Ric Forman on IDTT podcast

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Comrade Levi interviews Ric Forman on Episode 184 (that's a passel o' episodes!).

A lot of good stuff, a few questions I wish I'd been able to ask (Levi, you need the live show with the dialin or the emails down the road), but I was particularly taken by the last few minutes, during which RF describes developing an interest in chemistry by blowing things up as a kid.

Reminds me of a little tyke I once knew.
 
Pretty open lines of communication if you are curious about something. I can shoot Ric an email.

To be honest there are interviews where I am full of questions and interviews where I am just sort of taken with where the person is going and want to unspool that as far as possible. The Forman interview was one of the latter.
 
Far be it from me to trespass on successful technique purchased with long experience and success.

I have a personal itch to understand a whole bunch of issues around rootstock, plantation density, clonal selection, cultural preference to ripeness, irrigation, and how we end up with the wines that we do (or don't) from CA.

RF is a guy with unusually long perspective, and he is also partners in vineyards with one of the guys who has most driven those changes. So his perspective would be extremely well informed.

It's more a meta-question, not really one about the wines themselves. Context for our times. Probably I am in a small minority of your listeners, and it would bore the rest of them to dig in.

Some podcasts do a supplemental thing where they have extra material that is not the right thing for the main event, but you can go check it out.

I'm sure some of your guests have limited time to spare you, as well.

Anyhow, if I could tie Ric Forman to a chair and put him to the questions, those are the extra ones I would ask, in addition to the very reasonable ones you did in your podcast.

Also, I would want to compare recipes on what explosive mixtures he was making as a kid, but that is also clearly just me.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Far be it from me to trespass on successful technique purchased with long experience and success.

I have a personal itch to understand a whole bunch of issues around rootstock, plantation density, clonal selection, cultural preference to ripeness, irrigation, and how we end up with the wines that we do (or don't) from CA.

RF is a guy with unusually long perspective, and he is also partners in vineyards with one of the guys who has most driven those changes. So his perspective would be extremely well informed.

It's more a meta-question, not really one about the wines themselves. Context for our times. Probably I am in a small minority of your listeners, and it would bore the rest of them to dig in.

Some podcasts do a supplemental thing where they have extra material that is not the right thing for the main event, but you can go check it out.

I'm sure some of your guests have limited time to spare you, as well.

Anyhow, if I could tie Ric Forman to a chair and put him to the questions, those are the extra ones I would ask, in addition to the very reasonable ones you did in your podcast.

Also, I would want to compare recipes on what explosive mixtures he was making as a kid, but that is also clearly just me.
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I think you should send him an email and ask. He was pretty open with me, I felt. I also feel like most of this was touched on in the interview, although clearly not to the depth that you were hoping for. I would just point out that in the world of the 5 minute interview, the conversation as released is nearly an hour. Anyway, happy to help with an email intro.

In terms of supplements to the podcast, it is unlikely that the time to do that will ever materialize under the current model of financing.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:

Some podcasts do a supplemental thing where they have extra material that is not the right thing for the main event, but you can go check it out.
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Do you mean podcast recordings which sit on an individual web/blog page, as if they were an article, with the usual section of interactive comments appended, to which the guest of honor might be induced to reply once or twice?
I've hooked into one of those for football occasionally, and it works extremely well.
 
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originally posted by SFJoe:

Some podcasts do a supplemental thing where they have extra material that is not the right thing for the main event, but you can go check it out.
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Do you mean podcast recordings which sit on an individual web/blog page, as if they were an article, with the usual section of interactive comments appended, to which the guest of honor might be induced to reply once or twice?
I've hooked into one of those for football occasionally, and it works extremely well.
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That is one version. There are others which are often radio shows--they stick tightly to a 47 or 48 minute format for the show, then keep the mike on and yack for a while after.

Yours sounds interesting.

I'll have to catch Ric at dinner at the Kesslers' sometime.
 
It would always be interesting to find out what kind of audio gear the winemakers use. It seems like they often have some pretty cool setups.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Pretty open lines of communication if you are curious about something. I can shoot Ric an email.

To be honest there are interviews where I am full of questions and interviews where I am just sort of taken with where the person is going and want to unspool that as far as possible. The Forman interview was one of the latter.
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And then there was your interview with David Schildknecht where you asked one question and he spoke for at least 1/2 hour without taking a breath. Only David could get so wound up - really enjoyed it.
 
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