Mixing It Up with Pablito

Jay Michaels
4 min readDec 15, 2022

Indiana Jones started it all.

Remember the Indiana Jones film series? Of course, you do. BUT do you remember what Indiana Jones did for a living?

He was a university professor art university.

That was probably the first time we saw someone who was a superstar at a regular job. It started a trend that became the life’s blood of reality TV and so much more.

We have seen 9-to-5 workers sing their hearts out and enter stardom on programs like The Voice and American Idol; we watched fashion designers rocket to…

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Jay Michaels

Prof. Jay Michaels lectures on communications & media culture nationwide. He is executive director of Channel I — an indie theater & film network of programs.