Milwaukee Midget

[tauruck]

Only autograph I have is Al Teague's.  Don't think I need any more.

I want one too along with a Burkland.

[fordboy628]

Recently had a great sit-sown with out local NPR affiliate station, WUWM, 89.7 FM.

Mitch Teich, the host, was originally from Iowa and went to school not 10 miles away from where I grew up, so we had a lot in common. 

It must have been a pretty good offer to move to Wisconsin - he was the news director for Arizona Public Radio when he took this job!

If you want to hear it, it's available at this link.

http://wuwm.com/post/tuesday-lake-effect-northwestern-mutual-odonnell-park-attracting-tech-start-ups

The interview starts at 36:18.

Nice job on the interview!!

Cropper is one of my faves, BUT,  Don "Duck" Dunn is on my all time top 10 list of bass players, may he RIP.

It was McCartney's bass lead lines in "Day Tripper" and the "Duck's" "Memphis Bass" sound that led me to my 4 string stint in one of Chicago's cover/garage bands of the 60's/70's . . . . .

Ahhh, lost youth . . . . . .        Youth is "wasted" on the young . . . . . . .


"Inmylife"boy

[Graham in Aus]

Enjoyed listening to that Chris, interesting to hear more about your car influenced background, it all makes sense now!

Good media coverage for LSR too!

Thanks for sharing !

[Milwaukee Midget]

Thanks, Graham.  It was fun doing it. 

What was nice - at least looking back at it - is that the interview was intended for a general audience, rather than an auto enthusiast or racing audience.  Talking on the Racing Roundup show last year, there was an expectation of a basic knowledge of the event on the part of the audience.  Same thing at the New England MG T Register talk two years ago.

But I wasn't preaching to the converted this time.  Mitch Teich knows his audience, and he took me in a direction I really hadn't made any mental preparation for.  It kind of took me off guard at first.  When it comes to LSR, I'm used to talking about the engine specs and the build - but I'm not really used to talking about myself or my motivations "out of class".

I get myopic, and I didn't realize there was actually a human interest story there.  Mitch patched that together.  

And I'm going to give Mitch huge props in the editing of the interview.  There was easily 10 minutes of miscues and off topic ramblings that were judiciously left on the cutting room floor.

In the end, I'm glad it came across well.

They recently parsed out my section of the hour-long program, so here's a direct link to the interview -

http://wuwm.com/post/milwaukee-man-s-unique-place-fast-car-record-books

[Elmo Rodge]

Yeah. I thought it did a good job of playing to a "regular" audience. Not the easiest thing to do.  Wayno

[salt27]

Well done Chris.   

[Milwaukee Midget]

And to further the media frenzy - this just arrived in the post today.

It will be about a month before it ends up on US and Australian newsstands, but the Poms got salt in their stockings for Christmas . . .





Part 2 will be in the February issue.

[manta22]

Chris, you are rapidly becoming Beerhaven's most prominent citizen! 

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[RidgeRunner]

    Keys to the breweries next?   

                       Ed

[Milwaukee Midget]

Chris, you are rapidly becoming Beerhaven's most prominent citizen! 

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

I'll believe THAT when my D-list celebrity status gets me a reserved parking spot at the bowling ally.

It's a low bar around here . . .  

[Stainless1]

Chris, you did a fine job of representing LSR to the masses.  It is good to show that regular folks (crazy as we all must be) participate in this type of racing and the dreams of setting a landspeed record on the salt flats by a 9 year old can be realized.  It worked for me. 
Congratulations again on taking that record, it started out looking like you would be a great windmill jouster but ended with horsepower overcoming crappy aero... what a story.   
Looks like MG mag ran the right story next to yours... $90,000 MG...

[Milwaukee Midget]

   
Looks like MG mag ran the right story next to yours... $90,000 MG...

Bob . . . guess again.

That's British pounds. 

Try $140,000.00 USD at current exchange rates.

[Stainless1]

Yea I knew that... but I couldn't find the British # sign on my keyboard 

When you are deep in the money pit guys like us just keep digging 

[Milwaukee Midget]

Merry Christmas, all.

Pouring back a few of these today.  Henry, the spokesfox for my favorite ale.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQcPTsDG5bg&feature=youtu.be

[Kiwi Paul]

GOOD GRAVY!! Looked in on the Video and was startled to see Basil Brush as the Spokesfox.....Took me back to my childhood, it did. All you English and Commonwealth fellas know what err who I mean...Chris...You should Google Basil and you`ll see what I mean.....Talk about recycling.....