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[Guest AG/DC]

Crane Pool hotshot and MBTN creator John Cougar Lunchbucket on audio interview at http://1560thegame.com/ at 12:30.

[Guest AG/DC]

So far these louts are making me want to spit.

[Guest AG/DC]

OK, the regular host is having a sober interview with an author. Better.

[metirish]

He's talking to Tom Jones!

[Guest AG/DC]

We're running over. Will Lunchbucket get bumped?

[metirish]

I hope not , I am skipping lunch and tuning out of my Dublin station for this.........

[Benjamin Grimm]

He's being introduced now!

[Guest AG/DC]

Cool, 'Bucket got credit for Silverman's other work.

[metirish]

And Justice fucks up from the get go.

[metirish]

Bucket put on the spot about Willie....

[Guest AG/DC]

Yup. And while he didn't throw him under the bus, he gave him a good view of what that bus looks like.

Bucket doesn't like going off topic.

[Guest Triple Dee]

I thought he would have been a bit more diplomatic -- "until Memorial Day". Ha ha.

[Guest AG/DC]

Come on Bucket, work in the Vonnegut quote!

[Benjamin Grimm]

He did very well!

[Guest AG/DC]

Well that's it.

I hope he gets a few bimbos out of this.

[metirish]

Goos job Bucket , nice that you didn't forget who wore what ....

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was hoping he'd mention how blue my eyes are.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

nervewracking!

You know the very 1st "interview" I did on this topic was with an Internet radio show where they had technical glitch just as I began and it ruined the whole thing. So I had a heart attack when he botched the intro, and maybe I shoulda let it be, but that woulda bothered me the whole time.

Takashi Kashiwada? wow

[metirish]

Did I hear Bucket Jr. at one point , or you saying something to him perhaps?

[Guest AG/DC]

Actually, you recovered his botch well.

Listen, I don't know how many more of these you have scheduled, but take the two interviews and consider where they caught you off balance and type up some talking points. Add in a few points about what you want to hit no matter what they ask you. Write down the Vonnegut quote. (I don't know if you heard the Tom Jones interview, but when he mentioned that was inspired by Studs Terkel, Justice wanted to tear his clothes off right there, so enamored was he to get a sports writer who had such high literary standards.)

If another guy asks about tributes, you'll be ready if you want to bring up Willie Randolph paying tribute to Boswell. Not that the Stork story wasn't cool, but you shouldn't have to grab.

The art of steering the dicussion toward what you enjoy talking about isn't so hard, and the hosts often like that. You'll be golden.

Great job.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

metirish wrote: Did I hear Bucket Jr. at one point , or you saying something to him perhaps?

No I was alone in a conference at work.

I sorta do have points I wanna make but mostly being on the other side of this I like the spontaneity of the live interview. Regarding the Boswell/Willie thing, I was prepared to do a long rant connecting Casey to Hernandez to Piazza by uni numbers but didn't get the feel that it woulda flown.

I thought I did a better job of describing the origins of the project this time than most. There's no way to be prepared for Kashiwada.

I head a little bit of the Tom Jones interview. He was great!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

um, ah, youknow. oof

[Guest AG/DC]

Yeah, that's what I mean. I don't care whether you work your Willie in or not. Only hope to save you some um-uh-you know time before grabbing for the Stork.

Not a bad grab, though.

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: um, ah, youknow. oof

I thought there was very little of that and when he turned to your book your CAHNfidence soared.

[Guest AG/DC]

Yup.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yes, you definitely got more comfortable once the focus become the book and the website.

I did notice the nervousness at first, but that may have been because I was subconsciously looking for it, knowing how I'd probably be in that situation.

If I was just a regular listener I would have had a different perspective, you're a book author doing a spot and I probably wouldn't have picked up on anything at all. (EVERYONE does um's and ah's. Some more than others, but everyone does it.)

[Guest AG/DC]

Buzz Bissinger doesn't um and uh. You should have told Justice he was full of shit before he said anything. That's good theater.

[Guest themetfairy]

Is the interview going to be archived? I was out earlier, but I'd love to hear it.

[metirish]

It's here already ,

http://1560thegame.com/page1_sub.php?id=153

[Guest themetfairy]

Thanks Irish!