Prior to this podcast Keara and I were celebrating at the base club with many of her friends and co-workers because she was just selected to the rank of Master Sergeant (MSgt). MSgt is a big step in an enlisted member’s career and she is very deserving of being selected. In episode #3, I said that Keara will be my boss one day and I can say it with even more certainty now that her and I are the same rank. Episode #3 was one of my favorites because the entire time I was talking to a friend about stories and topics that we both enjoy. It’s been a month since our first podcast together and over the last few weeks she floated the idea of another podcast where her and I switch roles. I was immediately open to the idea and couldn’t say no when she wanted to do it the same evening as her MSgt release party. For the first time in any of my podcasts, we had a live audience of two people sitting in the same room as us watching my guest and I talk. Talking to Keara was just as fun this time for me as it was last time. I did much more talking on this podcast than any of my podcasts before this. Keara got me to realize that my favorite color is blue, my favorite animal is a dog, and that everybody knows I don’t like making plans… I really, really, don’t like making plans. She even had me build my perfect air traffic controller at the end which is a question I like to do with all of my air traffic control guests.
Keara, thanks for letting me feel what it’s like to be on the other side of my own podcast. You should start your own podcast when you get to England, you’d be good at it. Congrats on making MSgt and please invite me to your Chief Induction ceremony in six years.
