Clown Car Episode

The whole gang is in studio. Buckle up for a bunch of nonsense. JJ McCarthy, 21 cents, Would you rather and a special Dr. Who clip.

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Welcome to the Kindness Chronicles, where once again, we hope to inject the world with a dose of the Minnesota kindness that it desperately needs. We got the clown car in studio today. We got a full house. We got Michael Dempsey, Steve Brown, our uh. 55-year-old engineer. There we go. Slash intern Jeff Hoffman. Awesome. And Kevin Gorg making a very rare appearance in the East Metro Kgs here. This is fantastic. Yo. Yo, what up? What up? He wants to talk about. Uh, he wants to listen to the, the music is still going. That's lovely. That's good stuff. The, uh, big win last night. K. Wants to talk sports. Steve wants to talk music. Jeff wants to talk about Wikipedia. We're not sure what Michael's gonna talk because where he going, Dempsey's talking about something. You know where Dempsey's going, but since I'm in charge, you're the man. Um, I would like to talk real briefly about, uh, Minnesota Vikings football last night. How about that? The Minnesota Vikings. So I just, for starters, many of you are aware we missed a show last week. My dad is, uh, in the hospital. He took a spill. You know, he's, he's kind of messed up from the neck down. He's a 400 watt light bulb from the neck up, which makes it almost even worse. Hmm. But last night I spent the night with him at, uh, regions Hospital, in the trauma unit, and, um. We watched the Vikings game and I said, you know, I've always wanted to watch a Vikings game when you are attached to, uh, vital signs. I wanted to, because I want to see what his blood pressure does. Oh, you, ups and downs. I wanna see what his pulse, what happens with his pulse. Funny, is he a diehard guy? He, he's, he's just, he's a very passionate guy about things that he's passionate about, and if the Vikings are on. He gets into it a little bit,, it was just so much fun watching the game with him, you know, while he is in a hospital and he can't really move from the neck down. It was just really fun watching it. And he made the comment, that I hope that during the first half, of course I hope that people don't just jump on, JJ McCarthy and you know, all of a sudden we're listening, looking for Carson Wentz or Max Broer, let's get Sam darn back. You know, one of those kind of things. People were panicking though. There was, they were panicking. There were some panics, that's for sure. I was getting text messages if you were on Twitter. Vikings fans were all, I guess we didn't need Aaron Rogers, all those. I'm like, this is his first NFL game on the road. Just happens to be in the, you know, in Chicago where he grew up and was, you know, able to go to games as a kid. There was a lot of pressure on that young man. And, and to his credit, he struggled mightily, uh, in the first half of that football game. But he's a winner. The kid finds ways to win. He won a state championship in high school. Won a national championship in college. I think he's the right guy for the job. Obviously they've got some things to clean up, but if you're a Vikings fan, that had to be a heck of a lot of fun. It was, it, I, I was just jumping, I, I thought it was amazing and I was getting a lot of, you know, texts as well, and I, all I said was, I mean, give him a half. Just give him a half, because I'll tell you, it wasn't only JJ that was struggling. I mean, it was the entire team for sure. I mean, most of those players didn't play all through the preseason. Right. The coach sort of held them back and mm-hmm. You know, give them, give them a half to kind of pull it together. And then the 59 yard boomer to sort of end the half. I, I, it was. It was just a wonderful Vikings game to watch. I I, I have to, I I loved every second of it. I happened to be watching the Manning cast. Oh, yeah. Which is super fun watching Peyton and Eli Manning. You know, they had Bill Murray on there. They had, uh, Randy Moss on there and Randy Moss called the ju the, the Justin Jefferson touchdown when it happened. That's cool. But my favorite part of the whole thing, and I'm sure some of you have paid attention to the news, is in the, uh, after he throws that. Pick six. He's back in the huddle and he looks around at the guys in the huddle and he says. Is there any place you guys would rather be? And,, Aaron Jones, said that at that moment he goes, I knew this guy was a boss. The fact that he came in there and recognized the reality of the moment and that, we're playing a game. We're getting paid to play this game. Is there any place that you'd rather be? I just absolutely love that. And how many kids at age 22, 22 can command that huddle? On that stage on Monday night football in their first start, this kid is built different and if you watch the post-game interview, the way he's able to deflect the praise coming his way, the way he's able to talk about his teammates. His coaching staff, the relationship he has with Koko, this kid is special. I'm telling you they are. And again, I'm a Denver Broncos fan. Remember, this is not my team. I love the bikes, but the Broncos are my team. Watching that game last night, I'm like. Man, the Broncos could have had this guy, they let the Vikings jump him. Sean Peyton was super arrogant about it and I think Bo Nicks is just fine in Denver. He is a good, solid quarterback. Yeah. Except you suggested I take Bo Nicks for my fantasy team. Calm down. And he got 8.42 points. I mean, that's just not enough points. Week. Please calm down. Okay. Um. So, as you guys know it, this is sports section. I know for the audience this why I cut. Steve had to raise hand about the anthem last night'cause the anthem was spectacular. Oh yeah. I just, hockey anthem. I just wanna chime in here. Um, I'm also, I love Viking season. I, I do, I love the season, but I don't follow as close as you guys did, do I, I literally sat down, ready to watch a game, had a hard day at work. Nice drink. It was like, okay, here we go. Yes. I'm like, who's this guy? Oh no, I didn't know there was a new quarterback. Who is this? You're joking. I didn't, I didn't know Thilan was. I'm like, oh, come on now. The's back, dude. For me, it was a wonderful experience. Are you kidding? Do you not pay attention to the news? Not to the sports. I guess I didn't, so I was like, who's this kid? What a friend, friend Talkington was playing? No. I was, and I was right away. I was like, I don't recognize anybody. Where is everybody? What happened? Who were you looking for? Chuck. And then, and then Well, Ahad Rashad. No, but I, I was like, okay, wait a second. Who was the guy that was on the Netflix special about, uh, quarterback Kurt Cousins. Yeah. He, he got traded. Are you looking for him? I knew he was gone. That's what I'm like. Okay. I don't know. I don't recognize this team and this is terrible. But Justin Jefferson, you recognized as soon as, as soon as I saw him, I'm like, okay. Okay. All right. There we go. And then Thilan. I didn't know Thelan was back. He just got back here two weeks ago. So, so again, I was like, okay. And it was pretty dismal first half, and I was so delighted. I had a great time watching the game, especially seeing people that I started to recognize as the wa as the game went on. But that'll be it for you when it comes to the sports talk part of the show. But thank you for contributing. Listen boys, I'm you. What? You opened a vein. I'm just making making sure you understand there are more listeners who maybe aren't as in, in tune with everything that's happening. That's fair. I, but I love Vikings. I love Vikings football. I love. I love it in a different way that you like it. Let ask you this, do you wear a jersey? Do you don't have a Jersey chance? Put on, I put on a Viking shirt. Okay. That counts. My wife was like, I rank, I guess there's a game that counts. You can also realize no one in my family watches it. I'm the only one. Let's, real quick, if you had to wear a Minnesota Vikings jersey, this is a no-brainer for me. Which one? Wow. Which jersey would it be? Kg. You have a no brainer. Who would it be? It's old school for me and it's, I'm gonna pull out the, the 44. The Chuck Foreman? Foreman. Oh, Chuck Foreman. Yeah. Yeah. I loved him as a kid. Yeah. Loved him. Loafer Bread, Chuck. Mine would be either Scott Stud, well, oh wow. 55 or Bob lma? 70. 70. Wow. Was he 77? 77 or 70 because Ron yy 70 was 73. Always the holding penalty on yy. I think what's the look at Stussy was 73. He also had a lot of holding penalties. He did. He did. But what was really funny is, um, whoever number 84 is for the Vikings now, uh, Oliver. Dropped a pass when Randy Moss was on the pa, the manning thing, and he goes, ignore that number. That that number, you know, was very funny. How about you, Michael, if you at Jersey? Yeah, I, I'm, I'm gonna have to go with KG only, only because, um, have you guys, have any of you guys watched, uh, welcome to Rex, him. The, uh, the series about? No. Oh, I highly recommend it. Oh, is that the one with Ryan Reynolds? Yeah. He, he, he goes, uh, uh, buys this, uh, soccer team. It's a team, real team. Right? It's a real team. Yeah. It's, it's hands down the best. But in the, one of the very first episodes, it's talk talks about a community coming together around the team and how a community. Comes together and it, it, that ties to kindness really well. But it also, he also makes a statement that between the ages of eight and 12, you go take your team that your dad takes, right? Yep. That you grew up and I kg to your point. I grew up with my dad in the, you know, mid to late seventies cheering on the Vikings and it was Chuck Foreman, Chuck Foreman, Chuck Foreman. And it was appointment tv, right. Oh my, when you were, were a kid watching that game with your dad on a, in the middle of winter, on a Sunday at noon. Yeah. There was something. So yes. Unbelievable special about that experience. And John, it's so cool that it's come full circle now. I, and I know it. It's a bummer. What your dad is dealing with, but the fact that, you know, yes, you go from meeting the kid watching with your dad in the living room to now going to visit your dad and watch it. Yeah, it's in his hospital room. It's unbelievably cool. Yeah, it's lovely. There's a scene in the movie City S Slickers, where they're all around the campfire. Love that movie. Remember the cute blonde? And then she's like, I don't know. Why do you guys all just talk about baseball? We talk about relationships and feelings, and he's like, I don't know. You know, growing up, my dad and I didn't have a lot to talk about, but we could always see eye to eye on about baseball, on baseball, and so that, that. Oh, reminded me of your story. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, and, uh, not to, we will get to this story some other time. The last time I saw my dad the last time was my senior year in high school and my, my folks divorce, I didn't see him very much. He came to a high school football game and I was a tailback and I returned punts and kicks and that particular game we were playing Minneapolis, Southwest. And I returned the second half kickoff for a touchdown. My dads in the stands, I'm not kidding you. That was the last, he, he, he, he, he sort of drove off after. It's kind of like a scene out a Friday night light. This is, no, this is no joke. And that's amazing. Unfortunately, um, that January, so four months away, you know, he passes away. Right. That was the last time. Oh my gosh. I saw him. But you wanna talk about didn't connection, didn't wanna cry tonight. No, no, no. You wanna, but you wanna talk about connections, right? Yeah. You wanna talk about connections and connecting on sports? Chuck Foreman. I mean, my dad would laugh and yell and scream about Chuck Foreman holding that ball like a loaf of bread. He would sort of walk around and, but that's, that's the jersey. That's, that's the jersey. And now for me For, for me too. And now I'll just leave you with this. Right. The last thing that I'm gonna say about, uh, Chuck Foreman and wearing a jersey is. Right. Right now I have all my daughters. The night before a game or the day before the game, they're all in their twenties. You have three daughters? Two kg I do. The text comes out and I say, who's wearing their jersey? Because what I used to do is when they were in teenage years, I wouldn't pay for an expensive jersey. I'd go to Goodwill. And grab one and I would go grab, I'd grab one with three bucks. Dante, Cole Pepper you're wearing that he hasn't played in 20 years and they wear their jerseys with pride. But that's what I'm talking about. You connect around sports. Yeah, it's amazing. But anyway, Chuck Foreman. Okay, so what are you gonna say? How about you, Steve? Joey Browner, uh, Teddy browner in real strong hands. No idea who Joey Browner is. Of course I do. I could picture his face right now. There's also you, Ted Brown. Ted Brown. Well, 2023, but he just always ran right up the middle. I don't know, but yeah, but I, but I like 23, so I'll go with that. Ted Brown. Ted Brown. Hey, by the way, I've met Ted Brown and I've met Chuck Foreman, and they're both great guys. I bet you've met'em all. Well, I. Ted Brown I met because his son played for the wild, JP Brown. And uh, I would love to meet Chuck Foreman and he's on with Dan Rero on a regular basis and I never miss it when, when Chuck is on with Dan, for me it's, it's must list and Radio Rero iss so good at that form today he had, he had Thilan on today and that's gonna be his weekly guest. Oh, cool. He always has a, a current player on as a weekly guest. I would highly recommend our listeners go back and podcast that Rero show from today. We're, we're recording on a Tuesday because Thilan talked about the opportunity to move his family back home and the kids get to be with their cousins. They get to be back in the classroom with the friends they grew up with when they were a little smaller. Oh, that's cool. And the emotion and how his wife is kind of taken charge of all of the logistics. She's like, you go take care of the football, get back in there, learn the system back with the Vikings, get to know your teammates that weren't there when you left. You handle the football stuff, I'll handle the logistics. And he said, getting them back up to speed the kids and re immersing into the school and the community and the sports. Yeah, they all play sports. The interview was fascinating, but the emotion he, he has looking forward to going back outta that tunnel, uh, Sunday night when they play the falcons, the home, the home opener. It was, it gave me chills listening to the interview. I love it. And, and, and if you ever wanna know what that's worth. In that case it was 2 million bucks. Alright. I'll give up 2 million bucks because that's what it's worth. He talked about that in the interview. Oh. Oh, did he? Absolutely said, oh my goodness. His agent came to him and said, are you willing to do this? And he looked at his agent, he goes, obviously, whatever it takes, there's lot more important things I wanna get back there in life than money. Well, and I got a feeling phelan's, you know, he's got a couple bucks in the bank, he's done. Okay. You know, Mrs. Thilan, you know, she's, she's active on Twitter. And she, you know, probably said, you go do the thing. Just make sure you leave that American Express Black card. I got some stuff to pay for. Yeah. I got some stuff to take care of, you know. I'm Michael. What, what number were you when you ran that kickback? What number were you, were you wearing? I, uh, 34. Oh yeah, that's a Herschel Walker. There you go. I remember that. Ran right outta your shoemaker. Walter Peyton. So who's your Jersey? I'm gonna have to go with Brett Favre. Oh wow. In a Vikings jersey. He played for with us for, what, two years? I'm aware. Okay. So I didn't know that too. Kg, tell me what you think.'cause I, I'm like Steve, I don't know the names. I am an easy target from that perspective. But he got miked, they micd him in games and in huddles and he charged up his team. And I, I heard a few clips of how he did that in interviews where he said, you know, I know that the players feed off of my emotion and. The, wasn't the team doing well under him? First year was unbelievable. Yeah. Remember that the, the first year they went to the NFC championship game, and, you know, this is the Kindness Chronicle, so we can talk about the opposite side. The New Orleans Saints basically stole that game. And again, remember, I'm a Bronco fan. I'm not a Viking fan. I'm, I'm objectively analyzing the game. Minnesota kicked the snot out of New Orleans. They went up and down the field in the Saints that day. Unfortunately. Adrian Peterson fumbled three times inside the red Zone, and that was Bounty Gate. That's where the Saints were being coached to try to hurt, quote unquote take the head off the snake, which was your guy, Brett Fav, and they were trying to hurt him. The entire game. All that being said, Vikings had all those mistakes. Fav was playing through injuries from what the Saints were doing to him physically trying to hurt him. Hmm. Vikings have the ball tie game late with a chance to win it. And Brett Fav literally could have ran for 15 yards and they would've been in field goal range at the 30. And that's the throw across the body one. Yeah. Paul Allen and the broadcast says, oh no, come on man. This ain't Detroit. Meaning this isn't some regular season game in November against the Lions we're playing to go to the Super Bowl and you're Brett Favre, dude, you're a hall of famer. You can't make that throw across your body. The game ends regulation. Tide, saints, get the ball. March down, boom, kick the field goal. End of story. My favorite Brett Fav is, uh, what about Brett Favre from something about Mary? Great, great stuff. Steve. You've seen that movie, haven't you? I know very well, yes. What about Brett Favre, by the way? My number was 23 as well, so it was unique that Ted, Ted Brown and I shared that same number, and it's my wife's and Michael Jordan. It's my wife's favorite number. Isn't that crazy? Huh? That's cool, huh? How about that? So, so what? This has hockey been great. I was a soccer. Well, this has been kind chronicles for you. So we were zero, zero or zero one. Were you, did you have numbers in, in hockey? So I, I was the first, uh, Burnsville goal tender to not wear back in the seventies or eighties. You had to wear one or 30. Oh, okay. That was your choice. One or 30. Jeff Poel. Currently the head coach here in Madam where we're recording this podcast, played at Hill Murray. There we got those legend, check those boxes. Bing, bing, bing. He wore number 21. And when I was a kid, I went to the state tournament and I watched him and I'm like, oh my God, that's my guy. That guy is unbelievable. And so I got to to Burnsville and I had to wait my turn to play. I broke my collarbone. Sophomore year, missed basically the entire season. Junior year I got stuck on the jv. All my buddies. Went to the state tournament. Didn't win it though. So now it's my senior year and I'm gonna be the starting goal. Oh God. Are we gonna talk about this again? No, I don want to hear this. This is good story. This is, this is a good story. Story. I didn't know this since we're talking about numbers. So I'm obsessed with the number 21 and I, in my mind,'cause I'm such a mental midget, I, I feel like I have to wear 21. Our coach is Tom Moki, legendary coach, kind of a hardass. And in our neighborhood, I'm best friends with his son Mark. So I go down there in the summer. And I start begging and groveling to coach Oi to wear number 21. He goes, Gorge, your choices are one or 30. We keep having this conversation through May, June, July. Keep having the same conversation. It's like talking to that wall Gorge. We have one or we have 30. So finally I come down, it's August now, right before school's gonna start. I said, coach, I said, hear me out today, and this is the last time I'll bring it up. You started this hockey program, correct? He's like, yes, I did. Do you understand that this is the 21st year upcoming Oh, of Burnsville High School Hockey and we've never won a state tournament? Understand that? Burnsville has two syllables and Braves has one, and the final thing I'll say is my name is Kevin Gorg. Two syllables and one, I looked him in the eye and he was hard ass. I said, coach, you give me number 21 and I promise you we are winning the state tournament. That is awesome. No chill. I've heard that story and so now. And this is where it ties into you, gentlemen, for from that moment on, I had two dimes and one penny in my left pocket. But you, yes, we are winning the state tournament and yes, every day of my life, and I swear to you every day of my life, if you're at a bar, at a restaurant, at a wild game at Canterbury and you have a group of people and you bet them, I can tell you what he has in his left pocket. Nothing else is ever in my left pocket besides two dimes. And that penny, I love it. Every it single day it for 41 years. That's awesome. That is all. And you said you couldn't sell cars. Are you kidding me? I could sell cars. I just didn't know what the hell I was doing while I was selling them. They'd ask me about the transmission. I'm like, well, you know, sounds good. The names in one penny, I can tell you about that. Oh, that bad. Does postal, does potion know that story? He does. He does. That's great. He does know that. I don't know if he knows the details of it. But he knows the obsession I've had with that number. And, um, you know, coach Oe and I have, we had our 40 year anniversary last year, went back to the rink, did a sel. And it came up again, like, he's like, you would not stop bugging me. Let's see it. Alright, let's see. Okay. He's, he's, uh, I was on the verge of Steve, me. He's emptying his left pockets. This is a long story. Steve is challenging him. And look at that. Oh, is it always the same 21 cents? It rotates. If you have a couple bad days, you have to get the new shiny penny. Okay. Um, bad days. What? Yeah. You, you know, if your mojo isn't good, tarnishing Oh, tarnish a little bit. Fantasy team struggles. Right, right. Bone nick is a tough game. Yeah. Wow. Hey, now, hey, now. Alright, so this is really, we've been talking about this for a long time, but this has been wonderful. It's fun having you in the, it's great to be here in the, yeah. In the studio. And I know it takes like two hours, so we appreciate the effort today. I made it in a snappy one hour and 45 minutes. I know. It's terrible. Of course it's a rainy day. You knew the traffic was gonna be brutal. That's all right. So before the show, we decided we were going to, well, initially we talked that we were going to address the topic of, you know, can there be. Kindness in a world that is so divided. And what if we tried to talk about political matters? It's kind of the theme of our show, John, John. It's, it is. But you know what, if we were to attempt to talk about political matters and do it in a way that, um, was civil, was civil, unlike social media, and it became kind of uncivil. Well, no. The became, well, it did, it became, we started talking about assault weapons and we got. You know, we got captain who doesn't know what an assault weapon really is. I'll tell you right now, compare. I know. I'll tell you right now. No, I'm gonna say this and it's not really political. Unfortunately. We've gotten to a place and I think social media has a lot. We talk about this a lot. Yeah. A lot to do with it for sure. But we've. The best that this country, at least in my lifetime, the best that our country ever was. And it, it's really sad to bring it up. But 1980, lake Placid, that was, that was one. Okay. The day after. I'm very serious. Day, day after. But I would, I would, after nine 11. Nine 11, the, the year, I would argue the calendar year. You go back to nine 11? Yeah. In 2001. And take that block, that 365 days. You know, use George Bush in the rubble at ground zero talking to, talking to those sable firefighter people. Right. The, the first responders, the fire firemen, they were all on that rubble. I can hear you. We can hear you. And soon the people who brought down this building, they're gonna hear, hear from all of us, all of us. I went to a rally at our capitol in St. Paul with my, my daughters were little. My dad dragged us down there. It was packed. And they had a flyover deal. They had these speeches, they had the music going, Lee Greenwood, of course. It felt so good. And we all wore our red, white, and blue, right? Yeah. I didn't give a shit who was on the left side, who was on the right side. I didn't care if you were transgender. I didn't care if you were gay. I was there to represent the red, the white and the blue. And I will argue that that year was the best that this country's ever been. And it sucked that we had to go through what we went through to get there. Somehow we gotta get closer to that. Than where we are right now. I,'cause I don't like all this division. I don't. Oh, it's insanity. I don't care for it. Yeah. And there really isn't, you know, it's, so instead of talking about that Steve Brown being the swell guy that he is, he's a lover. He has brought, he got a game. He's got a game for us to play. Awesome. We're gonna, I love games. We're gonna keep this slide. I love, oh my God, that's we've theater expression change went, he went, a little kid. He went to, yeah, he's, we're done talking. He a little sports. Remember what you had to do, show and tell. And the teacher finally called on you and you got to do. Show. That's what he looked like. That's right. That was awesome. By the way. I want a shout out to Nick Flood. Um, the hundred grand bars are gone. Oh, we could what? Yeah. They're all, they've all been consumed. We've, you know, I, I have one a week. They were so good long. Yeah. It was kind of a small. No, there was one left in there. Was there, there was, it was hidden. So Nick, we'd like to have you back in the studio and, you know, stop by Target and grab a few of those a hundred grand bars. It is Halloween season. Oh, they, they're out there. It's true. It's yes. Halloween season. Okay. All right, Steve. You're the Ryan Seacrest of this game. I don't like that comparison. Well, you know, I wouldn't mind. He's golden pipes. Yes. I wouldn't like his money and golden wallets. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Alright, so this is a game that we played briefly and I, I was looking forward to the time where we could actually do this together. Yes. The world is a terrible place. Uh, it can be a terrible place. It can be. We are here to help shine a little light and try to just offer little levity or at least, um, show experiences of, and, and give examples of kindness that we see the world. I, I want to just in along those lines, my dad is at Regents Hospital, and let me tell you, the staff, the entire staff with one exception oh no, has been exceptionally kind. Wow. Is it the same lady that you dealt with at Toy Shop? She volunteer? No. What a, that's a great callback. She found you, she found you a great callback. No, and, and truthfully, this person and, and you know, in the spirit of giving this person grace. She may have been the person that said things that nobody else was willing to say. Sure. Just about. And, you know, you, you kind of need that person in the world that, that is sort of your reality check. He's got a spinal cord injury, and essentially what she said is. This might not go as, as we all hope that it will. The way she said she, she's a truth teller. Said the bedside manner. She's a bedside manner. You know, she, you know, I think that she probably is on the spectrum. That's kind of, you know, she just got a little autism to it. She didn't have, didn't have the, the emotional gotcha, uh, abilities. But let's go to your game, Steve. Okay. Now how this works is, it's, it's called, uh, would You Rather Kindness Edition? And we played it briefly, uh, one night. Uh, together here the three of us. So now that everyone's here, I will, uh, I'll read a question and you guys I'll go around and give your answer on would You Rather. Alright. Okay. So we'll start with Michael. Michael, would you rather, have the superpower to instantly calm angry people or instantly make sad people smile? I would take the first I would like to, was it calm, angry people? Calm, angry people. Yeah. I, that's the first, I want to take the first, because then I'm, then, then hopefully I'm, I'm, I'm clearing the way and I'm empowering them to make a lot of people smile. So I, I want to give that, Jeff, what's your answer on that one? Well, I have a question for Michael on that. Is just, do you run across a lot of angry people in your day to day or, uh, and that's also what you picked aside from here. Yeah, I, um, yeah, I mean, you know, people have pressures of deadlines, pressures of work, right? They bring their personal lives, uh, into, you know, lots of situations that are frustrating. And I, you know, you gotta, you know, it's funny. I, I encounter these people and I'll ask them a question that is completely unrelated to the meeting at hand, like. Hey, did you have dinner last night? You know, what'd you eat? Or what'd you watch? Or what do you, you know, just stuff like that kind of breaks the pattern. Oh, I just break the pattern. Right. But yeah. Well, you already have that superpower then. Well, I don't know. One story. Yeah, it's no. Excellent. It's longer than you. Yeah. I think I'm gonna pick, uh, the other one. Uh, the, the making sad people happy. Um, why would I say that? I agree with you. Yeah. Because I feel like angry people, it's sort of like, get over it. Right. Sad people, especially kids. Could make them happy. That's a big deal. Yeah. Sad people. Happy. So, Michael o and one, you're O for one. Oh man, there's no, oh, why would I, you know, this is the kindness. I, I apologize, Michael. Alright, well get onto the next one. Yeah. There's no right, wrong, right? So I'm picking the second one. Yeah. Kg. What do you think of that one? Would you rather sad one, I, I want to make sad people smile. Make people smile. That gives me a lot of happiness. Like when you can see. The sadness melting away and it's not easy to do, right? Like, well, we've probably all done it as parents, when you, you know, the kid's having a bad day, you take'em out for a little ice cream, you cheer'em up a little bit. There's something magical. About turning that frown, right? Well, food, yes, but upside down, turning that frown upside down. Food can be a part of it too. Yeah. Well it could be a big part of it. This is coming from guy who's got two dogs that just adore him and every time he walks in. Right, right. You know exactly what I'm talking about, baby. Yeah. Mm. Um, I realize that that was from the first edition question, so, but I got, I got, I found my real kind of sprung the sound. Listen, if you go back, was wondering, let's say you're digging through your files there, if you go back and listen frantically. If you go back and listen to the first time you did that, um, because it was you and I and John, we answered the same way, by the way. I know. Okay. Okay. So I guess the new, I guess the new ones is these new ones. Okay. We've got new material here. Yeah. Can I just tell you that early onset, whatever I have, the fact that I don't remember answering that questions is kind of, uh, answer. I don't remember the. I listened to that. I was on the road in Montana and I heard you guys, I just don't remember the question, but I heard you guys giving me a hard time while I was not here to defend myself. Unbelievable. So nice job on that one. Go ahead, speak. Alright, John, would you rather, uh, give a stranger your umbrella in a downpour or your coat in a snowstorm? That seems like from last one too. Yeah. Can I be crass on this one? See, umbrella, isn't it? Go for it. You do, don't you? You don't, don't say it. No. About the wet t-shirt contest. Oh my God. No. No. Exactly where he was going. No. I would wanna give a cold person my, my jacket. Yeah. Chance of illness is stronger. One chance of the thing I already talked about. Oh, okay. Well all Could you quick repeat the question? It was the coat. Go ahead. Would you rather give a stranger your umbrella in a, in a downpour or your coat in a snowstorm? I'm gonna go with the coat in the snowstorm too. Alright. Something warm. I like people feeling warm and yeah. Anyone have a different thought on that one? I don't wear a lot of coats'cause I'm always warm. I really don't like I'm, and I'm thinking about this out loud. I don't carry a lot of umbrellas, but I used to have one in my car and if I saw somebody in the downpour, likely trying to get somewhere dressed up, looking nice, I would love to pull over, pull out that umbrella, just hand it to'em. Sure. So, you know, what, what are those things? 10, 12 bucks. I let em get in my car and drive'em to where they're going. Just give'em the umbrella and off you go. You know what you, he's asking for change here. Actually, this is, this is interesting. I, you know, they sell those, they're, they're kind of cheap. But they're like at uh, home Depot. You can buy those big umbrellas for like five bucks a piece. No kidding. Yeah. Wouldn't it be fun to go and buy a whole bunch of those and wait for a storm to come around and then just start handing out umbrellas? We should do that and make a show out of it. Oh my God. We can put our phone number on there. You know what we could get? That's crazy. We could go viral. 61. Be kind. What was the 23? 22? Yeah. 61. Be kind 22. Hear from that? We can put that on our, our cheap umbrellas. Go ahead, Steve. Okay. Um, who hasn't, Michael? We'll, we'll give this some to you. Yeah, go ahead. Would you rather be complimented for your kindness or your intelligence? Hmm. Oh, that's, um, kindness.'cause uh, the, that's a, that's a stretch. The intelligence piece is a stretch. So kindness for sure. Kind The bar's low. I just wanna go kindness. Jeff, what about you, Steve? I feel like these, you did read all these in the first episode. Yeah. That one you've already done. Are you sure this is, this is volume Two dudes. Okay. Re reread the question then, just so make sure I got it. Would you be, would you rather be complimented on your kindness or your intelligence? My kindness, absolutely. I don't need to be complimented on my intelligence. Oh. If I was complimenting my fantasy football knowledge, oh, that would be top of the list. Yeah. Did you win all your teams, your games this week? I went seven and two of my nine squads. Okay. But, um, the kindness one clearly that, that's something that every day, especially if we're a part of this show and we're trying to live it out, I mean, if you get. Compliment on doing something nice on a regular basis, being a good person. I think you get oxytocin that way. Yeah. I think I don't get, for the intelligence I world, the world needs a lot of it. And right now there's a deficit, so we better be bringing kindness to the world kg. Would you rather teach kindness in schools or model it on national television? Ooh, good question. That is a good one. I would say model it, um, easier. Yeah. Yeah. You got the, you got the outlet. I think it's a lot easier. I mean, truthfully. Yeah, I mean, going school to school, that's a lot of work. You know, you've got a platform. Don't they refer to that as a platform, which you got? Yeah, but it's not national tv. Remember, I'm a local minor. Oh, minor local celebrity. Yeah, that's the bit, the MLC, Steve, I'm gonna have to go with teacher'cause of Dead Poet Society. And I just think making that instant or that, oh, it's a deeper baby, that connection there with them. Yeah. That's a good thought. Michael, I'm, I'm gonna go with Jeff. I, I gotta break that fourth wall. Like you can model it, but uh, you know, you watch television and it just seems distant and it seems something over there. I think that if you teach it in the classroom, it may have. Might have more impact. What do you, what do you No, I would like to say I am a fan of efficiency and if I'm on the national TV program, you know, you can get a lot, maybe like on a Saturday morning program. Oh. Like the Today Show. You could go on there for half an hour. Yeah. Gather children around people. Yes. Michael's gonna do a 30 kids at a time. I'm gonna do it 3 million at a time. Oh, and I'll break your fourth wall. Yeah. Oh, oh, good. Good for you. And minor celebrity. Are you kidding me? You keep wearing those jackets kg and you, you're gonna be on a major stage. See, I told you we're going places. I got one more. One more for everybody. Okay. Would you rather be a kindness ninja? Silent. Secret acts of kindness or kindness. Rockstar, bold, visible grand acts of kindness. I want everyone to see my kindness. I want, I want to be popular because of it. I want everyone to know. I can't argue that that's not a surprise. You feel the same way I do. You are no ninja then. I'm sure Michael and Jeff are, we're gonna do it quietly in the shadow shadows. Are we divided already in this? You're a kindness rockstar. What are you talking about? What am I, what am I what you are Other pants. Come on. Maybe there's secret ninja things that I do that you don't know about. There's not, I'm not kindness on stage. I'm rocking up there. Those are great questions. I, I just said it out loud. I should have just nodded and smiled to you silently. That would've been a ninja move. Those are great. Those are great questions, Steve. I think if it's truly authentic kindness, you're both a ninja and on the public stage at the same time. See that, see that, you know, I'm kind of getting sick of you. Syrup. And your syrupy? Yes. Alright. Oh God. Your sincerity is starting to get a little nausea. It's a little, frankly, I frankly like it. Of course you do. Oh yeah. I think that wraps up our, uh, would you rather kind of citizen volume too. They are pretty much the same questions, but they really were. But you know what, it's, it's good to revisit those every once in a while. Oh, by the way, oh shit. I'm so happy I remembered this. I like the music. Oxy to Sunday. Yes. My son Ben. Okay. Said, I wanna show you a video. Have you guys ever seen the Doctor who, with Vincent Van Gogh? Video. No, but, uh, here, let me shut the music off. I, I was, I was trying to be a cool sound engineer here and, uh, I have a, an, um, a thought on Vincent Van Gogh, but keep it going with your story. So anyways, Ben says, you gotta see this, and it is a video of Dr. Who at the time was being played by Matt Smith. You guys know who Matt Smith is? He was one of the Doctor who characters. Yeah. And he goes back in time and brings Vincent Van Gogh into the modern world. Mm-hmm. Cool. And you know Vincent Van Gogh. Only sold one painting in his entire life. You know, considered himself a failure, right? And it was just this terrible thing. I encourage you all to, to go on YouTube and find the Vincent Van Gogh thing from, from Dr. Who. He takes him into this museum and Vincent Van Gogh, loves museums and he's looking around and he kinda looks to the right and on the left you can see that this is the Vincent Van Gogh deal. And walks inside there and the, the actor Bill Nye, who's like the curator of the museum, uh, the Dr. Who character says, how would you describe Vincent Van Gogh in a hundred words? And the way he describes the Vincent Van Gogh thing? And Vincent just. Loses it, because he considered himself a failure. And the Bill Nye character, he's like, I think, you know, not only is he one of the greatest artists of all time, but one of the greatest men of all time. And Vincent Van Gogh goes up and hugs him and he kinda looks at him and he is like, no, that. That, that couldn't be who it was. But you know, the, the, the artist who, um, wrote the song Chevy and the Levy, or the Levy was Dry America. Don McClain McClain, he, he has a song called Vincent and it's all about Starry Night and that painting, the famous painting, but it's a really good. Story about that and yeah. Vincent John was, was that at the Vincent Van Gogh experience? Uh, no. It was at, it was at a museum in London. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna play this. Yeah. And, and I want you to listen to the impact that music, you don't even have to see this, and you can understand just how impactful it is. And you talk about Oxytocin Sunday. So here, I'm gonna play this. Where are we? Paris 2010 AD and this is the Mighty News. A Dorsey home to many of the greatest paintings in history. Who? A woman That's wonderful. And then this Vincent fan. Go from, I got that. I've got something more important Shape. Take all. Leading him up to the museum. He still has both ears. He's looking around. He does have both ears. I knew that somebody would say something. Of course it was you like me. He's looking at all, there's a Monet that he's looking at. Just mesmerized doesn't notice that this is the way to the Van Gogh and Ben shared this with you. Yeah, so he's looking around and surprised by what he's seeing. He's seeing all of his painting, his own paintings on the walls, their starry night. Lots of people looking at him and Dr. Who's like, what do you think? This is my favorite part right here, watching TV together. Oh yes. Glad to be of help. You were nice about my child. Yes. And today is another cracker, if I may say so, but I just wondered. Between you and me in uh, a hundred words, where do you think Van Gogh rates in the history of art? Well, um, big question. Um, but to me, van Gogh is the finest. Painter in the moon, certainly the most popular, great painter of all time, the most beloved, his command of color, the most eyes, wide open, magnificent, watery. He transformed the pain of his tormented life in two static beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ex. Breaking down magnificence of our world. No one had ever done scanning the room for his paintings or looking at all of them. No one ever seeing the people reacting, looking at them. My mind, that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world's greatest artist, but also one of them. Greatest men who ever lived started to cry. Sorry. I'm sorry. Is it too much? No, the curator's like, what the hell's going on here? Who's that guy? Thank you, sir. Hugging. Thank you. You You're welcome. You're welcome. Sorry, I love the look on his face right here. You recognized him all of a sudden. Yeah, curator. Anyway, I just, you know, that's cool. You talk about, uh, that is cool. Well, the lesson Oxy to Sunday, and I said to my son, I'm like, Ben. How did you find this video? And he goes, it's my algorithm. This is stuff that I love to look at, love to watch. And I thought, okay, kidding. There's a guy who knows about Oxy to Sunday. And with that. Off we go. Wow, that was wonderful. My algorithm's a little different. That's all I'll say. Sydnee Sydnee Sweeney Sydnee Sweeney and meaningless fantasy football stacks. She's, that's where we're at in life. It's pathetic. You never know how the actions you're taking now might affect people in the future. That's the lesson I take away. Brilliant.