What is the proudest moment of your career so far . Guest wow. I dont mean to sound snarky or snippy here, but i hope it is yet to come. I feel very fortunate in just a few days well start our 12th season on pbs. Im now on 15 years in public radio. I feel very blessed at start of this year to do all weve done so far. I hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to i hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that i am still in here and so many people that against me in so much of my life. When i started on npr some years ago i remember the complaint when i first started, that i talk too loud. My favorite was that my laugh was too boisterously last too boisterously. My laugh was too much mike haydns was wrong, i spoke too fast, it was too big for public radio. This is National Public radio and i started the bidding was i was not going to make it, 15 years on public radio. People didnt think, charlie rose had done well for years nobody expected
Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years d nobody expecd for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edid. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and plic Television Work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challen fellow citizens to reexamine the sumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the
Feel very blessed to be able to have done all that we have done so far. And i hope that the best is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that im i am still here and there are so many people who bet against me in so many moments of my life. I remember the complaints that came in, my favorite was he last two boisterously my lap was too much my cadence was wrong, i spoke too fast everything was too big for public radio because npr says this is National Public radio. And my status is so different from that. So the betting wasnt that i was going to make it. So the betting wasnt as high charlie rose had done well for years. But nobody expected me to make it. Long story short it would be that i am still here. Host for 25 years or so you have been doing this 17 books are so that you have edited and there are different shows that you have done. What do you believe that you have accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do everyday to radio Public Television is the same thing that
People didnt think it would work on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years and nobody expected for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edited. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and Public Television work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challenge fellow citizens to reexamine the assumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the table. There is nothing wrong with that. Assumptions and various prejudices but i hope our work challenges people to reexamine the assumptions they hold. I hope our work helps expand their inventory of ideas. I hope our work allows americans to be introduced to each other. This is the most multicultural, multky racial, multiethnic america ever. America is still so segregated in many ways. I hope the work we