1 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: Happy off season everybody, and thank you for tuning into 2 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 1: is this a great game? 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: Or what this is? 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: Jeff Kirkshen, I am not with the Hall of Famer 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: my dad, Tim Kirkshon this week because well, quite frankly, 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: we're kind of taking the week off this week. I 7 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: am moving to a new house. My dad is heavily 8 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: involved in our church bizarre by proxy from my mom, 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: who's heavily involved in the church bazaar, which was this 10 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 1: past weekend at Darnstown Presbyterian Church. Shout out Darnstown, Maryland. 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: But we wanted to still bring you some great content, 12 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: and we recognize that so many people are just finding 13 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: out about this podcast. Some have been there since day one, 14 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: some have been there since October first of twenty twenty five, 15 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: and so we wanted to look back to our first 16 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: season twenty twenty four, where we had the opportunity to 17 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: interview the greatest catcher of all time, Johnny Bench, at 18 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame at the Otasaga Hotel on Cooperstown, 19 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: New York. Coolest opportunity in the world. If you miss 20 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: the interview, you're gonna hear it just coming up in 21 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: a few minutes. 22 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 2: I can't wait to share it with you. 23 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: But I also wanted to let you know that during 24 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: the offseason, we're gonna be going once a week, every 25 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: single Tuesday, We're gonna be releasing content for you to 26 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: be listening to on your car ride or watching on YouTube, 27 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: whatever it might be. So continue to support the podcast 28 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: by hitting subscribe or follow, and make sure to follow 29 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: us on social media as well. At Great Game or What, 30 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,199 Speaker 1: next week's episode, Dad and I are going to dive 31 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 1: into all of the awards for the twenty twenty five season. 32 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: They'll be all announced by then, so we'll dive in 33 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: with a special episode for that next Tuesday. But for now, 34 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: right after some ads, Hall of Famer Johnny Bench, welcome 35 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: back to Is This a. 36 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 3: Great Game or What? We are joined by the greatest 37 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 3: catcher of all time, Johnny Bench. Thanks for being with us. 38 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 4: Johnny always a pleasure. 39 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 3: My son, Jeff, he's got my voice and my height. 40 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 3: Unfortunately I passed them both along. 41 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 4: Sometimes that works out. 42 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:10,839 Speaker 5: He ought to be in this jockey, a radio man, 43 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 5: or going into the pipes and all of a sudden 44 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 5: you go under the radio voice and we start doing Yeah, 45 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 5: we can fake it if we need to. 46 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 4: But Jeff, nice to see you. 47 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: Johnny, thank you so much for joining the show. 48 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: You were the number one choice for guests when we 49 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: were going to have a chance to do this in 50 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. And my dad has told this 51 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: story a number of times. When he was asked to 52 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: be a member of the Hall of Fame under the 53 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: Baseball Writers, you gave him a call right after he 54 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: found out. 55 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: Do you remember that phone call? 56 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 5: Of course, of course I call all the It's not 57 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 5: particularly I mean, it's not one one of a kind. 58 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 5: I mean, obviously I had my Tim and respected him 59 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 5: for so long and enjoy more than anybody. You know, 60 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 5: the way he treats the game, the way he broadcasts 61 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 5: the game and made funds of the game, how it 62 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 5: all evolves. But I call all the new inductees to 63 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 5: try to welcome them. I think it's important for me 64 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 5: to do. I don't do it for the Hall or 65 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 5: I don't do it. I just do it for myself. 66 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 3: Johnny. You told me that day, you said, Tim, it's 67 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 3: moments like this that take you back to little league. 68 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 3: And I was just about ready to cry again, and 69 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 3: you said, and let's face it, Tim, you can still 70 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 3: fit into a little league uniform. Do you think that 71 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 3: was really necessary to tell me that? 72 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 4: Well, it was a Kurtchean thing. 73 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 5: You know, there are Kurcheon things in our lives that 74 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 5: everybody still. I know, I get such a kick out 75 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 5: of you when you when the people emulate you, and 76 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 5: I never could. 77 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 4: I don't have that kind of voice. But well, it's 78 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 4: good that you but you're. 79 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 5: You know, you're self deprecating in so many ways. You 80 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 5: accepted you and that's what that's why I'd admire and 81 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,119 Speaker 5: respect you, and that's why it was easy to call 82 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 5: you for the especially for your Hall of Fame in 83 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 5: selection and induction. 84 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 3: Right, Johnny, you came to my speech and I people 85 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 3: ask you, why are you going to Tim Kirchin's speech, 86 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 3: and you said, well, I need to see him cry. 87 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 5: And I came through did not you did, And if 88 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 5: you can't, I mean there's no emotional feelings. I mean 89 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 5: when you think how many years back, you know, when 90 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 5: you first had three and a half years old, and 91 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 5: I'm telling people I want to be a Major League 92 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 5: baseball player. 93 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 4: And you know, and they do. 94 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 5: And then the first grade, second grade, Missus Rosser, asked, 95 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 5: what do you want to be in. I said, I 96 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 5: want to be a major league baseball player, and all 97 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 5: the kids laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked, what 98 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 5: do you want to be in I want to be 99 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 5: a major league baseball player, and they laughed. Because in 100 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 5: the eighth grade I got in school a year early. 101 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 5: So I was five foot two, same size hands, same 102 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 5: sized feed, same size head. So nobody so the only 103 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 5: people scouting me at that time was Barnum and Bailey wasn't. 104 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 4: I wasn't, so nobody believed that. 105 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 5: Then I grew nine inches the next two years and 106 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 5: my junior year, they didn't laugh so much. 107 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 4: Is that right? 108 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's just finish up with you. Also came to 109 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 3: our party that night. You were the only player that came. 110 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 4: To our Well, nobody else likes you too. 111 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, Johnny, you stayed there for ninety minutes. Was unbelievable, 112 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 3: and all my friends met you was like the biggest 113 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 3: thrill that they've ever had. 114 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 4: But before, well, the family was there. I mean family 115 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 4: was cool. 116 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, if you remember at the party the night before, 117 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: I go to Johnny so I can introduce him to 118 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 3: my two brothers, Matt and Annie, and I said, Johnny, 119 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 3: we want to get some pictures. Could could you help 120 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 3: us with some pictures? So we wanted to take a 121 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 3: picture with you instead, What did you do? 122 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 4: The family? Even better? 123 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 2: He's dragging chairs across the venue to set. Okay, you 124 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 2: sit here, Matt, you're here. 125 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 3: Tim, you're here. 126 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 2: It was it was beautiful. 127 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 3: And then finally, after ten minutes, I say, Johnny, we 128 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 3: need a picture of you with the family. So he 129 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 3: hands his camera to this other gentleman and says, can 130 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 3: you take pictures of me with the Kirchen family? And 131 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 3: you handed the camera to Paul Ballader, who had more 132 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 3: hits than the Willie Bays, which I mean one night 133 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 3: that was for us. 134 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 5: But we're all Hall of famers and that was the 135 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 5: fun part of it. The pictures turn out, Oh. 136 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 3: They were great, Johnny. I have a digital photograph machine 137 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 3: at my home which runs twenty four hours a day, 138 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 3: and you're in about ten of the pictures, like snapping 139 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 3: pictures of us. It was absolutely priceless. 140 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: In spirit of this podcast, it's just a digital frame. 141 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: A digital photograph machine sounds like something from nineteen sixteen. 142 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 5: Leave us alone if you want to be smart, okay, fine, 143 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 5: but leave us alone. 144 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 3: At loone gets so, Johnny, I'm not sure you remember 145 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 3: this what happened after the big party? 146 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: Tell us just so, Dad has this great weekend in 147 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and we had this party after his speech, 148 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: and you were there, as Dad mentioned. But I don't 149 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: know if you realized we had a bus coming. But 150 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: you had gotten in the car to head back towards 151 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: the Oda Saga and hitched a ride with my cousin, 152 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: his niece. That's right, and you sat do you remember, Well, 153 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: there were. 154 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 5: You couldn't you couldn't avoid getting in a car with 155 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 5: a kurch and everybody was in, everybody in the family, 156 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 5: everybody in the state, everybody in the country were all there. 157 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 2: And you sat in the back of their mini van. 158 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that's right, with their. 159 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 2: Two children under two and children, and you didn't just 160 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 2: sit there and squeeze and you were singing. 161 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 4: We had to do the stuff, We had to keep 162 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 4: them happy. 163 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 3: Johnie, you're the greatest catcher of all time. 164 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 4: Why would you do something? I'm I used to was 165 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 4: we were so Johnny. 166 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 3: I told my niece Anna, I said, do you know 167 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: who you who? You drove back to town. 168 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 4: You got me fifty years old and even heard of me. 169 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 3: I said, he's the greatest catcher ever. 170 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 4: And she said what, I had no idea. 171 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 3: So we learned something, all right. So Johnny, let's pivot 172 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 3: to baseball. Your induction was in nineteen eighty nine. You 173 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 3: went in with Carly Streemsky, Al Barlic and Red Shandean STI. Okay, 174 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 3: I did what was that day like for you? 175 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 5: Well, the thing I remember the most is that we 176 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 5: flew it. They flew us in from Cincinnati on a 177 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 5: charter and my mom and dad and we got the 178 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 5: limo picked us up. We drove to the front of 179 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 5: the hotel and I said, checked in. I said, I'm 180 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 5: going to go unpack. I went upstairs. I came out 181 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 5: of the room, walking down the hall and here's Enus Slaughter. Hey, 182 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 5: I just met your dad. I get the elevator. 183 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 4: Hee. 184 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 5: Re Reese comes off the elevator. Hey, I just met 185 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 5: your dad. I get down in the lobby. Ted Williams said, hey, 186 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 5: I just met your dad. My dad's got Roy Campanella 187 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 5: around the neck and the wheelchair talking. So in my 188 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 5: induction speech, I introduced the family except my dad, and 189 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 5: I said I would introduce my dad, but I'm sure 190 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 5: most of you have met him by now. So my 191 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 5: dad had wanted to be a major league catcher, and 192 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 5: the war came along. He served two hitches, so when 193 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 5: he came out it was too late. He had the family. 194 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 5: And so I always say I didn't go in and 195 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 5: my dad went in. 196 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: That's amazing, and that's what we this father son podcast. 197 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 2: It's the greatest thing in the world. 198 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 1: The relationship you've had with your father and that I 199 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: have with mine is incredible now being a dad, I 200 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: appreciated even more. 201 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 3: About your first All Star Game in sixty eight. 202 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 5: Well, I was chosen as an ultranant, you know, I 203 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 5: think it was Tom Haller and Jerry Grody or or 204 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 5: Rodney Hundley, and I was chosen as a third catcher. 205 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 5: And I'm sitting in his locker in the in the astronome, 206 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 5: and I'm I'm just watching, you know, everybody go by. 207 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 5: You know, here's Bob Gibson, here's Willie McCovey here, and 208 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 5: Willie is sitting straight across from me in the locker room. 209 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 5: I mean he right over to that, and he got 210 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 5: up and walked over and said, you should have been 211 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 5: to start and catch it. I didn't need anything else 212 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 5: in my life. That meant everything to me. And they 213 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 5: almost I was it was a ninth inning and they're 214 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 5: telling Red to put me in. Well, I don't have 215 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 5: any other catchers, he said, He's not going to get hurt. 216 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 4: Putty man. 217 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 5: So I caught the ninth inning of that ballgame, and I, 218 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 5: you know, it was a just unbelievable moment for me. 219 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 5: But Willy, from that time on, you know, I was 220 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 5: even more proud that he asked for me to present 221 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 5: the Lifetime Achievement and Gold Glove Awards to him in 222 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 5: New York. So we had a wonderful, wonderful history, and 223 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 5: I was thankful. But you know, you don't you never 224 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 5: you know, I always learned him when I was young, 225 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 5: and never expect people to be impressed with who you 226 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 5: are or what you've done, because if you go through that, 227 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 5: don't expect it, because it's you know, there are people 228 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 5: out there. Fifty thousand people go to a baseball game, 229 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 5: twenty five thousand leave happy, twenty five thousand leave upset, 230 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 5: and they saw the same thing. I go two for five, 231 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 5: I had two home runs, I drive in five runs. 232 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 5: I go out to the restaurant after the game. Bar 233 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 5: guy walks up. 234 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 4: And says, hey, I saw you strike out and pop up. 235 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 5: So if you go out there and believe everybody's supposed 236 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 5: to be impressed with who you are, what. 237 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 4: You've done, you know you're still you. You know. 238 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 5: I grew up in a town of six hundred and 239 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 5: sixty one people. We had to go look for ninth 240 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 5: player some days just to finish Little League, And so 241 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 5: I grew up pulling cotton and chopping peanut or chopping peanuts, 242 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 5: combining peanuts, bailing. Hey, so I'm just I'm just the 243 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 5: same guy, and I'll always be my mom and dad's son. 244 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 4: It's so cool. 245 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,559 Speaker 3: Tell us more about your dad, Johnny, and tell us 246 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 3: please the Bob Gibson story that you told me, because 247 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 3: if you don't tell it, I'm gonna tell it. 248 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 5: Well, my dad, my dad served the two Inches in 249 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 5: the war. He came back and we started He started 250 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 5: working for his uncle who had a propane business. We 251 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 5: delivered propane to the houses and to the farms for 252 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 5: irrigations in the tanks and stuff. I did that when 253 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 5: I was fifteen. But my dad and I would watch 254 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 5: the Game of the week every Saturday with Geene Kirby, 255 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 5: Pee Wee Reese and Dizzy Dean. But we would go 256 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 5: down to Helms Grocery. We'd get a half gallon Neapolitan 257 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 5: ice cream. We'd fill our bowls up and we'd sit 258 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 5: there and eat it while we watched the game. Now, Dad, 259 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 5: he had actually batted against Satchel Page in little sandlot stuff. 260 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 5: After he did, and I watched him playing. He could 261 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 5: do with lots of stuff. But he'd sit there and 262 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 5: like all every fan, you know, how hell could he 263 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 5: watch it? 264 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 4: How can he mids that? Hell? I could hit that 265 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,839 Speaker 4: guy good, hit him? How can he Ralph thirty throwing Kurby? Hell, 266 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 4: I cant hit that guy. So it was embedded to me. 267 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 5: And so I get called up by the Reds to 268 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 5: Saint Louis, up to Cincinnati, and we go to Saint 269 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:27,079 Speaker 5: Louis and I called Mom and Dad. I said, I 270 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 5: can get you tickets, I'll get you a room, come 271 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 5: on up to Saint Louis and what So I said, okay, 272 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 5: So they up they come, and so a first night, 273 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 5: I'm going to really impress the hell out of them. 274 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 5: But we faced a picture of the name of Bob 275 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:43,599 Speaker 5: Gibson that first time and I don't know if the 276 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 5: dri was T one one two that year or what, 277 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 5: but all of a sudden, I'm up there and I 278 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 5: strike out, and I go up the second time and 279 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 5: I strike out, and I go up the third time 280 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 5: and I strike out. And I'm coming back and I'm 281 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 5: walking by the battery ondeck circle and just before I 282 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 5: get to the dug and our manager was Dave Bristol. 283 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 5: Dave was kind of like Sergeant Carter on Gomer Pyle USMC. 284 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 5: You didn't think of anything but baseball. There was nothing 285 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 5: but baseball. And I start to smile as I get 286 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 5: to the on deck circle. And by the time I 287 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 5: reached the dugout, I'm grinning and he's down here. It's 288 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 5: took three or four steps in, so you had to 289 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 5: walk down a round. He looked up me and said, 290 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 5: what hell, it's so funny. So I was just thinking, 291 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 5: I don't think Dad can hit this guy. 292 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you do. 293 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 4: How great Bob gives. Yeah, even your dad good to 294 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 4: hit it. 295 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 3: Goodness all right, sir, Johnny, you over the years have 296 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 3: become don't be humble about this, the MC of the 297 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. When a new player comes in You're 298 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 3: always the first one to welcome him. You are the ringleader. 299 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 3: Where did that come from? Did you take that mantle 300 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 3: on yourself or did someone pass it to you? 301 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I'm just I'm a welcomer. 302 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 5: I'm just a guy who greets people and likes people 303 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 5: and befriends people. People, and I think they deserve a call. 304 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 5: I don't know if anybody else calls or not. I 305 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 5: don't worry about it. They don't ask me to do it. 306 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 5: That's just who Johnny is. You know, my mom and 307 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 5: daddy and all, we'd be proud of it. But I 308 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 5: I like to be personal. I like to be respectful. 309 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 5: I like to congratulate people on the awards that they win. 310 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 5: And so when I call them, I told them then 311 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 5: I give them my advice keep a diary, right, And 312 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 5: I tell you, you know, after if it's the induction, 313 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 5: when the announcement is made, I tell them start now. 314 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 4: But I talked to all three. 315 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 5: Last week and I said, now this is going to start, 316 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 5: so I want you to. I want you to keep 317 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 5: your diary, and I want your wife to keep a 318 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 5: diary because this is going to buy so fast, and 319 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 5: you're going to think on Monday or Tuesday, what the 320 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 5: heck happened? All three of them come up to me 321 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 5: and I say, I'm a diary going. 322 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 3: Did you keep a diary? 323 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 4: I didn't. That's why I want you to learn. 324 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 2: I learned. 325 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 4: I learned. 326 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: So one of the highlights for my dad in back 327 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two when we were here, was right 328 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: pretty much above us was the veranda, and you pulled 329 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: him aside. And what advice did you give him on 330 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: his weekend joining this club. 331 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 4: Well, I'm not I. 332 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 5: Have another ritual that I do afterwards. But you know, 333 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 5: to enjoy the moment. But you're going to spend so 334 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 5: much time trying to accommodate everybody else, and you're going 335 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 5: to forget the moment of what you achieved. So you 336 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 5: have to take a minute and think about who you 337 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 5: are and where you are. This isn't all about them anymore. 338 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 5: It's about me, and so I hope that's what I share. 339 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 3: Exactly what you did, Johnny, was the highlight of my 340 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 3: Hall of Fame weekend. That I sat on the veranda 341 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 3: with the greatest catcher of all time. You told me 342 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 3: to look at that lake for one minute. I do 343 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 3: not say a word, think about where you are, how 344 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 3: you got here, and how many people helped get you here. 345 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 3: And I'm sorry I teared up because it was the 346 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 3: most emotional moment of that weekend for me. 347 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 4: And I've done it for years, and you know, it 348 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 4: seemed odd to some of the guys. Right then I 349 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 4: had cal rippinkins, Can I get them? Can I help 350 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 4: you get them in their chair? 351 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 5: I mean it's like, you know, you always think somebody's 352 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 5: you know, oh it's kind of corny and everything else. 353 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 5: But and then I have every almost a year after year, 354 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 5: they said they come to men said thank you for 355 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 5: doing that. That meant so much to me and the 356 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 5: guys that you called just to say, hey, congratulations, well deserved, 357 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 5: you deserve to be here. You're going to have a 358 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 5: great week. We'll welcome you into all this stuff. And 359 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 5: when they get here they say, thank you. That was 360 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 5: a great call. 361 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 4: And it's not for my own glory. 362 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 5: I don't do it, but it's for there because I 363 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 5: was I was the guy. 364 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 4: And when Pee Wee Reese put his. 365 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 5: Arm around me after my speech, after I gave my 366 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 5: speech induction speech, he put his arm around me and 367 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 5: whispered in my ear. 368 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 4: That was great. You're a Hall of Famer. 369 00:16:58,400 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 3: How'd you do on your speech? 370 00:16:59,760 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 4: John? 371 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 3: Were you scared to death before you went up there? 372 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 3: Or being you? Were you ready to go? I? 373 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 4: I did not. 374 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 5: All I have was a few ideas and then you 375 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 5: kind of winged it from there. 376 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 4: Why I didn't have any notes? No? No, no, I. 377 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: Mean this man walked around the Harris Theater, local grocery store, 378 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: memorizing his ten page speech. 379 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 5: All he did in Beltray and he's got his folder, 380 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 5: you know, right under his arm. And I said, could 381 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 5: I see that? And he said, no, you can't see that. 382 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 5: I already heard about you because I took a couple 383 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 5: of a couple of money here. I took, you know, 384 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 5: his notebook, one of our inductees' notebooks. 385 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, wait, you took a notebook away, the 386 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 3: notes away from a guy who was going in the 387 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 3: hall few he. 388 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 4: Was going ready to go out for the speech. And 389 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 4: oh my god, he's really good. 390 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 5: We're laught when he's walking around the room. 391 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 4: And then first thing he says, I heard about you guys. 392 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 4: Come up now, I heard about you. Stay away. 393 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,679 Speaker 5: Can't you imagine people who don't like to talk to 394 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 5: begin with. I mean, you know how public speaking is 395 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 5: for people, it's not doing it. But no, I had 396 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 5: it all. I didn't have anything, really, I just got 397 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 5: a I was eighth grade. I was Johnny Bench from 398 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 5: the Binger four h club and for my speech, I 399 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 5: have chosen birds of the World. I mean it was 400 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 5: interesting because I just got a note from a uh 401 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 5: from back home. 402 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 4: It was he's he's going. 403 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 5: To be night Leland's going to be ninety six years old, 404 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 5: and he was the four age leader of Kato County 405 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 5: and back in those days. And I'll be forever grateful 406 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 5: that I learned to stand up and speak, you know, 407 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 5: and memorize. I never had a problem memorizing anything. 408 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 4: I could. Teacher would have a poem, I would do 409 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 4: it before class was over. 410 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: It sounds like if you didn't make it to the 411 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: ball field, you could have made it to the stage, 412 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: because I've heard you have a great singing voice. 413 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 5: You know, I know the words and sometimes and you're 414 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 5: a performer. I sang with a symphony with Eric Kinsel 415 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 5: in the Cincinnati Popps. I played professional golf. I played 416 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 5: nine Senior Tour events. I bowled professionally. I used to 417 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 5: play tennis once a year and gave it up. It 418 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 5: just got to be too much work. So uh, I 419 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 5: love music, you know, and I wish i'd had I 420 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 5: had a thor economy, which is a lung. I had 421 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 5: lung surgery four days after I turned twenty five. I 422 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 5: had developed a Cox City o yd micosis, which is 423 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,959 Speaker 5: called the Valley fever. And so a lot of people, 424 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 5: I know, they're not aware of it. But four days 425 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,199 Speaker 5: after the seventy two playoffs in the World Series, I 426 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 5: went in. They cut me from here all the way 427 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 5: back to here. And it was a brand new surgery. 428 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 5: It was used with staples that they had never done 429 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 5: before because usually they opened up your back and my 430 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 5: doctor Gonzalez, was trying to avoid that. And so you 431 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 5: know when you tell people, how what do you think 432 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:52,959 Speaker 5: of your career? And I said, well, it wasn't as 433 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 5: good as it would have been because the difference, the 434 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 5: difference in greatness is about five six inches because that's 435 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 5: where you hit the ball. 436 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 4: So in my. 437 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 5: Physical ability and I had twenty five vision, I could 438 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 5: actually get to the ball out there. So hitting the 439 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 5: ball out here as opposed to hitting it there. You know, 440 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 5: Now things are slower. I mean your reaction in a 441 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 5: baseball you have a ninety mile on hour base fastball, 442 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 5: you have point four to two seconds from the time 443 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 5: it leaves the pitcher's hand till it crosses home plate. Yeah, 444 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 5: point one seven seconds reaction time. So the brain the 445 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 5: cameras are the eyes the cameras. The brain sees the 446 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 5: camera and so it has to identify location, speed, spin 447 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 5: and then send them send the signal to the nerves 448 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 5: and muscles, and they react. And that after they cut 449 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 5: the nerves and cut the bone and cut the muscle, 450 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 5: then I was I was down to probably a little 451 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 5: less and I so I never had the career that 452 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 5: I think I could. 453 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 3: Have Hadney, You don't play golf anymore? 454 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 4: Is that correct? 455 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 5: Warranty ran out I had when I was eighteen, I 456 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 5: was driving back from I had broken my thumb in Buffalo, 457 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 5: and I went to I went back to Oklahoma City 458 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 5: and when I grow up to Witchtall see my American 459 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 5: Legion teammates play. And I drove back to Oklahoma City 460 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 5: to stay with my brother. Poor Lane Highway pulled out 461 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 5: to pass the bus. Here's the drunk driver on the 462 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 5: wrong side. I hit the brakes hit me right in 463 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 5: the door. I didn't regain conscious. I gained conscious getting 464 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 5: into the ambulance, and then when I got I don't 465 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 5: remember anything about it. I think I remember the sort 466 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 5: of going into the emergency room. And then the doctor 467 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 5: came in afterwards and said, son, you got the biggest 468 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 5: bones I've ever seen in my life. 469 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 4: He said, nobody, but you would walk out. 470 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 3: Of here by that build. 471 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 5: I had the thing and I and he said, but 472 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 5: you know, later on you'll have larth ryders, you'll have problems, 473 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 5: you'll have all the stuff. And so I've had both 474 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 5: hips replaced. Knees are still perfect shave, but the back, 475 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 5: the shoulders and all the stuff and everything else. It's 476 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 5: almost like being a catcher every day. 477 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: Well, it's worth noting that fifty percent of the hips 478 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: on this podcast right now have been replaced. 479 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 2: Dad has one two over there. 480 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: I still have the originals at age thirty, thank goodness. 481 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: And speaking of golf, my dad wanted to play golf 482 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: at Leatherstocking for Father's Day last year and we took 483 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: a picture on is it the seventh hole right right 484 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:28,719 Speaker 1: at your plaque? 485 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 2: And Dad sent you the photo He did. 486 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 4: Right, and it was lying three or four. I don't remember. 487 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 2: He laid up twice to get there at three hundred 488 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 2: and forty six yards. As little guys, we're not getting there, 489 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 2: maybe even in two. 490 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 4: Right. 491 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 3: Remember what you wrote to me when I sent you 492 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 3: the picture. Oh, now here's what you wrote. 493 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 4: How many foul balls did you take him? Ahead? Do 494 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 4: I remember? 495 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 2: Actually? 496 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 3: You were kind for once you said you out drove 497 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 3: me again, And I wrote, and I hit a three wood, Johnny, 498 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 3: you hit a golf ball three hundred and forty six 499 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 3: yards in nineteen ninety two. 500 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 4: That's impossible. You can't do that, but you did well. 501 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 4: I drove. 502 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 5: I drove a four hundred and three yard part four 503 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 5: in Vegas, and then I three put it. I don't really, 504 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 5: I mean, but it was like there was a plaque 505 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 5: there at Sarah Golf. Yeah, at the golf course at Sarah, 506 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 5: and I had a plaquere. So Johnny Bench drove. 507 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 3: This grain, Johnny seven here on this diabolically difficult course, 508 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 3: isn't uphill? 509 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 4: I hit it good, right, Johnson? I hit it good. 510 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 3: John Smolts told me on an airplay once he said, 511 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 3: Johnny Bench hit the cart path of that hole. 512 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 2: I'm sure of it. 513 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 4: Have you heard that before? Oh gosh, especially from Smoltzi, 514 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 4: you cannot. 515 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 5: You know, he's gonna be the greatest golf forever and 516 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 5: he's gonna he's got that drive and his spirit and 517 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 5: he just nobody. 518 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 3: Can hit it that far, Right, Johnny, you talked about 519 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 3: how big your hands were even when you were five. 520 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 4: Yeah, my dad was like, where did they come from? 521 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 4: That dad? 522 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 5: My dad was only five nine and his was about 523 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 5: that much shorter. A is all it was, right, And 524 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 5: now we've you know, we've got I've got to be 525 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 5: known for something. 526 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 3: And we have a picture of you, of course, the 527 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 3: famous picture of you holding seven baseballs at one time. 528 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, was that you just messing around one 529 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 4: day and say I could do this. 530 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,880 Speaker 5: You know, you shag in the outfield when they're batting practice, 531 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 5: and so you pick up four balls and you just 532 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,360 Speaker 5: put them. I could pick up four balls and put 533 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 5: them in the bucket because they take it up to 534 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 5: the batting practice pitcher and they said how many you 535 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 5: can get? I saying to get another one? I said, yeah, 536 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 5: I think you could got one. Then all of a 537 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 5: sudden it became six, and then it became seven, and 538 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, it was like, we're you 539 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 5: know you like you do? You know you like today 540 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 5: you'd send it out on social media Johnny Bench, you know, 541 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 5: grabbing six baseballs or five baseballs or or seven baseballs, 542 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, it's for some reason people 543 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 5: love that. 544 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 1: It's a great photo, and we're gonna we're gonna pull 545 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: it up on the YouTube channel so people can see 546 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,239 Speaker 1: it as well. Joe Maher is getting inducted this year. 547 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 1: Is there ever a special tie for you when when 548 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: a great catcher goes into the hall? 549 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 4: Well, and catcher is the word, you know that that 550 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 4: was a question as to you know, Joe Mauer. 551 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know when I was in I was playing 552 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 5: in the senior event in Buffalo, I mean in Minnesota, 553 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 5: in Blaine, Minnesota, I was playing in the three senior 554 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 5: championship and the reporter came out and said, have you 555 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 5: heard about this kid Mauer? And I said, yeah, it's very, 556 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 5: very impressive right now. And he said, well, what do 557 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 5: you think is he going to be? They're going he's 558 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 5: going to be the next to you. And I said, well, 559 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 5: let's wait six or seven years and then we'll see. 560 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 5: You know, can he maintain it. Can't he do it 561 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 5: without getting hurt? 562 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 4: Can he? You know, it's just a how's your sustainability? 563 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 4: So he wound up. 564 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 5: You know, seven years after that, he got the hamstrings, 565 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 5: He had to go to first base, he had to 566 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,719 Speaker 5: do stuff and everything else. The batting titles. Nicest kid 567 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 5: you'll ever meet. I mean, just a wonderful man, great catcher. 568 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 5: But again, you know, you judge someone for their hole, 569 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 5: you know, their whole effort in baseball. So the batting 570 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 5: title's MVP and everything else carried him through the catching 571 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 5: I mean at seven years. I mean, you guys know whatever, however, 572 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 5: you're going to rate them right. 573 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 3: And your knees are so okay after all these. 574 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 4: Years, I got big bones t him. 575 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 3: Can you get down in a catcher's stance right now? 576 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 4: Why? I'm not way? 577 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 3: You should? 578 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 4: You do? You want to show me? Can you? 579 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 3: I can? And it hurts. And I'm only sixty seven 580 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 3: years old, and I never caught a day in my life, 581 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 3: and I still have trouble. 582 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 5: If you touch the stove and it was hot, you 583 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 5: didn't do it again, so you don't squat again? 584 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 4: You know, No, I don't. I don't have any need 585 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 4: to go down right. Good. Good for you. Do you 586 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 4: watch a lot of baseball these days? And do you 587 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 4: like what you see? 588 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 5: I don't have the time to watch a whole game. 589 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 5: I'll watch certain games, I'll watch certain deals. I'm a 590 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 5: buck score man. I've always been a buck score man. 591 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 5: I can't wait for I got MLB app I go in. 592 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 5: I watch everybody score. I look go through every almost 593 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 5: every team every day, every team. 594 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, every day. 595 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: Is there anything like My dad's a nut with box scores, 596 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: and I've become the same way he's looking to see 597 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: if if a score line makes a phone number, or 598 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: looking for the you know, all of these little quirks. 599 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 4: It is weird. 600 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 2: Is there anything that you like to see in a 601 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 2: box score that excites you? 602 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 4: No. 603 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 5: We have the Johnny Bench Catchers Award, which is the 604 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 5: college Catcher of the Year. I've included now women as softballs, 605 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 5: and now we have the women's Softball Player of the Year. 606 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 5: And we have four states around Red's Country Kentucky, ohiowa'st Virginia, Indiana. 607 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 5: So we honor those kids. I mean, we've got like fifteen, 608 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 5: twelve to fifteen guys that have won the award. Or 609 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 5: been nominated for the award that are in the major leagues, 610 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 5: and so I go in and see how they're doing. 611 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 5: And Ladley Rushman, you know, and then you got even 612 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 5: Schoorber was a nominee at the time. Then he had 613 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 5: Garrett Stubbs, and then you go to Suzuki and then 614 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 5: you go But I love to see how they're doing. 615 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 5: I mean I try to follow their careers and what 616 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 5: they're up to and all the stuff, like to see 617 00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 5: who the pitchers are winning pictures. I like to go 618 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 5: and see the stats, who's got the RBI s, who's 619 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 5: doing stuff. I just I just think it's it's really 620 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 5: really fun for me. And then I'll check the on 621 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 5: the reds and see and what's the averages, what's all 622 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 5: this stuff? So, you know, I try to stay involved. 623 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 5: I mean, I still have a connection that is so good. 624 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 3: I just finished Johnny. When people ask you, like, what 625 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 3: is Cooperstown like, especially on a weekend like this, how 626 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 3: do you describe what this is like? 627 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 5: Well, first of all, it's Norman Rockwell, you know, it's 628 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 5: it's a town that had a when I first came here. 629 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 5: Now it's been inundated with a lot of sports show, 630 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 5: sports shops, everything else and used to be a lot 631 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 5: of mom and pops and stuff and everything else. Uh 632 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 5: it's I don't know, it's it's a hallowed ground place 633 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 5: that you know. You in your imagination, you you think 634 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 5: about where would you go, I mean into in the 635 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 5: magical and the magical, uh fairy tales, you would go 636 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 5: to Cooperstown or what would it be like? And you 637 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 5: can't imagine driving into the town and then seeing how 638 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 5: quaint it is down the street. It is the main street, 639 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 5: little tiny houses on the way, And then you think 640 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 5: about it and you start it starts to grow on you. 641 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 5: As the fans start to come, and they come with 642 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 5: this full of emotion, full of excitement. You know they've 643 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 5: got a player, They've got ten players that they've always 644 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 5: followed and known, and they want to see them. They 645 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 5: want to catch a glimpse of them. More than anything. 646 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 5: They want to share it with their child, their grandson. Say, 647 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 5: you should have seen him. This guy was here, this 648 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 5: guy was there. I was in that stands when he 649 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 5: saw it. 650 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 4: I did that. I saw it. 651 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 5: I was there, And they would love to pass on 652 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 5: their little midment for for them. It doesn't have to 653 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 5: be one. It's all you know. It's not like going 654 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 5: to see one a game and watch one particular player. 655 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 5: You've got everybody here and. 656 00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 2: It is magical. 657 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: And I think the fans everybody has a childlike look 658 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 1: in their eyes, no matter how old they are, seeing 659 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: their heroes. It's like you're transported back to being eight 660 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: years old eating a hot dog at you know, Shay Stadium. 661 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: For you, my dad's a three time grandfather now and 662 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: you just recently. 663 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 2: Became a grandfather. Congratulations, thank you. 664 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 3: How is that for you? 665 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 2: Is it the most incredible thing like it is for 666 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 2: my dad? 667 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 5: Well, I'm you know, I never thought my oldest son. 668 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 5: I wasn't sure he would get married, and then I 669 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 5: wasn't sure he'd ever want children and everything else. So 670 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 5: you know, to have that child for the first time 671 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 5: and hold it and everything else, and you say, you know, 672 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 5: and you know you're not going to be there for 673 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 5: his entire life, you know, how do we? 674 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 4: You know? 675 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 5: And you and you think, Okay, they're going to be 676 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 5: great parents, and they're going to give him an education, 677 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 5: and they'll they'll be strict, probably too strict in some ways. Know, 678 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 5: ain't my son and is a but that's that's what 679 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 5: discipline is, and that's what you need and that's the 680 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 5: way you need to learn. So you know it's the 681 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 5: same thing. Let me watch my children grow to see 682 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 5: what they become. Lord, don't let that cold wind blow 683 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 5: till I'm too old to die young. And so I 684 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 5: got a kid going into college. You got a kid 685 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 5: going into sophomore. That's the love on I just got married. 686 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 5: I mean, my life couldn't be better right now. And 687 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 5: the top of off I get to be on the 688 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 5: tim Kirchen. I mean, how how can it get any 689 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 5: better than this? I'm talking about the cherry on top. 690 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 4: You gotta leave right there. You watch my children grow 691 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 4: to see what they become. 692 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 5: Lord, don't let that cold wind blow till I'm too 693 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 5: old to die young. 694 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 2: Wow, I knew I could say, Johnny Bench, thank you 695 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 2: for joining. 696 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 5: Always for tell me anything YouTube. Jeff, nice to be 697 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 5: with you. And uh gosh, hope this show goes. I 698 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 5: hope you make some money because this is because I 699 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 5: didn't get anything for it. I can tell you that 700 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 5: I didn't get a shirt a T shirt. It's a 701 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 5: hat or shirt. But maybe I'll get you to sign 702 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 5: a baseball later. On nice Try. 703 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 4: We didn't get paid either, Johnny. 704 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I love that. I'm gonna 705 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 5: believe that one too. Yeah, well you wrote think I 706 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 5: wrote in there with the head to let us. 707 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 4: Oh my god, our. 708 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: Chief investor, my dad's wife, my mom, she's we keep 709 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: saying we need more money for travel. 710 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 4: Get you, get your I'm trying to get in. Get 711 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 4: him an agent. I mean, my gosh, he wants to 712 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 4: go up to the shop and help them out. Yeah, 713 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 4: you know, let him pay you for being here. Now 714 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 4: you got to pay for gas to get from Baltimore 715 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 4: to Philadelphia. I really feel bad now. I feel like 716 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 4: I want to put something. If you'll leave a tip camp, 717 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 4: maybe I'll kill Yeah, I'll put something in it for you. 718 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 4: I'm worried about you. I'll talk to Dan next to 719 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 4: if I ever see whoever's on this program. Oh my god, 720 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 4: thank you. You're welcome. It was so good. 721 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you so much.