But my mom- my mom ended up being like- the l-- the lottery lady type-thing.

So he was going there when he was a young boy like, whatever, fifteen to eighteen type-thing.

Bobby you look after your little brother, Simon. You-know, type-thing. So we grew up together and ah, yeah.

Yeah. You-know I-- I know that's kind of myth-busters is kind of more of a reality type-thing, but sometimes every now and then you-- you-know, you pick up on-- you get something in there that's really good.

But one- and I didn't have the T-V nothing- I had a cheap little clock-radio type-thing.

Or coaxial cable, I-don't-know whatever you- comes out of your wall or- and I bought a three-prong s-- this thing that- so I unhooked the cable downstairs, the main cable and I put on this little junction box type-thing and I put that there and I ran this cable up through the (inc).

Yes. And anyways um so I'm all de-- I'm still depressed, it's going on for quite awhile but I go to work, see my son, go back to work, go home, type-thing.

In fact a couple of my friends, I still socialize with on a regular basis, so living in the community and keeping those ties is easy when you- you're kind of home-grown type-thing.

And do well in life. And you-know, I- I looked at that, like, "You-know, that's a good way of looking at it." It's like the good-lives-model type-thing.

Um I'd go to Carleton and I would take sociology and just take all my classes and write everything, like, with a criminology background-type-thing.

So it's actually a harm-reduction strategy in Ottawa ah right now- like harm-reduction, reduce harm type-thing to give crack-kits to users.

Like random organized student trips type-thing. Um but it's more difficult, 'cause I don't drive, right?

Or um he goes to craft-shows or to mineral-shows and ah he buys, trades some of his minerals, something that he may already have but this is a nicer piece than the one I've got, so I'll get this one keep it and sell this one type-thing.

Oh is that right? Oh yeah well my dad ah my dad actually just wore one of those little sleeveless t-shirt type-things most of the time, with a regular shirt but ah but I can remember that.

It's a government ah ah oper-- ah government company type-thing.

I remember being excited about m-- ah just being in- in- in- in castles and seeing army-related type-things.

So I don't- I wouldn't say I- I saw any- any real discerning type-thing.

So it wasn't- and we didn't have the funds t-- available to us to go, you-know, well we go to a Wonderland-type-thing or this.

You-know, different cultural type-things.

Speaker: Because, again, "Laugh-my-ass-off" here is the same as "Laugh-my-ass-off" in Vancouver. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Okay, so those- those area-type-things. Now whether they ah t-- whether they actually talk that same way- like, you might get- you end up with that slang where- I've heard slang here that I haven't heard there.