I need to vent. I’ve head a couple of very frustrating events take place over the past couple days, one of which has for the first time led to a let down in motivation on the blog.
Frustrated Part I:
I got an email last week from Troy Brown’s handlers saying that they love GMG and they would like for us to run a contest through the blog to help promote Troy’s Gloucester appearances this past weekend.
Immediately I went into blog mode asking if I could get some promotional swag to give to the readers and also asked if I could do an exclusive interview with Troy for the first ever official audio podcast of GMG. Everyone agreed on the terms and I started doing Troy Brown research so I wouldn’t sound like an idiot during the interview. I developed about 10 questions with follow up questions in the event he answered the questions one way or another. When I got the call that the interview was going to happen I called Mike Lindberg and he put together an incredible intro for the podcast which we’ll debut later. I waited for a call to know when Troy would be calling in, had all the audio equipment set and was ready to rock.
All day I was nervous as hell because if he called while we were unloading boats there was no way I could leave the floor of the dock to do the interview so it was much to my delight that we had finished up all our work and I got the call at just about the perfect time.
I had pretty high expectations for the interview as I was well prepared and was excited about the fun and different questions I had lined up as opposed to the normal questions he must have to answer all day every day like -” Do you miss football”
He called and the interview went fantastic. He was laughing, I was laughing and we had a great time. 12.5 minutes of podcast gold……or so I thought.
I hung up and got Mike Lindberg right away on Skype as Mike was going to produce the podcast and get it out before the eight o’clock deadline to be included in the email blast to the subscribers.
We had an exclusive on Thursday, days before Troy was going to be in Gloucester and it was the perfect guest for the first podcast.
So I looked in the folder where the audio file was supposed to be located containing the interview and it wasn’t there. I spent 15 more minutes searching every folder on my hard drive to no avail.
It didn’t record. There was no way I could have done the interview again and capture that spontaneity and fun. Not to mention the embarrassment of my mistake.
It took me apart and I’ve been in a funk since. I missed it and I’m sorry guys.
Good Morning Gloucester 