Speaker: Um I know that- well, probably hearing from here- I don't- I- like I say things ah like we have sayings like, "big-time" and like (laughs) different words that we use, but I-don't-know, it all depends on- I think it's what you do in life.

And I wasn't a bad referee. I could referee every night all over northern Ontario. And I had a chance to go big time refereeing but I didn't want to leave my family.

Interviewer: Well- so was (inc) Kirkland any different ah when you were younger to- to- to- to now or- Speaker: Oh big time. Big time. I find the kids nowadays are a lot ruder than when I was growing up.

Interviewer: But maybe not go into detail. Speaker: Oh. 'Cause- Interviewer: Because I know- Speaker: Yup. Interviewer: In linguistics we do do a bit of that. Speaker: We taught it big time, because I know that I c-- I can say to my to my granddaughter, "That's only a sentence fragment, it's not a sentence."

Speaker: Ah he's taking corporate law and security. Interviewer: And you're taking? Speaker: Law and justice. Yeah. Went from phys-ed to law and justice. Going to be a big-time Toronto lawyer slash next premier of Ontario (laughs).

Speaker: Yeah. Ah his name is Leonard-Alsworthy. He's our concrete guy, like he's originally from Latchford but he ended up going like playing major- big time professional hockey and like living in Vegas and all that kind-of crazy stuff.

Speaker: Ah, most people don't like it 'cause they all think it's a big rough city but to me it's- it's good times. It's big time party city. It's probably more of a part-- like with its demographics and the size of Sudbury, it's a probably a bigger party city than most cities in Ontario.

Ah, my first year, I seen Alexis-on-Fire and the Trues. Ah they have Three-Days-Grace, they have a lot of big time bands that show up there.

Interviewer: Did you find it easier to transition to Sudbury than (inc) Toronto. Speaker: Ah, I-don't-know, I'm a big time city guy, like I've been in the city quite a bit.

Speaker: I can understand it. But when it comes to writing it, my grammar's really bad. Interviewer: Oh okay. That's tough. Speaker: Yeah. So it's dropping my mark big time. Interviewer: Aw oh well, that's okay. Speaker: But I don't need French (laughs).

Speaker: Oh fabulous. Um, they had so much outside help come in. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Major, big time. The government stepped in, everybody stepped in. They set up the arena as a refugee type place.

Speaker: But if you don't, you'd have- no and when you come out of university, you owe money, you owe money big time-

Oh, she's got to get into it, involved in it, something to do with- "Oh, buy some shares in this, it's going to be big-time money."

Speaker: In with the stuff they're supposed to make for the road, so our entire front like road is made with gold in it, they screwed up big time (laughs).

Speaker: Yeah. So I remember the ice cream- Interviewer: Yeah (laugh). Speaker: (Laughs). big time.

Speaker: Like he hated even being away in Sudbury for school. Interviewer: Really? Interviewer: Who? Speaker: He's a big home body, big time more than- Interviewer: I like Sudbury. Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Like it's a big time hockey, so, um, it was pretty cool.

Speaker: But forestry is big time up here already wth Haliburton-Forest and U-of-T forestry program. They have like- like- they have accommodation and-everything up here.

Interviewer: So they- lacrosse was actually a sport that they played back in those days. Speaker: That's correct! Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: big time.

Interviewer: Okay, train was really important. Speaker: Oh big time.