- With a career in entertainment already underway following baccalaureate graduation, Basso suspended his early show biz pursuits to honor the wish of his dying grandfather, a WWII tank commander and, later, former PGA golf pro. Basso went on to serve a combined 8 years of both active military, and military civil service (U.S Air Force, U.S. Army). Basso had become a skilled marksman, mastering several weapons including the 40mm automatic grenade launcher, and is a veteran of two 1990s war campaigns: Operation Desert Storm (Middle East) and Operation Joint Endeavor (Bosnia).
- At age two, Basso fell into a swimming pool and died, but was resuscitated by a former nurse who happened to be present. Responding paramedics documented Basso's CORE-Zero TID (Time In Death) of between two to four minutes, an event which Basso routinely cites as his "earliest memory," and which was detailed in his 2005 auto-biography, "The Confessions of a Jilted Superstar, In His Many Conversations With God".
- Basso holds several military awards. In 1996 he was decorated by NATO/IFOR for peacekeeping efforts during the Bosnian War, and one year later received a medal for his actions in response to a 1995 terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia. Honorably Discharged, Basso returned to entertainment development, while also advocating for causes personal to him: disabled veterans, autism awareness, and youth anti-bullying. Basso, a disabled veteran himself, has PTSD.
- Basso only drives manual [stick shift] automobiles, and has been strictly a "stick driver" since his mid-twenties. In 2012 on his San Jose radio show UPSTAGED, Basso quipped: "Any automatic's ever registered to me in adulthood were gifts for my wives; necessary evils associated with the high cost of... marriage".
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