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Ongoing History Daily: Offspring facts

Some random stuff about the Offspring: (1) The original title of the Americana album was You’re Too Fat To Do

The Offspring and Simple Plan are supposed to tour Canada this year (the tour has since been canceled). To help

When your lead singer has his pilot’s license, you can do things like this. Dexter Holland can fly a variety

When is it time’s up on Christmas decorations? Just askin’. Moving to music news for January 6, 2021… In case

True or false: Even though Offspring is from southern California, they owe a lot of their success to snowboards. True.

James Cordon’s signature comedy piece is Carpool Karaoke, a feature where he and a celebrity drive around in a pretty

Apple Music might end up in more places in the near future. Here’s why. Deezer is offering samples of its

The Offspring song “Come Out and Play” has that part in the chorus is when some guy comes on and

Next to supply issues, the biggest obstacle to getting through the pandemic is vaccine hesitancy. Far too many people either

One of the best songs on the new Offspring album Let the Bad Times Roll is “We Never Have Sex

The story goes that while working in a university lab, Dexter Holland of The Offspring saw an experiment ruined when

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
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Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
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Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver