In Search of #6: Featured on NHPR
While I recorded my interview for The Front Porch on June 14th; it was aired on NHPR on June 19th, at 6:30p EST. If you missed the show live, you can still hear the audio online (my part begins at about minute 15:30 and goes to the end):
Listen to MP3/iTunes Stream | Listen with Windows Media Player
You can also read the show notes from NHPR.org.
One amusing anecdote regarding my interview on NHPR: a friend of mine from college (fellow New Hampshire-ite and bike tourer) was in a bar in Berlin (NH) and during the course of a conversation with a stranger came to discussing his bicycle trip across the country. The man said, “Did you hear that crazy guy on the radio who had only kissed like five girls and went on a bike trip out west?” My friend said: “Why yes, I have, he is a friend of mine.” And, of course, the man’s inner prejudice was reinforced, specifically: that all bike riders are whackos and that we all know each other.
Which is only partly true.
original post: june 14th
“Well,” I thought to myself, “how kind of them to surprise me with the honor on National Public Radio!”
Turns out: it is someone else. I have been bumped indefinitely. You will have to check NHPR.org for updated show times: View Show Notes on NHPR.
Exciting news!
On Wednesday, June 14th, at 6:30pm EST, I, Damon Timm, will be on New Hampshire Public Radio’s The Front Porch, shamelessly promoting the audiobook In Search of #6 and re-visiting all the sordid history behind, below, and above the making of this travelogue and memoir.
If you want to be the very first to hear it, you can tune in at 6:30p EST on Wednesday. You can listen on the radio if you live in New Hampshire (nhpr.org has station listings) or via a live audio stream from you computer anywhere in the world.
Listen to MP3/iTunes Stream | Listen to Windows Media Player Stream.
If you are not available at that day and time fret not! I will be sure to post the link to the audio from NHPR as soon as it is made available. I will also try and get an audio transcript from the show (it will be a thirty minute interview and I cannot type it out myself).
Of course I will be foolishly nervous on air and bound to say ridiculous things about myself, Ben, the trip, my life, #6, eggs, and post-prandial naps — needless to say: it will be worth listening to and I look forward to hearing your commentary on my interview performance. You can post said comments below.
Enjoy.
7 Comments
Comment by Emily
June 13, 2006 @ 12:04 pm | Link
damn! i will be in class at that time. but i’m sure you will do a good job teaching everyone else the definition of post-prandial. have fun with it!
Comment by andrew
June 13, 2006 @ 3:49 pm | Link
nervous? you’re going to be nervous? why didn’t you tell me that before i invited you on the show?
just kidding. you’re going to be fine, Damon. we look forward to meeting you and hearing your tales.
–andrew, nhpr
Comment by Damon
June 13, 2006 @ 4:14 pm | Link
Well Andrew: between you and me (and everyone else reading this) I must be honest:
It is not so much that I believe I will be nervous than I would rather have the audience familiar with my work (such that it is) be presented with the expectation of nervousness. Therefore, in the rare event that I were to be less than stunningly terrific (which is, of course, my expectation) and people begin commenting:
They will have been warned: it was my nerves! I swear!
Of course: I will be the most phenomenal guest NHPR (nay, NPR even) has ever had the pleasure to put on the air. The response will be deafening; your mailbox will be flooded with inquireries as to who this guest was.
Fear not! I have even decided to shave.
Damon
PS: I am a little nervous and excited; it will be quite fun. Looking forward to meeting all of you too.
Comment by Reed
June 13, 2006 @ 5:21 pm | Link
The last time I saw you nervous….NEDC you were the only hearing C.I.T. to pass the muster…This ain’t nothing to compare with that!!! Break a leg…
Comment by Lesley
June 14, 2006 @ 8:26 am | Link
I’ll be at work when the interview airs but I’m looking forward to hearing about it, later. You’ll be brilliant !
Comment by Bernard Breslaw
June 24, 2006 @ 3:04 am | Link
Well aren’t you the witty, raconteur. Pitched somewhere between Ustinov, Capote and Carrot Top, I enjoyed your attempts to remain calm, whilst also trying to come across as windswept and interesting. You suceeded sir.
I liked the way that the host introduced you at the start, as someone who had only ever had 5 kisses. An entirely different thing, to someone who had ony locked lips with 5 different people and making you sound like some Dungeons and Dragons obsessive, who lives in his parents’ basement.
Comment by Damon
July 10, 2006 @ 4:38 am | Link
Hi Damon,
Like your website, but I have to disagree with one thing: I think I am funny, despite what your domain name says about me.
Cheers
Damon (not the author of this site, a different one)
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