A few weeks ago, TV critic Alan Sepinwall was back on my radio show to discuss his new book, “Breaking Bad 101.” After that interview aired and I posted it as a podcast, I got a message from an attorney named Steven Keslowitz. No, he wasn’t suing me for anything — he was pitching himself […]
Here’s my conversation with Jen Chaney of Vulture about: accusations of sexual harassment by Louis CK, which caused the premiere of his new movie, “I Love You, Daddy,” to be postponed; whether “House Of Cards” has any future in a possible spinoff now that Kevin Spacey has been canned; the unprecedented move of replacing Spacey […]
When AJ Jacobs starts a project, he doesn’t look for something simple to write about. He read the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica (remember when that was a thing?) for his 2004 book “The Know-It-All.” He spent a year following all the rules in the Bible for his 2007 book, “The Year of Living Biblically.” He tried […]
When he was a teenager, Jeff Rossen’s career was inspired by seeing a balding, overweight man talking into a microphone (funny, I didn’t even notice him watching me!). He was hooked on broadcasting, so he worked his way into the business and up the ladder until he became the National Investigative Correspondent for NBC’s “Today” […]
Here’s a segment of my Friday KTRS show in which I asked Tim and Max to choose which of four new business ideas was the worst. You’ll have to listen to find out what they are and decide for yourself. Listen to our conversation here.
In February, 2008, journalist Jere Van Dyk, who had spent a lot of years in Afghanistan, was kidnapped by the Taliban and held for 45 days. He was the second American journalist kidnapped in Pakistan (the first was Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was beheaded by his captors six years before Van Dyk […]