1. - We had a console RADIO on which I listened to The Lone Ranger, Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, The Shadow, etc.
2. - When we got a TV, we watched Ernie Kovacs' morning show (out of Philadelphia) and I became a member of EEFMS - Early Eyeball Fraternal & Marching Society.
3. - Contrary to popular ...

There's a tidal wave of nonsense out there, and "standing on the beach and screaming at it, as it approaches" it probably not advisable.
Sellers/businesses/service people - particularly, these days - are at the mercy of that tidal wave.


I don't want to be anywhere near or have anything to do ...

If you fabricate about that, you'll fabricate about anything.

I have - not often - been called an "expert", usually in something obscure. When that happened, I always recalled the tongue-in-cheek etymology of the term. It is from the Latin "ex" - out of, "spurt" - a little drip under pressure.