
Welcome back. My name is goldy. Today, I am joined with the legendary mr. Peter graves. If you take a little page out of my book, I have displayed my skis in the background because I love skiing. I got a ski map right here. Ski areas. This is all the things in the united states. I used that map from myself as a manifest of where I want to go in the world. I literally am sitting, side-to-side, right now, with somebody who's done that before. Mr. Peter graves, one of the most historied skiers on the planet. Tell us a little bit about yourself from your words and good morning. Welcome to the show. Good morning. You know, goldy, I even took a shower for this today. That's incredible. That's how important it is. Hi to you and hi to folks that are listening. It is a very interesting time for us announcers. Freelancers of all stripes. I on my best days, I really do try to think of what good can come of this. There's certainly, no doubt, there's been an awful lot of human tragedy in this and far too many people have died. The prognosis by all reporting accounts is looking more positive, that things are plateauing a little bit. Here in vermont, where I live, i'm in my office now, as you said, adorned with the memorabilia of a long career. How long has it been? I first started announcing when I was a cross country ski racer in college, at fort lewis, in durango. The first event I recall ever doing was about 1974. That's what I was born. I was cutting my first chops, doing ski jumping then, up at what was the purgatory ski area, north of durango. Still is. I had no idea, when I was asked to do it by my college coach, adolph kuss. He said, "you know, you like to talk. " I always had fun doing dj voices, especially because it was the epicenter, that era, of top 40 radio. Everybody - the real don steele and charlie tuna and all the folks at khj and larry lujack at wls. All of them were actually profound people in my life, to emulate the voices and know what you want to do with your voice. I think I was able to weld my interest in talking and announcing and phrasing initially with my interest in ski racing. You put them together. I put them together and I had the encouragement to do that both from my parents, but also from my coaches. I was pretty committed to ski racing as a high school and college skier. I got out of college, got a job at kiup radio in durango, as a news director. I became a stringer for koat-tv action 7 news in albuquerque.