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Here we are in
new glasgow, nova scotia!
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[cheering & applauding]
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Pictou county!
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This place was a
iron ore mining,
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Coal burning,
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Pulp milling,
ship building,
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Steel hammering
heart of industry.
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And though those days
are long gone,
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This community is
still strong as steel.
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[cheering & applauding]
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Because people here
love this town,
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And people love
their pizza brown.
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[laughing]
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[cheering & applauding]
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Brown sauce on the pizza.
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There's no point in even
getting into it on tv
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'cause it's impossible to
describe the flavor.
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Brown sort of describes it.
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I loved it, but people
here are crazy about-
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I was in new glasgow
for about 20 minutes.
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I was at the grocery store
picking up
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A couple of things
for my hotel room.
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A woman stopped me
in the aisle.
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She goes,
"oh, my god.
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You, you do that
comedy show on tv!"
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I said, "yes, that's right."
she said,
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"we put brown sauce
on our pizza."
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[laughing]
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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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[announcer]
mr. Jonny harris!
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Now I'm on a mission
to find the funny
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In the places you'd
least expect it,
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Canada's struggling
small town...
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Towns that are
against the ropes,
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But hanging in there...
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Still laughing in the
face of adversity.
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This is new glasgow,
nova scotia.
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♪
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♪
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♪
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[cheering & applauding]
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One might think that the
birthplace of steel
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In canada would be...
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Hamilton, ontario,
or perhaps sydney.
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But the first pouring of
steel happened in
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Pictou county at
trenton ironworks,
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Not ten minutes from
this very arena.
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[applauding]
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But I wanted to know more
about the hard grind history
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Of new glasgow.
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I found the perfect
guy to tell me.
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Ask him about steel
and he's beaming.
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John ashton.
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[cheering & applauding]
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John told me he grew up in
a neighbourhood here
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Called rabbit town.
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I was all ears.
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[laughing]
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I said, "how did
it get that name?"
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The story goes, is that there
were so many kids over there,
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They said they
breeded like rabbits.
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So not just the
birthplace of steel!
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[laughing]
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For over a hundred years,
maritime steel was
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New glasgow's
biggest employer.
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200 people worked there
at its peak.
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Give me an idea of what, what
steel products were made.
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What was the steel
used for?
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They built the doors
and the sidings for
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The welland canal.
-Is that right?
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You name it.
Anything big steel.
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They were melting steel and
making girders and beams and
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Rail cars and even the rails
for the railways themselves.
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They had big bay doors there,
and you would kind of look in,
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And all, all you'd see
was blue smoke.
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The welding sparks,
you'd see the
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Glowing hot molten steel
being poured.
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If you can imagine brakes,
if you're squealing brakes,
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There's a smell
coming off that.
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And that's the smell
that I could remember.
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He said that smell
was all over town.
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And he said everybody
who worked there smoked.
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You had no worries of
smelling like cigarette smoke.
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You'd go on a smoke break
to get a break from
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Smelling like...
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Smoking brakes.
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[laughing]
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You could hear the axle
hammer at trenton ironworks.
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You would hear it
all over town.
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You could hear the
pounding of the ingots
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Or forming the steel.
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That was called the
heartbeat of pictou county.
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And then as
contracts dried up,
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It became more
intermittent.
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It would stop and start.
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Bit like my heartbeat before
I got my sleep apnea machine.
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[laughing]
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And then when that shut
down the heartbeat of
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Pictou county,
that stopped.
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People didn't know
what to do.
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You couldn't even
listen to your heart.
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The wheels of industry
never stopped turning,
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And they rolled
out of town...
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Out the
trans-canada highway.
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And then the steel industry
stopped there in sydney
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For a little while,
but eventually...
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It hopped a boat and
ended up overseas in...
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-[audience] port aux basques.
-China.
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[laughing]
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Did someone say,
"port aux basques"?
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[laughing]
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Wrong boat.
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[laughing & applauding]
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♪
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Hi, there,
how are you doing?
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♪
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Ten years before rosa parks
refused to give up
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Her seat on a bus
in alabama,
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Viola desmond refused
to give up her seat
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At the roseland theatre
right here in new glasgow.
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[applauding]
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She refused to
give up her seat.
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And I got to speak
to the chair.
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[laughing]
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The former chair of the
viola desmond
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Commemorative committee...
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Henderson paris.
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[cheering & applauding]
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I met henderson
over on viola's way.
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The roseland is not
a theater anymore.
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But anderson told me the new
owner wanted to spruce it up,
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And also wanted to pay
honour to viola's story.
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He asked me if I would
chair a committee
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To select the artwork.
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Lo and behold, I received
over 500 submissions.
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They chose a selection that
would be mounted on
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The outside wall
of the theatre.
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They're all, to us,
they're breathtaking.
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There's a lot of passion
went in that artwork.
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We narrowed it
down to the 18,
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And we tried to put it
in chronological order.
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18 beautiful pictures.
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Meanwhile,
my wikipedia article
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Got one photo
and it sucks.
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[laughing]
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Anyways it not about me,
I know, I know.
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Henderson told me
how this all started.
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He told me viola's story.
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This was the very building,
formerly the roseland theatre.
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Back in November 8th,
1946, viola desmond,
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A hair salon owner,
was driving through town.
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Her car was giving
her trouble,
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And so she pulled into
new glasgow and...
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Visited a local garage
just up the street here.
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They said she was going to
have to wait overnight
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For them to get the parts,
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So she decided to
go take in a movie.
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She went to the
roseland theatre.
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She bought a ticket
and went and sat down.
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Next thing you know the
manager is at her side.
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The theatre was segregated.
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The main floor was for
whites at the time.
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Black people had to sit
in the cheap seats
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Up in the balcony.
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So, she came out and,
you know,
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Tried to talk to
the cashier.
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You know,
pay the difference,
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If there was a
difference in price.
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They wouldn't sell her
a main floor ticket.
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So she goes back in,
and goes right back to
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The seat
where she was.
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Next thing you know the
police have been called.
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And so,
they dragged her out.
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So, it was aggressively
that she was taken out.
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Exactly just, you know,
really like by force.
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And the police forcibly
remove her and
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Drag her off to jail
for the night.
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She sat up all night on
that bench in a jail cell.
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She wore like
long white gloves,
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And I believe,
like she sat there saying,
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"you know what, you're
trying to break me,
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But you're not.
You're not going to win."
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So she stayed there
until morning
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When she had
to go to court.
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But they had to come up with
something to charge her with!
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What they said was,
the main floor ticket
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Should have cost
20 cents more than
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The ticket she bought.
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Even though they refused
the extra 20 cents
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When she offered it.
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And of that 20 cents,
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One cent would have been
provincial sales tax.
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They charged her
with tax evasion.
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Oh!
[chatter]
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Which amounted to a one cent
difference between
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The price of the upstairs
and downstairs ticket.
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She evaded
one cent of tax.
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Now, listen, it's easy for us
to say that's petty and
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Ridiculous, but this
was the 1940s, right?
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That penny, that would
be worth easily three,
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Four times that amount
in today's money.
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[laughing]
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I mean, depending
on the market,
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Possibly even
five or six cents.
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I forget where grand
larceny kicks in, but...
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[laughing]
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And in retrospect,
viola having been...
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You know, dragged
out of that theatre,
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Now there's
artwork...
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Hangs on the side of
the building.
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You know, we have made
great, great strides.
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But henderson also created
pictou county's
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Run against racism.
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[applauding]
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The idea was to
raise awareness
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Around racial injustice
by running to
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All five neighbouring
towns of pictou county,
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And pictou landing
first nations community.
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A good running friend
of mine, he said,
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"whatever you want to do,
however far you want to go,
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I'll... Be right there
by your side."
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A friend of his,
doug,
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Was helping him put it
together, and he said,
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"I'll go and drive it
just to see how long
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The actual route is."
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And he said, "we might
have a problem."
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I said, "what's that?"
he said,
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"turns out
it's 38 miles."
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Remind me, how long
officially is a marathon?
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A marathon is 26 miles.
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So, this is 12
miles longer.
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38 miles!
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Like from the days
of viola desmond,
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You know, we've come
a long way.
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I know we still got a
ways to go, but 38 miles?
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That's,
that's an awful lot.
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[laughing]
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We'd be running
the roads, and...
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As far back as you can see,
there were runners.
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Everyone wanted
to join in,
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So that gave me
encouragement,
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I could continue on and run
through some painful runs.
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And, at every community,
when he got there,
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They'd have a reception
set up for him,
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And he was expected
to get up and speak.
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He had to give a speech.
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I've bet over 38 mile,
I bet the speeches
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Got a little bit shorter
as you went along.
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Right, I bet the first
couple of towns it was real
255
00:10:19,119 --> 00:10:21,252
Martin luther king
sort of stuff.
256
00:10:21,387 --> 00:10:23,788
I bet by the time you get
to the fourth or fifth town,
257
00:10:23,824 --> 00:10:25,256
It's a bit like...
258
00:10:25,325 --> 00:10:27,892
[sighing]
259
00:10:27,894 --> 00:10:29,660
"all right...
260
00:10:29,696 --> 00:10:31,462
Are there any
racists here?"
261
00:10:31,498 --> 00:10:33,398
[laughing]
262
00:10:33,533 --> 00:10:35,599
"show of hands,
any racists?"
263
00:10:35,636 --> 00:10:38,536
-[laughing]
-"no?"
264
00:10:38,605 --> 00:10:40,939
"good, good for you,
alright."
265
00:10:40,941 --> 00:10:44,609
[laughing & applauding]
266
00:10:50,750 --> 00:10:52,884
♪
267
00:10:52,953 --> 00:10:55,353
[children laughing]
268
00:10:55,488 --> 00:10:58,489
♪
269
00:10:58,525 --> 00:11:01,092
The next person I spoke
to likes still standing,
270
00:11:01,128 --> 00:11:03,194
But not as much as
she likes sitting,
271
00:11:03,196 --> 00:11:04,963
Staying,
and lying down.
272
00:11:04,965 --> 00:11:07,031
I'm talking about
kennel master,
273
00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:09,167
Andrea massingham.
274
00:11:09,169 --> 00:11:11,435
[applauding]
275
00:11:11,437 --> 00:11:14,172
This year's dog show was the
100-year anniversary
276
00:11:14,241 --> 00:11:16,441
For the pictou county
kennel club.
277
00:11:16,510 --> 00:11:20,011
She introduced me to her
german shepherd, mooin.
278
00:11:20,013 --> 00:11:22,113
-He's beautiful.
-Thank you.
279
00:11:22,149 --> 00:11:24,516
She said his full name is...
280
00:11:24,651 --> 00:11:27,886
Lucky strikes over the
mooin at a rising star.
281
00:11:27,888 --> 00:11:30,989
I said, "that's not a name."
she said, "no, it is."
282
00:11:31,124 --> 00:11:32,724
It turns out it's
kind of like horses.
283
00:11:32,726 --> 00:11:34,792
They can have
long, weird names.
284
00:11:34,861 --> 00:11:36,661
So, the breeder
that bred him,
285
00:11:36,730 --> 00:11:38,863
Their kennel name
is lucky strike.
286
00:11:38,899 --> 00:11:40,264
-Breeder's name first.
-Yeah.
287
00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:43,534
Lucky strikes
over the mooin at-
288
00:11:43,570 --> 00:11:45,703
-A rising star.
-And you're "rising star"?
289
00:11:45,706 --> 00:11:47,004
We're "a rising star".
290
00:11:47,074 --> 00:11:48,673
But I wonder if
it's like kids.
291
00:11:48,675 --> 00:11:50,741
I wonder if you only
use the full name
292
00:11:50,777 --> 00:11:52,510
When you're really angry
at them, right?
293
00:11:52,579 --> 00:11:54,646
Like, "who got
into the garbage?
294
00:11:54,648 --> 00:11:56,480
It's everywhere!
295
00:11:56,516 --> 00:11:59,684
Lucky strikes over the
mooin at a rising star,
296
00:11:59,753 --> 00:12:01,219
Was that you?"
297
00:12:01,354 --> 00:12:03,588
[laughing]
298
00:12:03,590 --> 00:12:08,126
♪
299
00:12:08,261 --> 00:12:09,660
Mooin is a show dog,
300
00:12:09,730 --> 00:12:13,131
So he competes in the
confirmation ring.
301
00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,533
And that's where the
judges evaluate them,
302
00:12:15,535 --> 00:12:18,369
Make sure that they're
groomed and healthy.
303
00:12:18,371 --> 00:12:21,105
To make sure they don't have
floppy ears or disqualifying
304
00:12:21,108 --> 00:12:23,841
Marks on them like
white toes, or...
305
00:12:23,843 --> 00:12:25,376
They check their bite.
306
00:12:25,378 --> 00:12:27,979
I thought, my god, like
white toes and bad teeth?
307
00:12:28,114 --> 00:12:30,348
My dad is from England,
I wouldn't have a prayer.
308
00:12:30,483 --> 00:12:33,184
[laughing]
309
00:12:33,220 --> 00:12:34,718
So they're
checking his gait?
310
00:12:34,755 --> 00:12:36,921
-Yes, his testicles...
-His testicles?
311
00:12:37,056 --> 00:12:38,322
Make sure they're
both there.
312
00:12:38,457 --> 00:12:40,191
For the males,
you gotta make sure
313
00:12:40,227 --> 00:12:42,527
Both testicles
have descended.
314
00:12:42,529 --> 00:12:44,429
Like for me, both my
testicles have been
315
00:12:44,431 --> 00:12:46,864
Descended as long
as I can remember.
316
00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:48,767
But I swear to god,
to this day,
317
00:12:48,902 --> 00:12:50,468
Every now and then
one of them kind of...
318
00:12:50,537 --> 00:12:52,069
[lip smacking]
...Pops up.
319
00:12:52,105 --> 00:12:54,472
[laughing]
320
00:12:54,474 --> 00:12:57,008
Sort of got to push on
your abdomen, and like...
321
00:12:57,077 --> 00:12:59,911
It pops back down,
then its fine.
322
00:12:59,913 --> 00:13:02,614
Why are the women laughing
at this more than the fellas?
323
00:13:02,616 --> 00:13:05,150
[laughing]
324
00:13:05,285 --> 00:13:08,219
The judge is also checking
the temperament of the dog.
325
00:13:08,255 --> 00:13:09,554
They're supposed
to be aloof,
326
00:13:09,689 --> 00:13:11,756
Not be too
overly engaging.
327
00:13:11,891 --> 00:13:15,827
So not unfriendly, but not
overly excitable either.
328
00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:18,095
Competing in the
show dog circuit
329
00:13:18,131 --> 00:13:19,898
Sounds a bit like the
dating circuit,
330
00:13:20,033 --> 00:13:21,232
Do you know
what I mean?
331
00:13:21,301 --> 00:13:23,701
Like you're
being evaluated.
332
00:13:23,737 --> 00:13:26,571
You're being held to a
certain grooming standard.
333
00:13:26,706 --> 00:13:29,941
You should ideally
have both testicles.
334
00:13:30,010 --> 00:13:31,442
[laughing]
335
00:13:31,511 --> 00:13:32,944
And you're better off
playing it a bit aloof,
336
00:13:33,013 --> 00:13:34,778
That's where I get
dating wrong.
337
00:13:34,815 --> 00:13:36,581
On a first date,
I get excited,
338
00:13:36,583 --> 00:13:38,582
I start running
around the room.
339
00:13:38,618 --> 00:13:41,252
Then I lie down on my back
with my belly exposed
340
00:13:41,321 --> 00:13:42,854
And my tongue
hanging out.
341
00:13:42,856 --> 00:13:44,755
[laughing]
342
00:13:44,791 --> 00:13:46,658
[applauding]
343
00:13:46,793 --> 00:13:49,460
Another one of andrea's
german shepherds, ace,
344
00:13:49,529 --> 00:13:52,263
He's working line,
not show line,
345
00:13:52,398 --> 00:13:55,266
And he's getting trained
for the carting competition,
346
00:13:55,401 --> 00:13:59,270
Where the dogs, they pull
around these adorable carts.
347
00:13:59,272 --> 00:14:01,472
You hook him up to the cart,
and you have to
348
00:14:01,541 --> 00:14:03,875
Walk your dog
through that course.
349
00:14:03,877 --> 00:14:05,410
It's kind of nice that they
have that 'cause the dogs
350
00:14:05,412 --> 00:14:07,278
Don't have to be
quite as perfect.
351
00:14:07,314 --> 00:14:09,080
Let's go: Forward.
352
00:14:09,082 --> 00:14:11,850
Like ace, for example,
he's only got
353
00:14:11,985 --> 00:14:13,817
One testicle descended...
354
00:14:13,854 --> 00:14:15,219
[laughing]
355
00:14:15,288 --> 00:14:16,888
So he can't compete
in the show ring.
356
00:14:17,023 --> 00:14:18,890
But as a working dog...
357
00:14:19,025 --> 00:14:20,591
-Good, you're getting it!
-Good boy.
358
00:14:20,660 --> 00:14:22,627
Over, over, over, ace.
359
00:14:22,762 --> 00:14:24,061
Good boy, good boy.
360
00:14:24,130 --> 00:14:25,730
I know it seems unfair,
but I kind of get it
361
00:14:25,799 --> 00:14:28,900
That he can't compete in
the shepherding group
362
00:14:28,902 --> 00:14:31,035
Because shepherding dogs
should be able-
363
00:14:31,170 --> 00:14:33,337
Like, if you can't keep
your own two testicles
364
00:14:33,373 --> 00:14:34,972
Grouped together...
365
00:14:35,008 --> 00:14:36,441
[laughing]
366
00:14:36,576 --> 00:14:39,077
...Maybe shepherding is
not what you're best at.
367
00:14:39,212 --> 00:14:41,312
[laughing]
368
00:14:41,314 --> 00:14:42,647
Good boy.
369
00:14:42,716 --> 00:14:44,315
-This is pretty good!
-That's it.
370
00:14:44,450 --> 00:14:46,550
But there were so many
gorgeous dogs there.
371
00:14:46,586 --> 00:14:47,685
I was so impressed.
372
00:14:47,754 --> 00:14:50,188
Like I thought when I got there,
it would be chaos.
373
00:14:50,190 --> 00:14:52,523
I thought there'd be a
cacophony of barking
374
00:14:52,592 --> 00:14:54,726
And clumps of hair
blowing everywhere.
375
00:14:54,728 --> 00:14:56,427
And, I never saw
a single poop
376
00:14:56,496 --> 00:14:58,463
The whole time
I was there.
377
00:14:58,598 --> 00:15:01,132
And interestingly enough,
andrea told me-
378
00:15:01,134 --> 00:15:02,267
'cause I was like,
what if they gotta-
379
00:15:02,402 --> 00:15:03,534
What if nature calls?
380
00:15:03,536 --> 00:15:06,270
In confirmation,
which is show line,
381
00:15:06,273 --> 00:15:08,873
You can have an accident in
the ring and they just call,
382
00:15:08,942 --> 00:15:10,541
"clean up on aisle 9,"
kind of thing.
383
00:15:10,610 --> 00:15:11,709
Okay.
384
00:15:11,745 --> 00:15:13,544
But, if you're into the cart
and your dog goes to
385
00:15:13,546 --> 00:15:16,147
The bathroom,
they're disqualified.
386
00:15:16,149 --> 00:15:18,249
Like, you can't be going
around with the cart
387
00:15:18,384 --> 00:15:20,017
And then just suddenly
take a pee.
388
00:15:20,153 --> 00:15:22,086
Same thing at your
sobeys, I found out.
389
00:15:22,122 --> 00:15:24,622
[laughing]
390
00:15:24,691 --> 00:15:26,156
[applauding]
391
00:15:30,830 --> 00:15:36,467
♪
392
00:15:36,536 --> 00:15:39,403
When I heard about the boat
races here on the river,
393
00:15:39,439 --> 00:15:42,039
And that there was a team of
paddlers made up
394
00:15:42,075 --> 00:15:45,309
Entirely of breast
cancer survivors,
395
00:15:45,378 --> 00:15:47,779
I knew I was going to
struggle to keep up.
396
00:15:47,781 --> 00:15:49,981
I can't even keep
abreast of the times.
397
00:15:49,983 --> 00:15:52,183
[laughing]
398
00:15:52,318 --> 00:15:54,585
I spoke to sisters from
different misters...
399
00:15:54,721 --> 00:15:58,189
Faye visser and
elizabeth chenell.
400
00:15:58,191 --> 00:16:01,726
[cheering & applauding]
401
00:16:01,795 --> 00:16:05,062
Faye and elizabeth told me
about their dragon boat team.
402
00:16:05,098 --> 00:16:07,798
[cheering & applauding]
403
00:16:07,934 --> 00:16:10,601
Every member of the team
is either a breast cancer
404
00:16:10,670 --> 00:16:12,536
Patient or survivor.
405
00:16:12,572 --> 00:16:14,372
Everyone in the boat...
406
00:16:14,507 --> 00:16:17,275
Is in the same boat,
so to speak.
407
00:16:17,277 --> 00:16:18,376
The doctors
and the nurses
408
00:16:18,445 --> 00:16:20,078
Know the scientific
parts of it,
409
00:16:20,213 --> 00:16:21,879
But we know
the headspace.
410
00:16:21,948 --> 00:16:23,580
You know, like what's
going on in their head.
411
00:16:23,616 --> 00:16:24,716
Can I do this?
Can I do that?
412
00:16:24,851 --> 00:16:26,216
You know, like,
is my life over?
413
00:16:26,252 --> 00:16:28,218
No, there's a great life
after breast cancer.
414
00:16:28,254 --> 00:16:30,454
Now you have these
women all over the world
415
00:16:30,523 --> 00:16:32,556
Who are showing the next
generation that there's
416
00:16:32,592 --> 00:16:35,426
Life beyond a breast
cancer diagnosis.
417
00:16:35,495 --> 00:16:37,495
And it's the
best thing to do.
418
00:16:37,564 --> 00:16:40,832
I mean, it's intense
physical exercise.
419
00:16:40,967 --> 00:16:43,134
It's group therapy
with people
420
00:16:43,269 --> 00:16:44,702
Who've been through
the same thing.
421
00:16:44,771 --> 00:16:46,771
We've had paddlers paddle
all the way through
422
00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,507
Their chemo treatments,
really committed.
423
00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:52,076
It's accountability
because you're on a team.
424
00:16:52,211 --> 00:16:54,011
The only team in the
world where saying,
425
00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:55,979
"I can't. I have
breast cancer,"
426
00:16:56,016 --> 00:16:58,382
Is not cutting it
as an excuse.
427
00:16:58,518 --> 00:17:00,985
[laughing]
428
00:17:00,987 --> 00:17:02,987
The name of their team is
429
00:17:02,989 --> 00:17:06,391
Women alike abreast a river.
430
00:17:06,526 --> 00:17:09,059
Women alike
abreast a river.
431
00:17:09,061 --> 00:17:10,528
I like it,
it's very poetic.
432
00:17:10,530 --> 00:17:11,929
[laughing]
433
00:17:12,065 --> 00:17:13,664
"oh, my god, who got
into the garbage?
434
00:17:13,666 --> 00:17:14,999
It's everywhere!
435
00:17:15,068 --> 00:17:17,802
Women alike abreast
a river, was that you?
436
00:17:17,804 --> 00:17:19,070
Did you do that?"
437
00:17:19,205 --> 00:17:20,504
[laughing]
438
00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:22,273
There's teams all over
atlantic canada that
439
00:17:22,342 --> 00:17:24,508
Compete against
each other every year.
440
00:17:24,643 --> 00:17:26,544
We won race on the river
441
00:17:26,679 --> 00:17:28,479
For the first time
in ten years.
442
00:17:28,481 --> 00:17:30,381
They won this year's
443
00:17:30,383 --> 00:17:32,683
Atlantic race on
the river cup.
444
00:17:32,685 --> 00:17:34,952
[cheering & applauding]
445
00:17:35,021 --> 00:17:36,654
Faye and liz told me
they won the cup,
446
00:17:36,723 --> 00:17:39,490
But neither one of them is
sure what size the cup was.
447
00:17:39,526 --> 00:17:41,192
[laughing]
448
00:17:41,327 --> 00:17:43,494
I was going for,
you know, like b, c.
449
00:17:43,629 --> 00:17:44,795
She thinks it's an h.
450
00:17:44,797 --> 00:17:45,996
[laughing]
451
00:17:46,032 --> 00:17:48,365
I thought things
topped out at dd.
452
00:17:48,435 --> 00:17:50,835
[laughing]
453
00:17:50,970 --> 00:17:53,838
♪
454
00:17:53,973 --> 00:17:56,974
They invited me to go out
for a run in the boat,
455
00:17:56,976 --> 00:17:58,509
And they said I would
be the drummer.
456
00:17:58,644 --> 00:17:59,710
I don't know
anything about it.
457
00:17:59,779 --> 00:18:01,145
We'll show you how to do it.
-Okay...
458
00:18:01,281 --> 00:18:04,382
Turns out the drummer has
to wear a special outfit.
459
00:18:04,517 --> 00:18:08,652
[cheering & applauding]
460
00:18:08,654 --> 00:18:09,921
Nice legs!
461
00:18:10,056 --> 00:18:12,256
[laughing]
462
00:18:12,258 --> 00:18:15,126
And, the tutu
was very short.
463
00:18:15,261 --> 00:18:17,261
[laughing]
464
00:18:17,297 --> 00:18:19,197
I did have boxers on
under it.
465
00:18:19,199 --> 00:18:20,964
I hate to break scottish
tradition in this part
466
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,600
Of the country, but I
also didn't want to
467
00:18:22,669 --> 00:18:26,604
Break any laws, so...
Kept my underwear on.
468
00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:30,641
[steady drumming]
469
00:18:30,710 --> 00:18:34,278
And in the dragon boat,
the drummer is up front.
470
00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,247
Just like with the
phil collins band.
471
00:18:36,249 --> 00:18:38,215
[laughing]
472
00:18:38,251 --> 00:18:39,884
I'm watching the
front two paddlers.
473
00:18:39,953 --> 00:18:42,119
I'm trying to
match their rhythm.
474
00:18:42,155 --> 00:18:44,421
And then the rest of the
paddlers can hear it
475
00:18:44,457 --> 00:18:46,423
And match that pace.
476
00:18:46,459 --> 00:18:48,326
I couldn't believe when
they started doing
477
00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:50,828
The hard strokes,
the power strokes...
478
00:18:50,830 --> 00:18:53,431
[drumming faster]
479
00:18:53,433 --> 00:18:56,801
♪
480
00:18:56,803 --> 00:18:58,369
And I almost
came off my seat.
481
00:18:58,438 --> 00:19:00,370
The power,
you wouldn't believe it!
482
00:19:00,406 --> 00:19:03,507
It's like the boat lurches up
out of the water.
483
00:19:03,576 --> 00:19:05,243
I was drumming
with one hand.
484
00:19:05,378 --> 00:19:07,244
I swear to god, I had to
hold on to the seat.
485
00:19:07,313 --> 00:19:10,781
It's like the opposite of
being in a plane taking off.
486
00:19:10,850 --> 00:19:15,018
[drumming, cheering
& applauding]
487
00:19:15,054 --> 00:19:17,321
[cheering & applauding
continues]
488
00:19:22,862 --> 00:19:27,598
It's just a tremendous
amount of physical effort.
489
00:19:27,634 --> 00:19:30,935
That's why I'm more into
things with motors, right?
490
00:19:31,004 --> 00:19:32,537
I mean, I'm a
fan of the cause.
491
00:19:32,672 --> 00:19:34,471
I'm a fan of breasts
in general, but...
492
00:19:34,507 --> 00:19:36,373
[laughing]
493
00:19:36,375 --> 00:19:38,409
If I could somehow
motorboat for breast-
494
00:19:38,544 --> 00:19:39,744
Or hang on a minute.
495
00:19:39,879 --> 00:19:41,746
[laughing]
496
00:19:41,881 --> 00:19:43,814
[applauding]
497
00:19:43,883 --> 00:19:45,682
♪
498
00:19:45,718 --> 00:19:50,787
[cheering & applauding]
499
00:19:50,823 --> 00:19:55,760
♪
500
00:19:55,895 --> 00:19:58,295
You can look at the
miles of running and
501
00:19:58,431 --> 00:20:00,397
Hear the dragon
boat strumming.
502
00:20:00,466 --> 00:20:03,434
It's incredible here what
people have overcome.
503
00:20:03,569 --> 00:20:06,503
But you're reminded
of history here, though,
504
00:20:06,539 --> 00:20:09,373
Painted portraits
of the civil rights hero.
505
00:20:09,375 --> 00:20:13,177
You keep an eye on the past
to see how far you've come.
506
00:20:13,179 --> 00:20:15,446
It's been mighty great
to meet ya and
507
00:20:15,448 --> 00:20:17,315
Try your
brown sauce pizza.
508
00:20:17,450 --> 00:20:20,450
I've never had a
better breed around me.
509
00:20:20,486 --> 00:20:23,787
I'll tell folks who want to
make the most of their trip
510
00:20:23,856 --> 00:20:27,358
To our country's east coast,
"give new glasgow a call,
511
00:20:27,427 --> 00:20:30,327
Or better all of
pictou county."
512
00:20:30,396 --> 00:20:31,795
Thanks for coming out,
everybody,
513
00:20:31,831 --> 00:20:33,130
You've been great!
514
00:20:33,266 --> 00:20:34,531
[cheering & applauding]
515
00:20:34,567 --> 00:20:36,400
Thanks for having us,
pictou!
516
00:20:36,535 --> 00:20:38,135
Season 10,
that's a wrap!
517
00:20:38,204 --> 00:20:40,271
-See ya!
-[applauding]
518
00:20:40,273 --> 00:20:44,008
Jonny was 100% best
in show tonight.
519
00:20:44,077 --> 00:20:49,813
♪
520
00:20:49,849 --> 00:20:51,148
He is much prettier in pink.
521
00:20:51,284 --> 00:20:52,883
He looked very
dressed up today.
522
00:20:52,885 --> 00:20:55,286
The pink really
set off his eyes.
523
00:20:55,288 --> 00:20:56,253
-Oh, for sure.
-What do you think?
524
00:20:56,322 --> 00:20:57,921
-I just love the...
-Yeah.
525
00:20:57,923 --> 00:21:00,224
[laughing]
526
00:21:00,226 --> 00:21:01,559
The laughter was great.
527
00:21:01,694 --> 00:21:03,227
And he certainly brought
that out of people
528
00:21:03,229 --> 00:21:04,762
And made them feel good.
529
00:21:04,831 --> 00:21:07,964
♪
530
00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:10,901
[laughing]
531
00:21:10,903 --> 00:21:14,237
Fantastic, ah,
comedy genius.
532
00:21:14,274 --> 00:21:16,140
Really, that's the
way I look at it.
533
00:21:16,209 --> 00:21:20,777
♪
534
00:21:20,813 --> 00:21:23,714
♪