Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Originally Posted by smurgerburger View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Cute question.

Dude, I was a journalism major for two years before switching to English (Writing Option) under Robert Gannon at Penn State. I've had photos, stories, and op-eds published in multiple real-world newspapers. At one time, I actually knew my way around a darkroom. I learned under this guy:

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archi...data/244837270

If one has a choice between in person interviews and phone interviews, and cost/time is not an objection, one should always do the in-person. I'm sorry if the obviousness of that evades you.

Among the many other obvious things that evade me is why the distance between Tennessee and Las Vegas is not sufficient to count as matter of time or cost, especially considering that this interview would not be conducted to make a profit in the first place.
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.