A quick warning.
There are curse words that are unbeeped.
In today's episode of the show.
If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org for over 30 years, five days a week, there was this thing on the radio called the Rest of the Story, just three and a half, four minutes long, ran all over the country.
Paul Harvey was the announcer.
He did two other daily broadcasts that if you ever heard them, you will never forget them.
The way he wrote, the way he sounded.
Hello, Americans, this is Paul Harvey.
Stand by for news.
My first job in Chicago making stories for NPR, my windows @ the NPR Chicago bureau looked out over a section of East Wackard Drive that was called Paul Harvey Drive, which I loved thinking that somewhere not far from where I was sitting, Paul Harvey had been up since 3:30 in the morning pounding out his scripts on an electric typewriter.
At his height, he was on over 1,200 radio stations, which, by the way, has more stations than NPR has just a massive audience, 24 million.
His Daily Show, Paul Harvey News and Comment, was the day's news, delivered like brisk radio poetry with some folksy humor or some conservative opinion.
But his show, the Rest of the Story, is what I want to talk about today.
Typical episode just jumps into the action.
Now was the winner of Ted's discontent.
You can see the frustration, even the anger in his face and in his gait as he stalked down Madison Avenue that blustery morning.
He had thought himself, hoped himself a book author, a poet, but the great publishers of New York, New York, had repeatedly demonstrated the error of his ways.
I have to say, listening to Paul Harvey makes me feel like I need to go back to radio school.
He just has this incredibly musical sense of timing.
When the pause to take the pitch of his voice up and down, which he would do like a singer climbing up and down the scales, listen to the way he performs the next few sentences.