Rinaldi added, "Now that John has passed, I don't think I'm overstepping by saying that everyone of those people that sat down with us and shared their time, their thoughts and their hearts, feel all the greater for having done so."
Madden did have one playful critique, highlighting his ever-present sense of humor up until his last days. "He made a joke about the one thing he didn’t like… Dave Casper calling him a cartoon character," Santos recalled. "He was a jokester."