Meeting with Yasir Khan and doing the interview for “The Hour” was a lot of fun. The interview will be played during the live airing of the show this Monday, February 6th Tuesday, February 7th at 8:00pm (Eastern) on CBC Newsworld. I’m going to go to Calgary to be a part of the studio audience—I’m looking forward to it.
I’m going to be doing a television interview this Wednesday which will air during a live taping of CBC Newsworld’s The Hour on either February 6th or 7th.
Update: It looks like it’s going to air on Tuesday at 8:00pm MST on Newsworld.
I had a great time interviewing on The Jay Thomas Show this afternoon. For those of you that caught the show and came here looking for some more samples of backmasking, here is my backmasking page.
Today at 1:30pm (MST) I’ll be a guest on the Jay Thomas Show. I was just looking into who Jay Thomas is, and when I took a look at the google results I said to myself, “hey I recognize that guy—he was on Murphy Brown!”
I didn’t recall it right off, but he also played the zamboni smushed hockey player, “Eddie Lebec”, on Cheers (hilarious).
The following is a little bit of info from his bio:
Jay’s career highlights include acting roles on Cheers, Murphy Brown, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Mork & Mindy and The Education of Max Bickford to name just a few. Jay won an Emmy Award for playing Jerry Gold in Murphy Brown and was nominated again in 1992. Every holiday season since 1998 it’s a tradition on the Late Show for him to knock a meatball off the Christmas tree with a football (he briefly played pro ball in the World Football League).
As I’ve done more and more interviews I’m getting a lot more comfortable just going on and joking around with the host. This should be fun.
Yesterday I received a copy of the Wall Street Journal that the reporter, Dionne Searcey, had told me she would send. (Thanks Dionne).
The wood print looks great! Here it is, scanned and enlarged. Click for an even bigger version.
I’ll be on 700WLW in Cincinnati tonight at 8:00pm (MST) doing an interview about my backmasking page.
I think a large part of what makes backmasking so interesting is that it strikes people on so many different levels. First off, with relation to religion, when people hear that popular music might contain messages about Satan, they really want to listen and decide for themselves. Even if people are not religious, there is still a natural curiosity to hear what all the fuss is about. It’s compelling to feel like we have discovered a secret about something so prominent in popular culture. We know Paul is not dead, yet we are interested to learn all the clues about his untimely demise.
I’ve made my views fairly clear that I don’t think the “satanic lyrics” are (for the most part) intentional. Most people that I have shown the Stairway to Heaven clip can’t even hear the messages the first time they listen. This brings up another interesting aspect of this story. People are fascinated by the psychology at work here. It is amazing how the power of suggestion can transform your interpretation of what at first registers as reversed gibberish into a coherent message.
I just finished another interview for a University paper in Ontario. What continues to confound me is that though some of the world’s biggest papers find the story so fascinating, my own University paper, The Meliorist (whose office is just down the hall from mine) hasn’t shown a bit of interest. I find it so strange. C’est la vie, how can I complain with all this good fortune.
I was just asked to do an interview for the Jay Thomas show on Sirius Satellite Radio.
The topics on Jay’s new show range from the sublime to the ridiculous and everything in between. The Jay Thomas Show takes a light-hearted approach and a middle of the road political standpoint. Past guests include Geraldo Rivera, Meredith Viera, Mike Ditka, George Foreman, Joy Behar, Mario Cuomo, Don King and many others.
I’ll be on next Monday sometime after the show starts at 1330 (MST).
I had an interview with the Associated Press this morning. The story that they run will probably reach a bigger audience than even the Wall Street Journal article last week. This is truly amazing. Every time I think things can’t possibly get any bigger or better they keep doing just that.
I had an interview last Friday with the BBC/PRI show The World. The World is a one-hour, weekday radio news magazine offering a mix of news, features, interviews, and music from around the globe. Today they will be airing my interview with Marco Werman. I understand that this show is played on 200 NPR stations including New York and Seattle, and has a weekly audience of about 2 million listeners.
You can listen to the program when it airs (1730 eastern—it will be the last piece in the program, called the Global Hit) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ or if you missed it you can find it archived at http://theworld.org/globalhits/2006/01/17.shtml.