I started in grade-twelve and the last time I worked there was about a week before I started teaching. So it was about ah five- about seven years. Part-time. Well for- for me, ah university wa-- going to grade-twelve, grade-thirteen, for me, I didn't really know it at the time, was getting away from what I call 'blue- collar-intellectual-poverty'. Something must have clicked in and I was more interested in learning more.

Um, they drop their 'g 's', they 'who' and 'whom' and 'may I' and 'can 't I' and I, I could go on forever. I- it just, I 'm not a perfectionist but it just- it grates on my ear is what it does.

I would like to go to the Dublin," and he said, "Oh you have a day pass. You can travel anywhere. Get on the buses and do- " and I didn 't know, you know. Being a greenhorn, we didn 't know. So anyhow, we went back into Dublin and we did our- our shopping and then we went back home. Yeah, oh yeah, we had a wonderful time.

Like the- no the frame- the- the foundation was built and then there was this like gully in between and I fell down in between and I fell down in there so they had to come and get me out and I was always getting in trouble and, ah- but then we used to have all these kids on the street and we used to play road- hockey a lot and, um, hide-and-seek and tag and...

Once again, that 's an example of something I just self-taught myself, hacked around, trial-and-error and now can confidently build web-sites but um, if you get, if you go to the web-site it 's just, it 's just not content of, of text and basic images.

ou-know I just kind- of do it, just hack around or just keep busy and I certainly get my, my work out that way. And as you know I worked in the pirate-show with your, with your uncle-Al which was another great experience.

Well the one that stands out would be G-I-Joe. G-I-Joe- hacking around with G-I-Joe and um, we would wow- okay it would be a group of us, think there was TL, DH- about four of us, and we would always make these vehicles out of cardboard for G-I-Joe and turn these cardboard boxes into little mobile-homes for them and- you-know, explore whatever given country-side there was.

You-know you can just- you tend to be able to get away with things um, when you 're- and you didn 't- yeah when you 're Yogi-Bear and so yeah you just hack around with the, the crowds that come through and there 's always a kid that comes up to you and wants to make trouble.

...they didn 't go into journalism because they wanted to be broadcast reporters, they went into it because they wanted to write print, and they wanted to show up at their desks looking haggard and- and, you- know, the way most- most journalists do! You-know, and they have to turn into these pretty faces that- that T-V demands...

... we had one friend- the guy that we were with is gay and he has AIDS so he has one of these um, licenses to smoke pot or whatever and he was in the beer tent having a beer and smoking a joint and some guys were like, so hammered and started picking on him because he's very openly gay and started picking on him and were bugging him for smoking pot and all this stuff ...

Interviewer: That was the whole argument, that no-one was spending money when the- New-Groove was playing ... They'd just buy a beer and sip it and listen all night. Whereas Mike brings out people who Speaker: Get hammered and Interviewer: Yeah. "Yeah Stevie- Wonder!" "I love that song!" Yeah so, which is probably true. ... You- you-know people like get all excited 'cause they play Outkast you-know so?

Some of the kids on the- in the area were uh- oh I remember one family- two families in particular that were really, pretty hard up, 'cause they 're- no body working, you-know, they were getting the thing. Even Dad when he had the- had this house built, of course we were living in the new one, he was renting the other one.

And I know when I joined the Air-Force, fortunately it was getting to the point that they 're getting a little hard-up for air crew. At one time, you had to have your senior-matric, or high-school graduation, to go be a pilot or navigator.

Right? I don 't understand it. And you think of all the people that are hard up, are starving to death, and you see these people wasting their money like that, and you- just makes me sick. And I think about all these tsunami victims that could use that money, you-know?

Million of performers in town that weekend, and we were just having a gas, everybody 's just- ah we had ah, the Executive-Ho--Motel, rented on King-Street at King-and- Bathurst there, and everyone came to party

He 's in Peterborough now and Peterborough is filled with, for lack of a better word, the hicks or whatever. Okay and um so they had friend over and they were actually really nice, they were nice, but then I noticed that she would say certain things like, "I got no" or she actually said to her boyfriend it was something like, "Watch your mouth or I 'll box your face in" and I was like "Woah! Were did that come from?"

Okay well forget that. But I mean like we 're just talking about a city-centre to live let 's not get political here right? But okay you got Montreal you got okay Quebec. Then you had like Winnipeg. They were probably like little hick-towns back in those days right? Vancouver knew nothing about Vancouver when I was growing up. I didn 't even know Vancouver existed right? Um but um well yeah Toronto I mean ah. Immigrants.

But okay you got Montreal you got okay Quebec. Then you had like Winnipeg. They were probably like little hick-towns back in those days right? Vancouver knew nothing about Vancouver when I was growing up. I didn't even know Vancouver existed right? Um but um well yeah Toronto I mean ah. Immigrants. Ah yeah they would come- actually most of the immigrants would come into Halifax from Halifax ...

My- My grandfather had a farm at- At Sheppard-and-um-Birchmount mm-hm. And we lived on the farm with ah- There was a little ah- There was a little h-- hired help ah building that my grandpa built and ah it was supposed to be for the hired men but um my mom and dad lived in it when they were younger.

But that 's like a cool place you can go hear music. It 's not like one of these like, hoity-toity little bars where you pay ten dollars for a drink and you have to dress like you 're a beauty-queen you-know?