Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz

Jordan Harbinger is a Wall Street lawyer turned talk show host, social dynamics expert, and entrepreneur.

After hosting a top 50 iTunes podcast for over a decade that enjoyed nearly four million downloads a month at its zenith and featured amazing celebrity guests such as Shaquille O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Russell Brand, Tony Hawk, and Tim Ferriss, Jordan has embarked on a new adventure: “The Jordan Harbinger Show”, where he deconstructs the playbooks of the most successful people on earth and shares their strategies, perspectives, and insights with the rest of us.

Jordan’s business sense, extensive knowledge of the industry, and contemporary approach to teaching make him one of the best and most sought-after coaches in the world.

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Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson has been making audiences around the world laugh for more than three decades.

After building a following on the comedy circuit that made people laugh nearly every weekend, his first television appearance was on “Comic Strip Live” in 1991. Things changed for Carrot Top forever in 1992 with his first appearance on “The Tonight Show.”

That appearance exposed his unique brand of comedy to every home in America. After an impressive 31 appearances, Carrot Top had the distinct honor of appearing on the very last episode of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”

Carrot Top’s other credits include hundreds of television programs including The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson,” “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Chelsea Lately,” “Last Comic Standing,” “Glee,” “Family Guy” and “The Ellen Degeneres Show.” 

Carrot top’s shows are a spectacle worthy of most arena rock bands and features lights, music, fog machines, and confetti cannons – all in addition to his incredible trunks full of props. 

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Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson has been making audiences around the world laugh for more than three decades.

After building a following on the comedy circuit that made people laugh nearly every weekend, his first television appearance was on “Comic Strip Live” in 1991. Things changed for Carrot Top forever in 1992 with his first appearance on “The Tonight Show.”

That appearance exposed his unique brand of comedy to every home in America. After an impressive 31 appearances, Carrot Top had the distinct honor of appearing on the very last episode of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”

Carrot Top’s other credits include hundreds of television programs including The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson,” “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Chelsea Lately,” “Last Comic Standing,” “Glee,” “Family Guy” and “The Ellen Degeneres Show.” 

Carrot top’s shows are a spectacle worthy of most arena rock bands and features lights, music, fog machines, and confetti cannons – all in addition to his incredible trunks full of props. 

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TONY ROCK is a writer-actor-producer known for hosting HBO’s weekly stand-up series All Def Comedy, BET’s Black Card Revoked, and for starring in the primetime network series Living Biblically on CBS.

Coming off an extraordinary busy year hosting shows like TVOne’s new outrageous game show The Game of Dating, All Def Movie Awards on Fusion, shows like The Warm Up on NBATV and Mann and Wife on Bounce; this comics’ favorite comic has been busy getting ready for another eventful year. Starring in films such as Couples Night, and back to back tour dates, Tony Rock continues to exceed all expectations causing laughter everywhere he goes.

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Bob Saget has starred in many successful television shows, including two of the most family-friendly shows network TV has ever produced Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos.

From directing MGM’s cult favorite feature film Dirty Work, to directing and producing the highly acclaimed ABC television movie For Hope, to starring on Broadway in the Tony Award winning The Drowsy Chaperone, Bob Saget shows no signs of stopping.

He's presently finishing post production on Benjamin, coming out in 2018, and is still adding standup tour dates throughout North America through the coming year as well.

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HERNAN LOPEZ is the CEO of the fastest rising podcast company in the world—Wondery. Lopez is a native of Argentina and held positions at different companies there (including Canal 9 and Cablevision/Radio America) before starting his 18 year run at FOX, where he rose through its international TV ranks, including 5 as CEO and 3 as COO. Under his guidance, FOX International Channels launched hundreds of channels, expanded into premium sports/original production in multiple languages, pioneered the global day-and-date launch of TV shows with “The Walking Dead,” and increased revenue at the company to $ 3 billion dollars

He left Fox to create Wondery, a company designed to become a network that offers an umbrella brand, technological and administrative support, a desirable demographic profile, and the opportunity to bring extraordinary podcasts to television for its podcast partners.

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Jay Ferguson was born in Dallas, Texas. In 1989, Ferguson was plucked from obscurity to play Ponyboy Curtis in the television adaptation of S. E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders.

His notable television roles include Taylor Newton in four seasons of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade, Dr. Todd Hooper on Judging Amy, Rich Connelly in the 2005 NBC television series Surface, agent Warren Russell on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell, Stan Rizzo on the AMC series Mad Men, and as Pat O'Neal, the father of the O'Neal family in the ABC series The Real O'neals.

His film roles include Billy in Higher Learning, Elmer Conway in The Killer Inside Me, and Keith Clayton in The Lucky One.

He is currently the lead star in the new CBS series, Living Biblically.

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Industry Standard 240: RIP - Best of Barry Crimmins presented by Hello Fresh (for $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit go to hellofresh.com and enter the promo code KATZ30)

Former Air America radio writer and correspondent (2003-2006), social justice activist, internationally renowned political satirist and author of the acclaimed seven stories press book 'Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal' helped bring the Boston comedy scene into the modern age when he founded two of Boston's most fabled clubs: The Ding Ho and Stitches. Such acts as Steven Wright, Paula Poundstone, Bobcat Goldthwait, Kevin Meaney, Jimmy Tingle and many, many others cut their comedic teeth in the rooms Crimmins started at shows he produced. As the years went on, he became an activist of sorts, travelling to Nicaragua to perform political satire about the U.S. government and the Contras. The brilliant, multi-talented Barry Crimmins is also an actor, known for The Young Comedians All-Star Reunion (1986) When Stand Up Stood Out (2003), and Call Me Lucky (2015) which documents in detail his traumatic early childhood experiences of being raped my a next door neighbor in the basement of his own home. Crimmin's satirical writing and comedy routines have focused through the years on the need for political and social change. Crimmins received the "Peace Leadership Award" in 1991 from Boston Mobilization for Survival. The award was presented by Noam Chomsky. Additionally, he was honored by Community Works with the "Artist for Social Change Award" for his years of activism. In 1994, Howard Zinn presented Barry Crimmins along with Maya Angelou "The Courage of Conscience Award" from Wellesley College and the Life Experience School at the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Barry's friend Howard Zinn did the presenting that day. His work as an activist, journalist and performer has taken him everywhere from the American campaign trail to war zones in Central America to Camp Casey on the perimeter of the George W. Bush compound in Craw-Ford, Texas. On June 4, 2016, Barry shot an hour special in Lawrence, Kansas for Louis C.K.'s Pig Newton Productions. Barry is a true American comedy legend who never rests on his laurels, instead building each performance on a lifetime of remarkable experiences and a comic mind that has made him into the one-of-a-kind comic you really need to see.

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JEANIE BUSS is one of the main owners and president of the Los Angeles Lakers, one of the 10 most valuable sports franchises in the world. Buss is the daughter of the late Dr. Jerry Buss, a real estate investor who bought the Lakers and other sports businesses when Jeanie was a teenager. At the age of 19, she started in the family business as general manager of the Los Angeles Strings professional tennis team. She later became the owner of the Los Angeles Blades professional roller hockey team, and president of the Great Western Forum, before becoming vice president of the Lakers. After her father died in 2013, his controlling ownership of the Lakers passed to her and her siblings. Since then, Buss took over as team president and represents the Lakers on the NBA Board of Governors.

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BarkBox presents Industry Standard with Barry Katz episode 237: Heather McDonald (For a free extra month of BarkBox, visit barkbox.com/barry when you subscribe to a 6 or 12 month plan).

When Heather McDonald stood on stage in front of dozens at the 1992 Miss Tarzana pageant she assumed she had reached her peak. Little did she know, twenty-something, mostly sober, years later, Heather would be an in-demand, multi-faceted, comedian headlining sold out shows.

In addition to stand-up, television guest spots and un-credited reality TV cameos, Heather can be heard twice a week on the hit podcast Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald breaking down pop culture, hot topics and her own personal drama. Guests range from Real Housewives to real listeners. Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald receives over 1.2 million downloads a month and has over four thousand, five star reviews on ITunes.

Heather wrote best sellers, You’ll Never Blue Ball in this Town Again and MY INAPPROPRIATE LIFE: Some Material Not Suitable for Small Children, Nuns, or Mature Adults. Her weekly column “What Heather McDonald noticed this week” has been featured in InTouch Magazine for the past three years.

 

In 2015 she debuted her Showtime special ‘I Don’t Mean To Brag,’ later shown on Netflix.  For seven years Heather wrote, produced and appeared on Chelsea Lately as well as it’s spin off show, After Lately.  Heather was a contributing writer on the Wayans’ Brothers films White Chicks and Dance Flick.

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