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After 32 years in broadcasting, I no longer grumble about making mistakes. I'm now so old I don't notice them.
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After 32 years in broadcasting, I no longer grumble about making mistakes. I'm now so old I don't notice them.
Transcript
Every week for over 30 years I’ve made a one-hour radio program just for you. Wouldn’t you want to hope that I am better at making programs now than that 42-year-old kid who started in 1978? If you’ve been hanging in here with me for any amount of time at all, you will remember hearing me make mistakes in almost every program. I’d push the wrong control buttons and you’d hear me muttering about pushing the wrong button or messing up in one way or another. But then you noticed that as the years went by, all this changed. And now you no longer hear me whining and sniveling about making mistakes. This is because when you make a mistake when you’re old, you don’t even notice it.
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