Kevin Bacon

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Greetings, trivia fans. I'm Mark Ellison, and today we're celebrating the sixty seventh birthday of versatile actor Kevin Bacon. Question one in which nineteen eighty four film did Kevin Bacon play Wren McCormick, a teenager who fights to overturn a town's ban on dancing? Question two? What popular party game is based on the concept that Kevin Bacon is connected to every other actor in Hollywood? Question three? In which nineteen ninety thriller did Kevin Bacon play an underground dweller who becomes obsessed with a family living above ground? Question four?

0:58 What is the name of the music duo that Kevin Bacon formed with his brother Michael? Question five? In which long running TV drama series did Kevin Bacon star as FBI agent Ryan Hardy. We'll be right back with these well connected answers after this break. Welcome back, trivia fans. Let's reveal today's answers. Question one in which nineteen eighty four film did Bacon fight a dancing band? Answer? Footloose? Bacon played Wren McCormick, a Chicago teenager who moves to a small town where dancing in rock music have been banned.

1:42 The film became a cultural phenomenon and established Bacon as a leading man, spawning a successful soundtrack and later a Broadway musical. Question two, What party game is based on Kevin Bacon's connections? Answer? Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? Based on the six degrees of separation concept, Players try to connect any actor to Kevin Bacon through their film roles in six steps or fewer. The game was created by college students and became so popular that Bacon initially found it annoying before eventually embracing it. Question three in which nineteen ninety thriller did Bacon play an underground dweller? Answer? Tremors.

2:25 Bacon played Valentine McKee, a handyman in a small Novada town threatened by giant underground creatures called Graboids. The film became a cult classic and spawned multiple sequels, though Bacon only appeared in the original. Question four, What musical duo did Bacon form with his brother? Answer? The Bacon Brothers. Kevin and Michael Bacon have been performing together since the nineteen nineties, blending rock, folk and country music. Kevin plays guitar, and sings, while Michael plays various instruments. They've released several albums and twour regularly. Question five in which TV series did Bacon play FBI agent Ryan Hardy answer the following.

3:10 This psychological thriller series ran from twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen and featured Bacon as an FBI agent pursuing a charismatic serial killer and his cult of followers. The show marked Bacon's return to series television and showcased his dramatic acting range. That concludes today's five Daily Trivia questions. I'm Mark Allison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. If you'd like to enjoy five daily Trivia questions without ads, check the link in our show notes or visit Calaroga dot com slash plus see you tomorrow. Stick around now for this interview our sister.

3:51 I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great, Thank you, that's so generous of you. Call. That's great, But is why my sister in law went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't want anything to do with and stormed out of the room and I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right otherwise it was not going to work. So that happened. And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial statements and I had more money there than I was really using. It was sitting there.

4:37 I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me. I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die? Why don't I bring it forward? And then it was a long process for me to come around to that, but that's what finally started this, and I said, well, I'll do it. Now. Let's back up just a bit and tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward. The inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest, so it was a chunk of money that they were going to get. Well they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can magnect and I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward to give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it's really a big benefit for you. I don't want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan? And they said, a happiness plan? What's that? So you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it's one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn't have to be a very complex What is it you're happy? What values do you want to pursue?

6:03 You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and so then they took it and I watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did, so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they diedtionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later, and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I put them in my will and they could accept that.

7:28 And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we'll do it because I say we're going to wait until you die, why not do it now? And they did it. And it wasn't the money interesting Now, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, will never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again.

8:09 And they started to get the mindset of happy people. And now you cannot believe what these people they are traveling all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life. Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have. You know, when you're in those depths, it's really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn't a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that I didn't ask that I should have?

9:08 How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice. And then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife, or a girlfriend, or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I'm made the decision that I want to be happier, and I'm like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it's not that hard, but it is challenging, but it's a wonderful excep size and if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.

10:05 I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiment, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where can people find the book? Wherever books are sold? And it's now available for pre order from Amazon and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan. It's been fun.