New Year's Resolutions

We ring in the new year with a discussion on Lindor truffles, McDonald's sausage and other compelling topics.

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Welcome to the Kindness Chronicles, where once again, we hope to inject the world with a dose of the Minnesota nice that it desperately needs. Happy New Year, everybody. Happy New Year. It's been a while since we've been together. I have been nursing a cold for about three weeks. Yeah, that's no way to start the new 2025, John. It's been a lot of coughing, a lot of sniffling. I've gone through probably, I don't know, six cases of Kleenex. That's terrible. But, uh, yeah, it's not good. But here we are. No real virus, I've had it all. KG, where are we calling you at? I am at, uh, a beautiful arena in northeast Minneapolis getting ready to work a wild youth hockey spotlight game where these kids show up at the rink. They're like peewee age, so probably, 9, 10, 11 years old. They think they're going to a scrimmage and all of a sudden they get there and wild game ops has taken over the rink. So we've got the Adam Abrams on the PA. We've got Norty running around. I'm doing interviews. John, the cause maker is doing the anthem. And they have all these fans they bring in. And, uh, it's a big kind of a party atmosphere to surprise the kids. We do it three times a year. They try to move it around both the Metro and sometimes we'll go up North. Uh, it's a fun deal. Uh, it'll be packed. It'll be, uh, with Nordy in there. It'll be hype. The kids go crazy for him, by the way. And, uh, yeah, so that thing starts at 6, and I thought, uh, why not just sit in the parking lot and have a little chat with you guys to start the new year. That's awfully kind of you. Um, so, does Norty bring the, uh, the t shirt gun? He does, and, I mean, these kids You'd think you were throwing out, like, rolls of 100 bills. They go bananas for these shirts. Of course. Yeah, for a 50 50. It's something to watch. For a 50 cotton, 50 polyester t shirt that'll shrink like crazy. But it's the experience of it, right? It's just so exciting. Do they dial back the strength of the shooter? Because you could kill somebody in a small arena. Yeah, you've got to take it down a couple notches. You know, remember, At the Excel Center, you can shoot that thing up a couple of sections in a smaller rink like this, you'll, you'll You'll shoot your eye out, knock a young person out in the stands. Well, it has been some time since we've been together, and, uh, I just want to, uh, acknowledge Steve, you had mentioned that one of your buddies had a comment about, he noticed KG's new look. Yeah, my, my good friend Brad, I work with Brad and he's a big fan, watches all the games, he goes to a lot of the games as well. And he said, do me a favor, will you ask KG? If he's amped up his wardrobe this season because he's really noticed more color, more vibrancy, uh, just a, just a funner look going on. So KG, um, give us a little background on that. Well, for years, I've just kind of gone with the basic gray and black suit coat and it's fine. Um, you wear a suit, you know, and you're dressed up, you're doing your thing. Um, but the more I thought about it, I looked at other, uh, broadcasters of a certain age in, in, uh, the National League and I'd spice it up a little bit. So, I went with some more of some pattern coats and some combos and, uh, I appreciate him noticing. Not many do and that's okay. Um, but yeah, I, I just tried to, to spruce it up. Got a couple of new, uh, sport coach, John Salm, one of them, uh, he was at the game on New Year's Eve and yeah, I went over to him. Have a little bump in Herbie's after and celebrate the, uh, well, Eastern time zone New Year's. Cause no one stayed up till midnight at our age. And yeah, thank you. It's, it's fun that someone noticed and, uh, Yeah, we, we just tried to mix it up a little bit. Is this part of your evolution to be like that guy that used to be on, uh, Hockey Night in Canada? Craig Sager. Oh, Don Cherry. Don Cherry. Yeah, basketball hat, Craig Sager. Those suits, by the way, are worth more than my car. Uh, the ones that Don Cherry had custom made. Oh, are you kidding me? Those things were like Over the top expensive and uh, yeah men's warehouse doesn't carry that is Don Cherry still with us He is he got in a little trouble, you know cancel culture came for a lot of folks here in the last five years and Don always kind of walked that line and and he went over it a couple too many times and he um He was kind of I don't want to say forced out but early retirement. I mean He's no spring chicken. He was in his upper seventies. So it was maybe time for Don to sit up under the sunset. He does a podcast, uh, still now. Um, he's very controversial. He's very opinionated, but he's also very entertaining and very colorful. And for years, like, you know, hockey night in Canada. It's hard to explain to folks here in the States, but go back to for us, um, when Monday night football when we were kids and it was Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford and Dandy Don, that's how big it is in Canada on a Saturday night like that. Literally, the whole country shuts down and watches that. I know now Monday night football isn't the same. It's probably more shaded towards Sunday night football. And maybe that's too soon for Viking fans after what we watched against Detroit. But, no, Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday, they do a triple header. And, I mean, it is like, everybody tunes in. And for the guys on our roster that play for the Wild, that are from Canada, when they play a game on Saturday, they know what's gonna be on. Back home, it's a really big deal. When Canada becomes the 51st state, Lovely. Um, do you, There we go! Do you think that, will it turn into Hockey Night in, Haha. North, North America, the North United States. You think it'll be one state or do you think they'll break it into a couple? Oh boy, no comment for me. I, uh, oh boy. There are, there's some bad blood up there right now. You know, the Canucks are all fired up and the dollar is just a mess right now. It's great for all of us. Like when we travel up there. Oh yeah. You know, we're up there, uh, you know, four or five different states. You know, road trips through Canada. I mean, honestly, you go to dinner and you think you're spending like 65 bucks on dinner. You run your card and you look at your bank statement. It's like 42 bucks. Like it's, it's pretty significant and I'm here for it. Well, we've got big news. Michael Dempsey has snuck into my house and uh, Came downstairs and he's joining us on the podcast. Welcome, welcome, Michael. Oh, happy new year. Day. Good. Hey, uh, uh, kg, it's great to hear your voice. I, I don't think we've been on together since. Have you ever been on with kg? Yeah, the first time. One time. Oh yeah. First time. First time. He was, um, he was fact checking me with, um. You know, some of the names I was dropping. Well, um, actually this is a big surprise. KG has said, whenever that Michael Dempsey's on, I'm busy. No, never. Hey, I just want to go back one more thing to your wardrobe. You know, the, the Don Cherry thing. What do you suppose he did with all of those jackets? Could they be like in the hockey hall of fame sort of a thing? And I mean, serious, uh, Oh, I'm I'm guessing at least one or two of them is up there and I I've been to that that spot in Toronto to the Hall of Fame a couple of times and again, this is going back a few years but now that he's retired, that's a great call. I'm I'm assuming there's a display up there for sure. I mean, legendary coach of the Bruins, longtime broadcaster, they've gotta have a spot and I mean, those shirts, I mean, they're those weird collars. They look fantastic and then those sport coats just. Jumped off the screen. Craig Sager on, uh, I think it was, was it TBS and TNT on the basketball side? Had some unbelievably good looking loud Sport coach as well. He passed away a few years ago, but he was also a legend. Well, I think your evolution into plaids Next it'll be you know, you'll probably have like Checks and stuff like that. Cheetah Prince or something. I can't wait to watch this. I think it's great. So here's the deal. The more attention I can take away from my mug. You know, remember, I'm pushing 60, I got three chins, I got no hair, and I'm next to these world class athletes. I mean, here's Matt Boldy, right? Here's Marcus Foligno. I mean, what the hell? I mean, I got no shot, so I might as well wear a coat that's gonna grab someone's attention. And hopefully that'll take it away from the rest of the package. Well, according to my friend Brad, it's working, dude. It looks great. Thank you. Thank you. You know what would really get their attention is if you took off your shirt. Yeah, that's never gonna happen. Just let's give them something to talk about. That would be fantastic. Well, I was offered, and this is a true story. I was offered the opportunity a year ago. Remember they did that, uh, Not Weird Wild promotional thing? Yeah. And they had all those goopy commercials. They had some fun ones. They said, why don't we do one with Gorg and Middleton? Sure. Listen, I said, absolutely not. And then I, I, they said, well, everybody's got a price. And I said, yeah, I got a price. I said, I got a number in mind. And I said, you're never going to beat it. So it doesn't matter. We're not going to do it. And they said, no, no, just give us the number. And I said, I'll throw on 10, 000. If I'm going to make an ass of myself, I'll do it for 10, 000. And they were like laughing and kind of thinking about, and then my boss has stepped in and said, Here's the deal. Gorg ain't doing that. He's not representing our company with that furry chest. It's not gonna happen. It worked for Jiggly Boy, right? He's Yeah, it's true. I mean, hey, everybody, listen, everybody's got their price for, for self humiliation, but, uh, I gotta draw the line somewhere. Do you have a hairy chest? Oh, boy. What are you doing here? For as little hair as I have on my head. You know, the older you get, the more you get hair where you don't want it, and the more you have none where you wanted it the most. And it's, uh Thanks for bringing that up. Not going where I thought it would go for 2025. I'm glad I was, uh, I'm glad I was a little late. I wonder where we started on this. John's a little ill. He's, he's off. Well, I'm off today, but I'm completely smooth. There ain't a hair on my chest. Well, that's good. I don't want to hear about your chest. Good to know. When I oil up. You know, when I, when I go to my party behind closed doors, that will be cut out of the pod. Kramer, uh, uh, oiling up Newman in the buttery. Thank you for this. I feel so good. So, it is, uh, New Year's and we talked about, uh, some New Year's resolutions, um, and I'm just wondering if anybody has a New Year's resolution as it relates to kindness. Anyone? No. We're jumping right to the business. I thought we were going to talk about what we did for New Year's. We're going to go right into Okay, you know what? Let's pivot. What did you do for New Year's, Steve? I, I only say that because I Uh, we chose my wife and I chose to hang out with our friends in white bear. Oh, wow They said come to our house right close to downtown white bear and uh, we We went out and walked from their house. It's so close. It's wonderful. We went to the Rudy's Red Eye, had dinner with a lot older folks. Yeah, that's what you'll find at Rudy's. Here's why I'm bringing this up. By the way, you're there. As we walked around. You're getting older. As we walked around, everything was closed up. Like 1030 at night, nothing. The brick house, which we love, John, KG, Michael, we've all been there. It's was closed. How about the very quiet and teen closed? What? Yeah. Wow. Bizarre. It was crazy, but you know, we still had a nice night, but it was a very much like, uh, just go back to the house and have some, you know, toast a new year, but it was really crazy. It was wild. I got to spend some time at the, uh, at the Minnesota wild game. Yeah. Uh, KG, I think may have, uh, secured us some tickets for the game. Oh, nice. He was working it of course. And, uh, after that we went to Herbie's. And we rang in the New Year, uh, East Coast style so we could all be home and in bed by 1130. That's an old guy choice. There you go. It's all good. It's all good. Michael, what'd you do? Oh my gosh. You know, I'm the worst. The wild game sounds like great fun, by the way. I mean, well, but here's the deal. I mean, you get to hang out with a really good friend of yours, right, in KG. Yeah. I mean, that's the best thing about New Year's Eve. You did that, too. You know, hang out with your friends. That's what Um, and, and, and, and sort of celebrate that. I think that's a lot of fun. I didn't hang out with my friends just so you know. I'm sorry. Yeah, I had two of them. They were both busy. Um, my, uh, honestly, uh, my wife, Michelle and I, yeah. Um, we had to return some clothes. Uh, that's right. Terrible story in Minnetonka. Right. It's horrible. And, uh, I wanted to go check out this new restaurant by, uh, Loring Park. Uh, it's Guy Noy, Guy Noy, I think is the name of it. It was a fabulous restaurant. Uh, we got in at, uh, 5 30. That's right. Yeah. 5 30. Right. And, uh, and we got out of there and, uh, that was it. That was our evening. And then we rang in the new year, um, with my kids. Yeah, it was nice. It was nice. It wasn't the wild game. It wasn't white Bear Lake. Well, it was nice. It sounds like, yeah. Okay. Well, KG, he was working. So he, he, he had to like, you know, put in his time. You work pretty much every New Year's Eve. Don't you? We have had a game on New Year's Eve for the last 15 years. Most of them have been at home, which I'm thankful for. We had a couple on the road. I know St. Louis and Columbus, um, were two of the road games we had on New Year's Eve. And that was really strange because you'd actually, you know, Ring in the new year on your flight home. But the only thing that bummed me out this year is we normally play that game at five o'clock. And in years past you and Becky were nice enough to have us over. And so I'd get done working by eight o'clock into your house by 8 38, 45, and literally have a nice dinner and celebrate the new year and be home by 12. Um, it was, it was fantastic with the seven o'clock game this year. Our hands were tied. We had to go hang out with the masses. My, my big thing is a new year's Eve and Halloween is avoid the general public. It gets to be too much. And then the older I get, the less I enjoy crowds, but this, This gathering at Herbie's was, was quite manageable and quite fun. It was nice, but they didn't, they weren't serving dessert. They weren't serving, I was, No, I figured you'd go over there and there, I mean, that's your go to, that's your go to dessert, like, uh, what kind of place is this, what a dump. Herbie's. No, Herbie's, right, right by the loop. Herbie's is great. And, you know, I figured they weren't be, wouldn't be serving food at, at ten, ten o'clock, but, yeah. I was looking for a little creme brulee or something, and, nope, nah. Sure. No. Well, something for the effort. I got a Diet Coke. I passed up those little mini donuts because I figured I'd get to end the game. Oh, what a bummer. I know. But that's a great jumping off point though. So I came home and I ate four Hershey bars. Oh. Like full size? Full size? Well, yeah. Okay. What do you like, George? You got the little, the little stash by the bed there? I love that. That's great. You know, let me tell you about my, uh, my Christmas. You know, I, I told you I was sick. But one of the things that I discovered. Was, uh, white chocolate linor truffles. Oh, right. Yeah. Oh my God. They're delicious. They're good white. The white ones though. Yeah, they're good. I, well, I love the white ones. I bet you I ate 150 of them. God, the holidays. My God, I went to the Mall of America and they sell these bags that are just enormous. The, the balls with gold. Yes. I like the, I haven't had the white. I have a dark, dark chocolate. I love, it's really good. Oh yeah.'cause of all the antioxidants or whatever that's in. I don't know, I don't know what's good about those white chocolate things other than, I think they're the most perfect food that's ever been made. Oh wow. Very creamy. I can't, I can't argue against that. You know, seriously, this, we're gonna, this is not a New Year's resolution question. No, but we're gonna get there. If you could survive, if you could survive on one consumable, Item. Yeah. I, honest to God, mine would be those white Lindor chocolates. I, listen, I'm going to, uh, demonstrate, uh, my ignorance. When you say, uh, consumable, you just mean food. You just, you mean food? Or do you mean like it's wrapped in, you know, it's pre made? What do you mean? Like a food item. Well, I, oh, there was a place, uh, in Anoka. It was an old, uh, uh, Chinese food place. And they made, uh, these fried pork wontons. Uh oh. And I'm going to tell you something right now starting to sweat. Oh, and it was just so good. Uh, and it was attached to a transmission shop, like same building. And when I would take people there, they, they thought that, uh, I was ridiculous, but they have fried pork wontons. And is that all they serve? No, but that's all I would buy. And you get a lube job. Well, yeah, I don't know. I fried pork wontons. Yeah. Okay. So there KG, what's your, uh, what's your answer to that question? Well, it's a tough call, but the breakfast sausage at McDonald's might be my answer. And I know the McGorgon has been a subject of conversation here on this McGorgon. It's famous. Yeah, it is. That's awesome. I delivered breakfast to my dad this morning at the care facility where he is housed right now and I bring the hotcakes and sausage and we were, we were having the chat this morning about. The breakfast sausage and how it is the exact same every time. And according to my dad, that's why he likes it so much. He knows exactly what it's going to taste like. And I told him like, I've had breakfast sausage all over the world, all my life, and I can't beat That's Circular Sausage at McDonald's, so that's my answer. I thought you were gonna say I delivered hotcakes and sausage sans the sausage. Like you stole your dad's sausage from his hotcakes and sausage. No, here's what I do. I order a small coffee that he loves, the black coffee from McDonald's. I order the hotcakes and sausage with the sausage. An extra side of sausage. And then as I'm driving, it's like a two minute drive from McDonald's to the care facility where my dad is. I open up the thing, pull out one of the sausages, close it back up. So those pancakes stay warm. Tuck it back in the bag and then I eat that circular sausage on my two minute drive. It's pathetic, but it's me. And you just get one of them? Just one. That's just, it's just one. Otherwise, I mean, if I go past one, I'll have eight. And, um, my God, they're good. What's, what's your number? How many of those, if you were to stack them up? How many of those would you eat? Like a, like a Pringle. I'm not kidding you. I, I legitimately in one sitting could eat 12 and I never have. Oh my God. Wow. I easily could eat. I love them like so much. Um, whatcha talking? You chocolates? Yeah. Those, yeah. I wish I liked the yogurt for sausages. Two votes for sausages. Yeah. Sausage. Two votes for sausages. How about you, Steve? Do you have a favorite? I do actually. It's, it's, uh, something they don't make anymore. I have a, I used to have this lot in my twenties. Taco Bell used to have a thing called the Mei Melt. Which is kind of a small, a small like taco y thing, but it was a, it was like steamed, and a chicken mix and melt, it had cilantro, it was so good, I used to get it all the time, and then they just stopped making it. Yeah. That's something I could survive on, I make stuff like that at home all the time, I love it. Let me tell you, they're still making Lindor truffles. Yeah. Yeah. In Germany. I got an empty bag upstairs to prove it, too. Yeah. Okay, let's, uh, KG, I know you've gotta go to a, uh, special event here. Do you have a new year's resolution that doesn't include sausage? I do. I am going to try to um, And tonight kind of ties into that. I'm going to try to say yes more to opportunities to to give back You know, i've been spending a lot of time at that care facility watching my dad and I just think it gets all said and done And my dad's 85 now. He's not very mobile. And you look back and some of the things you do, and I know John, um, for years, we've done that, that toy shop thing with the, uh, Salvation Army. I feel good after stuff like that. And like tonight, um, you know, all of us from the wild are volunteering. It's an awesome event. I, it is a clop. I did text you that earlier. There's no doubt. There's going to be some, some crowds and some clomping. But when you get done the joy that you see, the fun that the kids are having, I want more of this in my life. So I guess my kindness Chronicles resolution is to say yes, more often to, to giving back on nights like this and between the wild and my gig at Canterbury, there'll be plenty of opportunities. And, you know, sometimes you gotta get wrapped up in your schedule, and I've gotta do this podcast, and I've gotta do that, I've gotta go see 18 movies this next month. Um, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to really dig in on stuff like this. May I suggest an amendment to that? I think, I think you should stop referring to being with your people, your community, as a clomp. I think What's that mean? Explain what a clomp is for the people. Well, this, and again, the word has just grown and grown over the last 30 years, but it originated, I always get this question, you know, cause people love when Paul Allen says the great Minnesota clump together on the radio. And where did this come from? It goes back to the early 1990s. My dad, um, had a golf shop at the golf dome in Lakeville. He was still the golf pro in Faribault. But we had a second shop, a retail store in the golf dome at Lakeville. And, and the golf dome was this new thing. Everybody was packing it in, hitting range balls. And then we had this golf shop on the second level and people would come in. And the idea was they'd buy golf clubs and shirts and bags and teas and all that good stuff, but what ended up happening and I would work there, my mom and I kind of ran the facility while my dad was down in Fairville at the golf course is these cloppers would come in. and kill time. There was a restaurant at this driving range at the bubble. There was range balls and then people had this in an order about a time to kill and they would just come in And pastor and move displays try shirts on they were never gonna buy anything They just clomp around the store. And so then the word clomp, is this a like you'd see somebody Okay, is this a customer or is this a clomper and then it was clippity clomp and then clip And then the clip turned into Calcutta clipper, because if like three or four came at the same time, it was a Calcutta clipper of cloppers and the whole thing just evolved and all my high school buddies picked up on it and the word just grew and now here we are, you know, some 30 plus years later. And the word is, is, is all over, at least with my, you know, circle of friends, the word clomper comes up a lot. That's where it started and that's what a clomp is. Like somebody that just maybe has a little too much time on their hands. Yeah, and I mean, I've been in many situations with you where You could see the guy coming, and he's probably wearing, he's probably wearing a Pierre Marc Brouchard sweater that's three sizes too small. And it's like, you know what, you shouldn't be wearing that sweater, but let's talk about the 1987 Islanders. Yes! No, seriously. Were you more of a Trottier guy or a Bossy guy or Clark Gillies? Who was your guy? Oh. Uh, Pat LaFontaine, maybe? If you're talking late 80s. I love LaFontaine. I was bitter when the Wilds took, uh, Ryan Lawton instead of him with the first overall pick. It was a disaster. That was a bad choice. Decision by Lou Mannion. I love Sweet Lou, but that one's a hard one to defend. Yeah. Well, back to wood and sticks. Yeah. Back to wood and sticks. All right. All right. And we're back. We had a great show today. Thanks for bringing that up. We had Bruce Sisky on today. College hockey guru from Duluth. Um, wonderful. If you're ever up in Duluth and I know, John, you spend time up there, 6 10 a. m. He does a hockey show every day. Bruce Sisky, the latest victim on Wooden Sticks. Well, he can't thank you enough for all the time. I know you've got to go. It's six o'clock. You're going to be It is six o'clock. It's time. For the Klomp. You're going to give, give back, and you're going to avoid reference to the Klomp. Yeah, it's going to be all good tonight. Guys, have a great rest of the show. Happy New Year. And, uh, look forward to our chat next week. Thanks, KG. Thanks, KG. Bye, guys. All right. Anybody else have a, uh, a New Year's resolution that they'd like to, uh, address? I purposely didn't make, I didn't sit down and do resolutions. I've done it in the past. I just didn't do it. But what I am going to do, and it ties into something Michael and I were talking about a while back. I, I have chosen, whether it be with my family or my friends or my work or whatever it is, I want to choose to be more present in my. In my connections, just try to not be thinking about because I'm a kind of a type a person. I'm thinking ahead. I think of all their stuff trying to just be present. That's my goal. I like that. I have decided that I'm going to be kinder to Um, the environment. Okay. Um, I really don't recycle. Oh, wow. I just throw it all in the same thing and it makes my people that I live with very unhappy. And I mean, the recycle thing is right next to the garbage thing. Right. And I think that I almost throw it in the garbage just to be Wow. That guy. That guy. Yeah. Don't be that guy. Yeah, yeah. So I'm gonna I'm gonna be kind. What a brave move. Yeah. Well, you know I was gonna stop eating vegetables. Oh Come on. Yeah. No in all sincerity just chocolates. Yeah. No, I I'm trying to improve my patience when it comes to certain people in my life. Hmm. It's not everybody but I have I have impatience problem with people that make me impatient Like I often say to a person, they'll be going on and on and on. And you've probably done it here where I say, is this a long story? You always say that to me. Or I'll say is the caboose of this train ever coming? And, uh, I need to be. I just need to give people the grace to tell the story the way that they want to tell it. There you go. Yeah. That's good. That's honest. Yeah, that is good. That is good. Do you have a story that's not a long story? I already did it. All of my stories are Go ahead. I'm going to see if I can, uh No. Not going to test you now. It's early. Quitters Friday is coming up. So I don't, you know, I don't want you to You know, quit on that. Um, uh, I love yours. Uh, you guys in your resolutions. Um, Steve, like you, I, I was, um, adamant about writing these things down and especially, you know, in college and probably through my 20s and 30s, I would write these things down and it would be 10. That would be it. And I was really specific like half would be, you know, about sort of what I was going to do with, you know, physically, you know, with my body, you know, uh, uh, about a third, a third word is sort of spiritual or meditative, you know, and a third was financial and I was just really, you were going to really not use the credit card for stupid. That's right. That's right. I wasn't. Um, but I found that, uh, you know, You know, it was a recipe for depression, right? Because you would review it and you'd go, are you serious right now? I'm not even close. I'm not even close. I'm, I'm kidding. I did write them down. I don't do that as, as often, although I encourage people to do that. As far as resolutions, um, I love the kindness piece. I love being patient. I love being present. Um, I think that could you come up with something with a P just because of three P's. Yeah, we got patient present. I want to say, prop up, right. Because what I, what I'd love to do is, um, try to find a way to sort of elevate people that are doing amazing things. In our community at like once a month. Like once a month, it would be great to say, um, I'm going to participate in or I'm going to show up to, or I'm going to dig into this nonprofit or this effort or, right. And just really get, get super into the thing, uh, and, and try to elevate it in some way. However, once a month you find a guest for the kindness chronicles and we'll prop them up. Oh my goodness. Yeah. That's an amazing idea. I will be patient and you'll be patient and you'll be present. I'll be present when they're speaking and we'll really try to chime in. I think it's a great plan. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's a great, that's a great idea. It's the prop patient, pleasant present plan. Yeah. The three Ps and well kg will have something to do with sausage that starts at the peak. that are, or the wooden sticks from on sticks. Yeah. Uh, that's a great idea. We'll start in, uh, February, right? Is that alright? In February we start, so it'll be 11 months, but I love it. Thank you for opening the door for that. Uh, I will do some investigative work and Yeah, and get some good guests. Well, what are you talking about? Like, like, no, I mean, I want you to really You know, swing for the fence. Okay. All right, Michael. Let me give you some warning about that. What that means is we have to have a designated day to do this show. So good luck with that. It's a little tricky. So, you know, if it's harder than I look around schedule. Wow. You know, some of us have not easy. That's all I'm saying. Professional responsibility. That, uh, requires some level of flexibility. Let me say, I don't have a nine to five job. Can I tell you something? That doesn't, flexibility doesn't start with a P. All right. It's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard F. Flexibility, P, H, L. Okay. All right. All right. Yeah. Can I say that, um, we talked about resolutions last year. One of the resolutions was to try to get Mr. Michael Dempsey on board. And look at what we did. He's he's sitting here with us. I've been on way more than yeah, a few times. This has been amazing So a nice addition and good for us John and KG for bringing for following through with the resolution And he's sitting right here. You know, I mean you were open to it. That was nice or I gotta be open to that So before we depart because you know, we're trying to keep this at a reasonable. Yeah, do you have any like Actual non kindness related resolutions because I want to tell you about one of mine. I'm going to start smoking. I was just going to, I to give it a try. This is sincere. I was going to try and not drink Diet Coke like I do. I was going to try and just quit cold turkey. Okay, but can you give us a, uh, like how to, like, how many did you hammer a day usually? Oh. Cool. All of them. Well, like, no, every, every single morning was a large diet Coke at McDonald's. Yeah, of course. Probably 24 ounces. It's so good. It's so good. Diet Coke at McDonald's. One, two, three, I'd probably have half a dozen diet Cokes a day. What, John? Oh, yeah. Six. Okay, so where are you, how are you doing so far? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's good? Not doing good. Okay. Not doing well at all. It's only January 8th. January 8th. I failed January 2nd. Ah. Well, you can't go, no Turkey. Yeah, I went over to my parents house and I mentioned to them. That I was going to quit Diet Coke, and my mom reminded me Yeah That the last time I tried to quit Diet Coke You almost got divorced I lost my twinkle Oh! Those were her words, she said John, enough of this, you've lost your twinkle Oh Get back on the Diet Coke So I went back into her little fridge and I cracked one open That sounds like an ad for Diet Coke I, I'm telling you it's responsible for my twinkle Well okay, I will say I understand it, and it really probably ties in with a caffeine addiction. There's probably caffeine you get from it. It's, I don't know what it is. So, wait a second, can I say something really quick? This is a callback. Is this the same mom that you had on the show that said why try anyway, you're gonna fail No, that's not what you said. Is that your dad that said that? No, my mom said That's not how she said it. Okay, but it was pretty close. No, hers was if at first you don't succeed Oh, do something else. Oh got it. Okay, so that ties in with what I'm gonna say, is maybe try a cold coffee Just try it. Have you tried cold coffee? Yeah. No You I'm not talking Starbucks coffee or anything, just like, uh, ice coffee. Oh, it just sounds terrible. That's the trying something else. If I could, if I made one for you, John, you would, here's what I make on weekends. Check this out. I can hardly wait. I've got a really, we've got a really nice espresso maker. Yeah, we're not going to do that. You zip, you zip it over there. You gotta listen to what I do. Give him a little time. Be patient. We tried this in, we're on, we're on a vacation. It's a long story. It's a long story. It's a long story. No, couple, couple pumps of coconut sweetener, right? So it's sugar, it's sugar, and then espresso, like a shot of espresso. Oh, my heart's gonna explode. Shake it up, and then you blend a full banana with some milk, drop that in there. It's a coconut banana espresso. So good, John. It tastes like vacation. Steve, that sounds amazing. It's not something you make every day. You know, he just hammered 150, uh, Linders chocolates with about a case of Diet Coke over the break. I don't think he's making anything. Let me tell you, it was way more than a case of Diet Coke over the break. Swap your caffeine, maybe. Just try it for a week. I don't think that it has to do with the caffeine. That's the twinkle. Maybe it does. That's the twinkle. I don't know. Yeah, you, you, I I'm addicted to caffeine. If I go off caffeine, I get cranky. I think I lose my twinkle too. I'm a little like, uh, you're tired, you're cranky, you're just, caffeine. Makes the world go. You just gotta wean yourself. But, but I wanna go back to it, John. So are you done? I mean, you're like, I found this, not, I'm not doing it. Or are you gonna say, oh no, I'm back up to six a day. Okay. You, but, so, so it's not, uh, it's not on the list anymore. Nope. No, you just, you didn't even, you didn't even make a declaration. First you don't succeed, do something. You've affirmed that you love it. I guess, you know, if you love it. So I have decided to give up asparagus. Oh my goodness. That's good. And you know what? What? Mission accomplished. Wow, you're nailing it, knocking it out of the park. How about you? Do you have anything that you're trying to do? Uh, I don't. That's a no. Yeah, I, yeah, but it's, you know, it's hard to articulate, right? I mean, listen, I think that there's always bigger things you can do in the world. I think you get comfortable at times. I think you get sort of comfortable doing your thing and living your life, and I want to challenge myself to do something bigger, and I, I don't want to get into any more details on that, but, I'd love to do something. Take a chance. Do something bigger. Are you saying you're going to run for president? Oh my gosh, are you kidding me? Did you see how good that went for our governor? I mean, I resemble that guy, right? I mean, yeah. My son bought us a Peloton for Christmas. I see that. Sitting right back here and holds the laundry really well. I know I have been on it just about every day. That's a sweat rag. Oh, okay. I got it. I thought that was, you should see, I can, I can work up a sweat on that thing, but you know, it's got, you can watch like Netflix on there. Yeah. You can watch a gal, tell you to work harder and all that stuff. Yeah. Turn her off. I like to go at my pace and it's early, you know, it's early in my, uh, My Peloton journey. Yeah, so one piece of advice for you on that, right? Um, if you're going to do that, right? You don't want to burn yourself out, you know, right? Oh, no worries there. Yeah, don't, don't, don't, don't burn yourself out. But if there is a day where you're like, I just don't know. Give yourself a break, but, but come back to it. Don't force yourself. today might be that day. Oh, good. I see there is a diet coke holder. You got a spot for it. There's not a diet coke in there though. No, there's not. That's great. Well, anything else I, you know, I think a new year's resolution is. We should find a date of the week and just do this. I know we've said it before. It's hard. I know. But I think our, our, our viewer, our listeners, uh, deserve it. I, we, we kind of, the end of the year got a little, we, we had some issues with it and we all feel bad. We didn't to, couldn't talk. What? I couldn't speak. I had laryngitis. Yeah. We kind of, uh, we had, we had kind of a, we, our, our year petered out a little bit, Peter, but we are starting strong. And now if we can kind of get a consistency, we promise, uh, to our listeners, we, uh. We're recharging John. As soon as John's back to full speed, we'll be hitting it hard all January, February. Yeah, and I've got my patience and you've got your presence and you've got your propping. I love it. I love it. Looking forward to it. 2025, here we go. Alright, and on that note, off we go.