On the radio with Kudlow

Sean is right. Larry, for some reason, had "Encerra" stuck in his head. Other than that, it was a blast.

Obviously, there's some heavy self-selection here: he likes the way I think and I like the way he thinks. But there's nothing wrong with that. Kudlow regularly has on people he both agrees with and disagrees with. I just fall into the first camp, by and large.

We went about 35 minutes, taking into account all the newsbreaks, commercials, etc. So I started around 3:07 and ended at 3:50. Got emails later from people who called in for questions, but Larry was intent on covering a lot of ground (he focused on two recent posts quite a bit: Economic “patriotism” as the folly of our age, Contrary to current conventional wisdom, Bush’s Big Bang strategy will be treated very favorably by history).

Off-mike, Larry said that he really loved the blog, stating that even when I bashed Bush (a favorite of his), he thought it was warranted. Kudlow really praised the blog on the air, saying it was a mix of personal and really great analysis. I made the point of sptting out the URL, which he then picked up several times. He also mentioned both books repeatedly, and despite the mispronounciation on Enterra (weird word, admittedly) he noted my work there a lot.

Just before we went on air (this was his maiden voyage, because his true slot will be 10-1 on Saturdays), I asked him to ask me about my company, so I could explain that side of my work as well, and he was kind enough to oblige. This opportunity (about a four-minute spiel) was my first broadcast commercial for Enterra. I thought it went okay, as I mostly just repeated all the stuff Steve DeAngelis typically runs through in his elevator speech. But as with all such things, you only get better through practice.

Still, felt like I earned my Enterra salary for the day, and a Saturday at that!

After the show, I thought to myself: I think I've been on radio maybe a hundred times now, and I really must say, it's my favorite format to spread the word. TV is just so distracting with all the visual performance aspects, whereas radio is pure message. After live public speaking, it's about as good as it gets for me.

Finished my next Knoxville News Sentinel column today. This will be #4. It's entitled, "Feeling Insecure About Global Security? You Shouldn't." It leverages data from the "2005 Human Security Report" put out by the University of British Columbia--stunning piece of work, really. Fits my vision to a T. Thought the column would be easy to write, cause the guts of the piece is a series of bullets that sum up the trends, but I actually spent more time on this one than others, I guess because I wanted the sandwiching text to be so on-target, and because I rechecked the data a bunch of times to make sure I wasn't misrepresenting something. In the end, it feels like a great piece.

Haven't heard anything on the possibility of syndication yet, but hoping my performance to date is making that a real likelihood.

Meanwhile, we escape the apartment by hitting some downtown Indy attractions this afternoon.