Author: Troy Conrad

About Troy Conrad An award winning filmmaker, comic, writer, and producer, the projects Troy has produced, directed, and appeared in have hits in the millions. He is the executive producer of The David Feldman Show on KPFK Pacifica Radio, Director of the award winning film series, “Runyon: Just Above Sunset,” and creator and co-producer with Paul Provenza and Barbara Romen on the improvised stand-up show, Set List, currently running in Los Angeles and touring the UK, Australia, and beyond. Troy Conrad can be heard regularly on Sirius/XM, and his work has been featured on The Thom Hartmann Program and The Young Turks. Completing the writing programs at Second City Los Angeles Conservatory, iO West, and UCB Theatre, he has written for The Jay Mohr Roast on NBC, and continues to write and produce weekly content for radio, video, and the stage. He performs at comedy clubs throughout the U.S., and festivals including Montreal, Dublin, Calgary, Vancouver, and Edinburgh, and London. The live DVD, “The Comedy Jesus Show,” is available at stores throughout North America. An explicitly anti-Wal-Mart film, it is also available on the Wal-Mart website. After performing with Arizona’s professional Shakespeare company, Southwest Shakespeare, he moved to Los Angeles for the good soil to grow creative projects with integrity. Troy will be at next summer's Just for Laughs Festivals in Chicago and Montreal. His dream is to someday own a corporation that sits on the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Joan Rivers’ Unfair Labor Practices

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Originally broadcast April 12, 2013. Comedy writer Ned Rice details the Writer’s Guild’s labor dispute with E Television and Joan Rivers. Plus Paul Dooley, Hal Lublin, Janie Haddad Tompkins,  Lauren Pritchard, Jeremy S. Kramer and Will Ryan. New music from Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys. Written by Ned Rice, David Weiss, Bill Dixon, Hal Lublin, Lauren Pritchard and David Feldman. Executive producer Troy Conrad, produced by Alicia Cordova.

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Public Citizen v. Citizens United


Originally Broadcast June 6, 2012. Robert Weissman is the president of Public Citizen, the people’s lobbyist. In this interview he talks about how we can rid American politics of money by getting rid of Citizens United. Mr. Weissman is an expert on economic, health care, trade and globalization, intellectual property and regulatory policy, and issues related to financial accountability and corporate responsibility. He has written extensively on corporate accountability, access to medicines, corporate influence over the political process, the World Trade Organization and regulation of the financial markets. He has worked to lower pharmacy prices for AIDS victims and others in the developing world. His top priorities include climate change, health care reform, financial regulation and campaign finance reform.

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Also on this show everything you need to know about Mitt Romney and Citizens United with Senior Salon Writer Alex Pereene and the President of Public Citizen Robert Weissman. Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of “The Rude Guide to Mitt.” Email him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @pareene.

Plus more union songs from Robin Roberts.

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Howard Bloom

An interview with American author Howard Bloom. Mr. Bloom first worked as a a publicist for singers and bands such as Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx. He has published three books on human evolution and group behavior, The Genius of the Beast, The Global Brain and The Lucifer Principle. This interview was conducted by our Executive producer Troy Conrad and was edited by Alicia Cordova. Please subscribe to us on iTunes and like our show on Facebook.

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