Finding Kindness during Road Construction Season

It's our favorite "season," Road Construction. The "KC Clown Car" addresses the challenges of finding kindness in an otherwise dumpster fire of traffic in the Twin Cities. 

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Welcome to the Kindness Chronicles, where once again, we hope to inject the world with the dose of the Minnesota. Please stop doing that. Wow. You know, I still got, I still got some two kindness that it desperately needs. You know, I went and witnessed the Johnny Clueless experience. Oh, we got to introduce everyone who's here, John? It's clown car people. We got, uh, Steve Brown here. Hi. As a regular. Yeah. We've got our, uh, 50-year-old intern here. We got KG on the line. Where are we calling you at? I'm at home. I'm in beautiful Minnetonka on this, uh, summary May evening and, uh, yeah, the puppies are settled in, got'em out for a nice walk and I'm ready to roll. And we got Michael Dempsey, who recently recovered from a tree stump, grinding accident. Oh no, I know. It looks fantastic. Thank you. I got all my fingers. All your fingers. Let's check in with Dempsey for the month, man. That's good. That's good. Checking in with Dempsey and let's just talk about for a second. There are certain things that a man shouldn't do on his, own. You shouldn't do your own dentistry. Yeah, that's right. You probably shouldn't do your own plumbing or electrical work maybe. Yeah, right. Okay. Not, not when it gets into the deeps of it yet. When you're getting into it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And, and yeah. Anything doing with trees, you know, when you start knocking down, limbs are gonna fall in your head. Yeah. Or wreck your property or your neighbor's property or whatever. I would also say that you, I didn't do your own oil changes, but I didn't, you know, but you, but we're talking about the guy who said, I think it was you, you know, when you're checking in with Dempsey, he's always gotta have all the callbacks. You, you had the, uh, trap shooting the folks. And on that episode. John admitted to not being an outdoorsman. He was an indoors endorse. He was an endorse. I'm an avid endorse man. Oh, avid endorsement. That's right. That's just a, we have that in common. It's like in the movie Titanic, when he said, you're a look a little bit more like an indoor girl to me when she was on the That's right. About to jump on. That's right Michael. Good line. Can you explain the, uh, the grinder? Tell that quick story.'cause that was kind of funny. I wanted these guys to see that. Oh. Uh, tell the listeners about what. Yeah, so, I live on about five acres, in Blaine. I've said I, I live in Blaine and lots of trees dying over the last five to 10 years. Emerald D Bore and whatnot. So lots of trees down and a ton of stumps. And my wife was gonna be out of town and I said. Well, that's a perfect weekend for me to rent one of these units. Lose a finger. Yeah. 200, you know, so she was prepared. Yeah. So she was, she was not happy. And, we're empty nest for a couple of weeks Right. Until the youngest moves, you know, back you had a whole open weekend. Yeah, the whole weekend. Weekend. So I, so I'm gonna write the stump grinder and, and she says to my daughters, check in on your dad. Make sure you check in on your dad. So my middle daughter drives up. And she says, uh, it's time to check in. I said, wait, wait, wait. I gotta put some bandages around my head and get a bloody mom, you know, or something. Take that picture and send it to mom. I love it. And that's, yeah, that's, that's what I, so you shouldn't be left home alone. Well, no. I, I, that's right. But hey, listen, I, I think I got 25 stumps. Ground. Did you really? That's right. Yeah. That's a lot. It's a lot of stumps. Oh yeah. It's a lot of stumps. A lots trees. Trees. Yes. And you operate it yourself. You just turn, you turn it on the thing and start grinding. Yeah, it's all hydraulic. Wow. Yeah, it's amazing. And let me tell you, it's all ball bearing. Come on guys. Being, being a frugal guy, right? I mean, if you, if you hire a guy to do that, it's like$500 a stump. It is. It's, it's unbelievable. But you rent this machine is that much. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I just, I just had it done. Yeah. It's, it's, it's crazy. It's crazy. Lot. Are we seriously gonna talk about stump grinding? Can we, we talk about donuts. Hey. 500 times 25. No. Yeah. No. Come on. You, you saved yourself a bunch of money. Listen, I, I'm glad you guys, John. Hey. Way to stretch. By the way. We didn't cover donuts. We're not, we didn't, we're there started. We're not there yet. We didn't, I mean, you got to, you went with, we'll, we didn't talk about hockey. There was no wooden sticks. Way to go. Oh man. How about we just getting started? Disrespectful. Yeah. Yeah. The full house. Hey, let me tell you something, Nick. I don't like how this is going. Stu grinding. Stump grinding is the sign of spring though, right? It's a sign of spring, right? No, I don't think it is. But what maybe it is. I thought birds chirping was a sign of spring and anyway, you know, what's a sign of spring? What? Road construction. Oh, oh yeah. Yes. A sign of Spring Road construction. It's the season, and the topic for today is coping, kindness, coping, coping with road construction, and the chaos on the roads last week. Interesting. We had a very rare appearance in studio with Mr. Gorg and to get from Minnetonka to Madam, which is across town. Yeah, yeah. But you know, late afternoon, what did it take you? An hour and a half to get here. Hour and 35 minutes. My, which I think is ridiculous. Oh my, that's a lot of orange cones. You should take the chopper next time. The est chopper. It should, it should take 35 minutes and it took an hour and 35 minutes. Yeah. Wow. But I have experienced some lovely behavior on the roads, huh. And not so lovely behavior on the roads. And I would like to just talk about how we can cope. With the situation that we're all dealing with. Right. We're all in this together. Right, right, right, right. It's all, it's, it's all our roads to, to share. Right. And I wanna start with, you know, people bitch about folks that aren't going into their work. They're working from home. Work from home. Stay off my roads, I gotta get into the office. Yeah. Right? Yep. Wow. Why do we have to judge other people for working at home? I don't know. I mean, it's all about you, John. It's all about you. I agree. I mean, it's all, it's all about the traffic. Well tell what happened. I mean, what happened and is it happened multiple times? Well, I'm gonna give you an example here. Okay? Thank you. So, uh, just, uh, last must have been last Thursday. I. It's about three o'clock in the afternoon and I was driving across town. You'd think three o'clock in the afternoon, it's gonna be just fine. You know how a zipper merges? Oh, oh, okay. Your cord bumped the button. Oh wow. Oh wow. That's interesting. That's the sound effects. You were driving at three Way to go at that KG open washing machine or something. I was going from one important event to another. Yes. And you know how zipper merge is supposed to work? Mm-hmm. Well, there was, there were four cars in a row that would not let me zip like they were bumper to bumper, and like they would, they would go by me and they, they stared me down. Hmm. What's the rule with that? I think I understand what it's, it's a zipper one. Then the next Okay. Then the next, yeah. I, I debate with my wife about this a lot because she says that. It's supposed to work where everyone goes up and then you zipper at the end. But most people are like, they try to hold back, so no, they don't know how to zipper merge. Yeah. You're supposed, are you talking about the, uh, where the traffic light sort of manages the traffic or when you're all just merging? No, this was merging so there was lanes changing the right lanes. The right lane was wide open. So I blew down the right lane. Oh. Which is what you're supposed to do. It doesn't feel right, but you are, it doesn't feel right. It doesn't feel very Minnesota. But when you pass all those cars, it feels great. It does. You're getting ahead, you're managing your time wisely. It's all about time management. All, all hotty and full of yourself. Okay. That's because all the other people are waiting patiently. Like the, like the patient students that they are. Yeah. And then when some jerk goes by, they don't realize, and his BMW I've been waiting is white. BMW. Yeah. Yeah. Stolen maybe, but let's face it that is it. You're supposed to do that. You are correct. Because if everybody feel it doesn't, it doesn't feel right, but it feels so good. So public services, everyone go to that spot and then you, then you zipper you trade out. Once you're together, you don't have to give look of, no one's mad of anger. No one should be mad. No one should be mad. Was it just a look? Oh, or did you No, there was no finger gestures. Not on that salute. Time salutes. There were no salutes. Just mean faces. Yeah. And I don't care for that. No. Well, who does? You're very sensitive. I. Yeah. Here I am trying to make the world a better place by going ahead of everyone. Oh boy. Well, no, probably follow of the road. They probably saw gloating. I, there's a lot of talking on top of each other. I, I have a thought too many fucking people in here. Think about it this way. We're in our car. This, I think we, comedians kind of mentioned this, but you're in our car, you're in your own little thing. Um, and so you feel like you have your four walls and you can just do whatever you want. Imagine that you're in a line in and everyone's open. Would you act the same way? In a line as you would with your car, or is your car a a shield where you can break social norms? No. No. You should act as if you are just standing next to someone, right? Yeah. Like we're all in convertibles and we are, we can talk to each other. I. I feel like I'm part of a community when I'm out in the I do. Yeah. That's a good, I that's a good mindset. Should, should, Jeff, you should think as you're just all in a line. Here's the thing though, you can't control the people around you. And so I have some strategies, but we don't have to get there. There. No, tell us your strategies. That's your strategy. Oh boy. Oh God. It's get, get a chart. We need some charts handy over here. We talked, we talked a little about virtual work. So technology is sort of the theme. And having worked at a technology company, so I, I love technology, but um, I recently got a car with CarPlay. I think that needs to be standard equipment. It allows my iPad, love it. iPhone to plug right in. I love somebody. Yes, I've always loved the spoken word format of learning. I am, I might, maybe it's because I'm a musician and I just like, listen and you know, you're not so smart. Well, and my mom and dad were in sales and they had sales tapes like Zig Ziglar and Tom Hopkins and Tony Robbins. Is this a long story already? I, uh, but I always had a car growing up with a cassette player. Well, now that we've got. Our iPhones, we can listen twenty four seven to the Kindness Chronicles, for example, or any kind exactly spoken word format. You want. Keep people laughing, keep'em focused on the, the really important things and about kindness and compassion for fellow human beings. You know what? That calms me. And so when people are giving me mean faces or finger gestures, I'm mutually kind of try to be in a zen mode. Oh wow. Like. A great, uh, uh, reaction to someone flipping you off is to wave at'em. Oh. You know, I like, like you think that they know you. Hey, I've blown kisses to people. Oh, wow. I'm not kidding. That doesn't help. No. You blow a kiss at somebody that gives you the finger and that could lead to other things. It is frustrating. Yeah. These days especially. I, I, well, uh, this has come up before, um, are you. Are you a hunker? Do you, do you like to honk? In fact, what's interesting is I, I hate honkers. You're a hunker though. No, I'm not all You're not a hunker? No. In fact, I drive a car. Why? My old land rover that I have Horn doesn't work. Which, which against the law. Yeah, it is. But there were, um, there were a couple of moments where I wish I did have the horn in that car kg, are you a honker? I'm not, but it's funny with Hello? Uh, when you travel out east, like Yes. Yes. If you go like New Jersey, New York. Yes. I can't believe how much they use their horns out there. It's so, it's so different than how it happens here in the Midwest. Yes. K kg. I was just out in New York. Well, yeah. I told you guys that I went and punched Elmo in the face for calling. Thank you. By the way. Calling, goodness. Calling John El Godo. You, knowdo I were you the one And I popped him right in the sout and then I ran. But, uh, I love it. They honking all the time, like as if the person in front of them doesn't wanna turn left. Right, right, right. I hate that. Well, in populated areas, the intention of the horn is different. Um, no, it's not a hold, it's not a hold on the horn, John. It's the horny crown. It's not a, it's not a long, long, because that's aggressive. It's little beeps. Oh, it's, it's, Hey, I'm right behind you. Oh. And I said, because I've been in, in high traffic areas in India. And horns are not, horns are not meant as a Hey jerk. It's like, beep, beep. I'm right here. Beep. Just always what's going on around you? So it's like a different language? It is. It's just, it's just a cultural, like here we are, beep beep. Everyone's just on their scooters or their, you know, tuck tucks, and I don't think I've ever heard, uh, in New York and beep. Beep beep be Are they pretty well, they're just bigger horns. Well, no, it's right. It's just one, um, octave below the, A goal was just scored in the Excel center. Exactly. Horn. Brutal. You're like, it's, it's, it's horrible. But that's, but is, but is that, but, so that's not kind that, can you use, like, like how do you, how, how would you, uh, psychologically. Sort of infuse kindness on the roads, then? Let me tell you. Yeah. Okay. Lemme tell you. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. I practice it every day. Okay. Okay. And I'm not kidding. I mean this sincerely I am, when I say that, when I'm on the road, I feel like I'm part of a community out there. Mm-hmm. I mean this sincerely. I wanna be the guy, and I swear to God this is true. Like I'm a wave them in. Go ahead. Go ahead. Ah, yeah. You know, kinda like there's a Seinfeld episode where he talks like, go ahead, ding. Because I want them to look at me and go, what a nice guy. You know? Right. Like at McDonald's, when you're going through the double drive through line, yeah. Mm-hmm. And you get Or Culver's or Culvers, you get there at the si. Same time. Most Culver's only have the one line you would know. Well, the experience. Have I told you about my secret credit card that I have that I used just for Fast? For? For fast food? No, you do not. Yeah, I have a special, but now you told it's outta the bag now, but my wife doesn't listen. It's just so she doesn't see it on the credit card statement. Wow. I bet you I put in the course of a month, 150 Diet Cokes on that thing. Hmm. At 2 0 5 a piece. That is so great. So anyway, the two lines. Yeah. So when you get to the two, when you're in the, the, the, and this to me is a traffic congestion issue. When you both make your order at the same time. Let's say that KG is in one line, ordering, ordering a macor and I'm in the other line. Yeah. And I'm ordering, uh, probably something like oatmeal. Okay. Yeah. Oh, of course. Oh yeah, Uhhuh. Yeah. Yeah. And we get to the same point choice. I will always let whoever that other person is go first. And they'll look at me like, really? And I'll go, yeah, just go. And then sometimes they buy my Diet Coke for me. Whoa. That's not why I do it. It's not why I do it. Not altruistic. But the truth of the matter is, is I feel like when we're on the road, we need to it, it has to be, we need to behave. Yeah. Like we're going to have to talk to those people. Right. Yeah. Because like you're standing in a line. Mm-hmm. Because you know when somebody lets you in. Oxytocin. Sure. Like what a great person. They let you, you're, you're given a gift and, and you're receiving a gift. Right? Because they then they the wave, how about when you don't get the wave? Oh, oh, oh. I, yeah. I like the wave. Yeah. Yeah. S my wave. Who are these people, don't they? I mean, honestly falls same thing when you let someone lets you in. Always give the quick like I do over your head. Yeah. So that they see that. Thanks a lot. That was cool that you let me in. I like to that roll down the window and give it the full Oh, oh, I do. I wanna make sure that they could see through the back, uh, window. Right. That's, that's good. That's very nice of you. I always do that. I'm glad, I'm glad you guys both do that.'cause I did that too. And my wife always looks at me like my wife never gives the wave. Does your wife give? My wife doesn't look. She just looks forward when she drives. Doesn't look around at all. Might be time to start drafting divorce papers, right? Mean? Oh, does your wife give the wave your wife give wave? She does not. My, my wife gives the wave. Does she give the wave? You know what, that's a, that's a deal breaker it there. Oh. But my wife won't look at anyone. She's afraid someone's gonna look at her when she's driving. I, when I drive, I look at people funny all the time. See, that's rubbernecking looking people. Yeah. I might see somebody I know. Me too. Yeah. But you're, you, you've talked about your wife being an introvert. She's an introvert. Yeah. And so that, and people have different. They're wired differently. Sometimes I'm up there running for mayor. Hey. Yes, you're That's right. That's right. Well, when you're doing so, you just call Becky an introvert? No, no. That's wife. Jeff's wife is an my wife. Okay. Yeah. Honest mistake. I, I would, Jennifer's an introvert. Yes. I, I would say I'm a, I'm a waiver too. And, and, and like Steve and John, it's a, it like, I feel like, uh, I'm in a ballroom with these people. I'm looking at'em. I'm waving. Yeah. I'm nodding. Yeah. What happens when you make the mistake? I have a, do you have a gesture? Go ahead. Here's what absolutely. I put one hand on my chest, take my other hand off the steering wheel. I'm like, I'm sorry. Oh, that's a very hard way, Adam. It's like, oh my God, do that. It's totally me. Absolutely. I do that. I, I should have had a, you know what the response I should you get from people? Yeah. Is a kind response. Sure. It's like, I think that they appreciate your acknowledging. That you were the one that was at fault. Yeah. Can I, uh, have your's story? I once told her I can't, I think I told it here. Wait, is it a long story? Nope. I was, I was, we were merging. It was on 6 94 somewhere and uh, I cut someone off and I had no idea I was, I was in the area I wasn't used to, so it was like, it was really busy and some guy's beeping at me and he's looking at me. I'm like, I rolled on my window. I go, what is going on? He goes, you just cut me off. I go. Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I did not mean to relax. I didn't know I was doing that. Now when you say relax, that's, that was too far. I don't think I said that. We both gave that at the end. We're like, alright, that's cool man. Okay. Yeah, we gave one of those, you know, else irritates me. It happens little bit. Everybody driving in California? Oh yeah. Oh, and people refer to it as the five, yes. The 15 or the 4 0 5. We don't say the 3 94. Mm-hmm. T why do they do that out there? You walk to listen to the Californians. Absolutely. Yeah. That's the Californians. Stuart, what are you doing? What are you doing here? Check the 4 0 5 down to Callia kg. You travel around and I am assuming that you travel by Uber when you're in all of your, have you noticed some? Yes. Like are there cities out there that. You find the traffic to be more delightful or do you just not pay attention when you're sitting in the back of your limousine? Alright. It not a limousine, usually it's the, uh, the cheapest version of either Uber or Lyft I can find. But what I've found out over the years is there are certain places I will not live, and at the top of that list is Los Angeles. I have never in my life seen anything more painful than traffic in la. I, I don't know how they do it, honestly, I don't know how they do it. The drive from here to OMI stresses me out. They have that drive every day. Wherever they're going, like to the grocery store, 15 miles, hour and 15 minutes, like I've. The, you know, we go to a certain arena, the crew, the, the guys that run the broadcast from the TV truck to the camera guys, they all live there and they talk about the traffic. Ah, it is insane. So as bad as we think we have it here in summertime and construction in Minnesota, it, it's a tale as old as time. It hales in comparison. My place is like New York and la. If it took me an hour and 15 minutes to get to the grocery store, I might be a little thinner just saying kg. Um, did you see La La Land? I. Of course I loved that movie probably a hundred times that, that opening scene, they all looked like they were so happy in dancing. Isn't it like that? That's how it is in la It's actually, I wish it was like that. I wish people had the fun music going on and, um, gorgeous. Uh, redheads were dancing in the streets near my car. I would probably enjoy traffic a lot more now. Kg you, you mentioned la I would say in my travels recently, um, the Phoenix area. The, the, the, the traffic in the Phoenix area and it gets bad and the, and, and, but it's, it's not, so it's not the gridlock, but it's the, everybody thinks they're a NASCAR driver and you're, you're just driving everywhere and, and it's, uh, it's like, it's incredible. You, you don't even, people aren't going slow enough to acknowledge my wave. You know what I mean? When my arms out the window, Hey, yeah. Minnesota guy out there. They just, yeah, go ahead. I mean, John wouldn't know what to do. I mean, he's trying to get, you know, elected as mayor. They wouldn't even know. Not gonna work down there. No. Plus it's hot. How about when the motorcycles drive in between the two lanes of traffic? It happened this weekend. I get nervous. It scared me. Yeah, because I think they can do that in Minnesota now. It did not look safe. I saw Guy, it's not safe. I saw a guy, a Harley rider. Weaving between cars with inches, and I was like, that guy's gonna die. We're gonna see him dead. Wow. Hmm. Guys that drive those motorcycles, I'm sorry? Are any of you guys motorcycle drivers? No. Here's the thing, no chance it's not just that they're risky, is that if it's a little, if my mom was cut off like that, who knows what she would do? Right? She would be freaked out and maybe. Like run into somebody or like, you know, I don't On purpose, purpose, no, no, but like hit or brake so fast that it messes up something. Like, you can't surprise people. That's why we have turn signals. You turn on the turn signal, then you look, then you go, you can't do that. Okay. That's very dangerous for the people around you. You know what else is dangerous? Yeah. Have you ever seen those little cars where they put the things in the, the, the mufflers to make'em sound super loud? And they start topping. Yeah. And I thought, oh my God, that car's, you know, there's something wrong with that car. I've been told that you can purchase. Is it something to make the car for safety? No, no. It's to be, to sound cool. Hold on, hold on. Let's, let's stop for a second here. Yeah. What's happening? Are we just. Complaining about annoying people off my lawn. No, no. We, where we're going, we're older gentlemen that are sick and tired of being sick and tired. We're, yes. Let's, let's talk about what we could do to fix it. Thank you. So I, we, we were talking about it. Yeah. I think you should be running for mayor. Everybody should be running for mail. Why? While they're driving. So your perspective around you. Yep. Always think about, you know, that person could be the next Pope. We're gonna talk about American Popes in one of these shows.'cause I'm very excited. It's pretty cool. It pretty Catholic. Cool. Are you Catholic? Heck yeah. Catholic. Catholic. We're all Catholic. Yeah, I'm Catholic. How do you think the Pope in the Popemobile, let's imagine you're the guy in the Popemobile. Yeah. The now he's not driving. He's kind of in the backer. But I mean he, maybe he's got horn control. Yeah. You know, I'm excited about the American. Yeah. Anybody, I wanna see him come out a. In like a Bear's jersey. Oh, now that would be cool. Uh, how many wouldn't that be? Cool. How many Chicago White Sox jerseys that are Leo with the number 14? Are they gonna sell? Oh, it's just a lot. I want to see him drive up in the Blues Mobile. Oh. Or he gets out with Hat, hat Fisher chasing him with the bazooka. Those guys were Catholic. They were Catholic orphans. So it all fits. Yeah. I mean, it does. You, you, uh, Jeff, I, this is the first time I've listened to the last three. He gets a movie reference in at least three. Yeah, it's a new thing. An episode. It's a new thing. Are you, are you serious? He started with Miracle. I know. And I thought, really? I mean, are you trying to be best friends with employees? Got nothing. Watch mind. It's how my mind works. It's sort of like art imitates life or vice versa, whatever the saying is, but I, I'm always. Seeing real things play out in life. Yeah. That are like, oh, that's just like that movie scene. And it's just how it's always been for me. That's incredible. And KT of course is like, yeah, that's absolutely it. It's exhausting you, Pete. Well, I'm not sure we're on a mission from God. That's right. That's right. Oh, there you go. Back to the Blues Brothers. That's right. Let's switch gears for a second. Yeah. We have a big event. In fact, it's filling up huge quickly. We have a, a capacity of about 450 and we're at about 350 so far. People coming to our big scholarship night at, uh, the Masonic Heritage Center at 11 4 11. Masonic Home Drive. Tickets are free, appetizers, beverages. We're gonna do a live podcast. Yeah. I've got. Five or six of the selfless scholar nominators and, and just explain that a little bit to our listeners. So maybe just start from, so our scholarship night, we, uh, this year we're giving out a total of about 140 scholarships, totaling about$1.5 million. Holy Hannah. That's a lot of scholarships. And of those people, almost a hundred of them have, confirmed that they're coming to the event. Wow. And some of'em are bringing a parent or two. We're gonna be presenting scholarships, for$24,000 scholarships,$20,000 scholarships down the road. Whoa. And then the Selfless Scholars, I remember that much. That's a lot. Yeah. They're nice scholarships. The Selfless Scholars. we're gonna have a fun, way of presenting that. And, uh, I just encourage people to come and their, and their scholarships are for. For, as opposed to, uh, academics or athletics. It's about character. It's Right, right. The whole point of this scholarship, and I've mentioned it in the past, but instead of, applying for a scholarship for your own things that you've accomplished, yeah. The objective is to look beyond yourself and identify somebody in your circle, you know, somebody you go to school with or church with, or lives in the community. And tell us about their story of kindness. Tell us about the way that they've impacted your community and if that story is selected. The scholarship is split between the person who took the time to recognize that person and the person that they recognized. And what's super fun about it is the people that are being recognized have no idea, but then we're gonna invite the nominee tours to read their nomination. That's a great idea. Yeah, I think it'll be very fun. So from an oxytocin perspective, God map, map this, map this. Someone is an amazing person, right? Say it's Jimmy. Jimmy's this great guy, Jimmy's friend Bob. Bob goes, man, Jimmy's a great guy. I love how what he does, I'm gonna nominate him for this thing. Writing that thing he gets a hit of, of oxytocin gives ox. Absolutely, you do. Now he submits it to you, you weed it, oxytocin and gets an oxytocin hit and now they get to this thing. I have a bunch of people that that evaluated. Yes. And rated. They all get it, you know, so we got hundreds of these applications. Yeah. I narrowed it down to 70. They narrowed it down to 12, which is ultimately 24 people walking away with some money. The. Just those people reading those, right? Then we get to the event hours of oxytocin. Then we get to the event where outta the blue, Jimmy realized, you know, you announced his name and then Bob, so Jimmy gets this hit of oxytocin and his parents, whoever's with him. And then Bob gets recognized and gets a scholarship. He has no idea. And then they come home and they post it on Facebook and Mom, it just keeps going. The Oxy, you know what? It's an oxytocin tsunami that's welcome to the oxytocin. Well before, before you finish. That sounds like an amazing event. Do you have to register for it? I mean, is there, you just show up first. Come at this point. Just show up. Okay. We're gonna hope for the best. What time is it again? The reception starts at, five 30. From five 30 until about six 10. We will have, appetizers and beverages at six 10. We're gonna ring the bell and invite people into the auditorium. Wow. The first level is gonna be for all of the recipients and their parents. The balcony is gonna be reserved for the riffraff. Oh, which are the people that are listening, people throwing stuff. People that, aren't gonna be receiving scholarships. The thing, this are maybe the, uh, the Kindness Chronicles fan base. The the fan base? Yeah, the kind, the Kens Con Nation. We'll, three or four chairs available for general admission. Kindness Chronicles Nation, um, folding chairs outside. We should have you out there by bring your own chair boys by eight 15 or so. But, but we're gonna do a show live. We, it should be great. Which we've never done before. We haven't, but I do want to bring up another moment of oxytocin. That I had this weekend. Amen, brother. I was at the dugout Oh, just this past Saturday night, and there was a fantastic show that was presented by our friend. Steve Brown in his band, Johnny Clueless, and here's what I wanna tell you about that. Okay. All right. So I showed up, I was in a tux because I was at a very fancy affair earlier. Yeah. Sharp as a tap and Oh, I know. I look pretty good. So did your wife and my wife looked, she looked good too. Yeah. Ah, she was. I walked in, I walked in and usually people would make fun of you because I mean, I was clearly overdressed. I had people calling me, Hey governor. You know, it was very fun actually. Yeah. But what I wanna mention is you loved it, got a promotion from me. I had the opportunity to meet some of Steve Brown's fans. Yeah. Slash friends. Yeah. Couldn't be a nicer group of people. that couple that you introduced us to outside, that live out in White Bear? Yeah. John and Amy Love them. What a lovely couple. Yeah. That those two people were, I think we might become best friends. They're the greatest. Um, the, there was a group of people that had graduated a few years after you from Hill Murray. There was a whole pile of them. The Delsing boys, Jack and uh, Derek Delsing. They were there with their wives and their friends. I talked to them. Yep. And. I talked night and that other night, Colleen Hardigan, who's yeah, who's, she's all over the place, right? Oh my God. Is she fun? She went to St. Cloud as well. She bought, uh, grape apes for everybody. She had the, oh, wow. She had a credit card that was working overtime that night. I don't even drink, and I had a grape ape, and I was sick as a dog the next day. But anyway, I just wanna acknowledge the fact that the Johnny Clueless fan club. Yeah. There's some good people there. I met your daughter. Lovely girl. Yep. I didn't know she was there. Yeah. Lucinda, Lucinda Brown. She was there with all, I have her roommates. I have a a I do have a funny story. Yeah. So you were singing kind of a, a, a slower song towards the beginning of, must have been the third set. Uh, two sets. So it was probably second set, the start of the second set, start of the second set. And, uh, your, your daughter. Uh, Lucinda was outside and I said, Hey, you're missing the show. And she goes, I don't really care for this song. Wow. It was very funny. But then when the next song, when you started with your Yeah. The, you know, then they all came in. Yeah. But it was really cute. She's like, nah, I'm not a big fan of that one. I gotta talk to her now. Yeah. My wife says that sometimes, and I know which ones she doesn't like, so I did not know my, my daughter doesn't listen to the songs that much. She doesn't know the songs like my Oh, she does like the fan base. She doesn't, she's new. She's kind of, she's a fan though. Some. Good for you. Good for you. You had some fans from Washington State come, didn't you? Yes, my cousin, oh, well that doesn't count, was from Spokane. And she's actually, uh, she's the aunt of Briggsy, the guy that opened up for us. Oh, BSY Brigg. Did you watch him too? No, I wasn't there for Briggsy. I've seen Briggsy though. He's my cousin and I played acoustically with him, different shows and stuff. Um, so she came from Spokane and a, and a good friend of ours. Who had traveled from Seattle, um, to see us. I was impressed when I heard that. Now was, did I arrive, we on stage with us. Was I on the second set or no? You're there for the first set. Well, I missed, I missed briggsy. I was, came from the twins game. Oh yeah. By the way, the twin, the Minnesota twins, I have not been there for a while and they know how to engage fans. And I thought, okay, the dugout, that'll kind of be my wind down time. Yeah. And I went from a, like an eight and a half from target field to you, took me to a nine and a half. Me and my friends, uh, know. Then we did our job. It was great. Yeah. Everybody was smiling and having fun. I could just tell the chemistry a lot of people that we knew. Yeah, John Yoakum was there. Yeah. He a good dude. Yep. You know what? We've given them more than they deserve. Thank you guys for coming out. Michael's been out there before many times. I times. Sure. We'll see him out again. Times, times KG was gonna make it, but I think you, weren't you in Madison or something this weekend? Yeah, we had a family thing that came up thing, so yeah, it, it, it didn't materialize, but I, I did see some cool pictures and I loved the red shirt. I was very upset. We didn't have the red pants on, but maybe next time, well, you talk about it. Too much a clash. Stay with a clash. Don't wear all the time. You also didn't have your, uh, sweat. Bands on that you said that you're gonna have, so I was wondering how you were handling that. Yeah, I, I was explaining how I need those. I don't have those. Yeah, you should get them here. You know, just sort right here. Just get a headband. I'm not gonna wear a headband, John. Just do it. Okay. With that, off we go.