“Three minutes, maybe,” my wife added. “It’s too long! You want to put your audience into a mass coma?”
“Maybe a good long sleep is positive,” I replied. “After all, we might have the Orange Leader for not just four, but eight, possibly 12 more wretched years.” (Although Vance may turn red waiting in the wings.)
… What am I talking about? The best of my audio clips, that’s what! I have decided to rebuke her usual sage advice and may live to regret it.
On many occasions I have been invited as a media “expert” to speak about graphic design, typography, political satire, baseball caps and other tidbits of popular culture on radio, podcasts and TV. A number of years ago, I was asked by Design Observer to speak at a symposium called “What Design Sounds Like.” Although I have a violent aversion to many sounds (including garbage trucks, sirens, Fox’s right-wing rhetoric, crows, loud sneezes, gargling and RFK Jr.’s raspy gurgle), I gladly accepted.
I decided to try out an idea that would either be radical, egotistical or radically egotistical—otherwise an iffy-or-very-pointless topic: I would narrate myself answering questions on selected radio, podcast and TV shows where I was a guest. The premise being, I’d provide expert advice on what and what not to do if you’re ever asked to be an “expert” in media.
So, given the possibly foolhardy hope that my wife is wrong, click right here for few things to know about “How to Be an Expert Witness.” You, dear reader, have the freedom of choice to turn it off (or, better yet, scroll through, periodically cherry picking the “good” parts or pausing for quiet air).
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