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I'm so sorry, man. I'm like two-quarters short. Do you have anything? I actually got one. One?
Man, that'll work. Hey, a quarter's good, better nothing. What's your name, man? Second. Second.
Great to meet. I'm Jimmy. Thank you. Can you hold this for a second? I got $500 for you.
I didn't need your help. Yes, is it gonna help out? Absolutely not. My tires fixed to a car. Is this real?
It is man. Bless you. No, it's to the point where I can only get certain things done one at a time. I just got my brakes done. Yeah, well why were you helping me out when you're like barely staying afloat yourself?
Hopefully, um, you know what, to be honest with you, I just started coming around to the point in my life where I'm starting to see people as brothers and sisters. Make it a hug you all time, man. Thanks.
So that is just a slice of Jimmy Dart's life. He's the author of a brand new book called Undercover Kindness: Saying Yes to Love, No to Fear, and Embracing the Life-Changing Power of Ordinary Generosity. Jimmy, welcome. Yeah, thanks so much for having me. And the book's out today, right?
Yep, just came out. And hopefully, yeah, it encourages people that, yeah, ordinary generosity is powerful. I think so often we celebrate someone writing a million-dollar check or this non-profit, which those things are great, but it's really the small acts that never get noticed that really is what this country is made of.
So tell me the premise where you came up with this idea and what you're actually doing. You're putting people to the test. Yeah, so about five years ago, I started following Jesus when I was 18 years old. But the Lord put on my heart, He goes, Jimmy, I want you to make videos where you ask strangers for help, and when they help you, change their life. And I was like, that's a pretty wild concept.
I've never heard of that. And so I began just asking people for a dollar at the gas station or for pretending like you're homeless? Yeah, just all types of things. Would you dress the part? Yeah, I would dress the part.
I have different outfits and stuff I put on and basically just go everywhere from alleyways to Walmarts to laundry mats. And that first-kind stranger that helps me out. We then reward their kindness with $500. And the crazy thing is, it doesn't stop there, it just begins. And millions of people online see these acts of kindness and go, you know what?
I want to help this lady, this guy, more. And so, yeah, just last week we raised over $400,000 for a couple living in their car. You said it was a pastor? Yeah.
So tell me that. Yeah, so there's a pastor, one-year-old daughter they had. They were living in their car, just lost his full-time job. And I came up on them, and he immediately goes, I know who you are. And I was like, dang it, I can't do a kindness test on this guy.
He knows who I am. And then I was like, actually. The fact that he was honest and wasn't trying to pretend like he didn't know me, I think he just passed the test and it was the honesty test. And so I gave him a thousand bucks for his honesty. Him and his wife were just balling their eyes out.
And sure enough, I upload this video on YouTube, TikTok, and yeah, we raised over $400,000 for them and they're off the streets now. And so your goal would be to see if people would help other people. And then in turn, they pass the honesty test and then you reward them. And then you post that, and then you give people the opportunity to support that person. Absolutely.
Because these people that have helped me out in these videos, you know, they've been living a lifestyle of kindness and have never been noticed for it, never been rewarded for it. And the Bible talks about don't grow weary in doing good because in due season, God will reward you. And so it's so cool seeing these people that give their last $5 and they think that's all that's going to happen. And the next thing they know, they've got $50,000 to $100,000 coming in. And I like to say it's kind of the opposite of winning the powerball.
It's not, these people don't get a blessing on the foundation of. Greed trying to take, but they actually get a blessing on the foundation of generosity, which is, I think, why they're able to steward it so much better.
So, you said you had a vision of this happening. How? How did that come across? Yeah, just started following Jesus, and I deleted my old videos. I used to do crazy pranks and wild stuff when I was younger, party videos.
And I just felt the Lord being like, Yeah, I want you to use your gifts for me, but I want you to go and I want you to highlight the kindness that's in the country. There's so many things we hear in articles and this and that, but the truth is, if you just drive across the country in your car, go into gas stations, talk to people in stores, you'll find that so many Americans really have incredible lives.
Some people blow you off, right? Uh some people do but honestly a lot of them don't and even if they do I can understand hey it's a random guy coming up to you, you know, so we never highlight the people that say no. It's all about highlighting the one that says yes.
So here's an example of Sebastian the blind broom sales. Yeah.
So let's listen. Right. Do you think you'd be able to do one for five? Yeah, all I got is five on me right now. Yeah, really?
How did you get started doing this? I couldn't get a job, so I decided to create my own. No one would hire me. When I went to Linterviews, people first saw my cane, so they just gave it to someone who could see it.
So, what's the hardest thing you've been through recently? Discrimination, to cancer. Bill, you have cancer? Not me, my wife. But we're scared because she's 30 and her mom lost her life to cancer at the age of 46.
I would love to pray for her. You know, prayer is better than money anyway. Oh my gosh.
Well guess what? I got a thousand dollars here for you.
So, describe that situation. Yeah, so Sebastian is a man who's on the corner in Mesa, Arizona, selling mops and brooms, and he's blind. And so outours on the corner. Yeah, so he just trusts that people give him the amount they're saying they're giving him. But I had heard stories of people stealing stuff from him, all this.
And I was like, Man, I want to go ask this guy for help.
So, sure enough, he gives me a discount on a broom. I give him a thousand bucks. And a couple of days later, I fly back into Arizona because I live in California to go surprise him. And I post on Instagram. I say, Hey, come here if you want to be at the surprise.
Sure enough, news station showed up. We were able to surprise him with over $100,000. We had a line that was about 100 yards long of everyone buying out everything. And his dream was to be a car salesman, but no one would give him the shot because he was blind and obviously it just didn't make a lot of sense.
Well, a guy was there who owned a car dealership and he goes, Guess what? I'll hire you, Sebastian. The crowd goes crazy. He works there. He sold like five cars in his first month.
And so it's a chapter in the book: The First Blind Car Salesman in the State of Arizona. Wow.
So, how many do you think you've done so far? Oh, man, we've probably done hundreds, hundreds of people. Yeah, I've been doing this for over five years, and it's just been so encouraging, honestly. Just the people, all types of situations, any stereotypes getting broken. Like, you really just anyone and everyone at any time, rich, poor, they have nice cars, they don't have anything.
People are generous, and it's the most powerful thing in the world is thinking about others and not yourself. And what's been the reaction from your family? Man, they encouraged me to do this. One my dad told me five years ago when I was sitting on his deck, I was working at his restaurant. Jimmy's in Walker, Minnesota, and I'm out on the deck.
He goes, What do you want to do with your life? I go, Well, I guess it must not be working for you. And so I said, Well, if I could do anything, I mean, I know it's not a real job, but I'd like to be like Santa Claus year-round, just go around, bless people, courage them with the love of Jesus, you know, buy them homes, give them cars, but that doesn't exist. And he just looks at me dead serious and he goes, Start tomorrow. And I was like, Well, what do you mean, start tomorrow?
I don't like he goes, Yeah, if you're serious about it, start tomorrow.
So I got my Honda, drove across country, and Just did with what I could, you know, the $50 I had, the $100 I had, take someone parasailing, buy someone a meal, started recording these videos, and they grew and grew. And sure enough, now we've raised millions of dollars. How big is your team? It's just me. And my wife helps out here and there.
And who does the shooting? Who does the video with like a hidden camera I wear? And I edit it, everything. Wow.
And you were doing it originally, just doing parties, and you knew you had a pretty good at that? Yeah, I was doing wild stuff back in the day before I met the Lord. I was just, you know, kid who went to church but never really knew following God didn't look like church attendance. It looked like relationship with Jesus. And when God got a hold of my heart when I was 18 years old, it changed everything.
And I laid down my gift of videos, everything, and was a missionary living in India, Brazil, Australia. And that's when the Lord said, hey, I want you to go back into this, but I want you to do it for me.
So, undercover kindness, saying yes to love, no to fear, and embracing the life-changing power of ordinary generosity is Jimmy Dort's book. The guy who wrote the guy who asked people for help then changes their lives. And the thing is, have you kept yourself anonymous enough? I know, like, for example, the impractical jokers. Yeah, they don't really, they're hysterical, but now everybody knows them.
So, it's hard for them to sneak up on people. How do you handle it? Yeah, I honestly, so I use a hidden camera.
So, if you watch my videos, 99% of them never see my face. Yeah, it's not my face, it's like a first-person view of the person. And then I just go up to people that aren't really young people that are technologically savvy and on TikTok and stuff.
So, I go to people that seem, you know, a little bit older, or I've picked up pretty good how to read people if they know who I am or not. And yeah, for the most part, I very rarely run into somebody that understands what's going on.
So, give me an example, if you can, of like how you line up a potential situation.
Sometimes you have to walk around for a while to get a subject. Yeah, yeah.
Sometimes I drive around in my car. Like I did a video where I was going to ask the first person to give me a hug, give them 500 bucks. And I drove around for eight hours and never felt peace to go up to somebody. I just felt like the Lord was, not that person, not that person. I'm driving home, the sun's setting.
I'm like, God, you're crazy. Like, why are you telling me to shoot this video? But no one you gave me peace about. And as I'm driving home, I see this guy and he's on a bike. And I feel like the Lord goes, That's the person.
So I pull over. Ask this guy for a hug. He stops his bike with his feet because he didn't even have brakes. Gives me a hug. I go, man, thank you so much.
I want to see the first person kind enough to take time to give me a hug and just encourage me. Here's 500 bucks. This grown man starts weeping, and he ends up sharing that that day at work, the boss paid everybody except for him, and he had gotten taken advantage of. And so, yeah, we raise over $40,000 for this guy. And so a guy in a car pulls over a guy in a bike, who's got no brakes on his bike, and just for a hug, you do it, and then that's $500.
All these great stories are in undercover kindness with Jimmy Dars. Jimmy, congratulations. Thank you so much. It's Will Kane Country. Watch it live at noon Eastern Monday through Thursday at FoxNews.com or on the Fox News YouTube channel.
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