There's a show on NPR called "West
Coast Live." Krasher billed it as "A liberal Prairie Home
Companion." Wow. This was being done live in a theater.
People singing accappella
songs about the election and music groups with flutes.
The interviewer sits with you on stage in director's chairs
and makes you share one mic so he can really be in your
face. He's a really nice guy. He's also a good
interviewer, but when you're out there, he's right in your
face. It's kind of like doing an interview while making out
with a very sincere liberal with a beard.
I was supposed to do 15 minutes, but I did 40. I went out
with my NPR voice (as opposed to the Zoo shows where I just
scream and grab the traffic woman's breasts). We talked
about the election and I said nothing had ever brought the
country more together. Bush and Gore people were joining
Libertarians in hating them both. It got huge applause. I
said that Nadir was right (applause), corporations DO run
the whole country (applause), but he was wrong about this -
they were doing a great job (confused puppies watching
television). I said that the CEOs were men and women that
cared about the country and others and were doing a fine
job. We didn't need the losers in government. I'm crossing
over from Libertarian to anarcho-capitalist and it feels
good.
I talked the skeptic talk a lot. I did cold readings and
talked, like the socially-retarded high school boy I am,
about the importance of truth. All the time I stayed well
modulated so my voice would sound okay on NPR. They roll
off the high end anyway. No high harmonics on NPR - you
sure wouldn't want any passion.
I joked that the amazing thing about our show in Frisco was
that Teller dared to smoke on stage and we had guns, "The
next thing you know, they'll bring some red meat out on
stage." I think it was a pretty good interview. I was
pretty happy with it. And even if the Liberal stays closer
to you than an Italian while he's talking to you, he is a
pretty good interviewer. And the one mic makes it a little
harder to interrupt and be rude. But, I still prevailed.
( Listen to the interview in Real Audio here . And as a friend of
Penn's said " If people don't want to listen to the whole dippity doo and
rigamarole, they can slide their little RealAudio sliders to
1 hr, 13 minutes, 40 seconds and get right to the juicy
Penn-nougat goodness of the interview." Enjoy!)
