• Some of the Guv's earliest memories are of making sales calls with his father to sell eggs to grocery stores in California. (Yeah, and Lincoln split rails.)

• His first job in Washington was delivering the Washington Star newspaper when dad worked in the Nixon administration. (Nixon! That's creepy.)

• Huntsman played keyboards in a couple of bands in high school (and still does when no one's looking).

• In his senior year of high school, Huntsman essentially dropped out. He entered the University of Utah that summer and proved himself academically. (He also grew a beard and changed his name to Don Vliet, so his daddy's bucks would not give him an unfair advantage.*)

• Huntsman went on a mission to Taiwan where he learned Mandarin Chinese so he could order from street food vendors, "The closer to the street the better." He still has hideous intestinal parasites.

• Huntsman is fan of rock music (Captain Beefheart is a fav, apparently to make up for that Nixon thing), motorcycles, mountain biking, wiping out and screwing up his shoulder. He also likes to get elected to higher office.

• He enjoys "dinking," a term he coined for taking his kids to eat at greasy-spoon diners to test their intestinal fortitude. More parasites.

• His wife Mary Kaye is a babe.

• Though he does not drink himself, Huntsman has been a champion of liberalizing Utah's drinking laws, which makes non-Mormons very suspicious of his motives, but they forget about it after a few of the new full-strength cocktails and may elect him governor for life.

*OK, I totally made that up the stuff about the pseudonym — Jon Jr.'s rebellious impulses ended with the garage bands. Now, he looks like Mitt Romney's idea of an insurance salesman.