Lew Irwin

Lew Irwin

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Lew Irwin has been a Los Angeles-based journalist for more than 50 years. He was the original anchor/reporter at KABC-TV from 1957–1962 and the news director of Los Angeles radio stations KPOL, KRLA, KDAY, and KNX-FM. While at KRLA in the late 1960s, he created The Credibility Gap, a 15-minute news program, broadcast every three hours, that integrated topical satire and music with the news.[1] He also has interviewed Presidents Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan, as well as such show business personalities as The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, Peter Sellers, Jack Nicholson, Dick Clark[2][3] and Elvis Presley.[4] He is the author of Sinatra, a Life Remembered, a coffee table book about Frank Sinatra[5] and since 1992 has been the publisher/editor of the daily entertainment industry digest Studio Briefing.[6]

LA Times = veteran TV/radio newsman Lew Irwin ...he's just out with a sensational book, "Deadly Times," all about the 1910 bombing of the great newspaper, the LA Times...the book also delves into America's forgotten decade of terror...yes, we had terrorists even then... at least 20 members of the Times' staff were killed...go to Facebook to learn more about Lew Irwin and his book which took many years to write...or you can google his name or the title of his book
Date Recorded: 10/8/2013

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Cameron Reddy

Cameron Reddy

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Gun Rights

Mr. Reddy received his BA from Michigan State University and his law degree from The University of Michigan Law School (but his blood runs Spartan green!). A graduate of Gunsite Training Center and numerous firearm and self defense classes, he has taught the lawful use of deadly force for over 10 years. Mr. Reddy’s interests include golf, table tennis, cross country skiing, cycling, playing guitar, building acoustic guitars, woodworking, and impersonating the Big Bopper on karaoke night. He currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his two miniature schnauzers, Elsie and Ellie Mae.
Date Recorded:10/8/2013

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Faddius Reports

Charles S. Faddis

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BK: Caffa

I am a retired CIA officer and author. I'd love to come on the show to talk national security, the intelligence community, the role of government in society and my new novel, "Caffa".
Date Recorded: 9/5/2012

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Adam Reinwald, baritone

Adam Reinwald, baritone

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McPherson Opera House

Artistic Council – Programming 16th season with Cantus Hometown: Eugene, OR Education: BM Vocal Music Education, St. Olaf College Baritone Adam Reinwald started singing in the Oregon Children’s Choir Association in the 3rd grade and spent a total of 10 years with that organization. As a boy soprano, Adam sang the lead role in Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Seattle Opera. At St. Olaf College, he sang in the St. Olaf Choir for three years. Adam has performed as soloist with the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra and the University of Oregon Symphony Orchestra, and as choral soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Oregon Bach Festival. Adam maintains an active voice studio in the Twin Cities, focusing on developing high school voices. While classical music has been the basis of Adam’s professional experience, a love of popular music–jazz, funk, blues, barbershop, bluegrass, modern rock–continues to sustain his musical interests. An avid sports fan, Adam will occasionally break dress code and don a University of Oregon Ducks football jersey on Saturdays in the fall in order to help his favorite team win. In fact, Adam is the only individual in the world with his own fight song, “Mighty Reinwald.” 10 Questions for Adam: 1. What is your best musical memory from childhood? One of my most striking memories, and one of the earliest, is being in some sort of classroom during summer sports camp, maybe 5 years old. The door to the outside was wide open since it was such a nice day and we were stretching and moving like 5 year olds, all to Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature”. Great song. Every time I hear the song now, I can picture that community room and the summer breeze vividly. 2. If you had a super power, what would it be? I’ve thought quite a bit about this: I would like Super Speed. I hate the time wasted in transit…I’m too anxious to get where I’m going. Not flight, because that’s too involved. Just Super Speed on the ground. 3. What is your super power at a Cantus rehearsal? I think that I always try to keep us pointed toward a goal and moving forward with our art. I guess that makes me Never Satisfied Man. Occasionally, I am also So-Crazy-It-Just-Might-Work Idea Guy. 4. What are you looking forward to in the coming season? I’m looking forward to the trip to Washington D.C. for the Kennedy Center performance of All Is Calm in the winter. I’m also looking forward to presenting a program of music Czech music we recently recorded…I very much enjoyed recording those pieces by Dvořák and Janáček. 5. Cereal at dinner: yes or no? If yes, pure or mixed? NO. If you’re going to have breakfast for dinner, the only acceptable answers would be an omelet or waffles. 6. Do you own any albums that would surprise people? I’m pretty sure that most people would not be surprised by anything in my CD collection, except for maybe my small but delightful collection of ragtime piano recordings. 7. Do you have a movie you can watch over and over again? Yes, the movie Clue, starring Tim Curry and everyone else from the 80s. I’m up to 90+ viewings…it’s a long story. 8. Where in the world would you like to go that you haven’t been? I’d love to visit Copenhagen, Barcelona, Rome, Verona, Istanbul, Jakarta, Tokyo, Zurich, Bali/Java, and Johannesburg. But above all, I want to live in Uruguay. Guess I have to visit first. 9. What’s your greatest fear? That the world will one day run out of barbecue sauce. 10. Can you describe your perfect day? Hard to describe a perfect day, but I can mention what I would eat throughout my perfect day: it would include a hearty challah bread French toast breakfast at Studio One Café in Eugene, OR; a full rack of ribs at Charlie Vergos’ Rendezvous in Memphis for lunch; a lite snack of fried walleye “shore lunch” in Birchdale, MN; and my dad’s pulled pork and “10th Revision” barbecue sauce for one very full dinner. Do you see a trend?
Date Recorded: 10/8/2013

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Frank Cotolo

Frank Cotolo

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Latest

The Godfather of Internet Talk Radio, also known as Frank Cotolo, has been skulking the halls of the Internet for a really – long – time. Frank has engaged his talents in every form of writing and broadcast that is possible over the past few decades. As writer his output has varied from producing speeches for corporate officers to books, theater pieces, commercial copy and one-liners for comedians. He has written fiction, non-fiction and straight news for print and broadcast. As Godfather of talk he spent many years with the legendary Wolfman Jack as Mars Cotolo. He also is known for his numerous writings of custom material for personality’s radio shows, live appearances, TV and movie roles. You can hear Frank live weekly on COTOLO CHRONICLES every Thursday at 9 PM EST. His work of short stories, Pony Player, is a cult classic with copies reselling for hundreds of dollars. He is the author of License to Skill, the amazingly illustrated Molotov Memoirs and his much talked about epic, The Complete and Unabridged History of Japan. You will love Frank’s freestyle, drum solo and interesting interactions in COTOLO CHRONICLES. We’ll bet you dollars to donuts, you bring the donuts! Frank is also co-founder of JuicedTalk.com with The Artist D and Velvet Steele, the juiciest podcast network you’ve ever heard.
Date Recorded: 10/7/2012

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Andrew Warren

Andrew Warren

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The Countershaded Ibex

Born and raised in Bucharest in Communist Romania, Andrew learned the meaning of adversity survival at an early age. By the age of seven, he was already writing stories of hopelessness and escapism reflecting on the life around him. When he was nine, his father was arrested and thrown in one of the regime’s most infamous prisons. During the following five years, his mother, an uneducated yet gutsy woman born in a Transylvanian shtetl, tried desperately to put food on the table through any means she could think of. Her exhausting efforts often left her impatient with Andrew’s obsessive story writing, which drove Andrew to stop writing; in fact he stopped writing for the next thirty-five years. When Andrew was fourteen, his father was finally released from prison, and, for a brief moment, it seemed like his life was going to take on some semblance of normalcy. But the tough years apart left his parents virtual strangers, so a messy divorce quickly followed that turned even messier when, due to extreme housing shortages, his parents were forced to continue to live in the tiny, claustrophobic apartment that Andrew had shared with his mother during his father’s incarceration. Two years later, Andrew and his mother were allowed to emigrate to the West provided they left immediately and only with the clothes on their backs. Their Romanian exit visa specified Paris, France as their final destination, and Andrew allowed himself to briefly fantasize about freedom and endless opportunities. But the harsh realities of an immigrant’s life among the xenophobic French quickly set in. The most incongruous memory of this time was when the homeroom teacher at the day school he was allowed to audit denied him the right to stand with the other students in deference to the fallen French soldiers fighting in the Algerian War of Independence. The following year, he and his mother arrived at New York City’s Idlewild Airport hopeless, penniless, and without even the rudiments of the English language, where they were met by caseworkers from an organization called NYANA who deposited them in a fleabag that, shortly after they moved out, collapsed of its own accord, killing four people. Despite the ominous beginnings, America was good to Andrew. He went to NYU where he first earned a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and later a Master’s in Environmental Engineering. He married and had two children, Judy and Alex who are still the paradigms of his creative gifts. Unfulfilled with engineering and its confined possibilities, he decided on a whim to start his own engineering consulting firm, thinking that would allow him to choose the more social aspects of the business. To his dismay, the venture turned out to be more successful than he could imagine under the circumstances, which further delayed his return to his childhood passion of writing. But in the early nineties, though still saddled by the business, Andrew cautiously returned to writing and also went back to school to prepare himself for a career as a college instructor of English. In 2001, he sold the engineering consulting firm, which finally freed him to devote himself to full-time writing. Since then, he has written three novels, an extensive collection of short stories, essays, several plays, and countless pages of personal recollections. He also teaches literature and composition writing at two New York-area colleges and runs a creative writing workshop at a senior center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Andrew Warren’s latest book, The Countershaded Ibex is published through Tate Publishing.
Date Recorded: 10/7/2013

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What makes Bey and Jay a power couple?

Susan Ziegelhofer

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What makes Bey and Jay a power couple?

About the Author: Susan Ziegelhofer has a Master’s Degree in Education, minor in psychology. Growing up, her father was a school psychologist, so she was drilled on analyzing people and solutions for as long as she can remember. Susan is the author of “What To Do Before You Say “I Do.” She wrote this book so her two children, who are in serious relationships, didn’t repeat her mistakes. Susan’s personal experience, education and mistakes gave her the wisdom to share what it takes to have a happy, healthy relationship. Learn more at www.susanziggy.com.
Date Recorded: 10/7/2013

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