A chance to talk with Ben Yalow about his long career in con-running. Ben has been involved in SF fandom for about 45 years, attended more than 800 cons, and worked on about a third of them. His first con was Lunacon 14 in 1971. He has been a member of numerous Worldcon bids and has worked on many of them staring in the mid-1970s. He coined the phrase “wimpy zone.” One of his apothegms: “Running a Worldcon is impossible. Running a NASFiC is harder.”