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I believe every person has value. Behind every headline, hustle, hard-earned moment, and family tales there’s a story worth sharing. That’s why I built Beyond the Mic. I talk with artists, athletes, authors, icons and people you need to know. I don’t do puff pieces. I ask questions that get to the real stuff: the doubts, wins, detours, and moments that shaped them. The stories that you normally don't get to hear.Some stories make you laugh. Some hit you in the gut. All of them remind you: people matter, you matter.I’m not here to be famous. I’m here helping others be heard. I want curiosity to run free, connect communities, and make something that sticks with you long after the mic is off.Because in a world full of noise, real stories still cut through. Remarkable stories from people you know—and people you should. That's my mission. Let's go #BeyondTheMic.New Episodes Weekly! A Dog Drool Holdings production — dogdroolholdings.comThis podcast uses the following third-par
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- 1 weeks ago21 min
John Bregar of Neagley: Actor, Photographer, Punchline Hunter
The Prime Video actor on playing Mason, lighting a face and why he's always looking for the punchline.John Bregar plays Mason in Neagley, the Reacher spinoff on Prime Video. His first thought for the role was to join a cult. Mason starts out helpful and ends up enforcing the rules on the ranch.Off camera, John is a studio photographer and a cinematographer. His first real acting paycheck went to a camera and lenses. Nobody taught him to light a face. He learned in a club upstairs at the Hard Rock Cafe that became his first studio. He also took a short film to Lisbon.Sean Dillon asks John what it's like to shoot a big show in his hometown of Toronto, what he tells a nervous actor in the first minute of a headshot session, and why art touches his soul. The answer to that one goes back to his family.The Rockin' 8 covers fake blood, a snack he snuck off a set and how many Boston Creams he could eat in one sitting. The One Big Question asks what none of his characters has ever gotten to say.Neagley is streaming on Prime Video. Listen to John Bregar on Beyond the Mic.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
- 1 weeks ago8 min
Author Michael Dobbs: A Computer Said Attack. One Man Said False Alarm.
The author of THE SIX MINUTE WAR on a radar blip, a night in the Soviet Union and what a machine cannot do.Michael Dobbs is the author of THE SIX MINUTE WAR. He joins Sean Dillon on Beyond the Mic to talk about a line from Reagan’s memoirs, the decisions presidents make under stress, and the question of what a computer cannot do.Dobbs explains where the title comes from. In the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy and Khrushchev had thirteen days. Shorter early warning times and better computers shrank that window to a few minutes.He talks about Stanislav Petrov, the officer on duty the night Soviet computers and satellites announced an American missile attack. He also asks whether AI systems will have something in their soul when they face a call like that.Then the Fast Five: his first Russian word, whether he would swim in the ocean again after the tsunami in Sri Lanka, a book he would love to write, a radar blip or a blank page, and who fact-checks him. He says he invented the fact-check column at the Washington Post.One last question closes the conversation. What does he consider a presidential crisis now? Hear the full conversation.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
- 2 weeks ago31 min
Jet Jurgensmeyer: Dials, Not Switches
Jet Jurgensmeyer, hearing his own song on the radio in a city far from home:“It’s not just them not liking my song or my voice. It’s not liking me as a person because I wrote the song. I sang the song. I produced the song. I can relate to the song.”Four people in the room. Two of them were his parents.That was an early Jet Jurgensmeyer show. He sat on the Screen Actors Guild board in Nashville at 18, the youngest board member in the country. Then came the bar rooms. I ask if he ever thought about walking away from the music. The answer is one word.“Sane to My Crazy” comes from a friend’s real marriage. Jet played it at the Bluebird with its two co-writers and the woman behind the idea in the room. What did he find in himself singing someone else’s marriage like his own life?It scares him. Which city blew his mind first? The story starts in a rental minivan with his parents.Who knew him before any of this? He reaches for family. I send him back for a friend. And what does that friend actually do when a new song comes out?The president of the Kentucky chapter texts Jet. Come play the house before the LSU game. “Before an SEC football game, shoot, I’ll be there.” He should be asking for tickets, but as modest as Jet is... “I’ll have to think about that in the future.”He has 31 guys under his responsibility. He draws a hard line between a fraternity man and a frat guy. What almost did not survive the semester? His first answer is two words.I bring up the showrunner’s line that there were no new Boyd stories left. Jet was 15 and still under contract. Nobody told him. Ten years of work. What goes through his head hearing it that plainly now?He plays golf, and his handicap isn’t that bad... Then he compares the whole entertainment business to a round.The one chorus line of his life? “That’s probably the deepest question I’ve ever been asked.” The answer is a hook from a song nobody has heard.How does he know when a song stops being David’s story and becomes his own? His answer goes through a high school homecoming dance.And when a stranger hears “Sane to My Crazy” for the first time, what does he want them to feel that his other songs did not?Find “Sane to My Crazy” wherever you stream music, and hear the full conversation here.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
- 3 weeks ago10 min
Bert Kreischer Wishes His Grandma Could Have Seen His Success
Bert Kreischer joins Sean Dillon on this Beyond the Mic Short Cut. The comedian on the Permission to Party Tour at Buddy Holly Hall explains how he wrote a new hour after the girls left for college. He puts Free Bert at about 50-50 real and made up. In the Fast Four he picks Fargo for his favorite bus breakdown and names the one person he wishes he could call. He also shares his mom's elephant advice, a vodka lesson from his company with Tom Segura and a two word punchline. Tickets for his tour are at BertBertBert.com.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
- 4 weeks ago5 min
James McAvoy: Rookie Director at 45, Sweating Blood for It
James McAvoy was 45 and a rookie."I'm a rookie director. It's like being 22 as an actor." He directed his first film, "CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN'". What did it feel like to him? Anxiety. Pressure. And the energy that came with both. It could have crippled him. It didn't.Who is harder on you, the actor or the director? The director. He is sweating blood for it.As an actor, "I've made my peace with the fact that people won't like everything I do." He still does good work. In between he does some bad stuff. He's fine with that. Outstanding answer.The film is about two Scottish rappers. Their heroes are Eminem and D12. Label executives laugh at them and call them the rapping Proclaimers. Nobody weighs the talent or the work ethic. They get reduced to an accent. They get told they aren't allowed to do hip hop.Tragedy.That scene is why James wanted in. He also plays the record boss who signs them. He wants you to see a danger and a threat. Then he wants you to understand the logic, even when it comes out wrathful.Then the Rockin' 8. A pina colada snow leopard cake. James says it won him the celebrity Great British Bake Off. He made sure I knew he won.The coldest he has ever been was a night in a New Zealand ravine. Soaked. Freezing.His first London flat had a smell. The deposit never came back. The landlord said they changed too much. All they did was fix the holes in the floor. Fixed the holes.His first paycheck was 130 pounds from two shifts as a trainee confectioner. He bought Nike Air Max. His rap name would be The Director. He picks sunrise over sunset. His grandparents' best dish was steak pie.Then the One Big Question. Four months after James thanked a director for a talk at his school, that director called him to audition. What would he be doing today if that call never came? Two plans. A mid-level university. Or the Navy. "I was probably going to join the Navy."One phone call. That's the distance between James McAvoy and the Navy.James wants you to see "CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN'". Press play first.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
- Oct 7, 20267 min
Jimmy Brown of UB40 Hates Airports, So the Band Takes the Bus
"We've been together since we were kids. So we like each other's company." Jimmy BrownGrowing up every teacher tried to make Jimmy Brown stop tapping. Even his mom tried. All of them failed. He is still doing it. I asked who tried hardest to get him to stop: "All of them."Jimmy is a founding member of UB40, the band that took its name off an unemployment form. Why they take a bus on tour instead of flying? Simple, he hates airports. America was designed for being on the road, with truck stops and wide roads. A big comfortable bus beats a terminal hands down every time. These are old friends riding the bus, together since they were kids, and they sincerely like spending these bus rides together.Who picks the movies on the bus? HE DOES! He is the film buff and the range of what they watch is immense. He did laugh when I asked him who had the worst taste in movies. "I'm the film buff and I made them watch obscure stuff, weird shit." When asked whether any film has ever gotten drumming right. His answer was definitive. What about Whiplash?? "they annoy me. All drumming movies annoy me." "...playing slower is a lot harder than playing really fast."That idea comes back in the One Big Question. Reggae asks a drummer to hold back. Jimmy lays the drums down first, along with the bass, and he says you have to give space to other people to do their thing. He calls it discipline. "if you want to play reggae, you've got to be disciplined because you're not going to do much" but what you do has to be perfect.The Rockin' 8 turned up some nuggets of gold including the best place to eat in Birmingham and the first thing he does after a tour is finding, well you'll have to listen to hear what. It's a Beyond the Mic Short Cut. It is short on purpose.A good drummer knows when to leave space.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
- Sep 29, 20269 min
Michael Epstein - Truths of "Fault Line: Haditha"
Twenty years ago, Michael Epstein made a film about a Marine Reserve unit out of Columbus, Ohio. That film put him inside the Haditha case, and he never left it. The staff sergeant charged with 18 counts of murder, told his lawyers for years he couldn't remember what happened, which is a bad defense friends. Epstein took him back into House 2, the room where the government said he killed a family. The camera was rolling, to see if his memory would come back. He was behind the camera and asking the questions with no lawyers in the room.What Epstein found going deeper wasn't just one man's memory. It was a government that charged an innocent Marine as the fall guy, gave immunity to Marines they knew were guilty. What was worse, they put witnesses on the stand they'd been told were lying, and withheld eyewitness testimony from its own investigators.He took the finished film to Tribeca. Nobody would distribute it. He got angry at what he calls the gatekeepers, the people who told him nobody out there cared about this story. He didn't believe that, and he didn't let it go. He says there are millions of people, thousands of people, who care about stories like this one, they just needed someone to put it in front of them.Twenty years later, Fault Line: Haditha is a 13-episode podcast with a companion documentary film for every episode, the raw footage he couldn't get anyone to release now going straight to YouTube, no editing, no gatekeeper. Last year, working with the BBC, Epstein brought two decades of forensic evidence and testimony back to Safa, the sole surviving witness of House 2, and gave her the truth the government had withheld from her for decades. Her new testimony is the final piece of the puzzle, and it's in his podcast.Michael Epstein joins Sean for the Rockin' 8: the last Michigan football game he saw live, his favorite restaurant in Brooklyn, what teaching screenwriting at SVA has taught him about his students, and the album he'll defend to anyone who calls it overlooked. He talks about his mentor Bill Moyers, his daughter's own reporting career, and the promise he made himself the day this whole thing started, one he says he's kept, because he's still here talking about it.Just another Beyond the Mic Short Cut with Sean Dillon.Fault Line: Haditha is out now, wherever you find podcasts, with companion films on YouTube.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
- Sep 28, 202631 min
Jack Stewart Sent Jack Ryan Jr. Underwater Instead of Back Into a Cockpit
Scariest environment you haven't written about yet... "The halls of Congress." - Jack StewartJack Stewart spent 23 years landing fighter jets on aircraft carriers at night. He says landing on a carrier never really gets easy, and it never gets enjoyable either. That's the same discipline he brought into taking over Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr. series. Instead of writing another cockpit story, Stewart sent his first outing 600 feet underwater instead.The choice traces back to years after he left active duty, when he managed a dive operation for an undersea construction company. He watched deep sea divers up close and decided they were crazier than pilots. To write about them honestly, he went and got scuba certified himself, and came away with a fact that still surprises him: a diver 600 feet down is technically farther from breathable air than an astronaut on the space station.Stewart also opens up about the people who shaped him. A wing commander once pointed him toward an open F-18 slot in the reserves, a conversation Stewart says changed the direction of his entire career. On the Rockin' 8, he tells the story of reenlisting a family friend as the man made master chief, the same person Stewart had sworn into the Navy years earlier as a young lieutenant.He talks candidly about writing Master Diver Carla Bennett, a character built to make his lead cede control to someone else entirely, something Stewart says a lot of men in the military still struggle with. And he gets honest about writing inside a franchise this size. He still doesn't feel like he belongs in the same category as the writers who came before him in the Ryanverse, and says that discomfort is exactly what keeps his stories sharp.Stewart also talks about restlessness. After 23 years of always chasing the next mission, he says he's still learning what it means to sit still. His go-to fix when a scene gets heavy is a playlist full of Sublime and Slightly Stupid, which he says keeps him calm enough to actually get the words out.None of this happens without his family. He's been married 22 years, weathered deployments and airline schedules together, and now juggles book tours around flying full time for Southwest and visiting his sons at the Air Force Academy and Texas A&M.Tom Clancy Pressure Depth is out now, wherever books are sold and at jackstewartbooks.com.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
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I believe every person has value. Behind every headline, hustle, hard-earned moment, and family tales there’s a story worth sharing. That’s why I built Beyond the Mic. I talk with artists, athletes, authors, icons and people you need to know. I don’t do puff pieces. I ask questions that get to the real stuff: the doubts, wins, detours, and moments that shaped them. The stories that you normally don't get to hear.Some stories make you laugh. Some hit you in the gut. All of them remind you: people matter, you matter.I’m not here to be famous. I’m here helping others be heard. I want curiosity to run free, connect communities, and make something that sticks with you long after the mic is off.Because in a world full of noise, real stories still cut through. Remarkable stories from people you know—and people you should. That's my mission. Let's go #BeyondTheMic.New Episodes Weekly! A Dog Drool Holdings production — dogdroolholdings.comThis podcast uses the following third-par
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