I'm really glad you enjoyed it! And those are quite some nice compliments, thank you!!
The skippable hanging around scene is just an engine quirk. It bloody annoys me too during playtesting. I tried adding an interrupt but it just doesn't flow properly when the player is holding ctrl to skip dialogue (at least I'm assuming people know about that lol). So for now, I'll just keep trying different things and hopefully 6.0 will have it fixed. No promises though.
And DAMN. Did you really get the weird interview??? That has a 1 in 222 chance of happening so you must have some pretty bloody good luck!