Jesse's Office: A Wondros Podcast

How Tim Kring turned everyday stories into heroic journeys. In this episode of Jesse’s Office, we’re featuring screenwriter and producer Tim Kring. Tim created the TV shows #Heroes and #Treadstone and helped shape the way we consume sci-fi on television.

This week on Jesse's Office, poet Walter Finnie discusses his journey growing up in Watts to performing at Barack Obama ’s White House, falling in love with lyricism and poetry, becoming a star of Get Lit Players and consulting for the Netflix hit show On My Block.

In this episode of Jesse’s Office, we sit down with Jim Keltner, a legendary drummer who has worked with music icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan. Jim shares stories about what it was like to help record some of the greatest songs of all time and explains how to stay cool when performing alongside legends.

Today we’re talking to Linda Ramone about coming of age during the New York Glitter Rock scene, her late husband Johnny Ramone, the secret worlds of Club 82 and CBGB’s, and how style has (or hasn’t) evolved in the last 40 years.

Today we’re talking to Robert Greenberg, who invents biotechnologies. We’re going to discuss inventing the first bionic eye (essentially, a cochlear implant for the eye), how technology is allowing blind patients to see infrared, and how he’s engineering a functional human heart this week on Jesse's Office.

Robert Greenberg currently serves as Executive Chairman at the Alfred Mann Foundation.

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Today we’re talking to experimental physicist Maria Spiropulu, who worked at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and was on the team that discovered the Higgs boson. We talk about matter vs. antimatter, particle physics as art, and the text message that changed the history of science.

Today we’re talking with social scientist Troy Campbell. Dr. Campbell studies bias, happiness, climate denial, and woke culture. He’s worked at Netflix and Disney, and his studies have made headlines in The New York Times, Wired, The Washington Post, Forbes, and many more.

Today we talk with Hitoshi Abe, professor at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. We talk about the changing nature of cities, buildings, and just what people mean when they say “design thinking.” Plus, how do we design spaces that can adapt to our changing world? And are we living in the post-Instagram era of architecture?

Today we’re talking with animal rescuers Eldad and Loreta from Hope for Paws. We’ll be talking about some of their truly incredible rescues, how their youtube subscribers help them save animals, and how a video of a stray rescue dog getting eye surgery gave young children the courage to brave their own surgeries.

We’re having a conversation with renowned art dealer and curator, Jeffrey Deitch.  We’re asking ‘What is art’ and why he went to Harvard business school to study art criticism. We also talk about working with artists Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kaws, and a changing of the guard of the art world.