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Open Minds UAP News

Anthony Lappe: Showrunner/Exec Producer on History's Unidentified

Open Minds UAP News

Alejandro Rojas

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, Science

4.2671 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Lappé is a New York-based showrunner, director and investigative journalist. He was the executive editor of the Guerrilla News Network, and produced their award-winning Showtime Iraq war, documentary, BATTLEGROUND. As a commentator, he has appeared on media outlets around the world, including the BBC, Radio France, Radio Havana, Fusion, NPR and Sky News. He has written for The New York Times, Details, ESPN: The Magazine, New York Magazine, VICE and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of the graphic novel, SHOOTING WAR. For VICELAND, he was the showrunner of BLACK MARKET WITH MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS. For HISTORY, he has helmed AMERICA’S WAR ON DRUGS, RFK: THE KENNEDY FAMILY REMEMBERS and the upcoming UNIDENTIFIED: INSIDE AMERICA’S UFO INVESTIGATION.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Rojas Report, our special interviews, exclusive content just for our subscribers.

0:08.0

And hopefully we'll have, we've got a couple people joining live, but hopefully we'll have a few I did put this together kind of last minute.

0:15.0

But we've got a great show here. We've got Anthony LaPay. And am I saying that correctly?

0:20.0

You nailed it. I think I asked you

0:22.5

that last time too. But you are the showrunner and executive producer for unidentified and congratulations

0:30.0

on launching the second season. Thank you. Thank you. It was not easy getting that on the air in the time

0:36.1

of COVID. I'll tell you that. Oh, right. And from what

0:39.5

I understand, you had to even make the season a little shorter. Yeah, unfortunately, we were planning

0:46.4

on two more episodes. But it just, we had all a bunch of shoots set up for March that we had to shut down.

0:56.0

And we decided not to try to, you know, stretch material or, you know, kind of make something out of nothing.

1:02.8

So we just, we fortunately, the network was, was okay with us just delivering the eight.

1:08.5

Mm-hmm.

1:09.2

Well, I want to get into, to begin with, I was able to interview Chris Mellon, which was great.

1:15.4

I saw that.

1:16.1

That was really interesting.

1:17.7

Yeah, thank you.

1:18.6

I was really excited to be able to do that.

1:21.1

Over all these years, I haven't been able to talk to him personally.

1:24.1

Oh, great.

1:25.2

So that was my first one.

1:27.4

And I kind of froze up a bit because I finished my questions and I'm going to. personally. Oh, great. So that was my first one.

1:32.9

And I kind of froze up a bit because I finished my questions and I was like, uh,

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