would you welcome george peppard. george? [ music ] [ applause ] >> hello, george. >> we have our birthday boy with us. >> yeah, doc-doc's birthday today. >> yes-yes. >> you a baseball fan? >> uh, yes-yes. >> you follow this, uh, you follow this discussion at all? >> i'm, um-- yes, indeed. i was watching very carefully, and, uh-uh, there were temptations when you were getting to the, uh, red balls there. >> orange. orange. >> orange, uh, but i resisted them. >> i-i-i'm glad you did. >> because we haven't used those in show business in years. >> what do you mean? >> well, it actually, in the kind of picture i'm working on now, it's kind of a science fiction thing. >> right. >> and, uh-- >> you use orange baseballs in the picture? >> well, no, but orange-- different kind of colors. it's just kind of obvious that your eye shoots right to the, uh, dif-different color-colored object, and yeah, i think it's a great idea. >> thank you, thank you, [ applause ] >> you didn't have this little, uh, tumbleweed before when you were here,