# A reporter for "Entertainment Weekly" called me!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reporter-for-entertainment-weekly-called-me/79044>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reporter-for-entertainment-weekly-called-me/79044 "2001-08-31T00:51:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reporter-for-entertainment-weekly-called-me/79044/1 "2001-08-31T00:51:09Z")

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I’m the tech support geek for a satellite phone company and I got a call today from a reporter at _ **Entertainment Weekly** _! It seems they’re doing a story called “What We Learned From Summer Blockbusters” and had some questions about satellite phones. Naturally, the first thing I told her is that they won’t work inside a dinosaur. (For those of you who haven’t seen JP III a dino eats a guy with a sat phone and then everybody can tell when the dino’s about because they can hear the phone ringing.) Anyways, she had some general questions about how the things work, and I filled her in on everything. She took my name, so I don’t know if it’ll appear in the story or not. Be too cool if it did.

(Hey, ya wanted “mundane,” ya wanted “pointless” ya got it!)

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**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reporter-for-entertainment-weekly-called-me/79044/2 "2001-08-31T01:02:04Z")

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Well shoot, **Tuckerfan** , I opened this thread because I got all excited that someone was doing an expose film on your mysterious neighbors!

But it’s cool that you were interviewed about phones, too. 😉

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**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reporter-for-entertainment-weekly-called-me/79044/3 "2001-08-31T04:22:55Z")

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Cool!

Let us know if it appears.

[sup]Gee, and I got all excited about getting interviewed by the LOCAL paper a few years ago. Shoulda aimed higher…[/sup]

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**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reporter-for-entertainment-weekly-called-me/79044/4 "2001-08-31T13:33:30Z")

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How cool! I have a subscription to EW, so I will make sure to look in the next few issues for the article.