More blogging on the radio! KSOO’s Patrick Lalley chose not to sing and invited me on air to talk about Legislative antipathy toward ballot measures and the Republican primary races!
Our one-two segment begins at 34:55 and rolls to the 50-minute mark.
Note that in the second segment, I decline to handicap the Johnson/Krebs/Tapio primary due to the wild-card nature of Tapio and his Bigot Brigade, but on the GOP gubernatorial primary, I stick to this prediction: Jackley 58%, Noem 42%.
How does this Lalley fellow expect to leverage your celebrity over his if he does not advertise these appearances by you in the mainstream media? We can not hear it all or call in with questions. It is like the least transparent radio show ever. If the board of state government held meetings like this Mr. Lalley would be the first to call for their head on a post, I’m just sayin…
Mr. H, next time you get to be in the media like this you should ask Mr. Lalley about his time at that newspaper that has gone to hell and why he could not save it, or why they chose to fire him and keep their path to the next level of hell. Ask him if he thinks print news has 2 years left, 5 years left, or will live forever.
Turn the tables on your inquisitor. Compliment his hair, and then the two of you could go out and ride a bike. Blog it with movies, though. High ratings.
Grudz, I don’t think my subjecting Lalley to that inquisition would have any more relevance to the matters of public interest we discuss than his grilling me on why Madison High School fired me in 2001.
I find call-in questions enormously distracting. Most of the time, even on NPR’s On Point, they aren’t really questions, just people trying to score points in their fleeting airtime. I much prefer Lori Walsh’s format on SDPB at noon, just her and guests talking, allowing her to pursue the directions the conversation naturally suggests.
I am sure the legislatures find testimony and calls on law bills enormously distracting as well, but they have to put up with it. Oh, for the good old days when committees could meet and pass law bills without interruption.
Ah, different context, Grudz. Taking calls on a variety of bills and other constituent concerns throughout the year is part of a legislator’s job. A radio host’s job is to put together an informative and entertaining hour. A radio show guest’s job is to follow the host’s lead in supporting that effort. I find that a focused, one-on-one conversation between two reasonably well-informed people produces a more informative and entertaining program than the typical call-in show. That doesn’t mean I see no value in taking calls—I’m certainly willing to do a call-in show where I just field questions from listeners on topics of their choosing (though preferably focused on some subject or theme, and on matters of public interest, not personal matters or private ax-grinding). But Lalley is free to produce the radio show he wishes to produce.
Besides, a legislator doesn’t have to take ten other calls while having a conversation with one constituent.
grudznick,
I take calls on occasion but in most cases there just isn’t enough time when I have guests. As Corey says, I enjoy the give and take with the guest and find it more informative and entertaining. My plan is to develop a segment where people can just call up and argue with me. I enjoy that too. Or maybe, the caller takes a position and I have to argue the other side. That would be fun. I try to keep people up-to-date on who’s on the show but it’s a lot of guests and sometimes a moving target. Corey is usually on Tuesday at 4 if that helps. You can listen anytime at KSOO.com, with the KSOO app, or on my podcast. Cheers.
As I’ve said here before several times, both Jackley and Noem would be horrible, dangerous governors. Jackley, however, would be, by far, the worst as evil and vindictive and power-abusing (Jackley) is worse than stupid, ignorant and gullible (Noem). Unfortunately, I have to agree with Cory’s prediction here and, while his percentages may not be exact, I fear that it will not be all that far off come primary time. I’m all in for Sutton’s camp, but, unless something drastically changes, I don’t think he can pull it off against Jackley. It’ll be a lot closer, I think, than the usual Democratic sacrificial lamb blowout, but still likely won’t be enough to pull it off.
My husband, being a tribal judge, and the tribe he works for, the reservation we live on, and all of the other reservations are all bracing themselves for a Jackley governorship, for, as bad as it will be for the rest of the state, it will be particularly awful for the tribes and their reservations. Jackley is a hateful racist, does everything he can as AG to screw them over while skating right up to the line between state and federal law, and will not hesitate to make their lives miserable as governor. He won’t hesitate to make any state resident who is not white and Christian utterly miserable and will laugh while doing it. Sigh.
Brace yourself for the worst. Fight like heck to stop it.