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Awesome, and you know it's awesome because Cam Miller made it.
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His new film, The Machine in Reds Country, which is
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a documentary that tells the story of the Big Red Machine,
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is going to be shown at the Reds Hall of
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Fame's theater on Tuesday night. Hall of Fame doors open
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at six o'clock. The film's going to be shown at
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seven oh five. There's going to be a Q and A.
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Tickets are twenty five dollars each. You can get them
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at Redsmuseum dot org. What I've seen of this film
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looks awesome. Cam is with us. Here's what I want
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to know. I don't know that there is a baseball
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team that has been more chronicled, especially here, than the
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Reds of the nineteen seventies. And so how much of
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a challenge is it to tell new stories about a
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team that we are all so familiar with.
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Well, that was the challenge. I mean, how do I
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tell this story? You know, I'm like, let's do a
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film on the most talked about baseball team in the
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history of humanity. I'm like, sure, let's do that. But
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what I'd decided to do was, let's look at some
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of these photographs I looked to like four two hundred
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and fifty six pictures and I was like, you know,
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people haven't seen some of these. And then as I
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started listening to some of the radio calls, I was like,
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you know what, it would be really cool to show
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these photos in the context of some of these radio
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calls and put together a film that encompasses ten seasons
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of the greatest baseball dynasty ever and do it without
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showing hardly any film footage. Because we've seen Johnny Bencher's
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home run, we've seen the World Series replays over and
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over again, but we don't get to live in that
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moment with the photo. So I was really, really, really
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trying to capture the seventies the best I could with photographs, music,
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radio calls, and oh, by the way, Pepper in this
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is where the country Red Country Park comes in. Let's
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talk about, you know, some of the fans that were
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from West Virginia and Indiana and Illinois and all points
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in between, and kind of pepper that in there to
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kind of give context to how the second smallest market
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next to Kansas City, Kansas City was last in the
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Reds became the most dominant team in a decade it's
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mind boggling to think now that that's what it was,
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but just an incredible, incredible experience to make. I enjoyed
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every minute of it.
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You know, Red's Country. I'm glad you mentioned that. You know,
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there's a whole part of the country that fell in
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love with the Atlanta Braves in the nineteen eighties because
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of TBS television. Now in so many of these towns
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you mentioned, you know, they've got minor league ballparks that
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rival major league ballparks, and so maybe there's not as
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much of a need to travel to Cincinnati and spend
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a weekend there. But back then, that's what you did, right,
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And I think like Red's Country, because of the size
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of the radio network, because of the success of the team,
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and because of just where we are geographically, Like that's
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to me, that's as much a part of the story
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as what happened on the field itself.
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Oh absolutely. And that was the fun part about this
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was I knew the story, at the least I thought
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I did. I learned so much making the SNILLM. I
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thought I knew everything about the Big Red Machine. But
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the thing is is that there was so much behind
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the means stuff that was going and just think I'll
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give you I'll give you a taste here. The film
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starts with the beekeeping farm in Colorado. Okay, that's where
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the story begins. And it ends in Pittsburgh at six
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forty nine PM in October fifth, nineteen seventy nine. And
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how did we get there? It's an incredible journey. Bob
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Housen's the son of a beekeeper. He gets in touch
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with Sparky Anderson, who is in LA and is the
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bat boy for USC and then they somehow meet. It's
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in his Sparky's high school friend is that becomes the
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PR guy for the reds under Hausen because Sparky recommended
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the job to him. And then so when the story
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comes out, say, oh, by the way, Tom Seedberg, the
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PR guy recommended Sparky for the job. Just all of
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these connections were just remarkable. So you tell that story
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and then you realize at the same time that all
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of these things are converging on Cincinnati. Red's Country is
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being built. It wasn't Red's Country until sixty eight sixty nine,
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when the marketing team got a hold of an old
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Ford ad and said, this is what we're going to
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do so telling that story of how it became Red
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Country and the genius that Bob Housen was it not
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just baseball but marketing. I learned so much, Mo and
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I cannot wait to share this film. It's an hour long.
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I think it's really different. I think people are going
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to enjoy it.
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You know, the A's won more titles in the seventies,
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the Yankees won as many in the nineteen seventies. The
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Dodgers were always really good, the Phillies were always really good.
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The Pirates won two titles of the seventies. And yet
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I don't think in that era there was a more
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culturally significant Major League baseball team maybe sports team in
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the United States of America, than the Cincinnati Reds. And
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I think for generations. Look, I'm not going to pretend
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I was alive then. I was born in seventy seven.
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But I think, I think there are younger folks who
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hear big Red Machine and go, yeah, great baseball team,
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Rose Bench, Morgan, et cetera. I don't know that younger
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fans will know that. I don't know that younger fans
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can really grasp it. In the seventies like these these
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you guys were more than just a baseball team.
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Yeah, and that's one of the reasons why I wanted
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to make this film. We have to keep that history alive.
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It's not just, you know, not to borrow the NBA commissure.
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It's not a highlight league, right. Baseball is stories, it's people,
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and we get we are so far removed from that
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as we keep marching forward through time that stories like
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the Big Red Machine just become headlines and we hear
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about Pete, and we hear about Johnny and Morgan. Like
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you said, but Jeronimo, Griffy the Bench, the Doug Flynn's,
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the murv Retmans, all of these guys that contributed, and
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I really wanted to make sure that that story was told,
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and to do it in a short amount of time.
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I had to cut this baby down like I do
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all my films, and that's just the way it goes.
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But I really think that this type of film, where
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I can tell the story so the kids can learn,
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I want this is more about the future than it
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is for the people that know about the Big Red Machine.
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This is for the future generations of baseball fans.
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Tuesday Night at the Reds Hall of Fame, Roll through
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everything that's going to be happening that evening.
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Well, we'll show the film at seven oh five, like
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they used to play baseball seven o five back in
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the day. That's why we decided to make it that time.
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We're always clever with that stuff, guys the Hall of Fame,
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so we wanted to do something special by showing the film.
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Your ticket gets your bibblehead, you get the two of
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the place. You get to talk to me if it's
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so pleases you. We can have a discussion about the
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big Red Machine. And I think it's going to be
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a fun night and it'll course be on YouTube later
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as I do with all my films for people Red
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Country that can't get out to the event. But I
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really encourage people to get tickets to come out. It's
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going to be so fun because you get to be
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at the psychmc river it was to watch the bigger film.
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I mean, is there anything clear than that?
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There is not no Redsmuseum dot Org doors open at six.
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Film's going to be shown at seven o five. Cam
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is the absolute best. I cannot thank you enough and
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I look forward to seeing it. Cam.
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Thanks so much, Thanks my friend, Talk to you soon.
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Best in the business right there, cam Miller, cam Miller Films.
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We are done. Cannot thank the folks here at Riversbend
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a TBC at River's been enough for hosting us. The
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uh Kroger Queen City Championship is happening all weekend long.
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It's a phenomenal event. You can get tickets starting at
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just thirty bucks Queen City LPGA dot com. My thanks
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to Mike Mills for producing on site. Of course, Darren
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back in Kenwood. I will be at Rally House in
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Kenwood tomorrow from noon to two hanging out. So buy
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some Bengals gear, Say hi and we'll see you. Then
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have a great night. This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati
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