Do You Feel Me!? — at the 47th Young Artist Academy™ Awards The Feeling: The appreciation. The "Youth Oscars"™ — Terry Crews hosting, the Directors Guild of America full of what the youth are bringing. The appreciation. Congratulations to every nominee and winner. Thank you @youngartistawds for celebrating these remarkable young artists the way they deserve. Recorded 8.16.26 · DGA, Hollywood · Media access courtesy of the Young Artist Academy™ Press Office

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Rachel Maguire The director of METAL OF HONOR: The Ironworkers of 9/11 — the men of Local 40 who raised the towers' steel and went back to Ground Zero to take it apart — twenty-five years on. The Feeling: Reminded Twenty-five years after September 11, METAL OF HONOR is back on screens. I sat down with Rachel Maguire — showrunner, director, writer, and founder of Naja Productions, with twenty-two years in long-form television — and the answers took us somewhere real. The feeling: Reminded. The full conversation, recorded September 4, 2026 The conversation: Every conversation in this segment opens the same way: how are you feeling now — and when you were a child, when was an unforgettable time you felt this feeling? From there I brought Rachel three doors. The men who don't talk: she pointed a camera at ironworkers, men whose whole culture is not saying the feeling out loud, and got them to say it — what that costs the person holding the room, and what it gives back. Twenty years between the making and the moment: she made this film in 2006 with the wound still open, and it is going out again to people who were not yet born. And the dangerous rooms: twenty-two years of walking into difficult places with a camera, and the child who first decided she would rather be inside the room than outside it. Her word for where all of it leaves her today is the word at the top of this page. About the film: METAL OF HONOR: The Ironworkers of 9/11 is Rachel Maguire's 75-minute independent documentary about the New York City ironworkers of Local 40 — the men who raised the World Trade Center's steel and, on September 11, went back to Ground Zero to cut it apart and bring people home — told, in Naja Productions' words, "in their words. A story of human spirit, camaraderie and passion." It premiered on Spike TV on September 5, 2006, and streams again this anniversary week. Congratulations to Rachel and the whole Naja Productions team. About Rachel Maguire: Rachel Maguire is a showrunner, writer, producer, and director with twenty-two years in long-form television — investigative, news, dramatic, and vérité — whose work has run on Discovery, ABC, A&E, The History Channel, TLC, PBS, CNBC, Investigation Discovery, CBS Sports, and Travel Channel, with Cronkite Ward, ABC News, CBS News, Atlas Media, Big Fish Entertainment, and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. She is the founder of Naja Productions, whose stated mission is high-end, intellectual programming. Follow: Naja Productions — najaproductions.com · Instagram and Facebook @najaproductions · Rachel Maguire on LinkedIn (/in/rmaguire) and IMDb (nm2411809). Magician Media — @MagicianMedia. Conversation recorded September 4, 2026, via Zoom. Media access courtesy of Bonnie Burkert, Magician Media. "Do You Feel Me!?" is part of The Interactive World of Emotions® — Dr. Freddy. A Dr. Freddy's Office® production. Watch the archive: fredrickedo.com/media · Substack: drfreddysoffice.substack.com

SKWEEZY JIBBS MAKES A MOVIE — from the producers of Portlandia and Documentary Now!, on a 60-city tour with Skweezy in the room, Los Angeles finale September 30 at AMC The Grove — and the wisest answer a character has ever given me. The Feeling: Extreme Fear and Anxious I sat down with Skweezy Jibbs — the internet's most misspelled philosopher, the comedy alter ego of Tim Savage, and now the star of SKWEEZY JIBBS MAKES A MOVIE — on the film's press day. I went in expecting comedy. I got that, and then I got something I didn't expect: a character answering the two questions more honestly than most people do as themselves. Skweezy named Extreme Fear and Anxious — and said it through the mask, which is the whole point. The childhood answer: The wisdom underneath the bit is the whole reason a psychoanalyst put a cartoon of a man on this segment: the mask is where some people finally tell the truth. SKWEEZY JIBBS MAKES A MOVIE is directed by Michael Ward and written by Tim Savage, produced by David Allen Cress, Tim Savage and Kevin Sullivan — from the producers of Portlandia and Documentary Now! — a comedy about an amateur internet personality trying to make his dream movie with zero resources or ability, until his mother's interference makes him question who he is. It's playing as a 60-city tour with Skweezy in person and a live Q&A at every show: San Diego September 23, Santa Ana September 25, and the Los Angeles finale Wednesday, September 30 at AMC The Grove 14. Congratulations to Tim, Michael and the whole team — go see it with a room full of people. Follow Skweezy: Instagram @Skweezy4real · TikTok @skweezy4real · X @Skweezy · Facebook: facebook.com/therealskweezy · direct.me/Skweezy. The film: Instagram @theskweezymovie · skweezymovie.com (tour dates and tickets). Conversation recorded August 27, 2026, on the SKWEEZY JIBBS MAKES A MOVIE virtual press day. Media access courtesy of Jenna Friedman, 42West.

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Bonnie Yi Hyde The Feeling: Included and Seen On the lawn at West Hollywood Park I sat with Bonnie Yi Hyde, founder of the Los Angeles Kids Book Festival and the American Born Chinese Foundation, which gives free bilingual books to children across the country. She built all of it because she was a mom looking for books that looked like her own kids. What a child feels when the book finally looks like them — that's the whole reason. Bonnie named Included and Seen. Congratulations to Bonnie and the whole team on a fourth year, and thank you to @lakidsbookfestival for the welcome. Conversation recorded August 23, 2026 · Media access courtesy of the Los Angeles Kids Book Festival.

Do You Feel Me!? — The Collective: Five Carpets, One Summer Lauren Weedman, Mel Kubeyinje, Prymrr, Jackette Knightley, and Tyrone DuBose — with Nia Dorsey hosting — across five Los Angeles rooms between July 15 and August 27, 2026. Credit where credit is due, on camera and in the credits. The Feelings: Moved · Enjoying the Process · Miraculous · Fear One summer, five rooms, one question. From a first carpet at a Hollywood mixer to a Beverly Hills lounge at ten o'clock at night, I asked the people in front of my camera how they were feeling — and where, as children, they first felt it. A dancer named Moved. A singer named Enjoying the process. A drag artist and author named Miraculous. America's R&B historian named Fear — and told a story about a woman whose voice the whole world knows and whose face the video hid. In between, a host who brought the spark, and an actress who plays a mayor and left one line with us on her way past: "The passion is in the heart." This is a piece about giving credit where it's due — so here is everyone's. The rooms, in order: Lauren Weedman — "The passion is in the heart." Friday, August 14, 2026, the Fonda Theatre, Hollywood: HBO Max's one-night-only Deborah Vance & Friends & Enemies LIVE! — Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder on stage as Deborah and Ava for the first time outside the series, a room that sold out in under twenty-four hours in the middle of HACKS' record 24-nomination final-season Emmy run. Lauren plays Mayor Jo, the Mayor of Las Vegas, on HACKS — and she is, in real life, an actor and writer who has been making people laugh for decades. She didn't sit for the two questions; she left us a message instead, and it's the truest note in the piece. I found that night on my own — no door to thank but the show's. Mel Kubeyinje — The Feeling: Enjoying the process. Saturday, August 15, 2026, the Jade Lounge on Canon Drive, Beverly Hills: Charmaine Blake PR's private red-carpet experience. Mel is a singer and actress, and her answer was a whole philosophy in three words — the joy is in the doing, not the arriving. Thank you, Charmaine Blake, for the carpet. Prymrr — The Feeling: Moved. Wednesday, July 15, 2026, INANNA at The Hoxton, downtown Los Angeles: the Hollywood Film & TV Mixer's ESPY-night, pre-Comic-Con networking night — my first carpet with this camera. Prymrr is a dancer and creator whose routines travel the internet, and her childhood answer is the reason this segment exists: she saw a dancer on television, went to her closet, found a dress, and knew — she was a dancer. Thank you, Danna Patino and the Hollywood Film & TV Mixer, for the first door. Nia Dorsey — the host. Thursday, August 27, 2026, Studio City: the iFollow Creator Summit — hosted by Nia Dorsey of Basketball Wives, moderated by De'Aja of 93.5 KDAY and Jay White of Recess Group LA, with panelists Moriah Brown, Micky Munday, and Lee Charm, and a live performance by Dimitrius Graham of The Voice. Nia is a Memphis-born entrepreneur (Sweet Addiction cheesecakes, Coconut Swim), an actress, and a recording artist; I didn't sit her down that night — she was running the room — but she's on my footage bringing exactly the spark and light a collective piece needs. Thank you, Level Entertainment Group, for the credential. Jackette Knightley — The Feeling: Miraculous! Thursday, July 16, 2026, Academy LA on Hollywood Boulevard: INFOLIST's Red Carpet Pre-Comic-Con Bash, hosted by Jeffrey R. Gund and INFOLIST.com. Jackette is a Los Angeles drag artist, an award-winning recording artist, and now an author — Rising Phoenix, the first book of The Red Witch Saga, arrives this September with its own soundtrack — and the founder of Queens and Kings for Causes, which she started in 2020 to keep drag artists working through the shutdowns. Her word was Miraculous, and her reason was simple: it's all in the heart and resiliency. Thank you, Jeff Gund and INFOLIST, for the carpet. Dr. Freddy — in the office. Between the rooms, a word from my desk: credit where credit is due. Integrity and authenticity in the world of creativity aren't manners — they're how a clean emotion of inspiration gets passed, undiluted, to the next generation. Every name in this piece is here on purpose. Tyrone DuBose — The Feeling: Fear. Saturday, August 15, 2026, the Jade Lounge, Beverly Hills — Charmaine Blake PR's carpet again, later the same night. Tyrone is America's Premier R&B Historian: a daily voice on The Sheryl Underwood Radio Show, a contributor to TV One's Unsung, the author of The Four Seasons of R&B, a 2024 inductee of the California Music Hall of Fame. He told me about Martha Wash — the voice on "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," whose vocals were used without credit while another woman lip-synced her in the video because of how the image was supposed to look. Wash sued in 1991, settled in 1994, and her fight helped bring about federal legislation making vocal credits mandatory on albums and music videos. Tyrone said he felt fear about speaking up on it — and knew it was what needed to be done. That is why the piece ends with him. Conversations recorded July 15, 2026 (Hollywood Film & TV Mixer, INANNA at The Hoxton, Los Angeles — media access courtesy of Danna Patino, Hollywood Film & TV Mixer) · July 16, 2026 (INFOLIST Red Carpet Pre-Comic-Con Bash, Academy LA, Hollywood — media access courtesy of Jeff Gund, INFOLIST) · August 14, 2026 (Deborah Vance & Friends & Enemies LIVE!, the Fonda Theatre, Hollywood — attended) · August 15, 2026 (Charmaine Blake PR's private red-carpet experience, Jade Lounge, Beverly Hills — media access courtesy of Charmaine Blake, Charmaine Blake PR) · August 27, 2026 (iFollow Creator Summit, Studio City — media access courtesy of Level Entertainment Group).

Do You Feel Me!? — The Los Angeles Tribune International Film Festival, Opening Night #DoYouFeelMe #SherryGideons #LosAngelesTribune #LATribuneFilmFestival #CulverCity #TheInteractiveWorldOfEmotions @sherrygideons @latfilmfestival @losangelestribune The Feelings: Overcoming · Excited · Empowered · Anxiety · Excitement and Fear Six conversations on one red carpet, the night CHRYSALIS opened the Los Angeles Tribune International Film Festival at the Culver Theater — and went on to win five honors that weekend. Randall J. Slavin, executive producer of CHRYSALIS, named Overcoming. Margo Perez, there for the film, named Excited. Daniella Trufin of THE RISE OF THE LIONESS named Empowered. Chris Armstrong, who pointed us to AN INCONVENIENT STUDY, named Anxiety. Tiffany Cano, creative producer of PILLARS OF POWER and THE RISE OF THE LIONESS, named Excitement and Fear. Sherry Gideons of the Los Angeles Tribune named whole feelings. Six people, one carpet, six honest words. Thank you to @latfilmfestival and @losangelestribune for a beautiful opening night. Conversations recorded August 14, 2026 · Media access courtesy of Jessica and Ray, Top of the Line PR. #DoYouFeelMe #LATribuneFilmFestival #Chrysalis #CulverCity #TheInteractiveWorldOfEmotions MARGO PEREZ Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Margo Perez The Feeling: Excited On the opening night of the Los Angeles Tribune International Film Festival, I met Margo Perez — a film enthusiast who came for CHRYSALIS. We talked about the excitement of the night, and about family being the most important thing to him. Margo named Excited. Thank you, @margosocials — and thank you to @latfilmfestival for a beautiful opening night. DANIELLA TRUFIN Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Daniella Trufin The Feeling: Empowered On the opening night of the Los Angeles Tribune International Film Festival, I sat with Daniella Trufin, cast member of THE RISE OF THE LIONESS: The Power of Feminine Leadership — @losangelestribune's documentary on women who lead with purpose, co-directed by Dawna Campbell and Dr. Angela Kung. Daniella named Empowered. Congratulations to @daniella_trufin and the whole LIONESS team — and thank you to @latfilmfestival for a beautiful opening night. CHRIS ARMSTRONG Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Chris Armstrong The Feeling: Anxiety On the opening night of the Los Angeles Tribune International Film Festival, I sat with Chris Armstrong, who pointed everyone to aninconvenientstudy.com — where AN INCONVENIENT STUDY streams free. Chris named Anxiety, and named it plainly, which is its own kind of courage on a red carpet. Thank you, Chris and @aninconvenientstudy — and thank you to @latfilmfestival for a beautiful opening night. TIFFANY CANO Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Tiffany Cano The Feeling: Excitement and Fear On the opening night of the Los Angeles Tribune International Film Festival, I sat with Tiffany Cano — creative producer of PILLARS OF POWER and THE RISE OF THE LIONESS, @losangelestribune's two documentaries on the forces that shape greatness and the women who lead — and an energy healer thirty years into the work. Tiffany named two feelings at once: Excitement and Fear. That is what the edge of something big feels like. Congratulations to @healertiffanycano and both teams — and thank you to @latfilmfestival for a beautiful opening night. SHERRY GIDEONS Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Sherry Gideons The Feeling: Whole Feelings On the opening night of the Los Angeles Tribune International Film Festival, I sat with Sherry Gideons, communications director of the Los Angeles Tribune Talent Agency — @losangelestribune, the festival's presenter. Thank you, @sherrygideons — and thank you to @latfilmfestival for a beautiful opening night.

The Feeling: Anger TO USE A MOUNTAIN is in theaters now, and I sat down with director Casey Carter to ask the two questions this show always asks: What are you feeling right now? And when you were a child, when was an unforgettable time you felt this feeling? Casey named Anger. And for the community that is staying committed for visibility, Admiration and Respect. The answers took us somewhere real. This film is worth your time and this conversation tells you why. TO USE A MOUNTAIN is an award-winning documentary directed by Casey Carter The story of Yucca Mountain and the communities who stood up in the fight over America's nuclear waste. The film opened theatrically Friday, August 21, 2026 at DCTV Firehouse Cinema, New York, with expansion and TVOD to follow. The conversation was recorded Monday, August 17, 2026 (virtual) Media access courtesy of Emma Griffiths, EG PR.

LEARNING TO FLY (documentary) · directed by Max Lowe · produced by Evan Hayes and Katy Chevigny · executive producer Chris Hemsworth (Wild State) · Aisha McAdams is a lens of the film. An award-winning photographer and runner · opened in theaters Friday, August 21, 2026 I sat down with director Max Lowe and Aisha McAdams — the award-winning photographer and runner at the heart of the film. Max named Belonging. Aisha spoke about Freedom. The answers gave insights to the film process and the purpose it serves. It's in the experience and being with real friends. This film is worth your time — and this conversation tells you why. Media access courtesy of Julia and the team at 42West.

Darlene Koldenhoven — GRAMMY®-winning vocalist, the featured soprano soloist of Yanni: Live at the Acropolis (the voice millions heard circle that stage), on-camera singer in the SISTER ACT films, and one of Los Angeles' great session voices — decades of film, television, and records carry her sound. Vocal educator, composer, and now author: her memoir, PUT YOUR DRESS DOWN AND SING (Sibylline Press), launched August 7, 2026 at The Last Bookstore in Studio City — and she narrates the audiobook in her own voice, which is exactly how it should be. The room: this one was IN PERSON — she welcomed the show into her own Studio City studio on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, four days after her book launch. Your note after: "The interview with Darlene was amazing!" A woman who spent a lifetime giving her voice to other people's music finally tells her own story — and when the two questions came, she answered with an action. A career like hers is just that, sixty years deep: love of the music, devotion to the craft, long before any spotlight found her. The memoir's title is a childhood in five words — which is precisely what question two was built to find. Conversation recorded Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at Darlene's studio in Studio City, following the launch of her memoir PUT YOUR DRESS DOWN AND SING at The Last Bookstore, Studio City. Media access courtesy of Now Hear This. "Do You Feel Me!?" is part of The Interactive World of Emotions® — Dr. Freddy.

"Do You Feel Me!?" w/ David Greene The Feeling: Honest WHO HE IS: Journalist David Greene, co-writer of LOUDER THAN GUNS with Ketch Secor, answers Dr. Freddy's two questions about feeling, childhood, and healing divides. Above the video: He asked America questions for a career; on this episode he answers two of ours. David Greene — co-writer of LOUDER THAN GUNS (dir. Doug Pray), the documentary that puts Americans who disagree about guns into the same rooms and lets the music hold the door open — on what he's feeling now, and where it started when he was a child. The film: born in the wake of the 2023 Covenant School tragedy in Nashville, when Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show ("Wagon Wheel") wrote a New York Times op-ed — "Country Music Can Lead America Out of Its Obsession with Guns" — and then hit the road with Greene to do something almost nobody does anymore: create respectful conversation across the divide. Barbecue joints, barbershops, church pews, gun stores, concert halls — rooms full of people who disagree about everything except the music, talking anyway. A man who spent his career asking the questions sits down to answer ours — and the film he co-wrote is literally the "Do You Feel Me!?" thesis at national scale: healing happens when people say what they feel out loud in the same room. Building with the system, never tearing it down. Your own note after the sit-down: "Open, thoughtful, and generous with the real feeling underneath." Conversation recorded Monday, August 10, 2026 — a virtual "Do You Feel Me!?" sit-down with co-writer David Greene. LOUDER THAN GUNS (directed by Doug Pray) is in theatrical release via Abramorama. Media access courtesy of Karen Oberman, K.O. PR. "Do You Feel Me!?" is part of The Interactive World of Emotions® — Dr. Freddy.

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Yihong Exa Huang (FORTUNE HOUSE) The Feeling:Fascination Yihong Exa Huang, director of FORTUNE HOUSE (LA Shorts premiere), answers Dr. Freddy's two questions about the feeling. Above the video: A delivery driver gambles with demons for his place in America — and the filmmaker who imagined it sits down for the two questions. Yihong Exa Huang on what she's feeling now, and where it started when she was a child.

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ TURRENTINE — DeJuan, Golden Child & Qu33n The Feeling: Urgency & Satisfaction · Special · Simple Some groups are formed by a label, some by a scene. TURRENTINE was formed by a mother's dream. DeJuan, Golden Child, and Qu33n — siblings from Pasadena, descendants of the great jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, "The Sugar Man" — stepped onto their own red carpet on August 8 to drop a song called "Simple," and sat down with "Do You Feel Me!?" one at a time to answer the two questions this show asks everyone: What are you feeling now? And when you were a child, when was an unforgettable time you felt this feeling? One bloodline, three genres Music doesn't just run in this family — it goes back generations. The Turrentine name belongs to jazz history through Stanley Turrentine, and the inheritance split three ways in this generation: DeJuan carries the R&B, with more than a decade of independent releases behind him. Golden Child carries the hip-hop — and a piece of history of his own: as a young artist he was signed to Michael Jackson's MJJ Music in the early '90s and worked with Jackson himself. Asked what he remembers most, his answer was simple: "his work ethics." Qu33n carries the rock. Three siblings, three genres, one name — because their mother always dreamed of seeing her children on one stage together. TURRENTINE is that dream, standing up. DeJuan: His feeling: Urgency & Satisfaction. Hold those two words together for a moment, because most people can't. Urgency is the engine of a man who has released music independently for over a decade — the feeling that the work can't wait. Satisfaction is what arrives when the thing you were hurrying toward turns out to be your own family, in matching step, on a carpet with your name on it. A decade of urgency, resolved into satisfaction, without losing the drive. That's not a contradiction; that's a career reaching its right chapter. Golden Child: His feeling: Special. From anyone else, that word might sound like a boast. From the kid Michael Jackson signed, it's a memory — a feeling first installed young, by the biggest artist in the world, and carried carefully ever since. When we asked where the feeling started in childhood, the answer was already in the room. Special isn't what he thinks of himself; it’s being with family and experiencing the music together. Qu33n: Her feeling: Simple. The same word as the song. When an artist's present feeling and her family's new release are the same word, that is not a coincidence — that is coherence. It means the music is saying exactly what the people making it are feeling, with nothing lost in between. As a psychoanalyst, I can tell you that families work for years to get there. This one sings it. The song "Simple" is out now — the first thing the three of them have said together, in the language their family has spoken for generations. Congratulations, DeJuan, Golden Child, and Qu33n: your mother's dream is loud now. And thank you to the release-night team for a beautiful carpet. Urgency & Satisfaction. A decade of hurry, resolved into family — without losing the drive. Special. "What I remember most is his work ethics." — Golden Child, on being signed by Michael Jackson. Simple. Her feeling and the song are the same word. That's not coincidence — that's coherence. FOLLOW TURRENTINE * DeJuan — Instagram: @dejuandt · music on Apple Music & Spotify as Dejuan Turrentine * Golden Child — Instagram: @goldenchildprince * Qu33n — Instagram: @officialqu33nfanpage * Their song "Simple" — out now. The conversation happened on TURRENTINE's own release-night red carpet — Saturday, August 8, 2026, at the Glendon — the evening the family unveiled "Simple." Media access was granted by Jessica & Ray of Top of the Line PR, the firm behind the family's announcement and a door this show is glad to know. Conversation recorded Saturday, August 8, 2026, on the red carpet at the Glendon — TURRENTINE's release-night carpet. Media access courtesy of Jessica & Ray, Top of the Line PR. "Do You Feel Me!?" is part of The Interactive World of Emotions® — Dr. Freddy.

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Spencer Bland The Feeling: Nervous to Fun Who he is: Spencer Bland — stand-up comedian, writer, and video editor based in Los Angeles, originally from North Carolina. His comedy is "witty retellings of growing up with one foot in the church and the other at the rock show" — a Southern kid raised between the pew and the mosh pit, now translating that split identity into laughs. He jokes he has "one of the worst last names in comedy" and wins the room anyway. His Netflix Is A Joke debut (October 2025) — the most brand-recognizable stage in comedy. He tours nationally, plays the Improv, and has worked alongside Mark Normand, Shane Torres, and Laura Peek. Multi-hyphenate (comic + writer + editor), multi-platform, and — humanizing detail worth using — his press photos feature his dog, Steve. A man whose entire act is about holding two identities at once — sacred and loud, Southern and LA — answering what he feels and where it started in childhood. Identity-between-worlds is clinical gold and comedy gold in the same breath. Check out his upcoming shows: See AUG 20 THU Westside Laugh Party @ 8:00 PM Santa Monica, CA, United States AUG 20 THU Good Comedy LA @ 8:00 PM Los Angeles, CA, United States Conversation recorded August 5th Los Feliz, California Instagram: @spencerspicy TikTok: @spencerspicyy Facebook: Spencer Bland Comedy (@spencerspicyy YouTube: SpencerStandupNC LinkedIn: /in/spencerbland Sources: godsfavoritecomedian.com/#shows · Improv — Spencer Bland · Vivid Seats — Spencer Bland · Apple Music — Jetlagged Comedy Show

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Phil Westbrooks The Feeling: Proud Recorded Sun Aug 2, 2026 · 32nd Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant · Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd WHO HE IS? Phillip "Phil" Westbrooks — Los Angeles investor, 63 — stepped into national living rooms in 2025 as one of the bachelors on BRAVO'S LOVE HOTEL, the series where four Real Housewives (Luann de Lesseps, Shannon Storms Beador, Gizelle Bryant, Ashley Darby) searched for real connection at the Grand Velas in Los Cabos — and Phil **caught the attention of Luann de Lesseps** early in the season. He's also sat for long-form conversations (Telli Talks, Ep. 58, which calls him "remarkable"). The DYFM arc: a man who spent a season on television looking for love spent his Sunday giving it away — judging thirty young queens at a scholarship pageant built on Confidence, Awareness and Pride. Romance-show bachelor to community servant is exactly the feelings- first story the segment lives for. The Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant, founded in 1993 by NAACP Theater Award-nominated producer/choreographer Lisa Ruffin, celebrated its 32nd edition Sunday, August 2, 2026 at Barnsdall Art Park with thirty young participants. More than a pageant, it's a development program for girls 6–12 — arts training, public speaking, etiquette, science and technology — awarding over $10,000 in scholarships and prizes annually, with alumnae who've gone on to Alvin Ailey's summer intensive and professional WWE wrestling. As Ruffin says: "Celebrities, community leaders, and influencers donate their time to serve as judges or hosts" — and this year, Phil Westbrooks was one of them. Conversation recorded Sunday, August 2, 2026, at the 32nd Annual Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant, Barnsdall Art Park, Hollywood. Media access courtesy of Dr. Edna Sims, ESP PR.

Interview w/ Lamon Archey The Feeling: Joy Carpet: Sunday, August 2, the 32nd Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant at Barnsdall LAMON ARCHEY — WHO HE IS Lamon Dezjon Archey, from Daly City, California — raised in San Mateo by his grandparents, an only child who lost his father at 20, and worked as a carpenter and an emergency veterinary technician before entertainment found him. That's a life built on resilience — your two questions will have hit deep water. His path: national modeling campaigns for Macy's, Gap, Kohl's, Armani, and Dolce & Gabbana, then hand-picked by Beyoncé as her love interest in Destiny's Child's "Cater 2 U" video (2004). On screen: Mason Wilder on The Young and the Restless (2012–2014), then his signature role — Detective Eli Grant on Days of Our Lives (contract 2017–2022, returns in 2023 and 2024), plus D'Angelo Carter on All American (recurring since 2020). The current hook: he returned to Days of Our Lives as Eli Grant in early 2026 in a major storyline twist — so this interview lands while he's actively back on the canvas. A soap leading man judging a pageant that builds young girls' confidence is exactly the feelings-first story DYFM exists for. The Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant was founded in 1993 by actress and choreographer Lisa Ruffin and celebrated its 32nd edition on Sunday, August 2, 2026 at Barnsdall in Hollywood. More than a pageant, it's a development program for girls ages 6–12 built on "CAP — Confidence, Awareness and Pride": arts training, public speaking, etiquette, science and technology discovery, and a summer curriculum in African American heritage — preparing future leaders, with celebrity judges like Lamon Archey lending their eyes and hearts to the stage. Conversation recorded Sunday, August 2, 2026, on the red carpet at the 32nd Annual Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant, Barnsdall, Hollywood. Media access courtesy of Dr. Edna Sims, ESP PR. "Do You Feel Me!?" is part of The Interactive World of Emotions® — Dr. Freddy.

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Katherine Larsen Winner, Vocal (Female) — 7th Hollywood Independent Music Awards, Avalon Hollywood, July 30, 2026. The Feeling: Shocked. Katherine Larsen won Vocal (Female) at the 7th Hollywood Independent Music Awards on Thursday, July 30, 2026, at Avalon Hollywood. I caught her on the red carpet that evening. The feeling she named was shocked — and once you know that a choir teacher misdiagnosed her with a vocal cord condition and removed her from choir, leaving her afraid to sing for years, the word stops being award-night modesty and starts being clinical. The feeling: Shocked. Shock is the body arriving late. We brace for bad news — the whole nervous system is built for it, tuned toward threat, rehearsing the blow before it lands. Good news gets no such preparation. It arrives against an undefended system, and the system does the only thing it knows how to do with something it wasn't ready for: it freezes. That pause people read as humility on a red carpet is often something else entirely. It's a body catching up to a fact it had no plan for. But Katherine's shock has a second floor under it. Years before Avalon Hollywood, a choir teacher told her that her voice was a problem. A misdiagnosed vocal cord condition. Removed from choir. And what follows that isn't just disappointment — it's the particular damage of being disbelieved by someone with authority over the thing you love. That kind of verdict doesn't stay in the room where it was delivered. It gets installed. She was afraid to sing for years. Then she picked up a guitar, and the first song flew out. So on July 30, in a field of eleven names, at an event where she was nominated twice, a room full of industry professionals handed her a trophy for the exact instrument she'd been told to be ashamed of. That is not shock at winning. That is shock at being right about herself — after a long stretch of time in which the evidence available to her said otherwise. I've sat with a lot of people carrying a verdict somebody else handed down. The delay between when you stop believing it and when your body stops believing it is not short, and it is not tidy. Some people never get an outside confirmation at all; they have to build the belief without one. Katherine got hers, on a stage, in Hollywood. Watching someone's system try to process that in real time is why this segment exists. Her music has been doing this work for a while. Born in Minneapolis, Los Angeles–based, she writes what she calls the depth and breadth of the human experience — from heartwarming to heartbreaking, indie folk with an old soul, a voice people reach for Brandi Carlile and Sarah McLachlan and Annie Lennox to describe. Her single "Home" is a caretaking song: arms around someone while they cry it out, I don't know how, but I know we'll get you through. And her song "We Can't Breathe" — written years before it was released, put into the world in 2020 after George Floyd's death — is the reason ABC covered her for using music to make a difference. There's a line on her website, from Neale Donald Walsch: "Your life has nothing to do with you. It is about everyone whose life you touch and how you touch it." A woman told her voice was a liability now uses it on behalf of other people. The award is the smaller story. Follow Katherine Larsen katherinelarsenmusic.com · Instagram @katherinelarsenmusic · TikTok @katherinelarsenmusic · Facebook · YouTube · Spotify · Bandcamp · SoundCloud The Hollywood Independent Music Awards Now in its seventh year, HIMA was launched in 2023 as a dedicated platform for independent creators and the professionals behind them — an extension of the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. The 2026 ceremony brought more than 1,000 artists and industry professionals to Avalon Hollywood, presented by Ghost Rocket Artist Management in partnership with RADD (Recording Artists Against Drunk Driving) and Promise2Live. himawards.com · Instagram @him_awards · TikTok @HIMAwards · X @him_awards · Facebook Conversation recorded July 30, 2026, on the red carpet at the 7th Hollywood Independent Music Awards, Avalon Hollywood. Media access courtesy of Liz Rodriguez, EMR Media. "Do You Feel Me!?" is part of The Interactive World of Emotions® — Dr. Freddy.

The Feeling: Internal Struggle The Film THE DARKEST LIGHT is the debut feature documentary from Simon Mendes — and it takes on one of the hardest reckonings in modern Jewish life: Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the "Singing Rabbi," whose melodies transformed Jewish worship so completely that many assume they're centuries old — and who, according to accounts multiple women brought forward after his death in 1994 (first made public in a 1998 Lilith magazine article), sexually abused women and teenage girls who idolized him. The title comes from Carlebach's own improvised homily about "darkest light" — evil masquerading as good. The film's protagonist is Neshama Carlebach, his daughter — who stayed silent when the allegations surfaced, then, moved by the MeToo movement, chose to publicly support the survivors. Mendes doesn't hand the audience a verdict: defenders, survivors, and community leaders (including Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue, on her congregation's struggle over whether to keep singing his music) all get the floor. It's a film about holding two truths at once — which is, as you know better than anyone, the actual clinical work of grief. The award Winner — the inaugural Best First Feature Award at the 46th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where it world-premiered July 19 (two days after your interview — you spoke to Simon on the eve of his premiere). The jury said it was "extraordinarily moved and transformed" by the film's "complex reckoning with his legacy." Produced by Heidi Reinberg, supported by the Jewish Film Institute (Simon was a 2022 JFI Filmmaker in Residence) and Jewish Story Partners. What do we do when the man who gave us our songs also caused profound harm? THE DARKEST LIGHT — the debut documentary from Simon Mendes, winner of the inaugural Best First Feature Award at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival — sits inside that question with rare courage. It follows Neshama Carlebach reckoning with her father, the "Singing Rabbi" whose melodies transformed worship, and the survivors whose truth changed how a community hears them. I sat down with Simon on Do You Feel Me?® two days before the world premiere. As a psychoanalyst, I'll say this: idealization is the feeling that makes truth hardest to hear. Watch at fredrickedo.com/media. And if this story touches your own — support is real, and it's yours: 988. #DoYouFeelMe #TheDarkestLight Congrats angle: Congratulations to Simon Mendes — THE DARKEST LIGHT just won Best First Feature at the 46th SF Jewish Film Festival. We spoke on Do You Feel Me?® days before the premiere, and the jury's words ring true: "extraordinarily moved and transformed." So was I. Sources: AwardsWatch — Best First Feature win, The Forward — review, SFJFF film guide, Jewish Story Partners, Simon Mendes — about

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Karl Spiessl from Ocean Sleeper The Feeling: Light to Dark The Song & The Trilogy "My Forever Drug" (released July 16, 2026) is the third single from the band's upcoming album and the final chapter of a three-part music-video trilogy — Break The Cycle → Peace When I'm Dead → My Forever Drug. The video follows a man trapped in a time loop, reliving the death of his partner to suicide. Grief, guilt, and the weight of loss aren't subtext for this band — they're the whole project. It was written in six hours on the band's final day in LA with producers Jon Lundin (Point North, Sleeping With Sirens) and Curt Martin, mixed by Jeff Dunne in Portland. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=sumNvBFMdgw The album PEACE WHEN I'M DEAD arrives late August on BMG Australia / Rise Records — the newest report says Friday, August 28. Karl on the record: "At its core, the record explores the ongoing battle we have with ourselves — that constant inner struggle that can feel endless." Karl & the band Ocean Sleeper — metalcore from Gippsland, regional Victoria, Australia. Karl Spiessl is the vocalist and the band's manager — the one carrying both the feeling and the business, which explains why he sat for the whole band. Alongside him: Ionei Heckenberg (guitar, clean vocals) and Stan Liagourdis (guitar). Karl, after their first global touring run: "It gives new meanings in multitudes — appreciation and gratitude for people connecting with our songs." Tour dates Album pre-release VIP parties (first listens + Q&As): Aug 20 — The Ed Castle, Adelaide · Aug 21 — Burdekin Hotel, Sydney · Aug 22 — Crowbar, Brisbane · Aug 23 — The Leadbeater Hotel, Melbourne. Australian headline run: Sept 4 — Liberty Hall, Sydney · Sept 5 — Princess Theatre, Brisbane (SOLD OUT) · Sept 10 — Magnet House, Perth · Sept 11 — Hindley St Music Hall, Adelaide · Sept 12 — Forum, Melbourne. UK/Europe 2027: Jan 13 Dublin (The Academy) · Jan 15 London (Electric Ballroom) · Jan 16 Manchester · Jan 17 Glasgow · Feb 7 Utrecht · Feb 9 Copenhagen · Feb 15 Riga · Feb 17 Warsaw. Grief is love with nowhere left to go. OCEAN SLEEPER — Karl Spiessl and his band from Gippsland, Australia — turned that truth into PEACE WHEN I'M DEAD, arriving this month on BMG/Rise Records. Their single "My Forever Drug" closes a three-part film about losing someone to suicide — heavy music doing the emotional work most conversations avoid. Karl sat with me on Do You Feel Me?® representing the whole band, and we went underneath it. Watch at fredrickedo.com/media. Australia: they're home in September — Sydney 9/4, Brisbane 9/5 (sold out), Perth 9/10, Adelaide 9/11, Melbourne 9/12. And if grief like this is yours personally: you don't have to carry it alone — 988 is always there. #DoYouFeelMe #OceanSleeper #MyForeverDrug #PeaceWhenImDead Sources: Metal-Roos single announcement, The Music — release parties, Songkick tour calendar, Theprp — video debut

The Feeling: Anticipatory Anxiety! The film: THE PROWLER (2026) is a psychological-horror short written, directed, and edited by Christopher Piñero, a Puerto Rican filmmaker who built the film around one question: "What if fear itself became the villain?" A quiet night spirals into a fight for survival — but the real terrain is paranoia and the uncertainty of reality. Piñero drew on the supernatural folklore he grew up with between Virginia and Puerto Rico (Chupacabra legends included), and structured the film as "an extended nightmare" that disorients the audience the same way the protagonist is disoriented. No cheap jump scares — it's character-driven suspense. It stars your guy, Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders in the Building, The Inspection, Shaft), who carries the film nearly dialogue-free — pure visual, emotional storytelling. He's called it "at the top of the list" of his career work, and his line about the process is practically a DYFM thesis: "I had to become comfortable with that discomfort." Festival run: Panic Fest, Chattanooga Film Festival, and right now the LA Shorts International Film Festival — July 30 through August 12 at Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE — which is an Academy Award and BAFTA-qualifying festival. Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=0wSJKsH35J4 What happens when fear itself becomes the villain? THE PROWLER, starring my Do You Feel Me?® guest Aaron Dominguez, is at the Oscar®-qualifying LA Shorts fest right now. Our conversation: fredrickedo.com/media 🎬 Proud of this one. Aaron Dominguez brought THE PROWLER to the emotional world on Do You Feel Me?® — and now the film is running at the Academy Award®-qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival. Comfortable with the discomfort. That's the work. Sources: PopHorror interview with Piñero & Dominguez, The Movie Blog, HorrorBuzz, MuseTV

The Floaters Movie Premiere Los Angeles, California 07.17.2026 Interview w/ Andra Gordon The Feeling: Explorative Athena Pictures andra@athenapictures.net IG: AndraPaigeGordon Website: https://floatersmovie.com/#hero

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Elyse Nicole Producer, Director, Red Carpet Host, Editor, Script Supervisor, Boxer and SUPER MOM! The Feeling: Exhilarating As she talks about her upcoming show! IG: elysenicole0 Wednesday, July 15, 2026 The Hollywood Film & Television Mixer @ INANNA Bar in The Hoxton Downtown LA: Danna Patino's event 7 PM red carpet and industry mixer

Do You Feel Me!? Interview w/ Mir Waiss Najibi The Feeling: Awesome Facebook: Mir Waiss Najibi IG themirfactor Film: Hospital Chaos <— Check it out! Wednesday, July 15, 2026 The Hollywood Film & Television Mixer @ INANNA Bar in The Hoxton Downtown LA: Danna Patino's event 7 PM red carpet and industry mixer

Interview w/ Rami Etta The feeling: Connection @Rami.etta Creative | Real Estate | Interiors Space | Story | Style Wednesday, July 15, 2026 The Hollywood Film & Television Mixer @ INANNA Bar in The Hoxton Downtown LA: Danna Patino's event 7 PM red carpet and industry mixer

Tomorrow, Friday at 7PM Inaugural Theatre 68 Arts Festival, opening night: THAT’S WHERE THE NAIL WAS. A very funny and touching one-man show about the terrific rise, disastrous fall, and the new resulting life of former stand-up comic, long-time successful TV sitcom writer/producer, and son of a parent with a mental disorder, Tom Hertz. Fest continues through August 23. Theatre 68, Emerson Theatre, 5112 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA Contact: Theatre 68 theatre68@gmail.com