Thank you for joining us. This is Tuesday's with Trey. This is a treat for me. I know I've said that in the past and I've met it. I mean it this time.

Our guest today is one of the best known television personalities at least for me in terms of what I watch. He's on every day covering the news and breaking news and especially at least from my vantage point when elections are in the air. He is ubiquitous.

He can operate election maps effortlessly. I can't even read a teleprompter. He handles these computers. He knows precinct breakdowns. He can tell us not to be kind of cajoled into a false sense because some numbers are in and others are not. He's also at least my interactions within one of the nicest people you will ever meet.

He works hard. He's prepared, which you can tell. He's well researched, which is why Fox Trust him. Not just every day to tell us what's happening, but he's also drafted on the biggest nights with the most important news.

You probably guessed by now, but it's Bill himmer Bill. Thank you for showing us.

Hey, Tray, thank you. That is a that is one hell of an introduction. So thank you for that. I want to know if you'll do my eulogy someday.

Well, you're so much younger than I am. You better get somebody else to sign up for that. I'll be long gone.

You tell her hello, and it's great to be with you, Tray. I will. Thank you. All right. This is a weird question, but I love asking famous people or people that the folks that listen to my podcast, they see them all the time, but they see them in a certain way and a certain age of life.

I want you to tell us what Bill himmer was like growing up. I think one of five children, if I'm not mistaken, but tell us about the young Bill himmer.

Well, I guess I was very energized, Tray. I think I would start there. I was very active. It was hard to sit still.

I was one of these kids who would sit in classroom and stare out the window, and I would see green grass and blue skies. And I'd say, man, I want to be out there.

So I guess that's where I'd start.

There was a moment, however, going from grade school to high school, I went to an all boy Catholic school. There were a thousand boys. And I think we had like five girls and some scattered classes from the all girls Catholic school across the driveway.

So it was sitting high school with the ladies on one side and elder high school on the other. And I tell you, I remember my mom coming in my bedroom just about every morning of my life, throwing up the shades and singing, oh, let the sunshine in.

Because she was trying to get me out of bed. And that was a struggle up into the eighth grade. And the first day of high school when that alarm went off and she opened that door, I got out of bed, made my bed, had breakfast, and I was off and I was ready for the challenge.

And I guess the only reason that I think the reason that happened is because I knew there were 999 other guys that I had to compete with. And I accepted that challenge. And I really don't think I've looked back since.

How's that for an anecdote off the top of my head? Do you buy that? That's fantastic. And I'm sitting here, Lincoln. If I went to an all boy school, I'd be staring out the window too. I did, I did not, I did not have to do that. But if you mention high school, how did you convince the powers that be to allow you to start a radio program and give you the intercom system?

How did you do that? Well, you did your research. It was senior year. And in my school, there was pressure on you from the moment you walked in the doors of freshmen to say, what do you want to do in life?

And I understand why they did that, but I always thought it was unfair because how do you know at age 15, I've got no clue. And I knew my father sold mattresses for a living. And I knew he was in his car at 805 AM every morning in the driveway.

And I knew he came home at six o'clock every night so the family of seven of us would sit down and have dinner. And I thought, pops, you've been doing that for 35 years in that factory.

I've got to find something else because if that is what I'm subjected to, I'm not quite sure how long I can hold my interest.

So we had a tower at our school still exists today, but nobody used it. And there was a PA system that was hooked up to the entire school. And me and my buddy Doug Lutz said, we've got an idea at 7, 30 in the morning, we're going to play bad rock and roll music.

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