Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Don Geronimo, Mike O’Meara, Robb Spewak, Joe Ardinger, Tom Gavin, and Dennis Murphy holograms… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! “In San Francisco, Bay Area Rapid Transit officials are looking for to a couple who had intercourse... Continue Reading →
TV tough guy Robert Conrad aims his fists at talk radio! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes Brigadier General Moore, Colonel Lard, 1st Lt. Wiley, Capt. Gutterman, Lt. Anderson, Lt. Bob Boyle and 1st Lt. Bragg… in the NEW new media capital of the world, St. Petersburg, Florida! He’s the original TV tough guy. He’s a formidable ladies man... Continue Reading →
And the War Came? Spy’s Jamie Malanowski connects the dots! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes folks who still haven’t left my living room since the Tony Hendra interview… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Part 1 Writer Jamie Malanowski knows Abraham Lincoln! (Interview; 1 of 2) When I heard that Jamie... Continue Reading →
Dave Jackson’s SchoolOfPodcasting.com shows you how! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes broadcast radio personalities looking for pointers into the brave new world of podcasting… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Part 1 of 3 If you listen to podcasts – and who doesn’t these days – you... Continue Reading →
Mr. Media commercial by Kevin Smith and Jen Schwalbach! (2011)
This was so cool, I had to share it again! In 2011, I took a flyer on a paid commercial for the Mr. Media podcast on Kevin Smith's new Smodcast daily, online radio show, Plus One Per Diem. The show features Smith, the director of Clerks, Chasing Amy and Red State, and his wife,... Continue Reading →
Legendary talk show host Barry Farber: 50 years in radio! PODCAST INTERVIEW
I must not tell a lie; I did not grow up listening to Barry Farber on the radio. I listened to FM album radio stations in my New Jersey bedroom back in the 1970s, WNEW in New York City, the student-run station at Rutgers University and WPST in Princeton. Talk radio? Not so much then.... Continue Reading →
Spinning with Casablanca Records co-founder Larry Harris! PODCAST INTERVIEW
(UPDATE - Larry Harris died on December 18, 2017.) Everybody thinks their life story would make a good book. I’m here to tell you that’s not true. Larry Harris is not everybody. He’s 1970s records mogul Neil Bogart’s cousin—and a co-founder of legendary Casablanca Records—for heaven’s sake, and boy, does he have a great... Continue Reading →
58 What a concept! Weiner’s New World Dictionary of Media! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Richard Weiner, author, Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications (Originally Published September 30, 1996; Richard Weiner passed away on January 29, 2014. He was an early and enduring supporter of Mr. Media and he will be greatly missed.) During his career as the owner of a successful New York public relations... Continue Reading →
52 Radio’s Tom Leykis tackles Rush Limbaugh! INTERVIEW
Originally distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, November 2, 1996 If syndicated right-wing radio talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North are as powerful and influential as they seem to think, why isn't Bob Dole the president of the United States? That's what Tom Leykis wants to know. Leykis, 40,... Continue Reading →
15 Houdini biographer Ratso Sloman on writing with Howard Stern! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Larry Ratso Sloman, author or co-author of celebrity memoirs from Howard Stern, Abbie Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Phil Esposito, Mike Tyson, and a biography of Harry Houdini Writing the biography of a well-known person in pop culture is an assignment fraught with trap doors, two-way mirrors, and shackles. Some writers even disdain... Continue Reading →