Finally posted Thursday, November 7th, 2006. Sometimes my life is not my own…
To listen to the audio of the October 30th, 2006 appearance, go here. (If you use Mozilla Firefox, you can bring it up in another tab and keep working with the show playing …)
Pictured above is Dr. Schaller doing a stand-up after the show, outside of the WYPR building on Charles Street.
On Monday, October 30th, 2006, I had the pleasure to appear on WYPR’s “The Mark Steiner Show” with UMBC Professor Tom Schaller for a discussion of the upcoming Maryland elections. Mr. Steiner is certainly an accomplished veteran and come to find out, so is Dr. Schaller.
Thomas F. Schaller, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
The show came on the heals of a column Dr. Schaller had just penned in The Examiner, on October 27th, 2006, “Will Ehrlich see first defeat of his political career?”
I keep running across Crablaw’s post: “Kevin Dayhoff on WYPR Marc Steiner show,” that reminds me that I haven’t posted about the show. You might say, that for several days, Crablaw has played the role of my “electronic wife.”
Crablaw, we will look forward to your analysis of the program. Hopefully you draw the same conclusion as I did, that the Schaller-Dayhoff show actually furthered intelligent conversation about the current state of pre-election politics in Maryland.
WYPR billed it on their web site as: “We're less than two weeks away from the elections which means the political ads are getting nastier and the papers are endorsing candidates. Marc and his guests UMBC Professor Tom Schaller and Political writer Kevin Dayhoff will discuss the political campaigns and strategies of candidates running for office in Maryland.”
Oh – the music was great: Music break one: "National Seven" by Wizz Jones
Music break two: "Reminiscing at the Blue Note" by Earl Hines.
Although I have done radio before; (once for a very brief appearance on WBAL after “Who is Max Cleland?” and with Stu Kerr's radio talk show, "The Garden Club", on WCBM several times in 1989 and 1990 - - ages ago, in a previous life as a horticultural expert… I haven’t done it for awhile and was worried that I would be rusty. Oh yeah, I did plenty of radio and “stand-ups,” when I was mayor of Westminster…
Mark Steiner and Dr. Schaller - -and the production assistant, Marcus Charleston, made it easy…
To state the obvious, radio is very different from writing columns. With columns, you can write and re-write and re-write a sentence over and over again until it is (hopefully) just right. Not so with radio. Once it comes out of your mouth, that’s it. Bam!
Oh, Dr. Schaller has a book out – you can find it here: Dr. Tom Schaller’s Book, Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South on Amazon.com.
The Denver Post did a good question and answer on October 24th, 2006 about his book, in their series - - Washington and the West . It can be found here: Q&A: Author Tom Schaller on why Democrats should forget about the South
Like I said, Mark Steiner and Dr. Tom Schaller made the show easy. And I can’t wait to do it again.
Please enjoy the show.
Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA. E-mail him at: kdayhoff@carr.org www.thetentacle.com Westminster Eagle Opinion and Winchester Report www.thewestminstereagle.com www.kevindayhoff.com has moved to http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/
