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.

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.

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

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

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

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

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