A Show about NOTHING or EVERYTHING

Nothing? Or a little bit of everything. Wooden Sticks meets Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Donut Edition) meets Chicago Law to Entertainment Tonight and back to Donuts. Of course,a dose of Kindness along the way. 

NOTE: Be sure to mark your calendars for the first Kindness Chronicles LIVE Podcast celebrating the Selfless Scholars. Wednesday, May 21st at 5:30 at the Masonic Heritage Center's ives Auditorium. Free Event. Please email John at John.Schwietz@mnmasonic.org to reserve your tickets

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Thank you. Production manager. This is the kindness chronicles where we hope to inject the world with a dose of the Minnesota nice that it desperately needs. We've got, what was that noise? Oh, did you step on a name? Oh God. The rock star. Oh boy. Hooting it up here. KG. You're in Utah. Yeah, the stories in Utah. Frank, um, I've never been here. It's beautiful. Uh, you know, we landed late afternoon. So that last kind of 40 minutes of the flight with the mountains and the snow and downtown here in Salt Lake is right at the base of some of those, uh, beautiful mountains. So yeah, I'm looking forward to taking in my first. Hockey game here and getting away the land tomorrow, but what a cool spot. Yeah, you should go visit the Mormon Tabernacle Choir That's quite a new. I know you just I know you just got in the room KG, but can you explain? Have you what phase are you at? Have you laid everything out? Is it all set up per your? routine travel routine Yeah. See, I get, I get real anxiety if I don't unpack all my stuff at every stop. And I get made fun of by my coworkers, but I got in the room about quarter after, so about 15 minutes to taping of this beautiful podcast that I had just enough time to get. All the clothes hung up, get the toiletries out, in position, get everything charging. Put my laptop. It is, it's all coming together here. Good. Glad to know you're, you're relaxed and set up. That is really good news. Um, any updates? I understand that there's been some additional injuries to the Minnesota Wild, uh, team. Yeah, it's, uh, it's a tough. It's like a mass unit over there. Yeah, it's just, it hasn't just been, uh, so we were, we were talking on the airplane. They've, uh. They've played 58 games and they've had their quote unquote official full healthy lineup six games out of the 58. So roughly 10 percent and now it's not just the that you're missing people. You're missing two of your best and Capri and likely until well into April. So we're looking at five or six weeks here. And the hard thing is right now is trying to score goals. You know, you've got your one good top line with oldie and yeah, Uh, Rossi and Zuccarello, but you know, you've got guys like Freddie Gaudreau who are checking line guys playing a top six role. So, for them to generate offense, it's going to be a challenge. They're going to need to really tighten things up defensively and get some good goaltending and the good news is they've had such a great season. They've got 24 games left. They probably only need to win 12 of them, so just go 500 and I guess the silver lining would be if you can get Ek and Kaprizov back to good health, that's still a big if. But if you can, they'll be fresh legged and ready to go for the playoffs. And uh, Faber and Boldy certainly acquitted themselves well at the Four Nations tournament. Yeah, they did. You know, they both ended up playing significant minutes, and I think for young players that are like 23 years old. They probably came into the tournament wondering, you know, do I belong? Can I be a a go to guy or am I just, you know, window dressing and they ended up both being huge factors. I mean, Faber was playing a top defensive pairing with Slavin and Boldy ended up getting the the most minutes up front in that championship game. So, that's gotta be a real confidence booster. Not that they needed a lot of confidence boosted because they've been so good all year long for Minnesota but it's gotta make them feel like now they're on the precipice of becoming. We're going to be talking about the new star players in this league and that's a great thing. I mean, if you're a wild band, you watch that tournament. Uh not just the two American guys but the three guys that played for Sweden back before he got hurt, protein and all these guys look really good against the world's best. So, yeah, this team is I think in the next couple of years, we're going to make a cup run and I think, you know, Minnesota deserves it. These hockey fans have stood by this team for a long time and it's been a while. It's been a hot minute since they've had a chance to really Become relevant and with a playoff push into the second and third round and I think it's coming, you know This isn't this isn't wooden sticks, you know Who would show you around I just had one little piece of it But yes, you say it is a big deal for them to play to play for the US team, right? That's kind of a Confidence that's a that's a huge honor, right? That's what I gauge that that's pretty cool Well, I mean, think about how many, how many Americans play the game of hockey and you're one of the 20 best out of all those hundreds of thousands of people that play hockey and have played hockey. Um, yeah, it's a huge honor and the guys all talked about it and I think, you know, there was speculation before the tournament, you know, are these guys going to be all the way bought in? It's in the middle of their National Hockey League season. We found out early in that tournament how much it matters to these guys. There wasn't a lot of money in the line. It was all about pride for one's country and, uh, Man, it was so much fun to watch it was entertaining and pretty passionate. Yeah, a lot of people watched representing your country, what a cool opportunity and I just have to say a local gal By the name of Tatum druche who's I don't know 15 or 16 years old was one of Riley's teammates at flips gymnastics Just made the national gymnastics team and I think it's only like I think it's only 15 girls And that's like the Simone Biles team. Like she's part of the top 15 best The highest of the high. Yeah. Wow. And she, um, in the qualifying, she took first place on beam. You have to see the routine that she did. How she got on to the beam was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. And I couldn't imagine She, like, does this tumbling flip onto the beam. And some gymnasts do that, but there was something wacky. I couldn't even, I couldn't wrap my head around what she was doing. And I couldn't imagine how many times did she fail that and hit her head on the beam or her shoulder. I mean, those girls are tough. It's unbelievable. So, Tatum Druche. She's, uh, I've always said Tatum, you're fun to watch. I mean, from the age of like six years old, you knew this kid was going to be something special. So someone to watch for, huh? Yeah, speaking of athletes, um, I'd like to take us down a, uh, a rather unsavory road. We'll, we'll get to, uh, oxytocin day before the end of the program here. But, uh, earlier today I received a text message, an urgent text message from my wife that a, uh, certified letter was delivered to our door addressed to the, to the, what are you laughing about? This is serious business. Alright. It was addressed, Kindness Chronicles podcast, John Lawrence Schweitz IV. My address, subject, cease and desist. Oh ho ho! Uh oh! Nobody likes that. I want to take you back. We told a story back, uh, when Charlie Walters was on about a young man, St. Thomas baseball player who had the greatest walk off in the history of baseball. He was a guy who decided that he was no longer going to play baseball. And he said, I'm gonna go out with a bang. And he launched a home run. When you hear his response, you'll understand that, you know, the the legendary status of that home run is in question. But what we said was But what we said was it was one of the longest home runs, or maybe I said the longest home run. Hit and hit at that field and, uh, and then as he, as he rounded the bases, he started to undress. And by the time he got to home plate, he turned in his equipment, went over, shook hands with the coaches, said, thank you for the opportunity and walked away. Legendary. In his underpants. Nice. That's a legendary story. However, everyone should be talking about that everyone to that point for the rest of time I told the University of st. Thomas president about it. Really? It's a story that needs to be told listeners know however Okay, it's good reminder ever. Yeah, that was but then today I get a letter certified mind you this is today or yesterday today Okay, dear. Mr. Schweitz It has come to my attention that on the September 27th, 2024 episode of the Kindness Chronicles podcast titled, Charlie Walters, between the timestamp 1945, an inaccurate portrait. Why are we laughing? It's a serious time frame. That's interesting. An inaccurate portrayal of my character. and personal accomplishments were disseminated to the public. Such misrepresentations have the potential to cause reputational harm and mislead your audience. I am well within my rights to demand immediate corrective action. Your statements, whether unintended or otherwise, contain falsehoods about certain elements of my personal and professional life. Fake news, I would say. As a result, I am compelled to request the following corrections. Number one. The baseball that I hit was far from the longest home run ever hit at the field on the corner of Creighton and Selby. Spelled Creighton wrong. It's Creighton. Sorry, Mr. Hulls. Multiple players. It wasn't as far as you said. Well, that's what he's claiming. I have a response to this letter, by the way. Multiple players have recorded longer home runs, to name a few, Hunter Hart, who, Jake Smith, whatever, Matt Dolan, Kyle Halverson, that one I might believe, and Jake Porter, have all bested me in distance. I may have far, I may have the farthest hit record at that field, but that occurred in a prior year. Regardless of whether the pitcher was in a car accident the night before. He hung a change up that I sent to midfield of the neighboring soccer pitch. Along with your sons, Graham Lobsher will attest to this. Item number two, my jersey stayed on. Oh. My pants however did not. Oh. The jersey was a t shirt that was two sizes too large and the number 78 on the back. Jerseys we got to keep, pants were rentals. I stripped down in the dugout and asked Ryan Brunner to attend to my pant return. Failure to comply with these demands will result in a formal escalation, including but not limited to revoking John Jack Lawrence Schweitz V's standing invitation to Fyre Fest, and two, I hope you know by now, I hope you by now have discovered the satire of this letter. Pretty damn funny. I was like freaking out. Yeah, let me finish. I heard through the grapevine that a retelling of my quitting story was on the Kindness Chronicles. This week I met President Vischer of the University of St. Thomas and he inquired about my departure from baseball. I told him the story. Yeah. I simply told him to ask Coach Olein. That interaction sparked me to take some time away from law school. To write this. In all seriousness, your telling of the story was fantastic. Don't change a thing. I hope this official looking letter didn't scare you too much. It did. And that you recognize the Minnesota Knights beneath it. Just like the kindness you share on the Kindness Chronicles. Sincerely, William B. J. Hulls. Chicago, Kent College of Law, Class of 26, University of St. Thomas Baseball, 2017 to the first weekend of Fall Ball 2019, Housemate of Jack Schweitz, 2021 to 2023, Honorary Housemate 2018, Fyre Fest Host. Okay. Gave me his phone number. So you responded to him, but, but let me just say. Yes. What an amazing, uh, detailed, complicated, uh, specific letter he put together. Well, clearly he's, uh, he's playing, he's playing office. He's playing office with this. He's practicing the practice. I'm wondering who he's going to charge those hours to, because I'm sure. Knowing someone's got to pay, right? It definitely was a very serious looking. You showed us a photo of that. It literally, and Becky didn't really look at it when she sent me the text message and I'm driving and I no longer text and drive anymore. So I pulled over, I pulled over because I was like, what the hell is this? And I start reading and I'm like, Oh my God, this guy's lost his mind. And what did I say? You know, well, here's my response. Let's hear your response. Dear Mr. Hulls, I am in receipt of your certified letter. I would have offered a date that said letter was crafted, however, your document contained no date. Be better, Mr. Hulls. The Kindness Chronicles makes every effort to ensure the authenticity of the information that is presented to its ever expanding listening audience. This is a fact based program, but we will never Let the truth undermine the power of a great story. Never. We have consulted our general counsel and feel confident that our portrayal of your actions On the date in question, are consistent with eyewitness accounts, and can only be seen as legendary. I'd suggest you brush up on your tort law, and let these matters be left to the adults. Yours truly, Actual Lawyer. John Schweitz. Wow! Yes. A vinyl up high and down hard. And I can tell you that efforts have been made to connect with Mr. Hulls and offer for him to come on the show and explain himself. Those calls have yet to be returned. Stay tuned everybody. So we gotta get to the bottom of this. The legal, legal chronicle, chronicles here. Well, it's uh, you know, I guess lawfare, you know, you hear all about lawfare in the news these days. It's made it to the land of the kindness chronicles. It's it was bound to do it. It was bound to go there with our with our just, you know, off the cuff storytelling Well, you know and sometimes you're gonna get a fact wrong, but I mean that doesn't stop all the news I will add that I think your story was way better than his corrections of the story who cares what he's his Corrections somehow he believes that this might undermine his Opportunities for what for as a lawyer I suppose, you know, this could show up in his So his name is B. J. Hulls. Sounds like a funny guy. He's a damn funny guy. And his dad is even, his dad is a great dude. Um, I texted his dad and I said, your son is, uh, your litigious son is coming after the Kindness Chronicles and we're about to lawyer up. You know what? We got a couple on retainer, right? Well, we, you know, while I claim to be an actual lawyer, um, you know, the law I practice is about, uh, 0. 4 percent of my, uh, my life, so. Anyway, we're, uh, we're going to consult, you know, people at, uh, the Fagry firm, probably a little dorsy. Wow. You know, Great Plant Moody. We're, we're covered. We're going after this guy. Uh oh. Oh, there's my mother calling. We're going to have to, uh, end this one. Decline that. We'll call you later, Mom. Wow. Well, I'm not going to interrupt the kind of chronicles. The show must go on. Yeah, the show must go on. She should know better. Well, you know, she knows that this is the night that we do this. Or is it? No, not always, yeah. We do it on Tuesdays. No, it actually isn't. You're right. You know, we're just trying to accommodate Mr. Gorg and his, uh, exceptional, uh, work schedule. So, Steve. Yeah. What's been going on with you? The weather certainly has gotten a lot better. I mean, you gotta talk about, there's always gotta be a weather, uh. Yeah. I mean, the last time you're here, it was 70 degrees colder. It's a shift, man. We had the fire on down here cause it was cold. Uh, it's so great to see the grass again, or to see the, at least see the land. Um, I, I step outside during the day, get a little sun on my face. It's beautiful. It's beautiful, beautiful. It's lovely. KG. What's it like in Utah right now? Actually very similar. Uh, it's no, it's, uh, upper forties, lower fifties. It's a sunny. It's uh, it really is. It's beautiful. And um, yeah, I just, this time of year is living back in Minnesota, you get to the state tournament, you realize the below zero stuff is probably gone. You're going to get one more crushing, you know, one or two, 12 to 18 inches of snow. One more is always a big March snowstorm, but I've always said the state tournament gets you out of the below zero weather. And if you get to the masters week, In early April, if you live in our part of the country, you've made it kind of officially to spring where you can start actually getting outside, throw the shorts on once in a while and feel like you survived winter. It just, it just puts you in that, you can see the lightening in the tunnel. You feel like you do a shift in your mind like, okay, winter, winter Steve can go away now and you start thinking about spring. It's just your mind is starting to go there. It's a great, great feeling. And it's, it's almost kind of an oxytocin sort of feeling. I would say. And we're gonna get to the oxytocin day in just a moment. I have, uh, I've got some interesting news. I was at a, uh, breakfast with a bunch of, uh, older gentlemen, uh, at the Masonic home. I delivered doughnuts from the doughnut hut in Little Canada. If you've never been there, run, don't walk. They're closed on Mondays. But without question, the finest, greasiest doughnuts you've ever consumed. What flavor, John? What's the top of the food chain there? So I, you know, I like just a plain old cake donut with the white frosting and it's like crunchy on the outside, still warm. Oh yeah. Yeah. And soft on the inside. But they also have a, they also have a, uh, it looks like a bow tie. And I'm a white frosting kind of a guy. Oh yeah, I've seen those bow tie donuts. And again, you bite into it and it's like crunchy on the outside and almost Almost raw on the inside. Have you ever had So that's the Donut Hut in where? Donut Hut. Little Canada. Little Canada. Have you ever had a Bogart's brown butter? Okay, the Bogart's are good. I'm telling you, this is better. I'm not kidding you. Really? Not much tops. Bogart's brown butter. Yeah, that's very cliche. This is, this is, I'm telling you, run, don't walk. I used to be a Maplewood Bakery guy, fantastic donuts. My sister said, give this place a try. I've been stopping there every Tuesday and bringing staff donuts in. Well, I'm gonna, well, I don't get to Little Canada very often, but Stop on your way up to White Bear Lake. Actually, that's not too bad. It's right off of Little Canada Road. I'm gonna look that up. I'll treat the office this week. Do they have glazed? Oh, God. They, yes. What's your favorite, though? I love If I was gonna get a box I love a glazed. Go in there and just say, mix it up. Give us a little bit of everything. Do they have mini, like, little I also like the blueberry ones at Dunkin No, I mean, Dunkin Donuts. Come on, man. Give me a break. Gotta go, gotta go micro. We're talking fresh. There's a couple of, there's a couple of little people in the back room that are bringing them out. They're steaming hot. Ooh. God, they're good. God, does that sound good right now? I had, I ate three of them the other day. Don't tell anybody. your voice gets all sexy. You wouldn't hear, you wouldn't imagine what my blood sugar was at when I was done with those. But you know what? Sometimes you just gotta live it up. I don't have fat camp until next Tuesday, so I'm just living large. You gotta have a couple donuts. That's life. We're living and gotta enjoy it every once in a while. So anyways, back to the donuts. I deliver donuts to these gentlemen who live in our townhouses around the Masonic home. What are you doing there, KG? Yeah, she's doing a Are you shuffling? Transmission? Well, so I On the airplane, we have a nutritionist that flies with the team. Okay. And they gave us something to try. Oh. And I wanted to Since we're talking donuts, I've never had anything like this. They are skinny dipped lemon bliss almonds. Oh, yes. And I want to tell you right now I've had those. They're incredible. Yep. I've had them. They're incredible. Powdered with this really lemony flavor. Mm hmm. It's great, yes. Outstanding. Well, I'm going to the airport tomorrow morning, so I may have to find some of their What's the brand? It's a yellow packaging. Yellow package, yep. Skinny dip. Skinny dip, okay. Like this, this big. Where are you flying to, John? Flying to Phoenix. Got some, uh, people to visit down there for work. Uh, was in South Texas last weekend. That was an interesting adventure. I've been traveling way too much. Did you have any Texas barbecue? I did. Oh, yes. In fact, I had never been that, you know, there's the Texas Roadhouse place, whatever law of the Texas. I know. I know. I, they have a, a Longhorn steakhouse that we went to that was exceptional. And then there was a Longhorn barbecue. And, uh, I mean, it's just, it's, it's something down there back to the rest of the story. We can't get caught on the door at the food. So anyways, these guys, uh, are, you know, members, they're, they're, they're senior citizen kind of guys. Yeah. You know, delivered them a big box of these donuts and, uh, one of the guys says, what's your name again? And I told him John Schweitz and he goes, well, you know what that means in German, don't you? What? Yeah. He goes, how do you spell it? And I said, S C H W I E T Z. Uh oh. He goes, well, Wehrschweiz means sweaty. Sweat stained. Are you serious? I'm not kidding, you look it up. V E R S C H W I T Z T John. Wehrschweiz. Schweiz. I am sweaty and sweat stained. Which is so appropriate because you know, how hot did I get? Yeah, when you give presentations. I didn't have a chance when I was born. It was upper pole. Yeah, so, he thought that that was really funny. And of course, I immediately started sweating. So, it just uh, Right on cue. Right on cue. Confirmed everything. You never heard that before from your relatives or anything? No, well we're We're of Polish descent. Okay. Okay. But so he's going to German, he's going to German, but you know what? If I go to Germany, yeah. Hi, my name is John sweat. Although there are people like Keith sweat, remember Keith sweat? Sure. There's a R and B and then, uh, there's a football player named something von Tez or something. Sweat. Good player. You wouldn't know as well. I mean, I might've seen him, but yeah. KG. So how are your nuts? Lemony. Lemony. Um, They're good. I'm going to stop chewing them on the podcast. I'm going to wait till we get done and probably engulf the rest of that bag. It's terrific. There's other flavors, but those are the lemon are really good. Very nice. So, um, we wanted to talk about oxytocin. Well, it's just a reminder of our campaign. We have a thing called oxytocin Sunday, which is we're taking back our algorithms, right? You can, uh, basically in small ways, don't beat yourself up and watch crap on Instagram or on Facebook or trying to find stuff that's encouraging, enlightening, exciting, interesting, gives you that boost of oxytocin so you can start out your next week. With, uh, upbeat stuff. It's just our little campaign to think about it. I can attest to the fact that I have had people come up to me and say I am practicing Oxytocin Day. Yeah. And I think they like saying it. I think that it's fun to say. It's a catchy little thing. It is. And if you recall, that was invented on the fly. Right here in the basement studio. It came to us, it was almost like it was, uh It came from above. It was a flash of brilliance. It's a marketing, it's like a good marketing angle. And my, uh, my, my buddy Mark from my office said, Hey, he goes, Did you have a good oxy toe Sunday? I'm like, Whoa! And he goes, Yeah. He goes, You guys should come up with a A kind app and I'm like you are listening goes. Oh, yeah, I listen an app when we talked about having a kind app, but but anyway So I want to encourage everyone to continue that and give us some feedback. Tell us how it's going give us a shout out on Facebook join up on our Facebook page and You know give us some feedback to see how your oxytocin days going if it really is going to for instance Maybe it's not working. Tell us about it. Absolutely. We're trying and I would like to invite everyone to the very first live Taping of a kindness chronicles podcast Wow, which is scheduled for May 21st We're going live at the Masonic Heritage Center in the Ives auditorium beautiful 450 seat auditorium All right. All right come first serves could be standing room only or there might be crickets. We don't know What can they expect to do so? We're using it as an opportunity to to recognize all of our scholarship recipients for our Masonic Scholarship Program. But the catch is, we're going to have a special recognition and invite those people who were selected as Selfless Scholar Nominators. Okay. To read their nominations live. Okay. And acknowledge the person. Like we've done in the past, but just we've called them. But, but, we've done it like that, but this is going to be live and we're going to hope Way bigger. That both the person who did the nominating and the person that they nominated and their parents will be there. Cool. And I think it'll, uh, you know, we're hoping for some great stories, the deadline for The Selfless Scholarship Program is April 15th. I know that there are a number of schools that have been promoting the heck out of it. We've, uh, we've already gotten several hundred stories. And, you know, young people always like to work, wait till the last minute, so. It sounds like fun. So, they're gonna be seeing us sitting on stage talking. Talking. That sounds like, and interviewing these, these kids. Well, you know, I mean, it's, we're gonna, you know, I'll do some knock knock jokes. We better dress up a little bit. Well, I'm not doing that. No, we're not dressing up. No, no. Although, KG, you could wear one of those sporty sport coats that you got. One of those new sport coats. Yep. Yeah, I could, but I prefer to come in like one of my, uh, unreal hoodies. I'm, I'm, I'm just obsessed with the quality of unreal hoodies, but unreal, you know, Minnesota company, Mankato state, I believe where these young lads went to, no, no, is he a Mankato state guy? Oh, wow. I know it's Minnesota. I just ordered 100. Unreal quarter zips with the Masonic Charities logo on it. Really? From the Minnesotan, our friend Corey Roberts, who's a listener. Yep. Yeah, I have a four inch double medium, so I would expect one in the mail here. I'll come in and talk at some point. I'd appreciate one. Well, I will say, I will say, what I will tell you is, maybe we could wear those as like our uniform that night. That's a great idea. Um, did I say Kindness Chronicles? Or Masonic Charities? You said Masonic Charities. Yeah, that was what I did. Maybe we'll make some Kindness Chronicles ones. Let's do it! Oh my god. It's gonna be fantastic. Um, alright, so, mark your calendars, May 21, that's a Wednesday night, if you plan to have hors d'oeuvres, it's free, free of charge, it's Wednesday or Thursday night, that is a, uh, I think it's a Wednesday night, it's a Monday night isn't it, nah, it's May 21st, it's a Wednesday, yeah, it's a Wednesday, you'll probably be in Edmonton or something with the Minnesota Wild, but, yeah, exactly, now back to the uh, the attire, yeah, if we get those hoodies, they're not gonna be hoodies, they're gonna be quarter zips, Quarters if we can order, you know, the Kansas City Royals have their black libs with the KC on them. Yeah. If you do a black quarters zip with a KC Royals hat, this KC would obviously be our initials. This guy, he's got the wardrobe set up. Yeah, he's like a wardrobe guy. Come on now. He knows. Hey, the, uh, the Oscars are coming up. Uh, do you pay attention to when they talk about, uh, costume design and Those kind of things? You probably do, don't you? I don't get too involved in that. My big ones are always best picture. Oh, really? Top actor, actress. And I'm going to tell you right now, if they don't give it to my guy, um, from the Bob Dylan movie, Yeah. Um, a complete unknown. If, if Timothée Chalamet doesn't get it this year, I may have to boycott the Oscars moving forward. And he's not even the Betty's favorite. Right now, the guy in the Brutalist is, and I know Who's the Brutalist? He's got the reputation. Oh, is that Adrian Yeah, Brody. Adrian Brody. Yeah. He's great, but I saw the movie, and I could barely stay awake. Do you remember Did you win one already? The Bob Dylan movie four times. He did. Yes, he's won it already. For the The P& S. P& S. It's a good movie. Did you say P& S? What did you say? P& S. I'm sorry, what? Hey, let me see, let me hear you say, uh, Timothy's name again. What's his name again? Timothee Chalamet. Wow. It's Chalamet, I think. I think that's what he said. Well, that's close. He gave the French pronunciation of it. Chalamet. Chalamet. Hey, KG, have you seen, uh, I think it's up for something, but have you seen this animation called Flow? But a cat? No, I've not seen Flo. Wait, did you hear the crickets in the background when he asked that question? Anyway, it's great. Also, I'm excited for the Oscars because Conan O'Brien is hosting and I love Conan O'Brien. I know you do. Yeah. I do too. He's so, so good. Isn't there some transgender person that's up for Yeah. Oh yeah, I saw a trailer for that movie. Some, like, it's like a musical, but it's like a gangster musical or a drug dealer musical. Yeah, like a terroristic, uh, drug lord. I heard some of the songs, like they played them on a show that I was listening to. It's the most, it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. I don't know. It doesn't sound like it's going to be on my radar. I don't know. We're, we're watching the trailer and all of a sudden it says something about a musical like, this is a musical? And then they start kicking in the songs and it's very different. It looks very different. Well, this is clearly a random chatter episode for us, but that's fine. Have you seen the, the new episodes of Jack Reacher? Of Reacher? No. Oh my God. God, that guy is something he is one bad. Yeah. He's a ass. I said it. Wow. I know up the bleep that out. Uh, by the way, there's a new show on Netflix that I is getting rave reviews and I started watching it on my flight out here today with Bobby De Niro. Uh, it's called day one and he is, uh, I'm sorry. It's called zero day. My bad. Yeah. Zero day. Zero day. And Robert De Niro is a president. From days gone by, he's obviously retired, living the good life as an elder statesman. And we get a cyber attack here, uh, mythically speaking in the United States where everything gets to be chaos and they bring him back in. I'm just starting it the first 40 minutes. Oh my gosh. Intense. I love so good love shows like that called Zero Day. Check it out guys. Who's playing the, uh, the current president? The real pre the, the president. That, that's de that's it's a, it's a gal. Oh. Um, and I, I haven't seen her yet. I only saw. The house speaker, which was the guy from Vision Quest, Matthew Modine. Oh, wow. Vision Quest. Yeah. Only the young can, how's that song go? Only the young can drive. Yeah. There's our singer. Journey. Uh huh. That was a little pitchy. Oh my gosh, Steve Perry. Steve Perry's good. Yeah, Steve. Yeah, you're not Steve Perry. You're Steve Brown. I'm just a Steve. By the way, how about the crazy small world experience that you had as it relates to Camp O'Dayen? Oh, yeah. How about that? Yeah, so so who sent you that? Was that Sarah? Well, we had Sarah Meslohan from Camp O'Day And she sent me a nice little gift box. I don't know if you guys know that's nice. No, it was just had chocolates She knew my address not yours. Yeah, but what she just she recalled that she knew the band Oh my god, so she talked to her cousin Jeff Jeff And Jeff said, Steve Brown's band, Johnny Clueless, played at our first, like, fundraising event. And Steve does not recall that, but you know, he was very popular back in the day. No, here's the thing. If I heard what, what, maybe I didn't know what the venue was. It could have been a couple different groups or something. If I would hear what the venue was and kind of when it was, I would know. But, um, I, I don't recall it. Yeah, you were probably kind of big time at that point. You just came in and said, Where do I sing it with your British accent? Show me the stage. Why do I have a British accent somehow? What's this for? No, I, I'm sure if someone would help me remember where, like, what it was. Cause I don't, I don't know anything about it, but. That kind of sounds familiar to me. I have to talk to Jeff. So I'm going to talk to Jeff and we're going to work on setting up something with him. Um, and his, his brother. And you weren't, you weren't high or anything like that. No, so you were, this is drug free. I could remember every stupid show he did. So you know what? I don't care really if anybody ever even listens to this show. I just love, you know, chatting, BSing with you guys. This is big fun. This is fun. No, this is a good show. Yeah, colorful characters. Anyway. You know what? It's been a terrific show. We've given you probably more than you deserve. Um, what do we got? Uh, we're at 33 minutes and 41 seconds. Go get those donuts. Look at the John Spout. Donut Hut. One more time, John. The name of the place. It's Donut Hut. And tell us how to get there. It's Donut Hut. It's right off of Little Canada Road in Little Canada. Put it in your Google thing. It'll take you there. Have a donut on Sunday night. No, no, no. On the weekends, you can expect a long line. I like to get there really early on Tuesday, and I can choose all of my donuts without feeling pressure of people behind me. Cause you know sometimes You've got a strategy for your doughnut. I'm just gonna quick, back to the doughnuts before we, off we go. So, if you're there and there's a bunch of people behind you, you can tell that people are like eyeing a particular, you know, God, there's only one of those crawlers left, or there's only one Bowties. Of the bowties left. I mean, they got these pinwheel things, they got, it's just, it's just, Apple fritters that are the size of a frisbee Alright, now you got me. Cause fritters, it's fruit. No, I'm just an apple fritter guy. Fritter Fridays. Fri They're phenomenal you need to go there. I'm gonna go there before Friday, but anyways There's pressure though because there's people behind you and if you take the last of a donut So here's what I do because I'm the kindness Chronicles guy I will say I would like two dozen donuts you mix them up and you people in line if you see her taking One of the last donuts of the kind that you want you do that. I would do that. Wow, John I know because I didn't you know, I don't also have experience you've been there a lot You probably have behind the people that somebody took the last white cake on it. That's nice. They kind of looked at me and sneered You know, they looked at me like, Ha ha. Ha ha, look what I got. Well, if we have learned anything today, if we haven't done any kindness, that is a great example of, uh, of kindness that we can be passing on to our, our listeners. And, and, and, and it kind of, it, it, it, It's a thinker. It lowers the temperature in the room. Because there are people that are there, if they don't get their donut, the one that they want, Yeah. Oh my god, and then they got them, you know, they got the maple ones which are disgusting. I don't like any maple I don't like coconut and I don't like nuts um, oh Please so you haven't you had a strategy because you've been burned before so you're well, I just you're a compassionate donut orderer I don't want some little seven year old kid sitting behind me that wants the last with the sprinkles. Yeah, and then you're like Grabs it. Yeah, I don't want to be that guy. Don't be that guy So, yeah, I guess I, uh, I'm a kind fellow when it comes to, uh, sharing the doughnuts. All that matters is that in my to go bag I get the two, we call those the sneak doughnuts. I, I get, I get two boxes of a dozen each, okay? And then I ask for a side bag with the two doughnuts that I can buy, that I consume on my way to work. It's like the sausage that KG tastes. It's like the sausage. Nobody knows the difference because you get there and both boxes are on top of each other. All the evidence, the evidence has been destroyed. And then here you have the two more at the office, they won't know you've had four. That's exactly right. So you have one before the meeting, and then when everybody leaves and there's a couple left, you look around and see if anybody's looking, and you grab another one and run into your office. So you're kind of being kind to yourself. Well, not kind of my blood sugar, but that's okay. Oh, good. Though. When I first hit your lips, KG on that note, enjoy Utah safe out there. Go wild. And off we go.