Of special interest to Ohio-type readers: I’m scheduled to do an interview tomorrow, Monday the 18th with Jim Scott of WLW AM in Cincinnati. I’m scheduled to call in at 9:50 am, which looks like it’s after the regular show hours, and thus probably a taped interview. It says LIVE in the schedule I was sent by my publicist, though, so I’m not quite sure.
Anyway, if you’re in the right area to pick this up, you might want to tune in to hear what I sound like on the radio. It looks like they have interviews archived on the web site, so I’ll be spending a little time tonight listening to a few, because I have no idea what to expect. This is an entirely new experience for me.
Suggestions of things to be sure to say/ not say are welcome. The only things I know about Cincinnati are that their big rivalry is with Cleveland, and a friend in college used to assert that “The best [noun] IN the world… is in Cincinnati,” for any and all values of “[noun].” Oh, yeah, and they put cinnamon in chili.
Back in the stone age (*cough*70’s*cough*), when I listened to WLW, they had a running gag about “the big furry hairy thing that lived under the Hopple Street exit”. Perhaps you could teach physics to it.
Cinnamon and unsweetened chocolate. Not being a native, I don’t eat it. I do like the goetta, though. (It’s basically haggis, but made from pigs instead of sheep.)
Mention Graeter’s Ice Cream. Every time a visitor comes into town and mentions Graeter’s, it gets in the Enquirer. I swear they’ve got a template for the paper titled, “Person Not From Here Enjoys Graeter’s.” Actually, I don’t eat Graeter’s, either, but I’m not big into sweets.
I don’t know about any big rivalry with Cleveland, except that stupid Clevelanders won’t shut up about how “great” Cleveland is. That’s not rivalry, that’s just rude.
Cornhole parties are very popular here, and it’s not what you think.
Unfortunately, I’m going to be inside a big office building so full of electronics that radio and microwaves can’t penetrate it. But I’ll check it out on the web.
Boris Podolsky, the “P” of the famous EPR Paradox paper, worked at Xavier University in Cincinnati for awhile. For a small university that only graduates a handful of physics majors per year, it’s our one brush with big-time physics. He also organized a small conference on quantum mechanics that took place at Xavier, whose attendees included Dirac.