At this point, you’d think I’d no longer be surprised when I think of things I’ve never mentioned before.

During my junior and senior years at MIT, I spent a lot of time in New York City, where Bob and Ray were doing the afternoon drive slot on WOR. That's where I got hooked.

I performed a labor of love for the boys. I was frustrated that every source, either book or website, insisted on speaking of their careers in vague terms, "WHDH, then NBC, CBS in the 50s, also WHR and WINS," et cetera. So I developed what is, as far as I know, the only accurate timeline of their career, the timeline section of the Bob and Ray Wikipedia entry.

I have every one of the available episodes of their weekly CBS radio show and many on the NBC network; they are free on the Internet Archive, and have also been produced on several CDs over the years.

They were among the last network radio shows, because two guys and a mic are cheap to produce. Hell, I'll bet any episode of the Computer Chronicles was more expensive than any episode of B&R. Thank God they performed in the era of audiotape, and that some people were diligent enough to preserve the tapes. Many of the available tapes of their show (a replacement for Edward R. Murrow And The News during his government-service sabbatical) are clearly recorded off-air, since they begin with an unimaginably deep-voiced male announcer (no doubt a golden-age leftover) saying "And now on KNX and KNX-FM, those two men of many voices, Bob and Ray." They had several daily shows in New York.