Well, here it is.
Hump day midweek mid-May.
No better time to dig into the k
of the KTVB archive to see whats
happening on this day, May 17th.
I don't know say 20 years ago. I don't know.
How about we just pull some random tape
off the shelf like say 23 years ago today.
It was a day as John Miller foud
out in today's two O 8 redial,
that was for the birds.
So it's Reggie. Yeah, these are
your veggies. Yep. Reg the veg.
And you never know what you'll
find it Reggie's veggies,
Perhaps even Saint Nick shopping in his
offseason In a white Cadillac, no less.
But here's the breaking bird st.
2 feathered fiends, it looks like. Yeah.
So I guess this whole story sta,
really, with somebody dinging
the back of your truck and
putting a hole in your bumper.
Yep, made a, I guess a perfect
home for someone else. Which
would seem pretty stupid,
even for a couple of starlings
building a nest. In a truck bumr
so you become like the mobile h.
Yep, driver and mobile home for birds.
What do you call him? You got F,
Nethel, Harold and Maude,
Bonnie and Clyde. Partners
in crime anyway. Exactly.
Because every time Reggie
goes for more veggies,
there's a sign of trouble.
Fruit on the ground,
birds on a wire waiting for a st
to fly in and make their play,
and bam, the grape escape.
Clean getaway. Yep,
no doubt sharing. The fruits of their
labor with their bumper crop of babies,
they got the whole thing figured out.
Yeah, they've got the perfect s.
Like I said, you never know what you're
going to find at Reggie's Veggi.
Yo, Santa, two of the world's
smartest starlings. Can't catch them.
That's why the folks at Reggie's Veggies
have figured out if you can't beat them,
feed them. You got it.
John Miller, Idaho's News,
Channel 7. So Reggie's Veggies,
who apparently started his busis
back in 1995 with a table full
of cherries and two umbrellas,
is still selling fruits and veg.
And this time of year, lots of berries,
six days a week on the corner yu
stick and coal roads in Boise.
You know what else is still happening?
Every time we run one
of these Miller stories,
we get messages asking about John Miller.
We've been getting them for yea.
Where's John Miller? Where did he go?
What's he up to these days?
Whatever happened to John?
Like, can he come back?
Well, John left KTVB in 2002
and is now in Kansas City,
MO by way of Seattle and Phoeni,
and he's been in KC since 2007.
He started his own production
company there after being a stat
home dad to twins for a few yea.
Some of you may remember John
actually came back to Boise in
2010 for a two weeks stint to tl
more Idaho life stories and wel,
we caught up with him today
to hear a few of his.
Standing in a Turkey farm in duck Boots,
1993, my earliest memory of Idaho life,
shortly after I'd moved here
from my old job in Iowa.
A life journey I initially trieo
measure with a ruler that's abo5
inches on your average Rand McN.
So I jumped right in, hung arou,
swung around the camera taped to
my arm or one of my many hats,
increasingly suspicious that Ido
life was probably a misnomer.
As I grew older, wiser and slowr
than the world's fastest Wiener,
who also tried to kill me.
Still, the sun always rose like a homemade
cannon over a Meridian cornfiel,
The days and years shooting by e
pumpkins and squashes and potats
and Shih Tzu's on skateboards,
the stories often hitting me square between
the eyes like one of those pota.
More paint falls,
more people on snowboards.
But it's okay.
I survived all that knowing someday the
bosses at the Big Seven would call and say,
hey John, we want to revisit soe
of those old crazy stories you .
There are literally thousands on
all these tapes.
Can you pick us your ten favori?
So the other day, my old friendd
camera guy, Gary. You remember ?
I usually dragged him out on Valentine's Day,
tried to find him some love,
often kept a running total of how many
dates he'd had over periods of .
We drove across Idaho in an RV l
the way to Canada once, and thee
got officially kicked out of Ca.
And then Canada felt so bad about it.
They invited us back a year
later and treated us like kings.
That Gary.
Well, Canada is still there and
so is Gary with a beautiful wife
and two beautiful kids, one dog,
2 cats and the other day a beaul
idea just started throwing themn
the copier and send them to you.
And he did send them all 10 zillion stories,
just picked 10.
The only problem is most of those old
stories are called things like n
man and fish Carver and fat dogs and.
While I do remember covering dos
that were friends with birds and
covering birds that were friends
with cars and covering cars that
were covered in pennies,
it's hard to sort out all the
flower ladies and funny people d
cricket infested roads traveled.
Man, here they come
and I had a feeling the bosses o
wanted me to just pick 10 would
probably want to put me in a car
and a bus and a plane and fly me
out to Boise to talk about it.
For these days. Hey.
Hey, we could just use Zoom.
I'm doing well. How you doing?
It's been a while.
OK, so where are you, like,
in your house right now?
Where are you?
I'm in the living room.
You in the living room?
Kids out on the deck with the d.
There's guys working out front.
So, yeah, Is everybody out of school already?
They graduate high school on Saturday,
so my twins are graduating Saturday, so
that's nuts. You have twins
graduating high school, going
off to college, Arizona and Arkansas.
So, yeah, so things are a little bit crazy
around the Miller household right now,
but we're we're, we're survivin.
The impact that you had in youre
years here at KTVB is tremendou.
You've left us a lot of stories,
archives to pull from and cull d
and find some good stories and k
up on some of these people. We t
messages every single time we air those.
What is John Miller up to now?
Where is John Miller?
Why can't he come back?
Well, you know, Brian.
Actually, when I left in 2002,
I kind of stole a microphone. So
anything's possible. Anything's possible.
So that's amazing. Just in case,
Just in case I, you know, have y
little momentos around that I k.
Because those were the.
Those are the good days.
They were good days. Exactly.
I mean, you were doing how many?
Four stories a week for
nine straight years. Trying
to. Yeah. There are times when
it got a little thin, you know,
it was like when it rains, it ps
and stories becoming in all the time.
And then it would.
And then it would kind of taper.
So more or less, yeah,
four stories a week. And you kn,
but it was great because the viewers were
so awesome that they just fed me stuff.
And then it was, you know,
this kind of it just it's fed itself.
So it was it was a great time ad
and and a lot of fun, a lot of ,
but it was a lot of fun.
You know, there there's one thig
that I think about all the timed
it it I got this e-mail one tim.
This was like the early days of e-mail.
And I I it was a guy.
And he said thanks a lot, John Miller.
Thanks a lot. I'm like, well, here it goes.
OK, What? What now?
What's coming? I I don't know.
It seems like my wife and I useo
stay up till 10:12 PM on the no.
We'd see Rick Lance's first
weather and then we go to bed.
But now we stay up till 1036 jut
to see what you came up with to.
And I'm like, oh man, that is really cool.
But then it was like,
always pressure,
give people a reason to stay
up to 1035. Definitely tried
to. And sometimes I was like, I'm so sorry,
Guy and your wife laying there in bed,
who just left, What was that?
I'm just thinking about these
people laying in bed going, man,
that was not worth 25 minutes of lost sleep.
So we just hoped for the best every time
we went out the door with the ca
and he usually came back with i.
It's good to see him today, by the way,
for the first time in 13 years.
So there's your answer, Beth,
Carl, Joe, Liz, Stephanie, Tina,
Tyson and everyone else who wanted to
know whatever happened to John Miller.
Just nine years here,
but he left quite the impression
on the about to be 70 year old,
KTVB and of course our viewers.