Shaun Newman Podcast - Ep. 72 - Quick Dick McDick

Episode Date: April 22, 2020

Dickson Delorme better known as Quick Dick McDick has almost overnight become a Youtube star for his short videos that mix his sense of humour  with small town Saskatchewan lifestyle & the current affairs in Canada. He's from Tuffnell SK (might need a map for that one) He spent 19 years in the oil & gas sector before moving home to help with the family farm. Once on the family farm he started a SnapChat account that blew up into the man, the myth, the Sask Legend - Quick Dick McDick Make sure to check out his Youtube Page for his latest & greatest.   

This is Quick Dick McDick. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast. Quick Dick McDick, MacDick, coming to you here with the QuickDick-Mittance, where you get $2 worth of my opinion, because two cents don't buy very much anymore. Today, we're talking about how a vegan diet combats climate change. Now, it has been made very public by certain environmental protesters, one whom's last name is shared with a Japanese motorcycle, that switching to a vegan diet will help combat climate change. Quick Dick has a fantastic idea.

While all of you, climate change is a global crisis and stop the pipeline protesters, Spread your vegan margarine onto your gluten-free bagels. Let's have a close look at how that margarine is made. Fun fact about vegan margarine. It is made of 74% canola and sunflower oil. But Quick Dick, where do these products come from? Well, first you need to fertilize and seed a canola crop, which takes an anhydrous tank, and then one of these.

Now, can anybody tell quick dick what product is required to make all of this equipment work? I'll give you another hint. It runs your hot water heater, your furnace, the boilers in these plants that make this vegan margarine and it is not unicorn farts. Or canola gets hauled to a crushing plant where it gets turned into oil and loaded into one of those things. Then the canola oil gets pulled to a food processing plant by one of these, a locomotive. Can anyone tell Quick Dick what powers a locomotive? I'll give you a hint. It burns and it is not environmental and pipe-by protesters pedaling the train.

Well what's the matter? Is that vegan margarine is starting to taste a little bit like oil and gas? Well, we're not done yet. Now the canola oil needs to get processed into margarine. Then it needs to be packaged into plastic containers, not even a paper thingy. And now that our vegan margarine has been packaged, it goes into a temperature-controlled trailer, pulled to a grocery store, by a commercial truck. You see, the answer to all of Quick Dick's questions that he's been giving you hints towards

is oil and gas products. Is Quick Dick being a little ridiculous? Yes. Is Quick Dick against vegan diets? No. Does Quick Dick believe we should work towards a greener planet? Yes. All Quick Dick is saying is that if you're going to tell him that he has stolen your childhood, we don't do enough and we are killing the planet,

I have one request for you next time you go to a protest. Walk, crawl, swim, or row, eat twigs, wear clothes made out of leaves, make your signs out of cat tails because the rest of it uses oil and gas to be produced worldwide and you're killing the planet. But that's just how Quick Dick sees it. This Quick Dick, Rick, Dick, with a Quick Dick That right there is an abbreviated version of his protesters died. If you want to see the entire video of Quick Dick McDick,

go to YouTube and you'll just search his page. He's got so many videos, just great stuff, ranging from that, obviously political, to just everyday Saskatchewan life. And we get into that bunch of that in the podcast. but he's just such a breath of fresh air with a little bit of humor in there. And I think in the day and age we're in, sometimes we just need a little injection of humor, and he's got it down to an art form.

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You're the majority of us. Nobody has a clue where Tufno, Saskatchewan was until this guy came around. It is west of Yorkton, and if you want a little more specifically close to Fom Lake, Saskatchewan. Now, he spent 19 years in the oil and gas sector before heading home to work on the farm. Once there, his sense of humor with everyday life that was going on, he created a Snapchat account, Quick Dick McDick, and, well, it blossomed from there into what I consider a YouTube sensation. He has now videos with over 400,000 views, and he has become a fixture of the Saskatchewan culture. So, of course, I'm talking about Dixon D'Lorm, aka Quick Dick, McDick. And so sit back, folks, enjoy this.

And without further ado. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast. I'm joined by Dixon DeLorm, better known as Quick Dick, Dick, Big Dick. What are the chances of that, right? Well, cheers to you, sir. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, you too. Thanks, man.

Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Well, we're going to start first off with where the name Quick Dick McDick came from. Well, I started actually using it on my Tinder profile and it didn't catch me anything on it. So I just switched it over to Snapchat and then kind of went on there. You did not use it on Tinder. I did not.

That would be. Yeah, lots of people are like, what you, what? I'm like, no, I don't know. I didn't. No, actually, yeah, it's just, man, it just started off as my Snapchat handle, like, just on just a random whim, which is how 90% of this shit comes to me. I can say shit here, right? Absolutely, yeah.

I mean, we're going to apologize right now to both mothers that are going to listen to this. You might want to put earmuffs on, earmuffs on. Yeah, it's just, that's almost this shit comes to. Just like spur of the moment, it was just dreaming up a Snapchat handle kind of thing or whatever. And like, I mean, obviously my name's Dixon. So Dick for short, I mean, I've been a dick all my life, you know what I mean? So it just kind of seemed to be what works for it. You know what I mean?

And yeah, that was it. It was a Snapchat handle. It was where it came from totally left field. Was Dixon a family name or did they just pull Dixon out of the whole? Blue. You know what? I don't even, they just said it was something that they'd come across and that they liked it for a long time and they spelled it to D-I-C-K-S-O-N. And even when people try and spell it, it's like it's D-I-X-O-N. It's another thing you kind of deal with all your life kind of thing. And they just went with it. Yeah. Then you introduce yourself to people.

They're like, what's your name? Name's Dixon. Oh, okay. What's your first name? Yeah, that's my first name is Dixon. Oh, well, that just seems like a last name. Yeah, I know I've heard that eight billion times throughout my life. Well, you're from Tufnal, Saskatchewan, correct? Tuffalo, Saskatchewan, yeah. And I was born in Maple Creek, actually, but like my memories of life are here in Tustanil, right? Well, a fun fact about Maple Creek is so...

I love fun fact. Before we got recording, I told you that a brother and I and a friend of biked across Canada back in 2006, and we stayed at the sketchiest hotel motels ever across all of Canada. And Maple Creek might be our favorite one. Was it jacked motor in out on the highway? Out on the highway. On the junction.

Oh, it's glorious. That should be in some kind of a movie somewhere. Yes, it should. Where that thing should be. Because you wouldn't have to do a scene set or anything on it. Like it'd just be, yeah, whether you're looking at a contract. some kind of an SPD in this movie or whether you're looking to get killed or kill somebody. Yeah, I kind of think, right. Believe me, we stayed in some unique places. Let's leave it at that.

And that one, if you were to ask Lori or Dust and the two I biked with, that one is one of the most memorable. There's only one other one, and it was in, it was north of Montreal, and it was just as good. the cleaning lady was carrying the towels in a little toy wagon with a big smoke hanging from her lip and when we went to pay boltproof glass and on the thing you know you know she's safe at least that's right and then on the window or the sign that tells you all the lovely features it had it had like air conditioning laundry service did it have cable TV does it have cable actually triple X movies that that that was number three and we were sold for like just yeah yeah that's yeah that's the place you know what it's almost fun when you're bite

I'm like the dingier the place you're staying at the better like it's the better yeah it's like you look at you're like I'm just going to leave the clothes on tonight we'll call it you know what I mean shouldn't be a problem well uh oh there's some dingy ones out there man I'm I've stayed I've stayed in some like I'm like trucking through a lot of like camp areas and stuff in northern in Alberta, BC, Northwest Territories and stuff like that. Like, he finds a pretty sketchy places. But, oh, man, yeah, there's, there's been some beauties. What is, what is the one that sticks out the most end here?

It was, uh, it was right close to Grand Prix. A town called McClennan. And, yeah, like, it's just a no-brainer. This was it. And it was, uh, they were trying to do some kind of a reno. And it was some folks that had bought a McLennon Hotel. We were up there with, I was up there with one of my, buddies we were working on putting a truck back together and we wound up working late and didn't want to

go back to grandfrey we're like let's go to mcclinton and grab a room and then we'll go finish the truck in the morning and uh yeah this guy's just like hey you know i got one room that's all i got and it's like it's midnight and you're just like you're done i don't care what the room's like whatever well we need some beer so you're in the hotel like it's the old hotel like the old hotel where the bars downstairs rooms are up there's kind of thing every small town's got these or whatever right and so we're like well you know we need at least a six pack of beer and he's like hey no problem I don't sell six packs in a box or anything like they get to paper bag and gets a six bottles of beer out of the cooler and sells us off sale like that I'm not sure if it's legal but I won't say

his name so we won't worry about it and uh we go out to this room and literally like there's it's it's just bitched like it is it is something like you've never seen I even keep my own room and my house cleaner than this thing. So we're like, okay, you know what, cover all's on, maybe sleeping on these beds and we'll just call it good enough. And literally, I just kind of roll over just to see what's kicking around. And there's like old disposable razors underneath the bed and stuff like that. I was like, yep, this is the worst I've ever seen her.

This one is, yeah. One other time snowdrift in the hotel room in the morning when we woke up in Fort St. John. If anyone stayed in Fort St. John, BC and been to the northwoods, if they tore it down here, I guess, recently, but that was another beauty to see and all with that now. And all I heard out of that was a six-pack and a paper bag. And the crazy thing is, is I've been to bars like that in Saskatchewan,

where they'll sell you six-pack of bottles in the paper bag and on your way you go. Love it. Give it to me in a milk crate in a plastic bag. If I get a carry six, I'll just carry six. As long as I got beer, I'm happy, right?

That's true, man. I'm looking at a tough middle Saskatchewan. I love it. I was saying the of this offer as well is, I love it because it's a hamlet. And when I was looking it up, I went, you know, I'm from a hamlet. And I thought I was, you know, not unique in any stretch of imagination.

But when you come from a hamlet and you explain that to people, they're like a what now? It's like, yeah. Well, yeah, we got more cats and dogs than people. Yeah. But I, so we call it a metropolis because there is a post office. and a curling rink. So there's that, right? You know? Yeah, and like, I mean, I didn't grow up in Tuffmo itself. Like me, we were we were about five miles north of Tuffnell on a on a on a federal

community pastor. Actually, I was lucky as the guy on planet earth. I grew up a real cowboy dad. I grew up on a on a big mass of federal community pasture and that's all I knew from from a very young age was just cowboy and in and agriculture a ways of life. Topnell is just where we got our mail. You know what I mean? That's where the post office was. It was a big deal to go five miles into Topnell to see the post office, let alone anything else.

Like, me, if you talk going into Foam Lake, which is the closest town, man, like you even tried to get some good clothes on to go do that. You know what I mean? Like, it was a big deal, right? 14 whole miles, man. Like, that is a road trip. That is a road trip. That's at least a couple beer, right?

time we were too young for it, but yeah, actually once you grew up to the age of drinking beer and getting to town, you actually found ways to extend it into at least six beer to get to town, you know what I mean, but you'd just look around. Somebody else driving all the time, of course, right? Wheel around to the buddies, take up all the boys, going a little bit of a tear, yeah, like you can go around the curling range. Yeah, exactly, right? And then go throw some wicked interns. And yeah, no, it was deadly. That was a great tip. Just an amazing place to grow up. Yeah, really awesome. Community pasture manager, right?

That's what your dad does? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he actually retired. He was with the federal federal government, I think, for almost 30 years. Started at age 17, just as a pasture rider. And then just kind of worked his way up to a pasture manager, into a land manager and whatnot.

And yeah, he had a very long career as a pasture manager. Who knew? I would never, you know, I never would, I mean, there's community pastures out around us too, right? I just would have never ever thought of a guy who has to sit and manage it. Yeah, so it's, yeah, and a lot of guys were working managers kind of thing, which is just like any business. I mean, but in all reality, if you have like, I think there was around the 12 to 1,500 head rolling through that community pastor at any given time. Obviously, there's bigger and smaller ones out there kind of thing, but I mean, somebody's got to be accountable for it. You know what I mean?

There's a whole bunch of random people. people, not random people, but patients cattle with the pasture and somebody's got to be ultimately responsible for it. So it was him and then into work in rioters there that actually looked after the place. Coincidentally, since the federal, the PFRA, the Prey Farm Revotation Act, has actually closed down all of their all of their federal pastures. There's still a lot of provincial pastures that are up and operating and then a lot of these federal ones actually can close down and there are cooperatives now that are released out to the patrons that used to be part of them.

But it was one of the very few sectors in the federal government that was actually turning a profit. So the federal government was like, well, we can't have that going on. So they just shut it all down. What? We're making money on something? Nope. Shut her down.

That's how that works most of that. So your dad working for the federal government, is that where you get some of your like? It's really not. Not at all, actually. I had no feelings of angst, let's call it, angst towards the federal government at all. I mean, in a lot of places, you can look at the government as an employee of the government, you can look at it as, you know,

just working for a big, big corporation that's very top-heavy, is essentially how you, were I to work for the government, that's how I would assume it would be. It's a very top-heavy corporation full of bureaucracy that you can't really get anything accomplished in. And if you're, you know, maybe for somebody that stands out that wants to make a big change in something you're doing, that's not an organization in which you're going to be able to do it kind of thing.

Same thing when you get into big unionized companies and things like that. If you want to call yourself a shining star or something like that that wants to make a difference, those aren't the settings in which you're really going to be able to do it because you get a very top-heavy organization and then bureaucracy just kind of overmines everything. and you're just smothered by it, right? That makes sense. That does make sense. Absolutely.

Yeah. And actually, I watched my dad go through. I mean, that was one of the things I maybe learned is that, you know, I think when it comes time for me to be me, it's not going to be with one of these big corporations or something like that happening, right?

Which I've basically sucked to, I mean, through my life here. Well, before quick, Dick, what were you doing? I know you worked in an oil patch, for a lot of years. Yeah, yeah, oil and gas. So I was in Saskatchewan here right until I was, I graduated at 17 just because of late birthday. And I actually, I'd worked on custom hang crews here through the summer and stuff

and rodeoed and none of much different things here right in Saskatchewan. And it's like a lot of Saskatchewan boys is, man, there's that big money to be made out in Alberta and the oil field. And actually just wound up having a contact that got me a job, actually on a frack crew in in brook and that was in in the year 2000 and i went out there i spent three years in brook in a roundabout way you wound up on a on a frack crew up in in grand prairie north of grand prairie and just just fell head over heels in love with the peace country uh it's beautiful up there and lots of work really busy all kinds of things happening i was a young guy and it was

really busy and uh yeah i just kept going up there and i was actually in grand prairie and until June of 2019. Of 2019? 2019, man, yeah. So the most obvious question is, how long have you been growing that beard for? June 1st of 2019. Really?

That, how long? Yeah, yeah. And, I mean, I've had it trimmed quite a few times up until this pandemic hit, and then I'm just like, you know, why just let her rip? Oh, big deal. You just let her fly there. So why the long career in the oil patch?

It was back to... Yeah, no, that's a great question. It was really good to be shown. I had never seen any of this stuff before and that's where, you know, I think you see that in a lot of different, a lot of different walks of life where people come into something that's brand new that they don't really know anything about them. You can be a 40-year-old guy that just got out of a big lifelong career, say, in the tire industry, and then you get on to a ranch that you've never been a part of.

And somebody that's been a part of that for 40 years is going to be like, yeah, well, we're just going to go brand some calves today. And the guy that has done nothing but tires his whole life goes in and who he's just like, this is what you guys do every day? Like, you're all struck by it, right? And I was really lucky that I never stopped learning or learning new things about what was happening and just wound up, everything just kept falling in the place for me, and I found some good companies to be able to get some experience out of and get a great job and some great paychecks

out of. And it was just really good to me. I never really had a reason to leave, I guess. And it wasn't broke, so I didn't need to fix it. And I was kind of addicted to working a little bit, which worked out really good for the situation I was in. So I just kept the hammer down and kept plugging away. You know, when 08 hit, it was pretty rough. But by no stretch of the imagination where we as bad off as the rest of the country was at the time, you know, from 08 and then into the 2014s where things were insanely busy. I mean, that's where you saw a lot of growth in our country. Yeah. And then from, you know, 2015, when a specific government started taking over and you can just kind of see things just kind of slowly started

kind of trending downwards you know what I mean and it just it just continued in that direction I think it's still continuing in that direction very sharply down still right that's uh I had a picture sent to me I haven't been able to find it online today but a guy I work with it sent me a picture of the oil price Western Canadian select as a negative whatever it was like negative dollar or whatever And I haven't been able to see that since, but what you're talking about is, I mean, it wasn't that long ago we were complaining about $70 oil and 50 and 40. Then we were happy with 40. Just give us 40.

Now it's 20. Yeah. Yeah, I think WCS actually dipped down close. I want to say it was somewhere around 248 or something like that today and was back up to three something. But, I mean, I usually look a little bit closer when markets are open on a Monday morning. on a Monday morning or whatever yeah exactly right but yeah it's definitely uh Western Canadian intellect is taking a horrendous beating right now it's it's very very bad a lot of that

self-inflicted yeah it is uh yeah it is um and I mean that's uh man that's that's that's one of the big issues we've got to say you know right where to poke me hey it's one of the big issues we got as a as a country right now and I mean it's not in our oil and gas sector but it's in a lot of our industrial parts of our economy is that we just kind of let things go for a lot less than what they're worth just to say that we're doing something. I don't know what the reasoning is for it, but, you know, it's, it's great to see that Kenny got, got KHL, you know, funded and approved in rock and roll, which now we're going to get the hung up in litigation, a lot of other people.

places, which of course is going to continue to happen. But it's sad that that's our path of least resistance is to go south into the states versus going east-west across our country. And the fact that we hit more resistance trying to go east-west to look after Canada first and maybe get to maybe a little bit more fair of a commodity price at coastal waters versus just dumping it all down to the states for nothing is it's a problem we have in Canada. and I really, really hope that somewhere between east and west, we can kind of get our stuff together and start working with each other and maybe unite a little bit better to get some of these resources that Canada has a massive amount of to tidal waters to Asian markets and other places that are going to pay us a little bit more than we're getting for what's going south. I'm not saying I don't want to export anything to the U.S. by any stretch of the imagination.

they're, you know, the very important trading partners that we have, but, man, it'd sure be nice to squeak that valve down a little bit and just say, hey, like, you know, we're doing a little bit better on our coastal waters. Can you guys give us a little more for it? You know what I mean? And I mean, it's kind of a nice through the heart, I think, and as a lot of Canadians, I think, would probably agree that when we have an oil and gas sector that's getting the living piss beat out of and we're, what, in 2019, I think we were somewhere around $19 billion worth of crude that we imported into Canada. That's, uh, that's really shitty.

Why? I'm, I'm a young guy. And so, younger guy, not that young old guy. I'm a younger guy. I, for the life of me, can't figure out why the rest, and I know Alberta being in the middle of the storm can see it plain as day. Saskatchewan right beside us, they're in the middle of the storm. them, they can see it plain as day.

And then, you know, as you get further away from the heart of it, you can't see it. And what they can't see is, I honestly don't get why we import oil when we sit on one of the largest reserves in the entire world. Yeah. Yeah, it's frustrating. There's a lot of things that have been true in a lot of a while here that have actually maybe helped me understand it a little bit better. But a lot of people hide behind the fact that they'll look at the quality of Western

Canadian black versus, I mean, what we're bringing in from. soddy even and say you know well there's only a few places in the world that can refine what we're producing from our tar sands things like that like okay like I I hear ya you know but it's going somewhere you know and so if that technology does exist and there's these refineries in the world that can do it well then why are we not investing in that technology in industry here and shipping even the finished product south of the 490s parallel out to our coasts crude out to our coast I mean, there's like liquid natural gas.

Why are we not liquefying what we have and getting it out and getting a dollar for it? We seem to be champions of shooting ourselves in the feet. And, you know, I think there's a lot of people out there that would say, okay, you know, it's a corrupt government that's causing it. And I mean, I don't want to be one of these, I don't want to be one of these guys that jumps on the train of saying the world is corrupt and all this stuff. because there's enough guys out there right now that we're Tim Boyle hats that are going to jump all over this stuff. And you're like, oh, this guy's being paid by this guy. You know what?

The scary part of it is that probably a lot of it's true. But, I mean, that's speculation on my part. And, I mean, you know, where do you start finding the proper information to be able to connect all these dots together? I mean, a lot of people out there make sure that you can't find a lot of this information. It's just the fact that we're probably always going to have people running this country influencing who's running this country that have financial interests in their mind versus the sovereignty and well-being of Canada in mind. And unfortunately, greed is a thing that's going to control humans, unfortunately, whether we like it or not. Well, power too, right? The ability to move

mountains essentially, right, to just and have no repercussions for it. But like you say, we can get into the tin hat theory here pretty, we're treading water. No, no, we can't, nor will we. I just, I can't do it. I just hate going down that rabbit hole. So I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Well, going back to you work in the oil patch. So you say you start in 2000, 2019, 19 years.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, 19 years. You're saying at one point you're addicted to it. Yeah, like full on, full on addicted to work. I still am. You enjoyed it? When you mean addicted, you mean you enjoyed the work. Yeah, it was just, yeah, it was, I went through, I went through a phase in my life there.

Like, I was specifically into, into the transportation side of well services. So, you know, liquid CO2, liquid N2, frack fan, oversized equipment, setting up locations for frac crews and stuff like that. It was, it was an incredible job. Had my own truck actually wound up managing a company, a transportation company up in Grand Prairie for, for quite a few years. And yeah, it was the times when I was out in the field, I think, is what I'd say I was addicted to because you're really boots on the ground and I'm, I am always having, and always will be a hands-on kind of guy.

I like being out in the field and being, you know, at the boots on the ground level of what happens. That's where I'm happy. You know what I mean? Because keeping busy is, I think, I think something that people need to do a lot more of. And, I mean, we're probably all experiencing that right now with what's happening, you know, with isolation. But a busy mind is a good mind to have if you're busy with stuff and your hands are

busy because then you're not going to get yourself initiated. Or you don't find yourself checking Twitter every 10 seconds or whatever to see what, you know, Trump said or what true no said or any of this stuff. The more of that stuff you have to focus on less, I can promise you the happier of a human being you're going to be in your life. Well, one of the upsides of social media is it connects us all. it allows you to you know to get a message out very quick heck it's how i found you right i got a buddy told me told me about your videos i'm like all right i flicked and one on

laugh my ass off continued to watch them all reach out let's let's see if we can make this happen right and that's the positive side of it the opposite side of it is it can lead you down a dark rabbit hole and there is a lot of negative people on there and there's a lot of tin hat folk on there too yeah absolutely there is yeah yeah social media can be a good thing and a bad thing but i think it's uh it's like a it's like a lot of things you know you get the wrong newscaster on a on a broadcast or a reporter you know swaying their story their kind of way that just goes on a tv that people see and they just kind of start jumping on board and following them kind of thing whether it's the right facts or not um it's it's something that happens um i don't know

i guess that would just be a thing where i just you know trying to caution a lot of people also there where you actually do get your information from and like it can be a you can actually what I've noticed is you can find anything to support whatever theory you want to promote online if confirmation bias yeah and actually I think it's been proven that Twitter and Facebook and stuff try giving you information that you've already liked right so it's just feeding you more of what you want to hear yeah so yeah absolutely you really really really need to do yourself a favor. And when you dislike our current government, you still got to try and listen to it and try and cut through some of the BS. You can understand it for yourself. So when you see all the stuff

coming from your side, you could be like, yeah, but, right, which nobody likes the but part. They just want to, you know, they just want to rag on it. This is the worst word, right? Yeah. And that's, yeah, and that's exactly. You see a lot of that happen nowadays too. I mean, I mean, quick dick would be a prime example of it, right? You know, kind of beating on the government a little bit. So we try not to do like too much of that. I mean, it happens every now and then. I mean, there's environmental protests that kind of get caught in the crossfire

a little bit of stuff here and there. There's some pretty ridiculous stuff that goes on in Canada, let alone the rest of the world that you just get to clue in on and poke fun at. It's so true, man. Right. So if I was a protester, I'd probably watch it and go, man, that's some funny shit. Like that right there's some funny stuff. Yeah.

I'm going to, I'm going to brohad it with you here for a minute. Oh, we're going to brohap. I just got out of the shower. Yeah, so it's kind of how I keep myself looked after here. You're worried about your hair now. It's being a serious, serious issue.

Yeah. You heard it here first, folks. Quick Dick McDick is worried about his hair. It's a serious issue. I'm sure that everybody's seen that on most of my videos, but I take lots of time to run through the makeup room and get trimmed up and everything. there, right? Well, let's go back. We keep bouncing from it. You work in the oil patch, 19 years. You like it.

Yeah. What brings you, what forces you, you know, you say you see the new government come in, you're seeing the trend. Is that what pushes over the end? Or what? Yeah. So, yeah, so there's a, there's a few things happening, uh, Sean, actually that, uh, but like essentially, uh, everything me going good and I kind of I got caught in a spot where you know there was there's the industry that was ballooning really fast and I was in a small small startup company and it got caught in that same balloon and before you know it you're you're bigger than you were ever ready to be kind of thing I wasn't a part owner of the company I was just helping run it you know we started off with the with three guys two trucks one

trailer and three guys and then you know when I left we were at 36 trucks 50-some-odd trailers and 60 employees, you know, and you know, by some people's standards, that's not a lot. But, I mean, when you're just kind of looking at a couple of guys that haven't really gotten anywhere out of high school, but behind the wheel of a truck that you're trying to make a go with this stuff. And then you see a lot of different regulations coming in, you know, with the new licensing standards for class on drivers and a lot of new safety programs coming through a three-year mandatory audits on carrier profiles on your NST profile and everything.

there was a lot of things changing and it wasn't a matter of keeping up with it it's just it just it was slowly turning into somebody that I I wasn't if that makes sense I've always just been a just get in the mud and work kind of guy and before you know you're you're spending 18 hours a day at a place buried in paperwork and and and permitting and doing a lot of different things we actually you know we went through the PEC certification program and a bunch of different things and you know still it just it never stopped the fact that I was learning learning learning all the time which is I think a fantastic thing about life and you know we all have the opportunity to learn as much as we want to the opportunities are

out there and I think that's why being a Canadian is a really fantastic privilege that we have is because the sky is really the limit here of what you want to learn the opportunities are there you just have to have the drive to go do it so I start getting really upset when I start talking about people on unemployment and a bunch of stuff. It's just, it's not that you can't find a job. It's that you don't have the drive to go do it or your standard is set maybe a little bit too high that you won't go do it. And, you know, it's maybe a little bit of a problem that we have in Canada, specifically that I think we're probably going to see a lot of happening now. But here I'm

getting off track. No, no, no. That's that's it's it's it's an interesting look at it, what you're talking about. Yeah, it's, you know, and yeah, we're probably going to see a lot of that. And see even like right now there's, there's a lot of temporary foreign worker battles going on a few different things where all of a sudden a lot of people have lost our, you know, are maybe higher paying jobs or higher profile jobs kind of thing. And the alternative now will be unemployment or going down to a labor kind of job. And there's a lot of people out there right now that will be like, well, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to, yeah, I'm just going to take money from the government. Yeah, you've, you've probably heard of different places trying

subsidized government living subsidized government funding, funding, I think, where they give you essentially an allowance. Have you heard of this? And, like here and there, yeah. Well, they've tried, tried it in different, I know for sure it's happened down in California. I want to say one other place in the States where they're flirting with the idea of where everybody gets an allowance. And that's kind of what you're saying is you probably could go back and find work, or you could just take some free money from the government and sit at home. And I'm above the, I always, when this COVID thing hit, I said probably the most scary thing about it was is when times got tough back in 2008,

2015, if you lost your job, there was work. You could, I mean, you could go anywhere and do anything. You could move a province over. You could go to a different country.

You could do pretty much, you just had to go after it, right? Or you just had to pick up, you know, nothing against Walmart graders, but you probably could have went to Walmart and been a Walmart grader if you really wanted to do some.

Absolutely. Yeah. The thing that's almost unnerving about, what's gone on so far with this whole thing has been you know you lose your job right now I don't know how many people are hiring because nothing's open and if you go to the states nothing's open there and if you go overseas nothing's open there and it's it's the first time in history that that I can think of that that has ever happened yes it's a very serious storm that we're that we're pitted into weathery right now it's a yeah it's a it's a very

concerning thing. That's where you know you see situations like this happening right now and even I don't know I just I kind of look at the box a little bit and even just look at the from a perspective of what what do we need right now as Canadians because you see you see a federal government right now that's I mean obviously doing what a government a responsible government should be doing is try to try to get money out to their population so that the country isn't completely implode and people can maybe make some rent payments and a few different things which is I mean obviously the right thing to do

but this is a really good time and I think there's a really good example of a lot of this stuff now I don't have any of statistics on it don't don't quote me on a lot of this stuff but I mean back in the in the depression of the 30s there was a there was a lot of government programs that were actually government work programs the only reason I know about some of this is because I grew up on a federal community pasture and asked a lot of questions well how do these fences get built in all these places. Well, during the 30-30s, the government said, okay, hey, we're going to put X number of guys to work building these fences out here

on these community pastures. Now, obviously, right now, I mean, you're not going to get a lot of people to go out to work with a post hole digger and a mall and build fences and stuff, right? But the theory is there, and we've got the challenge, of course, of having this virus that we need to contend with at the same time as well, right? but it's it's something that can be managed if we're managing it closely I think and right now you get into larger urban centers where everything's completely shut down like I kind of get what's happening to try and control this but if you get larger rural

work going on where like let's say if we were doing something along the lines of building a pipeline or something like that you know that's not something that's unachievable with so I see what you did there You know, there, yeah. But, I mean, whether it's building a fence in a community of pasture or building a pipeline to tidal waters or something like that, I mean, nobody's saying that we have to do it at the speed that we do it when we're under construction deadlines and a lot of this stuff. But, I mean, really, if we, if we have a government that's that's going to invest money in their population, wouldn't you want to invest something into something you can get return from? A return on investment kind of scenario instead of just, well, you know, here's 10 billion. I'm just going to light it on fire and hope that thing comes around.

The best analogy I had heard about the bailout was, you know, they were talking about whether there's been, I'm speaking specifically about the states right now and they were talking about the two trillion dollar bailout plan and Republicans wanted to give it to all the businesses and Democrats wanted to give it to the people, right, and who's going to get it, right? And they were talking, you know, just like giving people money is like giving a starving man a donut. Sure, taste good.

And he's going to be happy for 30 seconds, but the nutritional value of that is awful. And within 30 seconds, it's gone. And then what are you left with? Well, I need more money because I spent what you gave me. But then you kind of want another fucking donut, don't you? That's right. That was pretty delicious.

That's right. And so I hear what you're saying. I think that, you know, another quote that I heard the other day was, I was listening to an interview. And the guy said, tough times create great leaders. Soft times gives us what we currently have. And he was talking about week leaders because currently that we've been, you know, my lifetime, your lifetime, we've been pretty fortunate what we've been, you know, I don't know. if you could grow up in a better time, right?

And the problem is, is, you know, I come back to this all the time with politics, and we're going to get back to you in oil. But in politics, the dirty little rubber hole, isn't it? It's just down to go. I won't follow you too far down at here. But what always would, I've wondered for a really long time, and by a really long time, I mean the current administration, is like everybody can see that something just,

this doesn't make any sense, right? And I know like kumbaya, we're going to have everybody in and it's going to be awesome. But at the end of the day, you got to do some things that make sense as a business. You got to run the country as a business. You got to do things that keep us everybody healthy and good and keep moving and positive and everything else. So I watch this and I go, you know, you just can't look over at the conservatives or any party and go, that guy, though, when he runs the next, we're going to have. the guy because that guy isn't sitting there and I can't figure that out why we don't have more people in politics other than you know I think we talked about it uh you know before was like right

now in politics you got to you got to have fixed game you got to be willing to go through a ton of crap and then if you get all the way to the top and I've done all that and want to do some of these things you're going to get ridiculed on a another level for it and so all the best don't go into it because there's easier to make money right so then yeah you're getting me on a rant now and then so not all the best they're sitting in places where they can make easy money but have really no control over what happens on a on a country scale and now what's happening is happening and everybody's going man we're in some deep crap and i don't know when we get out of this and i i sit here and go we get out of this when the best go into politics and turn the ship around yeah

It's true. And I think the hard part about it is, is politics or running a country or running the world for that matter. It being turned around is going to take somebody in power that there's a lot of people even right now that are asking for that kind of thing that maybe don't even know what they're asking for and what it's going to take to get things turned around. And that kind of goes back to that entitlement thing that I was talking about earlier is that, okay, if you really want to do this, this is what it's going to take.

You know what I mean? And although we can all kind of run around and braid and beat on our chest, and be like, yeah, let's just do what it takes. You'd be like, are you willing to do what it takes? There's going to be some stuff that's going to go down that you're going to be like, hey, I kind of don't like what's going down right now. And then the person running place is going to be like, no,

you ask for this. So here it comes. You know what I mean? So yeah, and it's just, I think right now is that we have a little, maybe like we mentioned, a little bit softer of a generation that is maybe out of touch of the reality of what it's going to take to get us out of what we have going. on and I think one of those softer people that I'm referring to might be the leader of the country

right now. But yeah, I mean it just, you might be right. Yeah, we just, you know, we can't be trying every 10 seconds when we turn around as a nation leader. There's things that you need to be able to do and we don't have it. And I'm not saying I've got it. I'm not saying there's anybody else there that does have it. But what we've got is not doing it. But what have we had in the past that is doing it either?

You know what I mean? There's, I mean, there's been some great premiers come through the country of Canada as far as I'm concerned. But if you really want to look back and see, okay, who's been a great prime minister of Canada? Well, I mean, I'd sit here and say, I'm going to need some time on that one. You know what I mean? So, no offense to any of our previous. prime ministers but i think we're past the point of offense at this at this stage of the game here you know what i mean well i you just caught me on a long like five-minute rant about politics so

i think you're right well once again we go back to it though yeah i'm going to pull us all the way back to it we'll see if we can stick on it here for all right man yeah let's go yeah is you enjoy your career you enjoy everything about it you're in a company now you're starting to become a person that you don't like. So what is the moment, what is the moment where you, the time where you just roll over, you wake up, you're out in the wherever you're at. You know, man, I don't want to do this anymore or this isn't me anymore. Yeah, it was, it is gradual. I gradually got it figured out. And, you know, I just, I'm going to an older point in my life where I was just like, you know, like I, this is a great career. I mean, I'd say I'm successful in my career and everything. And, uh, yeah,

you just get to a point where eventually things kind of start bugging you a little bit. You know what I mean? You feel like you kind of start spinning your tires with a lot of the stuff you're doing. I just got myself into a situation where I just, I couldn't take anything farther than where it had gone. And, you know, you're constantly fighting against an industry and starting to fight against, excuse me, this demographic of people we were just referring to kind of thing to try and keep some wheels turning and stuff. and it kind of got to the point where it was a very slow, gradual change into, you know, this is, this is getting to take up actually all pieces of my life through the night,

through the day. It was just constant, constant, constant, you couldn't get away from it kind of thing. And it just, there was actually one point where it hit me where I was, it was actually, I just remember the TN turning point very well. I, you know, it had been a bad night. There'd been, you know, you got a truck in the ditch, you got some stuff going on or whatever, and you go out, get it out of the ditch, get everything done, get back and it's down,

hit the pillow for a couple hours, and your alarm's going off at 6 o'clock in the morning again. You're getting up and you've got to head back into keep making things work. And I just kind of, that was kind of that point where I was just like, that was the first time in my life. And I don't know if anybody knows me out there, but I'm a pretty happy guy. Like, I'm a, like, one of the happiest guys on planet Earth.

and I like I I I spring out of bed I love every day I love getting at a fan I love going to do my thing it's just I I really don't take any days on this earth for granted and I I got out of bed that morning and I was like I I hate this and like I stopped when I said that to myself and I was like okay you need to have a very serious look at what you have going on here because this is not you anymore, you know, like it's not who you used to be. It's not who you want to be kind of thing. You're just slowly getting miserable doing what I was doing. And I was like, there's, there's times in your life, I think, where people, um, people will be in a situation like that and just kind of float with it because it works and they don't want to shake things up any.

And they'll trade being comfortable in position for maybe not being the happiest with it. You know what I mean? Um, and I just decided it was time to change what I had going on in my life. So it's not like a mic drop. I gave six months notice that I was my intent on leading the company. You know, helped train a couple of guys, finished our pick certification, got everything done. I would call, I couldn't leave it not being finished and I would call my career there a success. And it was a great part of my life that helped build me to who I am. And I hope I left with as much dignity as I could.

could. And it was just time for a change in life. So I took that leap and did it. Well, first off, you're a very small percentage because it's a, I don't know what the percentage is, but it's very high percentage of people that are working in their jobs, don't like it. Right? But they get, you know, I listened to some different podcasts. Joe Rogan sticks out and he's talked about it lots, right? about people get stuck in work they don't like but now they got a mortgage

now they got wife and kids maybe they just yeah you know and they're stuck and they can't get out and so then what happens or they don't like change so you know and it's a little bit of a leap of faith to push on and to you know hop out and try something new

I have to imagine that that day after you were done and you got to just I'm out of here must have been like a weight off the shoulders feeling good big old smile on your face yeah it it really really was uh and considering the fact that it it's not something that it's like i've been mic dropped on a lot uh in in that specific industry you know where you're you're actually have a guy lined up to come in to all, you know, two or three loads on that shift that they're coming in for. And I actually had it happened with two guys in the same day where they just stop answering

their phone and just don't show up anymore. And like, that is devastating when you're running an operation of that size because it really affects your field performance and everything. And then you got upset customers. And then you're left wondering, well, what the hell happened? Like, why did you just not show up anymore kind of thing, right? and I just, you know what, I'll never, ever, ever do that to somebody. Because you don't do to somebody what you wouldn't want done to yourself, you know,

which I try and stick as close to that as I can, you know, through my life. Not all the time, but most of the time. And it's, yes, I mean, it was just the fact that I'd worked up to it for that six months. It was that day was, yeah, it was a very changing, changing day in my life. and I didn't even know what I was going to do actually is the craziest thing and I just you know I've always had land back here in Tautil and this is kind of where our home has been and just it took a few months of me being back here that I realized that this was just it that this is just where I want to be now in the meantime though

from going from working up north to being back home you take a bike trip we got to talk about that yeah yeah yeah the epic journey i call it the bike trip of life uh it's what i call it because that was one of the things i always wanted to do uninterrupted uh so much through through those years was just uh just be able to not have a phone on and not check my phone when i stopped to fill up for fuel on motorcycle uh and and just kind of just be free just go do your thing and that's actually where this quick dick mc dick snapchat handle came from is because i i i changed my phone number and I had no intentions whatsoever of contacting anybody, including my family while I was gone on those motorcycle drivers. It's like, I'm going to be gone and, you know,

I'll catch you guys whenever I feel like it. And my older brother, he's like, dude, you kind of can't just bugger off and not talk to anybody. It's like, people need to know you're alive, all right? He's like, just get Snapchat, man, and just like, you know, once every couple days, just put something on your story so that we know you're kind of kicking around. I'll be like, all right, fair enough. And that's where this quick dick, McDick name came from. But yeah, I, I hit 10 provinces, two territories, 21 states on a 2009 night train, no windshield, no nothing, we just, we just went and tore up the country. I'd been, I was lucky enough to get paid to travel most of Canada as a commercial driver, you know, in a lot of different places, including up in the Arctic,

which is an absolutely amazingly beautiful part of Canada. If anybody ever gets a chance to get up into the Arctic, go do it. It's incredible. Summer or winter, it's pack long johns of its winter because it's colder and a bastard up there, but it doesn't change the fact that it's gloriously, gloriously beautiful. So yeah, I hit all the places that I hadn't in the big truck, but I got a picture. My motorcycle and myself at each provincial crossing in Canada plus two territories he can't get a provincial crossing in a new to it because there's no summer road going through there and I don't quite want to put a ski in a track on the Harley yes I don't think I'm that tough so I had to take a furlough on that one and

hopefully we'll get that one someday so yeah it was it was amazing it was an incredible trip 25 and a half thousand kilometers I met a met a lot of amazing people. I think my goal when I went to do it was, you know, we have those, this is totally a Saskatchewan thing too. We're going to talk about this for a second. If I'm allowed to takeover for a second here, we're going to talk about this for a second. Quick dick, take the helm. When you're sitting and you're talking to somebody and it's kind of like I call it the Saskatchewan sign off kind of thing or whatever, we're like, yeah, well, if you're ever in my neck and the ones, just pop in kind of thing. But when you say that, it is.

such an empty statement because you're just like, that's just kind of how you say goodbye. Because I know that I'm never going to be in Tadamagush, Nova Scotia, to stop by and have a coffee with you. Well, you know what? I was like, you know, I kind of plan this route to ballpark where I was going to be. And I was just like, I am stopping to see absolutely everybody that I've always said, well, if I'm swinging through, I'll stop by. I did it.

And it was incredible. The response and reaction that you get out of people when you've gone that far out of your way to stop in their home is if that doesn't make you feel a Canadian, I don't know what does. It was really, truly, truly amazing. Every place that I stopped was incredible. Well, I talked about north of Montreal, a hotel or a motel. I talked about Maple Creek Motel. but what we did when we knew people was we stayed places. We stayed places we'd never met people before,

but friends of friends had friends there and you'd stay. And I know exactly what you're talking about. It's the most Canadian thing you're ever going to see because they just welcome you in. And I don't know how many times we rolled in on pedal bikes, not a motorbike, and have like just issues. And I know a buddy at a bike shop and they'd take us down. One place in, that must have been Ontario,

took us down to a bike shop after hours. And I was like, how the hell did we land here? And so we're in a bike shop and the guys just tuning it up. It was great. Fed us meals and have fun and enjoy the time. It's so cool. Like when you were, when you decided you were going to go on the bike trip,

did you have any idea that's how, like, you were going to go that far? Or did it just kind of become an addiction to you to keep going? Or did you have an idea of where you were going to go? had, I just knew I wanted to get, I wanted to get to Newfoundland. And it was, it was actually a cool little thing that happened to me regarding Newfoundland and some things. You know, I, I, I, I wanted to stay through Canada all the way through because I'd been

up through the northern route, through Ontario, through Nipaghan, and I actually wanted to go along the North Shore Superior. But I'd never been, I'd never been past Nova Scotia. I'd spent actually quite a bit of time in Nova Scotia. I know a lot of people out there. It's an amazing place. Just a side note that, like, last night and today was a horrible day for Nova Scotia. And if anybody out there is listening or watching from the Port-a-Pic region there, man,

I just thinking a lot about all the people that I know out there. I've been in touch with people that I do know, which we're nowhere near the area. And if people don't... What a horrendous tragedy. Yeah, and if people haven't heard, that's... that gunman who went around disguised as a RCMP officer. As an RCMP, yeah. 13 dead, including Heidi Stevenson, RC&P officer,

23 years of service, two kids, a husband, not to mention anybody else that was gunned down as well. It's a terrible thing, and that's nowhere on the planet deserves that. And it's just, it's nothing that you would ever expect to come out of a place like Nova Scotia if you've ever been there. So, yeah, just, man. Yeah, 100%. Everybody out there is a terrible thing.

So going back to, I'd never been east of Nova Scotia. I was like, you know what? I've got to do it. I've got to get east to Nova Scotia. I have a very, very, very good. I call them my family. Actually, when I first moved to Grand Prix, I lived in their basement.

You know, hey, Nova Scotia proud. Here's a Nova Scotian story or whatever, right? I'm a Saskatchewan Prairie boy that actually wound up moving up to Grand Prairie. And there was a family from Nova Scotia. The guy's name was Doug McLeod. We call him coal miner because he worked. He actually was one of the first draggers down in the Westray mine disaster in Ficto County in Nova Scotia. We called him coal miner.

He was a crazy, crazy Nova Scotian. Just full energy. And always one of the funnest guys to be around. But I was looking for a place to rent, and he said, well, you can rent my basement. He's renting out the basement, trying to make some money to make ends meet. Whatever, sounds great. And you were just instantly a part of the family. He had two daughters and a son and a wife, and she would leave soppers out for me on the counter,

and they would do laundry. And you were just instantly a part of the family there, and that resonates throughout Nova Scotia. right um but anyways this family long story short they wanted to move them back to nova scotia uh and the coal miner is not with us anymore but it's family's still there and so i always like keep in touch with them that was one of my like that was one of my destinations that i was like i'm going to be there excuse me because uh the the the boy of the family was turning 30 this summer and it was i planned going east of nova scotia after that and uh what i found was incredible. Newfoundland is an amazing place. I spent an extra day there. I fell in love with St. John's. It's

just an amazing, amazing harbor city. You ended up at George Street, didn't you? Several times. And it was good. Yeah, it was really good. And yeah, just the history that's there and everything was incredible. And then Cautier-Jantiafairy back and did the Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Island. I gather to work with. On a side note, when you went to Newfoundland, did you go to the, I can't remember the place, but where the U.S. owned it during World War II? Do you know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah, absolutely.

So that's actually, like, is the harbor. So there's, you got to see the war. You're talking about Cape Spear, which is actually at a, there's a military installation. there actually where they had a gunnery base and stuff. How is it that nobody, like, unless you've been there or probably live there or live out towards that, us Westerners have no idea that is there. I swear, nobody has a clue. And I think it was like at the time, but it was, I can't remember that it was it 49 when

Newfoundland was came a part of Confederation? I want to say it was 49 because it was post-World War II. but the actual harbor in Newfoundland is for for years and years and years and years and raiding St. John's there has been one of the most coveted harbors in the world because it's so protected and it's so deep and that they were shown where they had all the stringers across to keep you both out during World War II and stuff and then you actually look at Cabot Tower yeah yeah it's insane I 100% that that place was eye-opening and to finish your point, they joined in March 31st, 1949.

There you go. 49. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. People listen to this are like, I learned something tonight. That's exactly what they're thinking. Yeah, you know what?

Until I had been out there, I did not know that about Newfoundland, but that's, I mean, it's just, you can just, like you can just keep learning in this world that we've got at a really, really neat place. Yeah. Newfoundland was incredible. And all the places you go, you can't spend enough time there because they're just, so much. But the cool thing about that I was talking about earlier is that I just stumbled across the Miles era monument of Terry Fox in Newfoundland in St. John's where he actually

he dipped his artificial leg into the harbor and then started his marathon and hope. Rewinded back to when I was going through Thunder Bay, Ontario, where they've actually got his monument there. Which is in everybody should see that too. haven't been there, put it on your list. I was actually training to run a marathon later in the summer and when I stayed in Thunder Bay, I actually ran out to the Mary, the Terry Foxman monument there. And it's something. Go do it. And then the coolest part about it was that I essentially rode the trail that he ran. And I can't imagine doing that with one leg under the pain of

what he was going through. I can't imagine doing that with two. legs. We biked a whole chunk of that. And I'm like, we got to places where I'm like, how on earth did he do this? It's incredible, man. And that's just, I think that's one of the things we really need to recognize as Canadians is how much culture we have in this, in this country that there is to see. And, you know, I'm just as guilty as anybody else. So, you know, maybe we want to go to Mexico or go do this or go do that. But, man, there are so, so many cool places to see and I feel like it just kind of tore the top of the can off when I went and did this trip because now I've got this huge list of other places that I want to go see

in Canada kind of thing. It's just, it's an amazing place. Where do you want to go see next in Canada? I would actually, I would really like to go spend more time in Manitoba specifically up into northern Manitoba. Northern Manitoba. Northern Manitoba is just the five people are letting off confetti right now. They're going, holy crap, didn't see that. that one coming. Matatoba is so beautiful. And actually we wound up, oh man, that was quite a few years ago.

I wound up going through the Whitechell area and stuff. I've got cousins that live in Winnipeg. I stayed with him on my way through this year. And they took me out to a place called Lockport. It's just north of Winnipeg. And it's a place called the Miracle Mile. And it's on the Red River. I believe it's Red River.

And they call it the loft. It's actually a hydrant. there. And it's one mile of the best catfishing in the world. No kidding. I did not know this about Manitoba. So they're a little bit muddier of a catfish because the water's always turning and they stay in there. But we went out there. And we were pulling like 30 to 35 pound cat out of this place. And this tiny little boat, it was incredible. And then my cousins showed me some of the hunting trips and stuff. They've been on up in northern Manitoba in a lot of these places. And it's just, It's got me captivated.

I want to go see more of it. Another really cool place that I wanted to spend more time in was right around the Lake of the Woods, around the Canora area, getting into that Canadian Shield area. It's beautiful there. I got to live in, so I played my junior hockey in Dryden,

which is an hour. Awesome in Dryden, yeah, you bet. East of Canora. And that country is beautiful. And shout out to my Billet family, who I lived with, who Robin Lane is a guy from Newfoundland. He is... Awesome.

Newfy dinners. It was quite the guy. You got to get some baloney in you, right? So you do this, you do this, I look at it like, most people will never get the opportunity to even glimpse half of what you did. You got this trip of like, almost like a lifetime, man. Right? Yeah.

To go and... Yeah, absolutely. A to take the gumption, quit a job, recognize A, that, you know, I'm just not me anymore, quit your job, and then hop on the road and do this giant tour of what did you say? Ten provinces, two territories in 21 states. Territories in 21 states, man. I did hear that, correct. A half thousand kilometers, yeah. Like, that's, I'm friends with some biking guys.

That's a dream of theirs, like to just open road. I was very, I was very, very lucky to be able to do it. And I, you know, like, I do not take that for granted that I had the opportunity to go do it. And it's stuff like that, you just, you don't forget. Yeah, it was really good and met a lot of great people and saw a lot of really cool places. And the, it's actually, it's funny because the first video I ever wound up putting on YouTube was actually a ride up to the, up to the 60th parallel out of Grand Prairie. Because in all, everything that I'd planned,

I wound up circling back up to Grand Prairie. And then I was going to go on the second leg in my trip after that. And I was like, man, there's just no way in this puzzle that I can organize getting the Northwest territories into this. And I was sitting at a table in Grovedale, south of Grand Prairie, another beauty redneck Alpertetown.

Sitting at my buddy's table, we're just, we're drinking, drinking whiskey and and I was telling them about my my struggles of how I can't get to northwest territories and he's like well why can't you and I was like well it just doesn't fit he's like yeah but it's only like 650K from here man and I was like well yeah why can't I he's like just ride it I was like I'm just going to ride it so it was about three of the morning we shut her down there and I got up at six the next morning and uh I'm I thought this would be hilarious if I made a video of my day and, like, send it to my brothers,

but it's over. And so that's kind of what I did. And I rode, that was a 1,300 kilometer round trip. It was 650. Yeah, it is 1,300 kilometers. 1,307 kilometers rode it in 14 hours. Thunderbuddled it. Yeah.

And there's a little stretch. Okay, so I always get a lot of, I always get a lot of gear in that. Everyone grinds my gears in that one because they figured that. The Fourth Meridian, Al Lloyd. At all right. Yeah, they're like, oh, that's a paid sponsorship or product placement at a Fourth Marit. It's not. I knew there was a stretch between high level and the border and back to high level

where there's no fuel available, right? And on a good day, I can get 300 kilometers out of a tank of fuel on this Harley of mine. And this is a 400-some kilometer around trip. I'm like, well, shit, what's going to fit in my saddlebag that I can carry fuel in? And when I'm still kind of a little stumbling, foggy or whatever in my garage that morning, I threw a can of sardines in my saddlebag, and I'm looking around. And I'm like, my brother's been up and he brought some Fourth Meridian growlers with him. Like, I don't know how long ago.

And they're in the recycle pile in my garage. And I was like, those growlers will hold gasoline. Get them? Yep, they fit in the saddle bag. Let's roll. So I filled those things up full when I left high level. You don't have to lie to us. We know.

Hey, wink, wink. Yeah, we know. They made it. It's actually, it's hilarious because a lot of, a lot of the stuff, people think Great Western beer sponsors me. Well, they should. They don't. They should. I agree.

If anyone from Great Western's watching out there, like what are you doing here? Like, figure it out already. But that's just what we drink. Big West Ash, Al has drank great Western beer since like 1986. You know, somehow that. Come in the stubby bottles, you know what I mean? that doesn't surprise me right like it just doesn't surprise me great westerns the beer of choice right and oh saskatchewan barley man Saskatchewan made Saskatchewan barley um i just whatever winds up in my videos is

just like what i have kicking around well let's let's let's talk about your videos a little you know we've gone now i don't know an hour or whatever it is um oh oh well time flies when you're having fun i guess right well i you know you come on off of this once in a lifetime bike tour. And then you got this quick dick Snapchat. Yeah. How the hell is that all sudden spawn into YouTube and over like I have, I should check the numbers on protesters diet,

but it was like half a million views or whatever the hell it's at. And it's like, it's fucked, man. It's hilarious. No, no, it's hilarious. And if I'm going to play the clip, you know, people who already heard part of the clip, because I'm going to play part of the clip before this episode starts, because it is absolute pure comedy gold. But, I mean, how does Snapchat that, like, how does it even go?

Like, just talk a little bit about the, oh, it's really crazy how it started, actually. So Big Mustache Al is, if nobody else there knows it or knows who Big Mustache Al is or watch this stuff. I take it for granted that people listening to this know who Big Mustache Al is. So he's my dad, right? Like, like, this is, this is, this is, this is the man that, that spawned the seed of quick dick, McDick, right? But he's just, my parents are, are amazing people. And my dad is, is a very incredible individual.

And, I mean, he's, he's cowboyed all his life. But that doesn't exempt him from being a Saskatchewan guy, you know what I mean? and I just got home. So they heat their house with wood still. They've got back of electric heat, but he heats his house with a wood stove, which very few people do. And he probably tells you there's nothing like a wood fire or wood heat,

which is very true if you've ever lived with wood heat. It is fantastic. Carry on. Yeah, it's true. So part of the spring project, they're actually just a couple days ago here, we were out splitting firewood and stuff because we've got a big block, actually on my half section of land there, whatever,

where we do a lot of the cutting. So he likes to stay a few years ahead kind of thing. So this is just what you do. And he's got out of the block and stuff and things that dried up, where we can get back out to the cutting box. Like, hey, you're here. I could use an extra hand. We should go split some wood.

And whenever he says that, I am all in because it's just, it's the most pure thing you can go and do. There's no distractions. There's nobody around. It's just you, the old man, a couple of cans of great Western beer. and you just kind of, you just grind each other's gears for 10 hours. It's so much fun. You just see how much shit you can give the other guy,

and then you kind of laugh about it. You know what I mean? It's fun. So we jump in the truck and I look over this guy. My dad, and he's got this flap for him bumper-to-bumper foam hat on, and he's serious about it. I'm like, shit. So we both got a frosty can of pop in our hands.

And this seat in this Saskatchewan Farm truck we're taking out there. The name of the truck's Woody, because that's his wood splitting trucks. We've got to cut some wood splitter on the back of it and everything. Because you've got to name your truck. If you don't name your trucks, I don't know what you're doing if you're like. And we're cruising out to this cutting block here or whatever. And like the seat is kind of tipped a little bit forward. And it's tipped that far forward because all the empty cans behind it that he hasn't clinging out for,

I don't know how long. The passenger side mirrors smashed out of this thing or whatever. And I've got my feet sitting up on about three months worth of tools that he's collected on the passenger floor side of this thing that he doesn't use. And I'm just looking around at this whole situation. And for the first time in my life and all the time I can remember, I had nothing else on my mind, but this is fucking hilarious. Like this might be the funniest thing I'm experienced.

thing right now and this is everyday life here right and uh the gears just kind of got churning and i was like i'd put this dumb quick dick mcdick name on my snapchat and i was like you know my brothers would get a kick out of this and shout out to my brothers like everyone's like you're a funny guy when they talked to me i was like you haven't met my brothers like i mean i'm the dullest of the three these guys are comedic genius so what you're saying is the next podcast i need to get quick dick with his two brothers on just get me out of the equation It'll be way more in trawling if you got those kids in it. But I was like, you know what?

These guys are going to love this. Like, they're going to think this is some funny shit. And I was like, I don't know why it hit me, but I was like, how funny would this be if this was an infomercial for some kind of a log splitting business or something like that? Like, I don't know. Big mustache owl. Yeah, big mustache owl.

Ventures, though. Big mustache owl ventures because it's got to be a business. It's north of tough. Saskatchewan that specializes in hardwood, splitting fired wood and a bunch of shit. And I just kind of started rolling with that and started doing a few things. And the funny part about this is, is the old man's getting pissed off of me because I got my phone out all the time when he's splitting wood and he starts off. He's like, what the hell are you doing over there?

You know what I mean? Like, grassy. I'd be like, just dad's doing some stuff, whatever. So we stopped for a beer. And he's like, no, like, what were you doing? So I show him what I'm doing. And he's pissing himself laughing. And he's like, that's funny.

He's like, I should get in on one of those. I was like, yes, you should. That's where we did the check you for ticks kind of thing or whatever they did. And we had a blast with it. And then it just kind of, like that was it. And I never picked it back up again. The whole bike trip I was on until I got back.

I went and spent two weeks on my cousin's farm down close to Rob's, Cichagin. And Quick Dick McDick kind of came back because all of a sudden I had a bunch of time on my hands, you know, bailing or sitting in a tractor and doing much stuff. And yeah, like lots of people kind of like, that's how social media works. So like, you know, my brothers would be like, you got to add this guy, this guy, and this guy because it's funny stuff.

And then they want you to add four people. And then before you know, you got this big explosion of adding people going on. But I, some of a quick-dex bet stuff came from down to the Boundary Ranch. And I didn't have my settings set right in Snapchat. I was just letting everything delete. I know, right? Oh, it was glorious. And then a lot of the stuff,

a lot of the stuff that I had when I came back here to, to, when I got cracking around here, I lost a lot of really, really, really, really gold stuff. Then I'll bring back, because I kind of remember how I did it and some of the jokes in it or whatever.

Just you got to get back to that kind of time of year for it to be relevant. But, yeah, that's how it started. And then you just, I kept doing them, kept doing them. I was doing them every day. I do like a one minute thing every day for months. And before you know it, you got Tufnal, the pound of foam lake, a whole bunch of other areas are all got you on FAPS just waiting for you to upload stuff. And I'm like, how is this happening, right?

And people kept bugging me for older stuff that I'd put up that had gone missing. you delete after 24 hours off your story or whatever. And there's some of that stuff you want gone after 24 hours because there was some raunchy shit on there. And yeah, so it got to the point. I was just like, you know what? I'm just going to start putting this on YouTube. You guys can watch it as much as you want.

Like stop texting me being like, send me this, send me this one, send me this one. I was just like, I've had enough. It's like, I'll put it on YouTube and you can watch it there. And then this YouTube channel, like, catches traction or something. And I don't know how it all happened, but all of a sudden there's just all these followers, man. Well, I'm going to get my, my father wanted to give you a shout out because he's a huge fan. He turns 64 in August. So he is a giant fan of years.

That's an honor. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. And what you do is it's simple. I don't mean that as a knock. That means it's universal, especially across Saskatchewan and Alberta, right? You're not offending me by saying that.

But I mean, the idea is just like, instead of like creating this complex thing, it just makes it so simple. And then you just add in the humor part. And all of a sudden, you know, my father on a farm in Hillmont, Saskatchewan, nice little tiny farming community, northeast of Lloydminster,

is uh follows your videos on youtube how crazy is that like to actually even say that out loud is it like what but but that's that's what happens because it's so flattering man it really is yeah well i mean when you talk about the saskatchew farm truck all of us farm kids know exactly what you're talking about right we had the we had the farm truck back in the day old blue right name it's got to be named old blue love it didn't need a key to start it it could just start I can't remember how the hell that was possible. Did you have the screwdriver in it or was it just, you could just turn it? I think if memory serves me correct, the key had been broken off at one point.

So the key was always in it and then you just still in it. You just twist and where you go. There's three combinations. There's the key in it. There's the screwdriver to start it and there's the pair of vice strips that are on it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so that was the truck that all of us kids grew up driving, right? I don't know how young I was.

I mean, labor laws probably don't want us talking about that. I don't know. I was probably like seven years old on the field, just whipping around an old blue. And I mean, it had more dense. It was no longer blue.

It was just an old farm truck. Can you talk about the seat nod? Everybody, that's just universal. The nine wire being universal, like, you know what? The number nine wire is one of my favoriteest videos,

I think my second favorite is video to make. but it was just it was so easy to make because a lot of the stuff you just go out everyone's like where do you get your material where do you get all this stuff from i was like i just literally i go out and i just go through my day and i'm just like that is damn funny and that's it that's where it comes from it's just everyday life and i think that's why so many people just can relate to it is just because it's just, it's just everyday life. And I may be, I'm maybe a little bit luckier of a guy to be in the position that I'm in. I've just had the opportunity in my life to experience so many things.

I, I understand agricultural life very well because it's how I grew up. And I understand oil and gas side of the things very well because I spent so much time in it. being connected to the oil and gas industry in a town like Grand Prairie, it makes you very aware of forestry industry as well because they kind of work with each other up there, sharing roads, you know, clearing pipeline right-ways and a lot of different stuff. I've just been exposed to a lot of different things and I'm by no stretch of the imagination an expert on anything whatsoever, which if you talk to experts in the field of some of the stuff, that I cover. They'll be like, wow, he just doesn't know what he's talking about. I know is I'm just kind of scratching the surface of a lot of this stuff. But if you can take that like that small understanding of how a lot of this stuff works, another part is fisheries.

I was so lucky to have the opportunity to get out on, you know, some lobster boats and some stuff out in Nova Scotia. I'm not a professor on any of it or how it works, but you kind of have an idea of how most of the parts of your country works, it just feels like it's easier to be able to connect the dots a little bit better. Does that make sense? Absolutely. Yeah. Well, I think, I think if you stay in your bubble, so never, I'm not saying you never leave your area, but I mean lots of people go to Mexico and they see Mexico or they go to the States or whatever, right? But if you don't leave your bubble and interact with other people, you'll think the East is Satan, right, is just this evil

place. But if you actually go to the East, it's a wonderful place. There are wonderful people there. One might argue some of the nicest people in all Canada are sitting there, right? Absolutely. But all of our technology and everything, nobody talks, nobody gets the same meshes through. All that gets through is like, let's go at each other, right? Like we're combatants because we're on the opposite sides and have different problems when,

in fact, I know exactly what you're saying, right? Like all of us are pretty similar. Just dealing with our own industries. Can I go back to something you said there, Sean, you said some of the nicest people in Canada. Yeah, absolutely. You're going to find in the Maritimes. I agree there's some nice people out there. Do you know what I found about Canada?

I think specifically in the last year of my life when I did this big trip across it, is that some of the nicest people in Canada are actually, are actually everywhere in Canada. It's a very good point. And the, the craziest thing about it is that they might not even know it, but you can bring it out in people. And that's one thing I've really noticed in interactions with a lot of people is that,

I'm going to say 9.9 out of 10 people that you meet. There is actually a very kind and good person living within, that person that might be buried down deep through a few layers. And if people took interactions that they're having with other people and actually focused on bringing that parts of each other out, I think we would find ourselves living in a country that has a lot kinder people than we could ever imagine. It's just, it's very easy for us to be the first easiest emotion for people to go to is protection and to be to be standoff and have to guard themselves.

If you can break through that a little bit, man, we've got some, we've got some badass people in this country and not in a bad way in a really, really good way. I found that pretty much everywhere I went this year, is that if you have no agenda and you can just be a genuine human with somebody, you can get very, very good results in your interaction. And the one thing I would probably add on to everything you just said, which you're 100% right.

He did 21 states and I've been, well, I married a woman from Minnesota. And they're fantastic people. Minnesota is a great state. Well, and I went to school in Wisconsin. And Wisconsin is Saskatchewan of the United States. Some of my best friends from, actually, yeah. Some of my best friends from college come from, well, shout out to Joe Belanger. If he's listened to this, as he brews beer, he's got a distillery, or not a distillery.

a brewery in Ashland, Wisconsin. And he gets on me all the time because he listens to me all the time. And sometimes we're not loud enough for him. So Joe, if you're listening, I'm trying to speak very loud in here. But he brews, him and his father brew beer. And it is fantastic. And I went to school there. And it reminds me so much about Saskatchewan.

It's, it's eerie. And that's a different country, different everything. And like you say, you're at, Absolutely right. Nice people are everywhere. And that goes for probably, well, we all know it. It goes for every country in the world. Yeah, absolutely. Most of the countries in the world. And I think we can find a little bit of a, I think we can find a little bit of our hometown everywhere in the world. And I think I'm no professional on metrics or any of this stuff or whatever, but just some of the stuff that you see in the comment section of the things that go on is I think I think everybody can find a lot. little bit of their hometown in Quictick, if that makes any sense. And I think that's great. And I think if that can continue on and keep that mentality going, then like I'd say,

mission accomplished. I'm not in this to make a whole bunch of money or to be famous or anything like that. Well, you're quickly becoming that. It's really weird. I do what I do. And I've always done it kind of for people, you know, that I know and that I know what they're going to find funny. And, you know, man, this is going back a long time.

I don't know why I'm jumping to this. There's a guy, there's a guy right close to Tethnal here that runs an electrical company. And he's kind of good. He's a couple years younger than me when we went to school. But, I mean, you kind of just know everybody when you go to school in a small town, right? And we kind of reconnected pretty good when I got back to Saskatchew here. And he said to me one day, he's like, you know what, I woke up. I was kind of having a shitty day.

or whatever and things weren't going quite right and then all of a sudden i got a notification that you put a snap up and i watched it and he's like i pissed myself laughing he's like and then you know what my day was good after that man and i get a lot of that in the comment section of what i do and uh you know if that's the result that you get off of this stuff i'll keep doing it i i've got everything i've got i've got a warm house to live in i've got a great family you know i don't need a lot more than what i've got. If you can give to other people and make it happen, then I'll keep doing it. Eventually, I would assume people are going to get tired of it. If they don't, then I'll just keep doing it. I don't foresee myself running out of material. There's a lot of stuff around here. A guy can

cover. And I guess it's just a matter of having the time to do it. And I just, yeah, I just want people to be happy, man, really do. I think of what you just said there in that two-minute spiel, that's exactly why you're going to be successful. That's exactly why you're going to continue to get a fan following that's bigger than what you currently have. Well, that's a... You know, I sit down, I am... What are you going to be? You're going to be episode 70 to the master on.

You're going to be episode. 72, I think. God, I hope I'm right, because people are going to look at them episode number and be like, you fucked up. What are you talking about, right? But, you know, when I come on, now as I start to branch out and interview guys have never met before, certain people just like, when you talk, they're so easy to talk to, it's, it's almost like we grew up in the same little hamlet and, you know, have the, you know, like it's, it's very, you're very easy got to talk to. You got very, you're very, you got a personality that's just enjoyable to sit and listen to. We're going on, I don't know, an hour and a half maybe now. And I don't like checking the clock.

I honestly don't. And you know what's funny? The listeners as are listening to this, and I should lay out a couple things here. Lots of people go, oh, God, I can't believe we've been talking that long. And like, maybe we should shut it off. And I learned very early on, do not shut off a good conversation. People are very upset about that. But I also don't like.

People out there still listening at this time. I'm just like, hey, thanks. That's fantastic. Oh, no, no. You've probably got more patience than I do. People, well, I'm one of them. I listen to, now you're getting me off track. But I listen to Joe Rogan. And when Joe Rogan has somebody interesting on, if they talk for three and a half hours, I look at that and they go, man, they must have had something good to talk about. Like, that is some good chemistry to sit there and talk for three and a half hours. Yeah, absolutely.

The other thing is I don't, I don't really, really don't like looking at the time because I don't like to. ever judge it by like, oh, okay, well, maybe we should wrap up, right? You could feel when a conversation's wrapping up. You can feel like, yeah, it's time, yeah, no, I got you, yeah, absolutely. The hockey player, oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, go. No, what the hockey player in me wants to know.

Yep. Saskatchewan has the most senior hockey teams, bar none in senior hockey hockey. I don't even know why I'm thinking about this. It has over 100. I want to say like 104 somewhere out there. somebody's going to comment and be like, actually it's this. But, you know, over 100. It doesn't matter.

Don't go to the comment section. Foam Lake has a senior team, right? Yeah, buddy. Yeah. When are his quick dick, and I mean, obviously, the season's toast and everything going on, but is quick dick going to do a hockey video? Because every small town has their senior team,

and that is very, very, very specific to Saskatchewan. case in point Alberta has I think I want to say you know don't quote me on this number either 25 27 and what's their population compared to us right is no that is that is definitely 100% of Saskatchewan thing um I'm not much of a sports guy I and like I don't know whether I didn't get the gene or what went on I rodeoed when I was in high school and everything and I I mean, I played high school sports and a little bit of stuff or whatever, but people ask me sports questions about a lot of things, and I'm just like, I don't, I don't watch sports.

I actually, I don't even watch TV. It's a disaster. I went to, I'm getting off track in here. I want to go into a Saskatchewan Rush game, which I wasn't going to go to. I was actually on a trip out to. visit a brother and I had some business to do and come back before we started calving. And I know a guy that runs a CPCA around there and he helped out the rush. And he got a hold of me.

He knew I was coming through and he's like, hey, man, they're doing a fundraiser for Operation Smile, Canada and you should show up. And I was like, dude, I'm already past them. Like, you had a thing in Humboldt and then I'm on my home. And when he threw the Operation Smile thing out there, I was like, yeah, okay, I'll come back because I like it. I like good causes like that, right? so I rip back, get some merch lined up to get out there or whatever, and, uh, and got there.

And I, I, I thought it was the Saskatoon rush. Um, do you know how much shit I took over that? I even, I even put this out on like my, on my Instagram and all the stuff or whatever. Come see me at the Saskatoon rush. What a dip shit. Like, I had no idea. And lots of guys like, oh, yeah, yeah, it was a Saskatoon rush and the Regina Roughriders. That's what you're going to see there. Right? It was like, oh, shit, that's idiot. Ah, what do you do? This is the way it goes, right? Anyways, that's how much I know what's for.

But getting back to, yeah, it's actually, I've got so much stuff on my, on the job board of stuff to cover. And that's definitely on one. Farm auctions is another one. Oh, farm auctions is good. I've got to do, right? Farm auctions, or even if you can get to an auction ring and stuff like this, it's just, it's all just solid gold. And there's just so much fantastic stuff kicking around. There's just, it's like there's not an.

enough hours in the day to cover it. Well, you couldn't have come on this podcast who helped me at least throwing a plea out for it because I love hockey. And there's nothing more Saskatchewan than senior hockey. And you don't need to be a hockey player to enjoy that because all you've got to do is go sit in the stands and sit in a dressing room one night and have some fun. You'll get the gist of it. You've probably done that 10 times over.

100%. It's foam like flyers here is what our senior team is. And I mean, that's just, that is what you do on Friday night in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, is you go to the Flyers game because that's where everybody's going to be and everybody cheers and everybody talks shit to the other team and you get a rink burger and you get your tiny little plastic drinks. Does Foam Lake have the best rink burgers ever? Shit, man. Oh, I hit a sore spot.

They do not. Well, I tell you what, Hillmond has the best rink burgers ever. Hillman does. Oh, yeah. So I've had it in two of my videos, and there is nothing you will ever come out of a rink ever with more respect for it than a peg mac meal. And it's not a big mac. It's a peg mac because the lady that makes it, her name's Peggy McLean. So we've got all the peg mac.

And it's at the top-nall curling rink. And it's a double burger, cheese, onions. You've got to fry up the onions on the grill. Then you get the toasted bun, and then you get six deep-fried parogis with it. sour cream. You realize her sales just went through the roof. There is no way they could go higher. I kind of want to drive there just to see it out.

It's worth the drive. Now, the top of curling ink, you got to watch because it's natural ice. So, I mean, if it's a warm weekend and you're expecting a bond feel, you come ripping through,

those be a sign on the door, be like too much dripping, we couldn't have the bond steel kind of thing or whatever. But it's, it's uh yeah it's it's something i actually i i love the top of curling rink i grew up curling there and everything and it's just a small two-sheet quonset natural ice curling rink and uh it's just some of the best damn people in the world when you go there it's really amazing how can people i see you're wearing a qdm shirt this this is kind of unintentional actually it was on the top of the clean

Hey, once again, the Fourth Meridian, hey, guys, there was nothing there. Wink, wink, wink. It's not product placements or whatever, right? Yeah, you know what? Actually, so this is a kind of a monumental point in quick stuff with merch. So I've had merch and done some stuff or whatever just to get to like just these tiny little local fundraisers that I can get to, to raise money for, we did a thing for kid sport here in Foam Lake. excuse me, the, excuse me, the Wadina Minor Sports Association and a few other things.

And everyone is, I didn't expect it to happen. Everyone's beating my door down. Like, we need hats. We need shirts and everything. I'm like, what do you? You want a quick dick cat? I do. I do.

I do. I do. So I, and of course, on this, like, made in Canada, be in Canada, everything in Canada, kind of guy or whatever. And I started looking into something. and stuff. And a lot of this stuff that you get from people that order things in, they order them cheap and try and make some dollars off them and you get gilded made in Bangladesh and hats made in China or whatever. You're wearing a Richardson snapback hat there right now,

made in China, right? Well, here's some bad news that my first round of stuff is going to be printed on this stuff because I want to actually teaming up with a guy in York and a local guy. Lots of people that do this stuff that want to get merch to print on demand and get these guys in Vancouver. and a few other places to do it, and that's just what they do. But I want to try and keep some business local, which worked out great because he had to close his doors to the public and lots of sporting events and stuff where he does all those merch, got shut down.

So it took us a little extra time to get it, but he got what he could get a hold of, and we've got to print it up, and it's heading to the drop shipper next week. And the online store actually is going to be launched, which I've got a girl that I used to go, school with actually built it up for me and stuff so it's kind of neat it's all getting launched next week so i don't know where this is going to air what's going to be wednesday

wednesday wednesday yeah that's actually right close to launch day yeah so it's going to be uh quick take a look is what you're saying quick dick mcdickdick.ca you're going to be able to get some merch next week it's going to be available and then actually uh really cool thing which in all of my spare time that i have with with this stuff that i do actually uh i dug a little bit deeper and found uh found a couple of companies that actually are making trucker hats and flex-fit hats and stuff right here in Canada, which is awesome. So I'm waiting on some stuff to come in from them so we can check it out and found some guys that are actually making shirts right from scratch, dyeing them and everything right here in Canada and bunny hugs and everything. And so I've got them making up some

saddles for me and some stuff and we're going to actually have a, we're going to have a fully functioning 100% Canadian merchandise chain going here by the end of the month, actually. That'll be cool, man. I'm stoked about it. A lot of people that do this stuff, actually even go into print-on-demand places down in the States and Canadians that want Canadian artists or Canadian YouTubers or whatever you want to call them, they want their merch. They actually got a pay duty to get it across the border into Canada.

I just, I just, off the start here was just kind of to keep our local guy here in business and then we're, we're going to go with the exclusive Canadian line coming up here right shortly, which is, it's been kind of a neat adventure to go on, you know, and kind of the same thing, you dip your toes into stuff that you've never dealt with before. And it's the same thing. And like, hopefully, I mean, I always talked about leading by example with a lot of this stuff. And there's, it costs you more money to get a hat made.

in Canada. It costs you more money to get a shirt made in Canada, but the only thing that affects is the bottom line of the person selling it. So if that person is willing to do business in Canada and say, hey, okay, well, there's $5 a T-shirts that I'm not going to get back. I'm not keeping any of this shit anyways. It's going to local community stuff. So who cares? Like, let's just roll and let's keep a Canadian and let's do awesome with it, right? So, yeah, merch coming in hot. well I'll be uh as soon as you got a couple of things I'll be all over it I'm sure a lot of people will be all over it heck that's why you're going down the down that road I'm sure is because

people have been asking about it and heck I gladly sport it I appreciate yeah and like I said never in my life would I ever expected people to want merchandise that's a quick dick mc dick on it but if that's what that people want that's what they're going to get it's just uh hopefully everybody can have some patience with me a bit of a learning curve for everybody. Even the printer that I'm using, you know, it's a long ways out of his wheelhouse. But, hey, we're doing what we can to try and keep his wheels turning through this thing, too. Actually, it's a really cool story.

He's actually getting guys to, he set up his business to run his guys that he would otherwise had to lay off. They're coming in on like two-hour shift, and everybody gets a little chunk of work every day. And, you know, it's not much to keep the wolf away from the door. Absolutely. So I think it's I think it's just fantastic and man if there's anybody that runs a drop shipping company in Saskatchewan out there listening, hit me up. If there's anyone interested in starting one, hit me up. There you go.

Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. Actually, that's a really crazy part of the whole industry that I'm starting to see that there's a, you know, there's maybe some some need for some of this stuff actually in the Prairie provinces. And that's a big thing that you don't see here. Because a lot of logistical things where you can actually physically drive stuff across the border into the U.S. with some new trade agreements. You can actually do better with it. But, oh, man, like, where do you want me to start stopping end with this stuff?

I've been a busy guy. There's lots of information. No, I kind of get that. No, man. It's cool. My question is, is we got time for one more beer? Absolutely, man. I got all the time in the world.

Whatever. I don't even know what time it is tonight. I don't care. I'm good for the night here. See, I cheated, man. I got a 60-pounder of vodka here, and I don't have to move as well as I don't got to pass I'm in good shape, you know what I mean? You drink vodka straight.

Vodka and water. Excuse me. So what's killing me to name. Where I wanted to go was, you're in small town, Saskatchew, the smallest of small. Yeah. You're running around with an iPhone or whatever phone, filming yourself. what on earth does your father think or your neighbors or everybody you know uh that that's a really good question actually um even the the guy if actually i've been do a shout out to uh mark

rogers mark and wendy rogers actually owns the bar our ranch where a lot of this stuff is shot into gregg and leand dagnal uh diagonal farms where a lot of the stuff are shot as well they're all within a mile and a half of each other and i just kind of i'm like a little pinball i just run back and forth everywhere, whoever needs help doing whatever kind of thing, we're just at it all the time, right? But Mark actually cornered me one day, and there's even a thing when the CTV news actually came out to do a thing on me, if you can imagine that. But Mark is laughing all the time, and he's like, you know, people ask me to, like,

man, like, when does he ever have time to get anything done? Like, all he does is videotape, all this stuff, whatever. And Mark's like, you know what? to this day, I've seen him doing this three times. And this has been going on for months and months and months. It's like three times I've been like, oh, I see him talking into his phone over there kind of thing. I think that's kind of a fun part about what goes on is I don't like people being around when I do it. Because I kind of don't want people to see how I do it because I think if people actually saw how I did a lot of this stuff, they'd stop watching.

because it's so simple and ridiculous that really, I like anybody can do it. And that's, I don't know, like when I did that little quick one and a few different things, and like there's going to be more of those coming up actually because I had a lot of fun doing it. We need to get back to the point where I mean, you can kind of get around some younger,

some younger people. But I've got some good ideas of how we can make this happen as a social distancing kind of thing. It's so simple and people have the ability to be creative and there are very creative people out there that don't do it because they're, I'd say afraid to take a step in the direction of being creative or to put themselves out there. And if anyone's out there, listen, I just did this because I kind of, I feel to this day, I kind of don't care. I guess, don't take this out of context, but I kind of don't care. what people think about what I do. I just kind of do it and I hope people find it funny. And if I get a good response off of it, well, then I'll keep doing it.

And someday if I don't get a good response off it, I'll just be like, okay, well, that was fun. I can move on to something else kind of thing or whatever, right? But don't let fear or anxiety or anything stand in your way of trying to be creative or to be funny or to put it out there. The worst thing that could ever happen is somebody's going to be like, well, that's stupid. And that's just their shitty opinion, you know? And if it is, it is. So what?

But like, there's, this is, I mean, I'm a guy that's got a, that's got a phone that I started holding it sideways. I added some stuff together in, in I movie. And I got a, I got a green screen that would, that would, people would be like, are you shitting me? That's how you do that? They'd be like, yeah, that's how I do that. But it's just, you just. get creative and you think outside of the boss and you have fun with it. And I think the funniest thing about quick dick and a lot of this stuff is that when people watch it, they're like,

well, that's actually some pretty corny editing that he's got going on. But that's kind of what makes it funny. You know what I mean? Absolutely. Yeah. Like, um, you talk, you talk about, you talk about fear, though, and people, people worry too much for what other people think at all times. And it's, 100%, man. It's paralyzed. that anxiety is paralyzing for people because I know people that are like really funny or really like X, Y, Z, whatever you want to, you know, and they won't, they're scared of their shadow because, you know, what if somebody doesn't like it? Yeah, man. It's, it's, I really, I really wish people wouldn't live that way because it, uh, it actually, it, it makes people that have a lot of good in them hide that

good in them because they have that sense of fear in them or that sense of I mean I I despise the word anxiety but I guess it's the thing that we use nowadays so um it just everyone has anxiety it's called being nervous or it's called you know feeling awkward in a social setting and stuff like that is you just need to get past it and you need just be like you know what I just and that's I guess that's maybe what you see a lot of this quick stuff is just like I'm past the point of really given two shits what anybody thinks about me. You know what I mean? Like you dive into the comment section and some of this stuff.

And there's a lot of people that think some pretty terrible things about me, but that's okay. They can go ahead and think it and they can type an essay on how they're smarter than Quicic in the comment section and all this stuff like that. And nine times out of ten, I laugh harder at death than I do with some of the funny comments that people put in there. You know what I mean? Just like, shit, man.

that's cool that that's what you think and you know hopefully you can look at things a little different maybe somebody there's people that put comments down in this stuff that are actually really really good comments and man i've had a few come through that are such eloquent burns at me and i have i have no option whatsoever but to respond to them be like that was just magnificent and you know good point uh you know because like i i love it when people have their own opinion and in their own point of view. It's kind of what makes it as people. But I mean, man, you got to give credit where credits do.

If somebody gives you that heart of a burn, you just got to be like, hey, that was nice, man. I got to ask, do you have one that sticks out then? Like a burn? You know what? I do. And it's kind of a blur right now. And it was a lady and it was on my protest or dies upon. It was something along the lines of sheep and being a.

sheet following somebody kind of thing. She did it without swearing. She did it without being malicious. And at the end of it, which is how I answer most of my comments is I just try and be like, take care out there, friends. She did the same thing. And it was just glorious.

I was just like, oh, yeah, you got me good for you. Good on you. And like, if there's any of those, I just wish I could figure out how to highlight them and put them to the top of the comment section and be like,

everybody that wants to be pissed off me, be like, this girl, she killed it, you know what I mean? I like getting burnt too. I mean, it's the fun of it. It's what makes it fun, right?

Like, I really could give a shit if somebody makes me look like a dick cheese because I kind of am, you know what I mean? It's okay, right? But I think if the world is like that, I don't need to be some genius that comes out on top all the time if we're having a conversation. I can be like, yeah, shit, you own me in that one, but that's okay. And I'll sit back and I'll have a beer with somebody after it. You know what I mean?

Because there's just no point in getting it. getting all work, not lose sleep overnight on any of the comments that are on any of this stuff, you know? So, um, yeah, I think the goal is just to have people laughing at it more than anything,

right? Well, you do a very good job of both. You do a very good job making people laugh, but getting the point across about how ridiculous some of the stuff we're doing currently is. Yeah. And that mixed together is pure,

pure gold. I think it's a better way. I think people receive it better. you're you know it's it's this is kind of a little bit of a rabbit hole thing that I'll try and stay on the top of the river but um when you look at a lot of and you never expect this coming out of quick dick's mouth either when you look at a lot of environmentalists and and the beliefs that they stand behind and and what they're fighting for a lot of them aren't wrong or or bad beliefs they they want a they want things to be better um they they want us to do better with what we're doing that we can sustain our planet for longer kind of things based on of course information that everybody can find and if you actually get to the root of a lot of oil field workers and I mean being in the Lloydminster area is a prime example you know of guys that that are ripping around with a jacked up truck that left to pin it and get a big black coal a smoke roll

they go flying by my house well they used to shouldn't say that right now they don't go flying but they used to all the time. Yeah. Like, hey, boys, I, I hear you. And that's like, that's kind of, you know, badass every now and then or whatever. But that's part of the problem, too. You know what I mean? There's, there's got to be this area where people can kind of meet in the middle and be like, okay, yeah, you need to understand that there's still a large part of the globe that's going to rely on oil and gas products, no matter what we do going into the future because we want plastics. We want Kevlar to protect our armed forces and RCMP and everybody. We want medical grade equipment like syringes and a bunch of different things.

I want my phone. I want my computer, my shoes, you know, there's so, so many things. The tires on my truck that drive on the asphalt that we drive on kind of thing. Yeah, there's a lot of areas we can focus on where we can do better, which we need to. And I think we can as humans, but at the same sense, you can't just come at people and be like, your way of life's over. Fuck you. And as a planet, we're moving away from this dirty, natural resource.

Well, now you're putting a person into a defensive mode where they're going to say, you can't take my job and my livelihood away from me because that's how I support my family. And when you put a person's ability to support their family into a situation where that's being questioned, they're going to get defensive. And when people start getting defensive, bad things happen, right? And it's the same where a reaction back to somebody that's an environmental activist, you're going to be like, no, fuck you. You guys will never make it. You're not going to make it. It's going to rule the world.

And what would happen if we just shut the power off tomorrow? I'm kind of like, well, listen, we all know what would happen if everything got shut off tomorrow. It would be worse than what we're looking at right now. But I think this might be a time where we can all take a moment and look at where we're sitting here right now and be like, there's got to be a way that we can go forward from here and all kind of move in the same direction at once. This is why way earlier on in our conversation when I'm talking about energy yeast and Northern Gateway Pipeline and a lot of the stuff. And that's fixing our economy to get a lot of the. product to a global market for us to stop importing what we're bringing in and just be able to

self-sustain a little bit it's a great opportunity for Canada to go forward from here whether we're going to take the step in the right direction or not I I feel like I already know the answer to that and it's a little bit disheartening but this is an opportunity where if we're going to start throwing around you know 1.7 to 2 billion dollars kind of thing on an orphan well cleanups I area, but why don't we spend a little bit more than that on something that's going to bring us a little bit of revenue back to us that we can start building towards nuclear technology and enhancing green technology and a few of these other things and work towards being better. It's just not the direction we're programmed to head in as is humans, unfortunately, and a lot of

us are going to sit here and fight each other over it when in our reality at the heart of all of which goes back to what I was talking about earlier, about getting to the heart of a person when you can bring out a good person and everybody. If everybody brought that heart of them out of there or what they're looking for, there's a really good chance that you'd be able to mesh that and make something happen.

But these humans are kind of going to stand against each other, and I'm going to be left wing, and I'm going to be right wing. And I mean, hey, guilty is charged right here. I might be one of the worst guys that we got the wrong government running our country right now. But like we said earlier too, it's not like the alternative is going to fix it either. It would take a very, very massive change in leadership and direction that somebody wants to take to the country that we have and, you know, start putting a cap on some corruption and just saying, no, we're going to do what's best for Canada right now. Not what's best for my retirement portfolio, kind of thing, you know what I mean?

Yeah. I think most people just kind of fall in the center. and I think that's where you go with with people being just generally good. I think that just kind of, we all kind of fall in the center. We, you know, from one side,

we want to help people. We want to, we don't want to pollute the environment and everything else that we live in. But on the flip side, you got to understand what a lot of your videos talk about, right? Like infrastructure on what we currently live is one thing. And if we're going to get away from that, that's great.

Right? You want to harness the power of the sun and have the cleanest energy possible, then we have to find a technology that can harness it. And until that day, unless we're going to all move to, I don't know, California or Florida or something, right? And just throwing extra 30 million people in there.

Last time I checked, a week ago was minus 20. And today it was plus six. And plus six felt like plus 50. And I was ready to go out in the old Speedo and really give the neighbors a show. I hear you. We live in a place.

And what I mean in. Exactly. But I mean, like, we just, we live in a place that, you know, most of us just sit in the center, right? Like, we understand both sides. I don't understand why, you know, every bloody video that shows conservatives or liberals talking to the other side of just straight on yelling. It's like you talk about leading by example. The example that our leadership shows right now, which is crazy for a government.

is the way you talk to your opponent is by yelling at them the entire time. And it's like, well, that doesn't solve anything. Even if you got a good point, that isn't how you talk to somebody. Yeah, that's exactly it. And I mean, even getting down to, you know, directly answering a question or something like that that you might ask of somebody to do, maybe that's a very well-paid member of a political party. I mean, just answer a question. Yes or no question.

Are you wearing shoes today? Well, today I went to the beach. And I was out there. It was a lovely walk. Yeah, we recognize the importance of wearing shoes and how the shoes were manufactured. And we would like to ensure. Can you tell me if you're wearing shoes? We would like to ensure the Canadians that there will be an ample supply of shoes for them to wear at some point in time.

They may be Velcro, they may be lace up, but they are going to be ethically sourced and produced and available when they need them. Mr. Speaker, are they wearing shoes? and then sit there and you're like yeah what the hell am i watching like yeah that's and that's and like that's kind of why i don't watch that shit or whatever you know what you're very very true very true but yeah you know it's uh man we we we have we have a really good opportunity to go to go forward from here and we always have and i think we always will on what it's going to take is uh you know when you see guys like uh when you see guys like Kenny that that made a really big move on uh on a on a very substantial investments into something like KXL.

That's guys that are tired of waiting on a federal government to get things going on and are just going to start making a move and everyone's like, okay, well, but here you are, you know, you're giving our crew to waste still to the states or wherever well, it's great. So it's a great first step like we talked about before and then maybe if we get things going east and west, I mean, that might be worth more going south. You see guys like Doug Ford making some big moves, Scott Moe, making some good moves. you know, there's a lot of good things happening interprovincially right now. I think that people need to focus on a little bit more because there are some good things

happening out there. And it really, really starts to make a question of, well, what do we, if we have, if we have premiers that can actually work together, we have a federal government party, you know what I mean? And that's, I mean, that's obviously nothing, you know, you could ever replace or get rid of kind of thing, but it's just there are some good leaders out there right now. And I think, I think a lot of them are doing a great job. Some of them aren't. And that's always going to be the case. But, you know, all we can do is just hope that we're going to move forward out of this

in better shape than than we are right now, which isn't going to take a lot. And hopefully this isn't going to last a lot longer because I don't think any of us want to see the results of that either. You know what I mean? We do need economies moving. We do anything moving forward. And it's a challenging time, but human nature is to overcome challenges and to move forward, right? And no matter what happens, I mean, that's clearly what we're going to do in one way or another, right? Well, I couldn't agree more. So let's hop into the Crude Master final five. A huge shout out to Heath and Tracy McDonald, supporters of the podcast from the very beginning.

And they are a trucking company, so Hammerdown is an apt reference. If they are a trucking company, then let's throw a wall-to-wall tree-top tall and a big threes and eights on them, and we'll catch them on the flip-flop. That's fantastic. I don't know why.

I just remembered your video of the different Oh, this is Saskatchew, a wheel wave? The wheel wave. Fantastic, man. Oh, my God. That's been years of honing that skill. I've put millions of kilometers on behind the wheel of a truck. Like, I have boots on the ground trucker.

I love truck. Truckers have got such a soft spot in my heart. I love them. So here's the crazy thing. My dad is a trucker, right? Drove across can all the time. I think I told you the story about when we were younger. my next oldest brother Harley and I

hopped in the truck with him. He drove all night to get us to the Blue Jays home opener. And then at the Blue Jays home opener, he falls asleep in left field. The home run gets hit right in front of us. Every goes nuts. He's still snoring away, right? Then we go back to the truck after the game.

Blue Jays lost. But it was still a good game. Go back to the truck and he parked in a mall parking lot. Well, now it's full. And he's driving his semi over the curves. to get us out of there. Absolutely awesome. Just,

just the, the dedication of a father to get their kids to a game, you know? You know, here's a, I don't talk about this very much, but this is supposed to be the final five.

We'll get to that in a second. Is, uh, my grandmother who's no longer with us, uh, while back, but, uh,

at that stage in our life, or my parents' life, and I mean, I was just a young kid, we didn't have a whole lot. And so dad was long-haul trucking. I want to say like 27 days of the month. That's what I always remind myself, like 27 out of 30 days a month. He was on the road trying to make ends meet. And so that's why us kids got in the truck with them is because we just want to spend time, right? That was your top of 100%.

So what my grandmother did was baked a full-on grocery bag. Like, I'm talking hundreds of cookies of ginger snaps. And if you've ever had ginger snaps, they're great. But when they're not... If you haven't, you have wasted a better part of your life not having them. And that's what's going on. Well, they got so hard because they dried up because, you know, they're open air. So what we do is we wake up in the morning and put them all over the heater vent,

warm them up, and then eat ginger snap cookies along the way. That was, that was morning snack. That was breakfast. That was down on the deep roster. That's right. Oh, yeah. Perfect. Real nice.

That's fantastic. Yeah. No, that's great. Yeah. And it's like, man, you're dead,

like just trucking them hard to get you guys to the game, having a nap there. And I'll bet she, like, actually you left that parking lot probably drove all night again that night or whatever. Yeah.

Oh, you had to get to your next, you had to make the destination. And it's kind of what people forget it this time. And I might be stealing some of your words. But people do forget that it's going on constantly. Absolutely. So let,

let me ask you. this like you're saying you know we didn't have a lot of money around and you know we went to this ball game and people nowadays would look at that and be like oh great so you drove in a truck while your dad was working to a jays game or whatever and then got back in the truck but tell me at that time that you didn't feel like the richest kid on planet earth when that was happening i try to remind myself of things like that because what more does a kid need than just the attention of his parents. Did you not feel like you were on some kind of a magical planet there where you're like,

money's endless. I slept in a truck, woke up, we're at the skydome. Back in the skydome's hayday. They're the Blue Jays. I'm sitting in left field. This is awesome. I got a foot long, which was probably only six inches,

but at the time it felt like a footlong, right? Like, I'm in, I'm over the moon. We're doing the wave. Like I remember that day, uh, better than most days. of my childhood because it was phenomenal.

So I agree, yes. Probably one of the best shows to your dad, you get to do is telling that story because it's how much it meant to you, right? When we were kids, we'd go, we'd just go two miles up the road to a lake that was close to us and pitch a tent for a night or whatever. And we thought we were on a different planet having the most amazing time on planet Earth and some magical wonderland. And all we were doing was roast in a pack of Schneider's hot dogs on a twig and

and burning a couple of marshmallows, but it's what your parents could make it. And that's, man, that's something that I feel like really is really missing from modern day society here now. It's those kinds of adventures being something that were treasured and it didn't cost you an arm and a leg, you know? You didn't need Wi-Fi. You didn't need any of this stuff. You just went and had fun with your parents and they were the most entertaining people on

planet earth. And I'm thankful every day that we were able to have time. like that, right? Yeah, absolutely. Well, let's go, let's go to the first question here. Okay, fire away. What is, what is Quick Dix drink of choice? Okay, well, drink of choice, I'm a vodka water kind of guy.

A vodka one? I love, I love vodka. I like an Irish whiskey every now and then. I like to drink some Jameson's on the rocks if I'm feeling a little bit rowdy. But my go-to is vodka and water because I love the taste of vodka. How come? How come Quick Dick then isn't drinking a vodka water in his videos? Is it, is it, is it because it is it because it is a ploy you're putting in some subliminal messaging?

They pay in you quick dick? It's not. Then I'd look like Julian from the trailer park boys walking around with the open cup kind of thing and it'd be slopping shit all over the place or whatever, right? If I'm on the go, I drink a great Western beer. I love great Western beer. I love beer. I'm a pig, I'll drink anything, but if I get to pick, I'm going to drink vodka water.

All right. If you sat down with one person, who would it be with vodka water? Sat down with one person with a vodka water. Oh, man. Straight up, big mustache owl and my brothers. That's it. I absolutely love my family. and we're at the point in our lives where big mustache L tells the same story over and over,

but I'm at the point in my life where I could sit and listen to it. You know what I mean? And I know what he's going to say next, and I just wait for it. Like, I don't know what's coming. And there's no better audience to that is when I'm with my brothers. I just love my family a bit. And if I was sitting down to have a drink, it'd be those fellows that I'd say. it down in the back left.

Question three is a two-parter. What is the hidden gem of Saskatchewan? You seem to know an awful lot about Saskatchewan. Is there a place that is a hidden gem? Yeah. It's, yeah. So it's the Bellevue-Bacche area in Saskatchewan is, it's beautiful. It's some steeper hills, it's some rolling hills.

And I was actually, I went through there one fall. when I was hauling grain a long ways back in my career and I didn't know such a place existed in Saskatchewan. It was just it was like it had come off of a postcard and that was if I can think back to the time of my life where I was like that was really a point where I really started looking closer at the province excuse me that I live in that would have been it because it's like I just did not know places like this existed in Saskatchewan. it's it's really really beautiful captivating country how about on your your bike trip what was the hidden gem there if you'll go back through the entire trip if there was and i know that's

a few hidden gems but that's okay it's it's it's a tough one but actually uh it's no man it's it's pretty obvious too there's an event that i'd say was a momentous event and then a play and I'm going to pick Canada. There were some really cool places we saw it in the States too. But Canada for sure, man, that's Harry Fox Monument in Thunder Bay. It was a really strange way. I ran up there in the rain and when I got there, this guy kind of cleared off a little bit and I was actually overlooking Superior. What a spot they built that in and just a great, great tribute. to Terry Fox. It was an amazing spot. It was like a very moving moment in that whole trip that I was on.

It's an incredible place. It's amazing. What's one term only recognized by, well, I shouldn't say one. Yeah, no, one term only recognized by Sask people. One term?

Yeah, like one slang, saying, word, whatever you want. You know, you could have this debate. Oh, man,

there's so many things. coming to mind right now, but there's one that just stands out there. It's bunny hug, man. Like, that is, that is it. This is the only place in the world where it's called a bunny hug. And that's it. Everywhere else, it's a hoodie or sweatshirt or herds butchard or whatever. And that is it. Like, I've had this, there's like putting it in the rhubarb. There's, you know, a lot of there's, I had some Saskatchmanisms on a few of the ones that have been in or whatever. And you kind of catch little pieces of those all over the place. But the only, the only, place where it is a bunny hug.

Do we know why it's called a bunny hug? I have no idea. It makes no sense to me. It makes about as much sense as Tom Thumb in hockey. Wait, I don't know what that means, but sure. Wait, is Tom Thumb not a thing where you're from? You say Tom Thumb, I have no idea what you're talking about. Hmm.

So Tom Thumb is like initiation in hockey. Okay, so that's your initiation, Tompum. Yeah, I always thought it was all the Saskatchewan, but obviously that's not true. I hate, but I have declared in this podcast that I am not a sports guy kind of thing. So maybe I missed that part in my upbringing. I'm not sure, but you know what? I've learned another new thing here today. Urban Dictionary says bunny hug.

Possibly the best word to describe a hooded sweatshirt. Only used in Saskatchewan, Canada. If it's used in other provinces, they look at you funny. Isn't that? Straight up truth, man. Truth, man. Yeah. That's true.

Yeah, straight up truth. All right. Your final question before I let you go. Okay. If you could have anyone, and I mean anyone, guest appear on Quick Dick, Dick. Who would you want to just all of a sudden poke their head in and say hello? Oh, man.

Do they just poke their head in and say hello or do I get to talk to them a little bit? Oh, sure. You can, yeah, you can talk to them. Oh, man, my mind is running at 100 miles an hour right now. Yeah, well, I mean, the first thing that popped into mine, obviously, is, I'd love to have Trudeau on. I would love to sit that sucker down and just. CBC can't cut away. They can't do anything or whatever.

We're just going to sit and talk. And I'll go live with the nation. Like, I don't care. We won't cut it. We won't edit it. We won't do anything or whatever, right? But I don't think I'll get that opportunity. Something tells me you're not going to get that opportunity.

Yeah, I don't really get that opportunity. Oh, man, there's so many guys. Actually, that would be a blast to have on. But, like, you kind of think a little bit about, you know, like Canadian icons a little bit, too. in comedy man like if you could have a guy like Steve Smith on who was

you know like red green when when we were growing up was like that was such great stuff to watch so women don't find your handsome they should be fine your hand in here adventures with Bill I mean how does it get any funnier than that you know what I've had it one of those

I gotta be you know what before you go any further that right there is a very Canadian show and I don't know if anyone it's so is man I don't know if anyone in any other planet would ever get that show I I don't think they would but and like you go back to a lot of the stuff and like I'm just a guy that talks into my phone but the amount of work these guys went through to get the following that they had like to get on to you know Steve Smith was on the CBC when I was a kid or whatever I mean just just to get a show on something like that that's the hoops you would have to jump through to make that happen the way

work you'd have to put into it. I could see how they'd look at a guy like Quick Dick McDick and be like, yeah, congratulations. You're talking to a phone and put it on YouTube and now people watch you, you know what I mean? Like, I'd be pissed off too, right? But great comedia. It's always such a good show. You know, another one, a lot of people have like mentioned Rick Mercer in my comedic style kind of thing, which is like such a compliment. And I mean, I feel bad for Rick Mercer having me compared to any way, shape, or form. Because he's such a great, great Canadian and such a good comedian. And, you know, I always had a great way of kind of politically correctly going about his way.

It's awesome comedian. There's just been so many great comedians in Canada, right? So, I mean, any of those, you know, just like popping their head in on quick, it would be, man, just something. but yeah I think most of the people following me wouldn't mind me having a little conversation with old Justy there but we'll go ahead and not have that happen I guess so that'd be literally epic I that is you surprised the shit out of me when you said that but that would be unbelievable I think you could have that as a paper view event and it would probably fund so many problems

projects in Canada alone, it'd be well worth it. I hear you, man, but I mean, I think that's just, like, I don't know, I think that's just my thing. I was lucky enough to get, like, get on to, you know, on the Gormley and a few other things, and there's, we did some live stuff that's the Saskrush game and a few other things, whatever, and I don't know why, I feel calm doing that kind of stuff. And, like, you know, people be like, well, if he ever did get in front of your door, what would you say to it?

I'd be like, no different than you and I are talking right now or whatever. I mean, it's just straight up. I've got some questions. I'm sure he's got some questions. He's going to do his best to make me look like an asshole. Let's be perfectly honest. The guy, I would hope that a guy that's running our country that's got an education and is working in politics and everything is,

should be able to make me look like an ass though, shouldn't me? I think, I mean, I just try and remember. I try to remember what, my brothers have told me anytime I get, I did Paul Bezanette a while back, Biz Nasty spit in checklets, right? And it took about two minutes until he started talking tummy sticks

and making fun of me. And then it was just like, right? Like then we're into it. All right, here we go. All right. I'm feeling good. All right. And on with it.

Right? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, we're all just human beings. We all put her pants on the same way. God, you'd hope Trudeau would be able to at least talk to you. Some of the videos you wonder, but at the same time, that's probably the world having away with some editing

and making it hopefully worse than it is. But then again, I've seen some videos and I've seen some live. Yeah. I don't think he'd talk you under the – I don't think he'd win that one. I got to be honest. I mean, whichever way it went down wouldn't be a problem. But I mean, it's just the fact that, I mean, he's, he's a guy that's, that's trying to speak on a lot of issues that, you know, maybe needs a little more life experience on what's going on. Maybe just a bit.

You know, yeah. Maybe just a bad. And, you know, like, I'm a guy, I'm a guy that has a political opinion that's, you know, that's been very much a hands-on boots on the ground working kind of guy my whole life. And there's a lot of things that I obviously don't or wouldn't or never would understand about, you know, foreign policy and some different tax holes in companies and a lot of other things, too, you know. So, I mean, we've all got our strengths and weaknesses where we're going to be like, okay, well, this is why I'm doing this and this is why you're doing this kind of thing. But I don't know if that's quite the case with that situation. But we're not going to get hung up on politics here, right? That's where we're going.

well hey man i appreciate you coming on and uh sitting and shooting the shit for all over two hours now so i mean oh man it's it's flown by but i i mean really enjoyed it and uh really think uh really highly what you're doing like look forward to you know i never got to be on the snapchat list but i get to see the youtube videos and anytime a new one comes out it makes my day i uh i have some laughs on it yeah yeah and thanks Thanks very much for having me on. This is the first podcast I've ever done, man. So, yeah.

No, thanks. Thanks very much for having me on. And, you know, keep giving her hell out in that Lloyd area there. Man, I know a lot of people out in that area. A lot of good folks out there. And hopefully we can get through this little situation. We're in here sometime soon and get back to normal. And keep you in the kick-ass Canadians we can all be, man.

Right on. Well, thanks again for joining me. Awesome. Thank you, Sean. Take care, man. Hey, folks, thanks again for joining us today. If you just stumble on the show and like what you hear, please click subscribe. Remember, every Monday and Wednesday a new guest will be sitting down

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