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Re: [Palindrome] This American Life alert
Several of us will be on-site setting up by 10 am, so she could conceivably do it there. We'll probably be more laid back during set up than during the hunt. And that way people won't have to choose between the interview & the setup process.
On 1/10/07, David Dickerson <wordboydave gmail com> wrote:
Quick Update: Alex can't make it, so they're sending Lisa Pollak---who is an actual Pulitzer winner! She's interviewing me tomorrow. It's all very exciting.
Which leads me to my next question: is there a quiet place a number of us could meet before the Hunt? Lisa would like to have a series of brief pre-Hunt interviews with as many team members as she can, and doesn't want to interrupt us for long periods of time once the Hunt is actually on. But I don't know Boston or MIT and couldn't suggest any rooms. She was thinking about 10 am on Friday. Is this doable? Any suggestions?
I told her that if this doesn't work, there are enough down times in the Hunt to justify taking some of us aside for interviews. If this is true (I'm assuming it is), then a pre-Hunt meetup might not be essential. But it would be nice if we could do it.
--Dave
On 1/9/07, David Dickerson <
wordboydave gmail com> wrote:
About a week ago, I got a looking-for-themes e-mail from NPR's This American Life (I'm on their list; long story) and it mentioned that they were interested in doing a show about Quiz Shows. I wrote back and suggested that the Ultimate Quiz Show was probably the MIT Mystery Hunt.
Long story short: they're interested. So they'll be there at the hunt. And since I pitched the story---and mentioned that our team was sort of friendly and not viciously competitive---they'll probably be coming around to interview a few of us. The producer is a woman named Julie Snyder, and the actual reporter/interviewer would be a guy named Alex Bloomberg (or Blumburg, or whatever; I haven't seen his name in print and forgot to ask). They'll presumably be running all over the place covering various aspects of the Hunt, so for all I know we might not see them at all. But if you get a call or meet them, that's why.
David/Quiz
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