CHRISTOPHER CROSS AND ARTHUR'S THEME

Christopher Cross was on the Howard Stern show. It was a good interview and for some reason, I got the idea of contacting him to do the show. For those of you who don't know, Christopher Cross had a debut album that won four Grammy Awards in 1981. Now that's a debut album. And to top it all off, he won an Academy Award for Arthur's Theme the very same year. Now that's an amazing year.

I contacted him thru his website and told him how much I enjoyed his interview with Howard and asked him if he would be interested in being interviewed for our podcast. I also promised him that, unlike Howard, we would not ask him anything about his sex life. We would only ask about his song. I mentioned that we were thinking of interviewing him about either Sailing or Arthur's theme. But probably it would be Arthur's theme.

I got a response that Christopher was interested in doing our show. He felt better doing the interview on Sailing rather than Arthur's Theme because Sailing was his song while Arthur's theme was a collaborative effort with Burt Bacharach and Carol Bayer Sager and Peter Allen. This was it. I was excited.

I replied that we were thrilled. We meaning me cause no one else knew except for my wife. I also said that we would much rather do the interview about Arthur's Theme because it is a much better story. We could ask him what it was like working with Burt Bacharach and about them winning the Academy Award. We could also ask him about the movie.

Well let me just say, I didn't hear from them again. I was bummed. Bummed because, well you know, we were in. It wasn't set in stone, but we got a yes. And then we were out. Just like that. I was bummed because doing an interview with Christopher Cross would be like having a date with a high school cheerleader. Once the word gets out that you went out with a cheerleader, forget about it. So once people found out we interviewed Christopher Cross, a Grammy Award AND Academy Award winner, once again, forget about it. Not many people can say they've won both. Perhaps the thing that might be even more prestigious than winning those awards nowadays, is being a guest on American Idol. Unfortunately, I think that's how it works now.

I'm not bummed that we didn't do the interview anymore. In fact I'm glad we didn't . We were just not ready for the likes of Christopher Cross. As I found out on the Jeremy interview. We were actually going to do Christopher's podcast before the Jeremy podcast. But as things turned out, we did Jeremy right away.

What happened on Jeremy is that I did not hit the record button when they started doing the interview. I realized this halfway into the interview and asked them once they were done if they wouldn't mind redoing the first half of the interview.

Fortunately they were good sports about it. I'm just glad this didn't happen with Christopher Cross. Imagine having to ask him to do the interview again? I would've asked him but it wouldve been a real drag. For all of us.

I think we will be ready for anyone, and that includes Christopher, in about five more podcasts. We're still learning as we go along and I truly am looking forward to it.

The thing that I am also looking forward to is that once girls know you've been with a cheerleader, they're going to be into you. And so once we do interviews with the caliber of a Christopher Cross, people are going to come out of the woodwork and want to be interviewed by us. This would make my job a lot easier. I can see Kanye West texting me and bugging me that he wants to do an interview with us. Just like that Charles Barkley commercial where Charles keeps calling Dwyane Wade. It'll happen. Just watch.