Bill Walton held an AMA on Reddit, and it was predictably awesome

Troy Machir

Bill Walton held an AMA on Reddit, and it was predictably awesome image

Bil Walton's everyone's favorite hippie college basketball color commentator did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) On Reddit, and as tou can expect it was equal parts awesome and weird.

Here he is explaining what it is like to get milked, which he brought up during a broadcast late in the season. The explanation, and the exchange, is spectacular.

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Yes, Bill Walton typed "I love being hot and there is nothing in the world like being milked.

But that wasn't just it. Here he is debating who would win in a knife fight — himself or Abraham Lincoln. 

I'm all about peace and love. We were just with Ringo the other night and he reinforced my longstanding commitment and dedication to those ideals. I like to win and I play to win. Coach Wooden's 2 favorite people on Earth were Abraham Lincoln and Mother Teresa. I used to love the tales that Coach Wooden would tell of he and Young Abe growing up together in the Midwest.

Here's Walton talking about active volcanoes.

We were on tour with the Grateful Dead in Oregon. They were playing the show and they start playing Fire on the Mountain. The volcano next door, Mt. Helens, blows up. When the show was over a bunch of us raced to the airport and boarded a plane. We told people at the airport we were scientists studying atmospheric conditions and the effect of smoke and volcanic explosions on the human spirit, so the pilot was terrified, but we convinced him to fly right into the smoking crater with fire and lava everywhere. He wanted to go home but we were on a scientific mission and we kept getting closer and closer. As we were flying around inside the erupting volcano, the military jets scrambled from the local base and come up there to get us out of there. It was a real dogfight but we had the spirit of Cortez on our side. We eventually left and when we landed at the airport the pilot was most relieved as we quickly fled and went back to the rest of the tour.

Things got weird for sure, but that's how Bill Walton opperates, and we don't really want it any other way.

 

Troy Machir