546
00:53:39.160 –> 00:53:43.240
you know, he’s like part of the gag with with Ted
1547
00:53:43.240 –> 00:53:45.980
is that, you know, it’s going to be hard to understand them at first.
1548
00:53:46.140 –> 00:53:46.660
Yeah. Yeah.
1549
00:53:46.740 –> 00:53:48.580
Oh, as long as that happens.
1550
00:53:48.580 –> 00:53:50.520
And this is where the scene goes.
1551
00:53:50.760 –> 00:53:52.120
Now, did I change a lot?
1552
00:53:52.400 –> 00:53:55.640
No, but I pretty much every scene we went through,
1553
00:53:55.720 –> 00:53:56.980
I was like, Jared, can I say this there?
1554
00:53:57.060 –> 00:53:57.660
Can I say this?
1555
00:53:57.960 –> 00:54:00.340
Because my head fonts is a true townie.
1556
00:54:00.340 –> 00:54:01.520
And that’s what he would do.
1557
00:54:02.520 –> 00:54:06.100
And, you know, it’s just like I said, it’s not just
1558
00:54:06.560 –> 00:54:08.480
the way you say words a lot.
1559
00:54:08.900 –> 00:54:11.640
It’s the word choices at the right time.
1560
00:54:11.760 –> 00:54:14.400
And so why do you act doesn’t always work.
1561
00:54:14.500 –> 00:54:17.240
There are people that say, hey, how you doing, right?
1562
00:54:17.240 –> 00:54:20.760
You say, no, Newfoundland, you say, why do you do sometimes.
1563
00:54:21.560 –> 00:54:25.060
But, you know, there’s all kinds of different versions of these sayings.
1564
00:54:25.160 –> 00:54:28.080
And sometimes, you know, it’s weird to inject them.
1565
00:54:28.120 –> 00:54:32.340
And that’s just the vernacular of, you know, the culture that it’s it’s
1566
00:54:32.340 –> 00:54:34.360
osmosis. I just learned it because it’s where I’m from.
1567
00:54:34.400 –> 00:54:38.280
Yeah. So I will every pretty much every time I’ll go over the lines
1568
00:54:38.280 –> 00:54:40.360
and just go, Jared, can I say this? Can I say this?
1569
00:54:43.220 –> 00:54:45.500
And, you know, usually he’s open to it.
1570
00:54:45.500 –> 00:54:48.580
Again, I’m not doing something completely different right now.
1571
00:54:48.740 –> 00:54:49.580
I’m just tweaking it.
1572
00:54:49.880 –> 00:54:51.840
But I feel like it’s warranted in this kind of situation.
1573
00:54:51.980 –> 00:54:54.360
I mean, it’s highly, very highly unique
1574
00:54:54.860 –> 00:54:56.500
where you’re from and some of the dialect.
1575
00:54:56.780 –> 00:55:00.460
So and even what we gather from the team there, they want to be
1576
00:55:00.460 –> 00:55:03.440
even though a lot of the show is a caricature of what’s going on,
1577
00:55:03.500 –> 00:55:05.560
they want to be authentic and still true to what’s happening.
1578
00:55:05.720 –> 00:55:08.160
So they be silly not to lean on you on that.
1579
00:55:08.180 –> 00:55:10.900
Totally. And it’s a way like I think one of the when we’re outside
1580
00:55:10.900 –> 00:55:15.220
by the barbecue, there’s he says, you know, I think the lines
1581
00:55:15.220 –> 00:55:17.180
for example, and a lot of it’s on the spot guys,
1582
00:55:17.220 –> 00:55:18.120
because I got it in my head.
1583
00:55:18.480 –> 00:55:20.660
I remember in my head if there’s one thing.
1584
00:55:21.940 –> 00:55:25.040
Even on crew, one of my pet peeves is people that don’t have their lines.
1585
00:55:25.180 –> 00:55:27.400
I’m like, dude, you got one thing to do. Right.
1586
00:55:27.760 –> 00:55:30.400
So I just I remember it all in my head.
1587
00:55:30.400 –> 00:55:31.620
One job. Right.
1588
00:55:31.740 –> 00:55:35.020
So when I get in there, I then I can work off it.
1589
00:55:35.020 –> 00:55:36.500
I don’t have to be looking at the script all.
1590
00:55:37.460 –> 00:55:39.020
So like it was Jared.
1591
00:55:39.100 –> 00:55:43.420
I think it said it was something about they called a come from away,
1592
00:55:43.420 –> 00:55:46.520
which which people do say they might say, oh, look at that.
1593
00:55:46.540 –> 00:55:48.820
Come from away a lot, meaning that someone from the mainland.
1594
00:55:49.060 –> 00:55:51.520
But I’m like, in this case, he’d say mainlander.
1595
00:55:51.760 –> 00:55:54.000
So I said the line was, I don’t know.
1596
00:55:54.620 –> 00:55:56.120
This guy’s a come from away, I think.
1597
00:55:56.240 –> 00:55:59.540
But I think I changed it to well, but it’s a mainlander
1598
00:55:59.540 –> 00:56:00.820
if I ever see one. Right.
1599
00:56:00.820 –> 00:56:02.680
It’s I’m saying the same thing.
1600
00:56:03.280 –> 00:56:07.240
But in that context, I know what a new what thoughts would say,
1601
00:56:07.260 –> 00:56:08.920
and it would be the mainlander deal.
1602
00:56:09.740 –> 00:56:13.320
So the little things like that, I’m getting we’re getting to the same point.
1603
00:56:13.320 –> 00:56:17.300
But I love that that I actually because I mean, how how great is it
1604
00:56:17.560 –> 00:56:20.800
to be on a show is so good.
1605
00:56:20.980 –> 00:56:21.960
Sure, is he’s so good.
1606
00:56:22.340 –> 00:56:25.300
Oh, so good. And, you know.
1607
00:56:27.560 –> 00:56:29.600
It again, I’m not writing it,
1608
00:56:29.620 –> 00:56:33.380
but it’s nice that I can actually put my own flavor
1609
00:56:33.380 –> 00:56:38.040
on this character that, you know, it’s just I consider it
1610
00:56:38.040 –> 00:56:40.000
such a privilege and so much fun.
1611
00:56:40.120 –> 00:56:42.640
Honestly, the hardest part for me, the hardest part
1612
00:56:42.640 –> 00:56:45.600
of filming all that was not laughing while we were doing it.
1613
00:56:46.060 –> 00:56:47.660
Of course, it’s really, really hard.
1614
00:56:47.840 –> 00:56:51.340
But while we were in the while we were in the apartment
1615
00:56:52.020 –> 00:56:54.300
and big sexy, the parrot over the corner,
1616
00:56:54.400 –> 00:56:56.460
that parrot was that parrot was there.
1617
00:56:56.480 –> 00:56:58.320
Like, it’s not like so. Yeah.
1618
00:56:58.760 –> 00:56:59.880
Did it really say titfucker?
1619
00:57:00.440 –> 00:57:01.660
It was really.
1620
00:57:05.800 –> 00:57:08.720
There was there was cues.
1621
00:57:09.000 –> 00:57:10.580
Yeah. And it was.
1622
00:57:11.540 –> 00:57:12.700
You know, we did that.
1623
00:57:13.060 –> 00:57:14.200
Oh, is he? I don’t know.
1624
00:57:14.300 –> 00:57:15.460
Like it was most of the afternoon.
1625
00:57:15.620 –> 00:57:16.740
I’m trying to think.
1626
00:57:17.380 –> 00:57:18.660
But me and Dolo were on the couch.
1627
00:57:18.680 –> 00:57:20.260
And I remember just looking at him going,
1628
00:57:20.340 –> 00:57:22.980
I don’t I don’t know how I’m going to do this with every time
1629
00:57:22.980 –> 00:57:23.880
I had to look at Jared.
1630
00:57:23.980 –> 00:57:25.500
And that would happen all the time.
1631
00:57:25.880 –> 00:57:28.700
And you would think that when you know what the lines are going to be,
1632
00:57:29.020 –> 00:57:30.580
it wouldn’t it wouldn’t be as funny.
1633
00:57:31.280 –> 00:57:32.920
But it became funnier because you’re like,
1634
00:57:32.960 –> 00:57:33.960
how is he going to deliver this?
1635
00:57:34.020 –> 00:57:35.320
And Jared’s brilliant at it anyway.
1636
00:57:35.420 –> 00:57:36.620
Jared played junior hockey.
1637
00:57:36.760 –> 00:57:38.080
People don’t realize a lot of them.
1638
00:57:38.080 –> 00:57:41.260
I mean, you know, he’s it’s all relative.
1639
00:57:41.440 –> 00:57:43.480
By the time you get to the NHL, it’s the same.
1640
00:57:43.680 –> 00:57:46.600
Honestly, the players might be more talented,
1641
00:57:46.880 –> 00:57:49.380
but an NHL dressing room, the same stuff, right?
1642
00:57:49.700 –> 00:57:53.300
The same certain type of guys stir the drink.
1643
00:57:53.400 –> 00:57:54.240
They play the music.
1644
00:57:54.380 –> 00:57:57.460
There’s trips going on probably more in junior than there are in the NHL.
1645
00:57:58.340 –> 00:57:59.800
There’s stories every morning.
1646
00:57:59.980 –> 00:58:00.940
You know, everybody has a car.
1647
00:58:01.100 –> 00:58:02.380
You work out after you ride.
1648
00:58:02.560 –> 00:58:04.540
It’s very similar. Yeah. Yeah.
1649
00:58:04.920 –> 00:58:08.060
So it’s all like it’s a layup.
1650
00:58:08.060 –> 00:58:12.400
Jared writes it from his own experience, which is our own experience.
1651
00:58:12.860 –> 00:58:14.480
Right. And then we get to all do it together.
1652
00:58:14.780 –> 00:58:17.740
So and it’s almost when I say laugh.
1653
00:58:18.380 –> 00:58:21.900
I also mean smile because you read it.
1654
00:58:22.400 –> 00:58:25.200
I’ve done a lot of shows now at this point, especially crew,
1655
00:58:25.200 –> 00:58:27.880
and it often matches what you read.
1656
00:58:28.020 –> 00:58:33.100
But it’s always so much more colorful when we’re doing our show,
1657
00:58:34.820 –> 00:58:36.540
because I think everybody.
1658
00:58:38.380 –> 00:58:41.180
Everybody brings their own dynamic and.
1659
00:58:42.440 –> 00:58:43.880
They’re fun to work with.
1660
00:58:44.300 –> 00:58:47.020
So when I’m reading it, it’s hard for me to even picture.
1661
00:58:47.160 –> 00:58:48.960
And I like that. I don’t know what room we’re going to do it in.
1662
00:58:49.000 –> 00:58:50.220
I don’t know where we’re going to be.
1663
00:58:50.400 –> 00:58:52.180
Got all the lines memorized, get in there in the morning
1664
00:58:52.180 –> 00:58:53.840
and it starts taking shape.
1665
00:58:53.960 –> 00:58:54.980
And I love that.
1666
00:58:55.080 –> 00:58:56.560
That’s my favorite part of all of it.
1667
00:58:56.560 –> 00:58:59.720
When I start to see something that I’ve read or I’ve memorized
1668
00:58:59.720 –> 00:59:02.160
and how are we going to do this starts taking shape.
1669
00:59:02.160 –> 00:59:03.560
But yes, smiling and laughing.
1670
00:59:04.340 –> 00:59:06.800
That’s pretty much three quarters of every day.
1671
00:59:07.100 –> 00:59:09.040
So, I mean, I mean, it’s a dream job.
1672
00:59:09.560 –> 00:59:11.780
Terry, you’ve been so generous with your time today.
1673
00:59:11.800 –> 00:59:13.340
And we’re at the top of the hour.
1674
00:59:13.380 –> 00:59:16.720
So I want to be conscientious of your time as well.
1675
00:59:17.580 –> 00:59:21.300
Matt, did you want to ask your patented question before we we?
1676
00:59:21.340 –> 00:59:23.640
And I’m going to do guys. I have no problem doing number two.
1677
00:59:23.640 –> 00:59:25.020
My job for three weeks.
1678
00:59:25.340 –> 00:59:27.940
If you want a pre record and put it out in three months
1679
00:59:27.940 –> 00:59:28.600
or whatever you want to do.
1680
00:59:28.660 –> 00:59:30.980
But the next three weeks, I do have some time.
1681
00:59:30.980 –> 00:59:32.180
If you guys would like to.
1682
00:59:32.380 –> 00:59:33.140
Well, we’ll take you on that.
1683
00:59:33.140 –> 00:59:34.520
We’ll take you up on that offer.
1684
00:59:34.680 –> 00:59:35.220
But Matt, go ahead.
1685
00:59:35.680 –> 00:59:37.100
But I will. Yeah, quickly, quickly.
1686
00:59:37.320 –> 00:59:40.180
As I asked everyone that comes on, I mean, from our perspective,
1687
00:59:40.320 –> 00:59:43.380
things like letter, Kenny Schorzy are quickly become
1688
00:59:43.780 –> 00:59:46.360
like big cult phenomenons that are spreading everywhere.
1689
00:59:46.980 –> 00:59:49.280
Just from your perspective, what has it been like
1690
00:59:49.280 –> 00:59:52.940
to simply be a part of it and what has it meant to you?
1691
00:59:53.020 –> 00:59:56.980
Like looking at it as a Canadian, as a Newfoundlander, as a whole.
1692
00:59:57.080 –> 00:59:59.560
Like, what does it felt like to you to be a part of the show?
1693
00:59:59.560 –> 01:00:01.120
Well, that’s a great question as well.
1694
01:00:01.240 –> 01:00:02.340
First of all, the obvious.
1695
01:00:04.200 –> 01:00:05.660
I was working my way back.
1696
01:00:05.780 –> 01:00:09.160
I was doing OK financially, but it really was a boost.
1697
01:00:09.480 –> 01:00:11.600
It helped me get the house I’m sitting in here now.
1698
01:00:11.680 –> 01:00:13.740
Penny Lane wanted to live in Newfoundland.
1699
01:00:13.780 –> 01:00:15.740
You asked me about that and made all that possible.
1700
01:00:15.760 –> 01:00:19.100
So it was a nice financial boost, first of all, OK, just on the level.
1701
01:00:19.320 –> 01:00:23.120
Second, to be.
1702
01:00:24.540 –> 01:00:27.980
To play Ted Hitchcock is a dream because
1703
01:00:28.700 –> 01:00:32.400
when I played hockey again, eighth overall, the highest pick ever
1704
01:00:32.400 –> 01:00:35.020
in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador, there’s a lot of expectations.
1705
01:00:35.160 –> 01:00:37.240
Key to the city parade, all that. Right.
1706
01:00:37.840 –> 01:00:40.640
And I would come back and people didn’t understand.
1707
01:00:41.160 –> 01:00:44.360
And, you know, there was a lot of nuance to what happened to me.
1708
01:00:44.620 –> 01:00:48.220
And it was almost like I was pitied or questioned everywhere.
1709
01:00:48.440 –> 01:00:50.040
I went, oh, Terry, what happened?
1710
01:00:50.240 –> 01:00:52.940
And eventually I just wanted to go, you know, but I did play in the NHL.
1711
01:00:53.900 –> 01:00:56.760
You played for the Montreal fucking Canadians.
1712
01:00:56.760 –> 01:00:59.680
That’s like playing for the New York Yankees.
1713
01:00:59.820 –> 01:01:01.780
I mean, that’s not told me that when I was 15.
1714
01:01:02.120 –> 01:01:04.260
I would freak out if you told me I got one shift.
1715
01:01:04.720 –> 01:01:08.120
It’s only three years later, two and a half years later, you get drafted.
1716
01:01:08.240 –> 01:01:09.540
And there’s all this expectation.
1717
01:01:09.620 –> 01:01:10.800
And I get it. I know why it’s there.
1718
01:01:10.820 –> 01:01:11.940
And I know why people would ask.
1719
01:01:12.000 –> 01:01:14.460
They were only but it was hard to even leave the house
1720
01:01:14.460 –> 01:01:19.040
and go out for a drink or a bite to eat without people coming over and go.
1721
01:01:19.180 –> 01:01:20.440
And there were but most of them were nice.
1722
01:01:20.600 –> 01:01:22.020
But what are you doing in Montreal now?
1723
01:01:22.140 –> 01:01:25.360
By Ryan screwing you over again, like it was always something.
1724
01:01:25.360 –> 01:01:27.200
And it was hard to escape from it.
1725
01:01:27.500 –> 01:01:28.520
And people didn’t understand.
1726
01:01:28.800 –> 01:01:30.580
But this this is different.
1727
01:01:30.900 –> 01:01:35.200
So that was a bit of a lonely time, even though you’re on a hockey team.
1728
01:01:35.380 –> 01:01:36.460
You would think the opposite.
1729
01:01:36.700 –> 01:01:38.420
And you had all kinds of people behind you.
1730
01:01:38.480 –> 01:01:41.420
But it was lonely because only only I knew what was happening.
1731
01:01:41.720 –> 01:01:47.760
I’m not an idiot. I I there was a lot going on a lot.
1732
01:01:47.920 –> 01:01:49.900
You’re playing for there’s coaches and there’s
1733
01:01:49.900 –> 01:01:52.680
and there’s places within the team and there’s contracts
1734
01:01:52.680 –> 01:01:54.200
and there’s all kinds of things
1735
01:01:54.200 –> 01:01:58.120
that factor into why a player does or doesn’t play. Right. So.
1736
01:01:59.580 –> 01:02:01.680
But I don’t have to deal with any of that now.
1737
01:02:01.700 –> 01:02:05.320
What happens is that these people now are taking the ride with me.
1738
01:02:05.360 –> 01:02:07.540
I’m representing all of them.
1739
01:02:08.640 –> 01:02:11.260
And I because Ted Hitchcock.
1740
01:02:12.040 –> 01:02:15.860
Isn’t me. There’s a lot in common, but it’s not me.
1741
01:02:16.520 –> 01:02:21.360
They these people here are connected to Ted Hitchcock like I am.
1742
01:02:21.360 –> 01:02:22.880
I get to play him. Yeah.
1743
01:02:22.900 –> 01:02:23.880
But he’s a Newfoundlander.
1744
01:02:23.900 –> 01:02:26.320
And if there’s one thing Jared did say at the beginning, he said, look,
1745
01:02:27.200 –> 01:02:31.080
we’re not ever going to laugh at Ted like that’s been done.
1746
01:02:31.080 –> 01:02:32.300
And we’re not doing that.
1747
01:02:33.520 –> 01:02:35.200
So that’s the other thing about the lines.
1748
01:02:35.320 –> 01:02:38.640
Like, just make sure that in no way is he look like an idiot.
1749
01:02:38.780 –> 01:02:40.800
We’re not getting this goofy joke guy.
1750
01:02:41.400 –> 01:02:43.580
So and people really respect that.
1751
01:02:43.660 –> 01:02:46.160
I think that might have been what they thought that he was going to be
1752
01:02:46.160 –> 01:02:50.420
the token Newfoundlander that, you know, just forgot to screw the light
1753
01:02:50.420 –> 01:02:51.220
bulb in, you know.
1754
01:02:51.320 –> 01:02:52.260
Sorry, Terry, really quickly.
1755
01:02:52.540 –> 01:02:53.900
That’s what you just said, checks.
1756
01:02:54.080 –> 01:02:55.740
And I’m not sure if it was Trevor risk.
1757
01:02:55.840 –> 01:02:58.020
Al had said if someone at one point mentioned that
1758
01:02:59.440 –> 01:03:02.960
Jared and Jacob and all them, if it ever felt like bullying,
1759
01:03:03.740 –> 01:03:05.700
they’ve gone too far. Right.
1760
01:03:05.840 –> 01:03:09.520
So what you just called out there about laughing with him and not at him.
1761
01:03:09.540 –> 01:03:11.860
Yeah. Lines with that mentality. Right.
1762
01:03:12.000 –> 01:03:15.420
And yes. And when I exactly you know how much of a different
1763
01:03:15.420 –> 01:03:17.600
I didn’t really think of it. But yeah, I mean, I went out
1764
01:03:17.600 –> 01:03:19.460
last night on George Street and had a great time.
1765
01:03:20.100 –> 01:03:22.620
And people just all that’s all they want to talk about it.
1766
01:03:22.620 –> 01:03:23.740
It’s a privilege to be part of it.
1767
01:03:23.880 –> 01:03:26.420
But yeah, they feel like they’re taking the journey with me.
1768
01:03:26.680 –> 01:03:28.400
I mean, why was Teddy up to now?
1769
01:03:28.640 –> 01:03:30.720
Terry, but what was Teddy going to get up to in season?
1770
01:03:30.820 –> 01:03:32.580
It’s great. Right. I’m like, I don’t know, man.
1771
01:03:32.640 –> 01:03:34.520
I’m going to try to do my best job. Yeah.
1772
01:03:34.520 –> 01:03:39.640
You know, and so I can kind of live outside myself,
1773
01:03:39.760 –> 01:03:43.480
live this adventure while there’s a lot of meta reality going on.
1774
01:03:43.540 –> 01:03:46.020
Right. Yeah. And a lot of people, it’s like, this is wild.
1775
01:03:46.120 –> 01:03:47.800
Like, I do get to watch you on TV.
1776
01:03:47.800 –> 01:03:49.960
Just not in the way that you thought. Right.
1777
01:03:50.120 –> 01:03:52.720
So there’s that going on. So I love that.
1778
01:03:52.820 –> 01:03:55.860
I feel that I’m on this journey that I’m taking and I’m representing
1779
01:03:55.860 –> 01:03:59.040
Newfoundland and I’m trying to do my best job. Whereas.
1780
01:04:00.560 –> 01:04:04.100
And all I have to do really is is listen and listen to instruction.
1781
01:04:04.200 –> 01:04:08.500
Remember my lines and represent where there’s so much
1782
01:04:08.500 –> 01:04:11.380
up in the air when you’re an athlete and going through it.
1783
01:04:12.320 –> 01:04:14.700
Doesn’t feel like you’re taking it feels like for me,
1784
01:04:14.700 –> 01:04:17.360
it felt like I was pressured to do a good job for those people.
1785
01:04:17.360 –> 01:04:19.560
It didn’t feel like I was on a ride with anybody.
1786
01:04:19.680 –> 01:04:21.060
It was a lonely journey, to be honest.
1787
01:04:21.080 –> 01:04:22.620
And that’s why I had all my journals.
1788
01:04:23.060 –> 01:04:25.980
So I’m an only child as well. That’s why. So.
1789
01:04:26.380 –> 01:04:27.280
And then the third thing
1790
01:04:27.960 –> 01:04:29.940
is that I’ve been doing a lot of stuff for like spitting
1791
01:04:29.940 –> 01:04:32.320
chicklets and these appearances, you know, show up.
1792
01:04:32.380 –> 01:04:35.660
I went to Rapid City a month ago, drop a puck, do a live Q&A.
1793
01:04:35.740 –> 01:04:39.520
Went to Pittsburgh, Boston a couple of times, Buffalo, Vegas.
1794
01:04:39.800 –> 01:04:42.380
So just Vegas was before Schorzy. Everything else was after.
1795
01:04:42.740 –> 01:04:44.900
So say the last five or six months
1796
01:04:45.500 –> 01:04:48.030
I’ve gone to the U.S.
1797
01:04:48.900 –> 01:04:51.220
I went to New Jersey, say six or seven times.
1798
01:04:52.200 –> 01:04:55.540
I mean. It’s never happened before.
1799
01:04:55.880 –> 01:04:58.700
There might be somewhere by fluke, I don’t know.
1800
01:04:58.800 –> 01:05:03.580
I’m in like Roanoke and walk into a chapters or a bookstore
1801
01:05:03.580 –> 01:05:06.640
and someone says, how are the Habs or what you used to play?
1802
01:05:06.800 –> 01:05:08.960
Like that might happen one in a million. Right.
1803
01:05:09.780 –> 01:05:12.780
But now everywhere, Rapid City,
1804
01:05:12.780 –> 01:05:16.880
I’m having breakfast in Deadwood, the actual Deadwood. Right.
1805
01:05:17.820 –> 01:05:20.680
Where while Bill Hickok was shot, I’m having breakfast
1806
01:05:20.680 –> 01:05:22.720
and people are in there going, man, I love the show.
1807
01:05:23.020 –> 01:05:25.440
Pittsburgh, it happened while I was walking down the street,
1808
01:05:25.600 –> 01:05:26.760
let alone the bars we went to.
1809
01:05:27.000 –> 01:05:28.160
I mean, lots of people.
1810
01:05:28.200 –> 01:05:32.160
Boston was like, you know, honestly, people were coming over
1811
01:05:32.160 –> 01:05:35.400
and quoting the show like I’m talking going in and having a coffee
1812
01:05:35.400 –> 01:05:38.780
in the morning at breakfast joints and stuff. So.
1813
01:05:39.080 –> 01:05:41.780
And when I say that, I’m not saying
1814
01:05:42.700 –> 01:05:43.580
I’m famous.
1815
01:05:43.980 –> 01:05:47.820
I’m not saying that that’s what I’m saying is that I didn’t realize how much.
1816
01:05:49.620 –> 01:05:53.880
Traction show had absolutely like it’s one thing in Mount Pearl,
1817
01:05:53.980 –> 01:05:56.840
Newfoundland, man, but, you know, I can see that.
1818
01:05:57.060 –> 01:05:59.980
But and, you know, so it speaks for how good the show is.
1819
01:06:00.080 –> 01:06:02.340
A lot of hockey shows are alienating anyway, because it’s hockey.
1820
01:06:02.400 –> 01:06:04.360
I lived in the States. It got its support system.
1821
01:06:04.460 –> 01:06:08.520
But as far as sports that are popular, you know, it’s fourth of the four major.
1822
01:06:08.660 –> 01:06:10.580
And then I think I’d put NASCAR and everything ahead.
1823
01:06:11.060 –> 01:06:13.300
Oh, absolutely. In the southern states, for sure.
1824
01:06:13.340 –> 01:06:17.140
Way ahead of it. Yeah. And it’s got its following. But, you know,
1825
01:06:17.140 –> 01:06:20.680
I don’t know if you were to sit there and say, let’s write a hit show.
1826
01:06:21.420 –> 01:06:23.540
You know, if you had to bet,
1827
01:06:23.600 –> 01:06:26.620
I don’t know that I would have bet hockey would work, maybe football,
1828
01:06:26.700 –> 01:06:27.800
Friday Night Lights or whatever.
1829
01:06:27.980 –> 01:06:31.040
But this is brilliant because it transcends the sport.
1830
01:06:31.360 –> 01:06:33.660
A, it introduces a lot of people to the sport.
1831
01:06:36.800 –> 01:06:40.300
And. And not only that, like Canadian humor and everything is one thing,
1832
01:06:40.300 –> 01:06:43.820
but, you know, I know all kinds of people that watch the show
1833
01:06:43.820 –> 01:06:47.700
that never skated in their life that really can’t name five players
1834
01:06:47.700 –> 01:06:49.520
on the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1835
01:06:49.540 –> 01:06:51.980
But, you know, there’s something about it.
1836
01:06:52.300 –> 01:06:56.020
And and I think honestly, what I think it is is
1837
01:06:56.020 –> 01:06:59.580
and especially after I watched it, it read one way when I watched it.
1838
01:06:59.620 –> 01:07:02.180
I’m like, man, there’s a heart to Schorzy.
1839
01:07:02.440 –> 01:07:04.280
There’s a heart, there’s an underlying.
1840
01:07:05.480 –> 01:07:08.680
Like, this guy’s vulnerable. Yeah, clearly he lashes out.
1841
01:07:08.680 –> 01:07:10.140
There’s a lot of comedy there.
1842
01:07:10.700 –> 01:07:13.580
But I can relate to Schorzy as a person.
1843
01:07:13.840 –> 01:07:16.620
I really can’t just like I can relate to Ted. But.
1844
01:07:17.620 –> 01:07:21.500
We’ve all played with or dealt with someone like Schorzy.
1845
01:07:22.780 –> 01:07:26.000
The bark is often worse than their bite and.
1846
01:07:27.520 –> 01:07:30.180
Often his vulnerability, just listening to the anthem,
1847
01:07:30.200 –> 01:07:31.800
for example, brings him to tears.
1848
01:07:32.380 –> 01:07:35.660
So, right, like, yeah, and that is something.
1849
01:07:35.660 –> 01:07:39.540
And, you know, I mean, he gives sanguine that shit so much.
1850
01:07:39.540 –> 01:07:41.740
Yeah, but there’s a few times that.
1851
01:07:42.500 –> 01:07:45.100
Yeah, no, he only needs to do it a few times.
1852
01:07:45.100 –> 01:07:48.440
But he let he lets his guard down a little bit and loves sanguine.
1853
01:07:48.600 –> 01:07:51.180
And he explains it a few times, especially in the last episode,
1854
01:07:51.180 –> 01:07:51.760
I think is brilliant.
1855
01:07:51.820 –> 01:07:53.700
It’s one of the best episodes of TV that year.
1856
01:07:54.000 –> 01:07:56.200
Agreed. So let’s save some of that for round two,
1857
01:07:56.260 –> 01:07:58.180
because I have a whole bunch of questions around.
1858
01:07:58.560 –> 01:08:01.460
You just million questions a bit that we could talk.
1859
01:08:01.600 –> 01:08:02.480
Man, we could talk to you.
1860
01:08:02.500 –> 01:08:04.440
I know next time we will start with Schorzy
1861
01:08:04.440 –> 01:08:05.600
and not worry about anything else.
1862
01:08:05.740 –> 01:08:07.420
But, Terry, great job.
1863
01:08:07.680 –> 01:08:08.540
We’re on pins and needles.
1864
01:08:08.720 –> 01:08:09.960
I mean, it’s the worst kept secret.
1865
01:08:10.300 –> 01:08:11.780
Schorzy’s got to be picked up.
1866
01:08:11.960 –> 01:08:14.240
Obviously, they’d be idiots not to pick it up.
1867
01:08:14.520 –> 01:08:16.720
And you’re you’re you’re repping your island proud.
1868
01:08:17.220 –> 01:08:18.240
You’re repping all of us proud.
1869
01:08:18.700 –> 01:08:19.939
It’s doing a great job.
1870
01:08:20.300 –> 01:08:23.520
You got the two books, the podcast, which I am a listener.
1871
01:08:23.680 –> 01:08:25.160
I listen to it twice a week.
1872
01:08:25.300 –> 01:08:27.740
Thank you. With every episode you put out, I can’t believe.
1873
01:08:28.000 –> 01:08:31.080
I honestly can’t believe that it’s gotten to that point.
1874
01:08:31.200 –> 01:08:32.760
I appreciate it so much.
1875
01:08:33.399 –> 01:08:35.300
And absolutely, I don’t know what to say.
1876
01:08:35.399 –> 01:08:36.500
I mean, these are so listeners.
1877
01:08:36.700 –> 01:08:38.939
And I do one a week just on my own.
1878
01:08:39.000 –> 01:08:40.399
I don’t know why you listen, but thank you.
1879
01:08:40.399 –> 01:08:42.960
You know, I kind of appreciate the one a week more than I
1880
01:08:42.960 –> 01:08:46.180
because it gives us a window into what you’re up to.
1881
01:08:46.319 –> 01:08:47.640
I mean, some of the people you interview,
1882
01:08:47.779 –> 01:08:49.120
I’m going to not going to lie to you.
1883
01:08:49.160 –> 01:08:50.359
I don’t might not know who they are.
1884
01:08:50.640 –> 01:08:52.720
But you I want to know more about anyway.
1885
01:08:53.500 –> 01:08:56.439
Just share with our listeners where they can find your podcast
1886
01:08:56.439 –> 01:08:58.899
and also where they can follow you on social media.
1887
01:08:59.180 –> 01:08:59.779
Yeah, sure.
1888
01:09:00.300 –> 01:09:02.340
So my podcast is called Tales with Tierra.
1889
01:09:02.340 –> 01:09:04.920
It’s under the umbrella of the Hockey Podcast Network.
1890
01:09:05.420 –> 01:09:06.580
Hockey Podcast Network,
1891
01:09:07.399 –> 01:09:10.120
pretty much wherever you get your podcast at this point, pretty much.
1892
01:09:11.740 –> 01:09:14.580
And it’s great that they have basically one
1893
01:09:15.560 –> 01:09:17.680
one podcast per team in the NHL.
1894
01:09:17.680 –> 01:09:18.700
They asked me to do Montreal.
1895
01:09:19.300 –> 01:09:21.760
And for that requires research and a lot of other things
1896
01:09:21.760 –> 01:09:22.600
I didn’t have time for.
1897
01:09:22.620 –> 01:09:24.340
So they let me kind of do my own thing.
1898
01:09:24.540 –> 01:09:26.660
There’s maybe three or four like that, but it’s great.
1899
01:09:26.740 –> 01:09:29.060
It’s an interesting network to check out.
1900
01:09:29.859 –> 01:09:31.120
My Instagram, really.
1901
01:09:31.120 –> 01:09:33.180
I mean, I’m Terry Ryan, 20 on Twitter.
1902
01:09:33.840 –> 01:09:34.800
I don’t use Twitter enough.
1903
01:09:35.060 –> 01:09:36.819
I find it a lot. It’s pretty poisonous.
1904
01:09:36.979 –> 01:09:38.080
Yeah, agreed.
1905
01:09:38.760 –> 01:09:42.200
I yeah, it’s just I I like to engage with people
1906
01:09:42.200 –> 01:09:43.439
and it’s the worst place to do it.
1907
01:09:43.500 –> 01:09:44.979
I really like I said, I like airports.
1908
01:09:45.200 –> 01:09:46.279
I like going down tomorrow night.
1909
01:09:46.380 –> 01:09:48.080
Tim’s a great night in Newfoundland.
1910
01:09:48.260 –> 01:09:50.160
I’m going to try a lot of people, fans of the show.
1911
01:09:50.240 –> 01:09:51.000
And I love that.
1912
01:09:51.060 –> 01:09:54.040
I see a lot of friends, acquaintances, whatever people.
1913
01:09:54.180 –> 01:09:54.620
I don’t know.
1914
01:09:55.040 –> 01:09:56.380
And I just love that.
1915
01:09:56.440 –> 01:09:58.860
And Twitter, I go into it every time.
1916
01:09:58.960 –> 01:10:00.900
Naive thinking, oh, maybe this person wants to talk.
1917
01:10:00.900 –> 01:10:04.400
And it just turns into some crazy political bullshit
1918
01:10:05.120 –> 01:10:06.880
or poisonous talk.
1919
01:10:07.020 –> 01:10:07.720
I don’t like it.
1920
01:10:07.800 –> 01:10:09.880
But anyway, but I am on there.
1921
01:10:10.240 –> 01:10:11.140
I stomach it.
1922
01:10:11.280 –> 01:10:13.620
But most of what I do goes through Instagram,
1923
01:10:14.000 –> 01:10:14.880
Terry Ryan, 2020.
1924
01:10:15.180 –> 01:10:17.440
If you need to follow me or what I’m up to or anything,
1925
01:10:17.520 –> 01:10:18.140
that’s the route.
1926
01:10:18.560 –> 01:10:19.420
That’s the perfect place.
1927
01:10:19.700 –> 01:10:22.980
Post and usually I’ll probably be in a city near you soon
1928
01:10:22.980 –> 01:10:24.660
because it seems the last two years
1929
01:10:24.660 –> 01:10:25.580
I’m traveling all over North Carolina.
1930
01:10:25.600 –> 01:10:26.440
You’re everywhere, man.
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Yeah, man.
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All right, we’ll have to have you back on.
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I’m going to play us off now with a song from Shorzy.
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This one’s called Miserable Girl by Soul Wax.
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And that’s all we have for this episode.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Now we’re going to go get Matt screeched in.
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So Trapper John’s where Tanya and I got screeched in.
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On behalf of Terry, Victor, Matt, Tanya, and myself,
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thank you for listening and have a great week.
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