That's become a bit of a recurring theme on this show. So you stayed home or you went over to a neighbor's house, and the deal was you entertained each other or you entertained yourselves. Your parents didn't really go out back in the didn't have heated seats and heated steering wheels and remote starts. And I tell everybody, and I don't know, there's no scientific data to actually back this up, but I tell people it's because in the heart of the Edmonton winter, when it's 35 or 40 below and there's huge snow drifts and you're a kid, you're not going out. People in the US talk a lot about how there's a lot of Canadians who are very funny and they're in the arts. I was the son of performers and coincidentally became a performer myself. And I got to hang out with All these amazing old performers, the Eric Nevilles and the Ed Kays and anyone from Edmonton who knows broadcasting would go, my God, those are amazing names from the past. Whether it was behind the scenes of Popcorn Playhouse or the CFRN News or hanging out in the green room where all the jocks I mean, all the jocks used to be live. I was the annoying little kid who was saying, look at me. I would run around behind the scenes when everyone was doing everything else. I was the kid who grew up, literally grew up in the television station. So he was always a big part of broadcasting and he never stopped singing. He was a theater critic on CKXM, which I think became the Bear, I'm pretty sure and he was the color and play by play guy for the Edmonton Drillers and the NASL. He started working there in the 50s and he never got rid of that performance bug. So my parents, obviously a fairly theatrical family, but once they came to Canada, my father was also a sign painter in Manchester, England, and came over and they needed an artist at CFRNTV, now, CTV Edmonton. But before they came over, my father sang opera and my mother was a Chorus Line dancer. So my parents emigrated from England in the 50s. But you're a second generation broadcaster. I didn't know this, and I feel like I should have known this. So my home is Minneapolis, but I grew up in Edmonton. I always tell people where my home is, is wherever my wife and family is. We've seen where your friends used to live. And now my daughters are like, no, we're good. And it got to the point where we would visit Edmonton and I'd say, hey, let's drive around the old neighborhood. Every time we would go back with my daughters for something to go and see family, we'd go around the neighborhood. I think it's going through a bit of a gentrification. So it was one of those neat, cool neighborhoods and now it's kind of one of, the neighborhoods that I think time is sort of forgotten. I grew up in a Rio Terrace, which back in the day was I think it was developed when I was born in the mid 60s. Yeah, I grew up in the west end of Edmonton, a neighborhood that borders the North Saskatchewan River right there near the Quenell Bridge. I go 30 or 40 miles an hour on the White Mud Freeway and I get a ticket. People go 30 or 40 miles an hour in a parking lot. Well, yeah, every time I go back to Edmunds and there's a thousand traffic cameras and I either get speeding tickets or red light tickets because driving in the United States of America is entirely different than driving in the country of Canada. And now Ian Leonard joins me from his home in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Now, unlike other weather talent who did not evolve with the technology and delivery of weather over the years, Ian has and is now a leader in the space. Today he works for the Fox Nine affiliate in Minneapolis KMSP as their chief meteorologist. He was a TV fixture in that city for over two decades before making the jump down south. Ian Leonard is someone I worked with back in the 90s in Edmonton. The podcast about broadcast with Matt Cundill starts now.
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