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b'Podcast host Andy Ockershausen, Our Town DC, on losing Legendary Our Town News Anchor Jim Vance ~\\n\\n"We were in the unique position of interviewing Jim before the news broke of his terminal cancer. We shared a glorious hour with Jim Vance, with lots of laughs and a new awareness of his impact on Our Town. We went to his memorial service at the National Cathedral with thousands of others who loved Jim. There will never be another Jim Vance."\\n\\nJanice and Andy Ockershausen,, in studio Our Town DC Podcast\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen, and this is Our Town. It\'s hard to believe that Season 2 is complete. We\'ve had some great guests over the last 20 weeks. Our Town started with a bang at a launch party at Tony and Joe\'s on May 23rd.\\n\\tOur guests included Jim Vance. We were in the unique position of interviewing Jim before the news broke of his terminal cancer. We shared a glorious hour with Jim Vance, with lots of laughs and a new awareness of his impact on Our Town. We went to his memorial service at the National Cathedral with thousands of others who loved Jim. There will never be another Jim Vance.\\n\\tDuring Season 2, we spoke to so many friends, including members of Congress, sports heroes, university presidents, newspaper and magazine publishers, writers, famous attorneys, some unfamous attorneys also, restaurateurs, and community organizers. If you name it, we didn\'t miss many. We stayed live and lively as much as we could.\\n\\tSome of the names included Chris Plante from WMAL, Tommy McFly from other stations, Connie Morella, a former Congresswoman and a very dear friend of WMAL over the year, Kathleen Matthews, an ex-WMAL and WMAL-TV employee who worked in our newsroom as the erstwhile Kathy Cunningham. How about that? Joe diGenova, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Pat Collins, a great reporter who\'s still very active with Channel 4, a very, very dear friend.\\n\\tMark Ein, the man that put tennis into a proper perspective who had the only championship team in the last like 30 years. His team won the tennis championship five or six years in a row. Mark is a great citizen and a great part of our community. The tennis team has been great.\\n\\tJames Brown, old JB, a local guy, Dematha High School. James Brown is an icon in our business and a great friend. Thank you for having him in Our Town regularly. Rick "Doc" Walker, Janice referred to him ... I always thought his middle name was Doc. She has called him Rick "Doc" Walker for years, but he\'s got that nickname, "Doctor." But Rick is a very, very important part of our lives because of what he\'s meant to WMAL over the years. Now he\'s over on the broadcast team for the great Washington Redskins team. \\n\\tThen we\'ve had the pleasure of having the number one announcer, a news guy for Fox, Ed Henry, who was so huge during the election with his reporting. Ed has become a great friend of WMAL.\\n\\tThen last but not least of the big names, I think a big name, the owner of the Washington Post who sold it. Donald Graham sold the Post to Bezos, and Donald started his second life as an entrepreneur and businessman. He\'s done so well, and he loves Our Town. He thought that by doing it, of selling to Bezos, it would put a new life into the Post. And I\'m sure it did. They\'re doing so well.\\n\\tWe\'ve already begun recording for Season 3, and we\'ve got some interesting guests lined up, including Tony Zeiss, president of the new Museum of the Bible, a multi-media, two block building of over 420,000 square feet of exhibit space, costing over $500 million. It\'s brand new to Our Town. It\'s opening in mid-November.\\n\\tWe also have the opening of the Wharf. The Wharf opened here in September. In a $2 billion effort to redo the Washington downtown, and the Washington Wharf is going to be in our subject. And we\'re going to talk about it. We\'ll hear about that in many ways, and one of them is going to be traffic. Traffic is going to be horrendous, but it is anyway,'