A record of Live TV Appearance- We Survived!

This morning we rushed home from our big morning show interview on CBS6 and ran to our DVR to watch our little segment. The good news: we did not have any spit bubble incidents or crying and running off stage occurrences. In fact we managed to string together a few coherent sentences. Victory is ours!

We were fairly nervous when we learned that we were the quite first interview of the show, but in hindsight it likely helped that we were not the last because the suspense would have built for another hour while we sat on our hands. It was pleasant to drop in, get mic’ed up, do the interview and find ourselves back in the car on the way home within an hour’s time! And the crew and hosts were fantastically pleasant, which truly helped to put us at ease. In fact the whole atmosphere was suuuper laid back. We honestly thought there would be someone screaming “quiet on the set” and all these intense countdowns to taping but it was more like you blink your eyes and you are on air and then you blink again and it is all over. Thank goodness for that! Check it out below on Vimeo or see it here on YouTube.

Sure they said our old web address in the interview (although the subtitle got it right!) and brought in an extra N to our last name (“Petersnik” made us titter for about half an hour when we got home and noticed it) but we are overjoyed that we lived to tell the tale of our stint on live TV! There is simply something unexpectedly scary about the pressure to get things right in the first take (we are especially aware of this now that we are making weekly videos which frequently require about five takes for us to make any sense at all). But we did it! And Burger even looked sideways at the TV screen when we played it back for him. Is it possible he’ll listen to us more now that we have TV cred?

And as a bonus, it was totally lively to see the weather girl point to a bunch of random spots on a green screen (and then watch it back at home to see that her seemingly random motions made total sense). How does she know where things are when it is a giant green backdrop? We are in awe of the magic that is on-air weather.

Anyway, we hope you folks enjoyed our little clip! Questions? Comments? Experiences on TV? Wardrobe critiques? Share and share alike!