Good morning you guys
we're coming to you live in Canada
yeah
Now we are doing an epic, super-budget road trip all the way from Vancouver out to Calgary
So we missed an entire day yesterday because we were miffing around with that tent and
stuff like that but we made the right decision we met an amazing couple from
Red Deer shout out to Gary and Marcie, married for 49 years?
holy heck they are just living the dream man they're getting around in their
caravan, lovely people I'm so glad we got to meet them gonna go set up at Tunnel
Mountain at our campsite hopefully we can have a campfire again tonight
Strap yourself in, put on your vlog belts cuz it's about to be
Liiiiiiittttt!!!!!
Welcome to summer
Summer, can you see that? it's snowing just a light dusting of snow but
still for Queenslander like me...
It's like dandruff really
Ok, that makes me feel sick
Ok we're gonna try the big reveal again
look down yeah, don't look up
keep it down, keep it down
he can't see it yet
alright... look up
Woah
Awesome right? isn't that cool?
Yeah that's beautiful
You like it?
Look at the colour of it
yeah beautiful right, glacial
you may remember early in this vlog episode I mentioned Matthew facing off with an elk
what happened? where were you?
I'd been in town for a while and I'd noticed a postcard
In banff?
yeah
The postcard was a whole bunch of people lined up behind a tree and using the tree to block themselves
from what looked like... an agitated elk
So I'm running up Tunnel Mountain
when i looked up to my left I remember hearing like a...
what sounded like a horse running at me
It was galloping... it was galloping down the mountain at me
and all I could think was get behind the tree
get behind the tree
so I got behind the tree and just stood there and looked at it
it was flaring it's nostrils at me
and then after what seemed like five
minutes was probably twenty seconds I decided to just
back away slowly and then turned and ran
anyway, I'm looking forward to... seeing that elk again, 20 years on
I'm back, I'm not scared of you
What advice would you give the people of the internet?
keep your eyes and ears open when you're
in souvenir shops because you can pick up awesome survival tips
from really corny looking postcards
You are looking at two smooth criminals we just stole some wi-fi
from the Fairmont because... thanks Fairmont, you're the best
why did we steal it? one, got no money two, got no Wi-Fi, three...
got no life
look who it is!
Lake freaking Louise
there she is
So Matt used to live in Banff
he did a season here for six months?
yeah
So he's giving me a bit of his nostalgia tour I guess we could call it there are a few
There are a few really significant things that happened in Banff for Matt
and how do you feel being here in the old stomping ground?
I'm really happy, I really really like this place
what do you like about it?
I don't know, it brings back good memories it was a good time in my life
So I used to sit in this park a lot and ponder what would become of my life when I had
no job here and I was looking for a job that's what I want to show you is I want
to take you to the places that I had jobs cuz I had quite a few jobs here
Great Canadian Bagel I worked there for a little while
they were lucky to have you
they were
did you have a passion for the bagel?
I did I thought I was a bagel connoisseur after working in Canadian
Bagels, I thought that was the pinnacle of... The Great Canadian Bagel I thought it
was a big thing.
They've since closed down it's not a big thing
I did have one crack at retail here as well at a place called Bear Country Shirts
how did that go?
They cut me from 38 hours to 4 hours a week because I sold one skivvy
what I went to next was the Magpie and Stump which is still here I worked in
the dish pit and there was dishes coming from all angles and I was in the middle
of it just washing stuff. It stunk of Mexican food and it turned me off so much
I quit after a week. That used to be Silver... Silver City which they used to
call Syphilis City
why?
I have no idea
I used to love going there
all the time
we have arrived somewhere very very special indeed
that house there was a very important part of my life
I used to live in the semi-basement of that place and I
remember we used to socialize with everyone in the house I think it was a whole
share house place. Had a big night anyway come back to there and for whatever
reason I was staying in the other side of the house
and that house was responsible for...
making me a man
it was 20 years ago so if you do the math on that...
almost 20 years ago to the day
I was what you call a late bloomer
I mean what street is this? what is this called?
this is Bear street
this is where I...
went from a cub to a bear
to stand here and
see where it all happened and just think about
wow, what a 30 seconds that must have been for everybody
Matthew and I've been staying with a friend in Canmore, our very good friend Mindy and
last night we were all just hanging out at home after Mindy and Matthew had gone
and done a five... hour... hike
anyway Mindy and I are sitting in the
living room, we're talking and we're gabbing and I'm cooking dinner and then
all of a sudden Matthew says something from the lounge
I said
to Mindy I think my nose hurts
and it was hurting because it was all grazed
so Mindy and I are looking
at his face going oh my god your nose is so scratched and then as we were looking
at that I noticed his eye
how did, how
5 minutes ago I didn't have a black eye
yeah, and we were like how did that happen?
and you kept saying
I don't know, I don't know... I just came out and my nose is really sore
and you had a black eye
and then when I went in and saw that I went... what the...
what is that?
what is....
what is that!
it was like he had been like scraped and
the skin from here had been like
pushed up his forehead to a little curl like this it's
like a curl of skin was hanging off
and the Febreeze had moved
yeah the Febreze was on the ground
next to the toilet...brush
and the toilet brush was sort of...
knocked so there's water everywhere so I...
it's very likely that I...
was face down in the toilet brush water