Welcome to another edition of "In the Spotlight".
Welcome once again Hulkamaniacs fans, basketball enthusiasts, and all you lonely nerdy web surfing types with no girlfriend and nothing better to do. Roving reporter Preston Prince here, with another foray into the Hulkamaniacs psyche.
This week I chewed the cud with another thoroughbred in the Hulkamaniac stable, Phil S.
PP: Oh dear lord, please don't let him see me…
PS: Hey Preston is that you?
PP: …Why if it isn't Phil S! So good to see you. Fancy seeing you here
at the hospital…
PS: Say, I'll probably be a little tied up in the next couple of weeks.
Did you want to do that little interviewy thing now?
PP: Sure. Why not. Love to. Urrrm, hang on a second… OK all set. What
is your radio station of choice?
PS: I can't say I am a fan of the radio in general, but Star FM if I do.
PP: Well if nothing else, it's always handy to know the price of sausages
per kilo at the local IGA.
PP: Do you have a favourite play/offensive move on the basketball court?
PS: I don't really have any favourites, but freeing someone up to give
them the pass and easy shot is always rewarding.
PP: I can imagine. I always seem to be on the end of jobs that the
other Hulkamaniacs staff pass on, and they seem pretty happy about it too!
PP: Do you have any pets. If so what are their names?
PS: We have a Love Bird named Syd. So named after the Alias character
Sydney Bristo.
PP: Mmmm I like watching her too… the show I mean. Yes - the show.
PP: Speaking of shows, does the term "Summer Bay" mean anything to
you?
PS: The location of Home and Away?? Hmmm
PP: I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on that one. If you had
of replied "hold me in your arms, don't let me go, I want to stay forever,
closer each day…" I would have had to clock you.
PS: Gee, what a relief.
PP: In the sport of ten pin bowling, a perfect game is a score of 300.
How would you describe the "perfect game" for you on the basketball court?
PS: The perfect game for me is not an individual game, but a team game.
Even if I played well it would not be the perfect game without a good solid
team game. For my personal game I grade myself on a few areas. How hard I
played the game, did I go for it every time or did I get lazy. Did I read
the game well, block players out of the key, intercept and steal the ball
get in the right place for a good pass. And finally did I play as a team member
and enhance my team members games.
PP: Man, this is just like looking into a mirror. I've always enjoyed
rating myself as well.
PP: Can you confirm rumours that you have already ruled out naming
your unborn child "Hotdogs"?
PS: I can now, as he is already born! His name is William S.
PP: Nice work. That would also explain why I was lucky enough to run
into you here then?
PS: Sure would.
PP: I remember copping some pretty ordinary stuff myself, but what
did you get in your lunchbox as a kid at school?
PS: I never had time for lunch. I was too busy playing soccer, basketball
or whatever was on the go for that time. I recall at one stage my Mum getting
the teachers to make me eat lunch, I think they were sandwiches.
PP: Yeah, it's always messy when mums take stuff into their own hands.
PP: How many times will the Hulkamaniacs playing group agree to having
a get-together/party before they actually have one?
PS: My guess is that we will have one every year when we all turn 60 and
want to brag about the good old days.
PP: Yeah I can just imagine you guys all standing around a BBQ with
a few sherberts… "Hey remember the time Preston interviewed us?"…"Yeah if
only we knew he'd go on to become famous, eventually winning that Pullitzer
for his ground-breaking book 'Slippery Hands & Hot Sands - Massage Secrets
of the Scandinavian Pro Volleyball Circuit'"
PS: Yeah… something like that.
PP: If you were a movie director, what kind of films would you make
and why?
PS: A happy, fun loving movie. There is enough sad stuff going on in the
world without adding to it.
PP: Word.
PP: You had a very serious knee injury a few years back. How long did
it take for you to regain your "basketball mojo" and did you ever consider
giving up the game?
PS: I have played with the Hulks since we first started which must be
around 4 years. It has not been until last season that I have started to feel
confident on my knee and haven't felt like it will collapse every week. It
has taken time to build up the strength and I now know what exercise I need
to keep up to ensure good strong muscles around the knee. I never seriously
considered giving up the game, although I did have to step back a few times.
I figured I didn't have an operation to sit back and do nothing. The most
disappointing part is letting down the team.
PP: What an attitude ladies and gentlemen. I think we've just got the
next headline for the Hulkamaniacs news… "Hulkamaniacs player cares about
rest of team". Never thought I'd see the day when that happened.
PP: If you had to rate the "In The Spotlight" segment on the Hulkamaniac
website, would you say it was:
(a) Extremely Funny;
(b) Well Researched;
(c) Full of Interesting Information; and
(d) All of The Above.
PS: … D.
PP: Hey thanks man, that means a lot you know. Especially seeing what
a tough critic you are when rating performances. Remind me to get you a free
"Preston says no to drugs" T-shirt when I get back to the office.
PP: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck
wood?
PS: … D.
PP: To be honest that's probably as good an answer as I could have
expected.
PP: What do you think you will be doing in 10 years time, and where
will you be doing it?
PS: Still playing basketball, probably teaching my kid/s how to play.
PP: Awww, that's beautiful. Just don't go showing them any of the Hulkamaniacs
game tapes and they should be fine. By the way if you want to teach them some
journalistic skills I'd be happy to let you borrow some of my more memorable
interview transcripts.
PS: Thanks. Probably not, but I'll keep it in mind.
PP: Well I guess they may be a bit advanced for beginners, but the
offer's there anyway.
PS: So tell me Preston, you don't look so great, what brings you up to
the hospital?
PP: Oh, um, nothing really. Minor cleaning accident. You know how it
goes.
PS: Really. You have a vacuum cleaner attached to your groin and your
nipples are covered in chocolate topping and sprinkles?
PP: … I was um… vacuuming the uh… pantry…
PS: I guess you slipped then?
PP: (mumble) Yes. Yes I did. What's that? Sorry, I think they're calling
me. Must be off. Great to see you. Take care. Bye now.
PS: No worries Preston. Good luck with the… er… extraction!
That's it for another week folks.
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