TPS175: Behind The Produce Stand With Mat
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Tonight the tables are turned on The Produce Stand as Kacey puts Mat in the hot seat with a one-on-one interview.
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Live stream of tonight's podcast is made possible by our buddy, Ian service over at podcast accelerator.com. Hey, everybody Trace from the Takeover team here again. Tonight, we continue our series Spotlight in each of the host of the produce stand. Now, if squarely, Matt didn't exist. You'd have to invent them beneath the surface of devoted husband and father of three, Matt, Belanger there allows a modern day, Renaissance Man. The burgeoning snowboard Pro is also a bike flipping whiskey Aficionado with a penchant for decorating and ball cap. Collecting takeover team is of course, back to put Maddie, boom, Betty in the hot seat. Let us see what the Discord groups. Favorite uncle has to say when Casey starts asking the tough and hard hitting questions. It is Matt though. So, probably a lot. This is behind the produce. Matt Belanger. Belanger. You stand there. That's a beauty. What do you listen to my favorite murder podcast? Tagging towards Boggess the produce stand f****** sexy. It's Court, wanting and Thursday. And that means you're hanging out with us at the produce. Stand a podcast, celebrating everything in the you never stop. Now, I know what you're thinking. There are plenty of other Letterkenny podcasts out there, but this one is on the potent. Peace, pipe. I am Casey and joining me in the zoom tonight. A guy knows a, whole lot of nothing about a lot. He's Canadian, he's a parent. He's the dude. North and co-host of the produce, stand pod. Please make some noise for squirrely now. Not wondrous. Oh my gourd. That never gets old. It's, so I know Al said it last week or whatever he did. His that it's weird being on the other end of it. Get it go. Yeah. Getting into unicorn getting unicorn just said that. Yeah. And but thank you for those intros and Trace. Man. He reached out to me, and he was going to let me in on what he was doing it. So no, I want to take it in and dude, that was amazing. So thanks so much. It was so much fun. So welcome to your podcast, thank you. And while it has been a while, And tonight, you know, behind the produce stand, we're going to ask all the questions, but since the entire episode is a big fat, how are you? Now, we're going to do some housekeeping first. So we're going to Jump Right In, grab your drinks, or your electric lettuce, or diabolical coffee. Hey there. Wait, what are we doing again? The sponsor read. Okay, wait, we have a sponsor. Yes, it's Eric. Oh, I know Eric, he's a good guy. I know that, you know, he sells coffee. Yes, of course. I think it's called diabolical coffee. Can we just devilishly good coffee? You don't say, he also sells diabolically awesome, swag. Terrific. Got a roast, for all tastes that, right? Yeah, you can order whole being poor Its standard grind and express espresso, don't you intend to use K-Cups, you know? We do, I think she has those two wonderful imagine if we could use promo code, like produce stand to get 10% off, coffee or emerge from a store. Yes, that would be cool. Wait a minute, I just had a brilliant idea. What's that? We should get the eyeball coffee to sponsor the podcast and said, yes. Why have we never thought of that before I give up? I thought we were going to escape Victor tonight but apparently not. Thank you, Eric, for always supporting the Pod. Despite the fact that every now and then the taking over team hijacks it and thank you for everybody on Twitter who's following us. And you know, hopefully listening. But Twitter is a cult previously when on Letterkenny? Yeah. Last week Mike and no, it wasn't. Michael is, this is, was it? Yes. No, it was I got to trust myself with my scratches. Dad is. Yeah, yeah, my girl is kicked out their best Hannah scenes. I saw his Al's done this before has any, where he doesn't trust his own script. This is, it doesn't. He doesn't usually do't update his scripts. I think you wings a lot of it as a. Okay, well, I am still a chicken, I am still learning. Yeah, amazing Tana scenes last week and I don't care that it was the same. For number one, like, that's a deserving number one. It was, it was a solid list all around you. You forget about some of those moments, I can do a lot of you guys watch the show like a thousand times and I love it. Out of time. So, I have watched it a number of times, but going back and getting those moments just takes me right back into those episodes. And oh yeah that's some epic moments. Yeah, totally and I just I think tanis's the best. Well happy 420 case dudes. Happy or 24. I did zero celebrating today up until like 20 minutes before we got ya. So yeah, why not? It's the evening Rush. She get it in. Well it while it's gummies. So I am okay. Alright, so we better this week about turned on, its really good-looking for everybody. Everybody watching at home, get your for 20 cards out your bingo cards. And I don't know what you have got on them, but somebody come up with something quick. How many questions end is Casey? Start Mississippi? Yeah, no already. Just already missing a beat. So we are we have got our seven paper cannons. Get your seven paper cannons and get behind the produce stand with Matt. And I, here we go. Matt. At. So, tell me about yourself, that's generic guy. That's it. That is a really loaded question. So, what I am in what I am most curious about is, there you go. That's a good idea. It's you. How did you find yourself? Encountering. Al for the first time. Like, when the first day that you met Al the very first time. Oh God. I don't even remember the first time, a mom, not 100%. I don't. I doubt he does either. It was probably, so we have worked together for years but I have always worked in very different areas of the organization, so he was in the learning area. I was it toast math? He's Pace. He's already. He's getting me checked out. I didn't think it was Toastmasters. Apparently, we met at Toastmasters. Mmm, I can't make me look like a dick and remembering but anyways, nobody would have known if you hadn't said anything because it's in the same job, but nobody would have known. Nobody's are no Als, nobody care. Housing me in the background of this episode and I don't know how I feel about it. I was able to hide his little icon, so I didn't think he was there, but he keeps popping up saying, L says this just minimize the chat. Anyways, I just yeah, we worked in very different areas of the Ization. And then I guess Toastmasters is what started our friendship. Remember joining lunches, and things like that, with a lot of other people from the learning Department. Mmm. And yeah, just got along with everyone there. I didn't have a tug, a close-knit group within my own departments, not for no particular reason. But I just really liked all these learning people, and I was one of them. And yes, we spent a lot of time lunches playing cards, whose ball that s***. And then, as he mentioned, we did the podcast for bit there at work and it was just on our lunch hours. We talked about whatever it didn't matter if it was kind of like an extended version of how was your week, right? And yeah, all kinds of topics would come up and that was fun. And then we kind of, we think we are too few of them, and then we realize that we shouldn't really be doing that because we were technically doing it at work. And so we just shift, it's more of a private audio thing, just be responsible. We Wise, what we were doing? Yeah, at least on the wrong, we were just having some fun. Oh yeah, sure. But we just played on the side of caution and stop doing that. And then yeah, we just been friends since I have been to a few of his shows, we parted it a few times, just a great dude. So, you have you and I have similar interests, in broadcasting and podcasting and Voice work. And what was your what were your first like experiences in media? Like, when did you know that you had a your voice? My VOC a very different question you. Those are, they are different questions are due to different things, they are but I want to know that one first, which one the voice. Media, hmm, bring your voice, but they're tied. Okay going. So this is why I say, I think elements is better about himself. You know, he wasn't as open about things I was used to being the shyest. Person you could possibly imagine when I was younger, okay? And once I knew you, I was good but if you brought me into a group and I would say a word, I would just be so shy, be very reserved. I had no confidence when I was younger but I knew I had some potential Dave down but didn't really do anything, cause I was too nervous to take any leaves. So that's why I say it's two different things because I did realize at one point, I wanted to get into something to, with media. So I went to even back to grade eleven or twelve we do. I think it's cool that a coop at a local. And I did it at a local television station, and we had to put in whatever X number of hours to get our semester credits and whatnot. And I probably did Six times the amount of hours I needed to do because I loved it. I went every day. First thing in the morning, I was a cameraman and editor for this local station. So it was like an old camera, the time straight cut editing. The old adding machines. It was, it was awesome and I loved it. It was all news stuff, but they let me even as a kid do anything I wanted. So, I was doing every story that throw at me. It was so much fun. So that's where my first Passion for came and then went to school for it and loved it as well. But you know, it's a bit of a party or so great weren't always great and but I made it through, and I was trying to work my way into the industry and it just didn't work out for me early on and I also again was still kind of shy in these kind of settings. So if you'd say go and find a job, I would have been like, I don't know how to do that and was really nervous to do so interviews, too scared the s*** out of me. So I didn't quite find my footing in media as I would have liked to of. And then, of course, it's one of those Industries as soon as you step away. Way your instant it's like buying a new computer. The newer ones already behind the shelf, so the longer you are away from it. Harder to get back in priorities. Began to change. Moved into the city, was with my ex first, child is on the way, like, things, get away from Yan. And, yeah, I need it. I needed a career so that changed. So even at my career, were the job of that. Now, I have been there for almost 16 years and I didn't have much of a voice or the early years, I would just do my job, and I was very quiet. But then I started putting myself out there and realizing that I had something to say and people were listening even at work. So I started pushing myself into my comfort zone and to other areas the organization, start off my wrist team Financial team, a credit team, a few others. I was a team lead for a while and then as I got deeper and I started finding more things, I was really passionate about and Toastmasters came along of course and my voice began to really grow my confidence in all these Things really grew. So there were no media at that time and then actually was Al who has been fortunate enough to bring me into his little world and what he's grown at the company through learning and whatnot. Got me back introduced to it so it wasn't a lot. But he'd say, hey I am setting up some lights for something. I know you did this do you want to come help? Yeah. Right. So he started inviting me out to all these things which alter they led to the podcast and one thing led to another. And even though I have stepped away from media, this is give me an opportunity. Portunity to step back in and actually find a voice. Now that I didn't know I had prior to. So my voice came way later, I was very not so confident much quieter for years and the things I wish I knew. Now then would have been very different but well, it is what it is. So that's why I answered that way because it's kind of story, really glad you did. So what was the point? The, the turning point for you? At work, you mentioned that. You found your voice or you realized you had something to say, you just said yeah. Can you talk about what that shift was? Because I was going to ask how many Toastmasters played in, but your story you had a turning point before Toastmasters? So I am yeah, I am interested to hear about that. No fair enough. And I was pretty, I don't want to sound arrogant. But I was pretty naturally good at Toastmasters. I didn't really put a lot of, I didn't have to put a ton of work and deliver my speeches. I could create a rough framework and that I just ad-lib. Most of it and they usually came out quite well. But yeah, I prior to that I was getting more exposure through my job, like I job as they were progressing, I was finding myself. Having more conversations with leadership and early on this scare the s*** out of me. But I realized after time my mentality around, everything changed like people are all just people trying to a job, you can't. See that things like even my thinking around like an interview, a lot of people very nervous of interviews. But I actually love interviews because I am the one most people it's going to go just as much as you're checking me out. I am checking you out. And if I don't feel, this is right for me. And then doesn't matter. It's a relative. Don't care how awesome you think I ever would, I could bring if it's not going to work for me. So it's a two-way street and some like an interview. So once my mentality of some of these things change, speaking became much easier because I wasn't so nervous about Oh God, this person's here. I am talking to this person would like, I am just talking to people, right? And yeah. And then, yeah. So that's, it was kind of like mid-career there and then yeah. Everything forward has been me validating some of the things I say when they actually, you know, they turn into something good. And I changed a lot of be, my work mantras, like, I try to try, try to strive to drive positive change. So, as long as my job is somehow it my head right or wrong interpreting? What I am doing as a positive change? Mmm, it's much easier for me to get. Get behind and be good at. There's so much. I wanna ask you about in the last 15 seconds of what you just said. It's interesting. The interview as an art form. Yeah. Yeah. Like I think we watch people like an owl jokes about it but it's quite a throat clenching comparison like Barbara Walters or Joan Rivers or Arsenio Hall your Jay Leno or there's like a spectrum of people and interview Styles but like what do you think it is that they all have in common? Like what do you think is the thread of good interviewing? Oh God and I don't think I am a good interviewer. So that's a hard one for me to say, wait, wait, wait why don't you think you're a good interviewer? Why don't I? Yeah. Um, like, could you make a case as too why? You're not a good? Probably know. I just, I was, I mean, I enjoyed I to me again. Having conversations. But sometimes I they go, well, sometimes they I think they all go fine. But I wouldn't say by any means of my egg. Great and their muscles. Not saying I am s*** interviewer. I am just okay. It's something I have never had a problem with your interview style or not. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I think you're just a fine interviewer but go on I think when you're talking about some of the grades you know some of it probably is his natural ability, right? They but also knowing your knowing that the research behind Find it and often knowing you don't always need to have that depending on the style. But you know, like I joke that I am I know a whole lot about an hour whole lot of nothing about a lot, right? So I know Snippets of lots of things but not a wealth of knowledge over one particular topic. So I think when I get to, if it's some, some more complex or whatever, I may struggle to find where I want to take it, right? And let us just a natural conversation use get along that easy with somebody. If you're trying to push it, you know, you I don't have The same research skills that I am and knowledge carry, that a lot of people do have so that's what I would say. Yeah, hmm. Yeah. When do you feel like you realize not when what was the thing at work, when you were sort of going through that transition, what was the thing that you had to say that you felt was, was really important. Was it a like, Not necessarily in cases because you find yourself going? Oh, the things that I say people are responding to. But then you just mentioned that you have like a work motto, right? Because you have, you affect positive change. So, how do you go from the realization? And now I have a motto, right? Can you compare like, wavy what that early motto might have been? Or did you have an early motto? I think that's part of it. There wasn't one. There was, I mean, I probably so, How to answer that? So when I was younger and even like I said, through college, but of a partier I was and I still have some, I was lazy, right? So unless I was really excited about it, right? I had hard time connecting with the right. So I wanted to really get again. I didn't excel in school but it had nothing to do with my ability. It was just, I just didn't care about a lot of it, so it's really hard to connect with content if you don't like it. But I like it. Like, you will find when there're things I do. Like, I am all over it and I can retain and really get into it. My middle son is very much like that I could see him struggling a bit in school, but, you know, he I will ask him basic questions have no idea what the f*** I am talking about. And then I will say, hey, how did box go? And he will explain the entire lesson, how many kicks of each thing he did? And what bag I am like? How did you just do that? He's like, well, I like it. I am like, yeah, I know, so it's everyone, learns differently. Yeah. I would like that the concept of having a motto or, or a phrase, or a mantra. Right. Yeah. Because I am in marketing. When everybody says like, oh, what's your brand? I want to vomit, but when I am in yoga class and somebody says like, you know, hold this Mantra in your head, I am like, oh, that's cool. Because on that one, yeah, cultural appropriation, but so, so frame framing things is really Testing, how much? How much do you feel like you have been author? Of the journey versus experiencer of it. More experiencer than author. And I mean, tell me why, well, and I am thinking just the way your previous question about, was there a model or something versus before? Like I said, I went through this phase where, you know, I fell into a job. I didn't like, I didn't love my any means, I did it. Well, but I didn't. It was paying the bills. My priorities change. Kids came. Yeah, everything like the way? Yeah, life happens. Right? F*** it. Your roll with it. And then Repeat the last part of your question. Oh, f***. The gummies are kicking in. Oh, are you more author or experiencer? Yes, yes, so yeah, for the longest time, I didn't have really any guiding. Yeah. I think I just went with it. Yeah and now again in my age, I have finally last say, six seven, eight years, maybe started to Take Back Control of some things that I Not that. I feel like ever missed any out on anything, but pushing more of the things that I want to do and things. I want to be happy with and things that excite me. So like, even like this, this podcasting stuff like this is great and I would never have found myself in this kind of Avenue, but it worked out well, and I am glad I have embraced it and run with it and met such an amazing community. So yeah, you start saying yes to more things and some cool s*** starts happening. I feel like Gen X is bringing some fabulousness to the midlife Isis, right? Like, what was the former you know, like, what are the tropes of midlife crisis? Has like the dudes by cars? And then women get facelifts, like those have been the old tropes of like what, how do you know, somebody's in a midlife crisis. I feel like for Gen xers. It's, we're going back to the 90s like we're reclaiming. We like we reclaimed our time. I know I am not wrong because I have gone. Yeah, I just bought the first snowboard I bought since I was 17. Right. Right. And I am like, next year, I am going the X Games, so whatever totally gonna be crushing that halfpipe. Okay? So I was playing volleyball couple weeks ago for the first. So I was going to the gym and there was a work at a university and there was a, volley, a club volleyball tournament, it wasn't even like actual, you know, like huh. It wasn't the higher-level competitive volleyball wasn't. Volleyball. It was Club volleyball and I just heard the shouts first and then I heard the sounds of the balls. And it was like I was a dog and like things started firing in my brain and my tail started wagging and I like went in and I sat there and I must have looked psychotic right because I am a wide-eyed slack-jawed. I am asking Keiko sit and I got to watch the last set, long story short, the kid there was a family of three, and they needed a fourth. If they didn't realize it, they were playing a 2's game, and they were down one. So I asked if they could play and I we were having a great time, and I was moving around and it was like my body hadn't forgotten and I did, they ball fell short in front of the net and I went to Pancake. I don't know if volleyball, so I threw myself in cake. So when you pancake a volleyball, you're basically throwing your body onto the floor and you're reaching your hand out your, you're basically stretched out as far as you can. In the hopes that the ball will hit the top of your house against the floor and bounced against the floor. So you're like sliding, right? And it usually ends in a roll of recovery role which I did at 43 and I landed on my feet. It was like when you drop a cat in the tub, and they don't know what happened, it was just like so disorienting but you'd also like, oh, I guess I remember how to do that. So you two can go to the X Games is what I am trying to say. Say but mean prior to this my goal is to learn to curl at some point and be old because I think that's the only sport. I probably have a legitimate chance of, and I am saying legitimate very Loosely a chance of winning a gold medal with so you know and I be on your team because when Al was doing the when he was instagramming up the curling Place wherever he was when he was doing yes. We're open. Yeah I was so jealous. Yeah, and I am not a natural do not putting any it's curly. I know it's a very hard, very challenging sport but I like stuff like that and I feel like II could Do it, but I never learned scholar like I am a late bloomer, but it will pick up. Of course, it. Well, I think you're right on time. That's what I have started selling myself because I, we are very similar. We have, we have similar paths and I had like an 11-year college career. Took me 11 year. An I am not a doctor obviously. But like if you told me then hey you're gonna be in there for 11 years anyway, muscle. Just get the doctor and do surgery. I would have been like can you just trade it again? Like it's 97. I am going to see Pearl Jam. You can't like trade up those years for a doctor like oh, you can't trade those ins. Nope. They don't let you are, like coupons, but it's so. So how do you what do you think has been the best thing about being a late bloomer and the hardest thing about being a late bloomer oh God just digging this one I did. I know, come on. We will talk later Kenzie little bit like, so we don't need no, no, we don't need to, we can talk whatever you want. This is your show I just hear okay sand again. Oh my God, you can't make me repeat questions. And further we get into this interview, the more I am going to lose the money were doing our best here. I know. So we got this, the best thing and the hardest thing about being a late bloomer. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I think you said the best thing and the worst thing and the hardest thing or worse than. Yeah, whatever. Um, I don't know. I don't know if there's the best thing about being a mean. I am I think I am mature enough and I know I say that Loosely as well to realize how awesome a lot of things are and I approach them differently. My mentality is completely like I am highly logical thinker, believe it or not. So I found myself taking two things actually better. Now that I would when I was younger when I was more of a space cadet, all right, so now that I can think logically about things I can Lie that to anything. So I pick up a football Mike I know what I need to do but boom? Here're the steps and needs do that right? Little things like that. So I have that realization and I really enjoy getting into things. Now, I am not as nervous to try them. Right. Right. The hardest thing. Yeah, is I am not old by any means, but I am old enough that I am start feeling right? And so anything that's there's its at least a longer journey to get didn't Great within those areas and whatever it is. You choose to do? Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Its this is fun. I am glad I am where I am, and I am glad I do what I do and I tried the things I try. What has been your favorite new skill that you have picked up Podcast? Yeah, Zack out. I mean that's yeah, I knew you were building decks prior to the deck that you built. Oh no, that's okay. You want to put the cold a true. Yes. No it was not no podcasting is a skill. I was thinking more like, you know that, okay, that's fair, we do. So you are right. I know I have made a lot of jokes about my woodworking stuff. I don't do a lot of it, but I do genuinely. It again, how much have you done? I have made my son's bed. I have made the deck. I made a big-ass planter out front. I made a picture frame, but those are recall. Took me two tries because it didn't go well, the first time I met do I made her whole shoe rack and the front of our house. So what would so if I was a budding woodworker hmm what would you recommend? As a beginning project. See you're missing one element. I am really cheap, so I can't really make a proper. Recommendation. So I am using my, I know. Okay. So I am using like the cheapest s***. I can find it and just making it work. Like there's no I go into the store and I see, oh, I need to buy Six. Yeah, two by six and I guess it soaks and it's like, 50 bucks for a board. Or there's this Pine piece, that's kind of soft, but whatever. It's only cost me six dollars. So, you know, okay, it's not, it was more only a couple cases. We need to choose specific items like women made my son's bed and even that we didn't use anything. My Greenie using real wood is all like oh my God like fabricated s***. Yeah because it's more guaranteed to be straight right? Why don't we buy a lot of boards of their other warped, and they're all hell? So when you get the MDF and other things like that are manufactured there typically are straight as an arrow, and so we use that but now I mean nothing particular I just I like doing it. It's fun. We have the tools. I like to work with my hands and it's kind of therapeutic for me on the times that I have Ali given gotten into a project. So when did the hat collection start? Oh wow. To what it is now, I would say in recent years, but I have always been a hat guy. I have always like, I have I remember one of my first really excited to have to how was a purple and black Toronto Raptors hat. When they first came out, I wore that thing to death. Loved it. I had a I am going to forget the, it's actually been an u.s. NCAA team and I can't remember which one it was. But I, and I am not a sports guy, right? Go sports, yeah. Goes. I would have been able to tell you what sport they played, but I loved the hat. So I bought it was like white and the writing was blue. Someone can tell me what that might be. I think it had a d but either way it did it probably did and I loved it, right? I even there was a hat. I once bought at an airport that was it had a can of leaf on? I loved it. I didn't even need to fly anywhere. I went back to the airport into the area just, so I could buy two more of them for when they broke. So I have always enjoyed Hat. Yeah. Okay. I would stock up on ones that I really liked and then in yeah, more recent your last 10 years especially I started getting really connected to certain ones. I get excited about them, and I was like, I don't know, it's like hats and my life's nothing. I don't think it's anything wild respect. I think. Might none of them are expensive. The nothing fancy. I just there're certain things I look at him, like I really like that hat. That's, that's great. I want to know what makes the Hat. The hat for you? Like what it? There's no, there's no rule of thumb. I typically like something is obviously most summer ball caps. Yeah. I am flat brim is newer to me like this, this isn't totally flat but the flare style. Yeah, something I have only acquired the last few years. It's I don't know. Others. Nothing that particular stands up. It's usually unique to some degree. Like I don't want you to standard old. Black Blue Jays hat, right? Right. I will wear it. But I am not super excited. But has to be something about a stands out to me. Like, I know you see someone's behind me on the wall. That means like yeah, like talk me through some of them. Yeah. Well, hold on. Let me just And ladies and gentlemen, this is now toured of Matt's hat. Yeah, so this one as an example is its kind of hard to see us having an okay, there you go. Oh, it's a, it's a map of Canada where in the Canada is. So there's the US. This is the u.s. Right here. Yeah. Right. And this is all the provinces across the top here. So, it's a map, I Galas. Yeah, I am to a hat with a cork beep beak. I love beak. Is the correct term? Yeah, are brim whatever. Okay. A brim. I have never heard because I don't know if that was Canada. Is no, not a sir. I think I just said big for some reason, but it's not that one. I loved. I have found it at like a market somewhere, and I was absolutely loved with it. I picked it up and it's pretty worn out now, I don't wear it very often but when I first wore it even, I love to go out and there'd be people. Stop me. Like that's a top-10 had. I am like right. Like I am glad you see that we get excited like yeah I know. It's amazing. I look for things like a talking piece too now. Yes. Yeah. Where I wear a lot of color. What? I tell my mom. Like a bright yellow shirt. Yeah, I like colors. They're, they're fun. So they are fun. So yes, I have a mix of everything but that's one of my favorite hats that I just showed you. And where did you get that? Again, it was just at a vendor at a market downtown, Toronto. Oh, wow, I was, I was walking by and I stopped. There were hats and I had a whole bunch of them, and I am like, I bought two of them. I think that floral one up in the corner. There is also well done weatherman's from that same, right? Yeah, this is happier. Here you will notice in this general area. Yeah experiencing cat where farthest the hat that is from the farthest location. Oh God I don't know, I don't know. What kind of question is that? I don't know. What is this question? What is fair enough? Fair enough if you wait, wait, wait, okay. You're the man who's collecting hats from and for all different sorts of reasons. Me asking where the furthest is from, is weird? All right, fair enough, Aficionado, whatever else you made your point, okay, case. You may just so you don't have an answer yet though. No. But they're not number from Winnie where you need to be honest with you. This is all something Market in Toronto. Yeah like that. See there's like three of them up there that were from a box that came from Jared key. So that's pretty cool. This one is from a boat launch in Bobcaygeon Ontario. You okay, I think though the one up top here is my buddies company, lacks life. He's a professional lacrosse player and that's from him, this one sort of guess is hard. I am trying to point for those only that it is a cup called Head stir, and they have, like, kids hats so, I don't know. So on and so far. They're just trying my best to do the old whether I loved it. No, I loved it. Just I am thinking about our audience. Yeah, no, I get it. God, I forgot where we were for sale. Oh see. I don't even have. Well, I don't even have the live stream up for this reason. So let us go to our Pals. I am going to start with a friend question from Michelle are Sudbury pal questions for Matt? Tell me about your childhood. Oh God, it's so broad. What shows cartoons did you watch on Saturday morning favorite show and cereal? What are all? All your retro kid gear, where retro? Yep. Okay. What were those again? Richard Gere. What shows cartoons. Did you watch on Saturday morning and favorite show? And cereal? Okay. Yeah. I wrote them down because we're not doing so good at remembering the question, so I am making myself nose on, on bills. Way to scaffold yourself, right? So retro start with retro because it kind of tie. Yeah, that's right. Your kids stuff. I have got whole bunch of God. I can't Caribou. We got a Beetlejuice sweater Flintstone sweater Degrassi. Shirt raccoons which is an old Canadian cartoon show, CBC sweater a couple of things so really enjoy that retro kid brand is that in Toronto? They just they bring in me right back so you're talking about already is going back and everything. We're doing these days of throwing it back, right? Yes. I am living it right now. It's this, this brand is my people, and they're celebrating this s*** shows and cartoons. Oh yeah. I was a big cartoon guy. I kind of watched them all. Like I was right down At like Looney. Tunes was always a big one of mine. My pet monster was a huge one, and of entities are Canadian and you don't know, then I don't remember. But my pet monster, my pet monster. Yeah, I was this kid who had a stuffed animal. It was little it was blue and purple monster it handcuffs on, and then he turned the key in the handcuffs. And the handcuffs were to come off, and then he would come to life. And he hang out with him and his friends. What am I think his name is Monty — Monty the monster, and then there was like, another monster was always trying to capture him, and his friends would save them and it was awesome. He's a scary looking thing. He's looking them up blue with purple, jowls and fangs, and a teal nose, and he was all on me, like growled when he talked, it was amazing, that's fantastic. Now we never had a woman, maybe we did. I don't know. I didn't get out much as a kid. No, that was, that was for sure, one of the ones always stood out. Out to me, I was the beginning of the Power Rangers era at some point. I love them. The old early, the oh, gee Billy, all the Blue Ranger, all that s*** afterwards, it's terrible. But crap kids make me watch it. And I am like, can we just go back to the Tommy and the Green Ranger series when he when Tommy? No, I sent me? It said everybody at the time. Yeah, that was it was very stressful. I remember coming home from school, waiting for that next episode to watch. So I could figure what it was something, I thought about all day. Why is that was our first experience with, like, a stressful TV, Tommy? And, yeah, I guess you're right. Like, the first, when do you want story lines, or anything like that? Before you watch storylines, know, you watch cartoon that made you laugh. And that is it. Well, I know because I watched Thundercats. True Thundercats is pretty freaking dramatic and that was early 80s. Yeah. Yeah, you're not wrong. There are some of the ones but mumra2k, dude was scary s***. Matt, when hit, he was the original like, Bland you remember is that Beetlejuice to do? You know, I am talking about shoot? But Mom bra. No, no, I am home. I know my -. Yeah. I am talking time lights. No D. So in Beetlejuice doesn't isn't, doesn't he remember? There's a scene when Michael Keaton turns to somebody and you see his face. It's almost like his face opens up but you see it from behind and it's a bunch of snakes. Yeah. Okay. It's been a long time since the intro to Thundercats there's like a scene where mumm-ra's, like mummy things are flying in the air and like I bet you if you laid over that we could create a meme. The weed has kicked in This is a great question. This is going well, I forgot about cereal show and cereal favorite show. My pet monster. Yeah, I would say that's definitely a job. Even Camp Care. Everyone wearing the f****** shirt. The sweater. I can angry. That's a Canadian classic as well. Yeah. Live in Camp. Kids live in their best life. Just gets and jokes and songs. And I got a head like a ping-pong ball. It's amazing. It's amazing. And it's serious cereal. Yeah. Froot Loops was definitely a top lucky charm. It was in there. Corn Pops. I was a big fan of. Yeah coins and there's a few things. Nice. Well this High School like for you. High School fun, fun. I am gonna go with fun. I got some, yeah, I got stoned a lot in high school. Yeah. Smoked and smoked a lot of weed in high school, but it was fine. Like I had, I found a lot of I met a lot of good people in high school. I didn't there wasn't a lot of issue amongst our group. I think I was fortunate enough to be in with, I would say the right people, but even a school as a whole, didn't have a lot of drama or if there was it was a, we're we used to joke about like My close-knit group. All of us seem to have friends that were associated other groups within the school. So we kind of got a lot that we were friends with about. We got along with everyone to some degrees. We just had a good time drank a lot. Yeah, just had a lot of fun. So I was, but I was shy as well. Like I said as bright, which is probably why I like to drink it, so because it would bring me out of my shell, a little bit more. How, how many were in your kind of group that had? Like, I would say our close-knit group was like, yeah. Six to eight people are so I top. Like, those others are like a core through two or three of us. I got two or three really close friends, and then we all just kind of spiraled out from there, right? Yeah, that was my exact High School experience. So there were six. There's like a core of like 43 and then I moved and it we became six and then by the time we all got to high schoolers like between six and eight. Yeah girls that we all just hang out, and I was the theater. Water Sports volleyball and then Chandra was Shire and like the smartest of all of us and collected Pez dispenser and was like all honors student and like Kelly. And Sally played tennis, and Aaron did debate, we all were different, and we all, but we the six of us were like, tighten it. And we were really surprised to hear one of our reunions that people thought we were a click. Okay, did that? Did anybody, you know, nothing like that happens less with guys probably. I don't know. I mean, I group was weird and all fairs. I don't I never even stay close a lot Beyond high school either. So okay, that says a lot about how close some of them were actually been, I mean, I loved all the people I knew, but yeah, from high school I think I only really stay in contact with three people, right around. And the other thing that I always laughed about, I was really awkward because I felt, I was because I had troubles connecting with people or though, I could be It was shy and whatever but some of my closest friends were always the biggest Sports people, which made no sense to me because I don't play sports. I don't know anything about sports II know what they are, of course and I would give Ben a game but I have got to support them. Yeah, of course like he dug going, this sport. You like going to the sports fall, I liked going with my friends, right? It wasn't about. So like one of my absolute closest friends growing up play AAA hockey, right? And actually, the one the first time we met. And I may, I think this is why we became friends this very first time, because I think I bounced him out in some way, I moved in across the street from this guy, Kevin, and for the first like, six months, didn't say a word I got him. So shy, blah, blah. This is true story. We were in grade 6 and I remember going to school, and he was in my, he was not in my class, but I, we went on the same bus and all this s***. And he comes up to me one day, and he in the line for the bus and goes, hey, You live across the street, right? I am like, yeah he's like okay, and he runs away. That was our first interaction second interaction. I am watching him from my window because I am a shy, lonely kid in this new Street, and he saw that and then waved at me and I close the blinds. So I didn't know what to do Fast Forward. I think a few days later that week, he knocks on my door, and I am like, gasps, I am like, oh s***, it's him. Like go see the guy across the street. Looks like he's my age, my face. Could be friended and says you want to come and see him through the tiny guy. I am creepiest the street an f*** and he says, hey, I am Kevin. Do you want to come play hockey? And I said sure I didn't have a stick, I never played hockey in my life. Holy f***. So, but I off I go with this guy who I find out is like a rep hockey player already and his friends who were all into this and then there's me and I swear to God, I think it was one of those. Everyone there was laughing at Me so hard. And I have always been a laugh at myself too. So I realize what an idiot. I looked like, and we just laughed and I think that moment was he's like, our, you're my friend now because I just maybe was for humor sake early on, but I just, I would get in. I always play hockey. How do you play? What's which way do I go? And I knew nothing and our friendship took off from there. So Oh my God, Matt were awkward as f***. That's yeah, yeah, no, that's friendship on-site. 100%. Yeah, yeah, it's like this guy's different. This one's a keeper. Oh man, sometimes I tell you, make friends. I think that's always how you make friends. I have in a sense of humor is critical. How much of your, how much of your humor is Like, intentional versus organic. I like these comparisons, right? I, I like to believe that most of its organic, mmm. I definitely there're moments where I push it and when and try to get people going even around the house, I yelled at all the like, all my kids already. My three-year-old is a smartass and Jenna genielle's me all times. Like this is all your f****** yeah. And I am like I know like I can't deny it. My kids are shooting jokes back at me and I get mad sometimes. I am like Nope, I did this. I 100% encourage those because I f***** with them since day one, and this is all they know. So yeah, it's a real blend, but I am always very aware even if it's not forced, I am like, hey, that was kind of stupid, right? Even if it came out naturally. Yeah. Like to laugh, right? I like making people laugh. Yeah, I find this super satisfying and I wonder if you can relate. I have this I have observed recently because I am in therapy and I miss, you know, doing a lot of yoga, just doing some inventory, right? And I have noticed a lot that when I am at work II, don't care about being professional. If I know, I can say something that will make people laugh. Yeah, not vulgar not crass but I just find myself making that choice. Like I don't care if I seem unprofessional and yes, we all have a laughs I am laughing, were all laughing. I just don't, I don't see the point in not trying to make people laugh because I think people take life too seriously. In general. I think I am the same with you at like you as work. I often find myself sometimes I feel like I am pushing. The envelope is all get like gentle hear me on a college. Like I can't believe you said that. I am like, why? Like because I am at me, bro. I am like if this wasn't working all these people, most not all, but a lot of we talk to him. This is how we'd be talking. But because we're at work with there's this, you know, bubble over as you have to be as in yes his professionalism and like you said not vulgar and you know your lines, you know if you cross those lines you need to just scale it back a bit even realize that Kind of going into a dark place but read the room. Yeah. 100%. I make jokes all the time. Yeah, at work. And wherever I am setting, and I used to laugh, like, again, the Hat thing. Since we have been home all my work calls. I wear a hat in the office. We were still sucked a semi casual shirt, jeans and a collar. Yeah, home, I started doing remember going to my boss one day because I think I really became myself in a work setting. When I worked from home, I feel more comfortable, space, the office. I have created over time. This thing is We evolved and I were talking to my boss until Mike. Listen I do, is this okay? Like no one's told me, this is not in our dress code. I know that nobody said we have no, nobody said a thing, right? And he lands he's like, you know what you're comfortable? You're doing a good job. Just you will have the smarts to know when it's not. Okay, you, do you? I am like wow. He really just put full trust and it wasn't even like he was setting me up and felt very Like who wanted? You know, this is what you do, makes you comfortable, and how you feel good, and we get good work out of you then f*** it like you did. Yeah. Yeah. So if I will do the be supported from a leadership perspective, I know everyone doesn't get that out there but there are some good leaders out there. How do you see yourself becoming like how do you see yourself as a leader? Like what is your leadership perspective? Philosophy. I don't know about the loss of Philosophy necessarily sorry I do even though I am not in a direct leadership role, I would people under me I am very much in a leadership role. Yeah, I have a lot of influence over a lot of the projects I work with a big part of my job is getting other people's buy-in and support and know how behind things. And I think I do well, I think it's just I believe I just connect with a lot of people very easily and I also like I have talked about I have Listened myself, my career, I am doing things that I enjoy, and I am driving again. My Mantra positive change. Therefore, I am more excited about it and I have been told a multiple occasions that they can. People can see the, my passion and my excitement about what I do and I do, we want to help you. Yeah. So if I am doing, I have LED teams where I don't really like the work and there's very different like I am doing and going through the motions. But I like to be in a position where I am also supporting people doing work that we both are into, and then that's when I really thrive, When did you, did you learn that earlier? Is that a late Ali? Very thing. Yeah, that for me too. And you know what? I am going back to that leap Late Bloomer thing. I don't know if this sits with you but I feel like the experience that I Crafted in my early twenties because I was by no means unintentional. And anything that I did, I knew what I was doing in my twenties, I was making decisions. Yeah, I will never not own my decisions or say, oh it's too drunk arose to. Oh yeah, I can look back and go. That was stupid as f***, but I know what it did right? Like I knew what choice of but even in the moment I knew I even felt like I knew what I was risking and I feel like 43 for me has been The most adult I felt. Yeah like I still felt like in my mid-20s up until 40. I think just mentally and just so like went. When did you grow up? No, I still haven't East. You don't think you don't feel like you're adulting yet? Yes. And no. I don't. I mean I am no, I am not quite 40 yet. I am pushing it. But I am yeah. But I know but it's the realization. I hear you. So the things that make me feel like I have I am older is recovery from any f****** thing. Even if it's drinking, it's always Edge. It's always like I need to be sure if I am gonna do this. That it's worth the pain. I am going to feel tomorrow. Yeah, and if that is the balance isn't there, it's like it's two beers, and I am done. Like, yeah. That's right. I am smart enough to make those choices now and realize what's on the line for what's to come. Yeah, so things like that workwise. I have definitely mature but I still stay who I am. So, yeah, I am still kind of goofball and times. Yeah. Even the weirdest thing is like and I have three kids, but just saying that even now I am like the f****** 3D, like it's really me take them home who did this, like, why did they do this? And then say, the, the idiot in me is like, I died. And I can prove I did it three times, right? Like so it just shows how much, how much I have grown up, right? Yeah, totally. It's hard to. Yeah, you can. Accept them all and the reality is that you're like I am still young but you're not and you just get there but you roll with it. Yeah. I always look in the family room. Like there's f****** three of them and I say it like that in my head. Yeah. What piece of advice would do you wish you could give your son's that they would actually follow? Try everything. Like I have said, that's in the for, I want them to and you obviously that's within reason. I don't do it. We will try, don't go tried murder. It's not, it's not something that I would recommend, it's right, don't try that, it's not okay. But within the confines of reality, try everything. There. I shied away from so many things early on because of China's and lack of confidence and things of that nature. Now, try even trying things new now, I am like, f***, like I love it, but why didn't I do that so long ago, right? How did I not know that this was as good as this is, because I said, No, at some point based on what, nothing, no one f****** game. Right? So even food I have only in last number of years, really start to explore food a lot, but I am like, f*** to so many good things. The amount of new gal, I have eaten in the last three years because I never cause I said no to it for f****** 35 years. Oh my God, I am crushing jars of that s***, right? It's stupid things like that, but I am like, so I tell my kids and like, I don't care if you don't like it but try it. Yeah. Just put it in your f****** mouth and go, and then he did it right? And either spit out or go oh, you were right, Dad? That's right, but make a conscious decision on things don't ever just assumed. So that's what we mean by tribe. I really want them to have that mentality is that, try everything and then advocate for yourself right there you realize that one and the gal talked about this a bit last, his As well is, you know, you never go to know unless you just ask, right? And yeah, a lot of people is rollover say, okay, that's the way it is, whatever. We ask stand up for yourself and don't be a dick but know that you matter and do your things. So things like that. Yeah. Things like that. That's a good one. It's got me thinking about you know the gravity of raising two white men in America not to get really deep. But I think about that a lot these you know, like the things that you think about as a parent and the things that you want to model for them and Eat your crafting, the future like people don't. I don't think I understand what that means as far as being a parent. You know, like influencing reality that isn't realized because they're going to exist in that. Yeah, my bloody. Yeah, I don't even know how you. You can't write everything. We think we know is wrong, right? Right. And like even with like we have an ongoing argument led, the kids play at things like video games and get screen, time and all that s***. And this has been a big issue. You hear that conversation all the time about how much screen time. I am screen time, blah, blah, but here's the f****** reality. We are in a technology-driven world were everything out. There is done using technology like, yes, there are aspects. You can take your life in and more minimalist ways, and do whatever. Ever, that's fine. But if you're had any intentions to go, any form of the best way to put like a more of a mainstream, sort of Lifestyle, you need to know these things. And every day, we don't let our kids interact with technology. They're behind, right? So, you will see kids who have hauled all this has all this time, and then they get into school, and they're starting to do, you know, you know, Robotics and things like that. Well, a lot of those kids started playing video games like and I don't, I could not a good not advocating. That either. But it's a weird battle room where blood things that we think should be wrong. Actually can be interpreted in spun as a positive for their future in quantity, so it's like, where's the balance? And maybe this is where Jenna X needs to step up. Maybe, maybe we're the ones who need to say. Something. Something different can be true. Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't have to be. I don't want to get. Yeah, let us take a question from the gallery. Hey, CPE asks, Matt could you post some more dog pictures in the Discord? Sure how is moose. Moose is good. I am love. I am loving him more lately. I don't know what it was. I was talking the other day. I am like I got a most loved my dog, but I definitely went through a period where I just was annoyed by him a lot. Maybe I, you know, you do have with your kids to write, you just go through peer to like f***** her and yeah dude. Yeah. That was moose and I would say just in the last couple months I really started to connect with them more his. He's just he's a really good dog. We revert were fortunate mean, he has his medical shed and yeah, that's always going to be a thing. Now, we know later in life, he's going to have issues with arthritis and other s***. But he's a good f****** dog. Like a job, but he just, he just plays, and he is he nearby? No, he's not. He sleeps about 80% of his life. Yeah. But when he's awake, he's a monster and it's awesome, and he jumps. Around and frolics and you know jump bounces like a gazelle around the living room, and then he will pass out for nine hours. So right. Does he love the snow? Oh yeah. Let us know. It's water. He loves being outside. Yeah, yeah side. Yeah. Oh. Is that the word? Is that how you say it? No. No, no. Actually. Like, what is, how does he know when he's going out? He will have to say anything. He senses it. Oh, he sense it like he will know. Like I will put my jacket on. Say, 15 times a day. Go. But there is somehow he catches and I will say nothing, I won't touch his leash. I will put on my jacket something. He will jump up and like how do you know how do you possibly know that I am about to grab your s*** and go he just knows dogs. No. Yeah but at this moment but those dominated to for the reality, check on the opposite side. How lazy is when I am done on this, and we go to bed, he will be sleeping, I will have to take him out to go pee. It will take me 10 minutes to get him out of his bed. He will not, he just like flat-out. Out refuses to move ahead. If you don't he will have an accident. No he was just won't do anything, or she will get up at 4:00 in the morning. Decide he wants to make everybody happy. So I it's like you have to go, and he will look at me. He's wide awake. He just like I am not moving. You're gonna have to literally pick me up if you want me to go and I will flip his bed over. I dragged him across the floor. I get yelled at by Jen, and she's like stop Mike how do I get this? F*** he's 100 pounds. Like a just pull him out the door, and he will not move. So how did you wahwah know this is a nightly battle which I am looking forward to having soon? Do you need a set? Something like the Dog Whisperer? Or there's no, there's no fixed, but he just doesn't want to get up. Just too lazy. No idea. It sounds like a him problem. Pretty sure. It's Cassie asks, what is your favorite aspect of being involved with the produce stand? My favorite aspect you guys to community, hmm, for sure. It is mean they obviously everything around. It is, you know, just being part of something. I think that's the most simplistic way to put it being part of something in the community, I never expected. I didn't know what I expected. But in expect this, I did expect two years later to be hanging out with, you know, yourself and interacting with a bunch of people who I don't. I was going to say that word stranger but like, no, that's not. It wasn't one point. But no, we're Way Beyond that and I love what this has become. It's so much more than just a podcast. And yeah, so, everything around razy, That night, that Thursday night, before we went up to Sudbury. Funny. And I have always thought about that even for came out. I was like, I still remember when I had the mic, I was going you, and I am sitting there just like, hey, hey kids. Hey, die back and forth. And I was like, this is crazy. And having our part, our portion of our chat, I remember very vividly. And yeah, it was, it was wild. I am we talk about that ourselves to like I will Victor 10 and I the random times we are just the four of us, and we're all blown Away. It's blown away, it's amazing. Yeah, I think Mike asks that question too. Like besides meeting us in person and virtually what has been the best thing about your inclusion in the Pod and just that? Like, yeah. What you said about community? I think is that the same answer to that question? Yes, entually. Yeah. It's just, it's, it's special. If you could take the success, this is also from Mike of the produce stand and parlay that into your own show. What would it be about if you were able to do that? I don't know. So funny enough, I would probably like to think my own kind of podcast show. Is that what you think he's talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I suspect. Mine would because I am not very structured, not very good. With some of that I would imagine would be more human interest style. Stop look, sort of like what we're doing right now? Yeah. Again together with a few people, loose, sort of agenda, may be centered around an overarching theme of some sort, but we're not actually, just hanging out, man. Yeah. And talking, and if it's interesting enough for people to listen, then awesome. If not, you get to spend some cool times with some friends. And that's what I loved about this early on was it was just weird covid and rained and interact with anybody. And I will bring this idea for it and it was very cool and unique and I knew nothing about podcast, and we got to hang out with some good people every week and then again and then it grew. Yeah, it was my extracurricular activity that I could depend on and I loved it, love them. How, how do you describe the magic that seems? Has to have surrounded the podcast and have no idea. It's unreal. Like when you talk about it to people, like, do you talk about it to people? You know. Yeah. So like those little listen, right, right, right, right. So when you're like out in the world and talking to people like, how do you, how do you frame this? How do you describe this? Well I kind of I see what they're interested in is. Well like I don't want to be. That was like oh my God. Hey I don't. I barely know you. But did you hear my new podcast? But if it comes up or someone else, you know what you do, then I ate or whatever, I will be like yeah I did this or I will casually say some of my ass with my had my God, it's from the podcast, I do. And if they're like, oh what's podcast? Mhm. Right then there's interest. And then. Yeah, I will kind of say it's this and it's about Letterkenny. And then I will get some people who like, who the f*** is letter, but right? Yeah, that and then the ones like, oh, that urge any, and they sold, there's only real two sides of Letterkenny fans either. You have never heard of it right here basically. Love it. There's really not much in between. So yeah, if they are interested I just give the rundown of what we do. And I think one of the end of the think, I know what the most common things I said, is that one of the coolest things about we do is we invite all of our listeners and friends on the show. Yeah. And that's when this thing really changed when we started doing that with, with more consistency and to the point that it's just part of the show because I just love that. Everybody loves it because it's like letter, cuz it's like we have created our own Letterkenny now. It's amazing. It's very Ensemble. Family helped drink, like it's driven by this thing. And I think that we see that when we all see, like when they'd shoot, and we see all the behind the scenes on Instagram, like can get the sense just from watching them and how they behave they have. That relationship and it's been confirmed in interviews that's intentional and, but we didn't. We discovered that later on. We didn't we assume that early on, but that's what brings people together. Hockey brings people together and that's how genuine the show is right, you right. You can't have that kind of authenticity even in something, it's kind of sketchy and like sketch driven, and all that, without that connection that they have, and they so clearly have And yeah, I think around like the Watchers and viewers of the letter can assure Z, even as obscure as some of what the show is brings. Some really amazing people together and I think I it does that and I have thought about this for is the topics they cover right there? Nothing's really off ground, even if they handle it and kind of out there ways or things that might at face value seemed kind of what the f*** is going on. It's smart and very Inclusive and nothing's a. So I think it draws a lot of people with those shared personality is a community and accepting of everyone regardless center around this, kind of show the ones that get it. Especially so it's natural. It makes sense that we would find a group of individuals likes yourselves, they're the same f****** way. Yeah, there's no, there's no bad blood in anything that we do in our interactions are. After shows the Discord, the pre Twitter, DM group, its Quite mind-blowing, you know, with this many people who don't really know each other and interact, so flawlessly, and in all in the end, it's not like they're going, hey, how was your day, like the conversations that happen are mind-blowing in a lot of cases, but they're still all well intended and well-received. And yeah, very passionate awesome group. It's because we were living our real-world fantasies out in. Like, that's all that was. Is, I think it's Jetix thing, I think it's a trademark of a generation. We were all dying to be, seven strangers, doing something together someday, right? And that's how that's definitely how I felt traveling, you know, in December. Yeah, and meeting you guys and having this technology, everything you said about tech. And I don't want my kids left. Like, I don't want my kids to be in the ones who don't know what's going on world. I am fine with them knowing and me being old I could do old lady s*** but I am Jed X. So I will be doing cooler old lady s***. Like I am not worried about that, but they need to be, they need to, they need to know. Do I have to prepare them? Right. Right. But I limit it only because they need to learn how to regulate their time. Yes, exactly. I have the self-controlled put my phone down and it's hard and I have to work on it, and I am 43. They definitely need like if I can habituate that now as a parent, then it's easier for them later. That I don't want them to have to figure out like, I am addicted. So, you know, you don't get 7 hours. You go to bed. Yeah. So anyway, this is about you. Not about me. I just feel good. This is what all this is about us, man. Martha, we're marathoning. I will see something go. When you go to wrap this s*** up, I got five minutes. Right? What know what's 90 minute Mark? I don't know. Is that 11 probably? I have been paying attention at all. Ask your questions case, whatever, thanks, Gil, questions. If you are buried up to your neck in a vat of boogers and a lump of poop was flung directly at your face. Would you duck into the boogers or let the poop hit? You doc into the burgers that was from Mike. Thank you, honey. Present from or friend down under Jack. How do you feel about? Continuing a podcast after you have already reached your goal of people wearing your face on T-shirts because that was in our mission statement. All right, but seriously what do you enjoy most about the experience of being a part of this podcast which I already answered and what the podcast is become your listeners. Also, when are you see booking you for hotel off? Hi. Oh yes. And I am sorry. Jack. I also owe you a response. I noticed the other day. A I missed a DM from him because I am an a******. So I he want I think. Yes. It was going to come back on their pot and of course I am. I will respond to you shortly here, folks? Yes, yes. Yes. I realize that I am like, I have been so busy. F***. I need to call on you to message Jack back behind the produce stand exclusive. So, the question was, what I enjoy most. Are ya, a part of being like most about the experience? Yeah. I mean, yeah. It's evolves you know if it was static, and we were just doing the same thing. We did day one. Not that, that's a bad thing necessarily but I think we would have wouldn't have gone this far. We would have enjoyed it for what it was. Mmm, gone, probably a couple seasons and who knows, right? Because it is a passion for me, but especially out like I think in val wasn't enjoying them 100%. If I was enjoying himself, this would not be where it is. Oh yeah, there's no doubt if there's any ever. Ever any doubt? Anyone L is the ship that keeps this thing going, and we f***** house done. We're all done focus when the house says, I don't want it pots. That's right. We're Forrest Gump, ugly. He's our glue. But no, the evolution I think is why this is still fun, right? It's never known what's coming. Even when we think we're out of ideas. There were not and there're more things coming and everyone's I loved when we started introducing you know bring us your ideas shows because some of those have been some of the best episodes because we have always just wish celebrating the show and I love that we are just an inclusive. I think in our podcast is the show is in itself where it's like nothing's off grounds. We want to talk to everyone who wanted whether your fan, your back behind the scenes, your part of the show on screen you just are Someone else that likes to show somewhere else like it doesn't matter. I hate taking anybody's. Yeah. And it does, it stays all on the script as well. It's not all about Letterkenny. It's our lives around it and that's also very cool. So, yeah, the biggest thing I think is the most exciting most proud of it all. This is the evolution of it. Hmm. And why it's still fun. Thank you. Tobias asks, what was your biggest concern, starting the produce stand and how has the podcast experience changed you? Concern. I didn't have any concerns. Okay, yeah. I mean if maybe is I had to have one, I could probably call out, it's going to sound terrible. But whether I was going to stay with it, not that I wasn't excited about it or anything like that. But again, I just know I have such a busy life, and I am like, am I going to be able to make time for this ongoing but then very quickly became? Of course, it's not even making time, this is something. I You and this is part of my life, and I am very thankful for it. So yeah, it's a maybe that was a concern early on as I don't want to let my friends down if I sum the go, this isn't Fun and duck out, hmm? What thankfully, that didn't happen that way but that was, that was certainly a concern. And the second part of that was, how's it changed you? This podcast experience, how is it change me? You want one? This is, I will be honest on this one. It has changed one of My opinions on a glare ecos close Nation to Canada and that would be the US of a not that I had a super negative opinion, but I hadn't had a ton of positive experience with Americans. Nothing super out there, but just there, there's, there's a Viewpoint. Yes is right. And I am sure you guys aren't oblivious to some of that. So even at I have been in the states a number of times always had a good time but definitely Some weird Vibes. So got the heck. Yeah. Yeah. And it's and I don't mean this in a way, but that was definitely my perspective on the states and realizing there really is some amazing f****** people down there as changed my opinion. I am like it's like anywhere. Like an is the same way, right? We have got the Lesser like the morons out there, who just drag down things and then you have got amazing epic people. And unfortunately like Anything. If you go to like the internet or anywhere the reviewers and the people who speak up are usually the ones with the worst things to say, right? And so that's why I still feel like Canada, has a global reputation of being maybe an f****** nice. Well, we have got idiots, don't worry, we know, but you promised manage them in a way that the rest of the world can't seem to control them. Maybe I really maybe a bit outnumbered yet, or we don't get enough media coverage I don't know which one it is. But anyway, let me just maybe. Did you guys some favors, right? Sure, you're right. But no, that was certainly one thing. I mean, my opinions and just maybe my confidence in my own, so we talked about the voice earlier. Yes, I have been a Toastmasters and I have spoken and have no issue doing things like that. But when we started doing some of the, like, the limericks and then the commercials, and yeah, number of other things that really showed that for myself that I do, have some ability and then even again through Al He's got me into some Voice work. Internally at our work as well, doing stuff for new product, launches, the things like that. And I have been, I have got a lot of good feedback and it's a lot of work I have done. So no, I have not landed a gig yet but that's turned into where I am we're actively working with her Hiring Agency to see if I can get a voice gig and you know it's fun. I like doing the auditions that they're, they're kind of like they're really cool. And if I happen to get one amazing, if not, at least it. I tried, right? But yeah, I am putting myself out there and trying to see what could happen. Good for you, dude. Um, got fingers and toes crossed for you. So what is still from Tobias? What is the best trip you have taken? Ever just in general. Okay so what is this? Gonna go opposite of that opposite but contrary to somewhat I said was my u.s. Trip with my wife. Nice. Alright so my wife, my wife we have yeah I haven't been to a whole lot of places to be honest but yeah we did it I talked about this briefly before became a number of years ago. We did a bit of a tour 14 Day Tour, we drove so Left Toronto stayed in Windsor Ontario for an evening to visit family drove to Nashville for a night, then drove in Nashville was an f****** blast, then drove to New Orleans and spent five or six days there, which was eye-opening and yeah, it was incredible. And then started our drive back, we spent a night in Atlanta a day there and then in Atlanta's wild. Hey, yeah. Yeah, we didn't really get to spend much time in Atlanta, okay, we only really saw during the day and actually, Finally there's a big weed rally there when we drove through downtown. Yes that and then in the opposite that in Nashville we saw a big tree anti Trump rally. So that was kind of fun but yeah one of those big blowup chicken Trump's was there. So I think I have a picture with my phone somewhere was amazing. Oh my God. Yeah and then yeah we did, and then we did a night and just outside of Lexington Kentucky and drove home after that's nice, that's nice country Lexington. That's kind of talk. He blew my didn't know what full Taki was like that. We talk Borgeous there. We actually said we'd go back there. For sure. I would love to see more of that country. This is Smoky Mountains, right? I think so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're in the Blue Ridge. I was in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which is Appalachian Trail. So you can hike the 80 from a 30-minute drive from where I am and go straight through. Yeah, I love live in an area like that Kentucky is freaking beautiful. Was I think? It's Unique and I can. If those are traveled, all the US, every state is very different. Mmm. It's like, well, it's like driving into a new country every time you cross the state line. So cool which is very unique. Yeah the further you go south end everything about the place changes like we drove into Louisiana, Mike Weir. This is what I pictured Louisiana. Well right from all the babies and s*** I would seen and yeah New Orleans is something special. I describe it as beautiful Anarchy, right. That's what I have heard. I have never been there. Yeah. It's I have had a lot of friends have gone. I have heard a lot of other people's stories. Yeah. I haven't yet to go and I think there's a reason but I haven't made it there. Yeah, it's sketch City but it's a lot of fun, and he's probably safe or for the world that I don't go there. Okay, fair enough. How does how to how do you plan around Actors takes on the show who has that one Tobias? How do you plan around Victor's? Takes on the show lamb? Who plans, they don't plan what plan? Let us get real house. The only one who plans anything. The rest of us shot. Victor doesn't even know if we're recording half the time. That's right. Pretty sure we got a message today saying we recorded tonight or maybe I will jump in early and told him just before he died. Message saying just a reminder make sure you're not recording tonight. Yeah. There's No preparing for Victor. There's no plan. Even if you try, you're going to be wrong, right? This is why we have games, like guess Victors, guess, right? It's terrifies me. But the same time, I would love to spend a little bit of time inside his head. Just to know how that man thinks it's mind-blowing to me. This was my love him for it only regret in Sudbury was that he got sick. We could we he was not feeling well enough to be seen because I just wanted to look into his eyes. He is, what do you know what I mean? I just want to make eye contact with his brain, through his eye holes. He is one of the most uniquely interesting, people, I know and there's no other way and that's not. And I hope that didn't come off as a bad way at all. He is just wildly interesting, angular just singular. He is face value. You get what you get. There're no apologies and it's more people should be like a Victor, he knows his role like he knows who he is. Yeah. But like 100% never met anyone who is a tune and aligned with who they can are. As There is absolutely. I respect the f*** out of it. Yep, I am here for it. I can't wait to hear your interview with him. It's gonna be all over the map and it's great. I, that is the only one that I am actually doing research for yeah. Like every, you and Alan Tanya. I feel comfortable with most comfortable with and I think that's because we have had dinner together. We didn't get bread. Victor is the one that I am I am researching. Yeah, it was most intimidated by ow. With that said, who is your favorite TPS cast? Member Aside from myself yet is on brand squirrely. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's not even food. Did you is this coming from you or is this a loser? Someone else. No, I actually decided that I would. Yeah, I am going to ask that question because I will always ask that question and I want to show him how uncomfortable and all foot is. I am trying to get him to stop asking this. Let us say it's a lie because I don't want to get fired but mmm no, I don't care about that. You know, I don't know. Yeah, I think you is. I think he go with your first answer. I think myself as the right-hand lead that one on record. So I have gotta choose. All right II. Feel like, okay, with that as much as we banter, it's got to be Victor. Yeah, I look forward. Like I was not wrong, then we drove up to Sudbury. I wish we had that van miked. Oh my god. Oh my god. Well, I have not laughed that hard in so f****** long and I don't know. I could even tell you what anything we talked about. All right, we just laughed at that video. Matt, heard everything about our trip of him getting so excited about that train. Yeah, I teared up. It's genuine. It was beautiful. Like it was beautiful and I watched it 20 times. You know what I mean? It was I would watch it. 21 love right now but o, we are recording this. Aaron asks Which Universe character would have been close friends with you and childhood college and now I am without dairy really isn't. Yeah, I think it's Terry. Yeah, I think it's Terry, are you being super soft because, you know, no, I genuine think it would have been Dairy copy and you LL know, it's even when you act. So, when I was listening back and you ask, yes. Dairy was the first person that came to my mind. There's something about him that just makes me laugh and I feel like he and I and our awkwardness when I was younger, especially Specially what a connected and then I think now, it's not that I am any of the others, but I feel like he would be someone to just be really entertaining to have her, which is why he's like, Wayne's best friend. He's always there. Yeah. Because he just, he's such a hello. He's funny, doesn't know. He's funny. He's genuine doesn't realize it like he's just yeah. I think he had Dairy for sure. And there's so many great characters in the show, but if you were to ask me that, as most likely early young Dairy, and It kicked off, and he'd a bit afraid? I would still like, oh, you got to be my buddy, Dairy, he would have done something that was similar to you, doing what? You did with hockey. Yeah. And then you would have adopted Dairy, 100%, that's the kind of relationship and be like, yeah, you keep around early because he just makes you laugh and then yeah. Long-term like no, this is more than that. And yeah, I am glad I know you. You're our Dairy. Do you have hat goals? Like what's on the horizon for you? What are you eyeballing for your next piece of the collection? This is an errand. Mmm. This is an errand question. Yeah. It's a good question that goal. I don't know. I mean I have scoped at a couple there's this brand afraid of was a found in calling what it was very small as kind of their, they hats were patched together with other pieces of material but still kind of in this style which I really thought was cool. So I am eyeballing. I know where the company has a control, what they were called. I can't I want I just want things that kind of stand out to me. I know, I never know like I said earlier, I never know what I am looking for. There's a few, there's one back there, it's a Gordon, brother's hat, I have had a couple of those, those hats. I love that brand a diagonal, the both with the diagonal. Thank you, thank you for going nice camo. Matt. Thank you couldn't see me at all. Could you, uh, very cool, right? It's everyone's seen these. Let us say there's a whole line. There's always He's an animal in a random word, I used to have a crocodile one. That's it snaps. And there's one that's a white one that says a seagull and it says Beach Bum. I really want. So I like their line. They make me laugh. Yeah. And then yeah, I will just look for other unique ones that anywhere I go. I glanced. Yeah, I am always it. If I see something catches my eye, I just I drawn to it, but I am very, I am very, also very picky. Right. You're an Aficionado. No I am just picky surprisingly and Joey. Joey Naylor would Joey gave me the hat that he brought when you guys came up from. Yeah records. I loved it. I wore that thing like it's on the wall now and I still wear it, so I can't remember what he got. You is come on that one more hat. Please. Will you show me one more? So that's, that's the Breckenridge one. Oh, yeah. And I absolutely love it. Yeah. That's where the hell was that like a month straight when he brought it? Yeah, no. That's like there's none of that. Oh, yeah. Thanks for the cool gift. No, it was amazing. I loved it. He nailed it. Yeah, it's got a place on the wall. That's huge. Aaron's final question and statement. Thank you for always welcoming new Degen members Your Enthusiasm and excitement means a lot. Got two. Newbies. Yeah, these are they, you Beast. You will be. What are your Friday's like after the Love Fest that is the podcast and sometimes after parties, what did my fried? Oh, yeah. Yeah, next day, I mean, just a regular Friday. I bounced back really quick. I mean, I don't stay up super late on these things. Now, first off, I think it's hilarious. To me that Aaron's excited about my enthusiasm. She is a beacon of f****** positivity and this world ain't so thank you for being you. Aaron lucky. She's but yeah, it might my friend. I don't know, I don't know how to read it. How to answer that if prices are just a Friday you know, I get up, I go to work, I sometimes I am hurting a bit but I work from home. So f*** it, grab a blanket, grab a couple of (Tylenol) and move on. F*** it. So this is sort of adjacent Second question to that, what you just said about working from home? Jack asks, would you ever design your own hats? I just saw that pop of do. I would actually, I think that'd be fun. I don't know where to be. I don't know where I would begin though. To be honest. Mmm. That would be fun. I have never really considered it. I don't know if they'd just be kind of stupid sayings, probably not. Either probably called why you go down to Australia. Maybe you have a business meeting, Jack. You got me f****** thinking though, I crossed my mind before, there's definitely elements of hats that I like. Like I said, I like color. I like some of the like the materials at some hats. Use different clever ways. Yeah, but I like good old trucker hats too. So I don't maybe I will give it some thought, dude. Dude, dude, North apparel. All right, my question format. This is from Jason Aker. Do you know what a Massachusetts Slurpee is, oh God if we're not, he needs to Google it and then explain it in his own words. I do I haven't looked this up. So oh wait, I shouldn't use. I said I shouldn't use my, I will do it. I will do It, I will do it. I can do it on my phone. Hold on here, I am nervous because I know I am too, but I think he did this on purpose, so I am going to go with it because we love Jason, of course. Something this is coming from him. Why Jason hold on, trying to reread this? So I understand it. Flake. It's like, what's the? What's that procedure? Oh my God. The women get to get pregnant from the doctor. What's that called? What? I am totally blanking. Artificial insemination. Yeah. Well then what's the other word? Like the acronym for something. It's like that. But without the doctor in feature of fertilization in vitro it's like In vitro. But if you didn't have a doctor or a doctor's office, and you only had a barn, And you went and had McDonald's. Is that check out which of the regular co-host would win a Royal Rumble? Which of the regular TPS hosts? Our co-host would win a Royal Rumble? Oh, this includes like everyone I guess. Yes, TPS host / co-hosts. Any of you talking about just the four of us? I don't know. I would like to take me but I don't know. I don't got a lot of weight behind me, so I might have a chance. No. What's a Royal Rumble Battle Royale? We all in the ring together, and that's what if we're including everyone, it's obviously Dennis, unless he's been blowing smoke to us for all these years. Right? Right. And he's like a stick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's possible that Dennis Dugan has Ben, I don't know. It's got to be him now. Yeah, right. So or trolley? Yeah. Charlie you got it. He's like our Dark Horse, right? Yeah. We don't know there's more to that story. Well, I just want to before you wrap up. See if there are any more questions in the live stream. Are you have the live stream up Matt because I haven't. I had it up and then it went away. Hold on. Well, if you're listening and there are any live stream questions for Matt some post. Now he's been monitoring it. He's on it I don't think there are any questions. Do you have any final thoughts that you would like to share? I have no more questions. Is there any story that you were hoping to share tonight? That I didn't ask you a question about? I feel like you and I could go on for ya. Another couple hours talking. And easily. But I don't, I don't want to take up owls and was there any? Oh. Was there any last questions? Pressing your mind on anything. Mmm. Turning the question back on the question. I asked her. I like this technique from an interviewing a suspect. Put that one in your pocket. Yeah. I used to do as a leader when I joined a team and I didn't know most of the answers because I realized that, my team knew way more than me, what I learned really quick as you can off Lee, usually get to the right answer, just by asking questions back. And the person you're talking to normally knows the answer already. They just haven't gotten there yet or their confidence in there, so that's how you help them get there. What was your favorite and oh, I will just had one went away. I got halfway through reading it. What is our favorite interview all that? We have done Matt. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. I mean, out of the gate, Patrick was a special because he was first, mmm, and he was really cool and sort of set the stage. We had a really good time with him. Why? I think one of those, I felt most comfortable with Tyler, Johnson, and Ryan Ronald Donald Ryan, Donna McDonald. I really like talking to those guys. They were very natural, very easy. Favorites. McHenry was a great one, good muku. You thought was really interesting when I really enjoyed his, I thought he was wasn't what I expected at all. And I really liked his stories and is talking about how he found his role and Counting poles on the way up to Sudbury. Yeah, it's just the one, all the ones that kind of felt More conversational because we definitely done a few where it's like. Okay, sit down here. Your questions. Boom, boom. Boom, boom. Thanks for coming out, and they're fun, they're great. Yeah, but ones that, I mean like what we're doing here? We're having a conversation. It's a two-way street are always the best ones because just like my name is said about, so it's like hanging out with your friends and of course, I am gonna hang on my friends, we're going to some Wicked conversation, and we're going to laugh, right? But hopefully exactly where we're going to get sentimental. We're gonna do something. It's there's going to be a motion in some capacity but — so yeah, I mean those are. So I would say I have a specific favorite, but those are the ones that stand down. Mmm. Oh Chad, I forgot. Chad said, you know what to say which is here. It is f*** you, Matt. But he also wants to know who is your favorite DJ Jen? And why is it Chad? Well, Chad, I mean it's hard. He's, it's Chad, he's a big football fan. Hmm, right, soccer. Hmm. I don't like soccer though. You don't like the sports ball. Now go sports. So why is it sad? Why is it Chad? He's an OG man. No, we always rely on Chad to be there. I know what he means when he says f*** you. He's deep down hate for me. It's okay. It's okay. And I accept that I can take that. Burden from you, Chad, I am okay, I have got a thick skin and that's why, you know if I need to be his venting post, I am in, I got your back buddy. So that's why it's, that's why it's Chad that's a solid answer. Every Chad. Damn. Damn, damn, that gave me tingles. So who, who in Letterkenny? Do you think you could advise the best? Like whom would you want to Mentor in Letterkenny Who would I want to Mentor? Yeah. So I would you would be like mentoring this personal help it, like there, Wayne you know? Oh man. That's an f****** good question. I don't know what I bring to the table and a lot of those. It's an excellent question, right? Is an excellent one and then like it because I don't need mentoring, probably could use some, but don't need it and or, and or don't want it. So there's a there's also that receptive. Are they going to be open to it? So, I mean, I think about I am like, I am actually gonna have success like I mean, obviously Stewart, I think is a big one. I love them, but he needs some guidance sometimes so not that in mines, much. Better than probably what he's putting out, but maybe Stewart Makai. I feel like, yeah, McHenry and Alexander, I would love to take him on. He's genuine the show and there's more of him to give and I think I would love to have him around. So maybe Alexander. I like That's a good answer. Now, I don't have any more pressing questions for us. I am just really glad to have been able to have this conversation with you. I, I really appreciated meeting you in person and connecting, and then as we have gotten to learn more about each other. I want to talk more just in general, about Voice work. And if you have any questions, or if you want To have some Voice work. You know, we can talk about that because I think, I think me getting back into my voice work and re-entering that field again, and us meeting around this. And at the same time, like things happen, things just happen. And I feel like L and U, and this philosophy of all of us, just asking the question and saying, yes, to Opportunities. That's where the magic is. Absolutely, I think because everybody's been so. So willing and vulnerable, and just willing to say, yes and ask questions. No, I think that's what makes everybody unique gain are wrong. And, you know if I guess a few things at the end of his well, like, I mean, thank you, Casey, for doing this. I mean, you have come to his community and you came in and such a fantastic way and brought so much to the table. Absolutely meeting you. And the others in Toronto was a highlight of the year last year. It's just yeah, I love where this is going. I love the people around it. I love that. You guys have also understood that it was not a bluff. And anyway we said this is everyone show, and we want you all to be marked as you guys have all just said, all right, we're doing this now, and we're like okay I love that. This is that's one of my absolute favorite things about this and you know, every time I have said on the show, it's 100% genuine because it's, I love what everyone's bringing to the table and the and what we're continuing To do so, thank you to you and everyone around it for making this so much fun and continuing to support us and love us and be a part of this group. So if forever grateful in that, and then of course, to, to my fellow DJ ends on the, on the podcast, the ogs here with Tanyard Victor. It's, it's a, it's unbelievable. And of course, I mean, it's no surprise where they were almost grateful to Al and everything he's done for the show and his ideas and his Creative Vision and his openness to everything. Yeah, I know he's just as surprised by a lot of what's happened around this but none of this would be here without him. And we are very thankful then of course my other co-host, love them to death and I hope we keep finding ways to do this for as long as we can even if it involves into something different. It's just at the end of the day to me, this is a wicked unique way to stay connected with people. Hmm, whether it's 1 to 500, I don't care. People were staying connect with people in a world where surprisingly connection is harder to find like authentic real connection. Yeah, so this is opened up a new channel that invoice for myself, didn't know existed. So very fortunate to have been a part of to be a part of it. Yeah, I don't think I could have said it better myself. Thank you for taking the time out. Thank you to Al for making the space for us to do this. And being the producer of tonight Al has been on the board, and he is going to play us out tonight with this beautiful song. It's compression by the hunches. Thank you. Thank you. It's actually pubes. Why didn't my friend and Edmund and canning? Sorry, I was reading. In the top of the soundboard. My bad one job l. Oh, that's okay. Well that is it for us for now I want to remind everybody to get some coffee, from our sponsor diabolical coffee. Right now, you can get 20% off using the code produce and pod follow us produce, stand pot on all social platforms. Join the Discord, all that good stuff. Now it's time for us to say good night and head to the after-party on behalf of squirrely, Matt. And I am on the board and myself, have a great night. Thanks for listening and Peter patter.
