May 13, 2025 • 33 mins
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 KindnessChronicles, where once again, we
hope to inject the world withthe dose of the Minnesota.
Please stop doing that.
Wow.
You know, I still got, I stillgot some two kindness that it
desperately needs.
You know, I went and witnessedthe Johnny Clueless experience.
Oh, we got to introduce everyonewho's here, John?
It's clown car people.
We got, uh, Steve Brown here.
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Hi.
As a regular.
Yeah.
We've got our, uh, 50-year-oldintern here.
We got KG on the line.
Where are we calling you at?
I'm at home.
I'm in beautiful Minnetonka onthis, uh, summary May evening
and, uh, yeah, the puppies aresettled in, got'em out for a
nice walk and I'm ready to roll.
And we got Michael Dempsey, whorecently recovered from a tree
stump, grinding accident.
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Oh no, I know.
It looks fantastic.
Thank you.
I got all my fingers.
All your fingers.
Let's check in with Dempsey forthe month, man.
That's good.
That's good.
Checking in with Dempsey andlet's just talk about for a
second.
There are certain things that aman shouldn't do on his, own.
You shouldn't do your owndentistry.
Yeah, that's right.
You probably shouldn't do yourown plumbing or electrical work
maybe.
Yeah, right.
Okay.
Not, not when it gets into thedeeps of it yet.
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When you're getting into it.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and yeah.
Anything doing with trees, youknow, when you start knocking
down, limbs are gonna fall inyour head.
Yeah.
Or wreck your property or yourneighbor's property or whatever.
I would also say that you, Ididn'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 alwaysgotta have all the callbacks.
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You, you had the, uh, trapshooting the folks.
And on that episode.
John admitted to not being anoutdoorsman.
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 incommon.
It's like in the movie Titanic,when he said, you're a look a
little bit more like an indoorgirl to me when she was on the
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That's right.
About to jump on.
That's right Michael.
Good line.
Can you explain the, uh, thegrinder?
Tell that quick story.
'cause that was kind of funny.
I wanted these guys to see that.
Oh.
Uh, tell the listeners aboutwhat.
Yeah, so, I live on about fiveacres, in Blaine.
I've said I, I live in Blaineand lots of trees dying over the
last five to 10 years.
Emerald D Bore and whatnot.
So lots of trees down and a tonof stumps.
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And my wife was gonna be out oftown and I said.
Well, that's a perfect weekendfor me to rent one of these
units.
Lose a finger.
Yeah.
200, you know, so she wasprepared.
Yeah.
So she was, she was not happy.
And, we're empty nest for acouple of weeks Right.
Until the youngest moves, youknow, back you had a whole open
weekend.
Yeah, the whole weekend.
Weekend.
So I, so I'm gonna write thestump grinder and, and she says
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to my daughters, check in onyour dad.
Make sure you check in on yourdad.
So my middle daughter drives up.
And she says, uh, it's time tocheck in.
I said, wait, wait, wait.
I gotta put some bandages aroundmy head and get a bloody mom,
you know, or something.
Take that picture and send it tomom.
I love it.
And that's, yeah, that's, that'swhat I, so you shouldn't be left
home alone.
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Well, no.
I, I, that's right.
But hey, listen, I, I think Igot 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 onthe thing and start grinding.
Yeah, it's all hydraulic.
Wow.
Yeah, it's amazing.
And let me tell you, it's allball bearing.
Come on guys.
Being, being a frugal guy,right?
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I mean, if you, if you hire aguy to do that, it's like$500 a
stump.
It is.
It's, it's unbelievable.
But you rent this machine isthat 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 talkabout stump grinding?
Can we, we talk about donuts.
Hey.
500 times 25.
No.
Yeah.
No.
Come on.
You, you saved yourself a bunchof money.
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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'rethere 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 gettingstarted?
Disrespectful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The full house.
Hey, let me tell you something,Nick.
I don't like how this is going.
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Stu grinding.
Stump grinding is the sign ofspring 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 asign of spring and anyway, you
know, what's a sign of spring?
What?
Road construction.
Oh, oh yeah.
Yes.
A sign of Spring Roadconstruction.
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It's the season, and the topicfor today is coping, kindness,
coping, coping with roadconstruction, and the chaos on
the roads last week.
Interesting.
We had a very rare appearance instudio with Mr.
Gorg and to get from Minnetonkato Madam, which is across town.
Yeah, yeah.
But you know, late afternoon,what did it take you?
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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 orangecones.
You should take the chopper nexttime.
The est chopper.
It should, it should take 35minutes and it took an hour and
35 minutes.
Yeah.
Wow.
But I have experienced somelovely behavior on the roads,
huh.
And not so lovely behavior onthe roads.
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And I would like to just talkabout how we can cope.
With the situation that we'reall dealing with.
Right.
We're all in this together.
Right, right, right, right.
It's all, it's, it's all ourroads to, to share.
Right.
And I wanna start with, youknow, people bitch about folks
that aren't going into theirwork.
They're working from home.
Work from home.
Stay off my roads, I gotta getinto the office.
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Yeah.
Right?
Yep.
Wow.
Why do we have to judge otherpeople 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 aboutthe traffic.
Well tell what happened.
I mean, what happened and is ithappened multiple times?
Well, I'm gonna give you anexample here.
Okay?
Thank you.
So, uh, just, uh, last must havebeen last Thursday.
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I.
It's about three o'clock in theafternoon and I was driving
across town.
You'd think three o'clock in theafternoon, 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 togo at that KG open washing
machine or something.
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I was going from one importantevent to another.
Yes.
And you know how zipper merge issupposed to work?
Mm-hmm.
Well, there was, there were fourcars in a row that would not let
me zip like they were bumper tobumper, 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.
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Then the next Okay.
Then the next, yeah.
I, I debate with my wife aboutthis a lot because she says
that.
It's supposed to work whereeveryone goes up and then you
zipper at the end.
But most people are like, theytry to hold back, so no, they
don't know how to zipper merge.
Yeah.
You're supposed, are you talkingabout the, uh, where the traffic
light sort of manages thetraffic or when you're all just
merging?
No, this was merging so therewas lanes changing the right
lanes.
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The right lane was wide open.
So I blew down the right lane.
Oh.
Which is what you're supposed todo.
It doesn't feel right, but youare, it doesn't feel right.
It doesn't feel very Minnesota.
But when you pass all thosecars, it feels great.
It does.
You're getting ahead, you'remanaging your time wisely.
It's all about time management.
All, all hotty and full ofyourself.
Okay.
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That's because all the otherpeople are waiting patiently.
Like the, like the patientstudents 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 itthat is it.
You're supposed to do that.
You are correct.
Because if everybody feel itdoesn't, it doesn't feel right,
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but it feels so good.
So public services, everyone goto that spot and then you, then
you zipper you trade out.
Once you're together, you don'thave 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 nofinger gestures.
Not on that salute.
Time salutes.
There were no salutes.
Just mean faces.
Yeah.
And I don't care for that.
No.
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Well, who does?
You're very sensitive.
I.
Yeah.
Here I am trying to make theworld a better place by going
ahead of everyone.
Oh boy.
Well, no, probably follow of theroad.
They probably saw gloating.
I, there's a lot of talking ontop of each other.
I, I have a thought too manyfucking people in here.
Think about it this way.
We're in our car.
This, I think we, comedians kindof mentioned this, but you're in
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our car, you're in your ownlittle thing.
Um, and so you feel like youhave your four walls and you can
just do whatever you want.
Imagine that you're in a line inand everyone's open.
Would you act the same way?
In a line as you would with yourcar, or is your car a a shield
where you can break socialnorms?
No.
No.
You should act as if you arejust standing next to someone,
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right?
Yeah.
Like we're all in convertiblesand we are, we can talk to each
other.
I.
I feel like I'm part of acommunity when I'm out in the I
do.
Yeah.
That's a good, I that's a goodmindset.
Should, should, Jeff, you shouldthink as you're just all in a
line.
Here's the thing though, youcan't control the people around
you.
And so I have some strategies,but we don't have to get there.
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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 overhere.
We talked, we talked a littleabout virtual work.
So technology is sort of thetheme.
And having worked at atechnology company, so I, I love
technology, but um, I recentlygot a car with CarPlay.
I think that needs to bestandard equipment.
It allows my iPad, love it.
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iPhone to plug right in.
I love somebody.
Yes, I've always loved thespoken word format of learning.
I am, I might, maybe it'sbecause I'm a musician and I
just like, listen and you know,you're not so smart.
Well, and my mom and dad were insales and they had sales tapes
like Zig Ziglar and Tom Hopkinsand Tony Robbins.
Is this a long story already?
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I, uh, but I always had a cargrowing up with a cassette
player.
Well, now that we've got.
Our iPhones, we can listentwenty four seven to the
Kindness Chronicles, forexample, or any kind exactly
spoken word format.
You want.
Keep people laughing, keep'emfocused on the, the really
important things and aboutkindness and compassion for
fellow human beings.
You know what?
That calms me.
And so when people are giving memean faces or finger gestures,
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I'm mutually kind of try to bein a zen mode.
Oh wow.
Like.
A great, uh, uh, reaction tosomeone flipping you off is to
wave at'em.
Oh.
You know, I like, like you thinkthat they know you.
Hey, I've blown kisses topeople.
Oh, wow.
I'm not kidding.
That doesn't help.
No.
You blow a kiss at somebody thatgives you the finger and that
could lead to other things.
It is frustrating.
Yeah.
These days especially.
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I, I, well, uh, this has come upbefore, um, are you.
Are you a hunker?
Do you, do you like to honk?
In fact, what's interesting isI, I hate honkers.
You're a hunker though.
No, I'm not all You're not ahunker?
No.
In fact, I drive a car.
Why?
My old land rover that I haveHorn doesn't work.
Which, which against the law.
Yeah, it is.
But there were, um, there were acouple of moments where I wish I
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did have the horn in that carkg, are you a honker?
I'm not, but it's funny withHello?
Uh, when you travel out east,like Yes.
Yes.
If you go like New Jersey, NewYork.
Yes.
I can't believe how much theyuse their horns out there.
It's so, it's so different thanhow it happens here in the
Midwest.
Yes.
K kg.
I was just out in New York.
Well, yeah.
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I told you guys that I went andpunched Elmo in the face for
calling.
Thank you.
By the way.
Calling, goodness.
Calling John El Godo.
You, knowdo I were you the oneAnd I popped him right in the
sout and then I ran.
But, uh, I love it.
They honking all the time, likeas if the person in front of
them doesn't wanna turn left.
Right, right, right.
I hate that.
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Well, in populated areas, theintention of the horn is
different.
Um, no, it's not a hold, it'snot 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 rightbehind you.
Oh.
And I said, because I've beenin, in high traffic areas in
India.
And horns are not, horns are notmeant as a Hey jerk.
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It's like, beep, beep.
I'm right here.
Beep.
Just always what's going onaround you?
So it's like a differentlanguage?
It is.
It's just, it's just a cultural,like here we are, beep beep.
Everyone's just on theirscooters or their, you know,
tuck tucks, and I don't thinkI've ever heard, uh, in New York
and beep.
Beep beep be Are they prettywell, they're just bigger horns.
Well, no, it's right.
It's just one, um, octave belowthe, A goal was just scored in
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the Excel center.
Exactly.
Horn.
Brutal.
You're like, it's, it's, it'shorrible.
But that's, but is, but is that,but, so that's not kind that,
can you use, like, like how doyou, how, how would you, uh,
psychologically.
Sort of infuse kindness on theroads, then?
Let me tell you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Lemme tell you.
Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah.
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I practice it every day.
Okay.
Okay.
And I'm not kidding.
I mean this sincerely I am, whenI say that, when I'm on the
road, I feel like I'm part of acommunity out there.
Mm-hmm.
I mean this sincerely.
I wanna be the guy, and I swearto God this is true.
Like I'm a wave them in.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Ah, yeah.
You know, kinda like there's aSeinfeld episode where he talks
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like, go ahead, ding.
Because I want them to look atme and go, what a nice guy.
You know?
Right.
Like at McDonald's, when you'regoing through the double drive
through line, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And you get Or Culver's orCulvers, you get there at the
si.
Same time.
Most Culver's only have the oneline you would know.
Well, the experience.
Have I told you about my secretcredit card that I have that I
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used just for Fast?
For?
For fast food?
No, you do not.
Yeah, I have a special, but nowyou told it's outta the bag now,
but my wife doesn't listen.
It's just so she doesn't see iton the credit card statement.
Wow.
I bet you I put in the course ofa month, 150 Diet Cokes on that
thing.
Hmm.
At 2 0 5 a piece.
That is so great.
So anyway, the two lines.
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Yeah.
So when you get to the two, whenyou're in the, the, the, and
this to me is a trafficcongestion issue.
When you both make your order atthe same time.
Let's say that KG is in oneline, ordering, ordering a macor
and I'm in the other line.
Yeah.
And I'm ordering, uh, probablysomething like oatmeal.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, of course.
Oh yeah, Uhhuh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we get to the same pointchoice.
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I will always let whoever thatother person is go first.
And they'll look at me like,really?
And I'll go, yeah, just go.
And then sometimes they buy myDiet 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 tobe, we need to behave.
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Yeah.
Like we're going to have to talkto those people.
Right.
Yeah.
Because like you're standing ina line.
Mm-hmm.
Because you know when somebodylets you in.
Oxytocin.
Sure.
Like what a great person.
They let you, you're, you'regiven 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.
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Who are these people, don'tthey?
I mean, honestly falls samething when you let someone lets
you in.
Always give the quick like I doover your head.
Yeah.
So that they see that.
Thanks a lot.
That was cool that you let mein.
I like to that roll down thewindow and give it the full Oh,
oh, I do.
I wanna make sure that theycould 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 bothdo that.
'cause I did that too.
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And my wife always looks at melike my wife never gives the
wave.
Does your wife give?
My wife doesn't look.
She just looks forward when shedrives.
Doesn't look around at all.
Might be time to start draftingdivorce papers, right?
Mean?
Oh, does your wife give the waveyour wife give wave?
She does not.
My, my wife gives the wave.
Does she give the wave?
You know what, that's a, that'sa deal breaker it there.
Oh.
But my wife won't look atanyone.
She's afraid someone's gonnalook at her when she's driving.
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I, when I drive, I look atpeople funny all the time.
See, that's rubberneckinglooking people.
Yeah.
I might see somebody I know.
Me too.
Yeah.
But you're, you, you've talkedabout your wife being an
introvert.
She's an introvert.
Yeah.
And so that, and people havedifferent.
They're wired differently.
Sometimes I'm up there runningfor mayor.
Hey.
Yes, you're That's right.
That's right.
Well, when you're doing so, youjust call Becky an introvert?
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No, no.
That's wife.
Jeff's wife is an my wife.
Okay.
Yeah.
Honest mistake.
I, I would, Jennifer's anintrovert.
Yes.
I, I would say I'm a, I'm awaiver too.
And, and, and like Steve andJohn, it's a, it like, I feel
like, uh, I'm in a ballroom withthese people.
I'm looking at'em.
I'm waving.
Yeah.
I'm nodding.
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Yeah.
What happens when you make themistake?
I have a, do you have a gesture?
Go ahead.
Here's what absolutely.
I put one hand on my chest, takemy 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 knowwhat the response I should you
get from people?
Yeah.
Is a kind response.
Sure.
It's like, I think that theyappreciate your acknowledging.
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That you were the one that wasat fault.
Yeah.
Can I, uh, have your's story?
I once told her I can't, I thinkI 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 Iwasn't used to, so it was like,
it was really busy and someguy's beeping at me and he's
looking at me.
I'm like, I rolled on my window.
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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 coolman.
Okay.
Yeah, we gave one of those, youknow, else irritates me.
It happens little bit.
Everybody driving in California?
Oh yeah.
Oh, and people refer to it asthe five, yes.
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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 theCalifornians.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
That's the Californians.
Stuart, what are you doing?
What are you doing here?
Check the 4 0 5 down to Calliakg.
You travel around and I amassuming that you travel by Uber
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when you're in all of your, haveyou noticed some?
Yes.
Like are there cities out therethat.
You find the traffic to be moredelightful or do you just not
pay attention when you'resitting in the back of your
limousine?
Alright.
It not a limousine, usually it'sthe, uh, the cheapest version of
either Uber or Lyft I can find.
But what I've found out over theyears is there are certain
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places I will not live, and atthe top of that list is Los
Angeles.
I have never in my life seenanything 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 OMIstresses me out.
They have that drive every day.
Wherever they're going, like tothe grocery store, 15 miles,
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hour and 15 minutes, like I've.
The, you know, we go to acertain arena, the crew, the,
the guys that run the broadcastfrom the TV truck to the camera
guys, they all live there andthey talk about the traffic.
Ah, it is insane.
So as bad as we think we have ithere in summertime and
construction in Minnesota, it,it's a tale as old as time.
It hales in comparison.
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My place is like New York andla.
If it took me an hour and 15minutes to get to the grocery
store, I might be a littlethinner just saying kg.
Um, did you see La La Land?
I.
Of course I loved that movieprobably a hundred times that,
that opening scene, they alllooked like they were so happy
in dancing.
Isn't it like that?
That's how it is in la It'sactually, I wish it was like
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that.
I wish people had the fun musicgoing on and, um, gorgeous.
Uh, redheads were dancing in thestreets near my car.
I would probably enjoy traffic alot more now.
Kg you, you mentioned la I wouldsay in my travels recently, um,
the Phoenix area.
The, the, the, the traffic inthe Phoenix area and it gets bad
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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'rejust driving everywhere and, and
it's, uh, it's like, it'sincredible.
You, you don't even, peoplearen't going slow enough to
acknowledge my wave.
You know what I mean?
When my arms out the window,Hey, yeah.
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Minnesota guy out there.
They just, yeah, go ahead.
I mean, John wouldn't know whatto do.
I mean, he's trying to get, youknow, elected as mayor.
They wouldn't even know.
Not gonna work down there.
No.
Plus it's hot.
How about when the motorcyclesdrive in between the two lanes
of traffic?
It happened this weekend.
I get nervous.
It scared me.
Yeah, because I think they cando that in Minnesota now.
It did not look safe.
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I saw Guy, it's not safe.
I saw a guy, a Harley rider.
Weaving between cars withinches, and I was like, that
guy's gonna die.
We're gonna see him dead.
Wow.
Hmm.
Guys that drive thosemotorcycles, I'm sorry?
Are any of you guys motorcycledrivers?
No.
Here's the thing, no chance it'snot just that they're risky, is
that if it's a little, if my momwas cut off like that, who knows
what she would do?
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Right?
She would be freaked out andmaybe.
Like run into somebody or like,you know, I don't On purpose,
purpose, no, no, but like hit orbrake 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 thepeople around you.
You know what else is dangerous?
Yeah.
Have you ever seen those littlecars where they put the things
(20:42):
in the, the, the mufflers tomake'em sound super loud?
And they start topping.
Yeah.
And I thought, oh my God, thatcar's, you know, there's
something wrong with that car.
I've been told that you canpurchase.
Is it something to make the carfor safety?
No, no.
It's to be, to sound cool.
Hold on, hold on.
Let's, let's stop for a secondhere.
Yeah.
What's happening?
Are we just.
(21:03):
Complaining about annoyingpeople off my lawn.
No, no.
We, where we're going, we'reolder gentlemen that are sick
and tired of being sick andtired.
We're, yes.
Let's, let's talk about what wecould do to fix it.
Thank you.
So I, we, we were talking aboutit.
Yeah.
I think you should be runningfor mayor.
Everybody should be running formail.
Why?
While they're driving.
So your perspective around you.
Yep.
(21:23):
Always think about, you know,that person could be the next
Pope.
We're gonna talk about AmericanPopes 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 thePopemobile, let's imagine you're
the guy in the Popemobile.
Yeah.
(21:43):
The now he's not driving.
He's kind of in the backer.
But I mean he, maybe he's gothorn control.
Yeah.
You know, I'm excited about theAmerican.
Yeah.
Anybody, I wanna see him comeout 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 Soxjerseys that are Leo with the
(22:07):
number 14?
Are they gonna sell?
Oh, it's just a lot.
I want to see him drive up inthe Blues Mobile.
Oh.
Or he gets out with Hat, hatFisher 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 isthe first time I've listened to
(22:28):
the last three.
He gets a movie reference in atleast 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 bebest friends with employees?
Got nothing.
Watch mind.
It's how my mind works.
It's sort of like art imitateslife or vice versa, whatever the
saying is, but I, I'm always.
(22:49):
Seeing real things play out inlife.
Yeah.
That are like, oh, that's justlike that movie scene.
And it's just how it's alwaysbeen 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 amission 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.
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Yeah.
We have a big event.
In fact, it's filling up hugequickly.
We have a, a capacity of about450 and we're at about 350 so
far.
People coming to our bigscholarship night at, uh, the
Masonic Heritage Center at 11 411.
Masonic Home Drive.
Tickets are free, appetizers,beverages.
(23:33):
We're gonna do a live podcast.
Yeah.
I've got.
Five or six of the selflessscholar nominators and, and just
explain that a little bit to ourlisteners.
So maybe just start from, so ourscholarship night, we, uh, this
year we're giving out a total ofabout 140 scholarships, totaling
about$1.5 million.
Holy Hannah.
That's a lot of scholarships.
(23:53):
And of those people, almost ahundred of them have, confirmed
that they're coming to theevent.
Wow.
And some of'em are bringing aparent or two.
We're gonna be presentingscholarships, for$24,000
scholarships,$20,000scholarships 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.
(24:14):
we're gonna have a fun, way ofpresenting that.
And, uh, I just encourage peopleto 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 thisscholarship, and I've mentioned
it in the past, but instead of,applying for a scholarship for
your own things that you'veaccomplished, yeah.
(24:34):
The objective is to look beyondyourself and identify somebody
in your circle, you know,somebody you go to school with
or church with, or lives in thecommunity.
And tell us about their story ofkindness.
Tell us about the way thatthey've impacted your community
and if that story is selected.
The scholarship is split betweenthe person who took the time to
recognize that person and theperson that they recognized.
(24:56):
And what's super fun about it isthe people that are being
recognized have no idea, butthen we're gonna invite the
nominee tours to read theirnomination.
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'sfriend Bob.
(25:18):
Bob goes, man, Jimmy's a greatguy.
I love how what he does, I'mgonna nominate him for this
thing.
Writing that thing he gets a hitof, of oxytocin gives ox.
Absolutely, you do.
Now he submits it to you, youweed it, oxytocin and gets an
oxytocin hit and now they get tothis thing.
I have a bunch of people thatthat evaluated.
Yes.
And rated.
They all get it, you know, so wegot hundreds of these
(25:39):
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 hoursof oxytocin.
Then we get to the event whereoutta the blue, Jimmy realized,
you know, you announced his nameand then Bob, so Jimmy gets this
hit of oxytocin and his parents,whoever's with him.
(26:01):
And then Bob gets recognized andgets a scholarship.
He has no idea.
And then they come home and theypost it on Facebook and Mom, it
just keeps going.
The Oxy, you know what?
It's an oxytocin tsunami that'swelcome to the oxytocin.
Well before, before you finish.
That sounds like an amazingevent.
Do you have to register for it?
(26:22):
I mean, is there, you just showup 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, five30.
From five 30 until about six 10.
We will have, appetizers andbeverages at six 10.
We're gonna ring the bell andinvite people into the
auditorium.
Wow.
The first level is gonna be forall of the recipients and their
(26:44):
parents.
The balcony is gonna be reservedfor the riffraff.
Oh, which are the people thatare listening, people throwing
stuff.
People that, aren't gonna bereceiving scholarships.
The thing, this are maybe the,uh, the Kindness Chronicles fan
base.
The the fan base?
Yeah, the kind, the Kens ConNation.
We'll, three or four chairsavailable for general admission.
Kindness Chronicles Nation, um,folding chairs outside.
(27:06):
We should have you out there bybring your own chair boys by
eight 15 or so.
But, but we're gonna do a showlive.
We, it should be great.
Which we've never done before.
We haven't, but I do want tobring up another moment of
oxytocin.
That I had this weekend.
Amen, brother.
I was at the dugout Oh, justthis past Saturday night, and
there was a fantastic show thatwas presented by our friend.
(27:27):
Steve Brown in his band, JohnnyClueless, and here's what I
wanna tell you about that.
Okay.
All right.
So I showed up, I was in a tuxbecause 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 wifelooked, she looked good too.
Yeah.
Ah, she was.
I walked in, I walked in andusually people would make fun of
(27:48):
you because I mean, I wasclearly overdressed.
I had people calling me, Heygovernor.
You know, it was very funactually.
Yeah.
But what I wanna mention is youloved it, got a promotion from
me.
I had the opportunity to meetsome of Steve Brown's fans.
Yeah.
Slash friends.
Yeah.
Couldn't be a nicer group ofpeople.
that couple that you introducedus to outside, that live out in
(28:10):
White Bear?
Yeah.
John and Amy Love them.
What a lovely couple.
Yeah.
That those two people were, Ithink we might become best
friends.
They're the greatest.
Um, the, there was a group ofpeople that had graduated a few
years after you from HillMurray.
There was a whole pile of them.
The Delsing boys, Jack and uh,Derek Delsing.
They were there with their wivesand their friends.
I talked to them.
Yep.
And.
I talked night and that othernight, Colleen Hardigan, who's
(28:31):
yeah, who's, she's all over theplace, right?
Oh my God.
Is she fun?
She went to St.
Cloud as well.
She bought, uh, grape apes foreverybody.
She had the, oh, wow.
She had a credit card that wasworking overtime that night.
I don't even drink, and I had agrape ape, and I was sick as a
dog the next day.
But anyway, I just wannaacknowledge the fact that the
Johnny Clueless fan club.
Yeah.
(28:51):
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 haveher roommates.
I have a a I do have a funnystory.
Yeah.
So you were singing kind of a,a, a slower song towards the
beginning of, must have been thethird set.
Uh, two sets.
So it was probably second set,the start of the second set,
start of the second set.
(29:11):
And, uh, your, your daughter.
Uh, Lucinda was outside and Isaid, Hey, you're missing the
show.
And she goes, I don't reallycare 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 allcame in.
Yeah.
But it was really cute.
She's like, nah, I'm not a bigfan of that one.
I gotta talk to her now.
Yeah.
My wife says that sometimes, andI know which ones she doesn't
(29:32):
like, so I did not know my, mydaughter doesn't listen to the
songs that much.
She doesn't know the songs likemy Oh, she does like the fan
base.
She doesn't, she's new.
She's kind of, she's a fanthough.
Some.
Good for you.
Good for you.
You had some fans fromWashington State come, didn't
you?
Yes, my cousin, oh, well thatdoesn't count, was from Spokane.
And she's actually, uh, she'sthe aunt of Briggsy, the guy
that opened up for us.
(29:53):
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 playedacoustically with him, different
shows and stuff.
Um, so she came from Spokane anda, and a good friend of ours.
Who had traveled from Seattle,um, to see us.
I was impressed when I heardthat.
Now was, did I arrive, we onstage with us.
Was I on the second set or no?
You're there for the first set.
(30:14):
Well, I missed, I missedbriggsy.
I was, came from the twins game.
Oh yeah.
By the way, the twin, theMinnesota twins, I have not been
there for a while and they knowhow 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 eightand a half from target field to
you, took me to a nine and ahalf.
Me and my friends, uh, know.
(30:35):
Then we did our job.
It was great.
Yeah.
Everybody was smiling and havingfun.
I could just tell the chemistrya 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 theydeserve.
Thank you guys for coming out.
Michael's been out there beforemany times.
I times.
Sure.
We'll see him out again.
Times, times KG was gonna makeit, but I think you, weren't you
in Madison or something thisweekend?
(30:55):
Yeah, we had a family thing thatcame up thing, so yeah, it, it,
it didn't materialize, but I, Idid 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 thatyou're gonna have, so I was
wondering how you were handlingthat.
Yeah, I, I was explaining how Ineed those.
(31:16):
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.
Welcome to the KindnessChronicles, where once again, we
hope to inject the world withthe dose of the Minnesota.
Please stop doing that.
Wow.
You know, I still got, I stillgot some two kindness that it
desperately needs.
You know, I went and witnessedthe Johnny Clueless experience.
Oh, we got to introduce everyonewho's here, John?
It's clown car people.
We got, uh, Steve Brown here.
(00:34):
Hi.
As a regular.
Yeah.
We've got our, uh, 50-year-oldintern here.
We got KG on the line.
Where are we calling you at?
I'm at home.
I'm in beautiful Minnetonka onthis, uh, summary May evening
and, uh, yeah, the puppies aresettled in, got'em out for a
nice walk and I'm ready to roll.
And we got Michael Dempsey, whorecently recovered from a tree
stump, grinding accident.
(00:56):
Oh no, I know.
It looks fantastic.
Thank you.
I got all my fingers.
All your fingers.
Let's check in with Dempsey forthe month, man.
That's good.
That's good.
Checking in with Dempsey andlet's just talk about for a
second.
There are certain things that aman shouldn't do on his, own.
You shouldn't do your owndentistry.
Yeah, that's right.
You probably shouldn't do yourown plumbing or electrical work
maybe.
Yeah, right.
Okay.
Not, not when it gets into thedeeps of it yet.
(01:17):
When you're getting into it.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and yeah.
Anything doing with trees, youknow, when you start knocking
down, limbs are gonna fall inyour head.
Yeah.
Or wreck your property or yourneighbor's property or whatever.
I would also say that you, Ididn'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 alwaysgotta have all the callbacks.
(01:38):
You, you had the, uh, trapshooting the folks.
And on that episode.
John admitted to not being anoutdoorsman.
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 incommon.
It's like in the movie Titanic,when he said, you're a look a
little bit more like an indoorgirl to me when she was on the
(01:59):
That's right.
About to jump on.
That's right Michael.
Good line.
Can you explain the, uh, thegrinder?
Tell that quick story.
'cause that was kind of funny.
I wanted these guys to see that.
Oh.
Uh, tell the listeners aboutwhat.
Yeah, so, I live on about fiveacres, in Blaine.
I've said I, I live in Blaineand lots of trees dying over the
last five to 10 years.
Emerald D Bore and whatnot.
So lots of trees down and a tonof stumps.
(02:21):
And my wife was gonna be out oftown and I said.
Well, that's a perfect weekendfor me to rent one of these
units.
Lose a finger.
Yeah.
200, you know, so she wasprepared.
Yeah.
So she was, she was not happy.
And, we're empty nest for acouple of weeks Right.
Until the youngest moves, youknow, back you had a whole open
weekend.
Yeah, the whole weekend.
Weekend.
So I, so I'm gonna write thestump grinder and, and she says
(02:43):
to my daughters, check in onyour dad.
Make sure you check in on yourdad.
So my middle daughter drives up.
And she says, uh, it's time tocheck in.
I said, wait, wait, wait.
I gotta put some bandages aroundmy head and get a bloody mom,
you know, or something.
Take that picture and send it tomom.
I love it.
And that's, yeah, that's, that'swhat I, so you shouldn't be left
home alone.
(03:03):
Well, no.
I, I, that's right.
But hey, listen, I, I think Igot 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 onthe thing and start grinding.
Yeah, it's all hydraulic.
Wow.
Yeah, it's amazing.
And let me tell you, it's allball bearing.
Come on guys.
Being, being a frugal guy,right?
(03:25):
I mean, if you, if you hire aguy to do that, it's like$500 a
stump.
It is.
It's, it's unbelievable.
But you rent this machine isthat 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 talkabout stump grinding?
Can we, we talk about donuts.
Hey.
500 times 25.
No.
Yeah.
No.
Come on.
You, you saved yourself a bunchof money.
(03:45):
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'rethere 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 gettingstarted?
Disrespectful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The full house.
Hey, let me tell you something,Nick.
I don't like how this is going.
(04:05):
Stu grinding.
Stump grinding is the sign ofspring 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 asign of spring and anyway, you
know, what's a sign of spring?
What?
Road construction.
Oh, oh yeah.
Yes.
A sign of Spring Roadconstruction.
(04:26):
It's the season, and the topicfor today is coping, kindness,
coping, coping with roadconstruction, and the chaos on
the roads last week.
Interesting.
We had a very rare appearance instudio with Mr.
Gorg and to get from Minnetonkato Madam, which is across town.
Yeah, yeah.
But you know, late afternoon,what did it take you?
(04:49):
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 orangecones.
You should take the chopper nexttime.
The est chopper.
It should, it should take 35minutes and it took an hour and
35 minutes.
Yeah.
Wow.
But I have experienced somelovely behavior on the roads,
huh.
And not so lovely behavior onthe roads.
(05:10):
And I would like to just talkabout how we can cope.
With the situation that we'reall dealing with.
Right.
We're all in this together.
Right, right, right, right.
It's all, it's, it's all ourroads to, to share.
Right.
And I wanna start with, youknow, people bitch about folks
that aren't going into theirwork.
They're working from home.
Work from home.
Stay off my roads, I gotta getinto the office.
(05:33):
Yeah.
Right?
Yep.
Wow.
Why do we have to judge otherpeople 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 aboutthe traffic.
Well tell what happened.
I mean, what happened and is ithappened multiple times?
Well, I'm gonna give you anexample here.
Okay?
Thank you.
So, uh, just, uh, last must havebeen last Thursday.
(05:55):
I.
It's about three o'clock in theafternoon and I was driving
across town.
You'd think three o'clock in theafternoon, 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 togo at that KG open washing
machine or something.
(06:16):
I was going from one importantevent to another.
Yes.
And you know how zipper merge issupposed to work?
Mm-hmm.
Well, there was, there were fourcars in a row that would not let
me zip like they were bumper tobumper, 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.
(06:36):
Then the next Okay.
Then the next, yeah.
I, I debate with my wife aboutthis a lot because she says
that.
It's supposed to work whereeveryone goes up and then you
zipper at the end.
But most people are like, theytry to hold back, so no, they
don't know how to zipper merge.
Yeah.
You're supposed, are you talkingabout the, uh, where the traffic
light sort of manages thetraffic or when you're all just
merging?
No, this was merging so therewas lanes changing the right
lanes.
(06:56):
The right lane was wide open.
So I blew down the right lane.
Oh.
Which is what you're supposed todo.
It doesn't feel right, but youare, it doesn't feel right.
It doesn't feel very Minnesota.
But when you pass all thosecars, it feels great.
It does.
You're getting ahead, you'remanaging your time wisely.
It's all about time management.
All, all hotty and full ofyourself.
Okay.
(07:17):
That's because all the otherpeople are waiting patiently.
Like the, like the patientstudents 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 itthat is it.
You're supposed to do that.
You are correct.
Because if everybody feel itdoesn't, it doesn't feel right,
(07:37):
but it feels so good.
So public services, everyone goto that spot and then you, then
you zipper you trade out.
Once you're together, you don'thave 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 nofinger gestures.
Not on that salute.
Time salutes.
There were no salutes.
Just mean faces.
Yeah.
And I don't care for that.
No.
(07:57):
Well, who does?
You're very sensitive.
I.
Yeah.
Here I am trying to make theworld a better place by going
ahead of everyone.
Oh boy.
Well, no, probably follow of theroad.
They probably saw gloating.
I, there's a lot of talking ontop of each other.
I, I have a thought too manyfucking people in here.
Think about it this way.
We're in our car.
This, I think we, comedians kindof mentioned this, but you're in
(08:18):
our car, you're in your ownlittle thing.
Um, and so you feel like youhave your four walls and you can
just do whatever you want.
Imagine that you're in a line inand everyone's open.
Would you act the same way?
In a line as you would with yourcar, or is your car a a shield
where you can break socialnorms?
No.
No.
You should act as if you arejust standing next to someone,
(08:40):
right?
Yeah.
Like we're all in convertiblesand we are, we can talk to each
other.
I.
I feel like I'm part of acommunity when I'm out in the I
do.
Yeah.
That's a good, I that's a goodmindset.
Should, should, Jeff, you shouldthink as you're just all in a
line.
Here's the thing though, youcan't control the people around
you.
And so I have some strategies,but we don't have to get there.
(09:01):
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 overhere.
We talked, we talked a littleabout virtual work.
So technology is sort of thetheme.
And having worked at atechnology company, so I, I love
technology, but um, I recentlygot a car with CarPlay.
I think that needs to bestandard equipment.
It allows my iPad, love it.
(09:21):
iPhone to plug right in.
I love somebody.
Yes, I've always loved thespoken word format of learning.
I am, I might, maybe it'sbecause I'm a musician and I
just like, listen and you know,you're not so smart.
Well, and my mom and dad were insales and they had sales tapes
like Zig Ziglar and Tom Hopkinsand Tony Robbins.
Is this a long story already?
(09:41):
I, uh, but I always had a cargrowing up with a cassette
player.
Well, now that we've got.
Our iPhones, we can listentwenty four seven to the
Kindness Chronicles, forexample, or any kind exactly
spoken word format.
You want.
Keep people laughing, keep'emfocused on the, the really
important things and aboutkindness and compassion for
fellow human beings.
You know what?
That calms me.
And so when people are giving memean faces or finger gestures,
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I'm mutually kind of try to bein a zen mode.
Oh wow.
Like.
A great, uh, uh, reaction tosomeone flipping you off is to
wave at'em.
Oh.
You know, I like, like you thinkthat they know you.
Hey, I've blown kisses topeople.
Oh, wow.
I'm not kidding.
That doesn't help.
No.
You blow a kiss at somebody thatgives you the finger and that
could lead to other things.
It is frustrating.
Yeah.
These days especially.
(10:24):
I, I, well, uh, this has come upbefore, um, are you.
Are you a hunker?
Do you, do you like to honk?
In fact, what's interesting isI, I hate honkers.
You're a hunker though.
No, I'm not all You're not ahunker?
No.
In fact, I drive a car.
Why?
My old land rover that I haveHorn doesn't work.
Which, which against the law.
Yeah, it is.
But there were, um, there were acouple of moments where I wish I
(10:46):
did have the horn in that carkg, are you a honker?
I'm not, but it's funny withHello?
Uh, when you travel out east,like Yes.
Yes.
If you go like New Jersey, NewYork.
Yes.
I can't believe how much theyuse their horns out there.
It's so, it's so different thanhow it happens here in the
Midwest.
Yes.
K kg.
I was just out in New York.
Well, yeah.
(11:07):
I told you guys that I went andpunched Elmo in the face for
calling.
Thank you.
By the way.
Calling, goodness.
Calling John El Godo.
You, knowdo I were you the oneAnd I popped him right in the
sout and then I ran.
But, uh, I love it.
They honking all the time, likeas if the person in front of
them doesn't wanna turn left.
Right, right, right.
I hate that.
(11:27):
Well, in populated areas, theintention of the horn is
different.
Um, no, it's not a hold, it'snot 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 rightbehind you.
Oh.
And I said, because I've beenin, in high traffic areas in
India.
And horns are not, horns are notmeant as a Hey jerk.
(11:51):
It's like, beep, beep.
I'm right here.
Beep.
Just always what's going onaround you?
So it's like a differentlanguage?
It is.
It's just, it's just a cultural,like here we are, beep beep.
Everyone's just on theirscooters or their, you know,
tuck tucks, and I don't thinkI've ever heard, uh, in New York
and beep.
Beep beep be Are they prettywell, they're just bigger horns.
Well, no, it's right.
It's just one, um, octave belowthe, A goal was just scored in
(12:12):
the Excel center.
Exactly.
Horn.
Brutal.
You're like, it's, it's, it'shorrible.
But that's, but is, but is that,but, so that's not kind that,
can you use, like, like how doyou, how, how would you, uh,
psychologically.
Sort of infuse kindness on theroads, then?
Let me tell you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Lemme tell you.
Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah.
(12:32):
I practice it every day.
Okay.
Okay.
And I'm not kidding.
I mean this sincerely I am, whenI say that, when I'm on the
road, I feel like I'm part of acommunity out there.
Mm-hmm.
I mean this sincerely.
I wanna be the guy, and I swearto God this is true.
Like I'm a wave them in.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Ah, yeah.
You know, kinda like there's aSeinfeld episode where he talks
(12:54):
like, go ahead, ding.
Because I want them to look atme and go, what a nice guy.
You know?
Right.
Like at McDonald's, when you'regoing through the double drive
through line, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And you get Or Culver's orCulvers, you get there at the
si.
Same time.
Most Culver's only have the oneline you would know.
Well, the experience.
Have I told you about my secretcredit card that I have that I
(13:15):
used just for Fast?
For?
For fast food?
No, you do not.
Yeah, I have a special, but nowyou told it's outta the bag now,
but my wife doesn't listen.
It's just so she doesn't see iton the credit card statement.
Wow.
I bet you I put in the course ofa month, 150 Diet Cokes on that
thing.
Hmm.
At 2 0 5 a piece.
That is so great.
So anyway, the two lines.
(13:36):
Yeah.
So when you get to the two, whenyou're in the, the, the, and
this to me is a trafficcongestion issue.
When you both make your order atthe same time.
Let's say that KG is in oneline, ordering, ordering a macor
and I'm in the other line.
Yeah.
And I'm ordering, uh, probablysomething like oatmeal.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, of course.
Oh yeah, Uhhuh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we get to the same pointchoice.
(13:56):
I will always let whoever thatother person is go first.
And they'll look at me like,really?
And I'll go, yeah, just go.
And then sometimes they buy myDiet 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 tobe, we need to behave.
(14:19):
Yeah.
Like we're going to have to talkto those people.
Right.
Yeah.
Because like you're standing ina line.
Mm-hmm.
Because you know when somebodylets you in.
Oxytocin.
Sure.
Like what a great person.
They let you, you're, you'regiven 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.
(14:39):
Who are these people, don'tthey?
I mean, honestly falls samething when you let someone lets
you in.
Always give the quick like I doover your head.
Yeah.
So that they see that.
Thanks a lot.
That was cool that you let mein.
I like to that roll down thewindow and give it the full Oh,
oh, I do.
I wanna make sure that theycould 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 bothdo that.
'cause I did that too.
(15:00):
And my wife always looks at melike my wife never gives the
wave.
Does your wife give?
My wife doesn't look.
She just looks forward when shedrives.
Doesn't look around at all.
Might be time to start draftingdivorce papers, right?
Mean?
Oh, does your wife give the waveyour wife give wave?
She does not.
My, my wife gives the wave.
Does she give the wave?
You know what, that's a, that'sa deal breaker it there.
Oh.
But my wife won't look atanyone.
She's afraid someone's gonnalook at her when she's driving.
(15:20):
I, when I drive, I look atpeople funny all the time.
See, that's rubberneckinglooking people.
Yeah.
I might see somebody I know.
Me too.
Yeah.
But you're, you, you've talkedabout your wife being an
introvert.
She's an introvert.
Yeah.
And so that, and people havedifferent.
They're wired differently.
Sometimes I'm up there runningfor mayor.
Hey.
Yes, you're That's right.
That's right.
Well, when you're doing so, youjust call Becky an introvert?
(15:42):
No, no.
That's wife.
Jeff's wife is an my wife.
Okay.
Yeah.
Honest mistake.
I, I would, Jennifer's anintrovert.
Yes.
I, I would say I'm a, I'm awaiver too.
And, and, and like Steve andJohn, it's a, it like, I feel
like, uh, I'm in a ballroom withthese people.
I'm looking at'em.
I'm waving.
Yeah.
I'm nodding.
(16:02):
Yeah.
What happens when you make themistake?
I have a, do you have a gesture?
Go ahead.
Here's what absolutely.
I put one hand on my chest, takemy 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 knowwhat the response I should you
get from people?
Yeah.
Is a kind response.
Sure.
It's like, I think that theyappreciate your acknowledging.
(16:26):
That you were the one that wasat fault.
Yeah.
Can I, uh, have your's story?
I once told her I can't, I thinkI 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 Iwasn't used to, so it was like,
it was really busy and someguy's beeping at me and he's
looking at me.
I'm like, I rolled on my window.
(16:46):
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 coolman.
Okay.
Yeah, we gave one of those, youknow, else irritates me.
It happens little bit.
Everybody driving in California?
Oh yeah.
Oh, and people refer to it asthe five, yes.
(17:09):
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 theCalifornians.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
That's the Californians.
Stuart, what are you doing?
What are you doing here?
Check the 4 0 5 down to Calliakg.
You travel around and I amassuming that you travel by Uber
(17:30):
when you're in all of your, haveyou noticed some?
Yes.
Like are there cities out therethat.
You find the traffic to be moredelightful or do you just not
pay attention when you'resitting in the back of your
limousine?
Alright.
It not a limousine, usually it'sthe, uh, the cheapest version of
either Uber or Lyft I can find.
But what I've found out over theyears is there are certain
(17:51):
places I will not live, and atthe top of that list is Los
Angeles.
I have never in my life seenanything 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 OMIstresses me out.
They have that drive every day.
Wherever they're going, like tothe grocery store, 15 miles,
(18:13):
hour and 15 minutes, like I've.
The, you know, we go to acertain arena, the crew, the,
the guys that run the broadcastfrom the TV truck to the camera
guys, they all live there andthey talk about the traffic.
Ah, it is insane.
So as bad as we think we have ithere in summertime and
construction in Minnesota, it,it's a tale as old as time.
It hales in comparison.
(18:34):
My place is like New York andla.
If it took me an hour and 15minutes to get to the grocery
store, I might be a littlethinner just saying kg.
Um, did you see La La Land?
I.
Of course I loved that movieprobably a hundred times that,
that opening scene, they alllooked like they were so happy
in dancing.
Isn't it like that?
That's how it is in la It'sactually, I wish it was like
(18:56):
that.
I wish people had the fun musicgoing on and, um, gorgeous.
Uh, redheads were dancing in thestreets near my car.
I would probably enjoy traffic alot more now.
Kg you, you mentioned la I wouldsay in my travels recently, um,
the Phoenix area.
The, the, the, the traffic inthe Phoenix area and it gets bad
(19:18):
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'rejust driving everywhere and, and
it's, uh, it's like, it'sincredible.
You, you don't even, peoplearen't going slow enough to
acknowledge my wave.
You know what I mean?
When my arms out the window,Hey, yeah.
(19:40):
Minnesota guy out there.
They just, yeah, go ahead.
I mean, John wouldn't know whatto do.
I mean, he's trying to get, youknow, elected as mayor.
They wouldn't even know.
Not gonna work down there.
No.
Plus it's hot.
How about when the motorcyclesdrive in between the two lanes
of traffic?
It happened this weekend.
I get nervous.
It scared me.
Yeah, because I think they cando that in Minnesota now.
It did not look safe.
(20:00):
I saw Guy, it's not safe.
I saw a guy, a Harley rider.
Weaving between cars withinches, and I was like, that
guy's gonna die.
We're gonna see him dead.
Wow.
Hmm.
Guys that drive thosemotorcycles, I'm sorry?
Are any of you guys motorcycledrivers?
No.
Here's the thing, no chance it'snot just that they're risky, is
that if it's a little, if my momwas cut off like that, who knows
what she would do?
(20:21):
Right?
She would be freaked out andmaybe.
Like run into somebody or like,you know, I don't On purpose,
purpose, no, no, but like hit orbrake 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 thepeople around you.
You know what else is dangerous?
Yeah.
Have you ever seen those littlecars where they put the things
(20:42):
in the, the, the mufflers tomake'em sound super loud?
And they start topping.
Yeah.
And I thought, oh my God, thatcar's, you know, there's
something wrong with that car.
I've been told that you canpurchase.
Is it something to make the carfor safety?
No, no.
It's to be, to sound cool.
Hold on, hold on.
Let's, let's stop for a secondhere.
Yeah.
What's happening?
Are we just.
(21:03):
Complaining about annoyingpeople off my lawn.
No, no.
We, where we're going, we'reolder gentlemen that are sick
and tired of being sick andtired.
We're, yes.
Let's, let's talk about what wecould do to fix it.
Thank you.
So I, we, we were talking aboutit.
Yeah.
I think you should be runningfor mayor.
Everybody should be running formail.
Why?
While they're driving.
So your perspective around you.
Yep.
(21:23):
Always think about, you know,that person could be the next
Pope.
We're gonna talk about AmericanPopes 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 thePopemobile, let's imagine you're
the guy in the Popemobile.
Yeah.
(21:43):
The now he's not driving.
He's kind of in the backer.
But I mean he, maybe he's gothorn control.
Yeah.
You know, I'm excited about theAmerican.
Yeah.
Anybody, I wanna see him comeout 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 Soxjerseys that are Leo with the
(22:07):
number 14?
Are they gonna sell?
Oh, it's just a lot.
I want to see him drive up inthe Blues Mobile.
Oh.
Or he gets out with Hat, hatFisher 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 isthe first time I've listened to
(22:28):
the last three.
He gets a movie reference in atleast 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 bebest friends with employees?
Got nothing.
Watch mind.
It's how my mind works.
It's sort of like art imitateslife or vice versa, whatever the
saying is, but I, I'm always.
(22:49):
Seeing real things play out inlife.
Yeah.
That are like, oh, that's justlike that movie scene.
And it's just how it's alwaysbeen 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 amission 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.
(23:09):
Yeah.
We have a big event.
In fact, it's filling up hugequickly.
We have a, a capacity of about450 and we're at about 350 so
far.
People coming to our bigscholarship night at, uh, the
Masonic Heritage Center at 11 411.
Masonic Home Drive.
Tickets are free, appetizers,beverages.
(23:33):
We're gonna do a live podcast.
Yeah.
I've got.
Five or six of the selflessscholar nominators and, and just
explain that a little bit to ourlisteners.
So maybe just start from, so ourscholarship night, we, uh, this
year we're giving out a total ofabout 140 scholarships, totaling
about$1.5 million.
Holy Hannah.
That's a lot of scholarships.
(23:53):
And of those people, almost ahundred of them have, confirmed
that they're coming to theevent.
Wow.
And some of'em are bringing aparent or two.
We're gonna be presentingscholarships, for$24,000
scholarships,$20,000scholarships 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.
(24:14):
we're gonna have a fun, way ofpresenting that.
And, uh, I just encourage peopleto 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 thisscholarship, and I've mentioned
it in the past, but instead of,applying for a scholarship for
your own things that you'veaccomplished, yeah.
(24:34):
The objective is to look beyondyourself and identify somebody
in your circle, you know,somebody you go to school with
or church with, or lives in thecommunity.
And tell us about their story ofkindness.
Tell us about the way thatthey've impacted your community
and if that story is selected.
The scholarship is split betweenthe person who took the time to
recognize that person and theperson that they recognized.
(24:56):
And what's super fun about it isthe people that are being
recognized have no idea, butthen we're gonna invite the
nominee tours to read theirnomination.
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'sfriend Bob.
(25:18):
Bob goes, man, Jimmy's a greatguy.
I love how what he does, I'mgonna nominate him for this
thing.
Writing that thing he gets a hitof, of oxytocin gives ox.
Absolutely, you do.
Now he submits it to you, youweed it, oxytocin and gets an
oxytocin hit and now they get tothis thing.
I have a bunch of people thatthat evaluated.
Yes.
And rated.
They all get it, you know, so wegot hundreds of these
(25:39):
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 hoursof oxytocin.
Then we get to the event whereoutta the blue, Jimmy realized,
you know, you announced his nameand then Bob, so Jimmy gets this
hit of oxytocin and his parents,whoever's with him.
(26:01):
And then Bob gets recognized andgets a scholarship.
He has no idea.
And then they come home and theypost it on Facebook and Mom, it
just keeps going.
The Oxy, you know what?
It's an oxytocin tsunami that'swelcome to the oxytocin.
Well before, before you finish.
That sounds like an amazingevent.
Do you have to register for it?
(26:22):
I mean, is there, you just showup 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, five30.
From five 30 until about six 10.
We will have, appetizers andbeverages at six 10.
We're gonna ring the bell andinvite people into the
auditorium.
Wow.
The first level is gonna be forall of the recipients and their
(26:44):
parents.
The balcony is gonna be reservedfor the riffraff.
Oh, which are the people thatare listening, people throwing
stuff.
People that, aren't gonna bereceiving scholarships.
The thing, this are maybe the,uh, the Kindness Chronicles fan
base.
The the fan base?
Yeah, the kind, the Kens ConNation.
We'll, three or four chairsavailable for general admission.
Kindness Chronicles Nation, um,folding chairs outside.
(27:06):
We should have you out there bybring your own chair boys by
eight 15 or so.
But, but we're gonna do a showlive.
We, it should be great.
Which we've never done before.
We haven't, but I do want tobring up another moment of
oxytocin.
That I had this weekend.
Amen, brother.
I was at the dugout Oh, justthis past Saturday night, and
there was a fantastic show thatwas presented by our friend.
(27:27):
Steve Brown in his band, JohnnyClueless, and here's what I
wanna tell you about that.
Okay.
All right.
So I showed up, I was in a tuxbecause 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 wifelooked, she looked good too.
Yeah.
Ah, she was.
I walked in, I walked in andusually people would make fun of
(27:48):
you because I mean, I wasclearly overdressed.
I had people calling me, Heygovernor.
You know, it was very funactually.
Yeah.
But what I wanna mention is youloved it, got a promotion from
me.
I had the opportunity to meetsome of Steve Brown's fans.
Yeah.
Slash friends.
Yeah.
Couldn't be a nicer group ofpeople.
that couple that you introducedus to outside, that live out in
(28:10):
White Bear?
Yeah.
John and Amy Love them.
What a lovely couple.
Yeah.
That those two people were, Ithink we might become best
friends.
They're the greatest.
Um, the, there was a group ofpeople that had graduated a few
years after you from HillMurray.
There was a whole pile of them.
The Delsing boys, Jack and uh,Derek Delsing.
They were there with their wivesand their friends.
I talked to them.
Yep.
And.
I talked night and that othernight, Colleen Hardigan, who's
(28:31):
yeah, who's, she's all over theplace, right?
Oh my God.
Is she fun?
She went to St.
Cloud as well.
She bought, uh, grape apes foreverybody.
She had the, oh, wow.
She had a credit card that wasworking overtime that night.
I don't even drink, and I had agrape ape, and I was sick as a
dog the next day.
But anyway, I just wannaacknowledge the fact that the
Johnny Clueless fan club.
Yeah.
(28:51):
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 haveher roommates.
I have a a I do have a funnystory.
Yeah.
So you were singing kind of a,a, a slower song towards the
beginning of, must have been thethird set.
Uh, two sets.
So it was probably second set,the start of the second set,
start of the second set.
(29:11):
And, uh, your, your daughter.
Uh, Lucinda was outside and Isaid, Hey, you're missing the
show.
And she goes, I don't reallycare 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 allcame in.
Yeah.
But it was really cute.
She's like, nah, I'm not a bigfan of that one.
I gotta talk to her now.
Yeah.
My wife says that sometimes, andI know which ones she doesn't
(29:32):
like, so I did not know my, mydaughter doesn't listen to the
songs that much.
She doesn't know the songs likemy Oh, she does like the fan
base.
She doesn't, she's new.
She's kind of, she's a fanthough.
Some.
Good for you.
Good for you.
You had some fans fromWashington State come, didn't
you?
Yes, my cousin, oh, well thatdoesn't count, was from Spokane.
And she's actually, uh, she'sthe aunt of Briggsy, the guy
that opened up for us.
(29:53):
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 playedacoustically with him, different
shows and stuff.
Um, so she came from Spokane anda, and a good friend of ours.
Who had traveled from Seattle,um, to see us.
I was impressed when I heardthat.
Now was, did I arrive, we onstage with us.
Was I on the second set or no?
You're there for the first set.
(30:14):
Well, I missed, I missedbriggsy.
I was, came from the twins game.
Oh yeah.
By the way, the twin, theMinnesota twins, I have not been
there for a while and they knowhow 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 eightand a half from target field to
you, took me to a nine and ahalf.
Me and my friends, uh, know.
(30:35):
Then we did our job.
It was great.
Yeah.
Everybody was smiling and havingfun.
I could just tell the chemistrya 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 theydeserve.
Thank you guys for coming out.
Michael's been out there beforemany times.
I times.
Sure.
We'll see him out again.
Times, times KG was gonna makeit, but I think you, weren't you
in Madison or something thisweekend?
(30:55):
Yeah, we had a family thing thatcame up thing, so yeah, it, it,
it didn't materialize, but I, Idid 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 thatyou're gonna have, so I was
wondering how you were handlingthat.
Yeah, I, I was explaining how Ineed those.
(31:16):
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.
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