so it's cassidy brinkley, johnny brinkley, benton brinkley. my wife is ann goldman of new orleans. we met there and got married in new orleans and have become a family man. it's changed my life. and more, brian, changing your life having kids, i love taking them -- all my kids want to do now is go to the wild basin to go see animals. we have a place in austin. so i take them to a nature study center. i'm teaching them the animals. they don't look and say they know even -- if they see a fish in the tank, that's a perch. i trained them to get them to start knowing all of them and they each have favorite animals that they've honed in on. my daughter benton, for example, is all ducks and we have -- without exaggeration she probably has 200 ducks, toy ducks -- >> 200 toy ducks? >> she just surrounded her of all of these little, it's an obsession. but the audubon society of america does a whole series of bird stuffed toys, which are really fun because you can get a great blue heron or you could get a snowy egret or whatever it might be. we have a lot of those, too, a big audubon society

it's walter cronkite and johnny carson, and huntley brinkley are the edgiest things in mainstream television, and firing line is from a different galaxy. it starts with a concerto, and it's the content of what he is saying, and one of the very interesting anecdotes, years ago i was on an panel, and afterwards an old man came up to me and said, do you see mr. buckfully will you thank him for me. i'm a man of the left, but firing line was the only place in the late 60s where left-wingers could get to say their views at length. and i -- there's some truth to that. now, bill let them say that so he could duke it out with them. but he let them say that. and the media has changed. the media has moved on. it's just like, you know, it's like it's all a trailer. it's all a teaser. it's this, this, this. if jesus came back now he would not get an hour of television. he simply wouldn't. so, bill was suited for his time. what are bills today going to do? they will have to be suited to their time, and also people, you know, are unique. a lot of consecutives are saying, where is the next reagan? not going

it's walter cronkite and johnny carson and, you know, huntley brinkley are sort of the edgiest things in mainstream television and "firing line" is like from another galaxy. it starts with a brand of concerto. it's bill mannerisms and accent and whatnot and also the content of what he's saying. and one of the very interesting anecdotes that came my way, this was years ago, i was on some sort of panel at the new school and afterwards an old man came up to me and he said do you see mr. buckley? i said yes, i do. he said will you thank him from me. i'm a man of the left but "firing line" was the only place in the late '60s where left wingers could get to say their views at length. and, you know, there's some truth to that. now, bill let them say that so he could duke it out with them. but he let them say that. and, you know, the media has changed. the media has moved on. it's just like -- you know, it's like it's all a trailer. it's all a teaser. it's this, this, this. if jesus came back now, he would not get an hour of television. [laughter] >> he simply wouldn't. so, you know, bill was

brinkley. i had an uncle named johnny which i never met. he was killed in the second world war in bomb. he was a marine. my mother -- he was kind of a hero in my life even though i never met him because he died. i was also of a big fan of johnny cash. i went with jonny. >> are you going to call an johny for the rest of his life? >> johny. he can make a decision when he gets older. >> these four? >> that's right. my youngest is two. that is cassidy is her name. it's from a character of jack kerouac. there's a grateful dead song as well called "qazi." it's an irish-- called "cassidy" and we got married anand had met in new orleans. becoming a family man changed my life. all my kids want to do is go to the wild places to go see animals. we have a place in austin a park where i take them to nature study center. i'm teaching them the animals. if they see this in a tank they say that the purchase. i trained them to get them to start knowing all of them. they each have favorite animals that they have honed in on. my daughter benton loves ducks. she probably has 200 ducks, without exaggeration,