Calling in all the chits

I snagged two great on air guests for an early March show. I called, I wrote, I cajoled, I begged, I threatened......what are kids for if you can't lean on them when you need them, right?
So, we are getting the Executive Chef of the Mandalay Bay Casino and Resort from Las Vegas to talk about foodie vacations in Las Vegas and the latest in food and wine pairings. Did I mention he is our son?
So, we are getting an emergency room doc to talk about symptoms of a heart attack and how to improve your chances of survival until the EMS crew arrives. She will also tell you what to expect when you enter the ER with heart attack symptoms. Did I mention she is our daughter-in-law?

We are having a lot of fun putting our lists together for on air guests. Just to tease a little, we plan on having a person talk about Community Gardens, an architect talk about Universal Design and the movement called "Aging in Place", a New Orleans lawyer talk about copyrighting (or not) your beautiful amateur photos that you might post on Facebook or Flickr, a yoga teacher talk about staying flexible, and many more. We are fine-tuning our production activities so that we have more flexibility during production to hold a guest over into the next segment if the conversation is really really rolling.
I spoke with a Houston friend today who I talk with only occasionally. I told her about the show and she said she really heard a relaxed happiness in my voice. :-)
See you on the radio. Love, Pup

My Ah-ha Moment: You are Captain of the Ship

I posted our first podcast last night. So what's the big deal? It is an audio file of the radio show. Well, not really. It is separate files of the four radio show segments that are marked with the content of each. Ok. So what?
When you listen to terrestrial radio, the old fashion kind out of a box with a dial, the show starts at a set time and "pushes" the content to you in a fashion determined by some pup at the radio station. If the phone rings, you are in trouble if your favorite part is coming up. If you need a potty break you have to bring the radio to the bathroom with you...and so forth. Some pin head pup at a radio station controls your entire experience. Now for the podcast. You decide when to listen. You decide if you want to stop mid segment and continue tomorrow. You decide to listen only to the health segment and not the legislative segment. You decide to listen to one segment from this week and one segment from last week. You decide to listen to Jack Kingston five times. YOU ARE THE CAPTAIN OF THE (RADIO) SHIP. I think the media gurus call this "pull". You are in control.
In fact, once we have bunches of podcasts loaded, what we have is an audio magazine on Podbean called You're Just a Pup, not a radio show in the conventional sense. We can categorize them by content categories. On a rainy day you can scroll thru the "health" section and only listen to health segments should you choose to. I think this is SO cool, I can't stand it!!! My hubby is lucky that so little makes me happy.
See you on the radio.
Love, Pup