welcome to the Kindness Chronicles, where we hope to inject the world with a dose of the minnesota nice that it desperately needs it's graduation party week. So it's the season. It's the season. We've got the grad party on Sunday. You're welcome to come. It's, uh, father's Day 10 to one brunch. Uh, come one come all. It'll be a lovely affair. To, uh, all of you listening, come on out. So I, I saw your posting for the Mulch Madness that you had Mulch Madness.
Yes. I, first of all, I gotta kick outta that. You, you called yourself a senior citizen. No. Elderly. Elderly. I don't, I don't think that's, that's not fair. No. They helped an elderly couple. I can play from the Gold tees now. I like discounted Perkin Sue. That's right. I got my first discount at Walgreens the other day. Wow. When this lady said, are you 55? And I thought, like going, you. Don't be that guy. You should never ask a person.
No. If they're a senior, you just, did you pull out your ARP card and really give it to her? I don't have an ARP card yet, but we're going, we're gonna get there. Um, anyway, I was just, oh yeah, I was just gonna say, uh, you know, I thought it was clever that you called it Mulch Madness. It was clever. That was Becky. She came up with that. I love it. And the, uh, and the elderly.
I thought that was really funny because I, I was honestly thinking that was an earnest, I thought you were part of a group that did something for older, an older couple. No. And I, and I look closer. I'm like, oh my God, that's, that's John's house. Yeah. But what I was gonna say is maybe for this party, Does it, it because it was a mulch madness and you did a lot of work for it. But can someone take a bag of mulch when they leave as like a gift? Or you keep it here?
They're, they're welcome to take a bag of, uh, refuse. We'll have all kinds of bags. Mulch can be taken, mulch giveaway taken away. Mulch giveaways. Bring a shovel. Be like when Fenway Park, you know, you can grab some, a little grass from Yeah, take some dirt from Fenway Park. From Mulch, Madden, take, yeah. Yeah. So we're here. Uh, got Steve Brown. Hey everybody. We've got the, uh, the chicken nugget guy, Mario S Hey, what, bro? How's it going? The orange.
Does anyone know why you call him that? You wanna clarify that? Well, since we're not, you say it every time since we're not paying 'em, we figure we could feed him every once in a while. And that's a pa that's a form of payment for Mario of payment. Uh, I don't think it's fair. I'll, we'll have to talk about that. Kg you're, uh, where, where do we find you today? I'm in the beautiful, uh, township of Minnetonka, outrunning some errands. I just, uh, Just got down to dry cleaners.
Gonna head to Walgreens. Maybe I'll get my 55 plus discount. That's right, you will. Podcast is over. Yeah. And, uh, tonight we'll be watching more sportsmanship. As likely the hockey season comes to an end. We'll get to watch the greatest sportsmanship tradition. That's true in professional sports. When the Florida Panthers and the Vegas Golden Knights after beating each other to a pulp for 10 days, we'll line up, stare each other in the eyes.
Give out a hug or a handshake and congratulate each on a tremendous season. So it's my very favorite tradition in pro sport. That is a great segue. And the question that I have is, has that ever gone sideways? Has there ever been a handshake that, uh, that wasn't in the greatest spirit of sportsmanship during the Stanley Cup? Not in the nhl. I, I remember one handshake, um, going back 10, 12 years.
At a college game between Minnesota and North Dakota, of course, and at the end of those college series, they would shake hands like they do. In the Stanley Cup playoffs, and I think Blake Wheeler was on that team, and, you know, Minnesota, North Dakota, bitter, bitter rivals. It was a physical weekend of hockey, and then the line, the lineup went pear shaped and it turned into a brawl and it, it took sportsmanship the wrong way. So we'll put that in the don't be that guy, category. Exactly.
But the, the reason, I wanted to discuss this is, uh, earlier this week I posted a, a quick show that I did with some young men from the Maita baseball team, and they had mentioned that, there are a couple of teams that, uh, were chirps, uh, notably the Hillary pioneers, which, uh, and define sheer cause I didn't know what that meant when you said that.
Well, you know, like, uh, when a pitcher is, uh, is struggling, and you've got three balls on a guy and you're winding up for your, for your next pitch. And they scream just something random. It's just, look at Noonan, Noonan and Noonan at Danny Noonan yelling. They yelling at noon? Yeah. Okay. And just that's not, that's not cool. That's not, doesn't cool. And it really, you know, don't get, come on coach. Don't let your guys be that guy. Have some respect. Exactly. And it kept going like that.
I mean, they would. Oh, just constant. Wow. Just constant. I would think as the, even the fan ba the opposite, you know, the crowd or the opposite team be like, well you can get ruckus. What's going on here? You know? Did the other team start doing it then too? Well, the MOI coach would not put up with that. Okay. You know, he would give you the look. Oh, and then that would be the end of that. That'd be the end of that. Obviously there's, you know, there's, there's gamesmanship.
Yeah. Yeah. Where, you know, you do a little bit of that stuff now and then, but, uh, and you know, I was really pleased when they mentioned that, uh, Hastings, um, who they lost to twice really handled their victory with, uh, with class and with Grace. And what's really funny because, uh, Mike Johnson, who was a senior when I was a sophomore at Hillary, uh, he was a captain of our football team.
If you were to ask me who I would say is on the Mount Rushmore of people from my high school that really were those guys, like the good dudes, Mike Johnson would be right at the top of that list, and he happens to be the principal of Hastings High School. Wow. So, I don't know. So it, Carrie, it carries forth. Right. It really, I, I mean, I can't imagine that that has everything to do with it, but that's, that's awfully cool.
Um, last night, the, uh, the Denver Nuggets won their first, uh, What do, what do they call that trophy? The Naysmith nba Dunno. Champion Dunno. Trophy is, you know, it doesn't ha they didn't do as good of branding as they do with the Stanley Cup, Who, the big Serbian guy. Ola Yoic. Yoic. How do you say it? Nicola Yoki. Uh, Yoko Yoic? No idea. Yeah. He's like, he's like a seven foot tall, but he handles the ball like a point guard. I mean, the dude's just incredible. He's phenomenal.
This is basketball. Basketball. Got it, got it. Okay. Steve, that's the one with hoop orange ball. Oh brother. But I, I honestly had no idea that was going on right at the end of the game. Instead of going to celebrate with his team, he was going around to the heat and like, you know, hugging them up. Oh, that's cool. And congratulating them and I just thought, yeah, it was cool. You know, he might be the sportsman of the year. First Sports Illustrated.
He has had quite a season this year really. Yeah. Did you catch the interview, John? When, when he was out there on the court basically saying how great the heat had played and what a great competition it was and how his teammates carried him. He didn't want any of the glory and she said, well, what has this moment suck in? What does it mean to you? Goes, oh, it's been great. It means we got our job done. We get to go home now and be with their families.
Yeah. It's like, you know, talk about perspective, like this is your moment to your chest out and talk about yourself. He. The other team, his teammates or his family, he didn't want anything to do with, uh, pumping him hi, his accolades, which obviously he was the mvp. He's the best player in the world right now and he didn't wanna talk about any of that. So Cool. Well, you know, he's a big horse guy. I did not know that. Okay. So he owns a lot of race horses, huh?
And he just, oh, I like even more now. Well, and here's what's so funny. Before the game, I think it was maybe yesterday, he was interviewed and they asked him, are you going to buy a horse, another horse if you win? And his response was, I'm gonna buy another horse even if I lose. So hold on, here's Jack call coming in. Hold on, here's a call coming in. Let's see. Hold, take it live. Take it live. John, merge. Hold on, Jack. Hey Jack. What up?
Welcome to the Kindness Chronicles Kgs on the other line. Wow. We're here, uh, Steve Brown and Mario Seb, how is your day at work today? It was a splendid day of business today. How was your business, dad? It was a good day. Jack is a businessman in England. Yes, in England. It's a, um, it was splendid. So, Jack, what made today special? If you could just tell the listeners what made today special. This is the first time ever we've had a. A random caller. We left.
What, where are you calling from? Uh, uptown, Minneapolis. Oh. Oh, good for you. Fancy. Yep. Keep your head down. Mm-hmm. Keep, keep it easy. Well, it was, uh, Ben's first day of work, uh, at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Very nice. How did he fair? How to get into the building? Um, you know, I think he made it the whole day, which is great. Very nice, dark, and, uh, Found out that we'd be working on the same client and with a lot of the same people, so, oh, you're kidding.
That doesn't that I, I don't know how it works. Shouldn't happen. Um, when I saw it, I was like, that doesn't seem right. They're like, well, that works, so okay. You won't work, be working directly for me. But, um, that wouldn't work enough. Yeah. I don't think working directly for the brother would, uh, would work out very well, although it would be kind of fun to be able to boss him around. Officially. I mean, he, he wouldn't listen. It'd just be like normal life.
That's, that's normal, Ben. Okay. Enough. This is the Kindness Chronicle, so we're gonna talk about nice things. Jack, can I call you back? Absolutely. Have a good one. All right. Goodbye. Bye-bye. All right. Kg. Sorry about that, uh, interruption. We'll probably edit some of that out. But, uh, that was fun. Um, it was fun. So I asked you guys to think long and hard about, uh, you know, sportsmanship moments that, uh, that, that got your attention. Did I say got your attention? Gotcha. Mm-hmm.
I must be listening to some, uh, Canadian broadcasts. Sorry. We got, we got you. We got your attention. Um, and I just, I'm gonna start with one that I think is the, the, the classic sportsmanship moment, maybe of the last century, and maybe you aren't even aware of this, but in the 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owens, when he was, uh, uh, qualifying for the long jump. He had, um, what's it called when you step on the line? Scratched? Yeah. On his first two jumps.
And if you would've scratched on his third jump Yeah. He wouldn't have made it to the finals. Holy. Well, a German long jumper, um, whose last name was Lotz, I think L u t Tz. Um, notice something that he was doing, he's doing your fact checking for you. We've got our fact checker here. Um, But anyways, he went up to Jesse and said that he noticed something that he was doing different than he usually does. And Jesse adjusted and went on to win the gold medal. And this Lutz guy, what's his name?
Luz Long? Uh, Luz. Long Lu. L u z l o n G. Well, that guy was meant to be a long jumper. He was loose long. Yeah, yeah. Geez. Loose long. But if, if you can imagine how, and then he, and then he adjusted that he took his advice, heed, took his advice. And you know, Hitler, this was the Nazi Olympics. This wasn't the, the Yeah, yeah. The Berlin Olympics. Yeah, I know. You know, when, uh, when a German wanted, he was totally in charge. He Nazi plague that went up and uh, I saw the document.
Can you imagine how difficult that must have been, but just how inspiring it had to have been for everyone else. Put the Nazis, yeah. You know, I thought it was pretty cool. You took mine. I was gonna, unbelievable. Yeah, you were gonna say that one? No, I never heard you never said that story before. That's great. That's a deep cut. But yeah, if you Google it, you know, there's, there's stories about it on the, uh, I know he had YouTube.
Yeah, I know, I know Jesse Owens had a great, quite a great character as well, but, oh yeah. But that's, yeah. Mr. Lutz, Mr. Long, Lutz Lu, long name, Luz Long, yep. I don't someone else go. I, I don't, I don't, I can't think of any sports moment here. Mario, you must have something. Yeah, I also have one that's from the Olympics. Um, I wasn't even alive, but it's, it's more like a father son kind of sportsmanship.
Uh, Derek Redmond, he was in the 400 meter I think, and, uh, like halfway through, he like pulled out his hammy. And like, couldn't, he like, was in pain, couldn't finish the race, and his dad came from the stands and um, like got past security. Oh wow. And like helped him finish the race. And then, um, he like let him, uh, finish the race like by himself. But there's like a video to of that clip with like, you raised me up by TaskRabbit. Oh God. Oh yeah. I always cry at that.
But yeah, I think that, oh man. Yeah, I have seen some of those running ones where, um, the sportsmanship comes through when somebody falls or somebody messes up Mary Decker. Right. And they can barely get back, get down and someone pick, goes back and gets 'em and runs it with them. That's pretty cool. There's a, those, there's a classic one of two British triathletes. Are they women? No, they're men. Okay. I've seen some women too, but, um, one guy's name was John, one was Alistair.
I can't think of what their last name was, but Alistair was in the lead. Yeah. And like on the home stretch. And just started breaking down. And his brother who was in second place, instead of blowing by him, stopped ah, and helped carry him across the finish line and pushed him across the line to finish before he did. But they didn't win. Another guy kind of blew past him and probably didn't know what was going on, but apparently, you know, was very gracious.
And, and the guy didn't pick up on the oxytocin flying out. He didn't, he didn't see what was, what was happening. Couldn't sense it. Yeah. Kg you gotta have one. Hundred. Well, mine is as recent as this weekend, I was taken back by one of my favorite PGA golfers, Tommy Fleetwood, um, who was on the wrong end of the playoff. Oh, epic Playoff on Sunday at the Canadian Open and, you know, set the scene. It's Canada, so everybody's overserved huge crowds.
And a Canadian has not won the Canada, uh, Canadian open since 1954. So there was history on the line and they, they go to a playoff. Nick Taylor. Um, a against Tommy Fleetwood. Now Tommy Fleetwood is won on the European tour, but since moving here to plan the PGA tour, he is never won an event This was a huge deal for Tommy Fleetwood, Nick Taylor and and Fleetwood play this elongated playoff that goes four holes nearly an hour on cbs.
And the crowds, of course are biased to their, to their home guy, to to Nick Taylor. And so they're cheering strictly for. Canadian guy and it goes through the fourth hole. And this, this Nick Taylor makes a 77 foot putt to win the event. And so Tommy Fleetwood only handle the moment with a plum, hugging him, hugging his caddy. But I'm gonna read you the tweet that went out later that night from Tommy Fleetwood who had to have been heartbroken.
Says, thank you Canada for an amazing atmosphere, and congrats to you Nick Taylor. What an unbelievable three days of golf you just played in. What a moment for you and for your country? Oh, class. We're back to work together at the US Open. We'll start on that tomorrow. See you at work once again. Congratulations. That's cool. Oh my God, what class that is? I got, I got the chills. When I read it for the first time, now I'm just getting the oxytocin and just sinking in and I love it.
Well, and and seriously. Something like that will forever change our feeling if he, if our feeling wasn't great about to, I remember being a big fan of his haircut. You know, it a, it's Jesus. So you ever that great hair, Jesus, he's got a lot of hair going on, aren't a golf fan. Google, Tommy Fleetwood and take a look at that luscious, luscious salad. He's got a luscious salad, is the fact. It's pretty good. I've always liked Tommy Fleetwood.
In fact, when the Canadians were cheering against him, which was kind of hard to watch, cuz that usually, I know usually doesn't happen in golf. Yeah. But as you described, there probably are a few molsons, uh, in lats being consumed up there. When he sliced that one into the stands, I know on, uh, on 18, I just kinda Jared him, I know they Jared, him, and the funniest thing is, do you see the, the, the one gal picked up the ball? Yes. And then the guy said, can we touch it?
And everybody's like, you already touched it. Give me a break. And then they're like, do you want the ball back? And the caddy fur, they took a selfie with the ball, right, Fleetwood. And he had to take a drop from the grandstand. But he didn't get a penalty, which I didn't realize that was a thing. I figured that that was considered ob, but it's, no, not to get too, uh, sports Chronicles going here. But didn't someone get tackled on a golf course by security? Tell me about that.
That was the same, the same event I saw, I saw the headline. I didn't understand what was going on, so one of the Canadian golfers, Adam had one and he had finished like an hour and a half earlier, but this was such a big deal. To that country that all the Canadian guys stuck around to see if their guy would win. And so did all English guys. Yeah, it was a big deal. It was so cool. Okay. And so the pot goes in and had someone handed him a, a bottle of, uh, champagne.
So he's shaking up the champagne, but he's not in golf pool now he's in like shorts and a t-shirt and he shake up the champagne and spray on his buddy, and the security guy didn't recognize him and went full NFL linebacker like. Hit and plant on him. I saw that, but literally nailed him. And so it's hilarious that, that a PGA tour player got just bombas body slammed, um, right after finishing up in his own country tournament.
Now, don't you think if he would've had the same hairdo as the other guy, they might not have, they would've noticed him right away. I think it was the shorts and the t-shirt that kind of, uh, is that your, like your short, you're chilling after the game? Well gear the rest of the guys, have their golf gear on. Yeah. Yeah. And they've got all the patches all over, you know. Yeah. He was chilling, he was done. His jobs stuff. Those took off his work clothes.
He, yeah, he was, his, his knocking around shorts probably handled a bats, you know, or a Molson. Okay. Well, coconut. If anything, this shows just for me, it's just to get an update on what's going on with sports. So I appreciate it. Thank you everybody. It's amazing how. One small moment of sportsmanship can have such a huge impact on the way people feel about you.
And I'm gonna, um, this is a story that I talked about a long time ago on this podcast, but I'm gonna bring it up again cuz it's, it's literally one of my favorites. There is a tennis player by the name of Jack Sock. Mm-hmm. Which is a. Terrible name. Yeah, just a terrible name. I'm not, I'm not going there. We're not gonna get into it. This is his name is Jack Sock. Yeah. And he was playing in, I think, the Australian Open and he's playing against Layton Hewitt.
And I think Layton Hewitt might be an Australian. Okay. Is he an Australian KG or is he like a Scandinavian whatever? Another guy and Layton Hewitt serves the ball. And the, uh, the, the, the line judge calls fault, like it was out and there, it's very quiet and Jack sock, you can hear him very audibly saying, you know, that was in, if you want to challenge it. And Layton Hewitt kind of gives him this look like, what are you, what, what are you talking about? And the.
The referee, the guy that's sitting up in the chair, I think he's called a referee. He kind of has this look on his face, like, what is happening here? Yeah. And Jack Sock said, challenge it. It was in, and Layton hug goes, okay, I'll challenge it. And the crowd went wild. And the unheard announcers on the, the announcers on the television said, God, I hope this thing is, is in, or he's gonna look like a goose. And I've never heard that term, so I kind of like that. He'll look like a goose.
And sure enough, they do the replay and it was in, and the crowd went absolutely ballistic. Like, you know, no one, they don't want that, right? They, that type of stuff. And as a result of that, the next Monday on the Today Show, it was one of the top stories. Um, which just tells you how rare that kind of sportsmanship is. Yeah. I think that the video, the video's been viewed like 15 million times and you know, you talk about Jack Socks brand, yeah, I thought it was very cool.
Well, and John, you know, the baseball story, I, I'm not tell the story as well as you are, but being the high school baseball ion that I know you and your family, um, are this four, five years ago at the Minnesota State. Boys high school baseball tournament and I, I want you to grab the baton and finish the story, but there were two good buddies. Yeah. I think it was the section two outs. It was the section championship. Okay. And it was Totino grace against, uh, Moundsview.
A Totino grace pitcher. Struck out his buddy to end the game. His best friend. His best friend. Oh yeah. And the Totino Grace guys are going wild because they've made it to state and instead of going to, to, uh, celebrate with his teammates, he made a beeline for the guy that he struck out and gave him a, gave him a big hug. And, I mean, it was the, it was the number one thing on Sports Center, and once again, it's so rare to see those moments of sportsmanship. It was, it was so beautiful, Jen.
It was like, why? Like he didn't even, like all the guys are throwing their gloves and their hats, which is fine. That's what you do. Yeah. And he didn't care about any of it. And again, he was the guy that struck him out that was the hero. And it didn't matter to him. He was more concerned about his buddy who was feeling so horrible in that batter's box. I, it's, it's one of the coolest, and I'm sure folks can find it, it's one of the coolest and most impactful.
30 seconds of high school sports highlights I've ever seen the back. That's, and that's the kind of stuff that sports producers are dying for when something like that happens. Oh, yeah. I'm sure the camera be like, wait a minute, what's going on here? Why is he doing that? Shoot that guy. Get, get ahold of that guy. Watch him. You know, they love that stuff because that's a, tells a better story. That's why you're way doing it. And that's what people makes people come and watch.
Now they'll show that clip when those guys are older and playing and some other great things. Absolutely. Would be like that's that's a great story. Yeah. I honestly don't remember if it was Totino Grace or Moundsview that won that game. To the point, nobody remembers the outcomes of the games, but it's those moments that just stick with you, you know? Absolutely. Forever, 5%.
Which reminds me, did you happen to see the dropped third strike that turned into a disaster for the team that was on defense? No. Oh my gosh. You'll have to google this one. I think it was for the state championship, like in Texas or some state. And what happened was, the, there was a guy on second and on third, and the team that was pitching was up by one run. Oh no, the. Batter swings. Misses the ball, but the catcher drops the ball. Okay, so he's gotta throw it to first?
No, he's gotta throw it to first. And the ump did everything exactly right, like he did the safe sign and the catcher. Like everybody started like cheering. So the catcher kind of got sucked into the moment and the guys on the base, the guy that was on second and third, they're coming in to score while the team is all, oh, celebrating classic. They classic score two runs game over. The guy, they won on a dropped third strike. That's what's cool about baseball. It does weird stuff.
I never about that. And I think the only guy that figured it out was the second base. I heard about this. Yeah. Well the, the guys on Kfa was talking about the second bassman was the only guy, like his teammates are like acting like they just won and they're throwing their stuff around. They're throwing their hats, their gloves. And the second baseman's looking for the ball. He could see it. Yeah, he was watching for the ball. He's like, who has the ball?
And then the coach was out there and you know, the coach was arguing with the hum. Oh, of course. But you know, if you watch it. The ump does exactly what he should do and he's not gonna say, he's not gonna say, play the game. This game isn't over yet. And you can't imagine if you're on the Luther that kids, he's probably one from cheer. That's an aorta smasher right there. Exactly. Hey, you gotta learn. Right? Uh, that will put you right into the hospital.
So, hey, if you're playing baseball and you're the catcher and you drop the third strike, chuck it down to first base. Yeah. Just to be safe. Yeah. I have a funny story that just came to me. VFW Baseball when my son Jack was a ninth grader. They are winning one to nothing and it is the, there's a guy on second base and Jack is pitching in the seventh inning of the game. So he Guy on second base, two outs dropped. Third strike our catcher.
Realizes what you should do picks up the ball and air mails the first baseman. Oh no. So the guy on second base comes in and scores. We ended up, I think we ended up winning that game, but at that moment, that catcher felt so terrible cuz all he had to do was lobb it down to first base cuz the guy wasn't even running that hard. Yeah, he's got all be, he's, and he, I mean, he threw it over his head by like six feet. It wasn't even close. That was quite a moment.
So, Not a moment for the good sportsmanship part of the, uh, the story, but a good story nonetheless. Just a sportsman fun story. Yeah. Um, any other, uh, thoughts that come to mind? There's gotta be 1,000,001 football ones. Well, How about the, how about the softball one where the girl tore her a c l after hitting the home run and the, uh, first basement and, and your teammates could not help you go around and touch the bases, and this was a walk off home run.
But the, the first basement and the second basement literally carried her around. Dropped her down so her foot would touch the base. Oh, and do, do, do, do you recall seeing that one? I recall seeing this on Sports Center and it's so heartwarming. Yeah. Like it's so the opposite team helped her around to opposite team helped her. So, and it was in, it was, and she's in sheer pain from her. Yeah. She tore her ACL so she could barely move.
So the um, The, uh, like a cart they could have for something like that. I could just, uh, no, but I mean, they, she has to touch the bases to make it an official run. Wow. it wasn't like they just carried her off the field. Yeah. Now that would've been bad sportsmanship. Like, get off the field. Yay. We won, we win. Too bad for you, oopsies. Oh. But you know, that, that moment was recognized, uh, at the ESPYs as the, uh, the sports moment of the year. It was like 2008 or something like that.
And I think, yeah, we just, we need more of it. That's why even having this podcast and, and bringing some of these up, I think people, if they, if they tune in will, it'll, it'll be a reminder, John, that the score, like you mentioned, who won that section final, nobody cares. Everybody remembers that pitch. Going to hug the batter. Everybody remembers the first and second basement carrying that softball player around the base.
No one cares about the results of the game unless, you know, again, if you a championship down. But it's the moments like that that, that stay with people, and that again, we, as you mentioned, both you guys have said it during this half hour, that we don't have enough of this. People are dying to see it's newsy. One of. Of social media now as we do get to see these things from all over the world and, and they're remarkable.
Well, to your point, like it's great that you win a game and you worked hard. The team worked hard to win a game, but the the coolest sportsmanship moments that come out, we're still talking about 'em, you know? Yeah. The, the, the, the games that won, they're, they're on a chart, they're on a wall. There's a, there's a plaque or whatever, but. You know, tho that kind of moment, those, those ladies that took part in that, we're talking about that, that's, that's pretty cool.
Now imagine y you know, soccer in Europe or football in Europe is such a huge deal and there was a really important match that was going on. And the goalie from some team, and I don't remember what the team was, he went out to, to retrieve the ball. And he like tore his knee up, like going to the ball.
Hmm. And a guy from the other team kicked the ball to his, to his teammate who was wide open and the, there was nobody in front of the nat and the guy bent over and picked up the ball instead of come on the dude, I'm not kidding you. Did he get murdered by his, uh, his team? No. That, that would be if you were in Columbia or ve I think it was Columbia. But there was respect for the, no, there was respect. He's like, I'm not gonna score a goal when the guy, you know is, is hurt.
I mean, to me it's just absolute flats. And then what episode of Ted Lasso was that? It wasn't. Oh, okay. Ted Lasso. But it seems like a Ted lasso thing. Absolutely. Could have been a Ted lasso moment. Yeah. That's all my, my current knowledge of, uh, British, you know, British football, football is from Ted Lasso.
Well, I've learned a lot from watching Ted Lasso the whole relegation and they had a lot of people, champions League, and a lot of, from what I've listened to interviews, they had a lot of people working with them to make sure they, they got it right. They got the. The game. Right. And they got the British, um, terms and phrases and like, they, they, they really, I imagine that would've been a good, uh, a good decision for them. Yeah. Yeah. But again, that, that series came to a conclusion.
Mm-hmm. Did you watch the last episode? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just, I mean, oxytocin everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. It was pretty good. It was so well done. Great show. You still haven't watched the whole thing kg. Quit pretending. No, but it's still a great show. Come on, I'm halfway through it. You know what Rey said today? Don't like it. Rey, on his podcast, he was talking about, you know what I don't like? Ooh, it sounds just like him. Ted Lasso fans. He wouldn't like our our show at all.
No. He would think ours is just puke. Oh, he's such a curmudgeon. Why? Why would you like it? Why wouldn't he like it? He goes, they're all a bunch of SAPs. Well, that's us. Yeah. He doesn't like all the sappiness. He's, but he also, he doesn't like fruit. That squirts. He's got all these, he's got all of these weird things that he doesn't like fruit that squirts. But I doofus, I've been listening to that a little bit lately too. Fantastic.
Uh, kg you must have another one in your, uh, in your chamber. I, I go to horse racing a lot and I was, I was at the Belmont Stakes. Um, in the late nineties there was a horse named Charismatic. Who had won the Kentucky Derby. Yeah, I remember. And, and won the Preakness. And Mark McAfee, our mutual friend from St. Thomas and I were sitting in the grandstand and charismatic, made this heroic charge down the stretch and came up a little bit short.
And in doing so, took a bad step right after the wire and hurt himself. And so, in the heat of the battle, you know, these thoroughbreds are going 35 to 40 miles per hour. His jockey was Chris Antley. Now Chris had some demons off the track. Oh yeah. But on the track, he was known as one of the most talented jockeys on the plant. And this never happens. Right? This is a triple crown race. There's a hundred thousand fans and this is a horrible moment.
And if he keeps riding the horse, the horse is gonna die. And he had the wherewithal to encouraged the horse to slow down and then he hops off the horse. Yes, I remember this. And he literally puts his life on the line. Cause there are other horses. Behind him and he's doesn't care about his own safety. He cares about this horse. And he saved the horse's life. He got off the horse. He grabbed a leg that was injured. Yes. Lifted it up. Held the horse up.
Yes. And then, you know, gave, bought enough time for some of the other people that are around there that follow these horses around the track, including the horse ambulance, to actually get that horse into the ambulance. And that horse's life was saving, you know. Um, down the road, have a lovely life in Kentucky on a farm, but it never happens unless that jockey makes that split second decision decision to risk his life, to save the horse's life. It was unbelievable.
And I gotta tell you, being in the grandstand that day, it was a moment that just stays with you. And the fact that it ended up having a happy made it just so. Unbelievably special to me as a fan of that game. And I know horse racing gets a bad rap, and especially this year, it's been a tough year for the game, but that reminds me of how much the people that are around these horses care about them and wanna take care of them. And charismatic.
You talk about a happy ending, you know, his li his life on that farm in Kentucky. You know, we all love that life. His job is going around looking for dates, right? Doesn't that They come to you. They come to you. You, you're the Yeah. You've got the best, the best, uh, place to live, the best food a horse can eat and Oh yeah. All that stuff you want. Whatever you want.
Now wait, going back to this jockey, so would you consider that sportsmanship or is that just intuitive, amazing ability as a, as a rider. Like, I guess it's sports. Well, I think it's sportsmanship cause it's in a sporting event where you. Jump off the horse knowing you could at some point True. Yeah. Be in big trouble. It was selfless. It was definitely a selfless move. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Selfless. It, it, it all ties into what we're Yeah.
Yeah. We're talking about here and when, when John me up. I hadn't thought of it till just then, and then I went back to that grandstand at Belmont Park some 25 years ago, and I do remember it vividly. Mario, you have any, uh, final uh, yeah, moments? I got a football one that's, it's more about like a certain player and. His humility, I think, cuz I feel like nowadays touchdown celebrations are a big part of the game. You know? It's a patent. Yeah. It's a video game patent in the move.
You gotta, you gotta have it. Right. My players think of it and practice and they Exactly. I have a feeling I know where you're going with this one and one of the best, I think the best running back of all time. Barry Sanders. You got it? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Every time he scored a touchdown, he'd just throw the ball to the referee and just walk in onto the sideline like no celebration. No, no ego showing that. And he's like, is the greatest running back of all time.
And I just love that every touchdown, he would always just throw the ball to the ref. Go to the sideline. What's that phrase, John? Act like you've been there before. I like you've been there. Barry Sanders to me is the greatest running back, greatest sportsman. I mean, just absolutely the guy that you want to be. we used to host two a days at our house in between practices When you're preparing for the football season.
Oh, so morning and then, yeah, so there's a morning and then there's an afternoon and we would have lunch here for the two weeks of two a days. Oh my God. You know, we'd have 12 to 15 guys here and she, different families would, would bring the meal of the day and on the very last day, two of the guys that were here were two of the running backs, and they are, they were extremely talented. TJ Tumbleson and Jalen Fry. Jalen was just here this weekend. Jalen is still playing.
he had a, a, a good career up at Bemidji State and he went into the transfer portal and he's going to something called the Colorado School of Mines. Oh, where his running backs coach. Is his former high school teammate, TJ Tumbleson. Whoa. So, so here's the story. That's crazy. I used to get so irritated watching these guys when they were juniors when they would score a touchdown. Why? Because they would act like a jackass when they would score a touchdown, because they're high school kids.
They're high school kids, which is the norm. It's the norm, it's the absolutely the norm. So I challenged those two guys. I said I, I played a video. Of Barry Sanders and I go, what do you see here? And they watched it and they're like, okay, I get it. And I said, it's okay to celebrate, but do it with class.
You know, don't make a jackass here to yourself because, and here's my feeling when you're playing on a team, not only do your actions represent yourself, they represent your family, they represent your school. Yeah. They represent your teammates and they also represent your community. You know when you've got, when you've got a team that acts like idiots, that reflects on everybody poorly. Yeah. So I said to these two guys, I said, you guys are gonna score a lot of touchdowns this year.
Act like you've been there. Yeah. Pray advice. Did they take it to heart? They absolutely took it to heart. Those two guys were both, you know, all section players. both ended up playing, uh, college football at a, high level. I mean, they were exceptional athletes and they really did take it to heart act like you've been there. And so we took that to heart and actually drove people crazy when, when you don't hotshot Right? It's like it's disarming.
Yeah. It's like he just, Clean the clean the plate and wiped it, wiped the whole, you know, field up, knocked everybody down and then, then set the ball down or gave it to the ref and walked away. Like that makes people like aggravated cuz they don't, you know, it's like, ah, you know, it's, it's kind of a form of like, you know, well this is, it's, it's high, it's, it's high minded. It's good. It's, it's a good thing to hear. I have one more sportsmanship story and it's personal.
Um, and then we'll, uh, we'll shut her down for, uh, for, for the show cuz we're, God, we, this has been a very easy one to record. So when my son Jack was 14, he's playing on the 14 year old baseball team for Mai and it was a weekend where a whole bunch of the players weren't able to make it for one reason or the, or the other. So we only had eight guys that were gonna be able to suit up. Well, you can invite a player from one of the younger ages to come and play for you.
The 13 year olds had a game that night the 12 year olds did. The 11 year olds did not. So I asked Ben to suit up. They wear the senior, who was that 11? Ben was 11 years old. Okay, so Ben played in this game. Ben was teeny, so his third playing 13 year olds. So his first at bat, I mean we put him in left field or something like that. Never got a ball hit to him during the game. So that was, that was cool. his first at bat, he walked because his strike zone was so small, oh, he was hard to hit.
And we playing strike and we were playing White Bear Lake. There were a couple parents that were kind of chirping about how unfair it was that this little guy is up there, whatever. But the players really kind of got a kick out of it. Yeah. So Ben, he's a novelty actor. Ben's second at bat. The first pitch comes in and he drills it over the first baseman's head down the right field line for a double. And as he's rounding first base, I can to kid you not the first baseman, high fived him.
Ah, now that's fun. It was so much fun. Now for the rest of the story. Oh, oh, he got up two more times in that game. Oh, he struck out swinging. Both times on three pitches. He was swing. That's a giggle. It was, but he was swinging. I mean, the pitch could have been six feet over his hands. He was confident, he was excited. He was, I, I love it that he went up there swinging street. Literally struck a, but I have a picture of him in the dugout that, you know what, let's post this picture.
It's a picture of him next to one of the teammates. This guy named Blake Golden. Yeah, let's do that. Who had a 14 year old is like six foot two. Blake Golden. He gold. Great. Another great name. Another great name. I wish my name was Steve Golden. That'd be great. We could start calling you Steve Gold. Please do. Yes. Steve Brown or we called T-Bone just for the record. Or T-Bone. There you go. T-Bone. Yeah. Um, anyway, this has been a lot of fun.
Yeah. I hope it gets people thinking about, uh, about things. Steve came prepared. I think we're gonna save this for, uh, for the next show. We're gonna go back and we, we talked about doing the music, the songs that give us oxytocin, uh, like we did with our movie list. We think we should go to. We'll give us a sneak preview. I'll give you just, I'll give you a little thought preview. My thought is it's just a little more complicated than movies because there's so much subjectivity.
There's, you know, you have more of a feeling it has to do with a moment you have. So music is harder to judge in this way. So you're setting up your excuse for when we make fun of you. Well, they might be so, uh, so, uh, Rare picks that might, you might not know about, so it might be harder to share. But yeah, I've got a couple really good ones. and I'll just, let's see. Um, I'll, I'll just say some of the bands that are on it. Okay. Uh, you too. Okay. Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, um, son O'Connor.
Oh. Um, not when she ripped up the picture of the Pope. That one didn't go over very well. Probably won't go over real lines. The oxytocin area. Oh, how about the song Elvis Costello? How about the song played Lincoln Park? One more Light. I think I know that song. Oh my God. The the lead singer. Yeah. From the band. Yeah. He wrote it. Yes. In tribute to. Chris Cornell? Yeah. Who was the, the guy that passed that hung himself? Yes. Yeah. Chris Cornell. Yes. Yes. The lyrics of the song.
I mean, I got Look at the goosebumps just thinking about that song. We gotta, we gotta set, we gotta do some thinking. That's a little set up, A good tease for next week. It's, let's do it. Let's do it next week. All right. Kg you, uh, get back to whatever is that you're doing. Steve, you can still keep at the grand party cultivating your list and we'll see you on Sunday, 10 to one Maita Avenue. You can't miss it. It's a mulch. And on 10 to one. Just for fun. Just for fun. Off we go. bye guys.