National Public Radio special correspondent/legend Susan Stamberg’s interview with me about my Men’s Vogue freight dogs story airs tomorrow, Saturday March 29, on “Weekend Edition.”

The segment includes righteous field audio from my fiasco piloting the DC-8 simulator in Miami and will air about 20-25 minutes into the second hour—exactly when varies by city and time zone. Make it easy on yourself and just listen to the whole damned show; or listen to it anytime on NPR’s website after it airs.

And be sure to visit mensvogue.com to read the story online, right now.

It’s kinda cool the way the segment was put together when Susan is in Washington and I’m in L.A.

They parked me in a soundproof booth at NPR’s Culver City studios in front of an awesome Neumann U87 Ai microphone, above, and slapped some headphones on me; Susan was hooked up to a similar rig in D.C., and away we went. The sound quality was astonishing, like we were sitting in the same room, not 3,000 miles apart.

There’s a big analog clockface (on the computer monitor) that ticks relentlessly while you talk. Before they established the hookup between coasts somebody in Washington kept asking over my headphones, “L.A., are you there?”

Very Cold War, but good Cold War. Or something.

And, yeah, I need to get out of the atelier more.

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