I mean, just like you mentioned, a highly successful individual, but just kind of, kind of fill in the backstory.

One of probably the coolest job any person could ever have who had my personality and my love for golf and sports and people.

His wife and I, Jeannie, served on a board downtown where we used to give away awards, and once a year we met to vote on these awards.

And I got to know Jeannie through a dear friend of mine called, his name was Bucky Bowman, who was a lifelong teacher here in the community, taught French at high school and then over in Istanbul later.

So he introduces me to Jeannie, and Jeannie and I maintain a long friendship and always a respect.

I didn't know Johnny, and she was going through a challenge in her health, and we talked on the phone, and she says, "I'm doing fine.

I'm taking the treatments.

I mean, just talk a little bit about, you know, h- w- what he saw and just, like, d- you know, does he see that, do you think? Like, he starts out thinking it could become what it became today.

Mm.

And this gal I was dating, she's a wonderful, wonderful person, and she lives in St. Louis, and I haven't spoken to her since 1990, '91, somewhere like that.

But she brought me here to Missouri, and we lived in St. Louis area, and then I ended up moving to Springfield.

And I was dating, or had a, a dear friend that I worked with who went to Kickapoo, and she goes, "Hey, let's go down and visit my folks some weekend." So I got down here in '93, and I was kinda like, "This is a great place." So in '94 we moved down here, and we got married in '94.

And she is the light of my life.

32 years we've been married.

We have two children.

Mm-hmm.