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I punched myself
in the face hard.
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Twice.
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He did a solo of Stairway
to heaven with
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a glue gun and leather.
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Nellie Mclung, she
fought to insure a
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better standing of
women in society,
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that's amazing like,
for a girl.
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When you grow up
in a small town in
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Newfoundland, you see the
people have a sense of
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humour about hard times
-- Check Check
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I turned that into a career
and hit the road.
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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 towns.
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Towns that are against
the ropes but hanging in
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there, still laughing in
the face of adversity.
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Welcome to
Manitou, Manitoba!
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Here we are in
Manitou, Manitoba.
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Just west of
Morden and Winkler.
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When I first heard that
I was like Morden and Winkler,
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aren't those
the two old guys on the
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muppets sitting
up in the balcony?
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And just like the muppets,
Manitou sadly is on
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these days which is too bad.
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Back in the day, this place was
really moving.
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I mean, it was really going
places. Literally.
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Of course the start of
things right here in
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Manitou didn't start right
here in Manitou did they?
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It was up the road
a little bit right?
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Originally called Manitoba
City it was to be an
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important stop on the
new cross Canada railway.
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We all know that the
railway came and took a
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sharp turn left and missed
Manitoba City by a country mile.
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So you guys uprooted,
the business, houses,
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put them all on skids and
towed them by horse.
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And I've heard incredibly
stories of families still
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inside the
houses, kids kids,
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make sure the paintings
don't fall off the wall.
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And remember don't
use the toilet.
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And it worked. Manitou went to
the railroad and built
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a beautiful little town.
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But 100 years later, their
future is more elusive
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then the railway ever was.
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There's been a concern
about will Manitou become
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a ghost town?
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You know over a hundred
years of history,
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is that gone,
is it out the door?
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Richard Klassen
took me for a tour,
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a walking tour around the town.
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With the businesses that
have been shutting down,
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change is inevitable.
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One of the difficulties
living in Manitou is
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that we are close to
Morden and Winkler.
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They've got the
bigger box stores.
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That can suck the life
out of a small town. -Yes.
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Richard told
me that the railway was
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going to close the line.
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So a number of farmers got
together, they created a
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cooperative which they
bought the line
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from the railway company.
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Is it profitable?
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We're not dead yet you
know they're going to keep
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it going, they want to
keep it going and
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it's just not for themselves
it's also for the future.
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Of course anybody's who
has played monopoly
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as a child knows you
buy the railways,
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you buy the railways.
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You guys got that one
now, if you buy three
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more you'll be building
hotels in Saskatchewan.
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I visited Bette Mueller
at the Log Cabin.
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The log cabin of course
was not built there
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it was moved there like
everything else in this town,
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you guys love
moving your stuff.
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It's weird when you check
into the hotel right
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it's well what's my
view, well today...
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you're overlooking
the pool.
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So Bette what's holding the
town of Manitou together now?
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Well that's a good
question I think that
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people are here because
they love the place and
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they're willing to
put the work in some of
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the people here volunteer.
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My method has
always been to whine
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from the sidelines.
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I asked I said is there
like a little something
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I could read up on the
town, maybe a pamphlet
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or something you know?
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We have this wonderful
history book that we
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developed several
years ago.
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Careful what you wish for folks,
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careful what you wish for.
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It's the history of
Manitou and the area of
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Manitou and you'll find
almost everything you ever
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wanted to know in there.
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It's enormous.
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900 pages, 900 pages!
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I've seen western Europe
covered in less than that.
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They're trying to
put the thing online but
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the ran out of internet.
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The name of course is in
rhythm with our roots was
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a weird choice for you
guys considering...
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I was doing some reading
I found a story that at
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first I found hard to
believe, I found out that
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the two mild mannered
gentlemen who run the
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hardware store are
hall of famers.
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Sport super stars.
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Walt for baseball,
Lew for hockey.
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I did play against
Gordie Howe once.
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Did you really?
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Yeah.
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Mr. Hockey and
was he any good?
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Ah yeah pretty good.
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Lew was offered to go try
out for the Red Wings.
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How come you
didn't go try out?
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Well a lot of the fellas
did go but I think they
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were a lot of them
didn't have something
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like this to keep them home.
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It's either the coolest or
craziest thing I've ever heard.
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I said to Lew I said
listen could you imagine
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if you went down to
Detroit way back then and
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bought a house for $5,000
dollars today it could be
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worth almost $500 dollars.
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Lew felt a sense of civic
duty and he looked into
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the future and said if
I go to Detroit
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what's Manitou going
to do without me?
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There isn't a day goes by
we don't cut keys or put
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batteries in people's
watches for them.
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We have cut a lot of
keys in all those years.
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But they did a lot more
than just cut keys.
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Walt was the mayor for a
long time, was on council
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for like 37 years.
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Lew was on the hospital
board, the school board,
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the cemetery committee,
basically if you were born
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here or raised here or
paid taxes here or died
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here these guys
helped you out and they
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changed your watch battery.
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With the brothers retiring
and no one to take over
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this hardware hall
of fame is closing.
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Putting a crucial question in
everyones mind.
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Who's going to
cut the keys?
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I can't believe it because
I thought in Manitou
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whenever somebody moved
they brought their house
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with them, why would
they need...?
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In a place where buildings move,
you'll find Manitou's roots
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in the most unlikely
house of them all.
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It's the very centre
of the community.
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Manitou's beautiful
opera house.
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This place has geothermal
heating, the opera house
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in Sydney, Australia doesn't
have geothermal heating.
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That old [beep] hole right.
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We've done Diary of Anne
Frank, Shrek the Musical,
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Guys and Dolls, Footloose.
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We've got kids that fall
asleep while there's
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parents are up on stage
right, some of them have
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gone away, they've come
back to Manitou and
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they've got involved with
the show, of course they
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bring back the talent.
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Richard showed me this
struggling town still has
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the getup and go that got
up and moved so many years
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ago and that
gave me an idea.
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I think Richard you should
do a play about the
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moving of Manitoba City
and how it became.
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That's in the works.
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Me and Richard we started
spitballing some ideas.
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Moving production sort of
like wind its way down
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the road and you could
sing and dance.
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It's going to be an epic,
it's going to be an epic,
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it's going to be called...
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Manitousical the
moving musical.
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Manitousical the
moving musical.
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Not bad right?
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900 pages!
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900 pages!
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I've seen western Europe
covered in less than that.
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I guess it all depends on
how many details you want
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to keep in the thing, like
Europe 1914 Archduke Franz
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Ferdinand assassinated,
prelude to war.
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Manitou 1914, Bert Smith
collects eggs from
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hen house, prelude
to breakfast.
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As I discovered more and
more the town was full
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of talent, I realized I
had to go talk to next.
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He's an eleven time
international
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yodeling championship.
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He's somewhere around
300 songs,
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the living legend The Yodeling
Cowboy, Stew Clayton.
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[yodeling]
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Nice one, Stew!
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I did one really
good yodel in my life.
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You did?
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But it was when I got hit
with a really cold hockey
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ball in the crotch.
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Well you'd certainly
hit the high note.
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Stew is another
character who could have
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taken his talents elsewhere.
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He was offered a tour and
he had young family here
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in Manitou and he chose to
stay and also part of the
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reason was he had heard
a lot of stories about
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you know he was weary
of road life.
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Of course we all know
Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley.
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So I thought it over
for a long time,
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I think maybe it was two
seconds, possibly three.
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I said no cause there
was always smoking
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and drinking, drugs.
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Having meaningless
trysts with women half
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your age in hotel rooms.
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Must be awful.
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You don't sound
too serious.
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The farm and family were
what Stew wanted
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so that's what Stew did.
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He also became one of Manitou's
biggest volunteers.
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We were there, we
were playing some
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guitar and yodeling,
he took out a saw.
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I thought this is
taking a weird turn.
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Despite staying, he
still managed to become
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a champion yodeler
and saw player.
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He played Amazing Grace
for me on the saw and then
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he did the solo from
Stairway to Heaven with
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a glue gun and a level.
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Very impressive,
very impressive.
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Best version of
Amazing Grace I ever saw.
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It's not just homegrown
talent but stay home
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talent that keeps this
place on the move.
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Anyway I went back over to
visit Richard again at the
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Opera House again trying to
weasel my way into the show.
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While Manitou is losing
young people to other
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opportunities, the summer
play actually draws them back.
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Why are you saying this?
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I only wish to
speak to her.
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Jealous.
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I've been in 26 different
productions here
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in the Manitou area.
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While I was waiting for
my audition I got to
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talk to some of the
kids involved here.
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I got to talk to
Skye Thorleifson.
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He wants to become a
filmmaker, director,
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big Ingmar Bergman fan.
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I play Yasir who is an
Egyptian aristocrat.
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He says he finds he gets
recognized around town
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now which is always nice.
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I said to him I know buddy
exactly what that's like
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I said listen back in
Toronto at my grocery
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store I get recognized,
now I think it's because
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the cashier has a picture
of me saying don't
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accept personal cheques
from this man.
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I finally got my audition.
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Mr.Klassen I'm
doing a piece from
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In Rhythm With Our Roots.
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That sounds great.
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I can handle that.
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We are indebted to Mr.
Lee for some very fine
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watercress which he
brought to our
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office on Friday last.
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It was taken from a spring on
Mr. Lee's farm in the valley.
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He can always secure as
much of the dainty
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relish as there once required.
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Ah... ah...
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and that's scene.
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Thank you.
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Give us a chance to
talk things over.
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That's it, I'm staying and
8 am tomorrow morning in
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this building we're having
an open casting call
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for Manitousical the
moving musical.
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00:13:02,367 --> 00:13:04,677
They're so many hall of
famers in this town,
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00:13:04,818 --> 00:13:06,538
there must be a trick involved
they must have like a
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restaurant called the hall
of fame or something like
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anyone can go and be like
yeah I'm in the hall of fame,
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00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:15,520
eating poutine.
268
00:13:15,656 --> 00:13:17,686
I went to visit
the archery club.
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00:13:17,831 --> 00:13:21,521
I got to talk to
Clayton Sprung.
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00:13:22,905 --> 00:13:27,495
The guy's 13 years old and
he's the provincial champion.
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Though he's won provincials
a bunch of times,
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a family vacation
kept him from the
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national's last year.
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00:13:37,506 --> 00:13:39,916
Are you going to go to
the national's this year?
275
00:13:40,060 --> 00:13:42,370
No actually we have
cattle show this weekend.
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00:13:42,511 --> 00:13:44,381
I was like what you
are going to miss the
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national's for that,
are you mad about it?
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00:13:46,170 --> 00:13:48,340
No I like cattle.
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00:13:48,482 --> 00:13:50,692
I'd be kicking
and screaming.
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But he's so cool and
confident the national's
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will always be
there next year.
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I have to show my heffer.
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I'd make some more jokes
about him but I'm pretty
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00:14:00,563 --> 00:14:04,433
sure he could hit a
moving target so...
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00:14:04,567 --> 00:14:05,947
Will you show me how to
shoot a bow and arrow?
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Yeah sure.
-Alright let's do it.
287
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Will you carry that.
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-- Yeah sure.
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Back is shot.
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Clayton has the Manitou
motto down pat, stay home
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and pitch in but keep your
eye on the prize.
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So you guys, what's all
you guys favourite
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target to shoot at?
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Yellow
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Yeah you want to get
it right in the yellow.
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Some of the 3D targets
we were shooting
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at were really cool.
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00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:31,970
Is it alligator or
crocodile, I forget which
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one is indigenous
to the prairies.
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When I tried my hand at
shooting the bow and arrow,
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right at the hardest part,
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00:14:41,984 --> 00:14:43,574
it's all shaking like that...
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00:14:43,710 --> 00:14:49,410
I punched myself
in the face.
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00:14:49,543 --> 00:14:54,963
I punched myself
in the face hard... twice.
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00:14:55,101 --> 00:14:58,831
Oh I did it again!
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00:14:59,001 --> 00:15:02,451
And then I was all
cranky I had a sore lip.
307
00:15:02,591 --> 00:15:04,491
Don't laugh I
really hurt myself.
308
00:15:04,627 --> 00:15:07,077
You got to pull it
all the way back.
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00:15:07,251 --> 00:15:09,841
But after a few
lessons from the pros.
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Hey Sam, thanks buddy.
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I decided to downsize.
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Town of champions here.
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No pressure.
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Perfect. That's exactly where
the heart is in...
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whatever that was.
316
00:15:29,618 --> 00:15:31,928
You moved and changed
your name which officially
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makes Manitou the first
municipality to
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enter the witness
relocation program.
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00:15:38,558 --> 00:15:40,838
In fact I'm told Manitou
is the first nation word
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for I don't know what
you're talking about,
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00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:46,502
I don't know.
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00:15:46,635 --> 00:15:48,185
That got me thinking
about all these
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00:15:48,326 --> 00:15:50,426
hidden heroes in one town.
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00:15:50,570 --> 00:15:53,500
And then Wilma Walcraft showed
me the humble homestead of
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the biggest hero and yes
the building was moved here
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from somewhere else.
327
00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,930
We're in the log house
and Nellie lived in this house.
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00:16:06,068 --> 00:16:09,208
She became known because
of her interest in
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women's rights, her
interest in temperance.
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I guess she's Manitou's
claim to fame then.
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00:16:15,043 --> 00:16:16,913
Definitely.
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Nellie McClung is one of your
town's first champions.
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00:16:21,325 --> 00:16:23,565
Manitoba women got the
right to vote first of
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all partly thanks to her.
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00:16:26,226 --> 00:16:27,776
I can't imagine the
adversity that she would
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00:16:27,917 --> 00:16:30,127
have faced, the
gender discrimination.
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00:16:30,265 --> 00:16:31,815
One of the greatest
feminist in the world,
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she managed to write 16 books.
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She went to the Canadian
Supreme Court to insure
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that legally women were also
defined by the word persons.
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They rejected her,
she went to the
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Supreme Court in England.
343
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They said that she
could just hold you
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in the palm of her hands.
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She went to the Supreme
Court in England and she won.
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That's amazing, like for a
girl, that's...
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00:17:02,952 --> 00:17:09,682
give me a joke, give me a joke.
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00:17:09,856 --> 00:17:11,886
Squaring off with Wilma I
knew you don't get to
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be a town of champions
without fighting for it.
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If you want anything in a small
town people have to step up.
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Like our beautiful
ball diamond,
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people stepped up.
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If there's anyone that
can take a joke it's the
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Manitou Ladies beer
league players.
355
00:17:29,358 --> 00:17:32,398
The Manitou mood swingers,
love that name, love that
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00:17:32,534 --> 00:17:37,024
name and babes with balls,
also very good name,
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00:17:37,194 --> 00:17:38,404
very good name.
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00:17:38,540 --> 00:17:40,060
Oh yeah!
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It was too high.
360
00:17:43,165 --> 00:17:44,615
Pretty much all I know
about baseball is stuff
361
00:17:44,753 --> 00:17:47,243
I've learned from
movie quotes right.
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00:17:47,376 --> 00:17:48,926
Of course we've got
Field of Dreams,
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if you build it they will come.
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And that's what happened
here, Manitou, the farmers
365
00:17:53,313 --> 00:17:57,213
and the fundraisers built
the ball diamond we were at.
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And people did come.
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00:17:59,181 --> 00:18:01,251
Alright ladies you
ready for this?
368
00:18:01,390 --> 00:18:03,630
Bring it on, show
us what you got.
369
00:18:03,806 --> 00:18:06,426
Your mascara runs
better than you.
370
00:18:06,568 --> 00:18:07,948
There's definitely
something going on
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00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:12,127
with these ladies.
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00:18:12,263 --> 00:18:16,473
And of course the quote
from League of their Own,
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there's no crying
in baseball.
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00:18:19,339 --> 00:18:21,449
Everyone move in,
it's a no hitter.
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00:18:21,617 --> 00:18:23,267
Ah don't move in!
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00:18:23,412 --> 00:18:25,002
Don't move infield in!
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00:18:25,138 --> 00:18:27,308
I was not crying,
that was ragweed,
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00:18:27,485 --> 00:18:31,315
that was ragweed girls.
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00:18:31,455 --> 00:18:35,315
I keep wondering how
come so many talented
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people in Manitou choose
to stay here?
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00:18:39,014 --> 00:18:42,024
And then I had an
epiphany I realized
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00:18:42,155 --> 00:18:44,635
that's a stupid
question to ask.
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All that matters is that
they did and the town
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00:18:50,163 --> 00:18:53,513
benefited from it and now
it's going into the next
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00:18:53,649 --> 00:18:55,929
generation and now you
can see it already.
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00:18:56,065 --> 00:18:58,895
I did chip my tooth but
I got the crocodile
387
00:18:59,034 --> 00:19:02,074
in the end, I got it,
right in the arse,
388
00:19:02,210 --> 00:19:03,940
it was an arse shot.
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00:19:06,317 --> 00:19:08,217
If I learned anything
in Manitou,
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00:19:08,354 --> 00:19:10,084
it's that the heart of
the town's survival is
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the power of its story...
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393
00:19:20,089 --> 00:19:21,849
All you can do is show up,
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do your best and good
lord willing,
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00:19:23,783 --> 00:19:25,793
things will get better
from here on in.
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00:19:27,959 --> 00:19:30,269
Finally show time, the
town's arrived,
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00:19:30,410 --> 00:19:32,240
the thespians are ready.
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00:19:32,378 --> 00:19:36,238
And I'm wearing a costume made
for someone smaller then me.
399
00:19:36,382 --> 00:19:38,802
I auditioned literally
for spear carrier
400
00:19:38,970 --> 00:19:43,840
number two and I did
not get the part.
401
00:19:43,975 --> 00:19:46,355
You know those who
conspire against us and
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00:19:46,495 --> 00:19:48,945
yet you allow them
access to my throne.
403
00:19:50,465 --> 00:19:52,535
I did still end up getting
a very vital part,
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00:19:52,674 --> 00:19:57,164
I got fanner number two.
405
00:19:57,299 --> 00:20:00,299
As Canadians we're naive,
we don't know how hot it
406
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:04,310
was in Egypt so it's very
important my fanning,
407
00:20:04,444 --> 00:20:07,314
you know how does
the saying go,
408
00:20:07,447 --> 00:20:12,997
there's no small parts,
just [beep] ones.
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00:20:13,142 --> 00:20:17,352
I have discovered that
Manitou is a town of champions,
410
00:20:17,492 --> 00:20:19,152
everywhere else
I go in the country I will
411
00:20:19,287 --> 00:20:21,147
tell them about Manitou,
what a great town it is,
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00:20:21,289 --> 00:20:22,699
I'm going to tell them
where you are,
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00:20:22,842 --> 00:20:24,222
tell them that they
should come visit,
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00:20:24,361 --> 00:20:26,851
just do me a favour,
don't move the town again.
415
00:20:26,984 --> 00:20:30,134
I'll look like an idiot,
I'll look like an idiot.
416
00:20:34,509 --> 00:20:37,679
You know just before I
came over here my mom gave
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00:20:37,822 --> 00:20:40,242
me a call for the first
time since I got to
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00:20:40,342 --> 00:20:41,862
Manitou, she said how's
it going out there?
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00:20:41,999 --> 00:20:44,519
I said oh mom you
know it's a pretty
420
00:20:44,657 --> 00:20:46,417
typical prairie town.
421
00:20:46,555 --> 00:20:48,695
I struck out with the
ladies, fanned a pharaoh,
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00:20:48,868 --> 00:20:50,868
yodeled with a yodeler and
basically just hang out
423
00:20:51,008 --> 00:20:52,528
with hall of famers.
424
00:20:52,665 --> 00:20:54,245
She said what are
you talking about?
425
00:20:54,391 --> 00:20:56,391
I said mom I'm talking
about Manitou, Manitoba,
426
00:20:56,531 --> 00:20:58,641
thanks so much everybody,
you've been great.
427
00:21:05,747 --> 00:21:07,987
It's a celebration
of Manitou.
428
00:21:08,128 --> 00:21:10,128
He understood what
we are all about.
429
00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:11,749
We're so proud of
our town and proud of
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00:21:11,891 --> 00:21:13,131
everybody that's here.
431
00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:14,412
That was fantastic.
432
00:21:14,549 --> 00:21:15,619
Very talented.
433
00:21:15,757 --> 00:21:16,857
He moves around
really well.
434
00:21:16,999 --> 00:21:18,169
It was very good.
435
00:21:18,311 --> 00:21:20,211
Enjoyed it very much.
436
00:21:20,348 --> 00:21:21,658
Hit home on all
the points he made.
437
00:21:21,797 --> 00:21:23,767
Bow and arrow's not
really working for him.
438
00:21:23,903 --> 00:21:28,703
Our hometown presented to
us in such a positive way.
439
00:21:28,839 --> 00:21:31,429
My cheeks just hurt
I laughed so hard.
440
00:21:31,566 --> 00:21:33,976
Thanks for helping
us to see it.
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