Go To on Humility in the Movies (The Pursuit of Happyness)
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:10.3 | This short segment is called a go-to. |
| 0:14.3 | It refers back to this crazy thing we used to do at the end of our sorority meetings in college, if you can believe that. |
| 0:19.3 | It was called for the good of the order, and it was a way to share something that had emerged over the course of the week, which |
| 0:25.9 | really was a bit of learning or thinking or feeling that was to everyone's benefit to share. |
| 0:33.5 | And so that's all we'll do here. Every Friday, we release a go-to, |
| 0:40.3 | and we encourage you to share it with friends around the country. |
| 0:45.7 | We know that people use it as a way to stay in touch with their best friends across the country, |
| 0:50.5 | and, of course, far-flung family members, wherever they might be. And as for your local nearest and dearest, consider it fodder for discussion over the |
| 0:55.6 | course of the weekend. This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders in our weekly segment called Go To. |
| 1:03.7 | This week's Go To is a conversation with Tammy about a film in which we saw terrific humility on display. And it's related to our |
| 1:14.3 | conversation on Tuesday with Father Greg Boyle. So this week's movie is The Pursuit of Happiness. |
| 1:20.7 | It was made in 2006, I think, and it stars Will Smith. He was a producer on it. I think he maybe found the story. It's based on a true story of Chris Gardner. That's interesting. Both of ours are about true stories. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's cool. Interesting, right? So he was a producer on it, and he plays the lead role of Chris Gardner, and his son, Jaden, plays his son, Christopher. |
| 1:44.2 | And you've never seen a cuter kid in your entire life. |
| 1:48.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.5 | And Thandi Newton plays his wife, Linda. |
| 1:52.4 | And it's the story of Chris Gardner was in medical sales trying to make a living. |
| 2:01.1 | And in the film, they have him selling bone density scanners, which are like this big box. |
| 2:06.8 | Looks like a sewing machine. |
| 2:07.8 | Yeah, and he's running all over San Francisco, you know, trying to sell this stuff. |
| 2:11.9 | And apparently he was a medical salesman in real life. |
| 2:15.0 | But it's him, it's the story of him trying to make it. |
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