Conrad Zero On KFAI Radio This Sunday!
Conrad Zero / February 26th, 2013 / 1 Comment »
No seriously. My voice will be riding the radio waves this Sunday!
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 at 10 a.m. - KFAI’s Wave Project will host the Writers Reject Sack with guests: Abra Staffin Wiebe, Joel Arnold, Dana Baird, and myself.
Not sure which I like less: the word “reject” or the word “sack”. Nevertheless, I’ll be there. We’ll be talking about writer stuff, traditional publishing, self-publishing, podcasting and the Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group.
Tune in to:
- 90.3 FM Minneapolis, MN
- 106.7 FM West St. Paul, MN
The show should be recorded and listed on the KFAI website, I’ll be sure to link back to it when the recording is posted!
Yours Darkly,
So being on a live radio talk-show was great fun, and a great learning experience. Hopefully we helped more people than we offended.
I was unnaturally nervous the entire time, which after years of being the front man for several bands including a stint as a solo-acoustic musician, you’d think I’d have been more comfortable in a studio setting. It was a refreshing experience to get the jitters, it will make me more sympathetic when I’m recording others in the future.
If you listen carefully while I’m talking (shortly after I say “I’m always smiling” there is a thunk sound. That would be the sound of the engineer moving the microphone. Into my face. While I’m talking. The mic hit me right in the nose as I was talking! Thank goodness there was a foam windscreen on the mic (courtesy of Abra, who is not only kind but also apparently psychic.) It was not painful, but it was surprising and very funny. I dared not look at Abra and Dana because I could FEEL them laughing, and you can hear me chuckle myself. Unfortunately, that was enough to completely upset my mental applecart, and I totally forgot not only my clever response to the question, but the question itself, and felt like a moron as I managed to ramble the remainder of my non-answer.
Another awkward moment for me came near the end of the discussion. I said something to the effect that poor quality social media writing implies poor quality story writing. I got a grumble from Abra, and Terry took the remark personally, but he did agree that trying to “fake” social media is not a good idea. I’ll have more to say on this in an upcoming blog post – Social Media For Introverts.
Outside of these kerfluffles, I thought the show went really well. Xtna listened to the show and said it sounded like NPR (a good thing) and that we all sounded very “intelligent.” Listening to the stream (link is below) I didn’t sound nearly as dorky as I felt. Guess the engineer had the “smartness” fader turned up!
Thanks to KFAI and Terry Faust for setting the whole thing up, and to Abra, Dana and Joel for making the experience both fun and educational for both ourselves and the audience.
You can listen to the stream of the interview in the KFAI archives: http://kfai.org/node/34502
-Zero