Yay! We were in the news! Boo! It means I had to be on t.v.! I’m almost to the point of accepting what I look like on camera and that no matter what I say or how brilliant it sounded at the time, I’ll cringe every time I see the final product of a t.v. shoot. In fact, it feels a little silly that “t.v. shoot” is part of my vocabulary. Not sure if people “in the biz” even use that term.
I digress.
We were featured in a really cool local segment and yours truly did the talking. Here it is for you to enjoy.
NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA |
Meanwhile, in Behind the Scenes Action:
During a break in filming I noticed that some magpies were harassing my meat birds. The meat birds were still pretty small, perfect prey for hawks, magpies, you name it. I pointed it out to Jeff and he went up to the coop. First, he tried chasing the birds away. They all but openly mocked him. Then he went in the house, I assumed to get the pellet gun.
We watched him walk toward the coop with a rifle, point it up into the trees, and then, BLAM! It was not a pellet gun.
A string of expletives burst uncontrollably from my mouth about the same time that shotgun fired. The reporter’s face went white, he was not impressed with the vastness or complexity of my vocabulary. I immediately went into that vicious cycle of “swearing/apologizing for swearing/then swearing that you just swore during your apology”. The videographer was doubled over in laughter and Glenn just chuckled nervously, whatever image he had of us being perfectly polite and un-profane had clearly been replaced by one of us stomping around with guns and screaming vulgarities.
Finally, I had the sense to just stop opening my mouth in hopes that might stop the cataract of swear words threatening to burst forth.
So, yeah, sometimes those lapel microphones can be a real curse.
Suffice it to say, I’ll never run for political office of any kind.
