It's that time. Lock and load. The Michael Vary Show is on the air. Well, it's been years in the making, but finally, one of my childhood heroes and I sit down so that I can be a complete fan boy and ask him the

questions that I have and I hope you have.

Nolan Ryan, that great fastballer, the all-time leader in strikeouts, farmer, rancher,

businessman, father, Great American.

Our conversation with Nolan Ryan.

Just a few days ago, you turned 70 years old.

Hard to believe.

Hard for me to believe.

My childhood hero can't be 70. Well, I never thought ever about being 70 and then when you start approaching it you're thinking

Well, I really don't believe I'm that old. And then you know you get up in the

morning and you go, well, maybe I am. So, you know, it's, you're proud to be able to say that you've lived that long and had a good life and, and I have the mindset that I'm looking forward to the rest of my life and trying to live as long as it possibly can.

But you're in town to be a pop-off. I was telling Ramon, my producer. He said, why is he in Houston today? And I said, well,

he's Reed's child had an event last night. He said, he just came in to be a pop-all and I

said, yeah, he goes, that's really cool. Yeah you know I try to

plan my trips if I have the flexibility to do it around their events and and go watch your

games and and now that baseball is starting up and

Jackson will be playing and give me an opportunity to come down some more.

Well, we've been, I mentioned you were 70, let's go back to you being a young man.

Your father moves from Refugio to Alvin. He's got the Houston press, I guess. No, we were the...

Houston Post. Yeah, we lived in Woodsboro. I was born in Refurio because that's where the

county hospital was and then he worked for the old

Stanley Oil Company and was transferred up to Alvin because of the Hastings

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