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{\an8}Jonny: Here we are in
Flin Flon, Manitoba!

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{\an8}Flin Flon, surrounded by
beautiful Boreal Forest

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here in northern
Maniskatchewan.

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Flin Flon is truly a
border town of Manitoba

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and Saskatchewan,

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especially if you include
the communities of

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Creighton and
Denare Beach,

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which we will be, as we
will be talking about

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what I will call the
Tri-City area

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of Greater Flin Flon.

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We were actually set to
shoot this episode when,

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as I’m sure
you remember,

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things around here
got pretty hot.

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On May 28th, 2025,

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a mandatory evacuation
was called.

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A successful evacuation,
I’m glad to say.

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I was a bit confused because
one of my producers

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told me we were
canceling the trip,

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and I said, "Why?"

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and she said,
"That place is on fire,"

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but she’s Gen Z.

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I thought that was like
a good thing, like-

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Right, like it’s on- like
totally slay, it’s on fire.

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Jonny: 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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Jonny: Now I’m on a mission
to find the funny

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in the places you’d
least expect,

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Canada’s struggling
small towns.

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Towns that are
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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 Flin Flon,
Manitoba.

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Jonny: Long before
you made headlines

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with forest fires
this summer,

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Flin Flon was known mostly
for producing rock-hard

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hockey players and
hard rock mining.

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And let’s face it, probably
a lot of Canadians

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know the name Flin Flon
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It’s...

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I don’t want to make
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...unusual.

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What is somebody from
Flin Flon called?

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Ken: Flin Flonian, I guess.
Jonny: A Flin Flonian.

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To tell me about
mining minerals and

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how the town’s novel
name came about,

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I had a chat with
retired miner,

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Ken Pawlachuk.

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{\an8}Jonny: Ken told me in 1915 a
prospector by the name of

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Tom Creighton came up
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and fortunately he was
introduced to a Métis trapper.

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{\an8}Ken: A guy named
David Collins,

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{\an8} who was a rock
collector, also.

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{\an8}He used to collect
shiny rocks.

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It took two people, one guy
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one guy to distinguish
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Tom Creighton put
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Jonny: But when
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what he wanted to
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he named it...

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after a fictitious character
in a sci-fi novel

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he randomly found
in the bush.

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Ken: Tom Creighton
found a book called

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The Sunless City.

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And in The Sunless City,
there was a story about

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this character, an eccentric
scientist kind of.

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Jonny: And that
character’s name?

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Ken: Josiah Flintabbatey
Flonatin.

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Ken: It’s a mouthful.
Jonny: Say it again.

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Ken: Josiah
Flintabbatey Flonatin.

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Jonny: Or to his friends,
Flin Flon.

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Woo!

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Jonny: There’s a great
statue down by the museum,

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but I was told,

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if you looked at it from
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Flinty’s thumb looks
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I didn’t see it at first,
and I’m like,

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somebody’s
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This is nonsense,

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and then I look
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I was wrong.

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In fact,
I was humbled.

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Jonny: Ken told me
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it was the Hudson Bay Mining
and Smelting Company

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that decided to go
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I mean, it was a massive,
massive operation.

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Ken said people came here
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Ken: They were pioneers.

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There were people that
were kicked out of Russia.

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There were the people
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Scandinavians and Ukrainians
and Polish people,

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a true melting pot
of white people.

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The company knew that it
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to keep workers here
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if things were all
work no play.

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Ken: They would
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sports people, they would
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because if you didn’t
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people wouldn’t stay here.

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Jonny: Artists
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Hockey players were
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and were paid to play

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for the Flin Flon Bombers.

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Ken: There’s about 17
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went into the NHL.

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Sid Abel,
Eric Nesterenko,

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of course,
Bobby Clarke.

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He got drafted
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and that’s history.

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Like, two years,
two Stanley Cups.

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Jonny: Now, they were
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although Ken said
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hockey players
to be artists.

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Ken: They’re artists
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Jonny: I mean, if you
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a creative, beautiful
performance...

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Ken: That’s what it is.

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Jonny: Although,
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how you define artist.
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if you dropped the gloves
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he could turn you
into a Picasso.

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Ken: Once the mine
we drove by there...

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ran out of ore, basically,
they had to close and then

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they transferred
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Jonny: In 2022,
the last mine,

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the Triple Seven,
closed down.

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Ken: People have
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and it changed the
community, it did.

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Jonny: However, exploration
continues all over the area.

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Ken: We didn’t take all
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out of the ground
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We took a lot of it out,
but there’s a lot more.

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I don’t think
we’re done.

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Jonny: Ken holds out
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will come back
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which everybody
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except perhaps for
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I don’t know any hockey
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be sent back
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The summer of 2025

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is a time nobody here in
town will ever forget.

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When a series of
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joined forces to create
one massive inferno

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that moved toward
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when the entire community
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was forced to evacuate.

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-I’m Jonny.
-I’m Kari.

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Jonny: I met a woman who had
an interesting strategy for

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stress during the wildfire
evacuation, Kari Lentowicz!

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Kari: We’re at the...

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remains of my home,

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most of it’s been
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The fire came in
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with its own lightning,
formed its own weather.

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Jonny: Her house was
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and 400 structures
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the fire in
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Kari: I was fortunate to
have something to lose.

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There’s a lot of
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Nobody was hurt.

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Jonny: Yeah, that people
evacuated successfully.

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Everybody I ever talked
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a mandatory evacuation,

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they’re always amazed,
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at what they chose to bring,
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what they did
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Kari: Because I’ve got a big
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and emergency
management,

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I took some
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were high value,
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all the things that
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Jonny: Really?
Kari: Yes.

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A wool blanket that I
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who’s since passed,
card from my kokum.

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-Your kokum?
-Kokum.

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It means
grandmother in Cree.

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Jonny: Okay.

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I can’t imagine what it’s
like if you’re leaving

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your home, you can only
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and you think, I might
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I mean, I start
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every time I
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When I came here,
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in the driveway, I’m rifling
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Meanwhile, I haven’t packed
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I’m grabbing random-
I’m going like, oh my God,

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you know,
it’s northern Manitoba,

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maybe I’ll
need wood glue.

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Throw that in
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You’re not
thinking straight!

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Wood glue, which,
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is not a cream or gel,
airport security.

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Jonny: And I went, you know,
I walked around that area,

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and it is eerie,
all these empty lots

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where homes
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but I have to say,
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of the rebuild
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and I was amazed by
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has been done already.

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It’s only been three months
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completely
cleared out.

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I went up to where
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the mangled wreckage,

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they’ve got a huge
mountain of it.

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Kari: They’ve got
what looks like

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an amazing
mount of stuff-

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trees, and concrete,
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Then you think there’s over
200 homes in those piles.

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Jonny: It’s all burnt black
and rust brown

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and you kind of can’t
make anything,

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almost like one of those
like 3D eye puzzle books.

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You can’t really make,
and then you focus,

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you’re like, oh my God,
that’s a truck chassis.

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The fact that they’ve
hauled it all out,

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it speaks to the incredible
effort to get people’s

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property cleared and
ready to rebuild.

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Will you rebuild here?

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Kari: Absolutely, 100%.
The beauty’s still here.

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The reason I’m here
is still there.

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Nature gives me what I need
to do my stress relief,

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like my birch bark biting,

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which I took with me
and do on the road to

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keep me from
being distracted.

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Jonny: And Kari said that as
she was driving out during

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the evacuation, one thing
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she was chewing
on birch bark.

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Kari: Basically,
you peel bark and

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you bite
designs into it.

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Jonny: She’s Cree,
and birch bark biting

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is a traditional art form.

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Kari: This is one here.

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Jonny: You did not do
that with your teeth.

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Kari: Yeah, so if you
hold it up to the light,

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you can see the
pattern in it.

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Jonny: Oh,
my God!

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She showed me
how it’s done.

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So we’ve got
this birch bark.

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Yeah, how do you get a
piece of birch bark

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like this without
damaging it?

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Kari: Very carefully.

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Jonny: You fold it in
different ways to

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result in
different patterns.

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It’s incredibly intricate,
all just made out of

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these tiny little bites.

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Kari: You want to bite hard,
but not too hard.

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You look like you’re chewing
it like a little mouse.

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Jonny: I don’t have
very good teeth.

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That’s one thing I got
from my British father

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was bad teeth.

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My teeth don’t line up.

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When I eat something,
my teeth don’t meet.

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They don’t chop
off the food.

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I got an overbite,
so I just sort of like

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grab the food and
then I twist it.

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Like a crocodile grabs
the food and rolls around.

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Kari: Okay, finish that line
all the way to the side,

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and then you’re gonna do
the same on the other side.

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You can do this,
I have faith.

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Jonny: But also I’m worried
that there’s wood chips

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that’ll chip
my teeth away.

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And if the wood chips
could chip,

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how much wood would
the wood chips chip?

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Basically, I’m biting birch
bark and I’m worried

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the birch bark’s
gonna bite back!

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Kari: Let’s see what
you came up with.

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Jonny: Oh my God,
yours is a perfect flower.

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After like five minutes,
Kari unfolds hers,

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and this beautiful,
intricate flower...

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And I unfolded
my birch bark,

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and let’s just say my bark
was worse than my bite.

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Jonny: If you’re here in
Flin Flon and you love

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drive-in movies,
you are a

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winner, winner
chicken dinner.

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Wah!

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The wildfires came,
but they’re still surviving.

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I talked with the owners
of Big Island Drive-In,

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Dan and Dawn Hlady.

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Jonny: The Big Island
Drive-In is the most

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northerly drive-in
theatre in North America.

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Dawn: We are the
only screen, 4 hours radius.

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Jonny: Only movie place,
indoor or outdoor?

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- Yes, for 4 hours.
- Yes, within 4 hours, yes.

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Jonny: Wow, okay.

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And running an outdoor
theatre this far north

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comes with certain
challenges.

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Dawn: In June, ah...

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we’re playing movies
at 11 o’clock at night.

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Dan: Starting movies.
Dawn: Starting movies.

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Dan: Starting trailers
at 11 o’clock at night.

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Jonny: Really?

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And, this far north,
it doesn’t just

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get dark late it
gets light early.

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Like I said to Dan,
I said,

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"If you start a
doubleheader at 11 pm,

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when does it end?

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And he said, "To tell
you the truth, dawn."

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And I said, "Okay,
Dawn tell me the truth,

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if you start a double
header at 11pm..."

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Perhaps an even
bigger draw than the

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movies themselves
is the food.

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They got popcorn,
gourmet pretzels,

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and ice cream.

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Dawn: And the
classic pickled eggs.

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A recipe and an item
that we inherited

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when we bought
the place.

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Jonny: This was something
the previous owner

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told them they
had to do.

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Flin Flonians demanded you
have to offer pickled eggs.

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Dawn: We go through
hundreds of these

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every couple of weeks.

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Jonny: I don’t think
I’ve ever seen

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a pickled egg at a movie.

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I was amazed by this,
but Dawn had some there,

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so I tried the
pickled egg.

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-Cheers.
-Cheers.

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I’m down with
the pickled egg.

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Dawn: Mm-hmm.
Jonny: Like, once a year.

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Dawn:

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Jonny: I thought the
birch bark had bite.

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That pickled egg...

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But if you want to take the
edge off your pickled egg,

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a popular choice among locals
is to have a pickled egg

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smothered in melted
nacho cheese.

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That is a thing here!

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And I can prove it
´cause I brought one.

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A pickled egg
smothered in nacho-

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This is perfect for the
person who’s on a date

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they don’t
want to be on.

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Imagine you’re
on a date,

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and the person
you’re with is like,

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"Hey, do you wanna
get in the back seat?"

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"Yeah, sure.
Just let me finish

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my nacho cheese
smothered pickled egg."

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"Still wanna get
in the back?"

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Jonny: I asked them about
the fire this summer,

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Dan told me they
evacuated to Saskatoon,

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and then, he saw pictures on
social media of firefighters

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at the end of a long,
exhausting day.

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Dan: They were cooking
their own supper.

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And, that’s when I talked
to Dawn, and I said,

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you know, like, I’m,
I’m needed back.

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Jonny: He got some supplies,
he got back in the car,

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and he headed
back to town.

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Eventually, Dawn came
and joined him,

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and they spent the
next few weeks,

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they worked 16 hours a day
feeding 350 firefighters

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the best food they could
get their hands on.

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What kind of stuff
were you whipping up?

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Dawn: Ah, everything from
eggs benedict

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in the morning,
pastas at lunch.

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Dan: Stews, roast beef.
Dawn: Roast beef.

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Dawn: Prime rib
at night time.

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Dan: And they’re thanking us,
and it’s like,

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but I gotta
thank you, right?

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You’re in that
heat of the moment,

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you’re going out there.

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Jonny: Dawn said,
firefighters,

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on their way out in the
morning, they’d stop by

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and say, like, "Oh,
what’s for dinner?"

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And just that, it just
brought a little bit of

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humanity back to
this situation,

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the fact that these guys
are about to go out

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and do a dangerous,
exhausting,

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hot,
uncomfortable job.

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The fact that even a small
part of your brain

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might be looking
forward to dinner,

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like dinner might be nice,
had to mean the world.

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Dan said evacuees-
homeowners,

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business owners-
were calling him,

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saying, "The key
is under the mat."

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Dan: I could show tons of
messages, "Go into my house,

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go into to my business,
take whatever you need,

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feed those guys."

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Jonny: That’s awesome.
Dan: "Feed those guys."

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So it was huge
community support.

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Jonny: But it’s
a great story,

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and one that I’ve heard,
not just from them,

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from other people in town
who really appreciated

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the effort that
they put in.

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It’s a
heartwarming story.

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Beyond heart warm-

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I find it almost
heart-burning.

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Actually, that’s the
pickled egg, never mind.

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Jonny: Next, I went and I
got all pumped up for the

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great Flin Flon Forget the
Fire Inflatable Race.

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I met the president
of the local SPCA,

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who managed to successfully
cross fundraising

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with fun racing,
Nicole Kendrick!

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Jonny: It’s all
for a good cause.

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Nicole: Yeah, I’m the
president of our Flin Flon

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and Creighton
area SPCA.

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We house dogs, cats,
recently rabbits.

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Jonny: Nicole told me things
were looking bleak

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last year
for the SPCA.

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They were facing the
real prospect of

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declaring bankruptcy.

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Nicole: A friend and I
actually came up with

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the complete shenanigans
that is this

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over a couple
glasses of wine.

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Jonny: It is a brilliant idea,
I gotta say,

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because you’re setting
people up for failure

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in the funniest
of ways.

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Nicole: And they’re
paying to do it.

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Jonny: And they’re
paying to do it.

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But Nicole said last year it
was about raising funds

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for the SPCA.

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This year it was more
about getting people out,

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getting the
community together

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and just having
some fun.

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Nicole: Some people have
lost their homes,

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their everything,
and just to come here,

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forget about it for just
a couple minutes,

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and watch some
inflatable costumes

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possibly fall
on their face.

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Jonny: I put on a costume,
I participated.

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Nicole and I
raced each other.

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Announcer: Do you think
Jonny with Still Standing

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is gonna win?

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What about our
president of the SPCA?

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Jonny: She had a
dog costume on,

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and it was a cross
between a husky and

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a hot air balloon.

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Announcer: Get set... Go!

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Jonny: Agh!

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Jonny: And she
was winning,

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but I was chasing
that tail, and...

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Ah!

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I’m not proud of it,

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I grabbed her tail
to slow her down.

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I know it’s not cool, but
in that alien costume,

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I was getting
carried away.

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It was a photo finish,
it was a tie.

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I lost money because
I had bet on myself,

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which I knew I
shouldn’t have done,

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because I should
have known-

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she’s with the SPCA,

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the whole thing
was fixed.

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It was great to see some of
the local firefighters there.

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I had to take the opportunity
to ask one of them,

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how could there be
fire everywhere,

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but not completely
wipe out the town?

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And he said two words,

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"Human intervention."

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And that’s what it was.

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Jonny: It’s tough to
look at Denare right now,

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where homes once stood,
it’s stark...

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but the people here
are pretty tough too,

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hard rock miners,
the likes of Bobby Clarke.

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Like a pattern in birch bark
isn’t easy to see

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till you lift it
up to the sun,

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the beauty and struggle
isn’t too easy to see,

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but in three months just
look what’s been done.

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And to the firefighters who
fought all summer all

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across this great land from
Vancouver Island to

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Conception Bay,
Newfoundland.

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With no finer effort
than here,

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so it’s from here we wish
to show you our love

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and our thanks from
Flin Flon, Manitoba.

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Thanks for coming out,
everybody.

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You’ve been great.
Thank you!

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We love you.

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{\an8}He brought all the nuance
of the community...

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{\an8} sensitive because there’s
the fire and the whole bit,

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{\an8}so it was perfect.

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{\an8}I was amazed by Jonny
eating that egg.

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{\an8}Oh yeah!

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{\an8}Kari: It’s very emotional
for a lot of people,

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{\an8}myself included.

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{\an8} I shed a few tears,
but it was from laughing.

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{\an8}So that was a good thing.

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{\an8}Nicole: He’s a
dirty cheater.

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{\an8} He might have thought
I didn’t feel him grab

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{\an8} my tail, but he
grabbed my tail.

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{\an8}Jonny: "We’re wishing you
lots of luck on

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{\an8}baby number four,
congratulations."