You're going to see. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hello friends Greg Kockel here on Stand Reason and I'm glad to be able to chat with you a little bit today.

I have, I've just been thinking a bit about my boyhood and how much I enjoyed it.

And in fact things didn't really get challenging for me

until I was almost a senior in high school and that challenge just came from the

challenge of emancipation from a very controlling father. I'm not going to get into

that I want to talk about the boyhood that I had that was so

fabulous and the reason was I had a tremendous amount of freedom to be a boy, to play, to have adventures, to get out from underneath the scrutiny of adults.

And I don't mean like, okay, now I can do whatever I want to do, although, you know, I did some

crazy things. Sometimes that my parents wouldn't have

approved of, but I'm not even talking about that. I'm just talking about the things that it

seemed like all of us had the latitude to do when we were kids.

So I was born in 1950, the first,

almost the first five full years of my life I spent on a farm and on Good Friday

1955

our farm burned down right to the ground we got out in the middle of the night and just

barely survived it and my dad packed up his four kids and we moved back to

Chicago where he was from, gave up his dream of being a farmer in Northern Wisconsin and

looked for work and had a file bankruptcy and he was what 26 years old for kids with another on the way there was five but we had a pretty tight shot group as you can imagine so I'm a year and two weeks younger than my sister, eldest sister, and then Mark is two years from me and Davis two years from him and Bonnie who came after the farm was two years from him. So us, all three boys, we were within four years of each other, all right?

And I remember growing up at the north side then, kindergarten and first, second, third grade, the north side of Chicago,

just a couple of blocks south of Evanston, and I could hear the cubby, you know,

Wrigley Field, I could hear the cheering.

That's where I was at.

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