MTV

That was the big thing.

But, but, I never understood because like Bell, Globe Media, whatever, own much music and then MTV Canada too.

So that seemed totally fine.

But I think they

licensed MTV Canada as a talk thing, not a music thing.

Right, yeah,

yeah.

We had to do it very covertly at 2 a.m., And he helped me cut a reel.

But I thought in 2002, yeah, what if I take a year of my life and explore this? And started feeling this joy and aliveness from the idea of entering contests that I was rejected in over and over for local radio stations, music stations.

And then finally, a producer at MTV Canada said, we're going to give you a shot.

And it was an unpaid internship for a top 10 video countdown show that allowed me to enter that energy.

And something special took off from there.

So I do like the idea of putting myself in uncomfortable scenarios where I could be judged.

And I think one of the most liberating things that I went through was early in the TV days.

I'll take you down to a moment where I thought my big break was getting an unpaid internship with MTV.

And I was handing out flyers at the corner of Robson Abroad in downtown Vancouver.

And I had two partners in crime, my friend Nathan and Doug.

And in this one English class, Nathan and I sat in the back of the class and And we would discuss music that we've seen on Much Music, which is like the Canadian MTV, and sort of talk about new stuff that had come out.

And we were just, I think we were aware of Aerosmith, but only sort of in a greatest hits volume one way.

We didn't know rocks yet, we hadn't gone.

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