Are You Okay with This?

**Nigel** (0:20)
Let's start with some good news, some uplifting news. This high school in Iowa went all out to show support for an 11-year-old who's battling cancer. His name's Eli, right? And so this high school just went all out. They launched this challenge where schools have been posting clips of students. I love a good sing-along, by the way, a mass sing-along. Are you kidding? But they posted clips of students at different schools singing Don't Stop Believing by Journey as a tribute. Now it's become this kid's fight song, this 11-year-old cancer patient named Eli. Here are some of the groups and schools joining in on this challenge.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:01)
So grab your friends, hit record, and sing a few lines of Don't Stop Believing, because sometimes relief is the most powerful thing we can give.

**Nigel** (1:12)
Everyone who joins the chain shows that Eli is not fighting alone.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:16)
Stay strong, stay tough, and persevere. Sing it loud, sing it proud, sing it for Eli.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:25)
If you change one person's life, you could really change the world. I feel like these are a bunch of students that they're changing Eli's life. And I think Eli will go on to change the world.

**Nigel** (1:36)
Kind of restores your faith in humanity, especially when we're talking about high school students. Are you OK with this?

**Hammer** (1:41)
Yes, this is the kind of stuff I love, man. And just when you think all high school students are smug, morons, eating Tide Pods, burning themselves with coil, doing anything for social media and attention, there's proof out there that social media is not real life. There's a bunch of really good people still out there. And every once in a while, they get the social media spotlight. It's not often. It's once in a while, but stuff like this happens. People coming together to support a kid with cancer.
I love this.
I remember a baseball game a couple of years ago in high school when my son was playing.
Beech Grove against Cascade, I believe it was. And Cascade had had a student in their school pass away from some sort of ailment or accident. I can't remember. But like before the game, like all the teams, Beech Grove and Cascade came together and they were honoring this kid. This is the kind of stuff that happens every day. We just don't get social media viral videos of it. This is the exception, though. And I'm with you, Nigel. I love a good sing-along. When I was DJing weddings for 20 plus years, Don't Stop Believing was like my go-to sing-along song. Like we get everybody out there.

**Nigel** (3:02)
That's what my wife and I walked into our reception to.

**Hammer** (3:04)
Oh, that's perfect. Yeah, that's perfect. You get everybody jumping up, you know, singing along. They all know the words. I posted a video on my personal social media page the other day.
And for some reason, it went viral. I had no idea why.

**Nigel** (3:21)
Got thousands and thousands of likes on that.

**Hammer** (3:23)
Right. Like it's bizarre. Like I posted out ways to fix crime in Indy. Three likes. I post a video of a sing along from the West Virginia baseball fans and the college football playoffs, and it takes off. So take a listen to this. This was after West Virginia had just won a playoff game against Kentucky. It was a walk off win. West Virginia is going to the next round, and it's like a tradition for West Virginia football games and baseball. When they win, their fans sing Country Roads. Listen to like this massive group of West Virginia fans get into it.
There's a whole damn crowd.
Love that, like if West Virginia wins a football game, they do that after the games too. Now, here's a little nugget of information about Country Roads.
I've always thought that that song wasn't about the state of West Virginia, it was about the western part of the state of Virginia. Because the opening lyrics mentioned Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River, like it's in the opening lyrics, right? Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Those are predominantly in Virginia. There's just a very small part of it that's in the state of West Virginia.

**Nigel** (5:16)
I've never heard this before.

**Hammer** (5:17)
Like a tiny sliver.
So those landmarks are predominantly in Western Virginia. So when you hear the song and he's singing West Virginia, I don't think it's the state. I think it's Western Virginia.

**Nigel** (5:34)
Well, then they've got it all wrong here then on this thing that you posted.

**Hammer** (5:37)
Yeah, I'm telling you. And the state of West Virginia, they've made that like one of their official songs. And I think it's based on a mistake. I think John Denver wrote that about the Western part of Virginia.