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  1. 4d ago

    Taz Bentii on The Kid From Ottawa, "Realest" & Taking Ottawa Hip-Hop Worldwide

    🇨🇦🔥 NEW EPISODE! Today on Too Opinionated, we head north to meet rising Canadian hip-hop artist Taz Bentii, whose new album The Kid From Ottawa and single "Realest" are putting his hometown front and center. For Taz, The Kid From Ottawa is more than an album title—it's a statement of identity, ambition and where he comes from. The project offers a personal look inside his heart, mind and mission as he works to take the sound of Canada's capital to a much bigger stage. 🎶 His new single "Realest" showcases the melodic delivery, songwriting and energy that have helped Taz build momentum, with his music receiving radio play including SiriusXM. We talk: 💿 Creating The Kid From Ottawa 🔥 The story and attitude behind "Realest" 🇨🇦 Representing Ottawa in Canadian hip-hop 🎤 Developing his sound and finding his identity 🌎 Recording in Atlanta, New York and Miami 🎶 Blending personal storytelling with street-driven anthems 🚀 Taking his hometown story to an international audience 🎧 Collaborating with TVGUCCI and DJ Holiday 🎤 Touring with Riff Raff and performing alongside artists including Nardo Wick, Cash Cobain and Murda Beatz 🏠 Why no matter how far his career takes him, Ottawa will always be home From Ottawa to Atlanta. From Canada to the world. Taz Bentii is determined to make sure people remember where "The Kid From Ottawa" came from. 🎧 Listen to "Realest": https://open.spotify.com/track/1A29JuqgP3gI7S1c7fxGM6 💿 Listen to The Kid From Ottawa: https://open.spotify.com/album/5g636V78vMowOftvAs1Do9 📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taz 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@MeisterkhanPod #TazBentii #TheKidFromOttawa #Realist #ottawa #hiphop

  2. 5d ago

    Janette Burke on Celebrity Interviews, Resilience & Reinventing Yourself

    🎙️🔥 THE INTERVIEWER GETS INTERVIEWED! Today on Too Opinionated, Michael turns the tables on fellow interviewer Janette Burke, award-winning media personality, producer and creator/host of Janette's TV & Janette's TV Podcast. With more than 20 years in media, Janette has built her career around asking thoughtful—and sometimes difficult—questions while creating an environment where guests feel comfortable opening up. And what a guest list! 🎬 Janette has interviewed Tom Hanks, Helen Mirren, Halle Berry, Bradley Cooper, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, Martha Stewart, Kevin O'Leary and many more. Before stepping in front of the camera, Janette spent 17 years as a publicist, eventually following her own dream and building an independent media platform that has produced hundreds of episodes and reached audiences around the world. We talk: 🎤 The art of conducting a great interview 🔥 Asking the hard questions without losing your guest 🎬 What she's learned interviewing Hollywood stars 📺 Building Janette's TV & Podcast outside traditional television 💡 Making the leap from publicist to on-camera personality 🎥 Why preparation and authenticity matter on camera 💪 Surviving trauma, bullying, stalking and adversity ❤️ Rebuilding confidence and self-worth 🚀 Reinventing yourself at any stage of life 🎙️ Coaching CEOs and entrepreneurs to communicate on camera At the heart of Janette's story is a message she now brings to audiences as a keynote speaker: "Your past does not define your future." Two interviewers. Two different styles. And one conversation about what really happens when the questions start getting difficult. 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@MeisterkhanPod #JanetteBurke #JanettesTV #CelebrityInterviews #Podcasting #TVHost

  3. Sep 29

    Too Kristy Cox on Winds of Change | Heartbreak, Healing & Bluegrass

    div:has([data-free-thinking-preview-answer=true])+:is(.text-message,.relative:has(>.text-message))]:-mt-2 grow"> 🪕🎶 NEW EPISODE! Today on Too Opinionated, we welcome Nashville-based Australian bluegrass powerhouse Kristy Cox to celebrate her deeply personal new album, Winds of Change, arriving October 9 on Billy Blue Records! Known as "Australia's Queen of Bluegrass," Kristy is a #1 Billboard-charting artist and seven-time Golden Guitar Award winner whose unmistakable voice has taken her from South Australia to Nashville and stages around the world. 🌪️ Winds of Change was born from one of the most transformative periods of Kristy's life. Following her 2025 divorce, she poured heartbreak, growth, faith, resilience and self-discovery into an album built around the bluegrass sounds of banjo, guitar, mandolin, upright bass and fiddle. As Kristy puts it, sometimes "the chapters we never planned become the ones that shape us the most." We talk: 💿 The story behind Winds of Change 🎶 New single No Regrets ❤️ Turning heartbreak into music 🌪️ Learning when to hold on—and when to let go 🪕 Taking bluegrass from Australia to Nashville 🏆 Seven Golden Guitar Awards 🥇 Reaching #1 on Billboard with Let It Burn 🎤 Her evolution as a singer and songwriter 👩‍👧‍👦 Balancing music and life as a single mom of two ☕ Running her own Australian mobile coffee business in Nashville 🌎 Helping grow bluegrass internationally as an IBMA Board member Winds of Change isn't simply about what Kristy lost—it's about finding the strength to embrace where life takes you next. 💿 Pre-save Winds of Change: https://listen.billybluerecords.com/kc_woc 🎶 Listen to No Regrets: https://listen.billybluerecords.com/kc_nr 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@MeisterkhanPod #KristyCox #WindsOfChange #NoRegrets #Bluegrass #CountryMusic

  4. Sep 25

    Dark Hollow Cast on Appalachian Horror, Coal Country & the Monster Beneath West Virginia | Too Opinionated

    *]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]" dir="auto" data-turn-id= "request-699f6769-2ac0-8331-a082-bbb20628e2b0-0" data-turn-id-container= "request-699f6769-2ac0-8331-a082-bbb20628e2b0-0" data-testid= "conversation-turn-22" data-turn="assistant"> div:has([data-free-thinking-preview-answer=true])+:is(.text-message,.relative:has(>.text-message))]:-mt-2 grow"> ⛏️👹 NEW EPISODE! Today on Too Opinionated, we head deep into Appalachia with J. Stephen Brantley, Sharon Murray Harrah and newcomer Ian Deighan for a special cast panel celebrating the new West Virginia-rooted horror film Dark Hollow! Written and directed by Daniel Byers, Dark Hollow is a Southern Gothic creature feature about a nightmarish monster unleashed from an Appalachian coal mine and the young mother forced to hunt it down to protect her family. 🎬 The screenplay won the 2023 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and the production went underground to shoot portions of the movie inside a real Appalachian coal mine. Our panel brings together three very different acting journeys. 📺 J. Stephen Brantley has appeared in American Horror Story, Succession, Poker Face, Gotham, The Blacklist, FBI: Most Wanted, Animal Kingdom and Law & Order and is also an award-winning playwright. 🎭 Broadway veteran Sharon Murray Harrah has performed in 100+ productions, directed 40+ and costumed 90+, before returning to film after her 2023 retirement. 🌟 And we meet Ian Deighan, a newcomer beginning his screen journey with Dark Hollow. We talk Appalachian horror, practical creature effects, filming in coal country, creating Dark Hollow and bringing a distinctly West Virginia story to audiences. 📲 WATCH AT HOME: Prime Video: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0G8ZCULZ45P9LKL0D0NJZDYGNR Other platforms: https://brainmedia.com/catalog/films/item/dark-hollow 🎟️ WEST VIRGINIA SCREENINGS: 📍 Charleston – Oct. 7 & 14 | Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema https://wviff.org/movies/dark-hollow/ 📍 Buckhannon – Oct. 13 | Colonial Arts Center, 📍 Pendleton County – Oct. 16 | Warner's Drive-In 📍 Beckley – Oct. 17 | Marquee 📍 Huntington – Oct. 18, 7 PM | Foundry Theater + Daniel Byers Q&A https://www.foundrytheater.org/event-details/dark-hollow-film-screening Roadshow updates: https://darktowerfilms.com/darkhollow 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@MeisterkhanPod #DarkHollow #Horror #WestVirginia #AppalachianHorror #WVFilm #TooOpinionated #Meisterkhan   _:empty]:hidden">

  5. Sep 23

    Susie Singer Carter on No Country for Old People & the National Walk for Long-Term Care Reform | Too Opinionated

    🏥📢 NEW EPISODE! Today on Too Opinionated, award-winning filmmaker and caregiver advocate Susie Singer Carter joins us to discuss her documentary No Country for Old People: A Nursing Home Exposé and the movement it inspired—ROAR 4 LTC. On September 27, 2026, ROAR 4 LTC launches its first National Long-Term Care Reform Walk, with events across 31 states bringing together families, caregivers, healthcare professionals and advocates. 🪑 The events will include The Empty Chair Experience, honoring people harmed, neglected or lost in long-term care and giving families an opportunity to share their loved ones' names, photographs and stories. ROAR stands for Respect, Oversight, Advocacy and Reform for Long-Term Care. The nonprofit grew from Susie's No Country for Old People, an Anthem Award-winning documentary examining nursing home neglect, abuse, understaffing, oversight and the experiences of residents and families. We talk: 🎬 Making No Country for Old People 🏥 What Susie learned investigating long-term care 📢 Turning a documentary into the ROAR 4 LTC movement 🚶 The September 27 nationwide walks 🪑 The powerful Empty Chair Experience ❤️ Susie's personal journey as a caregiver advocate 🎥 My Mom and The Girl, Bratz: The Movie and Soul Surfer 🎙️ Her award-winning Love Conquers Alz podcast This isn't just a walk. It's about making residents and families visible and bringing the long-term care conversation into the public square. 🚶 Find a walk, sign up, volunteer or learn more: 👉 https://www.roar4ltc.org/ 🎬 Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1097399645/4baf4cc693 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@MeisterkhanPod #SusieSingerCarter #NoCountryForOldPeople #ROAR4LTC #LongTermCare #NursingHomes

  6. Sep 16

    David W. Ross on Slatable | Revolutionizing Self-Tape Auditions & His Boy Band Beginnings | Too Opinionated

    🎬🎤 NEW EPISODE! Today on Too Opinionated, we welcome actor, writer, producer and entrepreneur David W. Ross, whose career has taken him from 90s boy-band heartthrob to award-winning independent film and creating tools that help actors audition from anywhere. 📱 David is the founder and CEO of Slatable, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. Created after David found himself with a self-tape deadline and nobody available to read opposite him, Slatable was designed by an actor who understood the problem firsthand. The app allows performers to record another character's lines, play them back during their performance, film takes and edit everything into a submission-ready audition—without a reader, separate editing software or expensive self-tape studio. Slatable has since been used by tens of thousands of actors across more than 40 countries. 🎭 David is also an accomplished actor. He starred in Sundance sensation Quinceañera and wrote, produced and starred in I Do, which earned numerous festival honors. But before Hollywood came pop stardom! 🎤 David first entered the spotlight as a member of the 1990s British boy band Bad Boys Inc., whose debut album produced five Top 20 hits, including the Top 10 "More to This World." We talk: 📱 10 years of Slatable 🎭 How technology has transformed self-tape auditions 🎬 Quinceañera and I Do 🎤 His wild Bad Boys Inc. years 💡 Going from actor to tech entrepreneur 📲 The upcoming AuditionDrop v3 🎥 Giving actors more control over their auditions 🚀 What's next for David Boy band star. Actor. Filmmaker. Entrepreneur. David W. Ross has reinvented himself more than once. 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@MeisterkhanPod #DavidWRoss #Slatable #SelfTape #Actors #ActingTips #Auditions #BadBoysInc

  7. Sep 15

    Audley Stephenson on Living Your Best Audacious Life Ever | Courage, Greatness & Building a Legacy | Too Opinionated

    📚🔥 NEW EPISODE! Today on Too Opinionated, we welcome author, speaker and podcast host Audley Stephenson to discuss his new book, Living Your Best Audacious Life Ever: How Unleashing Your Inner Greatness Can Change the World, arriving December 1, 2026. What if living boldly isn't about being fearless, taking reckless chances or waiting for one life-changing moment? Audley challenges the idea that audacity belongs only to a fearless few. Instead, his book explores how small, intentional acts of courage practiced consistently can transform our confidence, resilience, careers, relationships and the legacy we leave behind. 🔥 It's not a call to be louder. It's a call to be braver on purpose. Audley draws from his own experiences and lessons gathered through 700+ episodes of The Audacious Living Podcast, featuring conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers about courage, resilience and purposeful living. We talk: 📖 Living Your Best Audacious Life Ever 💪 Making courage a daily practice 🧠 Why audacity doesn't require fearlessness 🔥 Breaking through beliefs that keep us playing small 🚀 Unleashing your inner greatness 🎯 Building confidence and resilience 🌎 Turning ordinary choices into extraordinary impact 🏆 Creating a meaningful legacy 🎙️ Lessons from 700+ podcast conversations At the heart of Audley's message is a powerful question: What could happen if you chose courage—not just once, but every day? 📚 Living Your Best Audacious Life Ever is available for pre-order now on Amazon. 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@MeisterkhanPod #AudleyStephenson #AudaciousLiving #NewBook #PersonalGrowth #Courage

  8. Sep 10

    Outlast: The Jungle Winner Nikki Hru | 🥊 Actress. Boxer. Survivor. Champion | Too Opinionated Podcast

    🏕️🔥 NEW EPISODE! Today on Too Opinionated, we welcome actress, athlete, boxer and Outlast: The Jungle champion Nikki Hru! Nikki and Maddy Jones survived the brutal Panamanian jungle to become the first female duo to win Netflix's Outlast, ultimately claiming the $1 million prize. Their journey was anything but easy. From hunger, exhaustion, relentless rain and an early decision that left them without fire-making equipment to the controversial endgame decision involving teammate Leiya, Nikki and Maddy had to balance survival, loyalty and strategy with a million dollars on the line. We get Nikki's perspective on what viewers DIDN'T see, her partnership with Maddy, the pressure of the final trek, the reaction to their last major strategic decision and what it actually feels like to realize you just won Outlast. 🎬 But there's much more to Nikki than reality television. Before the jungle and the boxing ring, acting was her passion. Nikki began in musical theater, studying Shakespeare, vocal performance, circus arts and stunt work, before moving to Los Angeles to study Behavioral Neuroscience and ultimately committing herself to acting. 🥊 She's also a formidable competitive athlete and crossover boxer, bringing the same physical and mental toughness seen on Outlast into the ring. We talk: 🏆 Winning Outlast: The Jungle with Maddy 💰 The million-dollar finale 🔥 Survival, strategy and controversy 🎬 Nikki's acting career and Hollywood ambitions 🎭 Her musical theater and Shakespeare background 🥊 Boxing, stunt work and athletic competition 🧠 Studying Behavioral Neuroscience Actress. Fighter. Survivor. Outlast Champion. Nikki Hru is just getting started. 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@MeisterkhanPod #NikkiHru #Outlast #OutlastTheJungle #Netflix #NetflixOutlast

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