Mick Foley

Mick Foley is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several acclaimed memoirs and children’s books, a WWE Hall-of-Famer, and a lifelong lover of Christmas. Follow him at @RealMickFoley.

"Psychos"

Deirdre Imus, Tony Powell, Lou Rufino, Bernard McGuirk and Sid Rosenberg are Psychos!

Anthony Mason

Anthony Mason, 59, is host of CBS This Morning: Saturday and CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent. He is also a frequent contributor of cultural stories to the CBS News Sunday Morning broadcast. Mason has spent more than 35 years as a television journalist. In three decades as a correspondent for CBS News, he has reported from more than 30 countries and won nine Emmy Awards.
 
Born in New York City, Mason moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma after graduating from Georgetown University in 1980 to take a job at KJRH-TV. That led to stints at WCAU in Philadelphia and WCBS in New York, He joined CBS News in 1986.
 
Assigned to the London Bureau from 1987-1990, Mason traveled extensively for the next four years. He went into Afghanistan with the Mujahedeen guerillas to cover the Soviet pullout; reported from Pakistan on the assassination of General Zia ul Haq and the rise of Benazir Bhutto; and went to the front in the Iran-Iraq war to witness Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons on the Kurds. He also covered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
 
In 1989, he was the first journalist to report on the exodus of East German refugees through Hungary as the Iron Curtain began to crack. He followed the story to Czechoslovakia and Poland as their communist governments collapsed. His work earned Mason the prestigious DuPont Columbia Award.
 
From 1991 to 1993, Mason was CBS News’ chief Moscow correspondent, where he reported on the coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, the rise of Boris Yeltsin and the demise of the Soviet Union, coverage which won him an Emmy Award.
 
Mason was named Business Correspondent in 1998. His series, “Life and Debt in America,” which aired on the CBS Evening News in early 2008, underscored some of the problems that ultimately led to the financial crisis and won him and another Emmy. At the end of 2008, the business website Marketwatch.com named him the “Broadcast journalist of the year.” Marketwatch.com’s media critic wrote that Mason “personified a dying art in the media today: explanatory journalism. Night after night, Mason took pains to help his viewers understand what was unfolding on Wall Street and in Washington – and, most important, why they should care.”
 
As a regular contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning, Mason hosts the program’s annual Money show. He has also profiled politicians (Bill Clinton), business leaders (Henry Paulson), and musicians (Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards.) His series on crime writers (he profiled more than 40 of them over a decade) won the Raven award from the Mystery Writers of America.
 
For the past decade, Mason has also been involved in election coverage for CBS providing exit poll analysis during the primaries and on election night.  Anthony Mason is a graduate of St. George’s School and Georgetown University (B.A. 1980) He and his wife, Christina have 3 children and live in New York City.

"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.

Ken Burns

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost forty years.  Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz, The Statue of Liberty; Huey Long; Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness:  The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War; The National Parks:  America’s Best Idea; The Roosevelts:  An Intimate History; Jackie Robinson; and, most recently, Defying the Nazis:  The Sharps’ War.

A December 2002 poll conducted by Real Screen Magazine listed The Civil War as second only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time,” and named Ken Burns and Robert Flaherty as the “most influential documentary makers” of all time. In March, 2009, David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun said, “… Burns is not only the greatest documentarian of the day, but also the most influential filmmaker period. That includes feature filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.  I say that because Burns not only turned millions of persons onto history with his films, he showed us a new way of looking at our collective past and ourselves.” The late historian Stephen Ambrose said of his films, "More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source."

Future projects include films on the Vietnam War, the history of country music, Ernest Hemingway, and the history of stand-up comedy.

Ken’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including fifteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations; and in September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.