RUSTY EGAN, former drummer for the British new wave band Rich Kids.

Rich Kids were founded by former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock, with RUSTY, Steve New and singer Midge Ure. After the band broke up, RUSTY continued working with Ure, and later collaborated with The Misfits, Skids, Shock and Visage.

He was the DJ at Blitz, the influential New Romantic nightclub in London. While there, he introduced German (Kraftwerk), Japanese (Yellow Magic Orchestra) and British (Eno, Ultravox, Landscape) electronic/synthpop to the British club scene, almost single-handedly putting together the soundtrack for the New Romantic movement. RUSTY also owned The Cage, a New Romantic-era record store on London's King's Road. As the club grew in popularity, RUSTY began to be recognized as a central figure in London's nightlife. In 1982, he opened the Camden Palace nightclub in London, where he continued to spread and influence the development of electronica in the UK. RUSTY has also produce records for many of the bands he used to DJ, including Spear of Destiny, Shock, Visage and The Senate.

RUSTY is still active on the festival scene as a DJ and is producing new music for release later this year.

Hear our live interview with RUSTY EGAN this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!

Making headlines around the world this week:

* More than 1,000 people participated in the world's largest shaving-cream pie fight during a festival in the U.K.

* A Russian woman gave birth in a remote Siberian forest as authorities worked to protect her and her family from surrounding bears.

* KFC launched a new meal combination in India that includes a box equipped with a portable cellphone charging station.

* Audible flatulence resulted in one Swedish soccer player being ejected early during a lower-league match.

* A group of helpful Irish soccer fans quickly worked to repair the damage caused to a parked car after their celebration got out of hand.

* Perplexed traffic police in China pulled over a semi truck after they noticed it was missing some important components -- its front wheels.

Making headlines around the world this week:

* More than 1,000 people participated in the world's largest shaving-cream pie fight during a festival in the U.K.

* A Russian woman gave birth in a remote Siberian forest as authorities worked to protect her and her family from surrounding bears.

* KFC launched a new meal combination in India that includes a box equipped with a portable cellphone charging station.

* Audible flatulence resulted in one Swedish soccer player being ejected early during a lower-league match.

* A group of helpful Irish soccer fans quickly worked to repair the damage caused to a parked car after their celebration got out of hand.

* Perplexed traffic police in China pulled over a semi truck after they noticed it was missing some important components -- its front wheels.

BEAU BRIDGES, acclaimed and beloved television and movie actor, is our guest for this special podcast-only edition of THE BIGGER INTERVIEW.

BEAU has appeared in over fifty feature films, including “The Other Side of the Mountain,” “Norma Rae,” “Heart Like a Wheel,” “Sordid Lives,” “Max Payne,” “The Descendants” and “The Fabulous Baker Boys”, opposite his brother Jeff for which BEAU received the Best Supporting Actor Award from the National Society of Film Critics.

In television, BEAU has received fourteen Emmy nominations and won three, along with two Golden Globes, for “Without Warning: The James Brady Story,” “The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom,” and “The Second Civil War.” BEAU is about to start his third season of Showtime’s “Masters of Sex”, for which he received an Emmy nomination last year. He can also be seen currently in Netflix’s “Bloodlines”.

On Broadway, he appeared in “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”. He won a 2009 Grammy for Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” in the category of Best Spoken Word Album.

BEAU and his son Ezekiel will be starring in a dramatic reading from Dalton Trumbo’s classic anti-war work, “Johnny Got His Gun,” at the historic Mountain Mermaid in Topanga on Saturday June 25th at 6:30pm. All proceeds from this special fundraising event will benefit the artistic and educational programming at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum.

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DUF SUNDHEIM, recent Republican challenger for the US Senate, is our special guest this Sunday night!

DUF is a political reformer with a history of taking on some of the most powerful forces in politics and succeeding. He played a key role in the recall of Governor Davis; took on then Speaker Nancy Pelosi to effect statewide redistricting reform and took on the public employee unions to effect pension reform in San Jose.

DUF is a federal court approved mediator and state court settlement judge. In 2016 he was the leading Republican candidate in the US Senate race receiving 60% more votes than any other Republican. President Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz has praised DUF for his "Integrity, passion and resolve" and the Sacramento Bee said what distinguishes DUF is his "temperament, philosophy and vision."

Hear our live interview with DUF SUNDHEIM this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!

Making headlines around the world this week:

* McDonald's locations in Austria have begun a promotion that offers customers free six-packs of beer in celebration of the 2016 European soccer championship.

* A French tattoo artist who lost his right arm 22 years ago shared video of his unusual prosthetic arm, which has a working tattoo needle instead of a hand.

* A Russian robot reportedly escaped from its laboratory in the city of Perm and caused a traffic jam by rolling out into the street.

* A British woman has taken retailer H&M to task for "unrealistically small" clothing in a Facebook posting that went viral and prompted an apology from the company.

* A Polish inventor came up with a way to take his roller blades "off road" by powering the wheels with an electric motor.

NATHAN SAPSFORD, from TNT's "The Last Ship" and Discovery's "Gunslingers," is our special guest this week.

NATHAN, originally from Sydney, Australia, has had several leading roles in American film and television productions. He plays an Arkansas outlaw lead on the series "Gunslingers" on Discovery Network's American Heroes Channel, and also hit TV screens in TNT's "The Last Ship," as a cheeky trigger-happy British Commando. On the big screen he plays a desert convenience store owner with an enthusiastic storytelling meth habit in the sexy road movie "What Lola Wants," which featured at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival.

Prior to his Los Angeles move, NATHAN had another life in Australia. He was one of Australia's most loved TV hosts, on Australian televisions and bedroom walls since 2006. He was a proud and popular MTV VJ for 3 years, hosting everything from TRL, MTV News, MTV Screen and everything in between. He also conceived, produced and hosted the Australian Cable TV award-nominated international travel show "QT: Quality Time," among several others. He was also the male voice of MTV Australia and its sister VH1, for all on-air promotion. After this he became the much loved host of "Video Hits," Australia's most popular, highest rating music, entertainment and pop culture show on Network TEN Australia, traveling the world for special events and high profile interviews.

This month, NATHAN is on stage at the Matrix Theatre in a production of the play "Ruben Guthrie," which takes an affecting and darkly comic look at alcoholism and the impact of Australia's drinking culture. A heady cocktail of fizzy humor and touching revelation about a Sydney adman who spirals high, then crashes hard, it's the story not only of his battle with the bottle - but also of the city that won't let him put it down.

Hear our live interview with NATHAN SAPSFORD this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!

Given the despairing nature of American politics lately, anyone wanting an upbeat story involving politicians is forced to look abroad.

This week, the left wing Spanish political party Podemos gained international attention when it published its manifesto in the style of an Ikea catalogue. Rather than pages and pages of small-font texts of arcane terminology and general mumbo-jumbo, this manifesto is organized on a room-by-room basis, with the party's candidates pictured at home in the kitchen, on the sofa, in the garden or working at their desks.

Interestingly, the photos correspond with policies. So the policy on social land use is illustrated by a Podemos party leader sitting next to pot plants on his terrace. Other party members are depicted feeding their fish, hanging out washing, making the bed and brushing their teeth.

According to a party spokesman, they chose the Ikeas format because they wanted it to be "the most-read manifesto ever produced."

Makes one wonder if our Presidential candidates let their creative juices flow, what might their Convention manifestos potentially look like? For Hillary, perhaps a Goldman Sachs IPO prospectus? For Donald, maybe a stack of high school composition books, filled in tiny methodical writing - Unabomber-style - with his unique solutions to the world's problems?

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* McDonald's Japan is using a Hamburglar-like McNugget thief to promote a contest offering a five-piece box of 18-karat-gold nuggets.

* A flock of about 1,000 sheep were seen freely roaming about the streets of a Spanish city after escaping from their shepherd.

* A Polish nightclub owner practicing tank driving for a planned party crashed the Howitzer into the front of his club during a Facebook live-stream.

* The Russian Ministry of Sport has included virtual games in the register of official sports of the country.

* A British TV host tested the strength of China's new glass-bottom bridge, said to be the world's highest, by slamming it with a sledgehammer.

Call us this Sunday night between 10pm and midnight during the live broadcast of THE BIGGER PICTURE on 866-870-5752 (or 866-870-KRLA). Let us know what you're thinking about the state of the world we live in today!

Given the despairing nature of American politics lately, anyone wanting an upbeat story involving politicians is forced to look abroad.

This week, the left wing Spanish political party Podemos gained international attention when it published its manifesto in the style of an Ikea catalogue. Rather than pages and pages of small-font texts of arcane terminology and general mumbo-jumbo, this manifesto is organized on a room-by-room basis, with the party's candidates pictured at home in the kitchen, on the sofa, in the garden or working at their desks.

Interestingly, the photos correspond with policies. So the policy on social land use is illustrated by a Podemos party leader sitting next to pot plants on his terrace. Other party members are depicted feeding their fish, hanging out washing, making the bed and brushing their teeth.

According to a party spokesman, they chose the Ikeas format because they wanted it to be "the most-read manifesto ever produced."

Makes one wonder if our Presidential candidates let their creative juices flow, what might their Convention manifestos potentially look like? For Hillary, perhaps a Goldman Sachs IPO prospectus? For Donald, maybe a stack of high school composition books, filled in tiny methodical writing - Unabomber-style - with his unique solutions to the world's problems?

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* McDonald's Japan is using a Hamburglar-like McNugget thief to promote a contest offering a five-piece box of 18-karat-gold nuggets.

* A flock of about 1,000 sheep were seen freely roaming about the streets of a Spanish city after escaping from their shepherd.

* A Polish nightclub owner practicing tank driving for a planned party crashed the Howitzer into the front of his club during a Facebook live-stream.

* The Russian Ministry of Sport has included virtual games in the register of official sports of the country.

* A British TV host tested the strength of China's new glass-bottom bridge, said to be the world's highest, by slamming it with a sledgehammer.

Call us this Sunday night between 10pm and midnight during the live broadcast of THE BIGGER PICTURE on 866-870-5752 (or 866-870-KRLA). Let us know what you're thinking about the state of the world we live in today!

MATT PASSMORE, star of the A&E fan-favorite 'The Glades' and USA's 'Satisfaction,' is our special guest this Sunday night!

Since graduating from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2001, MATT has worked both on stage and screen in Australia and the United States. His starring television credits in Australia include 'Underbelly 2,' 'McLeod's Daughters'' 'The Cooks,' 'Last Man Standing,' 'Always Greener,' 'Blue Heelers,' 'The Cut,' 'Backberner' and 'Playschool.'

Here in the US, MATT starred in 'The Glades' on A&E and 'Satisfaction' on the USA network. Film credits include the edgy horror film 'Come Back To Me' and the comedy 'Is That A Gun In Your Pocket' (co-starring Cloris Leachman).

This month MATT is back in Southern California at the Matrix Theatre working with the Australian Theatre Company on their production of Andrew Bovell's noir psychological thriller, 'Speaking in Tongues.' In this theatrical jigsaw puzzle of parallel stories, two couples set out to betray their partners... a lover returns from the past... a husband doesn't answer the phone... and a neighbor is the prime suspect when a woman disappears. 'Speaking in Tongues" is a winner of the Australian Writers' Guild's AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play and called 'clever, provocative, elliptically resonant; by The New York Times.

Hear our live interview with MATT PASSMORE this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!