Interview · North Dakota · Kevin Finley
Themes: Storytelling & oral tradition
New transcript-based questions created with AI assistance using Scott Simpson’s Learn About and Learn From guide.
Learn About questions
1. Why does Kevin Finley spend time learning from Charlie?
2. What happened when a young woman approached the two men after a celebration?
3. How did that encounter lead to the description of them as two old guys?
Learn From questions
1. Who do I turn to when I need to learn something I do not know well?
2. How can concern for someone's immediate safety guide my response when they are vulnerable?
3. What does this story invite me to consider about care, judgment and responsibility?
Transcripts
04 Kevin Finley: Story of Two Old Guys
Watch this interview on YouTubeWell before I do that I want to I want to share a story about me and Charlie over there’s a well-known MC for all the powers here and there’s times I just cause just i something i’ve been asked to do but i just really don’t know enough that he knows so I go sit by him and try to learn a little bit and one time I was after the celebration was over him we’re just sitting there visiting really late and this young girl kept walking comes walking by and she could tell she’s really she’s had way too much to drink so Charlie calls her over and she said he says there could be seen security coming he said sit right here so right here they’re gonna saw security came here how you doing guys didn’t that girl just out there didn’t say anything in and so they went by and then her friends came and oh there you are what are you doing here said oh I’m just sitting here with these two old guys so that’s tonight I mean Charlie became old guys was because we because we saved someone from going to jail
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