Chris Kline
Hosted AMAs
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I'm performing on the Grammy's tonight. Anybody care to AMA?
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Guest Appearances
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We’re Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, writers for The New York Times. We investigated how YouTube’s algorithm, which is built to keep you hooked, can also spread extremism and conspiracies. Ask us anything.
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I am a 22 yr old woman and I was born with 2 clitorises! This makes me ONE out of FOUR documented cases in the world!
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I'm Jon Rineman, former Head Monologue Writer for the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. I helped write Seth Meyers’ 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner which some believe drove Donald Trump to run for President. Ask me anything.
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We’re Recursion and we’re using AI to decode biology and industrialize drug discovery!
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I’m Callie, Insider’s senior music reporter and noted pophead. AMA!
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hey hey hey this is the fray, ask away!
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I’m Nour Kteily, a social psychologist at Northwestern University studying the recent rise in dehumanization, and thinking about effective ways to counteract it. AMA!
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IAMA Bass player, Ian Hill of Judas Priest, AMA!
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IAmAn entomologist who researches butterfly ecology, and I also walk the runway at London Fashion Week every year. AMA!
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We are professional mermaids who travel around the world. Ask us anything!
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Ask Carolyn Gotti, sister-in-law to John Gotti, aka "The Teflon Don" Anything
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I report on AI for Reuters in Silicon Valley, ask me anything!
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In 18 months, I went from no coding experience to selling apps to the NBA, NHL, and Berkshire Hathaway. Then, I released my code under a public license. 2 year follow-up, AMA!
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I am Aneeqa, a research scientist in nuclear fusion! Nuclear fusion - friend, foe or faux? AMA!
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#IamA PBS NewsHour Correspondent - (The flagship national television news broadcast for PBS and public media in the U.S.)
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IamA the amputee cyborg from BBC's 'Bodyhack: Metal Gear Man' documentary, AMA!
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We're the researchers who looked into the privacy of 32 popular mental health apps and what we found is frightening. AMA!
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I am a Grammy nominee attending the Grammy's today. AMA
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We're Tiffany, Tohoru, and Bernie, the stars and showrunner of Artificial the live Emmy and Peabody Award-winning interactive sci-fi series about an Artificial Intelligence human, ask us anything
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I am Carolyn Oglesby and my mother Dr. Gladys West helped invent GPS. Ask me anything!
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IAmA pedestrian who was hit by a bicyclist.
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We're on the NASA team that just launched Artemis I around the Moon and brought it back to Earth. Ask us anything!
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We're sci-fi authors and physicists Catherine Asaro and David Brin - Ask Us Anything!
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We are Glenn Greenwald & Murtaza Hussain, who just revealed the Muslim-American leaders spied on by the NSA & FBI. Ask Us Anything.
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Highest Rated Comments
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Do you feel there is any lingering risk to your life from the mafia?
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Oh cool...where are you at? I'll come say hi..and maybe mumble something about narwhals.
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Everything I've heard about Frank Ocean paints him as one of the nicest people on the planet. His dressing room isn't far from ours, maybe I'll try for a fiver. Last time I saw the bieb's he was flanked by 4 bodyguards who tensed up when we said hi. It's fun being an unknown backstage because the celebrities always say hi back in case you might be somebody they should know.
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Randy should try being a swordfish instead of a mermaid (Did I just assume Randy's gender?)
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- Yes, but I can't name names. We never do on principal. I can say at country awards shows it's usually about 2/3rds pre-tracked except for lead vocals. It's much less in the rock world. I've heard only 3 bands are using tracks tonight.
- Last time we had a show with usher he had tons of laptops running. 3 keyboard players onstage and not even one of them even bothered to mime playing that 2 note intro.
- electronic aids is pretty vague. There are plenty of drum machines playing click tracks in our ears...ear monitors could be considered electronic aid.
- there's definitely a machismo to playing live as opposed to doing the milli-vanilli. But pre-recording means you get paid twice...for the performance and the recording, so they kinda win that way.
- dave matthews came offstage at an award show and his response when we complimented him was (approximate quote) "I almost shat my pants I was so scared". We thought somebody with his experience still being that moved by it was awesome.
- miranda is definitely one who thrives on the performance. sometimes you have to reassure the producers that it will pick up for the real show. I feel that for sure. The stakes get high and I get lost in the fun of the moment. I liken it to mountain biking. It forces you to be as focused on the moment as you are capable of. Seeing Pink doing pushups and jumping around like a badass just before she hit the stage at iHeartRadio was awesome to see. However you feel about a star's music sometimes you can't deny the energy and entertainment they provide live.
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Dat dress... i hope it's not too sexist to recount my most special 53rd grammy rehearsal experience. We sat out in the empty audience seats while the rest of the bands rehearsed. Katy Perry had a bubble machine going during the rehearsals which put out smoke filled bubbles everywhere. They looked really cool, caught the light, and made little smoke poofs when they popped. But they popped a lot and the dancers started slipping on the pools of soap. After the song she announced into the mic that it was too slippery and they couldn't dance with the floor that way. As she demonstrated to the producer how the bubbles made them slip she lost her balance for real... and to catch herself she had to double over in a full forward fold with her ass to the audience. She was wearing a very short skirt and very thin underwear. I'll be in my bunk.
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We often get lectured on being careful because we represent Miranda's name...but it truly is funny how much people exaggerate when celebrities have messups. I have a little inside info on that one: The driver for one of the crew busses, probably full of technicians that never even interact with dave, decided to dump his toilet illegally...it smells awful when they get full and sometimes the drivers are too lazy to find a truck stop to empty the shitter properly. Years ago I stepped in a stream of pee from Miranda's bus when her driver dumped on the desert roadside right when I was walking up barefoot to check on another crew member...pee mud, ugh. I boiled my foot. Anyways, going over a river on a grated bridge seems like a sneaky place to dump without getting caught. But the decision had nothing to do with Dave himself...I'm sure he was asleep on another bus miles in front or on a jet. And I'm sure that driver was a good man who got fired over a careless decision. Still, it makes fun enough headline that people latch on to and don't care about details.
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Reddit Grammy Meetup 2013! (it was nice to meet you Ben!)
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