WEBVTT - John Norman: 160 Platelet Donations (Pt 2) 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.440 Everybody's Bill Courtney with an army of normal folks. We 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.440 continue now what part two of our conversation with John 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:19.960 Norman right after these brief messages from our general sponsors. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:30.960 The YouTube video I've seen a five minute YouTube video. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:31.520 Who made that? 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.120 Actually? The Blood Center that I go to. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.520 To give yous use an example of a guy that's 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:37.839 constantly given play. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.599 With Yeah, exactly, And I don't remember exactly. I had 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.520 been contacted before. I take that back years ago as 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.640 one of their campaigns. They said tell us your story 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.240 and this I'm like halfway through this journey now, and 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:51.640 I'm like, I've been telling. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.640 Stories, so I'm going to tell you about me telling stories. 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.240 And I got contacted and they did a little blurb 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.600 on me on their website that which is great, but 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.959 you have to you have to be somebody like I'm 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:03.680 going to go to the Blood Center website today and 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:04.120 look around. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:05.560 Look there's John Norman did day. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.800 How many people are hanging around looking at the blood 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.680 side or website and wish you need blood. 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.039 Nothing against them because people do go there. But it 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.039 was nice to be featured a little bit. I got 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.240 I went out for a couple of photo shoots with 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.120 them for some of the things that didn't end up happening, 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.000 and then a couple of months ago, their media guy 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.839 called me up and said, hey, we're looking to do some. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.600 New emotional videos. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.880 The cool part it wasn't just for external they're using 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.040 it for internal uses. In the first place that they 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.440 showed that video was in they're all hands meeting with 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.480 all of their employees to remind them why they do 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.160 what they do. All those vampires got into one room 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.360 and watch the video about John Norman doing that stuff. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.040 So I was like, wow, that's pretty cool. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.560 That is cool. But here's the here's the thing, here's 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.560 the reason I asked. The very last three seconds, it 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.720 comes up and it says over eight over a period 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.400 of eight years, John has donated. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.320 One hundred and six five now would be one hundred 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:03.080 and sixty five on. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.320 Friday, one hundred and sixty five times. I've donated one 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.600 hundred and sixty five times in eight years. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:16.280 But that's and that is about five So I never. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.800 Counted it that way, and until you asked me that 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.519 just a little bit ago. So I don't I don't 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.160 know how I would calculate those units. But one hundred 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.520 and sixty times is for me. I just counted as 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.840 ones going in, but it might be three times that 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:29.120 I'm not sure. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.320 So, And I think of some of. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.040 The people that I've that I've talked about, one in particular, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.679 who just passed away in November, she needed ninety as 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.280 just as part of her cancer treatment. One of the 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.960 other people that I shared about had leukemia also and 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:48.359 she needed three hundred units of blood and platelets or 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.680 blood products to finish getting through her treatments. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:56.000 So it's without them, yeah, or is being able to 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:56.560 take treatment? 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.120 What I guess that's the thing is do you have 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:04.120 you take the time to translate that eight years one 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.480 hundred and sixty five times, which is five hundred units 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.480 robbably translates to three four five hundred loves. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:14.359 That's what they tell you. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.680 You can save up to three lives with a blood 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.240 donation or a platelet donation. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.560 So yeah, I guess that's pretty good math. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:22.799 What does it make phil like? 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:24.400 What? It feels great? 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.880 And frankly, just after eight years you talk about commitment 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.240 and opportunity and passion, it's become a passion for me. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.280 I'm committed to do it. The opportunity came once. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.320 At my office, right with this blood drive and then 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.440 that walk with my friend where I learned how important 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:48.680 it was. I'm really excited because, look, I'm here with 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:53.080 Bill doing a podcast that other people might hear, and 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:57.120 that might increase that three percent to four percent. And 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.320 if telling other people's stories in my history and convince 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.960 some other people to do that, then that's cool. That 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.880 feels really great. I was excited to come here just 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:08.560 because of that. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.160 Tell me a few of the stories that you've highlighted 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:16.039 that our listeners will be like wow, wow, Not that 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.120 any of them are more important than the others. I'm 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.919 we're not trying. It's not a competition at all. But 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.080 you've got to have a couple that are near and 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:25.359 dear to. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.120 Your there there are several that are near and dear 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:32.560 to my heart. One of the first ones that kind 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.520 of it got a little bit bigger for me was 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.760 so I told you earlier before we started. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.520 Today, I was in the biking community and one of 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.200 you falling off your bike off and that was really impressive. 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:47.320 I don't know if I'd want to be part of 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:48.760 that community, but ahead. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:54.000 The bicycling community, it's amazing, and we did cyclic cross races, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.600 we did mountain bike races, and especially the mountain bike races. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.840 These are on on the weekends and it's everybody from 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.560 six year olds through seventy year olds racing these races 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:07.280 out in the woods. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:08.960 But it's like a. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.280 Big family camp out and it becomes a family for you. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.440 We take care of each other. In fact, when I 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.839 did have that crash, it was the biking family that 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.560 picked up the pieces, hooked up my camper and drove 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.440 it over to the hospital. While well, Michelle and my 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:29.480 kids were there with me. One of one of the 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:34.240 fathers of a kid that raced with my son contacted me. 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.719 He said, you know, we're doing a charity event for 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.440 best friend of my son, Peyton Alexander, who has discovered 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.760 that she's got ing saracoma canceled seventeen. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.360 At the time, I think, maybe. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:54.640 That's just breaks my work. You're already breaking my heart. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:59.039 And I even heard the story just lining up the 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:04.039 words answer and seventeen years old, when you're supposed to 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:05.640 be embarking. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.479 On, you're finishing up high school, you're about to go 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:13.800 to college, and you're about to start your life and answer, Oh, 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.040 so we're going to do this event called peddling for Peyton, Like, well, 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.920 that sounds cool through that and unfortunately I was not 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.120 able to make the event, but it did become sort 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.640 of a It became sort of my first story or 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:29.920 several stories. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.960 But I did get to meet her later. I had 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:33.480 never met heered. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.280 This was the best friend of his son, and our 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.359 bike bicycling commuter community was from all over the state, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.799 so he didn't even live near us. But Peyton didn't 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.239 only care about herself. She as a bar of her treatment, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.600 discovered the Ronald McDonald House and the fact that they 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.800 needed blankets, just at least blankets because when people come 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.880 and stay there, the Ronald McDonald House will give them 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.760 blankets while they're there that they can take home with 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.599 them keep. And she said, you know what, I'm going 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.320 to do a blanket tying event down our local library. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.800 If you can come, bring some blank go buy Walmart 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.760 and get a bunch of five dollar blankets and we'll 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.080 cut them up and tie them together and make some 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.120 more blankets for Ronald McDonald house. Like so, I couldn't 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.280 make your event, but I want to come meet you 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.360 and learn more about you. And I show up and 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.280 it was Peyton and a bunch of her high school 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.480 friends and her parents. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.800 And a couple of other people, and this weird old 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.200 and this weird old dude. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.800 Exactly who was this now fifty some year old guy 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:38.640 just wandering in? 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.680 Can I tie blankets with you? I know you've never 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:42.480 met me before? 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.320 I had, I had asked ahead of time. I was like, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.520 this might sound weird, but because of your friend, I 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.200 want to know a little bit more about you. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:51.680 It was. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.400 It was a fun day. I don't tie blankets very 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.120 well either, so but it was. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.680 But she over over the years, ended up tying with 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.200 her friends and community members hundreds of blankets that ended 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:09.720 up going to Ronald McDonalds. She her cancer went into remission, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:15.320 really exciting, but then it came back. She underwent a 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.360 stem cell transplant her own cells. I can't remember exactly 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.000 what type of stem cell treatment that is, but my 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.200 dad had it too, same thing my dad did. It's 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.760 going through his cancer, but basically that that's stem cell treatment. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:34.240 They take your platelets for a while, the patient's pay platelets, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.319 and they keep them and then they zap. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.120 You with a super high dose of chemotherapy. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.720 With the plan of killing all the cancer cells, but 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.679 because it's so high dose, it kills all your bone 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.520 marrow and everything else that needs to be in place 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.559 for you to survive. So as soon as that's done, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.040 they put stem cells back in you with the hopes 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.520 that your bone marrow will kick in again, producing everything live. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.160 And it works for some people. It worked for my 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.680 dad for a while too. Lance Armstrong did this. He's 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.880 still alive, so it's it's a treatment that sometimes works. Unfortunately, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.480 she was in remission for a little while longer, but 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.200 came back and and and Peyton passed away a number 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.439 of years ago, But going to that was the first 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.000 funeral that I ever went to with somebody that I 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:29.400 had connected with told the story about. But I've been 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.600 talking with Kim, her mom, before coming here, and I'm like, 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.640 I hope you're okay with me mentioning your daughter's name, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.840 because I want to honor her as part of why 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:40.599 I still. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.760 Do this, and it's important for me. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.319 I'm missing they're doing a golf not golf outing barbecue 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.480 foundering for the Peyton Alexander Foundation now that they've started, 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.600 and I'm missing it because I'm here. But I said, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.240 this is pretty cool reason to mister barbecue. I'm going 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.240 to Memphis and I can have some barbecue there. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.000 Well where barbecue where? 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:06.199 Where this is in Milwaukee, they're calling it a barbecue whatever. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.640 They want to if they should have a barbecue fundraiser. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:13.920 Here, let's go to the fundraiser. That is heartbreak it 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:18.600 is And Peyton connected me through you in starcoma as 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.000 a childhood cancer. Mostly childhood cancer. It's the same cancer 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:26.000 my dad had. It's only maybe one percent of adults. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.440 One of Peyton's I was connected to Katie, who is 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.920 another one that I've really connected with and the family. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.880 Again virtually, I have not met Katie. She lives in 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.480 Reno and Nevada. I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But Katie 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.040 was an amazing person who was also a giver and 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:49.800 an advocate for cancer research. She just passed away in November. 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.360 But I wouldn't have known about Katie or the amazing 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.320 things that she did. And if you look her up, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:56.480 I'll give you a link later. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:57.439 If you look her. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:58.480 Up, you give now. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.880 If you look up Katie's collect on Instagram, you'll find 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:03.840 everything you need to know. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.320 You'll see, you'll see videos of that. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.680 She was highlighted quite a bit because of how amazing 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.920 she was and how she lived with her cancer. Her 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.040 hashtag now that was created when she died is live 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.560 life like Katie. She loved National Parks and it was 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.840 her goal to visit everyone. I think she made it 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.280 to twenty some and several of them a lot of 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.080 them after she started getting cancer because she didn't want 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.360 to skip out on life just because of this disease 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.280 was in her. She wanted to live life. She didn't 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:38.959 know when her last day was. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:39.360 Could be. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:55.559 We'll be right back, so we could say, wow, give 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.600 all this blood and give all these cancer, all these playlets, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.680 and these people are still cancer. My answer would be 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.240 quality of that life they get living with cancer. Good 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.840 happen out bludd. Even if they don't survive and go 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:15.480 into permission, their lives are still enriched and prolonged by 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:20.160 this gift, the simple gift of sitting on your for 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:25.680 twenty minutes for blood two hours or platelets and giving 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:30.520 so that you or someone you love will have what 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:30.880 they need. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:32.319 So here's another statistic. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.000 One hundred percent of us are not going to live forever, 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.360 but so if by giving blood or platelets. You can 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.640 let somebody live another day or a week, or a 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.960 month or years. It's all the same thing. I mean, 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.079 we just need to let people live. And if this 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:49.280 can do it, then why not. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:55.160 It's so simple, an army of normal folks candidly, I mean, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.240 we're not We're nobody's ever going to mistake Alex for 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:04.840 being particular, right so or or no one's ever going 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.480 to say, well, my goodness, look, look look at the 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.199 look at the I mean, we should do a thesisis 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:17.120 on billing this army. I mean, this is just simple stuff. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.360 It's normal people seeing here is the need filling it, 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:26.160 celebrating those stories and hopes of surviving, hopes of inspiring 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.720 more to do more. Right, this is so simple that 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.080 we have had on some guests with some pretty complex 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.880 things and that they would have to have a certain 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.400 skill set to actually go do those things. So while 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.680 we celebrate them and hopefully inspire them, there's really a 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.600 small community people that can do what some of those be. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.679 Everybody can do this pretty much as long as you 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.960 pass it. But at least everybody could go get tested 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.880 to do it, and then two thirds of us can 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:56.439 do it, you know. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.360 What also too, if you can't do it, they have 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.640 volunteered drivers to drive this blood to the hospital. There's 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.960 a volunteer that whenever I'm done, it gives me cookies 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.320 and a can of cranberry juice. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.600 When I'm done, you get cookies and cranberry juice. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.760 That's enough reason to do it right now. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.440 You guys have Panera bread here? Yeah, Panera donates their 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.560 day old bread. Those boxes of Panera bread that I 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:19.600 can pick up pick from. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:20.720 Really they do that. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.800 Yeah, there's always boxes of that there and good for 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:28.359 bread by the way, a little plug for them. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.000 Yeah, but sometimes that's what shapes the meal I'm going 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.480 to cook that Friday night. Well, I'm not exerting myself. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.240 Everybody should be doue. Yeah, and you don't have to 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.480 have any skill set. You don't have to have anything. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:47.360 Just have a willingness and if somebody wants to follow. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:52.320 I'm not a social media person, Okay, I mean I'm 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.080 on it and all that, but I don't know. I 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.720 use the wrong words all the time. Now, excuse me, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.360 crap about it. You're not really on it. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.840 There's you have an account, but you haven't been on 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:02.520 it yourself. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:04.080 See I get it. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.720 Yeah, see, there you go. So how does somebody find 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:09.560 your stuff? 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.080 So you can find on Instagram. My Instagram handle is 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.640 port Norman, so port like Port Washington Norman like my 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:23.600 last name JPN to my initials, so Port Norman JPN. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:32.680 And pictures and the stories and the people that you're celebrating. Wow, donate. 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.400 Yep, you can read the stories and see the pictures. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.240 I always put pictures of them because there's always a 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:38.680 picture of. 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:39.440 Me at the beginning. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.360 So if you see me sitting in a chair, that's 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:43.840 a trigger that this is going to be one of 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.960 my platelet posts. And actually looking through it, there's more 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.920 of those than a lot of my other Because I'm 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.080 sixty years old now, I'm not really good at social 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:55.120 media either. I struggled to get it shared on Instagram 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.520 and Facebook at the same time. And Facebook, I think 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.880 if you just look up John Norman, I don't know what, 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.080 there's probably a ton of them, but you could probably 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.680 that Instagram is going to be more easy because I 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.640 don't On Facebook. I share more to my friends and 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:10.280 not public. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:11.040 On Instagram. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.000 I leave it public because I want if I share 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.720 about somebody and it can and it triggers somebody to say, hey, 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.840 I want to try this, or you should read this story. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.560 I don't want them to send a link out to 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.280 somebody and have it block. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:25.800 I want to continue the story. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.640 I get it. So when you go there, it's a 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.360 picture of you first, and it's a picture of the 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.960 person you're thinking about that day, yep. And then their 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:41.360 story of their fight with whatever they're afflicted with, and 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:46.280 why their strength inspires you to continue to do this 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.080 all the time, all of which, if you ball up, 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.120 is intended to inspire others. Yep. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.200 That's pretty much it. Sometimes it's a short story, sometimes 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:55.880 a little longer. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:02.240 But after the Shop Talk episode, we army member Keith Bauch, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:07.960 he wrote us, and I'm telling you this because he 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:13.680 gives Keith thank you all respect. Your post was wrong. 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.919 You sit over there, hush Bill and Alex. Good morning 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.160 from tropically cold Minnesota. Clearly this came from a few 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.119 months one of my neighbors. I want to be part 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.080 of the army that moves the amount of blood donors 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.680 from three to four percent, even three to three and 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.080 a half. I've given blood in the past, but never 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.200 on a consistent basis. I'm going to do my best, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.160 try and give once a month from now on. Your 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.520 guest has inspired me to do this. It was interesting 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.240 because about a week after your episode, I was listening 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.240 to another podcast about the need for blood, plasma and 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.479 platelet donations. Another reason for me to give. I have 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.880 a daughter in college that gives plasma twice a week. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:58.080 Thanks for beer money. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.040 I think that's for beer money. Yeah, it is for 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.879 every buddy. But I shared your podcast with her to 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.200 reinforce the benefits of what she is doing. Guys, keep 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.440 doing what you're doing inspiring us normal folks. Here's why 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.960 I'm calling that out just a little bit. We don't 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.879 deserve the credit for doing what we're doing inspiring normal folks. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:17.520 One time. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.800 It's all of the stories and all the people that 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.400 are inspiring. All we are is the conduit. I read 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:31.320 that to you because this gentleman has clearly been inspired 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.760 to do this very thing because of it's awesome. It's awesome. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:36.240 This guy your neighbor. Do you know? 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.359 I have no idea who Keith is. Never heard that 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:38.800 name of it. 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.200 He's from your neck of the woods. 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.560 He's Minnesota. We don't talk about that. I'm a Packers fan. 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:44.760 He's a Vikings fan. 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.160 I'm sure you don't know might have to reach out 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:54.640 to this. I might lightly suggest that part of your 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.440 Instagram stories could be about guys like him to inspire 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.320 others as well. It doesn't just have to be the 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.680 people getting the play. Someone who's been inspired by your 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:09.160 story could maybe inspire someone else. When I read that 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:13.199 we do. We get lots of emails and correspondence. I'll 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.440 read every bit of it. I'll respond to every bit 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:21.479 of it. But when I read this and then I 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.560 think about how you reached out to us, and I 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:31.320 think about your story and the connectivity of it all 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:37.119 kind of makes the fact that Alex about a year 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.160 and a half ago made me start doing this dumb 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:43.960 thing all worth it. So respectfully, I don't feel like 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.199 we're inspiring anybody to be one normal folk one at 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:48.679 a time. 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:50.720 Well, I think you should give yourself a little more 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.159 credit though, too. I stumbled on your podcast and what 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.399 are you doing? This is different than me. You're sharing 0:19:55.440 --> 0:20:00.240 other people's stories. It inspired me to reach out to 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.040 you because I think the army of normal folks idea 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.240 is it's so easy, like you said, and you do 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.720 what you can do for one person. One of the 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.040 books that I meant to bring I work at Harley Davidson. 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:13.840 This is so This is a Bike, a book that 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.879 kind of reached out to me literally from a Minnesota 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:20.520 used bookstores I was walking through and it's called Nice Bike, 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:26.280 Nice Bike, and it's it's a collection of stories that 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.720 the author put together, Mark Sharon Brock, I think is 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.520 his name, and I want I want to read. 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:34.199 I wrote this down because I had to. I had 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:35.280 to go look it up again. 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:36.280 But what he. 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:40.480 Focuses on and his his theory is that the three 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.600 things that you need to do to make people's lives 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.480 better is to acknowledge them, honor them, and to connect 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:53.040 with them. And by acknowledging, honoring, and connecting with people, 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:55.120 you can change the world, one person at a time. 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.400 That's always been in the back of my head too 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.159 ever since reading that book, also at the beginning of 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.480 the whole thing, and I think, I think that goes 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.600 a long way. It's simple acknowledge, honor, and connect and 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.640 that's that's what we do. That's what you're doing. You're 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.680 you're honoring people for the cool stuff that they do, 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:15.560 even if it's. 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:21.040 Normal, it is cool. And it's also only three rather 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.240