"Shagging the stars," he echoed. "Well, I'm from California, so I can tell you that there was definitely a lot of that going on. Nudge nudge wink wink say no more." She got his best Michael Palin impression on that one. And of course he knew what she meant, he spent his formative high school years devouring VHS tapes of Flying Circus from the library.

"And yeah, demon umbrella. I don't even remember what fuckin' cartoon it was, but there were all these weird monsters and one of them made a whole squadron of umbrellas with devil horns that jumped up and down and breathed fire. They put some weird shit on kids' TV."