Mid-Summer Chatter

sorry we missed a week. We bet you survived. No KG. No Intern Jeff. No problem.Nate Bargaetze. Sydney Sweeney. Would you rather- KC Edition. Thanks for listening. 

Episode Transcript

(00:14):
We are grateful for your time.
Welcome to the KindnessChronicles, where once again, we
hope to inject the world with adose of the Minnesota kindness
that it desperately needs.
We are back in the studio.
You'll hear, uh, if I need toapologize before I introduce

(00:35):
who's here?
Yeah.
Let's get this outta the way.
I was kind of sick last week.
Yeah.
And I didn't want people to comeover in the studio and get all
sick and I'm You're welcome.
Thank you.
Yeah.
That's nice of you.
Yeah, I appreciate that as well.
But, uh, I do appreciate thefact that there were people that
were calling saying, no showthis week.
People I didn't even know listento the show.
So thank you very much.
That was very kind.
Um, oh, six of them you said,right?

(00:57):
No, I think he said eight.
Yeah, we got eight.
I got eight calls.
Okay.
Maybe it was all eight peoplewho listened.
We should have called them allat home just to say it's not
gonna be on this week.
Yeah.
We got a call from Nick Flood.
Yes, Nick.
We're back.
Yeah.
Thank you for your patience.
We're almost there, John.
Alright.
You sound a little, you sound alittle, little horse.
Little horse.
I'm a little horse.
You okay?
You right.
Yeah.
Speaking of horse kgs, uh, atCanterbury Park, uh, we got

(01:19):
Steve Brown.
Yeah.
Hi Michael Dempsey's in thestudio and uh, good to be back.
Good to be back.
Horse intern.
The intern is on assignment inMontana with his family.
Wow.
Collecting.
Kind stories and, uh, searchingout kind people out there in
the, the great mountain regions.
Very nice.
Yeah.
Very nice.
Um, so again, it, it's been awhile since we met.
Yeah.
I would like to first start by,uh, talking about the fact that

(01:41):
I went to the Nate Bargeyconcert.
Oh.
Oh yeah.
Is it a concert or, well, thatNo, just a, just a, the show.
Just the talking.
That guy, he's great.
Right?
He's the greatest ever.
I love him.
All brand new material.
Yeah.
Stuff I had never heard before.
KG.
He and I are gonna do a review.
He was there too.
He was there too, but he wasn'tdown in the front row.

(02:02):
Oh wow.
Boy.
That's right.
But you know, we were thereSunday night.
And the power went out.
Yeah, storm came through.
Oh, so the power goes out andthe The house lights come on
because like the generator kicksin.
That's crazy.
I've never heard of that.
I never heard anyone thatexperienced that.
I hadn't either.
And it was at the end they hadfive warmup guys that each did

(02:24):
like 10 minutes.
Yeah.
That were equally.
Now were there two?
Two nights?
There were two nights.
Saturday and Sunday.
Okay.
Go on.
So five guys.
All clean, all hilarious.
Just couldn't have been better.
Right after the fifth guy getsdone, or right as the fifth guy
is wrapping up, the power goesout.
So it's about a 45 to 50 minute.

(02:46):
Wait, really before Nate comesout and they kept kill the
comedy Buzz Man, kill the comedybuzz.
The whole point of those warmupsare to kind of get you going.
Right?
Oh man.
And guess what else happened?
What?
Air conditioning went out.
Oh, of course.
So all I'm thinking is there'sthis storm going out.
I paid top buck for these frontrow seats.
Oh, grumpiness kicks in.
That wasn't what concerned me.
I'm 30 feet underground, youknow?

(03:08):
'cause we're down in the hole.
Yeah.
Front row.
And uh, yeah.
I just thought to myself, wellthat was smart.
You know, I buy these expensivetickets and you know, I'm gonna
float away with the rest of thepoor people.
But it was, uh.
How did he turn?
So that's a, that's a hard thingfor a performer to come into.
He was so, he was so prepared.
He's got, he's gotta fix it.
He's gotta back, he made acomment you back about, so this
is the Excel Energy Center.

(03:30):
Interesting.
Um, oh yeah.
That's, and then there was, hewas making fun of his, uh, his
parents.
Yeah.
So I'm just gonna tell one ofhis, his little jokes, he talked
about how his dad is trying tobe older than he really actually
is.
Oh.
And he's starting to buy thingsin preparation for his.
Senior, senior years.

(03:51):
And he said he wanted to get oneof those bathtubs that's got the
door.
Oh yeah.
The walk-ins.
The walk-ins.
He goes, he goes, dad, thinkabout this.
So there's not water in therewhen you get in there, so you
gotta strip naked, you gotta gosit in that thing.
Good question.
And he, you know, he does this,you know, like he's sitting down
right waiting for water and hegoes, waiting for 45 minutes for

(04:12):
the water to come up.
You get done getting all cleanedup.
You gotta wait and then yougotta wait for it.
He goes, you're not gonna openthe door on that submarine.
You gotta wait for the door todrain.
And he was ma So he is makingfun of all of a sudden there is
a thunderbolt, I mean alightning.
Yeah.
You could hear the thunder goingright.
And he said, well, eh, obviouslywas God getting me for, uh,

(04:34):
making fun of my parents.
Then he did something else, andthere's another one.
And then.
A fly flies into his eye and hegoes, and here come the locusts.
Oh, I've got a whole themegoing.
Oh my God, he was so quick.
He's so dry and, and soself-effacing, but like, he's
never, I'd love his delivery.

(04:54):
So he's, I, I'm gonna say it, heis more handsome in real life
than he is on, on video.
Really?
Handsome man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My wife, I think was kind of,you know, smitten.
Well, she was SM humor.
I mean, I mean, she obviouslylikes a funny guy.
You're a funny guy and it worksout.
She was smitten with him, notwith me.
True.
Okay.
But I'm saying the humor bringsthat out too, you know?

(05:15):
Right.
Yes.
Right.
Yes.
How are you Michael?
I listen, I'm great.
I was just curious knowing howyou sweat.
I mean, how'd you do it with noac?
I mean, you in the front rowwasn't Oh, yeah, I was gonna say
you were probably melting.
In the front row.
That would've been bad too.
No, you know, I, I, I, I, Idressed, you know, to look
snappy, you know, in the frontrow I might see, you know,
celebrities.
You, well you had buttons.

(05:35):
Yeah.
Frank Varo was there.
Just an fy.
Oh wow.
He's got an unusual head ofhair.
It.
I'm not.
Is it real?
How does his hair, that black iswhat I'd like to know.
He's, he may be one of the eightlisteners, just so you know.
Now we're down to six.
No, you know what Fran, he's agood looking guy.
Tall.
Yeah.
But, um.
Really interesting.
Well, he's a TV guy, so there'sall kinds of elements that,

(05:57):
things that go on there.
You gotta be on tv, you dothings, things to yourself.
I think he might even beenwearing, wearing makeup out in
public.
Could, could be, huh?
Well, there's no doubt he's gotan image.
Maybe he had a quick shoot thathe had to do before, or you
never know and he's got an imageto hold.
I, from a kindness perspective,you, you mentioned Nate.
I, I love him too.
I, I think he's, uh, amazing.
He does have kind comedy too.

(06:18):
Oh yeah.
Right.
Oh my goodness.
Not, not just, not just, uh,clean, but just Right.
His, his approach is so funnyand so Right.
Self-effacing, but he's notlike, mean about it.
Right.
Even about himself.
He's just real and true.
And he, that's a true comedianbrings out real life in a way
that makes you go, oh my God, hewe're all the same you guys.
Um, two months ago now you hadMark Sharon Brock, which by the

(06:40):
way Yeah.
Top 10.
He's crazy.
The guest, I, I have my personalstory, so I think I told you
about Mark, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Um, but he mentioned on thatpodcast.
If you're an amazing comedian,if you're like a plus, if you're
like superstar comedian, younever punch down.
Right.
That was the term he used,right?
That's right.
You don't, you don't punch down.
And, and Nate good rule is, isis one of those guys that

(07:01):
doesn't, doesn't punch down.
What a great, wait a minute.
We had Mark, Sharon Brock.
Yeah.
Was I here for that one?
Which one was Mark?
Sharon brought, he was a niceride.
He lose the story about nicebike.
Nice ride.
Nice bike.
Nice bike.
Oh, the guy that used to Yeah.
Talk in school.
Yeah.
Jeff.
Jeff brought him in.
Jeff, yes.
And I still communicate with himon LinkedIn.
He's, he's awesome.
He's, he's amazing.

(07:22):
I'll, I'll just tell this quickstory about, uh, mark.
Uh, so I like all of you.
He came to my high school.
Yeah, it was, which high school?
Uh, little Falls.
The flyers.
Yeah.
Why not Limberg?
Yeah.
The home of Charles Limberg.
Wow.
Call hold your judgements.
Um, he came s he sophomore.
Yeah, sophomore or junior year.

(07:43):
And it was, it was moving.
It was moving.
I, I, I left there going.
I, man, maybe someday I wouldlike to do that.
Yeah.
Fast forward like 20 years.
Well, well, no, fast forwardfive years.
I'm going to college in still inhigh high school.
Okay.
No, I'm in St.
Cloud.
I'm at St.
Cla.
Thank God, uh uh, Steve and I,now we know each other.
Yeah.
I find out Mark, she block isspeaking at St.

(08:05):
Cloud Tech.
Yeah.
And I write him a letter and Isay, you know, you inspired me.
Your message, you know, I stillremember it.
I went to St.
Cloud Tech.
I just walked right in though.
Those were from the days whenyou had to check in and they
kicked you out of the highschool.
They said, who's this?
Perfect?
They're like, what is this guy?
Right?
I, I walked right into theteacher's lounge.

(08:26):
I handed him the letter, and Ijust left.
Wow.
I just handed it to him.
Left.
Oh.
That had to have made, its day,20 years later, I'm asked to
speak at Litchfield High Schoolto do something similar, and I
reached out to him and I said.
Mark, I, I have this opportunityat Litchfield High to address an
entire senior class in a similarway to what you did nowhere near

(08:48):
on your level.
And I just wanna acknowledgethat, you know, you were
inspired me to do this in a way.
He responded immediately.
You remember the letter?
Isn't that crazy?
No way.
Yeah.
You remember, you remember theletter and that was 20 years
later.
There is a lesson to be learnedthere somewhere.
Yeah.
It it, no, but I mean, just howimportant, let's do, I I have to

(09:10):
tell you, I'm, I wannaacknowledge, um, my dear friend
Drew Gray hack, I don't evenknow if Drew listens to this,
but we were at a function for mywife's work and Drew works at
the same place that my wifedoes, and Drew was in our
wedding.
And Drew was when I was ajunior.
Drew was a freshman that livedon second floor, Brady, and I

(09:33):
just immediately saw potentialin this kid.
He's from Hibbing, super shy,lumberjack, probably never
kissed a girl.
I mean, I mean just, but a goodlooking, you know, tall, good
looking guy, but super shy, buta leader.
Clearly a leader.
There was leadership stuff inthere.
I encourage him to become an ra,so he becomes the RA for second

(09:58):
floor, Brady.
I encourage him to apply tobecome the assistant hall
director, which I was, and hefollowed me.
I go to work for Target, drewcomes to work at Target.
He's following you Well, and andwhat was really sweet is, I
mean, he's working for thecompany my wife works for, and
let's just say he's made bettercareer choices than I have.
Yeah.
From a, that's cool.

(10:18):
From an economic perspective.
But he said to me when we're atthis, this function that was
super cool.
He's like.
No one has had a biggerinfluence on my career than you
and I started to cry.
Boom.
I mean, how nice is that tohear?
That is so nice.
Pretty cool.
Yeah.
I mean, and it means something.
And what's cool about Drew is,you know, he's a guy that I, you
know, see him a couple times ayear and uh, I'm not choking up.

(10:41):
I've actually have to cough.
Yeah, you need a Kleenex.
And, uh, but you know, he is oneof those friends where you don't
have to see him, you know, everyweek to just immediately
reconnect with him.
Yeah.
It's like YouTube guys likebeing Dempsey.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, I, I, I would agree withthat.
Out of that nugget though is,um, just the, the, the kindness

(11:01):
lesson there is if, if somethingor somebody did have an
influence on you, be, be braveenough, be bold enough to just
acknowledge it doesn't have tobe some big, you know,
production.
Yeah.
But if you were to say, listen,I, I just, I had the guy say to
me.
Um, soon after college, uh, he'ssince passed away so, so sad.

(11:24):
But it, but I ran into him oncewhen I moved back to Minnesota
and he said, I just want you toknow that I, you probably don't
remember this.
There was a college mixer, or wewere in some kind of club.
I'm not sure.
I was new and you're the guythat came up to me and
introduced yourself.
And, and, and said, who, youknow, who would you like to
meet?

(11:44):
And that changed everything.
That changed the entiretrajectory of my experience in
college, because then I met someother people and, but he took
the time, you know, 15 yearslater to acknowledge that.
And I just, I think if, ifsomeone's listening here and
they're like, yeah, somebody waslike that in my life or in my
journey.

(12:05):
Just acknowledging that.
Oh my goodness.
You know what?
I think we're discovering what,what's happening here.
We're pretty great guys.
Oh, I dunno.
Lemme, I dunno about that.
We do say so ourselves.
No, I think it's that theexample.
Tell us about when people loveon you.
No, no, no.
I was gonna say what this is, isshowing us the power that we
have, right.

(12:25):
To help each other asindividuals.
Yes.
As individuals.
But the power, the the, we allhold that power, the oxytocin.
That you can deliver to somebodyby sharing your feelings about
them.
If they had a meaningful impacton you.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So be that guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So let me pull back a littlebit.
Pull us back.
Lemme pull back.
Just for someone who maybe justpicked up this, this show, but

(12:45):
someone told'em to listen to itor they know John from EDI or
something.
Bing.
We are here.
We are here.
Not to.
Try to show you how great weare.
Wow.
We are merely no, we are merelypeople who realize it's
important to look for that inpeople and each other and, and
celebrate it.
It's, we're just, people aretrying not to complain about how

(13:06):
scary and, you know, freaked outthis world is, we're trying to
just take a minute.
Get together, talk about stuffthat's actually inspiring and
people that are, yeah.
So it's, it's not, it's notabout us showing us how you have
to be super kind to be on thisshow.
Otherwise, you know, you don'tget a part of get to talk that.
I just have to always say thatbecause people go, who do these
people think they are?
Well, well, we're not, listen,we're just acknowledging that

(13:26):
there's kindness in the worldand hopefully.
You sort of maybe wipe theveneer away a little bit and
just at least be exposed to oropen to where it happens, right?
Yeah.
I mean, it's amazing whathappens.
It's out there.
I, I wanna, I wanted to tellyou, uh, another quick story
happened recently.
As it relates to kindness.
So my buddies and I have beenplanning for about five years to

(13:48):
do this fishing trip where wefly into Canada, right?
We'd never done this, right?
So we get on this little puddlejumper plane boy, and right, and
we, for that reason, I'm out.
Yeah.
We get on this small plane andwe fly an hour, we fly into
Canada.
Listen, we're not.
Fishermen at all.
I mean, we've fished, right?
And we, it, it was a littlelight on the details as to what

(14:09):
we, you know, what we needed tohave and what we needed to pack.
That, that we fly in The nextday, we get up our, our, our
guide, who looks like thetrapper from Grizzly Adams.
You remember that guy at Jack?
Old?
Old man Jack?
Yeah.
Old man.
Number seven.
He, he comes up, that was hisdonkey, right?
He at old man seven.
Yeah.
Number seven.
Yeah.
He was the, he this so, sotrapper Jack was quite the

(14:31):
character trap.
But my, my buddy who's a a a a,a doctor in town, he, he bought
a, a pole and, and a real set,a, a rod reel set that was sort
of one, one sort of section overfrom the Snoopy poles and we're
in Canada.
That's what he brought.
Okay.
And, and Trapper.

(14:52):
Uh, Jack says, what, what areyou gonna do with that pencil
sharpener?
Oh yeah.
What are you gonna do?
We're gonna go out into Canada.
We're in these, you know, whatare you gonna, yeah, that's his
pole, right?
And, and, and my buddy's, youknow, kind of shoulders drop a
little bit like, oh my gosh.
Like,'cause,'cause he didn'tknow he's not a fish.
We get out on that water.
That guide gave him a pole, gaveus all, we didn't have the right

(15:13):
bait, we didn't have the righttackle.
It.
It, it was just amazing andunbelievably kind.
Throughout,'cause we were withhim for three days, gave us the
most unbelievable experience,you know, shore launch drive
and, you know, boating all overeight hours a day.
So people are just built thatway.
And I'm telling you what that,that kindness that he, I mean he
was, he's ribbing and joking,but the kindness that he showed,

(15:36):
Hey, here's three guys that, youknow, outta their element.
Yeah, out of their element.
But I wanna make sure they havean unbelievable experience, that
kind of kindness.
We, we'll never forget that.
We'll never forget.
It was amazing.
So you mentioned real set.
Real set, yeah.
Rod in real?
Yeah.
Sydnee Sweeney.
Let's talk Speaking of a realset.
Real set.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, topical.

(15:57):
Wow.
Yeah.
The Sydney Sweeney thing.
I think it, I am appalled thatpeople want to turn something
like that into Nazi stuff.
Yeah.
It's like calm.
They were trying to be clever.
It, it people were so, it wascute.
Yeah, it was clever.
It was clever.
It was.
You know, she's got great genes.
She's, yeah, she's, you bet shedoes.
Yeah.
She's just, she's, she's the ITgirl.

(16:18):
So she's just, they're justplaying on that.
It's funny.
It's kgs, you know, kg Yeah, KGlikes her.
I'm like, kg, that's like yourdaughter's age.
Easy buddy.
I mean, he's gotta have a dreamweaver.
That's his dream weaver.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, yeah.
I, I haven't, I haven't followedit, but I have heard that, um,
it's just an opportunity to goover the top.
Yeah.
Instead of look for thekindness, look for the, you
know, like, like, like, don'tassume intent.

(16:40):
And, and, and yourself.
You know, actually assumepositive intent.
Exactly.
There you go.
There we go.
Assume positive intent.
Assume positive intent.
So should I call this one NateBargey or Sydnee Sweeney?
Yeah.
Call it.
Don't Get No Trap or Jacker Trapor Jack.
No, I, I, well, you know,they're all similarly, uh,
caliber.
Um, I, I have somethingdifferent for us.

(17:00):
We don't have a guest today.
We don't, the thought was justthe three of us get together.
It actually hasn't been thethree of us in a long time.
No.
So it's kind of nice, you know,having just a, we get a lot of
us.
Sometimes it's a lot of voicesor listeners are, you know, kind
of, they could tell it's paireddown three guys.
I thought we'd play a game.
Oh.
Oh, I got a game.
Oh boy.
Is there winners or losers?
Nah, we all kind of Oh, good.
Okay.
It's just we're all losers.

(17:21):
Yeah.
We're all in the same boat.
It's just to spark a littleconversation.
Okay.
Kind of a fun take on, can I gofirst?
Well, I like games.
I'll be the host.
You, you rest your voice.
I'll be the host.
Ask some questions and you cankind of, oh, grunt along or
laugh along Michael.
You know, whatever you wannafeel like.
Grunt.
Yeah.
This is a game called Would YouRather?
Kindness Edition.

(17:42):
Okay.
Do we have music?
Bump, bump?
We probably do, yeah.
Alright.
So would you rather the kindnessaddition.
Uh, kind of, kind of, yeah.
Kind of Chronicles edition.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, the game.
Would you rather?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You'd pick two questions and youhave to make a choice.
Right?
Right.
Yeah.
So there's a whole bunch ofthese.
Is there a Donna play?
Would you rather, wasn't that aMadonna or that was truth,

(18:03):
that's truth or there kind.
Same idea.
Okay.
You know, is there tequila?
Do we.
We should.
Yeah, we should.
I don't.
Let's drink.
Go.
Let's go.
Would you rather?
Okay, let's just for Fox Newscomes on in a couple minutes.
Mike.
Mike, who are you kidding?
Wheel a fortune.
Would you rather, Michael, thisis for you.
Would you rather give aheartfelt compliment to a
stranger every day for a year orreceive one unexpectedly Once,

(18:25):
once a week?
One expected the un once a week.
You give a heartfelt complimentto a stranger every day for a
year.
Or receive one unexpectedly oncea week.
Uh, that's easy.
I I would rather give, yeah,that's a really, yeah, that was
a one.
No, no, no.
Did you get that off ai?
I mean, I just warm it up here.
Okay.
We're warming up.
Sorry.
I would, I would rather give, Iwould rather give.
Got it.
John?
Yeah.
Would you rather donate yourtime to a, cause you mildly

(18:48):
interested in or donate money?
To one you're deeply passionateabout.
Well, money.
Money.
Or time.
Money to something I'm deeplypassionate about.
Why would I, why are you kiddingme?
Do you know what he does for aliving?
I don't.
He, he was gonna give'cause helikes to get, that was a good
one for you.
That's right.
These are good questions.
You listeners play at home, youknow, along with way along at
home.
Michael, would you rather havethe superpower To instantly calm

(19:12):
angry people or instantly makesad people smile.
Oh, oh, that's a sweet littleone.
Oh, oh, geez.
That that is a calming, angrypeople.
Yeah.
Or make sad people smile.
Yeah.
I, I'm gonna say calming, angrypeople.
I, I just feel like the rippleeffect is very significant.
So if you took all of the angrypeople and you calmed them, you

(19:33):
got, then I think, I think aboutall of the people that they're
gonna impact after they'recalming.
Is gonna be a lot better.
Yeah.
Right, right.
Whereas if you didn't use that,they were angry.
John, you concur.
You concur with that?
No, I would rather make, uh, sadpeople smile.
Really?
So here's my thi feeling onthis.
Angry people,, get over it.
Sad people, you feel bad for'em,so.

(19:56):
I'm going with the, making thesad people happy.
Okay.
That, that's, that's okay.
You know, if I'm gonna weighyou, your answer, Michael was
wrong.
Yeah, no, no.
I'm gonna weigh, oh, there's nowrong answers.
No there's not.
I apologize.
That's right.
But, but I think I would startwith Michael in that anger is an
energy that then you're bothwrong, needs to be quelled
sadness.
Um.
Anger.
Anger can spark worse stuff.
You know, people get weird withanger, but I don't know.

(20:17):
That's my thought.
I'm not going to argue with you.
I'm just gonna tell you thatyou're wrong.
Yeah.
Here we go.
Here's where the anger starts.
Okay.
That's good.
That's right.
Calm down, Mike.
Or, uh, John, would you ratheranonymously pay for 10 families
groceries or mentor one strstruggling young adult for a
year?
Uh.
Oh, that's a good question.

(20:38):
Pay for, I would probablyrather, uh, pay for 10 families.
Pay for 10 families groceries.
Okay.
And then on the side I wouldmentor no kid and not tell you
about it.
Nope.
You can't shoot, you can't, youcan't do both.
You can't do that.
Uh, 10 families is a lot.
10 families a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can go.
Good impact there.
Can they, can, would it be okayif they knew that about all of
my generosity?

(20:59):
We'll get to that.
There's a couple like that.
Um.
Okay.
If we made like a big deal aboutit.
Oh yeah.
Again, like they walk out and Ijust go, you're welcome.
Yeah, that's right.
Now again, this is.
Would you rather mm-hmm.
Kindness addition, Michael?
Yeah.
Right.
Question for you.
Yeah.
Would you rather get stuck in anelevator with someone super
grumpy?

(21:20):
Mm.
John?
Yeah.
Or, or with someone relentlesslypositive and kind of annoying.
Oh, ick.
Okay.
Gimme, it's not your question,John.
It's you.
All right.
So Michael, listen, I got this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
I got this.
All right.
In an elevator, someone supergrumpy or you didn't, someone
you didn't get the inside joke.
I just said, I got this.
You know, the LinkedIn, you,this, the, you got this?

(21:40):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Come, come on guys.
That's the inside joke.
I don't, it's an engine.
It's Go for it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a go for it.
It's, you got this.
Yeah.
The overly positive person thatends every post with Yes.
Yeah.
You got this?
Yes.
Okay.
Um, I, I would go with the, um,is it the grumpy person that
I'm, that I'm, that I'm turningRight.
The grumpy person.
Yeah.
You, you're stuck with one orthe other.
Yeah.
I'm gonna go with the grumpyperson.

(22:01):
I, I.
Um, you know, sometimes I thinkthe overly like chipper, sort of
overly po I I'm going, what areyou covering up?
Yeah, it doesn't seem authentic.
John, do you wanna be with FrankCostanza or Kenny Banyan from
Seinfeld, by the way, KennyBanyan the comedian is going to
be, uh, at the JX Event Centerin November doing a show with

(22:26):
Skippy from, uh, family Ties.
You're both serious.
Yes.
Skippy.
Who's Skippy?
Skippy.
The glasses?
Yeah.
He was like, she was really intoMichael J.
Fox's.
Sister.
Sister.
What was her name?
Oh, Mallory.
Mallory.
Mallory.
Oh, very good.
You watched a lot of tv.
Yeah, I did.
How where'd that name come from?
I don't know.
Wow.
You were pretty sister.
It was your dream weaver.
That's why Mallory, JustineBateman, very conservative.

(22:49):
Justine Bateman.
Uh, Jason.
Jason is not Yeah.
Very other person.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Other way.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, let's keep thisgoing.
Before, before my John getspolitical.
Um, John, I already did.
Would you rather take a vow ofradical kindness for 48 hours?
No sarcasm, no judgment, notpossible.
All love, be or go on a sevenday digital detox and zero

(23:16):
social media or even kindnesscontent.
B.
You do digital detox?
How would I not be sarcastic?
I don't know.
I mean, it's part of my, I Ican't help myself and that would
be really hard.
It would be hard.
My, we had a class in college.
Yeah.
We did a speech class with Mr.
Bruce Hyde, which we loved BruceGuy, Dr.
Bruce Hyde.
Yeah.
Um, of Star Trek fan, if you'rea trek out there.

(23:37):
Yeah.
He, John, one of the experimentswere the super interesting, one
of the experiments, he, he gaveus an assignment to go home and
not, use, gossip or, uh oh.
Or, or once again, talk back.
Yeah.
You couldn't talk about anybodyin a, in any way, uh, o only
positive conversation.
You couldn't take part ingossip.

(23:58):
Okay.
And that was at St.
Cloud stage?
Yeah, that's right.
Wow.
It's for a week.
You do it for a week was really,that was a year after the
homecoming riots and thedumpster fires, I would say.
Could I be the guy that carriesthe egg around for a week?
It's just a challenge, I think,because you're so aware.
You hear it, you're aware of it.
Oh yeah.
You hear when you say it.
Oh, what a clever idea.
You know what was a great, thatcould be the, uh, the challenge.

(24:21):
That thing, yeah, challenge thatone for a while.
Uh, but by the way, I'm with youon B and in all seriousness,
wipe out the social media.
Like wipe, just wipe it out.
I don't need it.
Just wipe, just wipe, wipe itall.
I, I just feel.
Every day bombarded.
It's just bomb.
Tough, man.
It's bombarded.
Bombarded.
Just wipe it out.
Wipe it.
Did you push record?
Just kidding.

(24:42):
Oh God.
That's funny.
John, we'll move on here.
Yeah.
Would you rather publiclyforgive someone who wronged you
deeply or apologize publicly fora time you were unkind?
Oh boy.
Well, both are public, so he, hecould go either way.
He likes the public displays ofeverything.
He does.
He does.
I, there is that, um.

(25:03):
You know, I think that they'reboth very powerful.
The power of forgiveness.
Yep.
The power of an apology.
Yeah.
I think that the, uh, the powerof forgiveness, I.
No, I'm gonna go with theapology.
Okay.
Yeah.
I, I, you'd have to make anapology.
Yeah.
Me making an apology, I do itall the time.

(25:23):
Oh, please.
In my life.
Yeah.
You're with my wife.
You're pretty self-effacing.
You're, it's 10,000 to one.
Yeah.
Sorry.
What did I do?
No.
10,000 to one you walk in.
Sorry.
She's very Fonzie like I'msinging.
Remember Fonzie?
Yeah.
How old are we?
You couldn't say wrong.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was right.

(25:44):
Wrong.
Yeah.
Okay.
God.
Yeah.
Funny Fonzie's.
Awesome.
Okay.
This is fun.
I know.
Um, Michael.
Yeah.
Would you rather always say yesto helping someone for a full
week?
Matter what matter it is or No,that was John, by the way.
He said B, not me, or B,required to say one kind thing
to every person you interactwith for the same week.

(26:05):
I know your answer here.
Yeah, it's B easy.
You would easily do that.
Yeah.
John, you do the same.
B.
B is easy.
I I don't wanna say yes to.
I mean, maybe people take aadvantage of that.
They used to come on.
I'm busy.
That's right.
Let me, you know when he'sstanding in line at the donut
hut?
Yeah.
You gotta, right.
He's got three people he cancompliment.
I haven't been there in a coupleweeks.
I was gonna say, you lookingfor, you, you look at, by the

(26:27):
way, you look at the chiseled,um, yeah.
You do jawline.
Wow.
Uh, would you rather kind ofsedition John, another question.
Would you rather be known as thekindest person in town?
This is perfect for him, themayor, but nobody knows your
name.
No.
Or, oh no, be famous, but onlyknown for one very public act of

(26:49):
kindness.
It's kind of, oh boy, kindnessperson in town, but no one knows
it's John Schitz.
Yeah.
Or John Schitz.
He's the guy that saved thedrowning Kid B.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
That's right.
These are interesting, right?
Not surprised.
Not surprised.
Um, okay.
One more.

(27:09):
Michael, last one's for you.
This set.
These are fun.
Yeah.
All right.
We can, we can play this againsometime.
We'll get Jeff involved and KG.
Well, well, Jeff would chat.
GP t's answer anyway.
For sure.
I mean, it wouldn't be like,Hey, Jeff, how about an answer?
Wait a second.
Boop.
Well, here's the answer.
I mean, like, come on, Jeff.
Anyway, go ahead.
He's, he's, yeah, he'slistening.
I know he is gonna listen.
He is, he will be.

(27:29):
Yeah.
We love him.
We love the way Who, whodoesn't, would you rather
Michael?
Spend a day with Mr.
Rogers.
Oh.
Who's a, you know, incrediblykind.
We've talked about Mr.
Rogers a lot.
Truly kind.
Not just like cartoon character.
He was a truly kind person.
Or spend a day as Mr.
Rogers.
Living like he did and speakingonly kind words.
Mm.

(27:49):
He already does the second one.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you, John.
Thank you.
I, I, yeah.
I think I would be BII wouldlike to live it, not just
observe it.
I would like to live thekindness of it.
Well, you can do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You, you, you, yeah.
I would pick a'cause.
Well, for starters, he's FredRogers.
He's Fred Rogers.
Yeah.
He's not with us anymore.
Right.

(28:10):
I mean, that would be cool.
Right.
Yeah.
No, it would be, although, uh,just on the Fred Rogers thing, I
mean, you could, they have likeupgraded the puppets.
Like could you prop'em up alittle bit over there?
Yeah.
That's gross.
Gross.
Gross weekend.
Dad, Mr.
Rogers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, see, the puppets werelittle, the puppets.
They were, they were creepy byhand.
Yeah.
They 1940 then, right?

(28:30):
They were like the creepy dollat a, b and B that sits in the
corner.
Yeah.
The puppets were creepy.
I could kind of tell his it washis voice.
I was a little bit like, whatfound.
Charming.
You did not You, are you seriousright now?
He was calming, very calming, Iwould say.
Well, he was sure.
Yeah.
But the puppets.
Puppets, yeah, I'm with you.
Yeah, they were, well, thatincludes, were creepy.
The game of, uh,, would you,would you, kindness Edition,

(28:52):
would you rather, would you,kindness edition.
So I think, we'll, we'll playthat more.
I'd love to hear from peoplewhat they think, uh, you know,
give us some questions for,would you rather, it might be
fun to have that.
Mm-hmm.
We, Jeff and I, just so you guysknow, Jeff and I are working on
a way to get callers.
To call in.
Oh, wow.
And then we'll, we'll collecttheir nu their messages and
we'll play them on the air.
We're working on that, so.

(29:12):
Oh, yeah.
So people can call into a phonenumber and, uh, we're working on
it, but we'll, we'll have thatgoing we'll soon.
So we'd be like Dr.
Drew or like, or Dr.
Phil.
Really?
Dr.
Drew.
Just, just, you know, kindnessChronicles crew out there.
Uh, kind, kind of, yeah.
I love it.
And we're gonna supposed to bedispensing advice?
No.
Oh, okay.
It's not really that, it's just.
We'll get some fun comments plusquestions, or people have good

(29:34):
ideas for us.
We'll just throw those out thereonce, so we're working on it.
That way we can get ourlisteners to be a part of the
show even more.
Well, all eight of them.
Yeah.
I like, I I like that too.
And may, maybe it is a question,maybe, maybe we get some social
commentary on, uh, you know,what, what, what's what, um, you
know, uh, a scenario thatsomebody has around kindness.
Um, Hey, can we just, uh, I, Ireally love moving into food

(29:58):
and, um, I'm, I would just sayI, I.
We haven't talked about food inforever.
I mean, it's been probably, youknow, we talked about Best
burger place.
It's time.
It feels time.
Yeah.
Right.
It's summer.
Yeah.
It's picnic season.
Yeah.
State fair's coming up.
State fair's coming up.
Oh boy.
I, uh, in the spirit of, wouldyou rather, I'm just curious.
Is it coleslaw or macaroni?
Salad.
Oh, oh, coleslaw Cole.

(30:20):
You think it's coleslaw?
Yeah.
I will tell you.
Yeah.
I had a, I had a boxed lunch onmy way home from this retreat
that I was at.
Yeah.
And there was this broccolisalad.
I'm not a broccoli guy.
Yeah.
But it had bacon and littlegrapes and little, um, oh, I
make it sunflower seeds.
Oh, I make it.
You make it?
Oh yeah.
That sauce that's on there.
Yeah.

(30:41):
Yeah.
You like it?
I'm, I'm driving home.
I got the thing, I'm drivingwith my knee.
I got food running down thefront of my shirt.
Right.
God, it was good.
Broccoli salad.
It's amazing.
Is that what it's called?
Yeah.
I've had it.
I love it.
I'm a big broccoli guy.
Yeah, but do you like broccoli,like steamed broccoli?
Yes.
Sure.
I put it on a.
Chicken sandwich.
Disgusting weed.
I love broccoli.

(31:01):
You do not put broccoli in achicken sandwich.
I make.
I make a wrap.
How?
Yeah.
I was gonna say, how are yougoing to eat broccoli and a Why
are you lying?
I've been doing this for years,since college even.
Okay.
Alright.
I make a tortilla.
Oh, you put some cooked chickenon it?
Yeah.
Steam egg steamed broccoli.
Yeah, a little, a little dash ofSwiss cheese on it.
Over the top of those threethings.
Yeah.
For that reason at all.

(31:21):
Even maybe salt, pepper, noteven, not even no sauce.
You don't, don't need the sauce.
No sauce.
You grill it or like put it in aa.
Yeah.
Toaster oven or I used to have apizza oven in college.
Yeah, yeah.
Wrapped it up.
Yeah.
So good.
Okay.
Usually when we talk about food,we talk about good things.
Yeah.
And just well's, can I weigh inon the macaroni versus the oven?
Macaroni salad.
And usually I want to go to.

(31:42):
Chick-fil-A or something whenwe're all done here?
I don't, no.
I'm gonna go on a diet.
Michael, to answer your questionever, would you rather like a
salad with cauliflower andasparagus makes you pea melt
funny.
Oh my God.
Oh yeah.
That sounds great.
Alright.
Chris Farley, um, you rememberthat time?
Yeah.
Anyone coleslaw?
Yeah.
Or macaroni.
Macaroni salad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Coleslaw, but it's gotta be KFCcoleslaw.

(32:03):
Oh, I love the sweeter coleslaw.
It's really good.
Lots of cabbage, carrots andstuff in there.
It's good.
And kind of dry.
Not like, not like too wet, notjuicy.
Yeah.
Not like water runs all overyour plate.
Yeah.
Oh, I can.
Okay.
So, all right.
I'm gonna throw another, wouldyou rather then, all right.
I mean, so you guys are toocoleslaw guys.
I, I like them both, but Okay.
Um.
Yeah.
Cheese curds, like good cheesecurds or like a good corn dog.

(32:28):
Which one?
You only can have one.
So talking deep fried deep, youcan well, well what?
Yeah, they're both deep fried.
What do you mean?
You can eat cheese curds.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Got fried cheese curds.
Okay, good.
All right.
I didn't know you could have'emany other way.
Yeah.
Okay.
I actually like the deal whereyou can get the cheese curd
wrapped with the corn dog stuff.
You know the deep fried cheesethat you get with the lemonade
stand right across from the, uh,the corn place.

(32:50):
Oh, yeah.
That.
Uh, so I'm combining them.
Oh, I've never seen that.
I, that, oh, I didn't, youhaven't had the, it's a hybrid.
I didn't give you a thirdchoice.
Uh, it's, it's, um, there's a,there's a, I'll take a, I'll
take a corn dog.
You're gonna take a corn dog?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Michael, what are you I'm gonnatake a stomachache from cheese.
I'm gonna take, I'm gonna take acorn dog, but let me just go on
the air here in this podcast andtell everybody, be honest, be

(33:12):
honest where I'm gonna be, whereI'm gonna tell you where the
best corn dog is.
In the city.
You guys ready at the fair?
Or anywhere?
Anywhere.
Okay.
But it, well, local.
Okay.
Local.
Okay.
If you're gonna get a corn dog,people, and I mean, turn the
volume up here right now.
Write this down.
It's at the Minneapolis Farmer'sMarket.
Oh, it's right there.
They cook it fresh.

(33:32):
It's five bucks.
That's it.
They dip.
They, they, they, they batterit.
They dip it.
You wait a few minutes.
The corn dog's there.
It, it's the crust crunch on theoutside.
I mean, it's, it's fresh.
The Minneapolis Farmer's Market,people pay your$5 900, which is
a reasonable price for a corndog.
That's a good deal.
Five bucks walk.

(33:53):
You gotta wait a second.
Like a juicy Lucy.
Hold on.
I, I don't know.
I haven't been to this one.
But isn't it, wouldn't it justbe the same you go to the county
fair or no?
Because those are sitting in awarmer.
Okay.
Right.
They're, they're not fresh.
The dog isn't good.
These, these, you take'em outand like you burn the roof of
your mouth on'em.
Yes.
Right.
I mean, that's a good corn.
See, I would say one thatrequires hospitalization.

(34:13):
That's right.
I'll try that.
That's right.
I've never been to that.
I have been to the farmer'smarket.
Is it, uh, right along thefreeway.
Yes.
Market Square gets to the biggersponge.
That's great.
It's beautiful.
It is.
It is.
Great farmer market.
And there's great food there.
By the way.
There's music there sometimestoo, which is really cool.
Yeah, the food there is amazing,by the way.
Well, I'm gonna try that, but Iwill say I would choose a.
Corn dog or via whatever, propop, whatever you wanna call it.
Yeah.

(34:33):
Well, some people are gonnafight, fight you for that, but
I'll just say, I'll choose thatover cheese curs.
'cause I've, I agree.
I like a taste of cheese cur,but I'm not buying a whole
basket.
It's gonna make me sick.
Right.
It's so rich.
All you can eat is a couple of'em, but they're really good.
The big ones couple.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, one last one, one lastquestion.
Yeah.
Um, but we need to have a stake,like how we devolved into just

(34:54):
would you rather food choices.
Absolutely.
It's kindness to our, um, tastebuds.
Yeah, that's right.
We're riffing.
Alright, go ahead.
Yeah, yeah.
You guys all go sit, go to thestate fair.
No, I haven't been for a coupleyears now.
Oh God.
We go three, four times a year.
Who, who was the big comediantalking about Nate?
That was at the safe, fair, ett.
He was there last year.
Yeah, no, the year before.

(35:15):
Uh, also clean Sebastian.
No, no.
Come on.
You know him.
He, he was like the first guy.
He had his Richard Pryor?
No, no.
I don't know.
Clean Steve Martin.
No, man.
Come on.
He's got the blonde hair.
He is Catholic.
He's got all the kids.
He lives in Ohio.
Oh, Mike.
G or Jim Gaffigan.
Jim Gaffin.
Yeah.
Last time I was there was to seeJim Gaffigan.
Anyway, go ahead.
So I haven't been for a fewyears.

(35:36):
Yeah.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Um, your favorite food at thestate fair?
Just real quick.
God, I don't, if you don't haveone.
Yeah, you probably go there justfor the I love the corn for the
articles.
I like the broccoli.
God, I like the corn.
Corn on the top.
No, you go, you, you go.
I lemonade.
I don't lemonade.

(35:57):
Near where you're by the corn.
It's the same, same thing.
It's it's the same place.
It's the best tasting lemonadeevery bad.
That's really the cheese on thestick.
I dunno what it is.
Yeah.
I don't know what it is.
Yeah, but the lemonade, it'snot, it's not that, it's not in
a machine mixing up if they makeit, it's some kind of combo of
the Right.
Yeah.
Amount of water.
Yeah.
Lemon and sugar.
It's so good.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't have one.
I don't have a favorite fruit.
The safe a So I'm gonna go rightto John.
John, you go multiple times.

(36:18):
Well wait a year.
Wait, he's, let me, let me justgimme cover for him for a
second.
Yeah.
I went to the state fair in thefood building one time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I tried this, changed mybaking, changed my cooking.
Okay.
Go on.
You know, you and I talk aboutcooking a lot, so go ahead.
We do.
We trade out recipes.
Yeah.
I made a cherry pie lastweekend.
It was amazing.
See, I'm not a good baker, but Ihad cinnamon roll in the, it was

(36:41):
like.
Yeah, perfectly.
It was a big, huge cmar alwaysin high school.
Yeah.
But Michael, it had a littlelemon flavor in the frosting.
A little ze, just cin little,it's a little lemon zes is what
it had.
It was.
So it changed me, like I, now Iput lemon, A little lemon in
changed.
Yeah, it did.
Wow.
It was so good.
So I would like to playsomething for you guys.
This is, uh, might be myfavorite video of all time.
Okay.

(37:02):
Um, when you talk about favoritethings, most of you know that I,
uh, have a bit of a diet Cokeproblem.
Yeah.
Yeah, we do.
I dunno if you guys have seenthis, but here we go.
How much diet Coke is too muchDiet Coke for one person?
It's a trick question.
The limit does not exist becauseit's zero calories.
This guy's a doctor, so zeroplus.
Zero plus zero times a hundredis always gonna be zero, which

(37:22):
means you can have as much asyou want.
Some people have suggested thatI have a problem to that.
I would say your mom is myproblem.
Stuck on that.
Alright.
He's not a doctor called anaddiction.
It's not an addiction.
I can stop whenever I want.
I just don't want to, and I needit every day.
But I will walk you through aday in the life of Dr.

(37:42):
Brady's diet, Coke consumption,if you're interested.
It starts off every day with atrip to McDonald's shack.
It's gotta be McDonald's.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It has to be.
It's the best.
Yeah, I don't know why.
I assume it involves, uh, highlyaddictive drugs being inserted
into the diet Coke care.
Cocaine.
Do I care?
Not at all.
Love it.
Want it?
Need it.
Give it to me.

(38:02):
Um, that's done around 8, 8 30.
Then around 10 30, daddy getsthirsty and Daddy needs another
diet.
Coke not a doctor.
So.
Head to the fridge, grab a 12ounce can.
Now that's basically a shotglass.
Oh dude, that's just a tide youover until lunchtime.
Now, at lunchtime, I'll probablygo to some fine dining
establishment, maybe atChipotle.

(38:23):
Okay.
If the restaurant only servesPepsi products, forget it.
I don't support thatestablishment.
I do not recognize diet Pepsi'sright to exist.
Okay?
That's my Israel Palestineconflict.
Alright?
If a restaurant sells Pepsiproducts, they deserve whatever

(38:43):
happens to them.
Yeah.
Do you understand what I'msaying?
Yeah.
That's what Costco thought too.
I don't, I don't care.
They sell garbage water.
It's done.
Now you might be wondering, areyou drinking water?
During the day, uh, obviouslyDiet Coke is made of water, so,
uh, use your big brain and askbetter questions.
Alright, around three o'clock Iwill get thirsty again, John.

(39:04):
He's still going until daddygets another drink, another shot
glass, another 12 ounce dietCoke, that's number four.
And then usually around dinnertime.
We're gonna, we're gonna loadup, oh, on another one.
So what is that five?
It's nothing.
Plus, like I said, zero pluszero plus zero five times during
the day is still zero.
So, um, you might be like, well,does it, isn't it bad for your

(39:27):
teeth?
I don't know.
You see those guys, those lookscared.
I think it has the oppositeeffect on me.
I think it makes everythingstronger.
I think it makes my wits keen.
'cause if I don't have it, Ifeel bad.
So Uhhuh.
Explain that.
Well, John's mom calls thatsparkle, so that's, that's what
I do.
I don't think it's a problem.

(39:47):
I think you're a problem.
You're, you're the problem.
Mind your business.
And with that, how much dietCoke off we go.