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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.

1. If someone called you and said “Turn on the TV, it doesn’t matter what channel.” What would you expect has happened?

He has died – he is finally dead. No names are necessary.

2. You get to domesticate an animal the same way we turned wolves into dogs. What animal do you pick and how does it turn out?

I recently watched a documentary on bonobos and I would really enjoy have a domesticated trained bonobo as a pet to carry around with me.

3. Who is widely regarded as a hero, but was actually a terrible person?

John Wayne

4. For those who didn’t grow up privileged, what’s something you thought was a luxury when you were a kid?

Electric windows in a car. Growing up it was all manual window cranks, all the time.

5. What did you lose between 2020 – 2025?

About 50 pounds. Thank you science and GLP-1s.

1. What is your favorite Bill Murray movie?

Stripes. “Army training, sir!!!”

2. Who is your favorite director?

Well as we are in the scope of conversation, Wes Anderson.

3. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?

“Saturday Night Fever”

Honorable Mention:

“Masked and Anonymous” Starring Bob Dylan and a great set of Dylan cover tunes – seriously go seek it out.

4. What do you consider a perfect movie?

Tough to winnow this down. Candidates, “Lawrence of Arabia”(so visually stunning), “The Sting” (visually stunning, great soundtrack and a great surprise ending.) and “Casablanca”

I am going with Casablanca as it was a very seat of the pants production with the screenplay being written on the fly and pages handed to the actors and directors seconds before each scene was to be filmed.

5. What is a popular movie that you just don’t understand its popularity?

Most horror movies. I don’t find getting scared and jumping out of my seat to be entertaining. I am in the minority, I am sure.

1. Did the house where you grew up have a newspaper delivered regularly?

Yep. Local paper and the Denver papers. I also had paper routes and would deliver them in the mornings and the afternoons as a boy.

2. Have you ever subscribed to an actual print newspaper?

Yep. I worked at several newspapers as a reporter and also subscribed to them.

3. When was the most recent time you physically picked up and read a newspaper?

It was about three months ago while in Fruita visiting Jim and he gets the local paper and perused it.

4. Do you pay for news online now?

Yes. Probably paying too much but I think it is important to get news from vetted news sources and not rely solely on a social media feed.

5. Do you have any saved newspaper clippings?

I have a clip file of some of my news stories I wrote. I also have the front page plate from the last day I worked at the daily newspaper in my home town.