Kai Ryssdal

Let's hit that tape.

In most places around the country, today marks the official end of summer and the beginning of a new school year.

On this Labor Day, a marketplace special on education reform, a look at positive examples of change.

This is Marketplace.

So with only a couple of changes, that could have aired today, right?

I mean, you hear the gong, you hear the, did you hear the, those who are old enough will remember the GE theme song, right?

We bring good things to life, right?

They were our founding sponsor.

David Brancaccio was quite literally present at the creation of Marketplace.

We have an older piece of tape from 1989, the year we started, when David was on staff at KQED up in San Francisco.

But that one is actually a little more embarrassing, David, so we didn't play it.

But here's the deal.

23 years in the host chair on a daily news program is a grind.

So David has wisely, in a move of self-preservation, I believe, decided that it's time for him to do something else with us.

So we're going to talk a little bit about how he got started, where things go from here with Marketplace, and then other things that he's thinking about doing for us.

David Brancaccio, ladies and gentlemen.

Good grief.

All right.

Oh my Lord.

So when I first, so we should give people the chronology here, right?