Last Thursday at about 4:45pm, I got an email in my inbox from Ryan @ Swim Drink Fish saying that there was an opportunity for a brief interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with regards to NXNE and his involvement with Swim Drink Fish as Waterkeeper Alliance President. Swim Drink Fish is a new cross-Canada music project for charity benefiting Canadian Waterkeeper organizations, whom many notable musicians have contributed too, offering exclusive downloads, etc. Artists include Gord Downie, Attack in Black, Neko Case, Arkells, and Sarah Harmer too name a few. If you are interested, you can sign up here and read more about it here.
The time for the interview was 5:30pm sharp for 5 minutes. After some email’s back and forth with Ryan, it’s now about 5pm.
Now, normally Alan would do this interview…however he was in the middle of teaching a class @ Metal Works. Next I started frantically texting Strombo (I produce his Sunday radio show as well) but George was busy with The Hour @ CBC. Now it’s about 5:15pm, I don’t have a host, nor a studio, so I ran downstairs to the Q107 offices. Thankfully program director Blair, and swing announcer Australian Alex came to my aid. They hooked me up with a studio and got the ball rolling. With zero prep time, I picked up the phone and called a member of perhaps one of the most iconic families in history. Here’s how it went.