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Backstage With Gentry Thomas

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Go Backstage with Gentry Thomas as he interviews interesting people from celebrity musicians, athletes, and even movie stars. STEP BEHIND THE SCENES ON THE BACKSTAGE PODCAST - HOSTED BY GENTRY THOMAS. WHERE MUSIC LEGENDS, SPORTS ICONS AND MOVIE STARS GET REAL ABOUT THEIR FAILURES, HARD WORK AND RISE TO THE TOP. The Playground loves Gentry’s cool and laid-back interview style and thinks you will too.

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21:32

Dennis Quaid on playing Ronald Reagan, reflecting on...

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2021/10/26

Dennis Quaid joined us on the Backstage Pass with Gentry Thomas to talk about his up coming music tour this Fall. Everyone has at least seen one of Dennis' movies right? Breaking Away(1979),The Right Stuff(1983), The Big Easy(1986),Innerspace(1987),Great Balls of Fire!(1989),Dragonheart(1996),The Parent Trap(1998),Frequency(2000),Traffic(2000),The Rookie(2002),The Day After Tomorrow(2004),Vantage Point(2008),Footloose(2011),Soul Surfer (2011). These days the 67 year old Quaid

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14:33

Ed Asner From Rags to Riches - Son of a Junkman -...

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2020/12/15

Television legend Ed Asner has won seven Emmy Awards for performing which is more than any other male actor. He is primarily known for his role as Lou Grant on bothThe Mary Tyler Moore Showand its spinoff seriesLou Grant. Asner has had an extensive voice-acting career and starred as the voice of Carl Fredericksen in Pixar’s award-winning animated filmUp(2009). On this podcast the 91-year-old Ed Asner tells us stories about where it started and opens up to our Gentry Thomas

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11:16

Pauly Shore Podcast with Gentry Thomas talks new...

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2020/12/03

Pauly Shore has been around Stand Up Comedy since he was 4-years old when his Mother Mitzi Shore bought the famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles. On this podcast our "Buddee" Pauly talks about taking out the trash at the famous club on The Sunset Strip as a kid. He now has been working on his comedic chops while touring the comedy club circuit over the course of a 20-year-plus career. Many remember him on MTV Spring Break and Totally Pauly as a VJ in the networks hay-day. We

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11:51

Marie Osmond Backstage Pass Podcast with Gentry Thomas

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2020/11/16

Marie Osmond told us she is channeling every diva she has ever worked with for her latest role in Lifetime's Christmas Edition. In this new holiday flick Marie plays a media tycoon, we asked how she felt about the new "Fake News" term, along with the media's responsibility to tell the American people the truth about the news. Osmond wanted to make it clear that she loved our country, and that the people need to make sure to be responsible themselves, when getting their news

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17:07

Al Roker You Look So Much Better in Person new book

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2020/10/27

When it comes to long careers in television, few can rival the success of TODAY'sAl Roker. Hailing from Queens, a borough of New York City, the beloved weatherman has been one of NBC's most trusted voices for over 40 years. Now, he's out with his 13th book, "You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success," in which he shares the lessons he's learned over his distinguished career. Al tells us the story of when his Father took him to get his drivers

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10:52

Lea Thompson keeps coming up with hits, her latest is...

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2020/10/22

Actress Lea Thompson reflects on herBack To The Future days playing Lorraine and working with Michael J. Fox. The 80s actress admits she has been spending a lot of time cooking and cleaning lately for her family due to covid-19. Lea recalls another virus that swept the planet in the 1980s when she was starring in blockbuster movies. That was the AIDS virus. Since the first cases were reported in the U.S. in 1981, 39 million people have died from the HIV virus, including 619,000

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19:27

Bob Saget talks Pets and Dirty Jokes, Cool Comedy,...

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2020/10/16

Always great to catch up with Danny Tanner on this episode of Backstage he tells us that he and his wife have been sleeping in separate beds. Saget claims that Pets and Dirty Jokes can help everyone through this tough time. You will hear plenty of jokes when Bob Saget returns to host the 34th annual Cool Comedy –Hot Cuisinefundraiser, benefiting theScleroderma Research Foundation(SRF), on Sunday, Oct. 18. The comedian will be joined by celebrity chef and restaurateurSusan

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20:17

Rob Reiner says Archie Bunker wasn't as bad of a guy...

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2020/10/12

Rob Reiner joins Gentry Thomas Backstage this week to get "The Band" back together. They discuss Trump and Archie Bunker similarities, along with heading down memory lane with Reiner's commentary on some of the iconic movie scenes that have made him one of Hollywood's most accomplished directors. Listen to the podcast and hear the 73 year old Reiner recall the train and bridge scene from Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally’srestaurant orgasm scene with Meg Ryan, "You can't

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15:22

Michael Cohen talks to us while on house arrest about...

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2020/10/07

In his new book "Disloyal" Michael Cohen describes the president as “a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.” In our interview Cohen recalls the first time he met Donald Trump face to face calling it "a day he will never forget". On that same day he landed the role as Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization and special council. He admits to admiring Trump for 20 years prior to that meeting having read The Art of The Deal twice

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13:48

Ice T talks Cop Killer almost 30 years since its...

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2020/10/05

The rapper turned actor has stayed hustling since breaking on the scene in the early 80s. His real name is Tracy Marrow but his friends call him Ice! When we sat down with him on this week's episode of Backstage he told us that when he recorded Cop Killer he felt like "people just looked at me as a rapper out of LA with palm trees and Hollywood limelight and thought police brutality didn't exist". But now he says the biggest difference is "accountability" Ice credit the cell

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15:48

Jesse James Decker says Just Feed Me with her new...

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2020/09/24

Jessie James Decker Dishes on New Music and Her First Cookbook! Jessie James Decker has been busy balancing her thriving career and home life while under quarantine, and tells our Gentry Thomas that her Mother recently told her she should slow down. When we spoke this week with the 32-year-old, she talked all about how quarantine has been going for her family of five, as well as her new music and her highly anticipated first cookbook, Just Feed Me. Jessie shares down-home and

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20:25

Colin Jost talks about his wedding plans with fiance...

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2020/09/16

Colin Jost Of 'SNL' Knows You're Laughing At His 'Very Punchable Face' Listen to this episode of Backstage Pass with Colin Jost the top writer for SNL and the lucky guy that has Scarlett Johansson's heart. Jost's new memoir,A Very Punchable Face,describes his experiences growing up in a middle-class household on Staten Island. He talks about living in NYC in the midst of the pandemic and talks his days attending Harvard with Mark Zukerberg. Jost recalls being one of the first

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20:48

Rob Schiender tells Gentry how Jay Leno and Jerry...

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2020/09/01

Rob Schneider wants to remind people that he started his career as a stand up comedian. Long before he was on“Saturday Night Live”alongside Adam Sandler, David Spade and Chris Rock, Schneider was writing jokes and mailing them to the "SNL" offices in the hopes of being discovered. “I remember when I was 16, I used to write jokes and send them to the show,” Schneider says. “And then 7 years later I was on the show.” When Rob sat down with

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11:15

Nsync's Joey Fatone with Gentry Thomas talks about...

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2020/08/25

Joey Fatone Talks 'Common Knowledge,' His Post-N SYNC Hosting Career. He also told Gentry Thomas on the Podcast his biggest moment personally with the band. The former*NSYNCmemberjoinsCommon Knowledgeafter starring inMy Big Fat Greek Wedding2, serving as an announcer onFamily Feudfrom 2010 through 2015, and hostingTheSinging BeeandParents Just Don't Understand. Joey, now 43, told us that former band member Chris Kirkpatrick would win if N-Sync ended up in a fight to the death

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11:13

Jerry O'Connell starred as Vern in the 1986 film...

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2020/08/10

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16:32

Steve-O with Gentry Thomas talk new special Gnarly

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2020/08/01

Steve-O has some strong feelings about the coronavirus pandemic. TheJackassstar revealed to us that he had tested positive for COVID-19, despite following all the recommended safety protocols. He also revealed that he was completely asymptomatic, and only realized he’d contracted the virus as a precaution. During his current stand-up tour, he got tested and received negative results. However, after someone suggested he get tested for antibodies too, the results came back

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11:57

Kathy Ireland Talks Fashion With Gentry Thomas

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2020/07/27

Kathy Ireland teams up with a #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken For First Novel, "Fashion Jungle" As if building up a multi-million-dollar fashion and home licensing enterprise and her philanthropy weren’t enough of a follow-up to a highly successful modelling career, Kathy Ireland can now add novelist to her list of credits, with her first title written with the number-one New York Timesbest selling authorRachel van Dyken,Fashion Jungle, out January

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18:00

Kevin Costner talks music, movies and growing up in...

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2020/07/27

Yellowstoneactor Kevin Costner is an Oscar winning Director and Film Maker. With more than three decades in Hollywood, the 65-year-old has starred in and directed some of the most-loved movies includingField of Dreams,Dances with Wolves,The Bodyguard, to name a few. But for Kevin, there’s one leading role that he really enjoys. MUSIC. Costner tells Gentry Thomas“I grew up in the church singing, making music and trained classically on piano.” For a long time now

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14:24

Candace Cameron Bure Interview with Gentry Thomas

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2020/07/27

Backstage With Gentry Thomas Candace Cameron Bure joined us from quarantine where she said the one bright spot is that her children are back at home and she is having a lot of down time to spend with her family. Candace married former professional hockey player Valeri Bure.

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14:44

Newt Gingrich Podcast With Gentry Thomas

Backstage With Gentry Thomas ·

2020/07/27

Newt Gingrich joined us live from Italy, which has been one of the hot spots during the covid-19 outbreak. He and his wife Callista have been in quarantine for the last few weeks. The former Speaker Of The House discussed how he took in Palm Sunday mass on the small screen (his phone iphone). Gingrich also talked about the current state of the relationship with the United States and China in which he believes there is still more to come out of China and the World Health

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