... give it to my son who's in University and struggling to get an education," you-know? I had to go to the bank yesterday 'cause he phoned and I said "You need some money?" He said "No, no I'm okay dad" and I could tell by the tone. I says "Okay I don't have much either but I'm going to the bank and I'm gonna put a hundred dollars in your account"

She's got four my other son, my eldest son who's in- in Red-Deer Alberta, he's an R-C-M-P officer and so that those four that got shot the other day? Very close to him. And I called for two days and there was no answer. I says "Oh shit!" And so finally on the news, they finally gave the names and I says "Oh thank God!" And he- he finally called me. He was in Banff. He and the family had gone to Banff 'cause they had- he had had a vacation and they went there for a week or so you-know? So I was- I was really I couldn't sleep.

Like Ronald my son the R-C-M-P officer he wanted to ah play guitar. He loved guitar. I says "Okay." I bought him a guitar and I set him up for lessons. He took three lessons and decided to quit. I said "Okay. Don't come to me anymore, you're on your own. You want lessons you go pay for them yourself" you-know?

And I told the rest of the kids "You wanna play? You gotta pay. And you gotta study. Otherwise I'm not doing anything for you." "But dad, you didn't go to school and study!" I says "Oh it's different then, we didn't have any school." All we had was the ah Conservatory-of-Music which was on University-and- College. And jazz was the devil's music and all they taught was classical music you- know?

No Taina was asking me- we were- we talked for a long time before she actually left there but. If I was disappointed that that- not that many people showed up I says "Well not really" because you-know by the time it's- you-know an hour or two into it and then you're getting tired and then couple of more hours you're thinking "Boy am I ever glad there's not a whole huge pack of people ...

Well this is what I was saying like you-know I says- I was- she was going I says "Well you-know I- we can use you on a consultant basis or when I- if I go away we'll p-- have you come in".

Speaker: Well this is what I was saying like you-know I says- I was- she was going I says "Well you-know I- we can use you on a consultant basis or when I- if I go away we'll p-- have you come in".

But she- after I was telling her about it I says "I don't know what" 'cause she goes "Well I thought I was smelling lantulaatikko" (laughs)

... they didn't have any lantulaatikko and I thought 'Maybe they served it already and I missed it'". I says "No it's the centrepieces they stink!" It was so hilarious.

He was like thirteen and they're there, "Okay. They've started to attack Iraq." And I thought, "Oh my God. What do I tell this kid?" And he's just staring at the T-V and I says, "Hey, come on. Let's go skating. Let's just- don't you worry about that." You-know? That kind-of-thing.

He said, "Should I come in?" And I says "Yeah. Why?" He says, "Well, there's- this is horrendous." And I said, "Well, who's there with you?" And he said, "Well, I'm just at home. Should I bother coming in?" And I said "Well, rather than being home alone, yeah, come on in." He was terrified.

I had a lot of fun I had a couple of friends we- you-know we used to bring our skates to school there was an ice-pad in the school yard and we'd go skating after school that-kind- of-thing.

Speaker: And you had to go across that school-yard in the winter time. Interviewer: So you had to walk on the ice? Speaker: Euh well the ice-pad wasn't there but it was ice. The school-yard was usually ice yes.

Interviewer: I was at the university and in a class with five-hundred students and no one told us. And our class went from nine 'til noon. Speaker: Jeepers!

Liv-- Lived there um, say, four years then separated ah and there 's some jigging around in there, but essentially came here in nineteen-sixty-seven.

With my friends? Um depends we usually for the most part just go to play pool or jitz or just go out and eat wherever McDonald 's um I go out with my friends sometimes we just drive around hit-the-mall um just waste time I guess.

Six months I was a, a, full-fledged hairstylist, I said, "This is not what I wanna do," you-know like, I enjoyed washing people's hair and styling and stuff-like-that and um, but to be totally responsible for someone else 's ah you-know image, I- it didn 't jive with me anymore. So um, let 's see um.

... and um their bass player has been just sort-of doing a lot of jobbing, just like playing random jobs, like s-- like just playing in- in bands with songwriters and all kinds of stuff like that.

I was a naïve kid. And so that was very interesting. But they were all good to me. They were all very good to me. And I- I got the 'joe-jobs'. I was the junior guy on the crew, so I 'd get the joe-jobs. And so he took me back the next year, much to my surprise, and I got a raise to sixty-six cents an-hour.

I just- I just find the frustrating things is- and I 've gotten to the point right now where I really don 't care, because it 's kind-of like they 're people there who are obviously getting their jollies from having a power-trip and fine if that 's what makes them happy, then go right ahead