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00:01Hey, guys.
00:05Enjoy.
00:06Hi, everyone.
00:07Hi, Alan.
00:08Hi.
00:09Thank you for coming all the way from Newfoundland.
00:10Oh, thank you.
00:13Hi.
00:15What type of dog do you have?
00:17I have a King Charles Cavalier.
00:19I said it would be fitting if this dog was Labrador.
00:21It's like Newfoundland and Labrador.
00:22I know.
00:23We're a Newfoundland dog, the big ones.
00:25Oh, okay.
00:26But I don't.
00:27I have two tiny little ones.
00:28Oh, okay, that's nice.
00:29Any other languages?
00:30I barely speak this one.
00:32English, you may.
00:33Yeah.
00:34Except for Newfoundlandese, I guess.
00:36Newfoundlandese.
00:37You probably speak a bit of that.
00:39I do.
00:40Yeah?
00:41I do, yeah.
00:42I have a question.
00:44Did you work with Russell Crowe?
00:46I did.
00:47Oh, my God, yeah.
00:50Wait, are you friends with him or not?
00:52I am.
00:53Do you guys know who Alan Doyle is?
00:55Yeah.
00:56From that show, yes.
00:57They went out one night and Alan invited me to join them because I lived in Toronto at the time.
01:03And we've been friends ever since.
01:06That was 2003.
01:08And then when I, Republic of Doyle, the second that we got a green light for the show, Russell was like, I'll come do it.
01:14It's cool.
01:15It's cool.
01:16I know there's a new show out now, Saint Pierre.
01:18Yep.
01:19Here in that one too, I remember.
01:20That's my show too, yeah.
01:21I was researching that on the internet.
01:23Oh, okay.
01:24Was it good things or?
01:26Oh, good things.
01:27There you go.
01:28Okay, everybody is here.
01:38So, TJ, do you get to open the show for us?
01:41Of course.
01:42Welcome to the assembly and collect autistic and neurodivergent viewers.
01:50We are very delighted to have you join us today.
01:53The rules are no sharp jets out of bounds, no questions off the table and all might happen.
01:59Can you please tell us your name kindly?
02:02My name is Alan Hocko.
02:05Good name.
02:06Thanks.
02:11Our first question is from Nick.
02:20Hello there.
02:21Yeah.
02:22Now, my question is, I'm an actor myself actually.
02:25Are you?
02:26And yes, there was one particular role I had in a music video which was extremely ridiculous and degrading.
02:31I had to wear a cheap and really awful costume and I had to force a plastic smile through the whole thing.
02:39My question is, what was the worst role you've ever taken?
02:46I'm sorry you went through that.
02:48When I was starting out as a young actor, I worked at a modeling agency where I had to be a stripper at a hairdresser's convention.
03:00Not-
03:01Oh.
03:02Oh.
03:03Oh.
03:04Did they have showers?
03:05Did they have showers?
03:06It wasn't, it wasn't full, but it still was bad enough.
03:10Mm-hmm.
03:11And once I was fired...
03:13Whoa.
03:14That's not good.
03:16...from being a background performer on a Resident Evil movie in Toronto.
03:21I was really resentful that I was a background performer and I wasn't in the show.
03:28I broke one of the rules.
03:30I was playing a zombie in a...
03:32It's hilarious.
03:33...and I wore like a hoodie because it was cold.
03:36Wardrobe was all zombie wardrobe and then I had this new hoodie on and then someone saw it.
03:40They got mad and then I spoke back to them and I got fired.
03:45Mm-hmm.
03:46Oh.
03:47Oh, man.
03:48Yeah, you wanted to be the center of the stage, huh?
03:50I wanted a role, you know?
03:52I wanted to do the job that I get to do now.
03:54The background community is so valuable.
03:57But I didn't know that then.
03:59I was so...
04:01...mad at the world.
04:03Yeah, yeah.
04:04Good question, Nick.
04:05Yeah, thanks.
04:06Corinne, you're next.
04:12So, back in 2022, I spent about 15 minutes filling out its mission form on Impulse because I was bored.
04:23Not expecting to hear anything back from it.
04:26And I eventually ended up alone on a stage in front of 5,000 people on national television trying to make them laugh.
04:37Yeah, so my question is, what small random impulse or moment had the biggest unexpected impact on your life?
04:44Yeah, oh, great question.
04:46First of all, congrats.
04:48That's one of my greatest fears.
04:50If someone's got that question, that's, what's my greatest fear?
04:53That's one of them.
04:56Stand up.
04:57Scares me.
04:58Well, I am incredibly brave.
05:00So, an impulse moment that I'm glad I took.
05:09I was auditioning for a play at Soulpepper in Toronto, which is a really well-established classical theatre company.
05:19To get in that company was like a big deal.
05:21And I was blowing my audition.
05:23I was just not doing great.
05:26And I was leaving at the end of my audition and you could feel everybody was looking at me like I was a disappointment to them.
05:33And on my way out the door, I stopped and went back and asked them to let me do it all over again.
05:38And it was an impulse moment that I'm glad I probably changed the trajectory of my career because I got in the company that year.
05:45So, once I was in that company, the industry looked at me in a different way and then everything changed for me.
05:51That's awesome.
05:58What is that?
05:59It means clap.
06:00ASL.
06:01That's how deaf people clap.
06:03Okay.
06:04Liam is next.
06:07Hi.
06:08Hi.
06:10The character of Jake Doyle has become as iconic as any other fictional detective.
06:16Holmes, Poirot, Columbo.
06:19My question was, were there any like performances in detective fiction that you drew on when developing Doyle?
06:26Or did you just go your own way with it?
06:30I was extremely influenced by a lot of people as an actor.
06:35The goal for me is to be as much of me in the part that I'm playing as possible.
06:42But I'm not cool.
06:45Jake Doyle is cool.
06:46I am not.
06:49Like Jake Doyle in Republic of Doyle, we really went into a deep dive on all of that stuff.
06:56Jim Rockford, Big Time, Sonny Crockett, Miami Vice, Remington Steele.
07:01A lot of the 70s, a lot of the British stuff we drew heavily on.
07:06I love detective fiction.
07:08I love that stuff too.
07:09Me too.
07:10Yeah, I love it.
07:11It's so good.
07:12I love it.
07:13Yeah.
07:16Luca, you are next.
07:19Okay.
07:21So, hello there.
07:24Here's a question.
07:25I'm not sure if you'd answer this very well, but have you ever been rejected by somebody that you love?
07:33Oh, yeah.
07:34You have?
07:35Oh, yeah.
07:36Was it because they thought you weren't, um, the good looking or something?
07:41Probably.
07:42Or something.
07:46You know, what's funny about my career as an actor is you are rejected constantly.
07:54Ninety percent of the job is not getting the part.
07:58It's extremely challenging to face those odds.
08:02And the way I deal with it is the same way I dealt with it back in my youth when I was rejected by a girl that I loved or thought I loved,
08:12is what are you going to do about it?
08:14You just got to keep moving on.
08:16Yep.
08:17That's the mindset that I have.
08:18That's good.
08:19What else is there?
08:21You can't be what someone else wants you to be ever.
08:23You can only be you.
08:25You can be a better you and you can work on being a better you as much as you possibly can.
08:30But you can't be something else for someone.
08:33Yeah.
08:34You can't force yourself into a space that doesn't work for you.
08:39Understood.
08:40Great.
08:41Thank you, Luca.
08:43Nicole, you're next.
08:47My question for you is, how old were you for your first kiss?
08:57Wow.
08:58My first kiss was pretty early.
09:02You know what?
09:03My first kiss, I think I was fine.
09:07That is pretty early.
09:10And it might have been four.
09:12And it wasn't like a big kiss or anything, but she was a little bit older than me.
09:20And I had a bit of a crush.
09:22Oh, wow.
09:23By how much?
09:24Two years older than me.
09:26Two years older than you?
09:28Yeah, but we were...
09:29Wow, man.
09:30No, it wasn't seven years older than you.
09:31No, it wasn't that old.
09:32No, no, no, no.
09:33No, no, no.
09:34That would have been weird.
09:36Have you ever kissed a boy?
09:38Never kissed a boy.
09:40Oh!
09:41Oh, man.
09:43I've never even kissed a boy in acting.
09:48Like, I've never played a gay character.
09:51Wow.
09:52Interesting.
09:53Or a character who's curious or any of that.
09:56Oh, okay.
09:57Thanks for answering.
09:59Next is Daniel.
10:09Um, my question is, um, what piece of Newfoundland slang do you wish would pick up and spread throughout the country?
10:16Do you want me to teach you one?
10:17Sure, yeah.
10:18Please!
10:19Yeah, sure.
10:20Yeah, teach me!
10:21Okay, so what are you at?
10:24What are you at?
10:25Yeah.
10:26It's not, where are you at, which people everywhere say, where are you at?
10:31Yeah.
10:32In Newfoundland, we say, where are you to?
10:35Oh!
10:36Where are you to means, where are you?
10:38Oh!
10:39So, stay where you're to, till it comes where you're at.
10:42But it can also be, stay where you're at, till it comes where you're to.
10:45Which also means, stay where you're to, till it comes where you're at.
10:48To say, what are you at, is, what are you doing?
10:54And your answer doesn't have to be specific.
10:57Your answer can just be nothing.
10:59Even if you're performing surgery, you would say, nothing, what are you at?
11:03Oh, thank you.
11:07Honey, you are next.
11:08Hi, Alan.
11:09Hi.
11:10What are you at?
11:11This is it.
11:12Did I say it right?
11:13You said it perfect.
11:14Awesome.
11:15Okay.
11:16What was a belief that you had in your twenties, that you don't believe today?
11:20I used to believe that Newfoundland should be its own country.
11:36Oh, no way.
11:37Like, passionately.
11:38Crazy.
11:39I was just really passionate as a Newfoundlander.
11:41I loved the culture, place, the history.
11:44I was really, really into it.
11:46And Newfoundland, you know, I was really, really into it.
11:49And Newfoundland joined Canada in a strange way, and we were all obsessed with it.
11:53Right.
11:54And I got over that because I went to Bosnia in 2004 or something.
12:00So it was, like, very shortly after the war.
12:03And I saw firsthand what nationalism can do.
12:06Right.
12:07And I love Newfoundland and Labrador.
12:10I love the place.
12:12But life has changed.
12:14Like, Newfoundland has so many people from other parts of the world that live there.
12:18Right.
12:19Closing it off into its concept of what a national identity is or something.
12:24It's, like, racist.
12:25It's archaic.
12:26That's crazy.
12:27Your whole perspective, it kind of just flipped on a dime.
12:30Well, you go to a place where they experience bloodshed and war.
12:35Yeah.
12:36If there's an us and there's a them.
12:37If you were an alien to look down at us, you'd be like, but what's the difference?
12:41Exactly.
12:42I got over that real quick.
12:44Yeah.
12:45All right.
12:46Thank you so much.
12:47Um, next is Austin.
12:49Um, okay.
12:50So let's get straight to it.
12:52What is the dumbest thing you have ever done that, like, just haunts you?
12:56Probably, I have to think, I have to think.
13:01What is the honest answer to the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life?
13:15What is the dumbest thing you have ever done that, like, just haunts you?
13:19Yeah.
13:20I know the answer.
13:21I knew it would come to me.
13:22I started smoking when I was a kid.
13:25Oh.
13:26It's the smirsch.
13:27It's the smirsch.
13:28It's the smirsch.
13:29I was 13 years old.
13:31Yeah.
13:32Um, you know, my parents weren't smokers.
13:35No one encouraged me to do it, but it's just something I did, and it's haunted me my whole life.
13:41I don't smoke now.
13:42Good for you.
13:44Yeah.
13:45But I've struggled with it my whole life.
13:46It's like an addiction you can't control, and I wish I'd never taken that first puff, because you get addicted very quickly.
13:54Did you stop shortly after?
13:56No, I smoked all through high school until I got to theater school.
14:01You could smoke inside the building in Quebec at that time.
14:05It was...
14:06No way.
14:07Yeah, it was really...
14:08Different times?
14:09Different times, yeah.
14:11But challenging to quit when it was all around you, and I did.
14:15And I have fallen off the wagon a number of times and picked it up, but I've always stopped.
14:20And I hope this time is my last time.
14:23That's my honest, stupidest thing I ever did, yeah.
14:26All right.
14:27Thank you, Austin.
14:28Great question.
14:29Karen, you are next.
14:32Oh, hi.
14:33When I feel anxious, my thoughts go up, and I dare rush to speed.
14:45I'm so sorry.
14:47Can I come closer?
14:49When I feel nervous, my thoughts go up, and I dare rush to speed.
14:56How do you manage your answers?
15:01How do I manage my, like, anxiety?
15:04Yeah.
15:06I get very nervous in public speaking.
15:17I meditate.
15:18I try to meditate.
15:19I try to remember that everybody that I'm speaking to wants me to do well.
15:27I just try to breathe, focus on my breath.
15:32It's hard.
15:34Is it?
15:35Yeah, it's hard.
15:36Amazing.
15:37Thanks, Karen.
15:39Alexis is next.
15:43Hi.
15:44Hi.
15:45So, as a child with a religious upbringing, I understand, like, that your mom was a nun
15:50who later became a teacher.
15:52And I want to know, like, if you ever felt pressured to kind of follow a very specific
15:58moral or religious kind of path as you were growing up.
16:04I don't know if I'd say pressured, but we were raised in a really staunch Catholic household.
16:11And I'm a very curious person.
16:16I constantly ask the question, why?
16:20It's never enough for me to be, well, this is the answer.
16:24You have to do that.
16:25This is what you're told.
16:27Even as a child, I just didn't subscribe to that.
16:30But I was the youngest.
16:32I'm the youngest of four.
16:33Yep.
16:34I'd say my oldest sibling, Michelle, might have felt more of that pressure.
16:38But as time went on, my parents were very busy.
16:43They just chilled out.
16:45You know?
16:47So, being out partying or drinking or whatever in high school, which I did tons of.
16:53But they kind of gave me a wide berth to make my own choices and be responsible.
16:58Yeah.
16:59And there was a number of dumb things that I did during that time.
17:02I had this one trick that I used to do when I was a teenager.
17:06Is I used to call home from the party I was at.
17:08Because I was, my room was in the basement.
17:10So I would call from the party.
17:12And my mother would answer the phone.
17:15And I would say, I got it, Mom.
17:17And then she would be like, okay.
17:18And hang up thinking that I was home and I'd answered the phone.
17:21Yeah.
17:27But I've confessed that to her a number of times.
17:29Yeah.
17:30Thanks, Alexis.
17:32Julia, you are next.
17:40Hey, Alan.
17:41Hi.
17:42When I was younger, me and my friend used to fight quite a bit.
17:47And one time she pulled the chair and I fell over.
17:50And then I sharpened my pencil and I put it under her bum.
17:52Oh.
17:53Oh.
17:54Oh, God.
17:58She still jokes that she has lead in her bum.
18:01And so I was just wondering, did you ever fight with your siblings or friends?
18:07Yeah.
18:08I grew up in a tough town that had a lot of physical fights.
18:12Like I used to have to get, I used to have to get in fights a lot.
18:15And I didn't like it.
18:17So it was never really something I liked to do.
18:20And my problem is that when I lose my temper, I can lose my temper.
18:25But it doesn't last long.
18:27So I got in a fight once with a guy in my school.
18:32A bunch of guys were picking on me and I got really mad.
18:35And I said we were going to fight each other at 3 o'clock.
18:38And that was at 10.
18:39And by 3, I wasn't, I forgot what we were mad at.
18:43Wasn't mad anymore.
18:44He beat me up pretty good.
18:46Oh.
18:47Oh.
18:48Mom, I'm sorry.
18:49Well, thank you.
18:50I try not to do a lot of fighting.
18:52On purpose.
18:56Alex, you are next.
19:02Hello.
19:03I'm Alex.
19:04Nice to meet you.
19:05Hi.
19:06Nice to meet you.
19:07My question for you today is what is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?
19:11It's terrible, it's terrible.
19:12A good thing.
19:13It's that.
19:14It's about…
19:15..cough…
19:20Uh…
19:23Hello, I'm Alex.
19:25Nice to meet you.
19:26Hi.
19:27Nice to meet you.
19:28My question for you today is what is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?
19:37What do you want to call yourself for?
19:49I don't know.
19:55It's probably stuff around my father.
20:04Yeah, I get that one. It's hard to say.
20:07Dad.
20:10Since he's passed, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the positives.
20:16Because when he was alive, we had a lot of conflict.
20:19He had so many great qualities.
20:22Yeah.
20:23He was a great father in so many ways most of the time.
20:27He had demons, you know, we all do.
20:31No one has ever one thing.
20:34We made amends and everything, so I feel okay about that.
20:39And at the end of the day, he was insanely supportive of me going into this really ludicrous career,
20:49particularly from the place that he came from and where I came from.
20:53It didn't feel like a feasible thing to do.
20:55And really, it really isn't.
20:57It's a strange and very complicated career.
21:00And he wasn't, he never questioned it.
21:04Yeah.
21:11If you'd like to end there, that's okay.
21:13Yeah.
21:14Just for my mom's sake.
21:15Mm-hmm.
21:16Yeah.
21:17That's fair.
21:18Again, he's not, he wasn't like a super bad guy or anything.
21:20We just had a complicated thing.
21:24Yeah.
21:25No, relationships with parents are very difficult.
21:27They can be challenging.
21:28Yeah.
21:29Thank you for your answer.
21:31Thanks for your question.
21:32Of course.
21:36Devin, you're next.
21:37Hey, Alan.
21:44Hi.
21:45My question is, do you move to, when you move to America, pay for, for, would you pay for more money?
21:57I think you're asking if I would move to America to make more money?
22:03Yep.
22:04Okay.
22:05Yes, I would definitely make more money if I were doing what I do now in America.
22:12But I never wanted to live anywhere else.
22:16I like living in Canada.
22:20I lived in Toronto.
22:21I lived in Montreal.
22:23I love living in Newfoundland.
22:26I love Newfoundland.
22:28But I didn't want to live anywhere else.
22:30I wanted to stay here and tell our stories in Canada.
22:35I've been very lucky to get to do that.
22:38Great.
22:39Thank you, Devin.
22:42Alex, would you like to close the show for us?
22:45Yes.
22:49So, first off, I want to just say thank you for coming today and being vulnerable with us.
22:54It's not easy to do this.
22:55So, on that note, how was this experience for you?
23:01It was hard.
23:03But it was also lovely.
23:05Thank you for your compassion.
23:06You asked me your question.
23:08You were very compassionate about bringing me out of where I was going.
23:11So thank you.
23:12Of course.
23:13And thank you to everybody.
23:14This was...
23:18I'm from the theatre.
23:19I love the truth.
23:20And kind of bringing a real experience to life, which is what you guys do so effectively.
23:25And I'm honoured to be here.
23:26So thank you.
23:27Yeah.
23:28Thank you for coming today.
23:29We appreciate it.
23:30Yes.
23:37I made a new friend today.
23:39Yes, me too.
23:43Where are we going?
23:44Where are we going?
23:45For the photo.
23:46We're going to have a photo shoot.
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23:48Are you still trying to stall the Warriors?
23:49I like both.
23:50I like both, too.
23:52Yeah.
23:53Good job.
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