Speaker: So I- I- I knew but I don't think other guys really picked up on it. Interviewer: Yeah, that's sad. Speaker: So I'm just like, ah whatever, which is probably for the best because she's kind-of- she's not a debbie-downer but she's just too like hoity-toity. Interviewer: Mm, oh well, it's for the best.

Wow that 's love. Holy-Mackerel

Holy-mackerel.

Yeah it 's- I- well I 've never- I 've never been on the rides but it was- there was always this really- a little bit of the old-fashioned (inc) was honky-tonk (inc) at Niagara-Falls and you thought, "Well it 's such a thing of (inc) wonderful physical beauty,"

Interviewer: Yeah, they're like the hockey- they're jackets with a team emblem on them and they go over your head. Like they only have like a half zipper- Speaker: Yeah. Like a hoodie. Interviewer: Yeah, but it 's like a jacket with like a gor-- well, not gortex. They were always a hundred-and-fifty dollars. Everybody wanted one. And everybody always wanted the Chicago-Bulls or something-like- that.

Speaker: I was confused. Just like all are. Interviewer: Trying to fit in. Speaker: You-know, trying to fit in, even though I didn't need to. I was still a rocker, Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But um yeah that's what- that's what I was. And m-- my- I- you-know- jeans. Now I wear hoodies 'cause it's cold but you-know t-shirts, polos. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: That kind-of thing.

Speaker: So he picked me up and he looked so nice. Like usually he just wears like some stupid c-- graphic brand tee-shirt and like- or like his ah- Interviewer: Jeans. Interviewer: Jeans and- Interviewer: Running-shoes. Interviewer: Running-shoes and then like a hoodie, always. All the time, with like some sort of hel-- brand-name hat. So then when he picked me up, he's wearing his nice wool jacket. Like ah, his dress jacket and then like, um a dress- sort-of-dressy zippie ...

And a high speed- those high speed boats that you can take them- I- I 've never done it right, but you can get to- from Nassau to Miami in less than- well like, an hour and a quarter.

It 's like when I was in Ottawa one year with my Dad and we went to the National-Art-Gallery and it was just that huge like hullabaloo that they bought some painting that was like thirty-million dollars, and it was huge, it was probably like the size of this wall, but it was just literally yellow, blue and red paint that had been splattered on a canvas.

Interviewer: And there must have been a school, local-school and everything too? Speaker: Yes, yeah within a, a fairly easy walk. We backed on the hydro - lines and we had, kids just had to walk down to the end of the street and go through the path through the hydro - lines to public-school. So it was- yeah and, and didn 't have to cross any busy streets. It was strictly residential so it was, it was great. We were very fortunate.

... we used to do that without thinking twice about it, and I'm talking Kindergarten and on, just sort-of, "See you later! Bye! Away you go!" And off you would go for a mile. ... Up a few blocks and over a few blocks and through the hydro field and then to school.

Well you gotta look at it this way: if a terrorist attacks Canada, what are they gonna do? They're going to hit a hydro station in Niagara-Falls or are they going to hit the 'nucular' power (inc) at (inc) station in Pickering?

Interviewer: Where were you during the blackout? ... Speaker: I was camping, and my mom was at the cottage, and it 's just the cottage is on a- a pow-- it 's on a hydro - - hydro power line from Ottawa. The lights went on, off, and then they went on. So, the cottage had their power, and camping we didn 't notice it so we went back to the cottage afterwards, and by the time we got back to the city, power was restored.

Speaker: Yeah and there are examples of houses now that are off the grid like they don't Interviewer: Oh they don't draw any electricity? From the ah Speaker: Well yeah from the grid I mean they don't pay a hydro bill. Ah they'll- I believe most if not all houses are hooked up to the grid but they're not necessarily using it right?

I even remember my next-door neighbour, he- he went and got a car battery and hooked up - a light to it, so they had light in their living-room, everybody thought they had hydro but they didn't. We had dinner it was- did our homework and (inc) off to bed we went.

Interviewer: But rent is probably cheaper than it is here. Speaker: Super cheap. Three-twenty-five a month plus heat and hydro.

Yeah that must have been crazy to find it- find a place like that. So yeah, so three-twenty-five plus heat and hydro's pretty good and you're like, four-hundred max in the winter.

... I'm not saying for sure that I have this place yet because even though the guy said you-know "Yes you can have it" and we worked it all out. I even scanived free hydro and heat and water off him too today. It's good.

Interviewer: ... I was still in B-C and they were talking about taking all the hydro - power that we have from the Fraser-River and stuff-like-that. Speaker: To use it in the States? ... Oh, so that they could bill more money for the- for- Interviewer: The bills, whatever. Speaker: Yeah, for hydro. You-know. Speaker 2: Oh. Oh yeah. Real cute, eh?

Like, there 's a blackout. There 's no elec-- and this guy 's still pounding his music. No difference whatsoever." So I took joy in that. Just to- just to kind-of rattle them a bit. "That 's right, you-know. No hydro, shut down, Boom- Boom- Boom-Boom." Lights all flashing, you-know. So I kind-of took a perverse joy in that but ah, you-know, you can take away the hydro and I 'll still crank my music.