This year we had a couple different PR companies offer to help us spread the word about Child’s Play. They get us interviews on radio stations and in newspapers all over the country. Since Tycho is generally much better at that sort of thing it became his job to take all these interview requests. He’s been doing one or two of these a day practically for nearly a month and so I figured I should step up and take the next one. The next one as it turns out was with a Seattle radio station 100.7 the BUZZ on the BJ Shea show.
Apparently the place that set this up for us made the interview for noon but then forgot to call us until a few minutes after 12:00. So they called us and said someone needed to call the BJ Shea show right away which I happily did. A guy picked up the phone and I said, “Hi, my name’s Mike and I’m with the Child’s Play charity. I understand someone there wanted to talk with us on the air about what we’re doing this year.” Then this is what the guy says to me “NO! You wanted to talk to us! And you’re twelve minutes late!” I could see that things were not off to a good start. I apologized and told him that someone on my end dropped the ball. I said I understand if it’s too late to do the interview but I was just told to call and I didn’t realize it had been scheduled for noon. He told me that the host was super pissed off and he wanted to know why I was calling so late. I really didn’t know what to tell him besides what I’d already said. I explained again that someone on my end must have screwed up and I said I’d find out who it was and speak with them. It was apparently too late to do the interview so I hung up and figured that was the end of it.
Later in the afternoon Tycho got a call from a friend of his who happens to listen to the BJ Shea show. Apparently BJ talked for 45 minutes about video game playing bums who are too lazy to get off their asses and do what they’re supposed to do. He even made it the topic for the call in portion of his show.
So I just want to say to Mr. Shea that last night about two hundred video game playing bums got off their lazy asses and raised $17,000 for the Children’s Hospital, and they did it in the space of three hours. In other words, we really don’t need to take any shit from some guy who was too ugly to get on TV.
-Gabe out
