Unfiltered with Josh Cohen

Interviewing J. Randy Taraborelli by Josh Cohen Around this time last year, I was Facebook friends with the man who I would eventually introduce to the audience as "someone of considerable significance". That man is J. Randy Taraborelli. We had a mutual friend in David Gunther whom I knew from my boxing days at West Side boxing in Eden Prairie. Mr. Taraborelli knew him from his Brazilian Jujitsu classes out in California. I had watched Taraborelli ad infinitum it seems growing up. After all, he was one of Michael Jackson's good friends through several decades and his official biographer. I was a fan of the King Of Pop's in the truest sense of the word. I was a fanatic . At my brother's wedding in 2012, I did a solo dance when "Billie Jean" came on. Yes, I moon-walked. Yes, it was damned good. Taraborelli was my go-to on everything Michael during my childhood. Through Michael, I became a fan of Taraborelli. So when he accepted my Facebook req...

Reston was an assistant to U.S. Secretary of the Interior,  Stewart Udall  (1964–1965) and served in the  U.S. Army  (1965–1968) as an intelligence officer. He was a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina (1971–81). [1]  Reston is a Senior Scholar at the  Woodrow Wilson Center  in Washington D.C. [2]  and has been a fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a resident scholar at the Kluge Center at the  Library of Congress . Reston is the author of 17 books, three plays, and numerous articles in national magazines. His works of both fiction and non-fiction cover a wide range of historical and political topics. Five of his works,  Galileo: A Life ,  The Last Apocalypse ,  Warriors of God ,  Dogs of God , and  Luther's Fortress  have been translated into thirteen foreign languages.  Warriors of God  was an international best seller. The Last Apocalypse was a main ...

  HG Tudor is an educational YouTuber whose channel exists to provide better public education about narcissism. Tudor is a pseudonym, as the creator chooses to protect his real identity. He says he does this because he is a diagnosed narcissistic psychopath, and revealing this would cause problems in his personal and professional life.  Tudor's work has, according to multiple testimonies on his site and channel, helped many people understand that they had been in a toxic or abusive relationship with a narcissist and escape. He is credited, in some instances, with saving lives. People who support his channel are often informally known as "Tudorites". Although he is a prolific YouTuber, Tudor is not a full time professional. He has a separate professional life, which he seldom discusses for fear it would compromise his identity. However, he frequently mentions that in the course of his work, he has met many famous people. Examples include Rowan Atkinson, Meghan Markle and ...

Cory Danziger is an actor, political activist, and conceptual artist.  As an actor, his most notable role was as Dave Peterson, the son of Tom Hanks' and Carrie Fisher's characters in the 1989 cult film  The 'Burbs . For his role he was nominated for a Young Artist Award in the Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture category. That was his third nomination for the award,  the other two being Best Young Actor Starring in a TV Movie, Pilot or Special for his performance in  Married to the Mob  (1988) and Best Young Actor, Featured, Co-starring, Supporting, Recurring Role in a Comedy or Drama Series or Special for the  Beauty and the Beast  television series, his 1987 acting debut. [ citation needed ] In 1990, he appeared as the character Jake Potts in an episode of  Star Trek: The Next Generation  entitled "Brothers". His most recent role came in 2007, after a gap of fourteen years, as the voice of "...

   Before recording “Code Rage”, Cowboy Coder lived in Texas, with a day job working as an independent IT consultant for the past fifteen years. His debut album discusses what it was like having one foot in the music world, and the other in the ever-changing world of startups, featuring songs like “B01” (detailing the 2001 tech bust), “Linux Administrator” (a stark analysis juxtaposing office politics with archetypal hardcore Linux CTOs), and “3rd Generation” (a collab with Cowboy Coder’s producer and friend MC Lars, which uses and demonstrates musical history as a metonymy for the evolution of code).   When COVID both necessitated and obviated Cowboy Coder's need to continue the day-to-day grind of creating enterprise solutions for Fortune 500 companies, he moved to Puerto Rico and dove deeper into his creative calling, writing an album that combines elements of country, punk, hip-hop and even EDM. Connecting with MC Lars at a show in Austin in February...

  Jenelle Lynn Riley   is an American screenwriter, actress, journalist, and producer. Riley wrote the 2015 short film  Warning Labels , directed by  Jennifer Morrison , and is the host of  Variety ' s  Actors on Actors , for which she has won a  Daytime Emmy Award  and two  Los Angeles Emmy Awards . She is also an editor for  Variety [2]  and contributor to  The Huffington Post . [3]  She wrote and directed the award-winning play "A Kind of Love Story" which had its world premiere at  Sacred Fools Theater Company  in Los Angeles. She is the regular host of career conversations for the  SAG-AFTRA Foundation , where she has conducted lengthy interviews with various actors. Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenelle_Riley https://variety.com/author/jenelle-riley/

George Huang  is an American filmmaker.  In addition to working on his own films, he also contributes work to other independent  filmmakers , including  Robert Rodríguez .   In 1992,   Columbia   acquired the distribution rights to the film   El Mariachi   by   Robert Rodríguez . As the film was being prepared for release, Rodriguez struck up a friendship with the young studio assistant with whom he shared a love of film. As Rodriguez, a native and resident of   Austin, Texas , had no   L.A.   residence, he stayed at Huang's apartment. Rodriguez – known for his money-saving and high-quality  filmmaking  techniques – was amazed by Huang's blasé attitude toward the way his superiors spent millions and millions on the production of a single motion picture. Huang, believing his own original stories would never be told, shared some story ideas with Rodriguez, who promptly told his new friend and roommate that he ...

     Rick Alan Ross is the founder and Executive Director of The Cult Education Institute. He is an internationally known expert regarding destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and author of the book "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out." Since 1982 he has been studying, researching and responding to the problems often posed by controversial authoritarian groups and movements. Ross has been qualified and accepted and testified as an expert witness in court proceedings across the United States including US Federal Court.  He has also frequently assisted local and national law enforcement and government agencies. He has personally assisted thousands of families in an effort to help the victims of destructive cults, groups and movements. Ross is one of the most readily recognized experts offering analysis about destructive cults, controversial groups and movements in the world today. GQ Magazine identified "Rick Alan Ross [as] America’...

  Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Josh Robert Thompson spent much of his childhood making silly voices into a Fisher-Price tape recorder. Josh's gift for mimicry eventually brought him to Los Angeles and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, where he appeared in a number of sketches—most notably as Robert De Niro, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ralf Hütter of Kraftwerk. Behind the camera, Josh provided the voices of an invisible house band, a talking rhino head named Sandra, celebrity insects, and every caller on Ferguson’s desk phone. But it was his role as Craig’s robot skeleton sidekick—Geoff Peterson—that proved to be Josh’s big break, creating one of TV’s most unlikely and endearing late night duos.  For over a decade Josh’s wide range of voices and impressions have appeared on FOX’s Family Guy, as well as American Dad, Robot Chicken and Skylanders Academy, just to name a few. In audiobooks, Josh has provided character voices and narration on over 30 projects—most notably author ...

  Mark Danner is a writer and reporter who for three decades has written on politics and foreign affairs , focusing on war and conflict. He has covered Central America , Haiti , the Balkans , Iraq and the Middle East , among many other stories. Danner holds the Class of 1961 Endowed Chair in Journalism and English at the University of California, Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College . Among his books are The Massacre at El Mozote , Torture and Truth , The Secret Way to War , Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War and Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War . Danner was a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, Aperture, and many other newspapers and magazines . He has co-written and helped produce two hour-long documentaries for the ABC News program Peter Jennings Reporting, and his work has receive...

Cyrus Krohn has been a cutting-edge communicator, digital innovator, and new media executive for over 20 years. Krohn is Principal of Krohn Zone, LLC, a consulting firm focused on corporate digital media strategy. He was Senior Vice President of Business Development at Civic Science, Inc. He advises businesses including Democracy Live, a voting technology company, and Element Data, Inc., focused on decision intelligence software. He managed the acquisition of the Cheezburger Network, one of the world’s largest digital media companies focused on humor and entertainment, to Literally Media. Prior to Cheezburger, Krohn co-founded Crowdverb and sold the start-up to WPP, the world’s largest communication services group. Krohn has worked as a senior director and executive producer at technology companies including Microsoft and Yahoo. In 2013, Krohn was named one of the Top 50 digital political strategists in the United States. Krohn served as director of digital strategy for the Republican ...

  Wheatus  are an American rock band from  Northport, New York , formed in 1995. They are  known principally  for their 2000 single " Teenage Dirtbag ", which appeared in the films  Loser  and  Bully , as well as the  HBO  miniseries  Generation Kill , the Netflix original series  Girlboss , and  The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina . Brendan B. Brown, commonly known as  BBB  to fans, is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and the only remaining founding member of Wheatus, which he formed in 1995 with his brother, Peter Brown (drums) and Rich Liegey (bass). [2]  Brown has also collaborated with  James Bourne  of  Busted  and  McBusted  (a collaboration between Busted and  McFly ) on several songs for McBusted's album,  McBusted . Wheatus was formed by Brendan B. Brown in 1995, on the lower east side of New York City. Brown began by writing a few songs, and subsequently enliste...

Teenage Dirtbag is a song by American rock band Wheatus. It was released on June 20, 2000, as the lead single from their eponymous debut album (2000). The song was written by guitarist and vocalist Brendan B. Brown and was inspired by a childhood experience of his. The song was successful in Australia, spending four weeks at number one, being certified 3× Platinum, and becoming the second-best-selling single of 2000. It also reached number one in Austria and Flanders while peaking at number two in Ireland, Germany, and the United Kingdom, where it was certified 2× Platinum in 2018. It has sold 5 million copies worldwide as of 2014. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Dirtbag

  Mary Temple Grandin  (born August 29, 1947) is an American scientist and animal behaviorist. She is a prominent proponent for the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Grandin is a consultant to the  livestock  industry, where she offers advice on animal behavior, and is also an  autism  spokesperson. Grandin is one of the first individuals on the  autism spectrum  to document the insights she gained from her personal experience of autism. She is currently a  faculty member  with  Animal Sciences  in the College of Agricultural Sciences at  Colorado State University . In 2010,  Time  100 , an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, named her in the "Heroes" category. [2]  She was the subject of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning semi-biographical film  Temple Grandin . Grandin has been an outspoken proponen...

      Mary Temple Grandin  (born August 29, 1947) is an American scientist and animal behaviorist. She is a prominent proponent for the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Grandin is a consultant to the  livestock  industry, where she offers advice on animal behavior, and is also an  autism  spokesperson. Grandin is one of the first individuals on the  autism spectrum  to document the insights she gained from her personal experience of autism. She is currently a  faculty member  with  Animal Sciences  in the College of Agricultural Sciences at  Colorado State University . In 2010,  Time  100 , an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, named her in the "Heroes" category. [2]  She was the subject of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning semi-biographical film  Temple Grandin . Grandin has be...

   Matthew Continetti is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his work is focused on American political thought and history, with a particular focus on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement in the 20th century.   A prominent journalist, analyst, author, and intellectual historian of the right, Mr. Continetti was the founding editor and the editor-in-chief of The Washington Free Beacon.  Previously, he was the opinion editor at The Weekly Standard. Mr. Continetti is also a contributing editor at National Review and a columnist for Commentary Magazine.  He has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. He also appears frequently on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” with Bret Baier and MSNBC’s “Meet the Press Daily” with Chuck Todd. Mr. Continetti is the author of two books: “The Persecution of Sarah Palin:...

  Victor Saul Navasky (born July 5, 1932) is an American journalist, editor, and academic. He is publisher emeritus of The Nation and George T. Delacorte Professor Emeritus of Professional Practice in Magazine Journalism at Columbia University . He was editor of The Nation from 1978 until 1995 and its publisher and editorial director from 1995 to 2005. Navasky's book Naming Names (1980) is considered a definitive take on the Hollywood blacklist . For it he won a 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction . [1] [a] He was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence [2] by Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 2017. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Navasky