Eddy Rivas

Life beyond Pong. You knew it wouldn't end after Donkey Kong. Rooster Teeth is a part of the world some have never traveled. Which is why there's now a map. The Red vs Blue Ultimate Guide. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Eddy Rivas. Dey Street Books is proud to announce the publication of RED VS BLUE: The Ultimate Fan Guide by Rooster Teeth, Eddy Rivas, and Burnie Burns (On Sale: November 17, 2015; ISBN: 9780062355782; $19.99). Part backstage pass, part love-letter to fans, and part gamer encyclopedia, RED VS BLUE is an in-depth look at the inner workings of a cultural phenomenon. Video games have moved far beyond being a niche interest; for many, they are a passion, a frequent hobby—and for many more, they have become a spectator sport. Outlets such as Amazon’s Twitch TV, or YouTube’s newly-launched gaming channel provide platforms for millions of fans to watch world-class or amateur players go through their favorite video games, and events such as the rapidly sold-out League of Legends Championship at Madison Square Garden prove that this is a sensation not strictly limited to the dark corners of the internet. Millennials who flocked to web series in droves and made YouTube a billion dollar company are frantically searching for more video content to consume—and they’re finding what they’re searching for in the form of e-sports and web gaming. •Their weekly podcast is consistently in the Top 10 podcasts on iTunes and tops the very crowded Video Games category. •Rooster Teeth is the #4 non-music YouTube channel and #11 overall channel globally. Their videos have garnered over one billion views. •Rooster Teeth, the godfathers of online game streaming, has won multiple awards, including 2011, 2012, and 2013 Best Animated Series (Red vs. Blue) from the International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV). •Over 8 million YouTube subscribers •638k Twitter followers •790+k Facebook fans •Red vs. Blue went viral before “viral” was a thing. They started airing in 2003, before YouTube existed—and it’s still running! •The longest running sci-fi series in America Web videos and gaming have never been more visible than they are now, with discussions about gaming on the likes of Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien continually propelling gaming even further into the limelight. Back in 2003, before YouTube even existed, five friends unleashed a sci-fi comedy web series on the world that paved the way for web series and videogame streaming as we know it. That series was Red vs. Blue. Written by the Chief Creative Officer of Rooster Teeth, Burnie Burns, and Eddy Rivas, RED VS. BLUE: The Ultimate Fan Guide is an ode to a modern sensation, coming straight from the minds of the godfathers of the modern web series and gaming culture. Rooster Teeth is a creative production studio, responsible for award-winning internet videos such as Red vs. Blue, the longest running web series in history, reality gamer series The Gauntlet, live action Rooster Teeth Shorts, and Immersion, a show that tests video game concepts in the real world. Rooster Teeth are the founders of gaming website AchievementHunter.com and produce the award-winning Rooster Teeth Podcast, voted Best Gaming Podcast at the 2012 Podcast Awards. With a dedicated worldwide fan community, Rooster Teeth created RTX (Rooster Teeth Expo), an annual gaming and internet convention held in Austin, TX which attracts thousands of gamers and Rooster Teeth fans from around the world. Rooster Teeth has won multiple awards, including 2011, 2012, and 2013 Best Animated Series (Red vs. Blue) from the IAWTV, and has been featured by hundreds of major publications and networks including MTV, G4, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Wired, and many more. The members of Rooster Teeth wrote scripts and recorded over their gameplay to create a series that tapped into the cultural zeitgeist, going viral before “viral” was even a thing. The birth of Rooster Teeth and Red vs. Blue was a watershed moment for modern pop culture; it’s the longest running web series on the internet, as well as the longest running sci-fi series in America. It’s been over a decade—thirteen seasons and 250 episodes—since the launch of this web series, but Rooster Teeth are continuing to revolutionize the world of web-based entertainment, having translated their initial success into an empire that includes endorsement deals, a major fan convention, multiple web series, and now, a book. Discover everything you’ve always wanted to know about Simmons, Grif, Sarge, Donut, Tex, Sheila the tank, Caboose, Church, and the rest of the Red and Blue team members stationed in the box canyon known as Blood Gulch, with this full-color companion guide to the multiple-award-winning, long-running, comic science-fiction web series Red vs. Blue. In Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide, the series creators at Rooster Teeth bring together more than a decade’s worth of ephemera and behind-the-scenes information. Inside you’ll find: •Character dossiers •Character-driven lists, including “The Wisdom of Caboose” •Charts and statistics mapping out character, world, and episode trivia, such as how many times Simmons has sucked up to Sarge over the course of the series •The best Red vs. Blue quotes ever of all time •Alternate stories and unexplored character arcs •Spotlights on the Red vs. Blue cast and crew, who share unique anecdotes, behind-the-scenes stories, and insights into the award-winning series •Shooting scripts, including cut lines, deleted scenes, and trivia •More than 200 full-color images, including never before seen sketches About the Co-Author: Eddy Rivas is co-creator of Rooster Teeth, a creative production studio, responsible for award-winning internet videos such as Red vs. Blue, the longest running web series in history, reality gamer series The Gauntlet, live action Rooster Teeth Shorts, and Immersion, a show that tests video game concepts in the real world. Rooster Teeth are the founders of gaming website AchievementHunter.com and produce the award-winning Rooster Teeth Podcast, voted Best Gaming Podcast at the 2012 Podcast Awards. With a dedicated worldwide fan community, Rooster Teeth created RTX (Rooster Teeth Expo), an annual gaming and internet convention held in Austin, TX which attracts thousands of gamers and Rooster Teeth fans from around the world. Rooster Teeth has won multiple awards, including 2011, 2012, and 2013 Best Animated Series (Red vs. Blue) from the IAWTV, and has been featured by hundreds of major publications and networks including MTV, G4, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Wired, and many more.

Fortune Feimster

Performing tonight at Charlotte's Comedy Zone!!! Fortune grew up across the lake from where I'm sitting. Something about those southern girls that turns every conversation into a bless your heart kind of moment. If you have never seen her perform live. The experience will have you hooked for life. Brilliantly talented and extremely one on one with those in the audience. You too will be calling her your best friend.

13 Hours from Paramount Pictures

To live it because you love it. Hired to protect our nation. Contracted to serve. 13 Hours The secret soldiers of Benghazi is coming to theaters on January 15th. You know the headlines. But do you know the truth? From the iHeart Radio Studio Meg Butterly from 969 The Kat is Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Kris, Mark and John from 13 Hours. In theaters January 15, 2016... 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI is based on the book 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, written by New York Times bestselling author Mitchell Zuckoff. 13 HOURS tells the true account of the events of September 11, 2012 when Islamic militants attacked the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound (or simply – the American diplomatic compound, not the U.S. Embassy) and a CIA station called The Annex in Benghazi, Libya from the personal stories of five of the surviving American private security operators that were on the ground that day. The book and film details what happened to these men, how they handled the circumstances they were presented with and what they accomplished during the thirteen hours of the attack. The Annex Security Team consisted of 6 men: “Jack Silva” (played by John Krasinski), Tyrone “Rone” Woods (played by James Badge Dale), Mark “Oz” Geist (played by Max Martini), John “Tig” Tiegen (played by Dominic Fumusa), Kris “Tanto” Paronto (played by Pablo Schreiber), and “Dave ‘D.B.’ Benton (played by David Denman). The 4 Americans that lost their lives in Benghazi were: oAmbassador Christopher Stevens (U.S. Ambassador to Libya) oSean Smith (Information Management Officer, U.S. Foreign Service) oTyrone “Rone” Woods (GRS Operator for Annex Security Team in Benghazi) oGlen “Bub” Doherty (GRS Operator in Tripoli, Libya – part of the Quick Reaction Force sent from Tripoli to Benghazi after the compound was under attack) Five members of the Annex Security Team survived the attacks in Benghazi and co-authored the book, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi. While all of the men are former military (veterans), including Navy SEALS, Marines, and Army Rangers, these men were not active duty military at the time of the attack yet were faced with making similar sacrifices, including laying their lives on the line for their countrymen and their country. The CIA uses private security operators called Global Response Staff (GRS) throughout the world in high-risk regions where CIA officers are stationed. These GRS operators are elite former military personnel who have decided to continue their commitment to serve the United States even after their military career has ended. In this role, their job is to provide security for the CIA officers. The state department has their own diplomatic security agents assigned to protect American diplomats, such as the Ambassador. While it was not their job to protect the state department, when the Annex Security Team found out that the U.S. diplomatic compound was under attack, they knew they had to help the fellow Americans (including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens) that were in jeopardy.

Buddy Baron's Making Stocking

I love it when radio people tap into their creative energy. It's not all about that two speaker stage. For this guy. He put his passion of writing into a Hallmark Christmas movie that airs this Sunday night.. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Buddy Baron. This holiday tale surrounds Lindsey Monroe – a widow still mourning her husband’s death – and daughter Hannah. When Hannah buys a stocking at their town’s Christmas craft fair, Lindsey suddenly starts to magically find things inside it that begin holding importance in her everyday life. The stocking holds a power and energy that quickly becomes clear, restoring Lindsey’s faith in life and love – and leading her to open up her heart after meeting a handsome artist.

Phil Zuckerman is Back

We all have questions. Not too many locate answers. Is life truly all about locating a religion? From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Phil Zuckerman. Phil Zuckerman is a sociology professor at Pitzer College, where he studied the lives of the nonreligious for years before founding a Department of Secular Studies, the first academic program in the nation dedicated to exclusively studying secular culture and the sociological consequences of America’s fastest-growing “faith.” Zuckerman discovered that despite the entrenched negative beliefs about nonreligious people, American secular culture is grounded in deep morality and proactive citizenship—indeed, some of the very best that the country has to offer. Drawing on groundbreaking sociological research and extensive in-depth interviews with men and women across the country, LIVING THE SECULAR LIFE illuminates this demographic shift with the moral convictions that govern secular individuals. In an interview, Zuckerman can discuss: •How secular Americans are constructing their own communities by building institutions and cultivating relationships without religious influence. •Eye-opening research that reveals the enduring moral strength of children raised without religion. •The hardships experienced by secular mothers in the rural South, where church attendance defines the public space. •The unique moral code that allows nonreligious Americans to effectively navigate the complexities of modern life: Spiritual self-reliance, clear-eyed pragmatism, a commitment to living in the here and now, and an abiding faith in the Golden Rule to adjudicate moral decisions. •The real-life stories and beliefs of individuals who have chosen to live a secular life that demonstrates these principles in action and points to their usage throughout daily life: from helping individuals to cope with trying times, to dealing with death, to guiding how they raise their children. A manifesto for a booming social movement—and a revelatory survey of this overlooked community—LIVING THE SECULAR LIFE offers essential and long-awaited information for anyone building a life based on his or her own principles. www.PhilZuckerman.com Follow Phil on Twitter: @phil_zuckerman

Mark Greaney Commander In Chief

Jack Ryan is now the President of the United States. And the world has gotten more reckless. How can a man of the people still be a man for the people by way of action, suspense, drama and intrigue? He does it by putting the action where his commitment is. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with the legendary Mark Greaney. JUST ANNOUNCED: Amazon has picked up Paramount TV’s series based on Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character after a competitive bidding war With TOM CLANCY COMMANDER IN CHIEF: A Jack Ryan Novel (G. P. Putnam’s Sons; December 1, 2015), Mark Greaney, co-author of three of Tom Clancy’s #1 New York Times bestsellers, once again displays his ability to hit the trifecta of what makes a great Clancy book: Tom's terrific characters combined with edge-of-your-seat action scenes and the over-the-horizon prescience about world events that characterizes Tom's books. The newest electrifying thriller in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series has President Jack Ryan and his allies facing a treacherous foe threatening to unleash chaos around the globe. In COMMANDER IN CHIEF, Russian President Valeri Volodin’s ambitions are foiled in Dagestan and he faces a difficult choice. The oligarchs who support him expect a constant flow of graft, but with energy prices cratering, the Russian economy sputters to a virtual halt. Unable to grow the Russian market at home, his hold on power relies on expansion abroad—a plan that has been thwarted by the United States in the past. But this time Volodin has determined that an indirect approach is the best. A floating natural gas facility in Lithuania is blown up. A Venezuelan prosecutor is assassinated. A devastating attack on a Russian troop train kills dozens. A chaotic world is the best camouflage for a series of seemingly unrelated attacks. Only one man recognizes an ominous pattern in the reports of terror from around the globe. U.S. President Jack Ryan sees a guiding hand in the worldwide chaos, but before he can act he needs proof. While his intelligence agencies race to uncover the truth behind the attacks, the President struggles to unite a fractious and distrustful coalition of Western nations against the schemes of the Russian dictator. With fifty thousand Russian troops poised to invade a NATO nation, can Jack Ryan move swiftly enough to stop Volodin’s grand plan of global conflict and conquest? Or will he succeed in changing the balance of world power forever? About the Authors: Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.” From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013. Mark Greaney is the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Command Authority, Threat Vector, and Locked On, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney and the author of Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect: A Jack Ryan Novel and Tom Clancy Support and Defend: A Campus Novel. He is also the bestselling author of the Gray Man series, including Dead Eye, The Gray Man, On Target, and Ballistic. Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science. In his research for these novels, he traveled to fifteen countries, and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combat tactics.

Ryan Britt

Do you feel like a Geek? Have you be labeled a little out there. More than normal. I love it when an author calls a great Sci Fi film a romantic comedy. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with author Ryan Britt. Ryan Britt is an uncontrolled experiment—a genre omnivore who has spent his time on this earth flying to other galaxies, undersea cities, freaky amusement parks, Middle Earth, Transylvania, Sherlock Holmes’ London, and the Cretaceous. His essays are reliably smart, surprising, provocative, and funny.” —Karen Russell, Pulitzer-Prize finalist for Swamplandia! “As the nerded and geeked boys and girls of the ‘80s and ‘90s have grown up and become pseudo adults in this early section of the twenty-first century, we’ve noticed something odd: the Gap suddenly sells Star Trek T-shirts. Seemingly overnight, being a “geek” is cool and news article after blog post trumpets that now not only are geeks hip, but their hipness is here to stay, too. The geek(s) have inherited the Earth, which is why Star Trek, Star Wars, comic book heroes, and fantasy novels are more popular than ever.” If the ghost of Marshall McLuhan were to merge with Chuck Klosterman, you’d have essayist Ryan Britt. Britt has never met a monster, alien, wizard or superhero that didn’t require further discussion, and answers questions you haven’t yet thought to ask. Does anyone in the Star Wars universe read books? Is Pete Best the Bilbo to Ringo Starr’s Frodo? And, what ever happened to Biff Tannen’s parents? Now, Britt has written an entertaining manifesto for modern geekdom with LUKE SKYWALKER CAN’T READ. Britt’s thoughtful and fun meditations on everything sci-fi and pop culture spins insights on what many of us have not known about our favorite stuff. He shows us how monster movies are just romantic comedies with commitment issues, claims nobody should get mad about superhero remakes, and argues that killer robots are probably harmless authenticity-seeking hipsters. LUKE SKYWALKER CAN’T READ tears down the wall between hardcore sci-fi readers and the mainstream, making it perfect both for cosplayers, or those who haven’t worn a costume since grade school. About the Author Ryan Britt has written for The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Awl, VICE and The Morning News and is a consulting editor for Story. He was the staff writer for the Hugo Award-winning web magazine Tor.com, where he remains a contributor. He lives in New York City.