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Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.


Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.


I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.


Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.


The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.


Public radio has always been so powerless.


People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.


It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.


I've never been able to predict the future of anything.


I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.


I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.


I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.


I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.


I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.


I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.


Good things just keep happening.


Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.


That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.


In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.


In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.