'Emotion and sheer happiness': Viral Brewers fan celebrates win

Lucky Brewers fans got to do that in person at Dodgers Stadium. Our Ted Perry got to catch up with some fans and actually captured this incredible moment. Take a listen. Samson, Samson, you're all smiles, buddy. We are going to the World Series. How happy are you, my friend? He was crying earlier. You're going to make me cry. Yeah. Samson was born with quad spastic cerebral palsy, so he's never walked. But he's walking tonight. He's walking tonight! He's walking tonight! Who's your favorite player, Samson? Jackson Chubb! You've got two favorite players. Buddy, I've never been happier for a fan than I am for you right now, alright? Let's go win the World Series! Alright guys, I didn't think I was going to tear up, but that got to me. I'm sending it back to you guys. Enough to make very own Ted Perry cry, and I can't help but tear up by that, too. That video now has over, like, tens of thousands of views on Instagram at last check, over 100,000 views on TikTok, and I'm actually going to bring in the two stars of that video right now. I'm joined by Dave and Samson Herman, live joining us in Los Angeles. Thank you guys so much for being here today. Good morning, good morning. I know it probably was a long night last night, but the Brewers going to the World Series, my first question to you both, how are you guys feeling? Fantastic. I mean, this is a huge moment in Wisconsin sports history, and I'm glad that I was there to witness one of the greatest moments ever. Yeah, yeah, it's really special. I mean, in my lifetime, I'm 52. I've never had a Wisconsin event until the Bucks took it, go Giannis. and then now for the brewers the first time since 82 it's just phenomenal and then this video is really neat too so yeah and it's been years and years as you were saying it's a generational thing dave and i'm sure for you so incredible to share it now with both of your sons but you live in the minneapolis area so i have to ask what's the story here how did you become diehard brewers fans um so my dad i'm i'm an ohioan uh but my dad was transferred to the milwaukee area around 1990 and then uh once i got to wisconsin uh you know you just you get embraced you get a giant hug from Packers fans, Brewers fans, just everybody and and it's the whole culture in the state is it's just so special you you can't help but convert so and honestly jumping over from uh The Cleveland Browns to the Green Bay Packers, it's an easy choice. Yeah, and I even saw the cheesehead in the video, too. So I was like, this isn't just Brewers. This is a whole Wisconsin sports thing. So, Samson, since you were born, you have always been a Brewers fan? Yes. Yeah, yeah. It's like if we had a choice to watch the Twins, which are obviously local in Minneapolis, versus watching the Brewers, it's kind of like not even a choice really at all. But we do go to every Brewers game when they come up, and then we try to get down to Milwaukee if it's possible. That's about five hours. I think if anybody's worth the long-distance trip, it's the Brewers and the long-distance support. So I love to see it. So you started off as Brewers fans, and now you're here. You were at the National League Championship Series. Why did you decide to make the trip out to Los Angeles? Because it was MEA break and we had nothing else to do, so why not come and support the Milwaukee Brewers? Yeah, yeah. A great atmosphere. Yeah, there's like a three-day small vacation in Minnesota they call MEA break, and then I, you know, they couldn't unfortunately go to any of the Milwaukee games because mom said it's a school night, and so I was just looking at the calendar and I was like, wow, that kind of lines up for MEA break. and then I asked for her permission to take these boys and she said no but we kind of just gently you know worked her over and then yeah bought plane tickets and bought tickets for all three games and here we are what a perfect time to have a break from school I wish that we had that here in Wisconsin because that is the perfect time to go and to now capture these memories I I want you guys to take me back to last night, the final out, found out the Brewers are going to the World Series. What was your reaction in that moment? Just the emotion and sheer happiness for the city and our players and staff. I think that this is a big moment, and I'll always remember it, and people in Wisconsin will too. Dad, what was it like for you? Yeah, and it was, you know, so we had tickets that were higher up in the third level of the stadium. They're obviously more affordable. But towards the end of the game, we did this the night before, too, so two nights ago for game, effectively, three. And when we knew that there's a chance to basically see them clinch, we went all the way down to what they call ground level in Dodger Stadium. And then we just asked them for permission to come into those sections. A lot of the Dodgers fans had already left or were leaving. And then so we were just basically in an adaptive, wheelchair-friendly area down there. And then, you know, it was mostly Milwaukee Brewers fans. People were crying. People were, you know, it was just a crazy atmosphere. Samson started crying. I was verklempt. It was crazy. And then obviously when they did clinch, you know, Chisholm got that last out. But if you'll remember from two nights ago, he also got the first home run, first pitch. So it was just like the perfect storybook ending to a mini trip over a vacation. Yeah, and that moment afterwards, now viral, like mega viral, Samson. I know you've been giving your dad a little, razzing him up here and there, talking about the viral moment. Did you think at that time, oh, this is going to blow up? Oh, no, not really. But when it happened, it happened. And then that's just the reality. I think it might have touched a lot of hearts because cerebral palsy is a really challenging condition and he was unfortunately born that way so we've done thousands and thousands of hours of therapy but fundamentally they need further science to fix that condition but he's working hard every day and he loves sports his dream is to be a sports announcer we don't know about the feasibility of that but one never knows yeah no it absolutely did touch the hearts of so many people and truly like anything is possible so you never know and dave i know you said such a cool thing in that clip you said samson has never walked but he's walking tonight what has it been like watching your son grow up to now being able to share this moment together as the brewers found out they're going to the world series what do you think well i guess this question for me um for me you know we've had obviously well he's 13 going on 14 so he's had you know call it maybe eight other mea breaks since he's been in school and you know i think this is probably the best one what do you think yeah so um it just all worked out the timing was perfect and then as far as uh saying uh The ladies walking tonight, you know, that's a little note to kind of a higher power, if you will. Yeah, absolutely. It's incredible. I get chills just thinking about that. And Samson, in the video, you said who your favorite players were, the Miz and Jackson Churrio. You've already gone super viral. There's a chance they might see this interview. If they're watching right now, what do you want them to know? What would you say to them? They're just great, and I want them to keep it up and try to bring a championship to Milwaukee. So we'll see. All right, we'll see. Fingers crossed that everything goes well in the World Series and that we do bring home that win. I want to ask you guys, because I know you're out in Los Angeles. You made the big trip. Any plans yet for the World Series? Do you think you're going to try to get out to another game? I mean, we hope so, but we checked for tickets, and they were sold out. Yeah. we'll see yeah we the tickets went on sale yesterday around two o'clock uh and we were sitting up there in our seats and i was like should i buy them now and then we just decided to buy them later at the hotel so we should have bought them but in retrospect uh we'll you know watch it on tv or you know like if the stars were the line you know maybe we could be down there for game one which will be a week from today you know so tonight but plus a week um we've known milwaukee pretty well because i was raised there and we have some friends we can stay with and the cool thing about samson's baseball situation just universally is he has a a different wheelchair a power chair uh where he would that we go to the games in and he can raise that chair up and he can actually stand uh so all he really needs is a permission to get into the stadium with me and maybe his brother too uh he doesn't even need a seat so we'd love to be there but we also know that it might not be possible so we'll see what happens right buddy yeah yeah you never know i mean the brewers have proven that anything is possible so i feel like getting the hands on the World Series tickets, we'll have to manifest that for you guys and hopefully see you here in Milwaukee, before I let you guys go I want to ask Dave because you had touched on it a little bit, you've never seen a World Series for the Brewers uh since 1982, what did you teach Samson How have you coached him through it and been like, what have you told him about the Brewers? What have you told him about the history? And Samson, what are you taking with you now that they're going? So as far as me, so I was born in '74, so I was eight in 1982 And I had no idea anything about baseball, so I don't really have any memories of that. I do know for sure that they were in the American League at the time, right? And the Brewers had henceforth been moved to the National League. So they played St. Louis in '82. which wouldn't be possible today. But with that said, as far as preparation for this, it's brand new to me, too. So I'm actually kind of living vicariously through him, if you will. I love to hear it. Yeah, that's my mistake. I was thinking, I'm like, oh, my gosh, but yeah. But since then, it's been 44 years, so neither of you have experienced it, so it's really cool to have that together for the first time. Well, you guys, thank you so much. Yeah, I was just going to say it's it's just heart touching. I mean, we when this video went online, we had no idea what the audience would be. But we've heard from, you know, third degree separation people like people from our church, people from all over and just everybody was touched by it. So we're really thankful to Ted and the camera reporter and everybody for their kindness in interviewing him. And hopefully maybe he can be there, but, you know, we'll see what happens. So regardless, that's not important whether he's there or not, at least in my opinion, right? Ultimately, we just want to see them win a World Series and bring that home to Milwaukee. I think that that's number one. Would you agree? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, absolutely. No matter where you're at, you'll be together when you watch and see that. So I'm so excited for you both. I know how much you love the Brewers, Samson. Anything you guys want to add that you feel like is important for people to know? What do you got? Anything? I'll just say that, you know, he's going on 14. This is obviously huge for him. And if he tells me that he's viral and he's a big superstar one more time, I swear I'm going to. No, I'm just kidding. It's just a really neat experience. and we're just so happy to still be here In California, we're headed to the beach shortly after this and uh you know just blessings to all the people that reached out and to the community and of course to the Milwaukee Brewers, let's go, let's bring it, bring it so we're obviously super excited, so thanks for this opportunity to be interviewed, Maddie, we certainly appreciate you and Ted and everybody at Fox Six, of course, let's go Brewers and I'll double down, Samson, because you are viral, own it, this is so exciting that we're going to the World Series and appreciate you guys so much again for coming on, enjoy the rest of your time, enjoy the beach for me because the weather is not very good here, yes we will, we're heading back tomorrow night so uh we're gonna we're gonna take the most of it that we can, right buddy? yeah yeah yeah thanks again, we really appreciate you guys of course, so great to have you guys and go Brewers once again, we cannot say that enough Thank you.