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INFO & STATS: Indy Film Producers / Wrote, directed and produced the new film: “The First Saturday in May”
TOPICS: The horse racetrack the coolest place that nobody pays attention to / Can horse racing be great again like I the 1930’s? / Why a movie like “The First Saturday in May” had not been made up till now / The challenge of editing 500 hours of tape into a 90 minute film / Making the film fun and highly entertaining while still being a documentary / Horse racing being a sport vs. “the bet” / Not wanting to make the movie about a single horse; Barbaro / Making the movie for the purist or those who want to know more about horse racing? / Seeing the Barbaro injury in person / Barbaro the horse; inquisitive horse at the track / Rome’s 2-year old horse; odds of the horse reaching the Derby; better odds being with Little Red Feather Racing / The challenge of getting the film seen as Indy Film producers / Word of mouth helping get the movie picked up in markets / DVD being released today on their website / Difficulty going up against big budget films / Thrilled over Rome’s involvement in horse racing. |
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INFO & STATS: American Actor / NBC’s “The Office” / Breakout role in the new movie “Leatherheads”.
TOPICS: Reaction to George Clooney wanting him in the new movie / George Clooney the type that John thought he was getting “punked” or “pranked” / The ability to breakout of the TV box with the movie role / Knowing ever day how lucky he is to be an successful actor / George Clooney; the quintessential actor / Clooney the director directing Clooney the actor / Physical acting on the football field during the filming of “Leatherheads” / Taking hard shots physically scene after scene / Clooney looking to take “good shots” at Krasinski? / Knowing that NBC’s “The Office” would be such a smash hit? / Outgrowing the television show? / Inside news on upcoming episodes of the “The Office”. |
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INFO & STATS: Hollywood Producer / Primetime Emmy Award Winner.
TOPICS: Emmy Award for the series “Broken Trail” / New mini-series “The Capture of the Green River Killer” on the LMN; J-Stew’s role in the series / J-Stew’s big move from USA Network to LMN; finding the right material for J-Stew / The wooden and laconic J-Stew / J-Stew’s “porn-stache” / Looking to make a “Cheap Seats” movie DVD with Stan Brooks / Edward James Olmos vs. J-Stew. |
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INFO & STATS: Co-head of Mandt Brothers Production / Creative force behind the Award Winning Movie: “Last Stop for Paul”
TOPICS: The story behind “Last Stop for Paul” / Funded the movie off his credit cards and scams to get free rooms / Starring actors feature himself and mostly people he met along the way filming the movie / The style of shooting the film / Setting up the scenes with people who did not speak English in the foreign countries / Favorite stops along the film shoot tour / The “full moon party” in Thailand / The character “Paul”; his best friend growing up / Doing an “Indy” film; testing the movie and sending it to festivals / Winning 45 awards with the film, but still not getting it picked up for major distribution / Starting up Mandt Brothers Production with his brother Mike Mandt (creator of Jim Rome Is Burning); how they did it / Playing in Los Angeles and locations. |
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Actors, Comedians
TOPICS: Reflections on the Yankee’s being “done” earlier in the year / Rob hates the wild card / Sandlers gets drops year round on the Jim Rome Show / Information on the movie / Was a good excuse to come to the Super Bowl / Too many Israeli terrorist movies / Rob plays a Palestinian cab-driver and learned how to drive for the movie / Adam’s love interest in the movie / Not enough time for Rob’s anger / Adam has a lot of success with sports movies / Loved being in “The Longest Yard” / SNL alumni and thoughts of the show now / Adam likes SNL and thinks the ladies are funny / Both give thoughts on Mets trade for Santana / Sandler picks the Pats, but doesn’t want them to win as he grew up not liking them / Rob is annoyed by Boston and thinks it would be great if the Pats lost / Sandler met Brady, and has a bit of a man-crush / Rob froze at the Packers-Giants game and got frost-bite trying to eat a hot dog / Adam’s ass-kicking by Bob Barker / Release date of the movie / Sandler’s kid calls Schneider ‘Baboo’. |
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Host of “Future Weapons” On The Discovery Channel, Author of "Unleash the Warrior Within", Former Navy Seal
TOPICS: 3rd Season of “Future Weapons” / Asked to be hit with a taser during a show / Shot in the back with a taser off camera / Talked about taking an ADS shot / Why he takes cold showers in the morning / Experience of being hit with the taser / Mentally preparing for Seal training / BUDS training experiences / Advice for other men to toughen up and always accepting challenges / Finding new challenges / How he succeeded in the business with no contacts / How much of him is talent versus will of heart / Everything can be learned. |
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Actress, Singer, Award Winning Author
TOPICS: Rodney is fine with Holly’s crush on Rome / Growing up as a diehard Eagle’s fan / Philadelphia legends she could have married / Becoming the scary NFL wife who knows and enjoys the game / Accessing Rodney’s playbook got her to write the book / Emotions dealt with after each win or loss / Walking into a hostile crowd to sing the National Anthem / Thoughts on the Tony Romo & Jessica Simpson scenario / Immediacy of the media should prompt Jessica Simpson to keep a low profile / “Get Your Own Damn Beer, I’m Watching the Game: A Women’s Guide to Professional Football” thoughts on ‘What not to say during a game’ / Which coach is hotter, Coughlin or Belichick / Holly and Rodney’s radio show called “Meet the Peete’s”. |
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INFO & STATS: Singer-Songwriter Five For Fighting / Grammy Nominated Artist / Platinum Selling Artist / New CD: “CD For The Troops” / Part of the Monday Night Football opening.
TOPICS: New CD for the troops, how it came about / “Gitmo” story, spotted by soldiers / Playing for the troops at “Gitmo” / Moral amongst the troops / Artists involvement with the CD, some said no, not a political statement / Thinking behind getting involved with support for the troops / Support from Kraig T. Kitchin and Premiere Radio Networks / Watching Brian Setzer jam / Playing at the Naval Base in Guam / Inspired call memory / Thoughts behind playing for the troops during USO tours / Thanks from war veteran callers / Getting the biggest copyrighted songs for free for the troops / Thanks for Jim Rome allowing John to play on the show, big fan of the Jungle since the S.D. days / Record industry challenges, the need for the return of the singer-songwriter, problems with the pop side of the industry / So Cal sports thoughts with John, Kings & UCLA / BCS “a joke” thoughts / Huge fan of John Wooden, a coach who represented class. |
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INFO & STATS: Lead Guitarist Velvet Revolver / Former Lead Guitarist Guns N’ Roses / Author of Autobiography: “Slash”.
TOPICS: Setting the record straight in the new book, not really wanting to write the book, but things needed to be said / Speculation of why he left Guns N’ Roses / Frustration before he wrote the book, cathartic, importance of getting out what happened with Guns N’ Roses / Good feelings when Guns N’ Roses was formed / Dark times being in Guns N’ Roses / Highpoints and low points, drug usage in the band / Getting through the drugs, drinking, women, lawsuits and overall dark times / Being clean for a year and a half, productivity since with Velvet Revolver / Opportunity to have Scott Weiland as lead singer of Velvet Revolver / Scott Weiland’s demons, getting clean / Breakup of Guns N’ Roses, disagreements with Axl Rose / Slash’s father’s warnings about Axl / Fans interest in reuniting original members Guns N’ Roses / Axl’s work on the album “Chinese Democracy”, enormous amount of time working on album / Former The Replacements’ guitarist Tommy Stinson playing with Guns N’ Roses and Alx / Being a best selling author. |
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INFO & STATS: Rapper / Producer / Entrepreneur
TOPICS: Promoting his new 3rd album “Curtis” / “Curtis” named after his grandfather / Making a positive record and balancing it as an artist with the harsh realities of his life / The hustle to stay alive and feed his family in life / Losing the capability to do the normal things in life / Retiring if Kanye West outsells him? / Respect for Kanye West’s new album and success / Just doing business, not retiring just yet / Kanye West not showing up for the MTV Video Awards / Receiving the ASCAP Writer Awards multiple times for writing about the "truth" in his life. |
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INFO & STATS: J-Stew’s Godfather / Handpicked J-Stew to star in several movie appearances / Producer & Manager for J-Stew / Nominated for 16 Emmys for the series “Broken Trail”.
TOPICS: 16 Emmy nominations for “Broken Trail” and the upcoming Emmy Awards / The mini-series “Broken Trail” a period western / J-Stew shooting his scene in Winnipeg / The lengthy process of J-Stew getting into hair and makeup for “Chasing the Devil” / J-Stew playing his “wooden” & “laconic” character role / J-Stew ready for hip-hop next? / “Chasing the Devil” to debut in Spring on the Lifetime Network. |
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INFO & STATS: Guitarist for Bad Religion & The Circle Jerks / TOPICS: Greg comes in-studio to discuss Bad Religion’s new album “New Maps of Hell” and what it’s like to be in his 40s and still a punk rocker. Greg talks about this year’s Warped Tour and the feeling going on with the bands that are performing. Greg talks about the bands that he gives credit to and being a true punk rock band, but says he has dislike for the bubble gun & pop so-called punk bands out there. Greg spoke about back in the days when the punk rock scene took off in the L.A. and O.C. areas and how the fans were getting harassed by the cops. Greg talks about going a “little more old school” with the new album, with the political commentary and a love song. And, Greg gives details about closing the show with “Punk Rock Karaoke”. Greg talks about working on new material with his other band “The Circle Jerks” and indulges into the differences of selling music online with the bands now then when they tried selling their material back in the 1980s. Greg talks about, being in a band, how he likes to treat the fans and recalls how bands use to treat him when he was a fan of punk rock bands from back in the days. Greg talks some sports, saying he cried the day the Ducks won, being a very long time Kings fan since the 1970s. |
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INTERVIEWED BY GUEST HOST: Jerry Ferrara / INFO & STATS: Actor / Comedian / TOPICS: Jay talks to Kevin and Jerry about his guest hosting the Jungle this past Monday. And, Jay talks Hollywood, Entourage, his FoxSports.com column, the Yankees and lays down his “comedy” act on-air as well! |
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INTERVIEWED BY GUEST HOST: Jerry Ferrara / INFO & STATS: Actor / TV Producer / TOPICS: Mark talks about his latest movie project that he’s filming and gives Kevin Connolly and Jerry Ferrara well deserved compliments for their work on HBO’s “Entourage”. |
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Skateboard Icon / Video Game Mogul / First Pro-Skater to land a 900 / Tony is pushing to make skateboarding an event at the 2012 Olympics and he talks about how that is going saying he believes it’s going positive and it’s on the fast-track. Hawk talked about how the X-Games bought a lot of excitement and made it a spectator sport back in 1995. Tony talked about how he was struggling up until the X-Games, trying to keep skating alive and starting up his own store. Tony talked about going from fame and riches, to hard times…graduating from school…and then being lucky enough to come back. Hawk talked about learning and then accomplishing a 900 spin move on his skateboard during the X-Games. He elaborated on the success of his first video game back in 1999. Tony gave his feeling about enjoying skating even more and having more fun with all his success now of his business…while not having to worry about paying rent and just getting by…saying that he’ll skate as long as he’s physically able to. Tony plugged his new DVD, “Secret Skate Park Tour 3”…with the premiere tonight at the X-Games. |
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Oscar Winning Screen Writer & Actor / Star of the Bourne Ultimatum / Matt talks about the movie premiere and reaction from fans being great for the newest movie in the franchise. Matt talks about how he knows if the movie is working or not at a premiere show. He goes onto talk about how he went from dramatic roles to an action role. Matt goes deep into why he likes the character he portrays. And Matt talks about the Ocean’s franchise and the writers of that series. Also, Matt talks about his friend Ben Affleck making his directing debut. Matt then talked about what is more important to him being from Boston…the movie, K.G. going to Boston or the Celtics big acquisitions. |
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Da’ Godfather in the Jungle / Hollywood Producer / 16 Emmy Nominations / Executive Producer “Chasing the Devil” / J-Stew’s Manager and Godfather / Da’ Godfather announces that his god son J-Stew will have a new role in the Lifetime network series “Chasing the Devil” in three huge scenes! Da’ Godfather says the role needs a “wooden” actor…which J-Stew will fit perfect. He says with Lifetime, you have to cater to the female audience with a "Mr. Heart-throb"...this is where J-Stew comes into play. |
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Comic Actor / Adam talks about his new movie: “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” and talked about what he learned pretending to be gay man married to the character of actor Kevin James in order to get life insurance beneficiaries for his family in this hilarious interview with Van Smack! Rome also thanks Adam for his Hollywood royalty checks from the movie “The Longest Yard” and the differences between his and Adam’s checks in zero length! Also, Adam is shocked by news that fellow former SNL stars Jon Lovitz putting the beat-down on Andy Dick! And Adam goes ballistic when Rome says the “Yanks” are dead 9 back! |
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Interviewed by Jungle Guest Hosts: Stoney & Wojo / Rap & Rock Musician / Kid Rock steps into the Jungle with Stoney & Wojo to promote Detroit City, Detroit Sports and talks about his pal John Daly hanging out with him recently at the Buick Open. Kid talks about being a rock star and getting the hot girls as the record sales go up! And he promotes his new record and tour plans next year during the summer. In wrap, Kid Rock gives his take on the Lions hopeful return to greatness in the NFL. |
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