Parenting, Hanging out with my children, Motor Racing, specifically Formula One Grand Prix, Journalism, Politics, Entertainment as producer and consumer, History, Philosophy, Visual Arts, Languages, Travel,
Napoleon. Alexander the Great, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Mozart, Michaelangelo, Frank Costello (Wartime Cosa Nostra Capo) Winston Churchill, Jim Clark, (Grand Prix Legend) Ghandi, Thomas Jefferson, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Peter the Great, Ghengis Kahn, Mao, General Douglas MacArthur, Nelson Rockefeller, Albert Speer, Stalin, Any of Spanish Conquistadors, King Tut, Solomon, Moses, Moshe Dayan, General Giap(North Viet Namese General) Walter Cronkite, Lyndon Johnson, Vladimir Putin, and many, many more. oh, and Oscar Wilde Spanish King Juan Carlos, Muhamud Ali, Houdini, Rasputin, Cleopatra, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Franklin Roosevelt, Karl Marx, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Einstein, Otto von Bismark, Charlemagne, Peter O'Toole, Lawrence Olivier, Shakespeare, Richard Burton, Marlon Brando,
Bob Marley, Cold Play, David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), Rolling Stones,Pink Floyd,Bob Dylan,The Who, Led Zepplin
On the Waterfront, Casa Blanca, Gone With the Wind, Forrest Gump, Streetcar Named Desire, Ryan's Daughter, The Longest Day, The Wizaed of Oz, Requiem For a Heavyweight, Scent of a Woman, Donnie Brasco, Devil's Advocate, Stars and Bars, Camelot, Dr. Zhivago, Shampoo, Bonnie and Clyde, Under the Volcano, Last Picture Show, Sideways, The Graduate, Tootsie, Gerry McGuire
Most of the Programming on PBS, Saturday Night Live (In Certain Years) Kaptain Kangaroo (Long Ago and Far Away) 60 Minutes
Catcher in The Rye, Never Eat Alone, Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, The Captains and The Kings, Tale of Two Cities
My Father, The Honorable Thomas J. Whelan, My uncle, Father William Whelan C.P.