How fun is it that we get to get together once a week?
Okay. Um, with the intention of being dads, being husbands, being people in this world that are just trying to highlight and find people that are good stuff out there, operating in a way that's trying to better themselves and better the people around them Welcome to the Kindness Chronicles where we hope to inject the world with a dose of the Minnesota nice that it desperately needs power 92 the chucker here this is Depending on how you do math.
Yeah, this is our 100th episode Which is pretty amazing, which is amazing Steve Brown. How are you? Welcome? Hi I mean, we've had a week of hiatus. Yes, because you were traveling the world was I don't know who you weren't I wasn't and then KG How are you? Good. I think we had to give ourselves a week to get over the Timberwolves aren't gonna actually win the NBA championship.
So like all Minnesota sports fans, we're a wounded animal that will get right back up, but we needed just a little extra time to let those wounds heal. Yeah. If you recall, our last guest, Parker Fox, he picked the Timberwolves in five. I'm not sure that, uh, I would have taken that one to the bank. Way to go Parker 5. I have some t shirts printed up. I probably shouldn't have done that. That's a bad plan. He was half right though. He was half right. Let's give him some credit.
It was in 5. Very good end in 5. 5, yeah, yeah. And, but the good news is, his girlfriend, Taylor Heisey, is that how you say it? Yeah, Heisey. They won the, uh, the PWHL championship. They beat Boston. After being down 2 1. Yeah, and again, shameless plug time. Uh, Wooden Sticks, another fine podcast. Oh, good for you. Uh, Taylor Heisey will be my guest next week. Oh, good for you. Fantastic. You know, it's funny how you're able to get all these fancy people for your wooden sticks.
Well, we set them up. He hears of them from our podcast and he brings them over to his podcast. Yeah, you know, you're such a pro. What a jackwagon. Yeah, kindling pickup sticks. Oh, you guys are too good. Yeah, so this is, so the next three or four episodes, we're going to claim our 100th episode. Yes. But this is the first of a 100th episode. Because. This is the hundredth episode that we're posting, but we've had several times when we have done a best of yeah Which is faint.
I mean really best of the best of whatever, but you guys things were so good We had to play them again. Yes, and we're just such busy people Yeah with all of our professional endeavors and right charitable things that we're doing in the community all of that Yeah But you've got some interesting statistics on podcasts. Yeah, I do, I do. Which I think is super interesting. Well, um, there's a thing called pod fade.
And that's, uh, it's a phenomenon where podcasts that people, everyone wants to have a podcast. Everybody has a podcast. Everyone does. But apparently KG's got a whole bunch of them. Wooden sticks. according, stupid according to, uh, he's got actual s too stupid name too. Um, whoa, whoa. According to, uh, easy. Now industry insights, a significant, a number of podcasts fade. They pod fade between seven to 10 episodes. So if you can make it past 10, you're, you've made it past pod fade.
Um, but if you, and if you can get up into 20, that's a, that, that's considered busy and consistent. But if you can get 50 to 100, it's, it's considered a successful podcast. Look at us. Yeah. Yeah. We win. We're successful. Yeah. Industry average. You know, we're going to have the summer of George. The industry average. We're just going to take the summer off and eat cheese like an apple. A block of cheese. There you go. Oh God. So yeah, so we're, we're, we made it past.
Podfade for sure and and we had a way past it. We blew past that going strong Whatever and looking back. It's really been interesting looking back. So what are we gonna do today? We're gonna kind of look back. We're gonna look back and talk about some of the highlights. Okay, some of the missed opportunities We're gonna talk about all of the guests that KG got for us over the years. Oh wait He saved those for wooden sticks Well, hold on. I'm gonna take my first time out.
I get three tonight on the show and uh, I believe the very first guest that set the wheels in motion for this great run of success was achieved by yours truly was Carly Zucker. That's true. Yeah. By the way, that set the tone for all of the rest. So I'm gonna puff my chest out and I'm gonna remind you that I'm in the process of locking down. Yogi Berra's granddaughter. It's going to be unbelievable. She's traveling right now, but she has committed to the show and.
If you haven't seen the documentary, it's not over until it's over, please do yourself a favor and watch that as soon as possible. There's a lot of stuff coming down. Here's what I want to do. Okay. Can we go back and, and for anyone who maybe just started listening this season or something, which would spend a great season, um, can we go back and talk about how this whole thing started because everybody does start a podcast, but there was a different kind of commitment that you had, John.
So give, give us kind of the, give all of us just a brief, uh, timeline of how this all came together because I don't really remember all of it. So KG, you and I for years have talked about how much we like to talk to each other and how much we do. We love the sounds of our own voice and you get to do it professionally. Yeah. I, on the other hand, have to do it pretend. Or just to your kids. Or just to my kids.
And I, you know, I set up a pretend microphone, Mr. Chucker phone down in the basement, and I start doing knock knock jokes. Chucker impressions. But I, um, you know, I have a particular interest in this whole concept of kindness. And, um, not that I personally am a kind person. You feel it's your responsibility. I like to witness kindness. I like, you know, when I see kindness happening to others, I don't get the oxytocin jolt from me being kind to others.
It's all about witnessing other people. I like when people are kind to me, for example, I take note of those things. Well, you should try to be, be kind. Cause that will, I'm going to try. I'm trying after. Yeah, we're, we're trying to, uh, to improve on that learning. Yeah. But you know, the world sort of collided and I thought, you know what? Yeah. Everybody's doing a podcast. Why can't I have a podcast? I love it. I love that. So I went and I bought some podcast equipment. I'm committed.
Who did you, who did you find? So that's how did I find podcast equipment? Google? No, just mean like technically this Sweetwater is the name of the company that I bought the stuff from. I actually spent some time figuring out, you know, what type of hosting service. Yes. What type of editing people might not think people think you just have a microphone, but there's more to it. There's a lot of work that goes into this. And I mean it's very technical. The prep stuff that we do.
And I am not a technical person. I know, that's what's amazing. Even setting up this, this studio that we have. It's amazing. Well, I don't know if amazing. You know, the, the, the Grand Canyon is amazing. No, I say that because I I am a production, I'm a production person. I went to school for a television production. I've been behind the scenes at my work with Target and behind the scenes for many things, but I was always in charge of people that were helping do all that stuff. You had people.
I'm about as technical as you are. Actually, I'm more impressed with you because I don't think I would take on the ambition of getting all this gear. Anyway, that's, it's, it is amazing and it's cool that it's been running. So continue. Well, that's very nice. Let's see, there's an example of the kindness that I enjoy when it's delivered to Oxytocin right there. But I, um, so, you know, I'm out with KG. And we started talking about doing this podcast, what are we gonna call it?
We kg and I, uh, you know, are part of a little organization that was trying to promote kindness in the schools. And, uh, we Were you thinking about doing the sports angle? Well, I mean, of course if kgs involved, there's just has to be sports angle. Sports, sports angle. You know, we were talking about who would be a great first guest and kg Do you remember how it was that, that we made the, the. The connection with Carly. I know that you know Carly. But we had lunch with her.
Somebody that had a tie in. To the Masonic Children's Hospital. Yes. There was kindness involved in the amount of money they had donated. You know, I obviously knew Carly and then we were thinking about if we're going to start a podcast, the first show I'd have somebody that would have some followers and would maybe tune in and check it out because they're not going to tune in for us to schmucks. And, you know, she was on the power trip, you know, on, on K fan.
And she's, you know, obviously Jason Zucker's wife at the time in the middle of the wild and da da da da. So the thought process was great. And she has a great personality, so she brought that out. And so we just thought that would be a good stepping off point. Yeah, she was super fun. She was fun, yeah. She was very fun. Very, just a delightful person. For sure. Open and fun to talk to. I don't remember, did we even have the music for the first couple episodes? I don't think so.
No, our intro music Well, and, and, I ran into Steve, like, the week that we started this thing. What year are we talking about? This is twenty Twenty twenty one. Twenty one, yes. Yeah, okay. Twenty twenty one. What did you run into Steve? I ran into him at, uh, Lucky Lucky 13's in Bloomington. And we had, yeah, we had lunch. And we hired you guys to, you're, uh, heroic to do some work for us. Yeah, you spotted me, I don't know how you spotted me. I saw that luscious hair.
Oh, Don's unbelievable. He can't go to any place, whether it's a stadium or a restaurant. An arena or a restaurant without scoping it out and knowing somebody. It is unbelievable. It was a delight to see you. I hadn't seen you in a long time and you're like, Hey, what are you doing now? And I, I, we talked a little bit and then we stayed connected and you said, Hey, I'm looking for this. And you came to our office and had a whole, uh, some other production ideas you were looking for.
And then we ended up doing that. So, yeah. But then, I thought of the guys that I went to high school with and the guys that have, you know, we wanted to have some, you know, remotely famous people on to get this thing started and you were remotely, remotely famous. I mean, you're sort of famous adjacent, which is very much like KG. KG is our minor local celebrity. I love the minor local celebrities. He's up there. I'm just a, I'm a selective, uh, I have selective, uh, fame.
Yeah. Famous adjacent in the MLC. So you and I got together and, um, we got, uh, your, one of your buddies to, you wrote a song. Yes. For the pandemic. been working on it. And, uh, and you needed something and I had nowhere to put this song and you say, Hey, and actually it does work for a theme song. It's, it's a, it's a great, it's a song that, that we use for the show. I don't think we've ever played the whole song on the show. Have we? No, we haven't. And, and actually it's.
It doesn't fit the show. No, it lyrically it's, but you, what? You did something funny. I gave you the, the, the lyric list version, and you, you took the one with lyrics, so you can hear me yelping and doing stuff and it kicks in. So you can, you're supposed to use the ins, the, the instrumental version of it. So let's go back to the fact that I, I really have very limited abilities when it comes to, uh. Putting something like this together.
Yeah. So we've got the song, so we got the song, a few episodes in, we've got a few episodes in and frankly, Steve, your episode, which was the third episode that we got, we got a whole pile of downloads and I thought, what is this all about? Yeah. And you apparently sent it out to clueless nation, which who knew there was such a thing.
And then, um, and then, uh, yeah, we just, uh, after our, our first sort of mini season, We did 12 episodes and then we started our second season and we asked you to be a part of this and now you're sort of the heartbeat of this thing. You're the only one that does, that does prep. I think that you're, I think that you're the, the, the heart and soul of the rhythm of this podcast. Well, I'm a band member. I like to join. I want to, I want to be a part of it.
And you, but, but you, again, speaking to the rhythm, you know, KG and I would do this from time to time whenever we have time, but you. That's the producer in me, yeah. Wow. I think that's awesome man. I really do. That's cool. You know, a number of people called and you know, what's fun is, is we have a handful of listeners that I, you know, consider, you know, sort of the, the, the, the cornerstone. And I just want to give a quick shout out to a couple of them.
We always talk about Michael Dempsey. Yes. Michael is on my list too. He's on your list. He, he always gives us great feedback. Uh, Marty Rathmanner is a guy, he was a guest a long time ago and he's a listener and he's. He's always, you know, great dude, given a great, he's great guy. Good, good. Uh, kudos. Um, Karen, Liam, crafty. Karen. Oh, one of, uh, I know crafty one of Christy and Becky's, uh, best cow cows. She's a, she's a forever listener. Forever. Well, I don't know.
I'm hoping that hearing this, we hope so. Um, my mom, my mom's a big listener. Yeah, your mom's a big listener. Um, I got a call from Bobby Moer yesterday saying, Hey, I've been enjoying the podcast. rf Moeller Jewelers. Bobby Erler Jewelers. Yes. That guy. Great guy. He enjoyed, he particularly enjoyed the podcast that we did on the moms, which I thought was sweet. Oh, yeah. You know, we got some good feedback on that one.
The, the, another podcast that I've gotten a lot of feedback on was the, um, the podcast that we did with Tony Ocum and Mike McGinn. Yeah. There were a whole bunch of pioneers. The holiday kind of. The holiday chatter, whatever we called it. Yeah. Friendsgiving. No, was it Friendsgiving? Uh, no. It was just around there. It was, no, I think we called it Friendsgiving. Friendsgiving. We should have a list here. We should have a list. I bet you it's online somewhere, but anyway.
Yeah. Um, you have some questions that you'd like for us to, uh, to, to answer. No, I don't. Oh, you don't. No, I, I, I just. So I'm going to start with one. Yeah. No, I don't have questions. Going back over the course of the last, I mean, we've been doing this, you know, over three years now. Yeah. Which tells you that it's not, it had, hasn't averaged one a week. True. Um, but is there a particular. Guest that was the most inspirational to you? Well, I have a whole list.
I don't know if kg Do you have, do you have a list as well of all these kind of categories? I don't have a list at all. I just, um Oh, so thanks for prepping for this today. Oh, let hold time. How about that? Time out. I think one of the greatest lessons. I try to bestow on my daughters, and I try to live, is appreciate what you have when you have it.
And so the show that's inspired me the most is the Vince Flynn tribute show, because it's a reminder how fragile this world is, life is, and everything you have. And I had a chance to get to know him vaguely in college. I know. His sister and brother. And I was closer with them and still am, but that show had for me the most meaning because this guy was a remarkable human being, unbelievably talented at the top of his game. And it was all swept away, not by anything he did, right?
It was just God's plan. And, uh, I, whenever I get down and whenever I'm frustrated, because I'm an emotional guy and I have some ups and downs to my life, which again is my own doing, I think of Vince and I think of that show, and it keeps me going. Mine is very simple. I agree with you, the Vince Flynn show was great.
Um, I think that the Casey O'Brien show, The, uh, the young man who is the, the placeholder for the, uh, the Minnesota Gophers who was on the show with us the evening after having lung surgery, and he continues to this day to battle. And I know that it continues to be a struggle, but keep Casey in your prayers. He is a remarkable guy. Who is universally adored by anybody that you run into.
Um, but that was the one that, you know, when he talked about the fact that his, his dad would spend every night in the, in the hospital with him. And I just thought, you know what? You got choked up on that one. I did. I got choked up. Yeah, that was a tough one. That was a tough one. That's on my list too. But, um, the, the other one, for me, it's a tie between Casey O'Brien and Crescent Cove. Crescent Cove. And I say that because I've been there. Yeah. So I understand.
I get emotional thinking about telling my wife about this place. They are helping Highly special needs kids in ways that no one else can like these parents need a break from these kids are amazing kids But they're they have so much specialty care needed and that place. It's also a hospice for kids. Yeah um, it's It i'm not it's obviously sad and heavy but i'm more um Impressed and, and amazed and inspired by the people that work there.
Yep. The people that work there and you know, it's, it's, while it is hospice, it's also respite care and what's beautiful about it is it's an, it's a place where parents can bring their kids to live, you know, to, uh, to enjoy some special time. It gives mom and dad a break. Looks like you need some sunglasses, Stevie. I got you. I know, yeah. My goodness. Think about that place. And I wish people could, you know, and it's.
It's not some great interview, but it was just that my memory of that place is so strong and the woman that was talking forgot who that was. Um, your friend, Jenny Florian. She just explained what they're doing. And hospice overall is is an amazing service for for humanity. And, uh, I, I think that place is really cool. I don't, you know, yeah, I mean, we've, we've been blessed to have a lot of, uh, nonprofit people that do amazing work in the community.
I mean, we could go through the list and maybe we will go through the list at some point during this, uh, this program, but what's the next, I agree with you. Um, most, most fun episode. You asked us to, to get a list of that. So what do you, would you say is our most fun episode? What do you immediately comes to mind for me? Is the episode that we had the, the wrestler, um, your buddy, the wrestler. Yeah, Jordan, Jordan, this guy was nuts. Yeah. I loved it.
I love talking to him, but my favorite, my, the most fun that I had was the minnow tank episode with the little kids. Well, you're, you're pretty damn good with little kids. They, they, well, we're, we're sort of, uh, you know, they're my people. What's your favorite one? KG, what was your funnest episode? I always think it's fun when we get the ladies involved. I get a big kick out of that, that crew.
Um, and I know this year I was in Arizona, but when, when, when Becky and Chrissy and all the gals, including Crafty Karen, um, get their chance to be on, I think it's kind of a big deal. And I think what they have. And John and I, we cringe when we say this, but we, we know it's true. It's extraordinary that friendship that this group of like 16 girls have. And I got to tell you, Chrissy just lost her mom in the last couple of weeks unexpectedly.
And it's been a very tough two weeks for Chrissy and her sister, Terry, who are a part of this group. And I met the funeral last week and John was there and we're in the front row. And, and as communion is being distributed. One by one, these girls from this GNO group are coming by and every single girl is in tears and every single girl stopped by and gave Chrissy and Terry, who are sitting next to each other, this unbelievable hug. And I held it together most of that day okay.
I could not keep it together watching that. And so when those ladies are together on the show, um, it makes me the most happy. Yeah, it really speaks to. Just how grand their friendship is and how they rally around each other and you know We've got we got some grad parties coming up and they'll all be at every single grad party and it'll be just Chaos. It's unbelievable. It's chaos. It was fun. Um, I hope you're gonna be there Friday for the next one because I, I'll be there.
I hope you're not gonna be there. There you're going, aren't you? Okay. What time are you going? I'm gonna Woodbury, uh, whatever time you're gonna be there. Early shift. We'll have to break that down. What? Yeah, we'll have to, sorry, I have a few, but I'll, I'll just say, well just give a, give us a few fun. I'll say the fun. Some of the funnest guests we've had. Because it was fun for me to get them which would be Neil Ford. Absolutely. I love talking to Neil Ford. John Sweeney.
Yeah, he was cool. My friend. Yeah, he was really cool. My friend Pete Gordon. He was such a fun guy to have in us, in the studio with us, which is great. He's a two time guest. He's a two time guest. We had him on twice. I think he's the only one. Some, I think some big stuff happened with him. Maybe we'll have him back again. But, but I would say the funnest one for me to listen to was the second half of Of the one where we had, uh, talked about oxytocin in movies. Oh yeah.
I love that conversation we had, and I love going through that list. Mario was with us and we were talking through movies. It was just a very fun conversation. That was a fun one. I gotta, I gotta tell you one thing, um, I, I'll confess to this afternoon, sneaking to a matinee. It's a Disney movie that's very OB obscure. It's for you and the listeners a must see movie. I don't do this often.
Believe me, I see a couple movies a week, and I don't always bring the movies to the show because that gets to be a little nauseating, and I get that. Young Woman and the Sea tells the story of the first woman to swim the English Channel back in the 1920s. It's a true story. It is unbelievably good. And you talk about girl power, you know, in that era, you know, women had just been allowed to vote.
And this was scoffed at even the idea of a, of a female getting in that water, treacherous water, 21 miles across. I got, I got to tell you, it's one of the best movies I've ever seen. Young woman and the sea, only at a handful of theaters. It's a Disney movie. I'm certain it'll be downloadable in the near future. Put it on your list. It's a must see. Can I ask you, was there popcorn and raisinets involved? Today there was no, uh, raisinets. There was a small plain popcorn.
I don't like the artificial butter at the West End Theater. Yeah, if I'm at the Edina Theater, the butter is all good. But a lot of these theaters now have gone to this plasticky artificial butter. Oh, that's terrible. And I, again, the West End, I enjoyed the experience there. But I had to go plain today. And, uh, I tell you what. The movie was It made me so happy to see such a quality picture and I really didn't have high expectations.
It just was on my list because I saw that it was out and I hadn't seen it and it was over two hours and it those movies that are over two hours tend to be You know, you get some clunkers in that 90 minute window, but if it's two hours and nine minutes like this one, they're usually pretty damn good, and this one lived up to that. They got good stuff to, uh, to show. Maybe we should, you should be telling us more about, you know, kind of a Siskel and Ebert sort of, uh, segment.
Give us your thumbs up, thumbs down. Okay. I mean, in lieu of, in lieu of bringing any guests to the show, maybe you could, uh, deliver weird choice. Yeah, we're very well aware of wooden sticks. So do you have another podcast? Uh, good Lord. He, Kevin, you just, you seem to choose odd movies though. I actually, that, that sounds like it was a good one, but like, remember he saw, um, the 80s movie? Like. Well, he just, he goes to movies. I think he's addicted to popcorn is what I think it is.
I do. Popcorn is a big part of it. I love to talk movies more with you. And if Chrissy comes home and sees him covered with popcorn kernels, you know, all hell is gonna break loose. Every once in a while I'll have a bag of chips laying around and Becky will be like, Oh God, what are you doing? Yeah, what is this? I'm like, that's evidence. Time for an intervention again. Um, I have a quick question. It's not on the list.
Of all of the people that we've had on, who would you consider the most, uh, the most, the biggest character? Willie. Willie, wisely, with a, with a bullet. Yeah, not even close. I mean, that guy is a trip. I love his energy. Um, what I, I mean, you talk about a character, that guy, you think of Seinfeld and some of the quirky characters they had, he would have fit right in with Kramer. He is a character and here's what's so funny. So Willie's got a son who plays baseball at Mata Midi.
That's for you, Michael Dempsey brought up the Mata Midi. He's a junior pitcher and he's really good. He's a lefty, I think. Oh my goodness. Yeah, he's, he is a stud and what's, the, the, the Zephyr, um, the Zephyr baseball team, let's see, they're in the section finals tomorrow night. And they've got some studs. They've got some great arms on that team. And you know it all starts with, uh, starts with pitching.
Speaking of baseball, the, uh, the, uh, the St. Paul Air Freight team started their, uh, their campaign yesterday. Or day before yesterday. I don't know what that is. That's a team that Jack and Ben play on. Okay, got it. And they have baseball tonight, so the chances are they won't be calling in to interrupt the podcast tonight. Well, uh, It seems fitting for the hundredth episode. But what's really fun is Jack, you know, pitches and Ben catches. Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, we got the, uh, the Schweitz battery every once in a while. Are you coaching? Ben's a catcher? Ben's a catcher, yeah. Gets behind the dish. Wow. You know, catchers are usually the bigger guys, right? Like, think of Tim Laudner. And, and some of the, you know, well, even, uh, Carlton fifth, they call them pudge. Ben has got to be one of the smaller physically by stature, uh, players at that position, right? I'm sure he'll love that. You referred to him as one of the smaller physically guys.
Um, you know, well, you know, he plays big, right? You know, and the other thing is, is he's only 21, you know, there's some older guys on that team. So he's able to get up and down from that squat position. You imagine. Doing that now playing catcher. Yeah, getting into position that my friend. I just talked about it.
I'll tell you right now That is that is one a hard position to play my hand after every game was black and blue Um, your muscles are sore from crouching down the whole time, and that's when you're young. I mean, it was painful. And you're getting, you know, fall balls taken off the chin and all that other stuff. KG, did you, you were a goalie too, right? Yeah, I think I heard, I remember hearing that.
I was a catcher and a goalie, and that's why I played catcher, because they figured, well, let's put the goalie back there. He's a glutton for beating. He was our pitcher. I have Oh, luck craft. Lucky was your pitcher. Oh, can he bring the heat? Oh, my hand was so damn sore. Ugh. So, you know what's, what's really funny is, um, you know the name Jake Begley. So Jake Begley won the Frank Brim's, whatever, the award for the goalie of the year for the class of 2017.
Jake is a Hill Murray kid, a good friend of ours. His brother Axel plays for the Gopher hockey team right now. Anyway, Jake was also a goalie and I think he's just finishing up at Colorado College, but he also was a catcher and what was super funny is When as a youth player, you know, when you catch the way that you, like, if, if a ball is in the dirt as a catcher, there's a a way that you knock the ball down to keep it in front of you.
Jake would, his goalie instincts would kick in and instead of like, fuck you, kick it out, he'd kick the ball out. and his dad would be like, Jake, we're playing baseball right now, not hockey. But yeah, they're a very talented, uh, athlete. Do we have more questions, Steve? Well, no, I'm really just going off of what you suggested. We kind of think through the, the last, uh, like category was, uh, who was, who would be a dream guest? Who would be a wishlist of a guest? Oh, wow.
Well, I mean, I, we've had some great ones. Yeah. I mean, in, in the, the, the real world, one of the guys, I mean, we'd never get them on, but, uh, I would love to interview Larry David and here's why because I think Larry David comes across as this curmudgeonly Yeah But everything i've ever read about him is he's about as sweet of a guy as you could possibly his character is very curmudgeon Grumpy, but he's tells it like it is just a very very sweet guy.
Well, what's yeah, and I agree with you I would love to sit and have a coffee with him get him record with him talk to him on this podcast Um, but if you watch the show He does start every day with innocent intentions and it always turns just to junk by the end of it. And it's a lovely ride. It's the funniest thing, but yeah, I agree. That's it. That'd be a great guest. Another one.
And, uh, we were talking pre production pre show about the chucker, the chucker who was kind of, uh, you know, the first like radio personality that I was in love with, uh, The chucker a comedy personality. He was a comedy personality. Yeah. But the chucker, you know, he had on all kinds of, you know, Woody Harrelson and ah, love it. But when he had Keanu Reeves on Yeah, he had Keanu Reeves on, and he wa the, the, the chucker was, was talking to him as if he was.
Christopher Reeve, and he says to him, you know, it's just, so I was, you're such an inspiration to the, to the community, you know, after falling off that horse and you're still, and Keanu Reeves was on the show to promote his band called dog star. I think he's a bass player. Yes. And. Keanu, you know, instead of getting upset, like, Woody Hamilton got kind of upset. Woody Harrelson. Woody Harrelson. He called him Woody Hamilton. That's right. That's right.
Um, and, and, uh, Rob Schneider got kind of upset. Yeah. Keanu Reeves and his bandmates played along with it. And when, when he started going down the Christopher Reeves thing, you hear Keanu go Uh oh. Uh oh. We've reached a point of no return, yeah. This is, uh, but it was just, I, I, he, and he is reputed to be an absolutely great guy. Keanu Reeves. That doesn't surprise me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That does not surprise me at all.
And most of the people on that Tucker program would play along for a while, and then the frustration would build. That was the beauty. Like Woody Harrelson for a while was kind of like, and then finally remember at the end, he said, all right, Chuck, I'm out. He, I'm 5, 000. And how about, how about Fred Savage? Fred Savage, who is probably 11 years old. It's been a long time since I heard this. God, he handled it just like a pro. It's if you could find it on YouTube, all the, the.
The shows are on YouTube, but Chucker and you are Chuck Nala in the Playhouse. Chuck Nala. Oh, wow. Can't thank you enough for all the, the time. Don't ring So, so this kind of really is the epitome for you of, of playing chucker on the radio. This is your podcast is, uh, of, uh, uh, an outlet for you to Well, it's my opportunity to, uh, to go chuck her on the deal. You want to hear who I'm by? Uh, yeah.
Dream list with yes, let's hear it I just have to that there's many many but I would love to have Dave Grohl on this. Oh, yeah, maybe a great guy By the way, I just watched the documentary last night. It's called Sound City. Yeah It was part of our movie club at Tammy and Marty's house I was blown away by that guy. I had no idea that he was part of Nirvana. What? How do you not know that? Honestly, I'm not a music guy. I had no idea.
So, this Sound City documentary takes you back to before Nirvana. When we came together at this unbelievable studio just outside Los Angeles, I'm telling you, I hate to do the double movie recommendation, but if you're any kind of fan of music, yeah, the documentary Sound City, which we watched last night, I was Completely floored by the story. Yeah, no, it's, it's a, it's a legendary room. I, I saw that, I saw it too.
And, and Dave really is, he's, it's kind of a love letter to rock and roll and recording. Well, he produced it, and I think he directed it. Yeah, yeah, and he, he was very involved in it. And I'm shocked that you didn't know he was. Yeah, may I just say, KG, we give, no, we give Steve so much crap about the fact that he doesn't know sports. I know, I know. I know. This, this trumps every stupid thing that Steve Brown has said. You know, did you know that Dave Grohl was in Nirvana?
He was a drummer. Let me quote the great, uh, I believe it's, is it, uh, I think it is Billy Madison. What you've just said. Is the most insanely idiotic thing I've ever heard. we are all now more stupid for having, for having listened to it. Yeah. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. There. It's, that's, that's where I went on it. That's okay. It's actually a funny, it's a funny meme. Uh, it's embarrassing truth. I gotta tell you.
Gen Z kids that know who Dave Grohl is, there's a picture of Dave Grohl as, as the drummer from Nirvana and then Dave Grohl. Now they're like, is it me or is the, does the. Drummer from Nirvana look like Dave Grohl. Look a little like a young, like a young Dave Grohl. Yeah, he does. That's amazing. I only knew him as a member of the Foo Fighters. I had no idea. And I got more Nirvana trivia for ya. Oh, let's hear it. Keep coming. Kurt Cobain. The late, great Kurt Cobain. Killed himself.
We were born on the exact same day. February 20th, 1967. You and Kurt Cobain? We share the exact same. So I don't have any talent whatsoever, but I have a link to come on now. I bet you couldn't, uh, keep a puck out of a net. That's for sure. And I bet you Kurt Cobain didn't hit Culver's quite like you do every once in a while. He hit other things hard. Yeah, exactly. That was good for ya. But, uh, here we are. The other wish list that I have is not possible because he's passed on.
He's deceased. Fred Rogers would have been a great person for this. He would have been the ultimate guest. After that documentary. Go ahead, KG. Tell us about It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Yep. Oh, well, again, um, like most people our age, we grew up with Mr. Rogers in our neighborhood, and he was iconic. And then to see the documentary, to see the kindness, to see how the show came together, and to hear from this iconic man from, from all of our childhood.
Yeah. And he's actually, The nicest guy on the planet. Uh, yeah. It was one of the more uplifting shows I've seen. Yeah, it was great. Yeah. The, the, the, the word iconic sometimes gets overused, but I think that, uh, he is a perfect, uh, representation. Oh man. Of iconic. I saw that, I saw that documentary as well. This is kinda like documentary talk, but I saw it hearing, I think from you Kg, that it was really good. I need to see it. And I didn't really buy Mr. Rogers.
I he was so, he's a little bit. Nah, he's just, yeah, he's a little bit real Tender kindergartner kind of not talking down to you really talking on your level I was more Sesame Street and then like Muppets, right? I love the electric company. Yeah But when you go back and actually watch how he did what he did yeah, it's it's there's undeniably good speaking of mr. Rogers Have you ever heard about Captain Kangaroo, that he was like this huge war hero?
No. Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo, was like this incredible World War II war hero. Check it out. No kidding. Yeah, he was, uh, yeah. So I just, as I'm looking at some of the guests that we've had, The Rookie was a lot of fun, when we had The Rookie from, uh, from GarageLogic. Uh, Bob Kowalski. Remember who did the, uh, the book called Busco or Busco?
Um, you know, one, uh, one episode that we had Busco, one episode that we had that, uh, got a lot, a good response was the, uh, The one we talked about, Jury Duty, that TV show, and Ted Lasso. Yeah. That one. But the one episode that has had the most downloads of all of the shows, they stole my car. Ah ha ha ha ha.
For whatever reason, I think people that saw the, uh, the incident of me being, uh, Carjacked and my athletic pursuit of the vehicle as it was being stolen, I think it inspired people. Well, I will say, on behalf of KG& I, thanks for offering up your car for some ratings. For some ratings, yes. Uh, Jeff Huth from the JP4 Foundation. Oh yeah. That was a fun one. We've had a lot of good ones. Dr. Dave Walsh. I'm going to be seeing Dr. Dave.
We're going to be doing a tour of the Masonic Institute for the developing brain in a couple of weeks with him and his grandson. So I, Dr. Dave, I'm sure you're a listener anyway. It's been a fun run. It's been a good run. I I'm so glad that you did ask me to be a part of this and join you guys. So am I. You St. Thomas guys. I gotta say St. Thomas. Um, but yeah. How fun is it that we get to get together once a week?
Okay. Um, with the intention of being dads, being husbands, being people in this world that are just trying to highlight and find people that are good stuff out there, operating in a way that's trying to better themselves and better the people around them in, uh, in just even just recognizing it rather we're, we're trying, obviously I want to try to do our best, but I, I love find, I love, you know, Finding, uh, possible guest ideas out there.
Yeah. I'm going to keep working at it because I love highlighting those kinds of people. Well, you're the MVP when it comes to getting actual, known guests, I'm able to get some of the people that are the nonprofit people from around the community. And KG got his Carly Zucker. Yes, I did. Okay. Yep. I did. So what's coming up on wooden sticks? We just finished up with Alexis Pearson, who was one of the key broadcasters for the PWHL this year.
Young lady from South St. Paul, went to St. Cloud State, used to sell tip sheets for me. Oh, no kidding! Alexis is phenomenal, she's a great human. The connection we had was to the Children's Hospital in St. Paul. Way back in the day when she was still in college, so we're going back probably 10 years. I was over at Children's with Tom Reed and at the time Ryan Carter was a player on the wild.
We were there for a charitable event, a new kind of a sports wing for the kids and her family was there because her younger sister when she was a little kid had serious health issues and Children's Kind of saved her life for lack of a better description. So I'm there and dad pulls me aside and says, Hey, my daughter just finished up her sophomore year and she wants to go into sports broadcasting. Would you be comfortable having coffee with her, mentoring her, pointing her in the right direction?
So Alexis and I struck up this friendship and then I saw what an unbelievable personality she had. So I recruited her to sell tip sheets at the racetrack. And then from there, her talent just took over and she's worked on national TV and, you know, in the States, in Canada, she works on the wild radio network. She's everywhere. Wow. She's still in her twenties. She's a rock star. So yeah, that's kind of fun. That's very fun and up and comer and Canterbury's up and running.
Yeah. We're having some fun on track. In fact, uh, This week, because schools are now starting to shut down for the season. Uh, we, we start our Thursday night racing. So we'll race Thursday at five, Saturday at five, Sunday at one big crowd. So far, we've only raised on the weekends, these first couple of weeks and the weather, uh, we've gotten very fortunate with, uh, As much rain as we've had, it hasn't happened on the weekends when we're racing, so we've got some big crowds out there.
Belmont Stakes this weekend, um, which will be terrific, uh, that'll be Saturday. So yeah, it's been a, it's been an exciting start to the year at Canterbury. Well, speaking of weather, Mrs. Schweitz is out on the, uh, on White Bear Lake on the boat with, uh, several of her friends, uh, gymnastics moms, they call themselves the Marco Moms. And, uh, there is a storm rolling in. Oh boy. And I'm hoping that they don't get shipwrecked. Have you seen the movie The Perfect Storm? The Perfect Storm.
I mean, there is It doesn't end well. It does not end well. You know, good Lord, you might get a call soon. Steve, you have a closing. Uh, I just want to say this. I want to, I want to say thank you to the listeners for, for being a part of this and joining in and, and passing it around, telling people about it. But I also want to going forward episode 101 and on, we want to hear more feedback. We want to hear your guest ideas. We want to hear, um, what other angles you'd like to see us take.
Um, because really. We're just doing this because we love it and people do listen and people do listen weekly from what you've noticed. Um, And, uh, aside from Michael Dempsey, we want to hear more feedback. Yeah. And, and I would like to have some of those, listeners on the show with us just to get there. There's a reason that you're listening to this. What is it about, the concept of kindness that, uh, intrigues you, I mean, everybody is.
Is motivated by kindness to some degree, but, uh, you know, some are more motivated by wooden sticks. So I would like, okay. I'd like to ask our listeners, um, to find us through, uh, Facebook. Or Instagram personal. Yeah. We don't have, we haven't been sophisticated enough to put together our own Facebook page, but we kind of lost touch with it and we have to get the password, but basically it's so frustrating.
But. Um, we have a, we have a web or a, not a website, but a Facebook site, but we can't access it. So for, for right now. Give us those ideas. Send them to John Schweitz. Uh, what's your name? You're Steve Brown and Kevin Gork. Steve, Steve Brown and Kevin Gork. You can ping me too on X. If you're out there listening, it's at Gorgomatic21 on X. And I, any good guest ideas, or if you've got any feedback, just ping me right there. It's super easy.
I can share with the group and we can make the, uh, any type of adjustments we need to make. Would that be considered? I don't think it's quite like that. It's more of a suggestion. I don't know. Well, apparently, the gal that married Brooks Koepka, when she was asked, Jenna Simms is her name, she's lovely, and when someone asked her how she met Brooks Koepka, Brooks, and they're married now with kids, she said, yeah, I slid into his DMs, and I'm like, whoa. Slid into his DMs, well.
Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. We, we want to keep doing it so we'll. We'll, we just want to hear what people think we wanna hear from and we do this out of love. Yeah, we do. We love being with each other. We do. We're here to serve the people. Right. And the chucker motivated us to do just this On that note, off we go. Bye bye.