Dateline: trapped above the garage (thankful I went to the bathroom) in Portsmouth RI, 17 March 2005
Probably good I didn't know this beforehand. Hour-long interviews are a real effort, in terms of energy. I'm busy still editing Chapter One, but . . . once committed, you simply have to follow through.
[I will check back during a break]
Actually, here is the note on the WHYY website:
Radio Times for Thursday, March 17th
Hour 1
Guest host Dave Davies talks with THOMAS BARNETT, military analyst who has worked in national security affairs since the end of the Cold War. He is author of “The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the 21st Century.” He is a blogger on global security and world events and a contributing editor to Esquire magazine.
Find it at http://www.whyy.org/91FM/RadioTimes.html
[checking back at 20 past hour]
This guy surprises me with a lengthy opening sequence on working in the Pentagon, the world of PowerPoint, etc--all very career oriented.
Then we segue into the 1990s being similar to the 1920s, which forces me into a long explanation of rule-sets, my shorthand for the 1990s, globalization needs a bodyguard, etc.
Get a short break for commercials, now back at it:
[second break]
Got into more globalization stuff, then SysAdmin-Leviathan. Took first question from caller (big two-parter) and gave a long answer. As so often happens in the middle-segment in an hour-long interview, it just flew by in a blur. Now the rush of the last segment where the interviewer tries to cram in everthing he wants to cover.
[. . .]
Ooops! Host caught me typing as he started third section, and asked if I was blogging the show while on the show!
I guess that was his gentle way to ask me to stop that damn ticky-tapping sound in the background!
But it did allow me to offer this URL on the air.
This guy did a great job of cramming it all in: al Qaeda, Big Bang, Wolfowitz nomination to World Bank, the Iran-bomb argument, and the North Korea take-down argument. Plus, we got a huge question from Tariq that allowed me to push connectivity over democracy as a theme!
Then, to end the show, host gives me a huge opening to plug The New Rule Sets Project LLC.
Damn! Nice show.
Producer on the phone after it ends: will send me CD and will post archive broadcast we can link to.
Not bad for one hour!
[signing off at 11:04]
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