One Very Smart Lady
Great human being, too. I'm talking about Dr. Margaret Cochran, who just had me on her radio show -- a super-smart hour that you can listen to here. There's a preamble first, then she talks to me a couple minutes in, for almost an hour. Total pleasure. While I'm eager to promote my book, being on a really smart show like this is life-candy for me.
By the way, a guy who owns a station I was on recently is planning to sell me as a syndicated radio host -- it would be a dream. Working on it!
Oh yeah, and thanks to coming down with not exactly the swine flu, but maybe the goat version, I still sound a bit like Brenda Vaccaro on a bender, but my voice is coming back.
A radio show? That would be wonderful! What sort of things would you discuss? Relationship advice like your columns?
I'll call in! I'll pretend I have relationship problems. "Help me, Amy. I can't stop becoming hopelessly obsessed with red-headed advice columnists! I don't know what to do. Once I find one I begin stalking them obsessively."
(Just killing time while I wait to install the necessary files to listen to your interview.)
Patrick at December 29, 2009 6:29 AM
"Life candy!" I love it! That's how I feel about my career, too, which imo is how you know you've chosen the right job!
Melissa G at December 29, 2009 9:35 AM
"I still sound a bit like Brenda Vaccaro on a bender"
OK, that's going to be rattling around in the old noggin for a while. :-)
Doh-San at December 29, 2009 12:13 PM
Good luck Amy! I'll listen to the show after the kid goes to sleep tonight.
Eric at December 29, 2009 1:18 PM
My mother had laryngitis once. I thought she sounded like Marge Simpson. She know who Marge Simpson is.
Patrick at December 29, 2009 2:53 PM
I think you'd work well as a syndicated feature, as opposed to a full-length show. The Duck's Breath Mystery Theater used to do the "Ask Dr. Science" and "Ian Shoales" bits in that format. They're quite popular, what with all the radio morning shows out there.
Plus a pre-recorded show ensures you have time to prepare material, as opposed to the risk of relying on calls to be entertaining enough.
Vinnie Bartilucci at December 30, 2009 7:02 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/12/29/one_very_smart.html#comment-1685497">comment from Vinnie BartilucciActually, I can do a whole show. I am ready. And I'm usually one to be worried about my performance. I am at my best spontaneously, but of course, with my background in thinking and research to back it up. I get fired up at the need to be quick and funny -- the requirements of radio make me better.
Amy Alkon
at December 30, 2009 7:05 AM
I understand the "spontaneous" advantage. I wish the good Dr. had not been so obviously reading her intro- and outro-s.
Careful with the higher registers when you're speaking excitedly. Cheap computer speakers, espceially, can make that sound whiny, in which case channeling Brenda Vaccaro, Yancy Butler or Suzanne Pleshette will save the day - for me.
(Yancy's a doll. Met her at DragonCon.)
Radwaste at December 30, 2009 9:51 AM
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