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Once again, not our best effort. However, the end of the show offers a special glimpse into the dynamic that exists among the KC Crew when the tape isn't rolling.

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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 earlier this week. We had Steve, your friend, and now all of our friend Yeah. Todd Va on to, uh, to talk about, uh, filmmaking, the, the role that he played his career and you know, just the kindness that he's witnessed throughout his, uh, not filmmaking, but uh, video producing video. I was gonna, I was going to make fun of the filmmaking'cause he doesn't work with filmmakers. Oh, I was being ironic. Ah, I didn't know that. Come on man. It was hilarious the second time. Anyway, it, it was, it worked out great. I was gonna say, we're not a filmmaker. We don't work with filmmakers. Anyway, we started talking about videos that we've witnessed. You know, we're all consumers of YouTube. Are there videos that you've witnessed that, make you feel good that, that really got your attention, that you've watched more than once? Well, anyone, yeah, anyone. But, um, I. My, my preface, uh, my preamble would be, it's probably the, one of the best things about social media is that we have access to these videos, these amazing videos, because pre social media, you know, you'd only, you'd have to see them on your own Right. Or at, you know, during an a, b, c, after school special. Right. Or someone tell you a story or something. Yeah, yeah. But, but now you have access to all of these and I agree. It's a, it is so cool to see. So. Um, that, that I'm Michael Dempsey, by the way. Steve Brown, do you have any? Yeah, this is a great topic, John, and it does tie into it is a great topic. Steve, Todd. Steve's here. Michael's here. Jeff's here. I'm here. And we got Todd here. Todd's our guest hanging out still. So Michael and Steve have been sharing a microphone and I've always wondered when you're in a band Yeah. And sometimes you see guys sharing a microphone. The, the Bruce scene now singing along. Yeah, like singing. Do you ever go Jesus, get a breath mint? I mean, sometimes. So. Right. I mean, is that going on over there? No, no, it's just fine. Fresh. Okay. Fresh. Okay. That's good. Um, when it comes to video, so Michael's, right, like this is the culmination now of the internet and the social media allows us to have this huge bank of things to watch. Absolutely. And there are, I, I asked chat, the top 10 types of meaningful videos that people like to look at, at that kind of c Cause oxytocin, oxytocin, Sunday, everybody. Um, they are the ones, surprise, homecomings. Those are always called, there you go. Military, whatever. Surprise, homecomings. Animal rescue and reunions. Oh god. Animal reunions. What's better than a dog after someone's been gone? Yes. Oh my God. It's the greatest. Like when the soldier comes back. Yes. And the dog just attacks them and the dog's been gone for like, or the persons been gone for two years. The dog hasn't seen them and it, they're kind of scared at first and then it looks at'em. Oh my god. Recognize, smells.'em, it's the greatest. Um, acts of kindness for strangers that I get caught up in that I, there's a guy in Canada that does that and it's just the greatest. There's a guy out here in, I think White Bear who does that. Really? It's John Schitz. No, it's not. No, it's not. John Schitz. Um, El Elderly joy and connection, like, uh, elderly. Oh man. I've seen so many beautiful ones of older folks talking their, about their past, uh, mates and stuff. Kids showing unexpected kindness or wisdom.. People overcoming challenges or disabilities? Oh God. When people hear for the first time. Love it. Oh my God. Or how about the ones where they give dad the glasses that allow him to see color for the first time? Saw that one, one. Did I send it to you? I think you might've sent it to me. Amazing. Uh, he saw color for the first time. Color for the first time. Yeah. A grown man, like a 60-year-old man. Weeping and amazing, crying like a baby. Communities coming together. Uh, teacher or mentor appreciation moments. Unexpected talent reveals makes people just like, got it. It's fun. You're checking all the right boxes. Kindness in the face of adversity. So thanks, champ. Those are the kindt that is of wonder. Hit all of'em. Right? You know, there might be something to this artificial intelligence stuff. So a few episodes back, we talked about movies and there's this, I really like watching video essays and there's a couple of creators out there. One is the meaning of, of meaning on the screen. And he'll go deep on like meanings you may have missed or certain, symbolism in movies that are just like, wow, I, I'm gonna, I'll never watch that the same again. Or I've gotta go back and watch that. And that's been fun. Uh, I've learned a lot about storytelling through those, uh, video essayists. Yeah. My favorite video essayist when it comes to this kind of stuff is Steve Hartman, the guy that's on CBS my favorite too. He is so. Great at, at again, storytelling and just finding those stories that are just so heartwarming. And one that we use in our civility project is the story of a wrestler who is the number one wrestler in the, in the state of, I think Virginia. And he happens to be wrestling the number two wrestler in the state of Virginia. And the number two wrestler is beating the number one wrestler and then suddenly. Number two, wrestler. Who's winning dislocates his elbow. So what does the number one wrestler do? Decides, you know what, he was beating me then he deserves to win this thing. And he just essentially submitted. And, uh, Steve, the way that Steve told that story, much more compelling than the way I just told it. But that's why those people are professional storytellers, and we just do this for pretend fun. It's, he's got this ability to, there's a reveal. Yes. About two thirds of the way in. That'll just like really be a paradigm shift and then it really draws you in and his voice, I mean, he's just, he's got it all. Great. I just, I, I, one thing, uh, Todd, uh, jump to you in a second. One thing I, uh, really like, and when it really hits home is. When it's, when it's purely authentic, like the wrestling one, someone was videotaping that, you know, it wasn't like, okay, well let's see this, and you know, someone's gonna walk in and when, when it, when it happens. Sort of in real life, in real time and you capture it. Mm-hmm. Um, another sports one that was here local. Was, uh, and you'll get the baseball one, right? Totino Grace. Oh my goodness. Yes. The pitcher. Yes. Yep. Hugging his buddy that he just struck out a great one, hugging his lifelong best friend that he just struck out to win the championship. And his team is erupting Ru out of the dugout, rushing. They're jumping on people and he takes, and he runs to the guy that he just struck out. Yeah. He just struck out and, and that's just. The, the sort of purity of that. Like you don't need any narrative like that. That's it. That's video. That's like, I want more of that. And I think the authenticity of that. Yeah. What actually kind of irritates me. Is when they do'em. And it's like, that was so set up. Yeah. It almost kind of pisses me off. Me too. Overproduced over engineered. Well, that's a great point though. But they try and play it off As authentic. Authentic, yeah. No, I, so I tell a lot of my customers, this is professional talking though. I tell a lot of my customers, you don't always have to have. A video production team to get that video. The, the one that, first of all, I will watch every one of those where the, the military person shows up and, you know, surprises their kid. Every one of'em I will, I will weep too. Those get me every time. Had it last night, oxytocin day, but then. There's one, I don't know if you'll remember this, but it was somebody just shooting on a cell phone and this girl's walking down the hallway and I think it was her last chemo or something like that. And so all everybody's clapping and giving her, and she goes and she rings the bell. Oh. And I am telling you that if you had put a, a video producer and a, a professional videographer in there, that moment would've been like, eh, okay. Right. You know? Oh, good shot. Contrived, but with the authenticity of just using their phone and getting that, I, I've probably have seen that. Which has gotta be a challenge for you professionally. No, not at all. Not for you, but for normal people that are in your business. Right. It, it is like regular people. It is not Agile video people. Todd, we were talking on the last episode with you about you just creating great conditions to mm-hmm. Ensure you get great. Authentic authenticity on film, it's new word. Yes. Authenticity, narratives and things. But I, I've studied like John Hughes and how he, uh, would work with his actors and he was the writer and director of, uh, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, or The Breakfast Club, or, you know, all the eighties movies that we grew up on. Pretty Pink. Yep. Yeah. And, uh, just creating those conditions and creating a fun environment for people. So I, I don't know, I, I've learned a lot about. Yeah. That through those guys. Any comment? Yeah, you have to keep it light on set if, if you're, you're already, you know, most of the, most of the people I work with anyways aren't even, they're not actors. They're everyday people giving their story. Sometimes they're not even willing, you know, they're willingly, it's their boss or somebody or parent or somebody who's told them they're going to do it. So you have to just make it lighthearted. You have to make it easy for them and, uh. Th Once you forget about the camera being there, the lights being there, and you're just having that conversation, oh, then it's, then it's pure gold. I wanna explain what's going on right now. So I wanted to talk about videos on YouTube. And Jeff was ticked that I shut down the first interview before he got all of his questions in. So he got his question in. We're happy for you. I was. Great answer. Let's get back to YouTube videos. I think I can bring it back. I think I can bring it back. Thank you. My God. Do you have more questions, Jeff? No one just to comment. Oh God. Here we go. One, one time I was, uh, this one time overseeing a, a video producer was doing a video. For an old company I worked with and he said, PF, just a tip. People don't like it when you're filming them while they're eating. And I thought that was funny. Anyway, well, so bring it back. There's a video that I watched not long ago about siblings reuniting, and it was different ages, um, brothers and sisters, like finding each other at the airport. All these things. What got me thinking, Todd? Is, it's a shockingly beautiful video. It's so sweet. You've seen all these siblings reuniting. Um, it's not necessarily military, but how, how did someone gather all that? It wasn't set up'cause you could tell it was real because someone, I don't know how to, had a way to go. I need to find when, uh, siblings are reuniting and then put that together. That is. How did they do that? How do you make that happen? What kinda line did you have on that? Or is it just years of gathering? But it was, you couldn't have faked that video. Yeah, I'm, I, they probably had somebody behind the scenes coordinating everything and making sure that these people are here. And I was COVID shut it down, but I was going to be doing a video where, um, uh, if you all heard of the best Christmas ever. Oh yeah. I mean one of the greatest nonprofits out there. Yep. And um, there was at the time, one of the biggest. Like the Vikings were really involved, like the linemen, all of their fines went to, yeah. To Best Christmas ever. And I was trying to set up a video where, um, the, the one of the people who worked for the Vikings was on the board and she didn't know it, but we had a family that she had sponsored, hadn't seen since this big, you know, best Christmas ever. Oh. And they were going to come from behind the. You know, out of a room and surprise her and thank her for mm-hmm. You know, if, if you don't know the best customs ever, look it up. It's, it's a wonderful thing. But that COVID, we couldn't do the shoot and then she actually left the Viking, so like, I couldn't get it done. But that's, there was probably a lot of that where you, okay, these people, you have to work here. And I'm, I'm, you know, you're the, you're a, you, you work for this team, but you have to, can you please make sure these people don't come over here? And a lot of coordinating going on that's producing yes. I, and you know, in the spirit of holidays and, and kind of given, we're getting, we're coming up on Halloween, I, I'll find myself going to scare tactics, videos and scaring people. Those, I just saw a possum that tried to steal candy and the person, person jumped at it in the possum. Just, I don't know, I have kind of a weird. Like, you got a lot of weird, man. There's a lot of weird going on over there. It's fun though to watch people really authentically scared like that. And then I like to, you know what? I don't get oxytocin from that. I don't know about that. It makes you laugh. Well, maybe you've got a different oxytocin trigger than the rest of us. Let me, let me tell you, so speaking of Halloween, just saw it last night when I was exercising oxytocin Sunday. Um, this, this kid comes up to a, a house. That's got the ring camera and there's only two pieces of candy left in the bowl. And he goes, oh man, there's only two pieces left. And he grabs one of'em and he kind of chuckles. All of a sudden he comes back and he starts unloading candy outta his bag into the thing. And, you know, you mean to give, to give it just to make sure that the next kid, that the next kid's a co Yeah. And there's no way that that was set up because unless that kid was the greatest actor. Wow. Ever. Yeah. Yeah. So the, so I was able to make a Halloween video Yeah. Analogy video. That was excellent. You, you, you, you, uh, you covered up for my negativity and made it positive. It wasn't negative. It wasn't negative, it was different. I didn't think it was negative either. I, you, you brought up, uh, the airport. And I, I, well, I, I think we all go to the airport quite a bit. I, I, I do as well. I is that, I think the airport is just the two sides of the, the most heightened emotional experiences It's like, oh my goodness, it's the goodbye. And then you go down into baggage claim and it's the reunion. And I mean, every time you go. You see this heart wrenching goodbye, whether it's at, at the drop off in front or at the ticketing gate. Right. And then down at the baggage claim. It's the craziest, it's the craziest charge of emotion for sure. Yeah. That's cool. We should have, we should have at some point a flight attendant on with us. Because, because my wife has, you know, status flying with Delta, I occasionally get to sit up with her and all the special people, and you can just tell that there are some people that know how to conduct themselves in first class. And then there is just the opposite. And it's amazing how. There is such a, diversity in behavior in that part of, you know, can you gimme an example back experience? Where, can you gimme an example? I got one. Oh, I, go ahead. I got one. Uh, my, my, my mom and dad when my dad was around. They took a trip and they got upgraded to first class. They had never been on first class in their lives. My dad was kinda losing it a little bit. They handed up the little towels. He thought it was an enchilada. He took a fight outta the towel. Oh no. So his eyesight wasn't great. He doesn't understand like it was a towel to warm. He had to. He grabbed a text, he's like chewing on it. My mom's like, oh my, my mom looks at my sister and goes, oh my God. Yeah, that's great. He thought it was a, to a to tortilla. You're gonna, he's gonna get sent back to 32 f, no, 32 EA middle seat. There was a guy, sitting across the aisle from me and this jerk had, Rolex on each wrist. Oh, yikes. And that's like, that's a don't be that guy moment. Totally. Don't be that guy. And he was so entitled and the woman that was sitting on the inside of him. Was my kind of people because she decided that she was gonna overwhelm the, uh, the flight attendant with kindness and just the delta between his behavior. Oh, that's and her behaviors. That's great. Eventually, I think that he kind of figured out what she was doing and at first was kind of ticked off about it, but really sort of dialed it back. But it's like to have the. The chutzpah. Isn't that funny? Yeah. Yeah. I have, if you've traveled with your dad on an airplane, you've. My dad, he didn't understand a lot of the etiquette on an airplane, and so he and my mom were, they were probably 32 ENF probably way back there. And Jen and I were up forward where you should be. And I just, I, you know, like when people listen to music out loud, they're not using headphones or something, and it just, that drives me nuts. And so I just kept hearing these, oh no, this my, this is back in the day of the D Oh no. When you had the portable DVDs. Yeah. My dad chose to watch Blazing Saddles. Oh, no. Out loud. Oh, great. And I just kept hearing and, and it didn't occur to me at first. I was, who is that yet? And I, I, that meander fall? No, it's my dad watching Blazing Saddles out loud. Did you go, did you go and help him out? I, I, yeah, I brought him my headphones. Oh, that was kind of you. But the, as the. Flight attendant was telling him, sir, yeah, you need to turn that. Well, then he, you know what he did? He, he, he called Jeff to see, how do I turn this down? What do I do with this technology? Oh, one time, time I was watching the movie, uh, she's outta my league on the flight. I had never seen it before, but I was, I was, I'm sure I was annoying the lady just laughing out loud because I had headphones on, but it was, that's not annoying. It was so funny. That's loud. That's okay. I actually. I love it when, uh, people are watching so of they, and they're absolutely oxytocin. You wanna talk when they're laugh and they're just laughing uncontrollably. Yes. I, and they're next to it. Makes you laugh. It makes laugh, it makes me laugh. I love it. I love it. I've, I found myself on flight. Watching ridiculous movies, laughing and I'm, um, I'm crying, I'm laughing so hard, and people are looking at me like, oh my God. Is it that funny? The power of the power of story. The power of film. Isn't that cool? It is unbelievable. Uh, two more things about, uh, uh, uh, I know we were talking about videos, but about, um. Uh, uh, humor and, and laughing. I, uh, uh, oxy to Sundays yesterday. Do you know what Oxy to Sunday is? Todd, I'll explain. Please explain it. No, go, go ahead. So go ahead John. Tell'em what Oxy Oxy to Sunday is, Oxy to Sunday, we've decided that,, on Sundays, which you need to do is instead of consuming. media that is going to get you fired up in a bad way for work. Watch the things like the military reunions on Sunday. So going into, yeah, that's, that is your list for oxytocin for a, a successful oxytocin. So you had two stories. Yeah. So I find myself on Sunday morning, uh, you know, entering in Oxy to Sunday. I'm sitting on my couch and I'm watching these videos. I'll come across these videos to just make me laugh out loud. And I, and I think to myself as I'm getting up to get my second cup of coffee, is there anything better than laughing? No. Is there anything better than laughter? I mean that, like I'm, I'm in a room by myself. That's great. And I'm seeing something and I'm laughing and I'm thinking. That is the best emotion. Yeah, that was my first story. Have you ever been to donut Hut? No. Where are things better than Laughing? I've heard, I've heard of Donut Hut tomorrow morning. Is that your visit? That's Tuesday morning. Yes, it's Tuesday morning. Is your visit the, the last the second story I was just gonna tell just is it a long story? No, it is not. Not compared to yours. Um, when it comes to playing, we'll be cutting that out. Yeah, right. The two Rolex guy that I, uh, sit. Next to often when I have the opportunity set up front. He's also the guy that at nine 30 in the morning is double scotching it. Oh absolutely. For sure. On a flight from Minneapolis to Chicago. And you know guys, the belt extender. Oh, mm-hmm. My God. You're like, are you serious? Nine 30, we're going from here to Chicago. The traffic to get downtown's gonna take longer and you're double scotching it on a Monday. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. I was just gonna say to, to kind of bring this all back home, back together. Yeah. We started talking about, uh, video, great video, uh, clips to watch that, especially connecting to Oxy till Sunday. But I want to challenge our, our audience to send us or tell us about some of the best kindness, uh, inspiring, uh, oxytocin inducing videos that you can find. So. How can Jeff, how can we have them find us and send them to us via Facebook? We, well, uh, they can text them to us on our kindness line. Let me pull that. And what's the kindness line? Kindness line. If I can just pull that right up here. I've got it on Steve's contact.'cause we talked earlier, I don't have it written down either. I forgot already. Here we go. It is, it is, uh, 61. Be kind 22. 6 1, 2, 3, 5, 4 63 22 61. Be kind 22. You can text it, you can voicemail it. Go ahead Steve. Yeah, we want to hear from you. So please, we want some feedback on, first of all, any great videos you have, anything in the world, any topic ideas, guest ideas, or uh, you know, sound, sound bites at the beginning that I play in there. There we go. For something to tee, God knows reason people are listening to this program. I'm not sure that this might be it. This might be the one that puts it. Uh yep. Put a fork in us. What's, what's the severance package? Is there a severance package? Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's a real, it's robust. It's robust. So, Todd, I just want to thank you for coming in. Yeah. Todd, this was so, it, so fun to, I know Jeff, Jeff, you and Jeff can connect and Oh, happy to be here. He can start texting you 16 times a day. That'll be fun. And with that, off we go. I just have one quick sound bite because of, I, I was. Thinking of my mom and dad on the flight home. Speaking of flights, and so this is from one of my, uh, favorite movies growing up as a kid. Here you go. Let me pull it up here. That's professional, isn't it? Hang on. Here we go. Let me see if I can find it here. This is terrible. You know what? It's gone. I don't have it. Jesus Christ. Could you hit just, Hey, let's try this. Let's try this again. No, no. Okay. I lost it. I had push that red button right there. Oh no, I do. I do have it. Oh good. I do have it. I do. So here's what we're gonna do. Just play it. Don't tell us that you're gonna play it. Help me out here. Well, I was trying to tee it all up. I know, I know, but you don't need to. Okay. Alright. Okay. Just, sorry. Sorry. You know what, Todd, it's been great having you in and with that, off we go. Sometimes you have to look hard at a person and remember that he's doing the best he can. He's just trying to find his way. That's just, thank you. Wow. That's lovely. This has been the Kindness Chronicles coming to you live for Maa Minnesota. Goodnight. I.