1070 The Fan in Indianapolis with The Ride interview
Stevens talks about Butler winning the conference championship:
We had been beaten twice. … You’re playing for a conference championship and a chance to go to the NCAA tournament. We kind of sold the whole week as, hey, there was a three-way tie for first and we get to play them both. I think that was something that we wanted to win our own outright championship in our minds.
Fox Sports Radio interview
Williams comments on a potential career in the NBA:
Yeah you know I haven’t really talked to my mom, my sister, my coach about it. I’m not really focused on that [future in the NBA] right now. I want to do as many things as possible at the college level that I possibly can and I had a long list to go before I got to Arizona. I have a few more to accomplish before I want to leave here and one of those is a national championship. You know hopefully we can get that this year and we’ll see what the future holds as soon as the season is over.
WQAM with Gino Torretta and Steve White interview
McMahon gives his thoughts on BYU’s honor code:
They explain it to you. They say Oh we have this honor code. People will probably talk to you about the religion and this and that. They said All you have to do is tell them I’m not interested.’ But I have to say I’m not interested for five years before I get out. It was everyday you get hounded by it.
Into the Night interview
Fredette comments on a possible NBA career:
Yeah definitely. That’s been a goal of mine ever since I was a young child. Now that it’s starting to come up pretty quickly, hopefully those dreams will come true. Just try to work as hard as I possibly can every single year and show everybody that I can play at any level and play against some of the best players. Hopefully a team will take a chance on me and I will be able to prove I can play well.
Thomas Gibson interview
Williams interviews Thomas Gibson, and questions him on family, career, and his seven years acting on TV show Criminal Minds.
My wife and I about seven or eight years ago decided to move to her home town which is San Antonio Texas. And of course nothing will get you a job back in LA faster than leaving. So upon leaving, so now I go back and forth pretty much every week. You know its great cause my kids grow up with their cousins around and you know there family.
Entrepreneur interview
Graham tells the magazine that startup ideas are often bad, and investing in them is investing in people. He says knowing the business and being concise also help. The most important quality Y Combinator looks for:
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
XX Sports Radio interview
Fisher speaks about the logic of national rankings:
You listen to all the people talk about why these teams that lost should either or hold the position they’re in, from Duke — who did not lose — to Kansas, who was there, who last at K-State, to Texas, who lost at Nebraska, to Ohio State, who’s lost two now, but at places where both teams are undefeated at home … to Pittsburgh, who lost to St. John’s.
Heritage Foundation interview
In an interview with The Heritage Foundation, Walker discusses his reasons for reducing union employee benefits and abolishing their collective bargaining rights because governments are broke and can’t afford to continue subsidizing unions.
When the private sector is paying . . . twice what we’re talking about for health care . . . it’s realistic that at a tough time, when the private sector . . . has been making sacrifices to keep people working, we should expect the same from government. . . . I saw it first hand as a county official when I tried to do things like ask for a little more from pensions . . . or even tried to do a thirty-five hour work week, as in a way to avoid layoffs, the union leadership basically said, ‘forget it, go lay five, six hundred people off, we don’t care.’ They know the power of collective bargaining forces local governments not to be able to make those sorts of reasonable decisions.
KJR in Seattle interview
Miller talks about the importance of the last four weeks of regular season conference play for Arizona:
I think it’s a big week for everybody just because you’re no longer dealing with a half a season or a lot of different variables and games left. … You have a lot of information gathered, so to speak, and then you have a four-game season. … We’ll know a lot more after this weekend and who plays well this weekend and is successful will determine the next two weeks.
Esquire interview
Neeson talks about preparing for the file Battleship:
I’m the admiral of the fleet. But get this, I was in Belfast this summer, visiting my family, and my agent kept calling me, saying, Have you read that? Are you ready? And I said for what now? The shooting isn’t till December. And he said no, no, no. It’s Sep-tember. They need you this coming Wednesday! I’d completely let it slip my mind.
Masterclass
Rice talks about being the United States Secretary of State and helps her students learn that life is not cut and dry.
You can’t plan every step in life
The Dan Patrick Show interview
Fredette talks about working out for NBA scouts last year:
What I was looking for was a guarantee by a team to be able to tell me that they would draft me if I was there at that pick. The teams that I worked out for had picks in the late first round and early second round and that was where I was projected to go. I was just trying to find a guarantee but it was so early in the process that I was everybody’s first workout. … But that’s what I was kind of looking for. They all thought that I could play at that level … but they didn’t know exactly where I was going to be picked.
Authors@Google interview
Frauenfelder talks about Made By Hand and how he became interested in urban homesteading, how making wooden eating utensils provides a bigger return on investment than projects like making a cool robot, and the different kinds of projects that can be done such as raising bees and chickens.
I set out with a couple of goals — to improve my family’s home life by taking an active role in the things that feed, clothe, educate, maintain, and entertain us, and to gain a deeper connection and sense of engagement with the things and systems that keep us alive and happy.
Fox Sports Radio interview
Curry talks about how his season with Duke is going:
Yeah it’s been up and down throughout the season so far just trying to get used to my role and not knowing how many touches or how many shots I’m gonna get every game. Just trying to stay ready, get my work in every practice, and just come into the game ready. Ready to make plays so I knew my opportunity would come and I’m just happy I’ve been able to make the most of it.
O Magazine interview
Winfrey interviews Taymor for O Magazine. Taymor is asked how she fuels her creativity and successful career:
Mythology, folklore, the different places I’ve traveled all of it feeds me. But I also have very good people around me. I tend to collaborate with the same people over and over. The set designer, George Tsypin, has done six operas with me. My lighting designer started 14 years ago and did The Lion King and every show I’ve done since. I do have a new costume designer, Eiko Ishioka. I love doing costumes, but that would have been too much for me to handle.
ESPN Radio New York interview
Lavin speaks about St. John’s defeating Duke:
Always helps, like jumper cables, when you get a big win. It’s important for the program, for your kids, for your various constituencies, former players and alumni and of course the St. John’s basketball fans. … This was really a positive step in the right direction and it puts some wind in the sails for our team.
O Magazine Interview
Traynor talks about her musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark:
When we started, only the first movie had come out. This was right after 9/11, so all of that was on our minds. But the fact is, our idea came out of the Arachne story. In our version, she falls in love with her protégé, Spider-Man—who, at the top of act 2, starts becoming world famous. Suddenly there are Spider-Man hot dogs, hero sandwiches, underwear—everything. And he no longer has time for his girlfriend or his aunt.
Masterclass
The television producer talks about how pushing people can make for a wonderful outcome.
I push people pretty hard, and the only thing that justifies the abuse is the exhilaration of a skit working, because when it does it’s a joy to behold
Elle Magzine interview
Jones and Poehler give a joint interview to Elle about what would happen if they both wore the same outfit.
Phoehler:
Rashida has the best style. It would mean Rashida helped me, or she was having a bad day.
Jones:
That’s not true, Poehls. We just went shopping and pretty much bought all the same clothes.
Phoehler:
All I did was buy everything Rashida did, but in just a little bit bigger size.
Esquire interview
Shadyac talks about how suffering a concussion in a bike accident changed his outlook on life:
I began to wake up to principles. Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It’s a very simple rule that nature operates under. When I applied that rule to my own life and saw that I was operating outside of what I think is natural, I wanted to reconsider that.