Marathon: Father's Day stories from David Begnaud and more

[Music] there they are so it's so good to see you look at that dude hey man how are you can I give you a hug oh yes good to see you absolutely good to see you thank for thanks for coming glad we didn't scay off too much there is no chance Johnny AAR we fell in love with the AAR family when we first met them last November is there a better man than your dad I've yet to find one for for a story about Jeff and Johnny home stretch Father and Son triathletes 29-year-old Johnny was born with Cerebral paly Johnny there you go that a boy it is a muscle disorder that makes it impossible for him to walk without assistance look at you there you go but with the help of his hero Johnny has paved his way in the most unlikely of sports it's that Jeff takes on for both of them I believe I can when he bikes he hauls him when he swims he pulls Johnny and when he runs he pushes him mom's cooking when we get home Jeff told us back in November for his son it's all worth it I mean I'm not a fan of swimming biking or running so which is perfect for trath so there's probably wouldn't be in the top 100 things I would select to do I'm not doing it cuz I love it it wasn't like a dream of mine this is Johnny's dream I'm just giving him the legs and the power to do it it has become Johnny's passion and that has led him and his father to Iron Man races those are the toughest of endurance events all right so make PC the team AAR has a 2.4 mile swim A2 M bike awesome and a 26.2 M run and they have to finish it in under 17 hours let's go Dad let's go well why even try it you may be wondering to prove what Iron Man's Mantra is anything is possible work out there now look they failed the first five times they tried to finish an Iron Man in the time allowed but on the sixth attempt they did it and look who crossed that finish line joh [Music] that Victory last September inspired Johnny's dream to one day cross the finish line at what is considered to be the Super Bowl of triathlons the Iron Man World Championship in Kona Hawaii now teams like the aars need to be invited to compete and guess what Ironman wants to extend that offer for a team they say personifies the spirit of the sport and they decided to let us break the news so we planned a trip back to Michigan but we told them it was for a Father's Day surprise so in the time since we first met to today have you had any new epiphanies any new aha moments you know maybe a question I asked that you long after I were gone were like here's what I thought any anything the uh the feedback on social media is a bit overwhelming I find the things that hit me the hardest is that people will comment that you know I don't do anything with my kids and here's this guy doing this and I should be able to do so much more I hope that just inspires fathers to believe you can do more you don't have to be a great father you just have to do better than you are today just to see how dad wants to succeed and and wants to put in the work to be able to get me across the Finish Line really inspires me now in the spirit of Our Father's Day theme I asked the aars to record a message for all the dads out there hello America we're the AAR family I'm Jeff I'm Johnny Becky Annie and I'm Gracie and we want to wish all fathers a Happy Father's Day that was so good you guys they nailed it on one okay do you feel good about that yeah can we watch it back by the way ready ready for this moment we got a Little Help From A Hall of Fame quarterback who happens to be one of Johnny's favorite athletes hey AAR family pton Manning here listen rumor has it you're a big fan of mine I really appreciate that that means a lot but I'm a big fan of yours as well you guys are incredible you're a true inspiration now I've heard there's a big dream that you're hoping to achieve together well why we make that dream come true right now on behalf of Iron Man it is my honor to share with you that team AAR has earned an official invite to the 2024 Iron Man World Championship inona Hawaii congratulations good luck and I'll be shooting for you the whole way you guys are oh my God it is toasty warm out today starting now team AAR has 16 months to beef up their training for the world championship and Iron Man sent us their official ticket to there we go Johnny but when they hopefully walk across that finish line I I'm going to put every ounce of energy um that I I I have they're going to be really really special for me mm good job bu thank you thank you so much Johnny and Jeff they have what no other triathlete in this sport has when they compete knees up Pat High Buddy each other Happy Father's Day thank you I love you I love you too [Music] budy nice to meet you nice to meet you how old are you t two two hey and these are our three-year-old twins Alexandra and Zachary when did you turn three my birthday believe it or not this is Father's Day number 10 for me I have an almost 11-year-old son an 8-year-old daughter and then the baby there isn't that fun Welcome to our world okay let's do one more finger amazing when you have that privilege of becoming a father you have a higher sense of purpose you've now entered that selfless Zone where there are individuals that is far more important than you are how did you define being a good father being present more meaningful for me um I wasn't raised by my dad in fact I've only met him three times what it meant to be a dad was simply to be present so looking at today's world I would say just time time is the most important thing and that's how I would Define a great father as a father to to Three Sons what's important to me is not for them to emulate me or essentially grow up to be like me but to be better than me you know somebody that gives their kids the confidence to go tackle the world with a full head of steam part of that means equipping your kids with tools to overcome adversity I still hang on to faith that we'll be able to fix the things that are wrong in our world and fatherhood did that for me being Latino Puerto Rican father has definitely open my eyes I am educating my daughter to be a citizen of the world and to look at things for what they bring to the table and not based on appearences being a dad of color comes with a level of Pride that I don't think that any body will understand unless they are a dad of color I am I'm very mindful that I have a black daughter and while that is the best blessing in the world it can also be something that I'm very scared of there's so much that I want to tell her about the reality of things I want her to know how the world works for people like her kids that don't look like her and it's trying to figure out the right words to say it's not having right words to say when he grows up I want him to be able to just walk into a room and know that he's supposed to be there and why is he supposed to be there because his dad helped prepare him to be there as fathers have an opportunity to make a change from this generation to the next how do you make that change as a dad he's going to experience every single thing that I went through my only job is is to make sure I upro any tree that might be in the way that I can can move I'm hopeful that my daughter are going to be able to know they always have choices no matter what anyone says to them and that they never stop loving themselves to help them understand you know who they are and to have pride in who they are and to wear and understand what it is to be you know young black boys as a badge of honor and to wear that badge unapologetically and during this upcoming Father's Day I'm going to make a person challenge to myself to figure out how can we make this world a better place in the next 365 days it's a day that I really feel that we actually do get credit uh that we deserve all the dads out there I just want to say live slow take the long way to school or to daycare you know let them sit on your lap for an extra 15 20 minutes even though you know that it's passes bad time there's no book to tell you how to be a father every is on the flly and you just got to go with the fatherhood is like driving on the road at night you can only see as far as the headlights but you make it there safely most of the time love you this morning you're going to see how a father is being taught some difficult moves by his six-year-old daughter take a look 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 7 1 go 3 5 it is Michael Jen Kowski practicing a cheer routine with daughter Josie mom Roxanne recorded the special moment you doing a great job lot of flexibility for a man of his age I recognize it Michael says when he was younger he played football and baseball never cheered but both Josie and her sister Annabelle cheer competitively which encouraged Michael to join in so he could help with their practice and I never understood the cheerleading world but once they got involved with it and being a girl dad I was like gosh I saw the joy in their eyes that I saw when I played when asked about her dad's performance Josie said he did well she gave him a b a hey that's not bad passing pops you got to step your game up bab got work it need a A+ next time not bad I like that bring in some Joy the joy that these brothers and sisters have have just being together should not be taken for granted in this story each one had been put in foster care and separated Bubby make sure you brush your teeth while you're up there Robert Carter now 33 and the owner of a Cincinnati hair salon became a foster parent to Three Brothers in 2018 and then one day he heard something that was particularly painful for him I over hear my older son Robert talking about their sisters so I asked him hey you have sisters and he's said yeah we have sisters what did you think in that moment when they said yeah we have sisters and they had been separated I thought they were lying to be honest because no one's told me about siblings but that obviously hit a cord with you cuz you'd been separated from your siblings now the parallels with his own young life and those of these five children are striking Robert Carter was placed in foster care at the age of 13 and not destined to be adopted so you lived with your mom for the first 1 years y Dad too or just Mom just Mom what was your mom dealing with what was she struggling with uh she was a single parent of nine and she also had alcoholism do you remember not eating some days no cuz we always say I always I was the oldest so I always made sure we had something to eat I was go steal from corner stores even if it was like chips and stuff for my siblings cuz we we had to eat in order to survive did you ever turn to drugs no alcohol no what do you think kept you away from that seeing what my mom and dad went through how it affected them how it affected us I going to pass it around it was against that background that he sought help from the foster care agency in Cincinnati Ohio to find the boys missing sisters and reunite a family we been through a lot and especially me and it's a lot of pressure being the big sibling because you have to put on a good image and it's like it's a lot because they look up to you the cool thing about your dad is your dad has also been a foster care so he knows what you guys have gone through um it helps a lot because some people don't understand but he knew what had to be done and that is where magistrate Regina starle comes in because Robert Carter decided he wanted to adopt all five brothers and sisters so I'm thinking you made it out of the Foster system you're starting your own life you're young this is your chance to do you and people are selfish and I'm expecting him to do you so why are you taking on the obligation of five kids I'm like convince me you didn't really have a father figure constantly in your life so where did you learn how to be a good parent from not having one from just I give them everything I wanted from the affection to the attention to the the stuff we do together so I just try to do everything I wanted as a child and my and my dad I do to them to make sure that they have everything I wanted and More in court in 2020 an adorable family in Waiting made the newspaper his kids came in dressed in finery in red and black is what I recall and they face judge starle scrutiny I'm looking to see body language how are the kids interacting with each other as well as the petitioners as the testimonies being taken and I was like this is the real deal the real deal and under her court order a family now as Robert Carter watches his children joyfully play together he also sees what may have happened had the children stayed in the foster care system so we're at my old apartment where I was in independent living when I was 16 by myself coming home every day to know what me no want to cook me meals no want to wake me up say good morning or anything no one to welcome him home that's what he remembers most about living in this apartment building while he finished high school after living in two foster care homes he was sent here to live on his own it was hard it was one of the most depressing times in my life something I would never want any of my kids to go through or anything like that can you tell me about some of those moments I probably said it said it was my graduation cuz then when you imagine graduation you imagine you know the day of your parents waking you up and it's your big day it with none of that he filled his days working three jobs stay busy so I would have to go home alone basically so you work concessions at the Reds Cincinnati Reds dishwasher at Chipotle dishwasher at Chipotle and I was a cashier at Wendy's as rough a childhood as you had how were you able to turn that into such a productive adulthood I like I just use my trauma and my hurt and stuff to be my fuel to keep going and to want better and want to help people and do better in life it's inspiring that given all you've been through you were able to graduate high school cuz most foster kids don't when he had aged out of the foster care system at age 18 never having been adopted he started to make sure that other people like him didn't become statistics so he first got custody of his younger sister then at 21 he became the guardian to his 13-year-old brother and then he started to take in foster children is you doing this trying trying to fill a hole in yourself I don't think so because I told myself once I start my family nothing else is going to matter and literally nothing else matters now that I have my family because they're they're together their togetherness extends to everybody pitching in at the salon which they depend on to support their family it's joy in everything I feel like when it comes to kids cuz it's a Memory it's stuff I didn't get and guess what that Joy has spread we wanted judge starle to see the family she allowed to be together almost three years ago today we are reaffirming the adoption of the Carter kids yay you should know too the family that Robert Carter brought together now also includes his mother who gave up drinking four years ago and his father Robert has reconciled with them and embraced them as parents giving his children grandparents a the family all together by the force of one very loving man I've got a sweet trick from a Minnesota dad he found a creative way to stop his 2-year-old's tantrum check this [Music] out little Caroline borgus came to the door crying after her sister sprayed her with water but Dad quick Stop Those Tears not with a tissue but with some whipped cream right in the mouth Caroline's mom says 2-year-olds can get upset over a lot of things as we all know but her family has found this trick works great sugar I think that is such a dad thing know I don't know a mom that would do that I could see my wife doing it to me to just shut me up though well that's a different story we're going to begin this hour with an incredible story of determination that led to a lifechanging Discovery Deanna shrs who was adopted as a baby was building a family in Florida while at the same time trying to learn about her own Origins so after years of searching schro met her biological mom who died before revealing the identity of her biological father our lead National correspondent that's David begno spoke with shess about getting answers and answering a strangers prayers in the process the life story of Deanna shrouds was a story without a beginning at least she didn't know the beginning but she was determined to find out I have to know where I started and I have to know who else out there is a part of me that desire never never never left schs was adopted as an infant she was 27 years old when she found her biological mom she was not open to meeting me and then I went and met her personally I just showed up knocked on the door so you meet her and you guys end up having a relationship for how many years 20 years until she died you had one question for your mother which you kept asking yeah and it was who is my father and her answer was I'm going to go to the Grave with the name had no idea she was sick had no idea that there was cancer Brewing weeks later she was diagnosed and a couple months later she was dead she took it to the Grave she took it right to the Grave Just give me a call now the story almost ended right there but her mom did tell her heard two important things about her dad he was Greek and from Richmond Virginia so she set out creating a private Facebook group finding Mr Greek she gathered a group of friends and volunteers who would help search for him and she signed up for multiple DNA Registries hoping that science would lead her to her father how many years do they try to find Mr Greek well it's been 10 years I got maybe five matches on my father's side so I'm like this is Terri terrible like we don't have anything to work with here on the DNA side just open yourself up for just a new level of healing and restoration in your life she is an ordained minister so she prayed a lot I told my husband I told my best friend Laura I said listen guys you might think I'm crazy but I was in prayer God spoke this to me your father's name is Gus well sure enough in May of this year after nearly a lifetime of wondering her prayers were answered there was a match to a cousin she never knew she had I reached out to this cousin and I said uh we've just matched on 23 and me and he said I think you're my uncle Gus's daughter and I said I think that [Music] too his name is Gus Gus Nicholas 92 years old he lived in Richmond all his his life a bachelor who was never married he was a retired ballroom dance instructor I prepared myself to find a grave and I now found a person and it was just absolutely mind-blowing couldn't believe that I had found a person sches called him the very next day my heart was beating out of my chest I was like what is this going to be like and is he going to accept me is he going to want to see me when I found him he was so excited to be found he said I woke up this morning and I was alone now this afternoon I have a daughter I have a son-in-law I have three grandchildren I have great-grandchildren he said I'm not alone in the world anymore and I said no you're not you're not within a week she was at Gus's bedside well I'm here glad you I'm glad I'm here too as it turns out just four months before they met Gus had fallen at home he was found lying on the floor he could no longer care for himself so the state placed him in a nursing home and that's where they first met Gus would say to me please don't let me die in here don't let me die in here and I said you know what I'm going to make sure yes they are father and daughter but still strangers which makes what happened next absolutely remarkable Diana said to Gus would you like to come and live with me to which Gus responded how soon can we go and so 56 years after she was adopted and 75 short days after she first called him schs and her husband Pastor Larry schs took Nicholas out of that nursing home and drove him to their home right outside Tampa Florida okay you got the yep they now provide for him fulltime she cooks his meals Greek he always prefers and she feeds them to him her guest room is now his bedroom there are the momentos that he asked her to bring from from the Richmond home his trophies dancing shoes favorite hat and a picture from the good old days I love you so much 92 years of memories are packed into this 80t room it is just big enough for his hospital bed but intimate enough for the conversations they have I knew your mother for 6 some years on new Hi Gus I even got a chance to say hello how did does it feel to have your daughter find you it feel good yeah I didn't find my daughter my daughter found me she found you yeah to the man who gave her life she is prepared to give back to him until the end of his okay she's asked just one thing of him will you tell me all about you it is the most worthwhile thing I've ever done in my life it's the hardest thing it's the most worthwhile thing it's the most incredible Miracle I've ever had the privilege to live out yeah I'm living the dream isn't that wonderful yes this Sunday is Father's day and it's a particularly big one for me it is my first as a dad as you all know my wife Marin and I welcomed our daughter Seline earlier this year and she has brought so much joy and purpose to our lives wrong I know as well as many sleepless nights uh so as we celebrate fathers this uh this weekend I visited our family's favorite New York City neighborhood hangout it's called nobody told me it's on the upper west side and it is where we first announced to our families on that day that we were having a baby and I wanted to share a letter with Seline about how she's changed our lives in the most beautiful [Music] ways when I was first asked to write a few words about Father's Day as a firsttime dad I thought what do I know what can I possibly have to say I've only been a dad for about 4 and A2 months I'm just learning it felt like being asked to climb Mount everus when I was still at base camp just putting on my boots but then I realized something 4 and 1 half months a little over 19 weeks which means your mom Marion and I have been your parents for about 735 hours I have been your dad for 44,100 minutes the point is that from the very first minute you came into our lives until this very moment and even before I've been your dad your papa I was there when you took your first breath and you were only seconds old when I kissed you and whispered your name into your itty bitty ear Seline from the Latin kinus meaning Heavenly must be missing an angel and you were just a few hours old when we had our first daddy daughter dance fittingly to Heaven Must Be Missing an angel those lyrics missing one angel child cuz you're here with me right now yes elen and just 4 months you've realized that your Papa loves music and spends hours singing and playing for you everything from Bach to Springsteen to cold [Music] train and I can tell that you love it too especially when I sing your favorite song in Mandarin Chinese or at least I try we read together books in English books in French and then Mama reads to both of us in Mandarin so we both learn together we go on walks to the park and we search for birds and smell the flowers and sometimes we do nothing at all and just when I think that my heart is filled to the brim with love and devotion you go and do something you grin at me in the morning when I peer into your crib you grasp at something you cry and you reach for me and guess what my heart grows yet again but I have learned something on this my first Father's Day it's one that I guess all dads and moms too have learned it can't be taught you can't prepare for it because the only way to know it is to feel it to experience it to live it the feeling that a heart's capacity for love is infinite Limitless Without End dads know know what that means and now for the very first time so do [Music] I it's hard to believe there are still people alive today who had a parent Born Into Slavery Daniel Smith who's almost 90 years old is one of the few left Jan Crawford spoke with him about his incredible story which reflects the Arc of race relations in America from slavery to civil rights activism and the fight to end systemic discrimination Jan is outside the national museum of African-American history and culture in Washington a great story today Jan good morning good morning Michelle you know it's an inspiring incredible story and what's even more incredible the messages that Daniel Smith heard from his father a breed slave Survivor the strongest of the strong so similar to what many other children of freed slaves heard from their parents it's a story history has for forgotten we are survivors Daniel Smith is one of the last living links to America's original sin your grandparents were enslaved your father was born the property of a white man yep his father Abram was born into bondage in Virginia in the early 1860s he was 70 when his youngest son Daniel was born he used to tell these stories stories about the inhumanity their ancestors suffered and survived father said you could hear him screaming and crying at the whipping post but the interesting thing my father never allowed you to talk negatively about America his father believed like other freed slaves in this new America his young son would be great he grabbed me and shook me he said you have nothing to nothing to cry about this is America we came from the strongest of the strong we survived the ships the ship he gave me a signal to be strong and to survive and not just survive but Thrive and fight for True Freedom John Lewis you have a lot of uh memories with him right Smith's living room is a testament to his generation's struggle for equality he was there for Martin Luther King Junior's March on Washington I want to remember he someday little black boys and black girls can walk hand in hand and with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers I have a dream today well I would say and yes and yes Smith followed that dream to Alabama where he helped lead the fight for voting rights he witnessed firsthand the terror Smith remembers the Klux Clan torching his office and one night while driving a car full of white men chased him down a dark road then all of a sudden boom they hit me and so I spit up as fast as my car would go and then they come along inside me pull over you black and I said no this black is not pulling over because if they catch you you're gone that must have been the most terrifying I wasn't scared I was angry but it stays with you up until 89 you know like you can still feel that oh yeah right Smith went on to a successful career in government and then served as head Usher at the National Cathedral where he led presidents to prayer an incredible life inspired by a generation history forgets we want to think that happened so long ago author Santa Butler says the children of freed slaves like Smith heard similar messages from their parents mothers and fathers said we didn't survive for you to be anything other than great in her book sugar of the crop Butler spoke to more than a dozen children of slaves all of whom now are gone instead of anger they were taught like Smith they could do anything after the Civil War blacks truly believe the worst was over the worst was over the worst was over so they had this immigrant mentality that we are going to go out and achieve everything that we can they didn't anticipate the barriers White America would erect but their message like the one from Smith's father was you are the strongest of the strong people always say it can't be done you can't do this you can't do that I don't believe that if you tell me that I'm going to do it you hear people say today but America has made made so much progress it has but it know it really has when I'm voted for Obama I mean it was shaking I couldn't believe I was doing this a black man you now we've made a lot of progress but he says not nearly enough we cannot continue as a nation with people hating each other my father he never hated anyone you never saw that from him right no never saw what would your message be for the future be we need more kindness and I look back in terms of My Crazy Life and I think it all came from my father saying do good things do good things Phil Heckle says he was never much of an artist but a few weeks ago he was trying to get his son Sam to make a few thank you cards and just to try to get him interested I said hey I'm going to draw a picture of Nala our dog he drew this one and this one then he posted them on Facebook writing for sale beautiful handdrawn pictures of your favorite family pets for roughly $400 each it was a joke but serious requests began pouring in thousands of them so he began transforming pictures of pets into cartoons of crosseyed dogs long-legged cats and more I can't get my head around the fact that so many people seem to like what I'm doing um it is just Bonkers he signs his sketches with his pseudonym Hercule van wolf Winkle and leaves funny fake customer reviews like did you draw this in the dark with your eyes closed it was all this tongue and cheek thing of I'd set up this business and become a portrait artist but when people offer to pay for their Pet Portraits he ask them to donate instead to a local homeless charity and local homelessness so far he's raised more than $45,000 why do you think people like your drawing so much I don't know um I mean I think the honest answer is they make people smile um and so there's not a lot to smile about at the moment one man even turned hercu drawing into a tattoo there's no going back from that and it was a terrible picture as well but I guess it was his dog Hercule may not be the best artist in the world but he might be one of the fastest we watched him sketch this cute puppy named Scott and this police dog from Henderson Texas how long do you think you're going to keep going um right now for I can't see it stopping um um forever well I don't know about forever that's a long time but this doodling dad says if he can keep lifting spirits and raising money for a good cause he won't put down his pencils anytime soon for CBS This Morning roxan sa Worthing England here that pass there is not much in life better than passing a ball or puck back and forth with your kid go to the nck it's a little thing but also everything with the Exquisite highs that come with bonding over Sports however come the inevitable lows and Rich Cohen has done a damn fine job documenting both in his latest book Peewee Confessions of a hockey parent this can consume your life it does consume my life this is this welcome to my house we met Cohen at Danbury ice arena in Connecticut one of the places his youngest son played during one memorable season rationally I know I shouldn't care about it and I'll tell myself at the beginning of every season that this season's going to be different and this season I'm not going to care and then I get into the stands and I feel like going to like pass out from the intensity of it pews named after 11 and 12y olds is laid out by months of the year as winter tightens its grip and Cohen Sons team inches toward a regional tournament these are not Afterschool pickup games they're matches both early morning and late night long weekends of travel and one parent taking a hard look at everything that went down Cohen doesn't leave out much drama you talk about arguments with coaches you talk about getting very angry with little kids your wife had to pull you away from the sport for a while and wouldn't even let you go right I mean I went I lost my mind and it's stupid and it's not important and maybe the fact that it is stupid and it's not important is what makes it so important it's like sharing for Sports in general yeah it's like my father grew up with Larry King Larry used to always say sports is the most important unimportant thing in the world and that's why you lose your mind over it because it's almost like you transfer everything from the rest of the world into this Rank and that's when people act really bad when they when the game becomes a symbol for everything and it's it it becomes unfortunately a lot more important for the parents than than the kids but that's the blessing see one of the reasons why I think hockey is the best sport is the plexy glass cuz the parents are up there yelling but the kids can't hear them right now most youth sports are either on Paw or dramatically scaled back but that wasn't the case as Cohen's book builds to ass series of Youth games in Lake Placid home 40 years ago to another group of amateurs Ros and the greatest American sports moment of the 20th century hockey's Miracle on Ice you believe in Miracle yes you say in the book you said when it's functioning like it's supposed to youth hockey is one of the few communities where America still works yes what does that mean every kid on the ice can score at any time every kid's involved every kid's important and it's like horses pulling uh a cart so basically it means that it really is a meritocracy it really is the best kids playing together playing with kids at your level and playing as a true team where everybody has to sublimate to some degree their own talent and their own ego and their own desire to make the whole thing go he's gotten good and he's he's different now than he was when you wrote the book yeah he's playing with really good players so he's gotten good cuz play with better players you get better or you quit basically we won't spoil the ending of peewees but like it or not if you're a parents you'll likely see at least some of yourself inside you'll see your kids too and it might help you take everything a little less seriously or not at the end of all this do you feel like by writing this book you fixed whatever went wrong no probably not I mean I thought maybe you know and then now because of the covid we're not really playing these games but they're was a game there was one game early in the season I'm like I'm a totally different person I've written this book I've come to deal with it and I went to the game it was in New Jersey and uh my son was sitting when I thought he should be playing you know he was sitting too much and I felt it well up in me I felt the old Beast coming back so I'm like you know that's when you go outside and count back counting backwards from 10 is very important for a hockey parent there are some skills you are just born with for six-year-old kashan Todd that's basketball check out how he schools his dad right on their living room Court who so K says one of his signature moves is throwing the ball between his opponent's leg he and his dad Quincy love showing off their skills on social media they have been practicing since kashan was 2 years old listen he use the ceiling there as a baby um just playing basketball on this little baby court and and I start when I grow up and I played on the big cours we just hope to just keep inspiring people to play the game basketball and and ultimately uh to just have fun with the process the California do call themselves hoop Lord and hoop Lord Jr Sean tells us he wants to be a basketball player when he grows up should we get a snack are you doing okay yeah what are you thinking I don't know some help vegetarian gas station options Woody Fair cloth and his 9-year-old daughter Luna are getting used to life on the road look at how beautiful this is really is pretty for the last 3 years they've been taking special trips to deliver RVs to families who've lost homes in wildfires it's a mission they began after watching news of the deadly 2018 campfire in California I turned to Luna who was six at the time she had no front teeth and uh I said Luna you know why don't we get an RV and we'll drive it to California and give it to a family so they have a place to call home for Thanksgiving Luna you said something very special right then at that Thanksgiving yeah I said um Dad God and Santa Claus are going to be very proud of us and do you feel like God and Santa Claus are very proud of you yes Fair cloth began looking for RV donors and was amazed by how many people wanted to help with unwanted RVs or their time we have volunteers all over the country that have helped us we have people right now that are answering emails and processing uh paperwork for for these donations I mean it's just raise your hand and say hey I'd like to help they can come home and make a homecooked meal and dad and daughter have personally delivered about 20 RVs to folks in need mostly firefighters First Responders and Veterans and he's helped arrange around a hundred donations in all but it's also been an opportunity to teach his daughter oh look at the palm trees everywhere along their trips are reminders of the cost of these fires look at the ground How It's just ash and they've developed a stronger Bond it's been really special for the two of us is to be able to spend that time together and to make a difference just so she knows that it's not just about her and it's not just about me it's about the people that we helping and you know we we're blessed oh my gosh it's so like bumpy we joined them on a trip from Denver to Reading California all right now we're really in own stretch they were there to deliver a new home that's beautiful to Don George a firefighter who lost nearly everything when his own home burned in the Fawn fire this past September while he was helping to save others homes I went to the crew and I go hey I got I got to go check on my house and it was already too late my son says I don't know how to tell you but he just couldn't even talk he just he didn't know how to say it it's go on George has been fighting fires for nearly 50 years he's used to being the one doing the rescuing is that your co-pilot his role changed when the fair cloths arrived I got keys for you thank you I got a title for you when we visited George a few weeks later that's look at the crown molding and everything it's like I mean it's just absolutely gorgeous he received a second donated RV so that his adult sons who lived with their parents could also have a place to live it's all I can say is thank God for Woody you couldn't ask for a better man he came just exactly the right time for me renewed my faith in mankind man if there was more people like that we'd have a beautiful world all these families we feel like are they're part of our family now and and we stay in touch and we we hear their stories and share their successes you continue to be a community absolutely and the experience has also helped a little girl grow wise Beyond her years what makes you most proud um that I've made a really big change in the world for a lot of people do you want people to see this and decide children and adults that they can do the same thing yes what can we all do to help make that happen just be nicer to each other

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Length: 46min 25sec (2785 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 16 2024