# Man interviews his 12 year old self
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 6, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399 "2012-07-06T06:10:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/1 "2012-07-06T06:10:41Z")
[Jeremiah McDonald’s conversation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFGAQrEUaeU) with his 12 year old self, 20 years later (YouTube link). Good for a giggle on a Friday afternoon perhaps?
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### Author:  [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/2 "2012-07-06T06:58:30Z")
I just saw this. It’s pretty great. The 12 year old kid does a much better job of holding a one sided interview and not just making it a monologue than I would have at 12.
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### Author:  [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/3 "2012-07-06T07:09:15Z")
I enjoyed that. Thanks
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### Author:  [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2012, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/4 "2012-07-06T07:46:07Z")
How awesome! Some of the reactions are clearly not planned 20 years in advance (the Internet?), so kudos to the kid for thinking of “blank” responses and to the adult for editing them in so cleverly.
“Do you still like Dr. Who?” - “…No.”
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### Author:  [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/5 "2012-07-06T17:51:22Z")
What proves this isn’t a hoax?
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/6 "2012-07-06T19:10:50Z")
> [@heathen\_earthling](#):
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> What proves this isn’t a hoax?
Well, the photo montage at the beginning pretty convincingly shows the younger Jeremiah’s face ageing into the present Jeremiah’s face.
So what else might be hoaxy about it?
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/7 "2012-07-06T19:14:30Z")
That was fantastic.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/8 "2012-07-07T03:45:57Z")
Seconded. Thanks! Just sent a link to a bunch o’ friends.
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### Author:  [@Yask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yask)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/9 "2012-07-07T04:02:45Z")
> [@Bricker](#):
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> Well, the photo montage at the beginning pretty convincingly shows the younger Jeremiah’s face ageing into the present Jeremiah’s face.
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> So what else might be hoaxy about it?
Look closely. Flux capacitor was clearly on the fritz.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/10 "2012-07-07T04:16:09Z")
> [@Bricker](#):
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> Well, the photo montage at the beginning pretty convincingly shows the younger Jeremiah’s face ageing into the present Jeremiah’s face.
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> So what else might be hoaxy about it?
The photo montage showed me that he’s a kid that always loved being in front of a camera so it wasn’t a stretch to think that a 12 years old kid might have thought this up. Even if it did turn out to be a hoax, it’s not like it carries any journalistic or historical weight. It’s just a youtube video.
I liked that he thought of doing some generic answers, knowing that future him would be able to edit them into whatever questions he wanted to ask himself. Also, I’m guessing he probably also had 20 minutes worth of footage and could pretty easily grab random words.
The toy on the floor was a nice touch.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/11 "2012-07-07T06:01:07Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#):
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> “Do you still like Dr. Who?” - “…No.”
Even the “Don’t Blink” joke was remarkably prescient, as the whole premise of that episode almost matches what he did. And it’s not many Americans who would’ve liked _Doctor Who_ in 1992.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/12 "2012-07-07T14:49:26Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Even the “Don’t Blink” joke was remarkably prescient, as the whole premise of that episode almost matches what he did. And it’s not many Americans who would’ve liked _Doctor Who_ in 1992.
Except for the ones who watched it on PBS every weekend.
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### Author:  [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/13 "2012-07-07T15:42:23Z")
That was cool!
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### Author:  [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/14 "2012-07-07T17:34:30Z")
Brilliant! Thanks.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/15 "2012-07-08T00:32:58Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> Except for the ones who watched it on PBS every weekend.
I am assuming that was not a very large number of people.
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### Author:  [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/16 "2012-07-08T00:55:47Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> I am assuming that was not a very large number of people.
Enough that I can remember Dr Who paraphernalia available in Michigan back in the 80s. They had conventions, too, and a promotional tour in 1986. Seemed like the damn thing was on PBS constantly for a while and PBS was 2 out of the 8 channels I could watch as a kid. Obviously, Dr Who wasn’t wildly popular in the US like Star Wars was, but I’d guess the number of Americans who liked it in the late 80s and early 90s was in the millions.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-interviews-his-12-year-old-self/627399/17 "2012-07-08T02:33:54Z")
Did anyone else go to his website? You can ask him to draw something and he’ll post it (and mail it to you if you want). I really want to ask for a drawing, but I’m drawing (ha!) a blank.
> **[Tell Me To Draw Something](https://tellmetodrawsomething.tumblr.com/)**