WEBVTT - Giving $5,000 To Your UPS Driver 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:08.160 So everybody, we're we're doing this new special series, Random 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.520 Acts of Kindness, short episodes where we're just going to 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.360 talk about people who do random acts of kindness that 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:23.759 are absolutely vital to growing this army of normal folks. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.480 And we were brought a interesting story by our fen 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:35.760 Casey Clark about a guy named Aaron Shining in Atlanta 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:41.840 who happened to build a friendship with his UPS guy. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.000 I guess is the story Aaron tell me about that? 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:45.760 You know? 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:46.959 That's that's absolutely right. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.040 Tim has been our EPs guy for the I think 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.400 the fifteen years that we've lived in this neighborhood in Atlanta, 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.200 and I don't even really remember how it started. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:57.480 Exactly a number of years ago. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:59.680 I remember it must have been cold, because it was 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.840 dark outside early and he was wearing a Dallas Cowboys 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:05.040 hat winter hat. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.800 You're not allowed to do that in Atlanta. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.039 Yes, sir, well that's part of the problem. So I 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.560 started giving him grief. I'm like, Cowboys man, come on, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.520 you're in Atlanta, and he said you a Falcons fan, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.160 and YadA, YadA, YadA. One thing led to another, and 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.040 we just started talking about football. And so every time 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.720 he would come by we'd talk, you know, he'd show up, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:24.520 he'd come by, knock on the door looking for me, 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.640 just to talk about the games from the day before 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.520 or something like that. And we became kind of friendly 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.440 that way. And then come to find out that his 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.959 kid went to the same school as my kids, and 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.560 we just you know, started I started keeping cold gatorades 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.360 in the fridge during the summertime and you know, hot 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.000 drinks in the wintertime if he wanted to stop by 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:45.760 and get something. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.120 And we found. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.440 Out his birthdays a few days before my wife's, so 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.400 we would have him over for birthday parties. And I 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.240 knew a lot of people in the neighborhood liked him 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.520 because he's so likable. He could have just been us. 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.560 But then we just kind of, you know, swap numbers, texting, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.240 talking trash about football. He's so mad about the Cowboys 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.560 keeping Dak Prescott and not making any more moves this offseason. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.799 So yeah, he just became. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:16.120 A good friend. That's that's that's awesome. I mean, yeah, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.880 it used to be back in the day your your 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.640 postal worker walked and everybody kind of knew their postal worker, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:29.400 And unfortunately, I think we've lost some of that inner connectivity. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:34.720 But it sounds like Tim the ups guy. Tim Davies 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.000 was just an old school throwback I know, the people 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.440 in your neighborhood kind of guy. Yep. But I understand 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.040 as you got to know him and talk to him 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.120 that you notice he walked with a little bit of 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.640 a limp. It wasn't a little bit. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.680 I mean, the man just limps period. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.200 And you know, a job was a dude that's on 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.160 and off a big round truck. He packages all the time, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:02:59.960 do that job. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.720 I don't know. I had a smile and a smile 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.320 and a handshake and a fist bump whatever. And the 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.639 summertime you'd see him, you know, wearing shorts, and he'd 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.520 have these big braces on both of his knees, and 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.400 so we would start talking about that too, and he 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.600 would tell me, yeah, I gotta get him replace, get 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.240 my knees replaced. Gotta get my knees replaced. I was like, man, 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:19.920 you gotta do that. You know, time to do that, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.520 and yeah, yeah, yeah, And he didn't do it. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:23.040 He didn't do it. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.519 And then finally he said, well, it turns out I 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.720 gotta get my hip fixed before I can do my knees. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.760 So he finally scheduled that surgery for this earlier this 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.760 year and got the hip replaced and so hopefully once 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.120 he's healed, he can get the knees done. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.280 So Casey, where do you fit in all of this? 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:42.440 Well? 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.960 I had seen him around my neighborhood when I'm walking 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.880 my dog or when he's dropping off a package, and 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.160 he is just the friendliest person. I mean, he just 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.200 makes my day, you know. And after like several interactions 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.160 like that with him and just like he just made 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:55.840 me proud to be a part of this community, I 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.320 was like, We're so lucky to have him, have somebody 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.080 like that who just randomly throughout your day is going 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.840 to like make you smile, make you feel better about 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.840 whatever's going on in your life. And so yeah, I 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.800 just I opened Facebook one day and I saw a 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.440 picture of Tim. I didn't even know Tim's name, but 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.440 I recognize his face immediately, and I thought, is something 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.200 going on with him? Is there something I can. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:17.840 Do to help him? 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.800 And then I read Aaron's post and I was like, 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:22.960 oh my gosh, I got to let Tim know that 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:24.479 we're going to miss him so much. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:28.640 And so yeah, you know, we talk about on an 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.960 army of normal folks all the time to make your 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.440 impact where you are, and you don't have to be 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.680 part of some big five OHO one C three. You 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.640 don't have to be part of some massive organization to 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.600 actually make a difference in the world. And it sounds 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:52.240 like this tim guy, just through his kindness in doing 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.680 the job that he's job had an effect on the 0:04:55.720 --> 0:05:01.359 people that he served literally packages to, but served with 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.719 a smile and a simple hello and yeah, Aaron, I 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.520 think I read that even when he didn't have a package, 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.000 when he put by your house, he'd honk his horn 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.120 and wave at you, just say, hey, our. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.240 Kitchen faces the front of the street, in the front 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.280 of the house, and I'm off and in there cooking, 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.479 And sure enough, around six point thirty you'd hear the 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.240 truck coming and hear this honk, and we just turn 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.080 and wave and see him, and he'd be waving back 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.359 at us and driving down in. The lads became that 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.440 we sort of were used to it. In fact, I 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.159 texted him last week because somebody drove by with exact 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.880 same honk and honked and I reflectively looked and waved, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.520 thinking it was him, But of course it's not so yeah, 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.360 it's the sound of the evening to us as Tim's 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.800 truck and that honk pretty phenomenal. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:50.520 So he has to get his hip fixed before he 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.040 get his knees fixed, and clearly he's going to take 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:59.560 some time off. And you had an idea. Did there? 0:05:59.600 --> 0:05:59.680 Ever? 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.320 Another abor of ours who's friends with him, also we 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.920 decided to uh try and raise a little bit of 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.839 money to try and get him, you know, a food 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.240 delivery gift card, an uber eats gift cards, something while 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.200 he's laid up, you know, so he didn't have to 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.440 worry about that kind of stuff. So I put this 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.560 post on our neighborhood facebook page with his picture and 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.400 explain what was going on and say, hey, I'm trying 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.720 to raise a little bit of money. Here's my Venmo 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:25.960 and uh, you know, if you're able to, you know, 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:27.240 feel free to contribute. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.359 And that was it. I did not. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.880 Think much more of it than that. We were thinking 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.120 we could raise a couple hundred dollars to feed him. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.560 And you know, I'm one of those people with my phone, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.160 I've got all the notifications turned on. My wife hates it, 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.320 so my Venmo. If someone Venmo's be I got a 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:46.760 text message and I get an email. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:48.880 I don't really I need to go in and fix it, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:49.880 but I don't. But so my life. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.000 And I was just sitting there watching television that night 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.640 after I posted it, and then Venmoth and just starts 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.039 running like it's on fire. I mean, it's like the 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:04.320 bell going off, yes, sir, like a constant. And at 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.960 some point finally I looked and within an hour we'd 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.360 raised five hundred dollars, which was more than I ever 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.920 thought we would raise in the first place. And by 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.800 the time I went to bed that night, we had 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:21.280 raised a thousand dollars. And I was so incredibly touched. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.560 And then it also made me reflect a little bit. Well, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.360 of course Tim's not just mine. Of course Tim's not 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.360 just Kim, my friend down the street. Of Course Tim 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.320 impacts people the same way he impacts me, because this 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.160 is a nice neighborhood, of friendly neighborhood. And I was 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:36.920 just overwhelmed. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.200 So did you have your feelings hurt that you found 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.440 out that them wasn't just your best friend, he said, 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.120 everybody's best friend. 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.680 I definitely did not. I actually felt kind of selfish 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.480 and ignorant. I mean that he was mine somehow, you 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.280 know that that guy had a claim on him that 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.720 was wrong. I did not feel embarrassed. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:55.360 I was I was. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.520 I was like, heyah, of course, of course. So I 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.040 posted that night within like an update and said, you 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:06.480 guys are amazing. I can't believe this and went to bed. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:07.920 And you know. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.120 By the time I woke up the next morning, it 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.480 was up to fifteen hundred, two thousand dollars. And at 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.360 that point, you're like, nobody can use that much Uber 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.360 Eats in Atlanta, right, this is not just a gift 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.440 card anymore. We got to figure out something else to do. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:26.720 So and then by the end, Billy was I think 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:31.240 he ended up transferring five six hundred dollars to him. Wow, 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:36.080 which is amazing. I mean, just absolutely amazing. I was 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:37.600 just blown, absolutely blown away. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.160 But it speaks to the power of random acts of 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.400 kindness and an army of normal folks, and the random 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:50.319 acts of kindness here on this story, Casey, it's both. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:55.160 It's Tim's random act of kindness while doing his job 0:08:55.280 --> 0:09:00.800 to everybody comes into contact with that then inspired random 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.160 acts of kindness among all the people on his route 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.720 that found out he was going to be awful while 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:11.559 and they just wanted to help. And then together, this 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:16.439 army of normal people, through Tim's random acts of kindness, 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.640 and the people he inspired through that kindness to be 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:24.200 kind back and reached enriched one another's lives. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.280 Yeah, it was incredible. Like Aaron said, I wasn't surprised 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.360 to see how many people had such nice things to 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.200 say about Tim, how they were, you know, inspired by him, 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:39.360 how they had been impacted by him. But it it 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.760 was overwhelming the number of people. You know, I don't 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.720 know if you've counted how many people made comments on 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.160 that Facebook post, but was it one hundred people? 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:50.080 Was it? Yeah? 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.079 Well, I actually printed it out yesterday because yeah, I 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.440 can't I certainly don't have time to read them all. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:04.800 But it's oh, it's picture of list after list after 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:10.640 list from all these people in this Eastlake neighborhood of Atlanta, 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:18.600 Georgia that just wouldn't shut up about Tim and continue 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.280 to give little bits of money to have fifty five 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.680 or six hundred dollars so that when Tim was getting 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:29.600 the surgeries. You know this, this isn't something that's raised 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.319 ten million dollars and affecting people all over the world. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.320 But if we're going to make a difference where we are, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.560 this is Tim making a difference where he is, and 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.960 all these people making a small difference where Tim is 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:52.600 and little itty bitty random acts of kindness. And if 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.199 you look at the smile on Aaron's face in Casey's 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.720 face when talking about this, you can and see how 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:06.000 restorative it is to your very soulce Amen, it really is. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.960 It's just astonishing, you know, Casey said, it's easy to 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.280 put a comment on Facebook. I was more shocked by 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:15.679 the number of people who were then willing to put 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.400 their own dollars behind it. That was what was truly 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.760 astonishing to me. I mean, some people sent hundred and 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.160 fifty dollars, some people spent ten, you. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:24.680 Know, And. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.200 To provide your own hard earned dollar in this day 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.120 and age for somebody that you only sort of know 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.680 that you like and all, but don't really know their situation. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.960 It's just really really affirmed my faith in humanity to 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:42.440 a degree. And I just love it, love the neighborhood 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:43.360 even more for it. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.320 Well, I think it speaks volumes about the kindness in 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.920 your heart to do that for a Dallas Cowboys. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:56.120 Fan, if I have time to share. The Cowboys played 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.560 the Falcons in Atlanta last season, and of course Tim went, 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:03.200 and by some miracle, the Falcons won, and so I 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.520 was looking for him that monday. Man, I was looking 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.720 for him, and I saw the truck up at the 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.680 street at the neighbor's house. And I wasn't playing to 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.040 get a package. So I went up there and there's 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.719 some other dude. I'm like, where's Tim. He said, oh, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.200 you didn't show up today, and I said, oh, come on. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.320 He said he's probably worried about getting ribbed over that 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.880 Falcons Cowboys getting I was like, dang it, I didn't 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:23.320 get him. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.760 So anyway, you feel free to cut out. Hey, Alex, 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:31.439 speaking of Cowboys fans, do we have any anywhere around? 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.560 Yeah, it'd be I think we're ready for surprise number one. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.040 Oh we'll be right back. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.400 Hey, we've been talking about your dude, it's now your 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.800 time to join. That's around your camera though. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:56.600 My man, what's up that? First of all, how's that him? 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:03.360 Uh didn't battle about sixty you know, so it's getting there, guys, 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:03.880 getting there. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.320 I can't believe you're not wearing any Cowboys, so I 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:12.000 know you're on this thing. I'm in the cowboy room. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:16.760 You know, there you are, Cowboy room, a tim. I 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.080 got to ask you a question. You took a job 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:26.880 at UPS to make a living. Yes, yes, But whatever 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.080 it is inside of you that makes you do the 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.640 job the way you do that inspires people along your 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.400 route to care enough about you and to talk about 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.960 you the way to do. I'm sure you like the money, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.400 but I cannot imagine that that money is anywhere close 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:49.079 to what you feel when you hear people talk about 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.600 how much they appreciate you, when you hear what you've 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.320 just got through here and what's going through years. 0:13:55.640 --> 0:14:00.360 Well, you know, my whole route, I love each and 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.480 every one of them, and it's just like I got 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.880 a friendship with everybody, and it's just different. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:06.040 You know. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.199 We talk about sports, talk about life, talk about kids, 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:14.800 and it's very emotional, you know, to hear everything that 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:16.520 was said. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.440 And I was overwhelmed. 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.720 When Aaron came to me and told me what he did, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.360 and you know I had to sit down for a 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.720 minute like, oh, but you know I was raised to 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:35.080 treat people in a nice, kind way and smile. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.360 You know, I wake up with a smile. On my face. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:38.960 I don't care what's going on in my life. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.960 I got a smile on my face, and I want 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.320 my cousin to know that I appreciate. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.520 Y'all and they make my day. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.000 So I supposed this surge is supposed to happen, probably 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:53.880 like two years ago. But I miss I missed my cut. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.080 I loved my customers like they make my day. But 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.880 I knew they want the surgery more than I did. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.960 But I said, I knew I got to get it, 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.560 but just say I got to do it because I 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.760 was this hip went out on me, so I knew 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.840 I had to do it. But you know, it was 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.920 just emotional and like I said, trying to leave my customers. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.080 And I told my super bows, I said, when you 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:19.120 do find somebody to run my rap, make sure they 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:24.160 care because all my customers they spoiled and and I 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:24.960 love to spoil them. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:30.240 Jim Jim, we uh. We talk about on the show 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.720 all the time about making a difference where you are 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.440 and you don't have to be rich, and you don't 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.640 have to be part of some big organization too. As 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.600 a member of the army of normal folks, just normal folks. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.600 See areas of need and employ your abilities and your passion. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.840 And your abilities and passion are simply to shed a 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:59.000 little sunlight and a little happiness everywhere you go. And 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.880 there is a need you see or just the people 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:06.200 along your route. And you're a living example of what 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:10.320 little random acts of kindness can do to inspire people's hearts. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.360 And I just want you to know I'm inspired by you, dude. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:19.440 Just the just just being able to do what you 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:25.440 can do where you are changes the world. And I 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.320 have a list here of thousands of people who or 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.360 hundreds of people along your list whose world you changed 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:40.560 every day by simple act of kindness. And how would 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:46.800 you say too? Yeah? Well, I mean and Aaron are 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:53.920 are are just living proof of that, Jim. How long 0:16:53.960 --> 0:17:01.400 have you worked for UPS? Going on eleven years? Wow? Well, 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:08.440 I want to tell you one more surprise is uh. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.439 UPS has a guy that's got like one point seven 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:17.080 million followers on something right Alex on what Instagram or 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:22.760 TikTok or whatever it is. Yeah, And he has a 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:27.440 route down in the Southwest, in Texas somewhere, and he's 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.760 been a guest on the show. He's been all over 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:35.880 the world on social media, he's been interviewed by everybody, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.760 and he's called the Dancing ups Man. Tim. Have you 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:44.560 ever heard of this guy him? Yeah, his name's Russell Butler. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.479 I love the dude. He hung out with me one 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.479 day in Memphis and told his story and we did 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.480 it in front of a live audience, and he lit 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.760 the place up. And he can do ice ice baby 0:17:55.840 --> 0:18:00.920 and spin around like nobody's business. And there seems to 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.840 be this recurring theme we keep tripping across, which is 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:08.440 some of these ups folks are just great guys. And Tim, 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.520 while you inspired the people along your route with your 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.240 random acts of kindness, and then they inspired you with 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:20.320 their random acts of kindness, this guy wants his people 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:24.280 to smile too, and so while he's on his route 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:30.119 bouncing around, he'll just bust a move for everybody. And 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.200 I love him. And his name's Russell Butler. And so, 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:38.919 Aaron and Casey, in honor of your random acts of 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.680 kindness for Tim, and in honor of Tim's random acts 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.280 of kindness for the people on his route, we have 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:52.520 the very own Russell Butler Dancing ups Man, to give 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.959 you guys a high ho And Hello, Alex, where's Russell? 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.960 What up? Dude? My man, How you doings? 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.280 I'm doing great, Bill? 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.920 How you doing? How do you feel when you find 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.480 out there's other ups guys sharing sunshine out there? 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.000 Hey, Tim, Man, I just I just heard your whole story, Dude, 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:14.600 I absolutely love it. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:14.840 Man. 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.520 My brother and Brown keep doing the thing. 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.199 Man looking Brown do for you. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:26.080 That's right, that's right, man, I tell you, my my 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.600 heart goes out to you. Bro. Like my knees. There's 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.760 days my knees don't want to function. I can't imagine 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.840 having hipster place needs. I mean, that's you're doing the thing, dude. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.480 You know again, I'm I'm proud to be your brother 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:40.960 in Brown. 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:47.240 Yes, sir, yes, sir ac. Have you have you seen 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:54.000 Russell's moves? I'm not well. I'm hoping to Yeah, all right, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.640 dude's sick and you would not have any idea if 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.359 his knees are busted up. Trust me, speaking spin and 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.520 to my dance moves are dangerous because I go about 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.720 two sixty. So when I go right and then I 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.960 come back left, some of me is still right. And 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.560 then when I bust back right that that side swipe 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.360 might hurt somebody. So I got to be really careful. 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:22.800 But that cat is lean and clean. And Tim with 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.480 your new hip, we got to get Russell to start 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.640 teaching you some moves, so you that on your route. 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.840 When I get the needs that they it is on 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.760 a Russell, I got a question, what football? Are you? 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.520 A Cowboys guy? Being down there? 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.359 What do you I was just about to say, shout 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.080 out to them Cowboys, the Boys. 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:51.040 That's right, Aaron, you're getting out numbered here, I know. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.120 Let me. Let me let me tell you something. We've 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:58.440 got six people on the screen. We're looking at at 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.800 Tim and ups guy in Atlanta, We're looking at at Russell, 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:09.919 A Upskay in Texas, Aaron and Casey. Y'all, if you 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.520 don't believe in the power of an army of normal folks, 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:16.560 just look at the grins on this screen today, all 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:21.280 from people who deliver packages for a living and decide 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.359 to make smiles along the way just to brighten people's day, 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.800 and then human beings touched by that who then want 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.399 to do little random acts of kindness to give back. 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.680 If that is not the power of what we try 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.760 to talk about every week, I don't know what is. 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:42.879 And all four of you simply make my weak. 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.480 Hey and Bill and Alex, thank y'all for doing this. 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:52.440 Aaron Casey, thank y'all. Seriously, that's a pretty special deal 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:57.600 with y'all did for Tim. It's pretty amazing. 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.639 Anything you do to get ten back on the route. 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.240 Said, I love eating her one, y'all. I love that. 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:06.040 I appreciate it is you're gonna feed him tonight too. 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:11.119 In fact, Alex, Alex, you got anything to say about 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.040 all this? You put it all together. Yeah. 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.840 The only thing I failed at is I tried asking 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:20.080 Tim before the interview, Hey, what's your favorite song? Because, 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:23.399 like you know, we often have like entrance music for guests, 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:25.959 and he wouldn't give me his favorite song. You couldn't 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:29.679 forgot this. I wanted to surprise you, Tim with ruffle 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:33.200 dancing your favorite song, but not allow me to do so. 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:35.520 So I don't know if you got one on this 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:37.560 song you could think about. 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:45.000 Well, now boots on the ground with the fans, I 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.120