This week, the venerable Carl Castle, legendary newscaster and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me,

Scorekeeper, died at age 84 from complications related to Alzheimer's.

Ladies and gentlemen, Carl Castle.

Brooks sat down with Carl back in 2014 on the occasion of his retirement to commemorate a distinguished

and deeply baritone career.

Who is that kid?

His name is Hunter Flattery, son of our senior communications strategist,

WNYC, Vicki Elkins, who told me this story today.

A few months ago on the drive back into Manhattan,

after a packed day full of errands and a visit to grandmas, my husband heard a grateful dead

song come on the radio and seized it for a father-son teaching moment. He turned up the radio,

started jamming on his air guitar, looked at my son in the back seat and said,

Hunter, do you know who Jerry Garcia is? He's a legend. Do you know who he is? And my son replied

instantly, no, but I know who Carl Castle is so you can change the radio station back right now.

Good kid.

In an interview with Renee Montaigne, you said that when you were a really small kid, you knew you would be in radio.

And he used to play with your grandmother's Victrola in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

I did. My mom was running me out in the yard so many times during the week.

Get out and play, get away from the darn radio.

It was one of those large furniture-sized radios.

And it sat in the corner of the living room, but I would get behind that radio sometimes, and nobody could see me. And when somebody walked by, I would pretend I was on the radio,

reading a commercial or doing some news and once in a while singing.

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