BILL KURTIS 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The morning. It's Quinn cantyar picks one on six.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Basically, I got Bill Curtis for you.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Awes the pipes, you guys, let me.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Try out my radio pipes. You're listening to Quinn and
Ken Tara w p y.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
X all the day, New York Legendary Man is a
friending program. Bill Curtis, Bill, first and foremost, answer this
for me. Do you own the little house on the
Prairie House?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, you said the house. I own the location where
the first log cabin was built by Charles Ingalls. I
do own that. Well, my granddad was there in the
thirties and he was just buying the land and pastors
and things. He left this pasture to my mother and

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when they ran the you know, numbers on it, that's
what the county why. It turned out that's where they started.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Fantastic.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
So that's the real location that inspired the book. Right, Yeah, okay,
how was the on the TV show? That's even further.
That's that's an amazing story, mister Curtis. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
She wrote a lot of books, you know, yes, is
the Prairie Book?

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, mom had them all growing up.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
What do you make you know you're like the original
true crime guy Bill Curtis, like, what do you make
of how infatuated with this?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
With the stuff with America is nowadays?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
We were the originals. Actually on the cable we coined
the phrase cold case files. I had a producer in
Dallas at the police and when they put him back
to the back room and said, well, where are the
what are those guys doing? Oh, they're looking at the
cold cases. You know they retire in three months. And
so we love it, picked it up and went for

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a couple of hundred programs for a and.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Do you end up just hating human beings? After doing
all this?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
A few.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Evil people.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
The reason it's so popular it's a story of begetting
a middle and an end. And for Cold Case Files
usually the good guys win because we found out, you know,
we can't leave him hanging out there and say, oh,
well we were unable to find this man who dismembered
is the best girlfriend? Yeah, it does on and on

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now there, Well everybody's doing you know, although you see
it it's saturated.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Bill Curtis here on Pick one I six Emmy nominated.
You also did NPR you did Wait, wait, don't tell me,
right wait, wait.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Don't tell me. Hello, this is Bill Curtis. Yes, my
voice is so fine that it started your aunt's sexual awakening.
My favorite line.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, I used to listen to you. It's always great
to hear you.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
But when did you When did you first start the
NPR thing?

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I mean, you seem to be keeping relevant and stain
and continuing on. Every decade there seems to be something
new and exciting for you.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
What year did you start in there?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's a good observation. It was, oh, gusha even kind
of forget the twenty eleven or so. You know, Carl
Castle that I replaced retired and they needed a substitute.
Peter Segel and I are friends, so he said, can
you do one? Well I got in for one, and

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you know, the satisfying thing is getting a laugh, especially
for a newsman who's been serious for fifty frigging years,
and it was like, oh my god, I'm home. Well.
I was also afraid, primarily from the narration and Anchorman,

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that I would, you know, throw my career away. But
by that time you're so old, you say.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Anchorman drew new fans too. I'm sure we'll read all
about it in the book. Will win the new book
from Bill Curtis, My Life Reporting the News.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Thank you, sir, can't wait, sir, take care.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I love it guys. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Legendary Bill Curtis picks one on six