Dodgers, Family, and Legacy with Jaime & Jorge Jarrín

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the bilingual podcast that shares our stories. Since Sensora ELOI
we have a conversation with Jime Ijorg Grin Kim Garen
is an Ecuadorian born American sportscaster known as the Spanish
language voice of the La Dodgers. Since retiring from his
legendary sixty four year career as the La Dodgers Spanish voice,

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El Senor Garn has poured his heart into the chime
i Garin Foundation jb j F, which he co founded
with his late wife Blanca and Loso Venzoriz. Jbjf's corporate
fiscal partner, which provided the seed money to start the foundation.
JBJF uplifts under served Latino students in California by awarding

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scholarships to those pursuing careers.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
In law and journalism.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Jrgue Grin is the president of the foundation and also
a former La Dodger Spanish language broadcaster and listeners. This
conversation was so fun. I was a little star stroke hearing.

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Carine.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
The moment Megerne started talking, I was like, Oh, I'm
talking to the Regeren.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
And so that was a lot of fun to.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Experience and to be in a shared space with someone
with such depth and knowledge it was. It was amazing.
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Speaker 4 (13:34):
You know it's it's it's sad when you come to realize.
I know people who have never done anything worse than
maybe get a traffic ticket, fall behind on a payment.
That's their worst defense, and yet they're afraid to leave
their homes to pursue their livelihood to leave. They can't

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leave their homes to work, and they've come here to work.
That's so sad. So as my father was obliterating here,
not only do we have to not give into the fear,
speak up for ourselves, get ourselves educated. But let's not
forget those of you who are registered to vote and

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can vote. You must vote. You must make your feelings
and your opinions heard. When it was quite common growing
up and hearing friends of mine and my sons, for example,
say that's the point. Not just one person, what is
my one vote can make a huge difference, a huge difference,

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which is why right now this administration is trying to
redistrict red states to get even more seats in Congress
so that there could be no jeopardy to anything that
they wish to do. That is not a democracy, see,
that is not what we are about. We must vote,

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and we must make our opinions heard. If you don't vote,
then you cannot complain about a thing, for sure. That's
what it comes down to.

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vote sound, make your voice count.

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Speaker 4 (18:06):
Lib you know, Pam. But getting back to your initial
question there, in twenty nineteen, I had been with the Dodgers.
Now well, I joined the Dodgers back in two thousand
and four, but I had the pleasure of becoming a
broadcaster for the Dodgers in twenty and twelve, and then

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in two thousand nineteen. I had been with my father
in the broadcast food at that point for five years.
The Dodgers in twenty fifteen had asked me to move
over and join him, making my father and I the
first Latino, the first major league broadcast team father and son. No,
it's never happened. So you know, my father has been

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involved in many firsts, and it was a pleasure and
being with him and working with him side by side
doing the same thing play by play. I began to
see that my dad's career sixty four years starting to
wind down. So I wanted to think of a way
to preserve that legacy, because my father's legacy goes beyond

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the broadcast. It's not just about the Dodgers in baseball.
It's the fact that he was an immigrant who came
to this country found his calling because he came trained
from Ecuador, having been a journalist there. He picked up
the reigns of journalism here in the United States, and
in addition to baseball and sports, he's covered a number

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of significant world events, interviews with presidents between the United
States and Mexico, the assassination of President Kennedy, the first
arrival of a pope to the United States, all these events.
So he's done so much and he has this tremendous legacy,

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but I don't want with his retirement for that impact
and that legacy to say. And then something pivotal happened
in twenty nineteen in spring training. My mom, as was
her always her routine, to come out and spend time
with us as we're getting ready for a very long season.
She was in Phoenix with us, and she unfortunately passed

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away from a heart attack a seven heart attack and
passed away, and in thinking with talking to my family,
how could we preserve her impact to honor her And
at the same time, I thought this was ideal to
establish this foundation that not only would it honor my
mom's memory of being such a wonderful and generous and

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giving an optimistic person for strong qualities that led to
the success of my family. And we established the Heymen
Blanca Harein Foundation, and we thought the most noble thing
we could do is something that my mom always believed in,
was to raise money to create a scholarship fund and
then help those who can best need it, can best

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make use of it. Then that was in twenty and twenty.
In twenty twenty, right there also boom, we get hit
with COVID, so we have to stop. Then we pick
up again, and now we've been continuing by doing events
and raising money and I'm happy to say that now
to date we've given just over two hundred and twenty

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five thousand dollars in scholarships. We have a partnership with
Lost Different Sodas. People who are not in Southern California
may recognize my father and I as the spokespersons for
Lost Different Sodas throughout the rest of the country and
lose different Sodas is a cooperative legal marketing firm that

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specializes in creating a network of Spanish speaking Latino agados
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Mass mass deficial muchans and that.

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Lost different stories is that los Latinos lost different stories
and Warentimos.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Namazi Commerce Principial now.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Permit express migrat across different stories because they were the
first ones to come on and help us. They gave us.
They gave us the first money that we needed to
establish the foundation, and they have been with us since
since nineteen twenty nineteen. So Torosvensaurus, my gratitude as as

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the head of the of the family. Now that I
am retired, I am just only now trying to help
her to run the foundation because I see the need
to help those young students with great qualifications, but they
don't have the means to to continue. The lots of
university that is particular. Yes, parts lay that tremenda thing

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like that. They just know we're the most polido fundre locate.
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Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, they're the first ones that stepped up with fifty
thousand dollars seed money.

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Latinos menos a tresperciento.

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Does becas Uma, parados and marlos different stories leants standing
at school at the last Periodimo. FORGASA journalists, we have
two scholarships, one for twelve thousand or two of them
twelve five hundred dollars for graduates. But then we also

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give five scholarships of five thousand dollars each to undergraduate
students who are enrolled in a college or university. And
maybe it's not about the law or journalism. Maybe they're
interested in a field of medical research or whatever. Open
but that's okay, whatever you want to do.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
So we give out fifty journalism.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
No, not for the undergraduates, not for the undergraduates. We
look for postgraduates in law journalism specifically, and then we
have a separate pool for undergraduates five thousand each for
total fifty thousand dollars. Then this year, I'm happy to
announce that we have entered into a partnership with doctor Pepper,

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the beverage company. Kured and doctor Pepper have stepped up
and threw their efforts in conjunction with the Harnin Foundation,
we're going to give out an additional ten scholarships to
college students of two thousand, three hundred dollars each. So
this year we'll be giving out a total of seventeen

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scholarships and for a total of seventy three thousand dollars.
But we're trying to grow that. As my father always says,
I'm happy to do this, but I wish I could
give out ten twenty thirty forty fifty one hundred scholarships. Well,
that's hard to do because I've looked it up and
I don't know of too many institutions that give out

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hundreds of scholarships. But we try to do our best,
and that's all that we can do. My mom used
to say that all the times problemas del mundo bano
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Speaker 4 (28:54):
Applicants, all of our applicants are. We're not looking for
the most intelligent student. We're looking for the student who
is well rounded, possibly bilingual, comes from a working family,
has a strong economic need. And I'll tell you right now,

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the students that we interview and we talk to have
all gone through the problems that we are talking about,
the fear of being of ice raids, immigration. Some of
these students are not documented. I don't care we as
a group the same with los deefin socas. It's a philosophy.

(29:41):
There are certain rights that everyone is entitled to. It
doesn't matter whether you're documented or not. So if you're
enrolled in an accredited for your college or university, that's
all we're concerned about. You don't have to necessarily be
best student. But if you're a student who shows progress

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and hope, who's working thirty five hours a week, going
to school full time, and in many cases, as my
father touched upon, it's sad to say that some of
these students do not receive the emotional nor financial support
of their families because they're saying, lociento go on themos

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gracis it is I that it's it's important for some
students to give up their hopes to accept a job
to contribute to the household economy because they need it.
And I come across that all the time, so I
know that we're going in the right direction. We're trying

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to reach those people who have been overlooked. So many
times before.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Thank god, damn you had a.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Having foundation exists that when I went to college, I
worked full time and I went to college full time.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
And you went to college full time and worked full time,
and and and think that how stressful.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
That's so stressful.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
I mean, yeah, my peers like in pajamas, and many
times people thought I worked at the college because I
had to wear slacks and office stuff. And Son says,
see his experience, never see that is something that it's
so foreign, like the I just like hang out in

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my dorm type thing. I'm like Yestonia. And so I
think hearing you say what you do now with the
Herding Foundation and the opportunity that you give to students.
And I even saw some of the testimonial videos of
some students saying, you know, what is this scholorship? No okay, okay,
Okayomas just as little things. And I think what I'm

(31:58):
curious about for contact already that and you have a
limited amount of funding not but I'm sure the applications
that you get are so many more than what you
can get out.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Oh oh, of.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
Course, we're giving out seventeen scholarships. We had all the
three hundred applications this last time around. Wow, it's difficult.
But the important thing is it's not it's the money
is important because of the effect that it has. However,
what's even more important is to let these students know

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I see you, I recognize what you're dealing with, what
you have to do, and I'm willing to invest in
your future. I need you to succeed and if I
can help you succeed, then we all win. So that's
the reason. That's the message we try to to impart,

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even to the students who come so close, but someone
has a greater need has for whatever. I always in
the interview leave them knowing, Hey, I am so proud
of you, and I see you and I want to
invest in you. And if it doesn't happen this time,

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apply again. Apply again. You'll have a chance. And that's
what we try to impart.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
That positive But give us they addressed to the who
the people should shood shot right in order to get
in touch with us.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Okay, well, unfortunately we've just passed this application period. But uh,
if you go to Haren Foundation dot org, you will
see everything about the foundation and you will see the
times and if you check because every year. Starting in May,

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we start the process of looking for the next round
of scholarship recipients.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Okay, this is.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
Going to air just after we've announced our newest round
of scholarship recipients. But that means that come next year,
social media radio we promote the heck out of this
and through those different sodus and their media partners, we
try to let everybody know, hey, now's the time to

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apply a freaking ok yes, TAMAS period socials and those
different sus for Instagram is Prosternet Haren Foundation, punto Org. Yeah,
esmation you think good?

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Speaker 3 (34:59):
Is it gonna get getting the government?

Speaker 1 (35:06):
I think that's the most difficult job that has to
subject the winners because we have received so many applications
and the way that they tell us it sometimes really
really tough to accept. Co q ext mean more than me.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
The way that Fortunately, with the help of our we
have a committee that reviews and we've divided up amongst ourselves.
There's ten people involved, and that means that everybody gets
about thirty applications to go through. The first round of
applications are all submitted online. It's it's a it's a

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questionnaire that asks you about you know your name, where
do you live, where did you go to school? What
school are you attending now? Do you work full time
part time? How many units are you carrying in class?
What is your intended major? Then you get two essay
questions to answer. One how much involved how much involvement

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do you have in your community? What do you do
outside of school to try it and improve your neighborhood,
your local environment, your family, whatever. The next question is
what would this scholarship mean to you? How would it
impact you? So then based on those answers, we review
them and we grade them one through five, and we

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start breaking it down to smaller group. Then, once we
get to a group of about thirty students again, we
ask them to submit to submit to a live interview
via zoom from their campers, from their home wherever and a.

(37:00):
It's an interview that lasts approximately fifteen minutes in time.
We scheduled them out and you know, I spend well
over a week of sitting there interviewing and talking to
all of the students along with our committee. We record
them all so that then we can review all those

(37:22):
recorded interviews with our committee and then we make our
final selections and we let them know. Then we have
an event at gala this year at Dodger Stadium. It
was on the nineteenth of August in which we honored
a Dodger photographer, an award winning sports photographer, John Sue

(37:46):
who because that's a form of journalism, you know. And
we also honored no More was an outstanding individual in
Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox, later with
the Chicago Cubs and then with the Los Angeles Dodgers,
who grew up here in southern California. A Latino who

(38:09):
has done so much and six time All Star. You know,
he's got all these batting titles and things, and he's
a great individual. But what people don't know is that
is that Nomar quietly is involved in a number of
charitable endeavors and they have an organization, a foundation. He

(38:31):
and his brother also run a baseball academy, so they're
very worthy. The year before, we honored Manny Mota, Federnando A. Lenzuela,
and Oral Hersheiser, and those were our honorees. So we
try to have honorees that people are inspired to want
to come and see and meet, and we had this
event on the nineteenth and you know, when we start,

(38:57):
we begin sending out the checks now, and that's how
we do it. And we're hoping to just continue to
grow it and grow it. But it is a lot
of work, but it's very the results are very satisfying
because it really does change people's lives. It affects ton
only not something very rewarding to us.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
It's something very rewarding to us. And we appreciate the
health that we're having getting all these years. So I
thank you very much for the we're giving us the
time to address this situation. I'm on the Latinos now
living in the United States and about the foundation and
the scholarships are there giving away.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
So it's true, it does take a village. I mean,
you know, for those of you who are not big
fans of Hillary Clinton or not, when she came up
with that that slogan, I think it's very opplicable to
many many facets. It does take a village. It can't
be just our families. We need the help of our community,

(39:59):
We need support of our friends, the encouragement of our
family members. All of that goes into the formula for
achieving personal success.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
I want to take this opportunity also to thank the
community because you may have been with Redgies for over
sixty years, and in order to have that type of
longevity you have to have the backing of the community.
And the community has great, great weight with me since
fifty nine, you know, I having with Redalies and in

(40:31):
you know, in radio and on television. If you don't
have the numbers, you can survive. And thanks to the community,
I have been able to work and to bring the
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gratitude towards the community here in southern California.

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Speaker 3 (48:20):
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Speaker 4 (48:25):
For you? How was it to.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Look?

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Did you always know what you wanted to do? And
did you did you always know you wanted to work
with your dad.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
No, I I I I never I never once thought
about working with my father.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
It wasn't you know.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
I just didn't think that that would ever happen. But
you know, one of the things that my mom instilled
in us is she said, don't be afraid to fail.
Don't be afraid to fail, because every time you fail,
that becomes a learning opportun unity. You take something away
from that, You learn from that, whether it's that feeling

(49:06):
or what you could have done better the next time around.
So my mom always said, hey, just go for it.
And I just happened to be someone who was fortunate
enough to go to college to graduate, and that put
me on a level playing field with others simply because
I had what they had. I had a college degree,

(49:28):
so that opens a door. Then luck has a lot
to do with the opportunities that come up. And I
went to work after I graduated from college. I was
at NBC Studios as a page doing studio tours, which
helped my public speaking a lot. And when I heard
that the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee had been formed

(49:51):
because of the eighty four Olympic Games, I said to myself, well,
I'm bilingual. There must be something that I can do
and I can offer my service. I sent a resume
and a cover letter and I got called right away.
So I went to work for the Olympic Committee. I
worked on the staff there for two years, two and

(50:12):
a half years until the Games concluded. Then I worked
in public relations and one of the things that I
was assigned to do was to do an interview, to
do interviews about the impact of the Olympic Games, the success,
the financial success of the Olympic Games. And so I
was doing an interview for KABC Radio one afternoon in

(50:35):
nineteen eighty five, and the president and general manager of
the station happened to be stuck in traffic and was
listening to the interview, and when he got to Dodger
Stadium he was going to a Dodger game. He went
and looked for my father to find out how you
can get a hold of me, And long story shorty
offered me a position as an airborne traffic reporter. So

(50:57):
I had never been in a helicopter in my life,
and I found myself being hired. They changed my name
to Captain Hodge, and I flew five days a week,
five hours a day in a helicopter, covering traffic, any
late breaking news story. I was there for the OJ

(51:19):
Simpson trial, the Bronco, the White Bronco chase. I was
there for the Rodney King verdicts that resulted in the riots,
and I was to cover the riots. So I had
established myself in radio and I was there until twenty
eleven when the station was sold and they made big

(51:40):
changes in personnel. And at that time I had gone
to work for the Los Angeles Dodgers, not in radio,
but in sales, working in their global partnership department, lining
up clients and expanding the Spanish radio network, bringing in
new affiliates. And then in two thousand and twelve, Fox

(52:01):
Deporte this had approached the Dodgers about doing a limited
number of games in Spanish. They didn't It wasn't enough
for them to go out and hire a full time announcer.
So my boss came to me and says, hey, Hooky,
you know you you have a career in broadcasting. How
would you like to do this. It's only thirty five games,
but you still have to do your sales job and everything.

(52:22):
That's ad job. So you know i'd be getting the
Dodgers stadium at eight thirty in the morning for the
sales side, and then at seven o'clock I'd go on
the air with Manny Mota and we did that. I
did the television broadcast until we get home at eleven
o'clock at night. That's something that my father instilled in me,

(52:42):
is that hey, don't be afraid to work long hours
and many jobs to get where you want to get.
So then after that became thirty five games in twenty twelve.
They liked it so much that the next year they said,
we want to do fifty and then in twenty fourteen
it was one hundred games. And then in twenty fifteen

(53:03):
they decided, no, we're gonna make some changes here. We're
gonna move Fernando and fit it to the television side,
and we're gonna put Hode here in the broadcast booth
with my father. And so then I had the pleasure
of working side by side with my dad, going on
the road, traveling with the team, going to all the

(53:23):
cities in the various ballparks, and you know, in the beginning,
it was quite intimidating, even though I had already had
over twenty five years of experience. It was intimidating because one,
I'm working with a hall of famer. He's a hall
of famer. Who am I other than the fact that
I share his last name? And I would listen, and

(53:45):
I know my father would sit there and he would
listen to me, and I always felt like, oh my god,
it's nerve wracking. I don't know if I can do this.
It was my youngest son's Stefan, who gave me the
best piece of advice. He said, Dad, he goes, don't
worry about what that the hymen he calls him that
the hyden. Don't worry what that the heymen thinks. The

(54:06):
only thing that's important is that if you think you've
done the best you can at the end of the day,
just do that and if you can please yourself, not
that the Hyden, not the audience, not the Dodgers, but
if you can just please yourself and say, Okay, that's
the best I could do. Can I do better? I'm
gonna try, and I'm gonna keep trying. And once I

(54:30):
started doing that, the first thing I noticed was my
father when he would then pass it on to me
because I would do a pregame show. Then I would
introduce my father for the first pitch. And now with
the first pitch, here's Hall of Famer. I had a
mean and I would give it to him, and he'd
work the first, second, and third innings, and then he

(54:51):
would toss it to me for the fourth, fifth, and sixth,
and then he would come back for the seventh, eighth,
and ninth. But in the beginning to notice that my father,
once he finished, he would still sit there listening with
his head headset on, and he'd listen and listen, and
then in a commercial break and sometimes even garny, he
would give me, Hey, no, give me suggestions. I said, stop,

(55:15):
don't do that until we're done.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Tell me then that throws you off.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
Now that throws you off. And my father had always said,
a good program director never calls his talent until the
show is over, and then he teaches that. So I'm going, hey,
what about me? Doesn't that apply to me? So don't
say anything to me until we're done. And then my
son gave me this advice. And then when I started

(55:40):
doing that and I relaxed, then came the moment when
he tossed it to me and I start and out
of the corner of my eye. I see him take
off his headset, sit back, get up, left the booth.
So now I said, Okay, he's comfortable, he's trusting to
handle it. So you know, that was quite an experience

(56:03):
for me. Then the Dodgers who won the World Series.
In twenty twenty, I turned sixty five, and I said,
I love this. However, I'm done. My dad continued, and
people were like, how can you retire before your father?
Your father's your father's eighty five years old, and you're

(56:24):
you're going to retire at sixty five, And I said, yeah,
because I want to enjoy the time that I have
now to spend with my wife and my sons who
are all grown up. But it was different for me
than it was for my father because my father had
a family, a young, young family when he started, and

(56:46):
he was gone all the time. But because of my mom,
we never resented the fact that he wasn't there. We
never felt neglected, we never felt like we were missing
out on anything, because my mom was very good at
holding it all together and letting us know, hey, your
dad's not here because he loves you so much, Look

(57:08):
how hard he works. So they made a great team.
They really did. They were married for sixty seven years.
They were a great example for us and growing up.
That's one of the things that I think has really
impacted my character. And it just gave me the confidence
to do the things that I've loved doing, which is

(57:30):
talking in school. It got me in trouble after I graduated.
I found a way to make it work for me.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
You know.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
Yeah, came to me one day, I said that I
am not going to have the LONGIVT that you have had.
So soon as I qualify for couple of pasions, I'm
going to quit. I said, what. Yeah, he retired two
years before I did. Everybody nothing of that, but he

(58:01):
had to do that in order to pay attention to
the foundation. And I am so glad that he's in
charge of that. And I tried to help him as
much as as possible. And he is a great and
great job, very.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Proud look at it is. You can knew what he
wanted and he chose that.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Yes, I did.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
I know. I knew what I wanted to do in
in those terms, in that it was general, but I
knew I wanted to be involved in broadcasting, you know,
fell in love with it. I grew up around it,
so I felt very comfortable with it. And you know
that I I owe to my to my dad. He
gave me the foundation on the basis for which to succeed,

(58:46):
and I've just been very fortunate and blessed so that
I feel this obligation very strong to help other people.
I think that's really important. I think I think it's
what God wants us to do. And any chance, any
and in the way the world is today, with all
the strife and the grief in the Middle East and

(59:07):
Russia and the United States and tariffs and animosity, if
we have an opportunity to put a smile on God's face,
that's important. That's important.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
Seem which is grassiest and bears.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
I know I'm already a lowal here.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
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compart it.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
The citizens depended depended in firmidad is the name physica
mental I get there as professionalism that I say Gila's instruction,
it was medicals salut is important. They know the personas

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mass like I said, hero, it was medicals albi and
they's seem pretty mean positive pre positive. This was important.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
Exactly and to me it's along that same line but
when we're talking about a remedy, it's what I touched
upon before. One of the remedies that I think overall
is not to be afraid to fail, not to put
so much emphasis on what you think others think of you.
You know, you can't undo what's done, but take the positive.

(01:00:46):
It's a learning experience. Move on because my mom used
to say, when you screw up, when you fail, the
person that remembers it longer is you. Others move on,
people forget, you get another opportunity. So that's one of
the remedies that I have overall for people. Just don't

(01:01:07):
be afraid to fail, learn from it, and continue to
build upon that. And then your second question is.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
Well, the second question is you have a quote or
mantra that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
You left by a quote or a mantra or a
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he can make identify can prinamente for influence. We mu
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either speed la combeto sefue the quadrangulari pivo. Yeah, so
it's plat a little juego. You see Yavien do las
Cassi doesn't bela jolio you have one, No, I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
I can't follow.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
We'll sleave it at that because my growth. Gracias for
the conversation. It was a joy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Gratis bortolos for your commitment. Thank you for our education
and the growth of our community is so important. We're
going to have all the links in the show notes
if people could know where to click and where to go,
and we'll have everything.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Thank you very much for this opportunity. And you know
what we were talking about earlier. The I know that
we've passed this this phase for applications, but if people
want to know more and how they can help, they
can always go to our web page, as I said before,
Haren Foundation dot org. And if they want to make
a contribution, all you gotta do is hit the donate button.

(01:03:06):
You know, five dollars, ten dollars, twenty five dollars. That
all adds up, yes, And if many people do that,
we're gonna have the funds. And I promise you that
that money will all go to the students. Every penny
of it goes to support these students who realize their dreams.
And when they do that they're only going to make our.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Community BETTERIA is magnificant, you're not and those ideas, which is.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
All by.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
When the listeners.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
So many things that were awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
There's a few episodes coming up that are with older people,
with people I would consider elders, and it's fascinating when
I ask them questions how they answer. So I noticed
also generationally how they also answer specific questions. One thing
that was fascinating to me from this interview was learning

(01:04:27):
that Jorgue retired before Heimen.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
It was a whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
We talked about it, and there were so many nuggets
and so many pieces of wisdom that were left with me,
especially that day when I had the conversation with them,
because it's all about I think one of the biggest
takeaways that I got from this interview was persevering and
knowing that when you have a dream, when you have

(01:04:58):
a belief, when you have a desire that pulls you
into doing something, it will happen for you. Lookati and
so I think this conversation was very grounded for me
because I could see it was it was a great

(01:05:18):
modeling of of courage. It was a great modeling of courage.
It was a great modeling of perseverance. It was a
great modeling of belief and choosing that you are worthy,
which I think a lot of us are working through that.

(01:05:39):
I say a lot of us because I'm included in that.
So thank you so much for being here. I hope
you enjoyed this conversation. Leave comments, tell me what you think. Also,
you know, tell me who you would like to see
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Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
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Authority now, we have some credibility we have. We have
credibility that we've built. And if you're like, hey, I
really wish you could bring in so and so, then
who knows. I think I'm at the point of my
career that I may know someone that knows someone so.
And even if I don't, we can do a call
out and say, hey, listeners really want to hear your story,

(01:06:20):
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