American Advertising Federation

My name is Michael Hemphill.

I'm the creator and host of the TV show Buzz that airs on Blue Ridge PBS, where we feature the great work of nonprofits and provide them with pro bono marketing resources from our friends at the American Advertising Federation of Roanoke so that they can attract more people to their cause.

In short, so that nonprofits can achieve more buzz.

And you can find out more on my website, buzz4good.com, as well as social media channels, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok, all at buzz4good.

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AAF is the American Advertising Federation.

Yeah, and they do, um, a, a college-by-college competition.

Yeah.

At Viral Nation, he oversees commercial growth, enterprise partnerships, and brand tech integrations, helping Fortune 500 companies translate viral internet culture into scalable business outcomes.

He served as the board of director on the American Advertising Federation and sits on the creative advisory council for brand safety and digital strategy.

Nick, welcome to the show, man.

Thank you, Dylan.

But at Viral Nation, what I love is I had that broad learning and I can take that to individual strategies, be on the team, see the success or the metrics move for one specific brand, whether they're trying to sell something or raise awareness or inject themselves into culture.

So it's actually been a really nice building block to what I do today.

And you've also stepped onto the advocacy side of the industry, so serving on the board of directors for the American Advertising Federation and the Creative Advisory Council for

Brand Safety and Digital

In fact, Mitt Romney's sons apparently lived with Gordon Bowen in New York.

If you go to Mitt Romney's American Advertising Federation bio – I mean, not Mitt Romney, Gordon Bowen's.

Mitt Romney is the one who did the – interview for it and there's a lot of other connections gordon bowen's done a lot of the advertising campaigns for it now kathy o'brien um i'm sure you guys all know who she is this is a clip i took from we are the people so it's a little blurry she basically claims that it was mitt romney's father who wanted to institute this you know mind fracturing mk ultra type of stuff into the obvious church which is relevant when we're talking about david hamblin who you know was friends with gordon bowen was his longtime therapist when we're talking about um Gordon Bowen's alleged split personality.

So here's what she has to say on

And I go down to the church office building.

I tried to schedule an interview basically asking why Gordon Bowen was involved in the Salt Lake Temple Open House.

So if you want to pull up that screenshot that shows his American Advertising Federation bio… Yeah, and so this is the original bio.

Now, for context, at various points in it...