I had the opportunity to ask fellow Babeler Jason Morgan some serious questions and some fun questions. I met Jason in college as I was a friend of Greg Molyneux and would travel to TCNJ for weekend parties. So brace yourself for you are about to go on a quest to fully understand who this guru of finance really is . . .

Gregory Rineberg (GR): Where did you grow up?

Jason Morgan (JM): Marlton, NJ.  Hindsight is always 20/20, and looking back it was a pretty good place to spend my youth.

GR: Did you play any sports and if so what did you play?

JM: The list is long, but sadly undistinguished.  I started (and should have continued) wrestling at seven, I believe, and was actually really good at it.  My attention span couldn’t handle the wrestling matches with 3 hours of sitting and 10 minutes of wrestling at that tender of an age (or now, for that matter - oh how my patience has grown in leaps and bounds).  I played a few seasons of soccer in the eight to tenish age, tried my incredibly too white hand at basketball for a season, then moved onto football for two years in high school and track for two as well.  Mostly uneventful, I wasn’t ever that good at any of them because I had this thing about being forced to run.  It didn’t sit well with me, and thus, my downfall is obvious in all of the sports I was playing.

GR: What kind of a job do you currently have?

JM: I am fortunate to have a position that affords me the opportunity to dabble in several areas of corporate finance and accounting.  I currently am a project leader for several major Accounts Payable best practice implementations, providing support to acquisition accounting by managing the accounting integration process, and also performing various ad hoc financial information analysis for upper management.  Maybe sounds dry or whatever, but I am fairly happy with it at the moment.

GR: If you could do it all over again, what career direction would you choose?

JM: I plead the Fifth.

GR: What’s your favorite video game of all time?

JM: This is a tough one, no doubt.  Off the bat, I want to say Ninja Gaiden for the XBox.  Upon reflection, I find myself reminiscing about how engrossing both Metroid Prime for the Game Cube and Assassin’s Creed for XBox 360 were.

GR: What NFL team pisses you off like no other?

JM: Dallas Cowboys

GR: If you were stranded on an island and could only bring 3 items with you, what would they be?  Explain.

JM: (1) Tarp - Can be used for obtaining fresh water and shelter among other things (2) Knife - multi purpose tool (3) Rope - “You and your fookin’ rope” Boondock Saints says it all.

GR: What is the best vacation that you have ever been on?

JM: Cancun or Alaska.  Different but both awesome.

GR: If you won $1,000,000,000, what would you do with your winnings?

JM: Pay off all of my family’s and friends’ debt.  Invest enough to live off the interest, and build a spaceship.

GR: Who is your favorite celebrity and why?

JM: Barack Obama because John McCain told me so.

GR: Basketball or hockey?

JM: Squash

GR: If you could have any animal as a trained pet, what would it be?

JM: Orca - they can kick so many other marine animals’ asses its not even funny.  Together we would cruise around the ocean, f*%kin’ sh*t up.

GR: If you had the opportunity to sit down over coffee and have a conversation with anyone in the world past or present, who would it be and why?

JM: Jesus, of course.  I want to know what he was really getting at and what he thinks of all the mayhem humanity has caused in his name.

GR: What exactly was going through your mind when your motorcycle caught fire?

JM: “Run”  I was terrified the gas tank was about to explode and my face was too close to it for me to be comfortable with the situation.

GR: Sour Patch Kids or Snickers Ice Cream Bar?

JM: Yes

GR: What was your favorite cartoon growing up?

JM: Transformers, without doubt.  Runners up would be He-Man, GI Joe, and Thundercats.

GR: If you had 3 wishes, what would they be?

JM: (1) infinite wishes (2) the fortitude and wisdom to understand everything (3) to be a good man

GR: You are getting married in May of ‘09.  What’s her name and how did you two meet?

JM: Claire is my future wife and we met in college.  Hi ho.

GR: Apple or PC?

JM: Apple, even though I am writing this on a PC . . . .shhh maybe it won’t notice.

GR: If you could be any superhero, who would you be?

JM: Myself, obviously.

GR: Why do they call you Captain Morgan?

JM: Ah yes, the Captain.  Well, somewhere in my younger years I developed a penchant for the potent potable, Captain Morgan’s Spiced Puerto Rican Rum.  Combine that with the same last name, and you pretty much have it right there.  Additionally, for some reason it just seemed to be an appropriate nickname for someone who is allegedly not that nick-nameable.

And there you have it folks.  I hope you enjoyed this interview.