The Reklaws lost their mom 4 years ago, then walked down the aisle a month later and played their biggest summer tour anyway. Jenna and Stuart sit down with Matt August on the eve of the Okanagan Dream Rally to get real about grief, fame, and why you should never sweep it under the rug.

From Stuart hearing their song on the radio for the first time while stuck at the bottom of a pool, to labels telling them a brother-sister party band was impossible, to the America's Got Talent song for their mom that blew up around the world, this one hits hard. Plus, what it means to headline the stage they grew up watching from the $15 lawn seats.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 INTRO
00:58 Inside the Okanagan Dream Rally
04:58 The Car Ride That Changed Everything
08:27 Cleaning pools when His Song Hit Radio
10:35 Working With Your Sibling Every Day
11:43 "A Brother-Sister Duo? Not Possible"
12:30 "I'm Always Expecting Something Bad"
16:31 Never Feeling Like Enough
24:59 Losing Mom, Then the Biggest Tour Ever
27:08 How Their Mom Named the Band
30:33 Stop Sweeping Grief Under the Rug
34:12 Headlining Where It All Started
37:05 Life as New Parents (and Uncles) on Tour
39:19 Why Matt Lives for Cars

In this episode of August After Dark, Matt August sits down with Murray Wilson, a retired professional forester turned filmmaker, whose documentary BC Is Burning is pulling back the curtain on what's actually happening inside our forests.

Murray spent decades on the front lines — from a helitack crew in 1977 to managing BC's forests as a professional forester — and he's watched the system quietly fail.

In 2023 alone, Canada emitted 2.4 billion tons of CO2 from wildfires, making wildfire smoke our single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. The smoke in the Okanagan that summer was the equivalent of every person — kids included — smoking 7 to 15 cigarettes a day.

In this conversation, Murray breaks down why decades of reduced forest management, mountain pine beetle outbreaks, and policy gridlock have turned BC's forests into a tinderbox — and why "just letting nature take its course" is actually making things far more dangerous. They dig into the economics (we spend $1.3 billion a year fighting fires but the true cost to our economy is 10-20x that), the carbon release hiding in our forest soils, why Canada stopped prescribed burning, and what BC could learn from California and Finland to actually fix this before it's too late.

This is the conversation nobody in government wants to have — and the one every Canadian needs to hear.

Watch the full documentary and take action: bcisburning.ca
August Group: augustmotorcars.com

Timecodes:

00:00 – INTRO
02:15 – Why he is making this film
05:40 – BC's worst fire year explained
09:20 – The beetle secret in our forests
14:10 – "Leave it alone" is a myth
19:30 – Why burnt wood just rots
24:50 – The carbon bomb underground
31:05 – We stopped doing this on purpose
38:15 – $52 billion spent on the wrong thing
44:30 – What California figured out first
50:45 – His 3-step fix for BC
55:20 – "The bullet's still in the chamber

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87 years old, built and sold companies worth hundreds of millions, once owned a 42-car collection, and he's still not slowing down.

In this episode of August After Dark, host Matt August sits down with Peter Thomas — author, entrepreneur, and creator of "One Minute Mentor" — for a raw conversation about what it actually takes to build a life you're proud of.

Peter shares the story of buying his first car in the Canadian Army with the help of a sergeant who vouched for him, why he bought the Century 21 Canada franchise rights when every person in his life told him not to, and how that one decision turned into tens of millions of dollars. He breaks down his "superpower vs. kryptonite" framework, the exact sales discipline that took him from broke to successful, and why mentorship isn't the same as coaching.

You'll also hear about his 7-year sabbatical to Switzerland, how he uses fractional airplane deals to fund his love of aviation, 40 years of marriage advice, and why giving back has become the core value driving his life today.

If you want a real, unfiltered conversation with someone who has lived an extraordinary life and has zero interest in slowing down — this is it.


TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – INTRO
02:15 – The $300 car an army sergeant risked his own name for
07:40 – Building a 42-car collection... and the one Ferrari he loved most
12:30 – "We are each our own Ferraris" — his philosophy on self-mastery
18:50 – The art of delegation: recognizing your own deficiencies
26:10 – Buying Century 21 Canada when EVERY person in his life said no
33:45 – The sales discipline that made him unstoppable (18 calls a day)
41:20 – A $9 million deal that quietly turned into $150 million
50:05 – Why he took 7 years off and moved to Switzerland
1:00:30 – The difference between mentoring and rescuing someone
1:12:15 – 40 years of marriage and the Bahamas story that started it all
1:20:40 – His final "one minute mentor" lesson nobody's heard before