Last week, a TV producer from the Austrailian TV network SBS called me, and asked me whether or not I would agree to an interview. In her request, she mentioned she had found me from this blog. She relayed that they were working on 1 hour documentary about the state of the US economy leading up to the presidential election, and asked whether I would be willing to answer some questions about the current foreclosure market in Phoenix.
Intrigued and feeling as though my ego was being slightly stroked, I graciously agreed. The crew’s schedule bounced things around a bit, and the interview finally went down at 5pm today. I’m not one to complain much about the weather, but it was about 110 degrees today, so doing the interview outdoors was a challenge. Hopefully my head wasn’t “glowing” too much.
I don’t know when the documentary will air, if I will be included in the final result, or if I will ever see the final result. I do have the TV producer’s email, so hopefully we able to stay in touch and I’ll be able to see the documentary when it’s complete. They did have a bit of script, or talking points, that they wanted to get to, so hopefully that means I play a role in making a point they want in the documentary. The nice thing, was I wasn’t coerced in any way to say something I didn’t agree with. Really, they were very supportive of me expressing my personal viewpoint.
Deborah, the TV producer, said I did a great job. I replied, I just didn’t want to do a bad job, and she countered back, that no, I really did do a great job. That was nice to hear. At any rate, throughout the interview, I gave my iPhone to Deborah who snapped most of these shots. Given I’ve never used the gallery feature that was introduced in WordPress 2.5 (this blog just went to 2.6 today), now seems like an excellent chance to share what the iPhone captured via the Gallery. All shots were edited slightly in Photoshop, with some cropping, but otherwise this shows approximately the quality you can expect from a well lit iPhone photo.
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Very cool! What, no tie?
Charles, the guy that is interviewing me said that if not for “continuity” there was no way he would have been in a tie. He simply had no choice.
Congrats Steve. Of course you did a great job.. what else could you have done.
Hey Gene,
I sent channel 12 your way the other day. Did they call you?
Very cool, Steve! I’m sure you did great. You’ll have to let us know when you find out if it’s going to air.
Steve – you will have to keep us posted on what didn’t make the cutting room floor! This is great stuff, excited to see and hear what you had to say!
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