It's a small BlogWorld after all

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on October 17th, 2009

We’re in the common area of the South Hall of the Vegas Convention Center… free wireless… And about fifteen feet to our left, Kevin Pollak is setting up something for Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show. Pollak himself has just finished stalking the exhibition floor.

It’s a live streaming video talkshow seen every Sunday at 5PM PST. Tomorrow’s guest is Paul F. Tompkins. Other guests have included Seth MacFarlane, Lisa Loeb and Kevin Nealon.

Pollak delivers the keynote speech tonight here at BlogWorld. The Male Half approached him briefly and reminded him that they had taped an episode of Comedy Tonight about a quarter-century ago. He tells us that he’s enjoying himself and that these are “a fine group of people.”

We also ran into another figure from our past– The Chief Content Officer of RedLasso (“a unique on-line broadcast media center, with patent pending technology that allows users to search, clip, and instantly post and share licensed national and local, television and radio content to news focused web sites”) is Gil Edwards. We knew Edwards via our brief association with Philadelphia’s WYSP– we were the creative team for The John DeBella Show on that outlet and Edwards was employed there in a variety of positions. On our first night in town, while attending a bash at The Bank at the Bellagio, a pair of Redlasso’s representatives, Dave Eitel (aka “Monkeyboy”… if we got the last name wrong, we know for a fact that Monkeyboy is correct!) and Chris Cantz, recognized us. Turns out we met them at the infamous, WYSP-sponsored Opie & Anthony concert at the Tweeter Center back in September 2006. (When we spotted the ‘YSP contingent that night, we poked our heads in the room to catch up on who was the latest person to be canned, who’d moved on and who had moved up– anyone who has worked at a radio station knows that they’re somewhat like a soap opera… and the plot is convoluted and the characters rarely change. One gets hooked!)

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