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Brian The Creator of Gritty
Brian interviews Brian Allen, the Brian behind the monstrosity known as Gritty. Hear about the crazy ride Brian’s been on with the notorious Flyers mascot (26:02) — from its humble origins to its global domination with even Le Monde asking, “C’est quoi Gritty?” Plus what all goes into running an independent design studio in Bellefonte, PA. Universal Brian Questions at (55:06)
Brian The CDC Communicator
Brian interviews Brian Katzowitz, a health communications specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta who works to get information from researchers to the general public in an understandable way. Find out what goes into media-training an epidemiologist and which disease started the agency in this conversation from much more than 6 ft apart. Universal Brian Questions at (52:56)
Bryan* The Onion Director and Producer
Brian interviews Bryan Petcoff, a director and producer who recently spent over 3 years helping make The Onion, well, The Onion, or “America’s Finest News Source.” Hear how the Bryan boyfriend character of the murdered girl in A Very Fatal Murder is most likely named after him, and which piece of satire he worked on “died because it was real” in this episode from the Before Times at Tuman’s Tap in Chicago. Universal Brian Questions at (50:25)
Brian The Gaming Store Owner
Brian interviews Brian Roberts, an owner of The End Games, which specializes in collectible card games, board games, RPGs, and tournaments (when there’s no quarantine) in Charlottesville, VA. Find out what the game “Dude” is, along with what it’s like running gaming competitions and creating a niche social club in this episode from Brian’s massive store in Cville. Universal Brian Questions at (33:40)
Brian The Taiwan Journalist Covering The Hong Kong Protests
Brian interviews Brian Hioe, an editor at New Bloom Magazine and writer for Popula who covers geo-political issues and youth culture in the Asia-Pacific region from Taipei. Get a quick primer on the complex relationships between Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China, and what’s at stake in the escalating protests. Universal Brian Questions at (34:35)
Brian The First Down Virtual Yellow Line Operator
Brian interviews Brian MacDonald, operator of the beloved virtual yellow line in the biggest football broadcasts (or broadcasts period), including the Super Bowl and Sunday Night Football. Hear what this crazy niche job at Sports Media Technology entails, and where the future of sports broadcasts might go in this episode from The PIT Theater in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Universal Brian Questions at (52:50)
Bryan* The Shipwreck Diver
Brian interviews Bryan Reyna, a deep sea shipwreck diver and the paint foreperson at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Learn all the bounties and pitfalls of diving wrecks like the USS Oregon and San Diego before Bryan paints us a picture of being the museum’s head painter and now the paint foreperson (42:40) in this double episode recorded at MoMA. Universal Brian Questions at (1:17:05)
Brian The Nashville Zombie Band Bassist
Brian interviews Brian Williams, the bassist in Resistance House Band, a zombie band in Nashville. Hear how Brian goes against the honky tonk grain in Music City, and how he’s even more familiar with brains than most Brians in this episode from The Pub Nashville. Universal Brian Questions at (27:18)
The Meeting of All The Brians
All the Brians meet up and have a Brian Meeting in this live comedy sketch.
Bryan* The TruTV Show Finder
Brian interviews Bryan Terry, VP of original programming and development at TruTV, which means he finds and develops all sorts of comedic shows for the “Funny Because It’s Tru” network. Hear all the ways pitches for new shows get heard and filtered in this episode on how TV ideas get made. Universal Brian Questions at (1:04:26)
Brian The Dodgeball World Cup Dodgeballer
Brian interviews Brian Warring, a dodgeballer for the Canadian National team competing at the Dodgeball World Cup at Madison Square Garden. Find out everything you’re probably wondering about ultra-competitive dodgeball as we go further than Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge in this episode at MSG. Universal Brian Questions at (44:43)
Brian The Pun Champion
Brian interviews Brian Agler, aka Punda Express, a 13-time pun champion or finalist in the biggest pun competitions like Punderdome 3000 in Brooklyn and The O.Henry Pun-Off World Championships in Austin. And when Brian’s not dominating forms of “low” humor, he dominates “high” humor in pieces for McSweeneys, The New Yorker, Splitsider and in speeches for all sorts of politicians for his day job as a speechwriter. We cover all the goofs and spoofs, plus Universal Brian Questions at (45:00)
Brian The Moulin Rouge Dancer
Brian interviews Brian Michael Hinds, a dancer at the legendary Moulin Rouge who’s probably more flexible than most Brians. Find out what it takes to make it through the audition process, what daily life is like behind the scenes, and what happens when you accidentally kick a shoe or throw a knife into the audience in this episode recorded in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. Universal Brian Questions at (38:40)
Brian The Barcelona Street Art Capturer
Brian interviews Brian Tsutomu Reedy, a street art documenter who catches all the fleeting local scenery via his site, Barcelona Street Scraps. Hear how the heated political environment in Barcelona serves as a backdrop for some of these artists and his process for capturing everything before it’s gone in this episode from the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi neighborhood of Barcelona. Universal Brian Questions at (28:45)
Brian And Brian The Animated Filmmakers
Brian interviews Brian Padilla and Brian Baxter, the Brians behind animated films like Despicable Me and The Grinch from the French studio Illumination Mac Guff. Hear how they work as compositors and surfacing artists to bring these films to life in the very first 3-Brian, “Briangle” episode from Celtic Corner Pub in Paris. Universal Brian Questions at (31:25)
Brian The Election Rigging Expert
Brian interviews Brian Klaas, the author of “How to Rig an Election”, Washington Post columnist, and fellow at the London School of Economics. Find out all the ways a Brian can rig various types of governments and become The Ultimate Authoritarian Dictator of Briantopia, formerly known as Earth in this episode from the London School of Economics. Universal Brian questions at (23:18)
Brian The Beer
Brian interviews Monty Python’s “Brian” in beer form in the form of an interview with Black Sheep Brewery's head brewer, Phil Douglas. Hear about the creation and character of Brian, and how the collaboration with Monty Python came about in this very naughty episode from the brewery in North Yorkshire, UK.
Brian The Jibo Robot Designer
Brian interviews Brian Skuse, a UX designer in Boston for Jibo, the home robot companion. Hear his Rochester accent, his non-robotics background with Brian and Brian going way back as Brian comrades, and what really dumb name Brians should be glad they don’t have to respond to… from Mugs Ale House in Brooklyn. Universal Brian questions at (20:30)
Brian The Wrigley Field DJ
Brian interviews Brian Hlavacek, the ballpark DJ at infamous Wrigley Field for the Chicago Cubs home baseball games. This Brian plays all the player walk-up music, along with whatever gets the crowd going during inning breaks. Hear the crazy reason he got this job and find out which superstitious player only enters the batters box on a specific beat in this episode from Happy Camper in Chicago. Universal Brian questions at (22:45)
Brian The MTV Promo Guy
Brian interviews Brian Havig, a brand writer/director at MTV and comedian who makes all sort of offbeat promos for his job and funny social experiments for himself. They include being a Comic-Con man on the wrong street, and a serious Thunderstruck dance routine around NYC while wearing a “Brian” shirt. Universal Brian questions at (25:45)
Bryan* The Beer Writer
Brian interviews Bryan Roth, the director of the North American Guild of Beer Writers and writer for publications like All About Beer, Beer Advocate, etc. and his own site, thisiswhyimdrunk.blog. Find out which beer would most represent a Brian in this episode from Fullsteam Brewery in Raleigh, NC. Universal Brian questions at (38:30)
Brian The Turtle Caller
Brian interviews Brian Spaeth, the owner of Turtle Calls, a business where he gets paid to call people and pretend to be a turtle. Universal Brian questions at (44:00)
Brian The Public High School Teacher
Brian interviews Brian Cohen, a Brooklyn public high school math teacher who’d give up pie before pi. He’s also an avid travel hacker so after he gives us a lesson on the New York public school system, he tells us how to beat the travel system. Universal Brian questions at (1:00:40)
Brian The Novelist
Brian interviews Brian Olsen, an author of hard-to-label novels who details what you need to know about the business of self publishing, and how to stop naming every character “Brian” by using a random name generator. Universal Brian questions at (37:45)
Bryan* The Construction Manager
Brian interviews Bryan, a construction company project manager who knows firsthand how Brooklyn is changing, plus the craziness of The Diamond District from a past working life. Universal Brian questions at (13:30)
All The Brians On Bedford Avenue
Brian interviews all the Brians on Bedford Avenue who just happened to be walking by where he was set up with a microphone and a sign that read, “If your name is Brian, get interviewed for a podcast.” Over a couple hours, there were 8 Brians — 5 Brians and 3 Bryans. This is all those Brians edited together into one compilation interview with Brian-tastic results.
Brian The Wushu Practitioner
Brian interviews Brian Hutchinson, a double threat as a Wushu practitioner and systems administrator for Major League Baseball. What's Wushu? It’s why Jet Li and Cung Le would kick your ass, but in the fanciest way possible. Universal Brian Questions at (57:30)
Bryan* The Beverage Director
Brian interviews Bryan Schneider, the beverage director for Quality Branded restaurant group in New York. He has created inventive cocktails on menus across the city since 2005, from Michelin-starred Daniel to Brooklyn’s Clover Club, including the maybe-way-too-inventive “California Chardonnay.” Universal Brian questions at (1:12:00)
Brian The Perfumer Technician
Brian interviews Brian Snyder, a fine fragrance perfumer technician at one of the “big four” perfume companies who knows way more about smells than the average Brian. Universal Brian questions at (45:45)
Brian The Classical Musician
Brian interviews Brian Ellingsen, a double bassist who somehow makes a living as a classical musician. He performs at festivals around the world and as a chamber musician of the Carnegie Hall affiliate ensemble, Decoda. Universal Brian questions at (39:50)
Brian The Typographer
Brian interviews Brian Gartside, a typographer and graphic designer, and finds out the difference between a typeface and a font, and then forgets it the next day. Universal Brian questions at (31:10)
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