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Quick Fire Questions: This Week Indycast's Ed Dolista.

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Its time for our regular feature - Quick Fire Questions.  The IndyCast is the world's most popular Indiana Jones podcast hosted and produced by Ed Dolista and Ed is answering our questions this week.

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Gordons Alive?
1 You're stuck in a swamp on Dagobah. What one movie, TV show, album and book would you take? 
Flash Gordon - I'm sure I could get some pointers from his time on Arboria to figure out an escape. I'm sure there was a Hawkmen rocket cycle behind Yoda's house....

2 If you could invite any three people (alive or not, fictitious or not) to a dinner party, who would they be? 
Walt Disney, George Lucas and Jim Henson


3 What is your favourite John Williams soundtrack? 
Three way tie - Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Star Wars and Superman the Movie

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4 If you were invisible for a day what would be the first thing you would do?
Convince my co-workers the staff room was haunted

5 When was the last time you cried?
At a funeral

6 What is your biggest fear? 
Losing my sense of humour

7 What was the most embarrassing moment of your life? 
Grabbing a pregnant woman because I thought she was a card display - long story!

8 Excluding search engines, what three website would you choose if no other websites were available?
gonintendo.com, ebay.com and thehollywoodreporter.com

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9 Do you have any guilty pleasures? 
The Love Boat!

10 What are you looking forward to the most in the next six months? 
Some Indy 5 news....

11 What is your most treasured possession?
 My mint on card Kenner Indiana Jones from 1982

12 What is your biggest regret? Luckily 
no big regrets....everything has happened for a reason!

13 what are you most proud of? 
Recent sell out season of The 39 Steps and our podcast hitting the 5 year milestone.

14 What is your favourite Spielberg movie?
Too tough to call but definitely The Indy quadrilogy and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

15 Where can people keep in touch or follow you?
theindycast.com or our facebook page at facebook.com/theindycast


Thanks to Ed for answering out questions.  Mistaking a pregnant woman for a cardboard cut out?  Glad it wasn't me.  Make sure you check out The Indycast podcast.  THE BEST Indiana Jones podcast.

Anyway next week the questions are being fired at Chris "HothIcePlanet" Smith from the Sarlacc Pit podcast, official podcast of GalacticBinder.com and author of the best Star Wars trivia book "Trivia From A Galaxy Far, Far Away.  Star Wars: Original Trilogy Edition."

Rob Wainfur
@welshslider

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