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Episode 11-Strat Karatassos · Johnny's World

0:33
SPEAKER_01: All right, we are live here with a new episode of Johnny's World.
0:36
SPEAKER_01: I am Johnny, and this is BW right here, our co-host.
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SPEAKER_01: And we have a very special guest today, a dear, dear friend of mine, uh face around Starville, Mississippi State that everyone knows and loves.
0:48
SPEAKER_01: And that is the one and only Mr.
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SPEAKER_01: Stratt Caratassis.
0:51
SPEAKER_01: Stratt, welcome to the show.
0:52
SPEAKER_02: Thank you so very much.
0:54
SPEAKER_02: I'm so excited about doing this.
0:55
SPEAKER_02: And uh like I told you last night, I was so excited about talking to you and your mama.
1:00
SPEAKER_02: And uh we've got so many fond memories that go back, you know, to your grandfather, and you know, and always loved your mama, love you, you know.
1:09
SPEAKER_01: That's so it's you're uh it's fun.
1:13
SPEAKER_01: It is, it is.
1:14
SPEAKER_01: You're you're a special part of my life, and I appreciate all you've you've done for us and and all you've done for everybody and dogs.
1:22
SPEAKER_01: You're uh you're you're a legend, and we love you very much.
1:25
SPEAKER_01: Uh so we just want to open up the show and just tell us how you became you, how how how you ended up at Mississippi.
1:31
SPEAKER_01: We we all want to know the story about that, and and just uh we'll sit back and listen to you.
1:36
SPEAKER_01: Okay, thank you.
1:37
SPEAKER_02: Uh well, I uh in the summer, this the summer, the spring of 73, we had a pretty good baseball team at Georgia Southern.
1:46
SPEAKER_02: And uh uh I was able to come with the team to uh Stockwell where we had the regional.
1:52
SPEAKER_02: It was one of the first regionals we have and had.
1:55
SPEAKER_02: And uh, of course, I think, you know, I I love Stockwell.
1:58
SPEAKER_02: I love the regionals, I love being able to show Stockwell off to people.
2:03
SPEAKER_02: But anyway, we came and uh the guy who was a trainer here at the time was a guy named Doug May, who I knew when he was at Florida State.
2:11
SPEAKER_02: And Doug and I got to spend some time together and never thought anything about coming here.
2:17
SPEAKER_02: And I just knew that I loved it.
2:19
SPEAKER_02: It was beautiful.
2:19
SPEAKER_02: We stayed in MacArthur.
2:21
SPEAKER_02: I thought, you know, gosh, there's not many Marriott's or Hilton's that live this well, you know, that have this nice accommodations.
2:28
SPEAKER_02: The cafeteria was our cafeteria was downstairs, it was different, you know.
2:33
SPEAKER_02: Man, it was just gosh, you you just imagined yourself in that situation.
2:37
SPEAKER_02: But I was headed for Indiana State, which was one of the programs that had uh athletic training as a master's degree.
2:47
SPEAKER_02: And uh we were fortunate enough to win the the regionals here, go to the College World Series, and uh got back, uh got back home and uh realized, and somebody had told me that uh Doug May had called and talked to the the people at the uh athletic department at Missy at uh Georgia Southern and uh got a chance to visit with him and he offered me an opportunity to come and get my my master's degree paid for, and uh you know, kind of my expenses, and uh, you know, I thought, geez, this is great, can't beat this.
3:23
SPEAKER_02: And otherwise, you know, I had to work my way through Indiana State as I did George Southern.
3:30
SPEAKER_02: And uh I I remember, you know, being so excited about coming, and it was just it was the best of the best.
3:38
SPEAKER_02: And the first night I was here, I remember Doug May, we went to we went to dinner at his house, and I went to dinner at his house, and he uh said at the at the end of dinner, he said, Strat, he said, I think you're gonna be here a long time, and marry a southern Baptist from the Delta.
3:54
SPEAKER_02: And I said, You are crazy, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm here for a year, and then I'm out of here, and then you know, I Greek Orthodox, I gotta find a Greek girl, but sure enough, that you know, just like uh it happened, and uh I'm so thankful for that.
4:11
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I don't know that I ever intended to stay this long, but uh it's been a blessing, and the good Lord's had me in his hands and guided me the whole time.
4:22
SPEAKER_02: And uh I I had like I said last night on one of those little Facebook things, I said I I owe Doug so very much because I mean everything I've had and accomplished kind of has come from that one thing because had I gone to Indiana State and gotten a master's degree, who knows, you know.
4:41
SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
4:42
SPEAKER_01: So what was Coach Polk the coach at Georgia Southern?
4:45
SPEAKER_01: I think I read that when you were there.
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SPEAKER_02: Coach Polk was, yeah, Coach Polk was the the coach at Georgia Southern, and he that his last two years, his first two years were my last two years at Georgia Southern.
4:56
SPEAKER_02: So everybody says, Well, you followed Polk to Mississippi State.
4:59
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Well, technically, I guess you're right, because he was in the front of the bus and I was in the back when we got here.
5:05
SPEAKER_02: But uh I was here for two years before he came.
5:08
SPEAKER_02: And I guess uh it was uh it was great.
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SPEAKER_02: It was you know, Koshira had at that time loved Cook Polk, and uh I remember we were playing LSU and we're staying at the um excuse me at the hotel and in Baton Rouge and Coach called me down to his room and I thought, oh my gosh, what could this be?
5:34
SPEAKER_02: And anyway, I went down there and he was asking me about Coach Polk, what I thought about him, and you know, all this kind of stuff.
5:41
SPEAKER_02: And I thought I heard somebody giggle into the next room.
5:45
SPEAKER_02: And anyway, Coach Gyra said it, well, we just hired Coach uh Polk to be our head baseball coach, so I was ecstatic.
5:53
SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
5:55
SPEAKER_02: But I did I did have tremendous, I had an opportunity to be with Coach Gregory, who they're inducting into the Ring of Honor this this week, and what a great southern gentleman and uh baseball mind and and uh educator he was.
6:13
SPEAKER_02: And you know, I'll always be thankful for him for uh what he did for me.
6:20
SPEAKER_01: Well, uh tell us a little bit about uh how you got into being a trainer, how that came about.
6:26
SPEAKER_02: Well, I was gonna um in high in junior high school, a lot of my friends started playing football, and um I had had some, I wanted to play and I had some hands, I had had some hand surgery, and you know, mothers like like yours who you know protect us sometimes and for the right reasons, uh she was worried about my hands and all this kind of stuff.
6:47
SPEAKER_02: Well, so the football coach said if you're worried about that, then let's just let him help us as a student manager or student trainer or something like that.
6:55
SPEAKER_02: But I mean, this is junior high school, what do I know?
6:58
SPEAKER_02: But anyway, I ended up doing that and helping, and it was more like a manager, but I guess uh I really wanted to do a little bit more, and you know, these were all my friends, and so I ended up uh helping as a student student trainer and going to clinics and doing that kind of stuff and in high school, and uh I was very fortunate to be around them and be around some something that I really liked and then do something for them that was that I felt was very helpful, and it has paid dividends for me for over and over and over and over.
7:32
SPEAKER_02: So I keep telling people and and I mean it sincerely.
7:36
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm the wealthiest man I've ever heard of.
7:39
SPEAKER_02: I just can't liquidate my assets, nor do I want to.
7:42
SPEAKER_02: And you know, the the players, you know, male and female, all of them, you know, it was tremendously uh rewarding to me and to my family.
7:54
SPEAKER_02: So awesome.
7:56
SPEAKER_02: But I've got so much to be, like I say, I have so much to be thankful for.
8:00
SPEAKER_01: Well, we're thankful for you, Strat.
8:02
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you're you're you're you're you're one of the best.
8:04
SPEAKER_01: You're the best out there.
8:06
SPEAKER_01: We appreciate you.
8:07
SPEAKER_01: I probably need to be institutionalized as opposed to being an institute, but anyway.
8:14
SPEAKER_02: So uh, but I I've I've had a tremendous uh time here.
8:20
SPEAKER_02: It's been 47 years.
8:22
SPEAKER_02: I came here in um July of uh 73.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh missed my college graduation, and you know, I was doing two days when those guys were graduating, so uh I've never regretted it.
8:37
SPEAKER_02: I have never regretted one minute of it.
8:39
SPEAKER_02: It's just been the people that I have met, the the athletes, the the coaches.
8:47
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's just the opportunities I've had.
8:50
SPEAKER_02: I I you know I stop and think about the places I've been.
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SPEAKER_02: Had I I would have never been these at these places, more than likely, had I not been involved in athletics and and with collegiate teams, and and uh I'm so thankful.
9:05
SPEAKER_00: So did you travel with with all of the teams for I did.
9:09
SPEAKER_02: I did.
9:10
SPEAKER_02: I traveled with uh when I first got here as a graduate assistant, I traveled with football and and but my primary responsibility was basketball and baseball.
9:18
SPEAKER_02: So really and truly, when football I was with football till October 15th, when basketball start traditionally started back then.
9:27
SPEAKER_02: And uh October 15th, I went over to to to basketball and I would work basket football games on the weekends, but meanwhile, I traveled uh basketball and I you know I'd always go to a football game if it was if it was at all possible and then work there, and then after after basketball was over, and we went straight into baseball.
9:49
SPEAKER_02: So we uh we stayed pretty busy.
9:51
SPEAKER_02: There were only two of us at the time with uh four student trainers, and now they've got I think six or eight certified athletic trainers, and you know, uh just uh a bunch of uh student trainers that are helping them.
10:06
SPEAKER_02: So it's but times have changed, you know, and gosh, so sometimes I wonder if if we'd had that many, you know, my longevity would have been in the training room.
10:16
SPEAKER_02: And uh, you know, it's just we didn't know any better, you know.
10:20
SPEAKER_02: We just we worked and had a good time and and uh always always say, you know, that I hope the I hope people realize that you know we were the players especially that you know we they were we were hopefully as good as the other trainers in the conference, but nobody loved those kids more than we did.
10:40
SPEAKER_02: And uh I I'm very I'm very uh thankful for that opportunity to to be with them.
10:50
SPEAKER_02: And I and I try to keep up with them as best I possibly can and and coaches, and you know, we just it's so funny because I I remember, you know, when a freshman would come in sometimes and he would he would sit there and he'd go scrap me.
11:03
SPEAKER_02: And I tell you what, when I'm finish my four years of my eligibility, I'm out of here.
11:08
SPEAKER_02: You know, it's just uh this little town, and you know, I aspire to bigger and better things, and no sooner had you know four years passed than you'd hear them on the phone going, Scott, is there anything for me to do around there?
11:20
SPEAKER_02: I'm really interested in so and so.
11:22
SPEAKER_02: And you know, Starkville is just there's there's just an attraction about Starkville, and other than the fact that it's God's country, which ought to be, you know, enough, but uh that's right.
11:32
SPEAKER_02: But there's so much more, you know, there's so much, it's it's so exciting to see them excited about where they're from.
11:41
SPEAKER_02: And it's and it's all from all walks of life.
11:45
SPEAKER_02: And uh I've heard I heard a broadcast the other day talking about how Mississippi kind of was really leading the the charge as far as uh relations between people and and how I mean I got here when they had the you know the recruiting class of first African Americans, you know, pretty much second recruiting class.
12:08
SPEAKER_02: And you know, we never thought about it, never.
12:12
SPEAKER_02: And uh I it's just it's been a tremendous brotherhood that we've all had.
12:17
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you know, I people laugh, but you know, I they see me and I come, you know, I I hug them and I kiss them on the cheek.
12:26
SPEAKER_02: And you know, for these 6'8, 275, 280 pound, 280-pound guys to grab me and hug me and you know, kiss me on the cheek.
12:36
SPEAKER_02: And and I think that's one thing I I hope I brought to them is uh is uh kind of the Greek way, a little bit of a little bit of love and kissing on the cheek and rec realizing how much we care about each other.
12:50
SPEAKER_02: It's uh I you know I hope that'll be one of my uh one of my keystones at the end.
12:58
SPEAKER_01: So absolutely.
13:01
SPEAKER_01: Well, well, tell tell us a little bit about how you transitioned over to the Bulldog Club to the development side of things, how that happened and what that was all about.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, I guess you know, we were uh like I told you before, we were uh there were two of us in a training room, and you know, things were getting more and more involved and more, and it's just my my girls were getting a little bigger, and uh Coach Reed got the job as the executive director of the Bulldog Club, and uh, you know, he's a he's always been a tremendous recruiter, and I guess he'd been recruiting me the whole time, and and uh I was totally unaware of it, but uh I remember it was after the um uh the the peach bowl that uh you know he talked to me pretty seriously about becoming uh go going to work with him in the bulldog club.
13:51
SPEAKER_02: And I mean it's still the athletic department.
13:53
SPEAKER_02: So I you know I was I was very pleased about that.
13:57
SPEAKER_02: You know, I just and and I thought it would my hours would change and you know I still remember the very first time on the very first weekend I was in the bulldog club.
14:06
SPEAKER_02: Uh one of the ladies there asked me, she said, you know, what are you gonna do this weekend?
14:10
SPEAKER_02: And I kind of just looked at it like, you know, bum fuzzle because I mean we we really not to not down not to you know bring bring it in an evil light, but I mean we just we never had weekends.
14:22
SPEAKER_02: We you know, it was just you know, we continue, you know, we worked through those weekends long hours.
14:28
SPEAKER_02: So we just continued to just pound away at it.
14:34
SPEAKER_02: And you get you get worn down, you get tired and stuff.
14:37
SPEAKER_02: And I think Coach Harrell kind of realized it too, and you know, to his credit, he just he kept saying you need to stay, you know, stay in the bulldog club.
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SPEAKER_02: Stay, I mean, stay in the training room, and you know, I need you.
14:48
SPEAKER_02: And it's not that I didn't want to help him, but I was just exhausted and uh and burnt out.
14:54
SPEAKER_02: And so anyway, I made the transition to the Bulldog Club, and I have not regretted it.
15:00
SPEAKER_02: I remember my wife saying that when I when I would always show signs of uh unssuredness, I would she would always say, You had the best players, you had the best memories, you had the best times.
15:13
SPEAKER_02: And and it's true, I've had tremendous memories and players and friendships, and but in this in another context, the Bulldog Club has opened so many other doors for me as far as people I've gotten to to meet and associate with and be around.
15:30
SPEAKER_02: And you know, sure it's you know raising money for the athletic department for them to use and however they see fit, but for me, it was you know, they were these these were friendships.
15:40
SPEAKER_02: I mean, these were friendships and that I hope will last me to my last days.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: And uh I love the people.
15:48
SPEAKER_02: Uh I still remember going somewhere and and and it's and things have changed so much in that I remember one of my first trips in the Bulldog Vub, I went somewhere, I think it was the cab, and somebody said, Well, we'll we'll see you in a in a in a couple of years.
16:03
SPEAKER_02: And I thought, couple of years, you're there every weekend.
16:07
SPEAKER_02: You know, what are you what are you talking about?
16:08
SPEAKER_02: And then finally I realized they were talking about coming here to live after they retired.
16:14
SPEAKER_02: And sure enough, it that that but that has materialized, it's come to fruition, and uh nothing makes me happier, nothing makes me happier than to see my friends that I call my friends and and and great bulldog fans come to Stark World and have homes here and move here, and the children come here, and it just it's uh once again, like I can say I I've been I've been so richly blessed by all that.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, tell us a little bit, like what is a what is a typical game day, whether it's football, basketball, or baseball, what does that look like for you as far as get up pretty early and you know, meet and greet and you oh yeah, it was you know in the training room, of course, it was a different thing.
17:02
SPEAKER_02: I mean, we were you know, we were kind of as John Clark could tell you, we were kind of in a routine that we just that very seldom we deviated from.
17:12
SPEAKER_02: And it was once you get that Friday afternoon, once you get that Friday afternoon practice under your belt, and I mean you were pretty much there with one another until game time.
17:22
SPEAKER_02: And uh everybody always used to say, Dan, I wish I had your job.
17:25
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Yeah, sure.
17:27
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's it's great, you know.
17:28
SPEAKER_02: I love it, but you don't see us on on Saturday afternoons after the game's over and Sunday mornings and treatment and Mondays and Tuesdays and all that kind of stuff, trying to get those guys well.
17:40
SPEAKER_02: And so, but when I went to the Bulldog Club, it's it's just a little different.
17:45
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you still get up relatively early, get to the stadium, and uh you walk around, visit with people, and uh I I love that.
17:54
SPEAKER_02: I think you know, I think that's the one thing I love is people, and uh I now that with this COVID stuff, I've just realized that that is such a big part of my life because I'm I'm uh I guess touchy feely, hug, carry on, uh kind of guy.
18:12
SPEAKER_02: And and you know, we've all been kind of uh secluded from that.
18:17
SPEAKER_02: And and it's uh it's about it's it's affected me.
18:20
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I just I really want to see people, I really want to be around them, I really want to enjoy them.
18:26
SPEAKER_02: Uh that does but anyway, we uh we go to the stadium and uh we walk through the sky boxes, walk through the the stadium and visit with people, and uh a lot of times they're complaining, you know, might they might complain about my seats.
18:42
SPEAKER_02: Look at my seat, look at where I'm sitting.
18:43
SPEAKER_02: There's a drip line right above me and stuff, and then somebody'll make a play, and then they'll move on to something else, and you you just kind of slide away.
18:50
SPEAKER_02: And even with the even with the times when people would be mad, you know, they'd be mad about something, but they'd be writing the check the whole time, you know.
19:00
SPEAKER_02: Strat, when you get back, you tell them that I said I'll be happy to whatever.
19:05
SPEAKER_02: But uh, you know, I'm amazed at the generosity of the uh the Mississippi State people.
19:12
SPEAKER_02: And and I mean, I say that truly.
19:14
SPEAKER_02: Uh they're it's just it's it's amazing to me.
19:19
SPEAKER_02: I know all people have all universities have friends and and alumna and fans who are very generous.
19:26
SPEAKER_02: And I I think ours are generous to a degree that you want to go, wait a minute now, you need to think about the church, you need to think about this, you need to think about us.
19:36
SPEAKER_02: But I mean, they're just they're so excited to do and and feel like they can see the the fruits of this investment in their university.
19:46
SPEAKER_02: And and it's not just it's not just athletics, it's this whole place.
19:50
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I am so proud of this university.
19:53
SPEAKER_02: And I used to tell, I used to tell Dr.
19:55
SPEAKER_02: Keenum and several people that, you know, when my time came, I wanted to be cremated, my ass was spread on on Scott Field and Duty Noble.
20:04
SPEAKER_02: And you know, and and the reason for that is I mean, this is home for me.
20:07
SPEAKER_02: I just uh I you know I just this is where I want to be.
20:12
SPEAKER_02: And of course, you know, think times have changed.
20:15
SPEAKER_02: But I remember seeing Dr.
20:16
SPEAKER_02: Keenum one time and uh I I knew when he was a student, and he uh I he's we visited, we sat and ate lunch in cafeteria, and he just said, uh uh you need anything.
20:29
SPEAKER_02: And I said, No, sir.
20:31
SPEAKER_02: And I truly didn't.
20:32
SPEAKER_02: I don't need anything.
20:33
SPEAKER_02: I was just, you know, I'm very I'm very happy with what I have.
20:37
SPEAKER_02: And and then I'm as conversation progressed, I went, Well, wait a minute.
20:41
SPEAKER_02: I want I want two things.
20:42
SPEAKER_02: What are they?
20:43
SPEAKER_02: He started laughing, and I said, I want my ashes spread on Duty Noble and Scott Field, and then I want to be athletic director for a day.
20:52
SPEAKER_02: And he said, let me just work on and let me just work on the uh ashes being spread first.
20:58
SPEAKER_02: And he said, We'll talk about the other.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: But I just uh I've been so pleased and to see John in the situation that he's in, just you know, it just makes you happy, just makes you you know proud that to see him in a situation where he's leading the university, and and I'm happy for him.
21:16
SPEAKER_02: I'm happy for us.
21:18
SPEAKER_02: I think he does a great job.
21:20
SPEAKER_02: You know, we all we all make mistakes, we all make people angry.
21:25
SPEAKER_02: We may do some things that you know, but his heart is in the right place, and he tries to do the right thing, and you know, geez, he's really smart.
21:34
SPEAKER_02: And uh, you know, I'm so so proud of him.
21:36
SPEAKER_02: And I know his dad would just be ecstatic.
21:40
SPEAKER_02: So uh and you know, we've seen coaches, you know, the coaches that, you know, Rocky was the head coach and other people who have come and who've been who've matriculated through Mississippi and and come back in leadership roles.
21:54
SPEAKER_01: So well, Strat, uh we had uh we had Coach Harrell on the show a couple weeks ago.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: So and uh just I can't say enough good things about him.
22:04
SPEAKER_01: And and I know you have a special relationship with with Coach Cheryl.
22:08
SPEAKER_01: Just tell us about uh if you have any good stories between the two of y'all, or just uh we'd love to hear.
22:15
SPEAKER_02: Well, it was you know, it was uh well, I love Coach Cheryl and you know, and I feel like he and I are about as close as we could get, you know, as far as and uh I know he cares about me and I care about him.
22:28
SPEAKER_02: And my girls would fight you for Coach Cheryl.
22:32
SPEAKER_02: I mean, they'd get on the ground and fight you.
22:34
SPEAKER_02: I mean, literally.
22:36
SPEAKER_02: And uh I I remember uh one day we're talking, I don't know if and there's very few people I think now that know about the uh the bull incident, the castration of the bull.
22:49
SPEAKER_02: And you know, I just we're getting ready to play Texas.
22:52
SPEAKER_02: And uh I was standing on practice fields and Coach Harold said, you know, Strat.
22:58
SPEAKER_02: He said, What's a what's a longhorn?
23:01
SPEAKER_02: I said, Coach, you know what a longhorn is, and I said, Yes, sir, it's a it's a breed of cattle.
23:06
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Are you serious?
23:07
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Yes, sir, is it is it not?
23:10
SPEAKER_02: And he said, No, he said, It's a it's a bull that's been castrated, and this, you know, his horns grow out and know it.
23:18
SPEAKER_02: Oh man, I said, uh that's I was clueless, I didn't know that.
23:22
SPEAKER_02: And he said, How many of these guys think know that?
23:25
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Coach, I I I really don't know.
23:27
SPEAKER_02: I said, you know, of course, I'm sort of a city boy, and some of them may have been exposed to that kind of thing.
23:33
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, I never I never thought about it again.
23:36
SPEAKER_02: And then I remember I think it was Wednesday Wednesday afternoon, Coach Chair calls me, he said, make sure you're out at practice on time.
23:45
SPEAKER_02: And I want to go, you don't have to tell me that.
23:48
SPEAKER_02: I know about practice.
23:49
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'm supposed to be there and stuff.
23:50
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I want you to be on time, instead of you know trying to wait on somebody else to come in the training room.
23:56
SPEAKER_02: So sure enough, I we were out there, and I walking through uh the field house and um I look and I see a lot of the kids kind of hanging around the doorway, and of course, it's raining outside, and we've got a little bit of thunder and lightning and stuff, but not too bad.
24:13
SPEAKER_02: It hadn't started yet.
24:14
SPEAKER_02: And uh most of you sitting around, I thought, well, you know, maybe this maybe he's made a change in practice or something.
24:20
SPEAKER_02: And anyway, closer I get to that big door, I look out, and there's a cow or something tied to the film tower.
24:28
SPEAKER_02: I thought, what in the heck is going on?
24:32
SPEAKER_02: And uh I turned to my right, and there's a guy named Craig Keys, who was uh was an athlete here and uh went to work for Mr.
24:39
SPEAKER_02: Bryant over in in uh West Point, and uh he hit he had brought that book that that cow.
24:47
SPEAKER_02: Well, I guess I don't know if I'm using the right language or not, but he brought the cow and and I said, Craig, what are you doing here?
24:53
SPEAKER_02: And he's got he's got a horse.
24:55
SPEAKER_02: He's got holding a horse.
24:56
SPEAKER_02: I mean, those are things that you don't see in practice.
24:59
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, and next thing I know, you know, they've got this that they've got this cow stretched out, and as you can imagine, and Craig reaches back to to um castrate the bull.
25:13
SPEAKER_02: Well, he had left his lock blade in the car, I mean the truck.
25:17
SPEAKER_02: So one of the student managers yells, Strat always carries a lock blade.
25:21
SPEAKER_02: And I did, I carried a knife because you know, cut a face mask off if I needed to, or something in that regard.
25:27
SPEAKER_02: Well, next thing I know, they're using my knife to castrate the bull.
25:31
SPEAKER_02: And Coach Cheryl was explaining the situation about longhorns and stuff, and of course it's raining and uh a little lightning and a little thunder.
25:41
SPEAKER_02: And I look around and I'm I'm the only one holding the horse.
25:44
SPEAKER_02: And uh somebody said that's the worst thing in the whole.
25:47
SPEAKER_02: But we took we took uh those parts of the uh bull with us to uh to Texas and uh fortunate enough to win both games.
25:56
SPEAKER_02: You know, we won that game, and when they came back, and uh I still got the knife.
26:02
SPEAKER_02: It happened to be one of the knives Coach Good game, and I know how much he loves Coach Good, but uh and uh so anyway, of course, but uh Coach Airlow was just the greatest.
26:13
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I love being around him and and uh he was just you know, I think he took this place and uh Rocky had had pretty much put the the uh foundation down, and and then Cochero was able to take it and hone it and convince the kids that they could win.
26:33
SPEAKER_02: And matter of fact, I remember one of the uh uh the first the first staff meeting we had prior to going to the Liberty Bowl.
26:43
SPEAKER_02: We were all in there, and I had a book that was a notebook that was probably about three inches thick, and it had all the events and all the player things and all this, and all I mean it's constant stuff.
26:53
SPEAKER_02: So we were going through it in in preparation for the Liberty Bowl.
26:58
SPEAKER_02: And I mean, we've been in there a couple three hours, and uh Cook Cheryl turns to the staff that's in there, and he goes, All right, guys, is there anybody there that is there anybody here that we have not invited that we need to invite and thank for their participation in helping us with this program?
27:20
SPEAKER_02: And uh it was pretty quiet, and uh then all of a sudden Watson Brown spoke speaks up and he goes, There's one guy we should have invited first.
27:28
SPEAKER_02: And and Coach Harold kind of kind of inquisitively looks at him and he goes, Who's that?
27:34
SPEAKER_02: And he goes, Rocky.
27:35
SPEAKER_02: If it wouldn't have been for him, none of us would be going and you know, and it was just really it was funny, but you know, you and but he also recognized that part.
27:43
SPEAKER_02: And to Coach Sherrill's credit, he brought Rocky back.
27:46
SPEAKER_02: And I mean that shows a lot of uh a lot of character, and you know, he was he was and he was and a lot of self-confidence.
27:56
SPEAKER_02: Coach Harrell was, you know, he he and he instilled that self-confidence in the players, and you know, we did really, really well.
28:03
SPEAKER_02: And uh he is just he's a special person.
28:06
SPEAKER_02: I don't know that people recognize him.
28:10
SPEAKER_02: I guess there was a time when some of them weren't too sure about how he was, and you know, all the other stuff that kind of preceded him, and but he was he's always been a a gentleman and uh very gracious, very kind, did stuff for kid people that people didn't recognize, and you and you're one of them, you're a recipient of some of that.
28:32
SPEAKER_02: And absolutely, and uh he uh I have a great deal of respect for him and a lot of love for him, me and Peggy.
28:39
SPEAKER_02: And I'll never forget when when Harriet got sick and uh she had the the can't the ovarian cancer coach Eryl, he texted me or called me almost every day for months, and uh I'll I'll never forget that.
28:56
SPEAKER_02: And uh it meant so much to us, and like I say, you know, he was at he was at my girls' weddings, and you know, they just they absolutely love him and they you know think the world of him, and they still stay in touch with him, and he stays in touch with them, and he he's really a great guy.
29:12
SPEAKER_02: But it was a story uh when we went to the Liberty Bowl that time in uh in Memphis with Coach Cheryl.
29:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I remember going to his, he called me to his office.
29:22
SPEAKER_02: I went to the office and he said, I need for you to get these balloons for me.
29:25
SPEAKER_02: And he gave handed me a piece of paper with some um numbers or pictures on it.
29:33
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I need these balloons.
29:36
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Okay, and and he said, Aren't we going to the hospital?
29:40
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Yes, sir, we're going to children's.
29:41
SPEAKER_02: Oh, we're going to LaMonder because uh I think at that time uh St.
29:47
SPEAKER_02: Jude's let the let their patients go, the ones that could let them go home at Christmas time.
29:53
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, I said, Coach, you just get order these balloons for me.
29:58
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so I looked at him and I said, Coach, we can get balloons, I can get balloons at Walmart.
30:02
SPEAKER_02: He said, Order those balloons, and and he said, These are the ones I need for for what I need for my trip to the hospital.
30:12
SPEAKER_02: And Coach Sierra loved clowns.
30:14
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if anybody knows that, but he was just he was obsessed with clowns.
30:18
SPEAKER_02: He loved the matter of fact, we had a clown that would travel with us sometimes.
30:22
SPEAKER_02: Uh Harpo, I think was his name.
30:24
SPEAKER_02: Did I do something wrong?
30:26
SPEAKER_02: Oh, there you go.
30:27
SPEAKER_02: Uh and uh so we were getting ready to go to the to the uh hospital, and lo and behold, Coach Harold comes out dressed like a clown.
30:39
SPEAKER_02: So uh, and we had all the gifts and stuff for the kids.
30:43
SPEAKER_02: And anyway, we got to the hospital.
30:45
SPEAKER_02: I introduced them to the to the administrators that were there, and you know, they went on and did their thing, and I took the group around the hospital and got back to the buses, and we're supposed to be somewhere in like half an hour.
30:59
SPEAKER_02: Well, that group hadn't shown up yet, so we I kind of wait and wait, wait.
31:05
SPEAKER_02: Finally, Coach Cheryl comes and gets on the bus.
31:07
SPEAKER_02: And you know, I he always ride in the front seat, and I would usually stand in the wheel well or sit in the seat next to him uh on the other side of the drive by the driver.
31:18
SPEAKER_02: And anyway, I'll stand at the wheel and I said, Coach Cheryl, you know, it's it's 6:30.
31:22
SPEAKER_02: We're supposed to be so-and-so at seven o'clock.
31:24
SPEAKER_02: What do you want to do?
31:24
SPEAKER_02: You know, and I should I go ahead and just send you back to the hotel with the with the players, and uh I'll I'll go, I mean, with uh high patrol, and then I'll take the players onto this thing.
31:35
SPEAKER_02: And he would shake his head and you know, nod and shake his head and shake his head and nod.
31:40
SPEAKER_02: Man, I was getting kind of a little upset.
31:42
SPEAKER_02: And I thought to myself, you know, all I want him to do is say something, you know.
31:47
SPEAKER_02: So we get to the hotel and I jump off the bus and I kind of get the players together.
31:51
SPEAKER_02: And I said, You guys go to your rooms and we'll we'll tell you what to do.
31:56
SPEAKER_02: The student trainers now tell you what to do.
31:58
SPEAKER_02: Well, I get back to my room and my wife said, Coach Errol's on the on the phone.
32:02
SPEAKER_02: So I I pick up the phone, I said, Yes, sir.
32:05
SPEAKER_02: And he he goes, Are you mad at me?
32:07
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Sir?
32:09
SPEAKER_02: I said, Are you mad at me?
32:10
SPEAKER_02: And I said, No, sir, why would I be mad at you?
32:11
SPEAKER_02: And he goes, I said, What are you?
32:14
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Coach, I I was just a little disappointed.
32:18
SPEAKER_02: I was trying to ask you stuff and you wouldn't answer me.
32:20
SPEAKER_02: And it was a pause, and he goes, Strat.
32:23
SPEAKER_02: Clowns don't talk when they're in you when they're dressed.
32:26
SPEAKER_02: And I went, oh man, I want to go.
32:29
SPEAKER_02: But he was just he he was so giving, so loving to people, especially people who were in uh tragic situations, and and people don't realize that.
32:44
SPEAKER_02: I got a story about Cook Ballard.
32:45
SPEAKER_02: I think I was dreaming about Coach Ballard, and y'all stop me when I need to give me a blank screen when it's over.
32:51
SPEAKER_02: But anyway, uh we uh we're playing Miami.
32:55
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you remember that we we played Miami twice, and I think we beat them twice.
32:59
SPEAKER_02: That's when they had Jim Kelly and all the guys.
33:01
SPEAKER_02: Well, we drive to Miami, and there's a special plane that comes to get us, it's a bigger plane, like a like a DCA or something like that.
33:09
SPEAKER_02: And you know, I remember it was a big deal for it to be there because it was just about the max of the airport here.
33:15
SPEAKER_02: Uh anyway, we got on it.
33:17
SPEAKER_02: We uh flew to Miami and we're circling the airport and finally got a chance to land on the tarmac.
33:25
SPEAKER_02: And we're you know, we're pretty far away from everybody.
33:28
SPEAKER_02: The Dade County Sheriff's Office, I think that's Dade County, Dade County Sheriff's Office pulls up, and their escorts and the Mississippi Highway Patrol get driven down there, and the Miami police are there and they're circled the plane and till we get off, and uh so they can take us to the stadium.
33:47
SPEAKER_02: And our coach Ballard gets off and gets on the bus, and uh I get everybody, I make sure everybody's on the buses, and the and the suitcases are all where they're supposed to be.
33:58
SPEAKER_02: And uh I get on the bus, and uh one of the last things I heard was the highway patrolman telling Coach telling the bus driver, who was obviously a Florida native, to uh stay with the buses.
34:12
SPEAKER_02: I mean, stay close by, don't you know, don't deviate, stay with us because we're going through it.
34:17
SPEAKER_02: It was it was a bad time of the day to go through.
34:20
SPEAKER_02: Well, sure enough, anyway, we take off and go through the gates and the how it patrol, the how we patrol the policemen, the escorts, and all that kind of stuff, which is really exciting when you think about it.
34:31
SPEAKER_02: And uh I remember all Coach Ballard was had his pipe in his mouth and he looked up at the bus driver and he goes, Uh, hey skipper, he said, Where are we going?
34:41
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Coach, we're going to a stadium.
34:44
SPEAKER_02: And he said, We're going to whatever the name of that stadium is.
34:47
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Yes, sir.
34:48
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Uh, which way are you going?
34:50
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Coach, I'm supposed to follow these power patrolmen and all this other kind of stuff.
34:55
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I know a shortcut.
34:58
SPEAKER_02: So we all kind of looked at each other, the ones, the ones that are within ear, within the ear, listen within the hearing and um kind of look at each other and start kind of giggle.
35:10
SPEAKER_02: And next thing you know, he said, I'll just tell you where to turn.
35:13
SPEAKER_02: So they we're going over kind of an overpass.
35:16
SPEAKER_02: And he said, You turn right here, turn right here, get off this exit right here.
35:20
SPEAKER_02: So we get off the exit, and you know, uh, and the the other three buses follow us, and you know, the high patrolmen are going over the other, going over the the uh interstate, and uh we go down this road and and we go down a couple few miles, and uh he said, It's just right here, just around here, and you make the turn.
35:40
SPEAKER_02: So he made the turn, and we end up in a warehouse that had obviously been there for years, and it was kind of U-shaped.
35:47
SPEAKER_02: So it's like we we pull up in an area, and there's no, you know, there's no possible way this could be the the stadium or even a shortcut, it was just the wrong turn.
35:57
SPEAKER_02: Coach Ballard looks at the bus driver, he goes, When did they build this?
36:01
SPEAKER_02: You know, there's like it was an obstruction.
36:03
SPEAKER_02: Meanwhile, the highway patrol is looking for us, helicopters are overhead, and then it's just we had to back out of there, and it was hilarious.
36:10
SPEAKER_02: And you know, the whole bus is just died laughing.
36:14
SPEAKER_02: And Coach Ballard, he was great, he did, you know, just so many wonderful memories of him, too.
36:20
SPEAKER_02: And like I say, I've been I've been so blessed to work with the people I was with, you know, Coach Tyler and all those many others.
36:28
SPEAKER_01: So awesome.
36:31
SPEAKER_01: Well, well, Strat, I uh uh go back to Coach Sheryl when he would invite me to uh to travel with the team.
36:37
SPEAKER_01: Uh, I know we talked about that with my mom yesterday.
36:41
SPEAKER_01: Uh the very first trip I went, I remember Coach invited me and I went to uh LSU and uh I was you know a little kid, maybe junior high or so.
36:53
SPEAKER_01: And uh I've never really I never really spent spent time away from home, especially out of state, uh, without my mom with me taking care of me.
37:01
SPEAKER_01: So uh so when he invited me to go um of course I said yes and so my mom came up to start.
37:08
SPEAKER_01: Well, she stayed at the uh holiday inn when I went, and I know she was a nervous wreck.
37:13
SPEAKER_01: But then she saw but then she saw you and knowed and knew that you were gonna be uh be with us.
37:18
SPEAKER_01: And uh you put all the eases uh oh, it just made her feel at ease.
37:22
SPEAKER_01: And she still talks about that to this day.
37:24
SPEAKER_01: Like uh she was so thankful for you being on that on that trip.
37:28
SPEAKER_01: I remember you and and Coach Tompkins kind of took me under their wing uh on trip.
37:33
SPEAKER_01: So uh so yeah, it's just so many good memories, Strat.
37:37
SPEAKER_01: And uh you're just uh you're just just such a special person.
37:39
SPEAKER_01: We we love you dearly.
37:40
SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
37:41
SPEAKER_01: I'm so honored.
37:43
SPEAKER_02: And uh, like I say, I'm the one that's benefited and been blessed by all this, and uh, I never take it for granted.
37:50
SPEAKER_02: And I'm thankful of the people and that have graced my life and blessed my life.
37:56
SPEAKER_02: And you and your mom and your your grandfather, Johnny.
38:00
SPEAKER_02: That's what he used to call him, Johnny.
38:02
SPEAKER_02: But uh that's right.
38:03
SPEAKER_02: And I was um I was uh Brandon, I was telling uh John yesterday that uh I remember that one of the first I knew his mom and his grandfather, and I kind of knew of him, but I remember his mom brought him up to the training room one time because she we thought about letting him play football as uh I guess pee-week football or whatever they play.
38:21
SPEAKER_02: And uh John Bond at that time was wearing a flat jacket, and it was really kind of the big deal, the you know, when we tried to get a flat jacket that would kind of protect uh John Clark.
38:33
SPEAKER_02: But uh I I've really felt uneasy about it.
38:36
SPEAKER_02: And I think the more we all thought about it, we felt uneasy about it, but it goes back a long, long way.
38:43
SPEAKER_02: We do.
38:45
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you know, uh John Clark was on the sidelines for our our high school football team.
38:52
SPEAKER_00: He did he did statistics, and so um I I played football.
38:56
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I was I was probably the the best on the team.
38:59
SPEAKER_00: Nobody really knows that, but John Clark had a lot of stats to write down for me.
39:04
SPEAKER_00: But uh, he he spent some time over there, and I always I was always wondering what hopefully nobody's gonna run into him or anything like that over there.
39:13
SPEAKER_02: Well, it it you know it's it's something that you know everybody said the sidelines are so much fun and stuff, but and they are, I guess.
39:19
SPEAKER_02: I mean, we're used to it as part of our lives, and uh, but that's it's also a really dangerous place.
39:26
SPEAKER_02: And I remember Dr.
39:27
SPEAKER_02: Longest, God rest his soul.
39:29
SPEAKER_02: He would, if he would always kind of stand behind us, and if the play was coming towards us, he would grab us from the back and act like a you know, like you were holding a football shield, and he would kind of put us between him and the and the play that was going on.
39:43
SPEAKER_02: And it was it was it was always uh something we you know we've had people get hurt on the sidelines before that uh weren't even in the game, you know.
39:52
SPEAKER_02: They just all of a sudden that curtain of bodies opens up and there's a person flying through there.
39:58
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I remember when I was uh with Coach Sherald, uh let me be on the sidelines.
40:06
SPEAKER_01: My mom was always worried about that, exactly what you're talking about right now.
40:09
SPEAKER_01: And I remember Coach Gerald always worried about me.
40:12
SPEAKER_01: He'd always tell me to stand back and be careful and everything.
40:14
SPEAKER_01: And uh funny story, we we talk about him.
40:17
SPEAKER_01: I I meant to bring this up when I had him on the show recently.
40:20
SPEAKER_01: When we were in the cotton bowl in in '98, um he invited me to travel with the team.
40:26
SPEAKER_01: I I rode the rode the bus in the stadium and and got to go in the locker room and be on the field.
40:30
SPEAKER_01: And if you remember that day, it was bad weather.
40:33
SPEAKER_01: It was real damp and dark, uh cloudy.
40:35
SPEAKER_01: I think it rained and everything.
40:37
SPEAKER_01: And he pulled me uh back to the side and he was like, You need to stay right here.
40:40
SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't want you being stuck in the rain and all that sort of stuff.
40:43
SPEAKER_01: He just kind of took care of me.
40:44
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, that just that just it just meant a lot.
40:47
SPEAKER_01: It meant a lot to my mom.
40:48
SPEAKER_01: And and uh and going back to what you said, where everyone just kind of just treats you like family.
40:54
SPEAKER_01: This whole everything, all the people coming back here, like you, like you mentioned, it's just kind of full circle.
40:59
SPEAKER_01: And uh it and it's just it's people like you, Strat, who who who make this place such a special place, they who care for other people, and and um it really it really means a lot and goes a long way.
41:10
SPEAKER_01: So I we can't take you enough.
41:12
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
41:13
SPEAKER_02: You're very kind.
41:14
SPEAKER_02: I'd like to say I'm the I'm the beneficiary, I'm the beneficiary of so much love and and uh happiness as a result of all this.
41:23
SPEAKER_00: So Strat, we really appreciate you coming in.
41:27
SPEAKER_00: These have been some great stories, and I think our audience will definitely enjoy listening to this one.
41:33
SPEAKER_00: Um, I've there's one thing I I meant to ask, and that's all I've got.
41:38
SPEAKER_00: You mentioned uh being Greek, and so John Clark and I both living in Jackson.
41:44
SPEAKER_00: I I took this for granted because now that I don't live there anymore, there's a lot of Greek restaurants in Jackson.
41:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh some of the best food that I've ever had, and I really, really enjoy Greek food, and and I just can't find that up here in Memphis.
41:58
SPEAKER_00: So is there a place that you that that takes you back kind of to your childhood or anything like that that that you've liked that you could recommend?
42:05
SPEAKER_02: I just, you know, uh I come from a restaurant family, really.
42:09
SPEAKER_02: Uh there's uh my cousin, my cousins, first cousin, and uh his children run the uh Buckhead Life Restaurant Group in Atlanta, and it is a very uh successful group of uh variety of restaurants.
42:25
SPEAKER_02: And uh of course, one of them is Greek, it's called Kema.
42:29
SPEAKER_02: And uh it's it's just you know, it's the food that we were kind of raised on.
42:33
SPEAKER_02: I mean, of course, but you tell people that, you know, boy, I would I hope you I wish you could try braised lobster.
42:39
SPEAKER_02: I'm glad raised octopus, and they go, uh I don't know about that.
42:43
SPEAKER_02: But it's you know, that's the kind of stuff that uh that's a little eclectic, but you know, that's the the food of that car.
42:50
SPEAKER_02: As a matter of fact, today, April 20, March 25th is the 200th anniversary of the you know of Greece's uh liberation.
42:59
SPEAKER_02: And uh so uh but I you know of course I can't I can't play favorites in in in uh Starkville about the restaurants, and you can tell that by looking at me that I don't play favorites, and but uh I love it.
43:13
SPEAKER_02: There's a place there's a little place that's open in uh in Jackson for those of you who are there that I love Kry Lakes.
43:20
SPEAKER_02: It's uh it's originally yeah, and it's uh Andrew, Andrew's parents were missionaries, they spent time in Greece, and when he came home, they they opened that.
43:30
SPEAKER_02: But I wish we could, I wish I could open a place like that.
43:33
SPEAKER_02: My dream had always been to open a a deli or something near campus where I could feed the the students and you know, and then to have a place that they could go that was uh was uh where they felt comfortable and you know, got a good deal for their money and you know, kind of just almost like a place they could call home.
43:57
SPEAKER_02: But I mean that's it never happened.
44:01
SPEAKER_02: But always envision that.
44:03
SPEAKER_02: Because I wanted to I wanted to take care of them.
44:05
SPEAKER_02: And uh Greeks are naturally nurturers, I think.
44:09
SPEAKER_02: And uh of course there's so many, it makes me so proud.
44:13
SPEAKER_02: I'll see diners drive-ins and dives, and and there's so many uh Greek people who run the restaurants and stuff.
44:20
SPEAKER_02: And I you know, I just kind of swell up.
44:22
SPEAKER_02: I'm so excited about that.
44:24
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, Kreelakis is one of my favorite places every time we go home.
44:29
SPEAKER_00: If we're there for a weekend, sometimes we eat there twice.
44:32
SPEAKER_00: So we can't get enough of it.
44:34
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I love it.
44:35
SPEAKER_02: I mean, no no disrespect to can't tend to keepers or anything, but anyway.
44:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
44:42
SPEAKER_00: Well, all right.
44:43
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's that's all.
44:44
SPEAKER_00: Do you have anything else, Johnny, for us?
44:46
SPEAKER_01: Uh I don't.
44:46
SPEAKER_01: I don't just uh do you want you want to tell Strat I kind of told told him a little bit about the glass when I talked to him last night, but you want to kind of tell it from since you started it up?
44:55
SPEAKER_00: Sure, yeah.
44:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh so a few years back, uh John Clark would always send me messages and say, Hey, Brandon, can you get me some of these glasses that are you know Johnny Depp has?
45:06
SPEAKER_00: And so I'd say, Okay, well, let me look.
45:08
SPEAKER_00: And we'd we'd check around, and it turns out, you know, most of these things you can only find in these really high-end boutiques like in LA or New York.
45:16
SPEAKER_00: And so I said, Well, you know, he's that kind of guy, you know, he's that kind of guy.
45:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he is.
45:22
SPEAKER_00: I said, Well, why don't we see if we can figure out a way to get some glasses made that look like that?
45:26
SPEAKER_00: And and then my mind starts spinning, and I said, Well, why don't we, you know, name them after him and benefit cystic fibrosis?
45:33
SPEAKER_00: And um, it took us a few years, but we were able to finally find some manufacturers to help us with it.
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SPEAKER_00: And so we we came out with a Johnny Packer eyewear, and so we we've had that for about six months, and then as a way to kind of promote that is we said, Well, let's let's start a podcast up, and it's really taken off from there, and and I've really enjoyed this, and um hopefully it'll kind of increase our sales for the glasses so we can donate more money to the to the CF Foundation and and really just raise more awareness about what John Clark deals with on a day-to-day basis and you know, give people hope.
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SPEAKER_00: And um, it's it's really been a blessing to be friends with John Clark for this long.
46:15
SPEAKER_00: And then just to see, I didn't know all of these people that he knew, um, and and to hear the stories um, you know, from him growing up.
46:23
SPEAKER_00: I knew him growing up, but I didn't know any of this was happening, you know.
46:26
SPEAKER_00: So it's been been really fun for me.
46:30
SPEAKER_02: It's tremendous, it's tremendous.
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SPEAKER_02: He told me the story, and I just thought it was great.
46:34
SPEAKER_02: And you know, there's a there's a special place for people who are willing to give up whatever uh benefits they get for others to get to donate to others, and it's just wonderful.
46:48
SPEAKER_02: I applaud both of you guys.
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SPEAKER_02: So I'll have to get me a pair.
46:52
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
46:53
SPEAKER_00: We'll get you some.
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unknown: Okay.
46:56
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
46:57
SPEAKER_00: Well, that that'd wrap it up.
46:59
SPEAKER_00: So um before we close out, just want to tell everybody thanks for listening.
47:03
SPEAKER_00: And uh, if you have any questions for anything about anything to us, you can reach out to us.
47:08
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you can email us, johnnypacker iwear at gmail.com.
47:12
SPEAKER_00: We also have a new Facebook group, uh, the Johnny Packer Podcast, Facebook, Facebook group.
47:16
SPEAKER_00: So if anybody wants to join that, you can join in.
47:18
SPEAKER_00: Just look us up on Facebook, we'll let you in and and talk more about some Greek food and and some other things like that.
47:24
SPEAKER_00: So um, but we appreciate you, Strat.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll talk about it.
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SPEAKER_02: Thanks so much, God bless you.
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SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much.