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b'Burt Cohen on what happened 30 years after his experience with Charles Gibson of ABC News after Gibson\'s first on air newscast at WMAL ~\\n\\n"I just thought of a funny story, there was a young newsman, came and did his first newscast on the air, he finished up and I said, \'Man, you better find another line of work, you\'re never going to amount to anything in this business.\' 30 years later, my retirement party, I get an email,\'Dear Burt, thank you for your advice, I\'m glad I didn\'t listen to you. Good luck on your retirement. Charles Gibson, ABC News.\'"\\n\\nBurt Cohen - Retired, WMAL Engineer and The Duke of Derwood and Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThis is Andy Ockershausen, this is Our Town. And I\'m so delighted that the producer and executive producer and the money person behind Our Town, is going to take over this show and I\'m going to sit here and listen to her. So, Janice Ockershausen its all yours.\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tThank you honey. Today we are recording the final episode of Our Town, Season Three.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tSave the best for last.\\nRounding Out Season Three - Our Town\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s right, that\'s exactly right.\\n\\tWe interviewed over 160 guests over the last three seasons. So, I said, "We\'ve got to get this guy because he\'s going to really round out, bring it full circle, gotta round out our Season Three podcast."\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tHe\'s been around too.\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tHe has been around. Preparing for this interview today, it brought back so many memories, I was up at 3:00 in the morning thinking and laughing to myself about how great this interview was going to be. That nostalgia is really good and it\'s good for the soul. I was really up for this interview today. \\n\\tWithout further adieu, he\'s a great guy, his wife, we\'ve known as friends for so many years, \\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tForever! You think of one you think of the other.\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s right, he hasn\'t worked at WMAL for the past 14 years, but he was such an instrumental part of our product. His name is Burt Cohen, often referred to as the Duke of Derwood. He\'s a good friend and we\'re so glad to see you back Burt for a little while from Florida, as a snowbird. We welcome you back to your studio.\\nBurt Cohen\\tThat\'s right.\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tAt WMAL. Ken, Burt Cohen, Burt Cohen, Ken Hunter.\\nKen Hunter:\\tI\'ve been waiting for the introduction.\\tBurt, hey Burt.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWhen he started with this Derwood, so many people had no idea where Derwood was. I know that for a fact.\\nThe Duke of Derwood\\nBurt Cohen\\tDo you know where the Duke of Derwood came from?\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tNo.\\nBurt Cohen\\tWhenever Trumbull and Core would end their show at 7:00 they would thank me and put in a little soundtrack of some funny things. They wanted to thank the Dude from Derwood. One day, we\'re sitting out in the kitchen eating lunch.\\nThe Lunch Bunch\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThe lunch bunch.\\nBurt Cohen\\tYeah. The lunch bunch.\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tYeah, that\'s right.\\nBurt Cohen\\tHad the house monitor on and a song comes on, "Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl..." "Trumbull say\'s, that\'s it! The Duke of Derwood."\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tOh that\'s great, at the lunch bunch. I think I was probably there that day.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tYeah, that was a big part of the history of WMAL, was the lunch bunch. I was not privy to be part of it.\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tYou bought pizza every once in a while though.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tYes occasionally, particularly on snowy days, I\'d buy pizza for the group. They were low lifes, I didn\'t want to spend time with them. They were talent and engineers and news people, I wanted to spend my time with leaders.\\nBurt Cohen\\t(laughing)\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tSo, I couldn\'t find a leader. So I spent my time at Alfios.\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen:\\tWe just spent the last couple of minutes with Ken, playing some bloopers,'