GMIC 2013 interview
Graham is interviewed on stage at the conference about emerging trends in technology. Asked whether he thinks there will be a ‘year of the wearables’ where gadgets like Google Glass take off, he advises ignoring individual trends and looking at commercial uses for wearables:
Never mind these fads…Just think about all the industrial applications, all the people who can’t carry a computer in their hands, mechanics who are climbing around in airplanes, or emergency workers, it’s going to be so useful to just display all the information.
He says there probably won’t be a point where wearables suddenly become widely used:
It will probably be this gradually rising curve.
Wrestling101.com interview
Luger gives his thoughts about becoming interested in pro wrestling as a career:
I was actually playing American Football and that’s all I had ever done, I never watched wrestling and didn’t know anything about it. I had read and heard about the success of WrestleMania’s but had never seen one, I had heard about Hulk Hogan and Andre The Giant breaking the indoor attendance record, and that’s when I thought to myself there must be something to this wrestling thing.
Montreality Interview
Waka Flocka speaks about new projects, the discipline his mother gave him, bad decisions, healthy habits, Run DMC, DMX, Eminem, G-Unit, and his favorite toys as a child.
WGD Weekly interview
Animal talks to WGD Weekly about the signature L.O.D. look and working with Vince McMahon.
At the time Vince had the Ultimate Warrior. At first he tried to tell us, nobody knows who you are up here. I said, ‘Vince, come on, they know who we are.’ He said, ‘well, I gotta change your name, I can’t call you the Road Warriors, I got the Ultimate Warrior.’ Hawk and I were thinking, ‘that’s kind of dumb that he is acting like this.’ So, we said, ‘how about the Legion of Doom?’ And we used that, at the time, there was no rhyme or reason to anything he did
Diva-Dirt interview
James talks to Diva-Dirt about if she will return to TNA now that they are stationed in Orlando again.
You know, you never know. Honestly you never know in this business, doors are always left open. I have nothing but respect for Dixie Carter and I feel its sad I didn’t get the chance to finish the storyline and the development of the character because I had a decision of where it would go prior to my departure, but a step away from it was a blessing in disguise and I have been able to see the big picture of things.
Charleston Post and Courier interview
Goldust talks to Charleston Post and Courier about being in the best shape of his career and working with his brother.
I think I’ve stumbled upon the fountain of youth or something. I’m 44 years old and I’m down to high school weight (225). But I’ve worked hard for it the past few years. Plus being with Cody gives me more motivation. I’ve really enjoyed this storyline we’ve been doing.
Busted Open Radio interview
Jericho talks to Busted Open Radio about Shawn Michaels ever wrestling again and Big Show.
Honestly knowing Shawn (Michaels), I don’t think so. That’s my opinion. He could but you look at the way he went out, in one of the greatest matches of all time at WrestleMania in the main event with this huge reception. The performer of Shawn Michaels caliber and his ego, and I say that in a good way because we all have egos, he is not going to come back for anything for less than that.
Ted Danson interview
Hall interviews Danson on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the strange things Danson says to his wife in bed.
What he’s saying is that my wife Mary thought that I was kind of slick during the cheers years when she met me and then she realized that after the first time we made love and I said ‘Gosharooney’ she realized I wasn’t that slick.
Alyssa Milano interview
Milano talks about the twitter Hack Code for Archaia’s Hacktivist at the 2013 Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo.
My twitter account was hacked yesterday.
Tyler The Creator interview
Hall interviews Tyler The Creator and questions him about YouTube, his career and Obama.
YouTube, the way that it’s set up, it gives anyone who’s creative a platform to showcase their work to people. And for a website like YouTube to have an award show, you would think they would use that platform to give creative people who aren’t on the Top 20 Billboard [chart], or that everyone doesn’t know that’s not popular — a chance to actually get recognition for being creative and innovative, but instead they did the same thing that the VMAs or the Billboard Pop Awards did with the Katy Perrys and the Justin Biebers.
Regina King and Tracee Ellis interview
Hall interviews King and Ellis on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about African-American female business owner Beverly Bond of Black Girls Rock which empowers African-American women and men. They also talk about aging gracefully and how all women rock. King:
One of the things that’s really great about Beverly’s camp that she does every summer. Is that it’s not only about empowering but it’s also through the arts and that’s something that is being forgotten about in our schools, being taken out in a lot of our schools.
Tavis Smiley interview
Abrams discusses his new project, an interactive novel entitled S, in which two readers leave notes for each other in the margins in this interview for PBS.
So what occurred to me was what would happen if someone found a book and there was a bunch of writing in it, and the person read some of the book and read some of the notes and, almost as a joke, wrote some notes in response, and then left the book back for the person. What if that person who originally wrote the notes found the book, saw those notes, and actually left a thing? What if a relationship began between two people through a book? What if a book became a means to communicate?
Esquire interview
World Peace talks about growing up in Queens, New York:
The City now is way different than it was back in ’85. Especially in Manhattan. Back then, in the late ’80s and early ’90s, it was definitely and heavily drug-infested. I can only ever remember how drug-infested it was when I reminisce about it. I remember in my neighborhood, people tried to come together and do good things. But I think a lot of people fed off the fact that we were struggling in my neighborhood and the best way for them to cope was drugs.
Kanye West interview
Seacrest interviews West during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about his engagement to Kim Kardashian.
The ring was 4-hours-old from when I put it on her finger. I had to pick it up in L.A. (before). I was working on it for awhile. I was working on it with four different jewelers. I just put it in my bag.
Maxim Interview
Knoxville gives his thoughts on his role as Irving Zisman in the movie Bad Grandpa:
The name comes from two guys who used to come to a restaurant I worked at. But the character is like a mixture of Mel Brooks, Walter Matthau, a more perverted version of myself, and my father. There were a lot of lines in the movie that come straight from him. He’s probably my biggest influence.
Beau Bridges Twerk interview
Bridges performs the Twerk dance on The Arsenio Hall Show. Bridges talks about his enjoyment of watching his wife do the dance at home.
Montreality Interview
Logic speaks about his latest projects, writing a book, his most complex verses, not participating on the BET Hip-Hop Awards, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, video games, and his plan for making it in the music industry.
VOC Nation interview
Dreamer talks to VOD Nation about the current state of professional wrestling and Terry Funk.
There’s a lot of unhappiness with the current direction of wrestling, especially with the last few pay per views (from both companies). I was watching the last WWE PPV with fans at a restaurant, and the end of the show left a lot of people with a bad taste in their mouth. TNA has been doing that for a long time as well.
WGD Weekly interview
Shamrock talks to WGD Weekly about being black balled by WWE and what he thinks of Triple H.
I’d like to clarify that. There was a guy named Mark Henry, a strong man. He was in the locker room and there were a few guys involved. Hunter was one of them that put s–t in his sandwich and I told him. So, I think Hunter didn’t like me for that and I think Hunter didn’t like me for the fact that when I first came in Vince put me over on him.
Graham Norton interview
De Niro and Cher are interviewed on The Graham Norton Show. They talk about how De Niro likes to mentor, how his fans respond to him and how some people are intimidated by his presence. De Niro comments:
I like to give advice when people ask and if it could help I’m always there. It depends whose asking me it could be very personal or it could be a career move, I think I’m pretty good at that.
