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Note: also used as a middle and first name
Joseph James "Joe" Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American martial artist, stand-up comedian, actor, writer and color commentator. He is best known for playing Joe Garrelli on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, commentating for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, hosting the NBC reality show Fear Factor and The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Rogan was born in Newark, New Jersey. His paternal grandfather was Irish and the remainder of his ancestry is Italian.
In 1981, at age fourteen, he became a practitioner of Kenpo Karate before transitioning to Taekwondo. He eventually gained a 2nd dan black belt. A four-time state champion in Massachusetts, in 1987 he was the USA Taekwondo U.S. Open Champion. In 1996, he began training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Jean Jacques Machado, eventually earning his brown belt. In addition, he holds a brown belt in 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu under Eddie Bravo.
He also practiced and competed in kickboxing.
In 1994, he co-starred on the Fox comedy Hardball as Frank Valente, the young, ego-centric star player on a fictional professional baseball team. From 1995 to 1999, he co-starred on the comedy NewsRadio. He portrayed Joe Garrelli, the electrician at WNYX, a news radio station in New York City. In 2002, he appeared on the episode "A Beautiful Mind" of Just Shoot Me as Chris, Maya Gallo's boyfriend. In 2011, Rogan played his first major character in a movie in the Kevin James movie Zookeeper. He is slated to play himself in an upcoming action-comedy starring Kevin James called Here Comes the Boom, set to be released in the summer of 2012.
David Vaughan Icke (pronounced /aɪk/, or IKE, born 29 April 1952) is an English writer and public speaker, best known for his views on what he calls "who and what is really controlling the world." Describing himself as the most controversial speaker in the world, he is the author of 19 books and has attracted a global following that cuts across the political spectrum. His 533-page The Biggest Secret (1999) has been called "the Rosetta Stone for conspiracy junkies."
Icke was a well-known BBC television sports presenter and spokesman for the Green Party, when in 1990 a psychic told him he was a healer who had been placed on Earth for a purpose, and that the spirit world was going to pass messages to him so he could educate others. In March 1991 he held a press conference to announce that he was a "Son of the Godhead" – a phrase he said later the media had misunderstood – and the following month told the BBC's Terry Wogan show that the world would soon be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes. He said the show changed his life, turning him from a respected household name into someone who was laughed at whenever he appeared in public.
Arthur W. "Art" Bell, III (born June 17, 1945) is an American broadcaster and author, known primarily as one of the founders and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM. He also created and formerly hosted its companion show, Dreamland. Semi-retired from Coast to Coast AM since 2003, he hosted the show many weekends for the following four years. He announced his retirement from weekend hosting on July 1, 2007 but occasionally serves as a guest host. He attributed the reason for this latest retirement to a desire to spend time with his new wife and daughter, born May 30, 2007. He added that unlike his previous "retirements," this one will stand, while leaving open the option to return. Classic Bell-hosted episodes of Coast to Coast AM can be heard in some markets on Saturday nights under the name Somewhere in Time.
Bell founded and was the original owner of Pahrump, Nevada-based radio station, KNYE 95.1 FM. His broadcast studio and transmitter were located near his home in Pahrump while he hosted Coast to Coast AM except from June to December 2006, when he lived in the Philippines. He returned to the Philippines March 10, 2009 with his family after having significant difficulties obtaining a U.S. visa for his wife Airyn.
Steven M. Greer (June 28, 1955) is an American physician and ufologist who founded the Orion Project and The Disclosure Project.
Greer claims that he is a contactee who has coined the term "close encounter of the fifth kind" to describe human-initiated contact with extraterrestrials.
The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research project started by Greer in 1992 that exposes the existence of a US government cover-up of information relating to unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The Disclosure Project has been well-received by UFO enthusiasts, with speeches from Greer and various other witnesses being presented at various UFO-themed conferences. Greer has held press conferences and embarked on a continuing series of lectures and television appearances trying to raise popular support.
Mainstream media coverage of the group mostly centered around a 2001 conference at the National Press Club which was described by an attending BBC reporter as the strangest he had ever seen. Greer convened the conference with more than 100 other contactees offering testimony. Among the contactees were "...about 20 former government workers, many of them military and security officials, who stepped forward...and called for congressional hearings about such sightings." Such arguments were met with by derision by skeptics and spokespeople for the U. S. Air Force who maintain that there is no convincing evidence for the speculation that UFOs are alien spacecraft.
Innocence isn't lost, it's stolen.
Plot
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
Keywords: 2010s, addiction, american-flag, anxiety, apb, assembly-line, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-graphic-novel, based-on-novel
How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you?
Human perfection. What could go wrong?
[last lines]::Male Newscaster: Still no official word on when, or if, surrogate services can be restored. It appears, at least for now that we are on our own.
Female Counsel: Agent Greer, we're not doctors.::Tom Greer: Honey, I don't know what you are. I mean, for all I know, you could be some big, fat dude sitting in his stim chair with his dick hanging out.
[first lines]::The Prophet: Look at yourselves. Unplug from your chairs, get up and look in the mirror. What you see is how God made you. We're not meant to experience the world through a machine.
Big Woman: [aiming her shotgun] You're an abomination.
Older Canter: I changed the course of human history when I created surrogates. Now I'm going to change it back.::Tom Greer: You don't change what's been done. You and I know that better than most people.::Older Canter: My son's death will not have been in vain. Not if it heals mankind.::Tom Greer: Heals mankind? That's what you want to do? You want to kill everyone? That's going to heal mankind?::Older Canter: They're already dead. The died the minute they plugged into those machines.::Tom Greer: This is not the solution.::Older Canter: That's the way it is.::Tom Greer: That's not the way it is!::Older Canter: I had a vision. I was going to empower the powerless. To enable others like me to walk, to feel, to have a normal life.::Tom Greer: Listen to me! They're going to call you a murderer. That's what you're doing.::Older Canter: Surrogacy is a perversion. It's an addiction. And you have to kill the addict to kill the addiction.::Computer Voice: Upload complete.::Older Canter: You're too late. What I've done can't be stopped. Now you're going to be a witness to the rebirth of humanity. That's my gift to you.
Bobby: We just saved about a billion lives there.
Peters: That's far enough, Stone. I know who hired you to kill me. I hope my old partners at VSI paid you well. Did you feel any second of remorse when you found out you'd murdered an innocent boy?::Stone: Canter. I don't believe it. OK... How about you tell me something, doctor. Huh? What did you expect VSI to do? Just stand by while you tore down everything they built? You left us no choice but to take you out. You create this technology, change the world, and now you want to destroy it? So what? So you can take us backwards? So we can all live like dreads?::Peters: So we can live like human beings.::Stone: Really, doctor. You should learn how to live with your regrets.
It's always darkest before dawn.
Jonathan Cold: You see, in this business... the keys to the kingdom is weapons-grade plutonium. If you ain't got that, you ain't got shit.
Plot
When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
Keywords: abandoned-swimming-pool, activist, adultery, alcoholic, alcoholic-relapse, alcoholics-anonymous, ambition, assisted-suicide, athenian-law, austin-texas
The crime is clear. The truth is not.
Braxton Belyeu: I'm no more afraid of the Grim Reaper than I am of a Presbyterian on Mother's Day.
David Gale: I fell of the wagon and hurt myself.
David Gale: They wanted me to die, knowing the key to my freedom was out there somewhere!
David Gale: Death is a gift.
David Gale: We spend our whole life trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. Then there comes a point - a moment - in life when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift. You wonder. All I can tell you is that by this time tomorrow I'll be dead. I know when. I just cannot say why. You have 24 hours to find out.
[Governor Hardin and David Gale are engaged in a debate on Batter's Box]::Governor Hardin: Alan, let me say something I always say and I'm gonna keep on saying. And that is that I HATE killin'. That's why my administration is willing to kill to stop it.::David Gale: So, you don't subscribe to the idea that 'a good state is the one that protects its most despised members?'::Governor Hardin: It's a nice liberal idea. But, like most nice liberal ideas, naive.::David Gale: It's a quote from you, Governor. From your first state attorney campaign::Governor Hardin: [flustered] You've got me, Professor. But let me, in my defense, offer YOU a quote. Winston Churchill: 'If you're not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart, if you're still a liberal at thirty, you've got no brain.' [studio audience laughs]::David Gale: So, basically, you feel, to choose another quote, 'society must be cleansed of elements which represent its own death.'::Governor Hardin: Well, yes. I'd have to agree. [laughs] Did I say that too?::David Gale: No, that was Hitler.
Bitsey Bloom: Of course he sympathizes with murderers... he is one!
David Gale: How do we start?::Bitsey Bloom: We start with... you telling me what I'm doing here.::David Gale: No one who looks through that glass sees a person. They see a crime. I'm not David Gale. I'm a murderer and a rapist... four days shy of his execution.
Constance Harraway: You wanna tell me what's up?::David Gale: Nothing. Everything. Something profoundly stupid happened last night.::Constance Harraway: I hope you used a condom.::[David looks at Constance]::Constance Harraway: Oh Jesus Christ, David. Was she one of yours?::David Gale: It was Berlin.::Constance Harraway: Oh great! Oh, that's great. I can hear the grapevine now. "They had to suspend her so that Gale could dick her with a conscience." A power differential equals coercion. That is great. You're so weak!::David Gale: You know, you're not my wife, Constance. Thank God!::Constance Harraway: Oh, well, don't worry. It's not a position I aspire to, so fuck you.
Berlin: Sorry about being late. There was, you know, a thing.::David Gale: Yeah, there usually is, Berlin.::Berlin: Look, I know I'm not doing too well, and, to torture a cliché, I will do anything to pass.::David Gale: Anything, huh?::Berlin: Any. Thing.::David Gale: Ok, Berlin. [leans in close] I will give you a good grade, I will give you a very, very good grade if you just (whispers into her ear) study.
Plot
When the Sioux come to Canada, the Canadians permit them to stay in Canada if they come peacefully. However, some cowboys kill all inhabitants of one of their villages. The cowboys seek to get back their horses, but they pretend to search for a girl who once had been robbed by the Indians.
Keywords: american-indian, canada, captive, horse-rustling, indian-war, massacre, murder, native-american, northwest-mounted-police, police-shootout
Const. Springer: He said you were taking along two men. Why I-I don't suppose you would consider taking me, sir?::Insp. William Gannon: You?::Const. Springer: Well, yes sir. I could lead the pack horses, stand night guard, cook...::Insp. William Gannon: You cook?::Const. Springer: No, sir.::Insp. William Gannon: But you're willing to learn?::Const. Springer: Yes, sir.::Insp. William Gannon: It could be dangerous.::Const. Springer: Well, I'm not afraid of the Sioux, sir.::Insp. William Gannon: Not the Sioux - your cooking.
Insp. William Gannon: Did you cook this, Springer?::Const. Springer: Well, yes sir.::Insp. William Gannon: Well, what is it?::Const. Springer: Stew, sir. My mother used to make it.::Insp. William Gannon: Is your father still living?
[Springer explains the difference between the Canadian frontier and the American frontier to a pair of U.S. lawmen]::Const. Springer: Oh, we don't have gunfighters up here.::Ben: No?::Billy: How come?::Const. Springer: There's no need. That's the difference.
Const. Springer: Well, doesn't it ever make you think though?::Ben: About what?::Const. Springer: That you have to tie a gun to your leg wherever you go.::Ben: You mean you don't here?::Const. Springer: No.::Billy: Why?::Const. Springer: The force. You see, we arrived in this territory long before any whites moved in. The law got here first, you might say. It's the other way around in your country. The settlers come, crime gets out of hand. They pin a star on a man. Like it or not he gets the job done... but it sure makes for a lot of dead men in the street.
The white squaw: Mr. Gannon?::Insp. William Gannon: Yes.::The white squaw: If you met a woman, a woman like me, that had been taken by the Sioux, how would you feel knowing that?::Insp. William Gannon: If I loved her, it wouldn't matter.::The white squaw: It wouldn't?::Insp. William Gannon: No ma'am, it wouldn't matter at all.
Frank Boone: I started off with a ten-dollar horse, a bucking saddle and a rope. I went up in the hills. I caught myself a stallion and four mares. I built my herd from the ground. I fought and I clawed for twenty years. I wore out two wives, lost three sons and hung seven men for riding my brand without a bill of sale. But I build the biggest herd in Montana and nobody is going to take a head - not one - away from me without me coming after them!
Ben: I had me a quiet woman once. Outside, she was as calm as Sunday... but inside, wild as mountain scenery.
Opening crawl: This is the story of the men of the Northwest Mounted Police who through their never ending Devotion to God: Queen and Country have become the "Guardian of the Right" throughout the world. This story is but one episode in the history of the force "where three Gallant men faced the entire Sioux nation."
Insp. William Gannon: It they overran a regiment, what chance have we with three hundred men?::Supt. Walker: Not three hundred men - three.
Insp. William Gannon: What if they call our bluff?::Supt. Walker: Then I will have lost three men instead of my entire command.