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It's bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. Bob Edwards died last month. He was a radio legend, a pioneer of public radio, the original host of Morning Edition.

And when I say the original host, I mean back when it launched 1979.

I could go on and on just listing accomplishments. This is a man who not only had a pea body, he was also in multiple halls of fame.

But look, you're a public radio listener. You've probably already heard some tributes to him so I am

going to keep mine personal.

Before this show was called Bullsey, it was called The Sound of Young America, and before I recorded it here in Los Angeles, I taped it at KZSC, a community college

now when you're making a radio show in Santa Cruz and you're doing events with

personages of national profile not a lot of them are in person because, you know, not

there many people roll through Santa Cruz. But Bob Edwards did an

an interview with me. It was so kind and he came in and did an interview with me. It was

so kind and great. He could not have been more kind and gracious to me a dumb

22 year old who you know what did I know about Walter Cronkite that he had just

wrote written a book about.

It was absolutely one of the highlights of my career,

just a really wonderful thing that I got to do.

And it was so kind of Bob to be so generous with me.

So anyway, in tribute to Bob Edwards, a true legend, my interview with him from the studios of KZSC, the Heavyweight 88 in Santa Cruz, California.

And this is from, wow, I am flipping back some calendar pages here and

October 2007. They had just invented the iPhone. Let's listen.

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