SCRATCH the SURFACE with EJ Scott

Jon Hein helped coin the phrase "Jump the Shark" from an episode of Happy Days years and made a life and career out of it that lead him to working on The Howad Stern Show both on and off mic. We talk about his background, where he's from, his famliy, starting a "Jump the SHark" website, selling it for a lot of money, going on The Howard Stern Show for the first time as a guest and how that later lead to a career with The Howard Stern Show, hosting The Wrap Up Show, living on Long Island, Proposing to his wife, meeting Henry Winkler, having Diabetes, writing a new book on Fast Food, his love for it and if he might have a food addiction, plus so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!!!

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Brian "Bucky" Buckner has been show runner of HBO's True Blood for almost the last two seasons. He has been a writer on the show since day one. We talk about The writer's room, getting hired and working with Alan Ball, the transition after Alan left, the ups and downs of being in charge and the decision maker, the sacrifices that must be made, he also worked on Spin City, where he was nicknamed Bucky, working on Friends, his brief stint as an actor, his parents divorce, and other family issues, plus the final season of True Blood. Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!

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Adina Porter and Gregg Daniel drop by the kitchen to talk all things True Blood plus day jobs in Switzerland, meeting Robert DeNiro, advice for daughters, Aaoron Sorkin, House, losing loved ones, divorce ceremonies, the theatre, working with Oprah Winfrey, Spider-Ma 3, Sam Raimi, cult classic Pump Up the Volume, Uma Thurman, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, David Fincher, The Social Network, Glee, Jeff Daniels, Newsroom, and how their relationship goes back 25 years and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!!

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Gregg Fienberg has been with True Blood since episode one until the very end. But you probably never saw his face. He is the executive producer. He worked with Alan Ball and took care of most of the logistics of putting a show on television. He is also a director and directed episode 4 of season 7. We talk about his early career working with U@, Madonna and Michael Jackson, And the story of Michael Jackson leaving the country to go to Germany when he was suppose to shoot a music video with David Fincher, we talk about working with David Lynch on Twin Peaks, David Milch on Deadwood and John from Cincinnati, Ian McKellan on Gods and Monsters, we talk about his first marriage which produced two kids and his latest marriage to a long time girlfriend, we talk the ins and outs of producing True Blood, what hes like as a director, what he was like as a kid, his parents who have been married for 60 years, he also brings over his little dog Sprinkles (who wasnt feeling well) during our podcast, plus so much more!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!

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Nathan Parsons plays James on the seventh and final season of True Blood. We talk about his Texas background, playing a gay character, being a voice over actor at a young age, being home schooled, being born in Australia, his admiration for Robin Williams and his friendship with his daughter, his audition process for True Blood, working on The Originals and True Blood at the same time, and flying back and forth across the country to do both showsdoing almost 400 episodes of General Hospital, working odd jobs, bull riding, his first comic con, working with Deborah Ann Woll in college and why he dropped out and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Thanks!!

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Ashley Hinshaw plays Brigette on the seventh season of True Blood. We talk about her growing up in Indiana, leaving home to move to New York at age 16 to model for Abercombie and Fitch, meeting and dating boyfrind Topher Grace from That 70's Show, working with Heather Graham and kissing her in a film, finding some scandalous pics of her mom on her moms iphone and how she will never look at grapes the same way, doing the ilm LOL with Miley Cyrus, being part of a film TALHOTBLOND based on a true story of an internet connection that lead to murder, Lilli Taylor, working on Chronicle with Josh Trank, Dane DeHaan, Michael B Jordan, her early beief of being a virgin until marriage and when that thinking changed, losing her cousin to Melanoma and what that meant to her, and so much more!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Thanks!!

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Riley Smith and Craig Chester are both newbies on the final season of True Blood. Craig writes two of the episodes (eps 5 and 7) and Riley appears in many of the episodes as Keith a vampire who gets involved with a main character of the show. We talk about how they each got the job on True Blood, what its like on the set, what its like in the writer's room, we talk about Craigs facial deformity as a teenager and the year of surgeries that he had to fix it, then becoming an actor, writer, director, working with Daniel Radcliffe, writing on Big Gay Sketch Show with current SNL cast member Kate McKinnon, being ahunted by Montgomery Clift?, being openly gay, being raised by a rocknroll singing dad and a born again Christian mom, Riley talks about being roommates with Ashton Kutcher in NYC in the early stages of their career, being discovered in a mall, his love of horses, working with the Olson twins, working on 24, working with Emma Stone and Nathan Fillion on a short lived show called Drive, working on the movie Radio with Cuba Gooding Jr and Ed Harris and how Ed Harris is really intimidating, working with Scarlet Johannson on Eight Legged Freaks, working on Feeaks and Geeks, his sex scene with Carrie Preston and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!!

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Karolina Wydra plays Violet on HBO's True Blood. We talk about her life in Poland before she moved to the O.C. in California, her parents divorce, her fathers new marriage to a woman much younger, her mothers accident that sent her back to Poland, the transition from moving to a new country withut knowing the language, being a loner, her brief encounters with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams, meeting her current boyfriend and being in a long distance relationship, almost retiring from acting before her True Blood audition, being a sexual person, her attraction to Zach Galifianakis, shooting the sci-fi thriller Europa Report, being friends with director Michel Gondry, doing a commercial with George Clooney, the first day of work on True Blood, we talk in depth about her character Violet, working with Ryan Kwanten, sex scenes, being on Justified, working with Hugh Laurie on House, working with Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid, Love, meeting Jack Black, getting in a car accident that left one of her eyes damaged and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!!

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Tony Hale is a scene stealer. His characters are so interesting and he plays them with such commitment its hard no to watch him when he's on screen. We talk about being bounced around when he was a kid because his father was in the armed forces and how that has mudled his early memories, my theory is he was hypnotised in Germany. We also talk about Tony being bullied and how theater was an oulet for him, we talk about his religious beliefs and how importan that is to him, meeting his wife at church, having a daughter, writing a childrens book, the difference between Samford and Stanford, Arrested Development, Veep, winning an Emmy and possibly winning another one this week (I've requested if he wins to thank me in his speech.), we talk about his family and how his sister gave up a daughter for adoption and how that grown up child is now a regular fixture in their lives, working with the late great Robin WIlliams on the film RV for only 2 days, appearing in the Sopranos, Dawson's Creek, Stranger than Fiction, going to therapy, anxiety at Comic Con, working with John Malkovich in an upcoming film, hi slove of the Carol Burnett Show and Tim Conway, his famous VW "Mr Roboto" Commercial, and so much more!!!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!

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Shadaliza and Lynn have been running the Vault from the beginning of the hit HBO show TRUE BLOOD. They are die hard fans. And we talk about how they found each other online, what made them and still makes them so passionate about the show, their love lives in good times and bad, the ripple effect of True Blood to their lives, Shad's illness that motivated her to start the site, their favorite and not so favorite moments of the show, how they think the show will end or how they hope it'll end and much more!!!Please Listen, Please SHare, Please Enjoy!!

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