Major Nelson and Tidbits

Since the latest podcast is out and so is the secret, I guess that I can go into the who, what, when, where and why this happened. I'll start at the beginning.

The day that Spark and I recorded Episode 3, I sent a request for Major Nelson to come onto Geezer Radio. Anticipating a negative response, I forgot about the message and figured that if it was meant to be, then it was meant to be. The next day, I got an e-mail from Major saying send him an e-mail at his private e-mail address with the request. I then composed an eloquent e-mail telling him how much I loved his podcast, and that we wanted him on ours and that we all liked him because he was a man of the people (I was trying to be as nice and complimenting as possible, because I didn’t want him to say no). I also promised him no ambushing and no rumor gathering...which I think we broke, but we tried to be nice about it. His response was "Okay, let's do it."

The next day I composed another lengthy letter requesting a time and again saying how wonderful we all thought he was. He again said, “Okay, let’s do this.” So, over the weekend, I nervously checked my e-mail every other minute, watching for that one piece of e-mail saying the when and where of everything, which never came. On Monday, he sent me an e-mail asking if I got his last e-mail. Me, not realizing that when he re-sent me the “Okay, let’s do this” he included on that e-mail the time that he could do it: Wednesday, April 16, at 3:30 his time (Pacific Time). So, I agreed that that would be a good time. Later that day, he said that that week wouldn’t be good for him after all, and that the next week at the same time would probably be better, so we rescheduled.

This past Monday, the wife and I decided to put the house up for sale, and there was a lot that needed fixing. So, as it happened to be, Wednesday was the day for painting. I wasn’t happy; because the Major Nelson interview was something I had been looking forward too since before our podcast got started. Anyway, I managed to get out of painting because of the situation (which my wife has yet to let me forget about). So, Wednesday came around and the work day was a blur because all I could think about was getting an e-mail from Major Nelson, cancelling our interview...which never happened.

With my house being painted, the interview had to be moved from the Jedi Temple to Jedi’s mothers house (Spark’s wife vetoed it happening at his house, because of how their house wasn’t fully moved into yet.) At 5:30 (our time), Spark and I got to the location of the interview. And that was that.

Some tidbits that Spark and I cut from the interview. Major Nelson cut two intros, and the one you hear on the podcast was the second one. After the podcast ends, Major, Spark and I talked about doing future podcasts but didn’t mention specific dates, so we’ll see what happens. The phone call that we got in the middle of the interview was my wife asking me what type of paint we should get.

The reason we kept this secret was for two reasons, we wanted to be free to ask him what questions we wanted to ask and didn’t want to be inundated with PMs asking us to ask certain questions. The second reason, we wanted everyone to be surprised that we actually got him on our podcast. I hope you enjoyed it.