What a crazy week this was. It started of pretty crappy, but half way through, it became surreal. First, time for a little back story. Every Friday night from 7 pm PT/ 10 pm ET – 9 pm PT/ Midnight ET, I do my Geeky Pleasures show on the
station. Every Friday, I try to incorporate something about the Hoff, William Shatner and, of course The King of Geek,
Wil Wheaton. A couple weeks ago, my topic of the night was Science Fiction. In January, Wil did a recording at the Phoenix Cactus Comicon. In this recording, he reads a segment from his book
The Happiest Days of Our Lives which deals with Star Wars plus he performs one of his reviews for
TV Squad concerning Star Trek: The Next Generation. This recording is free for
download under a creative commons copyright thanks to the lovely people at
Pulp Gamer. But that free share is for non commercial purposes only. So that meant, I could not play it on the station since radio is considered commercial purposes. However, it fit perfectly with my topic of the week. To fix this problem, I sent an email to the people at
Pulp Gamer explaining to them what my show is about and what I would be using the recording for. They said sure not a problem, however I should email Wil and get his permission as well since even though the recording itself belongs to
Pulp Gamer, the material within the recording belongs to Wil. So that is exactly what I did, thinking that I would never get a reply. Was I ever surpised to get an email back saying, “That sounds great!” So I decided to ask him if he would be interested in doing an interview for my Geeky Pleasures show. What is the worse he can say. No. And that is pretty much what I expected given how extremely busy the man is. Was I even more surprised when he agreed to do it.
So that is what happened this week. On Wednesday, November 5, Wil and I sat down to the the interview. It was not the normal interview. We talked about acting, voice over work, 80s fashions, comics, the media, blogging, twitter and many other things. The interview aired on Friday, November 7. However, if you missed it, have no fear. I am rebroadcasting it at a special day and time on Monday, November 10 at 4 pm PT/ 7 pm ET. To listen, just go to the station’s website and click on the appropriate link. When the interview as over, I told Wil that he had an open door at the station. Anytime he wanted to promote whatever and talk geek in an uncensored environment, just say the word. He appeared to be happy with the invitation and said in the new year when things are not so busy, we could do a Wil Wheaton part 2. That made me extremely happy. Hopefully, there will be many more interviews in the future, as he offers so much especially on the topic of geekdom. We didn’t get time to touch on that too much in the interview as there is always to much to talk about with Wil. If this rebroadcast time does not work for you, have no fear. Once it is broadcasted for the final time, I will be uploading the interview portion to my MySpace. I cannot upload the whole show (with the music, which Wil selected) as it violates copyright and our royalties agreement.
Then yesterday, I had another interview. This time I was the guest. It is for one of the other mixologists, Jerry Pippin. The name of the show is The Parazone Hour: Tales of High Strangeness. There is also a second page. I am a very spiritual person and have been all of my life. During the show, we briefly discuss some of the basic ideas of the type of spirituality that I practice and the occult. The show is one hour. For some, that isn’t brief. The reason why I say brief is because in that hour, we barely scratched the surface. Because of that, I will be doing another interview to discuss the topic even further. This interview will air Wednesday, November 12 at 1 pm PT/ 4 pm ET and then again Sunday, November 16 at 12 am PT/3 am ET. To listen, again just go the the station’s website and click the appropriate link. Again, have no fear if these times do not work for you. You will be able to download the podcast from Jerry’s site once it is available.
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