Brady McDonald
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166 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, I grew up in Owenstown, Ontario, Canada. So small town Canada, 20,000 people. The family was divorced at 11 years old. lost my license for drinking and driving at 16. I was pretty good at drinking. Started it when I was 14. Actually, I was pretty bad at it, I guess. Yeah. Drinking and lost my license at 16. My kid, my parents said, kid, you got to grow up. So you're going to college.
So pick what you want to do. And at that point I thought the most, well, the most successful people we knew in our like world were these guys, like uncles that were forest firefighters. So they said, okay, well, why don't you go to school for forestry? And that's what I did at 17 years old. And, but I met a guy who was one of my buddy's friends. Um, Where did you go to school for forestry?
Like in some shithole town in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.
Yeah. Like, so exactly. So you know what I'm talking about? I was like, wait a second. Yeah. So, uh, you know, there's like five girls there and yeah. So, yeah, so that was, I was there for a year, figured out, hey, there was this, you know, dream job working for this big corporate company that was a big power company across all of Ontario.
And I realized the guy had a brand new truck all the time, a full case of beer. I'm like, hey, I'm going to go get that job. And that's what I did. So that kind of, you know, that was the first testament that if you just do something and be relentless, I just faxed my resume to them every single week for. Until they wanted to hire you.
Well, until they had to, because they're like, this guy is not going to quit. But that started a good career. I had to make it $120,000.
That was when I was 17, 18.
Yeah, you know what? I think it was a necessity. I had to cut grass and shovel snow at 5 a.m. before school. This sounds like an old dad story, but legitimately to pay for my hockey gear. Yeah. Right. Because my parents were like, you know, money doesn't grow in trees. There was no extra money.
And then when the parents got divorced, there was really no extra money because nobody's paying for shit.
Right. So it was necessity. And you know, if you, if you want it, you got to go get it.
Yeah. I didn't know what the money to buy it from one of them. And then the money from my pocket for the other one, both of them thought they bought it because they weren't talking to each other.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, neither of them had a pot to piss. So that was probably part of the problem there, but yeah. So, I mean, it was a good thing. I mean, I think there's, I mean, that's where I got the hustle at 11.
And then eventually I, I was spraying pesticides in the summer. So in between first year and second year, I was spraying pesticides about four hours away from my hometown and, driving four hours every single night back to play junior B lacrosse practices and junior B, you know, tournaments and stuff.
And eventually I just met a guy who worked for a power company and he took me in because I was living at, staying at the college dorm, you know, in the cooking, barbecuing out of the back of the pesticide truck. Maybe that's what's wrong. That's what's wrong with you. That's going to do it. But I met this guy and he, you know, I was at that point, I was 17 or 18, just turned 18.
And, and, uh, I told him, you know, my goal that to work for this power company, cause he worked for a power company. He's like, well, why don't you come and meet my family and have dinner with us? And so he literally invited me that night, had dinner at his house and he has two kids and he took my resume facts, sent it to everybody he knew and they all made the connection.
And within two weeks I got job after that. Yeah. Yeah.
100%.
It's just proving them.
Yeah.
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