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Thank you Alex!!! I just saw the Sesame clip of shapes around Oscar’s garbage can. Rectangles up the wazoo. This is a good slice of what my Sesame days were like. A few years after this, that old trunk would be gone and replaced by that big wooden crate. Joe Raposo’s score was groovy. And that...

No, the orange on the counter that picks up kitchen objects, card eyes, a walnut nose, rubber band mouth, a mop head for hair, and bottle cap earrings. Then the lights dim, and she sings “Habanera” from Bizet’s opera Carmen. So I’m told Kermit Love did the animation. Very smooth, but man...

Not too many people remember in the 70s, just about everything was polyester. This fabric derived from petroleum. It was uncomfortable, it didn’t breathe like cotton, but it was popular because it didn’t wrinkle.

This is as good a place as any to bring this up. Climate change. I’m not a climate denier, but I’m certainly not an alarmist either. First off, the climate is ALWAYS changing. Has been for millions of years. The global temperature may raise by a degree over the next hundred years, but contrary...

Snowthy, you’ll appreciate this. Before they paired up in The Odd Couple, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau starred in “The Fortune Cookie”. Lemmon was a mild-mannered tv cameraman who gets tackled covering a football game. Matthau was a money-grubbing lawyer hoping to turn the injury into a...

Getting back to vegans for a minute. Milk is an animal by-product, but the cow isn’t slaughtered to get the milk. Personally I don’t drink cow’s milk anymore. I’ve grown to like almond and coconut milk. But I still eat a lot of cheese, so I guess I’m still subject to vegan contempt. Do vegans...

Did you suffer from COVID, or the isolation from it?

Back in the early days of Sesame, there was a ton of stuff that gave me nightmares. Some haunted me for years. The top 3 nightmare-fueled moments: Carmen the singing orange V cartoon- Venus, Volcano, Vampire, etc. Nobody counting to 10. In spite of this, I still watched every day.

My generation that grew up with the 70s version were devout followers. In 1999, when a special ran (also to introduce Noggin and the Sesame Unpaved episodes) I was all in. Noggin fizzled out after a while, but people my age were stoked all this good old stuff was out there. Maybe in twenty or...

The Electric Company was good in its time. Teaching kids to read is always a noble goal. The cast had talent to burn. Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno, and a pre- Flashdance Irene Cara. None of the others, although less famous, were slouches. There was quite a shift in visuals from the...

Well, Thomas was to you what Sesame and the Electric Company were to me.

The only thing that kind of got under my skin, way back when, a few of the ToughPigs acted like “We’re bigger fans than you, we met more Sesame/Muppet people than you, we’re cooler than you can ever hope to be”. Doesn’t bother me. I’ve been fortunate to meet a good number of Sesame people over...

I only saw Thomas a few times, once or twice each with Ringo or George. The character that stood out to me more was Schemer. He seemed like a scuzzy dirtbag hustler. Probably had a second job selling used cars.

Both.

How do you compare Ringo’s version of Mr. Conductor to George Carlin?

I had it once, I think it’s pretty decent. They also make chickpea pasta, which isn’t bad either. By the way, chickpeas and garbanzo beans are the exact same thing.

For those of you too young to know, Dusty Hill was the bass player for ZZ Top. They were a Texas bar band since 1970. In 1983 with their Eliminator album, MTV made them a household name. Dusty and guitarist Billy Gibbons had beards down to their waists. “Legs”, “Sharp Dressed Man”, “Tush” “Rough...

Well, as a kid you have no way of knowing that. Some creators/producers have a good show, but then they jump the shark or run it completely into the ground. I mentioned somewhere else, John Cleese avoided that with Fawlty Towers. He only created two seasons, six episodes each, twelve episodes...

Well, yes. Restaurant kitchens will always be hot. You will be required to lift fifty pounds. When I helped my boss putting away sides of beef or large shipments of fish, it will give your back a workout. But I’ll tell you this much. To reach high places, you’re not supposed to stand on crates...

How long were you at Texas Roadhouse? I know working in a restaurant is not for everybody. It’s hot, dirty, and you’re always on your feet. But sometimes you need to give a job some time before you jump ship. The one downside to quitting, you can’t collect unemployment.