My radio appearance with Faith Middleton seemed to go OK. I like being on the radio, and this didn’t spoil my opinion.
WNPR’s New Haven studio is located in a building dedicated to the arts on Audubon Street. While I waited for the elevator, I looked in at a co-ed dance class in a ground floor studio. It’s nice to see that going on.
I made a wrong turn getting off the elevator and walked into the New Haven Council for the Arts, where I spent a few minutes looking at the exhibited photos. I wonder if they’d hang anything of mine?
The WNPR studio looks like a living room. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
Faith sat in a wingback chair facing me. The control room was at my back. Our microphones were on the kind of boom used by musicians. Unlike most modern radio talk shows, Faith had no audio console. All the technical execution took place in the control room.
Mark Schleifstein, one of the authors of Path of Destruction (the definitive account of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans) was on via telephone. Though he and I disagree about global warming in general and its specific implications for tropical weather systems, we do agree that the storms we get now are strong enough to cause lots of havoc.
When it was over, I called Helaine. She said I sounded scientific. Wow – she’s my toughest (or most honest) critic.
As I said, it was fun to do. Now we’ll see if I can stand listening to myself during the replay that’s on while I drive home.