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Send us a textWhy do some stories stay with us forever, while others lose their magic?This week on Here's What We Know, we welcome screenwriter, author, and game show researcher Steve Abramson for a thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, Hollywood, game shows, and the stories that shape who we are.Steve shares how a childhood viewing of Star Wars sparked a lifelong love of movies, what it is really like working behind the scenes in television and game shows, and why modern franchises often struggle to recapture the joy and clarity that once made them timeless. We also explore why villains are often more compelling than heroes, how pressure changes performance, and what our favorite stories reveal about our hopes, fears, and curiosity.This is an honest, curious conversation about creativity, culture, and the simple power of a good story told well. If you love movies, game shows, pop culture, or thoughtful conversations that connect the dots between entertainment and real life, this episode is for you.In This Episode:Why stories matterHow Star Wars sparked a love for storytellingLearning screenwriting before the internetSending a screenplay to Hollywood at 15Why movie franchises lose their wayWhat Star Wars got right and where it went wrongWhy villains are more interesting than heroesThe reality of writing for television todayBehind the scenes of game showsWhy game shows are harder than they lookKnowing the answer vs performing under pressureHow pressure changes creativityWhy the stories we consume shape usPassing curiosity to the next generationWhy great stories still matterThis episode is sponsored by:Reed Animal HospitalDignity MemorialBe sure to tell them Gary sent you!Bio:Steve Abramson is a screenwriter, author, and television writer whose creative journey began at fifteen when he wrote his first screenplay and even managed to get someone at Amblin Entertainment to read it. After formally studying Film and Television at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Steve broke into professional television writing with credits including In a Heartbeat for the Disney Channel, story pitching for Star Trek, and writing for Survivor: Cook Islands. His career spans television pilots, network pitching, and extensive work on game shows, including Temptation, Boom, Million Second Quiz, and Funny You Should Ask. Alongside years in post production, Steve continues to create across media through projects like KnowItAllJoe.com and his children's book The Bear in the Chair.Website: https://steveabramson.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowitalljoe1977/Connect with Gary: Gary's Website Follow Gary on Instagram Gary's Tiktok Gary's Facebook Watch the episodes on YouTube Advertise on the Podcast Thank you for listening. Let us know what you think about this episode. Leave us a review!

Shelley Herman is an Emmy-nominated writer, actress, and host whose career began as an NBC Page in Burbank, CA. Shelley's written over 1000 hours of television, contributed to numerous books for Dove/Phoenix Books, starred in the TV series Off the Wall and Night Rap, and co-hosted ESPN's Battle of The Monster Trucks and Mud Bog Spectacular. In addition, Shelley has guest-starred on numerous TV shows and hosted eight infomercials and national talk radio programs.She's perhaps best known for her work on the game shows Supermarket Sweep, Liar's Club, Love Connection, Breakaway, Outdoor Outtakes, Trivia Unwrapped, Balderdash, Show Me the Money, and The Million Second Quiz. Shelley was twice a contestant on The Dating Game. And in 1985, for her work on Breakaway, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Writing. Shelley's autobiographical memoir, My Peacock Tale: Secrets Of An NBC Page, details her time at NBC in the 1970s where, as a Page, she worked on several variety shows, talk shows, and game shows such as The Tonight Show, The Gong Show, The Midnight Special, Hollywood Squares, Password, Sanford and Son, and Chico and the Man. 

Episode 2318: Our featured article of the day is The Million Second Quiz.

Michael Bua is a highly experienced union stagehand; “Carp-trician,” having over “25 years of stage experience” with wide ranging equipment expertise!  He is a member of International Alliance of Theatrical Stagehand Employees (I.A.T.S.E.) LOCAL ONE - Member #3050.  Michael's talents include construct, install, maintain and operate the lighting and sound equipment, the scenery, props and special effects which thrill and delight audiences attending Broadway Shows, Concerts at Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall, the magnificent and spectacular productions at The Metropolitan Opera and throughout Lincoln Center, and the many entertaining broadcasts from NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, CNN and PBS.  Plus numerous cable TV studios, major corporate industrials, galas, fashion shows, fundraisers and special events for a multitude of Entertainment Productions in New York City.He has been a Production Carpenter, Staging Assistant, Electrician and Studio Mechanic, Set-Dresser, Prop-maker, “MacGyver”, Light Board Operator, Moving Light Programmer, Follow Spot Operator, as well as Grip, FX, handled Live Props, Set-Dressing, and Property Assistant.His amazing resume includes these works: “The Book of Mormon” (2009-2015), “Lysistrata Jones”, “The House of Blue Leaves”“HAIR”,  “Elf”,  “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, “The Bronx Bombers” , “Annie”,  “Holler If Ya Hear Me”,  “RENT”, “The Addams Family”, “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway”,  “700 Sundays”,  “Rebecca”, “End of the Rainbow”, “Golden Boy”, “The Lion King” And more! The Metropolitan Opera – Lincoln Center, New York  -  (2004 – 2011)Night Gang, Service Crew, Property Department, Lighting Crew and Electrics Shop.Midsummer Night Swing, Lincoln Center Outdoor and Red Carpets.Theatrical Resources  (2007 – present) The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore,  NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly,  ABC's Dick Clark's Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrest,  Radio City's Christmas Spectacular Rehearsals at St. Paul's Cathedral,  Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting, NBC & CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade,  America's Got Talent NYC and Las Vegas,  “Women in the World” at The Koch Theatre,  VH1-You Oughta Know Live in Concert,  The Million Second Quiz,  Time Warner Cable Studios Gala,  Hulu,  The US Open, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week,  American Comedy Awards NYC,  Versus Versace Fashion Show, Giorgio Armani Fashion,  TBS/TNT Upfronts,  G-Shock Production Gala,  JC Penny Jingle Mingle LIVE, Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows,  USA Upfronts,  Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Show,  Chanel Gala,Marc Jacobs Fashion Show,  LOGO TV Trailblazers – St. John's Cathedral,  Black Girls Rock – BET Network, VH1 – Storytellers – Jason Mraz,  LEGO,  Minds and Machines,  NIKE GALA; NIKE PHENOM, NIKE COURT,  Nokia Project Blue Box Times Square – Nicki Minaj,  Robinhood Foundation Galas; Javitz Center and Central Park – Black Eyed Peas,  The Bloomberg Party and The Governor's Ball – Randall's Island,  Bon Jovi Live at The Best Buy Theatre, The Grammy's at Madison Square Garden, The Little Shubert Theatre: Tommy Tunes, Hank Williams.NBC Universal – 30 Rockefeller Center Plaza, New York – (1999 - 2009)The Today Show, Weekend Today, The Toyota Concert Series-Dynamic, demanding, high-pressured, 4 hour constrained live television production.-Construction of different stagings and lighting truss configurations.-Installed, operated and maintained a wide variety of electronic peripherals during training, rehearsal and performance concerts.Saturday Night Live, Conan O'Brien, The Carson Daly Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Dateline, NBC Sports, MSNBC and Nightly News.- SNL, The Today Show and Conan O'Brien Prop Department experience.- Obsession Operator, Remote Electrician, Spot Operator and Assistant Lighting DesignerABC Disney – Times Square Studios & 77 West 66th Street, New York – (2006 – present) Regis and Kelly, The View, Eyewitness News, All My Children, One Life to Live, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.- Carpenter, Prop-man, Electrician, Stagehand.CBS Viacom – 524 West 57th Street, New York – (2006 – present)Evening News with Katie Couric, BET, Guiding Light, Nate Berkus, The Marriage Ref.- Carpenter, Prop-man, Electrician, Stagehand. AMV – All-Mobile-Video – Chelsea Studios - (2006 – present)Martha Stewart, The Whatever Show, Rachael Ray, Wendy Williams, Tyra Banks, Project Runway, The Talk, The Iron Chef, The Food Network, HBO, MTV, VH1, The Discovery Channel, Bravo, A&E, and SciFi…Citi-View Productions – The Rainbow Room – Cipriani's  - (2000 – 2006)- Lighting Designer and technician for multiple galas.IATSE Local 340 – Long Island, New York – (1998 – present)Nassau Coliseum, Jones Beach Theatre, Grumman Studios, CW Post Tilles Center, Hofstra U.Gateway Playhouse, GSD Productions, Bestek Lighting,  Electrician, Ground Rigger, Backline and Technician in a multitude of large-scale theatrical, concert event and touring productions.IATSE Local 4 – Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York Stiegelbauer Carpentry Shop – (1998 – 2004)- Learned valuable carpentry skills building sets for SNL, Guiding Light, and As the World Turns.LOCAL 52 – Experience – Motion Picture Studio Mechanics – (1998 – present)Silvercup Studios, Kaufman Astoria Studios, Paramount Studios and Steiner Studios.Boardwalk Empire, Gossip Girl, Law & Order SVU, Salt, Sex and the City I & II, A Couple of Dicks (Copout), Project Runway, Spiderman, The Sopranos, Non-Stop, The Following.Performance Environment Design Group (PEDG) – David Stark Design - (2006- 2012)Robinhood Foundation Gala – The Jacob Javitz Center, New York- Project Manager, Production Assistant, Lighting Coordinator, Stagehand.Oceanside Public School District – Oceanside, New York – (1998 – 2009)Drama Director and teacher for the Drama Department producing a musical every year with a cast of over 60 children.  Auditioned, cast, and directed children, blocked and facilitated rehearsals, choreographed, taught songs, Designed and constructed scenery, costumes, props and special effects for Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Cinderella, Aladdin, Annie, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.The Stage – Long Island Live Theatre – Merrick, New York – (1994 – 2000)Producer, Box Office Manager, Actor, Director, Designer, Stagehand, Scenic Artist.- Supervised and Managed all ticket sales, advertisements, and bookkeeping.  Produced and performed in The 30th Anniversary of the production HAIR.  Responsibilities also included Technical Direction and Set Design, along with Directing Children's Theatre and performing with them on main stage productions.

Listener is over COVID-19 mask talk; 57% of republicans believe the number of U.S. deaths from coronavirus are acceptable vs. 10% of democrats; war and political lawn signs; comedian nudes; NBC’s Million Second Quiz; living in a storefront; the hard cock debacle continues; Lori Loughlin sentenced to 2 months in federal prison, husband gets 5 months; President Trump vs. his sister; Kellyanne Conway to leave Trump administration and 15-year-old Conway daughter to leave family; Trump vs. mailboxes

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John Canning is an Executive Producer for VR, AR, and Interactive at Digital Domain. While their name might not be commonly known, you definitely know Digital Domain’s work - they create visual effects for feature films, including the recent Avengers Infinity War movie. They also create visuals for advertising, games, training, and immersive content, including their own original content.Prior to Digital Domain, John was the VP of Interactive Experiences for NBCUniversal, creating VR and other digital experiences for The Voice, Million Second Quiz, The Blacklist, and others.In the past, he’s also spent several years at both Microsoft and Disney.On the side, he’s the Chairman of the New Media Council at the Producers Guild of America. He’s also an independent producer, cinematographer, and photographer for good causes.In this conversation, John and I talk about what happened to the virtual humans, including Tupac, who were performing live on stage.John gives his perspective on how Hollywood producers think about new immersive technologies. He also shares what Digital Domain is doing to push the boundaries, and presents his theory about the “continuum of occlusion”.To start, he shares a travel adventure and how he thinks about incorporating 360° video into a project.I met John in his office for my first face-to-face interview for this podcast series.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

In this week’s episode, Yes But Why talks to filmmaker Mohit Jaswal. Mohit tells Amy about studying film at the North Carolina School of the Arts, making a music video for They Might Be Giants, and working on Million Second Quiz with Ryan Seacrest! So many great stories! This is a great chat for anyone interested in starting a film career!

In studio we have reality TV star David Olsen, from Beauty and the Geek. David won season of 4 of "Beauty and the Geek" in 2007.  Since then, he has attended various charity events that include former reality television stars, including the annual Reality Rally supporting breast cancer victims in Temecula Valley, CA.  Most recently he was one of the many contestants testing his trivia skills in the hour glass of "The Million Second Quiz." Josey Milner is a hot, new, young country singer with her talented band The Josey Milner Band from the Kansas City area. This year Josey has started her first radio promotion tour, opened for a sold out crowd for American Idol, and she is named one of the Top 10 “Hottest New Stars from PDS Entertainment. In April she was nominated for Most Promising Youth Artist at the 2013 Independent Country Music Association awards. Dereck has the Weird News and Kay has the Hot Topics! Plus much much more!!!

In this episode Donny & Jim review Kolchak: The Night Stalker ep 1 "The Ripper" Then jump to listener emails that tie into the upcoming new fall tv shows like Almost Human, Back in the Game, Betrayal, The Blacklist, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Crazy Ones, Dads, Dracula, Enlisted, The Goldbergs, Hello Ladies, Hostages, Ironside, Lucky 7, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Masterchef Junior, Masters of Sex, The Michael J. Fox Show, The Millers, The Million Second Quiz, Mom, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, The Originals, Reign, Sean Saves the World, Sleepy Hollow, Super Fun Night, The Tomorrow People, Trophy Wife, We Are Men, Welcome to the Family, and Witches of East End We are now on Stitcher radio Send any feedback to nothingsonpodcast@gmail.com http://www.hhwlod.com/ http://thetaylornetwork.wordpress.com/ follow us on twitter @taylornetwork

In this episode Donny & Jim review Kolchak: The Night Stalker ep 1 "The Ripper" Then jump to listener emails that tie into the upcoming new fall tv shows like Almost Human, Back in the Game, Betrayal, The Blacklist, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Crazy Ones, Dads, Dracula, Enlisted, The Goldbergs, Hello Ladies, Hostages, Ironside, Lucky 7, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Masterchef Junior, Masters of Sex, The Michael J. Fox Show, The Millers, The Million Second Quiz, Mom, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, The Originals, Reign, Sean Saves the World, Sleepy Hollow, Super Fun Night, The Tomorrow People, Trophy Wife, We Are Men, Welcome to the Family, and Witches of East End We are now on Stitcher radio Send any feedback to nothingsonpodcast@gmail.com http://www.hhwlod.com/ http://thetaylornetwork.wordpress.com/ follow us on twitter @taylornetwork

This week starts off with some confusion about Fleet Week and Fashion Week along with some good suggestions about where to go out on interesting dates even if you're a moleman. Tim and Tom then compare their tastes in board shorts before Tim quizzes Tom about baby etiquette at restaurants. All of this of course leads to this year's Fall TV Preview where we discuss the new shows Almost Human, The Crazy Ones, Dracula, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Masterchef Junior, Masters of Sex, and The Million Second Quiz. We also solve a listener email concerning a stuck-up roommate and offer some dire warnings in regards to snakepeople. This week's episode is brought to you by Audible. Get a free audiobook download and 30-day trial by signing up at tcgte.com/audible.

With Kirsty Lang. Actor Cillian Murphy, who reached a global audience in films such as Batman Begins and Inception, now stars as a gang leader in the BBC Two drama Peaky Blinders, set in Birmingham in 1919. He reflects on the historical background to the drama, and the blurring of the divide between film and TV. Director Mira Nair discusses her film The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on the novel by Mohsin Hamid, in which Riz Ahmed plays a Pakistani financier whose life in America is dramatically altered by the attacks of September 11 2001. The film is about to be released on DVD. The Million Second Quiz is a new high-profile TV show, about to start in America, in which contestants compete over 11 days, 24 hours a day, aiming to win the biggest prize in game show history - $3 million. Stephen Lambert, the British producer who has created the show, talks about his desire to create a TV event for viewers watching live. Singer Alexandra Burke has released a track called Day Dream, reportedly about her former partner, footballer Jermain Defoe, which contains pointed lyrics about his behaviour. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift accepted an award for her track I Knew You Were Trouble and thanked "the person who inspired this song." Many have assumed that she was talking about Harry Styles from One Direction. Jane Graham discusses the history of revenge songs about high-profile partners, from Carly Simon to Justin Timberlake. Producer Tim Prosser.