After meeting a friend-of-a-friend at a birthday party over the weekend, I ended up getting pressed into service for a story on NPR’s [Day to Day](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4704709).
Reporter Mike Pesca wanted to talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s challenges converting his action-movie persona into a consensus-building governor, and wanted to talk to a screenwriter about it. So I happily made with the quotes.
Here’s what I learned. Somehow, the experience of talking into a microphone makes constructing a coherent thought 300% more difficult. I sat down ready to talk about things like California’s abysmal [Proposition 13](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978)), and found myself speaking non-words like “governenceship.” Bah. Fortunately, the snippets that made it in to the report are at least English.
You can hear the results [here](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4704709).
(For the record, I’m pretty neutral on Schwarzenegger. He’s honestly been a lot better than I was expecting, but that’s sort of damning with faint praise.)