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Classic Conversations: Pop culture Interviews with Jeff Dwoskin

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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00:43:35

Ari Lehman The First Jason Voorhees on the Friday the...

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2026/10/05

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

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00:48:00

How Dylan Brody Went From Road Comic to Award Winning...

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2026/09/28

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

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00:49:03

Jackie Kashian on The Dork Forest and 40 Years of Comedy

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2026/09/21

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

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00:53:22

Rhonda Shear on Up All Night, Mel Brooks, Chuck...

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2026/09/14

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

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00:48:41

Rebeca Arthur on Perfect Strangers, Bill Murray and...

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2026/09/07

Rebeca Arthur was hired for one week on Perfect Strangers and stayed eight years.Before that she was a working private investigator in New York, and one of her agency's cases was Robert Durst. She talks about playing Mary Anne Spencer opposite Bronson Pinchot's Balki Bartokomous, photocopying her own backside for Scrooged, improvising with Bill Murray, getting career advice from Bob Newhart at a table read, and the dog who got a SAG paycheck out of Match Game. Forty years after Perfect Strangers

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01:10:39

Steve Meyers and Shawn Johnson: How to Rob a Bank,...

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2026/08/31

Thirty years after the last shot was fired, the bank robber and the FBI agent who chased him are sitting down together.Steve Meyers helped Scott Scurlock pull off the Hollywood Bandit crime spree that hit 19 Seattle banks and took roughly $2.3 million between 1992 and 1996. Shawn Johnson was the FBI case agent who spent four and a half years hunting them. Both appear in the Netflix documentary How to Rob a Bank, and both say the film left out the story that actually matters, which is why they

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00:43:19

Douglas M. Wilson on Running LA Ink, My BFF with...

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2026/08/24

Douglas M. Wilson has been in the room for some of the strangest and most memorable television of the last thirty years. A four time Emmy nominee, he went from being an assistant at MTV to the Comedy Channel, then spent the better part of a decade on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, rising from associate producer to showrunner. From there he built an entire second career in unscripted television with LA Ink, The Pickup Artist, American Inventor, Best Week Ever and Paris Hilton's My New BFF. He

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00:59:36

The Warden Speaks, Bob Gunton on Shawshank and 50...

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2026/08/17

Bob Gunton has spent five decades building one of the most quietly essential careers in American acting, from originating Juan Perón in the first Broadway production of Evita to becoming the face of institutional evil as Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption.He talks about how a pseudo Spanish accent almost got cut from Evita until Hal Prince intervened, what it took to make Sweeney Todd his own after watching Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury do it upstairs, and the wig audition that landed him

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00:48:24

John O'Hurley on Seinfeld J. Peterman Dancing with...

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2026/08/10

John O'Hurley has spent forty years in television as J. Peterman on Seinfeld, the host of Family Feud and To Tell the Truth, a season one finalist and eventual champion on Dancing with the Stars, and for more than two decades the voice of the National Dog Show every Thanksgiving morning.He talks about landing the Peterman role one day after his own sitcom was canceled, the ten years he spent as a daytime soap opera star on Young and the Restless and All My Children, voicing Mayor Doofenshmirtz on

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00:52:32

Jack Pesin Host of Dark Passengers on Getting Inside...

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2026/08/03

Jack Pesin, co-host of Dark Passengers (the deep-dive Dexter podcast he runs with his wife Diana), joins for a wide-ranging conversation on the Dexter universe, from the original series' peak seasons to the making of Original Sin and Resurrection.Pesin shares how a chance connection with Original Sin producer Robert Lloyd Lewis led to set visits and conversations with creator Clyde Phillips, and digs into the show's most debated question: is Dexter a sociopath, or a product of trauma? The

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00:41:35

Michael Pressman The Director Behind Ninja Turtles...

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2026/07/27

Some careers you can trace on a shelf of movie posters, and Michael Pressman has one of the great ones.Across forty years he moved from a scrappy Roger Corman debut to a beloved studio sequel he made at twenty-six, then into the Richard Pryor dramas, the Dan Aykroyd comedies, the turtle movie a generation grew up quoting, and a decade of prestige television. Underneath all of it runs a family story about the blacklist, resilience, and learning to make the film you actually want to make. This is a

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00:46:16

Chris Hummel of the Dreamboats on Building a 50s and...

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2026/07/20

Chris Hummel packed up his life, loaded a trailer, and drove his band from Mississauga, Ontario to Palm Springs on the bet that the world still needed rock and roll.As the co-founder and frontman of the Dreamboats, the ultimate 50s and 60s band experience, he has taken a for-fun open mic project and turned it into a touring act that has played the Cavern Club in Liverpool, opening parties for major festivals, and stages all across Europe and North America. This conversation gets into how the band

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00:57:41

Marta Kristen: Adopted From a Secret Wartime...

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2026/07/13

Marta Kristen spent three seasons drifting through the stars as Judy Robinson on Lost in Space, but her real story started years earlier in a hidden wartime orphanage in Norway. In this conversation, she traces her adoption into a Michigan family, the chance encounter in a Santa Monica deli that launched her Hollywood career, and the wild shift her most famous show took once a certain caped crusader hit the airwaves. She also opens up about a devastating wildfire that took her home and her nearly

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01:02:12

How the Snapple Lady Turned Fan Mail Into a Pop...

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2026/07/06

Before there were influencers, before comment sections, before anyone thought to scroll through customer letters for content, there was Wendy Kaufman, doing it all from a desk at a small drinks company in New York. The woman who became the face of one of the most beloved ad campaigns of the 90s as The Snapple Lady shares what it really took to get there, and what nobody knew about her at the time. Show Highlights: The near-decade she spent in the dark before the Snapple commercials ever happened

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00:45:36

Jim Meskimen: A Man of a Million Voices on Landman,...

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2026/06/29

Jim Meskimen is one of those rare performers who can disappear into a thousand different voices while somehow remaining completely himself. In this return visit to Classic Conversations, Jim breaks down his current wave of on-screen work, from trading blows with Billy Bob Thornton on Landman to surviving a hippo attack in the upcoming thriller Hungry. He also opens up about the craft of impression, what it really takes to hear a voice the way he does, and what it was like spending a week working

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00:44:27

Roddy McDowall: The Man Behind the Mask from How...

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2026/06/22

Author Samuel Garza Bernstein returns to dig into his new book, Roddy McDowall: An Actor's Life, How Green Was My Valley to Lassie to Planet of the Apes, the first full biography of the legendary actor. Drawing on newly opened archives at Boston University, Samuel traces Roddy's path from child star to Hollywood institution, and unpacks the work that made him a household name across generations of film and television. Show Highlights: How Roddy McDowafll went from stepping off a refugee ship from

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00:48:54

The American Idol Season That Changed Everything...

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2026/06/15

Clay Aiken is back. After 18 years away from recording, the American Idol Season 2 fan favorite has released "Rewind," a high-energy comeback single that proves every year of the wait was worth it.In this conversation, Clay pulls back the curtain on what it was really like to be on Idol before anyone knew how massive it was going to become, shares the behind-the-scenes stories behind his most iconic performances, and talks about navigating a music industry that has changed completely since he last

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00:31:39

Kathy Garver on 60 Years of Family Affair and Never...

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2026/06/08

Kathy Garver has spent 60 years as one of television's most beloved figures, and she shows no signs of slowing down.Best known as Sissy Davis on Family Affair, Kathy reflects on why the show has never truly left the cultural conversation, what it was like to nearly lose the role to The Brady Bunch, and how she went from child actress to Grammy-nominated audiobook narrator. She also reveals the details on her upcoming hosting gig, a new book about Hollywood love stories, and a Pollyanna film she is

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00:54:48

Jan Brady Tells All: Jennifer Elise Cox on The Brady...

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2026/06/01

Jennifer Elise Cox didn't just play Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie, she became her. From landing the role on her very first film audition to sharing a wig with RuPaul, Jennifer brings the same infectious energy and razor-sharp comedic timing to this conversation that made her an icon. She talks about being directed by Betty Thomas, keeping a straight face across from Christine Taylor, guest starring on Will and Grace with a retainer in her mouth, and improvising alongside Lisa Kudrow on Web

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00:40:24

Rich Little: A Thousand Voices and the Stories Behind...

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2026/05/25

Rich Little has done impressions of presidents, Rat Pack legends, and Hollywood royalty for decades, but the stories behind those performances are even more entertaining than the impressions themselves. The man of a thousand voices sits down to share what it was really like performing in front of the very people he was imitating, the moments that went sideways, and what keeps him performing in Las Vegas to this day. Show Highlights: What happened when Frank Sinatra quietly appeared onstage while

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