I have to tell you about a funny little moment during today’s Morning Show. I spent the first half of the program talking with Helen Pugh and Rick Fere from the local chapter of the Hoy Audubon Society; they are bird watchers extraordinaire who really know their stuff and speak about it with such whole-hearted enthusiasm.
As usual, Helen brought with her some compact disks of birdsongs for me to play during the course of the interview- the black-capped chickadee, the red-bellied woodpecker, the trumpeter swan, the tundra swan, and a couple of cranes. I think it was as the chickadee song was playing that we all saw the funniest sight out in the hallway- a man walking into President Albrecht’s office across the hall from the studio, who suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked above his head at the ceiling with this quizzical look on his face. He stepped into the office, only to ricochet back into the hallway when another birdsong began. After that, he whipped out his cell phone and appeared to be calling security or maintenance or someone to take care of the bird that had somehow blundered into the building. But fortunately, he seemed to figure it out shortly after that.
Which just goes to show you – anyone who neglects to listen to the morning show or at the very least consult the guest schedule on a weekly basis is destined for humiliation untold. Just ask the clueless guy who thought a chickadee had gotten into the building.
(Just my luck, the guy in question – the guy I just insulted – is probably the guy who signs the checks around here.)
pictured: this is the view from the master control room, looking out at the hallway.