RIP Phil Donahue - you gave me the building blocks for an inquisitive life

Back in the late 80s/early 90s when I was a kid, one of the ways I made sense of the world was through watching a lot of daytime TV. As a weird 10 year-old I wouldn’t be playing with Voltron action figures (though, I did do quite a bit of that), but instead I’d be glued to Channel 10 in the mid-afternoon watching shows like Donahue.

Donahue, hosted by th…