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22 Aug, 2014

Talk is Jericho interview

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Frehley is a guest on Talk is Jericho to discuss his new album and the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. Jericho:

KISS Hall of Famer Ace Frehley joins Y2J to relive a little KISStory! Hear about the band’s recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction & what Ace thinks about how that all went down. He’s got stories about the band logo, the guitar that caught on fire, “Psycho Circus,” his favorite guitar solos and KISS songs, and he’ll share his theory on the moon landing! It’s Sci-Fi rock & roll with The Spaceman!

WWE.com interview

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Arquette talks to WWE.com about the World Heavyweight Championship and the what “big gold belt” represents.

In all honesty, my memory was that I won the title and they were like, “Here, you’re in charge of it now.” And I was like, “What do you mean? You can’t give this to me. I’m supposed to travel with this and check it?” And they were like, “No, don’t check it. That’s a carry-on, brother.” I asked what would happen if I lose it? And they said, “You can’t lose it. You cannot lose this.”

Josh Brolin interview

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Fallon and Brolin talk about Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and Josh reminisces about the 30th anniversary of his first film, The Goonies.

You’re walking down the street, like 20 years later, and they’re like “Goonies, Dude! And  I go, ‘Thanks’, and they go, ‘Are you still acting?’

DJ Mustard interview

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Seacret interviews DJ Mustard during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about why his signature phase ‘Mustard On That Beat’ was not on the track he produced for Rihanna.

She didn’t say she didn’t want it. I just didn’t use it. I didn’t want them to take it off, and I’d be like, ‘Uh, why’d you take it off?

When asked what it was like working in the same studio that Michael Jackson worked in:

When you first walk in the studio, you feel the presence of Michael. They have a thing, a glass wall with his glove and his hat, pictures. The room I work in is the room he used to work in. Upstairs from the room they call it the ‘Monkey Room’ because that’s where his monkey used to chill at while he was recording. And when you go in the recording booth, you can see, if you look up, you can see the glass the monkey looked through and watched him record his music. It’s a cool vibe and energy. It’s like history!

New Yorker cover

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cover2Drooker’s art is featured on the cover of the New Yorker. The art depicts images of people holding their hands up with their backs turned. Hands up has become a symbol for the protest in Ferguson Missouri where an unarmed man was shot by police.

An artist friend of mine was killed by a cop in lower Manhattan, back in 1991. He happened to be black, and the police officer was never indicted.

Hit on by VC

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While waiting for an interview with Re/Code, Livingston is hit on by a male investor.

I’m not crazy, right? He was hitting on me? He was offering to invest in our weaker companies as a way to get me on a date, right? Did that just happen? Today, of all days. I just can’t believe it would be today.

Livingston has taken a stand against sexual harassment.

Y Combinator has a zero tolerance policy for inappropriate sexual or romantic behavior from investors toward founders. Don’t even think about doing it. I will find out.

On why she has taken her stand:

There are so many new investors coming into the Valley from New York and everywhere else, and we just wanted to lay that out there. The overt sexual harassment you read about — the men who say they don’t invest in women — I can’t force them to invest in women, but I can say you can’t sexually harass our founders. And so that’s what I did.

Miles Teller interview

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Elle Magazine interviews Teller about the bad side of Facebook.

There’s this one person who follows me named “Miles Teller Updates.” And she updates people on everything. It’s like, “Miles was at this bar and he had…” It’s just some random person. I don’t know, it could be a guy. It’s probably a 40-year-old dude. I’ve had articles come out about me. Miles Teller was out at this bar and he was hitting on the bartenders and he was so drunk when people tried to tell him to calm down he shoved them aside and said “I’m fine!” Stupid shit like that. It’s this never-ending wormhole of people writing stuff to get hits.

CNN interview

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McSpadden and Brown Jr. voice their trust issues with the government and Attorney General, Holder. McSpadden:

Just hearing the words come directly from his mouth face to face, he made me feel like one day I will and I am not saying today or yesterday but one day they’ll regain my trust.

Michael Brown's parents meet with Eric Holder

AC 360 interview

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Brown’s parents, McSpadden and Brown Sr. speak with Cooper about the tragic shooting death of their son. They confirm their confidence with the Ferguson justice system, voice their opinions on a grand jury decision and involving the Federal government. McSpadden:

Even if this hadn’t happened people ridicule each other anyway, but he was a teenager, he was growing up, he was only 18. He had a chance to make a mistake and correct it just like the officer, he had a choice and the officer chose the wrong one. Was it really necessary…No. My son was only 18, only 18.

Mike Brown's parents interviewed by Anderson Cooper Aug 21 2014

Charli XCX interview

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Seacrest interviews Charli XCX during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her on why she almost put ghost sounds on her album Sucker. 

I was in Sweden in the countryside doing some recording for my record. There was this weird vibe in this house. It was actually this huge hotel we were staying in, kind of like The Shining. We had done some research and found out that there was a woman who had drowned herself in the lake outside the house when her husband had died in the 1900s. In this documentary, it said that she still lived in the house as a ghost. So we set up a microphone and left it recording all night and at about 5 or 6 a.m., we picked up this noise that was like, ‘Oooohhhhh.’ We pitched it up three octaves and it was a woman’s voice talking it was cool!

TJRWrestling Radio Show Interview

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Hart sits down with TJRWrestling Radio Show to discuss his WWE career and opinions on multiple subjects in the current WWE product.

I would have loved to have worked with Kurt Angle. He would have been a lot of fun to be in the ring with. I would love to wrestle John Cena, especially the Bret Hart of 1997 that was a heel against John Cena the All American good guy. For the third guy I would have to say CM Punk. Punk would have been a perfect guy for me to work with. He might have to carry me through the match with him as the heel. I miss him on the shows. I hope he makes some kind of comeback one day.

20 Aug, 2014

Survivor: ISIS massacred villagers

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ISIS massacres 80 men from a Yazidi village and kidnaps the women and girls after its sheik refuses to convert to Islam. Survivor Khalof Khodede, a survivor:

Islamic State kidnapped about 400 to 600 people in our village and the majority of those people are women and children. They killed most of the men

The militants initially do not plan on the killings:

First they wanted us all to convert to Islam and we said yes just to save our lives. We were all very afraid. Then our sheikh said ‘I won’t convert to Islam’. And then they gathered us inside the village school,’ he said.

After seizing gold and jewelry, the militants take the men are taken to the first floor of the school and the women to the second. They are loaded onto minibuses in groups of 10 to 20 and told they are being taken to the ancestral Yazidi homeland of Sinjar, but the militants stop the vehicles and open fire. Khodede is among few survivors:

They started shooting at us randomly. They had heavy guns like machine guns. I was hit in my leg and on my pelvis.

The Talks interview

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Chabrol gives an interview to The Talks. He discusses his least favorite aspect of creating a film, what he likes the most, and why he dislikes working alone.

The most beautiful thing in filmmaking and especially in a director’s job is the fact that it is a collective work. It’s amazing to have 50 people, very skilled in what they do, literally busting their asses to make the dream of the director come true. No other profession has this creative backup – maybe with the exception of an orchestra conductor who has all the musicians to play his music. But of course the director has to have a dream, otherwise it is useless.

Fusion Live interview

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Rapper, T.I. expresses his thoughts on the Brown shooting, the violence in Ferguson, Mo. and the lack of leadership in the African American community.

I think there is a lack of leadership for a few reasons. I think that long ago the systems that had been set in place and excused due to the crack epidemic, the war on drugs that took fathers out of homes that broke up families. There were overwhelming prison sentences given to one substance vs. another version of the same substance. That really broke up a lot of the African American homes.

Tavis Smiley interview

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Sorvino discusses her newest project, a  BBC America production titled Intruders, in this interview for PBS.

It’s like if you’re watching a Hitchcock film in the first eighth, think of this as like if you thought of it like a Hitchcock film. Each episode is an eighth of the film. So in the first eighth or two-eighths of the film, he would never give away what you’re going to find out later.

Talk is Jericho interview

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Norton is a guest on Talk is Jericho to discuss Robin Williams’ death and stories from famous rockers. Jericho:

Y2J is paying tribute to one of his favorite actors & comedians, Robin Williams. Comedian Jim Norton, who knew Robin & also suffered from some of the same demons, shares his personal experiences with and recollections about Robin! Jimmy also has plenty of great music stories (Ozzy & KISS)!