2012. I am pleased to have Bryant Gumbel at this table. Bryant the last time we did this was 1999. It was right after my bar mitzvah. [laughter] its a wonderful broadcast. I have really good people. It is a great place to work. It has been really a lot of fun. Charlie what is your frame of mind today . You won the peabody, for gods sake. Is that it for you . Bryant i love your work and you know i watch constantly. I think ive had my time. My way of doing things does not fit. Im not the same guy i was. Im really not. Im much more easygoing now. You remember, back in the day, if somebody said something that set me off i was eager to fight and more than willing to mix it up. Im more inclined now to say, youre an idiot, i will let you be an idiot. Charlie you have a great marriage. I have a wonderful marriage. Bryant my friends always told me i picked my coverage. Hillary has been wonderful for me. She has been terrific. Charlie there is no ambition left in you . Bryant i have a lot of amb
It doesnt get any better than that. I am pleased to have Bryant Gumbel at this table. Welcome. Bryant the last time we did this was 1999 . Charley i dont even remember the 90s. Bryant it was right after my bar mitzvah. [laughter] its a wonderful broadcast. Ive got a lot of really good people. It is a great place to work. It has been a lot of fun. Frame ofwhat is your mind today . Youve got real sports, its a great program. It is a good place to be. Hbo pays you well. Is that it for you . So,n bryant i think charlie. You and i have talked about this. Enjoy working in the mornings, as you presently do. Had my time and my mindset, my way of doing things doesnt really fit with the way things are done now. Charlie would you say that you could slip out tomorrow and no one would notice the difference . I would say they would. Charlie how are you different now . Bryant im much more easy going. If somebodyday, said something that set me off i was eager to fight and more than willing to mix it u
Lady. Stephen smith is very wellpositioned to examine and analyze this work. Many of you know him as the executive editor and host of american radio works in an acclaimed documentary series from American Public media. He has covered a wide range of issues including human rights, science and health, and american history. They have been awarded this and please join me in welcoming them to the reading festival. [applause] and good afternoon, everyone. And we have this radio documentary on franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and pioneering broadcasters and this is a commercially sponsored thing while she was first lady. It is about first family of radio. And especially what had happened with loads of the Radio Broadcasts. We have a documentary about as well. And so a show of hands, im not saying how many have heard the original of the radio broadcast and how many have of the commercial radio broadcast and so we have some things to learn about until we have a clip of the speech that was not a br
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