So yesterday I did an interview with Mario Bosquez, Naomi Gabay-Schwab and Clomping Chris in Napa about the Napa Valley Mustard Festival. This was a mistake. Every time I talk to Mario I get wound up. Thank goodness the interview was early in the day. I use the word “interview” loosely because I think I spent more time talking over Mario and telling him what I thought we should talk about than actually answering his questions. This involved me telling him all of the different ways you could have a wine party and why and how and I’m not sure if Mario needed to take a commercial break but forget it. No chance of that. Then we get on the whole subject of bees.
In December I was on Mario’s show and we got off on a tangent about avocado cotton candy. This has kept me up at night ever since. (We solved the issue on Friday, thanks for asking.) Then, freakin’ Mario has to start talking about bees. How bees are like his favorite thing, he got to see Thomas Keller’s bees the other day, Martha has bees, I was wearing a bee necklace. Mario got to hang out with Thomas Keller’s bees (different than just seeing them) and then I get upset. Why don’t I get to see Thomas Keller’s bees? Why can’t Mario and I do an entire show on bees? Why didn’t they sting Mario – he wasn’t in a beekeeping suit? They would’ve stung me for sure. So here we go, another round of sleepless nights while I figure out the “secret life of bees” and why Texas-bred Mario and I share such strange and similar fascinations.
Thanks for the new tangent Mario. If I get none of my work done this week, I’ll tell my clients to call you and complain.
Toodles for now and xo to Mario and the crew; clearly, I had a ball.
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