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Here we are in
southport, manitoba!

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[cheering & applauding]

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An hour west of winnipeg,
a place that puts both the

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"great" and the "planes"
in the great plains.

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[laughing]

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People who love their air
are in their element here at

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This former royal canadian
air force base

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That's had more ups
and downs than

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A helicopter in a hurricane.

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[laughing]

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About 30 years ago, the
air force closed this base.

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It was getting shuttered.

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You might say they
were closing the gate,

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Even though the locals
were not on board.

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[laughing]

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Today here in southport,

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You'll not only find
military flight training,

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You'll find indigenous
martial arts training.

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And don't worry if you get
hit in the face 'cause you

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Also have a state of the
art beauty clinic here...

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In case you get a fat lip.

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Or hell, in case you
want to get a fatter lip.

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[laughing]

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So, how did
this all happen?

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Well, keep an eye out
for my new book.

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It's called "flights,
fights, and facials:

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80 years of kicking ass
and looking great.

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The story of
southport, manitoba."

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[laughing]

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[applauding]

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When you grow up in a
small town in newfoundland,

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You see that people have
a sense of humour

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About hard times.

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Check, check...

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I turned that into a career
and hit the road.

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[mc] mr. Jonny harris!

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Now I'm on a mission to find
the funny in the places

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You'd least expect it,

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Canada's struggling
small towns.

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Towns that are against the
ropes, but hanging in there...

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Still laughing in the
face of adversity.

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This is southport,
manitoba.

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♪

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♪

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♪

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[cheering & applauding]

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Southport was built
in 1940s, part of the

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British commonwealth
air training plan for

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World war two,
known as cfb

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Portage la prairie.

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It became one of the most
instrumental bases

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In the air force,

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Where over 90% of all
canadian air force pilots

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Received their first
flight training.

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But it's pilots'
initial flight training,

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So there's not like
advanced aerobatics and

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Dropping ordinance and
that kind of thing.

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In fact, depending on
how tonight goes,

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I might be the first
person to bomb here.

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[laughing]

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♪

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To understand southport's
heyday and its mayday,

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I spoke with chief rotary
wing instructor, james tutte.

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[cheering & applauding]

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When we were training,
there were...

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Over 600 people
on the base.

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Lots of young
pilot trainees.

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All the stories that
you may have seen

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In movies and television,
they're probably all true,

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Plus a few more than that.

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James was one of the trainee
pilots back in the 80s

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When, already, there was
nothing cooler than

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Learning to fly
for the military-

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The leather jacket,
the aviator shades,

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And then on top of all that,
"top gun" came out.

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Yeah, we weren't nearly as
good looking as the guys in

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The movie, but we
thought we were.

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This was like the canadian
top gun, top registered gun.

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[laughing]

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I asked, "why here?
Why this part of manitoba?

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Why is this a good place to
train people how to fly?"

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The skies are mainly clear.

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No terrain features that
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If you're not flying
very well, for sure.

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He explained to me,
you know,

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"well, when you're
learning to fly,

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The best place to do
that is in the sky."

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And here in the prairies,
you guys have a lot of that.

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[laughing]

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In rural manitoba, you're
not gonna come upon...

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Mountains, or fog, or...

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Two-storey buildings.

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[laughing]

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There was a hospital,
there were dentists,

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There was a
convenience store,

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Outdoor hockey rink,
sports fields,

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All the things to support
the local military community.

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And then, when
the base closed,

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A lot of that went away.

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In 1992, as an effort to
reduce government spending,

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They decided to permanently
close several bases,

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Including southport.

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I think you can imagine the
impact that that would have

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On the local area,
the local community.

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Closing the base here
permanently was going to

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Redeploy 600 military
personnel who would,

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Of course,
take their families.

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And not to mention,
200 civilians...

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Would be- well,
not redeployed-

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Straight up unemployed.

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It was a little bit eerie.

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Most of the buildings
on site were empty.

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There were four families
living in the probably

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200 houses
that are there.

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Eventually, the base
went down to just

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Four occupied houses.

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James' family
being one of them.

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Ironically, this was one
pilot who refused to take off.

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[laughing]

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There were letter
writing campaigns.

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There were rallies.

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There were, of course,
impassioned speeches

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At the legislature and
at the national level.

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And... It worked.

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The government reversed
its decision to

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Scrap the base, kind of.

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The hangars, the houses,

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The entire military airport
would all be sold to

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A non-profit group called
southport aerospace,

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Who opened up the
base to the public,

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And are running it
as a municipality.

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I'd never heard of anything
like this happening before.

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I don't know if it
was the first time.

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I don't know if it
was a pilot project.

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[laughing]

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Southport aerospace centre
was given the task of

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Trying to develop
other businesses,

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Other entities that could
come here and use this site,

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Use these buildings.

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Now, private companies could
rent out hangars and

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Have businesses there,

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Like the aircraft
maintenance school.

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There's a nursing
college here.

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The military housing has
been renovated and

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Can be rented out by
anybody who wants to

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Live in this new town that
used to be an air force base.

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In fact, one of the groups
that rents space here

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To do their flight training
is the air force.

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Guys, it's a bit confusing.

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[laughing]

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I swear to god, it's a
little bit like explaining

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How a helicopter flies.

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The more I get into it, the
more confusing it's gonna get.

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[laughing]

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That's how an air force base
got grounded and

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Somehow continued to fly.

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Suffice to say, southport
may have been decommissioned,

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But it never
turned in its wings.

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[cheering & applauding]

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Next, I went over
to hangar one,

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And I met with a woman who
showed me there are things

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Much more difficult
to land than a joke...

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[laughing]

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Major priscilla jobin.

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[cheering & applauding]

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Priscilla is a helicopter
flight instructor.

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Like many people
I met here,

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She caught the flying bug
when she was young.

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And she knew she wanted
to fly helicopters.

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I love helicopters.

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They're just so cool,
so much fun to fly.

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And, you can fly them
with the doors off, too,

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In the summer.

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And I just love it that
you can land on top of

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A hospital, a mountain top,
back of a ship.

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Hovering though is actually
one of the trickier things

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To do in the helicopter.

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I saw priscilla, she can hold
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Rotate either way.

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That's the helicopter's
greatest advantage,

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Because once you've
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You can land pretty
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In fact, I bet priscilla,
she could have

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Landed this
helicopter right here.

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Or maybe at the
end of the night,

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After I've blown the
roof off the place.

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[laughing]

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Everybody that has
wings on their chest

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Has been in southport.

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-Is that right?
-Mhm.

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[indistinct speaking]

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Every student that come here,
we expect a lot from them.

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But they're so motivated,
they work so hard.

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And at times,
we fly with them,

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And they're working at
the edge of their ability.

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They're trying to do so many
things at the same time.

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And sometimes it just
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It's overwhelming.

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I get the impression that
priscilla sort of represents

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The new school
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It's the opposite of
what you might expect the

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Stereotypical military
training to be like,

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You know, you think
about the movies

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With the drill sergeant.

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Like, "all right,
listen up, maggots!

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Drop and give me 20,
you piece of dirt."

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[laughing]

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Young people come
here to train.

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They're putting enough
pressure on themselves, right?

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They want to become pilots.

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They know that every time
they go up in the air

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They're being evaluated.

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It's better to have an
approach that has a

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Shred of encouragement
or compassion.

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Right? If at first you don't
succeed, fly and fly again.

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[laughing]

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We have to come
down on the ground,

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Debrief them and tell them,

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"hey, that wasn't good enough.
We have to do it again."

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But this is part
of the training.

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That's the best way to learn,
is by making a mistake.

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And she'll say to her
students, you know,

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"the only way we learn
is from our mistakes,

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Which is what I try to tell
the car insurance company..."

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[laughing]

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We're making way
better pilots now.

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-Yeah?
-Oh yeah.

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She said matter of factly,

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They are turning out better
pilots these days.

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But I think it also would be
cool to sort of do partly

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Her approach, and partly
the old school approach.

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Right? You're there with your
student, and you're like,

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"okay, I think you know
what went wrong there.

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Ah, we're gonna try it again.

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Ah, so, maggot,
take a deep breath."

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[laughing]

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"drop and give me 20,

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And then we'll give it
another go.

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You've got this!"

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[laughing]

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Her favourite aircraft is the
baddest chopper on the base,

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The bell 4-12 outlaw.

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And I got to fly it...

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Virtually.

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[laughing]

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She took me over to the
hilly brown building

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Where they had these two
enormous simulators that

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Sit on massive mechanical
actuators and, it's amazing,

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It's an exact replica of
the inside of the

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Bell 4-12 helicopter.

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Amazing...
Ah!

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00:10:01,835 --> 00:10:02,900
While we were cruising,

255
00:10:02,936 --> 00:10:04,969
She let me have the
controls for a little bit.

256
00:10:05,005 --> 00:10:07,072
-You have control.
-I have control?

257
00:10:07,207 --> 00:10:10,642
Whoa!
It feels so real.

258
00:10:10,644 --> 00:10:12,844
Yeah, it kind of plays tricks
with your mind sometimes.

259
00:10:12,846 --> 00:10:15,046
I was white-knuckled
gripping the stick.

260
00:10:15,048 --> 00:10:17,014
And then, they can
throw in these

261
00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:18,650
Curveballs at you, right?

262
00:10:18,652 --> 00:10:20,885
Yeah, we can add snow.

263
00:10:21,021 --> 00:10:22,853
-Oh, wow, look at that!
-There is the snow.

264
00:10:22,889 --> 00:10:24,322
At this point, I would
just kind of go back to the

265
00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:26,324
Airport and land and
just go have a coffee.

266
00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:27,459
[sighing]

267
00:10:27,594 --> 00:10:29,393
Here's the thing, the
advantage of a helicopter,

268
00:10:29,429 --> 00:10:31,062
It can fly in any direction.

269
00:10:31,098 --> 00:10:34,465
But you can also screw a
landing in any direction.

270
00:10:34,501 --> 00:10:36,801
[laughing]

271
00:10:36,936 --> 00:10:39,170
And you can see the
lights showing up there,

272
00:10:39,172 --> 00:10:41,406
The runway lights,
at about 2 o'clock.

273
00:10:41,541 --> 00:10:42,673
You sort of pick a
spot you're like,

274
00:10:42,709 --> 00:10:43,941
"okay, I want
to land there,"

275
00:10:44,011 --> 00:10:45,744
But maybe you've pitched
too far forward and

276
00:10:45,746 --> 00:10:47,812
You're gonna go over,
don't pitch too far back,

277
00:10:47,814 --> 00:10:49,814
We're rolling left
or spinning.

278
00:10:49,850 --> 00:10:51,415
You're gonna yaw, right?

279
00:10:51,451 --> 00:10:52,550
You're gonna-
that's where I should be-

280
00:10:52,619 --> 00:10:54,485
That's where I want to
land, right there.

281
00:10:54,521 --> 00:10:57,121
You're gonna sort of yaw...

282
00:10:57,190 --> 00:10:59,224
Yaw away from it.

283
00:10:59,226 --> 00:11:01,559
The weather is ridiculous!
Come on you, guys!

284
00:11:01,595 --> 00:11:04,495
Give me a fighting chance
at- oh, there we go.

285
00:11:04,497 --> 00:11:06,030
Good god!

286
00:11:06,066 --> 00:11:07,498
♪

287
00:11:07,534 --> 00:11:09,033
-[crashing]
-ah, mercy!

288
00:11:09,036 --> 00:11:10,735
[laughing]
this is crashing.

289
00:11:10,804 --> 00:11:12,537
This is... Yeah.

290
00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:16,040
I had a great time hanging
out with major jobin.

291
00:11:16,109 --> 00:11:17,976
If we ever get to do
the real thing,

292
00:11:18,111 --> 00:11:20,712
I'll leave the flying to her.
She can be the maverick.

293
00:11:20,781 --> 00:11:22,113
I'll be her canada goose.

294
00:11:22,149 --> 00:11:23,781
[laughing]

295
00:11:23,817 --> 00:11:26,450
[cheering & applauding]

296
00:11:31,458 --> 00:11:35,560
♪

297
00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:39,029
You know, we've been marching
to a military beat so far,

298
00:11:39,166 --> 00:11:41,866
But now, I'm going
to do an about face,

299
00:11:42,001 --> 00:11:44,069
And talk about faces.

300
00:11:44,204 --> 00:11:45,637
[laughing]

301
00:11:45,772 --> 00:11:47,271
I went down to
apex aesthetics,

302
00:11:47,340 --> 00:11:50,975
And I had a chat with rhonda
mcallister and dr. Joe kim.

303
00:11:51,011 --> 00:11:53,077
[cheering & applauding]

304
00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,079
I asked rhonda,
I said,

305
00:11:54,214 --> 00:11:56,080
"this is the last place I
would imagine I would

306
00:11:56,083 --> 00:11:59,417
Find a state-of-the-art
aesthetics clinic.

307
00:11:59,419 --> 00:12:00,885
And she said, 'well, there's
something good about

308
00:12:01,020 --> 00:12:02,153
Having it on a base here.

309
00:12:02,155 --> 00:12:03,655
It's a little bit
out of the way."

310
00:12:03,657 --> 00:12:05,356
You get discretion here.

311
00:12:05,358 --> 00:12:07,826
People aren't going to see
people on the avenue, saying,

312
00:12:07,961 --> 00:12:10,161
"hey, what are you doing
at apex aesthetics?"

313
00:12:10,296 --> 00:12:12,230
You have a bit of
privacy, right?

314
00:12:12,299 --> 00:12:14,532
No one's gonna drive
by and see your car,

315
00:12:14,534 --> 00:12:16,835
And, "oh, is so and so,
getting some work done?"

316
00:12:16,970 --> 00:12:20,104
You know, here, you're not
gonna raise any eyebrows...

317
00:12:20,140 --> 00:12:23,307
[laughing]

318
00:12:23,343 --> 00:12:25,109
...While they're
raising your eyebrows.

319
00:12:25,178 --> 00:12:26,377
[laughing]

320
00:12:26,513 --> 00:12:29,246
We're kind of a
new idea, I think.

321
00:12:29,282 --> 00:12:31,916
Chris and I
approached southport,

322
00:12:31,985 --> 00:12:33,585
And they were very
excited when we said

323
00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,052
We wanted to do this.

324
00:12:35,188 --> 00:12:36,487
Rhonda and her
husband, chris,

325
00:12:36,556 --> 00:12:38,389
It was their idea
to open the clinic.

326
00:12:38,525 --> 00:12:40,324
They brought in
dr. Joe kim.

327
00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,626
The type of work that
they do there at apex,

328
00:12:42,628 --> 00:12:45,262
It's not like severe surgical
stuff that's gonna like

329
00:12:45,298 --> 00:12:48,365
Really morph and really
change the way you look.

330
00:12:48,401 --> 00:12:50,000
You know, we don't want
to make our

331
00:12:50,036 --> 00:12:51,669
Clients look like the...

332
00:12:51,738 --> 00:12:54,005
The real housewives
of wherever.

333
00:12:54,007 --> 00:12:56,574
Like dr. Joe said,
"you're gonna look real,

334
00:12:56,709 --> 00:12:58,409
Not real housewives."

335
00:12:58,478 --> 00:13:00,178
[laughing]

336
00:13:00,180 --> 00:13:01,345
Although, I think that'd
be great idea for a show.

337
00:13:01,381 --> 00:13:03,214
The real housewives of
southport, manitoba.

338
00:13:03,250 --> 00:13:05,316
[laughing]

339
00:13:05,318 --> 00:13:07,085
Who's in for
some turbulence?

340
00:13:07,220 --> 00:13:09,153
[laughing]

341
00:13:09,189 --> 00:13:11,956
Rhonda and joe are very proud
of the work that they do.

342
00:13:11,992 --> 00:13:14,592
They not only stand by the
work, they really get it.

343
00:13:14,661 --> 00:13:16,360
In fact, they actually
get it,

344
00:13:16,429 --> 00:13:18,096
They receive
the treatments.

345
00:13:18,098 --> 00:13:20,097
-Rhonda's actually 70.
-Yeah.

346
00:13:20,167 --> 00:13:21,565
-Miraculous.
-[laughing]

347
00:13:21,601 --> 00:13:25,169
Because I mean, I really need
to be able to speak to it,

348
00:13:25,238 --> 00:13:28,172
And say that,
"this is what it feels like.

349
00:13:28,241 --> 00:13:30,174
This is your recovery time."

350
00:13:30,177 --> 00:13:32,176
They not only know
what the effects are,

351
00:13:32,212 --> 00:13:36,181
But they know what it feels
like to get these procedures,

352
00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:37,514
Which I think is...

353
00:13:37,551 --> 00:13:39,584
I'd love to tell that to the
guy who did my barium enema.

354
00:13:39,586 --> 00:13:43,254
[laughing]

355
00:13:43,389 --> 00:13:45,123
"just relax," he said.

356
00:13:45,125 --> 00:13:47,192
[laughing]

357
00:13:47,327 --> 00:13:49,526
♪

358
00:13:49,563 --> 00:13:51,462
Anyway, I go in there
and I lie down.

359
00:13:51,464 --> 00:13:54,098
There's all this like fancy,
high-tech machinery

360
00:13:54,134 --> 00:13:57,101
All around that's making
little sounds and beeps.

361
00:13:57,137 --> 00:13:59,070
Don't be nervous,
I'll take good care of you.

362
00:13:59,072 --> 00:14:00,104
[laughing]

363
00:14:00,173 --> 00:14:01,338
And then of course,
the crew were shooting it,

364
00:14:01,374 --> 00:14:03,875
So there's extra lights in
there and there's cameras.

365
00:14:04,010 --> 00:14:05,476
It just reminded me a
little bit of like...

366
00:14:05,612 --> 00:14:07,478
Who here has been
probed on a ufo?

367
00:14:07,547 --> 00:14:10,281
[laughing]

368
00:14:10,317 --> 00:14:12,216
Yeah, airbase in the
middle of nowhere,

369
00:14:12,285 --> 00:14:14,352
Come on, who's been
probed on a ufo?

370
00:14:14,421 --> 00:14:16,221
[laughing]

371
00:14:16,356 --> 00:14:18,055
How are you doing?

372
00:14:18,091 --> 00:14:20,024
Good, it feels nice.

373
00:14:20,026 --> 00:14:22,293
And then, joe was doing
this machine on my face.

374
00:14:22,329 --> 00:14:25,162
It feels just like a warm
massage but this machine

375
00:14:25,164 --> 00:14:28,299
That sends bipolar
radio frequencies,

376
00:14:28,335 --> 00:14:30,168
And it stimulates your skin.

377
00:14:30,303 --> 00:14:32,070
I figured that's great
for an actor, right?

378
00:14:32,205 --> 00:14:34,505
If people say you got
a great face for radio,

379
00:14:34,507 --> 00:14:36,441
Send some radio
into your face.

380
00:14:36,443 --> 00:14:38,175
Maybe you'll get a
better reception.

381
00:14:38,245 --> 00:14:40,377
[laughing]

382
00:14:40,379 --> 00:14:42,413
[applauding]

383
00:14:42,449 --> 00:14:47,118
♪

384
00:14:47,187 --> 00:14:49,120
I went to the rec plex,
and I spoke to a

385
00:14:49,189 --> 00:14:52,190
Dakota ojibwe man whose
family were mixing their

386
00:14:52,325 --> 00:14:55,026
Martial arts long
before it was cool,

387
00:14:55,161 --> 00:14:57,428
Ogitchita master,
stephen prince.

388
00:14:57,563 --> 00:15:02,467
[cheering & applauding]

389
00:15:02,469 --> 00:15:04,669
Stephen told me ogitchita
martial arts is based on

390
00:15:04,671 --> 00:15:06,470
An indigenous
style of combat,

391
00:15:06,539 --> 00:15:08,205
But it's constantly
incorporating

392
00:15:08,275 --> 00:15:10,007
Many other styles.

393
00:15:10,143 --> 00:15:12,377
Our belief is you never
commit yourself to one style.

394
00:15:12,379 --> 00:15:15,579
So, now ogitchita style has
evolved to include all the

395
00:15:15,615 --> 00:15:17,448
Martial arts that we've
learned over the years.

396
00:15:17,517 --> 00:15:19,951
So, you have indigenous
combat tactics,

397
00:15:19,953 --> 00:15:21,485
Which focus on...

398
00:15:21,521 --> 00:15:23,488
Stealth and surprise.

399
00:15:23,490 --> 00:15:26,557
But then you have moves
from jujitsu, karate,

400
00:15:26,693 --> 00:15:29,227
Taekwondo,
filipino foot fighting.

401
00:15:29,229 --> 00:15:31,295
So with myself,
I hold 8 black belts

402
00:15:31,364 --> 00:15:32,530
In 8 different styles.

403
00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:37,501
Stephen has a black belt
in 8 different styles

404
00:15:37,537 --> 00:15:39,904
Of martial arts.
That's exceptional.

405
00:15:40,039 --> 00:15:40,972
[applauding]

406
00:15:41,041 --> 00:15:44,309
Personally, I had a
green belt in taekwondo.

407
00:15:44,444 --> 00:15:46,310
And I got a white belt,
actually,

408
00:15:46,379 --> 00:15:48,379
That I stole from the
robe at apex aesthetics.

409
00:15:48,514 --> 00:15:50,448
[laughing]

410
00:15:50,583 --> 00:15:51,749
Yeah!

411
00:15:51,751 --> 00:15:54,519
Stephen told me ogitchita
comes from the word that has

412
00:15:54,521 --> 00:15:57,588
Always been used to describe
warriors in his culture,

413
00:15:57,590 --> 00:16:01,525
It literally translates
to "warrior with a heart".

414
00:16:01,561 --> 00:16:03,394
Our job is to ensure
that we take care of

415
00:16:03,430 --> 00:16:04,896
Our community,
our elders.

416
00:16:05,031 --> 00:16:06,564
We show our youth
the proper ways.

417
00:16:06,566 --> 00:16:09,299
It's something that helps
connect him to his roots.

418
00:16:09,336 --> 00:16:10,968
For other young
indigenous people,

419
00:16:11,037 --> 00:16:13,070
It helps them connect
to their culture.

420
00:16:13,206 --> 00:16:14,271
In short, every
now and then

421
00:16:14,341 --> 00:16:16,207
It means a foot
connecting to your head.

422
00:16:16,276 --> 00:16:18,409
[laughing]

423
00:16:18,411 --> 00:16:21,212
One of the keys to ogitchita
training is stealth.

424
00:16:21,281 --> 00:16:22,613
You always want to be quiet.

425
00:16:22,682 --> 00:16:24,182
Like the kids who
train with him,

426
00:16:24,184 --> 00:16:27,018
He gets them to
train in crawling.

427
00:16:27,020 --> 00:16:28,486
It's survival techniques,

428
00:16:28,555 --> 00:16:30,288
Like if you were escaping
from a captor.

429
00:16:30,423 --> 00:16:31,889
Crawling if your
legs are broken,

430
00:16:31,958 --> 00:16:33,558
So they're not allowed
to use their legs.

431
00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,359
Crawling if their
arms are broken,

432
00:16:35,362 --> 00:16:36,994
So they can't
use their arms.

433
00:16:37,030 --> 00:16:38,129
There's one they
do on their backs,

434
00:16:38,198 --> 00:16:42,066
That is a way of crawling,
if your arms were broken,

435
00:16:42,135 --> 00:16:43,501
And your legs
were broken.

436
00:16:43,570 --> 00:16:44,702
If my arms and
legs were broken,

437
00:16:44,837 --> 00:16:46,570
I don't think I'd be trying
to escape from my captors.

438
00:16:46,606 --> 00:16:47,772
[laughing]

439
00:16:47,907 --> 00:16:49,907
I'd be hoping they'd be helping
me on and off the toilet.

440
00:16:49,976 --> 00:16:52,376
[laughing]

441
00:16:52,445 --> 00:16:54,379
So, I do have a lot of
children that come to me that

442
00:16:54,514 --> 00:16:57,548
The schools or other
institutes listed

443
00:16:57,584 --> 00:16:59,050
As problem children.

444
00:16:59,119 --> 00:17:00,617
I'm a person that
grew up with adhd,

445
00:17:00,653 --> 00:17:03,321
So my teachers had
some patience with me.

446
00:17:03,456 --> 00:17:05,255
And because of that,
I've always felt

447
00:17:05,291 --> 00:17:07,324
I have to have the
patience with the kids.

448
00:17:07,326 --> 00:17:09,394
Ogitchita is extremely
beneficial with kids that

449
00:17:09,529 --> 00:17:12,196
Have been labeled as
"problem children",

450
00:17:12,232 --> 00:17:13,931
Like he was,
like I was.

451
00:17:13,933 --> 00:17:15,500
He said this sort of
training is excellent

452
00:17:15,502 --> 00:17:17,101
For focusing them.

453
00:17:17,103 --> 00:17:19,303
And by the time I asked him
why all the gym mats

454
00:17:19,305 --> 00:17:20,471
Were different colours,
he said,

455
00:17:20,473 --> 00:17:21,505
"jonny, why don't
you come and

456
00:17:21,574 --> 00:17:23,007
Try some of
this training?"

457
00:17:23,142 --> 00:17:25,276
[laughing]

458
00:17:25,278 --> 00:17:27,011
Take your hand...

459
00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:29,147
Go in a circle,
that's wax on.

460
00:17:29,282 --> 00:17:31,415
-Just like "karate kid".
-Just like the "karate kid".

461
00:17:31,418 --> 00:17:33,284
And the other
side is wax off.

462
00:17:33,286 --> 00:17:35,553
He showed me the
wax on, wax off, right,

463
00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:36,988
Just like from the movie.

464
00:17:37,123 --> 00:17:38,288
Yeah, there you go.

465
00:17:38,324 --> 00:17:39,924
Oh, pretty cool.

466
00:17:39,926 --> 00:17:41,992
Although I don't know if
that is actually from karate,

467
00:17:42,028 --> 00:17:44,362
Or if it's from
brazilian jujitsu.

468
00:17:44,364 --> 00:17:46,497
I know- I know brazilians
wax off a lot of stuff.

469
00:17:46,533 --> 00:17:48,499
[laughing]

470
00:17:48,501 --> 00:17:50,167
You could probably get
it done over at apex.

471
00:17:50,203 --> 00:17:51,668
[laughing]

472
00:17:51,704 --> 00:17:53,104
[cheering & applauding]

473
00:17:57,510 --> 00:18:00,010
♪

474
00:18:00,046 --> 00:18:01,445
Here in southport,
once trainee pilots

475
00:18:01,448 --> 00:18:03,281
Have passed
their final tests,

476
00:18:03,416 --> 00:18:06,417
There's a ceremony where
they get their wings.

477
00:18:06,552 --> 00:18:08,886
And I had a chance to attend
one of these ceremonies.

478
00:18:08,888 --> 00:18:11,222
And I had a chat with
acting commandant of

479
00:18:11,291 --> 00:18:13,591
The flight school,
major ryan snider.

480
00:18:13,660 --> 00:18:19,030
[applauding]

481
00:18:19,032 --> 00:18:22,266
Ryan emphasized that the
ring ceremony is one of

482
00:18:22,401 --> 00:18:24,902
The most important events
in a pilot's career.

483
00:18:24,971 --> 00:18:26,504
As you can imagine,
the graduates

484
00:18:26,573 --> 00:18:28,405
Have been thinking
about this moment

485
00:18:28,407 --> 00:18:30,408
Since the day that they
decided to enroll in the

486
00:18:30,410 --> 00:18:32,209
Royal canadian
air force as a pilot.

487
00:18:32,245 --> 00:18:34,912
Although, they will go
on and continue to train-

488
00:18:34,981 --> 00:18:38,149
They'll continue to specialize
in various aircraft-

489
00:18:38,151 --> 00:18:41,485
Once they receive their
wings here in southport,

490
00:18:41,521 --> 00:18:43,387
They are captains.

491
00:18:43,389 --> 00:18:47,091
They are pilots of the
royal canadian air force.

492
00:18:47,226 --> 00:18:49,493
And for these particular
graduates that day,

493
00:18:49,562 --> 00:18:52,429
They also got to be on an
episode of still standing, so...

494
00:18:52,431 --> 00:18:54,832
[laughing]

495
00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:57,334
It's a milestone
in their lives.

496
00:18:57,403 --> 00:19:00,271
It marks a pivotal,
monumental time

497
00:19:00,406 --> 00:19:01,939
In their career.
And so,

498
00:19:01,941 --> 00:19:03,974
We welcome them
to invite their family and

499
00:19:04,010 --> 00:19:05,276
Friends to the event.

500
00:19:05,278 --> 00:19:07,445
Families come from far
and wide to attend.

501
00:19:07,580 --> 00:19:10,381
And you shake hands with some
of the air force top brass,

502
00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:11,516
And you get a photo.

503
00:19:11,651 --> 00:19:13,016
That's amazing!

504
00:19:13,052 --> 00:19:14,485
So young and so
accomplished.

505
00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:16,454
Congrats, congrats.

506
00:19:16,589 --> 00:19:17,888
-Daddy!
-Whoa!

507
00:19:17,924 --> 00:19:19,390
Look at these little guys.

508
00:19:19,392 --> 00:19:21,425
Sometimes it's not just
your parents or siblings

509
00:19:21,427 --> 00:19:22,526
Who might attend.
Like,

510
00:19:22,595 --> 00:19:25,363
One of the graduates that day,
his kids were there.

511
00:19:25,365 --> 00:19:27,031
He had-
he had a lot of kids.

512
00:19:27,033 --> 00:19:29,066
"a brace of kids", we
would say in newfoundland.

513
00:19:29,068 --> 00:19:30,134
[laughing]

514
00:19:30,203 --> 00:19:31,602
And this guy's gonna
go off and fly

515
00:19:31,604 --> 00:19:33,204
The hercules transport.

516
00:19:33,206 --> 00:19:35,273
He's gonna be the guy,
on the back of the hercules,

517
00:19:35,408 --> 00:19:36,607
There's gonna be the
stick figures with the

518
00:19:36,643 --> 00:19:38,543
Big family and all the
kids and the cat.

519
00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:40,411
[laughing]

520
00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,980
[applauding]

521
00:19:43,049 --> 00:19:48,352
♪

522
00:19:48,388 --> 00:19:51,121
This base had been closed
and god only knows

523
00:19:51,157 --> 00:19:52,556
How you saved it,
but you did.

524
00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:53,957
And here's the topper.

525
00:19:53,993 --> 00:19:56,160
Instead of the end
of a 40-year trend,

526
00:19:56,229 --> 00:19:59,163
You spent another
40 years flying choppers.

527
00:19:59,165 --> 00:20:01,165
The higher you are,
the smoother the air,

528
00:20:01,167 --> 00:20:03,434
That's meteorological
kinetics.

529
00:20:03,436 --> 00:20:05,503
The higher on my forehead,
the less smooth it gets.

530
00:20:05,505 --> 00:20:07,438
It's time for some
apex aesthetics.

531
00:20:07,507 --> 00:20:09,406
[laughing]

532
00:20:09,442 --> 00:20:11,576
Planes have been grounded
but now the flight's on,

533
00:20:11,711 --> 00:20:14,345
And the fight's on with
a mixed martial art.

534
00:20:14,347 --> 00:20:17,314
If I have to get grounded
and summarily pounded,

535
00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:19,249
I hope it's by a
warrior with heart.

536
00:20:19,285 --> 00:20:21,085
[laughing]

537
00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:24,888
Here students become adults,
these kids become captains,

538
00:20:24,958 --> 00:20:27,591
Warriors themselves
learn to fly.

539
00:20:27,660 --> 00:20:29,627
And on the map they'll
proudly show you

540
00:20:29,696 --> 00:20:31,595
Southport, manitoba,

541
00:20:31,598 --> 00:20:33,997
Where they learned
in a big prairie sky.

542
00:20:34,033 --> 00:20:35,199
Thanks for coming out,
everybody.

543
00:20:35,334 --> 00:20:36,433
-You've been great!
-[laughing]

544
00:20:36,469 --> 00:20:38,102
Thanks for having us,
southport!

545
00:20:38,104 --> 00:20:39,436
We love you, take care!

546
00:20:39,505 --> 00:20:41,205
[applauding]

547
00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:45,075
♪

548
00:20:45,144 --> 00:20:47,144
I really hope I can fly with
him in a real helicopter.

549
00:20:47,213 --> 00:20:49,280
So, next time he comes here,
we'll go for a flight.

550
00:20:49,415 --> 00:20:51,415
I thought that was a
very good comedy show.

551
00:20:51,451 --> 00:20:54,017
Heard some good martial arts
jokes from jonny, you know.

552
00:20:54,053 --> 00:20:55,419
He hit it out of
the park, nailed it.

553
00:20:55,554 --> 00:20:57,221
It was great.

554
00:20:57,223 --> 00:21:01,124
♪

555
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,093
♪

556
00:21:02,228 --> 00:21:03,494
Oh my god,
my stomach.

557
00:21:03,563 --> 00:21:05,295
-[laughing
-[sighing]

558
00:21:05,297 --> 00:21:08,365
-I have control.
-You have control.

559
00:21:08,401 --> 00:21:09,366
She has control.

560
00:21:09,435 --> 00:21:12,903
Jonny injected southport
with some laughter.

561
00:21:12,972 --> 00:21:13,971
Big time.

562
00:21:14,106 --> 00:21:15,939
I trap your hand.

563
00:21:15,975 --> 00:21:18,175
This one's gonna hurt a
little bit, so are you ready?

564
00:21:18,211 --> 00:21:19,510
-Okay. Ah!
-I take you to the ground.

565
00:21:19,579 --> 00:21:21,645
[laughing]

566
00:21:21,648 --> 00:21:24,315
Southport, manitoba
is still standing.