Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum

Controlling Owner and President of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jeanie Buss sits down and talks about her childhood - how she dealt with her parents’ divorce, how she used to sneak away by the horses at the racetrack, and what living at the Pickfair Mansion was like. Jeanie gets into her life with the Lakers...what it was like when her dad bought the team in ‘72, her dad bringing Magic Johnson to the team and they became great friends, and the tough decision she had to make in firing her brother as the executive vice president of basketball operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Colin Hanks (Dexter, Fargo, Life in Pieces) discusses what it was like growing up as Tom Hanks son, his mom finding Jesus after her divorce, and the time Madonna sat on his lap when he was 13 years old. Colin talks to me about leaving Roswell to do the Orange County movie, the emotions he dealt with while making the Eagles of Death Metal documentary about the Bataclan shooting, and how he was able to learn to handle his depression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Hardwick (Nerdist, ID10T, Talking Dead, @midnight) opens up about his alcoholism, his anxiety attacks and how he copes with them, and how he got his start in the 90s with MTV. Chris tells the story of meeting his wife, and how he thought she was blowing him off when they first started dating...about doing Talking Dead episode after episode and how he really feels about the show, and how he really, really wants to direct a horror movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Justin Hartley (This Is Us, Smallville, The Young and The Restless) and I discuss growing up in a small midwest town, the effect his parents’ divorce had on him as a kid, and moving to LA with nothing to his name. Justin talks about the panic attack he had underwater filming Aquaman, going through a devastating divorce of his own, and what it’s like being a part of one of the biggest shows in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kristen Bell (The Good Place, Veronica Mars, Frozen, Bad Moms) is one half of Hollywood’s most powerful couple. Kristen talks to me about her relationship with Dax, and the time he drop kicked a guy after he threw a big gulp at their car. Then she opens up about her depression and anxiety - how she recommends trying to change your physical regimen before going right to medicine. She also explains to me that Rob is actually my boss and how lost I’d be without him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Olympic figure skating gold medalist Tara Lipinski joins me on the podcast this week. Tara is the youngest figure skater to ever win an Olympic gold medal - in 1998, she did it at fifteen years old. We get inside what it was like to grow up in the spotlight as a young superstar, how she actually got into the sport, and when she realized the Olympics were actually a possibility for her. Then hear the story about her infamous 1998 Olympic run...going head-to-head against Michelle Kwan, the mind games she’d play with her competitors, and what her career has been like after she stopped competing. I even ask her to play Marry, F***, Kill with Michelle Kwan, Nancy Kerrigan, and Tonya Harding...get inside the still adorable and inspiring Tara Lipinski. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bobby Lee, MadTV Alumni and TigerBelly host, joins me on the podcast this week. Most people know Bobby from his wildly inappropriate sense of humor, but on this week’s episode, Bobby opens up about his childhood - from drug use to inappropriate masturbation and everything else he’s overcome to become the hilariously talented comedian he is today. Throughout all the seriousness though, Bobby is still Bobby. He gets into the time he shit in his executive producer’s office, 69’ing while standing up in some girl’s closet, and how his penis looks like the finger of the alien from ET. Listen and watch as I get inside where many other things have been before... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Flash’s Danielle Panabaker joins me this week on the podcast. Danielle’s a super versitle actress - from starring in kids movies like Sky High, Read It And Weep, Stuck in the Suburbs to some of the best horror films; Friday the 13th, The Crazies, and The Ward. Danielle tells me her amazing story...growing up without a lot of friends because she’d move every year, how she and her younger sister had to become best friends because of it, and how important schooling was to her even when her acting career was taking off.   Then we get into her career - auditioning for Lindsay Lohan’s role in Mean Girls and being crushed when she didn’t get it, working with the legendary Kevin Costner in Mr. Brooks (spoiler: she gets to stab him in the neck at the end of the movie and it’s AMAZING), and how much fun she has working with everyone on The Flash. Listen as I get inside the very charming and very sweet Danielle Panabaker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Walking Dead star Emily Kinney is our guest on the podcast this week. You know Emily from her role as Beth Greene on the biggest show in the world, The Walking Dead, and for her beautiful music. We start off by discussing what it was like growing up in Nebraska and how she always wanted to be a singer, her relationship with her parents and how it’s changed today, and working at the Red Lobster in Time Square. Then we get into her career - her big break getting cast as Beth in the Walking Dead, how Steven Yeun invited her to brunch the first weekend to help her feel like a part of the family, plus stories from Masters of Sex and The Knick. Listen to this week’s episode as I get into the incredibly talented and beautiful, Emily Kinney! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Film director Eli Roth joins us this week on the podcast, you know...Hostel, Cabin Fever, Inglourious Basterds. Eli opens up about his childhood, his career as a cybersex sex operator, and what it was like to work alongside his idol, Quentin Tarantino. He lets me in on growing up with a Freudian-trained psychoanalyst as a father and how that shaped him into a weird freaky little kid who loved the Alien movies as an eight-year-old. Listen as Eli and I talk about his career - from making over 100 short films before finishing high school to his Student Academy Award winning film featuring Ronald McDonald on a killing spree. Oh, and we talk about how we both masturbated to the same scene in Cannibal Holocaust. Join me as we get inside of the legendary, horrific, Eli Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices