Life in the Public Eye
So I told Wendy I recorded her last night and naturally, she told me not to use the tape. Which I can understand. I tried to explain to her that I was only using one segment where I asked her a specific question, but she told me to dead it. And I did. I knew it was going to be a problem cuz I know my best friend. So, the tape is getting erased and now I'm gonna tell Ricardo. The point being, what I posted previously about my friends running the risk of being recorded, that can be disregarded.
I thought about it, and I can totally feel her on that, cuz I'm paranoid about people recording or listening in on my conversations as well. But since I've decided that I want to be in radio, it hasn't bothered me so much. I figure when I talk about people, I do it to their faces anyway, so being broadcast to an entire city shouldn't be a problem. I don't know, I just feel like I have nothing to hide. My friends put it best, I'm an open book to what I want to be an open book about. And, just because it suits me, doesn't mean it suits everyone else.
But a question remains. These are people who are in my innermost circle of friendship and will, from time to time, end up either on my show or as part of my material. So now I'm guessing I need to learn how to balance my personal life and my professional? But being a radio host means drawing from your personal experiences to relate and ask questions of your audience during your show. It's like the blog here. I sometimes talk about things going on in the news, things happening at work but it's mostly my life and things that occur day to day. Granted, it's not EVERYTHING, I DO know how to keep some things to myself, but more often than not, this is the space I use to dump a lot of the things cluttering my brain.
Well, I don't want people to avoid me for fear they'll end up in my blog or a bit on my show, so I guess I'll just have to be as up front with my friends and family as I usually am. If it happens, I don't want to have to give a disclaimer before every conversation I have or every email I send, that's stupid. Damn, good thing I don't have a reality show (which I totally missed the boat on, by the way). I'm already beginning to abhor life in the public eye...
I thought about it, and I can totally feel her on that, cuz I'm paranoid about people recording or listening in on my conversations as well. But since I've decided that I want to be in radio, it hasn't bothered me so much. I figure when I talk about people, I do it to their faces anyway, so being broadcast to an entire city shouldn't be a problem. I don't know, I just feel like I have nothing to hide. My friends put it best, I'm an open book to what I want to be an open book about. And, just because it suits me, doesn't mean it suits everyone else.
But a question remains. These are people who are in my innermost circle of friendship and will, from time to time, end up either on my show or as part of my material. So now I'm guessing I need to learn how to balance my personal life and my professional? But being a radio host means drawing from your personal experiences to relate and ask questions of your audience during your show. It's like the blog here. I sometimes talk about things going on in the news, things happening at work but it's mostly my life and things that occur day to day. Granted, it's not EVERYTHING, I DO know how to keep some things to myself, but more often than not, this is the space I use to dump a lot of the things cluttering my brain.
Well, I don't want people to avoid me for fear they'll end up in my blog or a bit on my show, so I guess I'll just have to be as up front with my friends and family as I usually am. If it happens, I don't want to have to give a disclaimer before every conversation I have or every email I send, that's stupid. Damn, good thing I don't have a reality show (which I totally missed the boat on, by the way). I'm already beginning to abhor life in the public eye...
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