1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bill Courtney with an army of normal folks. 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: And we continue now with part two of our conversation 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: with Russell Butler, right after these brief messages from our 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: general sponsors. This is not a typical conversation I would 5 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: expect I have with a uposdriver. 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 2: I just delivered packages, due. 7 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 3: Deliver packages and dance. 8 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 2: So it's a good segue COVID. 9 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: You you, you have this interesting relationship and really deep 10 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:58,279 Speaker 1: understanding of anxiety and depression. And at COVID people are 11 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: locked in losing their interpersonal relationships. They're able to do 12 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: it on phone and text, but human. 13 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 2: Need to interact. 14 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: And you're recognizing through delivering packages to these people who 15 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: are locked in, you're seeing some of the same blank stairs. 16 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: You saw on Heath's face. Yep, And you realize. 17 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 3: We need smiles, we need we need smiles. Yeah. 18 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: And so off the cuff, you go back to the 19 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: days with your mom and you record yourself doing a little. 20 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 3: Dance Vanilla ice ice ice baby, yeah, Ice ice baby. 21 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 22 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 3: It was like, I mean, like you said in the 23 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 3: height of COVID, I was like, dude, can we just 24 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 3: change the conversation And again, like I don't discredit how 25 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 3: serious that time was, but I was like, can we smile? 26 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 2: Can we laugh? 27 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 3: Can we just change the conversation a little bit? So 28 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 3: drop my phone down, put on I size baby. 29 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: Literally just on a whim, just put your phone down 30 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: and say, let me see all this recording thing. 31 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 3: Mark has it And within twenty four hours it had 32 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 3: three point five million views, and just and again like 33 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 3: you know, comments are comments, but you made my day. 34 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 2: You made me smile again. 35 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 3: You have no idea where I've been in life, and. 36 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 2: You brought joy back. 37 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 3: Like those are the comments heart all day and I 38 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 3: try to respond as much as I can, But. 39 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: It had to have been like, I mean, look, everybody 40 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 1: listened to us. If you haven't had a public life, 41 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: which is ninety nine point nine percent of us, just 42 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: imagine doing a two minute recording on your phone and 43 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: posting it and then three and a half million people 44 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:55,839 Speaker 1: the next day start. 45 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 3: You had to have been like why and so again 46 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 3: like that that that was kind of the launch to 47 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 3: my mission in life is I know people are suffering 48 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: with what I suffered with, and now let's make them smile. 49 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 3: Let's give hope, deliver hope. And that when I came 50 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 3: out for Saint Jude's. That was the whole mission with 51 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 3: that was delivering hope, and. 52 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 2: That's dancing for the goods. That's what I try to do. 53 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 2: So you know, I. 54 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: Haven't done this, probably in a few months, but I 55 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: feel like now's a perfect time to say this. 56 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: This is an army in normal folks. 57 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: Bro Yes, sir, And really what that is is I'm 58 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: sick to death of the division in government and the 59 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: media is proven woefully inadequate and serving the most disadvantaged 60 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: among us. 61 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 2: Correct. 62 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: I don't care if you're a CNN or Fox person. 63 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: Let's be honest. All of them are incented by an 64 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: enormous amount of power and wealth to craft narratives to 65 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: divide us. 66 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 3: Well, like we were talking about, just adding fuel to the. 67 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: Fire, and add fuel to the fire, and the hotter 68 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: and brighter that fire rages, the more powerful they get 69 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 1: to the people that encamped themselves under one or the 70 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: other banner. It's divisive by definition. 71 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 2: Absolutely. 72 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: My belief is, I don't care how you vote, who 73 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: you love, what your skin color is. I don't care 74 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: about any of that. If somebody is doing something to 75 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: elevate someone in their community, that isn't as fortunate as them. 76 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: Regards of who you are or how you vote, who 77 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: you come from, what you believe, how you works for 78 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: anything else, I can celebrate that work that you are 79 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: doing right. 80 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 2: And same to you. 81 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: So the answer to me, then, is an army of 82 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: normal folks who put aside societal preconceived notions, who set 83 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: aside divisions based on how we vote, what media would 84 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: listen to, how we worship, what are races, and just say. 85 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 2: We're all human beings. 86 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: Absolutely couldn't we put together an army of normal folks 87 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: to take back the narrative that just because we don't 88 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 1: look like each other and necessarily agree with each other 89 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: on a veried group of topics, we're not enemies. 90 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 2: Correct. 91 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: So that's what we're trying to create, an army of 92 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,559 Speaker 1: normal folks. And the beauty of it is you don't 93 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: have to be part of some massive five oh one 94 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: C three or NGO or some big organization. You do 95 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: not have to be invited to be involved in something 96 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: to make a difference in life. You can be a 97 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: ups dude that dances. 98 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 2: That's right, dude, that's right. 99 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 3: And that's the thing man, Like I always say I 100 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 3: feel like just being kind is a lost art. 101 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 2: Like holding a door for. 102 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 3: Somebody, smiling at somebody, having a conversation with the lady 103 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 3: at stripes, like making somebody's day for no damn reason. 104 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 3: Just loving on people. Yeah, normal people making the biggest difference. 105 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: I've often said the magic happens when someone's passion and discipline. 106 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: And when I mean discipline, I mean talents, not discipline 107 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: as in doing following the rules. But passion and discipline 108 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: meet opportunity. Now you have a passion for people, you 109 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: have a passion for mental health, and you have a 110 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: particular discipline dancing that needed opportunity every day. 111 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 3: And I tell you what, man, it it. It blesses 112 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 3: me more than you know to see those comments. Just 113 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 3: by you dancing, just by you doing what you love 114 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 3: and you've overcome this, this and this. You give me hope, 115 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 3: and that's that's what it's all about. 116 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 2: So that's beautiful. You have a coffee. I have a coffee. 117 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 2: So we're at so the company. It's kind of crazy story. 118 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 3: The company actually got bought out at the time I was. 119 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:51,559 Speaker 2: We were doing the deal. 120 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 3: So it's gonna be Russell's Groovy Coffee. 121 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: Well, Russell's groovy coffee. Yeah, why not? Why not? Yeah? 122 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 2: So yeah, man, is it an iced iced coffee? 123 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 3: Iced ice coffee? 124 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 2: I get. 125 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 3: I get more crap I drink ice coffee. I get 126 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 3: more crap for that than you will ever imagine. 127 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: You know a little bit about my story, and this 128 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: is not about me, it's about you. 129 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 2: But there's a parallel. 130 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 3: There's a parallel here and your story bill remarkable. 131 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 2: Thank you don't all right? So thank you sir? 132 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: What I I really think people most people when they 133 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: hear me, think this is some real southern all shucks, 134 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: false humility, but it is not. 135 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 2: I genuinely got one hundred. 136 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: Times more out of my time at Manassas and the 137 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: other things that I do than I ever put into it. 138 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 2: The blessing and reward for me. 139 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,199 Speaker 1: Filled my life up and in a place that really 140 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: needed to be filled. The relationships I built with a 141 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: group of kids and people in an area of town 142 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: that I otherwise would have never ever even met and 143 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 1: truthfully probably would have crossed the other side of the. 144 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 2: Street to avoid correct. 145 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: Has has lent me to a level of personal growth 146 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: and understanding and depth that there's just no way i'd've 147 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: ever gotten understanding. 148 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 2: That's the word. It's true understanding. 149 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: So we don't I've heard you say what dancing does 150 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: for you rather than for the people that you're trying 151 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: to make smile. That's also one of the keys to 152 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: the army of normal folks. So talk about that. 153 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 2: You know, And that's that. 154 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's a about finding your passion, like 155 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 3: you said, and once you find I feel everybody, all 156 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 3: normal people, whoever, we all have this innate thing inside 157 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 3: of us that once you find that, it's your duty 158 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 3: to share that with the world because. 159 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 2: It brings the light out of you. 160 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,199 Speaker 3: And you give that to others. And by giving that 161 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 3: to others, they're like, well I gotta find the light 162 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 3: and meet It's just that pay it forward. 163 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 2: We'll be right back. 164 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 1: So Tommy Norman, Officer Tommy Norman and Little Rock, Arkansas 165 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: is one of my very first customer we started. 166 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 2: And this guy is a cop in North Little Rock. 167 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: His goal, short story, is to get invited into somebody's 168 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: front yard, then next week to get invited on the porch, 169 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: and the next week get invited in the home. Because 170 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 1: once they get invited to the home, he's got a 171 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: relationship with them. And he serves a very underprivileged He 172 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: polices a very underprivileged area North Little Rock, and one 173 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: day he said, driving around a car and intimidating people 174 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: is nowhere to police him. He parked his car and 175 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: he started walking his beat. Now ten years later, he 176 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: is considered the Michael Jordan of community police. 177 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 2: I love it, and there have been. 178 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: Murderers who have called up and said I want to 179 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: turn myself in, but I'll only do it to Tommy Norman. 180 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: His daughter died of an overdose, and he suffers daily 181 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: anxiety and depression, and he has said that the people 182 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: that he polices on his beat have saved him rather 183 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: than the exact opposite. Likewise, I had issues with my 184 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,959 Speaker 1: father and paying for it for many, many many years. 185 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: The kids of a nassas solve that for me. 186 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 2: It's amazing. What does dancing do for you? 187 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 3: These lovely smiles out there, man? 188 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 2: Like for real? 189 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 3: I can't thank each and every one of you enough 190 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 3: for being in my life, for giving me purpose to 191 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 3: continue to do what I do. I truly thank you all, Hi, Debbie, 192 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 3: but serious, it means more to me to see somebody 193 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 3: smile than you can ever imagine. To again, bring hope 194 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 3: to the hopeless, and they give that back to me. 195 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 2: That energy, just back and forth, back and forth. 196 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 3: So that's it, man, Like, whatever I can do to 197 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 3: give love, to give hope, I mean, honestly, I want 198 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 3: nothing in return other than to see you guys smile 199 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 3: and enjoy life. 200 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: So this cat's got one point two from the from 201 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: that first put the phone on the ground and dance. 202 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 1: You've got one point two million followers on Instagram and 203 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: like one point eight million followers on TikTok one. 204 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 3: Point six but who's count And you're not some tech guy, 205 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 3: You're a ups guy. 206 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 2: So I mean, I guess like when you have extra time, 207 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 2: you just say all right and you go throw a guy. 208 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 2: I've seen it. I've seen it last night. 209 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: So well, first of all, there's Lisa right there, right Lisa, Yeah, 210 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: my wife Lisa, and anybody who knows Lisa and me 211 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: knows that there is a dichotomy there. That's that's interesting, 212 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: which is I'm a three and a half four a bus. 213 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 2: She's a dome. Right. You married up. I married right 214 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 2: big time. 215 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: And so I was showing her videos of you yesterday 216 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: dancing and stuff, and she used the word Oh he's 217 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: so cute, and. 218 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 2: I thought you ain't watching this. No more off, turn 219 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: it off because you're about to meet him face to face. 220 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: I don't need it off off, none of that, Noah, 221 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: cut absolutely, But I mean the truth is you are 222 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: kind of cute dude. Well, I mean, and then when 223 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: you dance, you're like vibe. 224 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 2: I mean right, So, I mean the thing is dancing 225 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 2: is my element, bro, just put it that way. I 226 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 2: got I got it as I element it. And you've 227 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 2: got the whole cool look and the holes of. 228 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: Your jeans and the and the beard and the whole 229 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 1: thing going. I mean, you know, so anyway, but the whole, 230 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: the whole point tall this is, you know, with all 231 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: these followers, and I don't want people hearing me today 232 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: on this podcast. Nintendsil townspeople going to hear this. Yes, 233 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: you are the dancing ups Man, which is the most 234 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: hilarious moniker that ever was. But that is not what 235 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: you're about. No, You're about trying to bring a light 236 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: to the to the dangers of hiding problems with mental 237 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: health through the platform of simply making people smile. So 238 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: speak to that speak most importantly, speak to yeah, dance, 239 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: But there's a bigger thing out there that I've struggled 240 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: with in my life that has affected me that I 241 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: want people to start paying attention to. 242 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 2: You've got a platform, use it. 243 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 3: And here's the thing, Bill, It's like, yes, if you're 244 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 3: dealing with it, like I say, and it's beyond you 245 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 3: and you know. And that's the thing is, like I 246 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 3: try to tell people. 247 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 2: I have a lot of people. 248 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 3: I don't want to say, look to me as a savior. 249 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 3: But but if you're dealing with it to a point 250 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 3: that it's out of your hands, seek help. But also, Bill, 251 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 3: my biggest thing is like be a kind human being. 252 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is you don't know 253 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 3: what the person in front of you is going through on. 254 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 2: A daily basis. 255 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 3: So by all means, go out of your way to 256 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 3: be kind to somebody. 257 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: And look, when you were shuggling with with the not 258 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: addiction depression, could you put a smile on your face 259 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: in public. 260 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 2: To hate it when it got really dark? 261 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 4: No? 262 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 2: I guess what I'm saying is cause what you just said. 263 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: Is important is that you do not know what's going 264 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 1: on and that person's life across from you that you 265 00:17:54,680 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: bump into in Walmart or whatever. And I guess what 266 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: I'm hearing is, you know, you may see somebody that's 267 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: fakeing a smile, but inside there at war. 268 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 2: They're fighting that war that your book talks about exactly. 269 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 1: And the difference in a smile and a little bit 270 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: of kindness for that person that day literally could be 271 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: the difference in a lot for them. 272 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,919 Speaker 3: I mean, it could change their life, truly, you know. 273 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 3: And that's the thing THO is, Like, my mom is 274 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 3: one of the main reasons I came out of mind 275 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 3: because she had dealt with it her whole life and 276 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 3: she recognized what I was going through. And you know again, 277 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:48,199 Speaker 3: like that love, that affection, and it doesn't have to 278 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 3: be from a family member, you know what I mean, 279 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 3: just showing love and kindness and. 280 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 2: Just being presence. 281 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 3: The power of presence in somebody's life, like that Who's 282 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 3: Battling says it all. 283 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: How it's supporting everybody who wants to follow you, how 284 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 1: do they find you? 285 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:17,959 Speaker 3: Russell Butler Too on TikTok and Russell's Butler two correct 286 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:25,360 Speaker 3: and Russell Dancing ups Man on Instagram. So please, I'm 287 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 3: going to say this on a live show, Please be 288 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 3: aware of scammers. 289 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 2: I've read there's people that are like imitating you now out. 290 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 3: There, hundreds, So it's it's just it's just a racket. 291 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 2: I mean, it is what it is. 292 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 3: But I just want people to be aware because I've 293 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 3: seen the effects of it, you know, And that's the 294 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 3: world is again. The world's a dark place and there's 295 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 3: a dark side to everything. So yeah, there's hundreds of 296 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 3: people catfishing and getting people to give them money, so 297 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 3: please be aware. I just want to put that out there. 298 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: But the og og is Russell Butler two on TikTok and. 299 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 3: Russell the Dance Russell Dancing ups men. 300 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: On Instagram on Instagram, and you go there and every 301 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: a couple a couple, a couple of times, three or 302 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: four times a week, you can look at a two 303 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: minute thing of you making somebody smile by getting on 304 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: their front porch. 305 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 2: That's it, dude, that's it, all right. 306 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: The last thing I want to ask you before we 307 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: go to the other last thing is this, I've watched videos. 308 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: You're like, man mc hamer, ain't got a dog on 309 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: your dog. I mean, y'all, the guy's good and it's fun. 310 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 4: How in the hell did you learn to do that 311 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 4: because I know you danced from the kitchen with your mom, 312 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 4: but she was Barvin's Gay Elvis and and your dad 313 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 4: was country, and I know Johnny Cash wasn't doing some 314 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 4: of that running man stuff that you do. 315 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 2: How'd you learn it? So, dude, I'll never forget. 316 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 3: Uh we had a house with a basement one while 317 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 3: I was eighth, ninth grade, somewhere in there, and I remember, uh, 318 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 3: well Michael Jackson of course, but genuine hony. When that, 319 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 3: when that song specifically and that video came out, I 320 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 3: was like, I need to learn to do that. So 321 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 3: I literally shut the basement door, locked myself in there. 322 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 3: Mom would come knock on the door, what are you doing? 323 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 2: Like, let me do my thing. So yeah, I mean 324 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 2: I literally went in front of a mirror in the basement. 325 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 3: In front of a mirror in the basement until I 326 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,479 Speaker 3: got you know, it didn't have to be purple. 327 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,239 Speaker 2: I was like, I got this in me. I just 328 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:59,360 Speaker 2: got to do it. So I hours, no, really, you 329 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 2: just picked it up. Rhythm, I gotta say. 330 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 3: Rhythm was just something kind of like throwing a baseball. 331 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 2: From me really just it just clicked, just clicked. 332 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: And then so you had to be dope at prom? 333 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 3: Prom was the highlight of life? 334 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 2: What was that? 335 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 4: Like? 336 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 2: Oh, dude, dumb, dumb, dumb. I think everybody should. Yeah, 337 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:40,479 Speaker 2: we'll be right back. It's so funny. 338 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 3: But like, so all my buddies just got back from 339 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 3: a trip with my friends and they're still like, you're 340 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 3: just you. 341 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 2: You just that's what you do. 342 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 3: You dance, love, life, give life, like that's what you do, 343 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 3: So just keep doing it. 344 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: So I have I can't. I'm the worst thing in 345 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: the world, Lisa as No, it's terrible. 346 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 3: Every everybody's got a dancing bone in their body. 347 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 2: No, this one does. And I will tell you something. 348 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: When you when you go about two fifty, when I 349 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,360 Speaker 1: start going right and then I come back left, some 350 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: of me is still right. So there's a little danger 351 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: in there because I mean I might, I might accidentally 352 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 1: with some of my back fat slap somebody. I mean, 353 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 1: I just so it's just it's it's not only am 354 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 1: I not good, it's it's it's a it's a hazard. 355 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 3: Yeah all right, yeah, Lisa, I gotta see this, by the. 356 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 1: Way, Yeah, see nothing, but uh, Lisa, Lisa made me 357 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: go to ballroom. We had two kids, get married, in 358 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: five weeks. So Lisa made me go to ballroom dancing 359 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: lessons for a month and. 360 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 2: Oh good. Yeah, so I can't do what you do, 361 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 2: but this bad boy can rumba. That's what I'm talking about. 362 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 2: I can rumble my. I love it. 363 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 3: And you know what's funny is like people ask me 364 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 3: all the time, like like I don't have the technical 365 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 3: skills like I just do. 366 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're fortunate, You're You're very fortunate. So we're 367 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: going to end this with what you do best, which 368 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: is putting smiles on people's faces. But before we do that, 369 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to do this three questions I'll take if 370 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: anybody wants to know anything about the dancing ups man, 371 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: now's your chance. Anybody out there want to ask him 372 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: anything I hadn't covered, ask it up nobody. Oh god, 373 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: I did a good interview if I caught them all. 374 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: Nobody's got any thoughts or questions for him? 375 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 2: Hey, what's that? Yeah? 376 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: Oh this is from UPS for driving the brands. So okay, 377 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 1: So here's the question Bill Seay who, by the way, Bill, 378 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: your fam your son, Thank you so much for offering 379 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: up Ground City Brewing. 380 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be here. And thanks for 381 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 2: the beer. 382 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's free or if Alex paid 383 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: for it, but I know I didn't. 384 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, Bill Sealley. 385 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: Everybody is the president president of varsity brands? 386 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 2: Am I right? Varsity president of varsity Spirit, which is. 387 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: Cheerleading outfits and all that stuff that goes on in 388 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 1: Orlando nowadays that people take for granted. Where cheer teams 389 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: get to compete for national championships at all, that's Bill 390 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: Seally That's where that came from. And Bill is an 391 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: enormous civic leader in our town, but he's a business guy, 392 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: so it's not at all surprising that he would ask 393 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,640 Speaker 1: what is UPS. 394 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 2: Using for the brand? Is that the question? Are you 395 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 2: getting any benefits for what you do to bring light 396 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 2: on Brown brand? 397 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 3: I will say thank you to Carol Tomay, the CEO 398 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 3: of UPS. She wrote me a letter saying thank you 399 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 3: for being a great brand ambassador. 400 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 2: So he got a letter, I. 401 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 3: Got, I got, I got a letter, and I got 402 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 3: a coin saying thank you. 403 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: So that was a really politically correct answer from a 404 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 1: man who makes his living from UPS saying they have 405 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: not yet had the temerity or the wisdom to break 406 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 1: onto what this man does to help the brand, which 407 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: ups if you're listening, Uh, wake up. 408 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 2: So that's it. 409 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: Anybody else, anything else for our buddy Russell, anything at all? Hey, Bill, 410 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: you know he's in the home of fed X. 411 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 3: Maybe we can take that opportunity. 412 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 2: To get that bonus today. 413 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: So here's a question from Dan Patterson, another Memphian who 414 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 1: has businesses a lot of places and on other continents 415 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 1: right now, and who is another proud Memphian who says, Hey, 416 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: you may be on the on the precipice of crossing over, 417 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: of crossing over the boundaries into into enemy. 418 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 2: Territory here in Memphis, fed X. 419 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: But Dan thinks there could be a possibility that fed 420 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: X would love to calculate on top of your brand. 421 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 2: That's what Dan's saying. 422 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: And he's wearing a shirt that says TCB, so he's 423 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 1: taking care of business. 424 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, that's exactly right, Yes, sir. 425 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 1: Anybody else anything else with Russels before Russell puts smiles 426 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: on our faces because everybody's going to stand up. 427 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good. 428 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: So Saint Jude, as all Memphians know, is so important 429 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: to our city. 430 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 2: But the world. 431 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: They're curing cancer at a rate that nobody ever thought 432 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: could be done for children. Absolutely, and they take in 433 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,199 Speaker 1: kids and families from all the world, and those families 434 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: and kids don't pay a single cent for that care. 435 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 3: I tell you, Bill, like Alex, that was a great question. 436 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 1: And you and Alex actually met at say Jude, yeah, correct, 437 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: tell us. 438 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 3: That was probably one of the more profound experiences of 439 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 3: my life to see these kiddos, my youngest age three 440 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 3: years old, getting wheeled. 441 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 2: Into chemo bald. 442 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 3: I tell you, I tell you, I looking at those 443 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 3: mom and dads, looking at those courageous kids. I went 444 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 3: back and I hugged my kiddos a little bit tighter, 445 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 3: I tell you. 446 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 2: But that I mean seriously. 447 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 3: To be able to raise leave after Mother's Day and 448 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 3: Father's Day campaign, we raised just over eleven thousand dollars. 449 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 2: That's awesome. 450 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 3: So and again, like Saint Jude sent me the breakdown 451 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 3: of what all that covered, and I was beyond blessed 452 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 3: to be able to do that for them. 453 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: Well, you got friends at Memphis now, so you got 454 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: to come back more. You got to come back more 455 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 1: and dance for those kids. 456 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:27,719 Speaker 3: Love to man, love to all right, anything else here 457 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 3: to give me in trouble. 458 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: Who's got ice iis baby on the thing? Can we 459 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: start that? 460 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 2: Uh? 461 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: Oh oh? 462 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 2: Hold it. One more reason. 463 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 1: The reason I chose ice ice Baby is because it 464 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: puts a smile on me. In Lisa's face, our oldest daughter, 465 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: Maggie shout out to you, baby, what's three? When Ice 466 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: ice Baby was a thing, that music would come on 467 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: in our house and she would go into an other 468 00:29:53,800 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: worldly trance am I line, Lisa. She would literally start shaking. 469 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: It was not dancing, but she would. And then she 470 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: would just get on the ground and flap around like 471 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: a fish out of water. 472 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 2: To Ice ice Baby. But y'all, she just it just 473 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 2: consumed her. And you know what it did. It made 474 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 2: my wife and me smile. 475 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: And you know what, at the end of the day, 476 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: you never know who you're going to cross and what's 477 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: going on between their ears and to your world. If 478 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 1: we can just make them smile, you could change the life. 479 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: And from a guy who is homeless in a car, 480 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: who lost his best buddy while he was struggling with depression, 481 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: anxiety and suicide thoughts himself, who lost his parents and 482 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 1: went into a three. 483 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 2: Destructive period of time with abuse. 484 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: And came out of it longer in his faith, a 485 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: father who loves his children, who has owned all of it, 486 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: and is now on a mission to say mental health 487 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 1: is not taboo. We got to talk about it. And 488 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: in the meantime, I'm gonna use this talent that God 489 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: gave me to simply put a smile on the face 490 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: of people who may not have anything to smile about. 491 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, that is what the army and normal folks is. 492 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 3: Bro Hey, it's been an honor. It's been a pleasure, Bill, 493 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 3: and thank you for doing what you do. 494 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 2: Brother, Thank you. It truly is an honor and pleasure 495 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 2: for me. So you all ready to end this on 496 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 2: the right note? Can we get this thing going? Somebody 497 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 2: turn it on. 498 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: Russell's gonna do his thing, and I think everybody needs 499 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: to stand up for it. 500 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 2: So we're gonna stand up. Are we still recording? Catch 501 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 2: us all right? 502 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: We're still recording for those who are listening. Here we go. 503 00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 2: I don't even know how you do that. 504 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 1: Stops. I don't know. 505 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 2: Off the lights and extreme over. 506 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm doing a lot of the stage like 507 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 4: I can't do. 508 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 2: Russell, Brother, just put a smile on everybody's face. I'm 509 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 2: Bill Corney. This was an army and normal folks. Thanks 510 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 2: for being here, everybody. 511 00:32:47,520 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: Thank y'all so much, Thank y'all awesome, awesome, and thank 512 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: you for joining us this week. If Russell Butler or 513 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: another guest have inspired you in general, or better yet, 514 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: inspired you to take action, please let me know. I'd 515 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 1: love to hear about it. You can write me anytime 516 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: at Bill at normalfolks dot us, and I guarantee you this, 517 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 1: I will respond. 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