Five Questions with Mr. Sam Abrams

1. What would your last meal be?

“18 oz prime rib from the Peddler’s steakhouse, side salad from Joe’s ice cream parlor, Red Eye pizza from Hog and Hominy, fried egg and bologna sandwich, Peach cobbler milkshake from The Cookout.”

2. What’s your earliest childhood memory?

“Watching NASCAR with my grandfather. He’d always put a hat with flowers on it on me when we were watching NASCAR.”

3. What would your rapper name be?

“Big Red. That’s what I was called in high school.”

4. What’s the funniest response you have gotten on a test before?

“It’s a toss up. One was when this girl was answering a question about carbon dating and she said, “they dated these isotopes back to four billion years ago… yeah so the earth is like hella old.” Another was when the question was “What is the hippocampus?” and he wrote, “I don’t know, so I’m going to make it up. The hippocampus is a college campus for hippos.””

5. If you had to listen to one song on repeat for the rest of your life, what would it be?

“”The Muse” by The Wood Brothers.”