Classic Conversations: Pop culture Interviews with Jeff Dwoskin

Jeff Dwoskin
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Take a deep dive into pop nostalgia with us! Pop culture influencers, TV stars, film actors, comedians, and musicians share inspirational stories about the road to success. Insightful conversations that are part comedy/part drama and are always entertaining! If you love classic TV, if you love the movies, if you love film and tv interviews (see where I'm going with this), you'll love Classic Conversations with your host, comedian, Jeff Dwoskin.

  1. 3h ago

    Jeff Bergman on Becoming Bugs Bunny, Mel Blanc and Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story 5

    Jeff Bergman tells the story of the night he knocked on Mel Blanc's hotel room door as a University of Pittsburgh student, the meeting that put him on the road to becoming Bugs Bunny. Four decades of voices around it, from Tiny Toon Adventures and Fred Flintstone to Don Rickles' Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story 5, and now Bugs, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam and Porky Pig in Daffy Season, the Looney Tunes short playing before The Cat in the Hat in theaters November 6. Show Highlights: Toy Story 5. Jeff Bergman on inheriting Don Rickles' Mr. Potato Head from an audition he taped nine years before the call, and how you play Rickles playing a toy. Steven Spielberg and Tiny Toon Adventures. Three weeks after Mel Blanc died, Bergman was auditioning one Looney Tune at a time, and the day Spielberg walked up to his music stand still hangs on his wall. Chuck Jones and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. What the man who shaped Bugs and Daffy actually told him in the booth, frame by frame. The New Show. Steve Martin, Paul Simon, John Candy as Bob's Big Boy, and a 1984 summons to Lorne Michaels' office that went nowhere near where Bergman expected. Quincy Jones. A 1989 Bugs Bunny recording session, a broken down van in the Hollywood Hills, and 45 minutes Bergman says he was never the same after. You're going to love my conversation with Jeff Bergman IMDB Instagram TikTok YouTube Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host): Jeff Dwoskin on Twitter The Jeff Dwoskin Show podcast on Twitter Podcast website Podcast on Instagram Subscribe to my Youtube channel Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show Ways to support the show: Buy me a coffee (support the show) Dashery/TeePublic Store: Classic Conversations merch and more! Love the books I talk about on the show? Here is my Amazon store to shop. SPONSOR: STAMPEDE SOCIAL Drive engagement from your social channels and podcast with Stampede Social's Instagram and Facebook DM automation! Visit https://stampede.social Also check out: Why Instagram + Stampede Social Is the Growth Strategy Podcasters Need in 2025 (and Beyond) Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Jeff Bergman on Becoming Bugs Bunny, Mel Blanc and Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story 5

  2. Oct 26

    Doug McIntyre on Full House, Jack Klugman and Frank's Shadow

    Doug McIntyre tells how Jack Klugman brought him from a New York ad agency to Hollywood, and the one move that finally got The Odd Couple star to say yes. From Full House and Married with Children to 25 years on KABC radio, it all leads to his novel Frank's Shadow, out now in hardcover, paperback and audiobook at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, with signed copies at dougmcintyre.com. Show Highlights: The Full House writers' room. Behind the sweetest show on ABC's TGIF lineup sat a room Doug McIntyre describes in terms the hug at the end of every episode never hinted at. One script off the pile. How Doug McIntyre landed Knight & Daye with Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel comes down to a secretary's lunch and a stack of scripts as high as her desk. Webster and Alex Karras. The trick a director pulled to get one smile out of Alex Karras, and why Doug McIntyre says today's writers never get to learn it. Frank's Shadow. The night Frank Sinatra died and the Seinfeld finale aired became a novel about a son who knew everything about Sinatra and almost nothing about his own father. You're going to love my conversation with Doug McIntyre Website Get Frank's Shadow Facebook Instagram Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host): Jeff Dwoskin on Twitter The Jeff Dwoskin Show podcast on Twitter Podcast website Podcast on Instagram Subscribe to my Youtube channel Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show Ways to support the show: Buy me a coffee (support the show) Dashery/TeePublic Store: Classic Conversations merch and more! Love the books I talk about on the show? Here is my Amazon store to shop. SPONSOR: STAMPEDE SOCIAL Drive engagement from your social channels and podcast with Stampede Social's Instagram and Facebook DM automation! Visit https://stampede.social Also check out: Why Instagram + Stampede Social Is the Growth Strategy Podcasters Need in 2025 (and Beyond) Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Doug McIntyre on Full House, Jack Klugman and Frank's Shadow

  3. Oct 19

    Phil Morris on Mission Impossible, Seinfeld, Star Trek and Smallville

    Phil Morris tells the story of how he ended up cast as his own father's character, Barney Collier, in the 1988 Mission: Impossible revival, with his uncle Peter Graves back as Jim Phelps. Four decades of TV orbit that story, from Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld to Martian Manhunter on Smallville, and it all lands on his current work on CBS's Fire Country and Netflix's The Upshaws. Show Highlights: Jackie Chiles. Phil Morris went through a pre-read field that included Michael Dorn and Ted Lange before reading for Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, and one thing Jerry did in the room told him he had it. Star Trek III and Leonard Nimoy. Leonard Nimoy hired Phil Morris for The Search for Spock, and what Nimoy said to him years later at a Star Trek convention still gets him. Smallville's Martian Manhunter. A lifelong comic book collector explains why J'onn J'onzz clicked for him and why Smallville worked by keeping Clark and Lex human first. Phineas and Ferb. A lost-in-the-hallway moment at Disney with co-creator Jeff "Swampy" Marsh became Phil Morris's model for how he wants to run a set someday. You're going to love my conversation with Phil Morris IMDB Instagram Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host): Jeff Dwoskin on Twitter The Jeff Dwoskin Show podcast on Twitter Podcast website Podcast on Instagram Subscribe to my Youtube channel Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show Ways to support the show: Buy me a coffee (support the show) Dashery/TeePublic Store: Classic Conversations merch and more! Love the books I talk about on the show? Here is my Amazon store to shop. SPONSOR: STAMPEDE SOCIAL Drive engagement from your social channels and podcast with Stampede Social's Instagram and Facebook DM automation! Visit https://stampede.social Also check out: Why Instagram + Stampede Social Is the Growth Strategy Podcasters Need in 2025 (and Beyond) Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Phil Morris on Mission Impossible, Seinfeld, Star Trek and Smallville

  4. Oct 12

    Dick Van Dyke Show Historian David Van Deusen From Fandom to Friendships

    The Dick Van Dyke Show turns 65, and historian David Van Deusen celebrates with stories from three decades inside the Petrie living room, from the pilot that aired the day before he was born to Carl Reiner's reunion set. His new interactive book, From Fandom to Friendships: My Adventures with The Dick Van Dyke Show Cast, puts never-heard cast interviews one QR code away. Show Highlights: The 159th episode. Carl Reiner picks up the phone in 2004 and invites David Van Deusen to the closed set of The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited, and the reason behind it caught him off guard. Rose Marie. A celebrity address book at the library leads to Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam's home number, and the real answer on that Mary Tyler Moore feud rumor. The ottoman. Director John Rich had somewhere to be the night the season two opening was shot, and nobody guessed viewers would start betting on it. Saving season one. CBS had The Dick Van Dyke Show canceled against Perry Como until Sheldon Leonard got on a plane to the Midwest. Alan Brady's desk. Larry Mathews walks into a Danny Thomas Productions storage room and recognizes a piece of TV history. You're going to love my conversation with David Van Deusen IMDB YouTube Facebook Group Instagram Also on YouTube 60th Anniversary Dick Van Dyke Documentary Walnut Times website To Twilo and Beyond (book) From Fandom to Friendships (book) Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host): Jeff Dwoskin on Twitter The Jeff Dwoskin Show podcast on Twitter Podcast website Podcast on Instagram Subscribe to my Youtube channel Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show Ways to support the show: Buy me a coffee (support the show) Dashery/TeePublic Store: Classic Conversations merch and more! Love the books I talk about on the show? Here is my Amazon store to shop. SPONSOR: STAMPEDE SOCIAL Drive engagement from your social channels and podcast with Stampede Social's Instagram and Facebook DM automation! Visit https://stampede.social Also check out: Why Instagram + Stampede Social Is the Growth Strategy Podcasters Need in 2025 (and Beyond) Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Dick Van Dyke Show Historian David Van Deusen From Fandom to Friendships

  5. Oct 5

    Ari Lehman The First Jason Voorhees on the Friday the 13th Ending That Almost Never Happened

    Ari Lehman, the first Jason Voorhees, tells the story behind the Friday the 13th ending that almost never existed, and what Sean S. Cunningham whispered to a 14 year old kid right before he went under the water at Camp Crystal Lake. From a soccer movie audition to Tom Savini's makeup chair to the brotherhood of actors who followed him in the role, it all leads to Into the Fray, the new First Jason horror metal album on CDN Records featuring Harry Manfredini, streaming now on Spotify and YouTube. Show Highlights: Tom Savini's mirror reveal. At four in the morning in Blairstown, New Jersey, Tom Savini and Taso Stavrakis spun the barber chair around, and Ari Lehman's first reaction to his own face was not what anyone expected. Getting into character with Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon found a 14 year old Ari Lehman staring into the lake between takes, and his reaction pulled Harry Crosby into the moment. Crystal Lake on Peacock. Ari Lehman weighs in on A24's prequel series with Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees and Callum Vinson as young Jason, and the timeline choice that shakes up the canon. The Jason brotherhood. Richard Brooker, Ted White, C.J. Graham, Kane Hodder, Ken Kirzinger and Derek Mears, and the role Ari Lehman ended up playing among the giants. Into the Fray. What Harry Manfredini sent to Ari Lehman's inbox turned the new First Jason album into something Ari calls the Dark Side of the Moon of horror. You're going to love my conversation with Ari Lehman IMDB Ari's website Listen to Ari's band Instagram YouTube Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host): Jeff Dwoskin on Twitter The Jeff Dwoskin Show podcast on Twitter Podcast website Podcast on Instagram Subscribe to my Youtube channel Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show Ways to support the show: Buy me a coffee (support the show) Dashery/TeePublic Store: Classic Conversations merch and more! Love the books I talk about on the show? Here is my Amazon store to shop. SPONSOR: STAMPEDE SOCIAL Drive engagement from your social channels and podcast with Stampede Social's Instagram and Facebook DM automation! Visit https://stampede.social Also check out: Why Instagram + Stampede Social Is the Growth Strategy Podcasters Need in 2025 (and Beyond) Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Ari Lehman The First Jason Voorhees on the Friday the 13th Ending That Almost Never Happened

  6. Sep 28

    How Dylan Brody Went From Road Comic to Award Winning Storyteller

    Dylan Brody tells the story of the phone call he got from George Carlin, the one he performed at Kelly Carlin's tribute to her father at the New York Public Library. Four decades of comedy around it, from a 1989 Fox debut to his award winning solo special, Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood, streaming now on Amazon Prime and NextUp Comedy. Show Highlights: The George Carlin phone call. The story at the center of the episode, and the one Dylan performed at the Carlin tribute. The New York Public Library tribute. Kelly Carlin, Tony Hendra, Louis C.K., Lewis Lapham, and four words from Whoopi Goldberg into a live microphone. Comedy on the Road with John Byner. A&E wanted airline food jokes for his first national set, Dylan wanted a poem about censorship. The Tonight Show showcase. Six political minutes for Johnny Carson's booker Jim McCawley at twenty two, undone by one question on the way out. Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood. Three specials in one night at the David Henry Hwang Theater, then Chicago, Barcelona, London and the PIT. Throwback episode - originally recorded 2021 You're going to love my conversation with Dylan Brody Dylan's website YouTube Active Voice Productions Driving Hollywood IMDB Instagram Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host): Jeff Dwoskin on Twitter The Jeff Dwoskin Show podcast on Twitter Podcast website Podcast on Instagram Subscribe to my Youtube channel Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show Ways to support the show: Buy me a coffee (support the show) Dashery/TeePublic Store: Classic Conversations merch and more! Love the books I talk about on the show? Here is my Amazon store to shop. SPONSOR: STAMPEDE SOCIAL Drive engagement from your social channels and podcast with Stampede Social's Instagram and Facebook DM automation! Visit https://stampede.social Also check out: Why Instagram + Stampede Social Is the Growth Strategy Podcasters Need in 2025 (and Beyond) Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    How Dylan Brody Went From Road Comic to Award Winning Storyteller

  7. Sep 21

    Jackie Kashian on The Dork Forest and 40 Years of Comedy

    Comedian, podcaster and actor Jackie Kashian has been doing stand up since 1984, when she got thrown out of a Madison, Wisconsin comedy club for heckling Sam Kinison and came back three weeks later for the open mic. She talks about featuring for Brian Regan and Maria Bamford, playing an airport cop on the final season of Murphy Brown, the year Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle told her she was too much like Kathleen Madigan to book, and why watching Jay Leno do two word perfect sets in 1987 rewired how she thought about the job. She also digs into The Dork Forest, the podcast she has been making since 2006, where the whole point is letting somebody talk for an hour about sandcastles, Rummikub or the size of A4 paper. Throwback episode - originally recorded 2021 Show Highlights: The Dork Forest. Jackie Kashian has been recording her interview podcast since 2006 and has close to 700 episodes in the archive, all built on one idea: an hour of somebody explaining the thing they love most. Guests have walked her through Remember the Titans beat by beat, Star Trek, Marvel comics, and competitive sandcastle building. The Jackie and Laurie Show. Her weekly show with Laurie Kilmartin lives on the Maximum Fun network, and unlike The Dork Forest it is not evergreen, which means it gets recorded wherever she is, including one episode whispered into a laptop at a Kinko's in Milwaukee. Murphy Brown. She played an airport cop on the 1998 final season and calls it typecasting, and she is honest that acting is a learned skill she has never formally learned. Featuring for Brian Regan and Maria Bamford. These are the only two headliners she opens for now, and the reason is simple: it means she gets to watch Brian Regan and Maria Bamford every night. Getting started in 1984. At 19 she got drunk in the front row of a club owned by Bill Kinison and heckled Sam Kinison, years before the Letterman and Rodney Dangerfield appearances broke him nationally. The manager told her open mic was on Sunday. You're going to love my conversation with Jackie Kashian Jackie's website Instagram The Dork Forest YouTube IMDB Jackie's Merch Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host): Jeff Dwoskin on Twitter The Jeff Dwoskin Show podcast on Twitter Podcast website Podcast on Instagram Subscribe to my Youtube channel Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show Ways to support the show: Buy me a coffee (support the show) Dashery/TeePublic Store: Classic Conversations merch and more! Love the books I talk about on the show? Here is my Amazon store to shop. SPONSOR: STAMPEDE SOCIAL Drive engagement from your social channels and podcast with Stampede Social's Instagram and Facebook DM automation! Visit https://stampede.social Also check out: Why Instagram + Stampede Social Is the Growth Strategy Podcasters Need in 2025 (and Beyond) Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Jackie Kashian on The Dork Forest and 40 Years of Comedy

  8. Sep 14

    Rhonda Shear on Up All Night, Mel Brooks, Chuck Barris and Playboy

    Rhonda Shear hosted more than 400 episodes of Up All Night on USA Network from 1991 to 1998, and she is one of the only hosts from that era who still owns the name. She talks about the Happy Days incident with Henry Winkler that got her blackballed from every Paramount sitcom at 23, the one line in Spaceballs that Mel Brooks cast her in himself, opening for Robin Williams at the Holy City Zoo, and how a Playboy pictorial where she kept all her clothes on cost her a pageant crown and made headlines around the world. She also explains how a warehouse in Tampa became the studio where she is producing brand new Up All Night episodes today, funded by the bra and panty company she built with her husband. Show Highlights: Up All Night on USA Network. Rhonda Shear hosted the show from 1991 to 1998 and estimates she has 400 plus episodes, but USA destroyed the masters when the network sold, taking a decade of Gilbert Gottfried material with them. Spaceballs. Mel Brooks personally auditioned every tiny role, told her he wanted a blonde for the diner waitress, and hired her anyway when she offered to wear a wig. She has one line and gets asked about it more than anything else she has done. Chuck Barris. She did The Gong Show, The Dating Game, the $1.98 Beauty Show, and a Barris pilot called Comedy Courtroom, and argues he was doing reality television decades before anyone called it that. The pageant scandal. Her $1.98 Beauty Show appearance aired in the middle of the Miss Torrance pageant she was leading, the judges said she was mocking the pageant system, and she finished first runner up instead of advancing toward Miss America. Playboy and the Floral Trail. Her 1977 Girls of the New South pictorial was shot fully clothed in antebellum dress at New Orleans plantations by photographer David Chan, and the Floral Trail Society stripped her of her queen title over it anyway. Stand up in the 1980s. She worked the Improv, the Laugh Factory, and the Comedy Store, introduced Robin Williams at the Holy City Zoo and effectively became his opening act, and pitched Jamie Masada on a women of comedy night she booked and filled herself. You're going to love my conversation with Rhonda Shear IMDB Up all Night Network Rhonda's Book Instagram YouTube Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host): Jeff Dwoskin on Twitter The Jeff Dwoskin Show podcast on Twitter Podcast website Podcast on Instagram Subscribe to my Youtube channel Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show Ways to support the show: Buy me a coffee (support the show) Dashery/TeePublic Store: Classic Conversations merch and more! Love the books I talk about on the show? Here is my Amazon store to shop. SPONSOR: STAMPEDE SOCIAL Drive engagement from your social channels and podcast with Stampede Social's Instagram and Facebook DM automation! Visit https://stampede.social Also check out: Why Instagram + Stampede Social Is the Growth Strategy Podcasters Need in 2025 (and Beyond) Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Rhonda Shear on Up All Night, Mel Brooks, Chuck Barris and Playboy
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Take a deep dive into pop nostalgia with us! Pop culture influencers, TV stars, film actors, comedians, and musicians share inspirational stories about the road to success. Insightful conversations that are part comedy/part drama and are always entertaining! If you love classic TV, if you love the movies, if you love film and tv interviews (see where I'm going with this), you'll love Classic Conversations with your host, comedian, Jeff Dwoskin.

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