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Interview with "Swimming With Sharks" Director, George Huang

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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 ...

Interview with Cult Deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross

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     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’...

Interview with Voice Actor and Robot Sidekick From The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Josh Robert Thompson!

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  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 ...

Interview With Journalist And Foreign Affairs Writer Mark Danner

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  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...

Interview with Crossfire Producer and Slate Founding Employee, Cyrus Krohn

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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 ...

Interview with Wheatus Frontman, Brendan B. Brown

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  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...

Live Acoustic Performance of "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus

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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