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Gordon Peterson on conversation with colleague Glenn Brenner after they began to work together at Channel 9 ~\n\n"He says to me one day, 'I need to talk to you. This is serious.' He says, 'I\u2019ve been fired from every job I\u2019ve ever had for the stuff I\u2019m doing here and you keep throwing gasoline on the fire. I\u2019m trying to figure out if you\u2019re with me or against me.' I said, 'I\u2019m with you, baby, just trust me.'"\n\nGordon Peterson, Retired Journalist and Legendary News Anchor and Andy Ockershausen in studio interview\n\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThis is Our Town with Andy Ockershausen. Like all the rest of us, so much of our guests have grown up in the news business here in Washington. We just decided we wanted people on that everybody knew about, so we've been trying to get this man for the last year, and we finally got it. \n\tGordon Peterson was at one time the dean. I hate to say that, the dean of anchors, but you were. You were older than anybody except Bryson Rash, who died. But the names and people we have on the show talk about Channel 9, and they talk about Gordon Peterson, and inevitably, guys like Sonny Jurgensen who worked with you, the new chief of police is from Worcester.\nGordon Peterson:\tI knew that. \nAndy Ockershausen:\tHe told me that. I was sitting right here. Then, even your TV director, Ernie Baur.\nErnie Baur on Gordon Peterson as "Guy LeGuy"\nErnie Baur:\tSo we decided, to do a show with the Caps. This is in January, or something like that. It was 7:30, live audience. Boom. It starts snowing around 9:00 in the morning. Now it's getting deeper, you know? So now I call the Caps up and I go, "You guys think you're going to be able to make it?"\n\t"Oh, yeah, yeah. We're hockey players."\n\tIt's Guy Charron, Danny Belisle, I don't know. So now, we've got eight, six feet of snow, and the audience can't get there and the Caps are stuck in College Park. But we still have to do a show. So I gathered everybody in the station to be in the audience, and you see in the audience, Mike Buchanan, Pat Collins, Susan King. I don't know if Andrea Mitchell was there. You know, but all the talent-\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAll the talent.\nErnie Baur:\tAnd a couple of the engineers. But we have no guest. So first comes out Gordon and Glenn and Sonny and we get Gordon Barnes on, who was doing weather. And somebody throws a snowball, hits him right in the groin.\n\t"Oh, God."\n\tSo now we're scrambling, you know? So Gordon Peterson, God bless him, wanders around and we said, "Why don't you come on?"\n\tSo he comes on, and he comes on as Guy LeGuy.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tYeah, world-famous.\nErnie Baur:\tHe's a Venezuelan... He's an American imitating a Venezuelan hockey player with a Swedish accent, okay? And he's Guy LeGuy. And it's great. He talks about, you know, in an accent that I can't do, you know, "It's tough to be a hockey player in Venezuela because the ice keeps melting," and all this stuff.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tGreat line.\nErnie Baur:\tThen so we... Any questions from audience? And Chris Gordon raises his hand, "Yeah, how long have you been 'Guy'?"\nAndy Ockershausen:\tChris Gordon is still on the air.\nErnie Baur:\tAbsolutely.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tHow about that, buddy?\nErnie Baur:\tAnd Gordon Peterson says you know, "Of all the things I've done, this is what I'll be remembered for. Guy LeGuy." And people still tap me on the shoulder about that one.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tSo here he is live and in color, the erstwhile Gordon Peterson.\nThe Guy LeGuy Backstory\nGordon Peterson:\tErnie Baur was the first guy who cued me on television at Channel 9. And here's how he cued me.\n\tJust before the mic gets hot and the lights go on, he says "Hey, dummy, when I point, you talk." And he points. So the lights come on and I'm laughing. And after the broadcast, my boss says, "What was so funny at the beginning of the broadcast?"\n\tI said, "I don't know, I just was in a good mood, I guess." Now, the backstory on this thing that he told you, the studio was,