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Kyle Meredith With... is an interview series in which WFPK's Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of artists. Meredith digs deep to find out how their work is made and where their journey is going. From legendary artists to the newer class, from musicians to film & television stars, you'll hear about the things you were always curious about from all of your favorites. 

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Willem Dafoe, Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop & Nadia Latif on The Man in My Basement

    Kyle Meredith talks with Willem Dafoe, Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop, and director Nadia Latif about turning Walter Mosley’s novel The Man in My Basement into a psychological thriller where race, trauma, and grief haunt every frame. The story follows Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins), a man on the verge of losing his ancestral Sag Harbor home, who agrees to rent his basement to the mysterious Aniston Bennett (Willem Dafoe) for the summer—only to find himself pulled into a chilling reckoning with history, family ghosts, and the root of all evil. Dafoe digs into acting as “pretend” courage, why first days on set still terrify him, and how genre lets hard truths sneak up on an audience. Latif reflects on making her feature debut and weaving her own story of loss into Mosley’s text, while Hawkins details playing Charles’ transformation opposite Dafoe in a basement where time itself bends. Diop speaks to how horror and thriller connect with Black history in ways straight drama can’t. From prosaic lines that ring like bells (“People die every day”) to lighting tricks, skewed timelines, and even maggot wrangling, the team unpacks how The Man in My Basement becomes a story you can’t shake. Listen to Willem Dafoe, Corey Hawkins, and more of the cast of The Man in My Basement discuss the new film or watch the interviews on YouTube here and here. Please take the time to like, review, and subscribe to KMW wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    26 min

  2. 4 DAYS AGO · BONUS

    Rewind: Soft Cell’s Marc Almond & OMD’s Paul Humphreys: Orchestras, Glitch, and Making the Past Feel New

    It's a Rewind double feature today on Kyle Meredith With, as we bring you a pair of episodes from 2017. First, Soft Cell’s Marc Almond talks with Kyle Meredith about shaping his 2017 solo album, Shadows and Reflections, as a '60s-steeped, orchestral “torch and baroque” set—curating lesser-known gems, keeping the original arrangements’ DNA, and slipping in two new cuts (including the filmic “No One to Say Goodnight To” and the Walker Brothers-sized “Embers”). Then on the second half of the episode, OMD’s Paul Humphreys talks about the band's own album from that year, The Punishment of Luxury, balancing four decades of signature melody with modern minimalism and glitch textures, limiting the synth palette to dodge the “tyranny of choice,” and turning a WWI painting into a rhythmic teaser with gunfire as percussion—while still embracing the hits. Show your support for Kyle Meredith With by making sure to like, review, and subscribe to KMW wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    25 min

  3. 3 SEPT

    Sabrina Impacciatore on The Paper, Carrying the Weight of The Office, and Doing the Worm

    Sabrina Impacciatore showed up to The Paper — the long-awaited return to the world birthed by The Office — like a heat-seeking comet, all glamour, sharp elbows, and survival instinct. She spoke with Kyle Meredith about stepping into a franchise with generations of fans and finding the funny even when the stakes feel like a barbell on your shoulders. She calls the weight a motivator, not a burden, and her character of Esmeralda arrives fully charged: vintage-star hair, weaponized nails, and a don’t-look-down ambition that keeps the newsroom whirring. Listen now. Impacciatore laughs now about the terror of those early table reads, admitting “My legs under the table were shaking." She adds that she "didn’t understand what was going on” through the language haze -- but the nerves didn’t dull the commitment. Case in point: the soon-to-be infamous “worm” moment. “Why don’t we shoot me doing the worm?” she pitched, only to discover the worm is an ’80s break-dance move that she absolutely didn't know how to do. A midnight YouTube cram session later, she arrived on set, launched into it, and swears she delivered “the best worm in the history of worms,” just as the director tells her that it was only a rehearsal take. We get to see the bloody knees version. Listen to Sabrina Impacciatore or watch it on YouTube chat about all this and more. Please take the time to like, review, and subscribe to KMW wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    20 min

  4. 1 SEPT

    Lzzy Hale on Halestorm’s Everest, 30 Years of Rock, and the Brilliance of Nick Cave

    Lzzy Hale of Halestorm spoke with Kyle Meredith about Everest, the band’s roaring new record born from a “desert island” headspace in Savannah with Dave Cobb. Nearly three decades into their run, Hale framed the album as a live-wire snapshot instead of a genre exercise: big melodies, bigger punches, and zero interest in coloring inside the lines. It’s the sound of a band refusing to calcify. Listen now. “We were writing and recording in real time,” Hale says, describing how the band ditched old riffs and notebooks to chase whatever felt electric that day. That gamble paid off on “Watch Out,” where a 4:00 a.m. voice-note flipped the entire track: “Dave’s like, ‘That’s the chorus — screw the other part.’” She also lit up at the mention of Nick Cave, praising the way he can drop a single word — like sin — and suddenly the song carries a new kind of gravity. “He’s one of those rare, once-in-a-lifetime artists who can be otherworldly and still completely genuine," she says. "There’s this balance he mastered long ago that I really admire.” Listen to Lzzy Hale of Halestorm or watch it on YouTube chat about all this and more. You can also grab tickets to Halestorm's upcoming tour here. Please take the time to like, review, and subscribe to KMW wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    27 min

  5. 27 AUG · BONUS

    Rewind: Wayne Coyne on King’s Mouth, Miley Cyrus and Kesha, and the Dark Side of The Flaming Lips

    For this edition of Kyle Meredith with..., listen to Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips across three interviews that span their albums King’s Mouth and The Terror, collaborations with Miley Cyrus and Kesha, and covers of The Beatles. Coyne also digs into concept records, becoming a new father, the perception of songs like “Giant Baby,” and why useful music — like “Happy Birthday" — matters. He also reflects on the band’s legacy, staying curious, the balance between pop culture chaos and charity work, and why Flaming Lips fans embrace constant change. Listen to Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips or watch it on chat about all this and more. Please take the time to like, review, and subscribe to KMW wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    52 min

  6. 25 AUG

    David Rysdahl on Alien Earth, Big Monsters, and Working with Noah Hawley

    David Rysdahl sat down with Kyle Meredith to dig into FX’s Alien: Earth, the latest installment of the Alien franchise. Known for roles in Fargo and Oppenheimer, Rysdahl steps into a story that uses sci-fi horror as a Trojan horse for bigger questions — AI, environmental collapse, corporate greed, even the messy question of whether humanity deserves to stick around. Listen to the conversation now. For Rysdahl, working again with creator Noah Hawley after Fargo meant playing more than just a scientist — he was embodying a piece of Hawley himself. “I do feel like I’m playing a part of Noah,” he tells Meredith. “Arthur is the conscience and the heart of Alien: Earth. Wayne in Fargo was that for his family, and Arthur is that in this story. Both are idealists who have their faith and their world shaken.” He laughed about Hawley sending him a one-line email — “You want to come to Thailand?” — and knew right then he was back in the deep end. That deep end, of course, comes with the Alien franchise’s weight and a modern spin on terror. Rysdahl admitted the show made him rethink the present just as much as the fictional future. Listen to David Rysdahl or watch it on YouTube chat about all this and more. Please take the time to like, review, and subscribe to KMW wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    24 min

  7. 20 AUG

    DEVO on Netflix Doc, Neil Young, and Cosmic De-evolution with The B-52s

    DEVO’s story has finally been distilled into a new documentary, and it’s landed on Netflix thanks to director Chris Smith. Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale joined Kyle Meredith to talk about the film, which charts the band’s path from Kent State to post-punk pioneers to MTV oddities to cultural prophets who survived long enough to tour with The B-52's(get tickets here!). It’s been a long time coming, but in true DEVO fashion, the doc doesn’t offer an “ultimate truth” — just one version of their truth filtered through another outsider’s lens. Listen now. The pair also reflect on the path from their hippie-era influences to creating a soundtrack for the paranoia of the 1970s. Mothersbaugh remembers wanting to be “a pioneer” with sound the way Hendrix was for the ’60s, while Casale points out that DEVO’s obsession with futurist art and media helped them break rock’s formula. Along the way, they found themselves jamming with Neil Young — years after his song “Ohio” haunted them as Kent State survivors — an unlikely crossover that redefined Young in their eyes. And now, as they gear up for the Cosmic De-Evolution tour with The B-52's, they joke that their “farewell” might last long enough to include Mars colonies. Listen to Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale of DEVO or watch it on YouTube chat about all this and more. Please take the time to like, review, and subscribe to KMW wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    26 min

  8. 18 AUG · BONUS

    Rewind: DJ Shadow & Black Eyed Peas on Reinvention, Activism, and New Worlds

    For this special Rewind episode, Kyle Meredith talks with DJ Shadow, as well as Black Eyed Peas’ Taboo and apl.de.ap, about pushing their artistry into bold new directions. Revisit the conversations now. DJ Shadow takes us inside The Mountain Will Fall, which at the time was his first “artist show” in four years. Plus, he chats about the rediscovery of long-lost multi-tracks and how staying forward-thinking keeps his music vital. Taboo and apl.de.ap discuss their song “Street Livin'” as a raw diagnosis of America’s social and political climate and their continued activism from Standing Rock to schools in the Philippines. Then, they touch on Masters of the Sun, a Marvel-published graphic novel expanded into augmented and virtual reality that boasts an all-star voice cast and a Hans Zimmer-assisted soundtrack. Listen to DJ Shadow and Black Eyed Peas’ Taboo and apl.de.ap chat about all this and more. Please take the time to like, review, and subscribe to KMW wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    32 min
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Kyle Meredith With... is an interview series in which WFPK's Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of artists. Meredith digs deep to find out how their work is made and where their journey is going. From legendary artists to the newer class, from musicians to film & television stars, you'll hear about the things you were always curious about from all of your favorites. 

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    2018 - 2025
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