1978 – Betamax vs. VHS is in full swing. Pa places his chips on the former. This is promptly verified as unwise.

Early 1980s – Flux and financial disarray. As his company transitions to VHS, Pa is fiscally compelled to relocate to a lesser domicile.

Late 1980s/Early 1990s – Yours truly secures a senior position at KetMax Tapes through sheer dedication and donkeywork and if you think nepotism constituted any slice of that pie, you don’t know nothing about nothing.

2002 – Pa expires. I ascend.

2003/2004 – The market suggests VHS is on the brink of obsolescence. I shirk these bodements and double-down on analogue. I am man enough to own the fallout, but I ascribe at least 80% of the responsibility to cocaine.

2005 – KetMax Tapes is dissolved. I “go on the dole” – ugly in language  ...