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Speaker 1: There's a brand new documentary on Prime Video and it's

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Speaker 1: called Case for Kindness. In a world where people are

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Speaker 1: polar opposites, people have stopped being friends with others who

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Speaker 1: are on the other side of the aisle. Bullying is rampant,

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Speaker 1: people socialize only on social media instead of face to face,

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Speaker 1: and we're more separate and more alone than ever. Well,

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Speaker 1: now comes the Case for Kindness. Would like to welcome

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Speaker 1: the director of Case for Kindness, Stephen so Walitch. Good morning, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: good morning. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 1: I saw the press release on this and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I want to talk to this gentleman.

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Speaker 1: And I watched the documentary yesterday and I loved it.

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Speaker 1: It's on Amazon Prime and so please tell us what

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Speaker 1: is the Case for Kindness?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Thank you. Case for Kindness is a journey that

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Speaker 2: we did across the US to look at kind of

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Speaker 2: the different issues we face in the US today, like

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Speaker 2: some of them you mentioned, from bullying and hate, racial injustice,

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Speaker 2: the gun violence climate, and looking at it through a

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Speaker 2: lens of kindness, as well as exploring the science behind

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Speaker 2: kindness and how it can affect your body emotionally. Mentally

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Speaker 2: and physically. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I loved learning the science behind kindness and how like

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Speaker 1: it actually makes you feel better. And you discussed that

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Speaker 1: and you you mentioned that bullying comes into play and

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Speaker 1: how maybe we can use kindness to combat that, and

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Speaker 1: you spoke to the mother of a murdered child from

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Speaker 1: Sandy Hook Elementary.

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Speaker 2: She is extraordinary, She really is. Carl Lewis lost her

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Speaker 2: son in Sandy Hook and you know, she as you know,

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine the pain and anglish that she went through,

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Speaker 2: as well as all the other families as lost there's

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Speaker 2: in school shootings. And the other thing that Scarlett did

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Speaker 2: was she looked at it from a perspective of kindness

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Speaker 2: and looked at the shooter and you know, tried to

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Speaker 2: understand why they did that. And you know, in doing that,

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Speaker 2: she kind of found her piece and purpose. And that's

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Speaker 2: kind of one of the themes we found throughout the

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Speaker 2: film is like for our darkest moments, we can find

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Speaker 2: our purpose. And I think it's just how we choose

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Speaker 2: to come out of that other side, is you know,

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Speaker 2: how we grow And.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I thought one of the things that she

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Speaker 1: said that was so interesting, of course, is Adam Lansa

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Speaker 1: murdered her son, and she said that instead of like

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Speaker 1: blaming the shooter, she said, hurt people. Hurt people. And

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Speaker 1: I thought that that was so profound because she was like,

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Speaker 1: he obviously had issues, but what did they stem from?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: Was he alone? Was did people not show him kindness?

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Speaker 1: And that kind of and so she kind of turned

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Speaker 1: it around and turned it into a nurturing and a

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Speaker 1: healing moment, which I just thought was it was so

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Speaker 1: beautiful and I think the way you handled it was

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Speaker 1: so great.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you. That was a hard story to interview.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, and I'm like tearing. I cry

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Speaker 1: at the drop of a dime anyway, but I teared

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Speaker 1: up several times during this because it was just so

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Speaker 1: like powerful about how we just need to stop, because

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Speaker 1: we're all so angry and wound up and maybe just

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Speaker 1: a little kindness would do us all a little good. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's ever been a time before, you know,

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Speaker 2: at least in recent my time, of where we've been

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Speaker 2: so polar opposite and we are kind of forced to

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Speaker 2: choose a side. And you know, one of the stories

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Speaker 2: in there is Darryl Davis is an African American journalist,

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Speaker 2: a musician that was writing a book about the KKK,

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Speaker 2: and he decided to interview members of the kk K,

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Speaker 2: one being the you know, the head of the organization.

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Speaker 2: And you know, the thing that Daryl did was he

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Speaker 2: chose to have a conversation and he chose to listen

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Speaker 2: as opposed to coming in and breaking hate and you know,

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Speaker 2: just like not accepting their points of view, you know.

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Speaker 2: He the thing he said was it's it's okay to

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Speaker 2: have a difference of opinion, you know, as long as

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Speaker 2: you can create that conversation start, and by creating that conversation,

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Speaker 2: you can start to listen, and you can start to

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Speaker 2: kind of create a common ground and that will close

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Speaker 2: the gap. And by doing that and by listening as

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Speaker 2: opposed to like forcing, he befriended members of the KKK,

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Speaker 2: and later they end up leaving. I think he said it,

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Speaker 2: over one hundred and forty people left. And I think

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Speaker 2: it's all through listening, Yeah, having a respect for each other. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I think that the other thing that you said

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Speaker 1: was when you were talking about the kindness and acts

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Speaker 1: of kindness aren't only for the other people, it's for

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Speaker 1: you too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think one of the hardest people to be

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Speaker 2: kind to with ourselves and I know that is for me,

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Speaker 2: and you know, and I think until you can start

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Speaker 2: being kind to yourself, then it's harder to be kind

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Speaker 2: to others. And so, you know, it says journey that

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Speaker 2: we have to go on to kind of be a

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Speaker 2: piece with ourselves and listen to ourselves and what we

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Speaker 2: need every day, and that's a choice that we can

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Speaker 2: make and how we show up every day that can

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Speaker 2: be a difference in your life but also in the

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Speaker 2: life of another person.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, and Stephen, what what do you hope people

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Speaker 1: are going to take away from your documentary?

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Speaker 2: You know, I think the biggest thing is, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's create a conversation. Listen. You know, you can have

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Speaker 2: a choice, and you can choose to be kind or

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Speaker 2: unkind every day, and you know, in the moment of

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Speaker 2: split second is choose to be kind. And I think

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Speaker 2: if we all can do that, we'll be better. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, I watched the documentary yesterday and

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Speaker 1: it's very heartwarming, and it's just it's sort of like

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Speaker 1: with everybody and everything that's going on in all the stress,

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Speaker 1: it just makes you feel good. And I think we

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Speaker 1: all need a little bit of that right now. So

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Speaker 1: it's a It's Case for Kindness. You can get it

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Speaker 1: on Amazon Prime. Director Steven Solich, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for your time today and for a really beautiful documentary.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Take care.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I just I just think with everybody so polarized and

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Speaker 1: so stressed and all of that, I just came away

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Speaker 1: from watching the documentary just feeling a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: Restores your faith in humanity, that kind of stuff, and

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Speaker 1: I think we all need that