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1. If you could play one video game again for the first time, what would it be?

The stand up, arcade version of Atari’s Tempest. In my day, as a 17 year old, man ! That game was the bomb. i was so good at that. I have a version on my console emulator but it is so no the same.

2. What’s one product or service you’ve paid for (one-time purchase OR monthly/yearly subscription) that legitimately changed your life for the better that you believe more people should know about?

YouTube Premium. 13.00 or so a month but all of those damned annoying commercials are gone and the content is watchable.

3. What are TV shows or a series that you have the entire DVD set for?

Hogan’s Heroes, the Dick Van Dyke Show, Steve Martin and Mel Brooks “TV stuff” appearances.

4. Which historical event would look the most insane if we had 4K camera footage of it today?

The Lincoln assassination.

5. What will someday be illegal after we finally understand how bad for us it is?

Vaping tobacco. Very few published studies have been done yet we know that even vaping tobacco is dangerous – see mouth/jaw cancer in relation to those you chew tobacco.

Random Grab from Reddit:

1. What do you think is the greatest mystery of any sitcom?

What indeed are the facts of life?

2. What company would you be most shocked to find out was shutting down tomorrow?

Wal-mart

3. What law doesn’t exist yet in the U.S. that would help millions of people immediately?

Universal health care/Medicare for all

4. Should there be another World War, which Country would be the safest to
relocate to and why?

Uraguay. Ocean, beach, rain forest, jungle, legalized weed, universal health care.
Spoken English is quite common.

5. What first episode of a show had you absolutely hooked?

“Lost” in fact the first four or five episodes were absolutely captivating.

1. What’s the scariest thing about living in 2025?

There is a God-Damned maniac in the White House with his finger on the trigger of nuclear weapons and he is now musing about reinstituting testing nukes in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. What could go wrong?

2. If you could teleport anywhere right now, where would you go?

Well, the question doesn’t ask for just one jump – so I would pick the ability to always live at 72° outside, all the time.

3. Every animal on Earth suddenly gains human-level intelligence but keeps its personality. What’s the first species to start a war?

The Great Apes. I mean you’ve seen the movies, correct? They are pissed and we are doomed.

4. What’s something that’s about to happen which most people aren’t aware of?

There is this huge financial bubble about ready to burst from crypto funding huge AI start ups that have no real business profit applications and as the economics starts to float into focus the rest of the economy, based on very shaky Trump-ism econ, we are doomed.

5. What was your favorite show growing up that no one remembers now?

A Saturday morning non-animated show about post-apocalyptic Earth called Ark 2. (Runner up “Kings” ran a partial one season on NBC about a fictional future when the USA deteriorated into Kingdoms and the soap opera fights for power.)

1. If you won a large lottery and the rules stated that you had to give 10% to a recognized charity, who would you pick?

The World Wildlife Fund – save the elephants !

2. If you heard the news that “a well-known celebrity has been outed as a serial killer”, who would you immediately think it was?

Crispin Glover

3. What’s the scariest sound you’ve heard that’s woken you up in the middle of the night?

One Halloween season my sister had this really spookie ASMR ringtone on her phone of a woman asking me if I was there and what is going on and if I was scared. It went off one night, around 1:00 am and scared the Bejezuus out of me.

4. What do you remember from kindergarten?

The smell of wet brown craft paper and white glue.

5. What closed restaurant do you miss the most?

Prima in the Hotel Teatro. Really only went there for brunch but it was divine. Bottomless Prosecco and a sublime stuffed ravioli with soft boiled eggs (how did he do that!?)with a brown butter sauce and truffles. An exquisite Caesar salad. I do so miss that place.