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Jeremiah Ukponrefe (comedian, author The Hive)
Season 1 Episode 141
Jeremiah Ukponrefe joined me to discuss being Canadian; not being a reader growing up; memoirs being both hard to read but also fascinating; the Percy Jackson series; The Outsiders; Of Mice and Men; …
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Jim Peck (game show host, Three's A Crowd, Big Showdown, and Joker's Wild)
Season 1 Episode 140
Game show legend Jim Peck joined me to talk about living in Milwaukee during the Happy Days era; favorite radio shows; the first time he saw a television; going to Marquette University; getting the p…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Comedian Glenn Hirsch
Season 1 Episode 139
Comedian Glenn Hirsch joined me to talk about his "nickname" Gleeb Hush; the other Glenn Hirsch (The Duck Sauce Killer); meeting a third Glenn Hirsch (a doctor); a similar situation I had with my bro…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
D.B. Frick
Season 1 Episode 138
Comedy writer D.B. Frick joined me to discuss watching the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; George Carlin; comedians of the 1980's; baseball; John Mulaney; banging Bond babes; Herschel Walker; tr…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Paul Miller (director, Saturday Night Live 1986 - 1989, Fridays, In Living Color, Super Bowl Halftime Show)
Season 1 Episode 137
Director Paul Miller joined me to discuss appearing on TV before ever watching it; Howdy Doody; becoming a director; getting hired at the Ohio State University TV station; getting a job at KGO TV San…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Diana Peckham (wrestled Andy Kaufman on Saturday Night Live)
Season 1 Episode 135
Diana Peckham joined me on the phone to discuss watching the Wide World of Disney and The Ed Sullivan Show; "The Wizard of Oz"; her father being a wrestler in the 1956 Olympics and her grandfather be…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Melanie Chartoff
Season 1 Episode 134
Melanie Chartoff joined me to discuss watching Soupy Sales and Steve Allen; being interviewed by Johnny Carson and Oprah Winfrey; living by herself in Woodstock, NY her the summer of her junior and s…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Tracy Newman (the Groundlings, "Cheers", "Ellen")
Season 1 Episode 138
Tracy Newman joins me to discuss the first time she picked up a guitar; folk music; her favorite childhood movie "Hans Christan Anderson"; Danny Kaye; George Carlin; Jeff Altman; going to college; go…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Brian Levant (Happy Days, Flintstones movies, new book My Life in Toys)
Season 1 Episode 137
Brian Levant joined me to discuss his first TV souvenir: the scripts to a defunct series Noonday; collecting box tops to get toys; still feeling the way about toys that he did when he first got them;…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Terry Bolo (Carrie / Oh God! / Scarface / Pee Wee's Big Adventure)
Season 1 Episode 136
Teri Bolo joined by to discuss the lack of Groundling representation on my podcast; her first vivid memory of seeing Peter Pan on TV; going to see Pollyanna and being told she looked like Hailey Mill…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago