Not on the Daily Show next week

July 23, 2010 3:16 pm

This is funny. This afternoon, I recorded an interview with Jeff Gillan of In Business Las Vegas, so tune into KSNV-3 tonight if you want to see it. We talk about the NFL allowing Las Vegas ads during regular season games.

When I got back to the office, I had an email from a recent student asking if I was really going to be on the Daily Show next week. I checked the website, and lo and behold, there’s my picture on the front page:
Not me on the daily show

You’ll notice that I’m incorrectly identified as Robert O’Connell, author of Ghosts of Cannae, a book that I reviewed last week right on this very site.

I don’t know exactly how this happened, since I don’t look anything like the various Robert O’Connells that a quick Google Images search turns up. But, curiously enough, a search for “ghosts of cannae” turns up a bunch of stuff from the die is cast (just scroll down to page 4). This includes, for whatever reason, my picture.

So to answer the question before you asked, no, I’m not going to be on the Daily Show next week. But it’s quite possible that my picture will. Or won’t.

Now, if they want to have me on after the Sarno book is done, that’s another story.

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3 Thoughts on “Not on the Daily Show next week”

  1. KenP on July 23, 2010 at 4:13 pm said:

    Set your timer to 15 minutes. :)

  2. WestVegas on July 23, 2010 at 7:54 pm said:

    That is too funny. Maybe you can show up be interviewed anyway. Your former student had a good eye to spot that.

    Internet searches has an odd way of arranging results. There’s a Vegas cab driver who wrote a book called (something like) ‘Mystic Tales of Vegas Cab Driving’. Oddly enough, my name gets mish-mashed into the search-result, making it appear like I wrote that book.

    I’d imagine there could be an entire book written about the foibles of Internet searches and their wrong results.

    Anyway. I’m looking forward to seeing you on the Daily Show and the whole talk show circuit. Don’t let Stephen Colbert try to make a monkey out of you. He’s an expert at doing that and it takes a very well-balanced and self-assured person to ‘hold-up’ to his brilliant style of ribbing.

    :>)

  3. WestVegas on July 23, 2010 at 8:06 pm said:

    Side Note: Channel 3′s website seems to post ‘In Business’ items on Sunday. Maybe I’ll be able to view that segment then.