David Letterman

And he starts calling Johnny because after Johnny is retired and he, he wants an interaction with Johnny.

And Johnny recognizes that he's being called, stands up, holds up the newspaper, and goes below decks.

That was it, yeah.

I just love that.

There are a million stories of friends of mine who have had interactions with Johnny where it was like, poof, and he's gone.

But wait a minute, Johnny was just here.

Now he's gone.

Might've been, might've been, uh, yeah, might've been, but also not surprising, at least in his case.

Well, the fact that he went away, just cold stone goodbye, good night, I'm not coming back.

I found that troubling a little bit.

And I can't imagine that happening for myself.

Not that I can make that comparison to Johnny.

But suddenly you stop doing something.

And he really did.

But I could never have done that.

I had to keep doing stuff.

I kind of wish I was that guy, but I'm just not.

No, uh, the real trick when I was a kid, when everybody was a kid, was it 55 was retirement age or 60, 65, something like that.

What a joke that is because you get to that or to the threshold of that.

And you realize