With the evolution of ubiquitous media, we also experience role models remote from the flesh. We become inspired by actors and athletes and preachers and politicians. We can also become misled by them, just as we were as kids. Remember, way back then, coming out of the movie theater and walking like the guy you just saw up on the screen, experiencing the world like the guy. Sitting in the theater, you’d absorbed him a bit. You were James Dean or Kirk Douglas. You were the character the actor was playing. You were yourself. This absorption was artificial but so what. You grew from it.
Transmission problems. Did Geezer and a Half make it thru to you?