A couple of days ago I mentioned that my Dad was going to be featured in a news segment airing on Thursday, May 7. The piece did indeed run last night, and it turned out great. The whole process of watching this piece get put together was a lot of fun, and even my modest Dad got a kick out of it.
The backstory. The local NBC affiliate, KARE-11, periodically runs a segment called 'Boyd Huppert's Land of 10,000 Stories', a play on words of Minnesota's motto 'Land of 10,000 Lakes'. These stories are feel-good, heartwarming stories about every-day people around the state. What makes these segments so good is Boyd Huppert. He is an Emmy-award winning reporter who has also won four National Edward R. Murrow Awards and a National Headliner Grand Award. In other words, he's a damn good story-teller who could make watching paint dry a compelling event.
Last month my Dad happened to mention to me that he had been seeing his barber Jim for 50 years, to which I responded 'Wow. That sounds like a story Boyd Huppert would like'. I always knew that Jim the Barber was more than a barber to my Dad. I couldn't imagine the depth and breadth of stories they shared together over the past 50 years, and so I sent Boyd a 'pitch email' about the relationship shared between this particular barber and client.
Boyd loved it...and the rest, as they say, is history. The piece was filmed last week, first at my Dad's office, then at the baber shop, and finally and my Dad's home. The piece can be viewed by clicking here. There are a bunch of videos on the right of the screen. Scroll you mouse over them until you see Land of 10,000 Stories: A Cutting Edge. Not the most ideal way to share this with you, but they keep moving the story around on the site!
Enjoy...if you can find it!
