I need the help of TundraTalk Nation...

Train Killer from hamiltongbp on Vimeo.

I just found this video up top. It is a classic from the WGBA days. Joel Bernell, the dick, was always big into localizing EVERYTHING. There was this dude who was killing people via railway. So Bernell in his infinite wisdom asked if we had train tracks in Green Bay. Uh yeah dumb ass, we do. So Larry Salazar and I were assigned to localize the story. Did I mention that he was caught 5000 miles away. There was no way that he could have been in Green Bay. NO WAY IN HELL.

So Salazar and I decided to do a Daily Show story along with the real story. That is it above. I hope you enjoy it. Salazar did a great job writing and editing it. I Hope you enjoy it.

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I am in need of some expert help. As you all know, on February 7th I am going to Edmonton to meet my destiny. That's right, I am going to meet the greatest wrestler to ever enter the squared circle. The Nature Boy Rick Flair. Yep, Blair Stefishin, of the Edmonton Stefishin's, and I dropped the cache to go and see the man speak. With the purchase of our row two tickets we also get the honor of a meet and greet, a signed piece of memoribilia, and a photo op with him. In a word, I am soo geeked you just can't understand. Or maybe you can.

Anyway, I am going to take my micro voice recorder and try to record some of the show. I am also going to bring it along to the meet and greet. This is where I need your help. I am going to try and ask him a question on the micro when I get to meet him.

What the hell do I ask him? This dude has been interviewed probably around 3 billion times and has been asked every question in the business. Now, there is a thousand things I would like to ask him. If I could do a podcast with him, it would be the greatest podcast ever, but that ain't gonna happen.

I mean really what the hell can I ask him that he has not been asked before? Really? I would love to know where the nose dive in his matches came from but is that really the ONE question I want to ask? Do I want to ask him about retirement? Maybe ask him what he thinks of the Brett Favre situation? I know he loves hockey. Do I ask him about that?

Maybe ask him about the old days and if he likes where the business is now as compared to back in the day when they lived the gimmick. I don't know. That is why I need your help. If you have a question idea, let me know. If you have a subject that I should address let it fly.

I am going to get my championship belt signed and an old PR photo from back in the day of him with a sweet robe on. I am going to get the BEST brush with greatness photo ever. And I am going to get a question. Send your ideas to tundratalk1@mac.com as soon as possible. Don't wait to long. I will post your responses and we will pick the winner that I will ask THE MAN.

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I don't want to be that guy who gloats too much about the election and the fact that Bush is gone. Especially back in 2000 when my old man called me after all of Bush's pals on the Supreme Court handed him the election. He called me up and started to sing Happy Days Are Here Again. I did not want to be that guy. But the video above was just too funny to not share. Enjoy.


Now, HAVE A GREAT DAY AND GET BACK TO WORK!!!!

TPB in YQR...

First let us get some business out of the way. The last few posts have garnered some response which I will share with you...

First off Shawn Hauserinskinov, of the Green Bay Hauserinskinov's, dropped this note after the Back to Basics Post. I will also add that Hauser lost his pal Boomer recently. Boomer was a chocolate lab named after Boomer Esiason. Boomer ruled and spent a lot of QT with Farley back in the day. Those boys are now chillin together again. Sorry for your loss Hauser.

Anyway, here is what he had to say....

Damn dude, throwing down way ol' school! OK....so I too have been out in the driveway.....car comes speeding by....look quick....nope, no numbers on the side and I am sure I do not live in Daytona....so it's for sure not Junior and Kenseth racing for the black and white......I then let out a classic old dude......SLOOOOOOW DOOOOOWN!

I hear you man, nice work on the kids littering.....proud of you man!

Hauserinskinov

Yes Shawn, I do also wonder if Nascar is staging an event on the street in front of my house.

Next Todd Holdman, of the Nobody's Children Fargo Holdman's, sent me some love...

Chris,

keep the blogs coming. it's gold.

Thanks man, I appreciate it from you, especially since I have spent alot of time reading your stuff.

Next I got a few short, and a bit confusing, messages from Robby DuPuis, of the Minneapple DuPuis, and Chad Walker, of the center of the universe Toronto, Walkers. They both enjoyed what will be now known as the 'Hat Incident'... I think...

Chrispy,

only you man, only you

Robby


Chris,

You are unbelievable.

Walker


Well thank you Robby. I appreciate your comments, but I am unsure what you mean by only you. Is it the way I walk, or the way I carry myself that would make it so that I am the only one this could happen to. Or do you mean that I go out of my way to make these things happen to myself? Are you saying I have a problem? Do you want to fight?

And Walker, it is nice that you finally join the discussion. As with Robby I am unsure what you are saying. Do you not believe in me? Is the story that unbelievable? Am I super hero like, or am I more like Santa where you have to stop believing in me after you turn a certain age? Do you want to fight?

Sorry about the aggression. I just lost control for a second. I am a bit on edge because of all the cold weather. I really do thank you all for reading and responding to my stories. I do appreciate the response. I only do TundraTalk because I can imagine you guys sitting in your office laughing or just shaking your head saying "Man Peterson is an idiot." I do not expect you to all agree with me, EVER. Just thought of someone saying laughing at work keeps me going. I can already hear Marty calling me a moron right now. Your disdain for me is my inspiration.

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All right so last week the Trailer Park Boys were in town and I did my part to keep these guys employed by buying a few tickets to the sold out show at the Casino. It was call the Trailer Park Boys Community Service Tour based on the idea that they got arrested and sentenced to a tour to speak out about the use of drugs and alcohol. It started with a puppet show and denigrated into joint rolling competitions. It was hilarious. My boy Rob McKenzie, of the Regina McKenzie's, went along and took a bunch of better pics but he is so slow on downloading them it will take some time before I see them.

That is the Green Bastard up there on the left. From parts unkown. He is about to fight Ricky for making him piss himself. Long story. The Green Bastard is from season 5 of the TPB and is hilarious.

Bubbles also sang some songs, including the classic Liquor and Whores. If you remember I posted the TPB video a while back of Bubbles singing that song at the East Coast Music Awards. Here it is to remind you.


Bubbles Sings from hamiltongbp on Vimeo.

Anyway a good time was had by all and I managed to garner some auto'd pics afterwards which I sent directly to Jon Bauer, of the Minot Budget Bauer's. I am telling you the TPB mania is sweeping the USA. Soon you will all want Ricky's autograph.

Oh and next week Norm MacDonald of SNL fame is in town and I gots ticket to that sold out show. That is going to be AWESOME!!! I wanted tickets for the sold out Kevin Costner and Modern West concert but I just could not justify 90 bones to rubberneck. I am seriously thinking about going to the Honeymoon Suite and Headpins show.

That is all for now. Have a great day and GET BACK TO WORK!!!!

Great Story from our Vacation to PHX...

Okay, so over the holidays we made a trip to PHX to see my parents in their gated old folks community. It was nice since we missed a few big snow storms and some real cold weather here in Regina. Anyway, whist we were there in AZ, I got a good story to tell you.

It started one day as we were headed into the city to do some sight seeing with the kids. As are with kids, I heard "Are we there yet?" 25 times and "I'm hungry" around 50. So I take the car off the highway and start looking for some food. I see a BK on the other side of the road. I need to divert into a neighborhood to turn around. It is not the best hood in PHX. As I am making my illegal U turn I see this car full of, lets just say, latino hoodlums. I love that word, I am bringing it back. Feel free to use it two or three times today. It is one of those words like Sheboygan, that just makes you feel better for saying it.

Anyway, as I am turning the driver of the hoodlum car is giving me the stinkeye. BIG TIME. I wonder what I did other than make a U turn in his territory. He was glaring a hole in me bigger than the grand canyon. I felt a bit uneasy after this. No big deal. We moved on to the BK and were happy to be there.

As we walk into the BK I notice that everyone in there is latino AND giving me the same stinkeye. First I think, "What? Do I have a booger hanging out of my nose?" I was a bit dumbfounded. So we order from a nice lady at the counter, that again gave me a funny look. We go and sit down to eat and as I am eating I am growing uncomfortable by all the looks I am getting.

The day before I had bought a great new hat at the flea market. Three bucks and it looked good on my bald ass head. I of course was breaking it in so as we are sitting there I take it off and bend it a bit. As I do this I remember that the hat in question had in big bold letters on the front. US BORDER PATROL. Then it hit me like Barry Bonds hitting a roid filled home run. All these people in here think I am with the border patrol and are going to run them out of the country. Nice. Way to make friends and influence people Chris.

I took the hat off so we could all eat in peace and after that I got no more dirty looks from anyone in the BK. I had to laugh about it later but man was that an uncofortable lunch.

I read in the paper that the sherriff down there had been taking his crew on raids all over the valley. He would just roll up to business and arrest everybody. So the Latino community was a little on the edge.

My dad thought it was funny and wanted to take me, AND the hat out and roll up on the groups of guys who hang out at gas stations looking for work, and watch them scatter as I jump out of the car. No thank you, I had so much 'fun' at the BK that I was not looking for anymore 'fun'.

Have a great day, and GET BACK TO WORK!!!!

Back to basics...

Okay, so it has been a while since I actually sat down and put in some time on the old TundraTalk. I apologize. Not sure what has gotten into me but I guess I just have not been too keen on writing lately. My bad.

So I decided today I would just put a post up. Kind of back to basics post. Just me rambling on about something that really is not much, but I will make it a big deal. BUT before I go too far I am going to take care of some business first.

If you are interested the Peterson Family Christmas Letter is up on the internet. You can locate it HERE. If you want to see the Peterson Family Christmas Variety Show you can link to it HERE or just watch it below...


Peterson Family Christmas Variety Show 2008 from hamiltongbp on Vimeo.


NEXT: There now that that is out of the way....Lets get to today's rant.

Now, as most of the country knows, Canada is cold. Regina, on the usual, is around 10 degrees colder. Not sure why, but it is. North Dakota is a very similar climate. Cold enough that it is imparitive that when you go outside you must be dressed appropriately, or even smarter, just don't go outside. I am normally a guy who likes winter. Much better than summer. At least in winter if you are cold, you just put on another layer. Summer, if it is hot and you are sweating just sitting still, you can't do a damn thing about it except turn up the AC. Summer in all it's humid glory blows.

Now all you haters out there, close that email. Don't send me a hate filled diatribe about how great summer is, just shut your pie hole and listen. Don't hate the playa, hate the game. I like summer, not having to put on three layers to go outside is nice. I like sitting on my boat whether it be in the driveway or on the water. Summer is nice, but hot sweaty summer sucks.

Now, I know when I was attending the world famous (for what I don't know) Hazen High School, I was a bit of a dumb ass. Sometimes I would do dumbass things. We all do when we are in high school. Well, except for maybe Nick Chase. He was wound a bit tight. Like for example during the production of the fine WhiteHot Production Dakota Vice we decided it would be cool to stage a shoot out in front of the Red Owl grocery store on Main street. Complete with sound efects and really lifelike toy guns (compliments of the Rock Boys personal collection). Apparently the cops were called and at the end of the scene you can see a cruiser roll past to check it out.

Can you imagine if we tried to do that today? The Government Threat Level would be raised to "extreme red we all going to die" level we would all be put in jail, then have mental evaluations (most of us probably could use those), and then we would be sent off to Guantanamo, or maybe even be put on that plane to be waterboarded some where in a country that does not like us that much. Anyway, long story even longer, that was pretty dumb.

Or the time that I decided I wanted to see how fast my motorcycle could go. Not sure how far over a hundred I got but the front wheel lifted off the ground because I had a faring on it. That was Dumb.

Or the time I had an arguement with my dumbass sister and decided to leave the house. I went out to the car, pushed the garage door opener, started up the Escorche, cranked up Run DMC on the bottom of the line cheapest Alpine stereo (that only had fast forward) I could get, to 11, and then failed to look to see if the door opened. Yup, that was REAL dumb. Dad was not to happy that I installed a drive thru on the garage door.

Anyway, I did some dumb things. Which leads me to the reason for this rant. I know I am getting old, but I do not think I am that old. As I was driving thru these recent snowstorms on my way to work the past few days I have been marveling at how stupid high school kids are now. They think they are bullet proof. Case in point. This morning as I passed the first of two high schools I saw what I thought was just Mensa club worthy.

These boneheads park on the street in front of the school. On the road there are two lanes, in the summer. In the winter there is barely two lanes because of all the snow piled in the median. These Einstiens get out of their cars and walk down the middle of the right lane to get to school. They don't even hesitate when two lanes of cars are coming at them. They just keep on walking whilst the two lanes are scrambling to make one on the icy roads. Hey shit head, walk on the sidewalk. Oh sorry there is snow on the sidewalk so the open toed shoes you are wearing will get snow in them. My bad. I guess that is good logic to walk on the fu#king road.

Not to mention none of these idiots are wearing a toque. Put a freaking hat on. It is -50 and you think it is too important to not mess up your hair so you decide to not wear a cap. Brilliant. I know it was cold back in the day when I was travelling to school, but I don't think I was EVER that stupid. I want to keep my ears. Oh, maybe they have heated iPod headphones. Don't even get me started on the three girls I saw walking down the sidewalk all of them with their heads down texting. GET OFF YOUR PHONE AND TALK TO EACH OTHER.

Get this, the other day I was at the Co Op getting groceries and as I left the parking lot I saw this group of girls walking back to school from lunch. There is a McCrappy's in our neighbor hood so one of them had a bag of food with her. As she is walking out of the parking lot she just throws the bag on the ground, like that is what you are supposed to do with your left over McD's shit. "Someone else will pick it up, it is too much work to carry it to a trash can." So me being the nice guy I am I roll down the window and yell at her "Hey, you dropped something." Now she gets this panicked look on her face that she acually DID drop something, like her phone or iPod. The the realization comes over her that I am pointing out her stupidity right in front of all her friends.

She starts to walk over to pick it up but the other moron with her tells her not to. Seeing that this situation is about to degenerate, I decide to take it up a notch and I tell her to not be a moron and stop littering my neighborhood with her crap. At this point her friend starts to call me names and I of course respond in kind about how ignorant it is to be a litterer, all the while the bonehead in question still has not said a thing. I look at her and ask her if she speaks english because all she did was stand there and look confused. BAM it was like dropping a bomb. Her friends immediately draw the race card (she looked a bit Asian). I think she was a bit torn by the situation because she knew the right thing was to go and pick up the bag so the angry a-hole in the truck will shut up but she did not want to lose face with her girls.

At this point I call them all morons and roll up the window and drive away. You cannot win an argument where the race card has been drawn. No way no how. Especially since I am that white guy in a pick up truck. I'll tell ya, I would have said that to anyone. Black, white, yellow, purple, or green. The purple person would probably be a viqueen fan and really would NOT speak english.

Anyway, where was I going with this. Oh yeah, kids are stupid. I am sounding like an old man. I have caught myself on many occasion standing on my lawn yelling at guys driving by for going to fast. Pathetic. I may as well start telling the 'I walked to school 60 miles uphill against the wind stories already." Oh wait, I told McKenna that story yesterday. I also know my kids are sure going to do stupid things but I just hope I am able to correct them with out calling them Morons.

NEXT: I have some pics from the Trailer Park Boys show that I attended last week to show you and I will get them up here soon.

Have a great day. GET BACK TO WORK!!!

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