A few quick comments:

Peter is as good as it gets in doing straight-up interviews – it is his forte, and he is without peer in this.

You and Peter have something in common – both of you do not work well with digital technology. I think it might be best to do this on a straight POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) phone line – no SKYPE, nothing special.

It would be run over several nights – indeed, my choice for Peter has always been to do a lot of the material that does not require real-time operations to do them, and clean them up, and then upload them as mp3’s.

VOR has had problems with mp3’s until recently, putting them up at 96 and 128 kbs quality – these are BIG damn files, and they take forever to download over dial-up, which is all many of us have access to, or can afford.

I knock the first ten minutes of Peter’s latest works off – there is too much music getting in the way of the message. He, and all too many in the Racially Conscious Community who do podcasts – came along in a time when there were long musical intros, interludes and closings on live radio. This was because the radio networks needed time to get all of the ducks in a row in all of the stations along the line.

Frank Roman, of Western Voices, does the best musical intro – no more than fifteen seconds, and the podcasters are down to five seconds – just an identifying musical intro, and that’s it.

Done over several nights would have an advantage for the two of you – people could email in (or access the website/blogsites) with intelligent, thoughtful comments, that would make later broadcasts more productive. Again, the broadcast would not go out in real time, at least for the recorded part – answers could be dealt with in a second portion, where you would not be at the mercy of the technology.

You and Peter are smart – we need much more of a focus on Quality than we have seen historically in the nascent Racially Conscious Community.

Good luck!

–AFKAN NOW