Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
· Patrick O'Shaughnessy, John Kim
[00:00:00] S0: I think you know my traditional closing question for everyone. What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you? [00:00:00] S1: First of all, thank you for asking it, because it opens up such a cornucopia of gratitude in my life. There's no way I'd be where I am today without the charity of others. And so the hardest part was finding that one moment. When I thought about the nicest thing, I thought, it's actually the body of work of niceness. And that has to be my wife — the body of work of things that she does for me that is kind and nice. So the nicest thing she's done for me is support me and all of the lunacy that actually is connected to being a fundraiser and how hard it is and physically how difficult it is. But I'll tell you the one story about my wife. I'm 58 years old, so eight years ago, I had my 50th birthday and I was born in 1967. And so I grew up loving '80s and '70s rock bands and my favorite rock band is a band called Styx. And so on my 50th birthday — and I happen to play guitar, and so she got a band to play, and I happen to be able to play several Styx songs on my guitar. And so they called me up on stage and said, well, your 50th birthday, why don't we have John come up and play one of his favorite Styx songs? And so I'm like, great. They opened up the guitar case, and my wife got me an autographed guitar from every band member of Styx. And then inside there was actually tickets to the next show. And I got— and she got me backstage passes so I can meet the band. [00:00:00] S0: Amazing.
· Patrick O'Shaughnessy, John Kim
[00:00:00] S0: Amazing. [00:00:00] S1: Oh, amazing. And it was the nicest thing, to this day, that anybody's ever done for me. It was incredible because not only was it such a rare gift to give somebody, but she had to go figure this out and she had to have the resources to go do this. And by the way, just so you know, not only did she get me on stage to play a Styx song with this band. But my brother — my younger brother, who's five years younger than me — plays piano. She got him to learn the song on piano. It was Come Sail Away. So my brother gets on stage, starts playing the piano, and I'm laughing like, oh my God, my brother's a very busy guy. I'm sorry that you had to learn this. And so the whole thing was an expression of love, but it was an identity of me. It was a celebration of me. You can't ever take that away. [00:00:00] S0: Beautiful, wonderful place to close. You've taught us a lot today. Thanks so much for your time. [00:00:00] S1: Well, thank you. It was great to be here.