Today we visit with Joey Vahedi, an American actor based in Los Angeles and known for the role of Thomas in The Chosen. Joey can be seen in other hit series including Lucifer, NCIS: New Orleans, Transparent and I Think You Should Leave. In addition to working in front of the camera, Joey has been the English dubbing voice for countless foreign films and TV shows such as 4 Blocks, Elite, Valley of Tears, How to Survive Being Single, and many others.
The Chosen is a groundbreaking historical drama based on the life of Jesus (Jonathan Roumie), seen through the eyes of those who knew him. Set against the backdrop of Roman oppression in first-century Israel, the seven-season show shares an authentic and intimate look at Jesus’ revolutionary life and teachings.
With over 200 million viewers, The Chosen is one of the most-watched shows in the world. The series is consistently a top performer across streaming platforms Amazon Prime, Peacock, and Netflix plus a top-rated broadcast weekly on The CW. What started as a crowd-funded project has now garnered over 770 million episode views and more than 13 million social media followers.
The Chosen is an independent production written, directed, and produced by Dallas Jenkins and distributed globally by Lionsgate.
THE
CHOSEN starting Season 4 on The CW September
1st
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This might not come as a surprise to you if you’ve ever endured an all-night study session, or a marathon meeting at work, but now science agrees: Thinking hard hurts. Radboud University researchers found that mental effort can be conclusively linked to unpleasant feelings, which they say may challenge some peoples’ assumptions about the joys of intellectual pursuits. Their study, an analysis of 170 separate research projects, found that no matter what the mental task is, from healthcare workers developing new technologies to athletes honing their golf swings, the result was always the same: the harder people had to think, the more unpleasant they found the experience. So why do we do it? The scientists concluded that perhaps “people choose mentally effortful activities despite the effort, not because of it.”
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Justin Bieber once held up a sign from his hotel room window saying, “Go to McDonald’s and get me a Big Mac.” He got his Big Mac.
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Jimmy Kimmel says he’s not sure if there will be any TV late-night shows left in 10 years. The comedian, who spent much of 2022 pondering whether he would continue hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live” before signing a new, 3-year deal, revealed that one of the reasons he re-upped is that he was “worried” about what to do next. On his podcast, Kimmel said by the year 2034, “Maybe there’ll be one (late night show), but there won’t be a lot of them.” Why? There is so much content these days, and “now people can watch anything at anytime”. Kimmel said that while “It used to be Johnny Carson was the only thing on at 11:30pm and so everybody watched.” He also pointed out that people can easily catch late night hosts’ monologues the next day, so there is no “need to watch it when it’s on the air”.
The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled speakers for its 2024 edition next month, including discussions with Cate Blanchett, Zoe Saldaña and Steven Soderbergh. Blanchett will be in Toronto along with 2 of her latest projects: the TV series “Disclaimer”and the film “Rumours”, which debuted at Cannes. Blanchett will also be honored at TIFF with a Tribute Award, while also participating in the In Conversation With… event. Saldaña will be there to hype her star turn in “Emilia Pérez”, while Soderbergh will present “Presence”, his ghost tale starring Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan.
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Artificial intelligence requires so much power it’s straining the electrical grid in some areas. AI queries require about 10 times the electricity of traditional Google queries, according to the Electric Power Research Institute. And emerging AI capabilities such as audio and video generation are likely to add to this energy demand. In fact, the energy needs of AI are requiring energy companies to recalibrate their future projections, and even to explore previously unheard-of options, such as restarting a nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant, which has been dormant since the infamous disaster in 1979.
NASA has unveiled an experimental aircraft they hope will help achieve a net-zero aviation emissions goal by 2050. In a $725 million partnership agreement, Boeing will construct the full-scale prototype aircraft featuring extra-long, thin wings supported by diagonal struts — a design known as the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing concept. This new X-plane is anticipated to inspire a new generation of sustainable single-aisle aircraft, the backbone of passenger airlines globally. Scientists say it’s a vital step in addressing climate change.
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✓ A classic violin is made with 70 different pieces of wood.
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Sitting
on the toilet for 8 hours uses the same number of calories as one
hour of jogging.
✓ Official temperatures used in weather apps
are taken in shade, not under sunlight.
✓ The human body becomes partially paralyzed during sleep to prevent harming itself when dreaming.
✓ A typical bird’s feathers weigh more than twice as much as its bones.
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It just might be the best of both worlds. Oreo and Coca-Cola have announced 2 new collaborations. Beginning Sept. 9, these will show up on store shelves: an Oreo-inspired Coca-Cola soda and a Coke-inspired Oreo cookie. That’s right: The iconic brands teamed up to create the perfect snacking duo using one another’s flavors. The Coca-Cola Oreo Zero Sugar is said to taste like the OG Coke, but with the sweet addition of flavors inspired by Oreos. And Oreo Coca-Cola Sandwich cookies will have both the classic ‘cookies and cream’ flavor mixed with sweet Coke. Packages will come with a classic chocolate cookie—infused with Coca-Cola syrup—and a red-colored golden cookie sandwiched with traditional white-colored creme.
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ANIMAL MYTHBUSTING: (PART THREE)
✗ Toads give you warts: Let’s just get this one out of the way first. They can’t.
✗Lemmings engage in mass suicide: They don’t plunge off cliffs en masse into the sea below. The truth is that lemmings sometimes move as a herd to find more food, and when they cross bodies of water, some don’t make it.
✗ Sloths are lazy: Yes, they are excruciatingly slow, but this is due to a very low metabolic rate, which means they need to conserve energy for survival—not because they’re unmotivated.
✗ Elephants are scared of mice: Research has consistently showed that elephants don’t find mice particularly threatening. But like humans, they don’t like it when little things scurry out and take them by surprise.
✗ Turtles don’t feel their shells: The top layer of most turtle shells is made of keratin, like our fingernails. And just as we can experience pain through our fingernails, so do turtles feel pain in their shells.
✗ Birds abandon their babies if you touch them: Birds are better parents than we give them credit for. Feel free to return a fallen baby bird to its nest.
✗ Bulls can’t see red: Surprise! Despite the common belief that the choice of a matador’s cape is actually arbitrary, because cattle are supposedly color-blind, bulls can discriminate some colors and shades, and have been shown to charge more forcefully when the object in question is a warm color.
✗Armadillos curl up into balls and roll away from predators: Actually, only 2 species of armadillo can roll up into balls at all. And they don’t roll away – it’s simply a way of using their armor to protect themselves.
✗ Each lion pride has a king: Prides actually tend to be led by females, and it’s never a single “queen.” Lionesses form a sort of sisterhood. They have babies around the same time and raise them together.
✗ Horses only sleep standing up: While they are good at grabbing some ZZZs while standing, they lie down when deeper sleep is needed, and will only do so when they are able to relax in a comfortable, safe place.
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