{"id":40,"date":"2008-06-06T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-02-18T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T05:10:10","slug":"media-whore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2008\/06\/media-whore\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Whore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I find myself in a place or predicament, and I wonder what choices I have made in life that led up this point.  It&#8217;s kind of a fun little game I play in my mind to keep me interested in life.  Like the time I found myself walking out of a job I&#8217;d have for 7 years.  Or the time I was sitting in my office tape recording a phone conversation.  Or the time I was leading a state trooper on a high speed chase.  Okay, so that last one hasn&#8217;t happened.  Yet.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent time I had such a thought, was last night.  For the first time since the morning of December 17, 2006, I was wearing a necktie.  I was sitting on a chair, in front of 3 cameras, interviewing a doctor of theology.  How do I get into these sort of things?  Beats me.<\/p>\n<p>The show was &#8220;Atheist Talk&#8221;, and it airs once a month on various obscure cable channels.  The podcast will be made available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/content\/view\/34\/37\/\"><\/a>.  We filmed two episodes, one in which I interviewed Dr. Steves as he discussed a &#8220;Thought Driven Life&#8221; and another as he addressed the topic of studying the bible as literature in the public school system.  And where was the shows normal host?  Well, that would be Dr. Steves, and since he couldn&#8217;t very well interview himself, I was recruited for the job.  I think I came across very wooden, rigid and nonconversational &#8211; a lot like I am in real life.  All in all, though, a pretty good time and a fun experience (even if I did have to don a phallic symbol around my neck).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, here&#8217;s proof:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oDxXsASEPAA\/SEluNMIZsPI\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/BZICLSa-BsA\/s1600-h\/MTN080605d.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oDxXsASEPAA\/SEluNMIZsPI\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/BZICLSa-BsA\/s320\/MTN080605d.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208815616904507634\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m the guy on the right, feigning interest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oDxXsASEPAA\/SEluNW84hnI\/AAAAAAAAAAs\/ceGA5XtuRpI\/s1600-h\/MTN080605f.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oDxXsASEPAA\/SEluNW84hnI\/AAAAAAAAAAs\/ceGA5XtuRpI\/s320\/MTN080605f.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208815619808986738\" \/><\/a>The sweat on my brow is not, as you might assume, from the lights.  No, it&#8217;s from the heat of hell&#8217;s flames, which reach pretty high on this set.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oDxXsASEPAA\/SEluNE88DdI\/AAAAAAAAAAk\/hQfJ1ZdniMQ\/s1600-h\/MTN080605e.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oDxXsASEPAA\/SEluNE88DdI\/AAAAAAAAAAk\/hQfJ1ZdniMQ\/s320\/MTN080605e.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208815614977379794\" \/><\/a>This is smarmyness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oDxXsASEPAA\/SEluMhBtKuI\/AAAAAAAAAAU\/ZTaC3ZSleAc\/s1600-h\/MTN080605a.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oDxXsASEPAA\/SEluMhBtKuI\/AAAAAAAAAAU\/ZTaC3ZSleAc\/s320\/MTN080605a.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208815605333699298\" \/><\/a>Why hasn&#8217;t anyone told me what a bufoon I look like with my legs crossed like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I find myself in a place or predicament, and I wonder what choices I have made in life that led up this point. It&#8217;s kind of a fun little game I play in my mind to keep me interested in life. Like the time I found myself walking out of a job I&#8217;d have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}