Blank on Blank

Blank on Blank was an American channel which uploaded animated interviews with notable people. These included Maya Angelou on Con Men,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VybIJEA41yk Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE6MQ56_yyg and the channel’s most popular video, Kurt Cobain on Identity.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Z2BkZaOQc
==History==
Blank on Blank was created on March 18, 2011. The first video, Bono on His Dad's Final Days, was uploaded on May 9, 2012.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxG6L3Xarqs Blank on Blank was a production of Quoted Studios, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit based in Brooklyn.https://www.youtube.com/c/BlankonblankOrg/about The show was supported by PBS up until spring of 2017.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyvnZ9Vzh3M9xdNFbJ4AaABCQ It also had a companion podcast.https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/blank-on-blank/id525734867
==Team==
===David Gerlach===
The channel’s creator and executive producer. David launched the Blank on Blank series in 2012. Previously he was a producer at ABC News and MSNBC. He is married to Danielle Sacks and lives in Brooklyn.https://blankonblank.org/about/
===Patrick Smith===
The channel’s director and animator. Patrick has written, produced, and directed six award winning films. Previously he was visiting lecturer in the Graduate Animation program at New York University. He curates multiple international film and animation festivals.https://blankonblank.org/about/
===Amy Drozdowska===
The channel’s audio producer. Amy is an award-winning journalist, audio and multimedia producer with over a decade of experience in public radio journalism in the US and internationally.https://blankonblank.org/about/
==List of interviews==
===Musicians===
Title 	Date Uploaded 	Interviewer 	Quote 	Additional Information
Kurt Cobain on Identity 	October 22, 2013 	Jon Savage 	"I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem." 	This is the channel’s most viewed video.
Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful 	April 2, 2013 	Howard Smith 	"What's wrong with being fat? That's what I want to know." 	
Tupac Shakur on Life and Death 	December 3, 2013 	Benjamin Svetkey 	"If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" 	
Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing 	September 29, 2015	Chris Roberts 	"I don’t know what the ‘big time’ is" 	This was one on the channel’s ten most viewed videos in 2015.https://blankonblank.org/2015/12/top-10-blank-on-blanks-in-2015/ The website has a blog post on the production of this video.https://blankonblank.org/2015/09/tom-waits-episode-backstory/
John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love 	April 22, 2014 	Howard Smith 	"It's all true, folks: all you need is love." 	
Jimi Hendrix on The Experience 	August 26, 2014 	Keith Altham 	"When things get too heavy just call me helium--the lightest known gas to man." 	
David Bowie on Stardust 	May 20, 2014 	Joe Smith 	"I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star. I always felt a little bit out of my element" 	There is a blog post on the channel’s website by Libby Walker, on the “David Bowie Is” exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art in November of 2014. She described it as “like walking through a big Bowie scrapbook.”https://blankonblank.org/2015/01/david-bowie-closet-wardrobe-crystal-balls/
Michael Jackson on Godliness 	September 16, 2014	John Pidgeon 	"My singing… i'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly." 	Michael Jackson required John Pidgeon to ask his questions to then 13-year old Janet Jackson who relayed them to Michael before he would answer.https://blankonblank.org/interviews/michael-jackson-godliness/
Janis Joplin on Rejection 	September 23, 2013	Howard Smith 	"In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly." 	
Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests 	November 5, 2013 	Joe Smith 	"When we fell in with the Acid Tests we a started having the most fun we had ever had." 	
Beastie Boys on Being Stupid 	April 30, 2013 	Rocci Fisch 	"There's a way we talk and it includes profanity. We never figured we'd be arrested for it." - Mike "Mike D" Diamond 	The interview was originally conducted for ABC News Radio.
Johnny Cash on The Gospel 	April 8, 2014 	Barney Hoskyns 	"I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on" 	
Frank Zappa on Fads 	June 7, 2016 	Howard Smith 	"I don‘t think that there‘s a girl around that would fit in with what we do" 	
John Coltrane on Giant Steps 	May 12, 2015 	Frank Kofsky 	"I want to be the force which is truly for good." 	Some viewers complained that John did not discuss giant steps in a literal sense.
Bob Dylan at 20 on Freak Shows 	June 28, 2016 	Cynthia Gooding 	“I‘m never going to become rich and famous.” 	The channel describes the interview as “a wonderful snapshot in time, with a young Dylan before he was famous and before he even released his debut album. He's nervous and funny. He's just a guy with a guitar with a little mischief underneath.”
Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo 	February 17, 2015 	Joe Smith 	"I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something" 	
Elliott Smith on Freaks 	January 20, 2015 	Barney Hoskyns 	"A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not." 	
Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty 	April 14, 2015 	Lawrence Grobel 	"Mama just always said, 'you be what you are and you don't have to worry about nothing'" 	The website features a list of “Dolly Parton’s 6 Most Memorable Duets & Collaborations”.https://blankonblank.org/2015/04/dolly-parton-memorable-duets-collaborations/
Leonard Cohen on Moonlight 	November 15, 2016 	Kathleen Kendel 	"I don’t feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night unless I have something to say" 	chaosWyrM commented on the video :
:i just discovered this while looking for the link to the interview. kathleen kendel...the interviewer, was my mother...she would have been 69 years old today 1-31-17. im glad i found this.
Louis Armstrong on His Chops 	June 25, 2013 	Michael Aisner • James R. Stein	"You've got to be good or as bad as the devil. ... Even if we had two, three days off I still had to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops."	
Barry White on Making Love 	January 7, 2014 	Joe Smith 	"When a man is making love, the last thing he thinks about is war" 	
B.B. King on The Blues 	February 3, 2015 	Joe Smith 	"I don't like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch." 	
Ray Charles on Singing True 	October 8, 2013 	Joe Smith 	"If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine." 	
Stan Getz on Wasted Years 	February 18, 2014 	Joe Smith 	"I've done some dastardly things, but what can I do except make amends and apologize?" 	
James Brown on Conviction, Respect & Reagan 	May 28, 2013 	Rocci Fisch 	"Black is not a color; it's an attitude. It's the attitude of independence, respect and dignity." 	The interview was originally recorded for ABC News Radio.
Joni Mitchell on Illusions 	May 26, 2015 	Joe Smith 	"I didn’t like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me." 	This interview is from the Joe Smith Collection at the Library of Congress, and had never been heard before it was uploaded to Blank on Blank.
Nina Simone on Shock 	December 1, 2015 	Lilian Terry 	"I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed." 	When it was uploaded to Blank on Blank, the interview hadn’t been broadcast in nearly 50 years. Nina Simone was “the one person Lilian always wanted to interview”. But she had heard Nina didn’t enjoy speaking with white people. However, Max Roach, a jazz drummer, introduced Lilian to Nina. The interview touches on three aspects of her life and career: the role of fashion and style in her on stage persona, her connection with her then young daughter, and how the civil rights movement, and death of Martin Luther King, Jr., impacted her music, and the future she saw for her 5-year old.https://blankonblank.org/2015/11/nina-simone-lost-interview-1968/
Patti Smith in 1976 on Getting Bleeped 	April 26, 2016 	Mick Gold 	"When people say fuckin‘ shit, they don‘t think of a big turd, or two people makin‘ it anymore" 	Mick was in the room with a few other journalists - those are some of the other voices that can be heard in the interview.https://blankonblank.org/interviews/patti-smith-censorship-horses-bob-dylan-poetry/
George Michael on Freedom 	March 21, 2017 	Joe Smith 	"I’m more experienced sexually than I was as an 18 year old. So maybe it’s time for that to start reflecting in the music." 	The interview had never been broadcast before it was uploaded to Blank on Blank. George Michael had just embarked on his solo career after leaving Wham! when it was recorded.
Wayne Coyne on Living with Death 	November 11, 2014 	Jennifer Van Evra 	"I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time." 	Blank on Blank used illustrations from Wayne Coyne's comic book as backgrounds throughout the video.https://blankonblank.org/interviews/wayne-coyne-living-with-death/#read-more
Stevie Wonder on Keys of Life 	September 27, 2016	Barney Hoskyns 	"If God didn‘t want me to sing it, he wouldn‘t have given me the talent to do it“ 	
Cher on Kitsch 	May 10, 2016 	Benjamin Svetkey 	"I’m a cookie-decorating mom. I don’t bake them. I decorate them." 	
Neil Young's Paganism 	June 20, 2017 	Cal Fussman 	"I go where the wind is. That's my church." 	This video was part of the What I’ve Learned series.
Liberace on Peacocking 	October 15, 2014 	Jay Kent Hackleman 	"Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it" 	Liberace appeared on Hackleman’s radio show on KTRH in Houston in 1968. Hackleman’s granddaughter, Liss LaFleur, preserved her grandfather’s reel-to-reel tapes, and Blank on Blank uploaded this interview to YouTube.
Sting's Name Change 	May 11, 2017 	Cal Fussman 	"Your parents name you, but they don’t really know who you are. Your friends name you... I was very Stingian" 	Part of the What I’ve Learned series.
American Soul: Barry White, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder	May 31, 2017 	Joe Smith • Barney Hoskyns 	 	The second “Combo Blank on Blank”.
Lionel Richie The Priest 	June 21, 2017 	Cal Fussman 	"Life is basically a game of solitaire and so you’re only playing yourself." 	Part of the What I’ve Learned series. This is the channel’s least viewed video.https://www.youtube.com/c/BlankonblankOrg/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid
===Writers===
Title 	Date Uploaded 	Interviewer 	Quote 	Additional Information
Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys 	November 10, 2015 	Kurt Vonnegut was the guest speaker before a class at New York University.https://blankonblank.org/interviews/kurt-vonnegut-man-eating-lampreys-indianapolis-parents-writing-big-space-fuck-space/#read-more	"Nothing means anything" 	From the Pacifica Radio Archives. Pat Smith said of animating the episode:
:“When I sat down to start drawing Kurt Vonnegut, for some reason I kept thinking about this mixture of Albert Einstein and Mark Twain. Vonnegut struck me as this brilliant, kooky, genius who, maybe, was a tad messy. Like you’d see him with papers coming bulging out of his briefcase. On the tape, you can actually hear him shuffling through his notes as he spoke to the class at NYU.”
:”Vonnegut also has that cool signature and he was known as a doodler and an artist, so that was also in the back of my mind.”https://blankonblank.org/2015/11/kurt-vonnegut-episode-production-notes/
David Foster Wallace on Ambition 	April 17, 2013 	Leonard Lopate 	"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything." 	This blog post compares David Foster Wallace’s opinions on perfectionism with Michael Jackson’s.
Charles Bukowski's Crappy Life 	April 6, 2017 	 	"I'm such a spoiled old toad ... I was blessed with a crappy life" 	Bukowski sat down to record the audio version of his classic, Run With the Hunted. The session took place in his home with his wife. These are the outtakes.
Garrison Keillor on Humor 	December 15, 2015 	George Plimpton 	“My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction.”	Recorded in front of a live audience in November 1994, at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws 	July 28, 2015 	Studs Terkel 	“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” 	
Roger Ebert on Ego 	June 23, 2015 	Lawrence Grobel 	"I have innate confidence that I am right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose." 	
Ayn Rand on Love and Happiness 	June 9, 2015 	Mike Wallace 	"I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions." 	Wallace smoked at times during the interview
Ray Bradbury on Madmen 	April 28, 2015 	Lisa Potts • Chadd Coates 	"Nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself" 	In autumn 2012, Lisa Potts rediscovered a taped cassette of a long-lost interview with Ray Bradbury that she made as a college student journalist back in 1972, behind her dresser. The recording was made in a car plying the Los Angeles freeways between Bradbury's home in West L.A. and Chapman College in Orange County. Potts and Chadd Coates were taking Bradbury to present a lecture.
Tom Robbins on Jitterbugs 	December 16, 2014 	Tod Mesirow 	"If I knew how it was going to end, I probably wouldn't write it." 	This episode consists of outtakes from a previously unheard interview Robbins did with Tod Mesirow back in 1994 for a film about authors that was never made.
Maya Angelou on Con Men 	October 28, 2014 	Studs Terkel 	"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up." 	Studs had Maya Angelou on his radio show on WFMT-FM in Chicago on March 13, 1970. Angelou had recently released her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
John Updike on Family Affairs 	December 17, 2013 	John Freeman 	"There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say" 	Recorded in spring 2002 with a microcassette recorder.
Maurice Sendak on Being a Kid 	June 10, 2013 	Andrew Romano • Ramin Seetodeh 	"I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I'm still frightened... Nothing changes." 	Recorded in 2009, in Sendak's home in Connecticut.
Nora Ephron on Crazy Salad 	July 12, 2016 	Studs Terkel 	"It’s okay being a woman now. I like it. Try it some time." 	The lost interview comes from the WFMT Studs Terkel Radio archive.
Aldous Huxley on Technodictators 	September 13, 2016	Mike Wallace 	"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" 	
Stephen King on Childhood 	December 13, 2016 	Thomas Smith 	"The things that really scare us are the things that are going on just outside the spotlight that you can’t quite see" 	Recorded on October 22, 1989, and originally aired on the Public Radio Book Show. Courtesy of WAMC Northeast Public Radio and the New York State Writers Institute.
Fortune Tellers: Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut & Aldous Huxley	May 24, 2017 	Mike Wallace 	 	The first “Combo Blank on Blank”
Woody Allen's Luck 	June 22, 2017 	Cal Fussman 	"Your life is very much out of your control... You do the best you can and then you're at the mercy of fortune." 	The final episode of the What I’ve Learned series. It is possible this was not supposed to be in the playlist of writers.
===Actors===
Title 	Date Uploaded 	Interviewer 	Quote 	Additional Information
Clint Eastwood's Pussy Generation 	May 10, 2017 	Cal Fussman 	"We're living in sort of a more pussy generation now" 	Part of the What I’ve Learned series.
Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness 	June 3, 2014 	Simon Critchley 	"Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live" 	This interview was recorded live at the Rubin Museum of Art.
Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious 	October 27, 2015 	T.J. English 	"I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do" 	T.J. English was tasked with writing a profile of Bill Murray for Irish America magazine. This was around the time Scrooged came out. So he headed out to Murray's house in New Jersey.
Robin Williams on Masks 	December 2, 2014 	Lawrence Grobel 	"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh. To make us realize we still are part animal.... So you don't take yourself seriously and destroy the species."	This Blank on Blank was put together using excerpts from two interviews Lawrence recorded on microcassette with Robin Williams in 1992.https://blankonblank.org/interviews/robin-williams-masks-comedy-sex/#read-more
Gene Wilder on The Truth 	May 6, 2014 	Letty Cottin Pogrebin	"On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free." 	
Meryl Streep on Beauty 	June 24, 2014 	Christine Spines 	"It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug" 	
Heath Ledger on Role Playing 	March 4, 2014 	Christine Spines 	"My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into" 	
Grace Kelly on JFK 	November 19, 2013 	Paul Gallico 	"He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you're wearing?' And I said, 'why how clever of you, Mr. President. However did you know?'" 	Conducted on June 19, 1965, in the Palace of the Principality, Monaco.
Bette Davis on The Sexes 	September 30, 2014	Shirley Eder 	"I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman." 	This interview was recorded in Bette Davis’s home in 1963 and originally aired on Eder’s syndicated radio show.https://blankonblank.org/interviews/bette-davis-the-sexes/#read-more
Farrah Fawcett on Stiletto Power 	July 9, 2013 	Lawrence Grobel 	"I've got on these stiletto heels aimed for his face." 	
Marlene Dietrich on Sex Symbols 	July 26, 2016 	Jay Kent Hackleman 	"I have never used my body. I have played roles where the legs were used and the body was used but in life, I have never done that" 	
Johnny Depp Breaks Stuff 	May 16, 2017 	Cal Fussman 	"I was in a bad mood and I assaulted a hotel room. I broke a lot of stuff and it felt good." 	Part of the What I’ve Learned series.
Carol Burnett on Finding Home 	January 21, 2014 	Leonard Lopate 	"When I looked in his eyes, he was there. He was home... I had a dad." 	
Dustin Hoffman in 1971 on Duplicity and Famosity	July 14, 2015 	Milton Hoffman 	"I did as much as I could do at that time in my life ... I tried as hard as I could and I couldn't do better" 	
Tom Cruise Flips Out 	June 19, 2017 	Cal Fussman 	"I was a kid who jumped off the roof and into the snowbanks because I wanted to see how many flips I could do before I hit the snow" 	Part of the What I’ve Learned series.
Sigourney Weaver's Tall Tales 	June 21, 2017 	Cal Fussman 	"As you get older, you become more gorilla like" 	Part of the What I’ve Learned series.
Kevin Costner's Ding Dongs 	May 18, 2017 	Cal Fussman 	"If you weren't as good as the next guy then work longer. Work faster. ... Sometimes shit needs to get done" 	Part of the What I’ve Learned series.
===The Experimenters Series===
The Experimenters was a special series, uncovering lost interviews with the icons of science, technology, and innovation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eZ5HktBiI
Title 	Date Uploaded 	Interviewer 	Quote 	Additional Information
Sally Ride on Dumb Questions 	February 2, 2016 	Gloria Steinem 	”I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” 	The tape was found in Smith College’s archive dedicated to the life and work of Steinem - The Gloria Steinem Papers, part of the Sophia Smith Collection.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eZ5HktBiI
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials 	March 29, 2016 	Studs Terkel 	"A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean it’s just wrong" 	
Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine 	March 1, 2016 	An oral history at Colorado State University.	"Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function." 	Temple Grandin is autistic, and the title is a reference to this. Drew Christie said of animating this episode: “First off, I loved her name. Names and titles are extremely important. Second, I was very much inspired by her not “overcoming” her autism, but actually using it to her advantage to build things and design things that only someone with autism could do. I think that is the most powerful concept: conditions that may seem at first glance like a detriment, but they can very often be a positive thing.”https://blankonblank.org/2016/03/animating-temple-grandin/
Oliver Sacks on Ripe Bananas 	January 24, 2017 	Henry Tischler 	"I’m very interested in how people adapt to extremes” 	Conducted on July 28, 1996, and originally aired on the Cover-to-Cover radio show on WGBH-FM in Boston.
Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance 	February 16, 2016	Mike Wallace 	”Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” 	Conducted in 1957, and part of a collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, celebrating The Mike Wallace Interview, a television program that ran in the late 1950s.
Richard Feynman on What It Means 	March 25, 2016 	Charles Weiner 	"The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because I can’t learn everything."	Starting in 1966, science historian Charles Weiner interviewed Richard Feynman as part of an oral history project at the American Institute of Physics. Recording hours of conversation, Weiner captured the details of Feynman’s career and life. Feynman talked about his earliest memories, what and who shaped the physicist and teacher he’d later become.
George Washington Carver on Ego and Self	February 7, 2017 	 	"You can’t get very far in life if you don’t get away from Self" 	This rare tape was uncovered via the George Washington Carver National Monument. The scientist and inventor, known for the work he did with peanuts, gave this rare interview four years before he died in 1943.
Jacques Cousteau on Atlantis and Cognac 	February 21, 2017	Roy Leonard 	"We're going to investigate every single one of these hypotheses, and we'll tell you what we think is the truth about it" 	Conducted on WGN Radio, retrieved from the Roy Leonard Audio Archive.
Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life 	March 22, 2016 	Studs Terkel 	"I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper." 	
Jane Goodall on Instinct 	March 11, 2016 	Ira Flatow 	"Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan" 	Ira talked with Jane Goodall for his long-running Science Friday program in 2002.
Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code 	March 15, 2016 	An oral history at the British Library. 	"I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last" 	This episode was sponsored by SquareSpace.
===Notables===
Title 	Date Uploaded 	Interviewer 	Quote 	Additional Information
Rod Serling on Kamikazes 	May 24, 2016 	Binny Lum 	”The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they don’t walk through life; they fly” 	This conversation was discovered in Australia's National Film and Sound Archive.
Larry King on Getting Seduced 	March 19, 2013 	Cal Fussman 	"I'm playing these records. The phone rings and I pick it up: 'WAHR'. And this lady's voice--I can still hear her voice--she goes: 'I want you.'" 	
Francis Ford Coppola on Solitude 	November 29, 2016	R.H. Greene 	"Death is on the back of everyone’s minds whether they want to admit it or not" 	Conducted when Coppola was promoting his film, Jack, which starred Robin Williams.
Martin Scorsese on Framing 	April 12, 2016 	T.J. English 	"Sometimes when it all comes together ... you become the film you’re making." 	
Alfred Hitchcock on Dead Bodies 	March 7, 2017 	Colin Edwards 	"If I did a story or a musical about Cinderella, they would be waiting for the body to turn up" 	Conducted on the set of a film titled From Amongst The Dead.
Ronald Reagan on Making America Great Again	October 11, 2016 	Bill Moyers 	“How did I get over being poor? I got a job as a sports announcer and it led to everything else.“ 	Originally aired on WNET's Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
Roger Ebert on Ego 	June 23, 2015 	Lawrence Grobel	"I have innate confidence that I am right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose." 	This episode contains excerpts of Lawrence Grobel's extended interviews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel in 1990. The duo worked side-by-side from 1975 until Siskel’s death in 1999, co-hosting the show Siskel & Ebert.
Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales 	May 14, 2013 	Ann Liguori 	"I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different." 	Original interview aired in 1992 on "Sports Interview with Ann Liguori"
Jimmy Carter on Power and God 	November 1, 2016 	Bill Moyers 	"The fact that a person has deep religious convictions doesn't necessarily mean that that person always thinks that he's right, that God's ordained him to take a dominant position"	Originally aired on WNET's Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt 	October 13, 2015 	Lawrence Grobel	"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." 	Lawrence landed his interview with Patty Hearst in 1982 after meeting her at the Playboy Mansion.
===Combo Blank on Blanks===
Title 	Date Uploaded	Interviewer 	Additional Information
The 27 Club: Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin 	June 29, 2017	Howard Smith • Keith Altham. 	These lost tapes from the Blank on Blank archive were recorded between 1969 and 1970 thanks to Howard Smith and Keith Altham. All the people in this video died when they were 27 years old, hence the title.
The Outsiders: Hunter S. Thompson, Lou Reed & Frank Zappa 	June 6, 2017 	Joe Smith • Howard Smith • Studs Terkel. 	From a collection of lost interviews that were uncovered in the archives. These recordings were made between 1967 and 1987 thanks to Joe Smith, Howard Smith, and Studs Terkel.
Fortune Tellers: Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut & Aldous Huxley 	May 24, 2017 	Mike Wallace 	These interviews were recorded between 1958 and 1970.
Court Jesters: Robin Williams, Gene Wilder and Bill Murray 	June 14, 2017	Lawrence Grobel • the 92Y • T.J. English. 	These lost tapes from the Blank on Blank archives were recorded between 1988 and 2007.
American Soul: Barry White, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder 	May 31, 2017 	Joe Smith • Barney Hoskyns 	These interviews were recorded between 1987 and 2005.
Leading Ladies: Meryl Streep, Bette Davis & Marlene Dietrich	June 27, 2017	Christine Spines • Shirley Eder • Jay Kent Hackleman	These lost tapes from the Blank on Blank archive were recorded between 1963 and 2008.
===What I’ve Learned===
What I've Learned was a series produced by Esquire and Quoted Studios. All the interviews in this series are by Cal Fussman.
Title 	Date Uploaded	Quote 	Additional Information
Clint Eastwood's Pussy Generation	May 10, 2017 	"We're living in sort of a more pussy generation now" 	
Johnny Depp Breaks Stuff 	May 16, 2017 	"I was in a bad mood and I assaulted a hotel room. I broke a lot of stuff and it felt good." 	
Neil Young's Paganism 	June 20, 2017	"I go where the wind is. That's my church." 	
Tom Cruise Flips Out 	June 19, 2017	"I was a kid who jumped off the roof and into the snowbanks because I wanted to see how many flips I could do before I hit the snow"	
Woody Allen's Luck 	June 22, 2017	"Your life is very much out of your control... You do the best you can and then you're at the mercy of fortune." 	
George Clooney's Uncle Chick 	May 12, 2017 	"It was part of our family business that you had to be able to tell a story" 	
Sting's Name Change 	May 11, 2017 	"Your parents name you, but they don’t really know who you are. Your friends name you... I was very Stingian" 	
Sigourney Weaver's Tall Tales 	June 21, 2017	"As you get older, you become more gorilla like" 	
Kevin Costner's Ding Dongs 	May 18, 2017 	"If you weren't as good as the next guy then work longer. Work faster. ... Sometimes shit needs to get done" 	
Lionel Richie The Priest 	June 21, 2017	"Life is basically a game of solitaire and so you’re only playing yourself " 	
===Interview Slideshows===
These interviews are unlisted, but a playlist is available.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-trnf4MEFq0oC8JctU_4faFXdOyorB6
Title 	Date Uploaded 	Interviewer 	Quote 	Additional Information
Elle Parrino on Life at the New York Playboy Club 	January 26, 2012 	David Gerlach 	"That bunny dressing room was a magical place. It had anything you needed from mascara to a shoulder to cry on." 	Conducted on the upper West Side of Manhattan, in Spring 2003. It was recorded on a microcassette recorder. A related profile originally appeared in "The L Magazine."
Sam Pickering on How to Teach and Not Dead Poets Society 	December 21, 2012	John Dankosky 	"I looked in the mirror the other day and I said: My God, what happened to that handsome young man? Who is this grizzled b-a-s-t-a-r-d staring at me?" 	The full interview is available from WNPR's Where We Live.
David Sedaris on Breast Milk and Book Tours 	November 30, 2012	Gabe Bullard 	"People would come and defecate on the floor of the dressing room. So I just thought that was his Gap, but I came to find out that it happens in all stores across America."	Conducted by phone in June 2009. A related piece aired on WFPL – Louisville.
Tony Bennett on Making Love to His Music and Why Stars Are Shy 	November 13, 2012	Jeanne Wolf 	"Whenever they (fans) tell me they make love to my music, I tell them to do one for me." 	The interview was conducted in June 1991, in Tony Bennett's Hollywood office, on a cassette tape recorder.
Brian Selznick on Einstein, God, and Reaching His Potential 	November 8, 2012 	Joe Fassler 	"So I bought the postcard, memorized it and sent it off to a friend. And I never thought about God again after that." 	Conducted by phone in 2012, and digitally recorded. A related profile appeared on The Atlantic.com.
George Clooney on Running for President 	November 6, 2012 	Ginanne Brownell	"The truth is I'm not very good at compromising." 	
Jack Black on Prayer, Video Games, and Satanic Rock 	October 25, 2012 	Brian Raftery 	"I don't remember what that preacher's name was, but I wish I did so I could ... say thank you for turning me on to some fu%$ing bitching Satanic jams." 	Conducted in a diner in Los Angeles in 2003, and recorded on a microcassette recorder. A related profile appeared in GQ magazine.
Amber Heard on Not Sitting Pretty and Shutting Up 	September 6, 2012	Jason Feifer 	"It's easier to deal with a woman who is compliant and sweet and sunny and nice and non-confrontational." 	Conducted in a hotel in New York City in 2011, and recorded digitally.
Andre Agassi on His Mullet and Finding Himself 	August 28, 2012 	James Sullivan 	"What better way to mask who you really are than wearing a mullet, right?" 	Conducted by phone in 2011, and recorded digitally. A related Q&A appeared in the Boston Globe.
Christina Ricci on Anorexia and Other Taboo Subjects 	August 21, 2012 	Thomas Beller 	"I was really anorexic at the time. I looked like a walking skeleton. ... I looked kind of like E.T." 	Conducted in Fall 1998, in a restaurant in New York City, and recorded on a cassette tape recorder. Thomas Beller's profile of Christina Ricci, "Hello Nasty," appeared in SPIN magazine.
Bill Draper on His $20 Bet with Fidel Castro 	August 15, 2012 	Danielle Sacks 	"It surprised me when I saw [Fidel]'s not tall, but he came into the room and seemed bigger than life, because he's got the uniform and that presence." 	Conducted in Spring 2012, in Bill Draper's office in Silicon Valley, and recorded digitally. Danielle's extended profile on Bill Draper and his family is in the July/August 2012 issue of Fast Company magazine.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke on Wankers and Confronting Who You Are 	June 22, 2012 	Brian Raftery 	"I'm humorless when I think people are wankers. You know, I'm not tolerant of idiots." 	Conducted on May 30, 2006, in Loews Hotel in Philadelphia, for Spin magazine. They sat down for a few hours in a Philadelphia hotel. Yorke had a new solo album out. Recorded using an Olympus digital recorder.
Dave Brubeck on Fighting Communism with Jazz 	May 24, 2012 	John Dankosky 	"If I told you all the stories about what happened to people if they were caught listening to jazz." 	Conducted in August 2008, on stage at the Litchfield Jazz Festival, and recorded digitally. The entire interview with Dave Brubeck originally aired on Where We Live on WNPR Connecticut.
Jonathan Alter on Interviewing Presidents Obama, Clinton & Nixon	May 9, 2012 	Blank on Blank 	”You want these things to be as conversational as you can.” 	Blank on Blank asked veteran political journalist and author, Jonathan Alter, about interviews with presidents. This video contains outtakes from Alter’s Oval Office interview with Obama on November 30, 2009, in The Oval Office, which was recorded digitally. The interview was central to Jonathan Alter's book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, which is available from Amazon.
===Other===
These interviews are not in playlists.
Title 	Date Uploaded 	Interviewer 	Quote 	Additional Information
Bono on His Dad's Final Days 	May 8, 2012 	Anthony Bozza 	"I'd go and usually have a pint of Guinness and a chaser to steady my nerves. Then I'd go to the hospital and I'd sleep beside my father." 	Conducted in October 2001, by phone, and recorded on a minidisc recorder, Anthony recorded this interview while writing for Rolling Stone Magazine.
Surfer Kelly Slater on Problems in his Perfect Life	July 13, 2012 	Josh Baron 	"My life was getting worse, not better, and it should have been getting better, because I've accomplished all the things I wanted to accomplish."	All the music in this video is Kelly Slater playing the guitar and singing songs he wrote. Conducted on November 17, 2008, in The Bowery Hotel, New York, and recorded digitally. The illustrations are by Lena H. Chandhok.
Muhammad Ali Goes to Mars: The Lost Interview 	September 18, 2012	Michael Aisner	"Some of them thought I was crazy, they were frightened of me." 	Conducted for a high school radio show near Chicago in 1966, and recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Only a handful of people ever got to hear this interview until it was uploaded to Blank on Blank.
Blank on Blank Promotional Trailer 	June 6, 2014 	 	 	The only video on the channel which is not an interview.
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