Kevin Gorg, Steve Brown, John Schwietz, Jeff Hoffmann
219 episodes listed below
Minnesota kindness, with hockey and heart.
The Kindness Chronicles turns Minnesota friendship into a loose, good-humored roundtable about everyday decency. Episodes move from driveway snow and hockey travel to guests with personal stories, public grief, faith, sports history, and community work.
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The Kindness Chronicles is a Minnesota-rooted conversation show where ordinary banter and earnest community storytelling sit in the same room. The episodes have the feel of friends gathering in a basement studio, checking who is present, who is traveling, and who has been battling the latest snow. It is loose by design. A joke about slippers, a sunburned scalp, or a clean driveway can sit beside a serious reflection on fear, grief, and public stress in Minnesota. The show’s central promise is kindness, but it treats that idea less like branding and more like a habit people keep choosing. Guests often bring the conversation into specific lives and memories. Lino Rulli talks about faith, media, well-known guests, and a surprising high-school backstory involving the circus. Kelly Paradise and Andrea Kangas help turn an Olympic special into a story about friendship, hockey families, humility, Switzerland, New York, and growing up around a famous sports legacy. Sean Corr from Eagles Healing Nest points the room toward service and healing. Mark Daly’s episode opens with a careful acknowledgment that many people in Minnesota are hurting, while still resisting the pull of argument for argument’s sake. Sports are everywhere, especially hockey. KG’s work travel, Team USA line charts, the Wild, Nashville, high school arenas, and Minnesota hockey history all become part of the conversational furniture. The show can be sentimental. It can also be dry, teasing, and proudly unpolished. That mix is the appeal: it does not flatten kindness into sweetness, and it does not chase controversy for energy. It sounds like people trying to laugh, remember, and keep their bearings together. For listeners who want a polished interview show, the rhythms may feel rambling. For listeners who like familiar voices, local references, and stories that move from neighborhood detail to larger human stakes, it offers a steady, companionable place to land.
Made for: For listeners who enjoy conversational shows built around friendship, local color, sports talk, faith-adjacent reflection, and sincere community stories. It especially fits people who like Minnesota references and casual roundtable pacing.
What sets it apart: The show pairs light, inside-joke banter with unusually direct concern for people’s well-being. Its kindness theme is grounded in concrete Minnesota settings: driveways, hockey arenas, basement studios, road trips, family memories, and community service.
We live in a world dominated by stories of divisiveness. The Kindness Chronicles hopes to give the world a dose of the "Minnesota Nice" it desperately needs. Hosted by Fox Sports North's Kevin Gorg, Steve Brown of Johnny Clueless fame and John Schwietz (a guy you've never heard of), the Kindness Chronicles delivers stories of kindness through the lens of Minnesotans who share their personal backstories and celebrate those who influenced them to become the people they are today.
Marching bands meet movie lore, giving your better angels some very funny company.
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A Minnesota reunion turns Lino Rulli’s Catholic Guy profile into a warm, wandering talk about celebrity and public faith.
An old-school reunion frames a relaxed conversation about the strange afterlife of high-school reputation. Lino Rulli, introduced as the Catholic Guy, has moved back to Minnesota and becomes the playful test case for local fame inside a narrow Hill-Murray circle in Maplewood.
Minnesota hockey history, told as family memory with warmth and easy laughs.
An Olympic-special conversation sits at the center of this warm reunion, where Minnesota pride and old stories keep circling back in a way that feels lived in, not staged.
A relaxed, anecdote-heavy holiday conversation about why a classic scene still works.
The episode keeps circling the same simple pleasure: a holiday story told with enough warmth and looseness to feel lived in. It spends time on A Christmas Story, especially one scene that folds family disappointment into something funny and affectionate.
Peace, gratitude, and growth in real life.
Life lessons from ordinary turning points.
The Kindness Chronicles episode features Forest Lake band director Jake Matheson and former student Katie Du Bois discussing the revival of a marching-band tradition that had disappeared from their school.
Kelly Olson describes organizing the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games, involving about 3,000 athletes, 10,000 coaches, more than 22,000 volunteers, and roughly 100,000 spectators.
The Kindness Chronicles interviews Lino Rulli, host of SiriusXM’s Catholic Guy show, about his path from Hill-Murray High School and Circus Flora to radio and television.
This episode of The Kindness Chronicles features casual banter among hosts about vacations, weather, and personal anecdotes, with a loose connection to kindness themes.
The Kindness Chronicles’ Olympic Special centers on Kelly Paradise, chairperson of the Minnesota Hockey Hall of Fame board, and Andrea Kangas, a childhood friend who has known Kelly since kindergarten.
The hosts celebrate Galentine's Day with trivia and banter, introducing a segment on kindness stories.
The hosts introduce the show and guests, discuss a recent mention on another show, and prepare to interview a guest from Eagles Healing Nest.
Hosts share a cozy conversation about their week, including a trip to Nashville and Olympic preparations, while introducing the show's theme of kindness.
The hosts discuss the importance of kindness and community during difficult times in Minnesota, acknowledging listeners' feelings and affirming their worth.
Hosts discuss current events in Minnesota and introduce their mission to share stories of kindness.
The hosts welcome a special guest and engage in humorous banter about kindness and New Year catch-up.
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The hosts discuss a recent Vikings game while one shares his experience watching it with his hospitalized father, blending sports talk with personal reflection.
Hosts interview guitarist Billy McLaughlin about his hand injury and journey, highlighting kindness and perseverance.
The hosts discuss the death of Ozzy Osbourne and his legacy, sharing personal anecdotes and a tribute concert, while framing it within their mission to highlight kindness.
The hosts introduce the show's mission to spread kindness and prepare to interview a guest who made a lasting impression on one of them.
The hosts introduce a special guest, Dr.