Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Jen Senko, documentary filmmaker, The Brainwashing of My Dad, The Vanishing City   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jen Senko by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of dittoheads, knuckleheads and general dickheads who thought they were getting tickets to be in the studio audience of The O’Reilly Factor… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Jen Senko was worried about her dad. A self-described Kennedy Democrat, Frank Senko was a peaceful, loving husband and dad whose political views were never much of an issue between him and the world. Until one day, on his long commute to work, he discovered talk radio… and Rush Limbaugh in particular. After that, Frank was never the same. JEN SENKO podcast excerpt: "Fox shouldn't have the right to call itself 'News'; it's mostly commentary." You can LISTEN to this interview with documentary filmmaker JEN SENKO, director of THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD, by clicking the audio player above! He soon framed and announced a long list of people that he hated. And when he found the Fox News Channel, he went completely bonkers. He was angry all the time. If Rush or Fox told him something, he was unquestioning in his acceptance of it as absolutely true. His wife, his three children – Jen and her brothers – as well as extended family, friends and co-workers, one day found a stranger living in their midst, a hate-spewing, nasty, bigoted monster paranoid of everyone’s beliefs around him. He trusted no one outside of his growing, far right-wing conservative circle of TV and radio hosts, newsletter writers, website propagandists and pamphleteers. Aghast at what had become of Frank, Jen—a filmmaker who had received good notices for her first release, The Vanishing City—decided to seriously investigate what had happened to him. JEN SENKO podcast excerpt: "(Long-time Republican operative) David Brock knew. He was in the trenches. He was an 'elf.' He was on the team to take down (President Bill) Clinton. He spilled the beans (on the 'vast right-wing conspiracy'). His conscience got to him; he felt guilty." // The resulting film, The Brainwashing of My Dad, is a serious examination of the rise of right-wing media—“The Noise Machine,” as it is called—and its fact-free assault on the Constitution, civil rights, liberal advocacy and much more. Senko, who shares narration duties with actor Matthew Modine, assembled a film that reveals the motivations of Roger Ailes, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Richard Nixon, the Heritage Foundation, and the John Birch Society. The film, which recently left the festival circuit and began theatrical, iTunes, Google Play and Vudu distribution, was completed before the rise of Donald Trump, presidential candidate, but it makes for excellent background material to explain the Republican businessman’s angry rise to political power. Key interview moments: • 3:05 Filmmaker Jen Senko dealt with multiple delays in getting The Brainwashing of My Dad to the silver screen, but the rise of Donald Trump, GOP political candidate, made her eventually timing perfect; • 12:10 Even Democrats scoffed at Hillary Clinton's mid-1990s claim of "a vast right-wing conspiracy" -- until long-time Republican operative David Brock confirmed her accusation was true; • 20:20 Senko questions whether Fox News Channel should be allowed to use the word "News" in its name. The Brainwashing of My Dad Website • Facebook • Twitter • YouTube • Tumblr • Instagram   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland! The post Right-wing news is The Brainwashing of My Dad!

Do you find global financial issues a bit confusing?

Think it would be easier if a founding member of ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus,’ Terry Jones, explained it to you with humor, animation, songs and puppets?

Thought so!

Today's Mr. Media Guests: Bill Jones (son of Terry) and Ben Timlett, documentary filmmakers, “Boom Bust Boom” (starring Terry Jones of "Monty Python's Flying Circus")

BILL JONES podcast excerpt: "Ben and I just watched 'The Big Short' where they go, 'You're betting against the housing market? The housing market NEVER goes down! And I kept shouting at the screen, 'YEAH? 1929!!!"

Key interview moments:

• 5:45 Bill Jones talks about comparisons between his film, Boom Bust Boom, and The Big Short;

• 13:45 Ben Timlett discusses the challenges in editing such a complicated subject, let alone breaking down the immense crapload of jargon inherent in any financial discussion ;

• 20:00 The filmmakers tell the true story of how the met as little boys (hint: it involves "Monty Python's Flying Circus" original member Terry Jones and a virtual kidnapping).

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Today's Guests: Acrobat Dustin Walton, puppeteer Helen Day, performers in Cirque du Soleil's "Toruk: The First Flight," based on James Cameron's film "Avatar"

HELEN DAY podcast excerpt: "Puppets are very important to the Avatar show, from early on right to the end. The planet of Pandora is full of creatures, flora and fauna that interact with the Na'vi. And the puppets are very big!"

Key interview moments:

• 3:10 Puppeteer Helen Day describes the scope of the enormous puppets deployed in Cirque's new "Toruk: The First Flight" program;

• 7:50 Acrobat Dustin Walston explains how Cirque du Soleil minimizes risks to performers.

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Today's Guest: Chip Jacobs, author, Strange As It Seems: The Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler, Smogtown   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Chip Jacobs by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of musical geniuses who had no idea how good their lives were until reading Strange As It Seems… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! If you are determined to title your book Strange As It Seems, you damn well better deliver. Chip Jacobs does that and more in a loving, funny and well-written biography of his late uncle, Hollywood musical legend Gordon Zahler. What makes it so strange? Well, in 1940, when Gordon Zahler was a 14-year-old daredevil who believed more than most teen-aged boys that he could do anything, a misadventure with a high school gymnastics springboard landed him on his neck and severed his spine. CHIP JACOBS podcast excerpt: "Some people scoff or give me a funny eyebrow scrunched look when them my uncle did these things that he did. He looked at his injury like some people look at a skin rash and said to himself, 'Deal with it. I want to go on my boat, take flying lessons, or... What about a safari?'" You can LISTEN to this interview with writer CHIP JACOBS, author of STRANGE AS IT SEEMS: The Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler, by clicking the audio player above! Most everyone – classmates, doctors and family – presumed he would be dead in a matter of days. For inexplicable reasons, Zahler survived. Scratch that: the quadriplegic thrived. He refused to roll over and die; instead, taking charge of his Hollywood composer father’s music catalogue to create the go-to music library for early low-budget TV and film producers. All of the time and money his family devoted to him early on paid off; Zahler created a successful business with nothing more than a charismatic sales pitch. Eventually, he became friends and a business associate of “I Love Lucy” star and producer Lucille Ball, Woody Woodpecker creator Walter Lanz, and animal-oriented TV show producer Ivan Tors. CHIP JACOBS podcast excerpt: "Some of the TV shows to which Gordon provided music were filmed at Desilu Studios. For some reason, Lucille Ball thought my uncle was that cat's pajamas. It must have been Gordon's non-pitying attitude. Lucille Ball would see him and yell, 'Gordon!' and come running up to him. She would hug him, chat him up, and bring over other stars." Right about now you’re probably thinking this sounds like the plot to a Hollywood movie – Zelig starring Woody Allen, perhaps, or Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks. But it’s a true story, one that Zahler’s nephew, Chip Jacobs, lived first hand at the end of his uncle’s life and later researched and reported in Strange As It Seems: The Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler. Key interview moments: • 3:00 Chip Jacobs gave him biography the subtitle "The Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler" because he knew his uncle's life sounded unbelievable; • 19:20 Muriel Zahler, Chip's mother and Gordon's sister, recognized that her life was forever changed by Gordon's accident and the financial too it took on their family; she never forgave him but never abandoned him, either; • 19:20 Gordon's outsized life intersected with many celebrities thanks to his music business, creating relationships with everyone from sitcom queen Lucille Ball ("I Love Lucy") and animator Walter Lantz (creator of "Woody Woodpecker") to "B" movie director Ed Wood Jr. (Plan 9 From Outer Space). Chip Jacobs Website • Facebook • Twitter • LinkedIn • Goodreads   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland! The post A Strange As It Seems intersection of film and music!

Today's Guest: Bill Jones, Ben Timlett, documentary filmmakers, Boom Bust Boom (starring Terry Jones of "Monty Python's Flying Circus")   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Bill Jones and Ben Timlett by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of people who always knew Alan Greenspan was full of shit but were more afraid of his journalist wife, Andrea Mitchell, than they were the head of the Fed… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! If you will only sit still for one lesson in how Western economies work – or, don’t – I recommend you watch Boom Bust Boom by filmmakers Bill Jones and Ben Timlett. The documentary is a masterful explanation of the cycles caused by greed and mass psychosis, accomplished through a combination of historical recaps and expert witnesses, original animation, art and even “South Park” clips, plus much humor and song. BILL JONES podcast excerpt: "Ben and I just watched 'The Big Short' where they go, 'You're betting against the housing market? The housing market NEVER goes down! And I kept shouting at the screen, 'YEAH? 1929!!!" You can LISTEN to this interview with BILL JONES and BEN TIMLETT, documentary filmmakers of BOOM BUST BOOM, by clicking the audio player above! Oh, and actor John Cusack. The film’s third director and narrator’s not bad either: it’s Bill Jones’s dad, Terry Jones, whom you might recognize as a co-founder of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and an accomplished filmmaker in his own right. He did, after all, write and direct Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and The Meaning of Life. Perhaps you’ve heard of him? BEN TIMLETT podcast excerpt: "Do you want to know how Bill and I met? Bill's got an older sister; I've got an older brother. And we lived in the same area of South London. One day, Bill's Dad, Terry Jones, was dropping off Bill's sister near my house..." BILL JONES podcast excerpt: "... And my dad sees this little boy wandering around. He goes, 'Hello, little boy! I've got a little boy at home about your age. Do you want to come home and play with him?' And the last thing Ben's Mum sees is this strange man waving goodbye..." BEN TIMLETT podcast excerpt: "...I got in, and Terry said to my Mum, 'I'll bring him home at the end of school.' My Mum was like, 'I believe I recognize him (from 'Monty Python'), but I can't believe that just happened!" BILL JONES podcast excerpt: "We've been friends ever since." As for Bill Jones and Ben Timlett, this is their third feature together. Their last project was A Liar’s Autobiography, starring the five surviving Pythons. Before that, they collaborated on Absolutely Anything starring Simon Pegg and Robin Williams. Key interview moments: • 5:45 Bill Jones talks about comparisons between his film, Boom Bust Boom, and The Big Short; • 13:45 Ben Timlett discusses the challenges in editing such a complicated subject, let alone breaking down the immense crapload of jargon inherent in any financial discussion ; • 20:00 The filmmakers tell the true story of how the met as little boys (hint: it involves "Monty Python's Flying Circus" original member Terry Jones and a virtual kidnapping). Boom Bust Boom Website • Facebook • Twitter • YouTube • Instagram • IMDB • Rotten Tomatoes Terry Jones Twitter • Monty Python • IMDB • Wikipedia Bill Jones Website • LinkedIn • IMDB Ben Timlett Website • Twitter • LinkedIn • IMDB Monty Python's Flying Circus Website • Facebook • Twitter • YouTube • BBC • IMDB • WikiQuote • Wikipedia Boom Bust Boom Trailer from BoomBustClick on Vimeo.   Can't get enough Monty Python? CLICK here to WATCH the 2011 Mr. Media video interview with Julian Doyle, editor of Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, Jabberwocky, Time Bandits,

Today's Guests: Acrobat Dustin Walton, puppeteer Helen Day, performers in Cirque du Soleil's "Toruk: The First Flight," based on James Cameron's film Avatar   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with acrobat Dustin Walston and puppeteer Helen Day by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of people who are really starting to annoy me with all the flipping, flopping and flying across my living room … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! There are two cinematic sequels in production to the No. 1 box-office film of all time, Avatar. An Avatar-based theme park is also coming to Disney World’s Animal Kingdom in 2017. But what if you can’t wait that long to return to the land of the blue-skinned Na’vi? Even better, what if I told you that you could see the Na’vi live and in the flesh – in your own city? HELEN DAY podcast excerpt: "Puppets are very important to the Avatar show, from early on right to the end. The planet of Pandora is full of creatures, flora and fauna that interact with the Na'vi. And the puppets are very big!" You can LISTEN to this interview with HELEN DAY and DUSTIN WALSTON, performers in Cirque du Soleil's TORUK: THE FIRST FLIGHT, by clicking the audio player above! Cirque du Soleil, the insanely acrobatic circus that travels from city to city with its own big top, is touring this year an all-new production spun off from Avatar called “Toruk: The First Flight.” Joining me to talk about the new show are two of its star performers, acrobat Dustin Walston and puppeteer Helen Day. DUSTIN WALSTON podcast excerpt: "There is a progression to learning the acrobatic movements in a Cirque du Soleil show; it's not like we try the most daring things on the first try. In that sense, it's safe and you have confidence in executing it. Cirque makes sure it's very safe and the risks are minimized as much as possible." If you’ve never been to a Cirque du Soleil production, it is a mind-bending event that melds extraordinary human gymnastics, beautiful music and stunning light shows. In addition to the touring shows, there are also permanent Cirque Du Soleil installations from Orlando to Las Vegas and beyond. (Helen Day, incidentally, plays the role of Miss Edwards in the Tim Burton film adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.) Key interview moments: • 3:10 Puppeteer Helen Day describes the scope of the enormous puppets deployed in Cirque's new "Toruk: The First Flight" program; • 7:50 Acrobat Dustin Walston explains how Cirque du Soleil minimizes risks to performers. Cirque du Soleil Website • Facebook • Twitter • YouTube Helen Day Website • Equity • IMDB Dustin Walston Facebook • LinkedIn • IMDB   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland! The post Avatar flies to Cirque du Soleil! Watch it! VIDEO INTERVIEW appeared first on Mr. Media.

Today's Guest: Cleveland Wheeler, legendary radio DJ, WAPE Jacksonville, Q105 Tampa, SiriusXM


CLEVELAND WHEELER podcast excerpt: "Scott Shannon just had a way of connecting with people... He went out of his way to be natural and street level with people and to speak on their terms. He had a knack for communicating with people.”

Key interview moments:

• 9:30 Cleveland Wheeler discusses why his Q Morning Zoo radio partner, Scott Shannon, has been so successful in his radio career;

• 11:30 Wheeler and Shannon locked themselves in a hotel room for two days as the morning show took flight and decided to do the unthinkable: pursue radio listeners from ages 8 to 80, which would be unheard of in today's fragmented radio market;

• 46:50 Wheeler reveals the secret of where he and Shannon found their best political insights.


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Today's Guest: Jim McBride, adult website entrepreneur, MrSkin.com

MR. SKIN podcast excerpt: "The Showtime show 'Shameless' is great. This year it won our 'Best TV Show for Nudity' award. And when you think of 'Masters of Sex," Game of Thrones,' 'Powers' and 'Orange is the New Black' -- there are so many television shows that have great nudity! To actually win, you really have to have a great year in nudity. What I love about Emmy Rossum is that she's the star of the show and she carries the load of the nudity. It's not like like it's a bunch of extras that do nude scenes on that show. Every year, she comes through with solid nudity... We're big Emmy Rossum fans at MrSkin.com. And... she's beautiful!”

Key interview moments:

• 3:00 Mr. Skin explains why the Showtime series "Shameless" -- starring Emmy Rossum -- won "Best TV Show for Nudity" in this year's 17th Annual Anatomy Awards;

• 20:00 An explanation of why you'll only find a celebration of nudity at MrSkin.com -- no body-shaming allowed;

• 38:45 Skin explains how Fifty Shades of Grey, starring actress Dakota Johnson, ran away with this year's award for "Breast Picture."

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Today's Guest: Shawn Mullins, singer, songwriter, "My Stupid Heart," "Lullabye"

In addition to an interview, Mullins performs two new songs, live and exclusively on Mr. Media: "The Great Unknown" and "Pre-Apocalyptic Blues."

SHAWN MULLINS podcast excerpt: "'My Stupid Heart' is about the way I felt after a third marriage didn't work out... I felt unsuccessful as a human being in that I couldn't find a partner, although I've had wonderful relationships with all three of my wives. And I'm still close friends with two of three of them and I miss the other one."

Key interview moments:

• 5:50 Shawn Mullins talks about how police brutality and racial profiling moved him to write his new song, "Ferguson";

• 23:45 After his third marriage fell apart, Mullins explains how he took a six-year hiatus from the road -- and relationships;

• 43:45 Mullins tells how he met his writing partner Chuck Cannon, who then introduced him to his wife, actress and country music singer Lari White, who produced "My Stupid Heart."

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Today's Guest: Cleveland Wheeler, legendary radio DJ, WAPE Jacksonville, Q105 Tampa, SiriusXM   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Cleveland Wheeler by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of grown-ass men and women who remember the thrill of turning on the radio in the morning and never knowing what craziness was about to unfold… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! One of my first real magazine assignments after graduating college was writing a story for Tampa Bay Monthly about the unique chemistry between Q105 morning radio personalities Cleveland Wheeler and Scott Shannon. CLEVELAND WHEELER podcast excerpt: "Scott Shannon just had a way of connecting with people... He went out of his way to be natural and street level with people and to speak on their terms. He had a knack for communicating with people." You can LISTEN to this interview with legendary radio DJ Cleveland Wheeler by clicking the audio player above! Something magical happened in 1981 when these veterans of the American airwaves came together to do a morning show at WRBQ – Q105 – in Tampa. The Q Morning Zoo was unlike anything to ever hit once sleepy Tampa Bay – or anywhere else at the time. The hosts were quick-witted, opinionated and cash machines for the owners of the radio station. CLEVELAND WHEELER podcast excerpt: "Scott and I didn't get together and say, 'We're going to pick on politicians. We don't have the resources to dig on people through PI work... Scott was smart. He said, 'All the great stuff, all the best stories are hidden in the Saturday newspaper. Get the Saturday morning newspaper and a story can look so insignificant, so innocent, but that's where the big stories are hidden. They don't have all the dirt yet... People would say, 'How did you know about all this stuff?' And instead of attributing it to the Tampa Tribune, they were attributing it to us!" The Q Zoo – Wheeler and Shannon, plus the news department of Pat Brooks and Roger Shulman – were an absolute phenomenon in the early 1980s. Mondays through Fridays, they were the watercooler talk of every office and construction site in the marketplace, outdistancing all the competition. Key interview moments: • 9:30 Cleveland Wheeler discusses why his Q Morning Zoo radio partner, Scott Shannon, has been so successful in his radio career; • 11:30 Wheeler and Shannon locked themselves in a hotel room for two days as the morning show took flight and decided to do the unthinkable: pursue radio listeners from ages 8 to 80, which would be unheard of in today's fragmented radio market; • 46:50 Wheeler reveals the secret of where he and Shannon found their best political insights. Cleveland Wheeler Facebook • YouTube • LinkedIn • Radio Years • Tedd Webb • Wikipedia //           The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland! The post Cleveland Wheeler: Get up with the Q105 Morning Zoo! VIDEO INTERVIEW appeared first on Mr. Media.