Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and welcome to the Bullock podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. I'm so excited to be taking over for the great

Charlie Sykes so I don't know why you had to pass the time to me on Lundy-Graw I've been

parading but we are going to have a great week on this podcast if If you stick around for the end of the show,

I have more to say about Charlie's legacy

and my plans for maintaining and growing it

and what we're going to be doing on the podcast

with me in the big chair. So stay tuned for that. But before we get to our

guests, I just wanted to take a moment of personal privilege on this first show to tell you about one of the

inspirations who got me here, My Mimi, Helen Miller, who died on Friday at the age of 99.

Helen was born in 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her life is a storybook example of the

greatest generation. She lived above her family bakery as a child. She married the

championship college basketball captain, then served in World War II. She raised a big

Catholic family with seven kids, my father the fifth.

She was cheery and faithful and a bit of a spitfire.

She had boundless energy.

As a child, hers was the kind of grandma's house that you got excited to go go to like it was an amusement park because it kind of was really when she learned of my love for

W. W. W. F. wrestling. She built a homemade ring in the basement with a costume box for me and my cousins to play in. She had a deep love of music

and was still playing concert level classical music for Toulouse, her great-grandchild, this year,

age 99. She also cared a lot about politics. She is a lifelong

Republican. How Republican? Her first vote was for Thomas Dewey against

FDR. She loved Nixon still in spite of it all.

She had the Washington Times delivered to her home to balance out the liberal post-dispatch.

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