Remember how I told you that Hannah told us to watch this TV series called The Kindness Diaries on Netflix?

And how we did and then I told you guys about it?

Right after starting the series, I saw a flyer and a Facebook post saying that the chap in the show – Leon Logothetis – was coming to my town!

What?

I did a tiny bit of asking and next thing I know, I’ve got a phone interview scheduled with Leon himself so that I can promote his upcoming appearance in our town on the Travelers Rest Here website!

The phone call was scheduled for central time and I was suddenly forgetting what I know about time zones and feeling frantic that I would miss the phone call.  (I notoriously miss ALL THE PHONE CALLS, even the ones in my own time zone.)

Mosely loaned me her digital recorder – isn’t that funny? – and I set myself up for success by sending the boys to play outside and the rest of the kids under strict direction to be pretty quiet while I had Leon on speaker phone.  (My kitchen table set up is uber professional, as you can envision.)

Before I knew it, I felt as if I was talking to my television set because Leon’s English accent was loud and clear in my dining room.

He was super kind and polite on the phone, easy to interview and fun to chat with.

In a mere thirty minutes or less, my list of questions was competed and our phone conversation ended.

After I made certain we were disconnected, I jumped up from the table and maybe shouted or clapped – some enthusiastic natural response that I couldn’t control.

London popped in from the other room, grinning.  “Hey Mom,” she said.  “I’m glad that you reigned in whatever you’re doing right now while you were on the phone with him.”

Uber professional – am I right?

At any rate, that was my fun job last week – to interview Leon Logothetis.

And you can read the interview right here.

You’ll note that I left out my enthusiastic after response.

 

 

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