"YOU SHUT UP"

Deirdre Imus and Tony Powell face off in "YOU SHUT UP!"

Pat Buchanan

Patrick Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three Presidents, twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and the nominee of the Reform Party in 2000.

Born in Washington, D.C., Mr. Buchanan was educated at Gonzaga High School where he was graduated first in his class in 1956. He attended Georgetown on a full academic scholarship, and was graduated with honors in English and Philosophy in 1961, and inducted into the university’s Gold Key Society. He received a masters degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia in 1962. At 23, he became the youngest editorial writer on a major newspaper in America: The St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

After arranging a meeting with former Vice President Richard Nixon in December of 1965, Mr. Buchanan became the first full-time staffer in his legendary comeback. He traveled with the future President in the campaigns of 1966 and 1968, and to the Middle East, Africa and Israel in the immediate aftermath of the Six Day War. From January of 1969 to August of 1974, he was a Special Assistant to President Nixon, worked with the President on the Cambodian invasion speech, and with Vice President Agnew on many of his speeches on the media and student disorders. Mr. Buchanan was a member of the official US delegation to the Peoples Republic of China in 1972, and attended the Moscow-Yalta-Minsk summit of 1974. After President Nixon’s resignation, Mr. Buchanan served President Ford until October of 1974.

After leaving the White House, Mr. Buchanan became a nationally syndicated columnist, and in May of 1982 began as a panelist on NBC’s “The McLaughlin Group” and a co-host of CNN’s new show “Crossfire.”

In 1985, Mr. Buchanan returned to the White House as Director of Communications. He accompanied President Reagan to his Geneva summit with Mikhail Gorbachev and was with President Reagan in Hofde House at Reykjavik, which has been described as the decisive summit of the Cold War.
On leaving the White House in 1987, Mr. Buchanan returned to journalism, his syndicated column, and to “The McLaughlin Group,” “Crossfire,” and began hosting a new show, “Capital Gang” on CNN.

In December 1991, Mr. Buchanan challenged President George H. W. Bush for the Republican nomination and almost upset the President in New Hampshire, winning 3 million votes in the GOP primaries. In August 1992, Mr. Buchanan opened the Republican convention in Houston with his speech on the “culture war” which is now ranked among the most controversial in convention history. In 1996, he ran a second time for the GOP nomination, won the New Hampshire primary, and finished second to Sen. Dole, again, with three million Republican votes.

After winning the nomination of the Reform Party in 2000, Mr. Buchanan retired from politics and became again an author, columnist, and a commentator on MSNBC for almost a decade.

Mr. Buchanan has written 12 books, including seven straight New York Times bestsellers: A Republic, Not an Empire; The Death of the West; Where the Right Went Wrong, State of Emergency, Day of Reckoning, Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War, and Suicide of a Superpower.

Mr. Buchanan is currently an author, columnist, chairman of The American Cause foundation, and an editor of The American Conservative. He is married to the former Shelley Ann Scarney, who was a member of the Richard Nixon’s vice presidential staff from 1959-61, and a member of the White House Staff from 1969 to 1975.

Nearly fifty years after Richard Nixon’s “Greatest Comeback” to become President of the United States, Patrick J. Buchanan—one of Nixon’s closest advisors from before his political resurrection through his final days in office—is finally sharing his riveting, first-hand account from behind the scenes of the most controversial presidency of the twentieth century in NIXON’S WHITE HOUSE WARS: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever

"Bernie & Sid"

Bernard J. McGuirk is the executive producer of the Imus in the Morning radio program. He was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York, where he worked in his younger years as a taxi driver.

Sid Rosenberg is a radio personality and the former morning host of WMEN-640 AM.  Rosenberg is known for his controversial and sarcastic humor as a host on many radio stations including, WAXY "790 The Ticket" in Miami, where he hosted his own morning show.  He originally was paired with O.J. McDuffie, formerly a wide receiver with the Miami Dolphins; McDuffie resigned his position with the station in the summer of 2006.

Rosenberg's self-given jokingly middle name "Arthur" is a reference to former baseball player Dave Kingman. When Hall of Fame sportscaster Bob Murphy gave the lineups for the New York Mets, he would always give Kingman's name as "David Arthur Kingman"; Rosenberg continues this running gag on the Sports Guys by using Arthur as everybody's middle name.

His radio career started in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he hosted the syndicated sports radio program The Drive on Sports Fan Radio Network in the late 1990s, after starting as an Internet broadcast. In 2000, he moved to New York City to co-host WNEW-FM's turbulent morning show, the Sports Guys. A year later, he joined the Imus in the Morning program. He shared the sports broadcasting duties with Warner Wolf before becoming the full-time sports reporter. He engaged in heated half-mock, half-serious disputes with the other members of the Imus cast, leading for example to an actual boxing bout with producer Bernard McGuirk.  Several months after joining the Imus show, he became the co-host of the midday show on Imus' flagship station, WFAN. Here, his strong knowledge of sports and distinctive, high-pitched Brooklyn accent served him well. He would hold both broadcasting positions until 2005. For several years, he also hosted the radio pre-game shows for New York Giants home games.

Kurt Neumann

Kurt Robert Neumann   is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the roots-rock band BoDeans. Although primarily a guitar player, Neumann has also been known to play drums (his first instrument), bass, keyboards, and mandolin.

In 1977, Neumann and Sam Llanas met while in high school in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Soon after, they began writing songs together and performing as a duo. In 1983, they formed the band BoDeans with the addition of drummer Guy Hoffman and bassist Bob Griffin. The band signed with Slash/Warner Records in 1985, and have since released nine studio albums and two live albums. Neumann's introspective songwriting and unique guitar playing style added significantly to the band's sound. Some BoDeans albums have been produced and recorded by Neumann, including 2004's "Resolution", 2010's "Mr. Sad Clown", and 2011's "Indigo Dreams". Neumann also has contributed guitar and guest vocals to several albums, most notably Robbie Robertson's debut album in 1987, Good Evening by Marshall Crenshaw in 1989, and Flyer by Nanci Griffith in 1994.

In 1997, Neumann recorded a cover of Bruce Springsteen's Atlantic City for the compilation One Step Up/Two Steps Back: The Songs of Bruce Springsteen.

In 2000, Neumann released "Shy Dog", his only solo album to date. Playing all the instruments, the album's sound is influenced by genres such as modern rock, funk, and hip-hop. In 2005, Neumann provided the soundtrack for the movie The Godfather of Green Bay.

Neumann's guitar playing style with the BoDeans has changed significantly from album to album. Although not a heavy user of effects, Neumann has made use of delays and other textural effects throughout most of his career. His guitar style is characterized by ringing open chords, use of the whammy bar, and smooth clean or tube-overdriven tones. Since the American Madealbum, he has mostly stopped using a pick and instead plays with bare fingers. On certain songs such as "Still the Night", he uses hybrid picking, a technique that involves fingerpicking while using the pick simultaneously.

In the band's early days, he favored a clean tone with slap-echo in the style of rockabilly, using modified Fender Telecasters and Super Reverb amps almost exclusively. By the late 1980s, he began using longer quarter or dotted-eighth note stereo delays to create rhythmic textures. Because of this, his style was sometimes compared to U2's The Edge. Around this time, he used a large rackmount setup with several digital effects processors, two GT Electronics studio preamps, and three Fender Super Reverb amps modified for rackmounting.

Around the Go Slow Down era, Neumann was using a Mesa/Boogie Studio Preamp and Simul-Class 395 power amp. He also had a custom purple guitar designed by Wisconsin luthier Bob Casper, which Neumann described as sounding like a "chainsaw" on the high-gain opening riff of "Closer to Free". Later in the decade, he also played Gibson and Epiphone hollowbodies. By the early 2000s, he was using two Fender Hot Rod DeVille amps, and a small rack with a Marshall JMP-1 or Rocktron VooDu Valve preamp running into the front end of the DeVilles. Around the Resolution era, he was using a Dunlop Crybaby from Hell wah during many solos.

Since the late 2000s, he has been using custom Fulton-Webb amps from Austin, TX, and a simpler rig with a mono pedalboard. He builds and plays custom "Bastard" guitars, which are made from unique parts from other guitars and feature hand-painted tung oil finishes. They are mostly in the form of Stratocasters, but with rear-routed bodies.

Fred Stoller

Fred Stoller: As a stand-up comedian Fred has appeared on Late Night With David Letterman, The Tonight Show, Dr. Katz Professional Therapist, HBO’s Thirteenth Annual Young Comedian’s Special, among scores of other network and cable comedy shows.

Fred then guest starred on countless sitcoms, establishing himself as TV’s go-to nebbish: most notably as Ray Romano’s mopey cousin Gerard on Everybody Loves Raymond, Elaine’s forgetful date on Seinfeld, and Monica’s bossy co-worker on Friends. He’s appeared in the films Dumb and Dumber, Rebound, Little Man, among others.

Fred & Vinnie, the indie feature he wrote and starred in, won the Audience award at The Austin Film Festival.  Fred wrote for the animated series Handy Manny, where he also voiced the character Rusty The Wrench. He was a staff writer for Seinfeld and the author of Maybe We’ll Have You Back--The Life of a Perennial TV Guest published by Skyhorse Publishing.

Five Minutes to Kill tells the story of the Young Comedians Special in 1989. He and five other talented, then-unknown comics took the stage with the hopes that their five-minute sets would propel them to fame and fortune. Some, like David Spade and Rob Schneider, hit it big; others didn’t. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, Five Minutes to Kill is the bittersweet story of what happened to six of America’s funniest people after their first big breaks.