Questions For Redietz on PFA Radio

[redietz]

Druff lives in the Los Angeles area and that's where his radio station is, probably in his house. Vegas won't play a roll.

I have no issue flying to an interview. It would have to fit my schedule, of course. And there would be other obvious, standard requirements. The person conducting the interview would have to at least familiarized themselves with some material, such as "Tipsters or Gypsters?" and Playbook's Wise Guys Contest. In addition, I would expect an interviewer to have at least read my op-ed addressing PSU President Graham Spanier's attempt to ban college sports betting from Las Vegas, my essay in The Humanist ("Scientists, Gamblers, and Magicians: Allies Against the Irrational"), and the paper I presented ("The Gambling Personality: An Interactional Approach") at the National Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking. Since none of these are more than a 15-minute read, I think it would be easy to do so. I believe mickey crimm already posted the Spanier op-ed and the conference paper on this site some years ago.

My email (Integritysports@aol.com) is a matter of record. Any interview requests should be submitted there. And, finally, my book club co-host is currently mulling an interview request, so until that decision is made (six weeks, maybe), I would not do an interview overlapping the subjects my co-host would want to cover. Since my co-host has a semi-formal invitation already, I would defer to my co-host regarding subjects covered.

So the people that want you to just make a phone call are the anonymous cowards, while the person making elaborate booking demands for an interview that nobody seriously cares about is the champion of candor.

LOL. So the guy who'll blow a couple thousand flying cross-country for a (possibly) adversarial interview is making "elaborate booking demands" because he expects someone conducting an interview to spend two to three hours reading material, some of which is already posted on this site? And I might also expect him to make a couple of phone calls to verify background information.

Yeah, I'll say I'm the champion of candor. I've conducted interviews. A couple of hours prepping is nothing.

My friend, Tony Cavender, is a professional ethnographer. He conducts interviews all the time. For decades, he taught students how to conduct interviews. This is simple, basic stuff.

Smurger, when did you last conduct an interview? Seriously, when? Is this another example of an "AP" deciding he's an expert, this time regarding proper protocol for conducting an interview?

Just another classic example of someone having no idea what they're talking about, but loving to opine.

P.S. In case anyone is wondering, Professor Cavender (with whom I had lunch last Friday), has many professional interviews both on tape and published. https://archives.etsu.edu/agents/people/249