Christine Lahti

Listen to "Christine Lahti True Stories From An Unreliable Eyewitness" on Spreaker. For nearly 40 years the Emmy, Oscar, and Golden Globe winning actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now, in TRUE STORIES FROM AN UNRELIABLE EYEWITNESS: A Feminist Coming of Age (Harper Wave, April 10, 2018; ISBN: 978-06-266367-2; $26.99; 224 pages) Lahti shares her story in this heartbreaking and hilarious collection of interrelated personal essays. In this poignant collection, Lahti focuses on three major periods of her life: her childhood, her early journey as an actress and activist, and the realities of her life as a middle-aged woman in Hollywood today. In TRUE STORIES, Lahti recalls leaving her comfortable suburban home in Birmingham, MI and entering college in 1968, where her eyes became open to the sexism and misogyny all around her-no longer something to be accepted as "the way things are." She writes about her early years in NYC, pursuing acting and struggling to make a living-as a waitress, as a mime (yes, a mime), and even working for a "professional dating service." It's where Lahti began to learn the difference between suspension of belief (a skill that would later help her on stage) vs naivete i.e. "being that gullible young woman with stars in her eyes and sweaty armpits who desperately wanted to believe she was so much more than just someone's escort." Lahti recounts stories of how she made her way in show business, despite the sexist culture. In "Walking" she shares the life-changing moment when a casting director promised her work on two national commercials-IF she'd have sex with the director. In "S**t Happens," she examines her need for perfection and her struggle to balance making a living with being a responsible artist--one who tries to only put positive three-dimensional images of women out into the world (during a time when many of the "good" parts in film and television were demeaning to women). The chapter culminates in her 2008 Golden Globe win, during which she was in the bathroom when her name was announced. Yes, s**t happens. In the incredibly funny "What I Wish I'd Know About Love Scenes" Lahti dishes about what really goes into the love scenes we see on screen and reveals who some of her favorites have been (including Al Pacino, Bradley Cooper, among others). Lahti also shares deeply personal stories about her roles as mother, wife, and daughter. In "Kidnapped" she writes with raw honesty about her miscarriage and the difficult early days of being a new mother and finding her way as a parent. In "Mamma Mia," she recounts the heartbreaking suicide of her bipolar sister. And in "Brother" she shares details about the complicated relationship with her brother, whose borderline personality disorder threw their family into havoc for years. "These are the stories that altered me in some way. They chronicle events when something inside me stirred or quaked. They were a shift in my focus. A tremor up my spine. A hot flash of injustice, of shame. A humble reckoning with my own imperfections. An acceptance. A forgiveness. A way to survive," writes Lahti. TRUE STORIES is about the power of storytelling to affirm and reframe the bedrock of who we are, revealing that we're all unreliable eyewitnesses when it comes to our deeply personal memories. But it's Lahti's raw authenticity that actually makes her a reliable narrator. Told in a wildly fresh, unique voice, and with the unshakable ability to laugh at herself time and again, this is Christine Lahti's best performance yet.

Venus

Listen to "Venus On The Strength Of Digital Awareness" on Spreaker. Can we call our selves the uncertainty generation? All this talk about who's spying on who on the internet has created yet another line in the sand. More places to take up space without truly grasping onto how the digital numbers affect more than advertisers and political figures. In this episode of The Broadcasters Platform, students from an authentic Broadcast campus meet up with Venus who's experiences in media have grown from print to this new age of digital data. Some students sat in doubt due to a feeling of being insecure of how much information is out there about us. Venus explores the positives of that information while going into conversation with a physical criminal investigator that depends on digital imprints to help solve crimes.

Geraldo Rivera

Listen to "Geraldo Rivera The Geraldo Show" on Spreaker. In public life for half a century, my image and reputation have had more ups and downs than the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island. I have been called savior and sinner, fool and wise man, crusader and exploiter, hot head and dope. I am routinely scorned, admired, beloved, and belittled. The opinions are usually based on when they tuned in. Were you around for my early days as a crusading local newsman? Did you waste an evening inside Al Capone's empty vault? Were you watching when the bombs dropped in Afghanistan or Iraq, or did you tune into the raucous talk show when my nose got broken in the best television studio brawl ever caught on tape? Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and my employment by the conservative rabble-rousers of Fox News, and, more recently, with the coming of the Age of Trump, my professional life has been even more difficult to define. How could a sincerely progressive native-born Jew Rican New Yorker like me ever work for an outfit better suited to the vibes of Orange County, California, the Dixie, Appalachia, or the Mountain West? How could I not condemn and obstruct a wrecking ball like Donald Trump? Over five decades, I have met most of the era's good and bad guys, from Ronald Reagan to Charles Manson, Fidel Castro to Yasser Arafat, and Muhammad Ali to John Lennon. Two figure heavily in this book, both longtime friends. Roger Ailes is the disgraced yet undeniably brilliant creator of Fox News. Donald Trump, once a flamboyant playboy, billionaire businessman, is now 45th President of the United States. Now at the vigorous twilight of my career, I have nothing left to prove, and time has both enlightened and humbled me. In this book, I speak frankly about my failures and successes, my humiliations and triumphs. Throughout my career, I've done my best to provide you with groundbreaking journalism and great entertainment. In this book, I've tried to provide both . . . and a few life lessons, as well.

Aubree Sweeney

Listen to "Aubree Sweeney The RV Tour" on Spreaker. What does a comedian do when she's spent multiple late nights performing on LA's biggest and funniest stages? Aubree Sweeney hooked up the RV like an old covered wagon and is forging a new path to the nations biggest and best comedy houses. She says the best place on the planet to write new comedy is on a campsite. The people there are brilliantly funny and at times a little awkwardly strange. When the show is over you head back to the RV pack up and head on down the dusty trail to the next big little town. Places like Chicago and more!

Tammy Tuckey

Listen to "Tammy Tuckey You'll Find Me On Mainstreet" on Spreaker. Tammy Tuckey, an Emmy Award®-winning filmmaker and singer-songwriter, makes her singing debut with the release of her first album, You’ll Find Me on Main Street. The album features a compilation of songs, both familiar and rare, as showcased through the years at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Since her first trip to Walt Disney World Resort at age two in 1998, Tuckey has been both fascinated and inspired by the music and songs featured throughout the theme parks, shows and attractions of the world-renowned resort. Since 1971 over 600 million visitors from around the world have been delighted and entertained by an incredible songbook. Now, Tuckey pays tribute to this unique Disney songbook by performing her own renditions of songs from Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom. The album track list includes: · "Tomorrow's Child/New Horizons Medley" from the Spaceship Earth and Horizons at EPCOT · "Someone Like Me" from Doug Live! stage show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios · "The Great Outdoors" from The Country Bear Vacation Hoedown attraction in the Magic Kingdom - Featuring Byron Berline · "Two Brothers" from The American Adventure attraction at EPCOT - Featuring Ali Olmo · "Strangers Like Me" from the Tarzan Rocks! stage show at Disney’s Animal Kingdom - Featuring Mike McKee · "Celebrate the Future Hand in Hand" from the Walt Disney World Resort Millennium Celebration at EPCOT - Featuring Sounds of Blackness · "Remember the Magic" from the Walt Disney World Resort 25th anniversary Celebration - Featuring Don Liuzzi

Peter Schweizer

Listen to "Peter Schweizer Secret Empires" on Spreaker. Peter Schweizer: America's Top Politicians Have Discovered The Scam to End All Scams - New Book Secret Empires: How Our Politicians Hide Corruption and Enrich Their Families and Friends Reveals The Newest Form of Corruption in Washington, Involving Larger Sums of Money than Ever Before A Deep Look at Corruption by Proxy: Invisible Foreign Money Deals Channeled Through Family Members, Hidden from Public View The author who wrote Clinton Cash and sparked an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation is now set to launch his highly anticipated investigative follow-up. On March 20, Harper will publish Peter Schweizer's Secret Empires: How Our Politicians Hide Corruption and Enrich Their Families and Friends. Secret Empires will expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities. In Secret Empires, Schweizer reveals: . Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao's deep relationship with China. How, as McConnell's hardline position softened, money flowed, not only doubling their net worth, but placing a family member on the board of the government-run, powerful Bank of China ten days after Trump's election-and two more family members on the board of one of the Chinese government's largest military contractors. . The Smash and Grab: How President Barack Obama enriched his friends by smashing certain sectors with outrageous regulations, dramatically driving down their valuations (sometimes to pennies on the dollar). Who would come in and buy up these companies on the cheap? Some of President Obama's oldest and dearest friends. You won't believe what happens next. . Presidential children weren't always under intense scrutiny. For the first time, Schweizer shines a light on how the son and stepson of Joe Biden and John Kerry scored billion dollar deals with foreign governments as their dads shaped foreign policy. Ten days after Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden flew aboard AIR FORCE TWO to China, Hunter and John Kerry's stepson, Chris Heinz, closed a one billion dollar deal with a subsidiary of the Bank of China. Unbelievably, more mega deals will follow. . The Trump children are without a doubt, according to Schweizer, targets of foreign governments. Schweizer previews how foreign entities can make inroads with Jared, Ivanka, Donald Jr., Eric and the Trump Organization to attempt to curry favor with the current administration, preying on their well-documented financial vulnerabilities.

D R King

Listen to "D R King From NBC's The Voice" on Spreaker. D.R.'s dad was his first musical influence providing memories of singing together in church. However, when his parents separated he lost contact with his dad but continued to pursue music. Initially he took some jobs teaching in elementary schools, but in 2012 D.R. took the opportunity of a six-month residency at a Motown bar in Nagoya, Japan. Upon his return, D.R. booked a gig in an Off-Broadway production of "Dreamgirls." Now in Harlem, D.R. works on his own music and has a singing residency at the popular Red Rooster.