My First Radio Interview

I was listening to the radio a couple of days ago and I heard the person being interviewed repeatedly use the words "you know" in between all of his sentences. I thought, "That's really, really annoying. I guess that's what some people do when they're nervous."

Yesterday I got an email from Phil Wain, who does a morning show for CKNX, a talk radio show in Ontario, Canada. He asked me if I was available to go on his radio show today. I said, "Sure." I actually thought it was a radio show in Ontario, California and realized much later that my 9:15 a.m. interview was actually 6:15 a.m., as he was in Canada. After the interview, I thought "For having woken up 60 seconds before going on the air, I did a pretty good job." Then, he sent me the audio tape and guess what... I use the phrase, "you know" so often it could become a college drinking game. "Dude, he said 'you know' again - you gotta take a shot of Jager!" Apparently it's not just a nervous technique - it buys you time. And whenever I was fishing for an answer, "um" and "you know" filled the dead air. So I apologize if it's not the brilliant, reflective piece of radio I always imagined. But, it is what it is. As Errol Morris says, "Life is an opportunity to make mistakes that can never be fixed."

Seth Menachem on Phil Wain in the Morning - 9-24-09 by user81179