It\u2019s hard to explain how awkward it felt being on KS95 this afternoon. During the interviews for Beauty and the Geek, I\u2019ve spoken in front of a group of people, I\u2019ve done it with a video camera on, but talking to a couple DJs over the phone\u2026 it felt so unnatural.<\/p>\n
At those other times, things would start off easy, the conversation would flow from one topic to the next, brief questions could branch off but generally not abandon what we\u2019d been saying. Talking on the phone like that completely eliminated that, maybe because I was talking at<\/i> them instead of with<\/i> them. They\u2019d ask me a question, I\u2019d answer, they\u2019d ask something else (that might or might not have been related), I\u2019d say something, we\u2019d jump back and forth, cutting each other off in the middle of sentences\u2026 it was all very strange. (Not surprisingly, they kept the reins really<\/i> tight and the conversation really<\/i> focused\u2014if they didn\u2019t have notes written down about what to ask me, I\u2019d be really<\/i> surprised.)<\/p>\n
After a couple minutes of that, it was over: they made a plug for Beauty and the Geek, thanked me for being on the show, then hung up on me. Very abrupt, very sudden, very un-Minnesota nice. Still, I suppose they had a radio show to do and my part was done. At least I\u2019m \u201cthe smartest man in Lakeville and possibly all of Dakota County.\u201d Yeah, right\u2026 I just wish I\u2019d had time to interject, \u201cStop it, I\u2019m blushing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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