It's a great story on a lot of levels, ... But mostly it's about Midwest geek culture. That's something I know a little about.

When young people no longer see radio as the center of their culture... when young people stop doing something and it ceases to be an icon, an institution in their lives, it doesn't bode well for the future,

It's made me aware of the culture of kidnapping here. Since our guys were abducted, there have been over 350 reported kidnappings in Iraq - that's internationals and Iraqis both - and that's just reported.

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

They've got the right business model, financial controls, and culture, so they just need to hold onto those to be the preeminent player when the market turns around.

After being so frustrated by the 'ETC,' the idea of putting something together quickly, without a lot of studio interference, was really appealing. So she (Renfrew) took the script to InDigEnt, they loved it, and we were off to the races.