Brian Unger is an actor, comedian, producer, director, writer and journalist who has had a robust career spanning over four decades in the entertainment industry.
Brian talks with host Liz Pahl about his upbringing in Ohio, his experience at Ohio University, being David Letterman’s intern, working as a producer and correspondent for CBS news, and his role at The Daily Show during it's beginning years.
Liz and Brian also chat about his appearances in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Yellowstone and SO much more. Brian’s versatility in the entertainment industry has allowed him a storied front row seat to the changing landscape of media.
7 Oct 2024
Writer and Producer Kate Hagen
This episode features Kate Hagen, an LA based writer, producer and Senior Vice President of the Blacklist. The Black List is a writer centric community and ecosystem that helps writers get their work read more widely in the entertainment industry.
We chat about about Kate's personal journey into Hollywood, her article Fat Girls on Film and the current state of body diversity on screen. We also spent time talking about Kate’s hometown of Cincinnati and how it’s becoming a major filmmaking destination city.
13 Feb 2024
Francis Ford Coppola and the Fat Girl in Ohio
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Follow Kate Hagen @thathagengrrl (instagram.com/thathagengrrl)in IG and X
Read Kate Hagen’s incredible essay, Fat Girls On Film: https://letterboxd.com/journal/fat-girls-on-film (https://letterboxd.com/journal/fat-girls-on-film/)
Follow Melissa Baumgart on X: @fatgirlinohio (https://twitter.com/fatgirlinohio)
Check out Melissa Baumgart’s piece, You Have to Fail A Little: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2018/06/13/you-have-to-fail-a-little-on-hearts-of-darkness/ (https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2018/06/13/you-have-to-fail-a-little-on-hearts-of-darkness/)
Super nerd alert, to dig even further down the rabbit hole- Check out Tetragrammaton Rick Rubin’s interview with Edward Norton (https://youtu.be/7f18PtCV9LM?si=QZKaZJYH0-aDeku1&t=8024) about Marlon Brando (starts at 2:12:00), very interesting insight into Marlon Brando.
26 Mar 2023
Film Director Chelsea Stardust
Episode Notes:
Here's a great article from CANVAS on Cleveland Filmmaker Robert Banks. (http://canvascle.com/robert-banks-filmmaker/)
Find out more about Ohio University's School of Film. (https://www.ohio.edu/fine-arts/film)
Great talk with Wes Craven on his childhood and beginning his career as a filmmaker. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDuEVLDsT1k)
Watch All That We Destroy (https://www.hulu.com/movie/all-that-we-destroy-b132ff87-cd6a-41c6-862a-a2fd047e3bcc) on HULU.
Watch Satanic Panic here (https://www.amazon.com/Satanic-Panic-Hayley-Griffith/dp/B07WRDK7W2).
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This episode was edited and engineered by Adam Rich and produced by Liz Pahl and Assistant Producer Rory Ball.
Support provided by WOUB Public Media.
10 Feb 2023
Writer and Scriptnotes Producer Megana Rao
This episode was recorded in December of 2022
Hear Megana’s fantastic work on the Scriptnotes podcast (https://johnaugust.com/scriptnotes)
Power of the Pen (https://powerofthepen.org/)- Ohio’s Original Interscholastic Creative Writing Program for Middle Schools
Glee (2009-2015) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glee_(TV_series)) TV series based in Lima, Ohio
Heathers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathers) (1988), a dark comedy set in fictional Sherwood, Ohio written by Ohioan Daniel Waters
Bad Sisters (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/bad-sisters/umc.cmc.14kr4vv65unannh7doqgvlh20)- Written by Sharon Horgan
Follow Megana Rao on Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/meganarao) : @meganarao
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This episode was edited and engineered by Adam Rich and produced by Liz Pahl and Assistant Producer Rory Ball.
Support provided by WOUB Public Media.
20 Oct 2022
Comedy Writer Dan O'Shannon
Show notes:
A fantastic 1976 article about Jack Hanrahan (https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/the-read/articles/the-man-who-made-cleveland-a-national-joke): the Laugh-In writer who started the "Cleveland being a joke" phenomenon!
Jimmy Kimmel and Tom Holland clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-NPFORuPCw&t=106s) on Cleveland, The Browns and the Russo Brothers.
McHale’s Navy (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055689/): Tim Conway was from Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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This episode was edited and engineered by Adam Rich, Audio Supervisor at WOUB Public Media
Support provided by WOUB Public Media (https://woub.org/).
26 Sept 2022
The Mother of Hollywood
LA Curbed article (https://la.curbed.com/2014/2/20/10142088/hollywood-history-daeida-wilcox-beveridge)written by Hadley Meares on the Mother of Hollywood!
Vanity Fair, Old Hollywood Book Club article (https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/clark-gable-carole-lombard-romance) with Carole Lombard and Clark Gable
For history buffs; a very cool article on the Street Car and Hollywood. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/41171109) Lots of details about Daeida and Harvey Wilcox. Also some really cool photos of Paul de Longpre’s gorgeous estate.
Follow Hadley Meares (www.hadleymeares.com)on Twitter: @hadleymeares
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This episode was edited and engineered by Adam Rich, Audio Supervisor WOUB Public Media
Support provided by WOUB Public Media.
19 Aug 2022
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