A PHONE CHAT WITH CAP’N MERYL & AL THE WEB GUY
FROM CAP’N MERYL
Link to last week’s column****** at USAToday.com/travel:
July 26 Column
******This week’s Update has to do with a major radio
interview TOMORROW, Tuesday, AUGUST 2nd. This week’s travel
column should come out late in the day on Monday or early
Tuesday. You can find it at www.usatoday.com/travel.
A PHONE CHAT WITH CAP’N MERYL & AL THE WEB GUY
I first mentioned the notion of a live phone conversation
with me and Al The Web Guy in my last Weekly Update. If you
are a new subscriber, you can see past issues of my “Weekly
Update” at: www.fromthecockpit.com/Blogg but the relevant
part about the phone conference was this:
“Coming soon is a free teleseminar which will be offered to
my subscribers. Here’s how it’ll work: Along the lines of
my “Ask The Captain” column at usatoday.com/travel,
participants will be able to email me specific questions
about life as a pilot, specifics about the airplane I fly,
things that may worry you or that you’ve wondered about when
you’ve flown, etc. Al The Web Guy will join me so you can
meet him, too. Just an informal chat.”
Al The Web Guy, who, if you don’t already know, is also
Cap’n Al (retired B-747-400 captain) and I have decided to
hold this event on August 8th at 5:00 PM Pacific Time
(adjust for your Time Zone). This is just an informal chat
with Al The Web Guy and me for no special reason other than
we both feel like it. Just so you know, the lines will
probably not be open, in order to keep the background quiet
and to eliminate distractions. If you would like to
participate, click on the following link. You’ll be able to
register for the call and instructions will be given on how
to submit your questions. Please join us!
http://www.fromthecockpit.com/freeseminar.htm
I’m writing this on Friday, July 29th 2005. I’m still not
flying right now—at least not at the controls. Between the
slightly hurt back (mostly better now) and some other issues
it’s just as well for now. My readers will be among the
first to know when I’m back on the job. This is goof-off,
catch-up, go-to-the-beach (what beach? I live in Denver),
pretend-to-take-it-easy time. We’ll see how I do.
First of all, thanks to the many of you who have expressed
concern about my hurt back. It really wasn’t that bad after
a day or two and I’m mostly better now, but it’ll still be a
little bit before I take another flight as a pilot.
Hopefully not too long. Thanks for all your concern,
though. I appreciate all the notes.
In the meantime, I’m taking advantage of my time off to do
some things I’ve been putting off, and one of those is to
appear on a very popular radio talk-show in San
Francisco—The Ronn Owens Show, heard weekdays from 9:00 AM
to Noon on the Bay Area’s largest radio station, KGO AM 810.
I was on Ronn’s Show once before for just about five minutes
by phone from my hotel room in Chicago one day when there
was some airline-worthy news, but generally this show
requires its guests to appear live in the studio. I tried
for a whole year to schedule this while laying over in San
Francisco and I’ve spoken with the producer several times,
but I always either managed to wind up there over a weekend,
or the hours were wrong, or the show was on the road that
week, or whatever. In any case, it just never worked out so
I thought, why not now while I have some extra time off?
Although that first phone interview from Chicago was less
than five minutes long, it was followed by invitations from
some of the major networks to come to their TV studios for a
live interview that day. Unfortunately, none of them
realized that this hadn’t been a local interview and that I
was not downtown San Francisco but rather in Chicago. So
none of that worked out at the time but it was still kind of
exciting to get those calls.
In any case, I picked up the phone this morning and called
the producer, whom I first met a year ago at a “Publicity
Summit” (this is also where I met the producer from “The
View” and how I was booked for that show) and he booked me
for this coming Tuesday, August 2nd, for the 10:00 AM to
11:00 AM Hour. When I made the call I wasn’t even sure the
show would still be interested in having me on after all
this time, but apparently I needn’t have worried. So off I
go.
If you’re not in the Bay Area and/or can’t listen live on
810 AM there is a direct link to a page where you should be
able to listen online to the interview with Ronn Owens.
Note that the show will be in their Archives for 24 hours
after it airs.
http://www.kgoam810.com/listenlive.asp#
Don’t forget there is a Media Links button at
www.fromthecockpit.com so you can always go there and then
click on the link just below the words “Events Calendar” for
my interview schedule.
By the way, if any of you are yourselves authors or need
publicity for any reason, I highly recommend the Publicity
Summit I just mentioned. It’s a little pricey but I found
it to be worth every penny as it put me face-to-face with
lots of radio and TV hosts and producers, magazine editors
and writers, etc. It was at this event that I met a
producer from “The View” and was later booked as a guest.
Anyone looking for more information should just hit reply
and put “Publicity Summit” in the subject. I’ll be happy to
send you some information about it.
For those of you in the Des Moines area, I’ve been asked for
an encore interview which will take place with Jerry Reno on
Tuesday of the following week, which is August 9th. This is
a much shorter interview, probably less than ten minutes
long, and this one will be a call-in interview from my home
near Denver. The interview will be at approximately 4:20 PM
Central Time.
www.WHOradio.com/drivetimedesmoines NEWSRADIO 1040 WHO
As soon as I’m done with the interview in San Francisco this
coming Tuesday, it’s back to the airport to hop a flight
down to San Diego to be with my Mom on her 83rd birthday on
August 3rd. I made it last month for my Dad’s birthday.
You can see my Dad and me, if you care to, in the Denver to
San Diego Album at this link:
http://www.fromthecockpit.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=23
So wish me good luck on my big San Francisco radio interview
and…
Until Next Time,
Maintain Airspeed!
Cap’n Meryl
Link to last week’s column****** at USAToday.com/travel:
July 26 Column
******This week’s Update has to do with a major radio
interview TOMORROW, Tuesday, AUGUST 2nd. This week’s travel
column should come out late in the day on Monday or early
Tuesday. You can find it at www.usatoday.com/travel.
A PHONE CHAT WITH CAP’N MERYL & AL THE WEB GUY
I first mentioned the notion of a live phone conversation
with me and Al The Web Guy in my last Weekly Update. If you
are a new subscriber, you can see past issues of my “Weekly
Update” at: www.fromthecockpit.com/Blogg but the relevant
part about the phone conference was this:
“Coming soon is a free teleseminar which will be offered to
my subscribers. Here’s how it’ll work: Along the lines of
my “Ask The Captain” column at usatoday.com/travel,
participants will be able to email me specific questions
about life as a pilot, specifics about the airplane I fly,
things that may worry you or that you’ve wondered about when
you’ve flown, etc. Al The Web Guy will join me so you can
meet him, too. Just an informal chat.”
Al The Web Guy, who, if you don’t already know, is also
Cap’n Al (retired B-747-400 captain) and I have decided to
hold this event on August 8th at 5:00 PM Pacific Time
(adjust for your Time Zone). This is just an informal chat
with Al The Web Guy and me for no special reason other than
we both feel like it. Just so you know, the lines will
probably not be open, in order to keep the background quiet
and to eliminate distractions. If you would like to
participate, click on the following link. You’ll be able to
register for the call and instructions will be given on how
to submit your questions. Please join us!
http://www.fromthecockpit.com/freeseminar.htm
I’m writing this on Friday, July 29th 2005. I’m still not
flying right now—at least not at the controls. Between the
slightly hurt back (mostly better now) and some other issues
it’s just as well for now. My readers will be among the
first to know when I’m back on the job. This is goof-off,
catch-up, go-to-the-beach (what beach? I live in Denver),
pretend-to-take-it-easy time. We’ll see how I do.
First of all, thanks to the many of you who have expressed
concern about my hurt back. It really wasn’t that bad after
a day or two and I’m mostly better now, but it’ll still be a
little bit before I take another flight as a pilot.
Hopefully not too long. Thanks for all your concern,
though. I appreciate all the notes.
In the meantime, I’m taking advantage of my time off to do
some things I’ve been putting off, and one of those is to
appear on a very popular radio talk-show in San
Francisco—The Ronn Owens Show, heard weekdays from 9:00 AM
to Noon on the Bay Area’s largest radio station, KGO AM 810.
I was on Ronn’s Show once before for just about five minutes
by phone from my hotel room in Chicago one day when there
was some airline-worthy news, but generally this show
requires its guests to appear live in the studio. I tried
for a whole year to schedule this while laying over in San
Francisco and I’ve spoken with the producer several times,
but I always either managed to wind up there over a weekend,
or the hours were wrong, or the show was on the road that
week, or whatever. In any case, it just never worked out so
I thought, why not now while I have some extra time off?
Although that first phone interview from Chicago was less
than five minutes long, it was followed by invitations from
some of the major networks to come to their TV studios for a
live interview that day. Unfortunately, none of them
realized that this hadn’t been a local interview and that I
was not downtown San Francisco but rather in Chicago. So
none of that worked out at the time but it was still kind of
exciting to get those calls.
In any case, I picked up the phone this morning and called
the producer, whom I first met a year ago at a “Publicity
Summit” (this is also where I met the producer from “The
View” and how I was booked for that show) and he booked me
for this coming Tuesday, August 2nd, for the 10:00 AM to
11:00 AM Hour. When I made the call I wasn’t even sure the
show would still be interested in having me on after all
this time, but apparently I needn’t have worried. So off I
go.
If you’re not in the Bay Area and/or can’t listen live on
810 AM there is a direct link to a page where you should be
able to listen online to the interview with Ronn Owens.
Note that the show will be in their Archives for 24 hours
after it airs.
http://www.kgoam810.com/listenlive.asp#
Don’t forget there is a Media Links button at
www.fromthecockpit.com so you can always go there and then
click on the link just below the words “Events Calendar” for
my interview schedule.
By the way, if any of you are yourselves authors or need
publicity for any reason, I highly recommend the Publicity
Summit I just mentioned. It’s a little pricey but I found
it to be worth every penny as it put me face-to-face with
lots of radio and TV hosts and producers, magazine editors
and writers, etc. It was at this event that I met a
producer from “The View” and was later booked as a guest.
Anyone looking for more information should just hit reply
and put “Publicity Summit” in the subject. I’ll be happy to
send you some information about it.
For those of you in the Des Moines area, I’ve been asked for
an encore interview which will take place with Jerry Reno on
Tuesday of the following week, which is August 9th. This is
a much shorter interview, probably less than ten minutes
long, and this one will be a call-in interview from my home
near Denver. The interview will be at approximately 4:20 PM
Central Time.
www.WHOradio.com/drivetimedesmoines NEWSRADIO 1040 WHO
As soon as I’m done with the interview in San Francisco this
coming Tuesday, it’s back to the airport to hop a flight
down to San Diego to be with my Mom on her 83rd birthday on
August 3rd. I made it last month for my Dad’s birthday.
You can see my Dad and me, if you care to, in the Denver to
San Diego Album at this link:
http://www.fromthecockpit.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=23
So wish me good luck on my big San Francisco radio interview
and…
Until Next Time,
Maintain Airspeed!
Cap’n Meryl
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