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WDEF News 12

4/23/2015

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After a show in Atlanta the night before, Becky and I drove the two hours back to Tennessee. We then checked into a hotel in Chatanooga where our heads hit the pillow at 12:30 am just to rise again four short hours later. We had a television interview for WDEF News 12 at 6:15. I have to admit we were both less than excited about the prospect of being on TV. Yes we’re public speakers now, but TV adds a whole new dynamic. And getting up at 4:30 in the morning is the last thing we wanted to do. 

Earlier that week we had a conference call with our publicist (we have a publicist, how crazy is that?!) going over the media brief for our television segment. The point of this meeting was to clarify what we would be speaking about during the 90 second to 3 minute interview. Before this meeting I felt completely confident. I had pictured the interview going smoothly, we’ll say hi explain who we are, explain what the Get Out More Tour is, then thank them for having us and invite everyone at home to come to our show that evening. Bada Bing, Bada Boom! Easy enough right? Wrong. This media brief had broken down our entire presentation into 3 minutes, in which we were suppose to describe specific gear, clothing, give backpacking advice and even touch on leave no trace responsible hiking. They have to be crazy! There is no way all this can be crammed into a 3 minute spot. It would be challenging enough to cover one of these topics in a 3 minute interview let alone all of them. 
So Becky and I prepared as best we could in the days preceding the interview. We had an idea of what we would individually talk about and in the order that the media brief specified. 

Arriving at the studio in the early morning hours we arranged our gear up on the sound stage and waited for our moment in the spot light. Our publicist had promised us the interview would not be live. It was most definitely live. Right before the cameras were about to roll Becky looked at me and said, “I can’t be sure what will come out of my mouth, so I’ll have to heavily depend on you”. Then when the camera started she immediately stole all my lines! The whole interview only lasted a brief four minutes. And in the end it was more like what I expected, we described what the tour was and who we were including our backpacking history. We touched on a couple of the backpacking essentials including specific gear and invited everyone to join us at our show tonight.

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