Coast to Coast AM - Guests

Leonard Mlodinow

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Leonard Mlodinow received his doctorate in physics from Berkeley. Along the way he also wrote for the television series MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation. His previous books include the NY Times best sellers The Grand Design, co-authored with Stephen Hawking, and The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives. He also wrote Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace; Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life; and, with Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time.

Julia Schopick

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Julia Schopick is the creator of the award-winning blog, HonestMedicine.com, and has been a published writer and a public relations consultant for more than twenty years. When her husband Tim Fisher became ill in 1990 with a cancerous brain tumor, Julia became his medical advocate and began writing on topics relating to health and medicine. Her articles and columns were published in "American Medical News" (the AMA publication), SEARCH (the newsletter of the National Brain Tumor Foundation) and "Alternative and Complementary Therapies." Her work and essays have been featured in the "British Medical Journal," "Modern Maturity" and the "Chicago Sun-Times." Her mission is to use her writing and public relations skills to inform the world about little-known but promising treatments via her website, her presentations and her just-published book, "HONEST MEDICINE," and to empower people in their health choices.

Peter Lance

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, Lance spent the first 15 years of his career as a print reporter and network correspondent. In 1981 Lance became Investigative Correspondent for ABC News. Lance was a member of the first American crew into Indochina after the end of the Vietnam War, he chased rebel insurgents through Laos and members of the Gambino Family through the toxic wastelands of New Jersey, he tracked knife-happy surgeons in the Deep South, and nuclear terrorists through the twisted streets of Antwerp.

Then, in 1987, he took a break from non-fiction. Lance came to L.A. and began working as a writer and story editor for Michael Mann on two of his acclaimed series: Crime Story and Miami Vice. In 1989 he became the co-executive producer and "show runner" on the fourth season of Wiseguy and in 1993 he co-created Missing Persons. Following the 9/11 attacks Lance began investigating the origins of the FBI's original probe of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.

Mario Livio

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Dr. Mario Livio is a senior astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute. He joined the Institute in 1991 as head of the Archive Branch, and also served as the Head of the Institute’s Science Division. A love for astrophysics somehow emerged and persisted, with a special interest in the accretion of mass by black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs.

Jim Sparks

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Author and lecturer Jim Sparks was raised in South Florida and educated in business. Jim’s abductions began in 1988. At the time he was living in Houston and working as a successful land developer in North Carolina. Initially an unwilling abductee, his experiences transformed once he was able to put aside rage, overcome fear. Jim began to understand he was encountering powerful technologically from intelligent advanced beings from other worlds.

Jim had been completely conscious of his experiences, giving him clear memories and gaining amazing insight. In the last two decades he dealt with the ETs, he witnessed amazing technologies. He now knows there is a plan for us to elevate ourselves to better understand what these beings are about.

Webster Tarpley

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Webster Griffin Tarpley is one of the most incisive critics of Anglo-American hegemony. As an activist historian he is best known for his book – George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), a masterpiece of research which is still a must read. He is a 9/11 Truth Scholar and activist; AB Princeton 1966, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin, Italy; and MA in humanities from Skidmore College. He is fluent in Italian, German, French, Latin and Russian. A decades-long expert on international terrorism, his 1978 study for the Italian parliament "Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro?" (Who Killed Aldo Moro?) broke open the ownership of the "Red Brigades" by NATO’s clandestine “stay-behind” networks.

DB Grady

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

In 2002, DB Grady graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science in computer science. Not long after, he joined the Army and did a tour of duty in Afghanistan. At various points in his life, I have alley docked eighteen-wheelers, flipped burgers, jumped out of airplanes, and written Bezier spline generation algorithms. Presently, he is a member of the Authors Guild and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and a grant recipient from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Beirne Logan

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Logan Bierne is an Olin Searle Scholar at Yale Law School. Prior to this position, Logan was an attorney with the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, in New York City. Logan graduated at the top of his class from Fairfield University, was a Fulbright Scholar at Queen's University, and received his JD from Yale Law School, where he received the Edgar M. Cullen Prize for his Constitutional scholarship. Logan is admitted to the New York and Connecticut Bars and has served on the boards of directors for two charities: UnionDocs and Starting Artists. On a personal note, Logan is directly descended from Revolutionary War patriots and his family tree includes the "Father of the Constitution," James Madison. Some of Washington's papers were discovered in his ancestor's storage chest.

Tom Shadyac

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

A onetime actor/comedian and the youngest writer to work for comedy legend Bob Hope, Tom Shadyac’s writing/directing career was launched in 1994 with the Jim Carrey smash hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. In the years that followed, Shadyac would establish himself as one of the most prolific comedy directors in Hollywood while working with some of the biggest names in the business. Huge hits such as Liar Liar, The Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty, Patch Adams, Accepted ,and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, have helped establish Shadyac as one of Hollywood’s most successful writer/director/producers.

In his latest project, a documentary entitled I AM, Shadyac asks some of today’s most profound thinkers, two questions – What’s wrong with our world, and what can we do about it? This moving, inspiring film won the Audience Choice Award and the Student Choice Award at the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride Colorado, where it premiered in May.

Albert Taylor

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Born and raised in Southern California, Albert Taylor performed development engineering on a top secret program which has since become known as the F-117A Stealth Fighter. He evaluated satellite system designs in support of former President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or Star Wars. During the late 1980's Taylor taught Logistics Engineering at Cerritos College, California. He has also served as a volunteer art instructor at St. Paul's Elementary School in West Los Angeles. Taylor's art work has been exhibited in Southern California galleries. In 1992 he developed two prototype computers, and started a company called Phoenix Computers Systems, which he still owns today.

After a myriad of paranormal events, and as a result of a spiritual awakening, Taylor left behind nearly two decades of work as an aeronautical engineer/scientist, to author and publish his book, Soul Traveler. Taylor is currently a metaphysical researcher, teacher, lecturer and artist. He is an active member of International Association of Near Death Studies, Inc. (IANDS) and a participant in the Monroe Institute's On-line Email Voyagers program.

Dr. Steve Pieczenik

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Steve Pieczenik is a critically acclaimed author of psycho-political thrillers and the co-creator of the best-selling Tom Clancy's Op-Center and Tom Clancy's Net Force paperback series. Trained in psychiatry at Harvard University and international relations at M.I.T., his novels are based on over twenty years experience resolving international crises and hostage situations for the Department of State for four administrations.

Gerald Epling

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Gerald Epling is an expert in memory formation. He received his Bachelor's degree in computer science, Master of Science degree in applied cognition and neuroscience, and Doctor of Philosophy degree in cognition and neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas. Gerald's work includes research into memory formation, states of consciousness and phenomenal bio-communication. He has 20 years of experience with a wide variety of electronic endeavors including communications, signal detection and exploitation, and optoelectronic instrumentation.

Robert Zimmerman

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Robert Zimmerman is an award-winning space historian, writing articles and books on issues of science, history, technology, and culture. His newest book, "The Universe in a Mirror: the Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It" (Princeton University Press) tells the sometimes heartbreaking story of the men and women who conceived, designed, built, screwed up, fixed, and then used the Hubble Space Telescope.

His previous book, "Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel," was awarded the Eugene M. Emme Award by the American Astronautical Society for the best popular space history in 2003. In 2000 he was co-winner of the David N. Schramm Award, given by the High Energy Astrophysic Division of the American Astronomical Society for Science Journalism.

Derrick Robinson