TPS185: An Interview With Jacob Smith (aka Fish)
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The gang at The Produce Stand are joined by Jacob Smith, who plays Fish on Shoresy.
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I am now your host and joining me in the room is a lovely tan, you as always and online, we have squirrely mat and the very thoughtful Victor and joining us this week he's a hockey player and actor a podcaster. A success coach, but we all know and love him as the ugliest player on the blueberry. Bulldogs fish from Shore Z. Please join me, making some noise for Jacob Smith Madras. Oh my gourd. I regret nothing. Welcome to the produce stand Jacob. Well okay, so you guys did your research, I thought I was gonna come on as fish from Shore Z, but I came in as a whole list of thing. So, all right, we're going to get to all of it. This is your life, I hope you have but three or four hours, so I am just kidding. We will try to get it within the hour. First of all, Welcome to the produce and thank you for joining us. Jacob, it's amazing where he's joining us from my absolute pleasure. I am in beautiful South Florida. I am about a 10-minute walk from ocean ridge, which is East, Boynton Beach, West, Palm and for. And that's where you live. That's where I am living. Yeah, okay. And what where are you from originally Sudbury? Ontario. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, for sure and not the ugliest, I mean, I don't know what sure he was. Talking about I will take it. Maybe second, I guess it's amazing. Good, he's not the best man, whatever. Anyways, great to see you again. I mean we got to hang out a bit up in Sudbury, a couple of months ago. Now feels like so long ago, but we had a great time at station. 84 with you and do low. And who else was at Harlan, was there and Andrew and stuff. It was a lot of fun. So, we appreciated that. So, let us start from the beginning. I mean, I mean you were a hockey player. You played on many teams and leagues. For example, the Kingston front frontenacs of the OHL, the Sioux Greyhounds first season. So can you tell us are the Sue really that f****** good? Well that yes I studied a lot there but yes they are. Yeah it was interesting. My hockey career started in Kingston and transition in the Sue didn't spend a whole lot of time there. Couple things happened and Gout, and then kind of just bounced around. Bounced around from there you are. Wait, wait, wait a second. You can't talk about the Sue without at least mentioning The dubis Collection connection there. You know what Kyle do us. Yeah. What's the connection? Mr. Hawk Enos he's all about the Sioux like he recruits, literally everyone he's ever connected with from the Sioux. So I think you will be calling getting a call from the Penguins, a short. Yeah, yeah. Well, actually me and do besides, like, I You know if he would remember this but I don't we didn't end on good terms. Oh yeah. It was about 10 to 15 games into the season and I got shipped over there from Kingston with Promises of this that and the other thing and it didn't present itself to me. Now at the time I didn't know I had to work for it with you. Yeah it wasn't quite an adult at that point 17 year old kid with a chip on my shoulder right but I decided to, I thought I would be the big balls move to walk up to his Roman, you know, threatened to leave. And I said, listen, Kyle like, I mean, I love the place. I love my billets. I love the guys and stuff, and this is a lot of fun, but like, what do you expect me to do just sitting around? Like we're 14 games in the season, I got one regular-season time, I touch the ice. So I said, you know, it's either like I leave or you put me in the lineup and basically gave him an ultimatum. We kind of got a little more intense than that. Again, my 17 year old brain doesn't really remember that much. I don't to start flying. You guys accentuating the story but at the bottom, bottom line is that we had some Choice words. Sure more from my end than his, but he offered me a spot in the junior 18 to get my feet going because he's like, well, we need you up here to fill in the lineup. I said, well, there's no fill in, so he's like, well, we will put you in the junior a loop and I didn't want to play in that Junior a loop. You know, that's Cochran. Sudbury canvas casing. Tim is like a, you know, growing up. I just didn't want to play in that, so I said then you know, screw it, I am out. And then I call my agent, and he's like, you did what drinking Coke? That's good. That's the future. GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs that you just yeah. Yeah, I am gonna bash it. No, it was, yeah, it was quite an interesting little conversation and then that was kind of it for my OHL career. Wow. That's wild. So let me play. So you helped dubas grow into the GM that he became well yeah he actually had to stand in and be himself in front of me and that was the learning curve into getting the job, the job. It's all turning point for everyone on YouTube. Exactly, let us rewind just a bit. I think we skipped a bunch of stuff that I mean, what was it? Like, growing up in Sudbury better than it is now, I don't know if you guys got a little bit of a feel for the city but it's a little dirty little grimy right now and I don't think I would be insulting many people and saying that because it's quite honestly the truth. There's just a lot of call it riffraff. You know, I will be it. You know, the roads aren't in great shape. The buildings are in rough shape that the Zoning for different. Infrastructures is like, you know, one bill passes one doesn't like, there's just a lot up in the air, and right, it's just, it's just chaotic. I guess is the best word for that City right now, but growing up, it was, you know, I grew up in East Northeast of sudbury's town, about 20 minutes away called Valley East. And that, that's where like, there was a very tight-knit group. It was more of an up-and-coming town. The soccer was good. The hockey was good. I had a lot of close friends. So for me it was just a classic Canadian, you know, Suburban childhood. Yeah. Do you have family still up in the area? Everybody's in there. Yeah, except for my mom and my dad and my sister there in Kingston Ontario and now everybody else is still in Sudbury. So going up for the show was that your first is it wasn't your first time going back then since childhood? Yeah I know. So I left Kingston at 16. I would come back every summer or I left Sudbury at 16. I come back every summer and then Lived there for four years. I went to University there. Got my I was gonna say you played a Laurentian, right? So yeah, exactly, for example, what did you take? Their I took Sports Administration, so I got and I got a bachelor of Commerce degree, learn about sports. It was the best present ever. Yeah, that's amazing. And you know where your comment about Sudbury there? We can definitely see somewhat you're saying, you know, spell we have been up there a couple times now in the last six months or so and there's definitely those moments those darker. ER grimy or moment you talk about but there's still so much potential that town which is what we saw, right? Like it really had a great time. He's so nothing we saw you was probably one of the best weekend's. I have had a weigh-in as long as I can remember and a lot of it had to do with Sudbury itself, like the people, we met the things we interacted with. Yes, we saw the other side as you can't miss it, walking downtown. But what that is son, is this amazing times we had. But let me just say this and I mean, I haven't traveled probably as much as Jacob, but traveling for my Our podcast across the country across Canada. I am seeing that in a lot of medium-sized towns where, you know, there's a lot of homelessness. I mean, the pandemic kind of, you know, messed a lot of people upright and, and the inflation and stuff. And, and it feels like these small, these medium-sized cities are the ones that are, you know, bearing the brunt of it. I saw it in Moncton. I saw it, you know, we see it in Sudbury, I saw it in Prince, Albert Saskatchewan, it doesn't take away from the charm of the city, but it does, you know, You sir to have to look at it from a different angle. Right? Right. And I am a little harder on the city shirt. I know its potential. That's exactly it. Not like I agree with you 100%. There's so much good there. Like if they just did a little bit more, you know, 10 15, 20 years ago to that downtown core. Like you'd have a lot more, you know, growth and population. A lot more people would be enjoying the city rather than just you know it being an f****** meme. Sorry, can I swear on this bug? Absolutely. So, as you said, you played it for Laurentian. I guess, after, you know, you did the hockey thing in juniors for a while you decided to take the academic route in order to keep on playing, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I got, I called one of my old coaches who helped me out in my minor, minor magic, minor hockey career, and he said, well what do you want to do? And I didn't really know much. I was just thinking one day at a time. One year at a time in Gnocchi was all it was and then I said well, I don't know. He's like you want to get a degree and I said yeah he's like what do you want to get it? I said, I don't know. Something business, something Sports, and he goes well we have the best sports Business program in the country. I said, okay, what is it? He said spad Sports Administration. I started doing my research and like the degree by all accounts was just exactly what I was looking for. So I said okay well that's not such a bad idea like moved back home, whatever and yeah, the rest fall into place. I, you know, I knew the coaches at the time I knew You guys on the team I lived at home I could live at home. I you know there's just there was so many good things pointing towards that. So I just kind of dove in its case but then you did spend one last year and you went to France you played in France. Yeah so after that I, so I graduate so yeah so my Junior career was for years then I went to college for four years of University whatever right? And then I went rape for the pandemic hit. I decided to take a year in France and one of my good buddies, Nicholas. Beyond his agent, brought him out to tour, which is in the, I don't know. Geography, it's in France and the French league. And, and then I said, well, can I borrow your agent? Like can, he hook me up, and he goes, no problem. So he messages me is Agents number, and we start getting, we get to talk, and he goes I got an offer for you. And the first offer I got was because one of the guys was that was supposed to take that spot had bailed the day before. So his agent reached out the perfect time is like the spot was Kind of like the show, how the show? Yeah, ironically enough. Yeah. And, so I just said, you know what, I read the contract. They said this is exactly what I am looking for. Let us do it. And it turned out to be the best experience ever. I the best teammates, I had a great gig like to make money on the side on top of what I was doing, like the Nightlife was just quiet enough that it wasn't too much, but it was just Rowdy enough for it was good when we when the boys got together, right? The restaurants were good, obviously the Grocery stores food, everything is good like it was just France, man. And like I had the best time ever. And then at the end of the season it was about mid-march or early. March, we come to the rink one day. And then that's when we got the news, it was like, there's something going around, we're like okay, whatever, you know, and we were in what? What they call the relegation series. And now we had a great team, and I love the guys so much, and I am going to slander him a little bit, but the goalies were terrible. Okay. I am going to listen this bike, I hope but I love him to death but both amazing guys, I go to bat for him. She gave the week, but they just were not the good caliber bully, so they cost us a lot of the games. And so we ended up just squeezing in the relegation and relegation is to see if that team goes to the series, The League underneath for the next Following season. I wasn't, I didn't have a lot of plans to come back. I wasn't sure what I was going to do. So basically, it was nothing hockey for me at the end of the season, when there was like, This kind of thing going around. Like it was just crazy so it was a blessing in disguise that I got to go home early. Hmm. And then what brings? So how did you end up in Florida? That's a, I think it from what I recall from our chats. That's an interesting story. Okay. So you said you wanted for hours, right? Yeah, maybe only you know, give us the two speakers one. Yeah. One hour part. One Coles notes here. So I met Girl online, and to is crazy as old as time. Yeah, yeah. Tim's all this time. And it was over Tick-Tock. My had posted a video that went viral and a lot of people liked. It is opinionated video. I respect people for their opinions and I expect people don't respect me for mine and apparently this one just happened to, you know, grow and expand and gain traction. And at the time there was a lot of frustration because of what we were having to endure is Canadians from my And, and so she's American, and she said, well, I like your energy. I like what you're speaking about and not just that, but she then took that video and then navigate to my podcast and said, oh, okay. So you actually you're learning about deeper philosophical ideologies and I said, yeah, like that's kind of where I am my scope is, and then she's just started talking to me. And, and I was like, okay, well let us FaceTime, let us get to know each other. Like, you know, I want to build connections and then just snowball, three and a half months later of, you know, An hour at a time, FaceTime. So six hours, seven hours, you know, it's crazy, three and a half months later, I went and visited her here, came to visit her here. We spent 13 days, with each other knew. Everything was just as good as the three and a half months, if not the obviously better, because we even person. Yeah, and then, so I flew home and like, I was just like, like, I got to get back there. I got to figure it out. So she went to Hawaii. So I will talk timelines, A little sloppy but so this i m in Of 2021, I go visit her in July of 2021, she goes to Hawaii in August of 2021 tries to come back to Canada in September, can't do it right? So I fly down marry her. We take it in, we get in her car, and we cross the border to come into Canada because they can't say no at that point, they, you know, they have to let her in. Then we live with my parents for 10 months, just to kind of get our feet wet trying to figure stuff. I would save some money, whatever, and they were awesome throughout the whole journey and that was, you know, it's the shore Z thing, my dad having a couple heart attack, you know, my grandmother passed away. There's a lot of crazy stuff that happens, right? And then it got to the point August 20 22. Or she's like, I want to go back home. So I said, okay, let us do it and then the rest is kind of History. I am here now or dad had a company that was able to give me a tea, an over the border illegally. And so kind of just, you know, that's how I kind of navigated the waters and got here. Amazing. You mentioned two things that you glossed over. So, first, kind of the first of all, the more important one, how's your dad doing right now? I appreciate that. Yeah. Dad's one day at a time, and he had his heart attacks month. You know, it was two weeks before we started filming Shore. Z. Yeah, I had the first one on October 31st and then the second one, November 7th and I found out about Shore Z November 11th. So that was kind of like him pushing me. You got to go, you got to go so that but bottom line is that was a year and a half ago, and he still kind of coming back. You know, you're never really the same after that, but God Loved A man. He's strong, and he keeps pushing through and I just, you know, I am there, you know, for him every step of the way. So that's kind of been on one day at a time. Yeah, that's great. And, and, and really happy to hear that. And the other thing that you have lost over is, you got married? Yeah, we think so. So that's yeah. Rats. But how, how did I happen? Did she propose, did you propose you know where they're supposed to ceremony on Tick-Tock? Yeah. Yeah obviously there would have been a few viewers for that because she had a little bit of a following at the time to. So collectively was like, anyways, I am gonna give numbers but there's a lot but anyways. Yeah, I man this is crazy. I began I could talk about this for three, four hours but the short form is September. I was like, I don't know, late August, whatever. I was like, you know what, there's something in me. I feel like I need to just clean up. I need to be sober off of everything and I would you know, not that I was an addict by any means, but I just, I am very spiritual. So my like intuition kind of guides me towards things. That's the best way I could describe it. My intuition was saying, how about you just try to take a month off of all your vices, all your bad habits, all your quote-unquote, addictions, whatever you call them. And let us just, let us just see where your Clarity of mind is like, it was Of like an internal personal Challenge and September. 31st, I flew down to sear. And then October, first I was like, we woke up went to the beach, and she like we already had this kind of plan. So she knew the proposal was coming and so it wasn't that big of a deal. But in my mind it was the biggest freaking deal. Like it was so intimidating. I have no reason to feel this intimidated but just like walking along A beach, and she knows it's coming. And I am just like, okay. So if I go on one knee right now, that's kind of like it. You do know you're committed to romantic. So I am like, okay, I am kind of my head, but at the same time, like I wanted it to be a special moment. I kind of wanted to catch her off guard. I didn't want a lot of people around like I was just over thinking in my head and then I just got down on one knee about 7:30 in the morning. We watch the sunrise, Bubba, Bubba. And then we just, you know, drove to the courthouse, made it official. Had to do the ceremony with our masks on and stuff. Like it was crazy. It was actually such a really crazy thing and that's decision I ever made. Wow amazing man. That was some pretty cool. Yeah, I love that so and if you guys I mean maybe it's even not your thing but you have you guys had a chance to celebrate in a bigger way with the family and friends since things that sounded very much you guys and I love it but any extra her parents don't know yet so that's so don't send them this link. So we're live streaming right now and join them to assume is so good. Good on you, for not having your, your Tick Tock followers that on that one. Didn't get dad's permission. That's exactly it. But do you know what that we have discussed the parameters of what it's going to look like when it does happen and I want to be at a point where Like it's like I don't know. We, I will be at financially, we're on a place I have. I was like things like we can tell, we can break it to them in a good way. And if at all the decision might be, let us just not even tell them, you know, let us go talk to my dad and asked to propose and see if we see what he says. That point like he'd give us his but his Blessing, and he says, no, that would say I love this Secret Love Story. This is you doing everything differently anyway. It's good. I listen I am here to do everything differently apparently so unorthodox my life is so unorthodox it's so stressful and I don't wish this life on anybody but it's just the way I am and who Jacob is so you have created season one of your life. Yeah nobody knows. It's what's going to happen to? This is a sitcom waiting and on that Cliffhanger when you do that other proposal what he said, The fact that he has brought you into the u.s. Through his work, you know. He likes you. Well thank you. You're working for the man, right? Yeah, no longer. Oh okay. Yeah but not that far. So let us move on to what comes first observe in detention podcast or success coach. The observant attention. I don't even know how you guys found success coach. That was like it's a pretty fairly new Venture. So I found your website I mean it's good on your weight on your Lig tree. It's not that hard. Tell ya, it's true. It's on my link. The hardest thing to find about you about anything was your hockey stats, because how many Jacobs Smiths are there? There's a million of them. Yeah, there's a bunch man. Yeah, thank my dad for that way. His name's Bob though, so it's not like he had a John as well. Recently, we're dropping of players that you had cups of coffee with, so, that was pretty cool. And so, you know, there's, if I remember correctly, there was Bennett. There was the declared there was. What's, who's that guy in? Winnipeg. Now do one thing for my place. Yeah. The why do I always? That's, here's podcast, is I hear you talking about? Yeah, I know, average, average, jocks, I don't know if you heard that one, I haven't heard that. Yeah, they're, they're just a couple guys kind of doing it out of the basement, sort of deal. But I mean, I don't know their viewership, but that's just kind of the vibe I got. But they also you posted that the other day look like fun. Oh yeah. This is cool. Very cool that you guys are now and then, you know, and now you're a panther spent so my condolences To you for that, you know, maybe next year, yeah, it wasn't even close. Unfortunately, but yeah, yeah. We Knew Vegas was having that one read from the get but especially with constructs injuries. I don't know how they come out yet. With what he broke sternum? Yeah, broken sternum. It's like, that was crazy. I would like, you know, broken ribs broken. Like, I don't know, Kinds of crazy thing. Yeah, guys, play through it. Yeah. But you know what? There's a bit of karma there, right? Because you know the Misfits all came from Florida in Vegas. So you know, so it's like I don't know. So I am kind of happy for Vegas because I am a Phil Kessel fan, and he won the cup. The way he always did are you without moving a muscle for? Yeah. You wanted to cup sitting in a box. I don't eat all the hot dogs. He wants. All right, let us move on observant. Attention podcast. Yeah. Well how did that start apologies? Wow. I mean, How much can I go into it here? I had a night, call it a spiritual awakening, whatever you want to do, like, you know, sometimes it's cliched. People say it's woo stuff. But man, like, it was, as real as it can be. I just had a night full of Revelations of full of different understandings and it changed the course of my life. I had a relationship at the time that lasted another six weeks after that. And then we parted ways. I thought I was going to go back and play another year in France through the covid thing. I called my GM up a couple. Later, I said, I want to play hockey anymore, just shifted my entire line of life, and I am looking at it, you know. 2020 right now is the best decision I ever made. So obviously there's got to be some validity to what happened to me and what I was able to experience, and I have been that kind of just turned into the podcast and the best way I could describe it as a podcast built itself, I just kind of just kept listening, and I was just so passionate about learning and understanding the Deeper aspects of life. Like, I mean, the way I used, I looked at used to look at, I still look at it this way, but what I was most passionate about was the fact that we're human beings and nobody really talks about that, like, you know, we just kind of go and kind of do our thing. Like, well, what about, you know, the, the philosophy of like, what my brain is, what my heart is. Like, that's just something that I have always been passionate about. I just never had any incentive to dive into it because I was just, you know, a hockey Are you then? You know, during the Summers I hang out with the buddies and my buddies weren't ready to talk about that. So like you know, I wasn't just going to start doing stuff. But then that kind of call it, spiritual awakening, whatever kind of put me in that frame of mind where I said, I don't care what anybody else thinks. I don't care how I look to people, I don't care if I am crazy. I need people to understand what I understand and what's literally created the foundation for the next two years of my life, three years of my life and not. And that's that was the inspiration for my podcast. Interesting. Now, there's a couple of seasons of it there and I think the last season was 2020s is something. Is that something you're going to pick up again? Or did that run? Its course. So I learned pretty quickly that podcast was more for me than anyone else that podcast was. So I could gain my voice, so I could be confident. So I could not care what anybody thinks. So I could basically speak out, so learn type and then speak out what I was teaching. Essentially to myself. So it would integrate in my subconscious. And that's kind of what I am looking back on it and seeing it as now. Now moving forward, it might help and it has helped. Countless people that have reached out to me and said, man, like this information, like why isn't out there like, why isn't all this different like, why isn't everybody putting? You know Dr. Joe dispenses. It works with like Alan Watts and Jim quick and you know, all these big-name guys, why aren't they, why isn't there one area where somebody can listen? To all their information. And so, anyways, that's kind of where that kind of came from. Not a lot, I love that angle. I mean, why not, right? It's it gave you a forum to find your voice, and we all have them in different capacities and I will and I have gone through Toastmasters at one point. I would say that was a big part of helping me, find my own voice. We did this, not knowing where it would go and it's helped us all evolve. Our, I know, Tanya's example you were quite, I don't know. Passive, when you first joined and now, You can talk for days and I love it. So like we all, we all use our are different modems to mediums, to find our voice. Oh, that worked for you. Why the hell not. But I do have to ask though. So, I did start listening to someone and it's, it's pretty deep in. There's a lot of knowledge that you're drawing from in that. And I know you said, you had a ba in was Sports Marketing Service Parts, Commerce, or whatever. Yeah. Thank you. And, but that's not where all that's coming from. So, where are you getting this knowledge? I am assuming your doing your own research and then pulling your own observations and creating your opinions out of that. So were you drawing a lot of the information that you're producing out of the show? Yeah. Okay so the podcast was a lot of It was a lot of research but it was more or less man meditation it with it. I am a big, you know, spiritual kind of, you know what's the word like nerd. Okay. And I, when I had that shift in my life, I started really understanding like energy frequency vibration and a lot of people know that through Nikola Fun, you know, 369 method and manifestation Laws of Attraction. And I really wanted to try to utilize that and tap into it to create what I, you know what I was doing with my life. I didn't want to just kind of, you know, go by and put on the mask of the hockey player and say, let me just get it. Uh, so I wanted to really test it out. So, throughout my journey, I learned about Dr. Joe dispenza who I mentioned earlier, and he does a lot of work with quantum physics, and so I kind of delved into the quantum physics in the Quantum field and started learning how that to kind of manipulate matter through energy, frequency vibration and meditation and all that stuff. And I really, I really went deep into that stuff and then through that journey, I was more directed than anything of where to look. You know, not all the information has come through my meditative process. Sometimes, come through books, I read the bug the Gita which is a Hindu text, somebody gave me the Gospel of Thomas, which is a Christian text. I, you know, I have done my religious and spiritual work. The way, the superior man is a text from David deida who talks about, like, the way to be a Divine masculine and to step into being a proper way of being a man. So like just all that the books and the meditation and the research and just being guided, I was kind of able to amalgamate all of that information into one sector and then be able to disperse it in such a way where it's digestible to my viewers. Nice. So it's the success coaching Kind of add a Natural Evolution from this then exactly. So I sat down with good buddy of mine the other day and I got back. And I am like, okay so now I am back in Florida I am kind of like in between stuff I want to do, I say I am trying to figure out plant my feet and it started off as like I could write. Like I am a pretty decent writer and I feel like I could help some businesses, but it's not quite my passion right now. I mean, I could do some business Consulting work, which I have done, I have my business degree, I have done some small business, Salting and help businesses grow. I have some testimonials on my website that can, you know, attest to that I have the capacity to do that, but I said that again, that's not really what I am passionate about. I said, I am passionate about serving people and helping small business owners and people who aren't necessarily able to balance work and life. They have a very tough time doing that. So now I, I kind of I am putting all my energy and all my focus on Creating relationships where I am able to help people, bridge, the gap between their life, albeit, mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, whatever it is, and kind of bridge that Gap to their work life. And say, like, listen, the reason your, this isn't happening, right? Correctly is because, you know this and, you know, help them in that way. I mean, the biggest way I could say it and I heard this on a podcast that mine surgeon. You know, people might call me life. Hold your business coach, or spiritual coach, whatever, what have you? But I want to be there for them. I want to help people experience what I have been able and been lucky enough to experience. And the proof is kind of, in the way. I have lived my life and in the people, I have been able to assist along the way as well. Good for you man. That's amazing. Yeah, appreciate that. That's luck with that. So let us get to the advertised portion of this podcast. The reason everyone's here is to hear about right. This show called Shore. Z. How did you get? I mean, we forget who we talked to that. Let it out that you weren't the first fish. That's right. But you were the one that stuck. So what happened there? How did you end up on shore Z? Yeah, so Ashley kid, and she again I don't, I think Ashley I she has a legal last name. She goes back, actually can on my Facebook. I know, right /, leave it. So actually she messaged me One day cause she thinks I am living inside bre. And she says, Jacob, we need to send in a tape. There's a hockey shown said, we're looking for guys. I said, okay sounds good Olivia help me with the tape. We set it up user, nice camera made, it looks all cool. Whatever sent it in, didn't hear anything back for like a week, five days, whatever, and now you messages like so, what's up anything? And she goes, oh sorry, like they went with a different route but like, they're looking for special skills, and they saw that you had Pro Hockey experience. Would you be interested in doing some of the background work? And I said, okay, like I could be on the ice passing the puck around. Sure. And again I didn't know what yours he was at this time. I just new that it was you know, more than minimum wage and that I was able to play hockey. So I said, let us do it. Like I am not home. Yeah, exactly no-brainer. So then she goes. Okay. Settle you. And I said, is it possible to get a hotel room? She goes hotel room. I see she goes, aren't you? In Sudbury said, no, I am in Kingston, she goes. Oh, okay. Well, let me talk to Kara. So she goes and talks to one of the producers. And then Kara says, you know what, he's pretty good at hockey. Like what we will hook them up like we need some special skills will put them up in the hotel. We will get him a room. Whatever I said perfect let us do it. So this was like November 9th may be that they confirm this 100% a couple days after my dad's heart attack, and he was telling me like, you should go like, don't worry, I will be fine. We will figure it out I said, Okay, okay. Then November 11th rolls around and help my buddy with his business. I am behind the desk and I get a phone call about 2:30 in the afternoon. She goes Jacob like yeah. Like who's this? And she's like, it's Kara, I am the producer on the show Shore Z I said, okay, why is the producer calling me? And she said, listen, we ran into a little bit of a snag here. We have a spot that just opened up for one of the acting roles that we need. It filled ASAP, Jared saw your tape, and he loved your energy and loved your charisma. Like he said you fit the role perfectly. Would you be That and I said this on my last podcast, if I knew what I knew. Now, it would have been a yes before she could even have finished the sentence run, or I would have tried to play it, cool million. Yeah. You know, but, but at the time I was actually like, genuinely, like, I don't know. Let me go ask my pressure. I said Cara, like give me a, but can I have half an hour? Can I tell you? She goes, yeah, no problem. Take the time, call me back. I said, okay, I go home. I explained the whole situation again. Olivia. And I just had my Moved into my parents place October 4th, so I needed to consult her. First sure I needed to say, like, do you want to live in a hotel room for six weeks? Essentially, you know, and she goes, you know what, this is a cool opportunity. I am in you just figure out what the financial benefit is, what the story's about who your character is. Like there's a lot of questions out lying. So I said, okay, so I call her back and ask her the questions and I write them all down on the sheet and somewhere in here, and they was just a crazy list of questions that were answered far. And what I thought they were going to be answered and then all of a sudden, I go ask my grandparents and like they were like freaking out. And I am like is it that big of a deal? Like I didn't really think much of it, and they were like, no, like, I guess they could feel how cool it was, and I was an opportunity. I was kind of like I was because all due respect the spin-off shows, I didn't, I don't know many spin-offs that are like, oh, that's been us way better than sure, Rachel wrong door. That's been doing great. Like I didn't think that. So did you even know anything about Letterkenny? I did a little bit because Ashley would message me and say, hey, we need a guy for this part, whatever. Do you have a guy in hockey team? And I would message you guy and like, send him off. That was kind of our relationship. I would watch YouTube between the, the hockey players in the Hicks. Sure. I like that. The way they pull up in the Jeep, like the classic video. So, I knew, I had a little bit of like, underlying knowing, but the general gist It as I didn't know how big it was. I didn't know there was a cult following. I knew there was a couple hundred thousand followers on Instagram. I didn't know it was almost a million or whatever you are at right now but, so I didn't know, I didn't know they went on tour and sold tickets. Like I didn't know that. It was like that, you know, they had a podcast that follows them and stuff. Yeah. Like yeah. Yeah exactly. But so yeah, I just called her back. I said she's like. Okay. So what's the deal? Do you want to do it? I said I would love to do it. She goes, can you be here tomorrow for the skate? And I said, I said, well, if I leave tomorrow, I wouldn't be there till two in the skates at noon. She's like, okay, that's okay. If you can't make the skate, can you make the following day? And I said, how about I leave tonight? And she goes awesome. She goes, I love it. And then I say, okay and it just so happened that I put my car in the garage and got my winter tires on because I was going to Sudbury and mid-november know that was a coincidence. That was a huge coincidence. So I said, okay and I got my card about 5:00 brought it home packs my stuff. A bunch of random s*** in the suitcase Olivia and I jumped in the car, and we were there like 2 AM when and it's amazing. I love that you're packed Olivia's. Well yeah, she's still in the first case. So was acting ever something you ever considered? I mean, where was this kind of out of the Blues and you're just going to say yes, because it's a great opportunity. It was something that's always like even by virtue of my relationship with Ashley, it was always something. I was like if I get the right opportunity I think I could do it. Really? Yeah. And that's just my personality like I don't know. I was always like the Entertainer and my family like it's just kind of like that what it is, you know. And but I never like thought, like let me you know let me work my way from the bottom, you know, doing background work. Work sure to or like crew work, I never thought of it like that it just it was like if the opportunity comes to come, if it doesn't it does. And my mom always used to say I should have put you in acting when you were a kid but yeah, just like if it's meant to happen, it happens. And sure, s***. It happened. So it was always lingering but it was never really something that was in my radar. Well, it's sir, go ahead. Well, I was going to say, well, what's been interesting to? And maybe a bit of a relief when you arrived is all of you for the most part. Like all the main guys, this was First or second dabble into acting. So you guys were all pretty green in this space. You kind of all probably learned together through the process, right? Big-time. Yeah, we are and I think the reason why the show works so well is that of our off-screen chemistry. Like we're a hockey team, we're not just a bunch of actors that are there making a paycheck, you know, where guys that are going to go to the bar hang out. Make sure that all 15 20 guys are going to dinner or like, you know, as much as it is like, you know, it does. It happens every night but like because it's difficult but like, it's a very team mentality, and we want to keep it that way and not to mention like there's not just one guy who is like, the outcasts like you said, Matt it's more there's like four or five of us that have never been on in front of a camera. Yeah, so that, that chemistry alone is allowing us to be free and, and even Jared so gracious. Like, he can see, I am sure 100%, obviously, he can see where we're f****** up, but it's almost making it a better. It's almost making it more authentic for what he's looking for. So, it's working from all the route. Yeah, it's amazing. I would be interested to know and you may not know this but because you came in filling in for a previous somebody they'd previously chosen, we're there. Any changes to the script like I am thinking specifically to that seen in the locker room that I kind of made fun of off the top where Shores you say you're ugly. And it's obviously a joke because you know, you're one of the prettiest guys in the room. That and yeah, you're welcome. I am not too afraid to say it. It's the hair. Jake's the hair. It's everything you eat the hair. The hair got me the part. Yeah, there you go. So was, that was then already in the script. Or is this something maybe that Jared's like, saw an opportunity? Oh wait, this guy here. We could really have some fun at his expense. I think fish was supposed to be that kind of punching bag and I if I am not mistaken, I think I seen one picture of the guy before. Pretty handsome blond dude. Okay, so I don't like, it was kind of like that was going to be the play anyway. So just worked in my favor. All right, that's amazing. Um, but yeah, I love that. Well, you can't say much about season 2, but I am assuming that there's more for fish coming in this season. Yeah, don't say anything. Don't fall for that. Don't worry, I will help you. I will be there. Maybe the lawyer Very much forward to seeing the second season. Okay, I will ask a safe, general question. Yes, you know, we saw you on the ice, right? And they were working, you pretty hard. And there was you have to keep taking takes over and over again? And we're you from. Is that do you see that? Do you see that as and again I am trying to frame the question? Very Carefully so that we're not talking about season 2, so, why not? Why not s*** happens? Do you get frustrated when someone is trying to make? Give you a pass and it's just an s***** pass now, you got to do the whole thing over again or is there are these and, and do you see that as acting, or do you see that as like playing hockey like what's your mindset? And while the all that is happening, all right, a two-layered question. So layer 1, One eye, I am there to do like the way it locks me in as I am there to do a job. So I need to execute the job. No matter what. And I consider myself somebody whose pretty level-headed. So I will never get somebody. Get mad at somebody for making a pass or missing a pass. Plus my passes were coming from dolo like I am not gonna do that. It is pretty big guy. Yeah. But and then so the working The day that you guys were there. So was a lot of it was up to me to do it, and so I just had to execute, so I didn't really have to rely on anybody, so I never got frustrated. It was always me. If something screwed it up, I screwed it up. And then, as far as I am if I am looking at it now acting or hockey, it's like 80% hockey 20% acting. Yeah, because the hockey needs. To look like hockey but I also need to know where the camera is to be able to show my facial expressions time it perfectly you know work my position well and obviously you know plant my feet. It's actually kind of like a little intricate process that you couldn't do unless you were tenured hockey player. Well it's the Brilliance of the show and of getting people who are hockey players first and a cure second. I mean I think we have always praised from the season. One was amazing because there was no need to cut away from Feeder your legs to your faces because you guys were complete players. So you were able to show everyone throughout the whole scene as opposed to Hollywood where there's a frantic Cut all the time. You're seeing people's feet and then you will go up and you will see the actors face, but they're not actually playing. But you guys are, you guys are actually doing it? Well wait a second Michaels but except for my, except for chicken legs chicken. So the question was, it wasn't really a question more just like it's the Brilliance of getting a hockey players first. Knock your second. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is what I wanted to say about that. So it's a testament to two things, the writing and the casting. Hmm, yeah. That's basically at the hockey, is up to us. We, you know, those the third round pick, you know, Terry Ryan's ninth overall, Jordan has three Stanley Cups. You know, Brandon's are those are? Those are damaged. He said, Lord Stanley in front of the cup? Yeah, there was a, if you ever listen to Blair's interview 10, you had a bit of a moment where she wasn't understanding was just referencing the cop that got. He's good because he's got a cup, and I am like a cup on, like they all wear cups, they all work. Thank you for bringing that up. We were embarrassed for you pleasure. Um, yeah, yeah. So let us just move on quickly to we Of our listeners, had some questions for you because they got excited. When they heard you're coming on. We will start with our buddy. Jason from Indiana. He wants to know if you can be key. So in a game of three bar and if you can maybe explain what 3 bar is, okay? So three bars, not a Letterkenny thing. Oh, it is. No, I think it's a hockey fan. I think it's just a hitting the three. Okay, 003 bar. Yeah, okay, I see what he's saying. Okay. Yeah. So I am not going to ruin anything for you guys. Kiss is a good hockey player, but yeah, I would beat him. I think we all kind of assumed in Jesus. We love you bud, but we all kind of assume that well. Yeah, being there in person, as background extras and watching you guys, do those scenes, those are real hockey drills. Like, yeah, like that, Paul. Men couldn't do that in slapshot what you guys are doing. You're doing it because your hockey players, not well, and you know what? That's a big Testament to do, the stunt guys that he planet and Dan Dennett Sean skiing Vinnie, Tarantino cam Fergus, like these guys. Know what looks good on camera. They know our ability though. Go and do the research on what will look good on camera and then like basically trust us to implement. Yeah. Each play. And that's you now, and then we just have to execute it. The choreography like are you learning that the day of like the day that you're there because you're drunk, and he's like drawing up to play on the ice while we're all waiting because that's not something that's scripted. Like the script is the words the that by the way they're not dancers. It's not choreography baby. Just choreography though. In a way. Is it not? Yeah. Kind of. Come on now. Okay. I got you. Yeah, yeah. I mean the script has written what we what the end result is but it doesn't have every little detail written up, so that's where they get to kind of play with it. And, you know, I will give you an example. So I mean, you know, I don't want to get into too much detail, but there was a scene where like I had a certain position, my body position was in a certain way and Vinnie came up to me, and he said, why don't you try using your edges a little more? Again, if you told this to inoculate ability like you talking about but for me I would be like I was like okay what do you mean? I tried it for five times. I started playing with it, I was like okay so that makes it flow a little easier. I can stop at a certain point. I could release at a certain point. I could face the camera certain point there was so many elements to it, so I said, okay, let us now we have the play, we know the plays, you know, done and written up and drawn up, whatever. So now I just have to execute a I execute it this way, and that's where they kind of come in and say, let us do. Here's the play. Yeah, let us execute it this way. So it starts off with this is the end goal. No pun intended. If it's a goal scene. Sure this is the end goal. This is the way it's going to be drawn up and now this is your freedom to do it and make it look good. Yeah. And I love what I love to me being there really quickly was the intensity, right? Like we found ourselves joking? Amongst each other? Like I actually feel like I am at a game in some. Yeah, our buddy. Robbie who is with us, When they had us behind the net on what I think, was one of the things you were firing a shot at he, his biggest fear was a pot. Coming through the glass. He was right behind the net and you guys were letting them rep. Yeah, there was one. It like came straight high-class. You watched him jump. And I am like, this is like they're not holding back at all. We get intense with. I hope that's not to take. They kept because people will be like, oh, that guy must be American If he anyway. So before the like before you're actually there and you're going to tape like do you guys have a time period where you're just on the ice together? Kind of getting a feel from each other or working? With the stunt guys on like how their language is what their setups might be. So the first season, the day that I went November 11th, they had practice on the 9th or 10th before that. Wasn't there for that skate? That was when fish. One guy can and then I came in on the 11th and it was a lot of like drills like things that they were planning on doing in regards to the season this season. It was three on three, four, two and a half hours twice. They said, we don't have to practice anything. You guys. Just take the puck play, three on three hockey. Enjoy yourselves. Get loose. Get to get the puck move and get your legs going. And can because when it comes time to shoot, we know everybody here. Execute right. Nice, thank is perfect. Our friend Dennis from. He's from the UK he asked as always who's the best s*** on the ice. So who's the best player? All right, everyone said Somebody's don't be afraid to throw any. Yeah. All right. And no one said you appreciate. Yeah, nobody said yeah. You haven't had any of the boys after the second season. No, no, yeah, that's right. No, I really think TR Jordan. Jordan is obviously NHL minutes but because he has the cup. Yeah, cuz recover the cops, but like he doesn't really like, try all that hard. He's got a good position. He's got a shorter stick. Like he was more of a third, fourth line role. So, like, skill, hockey wise, like, like, it's, it's tough, like he's probably the best overall hockey player, but I Honestly think like TR is just a gamer man, like he just goes hard was 46 years old, and he's like, he's taking it like we're playing throwing three warming up, and he's like, hardcore lifting sticks, like not giving an s*** like he's all in. So yeah, it's between him and George and honestly, and Brandon's got a good shot to like, then again dolo doesn't even try, and he's a big d man, and he still sauce in the puck around and passing like, it's hard to say, but if I were to pick, if I were to put my money on, like a one-on-one, it'd probably be TR function. The highest draft pick so yeah, I am pretty sure. Do love said himself, didn't he possibly TR though? I was impressed seeing something. He's got a, he's a great like wrist shot for sure. Like he was hitting those Corners like and hard. Like he's Roofing them pretty good. I was impressed from pretty far out. Let us see here, our friend Tobias from Missouri of all the places fish takes his dates and which is his favorite. All right. My favorite place to take a date and so on, you grew up in Sudbury. So if you want to go off script and say, you know, maybe some of your favorite places that when you were, you know, really yeah. Yes. Fish is a fish first but then give us Jacob would probably say like, you know, it's just a little, after noon day, go to Pepe or something, you know, grab a panini but Jake. Well respect is burnt is respecting the show. No, it isn't, it's mentioned in season. Uh yeah, it's respect is burning right, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. I know it is. Yeah. So it'd probably be respect is burning. Yeah. What about, you know, young, Jacob Smith when he wanted to impress a girl. Where would you take her? There? Respect is burning. It's a nice, Italian restaurant decently price, you can get a nice glass of wine, you know, some people, so you look a little cool walking in like, it's now, I mean, this is your first acting role. So Tobias also asked if you had a dream role but like it, is there a role That you would consider a dream role or is this it? Wow, this is my dream role man. Like I get to be myself. Essentially, in the town, I grew up in as a hockey player, like this is you couldn't have scripted, this does, and they don't pun intended, but the scripted this, any better like it's, it's crazy. How the Stars aligned for this to happen and Beyond grateful for so many things? After that, first season was released, what kind of reaction did you get from, like, your old high school buddies and friends and stuff? Honestly, man, like I wasn't as big as I thought it was going to be for the people in my like Circle my tight-knit circle. I thought like there's a couple of my best friends. Haven't even watched the show yet. Oh, so I kind of find those. I know like it. Re-evaluate your friendship. Yeah. Crave is 20 bucks a month in some of our chief. Yeah. But the so overall, like Obviously, some people text me like capital letters, like, fish got to get a fish. Got the game stick or like fish on the first line like s*** like that after the first season and I did get some good rapport, but it was more mainly focused. A lot of the season was like, mainly focused on the starting five and obviously key. So, being shorter Z. So like not to say that. It wasn't my like I wasn't still a prominent character, but I was definitely kind of buried in the line. Like, so I didn't really get a lot of press that way. Well, when we reviewed the first season, actually, your character was one of the ones we called out as having one of the more complete story arcs from beginning to end, right? Because you start off being kind of somebody that Whipping Boy for sure Z. And you have a pretty complete story arc in that season compared to some of the others. So right for sure. Yeah. I was able to definitely build up my character and yeah, I will say, I will tell you this story, so I get there. November 11th. I am pretty We started filming November 13th or 14th. Okay. And I just new that I needed to know my lines but I didn't like read the whole script. I didn't know when I needed to know my lines, we have this thing called the call sheet for the day or yeah, we're familiar. Yeah, yeah. What's it called? The Daily call sheet? Yeah. But there's an actor term for whatever. Anyways, it's like this big and it has like the layout everything Hot Cheat. The hot lap. Yeah. Yeah, there's some yeah it's not hot list but there's something and yeah it will come to me I am sure but sides, boom right there. It's ER sides I do they called decides I don't know what that means but anyway so our side, so we have everything laid out so scene by scene. So we get there and like, I am pretty familiar with my lines, but I just I am going all intuition. Like, again, this is just Verbatim. What my whole life's been. I just show up, again, whatever happens. I am just ready for it and whoever I need to be, I am just That person At that moment. So I show up day, one lights, going around tape, flying around cameras, moving around people yelling people crossing people shouting whatever, and I am sitting in the room and I got my gear like my kitchen, my Under Armour. And so the first scene that was shot that season was the scene where Harlan and Jared come walking toward me and saying like, like JJ left or whatever fish earlier. Playing with us tonight? Why that kind of whatever? That's the first thing you shot. That was the first scene I shot. That was my first time in front of the camera and I learned my lines five minutes before. That's near the end of the season. Like that's like yeah. That was my biggest seen. Yeah, I had no idea. Anyone take you aside say hey Jacob like know this moment you need to know nothing? No it was just yet. Throw me into the fire, and I am trying to figure it out man, and I am just like, even like so the first time we ran And again, what we ran it, I didn't know what f****** running. It was like I just like I was just like I didn't know a damn thing. I wasn't told the damn thing but even tell me damn thing. So I am sitting in the room and Jared comes up. He's like you want to run it, and I am like running. What? Like this scene that you're here for. I am like okay. Yeah let us do it. If I didn't say run. What to look at the sides? I flip through whatever. I am like, that's it rights there. Okay. Go ahead. Harlan states, start seeing lines. I jumped in with my line, Jared says his I jump in with mind, whatever and then I kind of looked at him. I said, no, whatever the line is that it's bad? I forget it was like, I hate losing or something, like I said, I hate losing. And after I said that and looked at him and that was like when we first got that like connection, and then he looked at Harlan, and they both looked at each other like this. And then I remember this. So vividly he went and that's acting. I was like, oh s***. Okay, that's it. All right, love that. Then we ran it through a couple more times, and I was that we rolled. I wonder if some of the logic. There is like, yes, you don't, they're not telling you anything, but let us just see what he does. Naturally before we even try to give them instruction and it works great if not then, all right. We then we go from there. But they need a starting point. That's a ballsy move. Because, yeah, I basically have to ask him what to do. Like, he's just, like, just do you man? I am like, well, like don't you have like, A vision for this. Like what if you wanted fish to be? Kind of like a little bit more of like a have really like? Yeah, I am on the first line like, and I am just kind of like, what like, you know I am kind of giving them attitude like you like, but that's the Brilliance in Jared key. So man, he gives you the room to do it the way you think you should do it and then that gives you the freedom to maintain it and have continuity moving forward and you did it (differently) than fish, one. So good for you. Yeah, yeah. I just stepped on the ice. Holding my stick the right way. I like, we're locked in oui. That's what we hear. Keeping her fish. One wasn't that might have lain, a little on his resume but the hockey. Yeah, just our buddy. Adrian who's out in Maine? But is originally from Nova Scotia? Would love to get to know how your time out in Nova Scotia was like the best parts of being in Truro when you were playing out there for them, man. What a question. Thank you for that one. That was my best year hockey. Well, I mean, France, was probably my best your hockey but like best year that I was able to play hockey. Was intro Nova. Scotia again, I can't say enough good things about the Billet family, the team, the atmosphere, the rink that the town like the people there. This like, the travel wasn't even that bad. Like it was just that we got paid under the table, like it was just such a good experience. And then I was able to find my Rejuvenation of hockey again because 16 I went to Kingston at one goal in 56 games. Then I went to the Sioux. I got Game in 14 games. Yeah, and I went down to Camp Ville and that was just more of an s*** show. And then I was like, I don't really know what I want to do. So then my buddy was in Truro, Nova Scotia, you should come out here and that just like rejuvenated. Anything, I start everything. I started scoring. Again, I started liking hockey, again, I started looking forward to coming to the rink, again, got me to the queue the following year. So I got to play another year major Junior. After that, like it was just a beautiful thing and to speak to the Nova scotian way life and the culture over there, it's just phenomenal. AMA. No man. I mean I know it's just extraordinary. Did you go up Jacob's Ladder in trouble? No, I didn't. Oh yes, I did. Yes, is Victoria Park. Yes, I did. I did do that. Holy s***. Wow dude, you just reached into a memory bank that I didn't know was there. Yeah. Yeah. Well my whole family like I was born in Ontario but my parents and all my extended family already has my grandmother lived in Truro. Years and years. I have been there many a time when interim Dominion Street. I think it was some, I don't know the Capitol Hill area. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay. Yeah, that's Clouseau and my dad's from Brookfield which is just outside of town, okay? Which one about 20 clicks down the road? So, yeah, I know the area. Well, crazy. Yeah, yeah, beautiful little area. And then I remember getting there and build a family again, can't say enough good things. Shannon, Sean Wolf, they had two kids, Ethan and jeunesse Suggested just one like she came second or third and like Canadian high jump or something like that, like she did really well. So like I got to see them recently. The she was at the Canada games, and she's 16 or 17. Anyways, they were living in a little house because they were just like kind of getting started as teachers, and then they had to move, they moved about my first or second month there. So I got like this whole beautiful basement all to myself for like the entire time I was there and it was just this brand-new As I played many sticks of all my buddies and Ethan was five at the time, we played all the time. So it's just, I just saw have so many good memories of that time for some time frame. That's cool. Joey from Colorado. Wants to know what your go-to Pepe Panini order is, the gobbler, the gobbler a gobbler. Yeah, don't ask me what's on it, but I just remember ordering the gobbler at 2:30 in the morning, and it was just the best Anthony lever, half the turkey and goat cheese and okay. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I think I don't know whether I ordered that one or a different group, turkey one. But yeah, that was that well, you weren't a degenerate during a vegetarian. It's a Venetian and vegetarian Jacob. The gobbler is mozzarella. Oh, there we go. Tomatoes Pepe mayo and arugula. Yeah, yeah. Let us say you go and, and yes, then I did have that. And Robbie and I shared one and it was delicious. So you have that in common with Jacob, our friend Erin from Chicago, she's a teacher. She'd love to know what role models are influences. Do you have in your life? You know, that, that stick out to you. Oh, geez, wow, Role Models. I mean, again, going back to my spiritual addiction like Dr. Joe dispenza just does it so eloquently. I just stumbled upon this life coach, Steve hardest. And who's really about, you know, getting after your life goals and embodying, the person that deserves them before it comes? And then obviously, you know, you're building up the person that deserves a, when it does come, you know, they just that people who are living their lives, just two names off the top of my head, but people who in general who are living their lives to the best of their ability and showing up every day being the best version of themselves is just admirable and all retrospect. So I think those two names are the ones that stick out for me like that. Love that and final one from our listener. Awesome. She's a moderator on the Letterkenny ready? Yeah. And her question is always whenever we have a cast member on is if you would do an am an ex ask me anything on Reddit, if you'd be interested in doing one of those, That's what I do and ask me anything. Yeah, so that's you make yourself available for an hour, people. Send you questions and type your questions and yeah, for sure. Yeah, right. Be awesome. All right, I will hook you up with some awesome offline, and she can make that happen. So when my video went viral for Tick-Tock three, they got it. Got almost nearly 4 million views only and I just blew up overnight like it was crazy. I woke up in the morning. My phone is lagging. Like I had like 2,000 like side. Refresh another 2,000 likes. Like it was crazy. The it was just all coming together. So I went on my Tik Tok Lai. Then, I got hundreds of people flooding in, and I was able to speak to my like, spiritual knowledge, and spiritual, whatever you want to call it knowledge. Intuition, and that was like an ask me anything. And I was just able to dive into anybody who would give me whatever it was and I just had to do it off the cuff and I feel like that's when I am at my best so fast, many things are like Up my alley. Excellent. All right. Dad, ten you to have any phone. Questions, 1 million? Yeah, that's years. Bad luck. That's beyond viral, isn't it? That's like the next level I married. So. Wow. That's impressive and amazing. I found the post. Now we're going to help me. Judge me you're gonna get another few million know what I am doing after this? Yes thank you so much. Take of it was so amazing and spiritual just listening to you. I am going to You know, look into all the people that you just referenced and it's just wonderful to hear from you and hear from the other side on your experience and journey and how you came to be on Shore Z and yeah, we enjoyed it. We're looking forward to seeing more of you for sure. Thank you so much, really appreciate it. Yeah, I went and went a little off, the rails and spiritual and Terry's podcast, and he's got a hockey podcast. So he's like I got the time he was like, I don't really know. This is gonna Let us just do it and I started like pushing on my ass them. Like, who's God? Do you like I just kind of put like, you know, them in the field a little bit and I listen to episode, you have nothing to apologize for. We have had Terry on ours and if he can't talk about anybody going off on tangents because he's Mister tangent. I think Alan. I asked him to question. Yeah. And that was good for the whole hour. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I know. But so, but the point of that is to say, like, a lot of people, you wouldn't know it has that listening ability where they just want to know about that. Nobody's really talking about that. That realm of conversation is kind of put off to the side like and so if I can kind of, you know, break the mold a little bit and open people's minds Hearts, you know, Souls up, whatever albeit. Like, you know, that's I think I am doing my job. Excellent, Victor. Yeah, I guess a couple of things. First of all, you're a beautician so you know, thank you for being you your incredible, I you touched on spirituality and you know I am I love quantum physics and I love the connection. And that you made their one of the books that I read that, I think as everybody should read because it's written in kind of Layman's way. You don't have to be scared of quantum physics, as Quantum Enigma physics, encounters Consciousness, that book is incredible. It's not, it's not a hard read and it just blows your mind, you know, people like who is a kind of turn to spirituality. I think that's absolutely wonderful, but don't look for Wonder and awe. Uh, in spirituality first, look at it in what we know and have discovered about our world and when you start and when you look in quantum physics, which is a real thing, it's not imagined, right? It's real. And you realize the Wonder and awe and the questions that we still have about that world. And then you connect it to spirituality, I think that makes it so much more Grand and therefore, you're not asking just random questions. Asking questions that are anchored in our own reality. And I just think it's the most incredible thing and I love that you're kind of delving into that world. And that's stuff that you're talking about because I failure actually incredible very well said. Thank you, Victor and kudos to you on reading that book too because a lot of people will be scared just by that title. And there's a there's, there's a show guy a.com. I don't know if you guys are familiar with, that's basically the spiritual Netflix. There's a show on there that Dr. Joe runs. And again, I might as well be He liked his friggin ad for this, but he's, he runs he's called rewired, and he breaks it down in similar context, Victor, where he brings the human aspect into the spirituality and the quantum physics. So he walks you through, you know, the quantum field and The Ether and what seems wound and hoity-toity for a lot of people like doesn't make a lot of sense. He breaks it down and says, no, this is how humans can use it to your advantage. I think we should be learning this rather than And it just being scared of it. And so that's kind of like what really got me into the quantum field. That is incredible. Everybody take notes and, and kind of less unless, you know, serious topic as you know. Well, I think it's actually more serious. But anyway, you mentioned that you're also on your cameo. You mentioned very quickly that you're also guitar player. So maybe you could give us a couple of words on, you know where that's coming from, and you know what's your guitar collection looking like and, and the do you play with harun? All right. Yeah. So again, I wouldn't call myself a band member. Maybe I would be like a mild musician, if anything. But again, I have never had a lesson. I have taught myself everything I know. I don't really go on like ultimate guitar in search of tabs anymore. Although I did for a bit but everything just comes intuitive to me and you know, I have a have about 10 songs that I wrote just for me and for my wife and whatever. That's just kind of how I keep it close to me and just like everything else in my life, it's been Basically intuitive and I have an Epiphone Les Paul that I bought used from 99. I got a Norman. My dad bought my mom back in 94. 95 Olivia has a tailored mini, and we have a Luna Guitar, which is kind of like a demo prototype, kind of guitar, so that's family. All term Gibson's or anything yet, but that's right. Okay, that's awesome. Thank you for that. When, When is the Jersey band getting together, you guys can have a b*******. Yeah. That needs to be videotaped and posted because that will go viral. So I am going to say this because I want them to push for it but Harlan and dolo. We're going to do a little bit of a club there. So that would be no. Because that would be cool. They have a video on my phone when we were at our first hotel for a bit and Harlan was just kind of strumming It. Whatever off the cuff and dolos, just crazy musician, man. He's so brilliant. I think I saw that. Either on IG or maybe Harlan — sure does drums do't jerk plays the drums and you have Michaels who plays bass and guitar as well. Yeah, it's gonna have a band. I think Claire says, she's sick. She's like singing. Oh, Sinclair and camera for sure to so the band's right there. Yeah, there you go. I-i will get the tambourine. That's not your. Yeah, yeah, I know you're getting it revs up here. So Jacob men. You are a beaut. You are a man with a lot of layers and f****** love it, man, right? Yeah. Stop. Rubbing it in. I so appreciate you Brandi. I love all your talk about, you know. Living your best life and all that. I mean I you know, I am not a person without my faults but I definitely try to live my best life and try to reach the state of being the best version of myself. So definitely appreciate what you're saying and that you made that an active goal in your life to head in that direction which leads me. So I asked everyone this question and feel free to interpret it in any way that means to you. But I mean now having been part of shore Z. I mean, now that you said you weren't overly Aware of what it was before now. He know what it's what it is and the reach that shows a Letterkenny. And of course, Shores, you're having. What does it mean to you? To be a part of this? Wow, obviously it's meant everything to me. It's life-changing. It's not four million views on Tick-Tock. I mean, that was pretty life-changing to it. Like I said, I got married. But the, the scope of what this is not only what, what? This not only is. Now, but what it is going to be in the future is so big. And so the best word I can say is beautiful because of the, the, the way it's written, the way, the guys are the love that goes into every facet of the word right there. Love the love. That's going into exactly, bro. And even the last song in the first season, true love like it made me cry man like it. That's its testing us too. Yeah, yeah. Like it's such a, it means everything to me, and I am a big guy, like, called, spiritual, whatever, but love is at the, at the core at the foundation of it all. And that's why I just want to be alone, buddy asked me, what do you want to be? And I said, I want to be free and loving awareness and that was, that was the big thing. And I think that show is giving me the opportunity to truly live as that and, and showing the fruits of that come to life. And so it means the world to me. That CI means the world to me. Well said men. Absolutely. Congrats on everything. It was such a pleasure hanging out with you and we were there. I hope we get to do it again, sometime. And, yeah. All the mass, thank you. And that message has been really repeated over and over again. And I don't know if you have listened to the show but you know the love that you guys have and that feeling and that it is, it's a feeling that you guys have on the show. It comes across to all the listeners, it's come across to us, you know. Through the podcast. It's come through to those listeners and it's shared its felt and it's in it's appreciated over and over again. So it's yeah. It's meant so much to all of us. Yeah, of course, thank you sis. Thank you so much for your kind words. Guys is such a pleasure to be on today before we wrap up. Is there anything you'd like to promote or shed some light on before we go? Honestly if anybody's looking for a conversation with me, just reach out on my Instagram at Jay Smith. 95, I am willing to talk to everyone and anyone know, but no money, exchanged none of that b*******. Like I just love to get to know the viewers and the viewership. And I just want to be able to you know, help people even if, if you need a little bit of guidance or a little bit of direction like I am not perfect by any means, man and nor do I want to be, but I definitely have some insight. That could be shared. So feel free to reach out on that if you want to listen to my podcast, it's at observe. And attention. It's on Instagram Again YouTube. Whatever you want to listen to. But yeah. Just you know, just keep living man. That's Matthew McConaughey says it, right? So amazing. Yeah. So I reached out to you earlier today and I asked you if there was a song, he wanted us to play you off by and the song you sent me, man. I am I love this song. I love it. And I have never heard it before. So you're introducing this one to me for the first time. The song is called Midnight in Harlem by Tedeschi Trucks Band. So let me just us up here. Love that Porygon love the sound of that crazy. What do you know about this band? Very little. I was, I was man driving one day and I had the song up and roll and I forget that can't drop the band name right now but that was playing. And I, so I clicked it and I clicked radio on Spotify and it brought me to this song and it just floored me. And then not brought me to man. I can't think it's been long interview but the brought me to. Yeah. Anyways, I wish I could drop the name right now that she truck. Spanned, that's the — no, but it brought me to another singer. Famous singer. Let me pull it up because it's an important thing to Second chair. Anyway, it's beautiful. It's like a warm hug and then Morrison. Okay, yeah, can't believe I forgot about so Van Morrison. So quiet in here. That was one big one. Obviously into the mystics one of his more popular one. But so quiet in here was a big one for me because I came at, it's like a such a profound feeling for me was like that. Stuck that layered piece in this song. Just puts me in that state. So I needed him to sign me off today. Excellent. Alright. Well, thank you so much. Jacob. And that's all we have for this episode. Don't forget. You can use the promo. Code produces a for 20% off any purchase at diabolical, coffee.com if you'd like to support this podcast right us on iTunes Spotify or become a patron. You can also follow us on social media at produce a pod thank you for joining us on behalf of Jacob Tanya Matt Victor and myself. Thank you for listening and have a great week. Let us see you in season 2. Thanks so many guys. You guys are awesome. Really appreciate it.
