How to Blow a Radio Interview

I just got off with Jodi Orton at American Dream Team, a radio program in the UK.  We did about 25 minutes on my favorite topic – me.

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I don’t know about how the FCC works over, or if they even have one, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen tons of boobs and heard lots of f-words during prime time television programming.

It never occurred to me to ask what the policy is on adult topics or language.

I probably made a few tactical errors, such as…

Telling her audience that, “Nobody gives a shit about the guy who played Darth Vader.” (he’s a British actor)

Doing about three minutes on how great it is that the c-word in the UK is conversationally acceptable, where here it will end a marriage.

I also insulted the host at least three times directly, telling her that there is, “No chance in hell that Bradley Cooper is listening to this program.”

I never actually said the dreaded c-word.  I’m no monster.  But I kept riffing on it while the host kept trying to steer me into something else.

At one point she said she was hovering above the disconnect button, and I dared her to push it.  But that was in jest, I hope.

After the interview I asked if I did okay, and she said yes but that their producer may cut out the c-word bit, and will have to bleep the “shit.”

It then hit me – I should have talked about “fanny.”  Fanny is the greatest of all UK words and they love it over there.  And what’s more amazing is that it has a totally different meaning than our version!  How does that happen?  We both speak roughly the same language!  I could have done five minutes on “fanny.”

I told her if we need to recut the sequence, I’d be more than happy to riff on “fanny.”  All in all, it was a fun interview and I’m grateful to have been asked to participate.

I’ll post a link to when the show goes live in a few weeks.

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