Conversations with Ross

Tweet Last week I attended the 8th Annual New York Television Festival. As a lifelong fan of late night TV, this was one of the events I was most looking forward to. Moderated by MSNBC’s Willie Geist, the panel featured Colin Jost (Saturday Night Live), Eric and Justin Stangel (The Late Show with David Letterman), A.D. Miles (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Steve Bodow (The Daily Show), and Barry...

Tweet Last week I attended the 8th Annual New York Television Festival. Here’s a summary of the Graham Yost keynote. The second day of the festival featured keynote speaker Graham Yost. Graham is a screenwriter, who is currently the showrunner on FX’s Justified. The conversation was moderated by columnist John Sellers. Graham talked about breaking in, his time writing for Hey Dude and Full Hou...

Tweet This episode of Conversations with Ross features Nadine Velazquez. Nadine is an actress currently starring in Flight along side Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle. In this interview Nadine talked about breaking in, pilot season, and her worst audition experience.  She also discussed her role in Filght, how Robert Zemeckis runs his set, and her past work on My Name is Earl. I hope you listen...

Tweet This episode of Conversations with Ross features actor & comedian Brett Gelman. Brett discussed the alternative comedy scene in both Los Angeles and New York, gave his opinion on what makes bad comedy, and talked about his worst performance in front of an audience, at the Holocaust Museum. Brett also spoke about his role as Mr. K on NBC’s Go On, his podcast Gelmania, and his audition ...

Tweet If you’re a baseball fan check out my new podcast, Replacement Level. I recently had the chance to interview Sean Forman from Baseball-Reference. On this episode of the Replacement Level Podcast Baseball-Reference founder Sean Forman joined me to discuss WAR (wins above replacement). Sean talked about how the stat was initially created, how it’s currently calculated, and differen...

Tweet If you’re a baseball fan check out my new podcast, Replacement Level. I recently had the chance to interview Jonah Keri from Grantland.  We discussed the baseball Hall of Fame, the “steroid era”, and what’s next with advanced metrics. We also hit on why some players get overvalued and undervalued throughout their careers, re-evaluated the accomplishments of several players who play...

Tweet This episode of Conversations with Ross features Janet Varney. Janet is an actress currently starring as the voice of Korra on Nickelodeon animated show, The Legend of Korra.  In this interview Janet talked about breaking in, pilot season, and her worst audition experience.  She also discussed if being a working actress is what she expected it to be, and how she managed to bypass so...

Tweet This episode of Conversations with Ross features Sufe Bradshaw. Sufe is an actress currently starring on HBO’s Veep. Sufe talked about breaking in, pilot season, and her worst audition experience.  She also discussed if being a working actress is what she expected it to be, and the best piece of acting advice she was ever given. Sufe offered up some good behind-the-scenes stories on ...

Tweet This episode of Conversations with Ross features Linden Ashby. In addition to focusing on his role as Sheriff Stalinski on MTV’s Teen Wolf reboot, Linden gave an honest account of his life as a working actor. He talked about how show-business has changed in the thirty years he’s been around. He offered a behind-the-scenes look at some at some of his early work including Wyatt Ea...

Tweet For those of you enjoying the Conversations with Ross who might also be baseball fans, I want to introduce you to my newest podcast, Replacement Level. Replacement Level will feature interviews with players both active and retired, as well as various media members, and personalities from the around the game. There will be lots of talk on the Hall of Fame, advanced numbers, baseball myths, a...