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b'Steve Buckhantz on one of the biggest scoops in Washington football history~\\n\\n"I broke it and it was before it was supposed to come out. But it did and it was a fabulous day for us, for all of us because it was just so filled with adrenaline."\\n\\nSteve Buckhantz, TV Play by Play Announcer for Washington Wizards in-studio interview\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen, and this is Our Town. Janice said to me one day, "Andy, you\'re a has been, but maybe you could get back into action by doing a podcast." And I said to her, "What is a podcast?" That was it, seriously Steve. Two years ago, and she put me on the road to recovery. Janice is a-\\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen: So do you want to introduce Steve so people know who you\'re talking to? \\nAndy Ockershausen: I\'m sorry. Buckhantz needs no introduction. I thought everybody knew he was here. I told everybody he was.\\nSteve Buckhantz: If it were TV they\'d know, but radio has no pictures.\\nAndy Ockershausen: Steve Buckhantz is such a absolute icon, and that\'s a terrible say for a man this young, but it was a time there was Glen Brenner, and there was Gordon Peterson, and there were names everywhere. They\'re all gone now. Thank God we still have Buckhantz, and we have Buckhantz and the world champion, I hope, Wizards some day.\\nSteve Buckhantz: That\'s nice of you. That\'s nice of you, Andy. I go back in DC to 1984 is when I came back here, but I\'m born and raised here as you know.\\nSteve Buckhantz: Washington-Lee High School Alumnus\\nAndy Ockershausen: Washington-Lee High School.\\nSteve Buckhantz: Washington-Lee High School. Born at Columbia Hospital for Women, which is no longer.\\nAndy Ockershausen: Aha, so was I.\\nSteve Buckhantz: Yeah. A lot of people were. It\'s incredible isn\'t it?\\nAndy Ockershausen: Had one of my sons born at Columbia.\\nSteve Buckhantz: Yup, they-\\nAndy Ockershausen: It was for women at one time, but then it turned into general.\\nSteve Buckhantz: Yeah, that\'s what they called it, and they tore that down after I was born I think. I don\'t think they wanted to make the same mistake twice.\\nAndy Ockershausen: The weather department bought that building and tore it down and built a new one. But Steve-\\nSteve Buckhantz: Yeah. Raised in Arlington and W&L High School, a very famous high school, which they\'re getting ready to change the name of, but a very famous high school that-\\nAndy Ockershausen: They\'re dropping Lee?\\nOther Well-Known Washington-Lee High School Alumni\\nSteve Buckhantz: Well, they\'re not dropping it. They\'re getting rid of the whole Washington-Lee, and I don\'t know what the new name will be, but at any rate you had Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine grew up in Arlington and went to that high school. Sandra Bullock was nine years after me. \\nJanice Iacona Ockershausen: Ken Hunter. \\nSteve Buckhantz: Ken Hunter, yes. Forrest Tucker from F Troop, great sports athletes like Jake Scott who was a super bowl MVP went to W&L. Eric Sievers, John Lippold was a kicker. Reggie Harrison was great running back. \\nAndy Ockershausen: God, Steve, you\'ve got them all.\\nSteve Buckhantz: John Hummer who was a great basketball player here, he and his brother Ed at Princeton, and John went on to play for the Buffalo Braves.\\nAndy Ockershausen: I\'m gonna one up you with a guy that you don\'t know, but his name was Myron Gerber. His father was, they started Drug Fair. How about that?\\nSteve Buckhantz: Oh really? How about that?\\nAndy Ockershausen: He was Washington-Lee, he went to Naval Academy.\\nSteve Buckhantz: Stanley McChrystal.\\nAndy Ockershausen: A Jew in the navy. He was the first one, I\'m serious.'