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I'm starting to learn it now.
I think you have to go to a place a few times
before you really get to know it.
Umm...
Particularly when you start talking in provinces,
Canadian provinces are big-- big places.
The East Coast is maybe the most musical place of the country.
There's thing about, um, the eastern part of the country
that I love. Um, you know, a fall.
The fall colours, you don't really get, you know,
in Ontario or Quebec.
Shooting in Egan-- shooting in the Ottawa Valley in October
is just, is ridiculous. It's spectacular.
It's like you're walking through a postcard.
Out West, there's things that I really enjoy
about the connection to the roots of the land.
It's, you really actually feel that western vibe,
that's it's a newer place.
That it was... people talk about how their immediate ancestors
pioneered the place.
You often, you know, say, oh yeah,
my great grandparents homesteaded the place
that I live in, you know?
You don't really see that anywhere else in the country,
I like that.
And then British Columbia,
I mean, the West Coast, the Pacific Coast is,
there's nothing else like that.
I mean, that's Canada's California.
That's...you know, we just did our second episode
on Vancouver Island, and that's a...
that's a place that I could, that I could spend
some downtime, that's just a beautiful,
beautiful part of the world.
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Well, you're very welcome.
Uh, the writers, we have a number of writers
and show producers, and so it's a real team
that starts the process.
I do some writing before we ever leave, you know?
We get, our story producers usually,
if have the time and the budget,
visit the town before we go, and they come and say hey,
this is the town and this is so and so
and you're also going to talk to so and so.
And so without being there--
it's sort of impossible to get a real feel of it
without being there, but you write a few possibilities
before you go, and then you get there and you see
uh, some things are the same,
some things are slightly different,
and you hone stuff.
And people tell you new stuff, so you try to process all that.
A couple of the writers with me,
they'll sort of like furiously scribble down
the notes of uh, the person might launch into a new story
and we think, oh, that's really interesting.
And afterwards, we'll get together and talk about it
and try to break it down
and then figure out if we can do some jokes about it
and then memorize the jokes
and then deliver the jokes.
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Um, I don't find the time. [laughs]
It's um, I have a part and I try,
you know, it's the producers of
and the producers of
and myself and my agent, we hash out a schedule.
There's not a lot of downtime, it's very busy right now.
But in my line of work, too much work is a good problem to have.
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No, I don't. [chuckles softly]
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The towns, I've never heard of them.
Every town that we, you know, I go into a writing meeting
and they say we're going to such and such a place.
I've never heard of them. Nobody has.
Probably Wawa, Ontario. There's a number of people
that have heard of Wawa.
But probably a lot that haven't, either.
So yeah no, the towns are news to me.
We're looking for a survival story,
we're looking for a town that's had some,
dealt with some real hardship,
some real adversity.
And um...
But a town that sort of holds onto hope
and a town that's still up for a laugh
and...
a town that's still fighting, you know?
Um...
And there's lots of them out there.
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