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This episode is a conversation with content creator and fellow Newfoundlander, Scott Matchim. Since late 2023, Scott’s been creating short-form videos that showcase the many socio-cultural quirks that are distinct to Newfoundland and its people.
Scott is a proud Newfoundlander with a knack for storytelling, a sharp sense of humour, and a deep love for the people and culture that shaped him, and through his videos, he shares his honest takes on life, poking fun at himself, or shining a light on what it means to come from the rock.
We discuss his experience of sharing Newfoundland culture through video, what it's been like as a Newfoundlander living away, and he’s kind enough to provide a little interpretation of some Newfanese for the uninitiated.
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Transcripts
00;00;00;00 - 00;00;20;13
Scott Matchim
When I first went Saskatchewan for college, I had people like, where are you from? What do you mean, straight like dad? Like racing dad. Or they always make fun in a good way. And then they called me Newspeak. When I was younger, I remember me and politician. And he used to always get really frustrated with the mosquito. He was like, jeez, the flies are so frickin tick today, boys.
00;00;20;14 - 00;00;34;00
Scott Matchim
They carry water like bats. So deer. I think Newfoundlanders are termed as like, fun. They're outgoing. They like to talk. They like to have a good time. Can be a bit silly, but they're hard workers. For me. If somebody calls me a or Newfie, I was just like, yeah, I am.
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Matt Howlett
ers Scott Matcham. Since late:00;00;58;08 - 00;01;15;00
Matt Howlett
Scott is a proud Newfoundlander with a knack for storytelling, sharp sense of humor, and a deep love for the people and culture that shaped him. And through his videos, he shares his honest takes on life, poking fun at himself for shining a light on what it means to come from the rock. We talk about his experience of sharing this online culture through video.
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Matt Howlett
What his experience has been like as a Newfoundlanders living and working away. And he's kind enough to do a little interpretation of some newfound ease for the uninitiated. Now, here is the conversation with Scott Matcham. Tell me, where did you grow up? Because you're obviously from Newfoundland.
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Scott Matchim
Yeah, yeah, I grew up in Deer Lake. Oh, no. Where? Okay. Yeah. Where do you grow up?
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Matt Howlett
Mount Pearl? City.
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Scott Matchim
Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's right. I think you told me that. And so. Yeah. No. Pearl. Okay. Yeah. I grew up in deer like, man. I loved it there. Honestly, I had a great childhood. I just lived on High Street there, and, man, growing up there was awesome. There's always something to do. You go down to the beach, you know, we had a nice sand beach there that you just, you know, freshwater.
00;01;53;15 - 00;02;12;14
Scott Matchim
We go down there and just, you know, have a great time. But I love going to Deer Lake, honestly. Anyway, when I go back now it's just, you know, it's a beautiful place, but I just find now there's nothing. We moved away from there because there's, you get taxed so much and and you know, the health care wasn't the best and all that stuff.
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Scott Matchim
So yeah, we still got out there and the job thing. Right. It was just kind of like, you know, get away. But. Right, I miss it, I love it.
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Matt Howlett
You know, I want to get into a couple of your videos. I got one in particular that I got to ask you about. Yeah. But first I'm a little bit more curious. I like a little bit of background context. So you're from you're from Deer Lake, which for the uninitiated is, West Coast Newfoundland. Yeah. What's the population of deer like?
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Scott Matchim
Roughly:00;02;38;03 - 00;02;44;09
Matt Howlett
Yeah. Okay. So not not exactly a big spot, but you got your basics out there. Yeah. There is a hospital in Deer Lake, correct?
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Scott Matchim
Yeah, there's, there's a clinic. But the hospital, we usually got to go to corner Brook.
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Matt Howlett
Corner Brook. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I have not spent much time out that way at all. From Mount Pearl, which is, Yeah, fair bit bigger, but. Yeah. So where are you living now?
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Scott Matchim
Right now I reside in, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but,
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Matt Howlett
Oh. Okay.
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Scott Matchim
I spend most of my time on my days off. I spent about six months of the year or five months of the year. I, I basically stay in the U.S a lot, because my wife, has her green card and she, she lives there, so I'm able to travel there because I work two weeks on two weeks off.
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Scott Matchim
So I live in Saskatchewan, but I go to Washington state a lot.
00;03;25;10 - 00;03;27;09
Matt Howlett
Washington state. Yeah. Okay.
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Scott Matchim
Yeah. So I'm there almost as much as I can be. I'm still waiting for my green card to become a U.S. resident. So I'm still in the waits for that. That's probably gonna take another year or two. Okay, so. So, yeah, the goal is to get to the US pretty much. And, yeah, Swift current right now technically, but a lot of times in Washington state.
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Matt Howlett
So when did you leave Newfoundland? Like primarily.
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Scott Matchim
h, primarily was, December of:00;03;56;13 - 00;03;57;09
Matt Howlett
Okay. So I.
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Scott Matchim
Was remember, 23. So I've been in Newfoundland for like a long time. It was just recently I moved away. Yeah. Yeah.
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Matt Howlett
Okay.
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Scott Matchim
Yeah. We we sold all of our real estate everything and just got out of Dodge.
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Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah. So the, the videos I mentioned, you are on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram, a lot of, a lot of Newfoundland content. Yeah, that's definitely fun. I'm sure for the people that you meet in Washington state, especially in up in a Berta, but, I mean, we had a lot of new fees on all across Canada, but especially in Alberta.
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Scott Matchim
But yes, I know.
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Matt Howlett
Yeah. So like I the video that I wanted to ask you about, it looked like, if correct me if I'm wrong, it was basically about you, working with people in Alberta and what their experience of you, you. But obviously working with in Newfoundland or. But there's got to be even more extreme cases coming out of Washington state.
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Scott Matchim
Yeah. There is there is a lot of times I'll try not to because I don't have like the thickest accent. Because like a lot of times when I go to operate, just because people are constantly where are you saying, what are you saying? So I had like, through the workforce, you kind of like, change the way you talk a little bit.
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Scott Matchim
So, yeah, people can understand it. So that's why I was able to do a lot of the videos where I'm able to, like, change. I'm able to go from Newfoundland accent to try to keep it. Not so Newfoundland and just for the fun of it, but but it all came from that experience. Whereas like whenever I went to work, the first started with the experience where a lot of the memories came back while I made the videos was, when I first went Saskatchewan for college, I had people I was at like friends of mine be like, where are you from?
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Scott Matchim
And like, what do you say? Like dad? Like we say dad or like they always make fun in a good way, but poke fun his buddies. Yeah. And then all in Swift Current, they called me Newfie. So like, I've been known all through Swift Current as Newfie, which is hilarious. And people. And even when I go visit back in the day, it was like people like they're like Scots coming over and they're like, who the hell is Scot?
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Scott Matchim
And they're like new. The old newfie like, nobody knows me. And for my real name there. And, so that's where the ideas kind of started, even when I came to work, you know, you, just just funny things. I remember happy in my life. And I always thought like, hey, be funny, make a video about this because I think it relates to a lot of people, Newfoundlanders, when they travel and.
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Matt Howlett
Absolutely.
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Scott Matchim
You know, so I was.
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Matt Howlett
More racial.
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Scott Matchim
Yeah. That Irish background. And there's one guy. But the thing about Newfoundland too is that you know yourself, the dialects, there's so many different dialects. Yeah. Like there's, there's so many different like some people have a really thick accent. They can barely understand them. And other people like the, you know, depending where you live, it's not as thick, but it's still people kind of hard to understand.
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Scott Matchim
Yeah. But yeah, that's a little background, I guess that answers questions.
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Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah. No, that's that's great. Before we get too much into that, I gotta reference this video because this one I'm, I find I like I followed you I think after I saw the first video because like you said, it totally relates with anybody from the island. Yeah. Everybody that has traveled anywhere from the island would have a similar experience post there.
00;07;04;27 - 00;07;15;05
Matt Howlett
There's this one that I referenced already where it's, what's it like to work with the new guy from Newfoundland? And I think it was it's fairly recent. So you were.
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Scott Matchim
Okay.
00;07;15;20 - 00;07;33;14
Matt Howlett
Yeah. So you're sitting at a desk and, you come in, obviously you're playing all these different characters, so. So the second guy comes in and you're asking about how is that new guy from, from Newfoundland working out? And you're like, you held it for a second. You're like, well, you know, I'll give him this much. He he's a hard worker.
00;07;33;16 - 00;07;37;14
Matt Howlett
But we don't understand a word he's saying. So like.
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Scott Matchim
Oh, yeah, yeah, I know that one. Yeah. Okay. And he came in. Was it the one where he's eating the chips or whatever? He's like, boss, you don't really see your team down around here. Nothing. Yeah.
00;07;46;00 - 00;08;03;23
Matt Howlett
Yeah. Yeah, that's the word. Okay. At for for everybody. Listen, I'm going to get you to interpret this for me. This this one's pretty straightforward, I think. But obviously I'm from Newfoundland, so the first thing that this guy says and the guy that walks in obviously is the guy from Newfoundland. So he's the new guy. And these two non-new fees are having a conversation.
00;08;03;23 - 00;08;16;03
Matt Howlett
How is this new guy working out? So you're on the job site Newfoundland walks in first thing he says, how you getting on the day byes. So what does that mean Scott? For everybody who's not from Newfoundland transit, how are you.
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Scott Matchim
Like how are you?
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Matt Howlett
Basically how are you? So why do we say that? Like maybe where did this come from?
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Scott Matchim
I don't even know. You know what? I'm I'm brutal for that to like, I don't even know where the like. I mean, we kind of knows Irish, but the boys are just like, the boys are like your your buddies or your bro's, you know, or just your Newfoundland friends. And it don't have to be Newfoundland friends. It's just like, even if you met people, like, say, even my Scotland friends, you know, I was like, yeah.
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Scott Matchim
Oh, me. The boys went fishing at the landing. They're just like, you're you're boys. You're, you know, it's.
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Matt Howlett
Not just men.
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Scott Matchim
It's not just man. It could be just a group of people. It's just like whoever's, you know, with whoever's there. It's just. Yeah. But I couldn't tell you, man. I wouldn't be able to decode why the language is where. I mean, I assume it's just through our, you know, or when people migrated over to the island, just whatever that culture was, which I assume, Ireland or something.
00;09;10;21 - 00;09;29;27
Matt Howlett
Yes, definitely a mix from a couple places, for sure. So how are you getting on that? It was how are you? You're speaking to a group. People. Not necessarily boys. Men. Okay, second time I'm going to have to say this real slow because I don't even think I could turn on the accent and spit this out. I tell you, the flies is thick enough out there to out there.
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Matt Howlett
Now, today they could carry you away and never hear tell you no more.
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Scott Matchim
Yeah. Oh that one. Okay, I know you're.
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Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah. Okay. I gotta try that again. I tell you, the fly is is thick enough out there. Now, today they could carry you away and never hear tell of. Yeah. No more. So, first part, I tell you, it flies thick enough out there now, today. Yeah, that's pretty straightforward.
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Scott Matchim
They're just there's a lot of flies. Does not flies. And they are. Yeah. Yeah pretty much yeah okay.
00;10;02;11 - 00;10;07;06
Matt Howlett
So there's a lot of flies outside. They could carry you away and never hear tell you no more.
00;10;07;08 - 00;10;14;06
Scott Matchim
Yeah. They're big. They're big big. There's no way they're thick. Yeah.
00;10;14;08 - 00;10;19;15
Matt Howlett
Is that something that you heard a lot in in Deer Lake or you hear a lot with other Newfoundlanders. That's not something you.
00;10;19;19 - 00;10;37;16
Scott Matchim
Hear to my grandmother. So whenever I go, like when I was younger, I remember me and Portland fishin and, we were out toward Hampton, and he used to always, like, yell, not yell, but he get really frustrated with the mosquito. So every time he fish was crazy, he had to wear it. Nets, right? Like, jeez, the flies are some friggin tick today, boys.
00;10;37;16 - 00;10;52;10
Scott Matchim
And he'd like and he'd be like, they carry weight or like, bats out here. And I just remember it just it just stuck. It just stood with me like it just stayed with me. And I just remember him saying that. But he used to always complain about the mosquitoes whenever he went fishing. Yeah. So that's kind of where that idea came from.
00;10;52;12 - 00;11;17;13
Matt Howlett
Dude, my my worst experience with mosquitoes is, southern Labrador. I've only been up there, once, but, yeah, it was this, big group. People traveling by bus come and, waiting for the ferry, about to go towards the ferry to come back to the island. And the bus driver literally had paper towels at the front of the bus, and he was wiping the inside of the window, and it was just black.
00;11;17;16 - 00;11;26;20
Matt Howlett
Right. Because you're you're letting people on the bus right to the doors open, close, open and close. I've never seen mosquitoes that thick or just flies in general.
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Scott Matchim
Yeah, I've heard that from people too. I've never actually been in Labrador in my life, which is kind of funny, but I heard the flies that are just insane.
00;11;33;18 - 00;11;36;09
Matt Howlett
Yeah, a lot of standing water, I assume. Yeah.
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Scott Matchim
Got it. Yeah, it's got to be. Yeah, but they will drive you nuts. They will drive you nuts, that's for sure. And bug spray don't work. That doesn't work at all.
00;11;44;08 - 00;12;01;02
Matt Howlett
Yeah. So big enough to still carry away. Or at least enough of them. Now here's here's the last one. Again. This is going to be a bit of a challenging for me. Now do we have anything on the go here today? I wouldn't mind a scattered old hobble now to get through the rest of it right.
00;12;01;04 - 00;12;08;05
Scott Matchim
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's just pretty much, they're just seeking employment. They're just looking for work.
00;12;08;07 - 00;12;13;15
Matt Howlett
Looking for work. Okay. You weren't. Was this guy already hired? Was the concept?
00;12;13;17 - 00;12;15;21
Scott Matchim
Yeah, he's already hired, but he's just looking for something to do.
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Matt Howlett
Looking for something to do. Bored out of his mind. A scattered all hobble.
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Scott Matchim
Yeah.
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Matt Howlett
Do. I got.
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Scott Matchim
That ready? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think depending on which video you're talking, you're not talking about the, You're talking to one. It's just me, right?
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Matt Howlett
No, there's.
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Scott Matchim
Oh, that's the other guy, the the harbor customs guy.
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Matt Howlett
Yeah. He's got a mustache, ball cap.
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Scott Matchim
On,
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Matt Howlett
Hard accent. I mean, he's he's putting it on.
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Scott Matchim
All, man. He does. I first of all, I seen his videos. I thought it was, like, hilarious in my brain. Start. Like, I came up these ideas, I was like, hey, man, do you want to be in some of these videos? Like, because your accent is like next level, like it's it's a real thick one.
00;12;56;06 - 00;13;02;03
Matt Howlett
Okay. Wait, wait, wait is he's not like pumping that up that he's a that is actually exactly.
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Scott Matchim
Oh yeah. That is.
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Matt Howlett
This guy. I assume it was just a buddy, but he's got his own.
00;13;06;19 - 00;13;20;04
Scott Matchim
No, he's got his own thing. He's on Instagram. You should definitely follow me. He's he he's like he's always. You went over Ireland and chatted with a bunch of the guys, but his his tag on Instagram is Harbor customs harbor, Harbor customs, harbor customs.
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Matt Howlett
Okay. He's on.
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Scott Matchim
TikTok too. He's got like 75,000 followers and he just like he just got that really, really thick accent.
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Matt Howlett
Oh it's crazy. And, I thought he was acting, like playing it up a little bit.
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Scott Matchim
No, no. He's like yeah, Adam Potter, that's his name, Adam Hunter. He's got like, I don't know if you can see it.
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Matt Howlett
Yeah. I can't pick it up. Adam hotter, Harbor Custom is the handle.
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Scott Matchim
But yeah, Harbor Customs is his, thing is is. It's funny because this thing on his Instagram, CEO of Dunlop's rubber boots. Right.
00;13;52;23 - 00;13;53;29
Matt Howlett
Rubbers.
00;13;54;01 - 00;14;09;06
Scott Matchim
But, yeah, he's he's a great guy. I messaged him, and, I was like, hey, man, do you want to. I got an idea. Do you want to jump in this spear? I got another one coming out too with him. He sent me another video that that should be, should hopefully put a smile on people's faces, but I still going to edit that one.
00;14;09;10 - 00;14;21;18
Scott Matchim
Yeah. But he's doing it. He's just like, I'm like, hey, can you. I send them first my video of my, like, acting, if you will, and then he'll go off that and make a video, send it back to me and then I'll put it all together that oh that's great.
00;14;21;20 - 00;14;29;12
Matt Howlett
That sounds like a ton of fun. I mean, I'm, I'm enjoying. I got to follow this Harbor custom. Harbor custom. Just his handle. Yours is match Matcham, right?
00;14;29;12 - 00;14;33;05
Scott Matchim
Yeah. Yeah, it I him. Yeah.
00;14;33;07 - 00;14;52;10
Matt Howlett
Okay. Yeah. Tell me a little bit more about what that was like when you first moved away. And everybody's calling you Newfie. How are people, interpreting you just as not just a worker, but just as a dude from Newfoundland. Was that like, you know, a lot of people that I know, from here don't like the term newfie.
00;14;52;16 - 00;15;00;17
Matt Howlett
They find it. Oh, yeah. But yeah, they find it to be negative, like a generally a bit of a pejorative, like, because it's like stupid. Newfie. Right. You see a lot of song. Yeah.
00;15;00;19 - 00;15;15;29
Scott Matchim
Yeah. I made a video about that too, on my TikTok. How people think it's like a swear word or like, you know what I mean, or something. Yeah, they're degrading them. But, yeah, when I grew up, when they call me Newfie, I don't, I don't, I mean, they can, they can, it depends how they say it, right.
00;15;15;29 - 00;15;35;08
Scott Matchim
Like, I'm sure if they came out said Stupid New Year. But again, I don't really take things personally myself. I think there's a lot of Newfoundlanders out there when I, when I post a video like that. So how there's people like that, you see all the comments and people are like, you can't be saying newfie. And then all the other comments, I get way more comments on the other side where it's like, oh, you're one of those people.
00;15;35;08 - 00;15;52;17
Scott Matchim
Like as in, like you can't say newfie your wife. So I think there's a lot of people there. Don't mind it. Because I think Newfoundlanders are termed as like fun. They're outgoing, they like to talk, they like to have a good time. Yep. But they're also, can be a bit silly or not smart in times, but they're hard workers.
00;15;52;23 - 00;16;13;10
Scott Matchim
Yeah, it's. I mean, you could say that about anybody. In my opinion. You can say that about anything at all. It's like, you know, we can talk about other people, I guess you could say, but it's not true. Right? So, yeah, I think it depends on your personality and how much, mentally you're with it, to be able to cope with those things for me, if somebody calls me, they or like, I don't care.
00;16;13;10 - 00;16;22;12
Scott Matchim
It's just like, yeah, I am like, whatever, you know what I mean? So I don't have that shield or that protective where I feel like they're coming at me in some way. You know? I just don't care.
00;16;22;14 - 00;16;43;16
Matt Howlett
Yeah, I think I feel the same way because, Yeah, we were chatting about earlier. I've worked away as well, a couple different places and different roles. The term newfie to me always just was short for Newfoundland. I never ever took it to meant, took it to mean anything negative. No, at all. And it's like you said, anybody anywhere could be considered like unintelligent, dumb.
00;16;43;18 - 00;16;52;13
Matt Howlett
You know, a pain in the ass, however you want to describe it at all. I don't think there's anything in that term itself that is negative. But yeah, some people.
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Scott Matchim
But I could yeah, some people, it's just everybody is different. Hey, I guess we're all the same. It would be a boring world. But yeah, I don't know if I just. Yeah. One of those things I don't know. Yeah.
00;17;01;21 - 00;17;17;06
Matt Howlett
I think the majority of at least Albertans have, looked at Newfoundlanders and more. So men I would say traditionally. Yeah. Because we have sent so many people there over the years to work in the oil industry.
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Scott Matchim
cially back when I was, what,:00;17;33;23 - 00;17;51;10
Scott Matchim
But yeah, I think we have a different problem now in Canada for like us, they don't focus on Newfoundlanders so much. Alberta's other things now, because there's a lot of immigration. But they I think it was huge back in the especially in the oil came to Alberta. It was like, yeah, Newfoundlanders. That's where they went to work.
00;17;51;13 - 00;17;58;11
Scott Matchim
And then they would go back home. The new plan, they would brag about it or they talked to everybody about it. And yeah, it's just like that era, the oil boom.
00;17;58;13 - 00;18;00;02
Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah. But you're.
00;18;00;05 - 00;18;00;21
Scott Matchim
Into.
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Matt Howlett
What's that?
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Scott Matchim
And from:00;18;11;06 - 00;18;16;22
Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure what it's like now, but what is it like where you're at? Swift current, etc..
00;18;16;25 - 00;18;35;27
Scott Matchim
Yeah. Swift current. Yeah. Swift current. There's no Newfoundlanders really in Swift current or whatever. Yeah. I mean, I shouldn't say there's none, but like, my brothers, my brother lives there, but I should say none. But you don't you don't come across a lot of Newfoundlanders and Scotch only. So I haven't, like, even a swift current.
00;18;35;27 - 00;18;59;19
Scott Matchim
I kid at home, all my friends, obviously, like, I. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one, which is crazy, but. But what I love about scattering people. I love Saskatchewan because they're kind of the same in a way, as Newfoundland. They love the fishing, they love the hunt, the family oriented people. So they're they're majorly family oriented. At least everybody that I met there in Saskatchewan, the farmers, the the like, they're just like they're such good people.
00;18;59;19 - 00;19;06;04
Scott Matchim
Like they're just there's really down to earth people. And they got their own ways of calling things like a hoodie. They'll call a bunny hug.
00;19;06;07 - 00;19;08;03
Matt Howlett
Okay. What? Bonnie hug?
00;19;08;06 - 00;19;26;12
Scott Matchim
Yeah. They called me a hug, and it was, Yeah, I know these are a while. Like, when I first moved here, I was like, I don't know if that's just a swift current thing, but yeah, they call hoodies like, sweater, like Bonnie hugs and little things like that. So, like, they obviously speak better English in the sense of, like, more proper, you can understand, but just their morals are awesome.
00;19;26;18 - 00;19;29;08
Scott Matchim
Just to everybody in school. They're just great people I've.
00;19;29;08 - 00;19;38;01
Matt Howlett
Only ever driven through. I've never spent time in, in the prairies really at all. I've. I've lived in a couple of the provinces, but, not Saskatchewan or Manitoba. No.
00;19;38;07 - 00;19;49;23
Scott Matchim
Yeah. It's it's I love it, I love Saskatchewan. I've really enjoyed it. Yeah. Great people. Alberta same thing. But Saskatchewan is a bit different. It's good. Different. Yeah, yeah.
00;19;49;28 - 00;20;08;00
Matt Howlett
Tell me a little bit about what it was like then. What I was trying to get into is like. Yeah, like I mentioned, when I asked you to do the podcast, what is the interpretation of you as a Newfoundland or, but also as a, as a man coming into these different places? Like, what did you learn from your father, from your grandfather growing up?
00;20;08;00 - 00;20;31;29
Matt Howlett
What were the expectations on you when you arrive in this different area? Is it's similar to here, like I think you and I, we probably have a similar conceptualization of what it means to be a man coming from Newfoundland. Like, we could probably, outline what the traditional Newfoundland man is. Is that different in Saskatchewan? Has it been different in Washington state in your time there?
00;20;32;02 - 00;20;52;13
Scott Matchim
Yeah, Washington state is is just different in general. But I wouldn't say that. I just yeah, it's a good question. I, I, I don't, I don't think there's any different expectations, like the way you grew up as what your dad taught you. It's like you come out of my dad grew up as a, like a middle class kind of that hard working man that did everything for everybody.
00;20;52;13 - 00;21;10;09
Scott Matchim
Helped everybody out like he was over. He'd be over to his father's house just trying to, like, help him out. Friends house? Like he's the type of guy he sees that you can't do your driveway, you head over, do it for you. So I think that expectation got passed on. So wherever I went, as long as you were hard working kind of people, it was just good.
00;21;10;09 - 00;21;36;12
Scott Matchim
Like, you're just. Yeah, you just want to be a normal human, you know? Yeah. And people in my area as well. And when I go to Washington State, they're all. They're all just hard working, that redneck kind of, well, all fun attitude. They're just like the area I live in. There's great people there, just like, you know, you just got to provide and go to work and be kind of people and, and try to have a laugh.
00;21;36;12 - 00;21;43;27
Scott Matchim
You know, that's basically. Yeah, I don't know, when I move, there's just the same moral values just passed down to me. I guess that answers your question.
00;21;44;00 - 00;22;04;02
Matt Howlett
Yeah. That was refreshing. I mean, it's it's nice to know that there are people like that because I think that's one of the more maybe a core requirements to being a good man would be someone that, like you said about your father, if you he sees that, you can't, you know, get the driveway figured out or whatever. Yeah, they'll go over, help you, whatever the task is.
00;22;04;02 - 00;22;22;08
Matt Howlett
And that's one thing I love about Newfoundlanders, because I think that's maybe not unique to here, but it stands out to me as something that a lot of people have as a value here, that idea of community. And if you're struggling with something, we can kind of tackle it together. Even that concept of bias, you know what I mean?
00;22;22;11 - 00;22;26;21
Matt Howlett
Yeah. If you get a few good, good hands and you get this job done a lot faster.
00;22;26;24 - 00;22;40;26
Scott Matchim
Yeah, that's a good point, too. It's almost like just the words saying it is like they carried on through their history, the bias, just like you're a group. So it's like you're in it together. You know, a lot of people when they travel Newfoundland, the biggest thing is that they literally what I hear is that they do anything for you.
00;22;40;28 - 00;23;02;29
Scott Matchim
So they would literally, like if you needed anything at all, they're there to help. Like, you get places like they're generally nice people, care, caring and fun and. Yeah, just good attitudes. I mean, sure, you get, you know, some they're just like, you know, a bit much, but yeah, I think for the most part, you just good in general.
00;23;02;29 - 00;23;05;26
Scott Matchim
Good people. Where do you live right now that.
00;23;05;28 - 00;23;19;02
Matt Howlett
I am in downtown Saint John's, so, Yeah, I was in Vancouver for a number of years. I lived there on and off over the last decade, but, moved on for a visit in, like, 22.
00;23;19;05 - 00;23;19;18
Scott Matchim
Yeah.
00;23;19;18 - 00;23;40;06
Matt Howlett
And, yeah, I was planning on saying maybe six months to a year. And when I was looking at going back, I was going to move into a different place, different, different part of Vancouver. And, I met someone here, I met, you know, Dana, who's now my wife, and it was literally weeks. I was looking at apartments, talking to friends back in Vancouver, like, you know, do you guys know many good places?
00;23;40;06 - 00;23;52;04
Matt Howlett
I'm looking to, you know, live in such and such an area. Met her down activity and we got married last year. And so we got to a place. No, last July we got a place, on South Side Road.
00;23;52;06 - 00;23;53;07
Scott Matchim
Okay. Good for you.
00;23;53;07 - 00;23;54;21
Matt Howlett
Either side of the harbor there, if you're familiar.
00;23;54;21 - 00;24;03;24
Scott Matchim
Yeah, yeah, I'm not too familiar with that area, but but don't. That's good, man. That's good, you guys. You said kitty, kitty kitty. Yeah.
00;24;03;27 - 00;24;12;16
Matt Howlett
We. Yeah, I met her down in Kitty video. I was down there, taking a few photos from my sister and her two kids. Kind of like, it's like a birthday gift.
00;24;12;19 - 00;24;17;10
Scott Matchim
Kitty video. Okay, I'm just looking up now. Okay. Look at that place. Hey.
00;24;17;13 - 00;24;19;26
Matt Howlett
Where you've been to Kitty. Kitty?
00;24;19;28 - 00;24;45;20
Scott Matchim
Yeah, I'm sure I have. I was probably blackout. But I'm actually going to be in Saint John's, I think August, August 16th. I'm going to be there for eight days. 8 to 10 days. My, my, my kids go to volleyball tournament or like a big volleyball camp there. Yeah. It's both my kids are major in sports and I think my oldest kid, Brooklyn, she has volleyball there for, I think it's a week straight, four hours a day.
00;24;45;22 - 00;25;00;21
Scott Matchim
So I'm going to be in Saint John's, which is nice because I haven't been in Saint John's for a long time. It's been a while, so I'm excited to go back there and, meet up with some friends. Good buddy of mine there. Jeremy Howell. I don't know if you know him. He's big into the music industry there.
00;25;00;23 - 00;25;05;27
Scott Matchim
Okay. See him? And then, I was mentioning Mick Lynch, too. I don't know if you know Mick Lynch.
00;25;05;27 - 00;25;07;15
Matt Howlett
I know the name. I've never met him. Yeah.
00;25;07;17 - 00;25;15;00
Scott Matchim
Yeah, yeah, he's. He seems like a really good guy, but maybe I'll go see him too. But I'm excited to just to come back and just be back in New Flint. Really excited.
00;25;15;03 - 00;25;19;22
Matt Howlett
Is your daughter playing as part of the Canada Games? Because that's about the same time.
00;25;19;24 - 00;25;34;09
Scott Matchim
No. I think it's just like a volleyball can't or is a bunch of teams and things, but I don't think she's still 14, so. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. So some major camp that she's in. Yeah. But yeah. Should be exciting.
00;25;34;12 - 00;25;39;16
Matt Howlett
Yeah. Yeah. Well we're having some, some great weather back here now. I hear.
00;25;39;16 - 00;25;41;05
Scott Matchim
It's, like, crazy hot.
00;25;41;08 - 00;25;56;20
Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah, we had a heatwave. I mean, it was like over 30 with the humidex past two days. I don't know what it's like now. Today, I was actually a little concerned because when I record these, I try and keep the windows shut because there can be a bit of traffic on the road and the ground sounds. I'm like, oh, shoot.
00;25;56;20 - 00;26;06;09
Matt Howlett
Like if it's 30 degrees and I got to close the window and you know, I don't want a fan being picked up either. So it's like, listen, this could get a little sweaty, but I'm.
00;26;06;09 - 00;26;08;23
Scott Matchim
All right. You need some input?
00;26;08;25 - 00;26;27;14
Matt Howlett
Yeah, we're working on. Dude, this house is over 200 years old. Also, like, we're figuring out things about it. Some things we assumed and pretty much had it right. Like there's not a whole lot of insulation in the home. Doesn't have a heat pump, just as, you know, basic electrical, which we're lucky that, you know, even those are, you know, in every room.
00;26;27;16 - 00;26;28;28
Matt Howlett
She's, she's an old girl.
00;26;29;01 - 00;26;45;07
Scott Matchim
Yeah, but it's funny, too, because, it's funny. It's got its own feeling, right? Like it's crazy that they're that old. They're still standing. But my wife just bought it. We bought a house as well in Blaine in Washington state. It's 100 and not as old as yours, but it's 128 years old, I think. Oh, that's.
00;26;45;07 - 00;26;45;16
Matt Howlett
Old.
00;26;45;17 - 00;27;09;26
Scott Matchim
Yeah, it's still old, man. And it's like it's. We only bought the location was the biggest thing. So whenever I buy houses, it's location, location, location. So. Yeah, the location is awesome. And some nice big backyards right downtown, right next to the ocean. Pacific ocean too. Like, you could pretty much throw a rock at the ocean and, and but like you said, once you get into these older homes, you like.
00;27;09;29 - 00;27;27;23
Scott Matchim
Okay. Newly renovated, like, literally with my walk, my kitchen is like, I'm walking uphill. And then then it goes downhill, like there's a big like there's a pillar underneath or something that's really. It's all. It's all messed up. They, they redid it inside, but it's. Yeah, it's pretty old. Like it needs some work.
00;27;27;25 - 00;27;47;11
Matt Howlett
Our place has definitely got some slants to it, like downstairs because, there's no basement. It's just, bare gravel. I mean, you can go down into it. That's where the water boiler is. And, you know, a couple other access points down there, but. Yeah. Are you a bit of a handyman then? So I can do some things.
00;27;47;11 - 00;27;50;01
Matt Howlett
But, man, I don't want to be added half stone.
00;27;50;03 - 00;28;00;25
Scott Matchim
I'm like you, man. I don't want to be out of here. I mean, I can I can do a few things for sure, but most of the time, if I really got to do a lot of like something, I'll, I'll research it and try to do it. And most part I just pay somebody. Do it. Yeah.
00;28;00;27 - 00;28;21;11
Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah, there's definitely the preference I, tried to take while I did take on and we kind of got it done, I'll call it done. The steps on the, on the house. And when we bought it, it was just concrete. And concrete was a rough shape. Didn't have a railing. Insurance company comes out, sends out an adjuster and he's like, yeah, but you've got more than three steps on the exterior, so you need a railing.
00;28;21;13 - 00;28;40;13
Matt Howlett
And neither of us like to look at the concrete. So like, okay, we're going to cover in wood. Then we'll do this like, you know, balusters and wood railing. And then it took up, I don't know, I would say about eight full days over a span of about two months. Just a huge headache. Yeah. And I should have paid somebody.
00;28;40;17 - 00;28;43;13
Scott Matchim
I just just picks up smoking.
00;28;43;16 - 00;28;47;06
Matt Howlett
Yeah, I swore, I swore more than a.
00;28;47;07 - 00;29;07;25
Scott Matchim
Pack of cigarets. Like I can't help, yeah. It's it's. Yeah. And those stairs thing is a big one because we had a similar thing for our stairs where insurance was our stairs in the back. Need a railing because there's more than three stairs. Well, in the US. Same bloody thing. Yeah. And it's funny when these inspectors come out of everything, the one thing was the moss on the roof.
00;29;07;28 - 00;29;24;20
Scott Matchim
There's a lot of moss on the roof. Brand new shingles. But the humidity there like it never. You never really see winter there. It's always ground that. You know what I mean? Yeah. And a lot of a lot of growth. So I mean, you're pretty much in a rainforest and. Holy. We had got a company in the spray the roof to kill the moss.
00;29;24;20 - 00;29;41;19
Scott Matchim
But then I was up on the roof, just like scrubbing and scrubbing had hoses ringed up there just to get all this moss off to take pictures for the insurance company to prove us. Yep. And it was like, oh, it took a while. It was like it was. Yeah, it was a good like a couple days or just like hard work, try and scrape all that moss off the roof.
00;29;41;19 - 00;29;45;14
Scott Matchim
But. And we finally got our insurance and it it's a long story short.
00;29;45;16 - 00;30;04;27
Matt Howlett
So yeah, that's, that's the main thing with these older homes. You definitely want the coverage in place. You say you got some new videos coming up. I'm curious what has stood out to you from the comments as like what people are enjoying the most or disagreeing with the most? Is there anything that stands out to you?
00;30;05;00 - 00;30;22;00
Scott Matchim
You know, I'm brutal too for reading comments. I don't, I don't, I don't I read, I do go through them, but it's just sometimes it's just like too much. So I just, as far as what stands out, it seems like when I scroll through them quickly, it's more, it seems like more people are just having a laugh and saying, keep it up.
00;30;22;00 - 00;30;40;18
Scott Matchim
Or sure, it reminds them the biggest ones. They're like, oh my God, I haven't been home forever. This makes me want to go home. I totally get that feeling back because they haven't been a new fan for so long. They're like, oh, I want to go visit New Zealand now. Like I haven't been back there forever. I got a lot of people messaged me and say, hey man, like I one guy actually just stuck with me the other day.
00;30;40;18 - 00;30;56;22
Scott Matchim
Message music. Hey man. He's like, I've never been to Newfoundland, but my grandfather's from there and he passed away or whatever, and he always had that thick Newfoundland accent is like watching you talk about that just brings a smile to my face, because that's how he used to talk and act, too. And he's he's passed away. Right.
00;30;56;22 - 00;31;16;26
Scott Matchim
And I was like, oh, that's cool. I was like, that's cool. I can, you know, I'm able to bring that memory back for you. Some people get like they get like all your accents not thick enough or, things like that. But I mean, that's okay, though, because I feel like if there's any negativity, I like it because it just pushes the algorithm even more.
00;31;17;01 - 00;31;29;01
Scott Matchim
So people want to get on and create banter and disagreements. Not necessarily with me, but sometimes they'll, they'll, there'll be like a fight in the common page. And it's great because they help the algorithm to push it.
00;31;29;04 - 00;31;32;21
Matt Howlett
Yeah. So that that is partly how it works. Yeah.
00;31;32;25 - 00;31;41;14
Scott Matchim
Yeah. Like these people might think like they're, they're trying to hurt somebody or say something, but it just ends up helping the creator out because it pushes the content even further.
00;31;41;16 - 00;31;59;28
Matt Howlett
Yeah. Negative sentiment, not so much. But the back and forth banter. I only say that, I mentioned I work with an agency with we are focused on meta. So Instagram, Facebook I'm all too familiar with sometimes more than I'd like to be. But yeah, but yeah, that back and forth. Definitely. And especially if it's within like the first couple minutes of the post.
00;31;59;28 - 00;32;03;13
Matt Howlett
And if people are sharing it, saving it, you know. Yeah. Any engagement whatsoever.
00;32;03;15 - 00;32;19;11
Scott Matchim
One political whatever I'm not I try to stay in the middle. I try to keep an open mind and everything, but I forget what it was. Daniel Smith something. And I wasn't even saying anything. It was just like a video that I made. It was a funny reel. Yeah, of a movie clip. And people were just. They weren't after me.
00;32;19;11 - 00;32;36;22
Scott Matchim
st but the comments were like:00;32;36;23 - 00;32;38;05
Matt Howlett
Struck a chord.
00;32;38;07 - 00;32;50;21
Scott Matchim
Yeah, I just struck a chord, but I was just doing it for a laugh. I didn't really like it was not that bad. And I think it was, Tropical Thunder movie with Tom cruise. Yep, something like that. But yeah. But anyways, I was like, it's funny how it works. Hey. Yeah. Rhythm.
00;32;50;28 - 00;32;52;29
Matt Howlett
Yeah. You don't always know that's for sure.
00;32;52;29 - 00;33;06;19
Scott Matchim
You don't always know. And sometimes you post things you don't. You think it's funny and it ends up being a hit. You're like 1 in 3. And then you think. You think it's going to be awesome and it doesn't do well. You're like one every. And then like you'll post something to TikTok. It's got like 10,000 views, but you'll post it.
00;33;06;19 - 00;33;09;04
Scott Matchim
Instagram's got 1.1 million. I'm like, what is going on?
00;33;09;11 - 00;33;12;05
Matt Howlett
Different audience. Yeah, different audience altogether.
00;33;12;08 - 00;33;16;03
Scott Matchim
Yeah. It's just totally different. So it's kind of fun playing around with it.
00;33;16;06 - 00;33;19;05
Matt Howlett
What's the one that you had the most fun with?
00;33;19;07 - 00;33;35;22
Scott Matchim
I you know what? Right now, the most fun that I'm having is, is kind of with this, buddy. Well, this guy, this Harbor Customs guy I think is hilarious because he's the very first person I work with because I just work by myself. Right? Right. And it's like, if I have an idea, something comes to my head, like, of funny just pops in this brain of mine, I'll.
00;33;35;22 - 00;33;44;15
Scott Matchim
I'll just write it down in my notes on my phone so I don't forget it. Yeah, and I'll do that. But some of the real fun ones too, is trying to find movie clips and doing voiceovers.
00;33;44;17 - 00;33;46;01
Matt Howlett
Yeah, I've seen a few of those.
00;33;46;03 - 00;33;46;14
Scott Matchim
Yeah.
00;33;46;14 - 00;33;48;21
Matt Howlett
Like if you had a Newfoundland accent.
00;33;48;24 - 00;33;57;08
Scott Matchim
Yeah. So like, oh I would like see a video on YouTube, but like I'll be funny now if I like the one good one with Stewie, but he's like.
00;33;57;10 - 00;33;59;06
Matt Howlett
Mutter.
00;33;59;09 - 00;34;13;28
Scott Matchim
Mutter mutter remark. So I seen that clip on YouTube and I was like, oh man, how funny would it be if Stewie is like, mutter, mutter, mom! And I just, like, made it. And I didn't even think I was going to do that. Well, because it's kind of dragged out and people are not having a good laugh.
00;34;13;28 - 00;34;15;16
Scott Matchim
So I was like, oh yeah.
00;34;15;19 - 00;34;23;17
Matt Howlett
Oh, I know it's it's funny. That one sticks out to me. I definitely saw one of the Tropic Thunder close, but not one with Daniel Smith.
00;34;23;20 - 00;34;44;23
Scott Matchim
No, she wasn't in it. It was just like it was just, It was like Mike Kearney versus Daniel Smith, and it was like, okay, you want the goodies, like talking about, like, you know, you better help Alberta or, you know, we're going to leave, you know that. But yeah. Yeah, I was just one of those, but I think another one was a Lion King one.
00;34;44;23 - 00;35;00;14
Scott Matchim
People had a real good kick it. I friends messaged me. So when I first started this I was always a bit embarrassed, you know, because you know, when you first did it. Because first when I did it, it was me and my buddy applied for one of the TV shows, Amazing Race. I think it was okay.
00;35;00;15 - 00;35;00;22
Matt Howlett
Yeah.
00;35;00;27 - 00;35;16;26
Scott Matchim
That instead of paying somebody to edit videos, I was like, I'll just edit it myself. And I found this app. And then that's kind of. And then I posted something a funny thing popped my head up about Newfoundland people liked. I was like, oh, maybe I'll just keep doing it. Yeah, I'll just go and keep going. What's that dog cap cut?
00;35;16;29 - 00;35;18;15
Matt Howlett
Okay. Yeah, I've heard of that.
00;35;18;17 - 00;35;27;21
Scott Matchim
Yeah. It's amazing. You do a lot of things with it and trial and error, how you overlay things and you just, you get better with it over time. But you can do a lot of.
00;35;27;23 - 00;35;36;29
Matt Howlett
That's that. Yeah. That's actually the, Yeah. The ability that I was looking for. I watched a couple videos on now because I was going, yeah, yeah.
00;35;37;02 - 00;35;45;03
Scott Matchim
Oh, Matt. You should. Yeah. If you don't use it, it's it's it's amazing. Yeah. Even your podcast videos, I'm sure. What do you use for editing?
00;35;45;06 - 00;35;51;19
Matt Howlett
Well, for the I don't do a whole lot of video with the podcast, but, I record in obs.
00;35;51;22 - 00;35;53;05
Scott Matchim
OBS. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00;35;53;05 - 00;35;54;05
Matt Howlett
So I use.
00;35;54;09 - 00;35;54;25
Scott Matchim
Gaming.
00;35;54;28 - 00;36;12;07
Matt Howlett
Yeah. So I make a template and then just kind of position everything in OBS. But with cap cut, I wanted to get into, like, I'm planning a YouTube channel. I want to be able to do video for the, for the podcast, but, there's a couple of other ideas that I've, that I've got there for. I thought we had something.
00;36;12;07 - 00;36;15;09
Matt Howlett
Yeah. So capture just seems to be the one that stands out.
00;36;15;11 - 00;36;23;27
Scott Matchim
Yeah. Everybody uses it. It's like it's crazy what you can do with it. Yeah. It's wild. I pay for to definitely want to pay for the script. The the subscription.
00;36;23;27 - 00;36;28;04
Matt Howlett
For, word 13 bucks a month or something for an app.
00;36;28;06 - 00;36;35;17
Scott Matchim
I did it yearly. I think it was like I forget what the cost was. Okay? It's just. I just paid for the yearly, I think was like $107, 120 bucks.
00;36;35;18 - 00;36;36;16
Matt Howlett
Okay. And it's worth it.
00;36;36;16 - 00;36;50;04
Scott Matchim
I, I, to me, but then again, I'm not like looking at every other app. It was just kind of the first one that had a lot of reviews. And I you watch a lot of YouTube videos how to do things. Yeah. And a lot of TikTok users are using it as well.
00;36;50;07 - 00;36;50;29
Matt Howlett
Okay.
00;36;51;01 - 00;36;53;04
Scott Matchim
So I don't know if that seems to be my go to.
00;36;53;09 - 00;36;58;10
Matt Howlett
Yeah, I was going to just try the free version for a bit and see how limited. Yeah, you know, I would be with that and just go for.
00;36;58;10 - 00;37;14;11
Scott Matchim
Yeah. Try the free version for sure. Yeah. Until you get used to it. Yeah. Yeah that's that's understandable. Yeah. But it's nice for the voiceover videos because you can do a lot of things with it. I only just figured out the other day something I had no idea about. So they make the voiceovers more clear and better. Okay.
00;37;14;13 - 00;37;31;03
Scott Matchim
Just how you how you put the sound and your sound, you got to overlay differently. Like you got to put one below the other. I didn't know that. It's hard to get it to, but I was like, oh, you know, the light bulb went off of it. All this time I've been doing this, I had no idea I had to try and like, speak louder on my phone.
00;37;31;03 - 00;37;34;20
Scott Matchim
I had to, like, adjust the volume. But yeah. Anyway, I figured.
00;37;34;20 - 00;37;39;12
Matt Howlett
Something out. I'll be coming to, you know, a couple questions. Yeah? Yeah. Of course.
00;37;39;14 - 00;37;58;06
Scott Matchim
Yeah, I follow people on TikTok too. That that do cap, cap cut courses. Okay. Like I did like a few transition fun one just for my story. Just a trial. And they're just like, how to videos is kind of fun. You just do it. Yeah, right. Kids like it to kids can make theirs as well, right?
00;37;58;09 - 00;38;01;03
Matt Howlett
What was the Lion King overdub all?
00;38;01;03 - 00;38;06;16
Scott Matchim
The Lion King was, You remember Rafiki? That crazy? Yeah, yeah.
00;38;06;18 - 00;38;07;19
Matt Howlett
Oh, monkey.
00;38;07;21 - 00;38;23;17
Scott Matchim
Yeah, the Rafiki one. It was, it when he's like squash banana. No, no, no, I'm doing that. It's that I was like, is by my device, I say, and he's like, what do you even say?
00;38;23;20 - 00;38;25;23
Matt Howlett
Yeah. That's perfect. What are you even saying? Yeah.
00;38;25;29 - 00;38;40;15
Scott Matchim
And then and then he went around and he's like, come on, your little soul sniffer. And then he's like, what do you say? He's like, I forget what he said. And then, Simba was going to go away. And he was like, well, I don't even like Mary Brown now does he? Or something. And he ran off.
00;38;40;15 - 00;38;45;27
Scott Matchim
I don't know, but people really like that one. I think it's got over a million as well and like 30,000 likes, but oh.
00;38;45;28 - 00;39;07;21
Matt Howlett
The Mary Browns, there was one that came to Vancouver. I think it's on Main Street in like 50th or something, which was like 25 to 30 minutes away from where I lived. But dude, did I ever get excited just to have, like, something from home in Vancouver? Because, like, that place. Yeah, there's so much good food.
00;39;07;23 - 00;39;12;16
Matt Howlett
It's not bad. It's like, anyways, I was just excited. It was. It was a good moment.
00;39;12;18 - 00;39;28;11
Scott Matchim
Yeah. It's a taste of just that deep fried chicken. And the one in Deer Lakes always been amazing. So I went to other Mary Browns and places like corner, but I don't know what they do. Deer Lake, but it's like so good. Like, oh, that big Mary sandwich. My, I don't even I don't even think I even chew it.
00;39;28;11 - 00;39;31;29
Scott Matchim
I'm pretty sure I just inhale that. Like I don't even.
00;39;32;02 - 00;39;52;04
Matt Howlett
But it's just like that that girl or whoever was you mentioned that said, like, you know, I saw this video, it reminded me of like, my grandfather's and someone just passed away. Right. And you know. Yeah, you get that, like warm fuzzy feeling. It's like, personally, there are reasons for me that I, I love Newfoundland, but there are a lot and I've lived away a little bit longer now.
00;39;52;04 - 00;40;10;09
Matt Howlett
I think probably than than you have. But there's reasons that I don't. And I wasn't planning on staying here. And Dean and I don't plan on staying here long term. Yeah, but you always I don't know what it is about Newfoundland. You know, people would say it's just where you're from, you know, just that feeling of home. But there is something different about this place for sure.
00;40;10;09 - 00;40;23;06
Scott Matchim
Is that like, what is that, I wonder? Because you're right. Because everyone always ends up going back and you always hear it all the time when they get back. Those are like, oh, you know, it was a good trip. But God, the amount of money I spent to fly back there, I could have flew to Florida, you know what I mean?
00;40;23;06 - 00;40;36;12
Scott Matchim
They're always like Florida. Yeah, but we we always we always want to go back. We always want to go see people or just get that feeling that it's almost like a it's just a culture, just like that strong culture. Yeah.
00;40;36;15 - 00;40;39;19
Matt Howlett
Yeah, that's definitely part of it. I mean, it's a unique spot.
00;40;39;22 - 00;40;40;12
Scott Matchim
It is. Yeah.
00;40;40;16 - 00;41;01;20
Matt Howlett
I mean, the part the, the, the fact that it's secluded to an extent, you know what I mean? You have to take a boat here. You have to free. You can't simply drive on that. You know, without the ferry obviously. But yeah, I don't know. I don't feel that so much as I used to when I used to come home from college and this place was still home.
00;41;01;23 - 00;41;23;01
Matt Howlett
It was a number of different things. Family has changed for me. My, my parents split when I was younger. And when my mom died, this place just. It was it was almost instant. It just did not feel like home for me anymore. And my father died shortly after, but there were split. But. Yeah, I mean, the food is unique.
00;41;23;01 - 00;41;27;21
Matt Howlett
The scenery is pretty. Pretty unique, I would say.
00;41;27;23 - 00;41;28;09
Scott Matchim
For sure.
00;41;28;09 - 00;41;40;10
Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah, I've seen some areas of, like Iceland that felt similar. We got married in the Faroe Islands. That was all even more similar. Yeah, yeah. If you've never been to the Faroes, you got to go see.
00;41;40;11 - 00;41;45;21
Scott Matchim
Never been, never been. Yeah. You know, when they just. It's just beautiful, the scenery and everything.
00;41;45;24 - 00;42;10;15
Matt Howlett
I mean it's it's beautiful, but it's so remote. It's, touristy to an extent, but there's not a lot of tourists there. Like, they speak English. I would say primarily. Yeah. They are very much friendly and very much, like, ready to accept, you know, tourists and kind of help you out. But yeah, one thing that is super weird and this is very random.
00;42;10;17 - 00;42;32;00
Matt Howlett
They have they have clocks on their cars, with, you move the, the, the, the hour and hand arms. Yeah, yeah. And that's how you park. So when you go up to an area where you're supposed to, like, pay for parking or it's like regulated parking, you have to move the clocks at the clock to when you when you stop there, when you parked and then.
00;42;32;02 - 00;42;50;05
Matt Howlett
Yeah. And then the, the enforcement officers, whatever they walk around, they check your clock, which is not digital. No it is you're not you're not paying for anything. It's just like if this is a two hour zone, well then okay, I'll come by and I'll look at the clock that you manually set yourself and that you could change at any point in time while.
00;42;50;06 - 00;42;54;07
Scott Matchim
So could you screw with people, go around the people's RV park there and set it way back so they get ticketed?
00;42;54;07 - 00;43;02;16
Matt Howlett
No. So the clocks are inside the windows. It's not even I mean, it's not even a clock. It's a piece of paper basically with like, yeah, swivel on it. Right. For the.
00;43;02;16 - 00;43;03;05
Scott Matchim
Yeah.
00;43;03;07 - 00;43;07;29
Matt Howlett
For the two hands. But yeah. But anyways like a Pharaoh's.
00;43;08;01 - 00;43;08;20
Scott Matchim
Lair is.
00;43;08;21 - 00;43;23;01
Matt Howlett
Beautiful spot. That's probably the one place I've been to that's the most similar. Yeah. Memorable. Yeah. But like the most similar to like how unique. You know, Newfoundland is just. Yeah. Geographically.
00;43;23;03 - 00;43;42;15
Scott Matchim
Yeah. That's right. I hear a lot of people even like from the Ireland area, they come over to like, like just the accent is unreal because one guy, I think he was saying they I'm pretty sure back in the day, like whatever happened in Ireland, people got hungry and they migrated over like that. It all came over because they kind of the very similarity, for their music.
00;43;42;21 - 00;43;54;29
Scott Matchim
Yeah. The way they act, the way they talk, the one thing is like, they're just crazy over there. Newfoundland, though, is like, you know, they kiss a codfish over there called. You screeched in like what? No.
00;43;55;01 - 00;44;23;09
Matt Howlett
Yeah, we did that. We had a bit of, like, post-wedding, party because we, eloped. We had a post-wedding party here at the house and screeched, two guys in one. Guys? Well, he lives in Vancouver, but he's, British. And the other guy is from Alberta. Yeah, that was that was fun because we had someone that, really played it up head on, like, fishing, like fisherman's hats, like the traditional, like, big yellow jacket in the hat.
00;44;23;10 - 00;44;23;24
Scott Matchim
Oh, you.
00;44;23;29 - 00;44;33;22
Matt Howlett
Had brought in an actual cod actual screech. It was. It was a good time. Yeah. They didn't know what was going on, but they knew what to expect because I kind of given them a heads up and.
00;44;33;25 - 00;44;52;26
Scott Matchim
Yeah. Oh, the hilarious. Yeah. I've had a few friends like that. They got screech into from Saskatchewan and when they came down, they literally didn't understand, like what my one buddy, Dylan Wiebe. If he's listening to this, he'll laugh if he listens this one day. But he couldn't understand anybody. Like, he was like he would just sit there and just nod and smile like he couldn't understand any of my friends.
00;44;52;26 - 00;44;58;15
Scott Matchim
Like he had a hard time doing it. Anyways. He's allergic to fish. I mean, like, every fish, like he can't touch a fish.
00;44;58;17 - 00;44;58;28
Matt Howlett
Jeez.
00;44;58;28 - 00;45;03;23
Scott Matchim
Okay, you got loaded and we're like, you got to get screech in. You got to kiss his cock.
00;45;03;29 - 00;45;05;05
Matt Howlett
Oh, shit.
00;45;05;07 - 00;45;20;10
Scott Matchim
And and then one of his buddies, like Dylan. You're allergic. He's like, whatever, man. And he kissed the fish at you, like, oh, yeah, he got pretty sick. Like, I think he, like, swole up or whatever, like this. But he went all in. He went for it. So we got him like a like.
00;45;20;11 - 00;45;21;20
Matt Howlett
Yeah, we got.
00;45;21;22 - 00;45;29;03
Scott Matchim
Like, a certificate where I was like, yeah, yeah. He he didn't care. He went all in. He was like in the moment. Yeah.
00;45;29;03 - 00;45;49;11
Matt Howlett
A lot of, my friends were the same way when we went to Alberta for the first time, because I. Yeah, I did my undergrad there, and a lot of Newfoundlanders started in that first year as well, and a lot of people there, like, Edmontonians did not know what we were saying. And over time, I learned to to drop the accent a little bit.
00;45;49;13 - 00;45;54;07
Matt Howlett
Right? Yeah. I've had people here. Yeah, I probably I don't have much of an accent anyways. I mean, I'm from the city, all right.
00;45;54;07 - 00;46;14;12
Scott Matchim
So it's like it is leaving a little bit as generations go by. It's it feels like. Yeah, you're probably right. Especially the younger generation I think is going away because a lot of people are moving away. And it's just like my grandfather and all that generation. Yeah, that one has a thick accent, but I could be wrong, but it feels like it's slipping a little bit.
00;46;14;14 - 00;46;36;15
Matt Howlett
Well, I guess part of it would be, so many people are moving to the cities, moving to the bigger areas, right? Yeah. And there are folks who live in Saint John's in Mount Pearl Paradise, you know, the greater Saint John's area that have strong accents. But I would say there's more here that don't. Yeah. Majority of the people that I run into do not have, like the typical Newfoundland accent.
00;46;36;15 - 00;46;52;22
Matt Howlett
There's a few words that, you know, if I was yeah, if I was in Vancouver and they came and I was chatting with them, I'd be like, you're from Newfoundland, right? You'd pick up on a few words, but the strong accent like what I'm seeing into your videos, especially if I ever got subs. I mean, I've heard that accent, you know.
00;46;52;24 - 00;47;04;21
Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah, I've heard people that talk with that strong wood accent, I love it. I can generally understand what he's saying, but like a scattered old hobble. Yeah, I knew what he meant, but I never heard the term.
00;47;04;23 - 00;47;09;27
Scott Matchim
Oh, problem. I think it's like a, you know, get on the go, like a scatter. Like get on. Go. Yeah.
00;47;09;29 - 00;47;11;07
Matt Howlett
Scattered all ohall.
00;47;11;09 - 00;47;26;28
Scott Matchim
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's hilarious man. If you ever get a chance to talk to him he's he's he's awesome. Reach out to him because he's, he's such a good guy. It's like an accent. He loves to throw in his accent and talk. Is that, that ones are hard to hear. That accent. You don't hear that everywhere in England?
00;47;27;04 - 00;47;29;12
Matt Howlett
No, no, I would say that's that's.
00;47;29;14 - 00;47;33;02
Scott Matchim
Comma like that. That's his voice. Like he doesn't. That's how he talks.
00;47;33;04 - 00;47;46;19
Matt Howlett
Yeah, yeah. I haven't traveled down enough to to pinpoint where that one would be from the southern shores definitely got a very distinct accent, but, yeah. I'm not the one to be calling him out. Yeah. I'm not I'm not sure.
00;47;46;22 - 00;48;07;22
Scott Matchim
Deer Lake is not not. I mean, they got an accent, but it's not nothing crazy. Same thing. My hometown, you know, they're talking to my brothers. Same thing. They don't really have that thick of an accent. My aunt, my aunt who's more like a sister to me, she's. She's been in Saskatchewan ever since she was done university, and she's still got an accent, but it's not like, crazy.
00;48;07;24 - 00;48;20;04
Scott Matchim
But. Yeah, yeah, I think, I don't know, it seems like it. Yeah, I, I can kind of turn it on and off just depending where I don't know how or why I do that, but but, Yeah. It's crazy.
00;48;20;04 - 00;48;32;21
Matt Howlett
Damn. Same thing, man. Subconscious. Like, you just kind of recognize we're at. And you don't want to lose people, you know, you want to be understood. You want to be able to communicate and, you know, connect with people. And the accent just can make it difficult sometimes because.
00;48;32;23 - 00;48;34;08
Scott Matchim
It makes it really difficult. Yeah.
00;48;34;08 - 00;48;49;20
Matt Howlett
Because it's not just words, right? It's not just the way that we say certain words. We have our own words and we drop letters. Yeah, right. Like even like the few of the videos you've done where the H is gone and you're like, you're you're giving yourself lessons there on new slang in the house.
00;48;49;21 - 00;49;01;06
Scott Matchim
It's not a house, it's it's house. Oops. Like me house or like little things like that. Right. Yeah. Is that how it's how are you going to get out? Are I gonna do that? Yeah. You know what.
00;49;01;06 - 00;49;08;14
Matt Howlett
It reminds me of? There's this. I suppose it'd be a gypsy character that Brad Pitt plays.
00;49;08;17 - 00;49;09;13
Scott Matchim
Oh, yes.
00;49;09;13 - 00;49;11;27
Matt Howlett
What is that movie?
00;49;11;29 - 00;49;15;17
Scott Matchim
Oh my goodness. Dag, catch me dig this. Yeah.
00;49;15;17 - 00;49;17;16
Matt Howlett
When he says dog. Yeah, he's.
00;49;17;16 - 00;49;25;22
Scott Matchim
Like, thanks Dag. Fellers, you can hear like he talks. Really? Yeah. Oh, God. What is that?
00;49;25;27 - 00;49;35;22
Matt Howlett
That's the closest thing I've seen in media. Yeah. That would reflect like Harbor Customs. Right. That type of hard accent. Yeah. Or like a northern Scottish accent.
00;49;35;26 - 00;49;37;20
Scott Matchim
Is a called snatch. No.
00;49;37;22 - 00;49;41;12
Matt Howlett
That, you know, I think you might be right. That's. That rings a bell.
00;49;41;14 - 00;49;51;10
Scott Matchim
Snatch me. Well, yeah. Brad Pitt. Yeah. He did it. He did a good job. Like it was actually pretty funny. Yeah. I should try to reach out to Brad Pitt, see if he wants to do something with me. Right.
00;49;51;12 - 00;49;53;08
Matt Howlett
Collaborate in a couple videos.
00;49;53;10 - 00;49;55;03
Scott Matchim
Hey, buddy.
00;49;55;06 - 00;50;03;04
Matt Howlett
Dude, I appreciate your time, but it's coming to like that. Yeah, just about hour mark. And I want to keep true to what the rest of you.
00;50;03;07 - 00;50;03;17
Scott Matchim
Yeah.
00;50;03;17 - 00;50;07;01
Matt Howlett
I hope you enjoy your time home. Was you said 8 or 9 days.
00;50;07;04 - 00;50;20;02
Scott Matchim
Yeah. We back. Well, all but actually be back in New Zealand for three weeks. But Saint John's, it could be eight, 8 or 9 days. And, but most of my time is going to be back in Deer Lake and, we have a camper at the Halley that we're going to be camping at for Labor Day weekend.
00;50;20;06 - 00;50;38;19
Scott Matchim
And it's so fun out there, man. We they called the washers tournament April washers. But you know, like the washers like if it's like in a bearing, you know, like a metal washer ring. Yep. So there's this cut, there's this box. It's like a wooden box and there's a PVC pipe in the middle of it around the PVC pipe is sand.
00;50;38;21 - 00;50;54;21
Scott Matchim
Now you got to throw this washer. You get three. You get thrown into the middle of the PVC pipe swing points and it goes on the outer, the, the rim of the pipe is one and there's a huge tournament hall. And every year we have so much fun, just like Labor Day weekend, just have this huge tournament.
00;50;54;21 - 00;51;11;18
Scott Matchim
You just get on it with the boys. You have fires, there's music, you have this washroom. And so we're going to be back for that this year, which is going to be the super fun last, last two years ago I came in second and I just got lucky. I don't know, I couldn't even stand by the end of it, but I got lucky and then and, and,
00;51;11;20 - 00;51;28;18
Scott Matchim
And what was it? Well, I want a t shirt. I want us to how we t shirt and everybody want my t shirt. And the one of the girls were like, Scott, can I trade you? Can I trade you the t shirt like yours? Like, you know, can I, can I trade you can have this one. I was like, no, it's my t shirt.
00;51;28;23 - 00;51;30;06
Scott Matchim
I'm like, I'll keep it. This is.
00;51;30;06 - 00;51;31;29
Matt Howlett
Like how we washers Chamberlain.
00;51;31;29 - 00;51;39;24
Scott Matchim
House the RV. Campground. So silly, but I amazing. No no no way. I was like, I want this thing. I like what I'm giving you.
00;51;39;24 - 00;51;48;22
Matt Howlett
I heard of the game, but I kind of can't believe. Well, maybe I'm not all that surprised that there's a washers championship tournament in the Holy.
00;51;48;24 - 00;51;52;27
Scott Matchim
It's a big deal. Like I can't, it's a big deal. This is how many.
00;51;52;27 - 00;51;56;27
Matt Howlett
People you came in second that you said that, that one year out of how many people?
00;51;56;29 - 00;52;12;06
Scott Matchim
I don't even remember, but I think they have probably, like, I would say 10 to 12 setups. And there's two people on each team. So we're looking at like, what, 24 ish? They probably got a lot more. Yeah. It's been a couple years since I've been there, but okay, we had it soup.
00;52;12;06 - 00;52;19;17
Matt Howlett
Free promotion here for Hallie's washer tournament. Yeah. This summer. Catch Scott on down.
00;52;19;19 - 00;52;23;00
Scott Matchim
Come down. Watch me play it now. You'll see it on TSM.
00;52;23;02 - 00;52;49;09
Matt Howlett
Yeah over I see. Let you go. I appreciate your time. Look forward to catching the videos. I'm definitely going to follow, Harbor Customs. So this is, Scott's on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at s Matcham matc him and your buddy. You mentioned Adam was his first name, Adam Potter. Adam hotter at Harbor customs. Yeah. Fun times at.
00;52;49;09 - 00;52;50;16
Scott Matchim
Harbor underscore.
00;52;50;16 - 00;52;52;20
Matt Howlett
Custom harbor underscore customs.
00;52;52;20 - 00;53;00;28
Scott Matchim
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's hilarious. No, no, it's been a pleasure. Try to reach out to him. Get on my podcast. He's he's a good guy. Yeah, it's good fun.
00;53;01;01 - 00;53;02;06
Matt Howlett
All right.
00;53;02;09 - 00;53;04;19
Scott Matchim
Well, you can understand. Yeah.
00;53;04;24 - 00;53;11;16
Matt Howlett
I'm interested to hear because I like I said, I thought he was playing it up, but we'll say. Hi, everyone. Nice to meet you for sure.
00;53;11;16 - 00;53;14;21
Scott Matchim
Yeah. Thanks for everything. Having me on this podcast was fun. Yeah. It's,
00;53;14;23 - 00;53;16;00
Matt Howlett
It's good to meet you, IRA.
00;53;16;07 - 00;53;17;17
Scott Matchim
I take care of yourselves.
00;53;17;20 - 00;53;34;14
Matt Howlett
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