I can’t speak for the show’s listeners, but I had a complete blast last night (5/17)!
For my inaugural show, Dave LeBlanc of www.iacoj.com and www.backstepfirefighter.com (Bill Carey’s blog) kindly accepted my invitation and was the perfect guest, as I knew he would be.
It was like I was the lead singer, singing his praises and then, like a lead guitarist, Dave would go off on a riff; allowing me to get a splash of beverage and to “wander the stage”.
I would have to say that hosting a net cast requires skillful multi-tasking.
I discovered that you must first get the proper adjustment on your headset; set the proper volume for ear pieces and microphone; then, sigh in to www.blogtalkradio.com ; open www.firefighternetcast.com and Google Talk; stay to your outline and notes; watch feedback in the chat room; maintain thoughts on subject at hand with guest; get another question ready; check Google Talk for messages; and oh yeah; have fun with it, while making it interesting for guest and audience.
The only glitch of the evening came when my Skype dropped my call. It took me about five minutes to re-establish my connection to the show. I can’t help but wonder if John…
I was in a near panic, but, because of the pros that they are; John (www.firedaily.com) and Rhett (www.firecritic.com) stepped right in, took a question from the outline and kept the flow to the show. Good save, fellazzzzzz!
It was a raucus chat room last night. Chatters were discussing, but were also having fun. It resembled a play ground every now and then, but it was exciting to see so many “at the show”.
Callers Wayne and Jason took the energy of the program to the next level.
The show wound down with Dave honoring his fallen brother firefighter, mentor and friend, Bobby J; who lost his battle with cancer last December 26th.
The show ended with one of my favorite songs to honor our fallen: “Grace of God Go I” by Flogging Molly.
Then, we did a post production meeting. I laughed so hard that I hurt. I called a friend after the meeting and then took Chopper out, so I could smoke a celebratory cigar.
What a night!
It’s one that I will never forget…
TCSS.
My next installment of FirefighterNetcast Presents The Voice of Reason will be on Thursday, June 24th at 8:00 pm CT/9:00 pm ET.
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