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But after I was about four I didn't watch it anymore. My younger siblings had no interest in it.

Funny sort of half way related story...

Several years ago I lived in touristown and it was small, compact, workers lived in town and when the day was over, partying began. I was singing with a little combo one summer, we had a standing gig every weekend at a local bar so we did a lot of our rehearsing after work, out on the front porch where tourist would be walking by. Some would stop and listen sometimes.

Now my band mates were not young or pretty boys, we were kind of old and the lead musician, Jack, looked a lot like Captain Kangaroo with a ponytail and no teeth. The other just looked like somebody who slept in the woods at night except when at work or playing at the bar. We were acoustic and they were damn good pickers.

So one evening we were on the porch and had already had a drink and a hit or two, putting' down some righteous blues when a group of three guys, beyond their forties, stopped and caught most of a pretty good run through Stormy Monday. At the end they applauded and two started to wander off but the third guy comes up the little sidewalk and kind of taps Jack on the side of his arm with the back of his hand and says,

"Hey, did anybody every tell you that you like like Captain Kangaroo?"

To which Jack, in his uniquely snarky style, snapped back,

"I AM fuckin' Captain Kangaroo!"

Which stunned the guy, like he wasn't really sure if that was true. He made a less than relaxed and very confused exit to rejoin his buddies. After they were out of sight we laughed our asses off, we were not exactly sober so it was pretty funny to us.