run freedom run freedom run away but
friends you gotta run gonna run out run
freedom run away and that freedom sun
will shine some day then you’ve gotta
run run around I’ve run freedom run away
I’m Frank though is really should be
freedom is scary it’s a possum cool wind
that furniture face to wake you up
literally yes trickle of sweat singer /
fit in your ear but still you’ve gotta
run around a run feel run away check out
here freedoms 11 a wild one we don’t run
away there’s a great big cloud well on
your tail a nice Buddhist henchmen on
your trail Horrocks Italy layin up max
big big Gladwell’s making shucks for you
they know
you is X for you 93 timeline oh please
welcome Fred dick I thought you’re gonna
sing and dance your way out here welcome
hi hi oops so I’m a sucker for music
musical theatre that was fabulous thank
you and when I look at that I see you
and I think well there’s a guy was
confident who’s always has flourished in
school and in life but when i first met
with you last week you told me that
wasn’t true tell us a little bit about
your early years in school yeah i
struggled through school at school
wasn’t my strong point the sciences the
maths and all that and that’s what my
confidence was really low because you
know there was nothing I could see
myself driving and noise you know
struggling and then I found music and
the guitar and the ukulele and singing
and it just brought my confidence level
way up because there was something I
knew that I could do and and you know
you make it sound as though and then I
found music and Len life was good but I
think probably what’s really interesting
to people and it certainly was to me is
what what are the key ingredients the
things that really helped you because if
I had seen you as a young guy in school
what would I’ve seen what would you say
you had a tough time what student were
you exactly well I grew up being
diagnosed with Asperger’s when I was in
grade 3 so I had trouble picking up on
social cues things like that and kind of
the unspoken rules of life that everyone
kind of just knows and I kind of
actually had to physically learn them
and so that was hard and I always acted
out I was at a temper sometimes and
music was almost kind of a way to
control that I had an outlet of like I
was able to write songs i could put out
my anger and like playing guitar and you
know it was how did you discover music
well I first kind of discovered music by
my school principal Peter luongo he
could tell that I was just always into
it I never wanted to leave the music
room and all that stuff so he told my
parents about a ukulele ensemble that
gets the toy to Hawaii in Nova Scotia
and Japan and so I joined the
Association and I went to the summer
camp and I just started liking it and
from that point onwards people were
telling me I could sing and they were
discovering things that I didn’t know
about myself and it was really cool what
was it like inside of you that that
transformation from telling yourself one
story about yourself and then seeing
something different well you know you
hear things from your parents and you
sometimes go like you know they’re just
trying to suck up to boo look you know
like you’ll sing in the car and they’ll
turn around they’ll be like oh that was
so good right and sometimes you think
they’re just being a parent and then
when you start to hear from other people
you go maybe maybe there is something
here maybe I am good at something right
and so it came to the point where after
ukulele shows I had some solos and stuff
and people would go well that was really
good that was really good and I’m like
maybe there is something here that I’m
good at and then you talked about your
principle because this is good good for
us to all know that what was it about
the way he behaved towards you you said
you spent quite a bit of time and his
own yes I uh I I got entro a lot at
school and so I spent a lot of time in
his office and I think a lot of the
times he would I would get in trouble
the most because he knew what was in me
and the potential that was in me and he
was trying to pull it out so he would
always I’d always be in his office and
it always he first talked about what I
did wrong and then after that he would
sit me down and maybe sometimes give me
something to eat and he talked to me and
be like you know you have so much
potential and I believe in you and you
know so that was really cool to hear
that from him interesting a combination
of really being firm but at the same
time being warm and giving you food
isn’t Italia and I appreciate that yeah
he was Italian team so so you started to
transform until the person we saw on
stage was really is that the way you
feel about yourself yeah yeah hi I feel
I feel confident on stage that’s when I
feel the most confident yeah well now
you’re moving on in your life you’re
graduating this year from high school
the end of this year I know it probably
seems like a long way off right now but
almost there almost area and you want to
have a career in music I would love to
have a career in music I just applied
for Capilano University for musical
theater program so fingers crossed I get
in there I’d also just love to keep
playing music you playing the guitar
playing music with my friends and just
hopefully getting my name out there one
day you’re going to be performing for us
and I just love to get a little bit of
the story about this you you have an
uncle who’s been particularly supportive
of you yes my uncle plane ever since
from a young age he also recognized my
musical talents and there was always
music in the house my dad played a few
instruments and we’d always listen music
together and then we go over to my uncle
Blaine’s about twice a month and he’d
bring the guitar out and my dad would
play the guitar and I’d sit there and
just look at them and that’s what I
would want to do and he was just always
so supportive and every time I came over
there he’d say like oh every time I see
you you’re getting better and that like
was a push for me and I remember one
time he went camping and I had this
really just basic guitar and I was
playing and he said you have so much
potential here take this and he gave me
one of his really good guitars and he
said learn on this and then when you
have enough money you can buy yourself a
good guitar but this is when you can
learn on so he was just very kind and
genuine demand so without him knowing
you wrote a song about yes I recently in
the last couple weeks I wrote a song for
him basically the words of wisdom he
said to me talks we’ve had and things
that I’ve had in my heart in my head
about him and how much of an inspiration
he has been to me what a lovely gift and
you’re going to share that with us now
this is the first time you shared this
publicly yes I’ve never performed this
song before so this is the first time
anyone’s gonna do this is a world
premiere
yeah you could say that by the way when
you become famous you’re going to be a
very good interviewee thank you here is
Bret dick
every time he sang was with the sixth
ring in his hand all the kid wanted was
[Music]
it was hard
[Music]
never give up
you
and in the morning
soon
don’t you give up
leaving your guitar
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
let me pick it up in
to the chance in
so tonight dream big dreams and in the
and don’t you give up so much you can do
card too
true
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you can do you go far with only you and
you [Applause]