Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Jeanne Martinet, author of The Art of Mingling and Life is Friends.JEANNE MARTINET podcast excerpt: "The old rule in Victorian days used to be that safe subjects were the weather and your health. That was the line. But both of these subjects now lead directly to politics. The weather leads directly to globe warming and your health to (Obamacare). I do have some techniques in 'The Art of Mingling' for defusing political situations. Don't talk politics unless you know you're not with a fanatic. You don't want to argue at a party."Key interview moments:• 6:50 Cellphone etiquette -- learn it, live it, says Jeanne Martinet;• 15:35 How to deal with a situation in which your spouse or partner is minglephobic in social situations;• 27:35 Martinet offers advice on steering clear of escalating political talk with fanatics at non-political parties.Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedi

Today's Guest: Jeanne Martinet, author of The Art of Mingling and Life is Friends.   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jeanne Martinet by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of unfun and unproven mingling techniques who are becoming more than a little nervous… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! When Jeanne Martinet told me she had rewritten and revised more than 50 percent of her 1992 guide, The Art of Mingling: Fun and Proven Techniques for Mastering Any Room, I had to admit I was curious. As an author myself, I think if I had that much new content to offer, I would have leaned toward an entirely new title. After all, the original Art of Mingling had already sold more than 150,000 copies. Wouldn’t her many fans support a new title over the revision of an older one? JEANNE MARTINET podcast excerpt: "The old rule in Victorian days used to be that safe subjects were the weather and your health. That was the li

Today's Guest: Filmmaker Lloyd Handwerker, director of the documentary Famous Nathan, about his grandfather Nathan Handwerker, founder of the Coney Island landmark, Nathan's.LLOYD HANDWERKER podcast excerpt: "There was no semblance of a line at Nathan's. There were one area where you could only buy the hot dogs, one area where you could only get the drinks, and one area where you could only get the hamburgers -- unlike most fast food places, and what Nathan's does today. It might seem chaotic, but workers had a method of looking at the crowd and figuring out who they were going to serve next."Key interview moments:• 6:10 Making sense of the chaos that also made Nathan's of Coney Island famous (besides the hot dogs);• 14:40 Why there is no biography of Nathan Handwerker;• 27:25 How the founder of Nathan's integrated his food counter.Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Me

Today's Guest: Filmmaker Lloyd Handwerker, director of the documentary Famous Nathan, about his grandfather Nathan Handwerker, founder of the Coney Island landmark, Nathan's.   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Lloyd Handwerker by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of Famous Nathan’s countermen who won’t be putting up with any bullsh*t from the likes of you, fella… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Growing up in New Jersey, my grandparents frequently took me by bus and train out to Brooklyn to visit my Great-Aunt Bess and Great-Uncle Max. Sometimes, we stayed in their tiny apartment and Aunt Bess cooked. But sometimes, my grandfather and I went off and spent the day at Coney Island, riding the rides and eating a hot dog and fries at the block-long Nathan’s Famous hot dog stand right on the boardwalk. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it. LLOYD HANDWERKER podcast excerpt: "There was no semblance of a l

Today's Guest: Tommy Ford, star of the faith-based web TV series "The Club" and co-star of the long-running Martin Lawrence sitcom "Martin.” TOMMY FORD podcast excerpt: "Reverend Holmes was preaching a sermon and a guy jumped up in the middle and said, 'The Lord directs your steps? Did the Lord direct you to have sex with my wife? And so many other wives in this congregation? Was that the Lord, buddy?' And he pulls out a guy and approaches the Reverend. There is a struggle in the pulpit. The gun goes off and the husband is killed. Instantly, Reverend Holmes realizes, 'I disrespected my calling, I disrespected God, I disrespected my wife, I disrespected the ministry, I disrespected all of my members.' And he is sorry.” Key interview moments: • 3:45 Tommy Ford on whether there are similarities between the ministry and being an actor; • 12:30 An explanation of how "The Club" can be described as a faith-based comedy despite featured a scandalous storyline and often using coarse language about women and sexuality;

Today's Guest: Dewayne Staats, Tampa Bay Rays play-by-play announcer and author of “Position To Win” with Dave Scheiber. DEWAYNE STAATS podcast excerpt: "Harry Caray was perfect on the personality side. I learned from him that it's important to be a human being and to have fun with this and be personable. Harry once told me that, when he was a kid in St. Louis, he would listen to the games in the early years of radio and then he would sneak his way into the ballpark. He said it was always so much more fun at the ballpark than when he listened at home. He tried to convey the actual experience of being at the ballpark in his personality and, at the same time, it didn't hurt because it served his own purposes. Harry knew what he was doing; he was promoting Harry Caray."Key interview moments:• 8:15 Despite his overwhelming interest in sports while in high school, Dewayne Staats' teacher encouraged him to explore philosophy and literature because "the unexamined life is not worth living;• 20:55 Harry Caray knew wh

Today's Guest: Tommy Ford, star of the faith-based web TV series "The Club" and co-star of the long-running Martin Lawrence sitcom "Martin." INTERVIEW Tommy Ford, actor, Martin, The Club by andelman  Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Tommy Ford by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of cheating cheaters who want to cheat until they get caught cheating – or longer… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Is it wrong that, in watching Tommy Ford’s new web TV series, “The Club,” I found myself rooting for his character, Rev. Lamont Holmes Jr., to fail? This is a married man of the cloth – emphasis on man – who loves women and has been with Siamese twins and prefers Oprah over Halle. We learn this when he applies for membership to a men’s club for philanderers whose inspiration come from Bill Clinton, among others. TOMMY FORD podcast excerpt: "Reverend Holmes was preaching a sermon and a guy jumped up in the middle a

Today's Guests: Jim Serpico and Tom Sellitti, creators and writers of Benders on IFC as well as being executive producers of "Rescue Me," "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll,&q­uot; "Maron," "Sirens" and "Canterbury's Law.”Key interview moments:• 0:00 COMING;• 0:00 COMING;• 0:00 Caution: COMING!Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...For more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm of Charlie Rose, the curiosity of Terry Gross and the unpredictability of Howard Stern! Since February 2007, more than 1,000 exclusive Hollywood, celebrity, pop culture video and audio comedy podcast interviews by Mr. Media®, a.k.a., Bob Andelman, with newsmakers in TV, radio, movies, music, magazines, newspapers, books, websites, social media, politics, sports, graphic novels, and comics! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/andelmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/MrMediaRadio

Today’s Guest: Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC/DC, in a telephone interview recorded on November 26, 1983.BRIAN JOHNSON podcast excerpt: "Joining AC/DC was one of them things. A million to one chance.”Key interview moments:• 3:00 Brian Johnson, who considers his voice one of the instruments in the band rather than declaring himself a singer, explains why he took up singing in the first place;• 10:15 What did it feel like the first time he took the stage (in Belgium) to front the already legendary AC/DC?;• 19:50 Johnson explains the reasoning behind the rock anthem “{For Those About to Rock We Salute You.”Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm of Charlie Rose, the curiosity of Terry Gross and the unpredictability of Howard Stern! Since February 2007, more than 1,000 exclusive Hollywood, celebrity, pop culture video and audio comedy podcast inter

Today's Guest: Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC/DC, in a telephone interview recorded on November 26, 1983. (NOTE FROM MR. MEDIA: I recorded this interview with AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson on November 26, 1983 for a St. Petersburg Times print interview [published December 4, 1983] when I was the pop music writer for the newspaper. You can read the story below; the conversation itself is not my best work, although maybe it was for 1983 when I was a year out of college. (I could also blame a painful sore throat.) But the future Rock and Roll Hall of Fane inductee was a prince through it all, and even through the less-than-optimal recording quality, I think that still comes across. Stick around – the first music my son, Charlie, ever heard was “Highway to Hell” by AC/DC as we drove home from the hospital! No kidding. -- Bob Andelman) Brian Johnson faced more than the usual challenges when he joined the rock band AC/DC: He was the replacement for singer Bon Scott who had died in an accident. Since so much of

Today's Guest: Tampa Bay Rays play-by-play announcer Dewayne Staats, author with Dave Scheiber of Position To Win: A Look at Baseball and Life From the Best Seat in the House. INTERVIEW Dewayne Staats, play-by-play... by andelman  Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Dewayne Staats by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of second-rate ballplayers who, whenever they get to third base, have visions of Meat Loaf in their heads, keep swearing on their mothers’ graves and screaming, “I’ll love you to the end of time!”… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! There are some genuinely, truly nice people in the world. You might not know this if your only friends are Facebook friends, but it’s true. I suspect Dewayne Staats is one of the good guys. For one thing, I’ve read his just published memoir of life in a baseball broadcast booth and Staats hasn’t an unkind word to share about anyone. DEWAYNE STAATS podcast excerpt: "Harry

Today's Guest: Sandra E, Lamb, author of Writing Well for Business Success: A Complete Guide to Style, Grammar, and Usage at Work.Order “Writing Well for Business Success” by Sandra E. Lamb: http://amzn.to/1VjKLkvKey interview moments:• 2:05 There are right ways and wrong ways to write for work and too many people are doing it wrong;• 9:58 Hillary Clinton's ongoing issues with classified e-mails and a private server should remind everyone in an office that there is knowing the rules, following te rules -- and disregarding the rules;• 22:34 Caution: Yield to grammar usage--or not!Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm of Charlie Rose, the curiosity of Terry Gross and the unpredictability of Howard Stern! Since February 2007, more than 1,000 exclusive Hollywood, celebrity, pop culture video and audio comedy podcast interviews by Mr. Media®, a.k.a.

Today's Guests: Jim Serpico and Tom Sellitti, creators and writers of Benders on IFC as well as being executive producers of "Rescue Me," "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll," "Maron," "Sirens" and "Canterbury's Law." INTERVIEW Jim Serpico, Tom Sellitti, TV... by andelman  Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with JIM SERPICO and TOM SELLITTI by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of foul-mouthed reprobates whose bad habits, substance addictions, marital woes and social indiscretions appear endless… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! If you liked the amateur hockey, lockerroom and post-game bar moments found on the Denis Leary FX dramedy “Rescue Me,” you’re gonna love the new IFC comedy “Benders.” You might say it’s the former show without the drama. Oh, wait. I just did. TOM SELLITTI podcast excerpt: "All of the characters on 'Benders' are narcissists in their own way. We wanted Karen Rosenberg to be one of the guys w

Today's Guest: Sandra E, Lamb, author of Writing Well for Business Success: A Complete Guide to Style, Grammar, and Usage at Work.   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with SANDRA LAMB by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of high-strung grammarians just itching for a fight about, uh, nothing anyone else considers important… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! I may be the worst writer in the world to be interviewing someone who has written a book with the subtitle “A Complete Guide to Style, Grammar, and Usage at Work.” Honestly, I haven’t paid strict attention to the rules of grammar since high school. SANDRA E. LAMB podcast excerpt: "I think even Hillary Clinton has conceded that it's very important that you know the office e-mail rules and follow the rules. Meticulously. That is going to put you in better stead with your employer." You can LISTEN to this interview with SANDRA E. LAMB, author of WRITING WELL FO

Today's Guest: Jason B. Kohl, film director and author of Film School: A Practical Guide to an Impractical Decision.Order Film School: A Practical Guide to an Impractical Decision by Jason B. Kohl: http://amzn.to/1Jum4WlJASON B. KOHL podcast excerpt: "Film school is a not a two- to four-year slog to become famous! It's about learning to be a complete human being and how to communicate with the world."Key interview moments:• 6:10 Film School author Jason B. Kohl advises prospective film students to "find your voice" before starting the the application process;• 18:05 Students need to understand that applying to film schools -- and film festivals -- require patience and strategy;• 26:50 Don't apply to film school with the single goal of becoming rich and famous; that's a sure way to fall flat on your face (or elsewhere).Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interview

Today's Guest: Jason B. Kohl, film director and author of Film School: A Practical Guide to an Impractical Decision.   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with JASON B. KOHL by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of life-long film students who never realized they could have learned everything they needed to know about cinema from a four-year degree and by watching Mr. Media’s Top 10 movies: Caddyshack, Animal House, Serpico, the original Planet of the Apes… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Little known fact: my bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida is in film studies. Not that anyone studying film there or anywhere else today would recognize my independent study degree in today’s high pressure world of film schools. JASON B. KOHL podcast excerpt: "Film school is a not a two- to four-year slog to become famous! It's about learning to be a complete human being and how to communicate with the world." You

Today's Guest: Voice actor Rob Paulsen, whose talents can be heard on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "Animaniacs," "Pinky & the Brain" and many more. He is also host of the "Talkin' Toons" podcast.ROB PAULSEN podcast excerpt: "In Season 4 of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' we have a lot of celebrity talent. We've got a 13-story arc with David Tennant -- the 10th Doctor Who. I'm not a big Whovian but I love him in 'Broadchurch.' He is a Turtle fanatic!”Key interview moments:• 12:00 Rob Paulsen reveals a sort of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Doctor Who crossover in the animated series' fourth season;• 25:40 Learn what characterizes the best voice actors;• 44:20 Hear Paulsen, fast as Yakko, then as The Mask.Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm of Charlie Rose, the curiosity of Terry Gross and the unpredictability of Howard Stern! Since Februa

Today's Guest: Voice actor Rob Paulsen, whose talents can be heard on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "Animaniacs," "Pinky & the Brain" and many more. He is also host of the "Talkin' Toons" podcast.   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with ROB PAULSEN by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of second-rate cartoon characters who think they could be top-tier if only Rob Paulsen would voice them… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Who didn’t love “Pinky & the Brain” and “The Animaniacs”? Delicious animated antics for the kids, word play, pop references and in-jokes for the adults! All that and big servings of today’s guest, voice actor Rob Paulsen. Paulsen, like Billy West, is a modern day Mel Blanc, the man of 1,000 voices who gave us Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Jack Benny’s sputtering Maxwell and so many more. ROB PAULSEN podcast excerpt: "In Season 4 of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' we have a lot

Today's Guest: Romance novelist Jane Peden, author of “The Millionaire’s Unexpected Proposal."Order “The Millionaire’s Unexpected Proposal” by Jane Peden: http://amzn.to/1Y48RyFJANE PEDEN podcast excerpt: “Suppose you have a successful lawyer in Miami and five years ago, he had a two-week fling in Las Vegas? He met a very attractive, cool blonde — someone Alfred Hitchcock would have loved — in the hotel bar. He started to feel too close to her and was scared by that so he dumps her and heads back to Miami. He becomes extremely successful. Five years later, she shows up at his office with an unusual proposal...”Key Interview Moments:• 5:05 Turning writing from a hobby into a professional pursuit;• 12:40 Writing from the seat of her pants;• 17:00 An intro to the plot of “The Millionaire’s Unexpected Proposal."Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm

Today's Guest: Today's Guest: Romance novelist Jane Peden, author of “The Millionaire’s Unexpected Proposal." INTERVIEW Jane Peden, romance novelist, The... by andelman  Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with romance novelist Jane Peden by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of well intentioned but occasionally horny young women and the lawyers who encourage them to the letter of the law… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Long-time Mr. Media fans – and you’re not the only one, Mom – are probably aware that it has been a while since I’ve had a romance novelist as a guest. I can’t explain why that is except there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of them and only one of me. But I get a kick out of the genre on occasion and have enjoyed the appearances of Kristin Harmel, Adriana Trigiani, Tracy Anne Warren, Jodi Thomas, JC Isabella, and Brenda Novak. That’s why I was game to read attorney Jane Peden’s first novel, The Mil