Wednesday, March 26, 2008
FOX News interview now at 100,000 plays
Hundreds of people are still watching my interview on Hannity & Colmes everyday. And now that it has reached 100,000 views, I'll take you back to the day of the interview. I still remember how I was trying to get prepared for my first live interview... on FOX News... with Sean Hannity. Everybody told me to expect the worst, and I did.
So 5 PM rolls around and I have a driver outside my house that FOX sent to pick me up. That was the start of my good night. Then I get to the studio in downtown and I look up on the TV screen... who do I see?????? CHUCK NORRIS. Man! If you could have seen how excited we were in the green room to see the Texas Ranger hosting rather than Hannity you would have laughed.
By the time I got all mic'd up and ready to go I was a bit nervous.. half of the battle was trying to understand what Chuck was talking about. Once I figured that out, I realized that Chuck didn't even know what he was talking about. So I just went with the truth, no matter how much they tried to get me to say certain things. The end result was a ton of congratulatory texts messages and like 50 interview requests with other news networks.
So as biased as people think FOX News is, they gave me a chance.... and I took it.
Friday, March 21, 2008
MJ, him Jay, fade away - PERFECT

My alma mater, The University of San Diego, shocked the country today with a win against UConn. Man I was going crazy during this game... by far the best game of the 2008 NCAA Tournament.
For those of you who don't know, USD is a small school out here in San Diego, so them even getting into the tournament was crazy, and now they beat UConn?! Forget about it! I think USD has a good chance at winning their next game too against Western Kentucky
Sweet 16 anyone?!
Al Sharpton gives it to FOX News
Man! I'm not a fan of Al Sharpton.. especially because of the way he attacks hip hop... but he shuts FOX News down in this video!
He left the lady speechless, kinda like what I did to Chuck Norris!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Chaldean Archbishop Found Dead in Iraq

Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paul Faraj Rahho's body was found near the town of Mosul, where he and three companions were ambushed by gunmen on February 29.
The archbishop's driver and two security guards were killed in the ambush. Investigators believe the archbishop may have been shot at that time, the Nineveh deputy governor said.
Nineveh Deputy Gov. Khasro Goran, in Mosul, told CNN that the kidnappers had been in touch with the church and the relatives and wanted to be paid a ransom for the archbishop's release. The contacts ended a few days ago. Video Watch site where archbishop was kidnapped »
He said the apparent kidnappers had contacted relatives on Thursday and told them the body was in the eastern part of town. Relatives and authorities went to the location and found the body, which had gunshot wounds.
However, the Catholic news agency in Italy, SIR, quoted Msgr. Shlemon Warduni in Baghdad as saying the abductors told church authorities that "Msgr. Rahho was very ill."
"We do not know yet whether he died because of his unstable health or if he has been killed. The abductors only told us he had died," Warduni said.
It's a sad day for our people and goes to show it's not getting any better out there.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Making the Video: 'Iraq' (Part 2)

By now it's November 8th, 2006. At 4 AM 2 truck loads of people and equipment came to my house to pick me up and head out to the desert, east of San Diego. It was like a 2 hour drive, and I spent most of the drive beating Alvin in Madden on PSP. It was already hot when we arrived around 6 AM, and it just kept getting hotter as the day went on.
A lot of people think I was in front of a green screen in a cold studio somewhere, but unfortunately I wasn't. I was wearing a black hoody and jeans in the middle of the desert! That part wasn't fun. Neither was the 15 border patrol agents who rolled up on us during the middle of a take to see if we were terrorists or something. We told them we were shooting a music video and they left us alone. Luckily they didn't ask us what the song was called! Haha, I think the video would've had a different ending if they did.
We went through the song about 100 times throughout the 12 hour day. All different angles, all different locations. Ron actually made me go walking all around the sand which was pretty tough (see above), and he didn't use any of it! By mid day it was just too hot so the crew drove 20 minutes to Arizona for lunch. So when we got back we had to race against time before the sun went down. No one wanted to have to come back again to reshoot. But we got it done and by the end of the day everyone was drained... full of sand... and ready to go home.
The next day we actually did some shooting in the streets of Downtown, San Diego. Ron had a cool idea about the end of the video. I was supposed to drop the mic in the streets before I walked off. The image on the screen was supposed to transform from the desert scene to the street scene, symbolizing that the war is an issue both overseas and here at home. But it didn't make the cut for whatever reason.
Monday, March 3, 2008
And the winners are...

The winners of the Open for Business Giveaway are:
Reem227@hotmail.com in Farmington Hills, Michigan
godofautomobiles@aol.com in Eastchester, New York
arrabiya78@hotmail.fr in Paris, France
And just because of the great response we got, I decided to send an extra copy to a fan from down under!
mos1td@hotmail.com in Sydney, Australia
Congratulations to those of you who won. If you signed up to my mailing list and didn't win, don't worry. We'll be having more contests and giveaways as the year goes on. Now that you're on the list, you'll be the first to know. Thanks again
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