Podcast appearances and mentions of Gabe Kaplan

Screenwriting legend Zak Penn talks about how he got so savvy in the business of show.  We talk about how coming to LA and scouting out the city geared him up for his big move after college and his sale of “The Last Action Hero” started him on a 35 year journey of being one of Hollywood's most sought after writers. We talk about the good times with Speilberg, JJ Abrams, Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds, & Dwayne Johnson and we talk about the bad times with others. Bio: Zak Penn's career began as a screenwriter when he sold his first script, LAST ACTION HERO, at the age of twenty-three. Since then, Penn has become known for his work on numerous films based on Marvel comics, including X-MEN 2 and X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, ELEKTRA, THE INCREDIBLE HULK and THE AVENGERS. He has also dabbled in other genres, writing scripts for disparate films such as P.C.U., BEHIND ENEMY LINES and SUSPECT ZERO.Penn's shift into independent cinema began when he collaborated with his idol, Werner Herzog, on the script for RESCUE DAWN. Penn directed and co-starred with Herzog in INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS, his award-winning “hoax” documentary about the legendary director's attempts to make a film about the equally legendary monster. THE GRAND, Penn's second completely improvised film, was his third film with Herzog, and featured an eclectic cast including Woody Harrelson, David Cross, Ray Romano, Cheryl Hines, Dennis Farina and Gabe Kaplan.In addition, Penn co-wrote the original story for ANTZ and produced the animated film OSMOSIS JONES. He has also acted in a number of independent films, including STAR MAPS and CHUCK & BUCK. His first foray into television was the critically acclaimed original series ALPHAS starring David Strathairn. Penn directed the documentary ATARI: GAME OVER for Xbox Entertainment Studios.More recently, Penn adapted the New York Times bestselling novel READY PLAYER ONE for Warner Bros. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film was released in 2018. Penn also co-wrote the script for the action comedy FREE GUY, starring Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer. The film is directed by Shawn Levy and was released in August of 2021.

National Tater day.  Entertainment from 1992.  Eiffel Tower opened, US buys Virgin Islands, Canada's 10th Province.  Todays birthdays - Lefty Frizzell, Shirley Jones, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Walken, Gabe Kaplan, Tommy Heath, Rhea Pearlman, Tony Cox, Ewan MacGregor.  Salina died.Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran   https://www.diannacorcoran.com/The Tater song - Tater Tot  Mark VerbeckSave the best for last - Vanessa WilliamsIs there life out there - Reba McEntire  Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent   https://www.50cent.com/If you've got the money - Lefty FrizzellPartridge Family tv themeWelcome Back Kotter tv theme867-5309 Jenny - Tommy TutoneCheers tv spoofDreaming of you - SalinaExit - One more drink - Cody Joe Hodges   https://codyjoehodges.com/homecountryundergroundradio.comhttps://www.coolcasts.cooolmedia.com/show/history-factoids-about-today/

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Happy Thanksgiving from the guys at They Called This a Movie. This year, we are celebrating American Thanksgiving with a made-for-television movie starring Ralphie from A Christmas Story and a 260-pound chicken. It's The Hoboken Chicken Emergency for this week's special holiday episode. Join us as we discuss giant chicken costumes, Gabe Kaplan playing a grifter, and the forgotten idea of made-for-television holiday specials. Find us on Instagram and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

Hoboken has a giant chicken problem. It also has Peter Billingsley, Dick Van Patten, Gabe Kaplan and Allison Ghostly, among others! Join us in The Clubhouse as we talk about this Thanksgiving special from 1984, based on the kids' book of the same name. #mftvmcpodcast Check out our new YouTube channel, the MFTV Movie Club: Now Playing! Link: https://www.youtube.com/@MFTVMC https://chicken.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hoboken_Chicken_Emergency_(film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156609/fullcredits https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/163485-the-hoboken-chicken-emergency

Biographer, cultural critic, and comics veteran Danny Fingeroth joins Noah and Bob for a game of Marx Brothers "What If...?" inspired by the multiverse series Danny worked on in his days at Marvel Comics. They ask, what if Groucho had become a doctor? What if Chico had been good with money? What if Zeppo had been good at...well, performing? Danny also discusses growing up in the Marxes' old New York neighborhood and how Lee Harvey Oswald's killer Jack Ruby helped get Gabe Kaplan to participate in Marxfest.

Episode 110 - Join Host Troy Saunders as he chats with singer, songwriter, producer, label owner and just an incredible human, James D-Train Williams!This episode starts with both men reminiscing about their High School alma mater, Erasmus Hall. D Train tells how Will Downing got him into the school's famous Choral Club and started his music career. Both men had fond memories of their old High School and talk about their mutual friends as well as the idea of doing a documentary about the world famous school. Other legends like Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, May West, Clive Davis, Kedar Massenburg, Bernadette Stanis, Gabe Kaplan and so many more have walked their halls. D train explains how, what seemed like overnight, he and his songwriting partner, band member, and mentor, Hubert Eaves III, were on top of the Billboard charts and on tour with George Clinton, Peabo Bryson, Midnight Star, The Deele and so many top acts of that time. He tells how legendary radio DJ, Frankie Crocker, of WBLS in NYC, loved their music and helped to get it played around the country. D Train also explains the thought process behind hits like "Keep On" and "Thank You" and the positive impacted they had on many of his listeners, Troy included. After 5 albums D Train decided not to make another album for almost 20 years. He tells of a performance that helped him in making that decision. D- Train still remained a much sort after session and jingle singer. Working on albums by many of the greats in the industry including Luther Vandross, Gladys Knight, Cher and Michael Jackson. One entertaining story he shared, comes from a session while working on the Michael Jackson "Invincible" album. Hilarious!! Wait until you hear it!Troy and D Train not only talk about music; but they also converse about racism in America, and why many artist prefer performing over seas. D Train also stresses how artist should know their self worth, especially when negotiating their price with promoters. He also expressed his insecurities and how they kept him from releasing new music until now. With pride and excitement D Train informs the listener on some of the great music to expect on his new album; due to be released later this month or in August. They talk about his latest single "Time Has Come Today" and how he was inspired by so many artist including Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and more.This episode never had a dull moment. Full of love, laughter, passion and enlightenment. You will be totally entertained. Listen Now!!!Listen and subscribe to the BAAS Entertainment Podcast on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Podchaser, Pocket Casts and TuneIn. “Hey, Alexa. Play the BAAS Entertainment Podcast.”

Two friends meet in an abandoned barn and dance the night away. What will come the next night?Kevin Hogg is a high school English and Law teacher in British Columbia's Rocky Mountains. He holds a Master of Arts degree from Carleton University and is a longtime Chicago Cubs fan. Outside of writing, Kevin enjoys Lime Pepsi, grapefruit juice, and lemon tea. His goals for the future include solving a Rubik's Cube, visiting Walden Pond, and meeting television star Gabe Kaplan. His website is https://kevinhogg.ca.You can read "The Dance Eternal" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.Website: kaidankaistories.comFollow us on: Twitter/XInstagramFacebookPhoto by Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash

Magnitude 3.0 earthquake 2 miles from South Pasadena, CA · 3:05 PM. Robin tells us the story of how she went from house sitting a cat to owning the cat, she also tells us about her other pets. GUEST: Steve Gregory - Thieves are now targeting fire hydrants across Los Angeles County. Gambling and such //Gabe Kaplan what is his current age // Welcome back Kotter.

Today on the show, Paul and Ben talk about Gabe Kaplan, genetic testing, AI being incorrect, TV characters named Roz, the Millennium clock in a mountain, spoilers for Fallout, who will survive the apocalypse, moving expenses, graduating expenses, the apple vision pro, and finally the Boeing whistleblower.

GGACP celebrates the birthday of actor, writer, comedian and friend of the podcast Gabe Kaplan (b. March 31) with this ENCORE of a memorable interview from 2021. In this episode, Gabe joins Gilbert and Frank for a hilarious conversation about working strip clubs and Burlesque houses, meeting (and portraying) Groucho Marx, the clunkiness of the Dean Martin Roasts and the backstage drama of "Welcome Back Kotter." Also, Jack Carter buys a shirt, Buddy Hackett makes an omelet, Pat McCormick passes out on Jerry Lewis' couch and Gabe crosses paths with Jack Ruby and Golda Meir. PLUS: "Battle of the Network Stars"! The comedy of Buddy Mantia (and London Lee)! Howard Cosell narrates the Bible! Richard Pryor makes a run for it! And Gilbert auditions to play...Chico Marx!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doug Sivco discussed early kids TV; watching SNL in high school; going to Rutgers and being on the radio; trying out to be an NBC page; NBC Nightly News; Space Shuttle Columbia; Election 1980; literally bumping into to Ted Kennedy; Letterman morning show; getting the job at SNL; taking messages for the cast; remembering hosts Elliot Gould, Chevy Chase, and Rodney Dangerfield; Burt Reynolds saves his butt; getting his brother in almost every week; carrying out Mick Jagger; escorting out Deborah Harry; Gabe Kaplan being a jerk; last episode and after party; the new cast; hanging out with Eddie Murphy; Joe Piscopo, Charles Rocket, and Charlene Tilton; finding Cheap Trick's guitar in the green room; working at WNBC; leaving to do news in Alexandria, La.; going to Wilmington, NC and then Harrisburg, PA; the grind of local news; covering Penn State & Philly sports; bloopers; R. Budd Dwyer; went to work for Dean Witter; his current job; living in Cape Cod; community theater; meeting Gilbert Gottfried and being smitten by Linda Ronstadt and Jamie Lee Curtis

Welcome to London, Kentucky, home of the World Chicken Festival!  London is located in southeastern Kentucky in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.  The area provides access to numerous biking and hiking trails in the Daniel Boone National Forest.  The town is located near Corbin, the home of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken.  The World Chicken Festival is held annually in town to celebrate all things KFC and uses the "world's largest stainless steel skillet" to fry up to 600 chicken quarters at one time.  We hope you enjoy our trip to London!

With the 60th anniversary of the assassinations of JFK & Lee Harvey Oswald, Danny Fingeroth brings us the new biography, JACK RUBY: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin (Chicago Review Press). Danny & I talk about what drew him to tell Ruby's story, how many JFK conspiracy rabbit-holes he had to avoid, the challenges of separating Ruby's life from myth & speculation, and how the bio began as a graphic novel collaboration with Rick Geary (!) before its prose incarnation (although he's still hoping for an adaptation). We get into what he learned from talking to Ruby's rabbi, Hillel Silverstein, the figures he would have loved to interview for this book, what Ruby's siblings & their kids went through in the aftermath of Jack's moment of infamy, the circus of Ruby's murder trial and Melvin Belli's failed epilepsy defense, and the danger of treating Ruby's life like a sitcom. We also discuss Danny's dizzying résumé, including his 20-year run as a writer & editor at Marvel Comics, discovering himself as a biographer with Stan Lee: A Marvelous Life, the complexity of the (working) relationships of Lee, Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko, the surreal of experience of meeting Gabe Kaplan while promoting JACK RUBY, and more! Follow Danny on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our Substack

If the season ended today . . . and it didFan Exhaustion Marlins did not return to NY Gabe Kaplan – too rough for San Francisco Giants  - perfect fit for the AngelsSteve Cohen, Mets, says goodbye to Buck ShowalterDusty Baker was able to meld a fractured Astros teamTony Francona strength - listens & cares for his playersBig Papi meets Tony FranconaMiguel Cabrera retirement – would Miggy have continued his career in Miami sans LoriaJoey Votto ejection statementWorld Series walk begins with Wild Card best 2 out of 33 game competition gives a better sense of a teams' measureMat would like a postseason without byes for any teams Tampa Bay Rays, Never know what you are going to have at the end of the seriesRays will face weaker pitching with Rangers & OriolesYandy Diaz wins batting average titleNo local Bally Sports in postseasonDifficulty with national broadcasters doing such a poor job on the Rays – John SmoltzMLB beats their chest on increased viewership, however continue blackoutsMLB building revenue base through Repetition, Frequency, GamblingEntertainment shows for Baseball in 7th inning stretch?Tyler Glasnow & Taylor Swift arm in arm promo for the Rays?Cardinals, Adam Wainwright concertsSaint of Second Chances – Mike Veeck – Disco Demo in Chicago & fireworks in the TropPostSeason Rays, Tapia, Aranda, Basabe & Junior CamineroRays Roster Luke Raley & Jose Siri may return.  Who will leaveJunior Caminero AA rookie with veteran performance Basabe will probably not make it to postseasonMat measures the impact of not facing Blue Jays, righties Kevin Gausman, Jose Berrios & Chris Bassitt Junior Caminero will bring a lot to the plate facing Rangers leftiesKevin Cash & Wild Card rosterMarlins – how will they fare against the PhilliesLou Schiff's @BaseballandLaw, Marlins team is building a lot of experienceKudos to Kim Ng for her constructive calls for the MarlinsMat & Mark face off on National League champion choices Atlanta Braves or Milwaukee Brewers3 PM First Pitch starts to Wild Card games MLB should consider NFL model of broadcasting most games simultaneously? How many viewers does MLB lose while fans are at work during broadcast?Mark reminiscences about days of old with newspaper box scores & radio as the only source to track the gameMat likes Balanced schedule but needs consideration of extending playoffs & possibly cutting regular season by 3 games. Also scheduling should consider varying local weather impact throughout the season.Mat's proposed New MLB format would include:MLB with 32 teams & 5 game playoff & cut regular season to 159 teamsWhat does a 32-team format look likeCreate 4 regional divisions to 8 teams per regionSet number of teams to 2 top per region that enter into the playoffsJunior Caminero from AA skips AAA leaps to Major League Tampa Bay RaysCaminero is mature & methodical with a veteran attitudeRays Bullpen pitching plan, Taj Bradley – a strategy reflects Dodger method with Julio UriasTaj is a cool & fierce competitor  Thanks to Mat Germain. Mat can be found on Twitter @Mat_Germain_   Mark can be found on Twitter @TheBaseballBiz  BaseballBiz can be found on iheartradio, Stitcher, Apple, 

In this episode of Ear and Loathing, your hosts Aaron, Damon and George (The Gitmo Bros) talk about the Oobs Festival, the Kotterverse, the Bish chunk, and it's Seagal, not Senegal. In the Torture Chamber segment, Aaron and Damon compete for meaningless points by making George listen to his most hated songs. Will George survive the Torture Chamber long enough to play one of his favorite songs? Tune in and find out! Songs featured in this episode: "Up Your Nose" (Gabe Kaplan), "On and On" (Gladys Knight.& the Pips), "Strut" (Steven Seagal)

Donnie and Ducky attended the Celebration of Life for Doyle Brunson, where Ducky spoke with legendary TV star Gabe Kaplan. The two then recap the newest bracelet winners from the World Series of Poker and speak with a pair of them -- Chris Brewer, who won his second this summer, and Jesse Lonis, who won the second of his career. Follow Donnie on Twitter: @Donnie_PetersFollow Tim on Twitter: @tRaMSt0pFollow PokerGO on Twitter: @PokerGO Learn how you can win a Dream Seat to play in the PGT Championship $1,000,000 freeroll at PGT.com/dream!Subscribe to PokerGO today to receive 24/7 access to the world's largest poker content library, including the WSOP, High Stakes Poker, No Gamble, No Future, and more. Use the promo code DREAMPOD to receive $30 off your first year of a new annual subscription. Join today at PokerGO.com.

AJ Benza Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson We couldn't sit further apart on the political spectrum, or how we approach and present what we do, and yet columnist, TV correspondent, talk show host, actor, author, award-winning producer, and podcaster, AJ Benza, is a cherished friend. What we do share is a quest to tell the truth, a platform to do it, a passion for writing, and a great appreciation for celebrity and the people we admire. Starting with today's scoop––Johnny Depp helping Amber Heard, as AJ long ago predicted he would, AJ dished us some Harvey Weinstein, I winced more than once during that, Chris Noth, Michael Jackson––a story he broke––some sweetness about Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Gabe Kaplan, his acting class audition and how a young Carrie Fisher came to his aid, his SNL near-disaster saved by next week's GC's guest, Cheri Oteri, and Jimmy Fallon, and how Seinfeld and Bowie made it a memory to savor forever… he got current again with Jamie Fox and his take on what's going on there… an anti-vaxxer he blames the vaccine, a COVID crazy, I blame the virus. We talked AJ's disbelief in social distancing, masking, and vaxxing, but hey, he's had COVID 4 times, and he was open when I expressed my cautiousness in observing all of those, and not having had the thing to date. We discussed his transition to his new life, with work, location (s), and love. Albeit not always graceful, he's doing his best with righting things on all fronts. I like the guy. I respect his fearlessness even when he's scared, his ability to find the way in, his resourcefulness, moxie, commitment to his work, and, his talent. AJ's a gifted writer and storyteller. I'm damn grateful to know AJ and count him as a friend. He was under the weather today and rather than cancel last minute he showed up for me, for us. And, as a long-ago publicist and longtime reader of gossip columns, or what we used to call “rags” back in the day, thanks for the countless hours of provocative entertainment. AJ Benza Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson Wed, June 14th, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET Streamed Live on The Facebook Replay here: https://bit.ly/444QEYp

"Welcome Back, Kotter" was a classic sitcom that first premiered on September 9, 1975, on the ABC network. The show was created by Gabe Kaplan, who also played the character, Gabe Kotter, a former Sweathog who returns to his alma mater to teach a group of underprivileged students. Kaplan drew on his own experiences growing up in Brooklyn to create the show's setting and characters. The Sweathogs, a group of lovable but misguided students were based on his own high school friends. A young John Travolta was cast as the charismatic lead Sweathog, Vinnie Barbarino. The show even took on a second life in the 90's when reruns were aired as part of "Kotter Fridays" on Nick at Nite. "Welcome Back, Kotter" was an instant hit with audiences, drawing in large viewership numbers and earning critical acclaim for its humor and relatable characters. It was a groundbreaking sitcom that tackled serious issues such as poverty, race, and social class while still delivering laugh-out-loud moments. Its enduring popularity has made it a classic of 1970s television, and its influence can still be felt in many modern sitcoms today. Listen in as the S1E1 boys do a deep dive on the shows first televised episode, "The Great Debate". www.S1E1POD.com Starring: Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, Robert Hegyes, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Ron Palillo, John Travolta, Debralee Scott, & James Woods Instagram & Twitter: @S1E1POD

Today's Sponsor: FundriseToday's Rundown:Grand jury indicts Donald Trump in New York, first time a former president is charged criminally Joint Base Andrews on lockdown after armed person reported U.S. Army to Run Repurposed ‘Be All You Can Be' Ads Without Actor Jonathan Majors During NCAA Final FourEA fires 800 people in second round of layoffs this month Train derailment causes evacuation in western Minnesota town of RaymondJury Finds Gwyneth Paltrow Not at Fault in Ski Crash Trial Nike launches product designed to minimize risk of leaks while menstruating and being active Turkish parliament ratifies Finland's NATO membershipMarch 31 BirthdaysShirley Jones (89)Christopher Walken (80)Gabe Kaplan (79)Today In History1918: Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the United States for the first time.1995: In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez was shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.1998: God did not appear live at 10 a.m. on Channel 18 as predicted by a Taiwanese UFO cult in Garland, Texas. The group had predicted God's appearance for months.Plus, Today We Celebrate: Crayon Day More Of The Conversation Project Can Be Found Via...Website: http://thisistheconversationproject.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/thisistheconversationprojectTwitter: http://twitter.com/th_conversationTikTok: http://tiktok.com/@theconversationprojectYouTube: http://thisistheconversationproject.com/youtubePodcast: http://thisistheconversationproject.com/podcasts

National tater day. Pop Culture from 2017. Daylight savings time, Eiffel tower opened, US took possession of Virgin Islands. Todays birthdays - Lefty Frizzell, Richard Chamberlain, Gabe Kaplan, Shirley Jones, Christopher Walken, Tommy Heath, Rhea Perlman, Tony Cox, Ewan MacGregor. Saelena died.

And we can build this dream together, standing strong together, nothing's gonna stop Opening Weekend now! It's been a while, but the boys are back and revisiting February 13, 1987 to go OVER THE TOP with Sly Stallone and come alive like a MANNEQUIN making love to Andrew McCarthy. And they'll talk about some movies, too! As Kenny Loggins once said, “Meet me halfway, across this guy….” with a Gabe Kaplan-adjacent new episode of OPENING WEEKEND!

TV Guide CANADA June 3-9, 1978 Edmonton-N.Alberta Edition This week Ken welcomes actor and proud Canadian Samantha Ferris (Supernatural, The 4400). Ken and Samantha discuss who Ken has never been Canada, Vancouver's production community, Hollywood North, CBC, The Beachcombers, 21 Jump St., Wiseguy, X-Files, why Sci-Fi films in Canada, starting as a weather girl, Rainy Janey, being a talk radio host, rock jocks, Danny Bonaduce, how everyone thinks Sam is a guy, becoming an actor later in life, getting "tits in a suit" jobs, reporter roles, Along Came a Spider, Monica Potter, not getting the mom roles, embracing getting the strong women roles, laugh track sitcoms, loving Happy Days, Fish, Barney Miller, Three's Company, Good Times, The Jeffersons, The Partridge Family, M*A*S*H being your comfort food, MeTV, meeting Jaime Farr and Loretta Swit, meeting your heroes, not meeting your heroes, working Conventions, embarrassing moments, how great Cassandra Peterson is, not having access to celebrities, talk shows, seeing your heroes age, how bad it was when people didn't get royalties, Jimmy "JJ" Walker, Don Most, doing video game voices, Borderlands, motion cap, PONG, Supernatural superfans, looking voluptious on camera, not being able to watch yourself in things, Beggers and Choosers, sex scenes with Jim Belushi, Cindy Williams, Gabe Kaplan, Corbin Bernsen being very into himself, actors badly behaved, crapping on a dress literally, child actors, Curtis Armstrong being the greatest, Jim Beaver as the nicest man alive, showing up and knowing your lines, never piss off the people who are supposed to make you look good, directing advice, actors who are odd but might be assholes, only remembering the bad, and the absolute greatness of Chris Isaak. 

Great segment with our buddy A.J.! Watch us on www.rumble.com ,Twitter AND YouTube! "Magic Matt's Outlaw Radio"

Donnie Peters and Tim Duckworth are here for a new episode of the PokerGO Podcast, and it's a big one. The hosts recap the second half of the first-ever PGT Mixed Games series with interviews from Jason Mercier, Dan Zack, Nick Guagenti, and Scott Abrams. Donnie and Tim also discuss Nick Schulman taking over for Gabe Kaplan in the High Stakes Poker commentary booth and PokerGO's No Gamble, No Future $1,000,000 cash game that will live stream on the PokerGO YouTube channel on Friday, February 17.

On the latest PokerNews Podcast episode of 2023, Chad Holloway and Connor Richards come to you straight from the 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC) in the Bahamas. First, they discuss the full schedule reveal of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) schedule, and then dive headfirst into all things PSPC and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). That includes interviews with PCA champ Michel Dattani, Survivor all-star "Boston" Rob Mariano, Billions and Breaking Bad actor David Costabile, and Justin Bonomo, who had a big win to extend his lead atop poker's all-time money list.  They also chat about Nick Schulman replacing Gabe Kaplan on High Stakes Poker, the new Galfond Challenge between Phil Galfond and Dan "Jungleman" Cates, Perry Green's first tournament win in 35 years, and remember Julian Track and Jeff Fogel, who both, unfortunately, passed away. Listen to those stories and more on the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast! Time Stamps *Time|Topic* 00:25 | Welcome to the show 00:50 | Life down at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 02:16 | 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) schedule revealed 04:10 | Win a Main Event for life! 05:34 | Online bracelet events 06:15 | Sponsor: partypoker 07:15 | Michel Dattani wins 2023 PCA for $1,316,963 08:10 | Winner interview w/ Michel Dattani  11:53 | Justin Bonomo wins PCA $25K 8-Handed for $574K to extend all-time money lead 12:53 | Winner interview w/ Justin Bonomo  16:00 | Other big winners at the PCA 18:30 | Update on the 2023 PSPC final table 19:15 | Interview w/ Survivor star “Boston” Rob Mariano 25:00 | Should Daniel Negreanu do Survivor? 26:18 | Interview w/ Billions & Breaking Bad star David Costabile 33:50 | How did David Costabile come to be on The Office? 35:50 | Sponsor: 888poker 36:34 | Nick Schulman replaces Gabe Kaplan on High Stakes Poker 37:50 | Phil Galfond taking on Dan “Jungleman” Cates in new Galfond Challenge 39:30 | Poker legend Perry Green wins first tournament in 35 years! 40:24 | Sponsor: WPT Global 41:05 | Remembering Jeff Fogel and Julian Track 43:30 | Congrats to Connor on his Global Poker Award nomination!

  This Week On DAT Poker Pod: Daniel, Adam and Terrence are back with: 0:00 Dnegs surpasses $50M on all time money list & WSOP look ahead 14:35 Daniel goes to Calgary 20: 30 High Stakes Poker Season 10! Gabe Kaplan retires. 28:00 Player Eliminated On a Chop at WSOPC Rozvadov 46:00 Paulina "PokerBunny" PCA Card Mucking Discussion 1:04:25 Henry K vs Josh Arieh Twitter Spat   Link to PR statement: https://www.pokernews.com/news/2023/01/poker-player-chop-pot-wsop-circuit-42924.htm

On the latest PokerNews Podcast episode of 2023, Chad Holloway and Jesse Fullen discuss a controversial hand from the WSOP Circuit King's Resort that was a chopped pot but accidentally resulted in the elimination of one player at the final table. They then turn their attention to the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) down in The Bahamas. It was there that Isaac Haxton continued his heater, and he spoke with PokerNews after winning the $100K Super High Roller. Plus, Connor Richards caught up with guest Vanessa Kade, who discussed what it was like to be awarded a coveted Platinum Pass. Other stories discussed include Jackie Glazier being back on Australian Survivor, High Stakes Poker Season 10 premiering on PokerGO, Gabe Kaplan's unexpected retirement from poker commentary, and the recent PokerNews article on the Top 5 Poker Movies You Must Watch. Listen to those stories and more on the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast! Time Stamps*Time|Topic* 00:25 | Welcome to the show 00:40 | How was Australia? 01:27 | Future of the Aussie Millions 01:45 | Jackie Glazier back on Australian Survivor 03:09 | Sponsor: WPT Global 04:00 | WSOP Circuit King's Resort – Chopped hand results in elimination 10:44 | PokerNews down at the PCA in the Bahamas! 11:57 | Isaac Haxton on a heater – wins $100K Super High Roller 13:30 | Winner interview w/ Ike Haxton 17:37 | Interview w/ Vanessa Kade at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 30:58 | Follow updates from the PCA & PSPC on PokerNews 31:11 | Sponsor: 888poker 32:15 | High Stakes Poker Season 10 premieres on PokerGO 33:55 | Gabe Kaplan retires from High Stakes Poker commentary 35:30 | Gabe Kaplan a legend both on and off the felt – Poker Hall of Fame nominee? 37:33 | Who will be taking Kaplan's place in the commentary booth? 39:52 | Top 5 Poker Movies you should watch

Gabe Kaplan discusses his 40 appearances on Carson's Tonight Show, 18 times guest hosting the Tonight Show, how going on Carson led to Welcome Back Kotter, Battle of the Network Stars and Robert Conrad, friendship with Howard Cosell, Bob Hope, & Groucho Marx.

Sizzling Samachar of the day - 30th May 2022 Welcome to OTTplay Sizzling Samachar, I'm your host NikhilNews first up, From George Shapiro to Tovino Thomas, from Liam Neeson to Anushka Sharma and more stories Seinfeld producer George Shapiro dies at 91 The former producer of the iconic sitcom Seinfeld, George Shapiro, has died at the age of 91. Shapiro and his business partner, the late Howard West, were instrumental in guiding the careers of Carl Reiner, Gabe Kaplan, and Andy Kaufman. Liam Neeson to return as Qui-Gon Jinn in new Star Wars series Disney has announced yet another Star Wars spinoff series titled, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi. Liam Neeson will reprise his role as Qui-Gon Jinn for an episode of the anthology animated series. The series will tell the stories of various Jedi from the Star Wars universe. Neeson's son will also voice a younger version of Qui-Gon Jinn in the series. The series is set to be released later this year. Rick Famuyiwa promoted to executive producer for The Mandalorian season three Rick Famuyiwa, who wrote and directed several episodes in the first and second seasons of The Mandalorian, has been upgraded to Executive Producer for the upcoming third season. He will join current Executive Producers Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau, and the series will premiere in February of  2023.   Anushka Sharma's Chakda ‘Xpress goes on floors   The shooting for Anushka Sharma's upcoming film Chakda 'Xpress has begun in the UK. Directed by Prosit Roy, the film is based on the life of the former captain of the Indian women's cricket team, Jhulan Goswami. As per reports, a few portions of the film will also be shot in the United States. Anushka plays Jhulan in the film which is slated to release on Netflix next year. Vaashi to release on June 17 Minnal Murali star Tovino Thomas and Mahanati actress Keerthy Suresh are teaming up for the first time in the upcoming Malayalam movie Vaashi. Both Tovino and Keerthy appear as lawyers in the film written and directed by Vishnu G Raghav. The teaser of the film gives an insight into the characters played by the lead actors and portrays their grit to win a case. The film is set to hit theatres on June 17.   Aurora Perrineau to star in Netflix series Kaos Aurora Perrineau, best known for her roles in Jem and the Holograms and Prodigal Son, has been added to the cast of Netflix's series Kaos. Charlie Covell serves as the creator of the show which is based on Greek and Roman mythology. As per Netflix, the eight-episode series “puts a modern twist on Greek and Roman mythology, exploring themes of gender politics, power, and life in the underworld." Well thats the news from the world of movies and entertainment for today on OTTplay , until the next episode its your host Nikhil signing out.Aaj kya dekhoge OTTplay se poocho- Written by Arya Harikumar and Ryan Gomez 

Were you feeling ok back in the 70's? Did you feel feverish? Were you perpetually hungover because of too much partying? Perhaps the pain and anguish of losing a beloved pet made you feel like you were about to go crazy, as if your whole world was in a blue mist. Maybe you felt like you were a fool to cry and still feel that way after all these years. Did you seek out cures in strange magic, or ask some mystic to “show me the way”? Well, have no fear, because happy days are here again! That's right, welcome back to the podcast where this time we take a look at the Billboard Top 40 from the week of May 29, 1976. There is a pretty good mixture of rock, funk, and disco in this one, and unfortunately some sap as well. Here is a link to the listing of songs in this week's countdown: https://top40weekly.com/1976-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_29th_May_1976 Also a few interesting links to thinks we talked about in this episode: Casey Kasem's profane rant concerning a long distance dedication with a song in this countdown (warning, very strong language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUk6yX3PBo Battle of the Network Stars - Robert Conrad vs. Gabe Kaplan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSw2cFXx44g

Meet Gabe Kaplan, standup star, sitcom legend, and world-class professional poker player (!) in this miniprogram. Gabe mined his real-life high school experience for laughs early in his standup career and good thing because it led to the comedy classic "Welcome Back Kotter" in which Gabe returns as a teacher to his alma mater. It was a sweet gig and when it ended Gabe returned to standup and launched a new passion -- playing professional poker. With over $2 million in lifetime winnings we'd say he might have a future with the cards! As always, extended cuts are in the comments at laughtrackscomedy.com and thanks for sharing our shows!

Our ten-part series about the 1980s continues with a look at all the TV shows that debuted in 1981! Prime time soaps were on the rise (Dynasty, Falcon Crest), the Six Million Dollar Man became the Fall Guy, and Hill Street Blues premiered alongside 600 other (instantly forgotten) detective shows. We had a Brady Bunch spin-off (with Marcia, Jan, and their goofy husbands), a Jeffersons spin-off (Florence gets her own show... for a month), and an almost-but-not-quite Little House on the Prairie spin-off (the even-weirder-in-retrospect Father Murphy). Only one long-running sitcom started in 1981, and it was... Gimme a Break! (Congratulations to Ms. Carter and Mr. Sweet.) Love, Sidney and Private Benjamin lasted a couple of years, which isn't bad compared to the stuff only Kevin remembers, like Best of the West and Open All Night. Then there were some truly obscure short-lived oddities starring Gabe Kaplan, Sam Jones, and the Smothers Brothers. It was a weird year, but that's how we like it. And we give special attention to our favorite 1981 series, The Greatest American Hero. Kornflake saw the extra-long pilot episode for the first time just this week. Believe it or not. The Flopcast website! The ESO Network! The Flopcast on Facebook! The Flopcast on Instagram! The Flopcast on Twitter! Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts! Email: info@flopcast.net Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation! This week's promos: Cosmic Pizza! Doctor Geek's vaccination PSA!

Actor, writer and comedian Gabe Kaplan (finally) joins Gilbert and Frank for a truly hilarious conversation about working strip clubs and Burlesque houses, meeting (and portraying) Groucho Marx, the clunkiness of the Dean Martin Roasts and the backstage drama of "Welcome Back Kotter." Also, Jack Carter buys a shirt, Buddy Hackett makes an omelet, Pat McCormick passes out on Jerry Lewis' couch and Gabe crosses paths with Jack Ruby and Golda Meir. PLUS: London Lee! The comedy of Buddy Mantia! "Battle of the Network Stars"! Howard Cosell narrates the Bible! Richard Pryor makes a run for it! And Gilbert auditions to play Chico Marx!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Snap on that Speedo and dive into a fun conversation about the BEST TV show ever, Battle Of The Network Stars! There was such joy in seeing all our favorite stars shed their TV characters to don tight swimsuits, short shorts, tube socks, and intense competitive faces! Who were our favorite competitors? Which were our favorite events? Who holds the men's obstacle course record and who THINKS they do? Listen to our fun conversation and relive this fantastic show! Hear what we have to say about Scott Baio, Laff Olympics, US Against The World, Howard Cosell, Kristy McNichol, Valerie Bertinelli, Gabe Kaplan, Penny Marshall.Visit us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter & TikTok

Wayne Federman returns to talk about Gabe Kaplan and a number of other records, and some stories from his new book, The History of Stand-Up. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Wayne Federman Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like … Continue reading →

Gabe Kaplan, a Carleton college-bound graduating senior at St. Louis Park High School, tells us how he's helping his peers get vaccinated.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whether he was getting booked on The Tonight Show or becoming the first standup to have a hit sitcom based on his act or finding success as a professional poker player, Gabe Kaplan says it all happened in spite of his lack of ambition. Gabe tells Marc how he really wanted to become a professional baseball player, how his athleticism served him well in Battle of the Network Stars, and how his initial years in standup were spent opening for strippers and bellydancers. They also talk about the making of Welcome Back, Kotter and how playing Las Vegas got Gabe into poker. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast.

Whether he was getting booked on The Tonight Show or becoming the first standup to have a hit sitcom based on his act or finding success as a professional poker player, Gabe Kaplan says it all happened in spite of his lack of ambition. Gabe tells Marc how he really wanted to become a professional baseball player, how his athleticism served him well in Battle of the Network Stars, and how his initial years in standup were spent opening for strippers and bellydancers. They also talk about the making of Welcome Back, Kotter and how playing Las Vegas got Gabe into poker. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's a Fast Break on Slow Pitch!  Sean and Brad marvel at the shorts in this movie, both in the length, or lack thereof, and the material, specifically denim.  They gush over former UT Vols player-turned actor Bernard King.  Is Gabe Kaplan, aka Mr. Kotter, better at playing basketball than Kevin Bacon?  And they try to parse out the final game of the movie and all of its moving parts, which includes gunmen, sleeper holds, the police, and no sports bras.  Join us as we review the 1979 classic...Fast Break.Support the show

Dr. Fix Me meets Gabe Kaplan who only has anywhere from six to eight teeth. Gabe believes he is owed money from the Tooth Fairy. Friend of Gabe and Tooth Reacquisitions Expert, Christopher Thomas, joins the show to explain how he works with the government and the Tooth Fairy to help create a vaccine for COVID-19. Today’s episode is sponsored by a government-sanctioned PSA regarding Toofary: a dangerous and edible soap. Cast: Hoover Wind, Kelsey Clay, Joe Gianni, and Michael Kim Lewis as Dr. Fix Me Instagram @DrFixMe Facebook @DrFixMeShow Enjoy the show? Let us know!  drfixmeshow@gmail.com

Lon McEachern is a longtime sports commentator that is best known for being the "voice of poker," having worked as part of the broadcast team for ESPN's annual coverage of the World Series of Poker. Prior to that, he covered numerous other sports such as bowling, cycling, mixed-martial arts, skiing, fishing, billiards, and even Scrabble. McEachern won a Golden Mic Award during his time in radio, and was nominated for an Emmy for his play-by-play work on the X-Games. In addition to ESPN, he has also done work for the Outdoor Life Network, NBC, and Fox Sports.  McEachern first covered the main event in 2002 alongside Gabe Kaplan, and the next year formed his iconic partnership with Norman Chad as Chris Moneymaker won the tournament and helped spark the poker boom. Remarkably, he almost didn't take the gig. At the time, he had mostly moved on from the sports broadcasting world and had taken a day job as a mortgage banker. The duo's work over the last two decades has become such a fixture of televised poker that McEachern and Chad were jointly nominated for the Poker Hall of Fame in 2020, ultimately finishing with 20 votes from the panel of living members.  Highlights from this episode include getting into the family business, playing baseball with a Hall of Famer, losing his dream gig to Michelle Tafoya, scaring Tim McCarver at the 1989 MLB World Series, earthquake souvenirs, finding his niche at ESPN, having to get a day job, trading in Gabe Kaplan for Norman Chad, getting snubbed by Roy Disney, the series that shall not be named, introducing the porch and the kitchen, interviewing Vin Scully, Wayne Gretzky, and Muhammad Ali, fortunate boat trouble, Alan Alda, secret socks and underwear, golf bets with Gavin Smith, ignoring expiration dates, and his time covering the X-Games, the Tour de France, and every sport in between.

Today we are chatting with Gabe Kaplan. Gabe is the Founder of Wealth Habits, a fee-only financial planning firm located in New York Metro Area. Wealth Habits provides virtual financial planning services and investment management to rising professionals and business owners across the country. Gabe primarily works with clients that are financially motivated, place a... The post Investing in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) with Gabe Kaplan (Wealth Habits) appeared first on Financial Freedom Community.

(Topic begins at 0:16:45 mark): Druff's attorney Eric Bensamochan comes on to talk about major developments in Mike Postle's civil case against Druff & others.... (1:18:30): Veteran poker dealer "Patches" gets in fight with unruly Aria player while dealing.... (1:59:50): Update: November ruling in 21 Blitz case goes in favor of plaintiffs.... (2:25:03): Daniel Negreanu continues getting walloped by Doug Polk, has after-game meltdown.... (2:54:36): High Stakes Poker returns for first time since 2010, featuring Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza.... (3:04:03): Palazzo to completely close hotel, while others have shut down midweek.... (3:14:42): Former PFA guest Anna Khait makes controversial speech at right wing rally.... (3:30:41): Baccarat coaching scammer Christopher Mitchell releases ridiculous video spinning tall casino tales.... (4:01:43): Mojave Desert and Las Vegas History, Part 3: The Lake Dolores Water Park in Newberry Springs.... (4:32:55): Harrah's New Orleans to become Caesars New Orleans in major renovation ending 2024.... (4:56:21): The coronavirus numbers keep getting worse - US deaths top 300k, now over 3k per day.... (5:09:25): Bizarre CDC recommendation suggests young people to get priority for vaccine over middle-aged people.... (5:21:12): Why have COVID outcomes been worse for black and Hispanic people in US?.... tradershky co-hosts.

(Topic begins at 0:20:37 mark): Druff's attorney Eric Bensamochan comes on to talk about major developments in Mike Postle's civil case against Druff & others.... (1:22:22): Veteran poker dealer "Patches" gets in fight with unruly Aria player while dealing.... (2:03:42): Update: November ruling in 21 Blitz case goes in favor of plaintiffs.... (2:28:55): Daniel Negreanu continues getting walloped by Doug Polk, has after-game meltdown.... (2:58:28): High Stakes Poker returns for first time since 2010, featuring Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza.... (3:07:55): Palazzo to completely close hotel, while others have shut down midweek.... (3:18:34): Former PFA guest Anna Khait makes controversial speech at right wing rally.... (3:34:33): Baccarat coaching scammer Christopher Mitchell releases ridiculous video spinning tall casino tales.... (4:05:35): Mojave Desert and Las Vegas History, Part 3: The Lake Dolores Water Park in Newberry Springs.... (4:36:47): Harrah's New Orleans to become Caesars New Orleans in major renovation ending 2024.... (5:00:13): The coronavirus numbers keep getting worse - US deaths top 300k, now over 3k per day.... (5:13:17): Bizarre CDC recommendation suggests young people to get priority for vaccine over middle-aged people.... (5:25:04): Why have COVID outcomes been worse for black and Hispanic people in US?.... tradershky co-hosts.

Michael Schwimer grew up a standout athlete in Fairfax, Virginia and in high school was a star on his baseball and basketball teams. The 6'8'', 240-pound guard led his team to a championship and was even named MVP over future NBA center Roy Hibbert, but ultimately decided to turn down scholarship offers from Coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke and Coach Rick Pitino at Louisville in order to pitch for his hometown University of Virginia.Schwimer decided to finish his degree, and even interned at a hedge fund, before he was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies. He spent three years in the minor leagues before making his major league debut, and finished his career with a 3-2 record. Schwimer says he made more money in the poker games on team road trips than he did as a player during his time in the league.After retiring, Schwimer started Big League Advance, a company that invests in (or stakes) minor league baseball players in exchange for a percentage of their future earnings. His second company, Jambos, is now positioning itself in the rapidly-expanding sports betting market.This December, Schwimer will be appearing on new episodes of High Stakes Poker, which has returned for an eighth season with original hosts Gabe Kaplan and A.J. Benza. Schwimer will be competing against the lineup that includes Tom Dwan, Bryn Kenney, Rick Salomon, Nick Petrangelo, Jean-Robert Bellande, and Brandon Steven.Highlights from this interview include being born two feet tall, an early appreciation for data, beating Roy Hibbert for MVP, saying no to Rick Pitino and Mike Krzyzewski, the scorecard of hedge funds, being drafted by the Phillies, the truth about his signing bonus, how 'Houdini' got from the minors to the majors, short-stacking the team $100-$200 poker game, Jonathan Papelbon's favorite hand, big buy-in games with Tom Dwan in London, using the element of surprise on High Stakes Poker, the staking business of baseball, sports betting expansion, singing to Bruce Springsteen, reffing sixth-grade basketball games, pizza socks and slaps in the face, and betting $780,000 on the Super Bowl.

DEC. 11 POKERCAST RECAP: High Stakes Poker will see the return of Gabe Kaplan and A.J. Benza as hosts of the show next week. Also we have more poker quotes and news about Dan Bilzerian. There's a new O'Mally's Move and Steve Calmy has the Hand of the Week with KQo.

The Major Indoor Soccer League’s rocket red ball bounces back our way this week for an Eighties-style rewind into the story of the Los Angeles Lazers – as seen through the eyes of one of its chief front office architects, Ronnie Weinstein. Claimed from dormancy (as the previous Philadelphia Fever) by LA sports baron Dr. Jerry Buss – owner of the 1980 NBA champion Lakers, NHL Kings, 1981 TeamTennis champion Strings, and the building that housed them, Inglewood’s “Fabulous” Forum – the Lazers began life in the MISL in the fall of 1982 under the direction of Weinstein and Buss’ eldest son Johnny. True to its name (and emblematic of the league’s over-the-top promotional zeitgeist), the team immediately became known for its cutting-edge pre-game laser light shows, which management felt ideally suited to the lightning-fast pace of indoor soccer – and hoped would help the Lazers stand out from the wealth of entertainment options available in Southern California. Weinstein, Buss & Co. also tapped heavily into the celebrity-driven energy associated with their “Showtime”-era Laker arena mates, borrowing the Paula Abdul-choreographed Laker Girls to become the “Lazer Girls” for their games – and regularly recruiting Hollywood A-listers like James Caan, Neil Diamond, Cher, Ricky Schroeder, and elder Buss poker mate Gabe Kaplan to the festivities.  But the white-hot Lakers, the rising Kings, a robust concert schedule, and the family-favorite Strings all took scheduling precedence over the Lazers, leaving only a hodgepodge of mostly weekday winter school nights from which to attract soccer-mad families to the Forum. Of course, there was high-scoring MISL soccer action – but the Lazers were not very good (an 8-40 inaugural record and just one winning [1987-88] season over the team’s run didn’t help) – and the majority of games were not well-attended (the league’s least-drawing franchise in five of its seven seasons).  Despite all the synergies – including Jerry Buss’ strong enthusiasm for the game itself – nothing seemed to work.  By 1987 (with son Jim now helming the team alongside Weinstein), Buss saw the Lazers and the league as doomed – unless moves to reduce player salaries and shift play to a more family-friendly summer schedule were embraced. After fruitless pleading with the MISL Board of Governors, Buss pulled the plug on the team after the 1988-89 season, telling Weinstein if he ever wanted to pursue another indoor soccer endeavor with his more prudent business model, he’d be there to back it. This week’s episode is sponsored by the Red Lightning Books imprint of Indiana University Press – who offer our listeners a FREE CHAPTER of pioneering sportswriter Diana K. Shah’s new memoir A Farewell to Arms, Legs and Jockstraps!

On their anniversary Frank and Heather discuss what gifts they gave each other, the highlights of their marriage including two economic recessions, Gabe Kaplan, getting drunk at Foxwoods, and how it's such great news that Trump has canceled the coronavirus.

Rick and I became friends some years back through a mutual acquaintance and our friendship has grown more and more over the years. We have a deep respect for each other, our drive and our accomplishments. We share a kinship in that we're both drummers and love to watch each other perform and share our experiences on and off the stage. Rick takes us all the way back to his early childhood where we learn how his path and his outlook on life, was created at a young age both musically and personally. You will hear him say throughout this interview, the words “No Fear!” and you'll see why he has accomplished so much in his life up to date and why he continues to push himself and grow even more. ********** Rick Lewis: Radio Personality Color Commentator for the Denver Broncos Drummer for The Rick Lewis Project *iHeartRadio Shows* https://thefox.iheart.com/featured/the-rick-lewis-show/ https://koanewsradio.iheart.com/featured/logan-lewis/ Rick's Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1ricklewis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ricklewisproject/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/1RickLewis https://youtu.be/oDbwc0ss72A ********** Podcast Music By: Andy Galore, Album: "Out and About", Song: "Chicken & Scotch" 2014 Andy's Links:   http://andygalore.com/ https://www.facebook.com/andygalorebass ********** Subscribe, Rate & Review: I would love if you could subscribe to the podcast and leave an honest rating & review. 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For show notes and past guests, please visit: https://joecostelloglobal.com/#thejoecostelloshow Sign up for Joe's email newsletter at: https://joecostelloglobal.com/#signup For transcripts of episodes, go to https://joecostelloglobal.com/#thejoecostelloshow Follow Joe: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jcostelloglobal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jcostelloglobal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jcostelloglobal/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUZsrJsf8-1dS6ddAa9Sr1Q?view_as=subscriber Transcript Rick Lewis Interview: Rick Lewis Interview Joe: Hey, Rick Lewis, man. How you doing? Glad you Rick: Well, Joe: Could join me. Rick: Good to see you, too, Joe. As you can tell, as we were setting this up, I'm a borderline moron when it comes to this type of technology, so I'm trying my best. Joe: Hey, that's what happens when you're a big shot and they have everybody around you taking care of the technology. You just sit back and put the Rick: Yeah I need an I.T. guy at my house Joe: Headphones on and start talking Joe: [laughter] All right, cool. So I just wanted to start from the beginning. We're gonna just do a quick overview of where you started out and so let's just dig into it, man. Everyone's going to know by the time we start talking, at least your bio and everything else. But, you know, I want to start from the very beginning and get a quick synopsis of where you grew up, where you were born, where you grew up. Start from there. Rick: Yeah. So I was. I was born outside of Detroit, Michigan, in a steel town, blue collar steel town. Great place to grow up. Just, you know, really, really good childhood. A lot of great memories. My dad worked for a chemical company there and we lived there from the time I was born till 6th grade. And then my dad started moving around the country because he was kind of moving up, up the ladder in his company. My dad was the first guy in our family to ever get a college degree. And so he kind of broke the mold of, you know, generations of the family. And I really admire him for doing that because he had five kids. He was going to night school to get a degree. I don't know how he did that, but he did it. And once he got his degree, he started kind of moving up in the corporate world a bit. So middle of 6th grade, I moved from Detroit to Columbus, Ohio, middle of 9th grade, I moved from Columbus, Ohio, to Naperville, Illinois, which is right outside Chicago. And then just before my senior year, we moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. So we moved around quite a bit. I went to I think it was four different high schools, in two different states. And I think that...you know, what the time was was a little bit traumatizing because you're always the new kid. But looking back on it now, I realize that it it there were some good things about it that kind of molded me into who I am today. Joe: Right and from what I know, you and I are friends and I know you a fair amount, but I have a feeling that you are really good athlete, right? Rick: I was a really good athlete. Yeah. You know, growing up, I always thought I wanted to be a pro athlete. And that was my dream and that was my dream until I got into college, and then once you get into college with with better competition, you know that that dream was quickly shattered and I realized that that wasn't going to come to fruition. But so that was about until I was about 19 years old, until I realized that, yeah, I'm a good athlete, but there's a lot better athletes than me out there and it just wasn't in the cards for me. But yeah, growing up, we played every sport in Detroit. You know, every sport throughout the season, hockey, baseball, basketball, football and very, very competitive. We played we played a lot of sandlot games back there that were very competitive with some really good players and it was it was really cool to be in that type of competition where you have a real sense of pride for your street or your neighborhood and you're playing against all these other neighborhoods. And it got, it got to the point where there'd be fights. You know, there'd be a lot of, a lot of people that held grudges, you know, and that type of thing and ah like I said, it was kind of a tough part of of the country with all like blue collar, you know, people's kids that were really grinder's and just really gave everything they did...100% percent effort. Joe: Right! Rick: And I was one of those guys. Joe: I know, I know from your mentality that you weren't going to take any shit from anybody, so, so so how did you get to NAU in Flagstaff? Rick: Ok. Joe: How'd you pick that school out of out of Rick: Yeah, Joe: Everything? You know Rick: Well, like I said, we moved around a lot, so I was a good football player. And the fact that we moved right before my senior year was not good for somebody that was hoping to move on and play college football and get recruited and get it to a good football program because, you know, it's hard to follow somebody, especially back then, not today with social media. You know, it's a lot easier to get your profile out there to, you know, college recruiters and coaches. But back then, it wasn't. So the fact that I moved right before my senior year was a bit of a handicap for me. But I had a good senior year and I was getting recruited throughout the state of Ohio and Indiana and Kentucky and places like that. That I wasn't really that interested in going to, you know, a lot of smaller schools, a few mid-level schools. I did get letters from some other schools around the country, too, that were bigger. But I didn't have the confidence at that point to one up, you know, leave, leave or leave home and go halfway across the country to try to play at a at a bigger school. But anyway, NAU one of the schools that that did recruit me back then, I never even heard it in a year in Ohio. I mean, I had never heard of that. I heard the name before. So I ended up going to actually went to Miami University, Miami of Ohio, which was about an hour, maybe an hour and a half from my house. And the reason I did that is because at a high school girlfriend that I thought for me it was more important that I stay close to home so I could be around this high school girlfriend and Miami of Ohio had a really good football team at the time. Rick: They didn't recruit me. So I just went there so I could be closer to my girlfriend. Three weeks since you broke up with me and, you know, the typical freshman story. And so I couldn't wait to get out of that school. I mean, I just kind of I waited one quarter and I quit and I came back home and try to figure out what I was going to do next. And it was at that point that I really I think is when I would say I became a man at that point, because I had a I had a bit of, I guess you'd call it an awakening or epiphany back then as I was going through all of this pain, you know, this is high school heartbreak. And I realized that ah, that I had, I was I was blessed with a lot of things. I was I was born at the right time, you know, born in the United States. You know, I was athletic. I had had some intelligence. I had some musical ability. And I realized that I had all of these skills that were already given to me and that it was my job at that point to take all of these gifts and then try to make them better, you know, try to enhance myself in every way and become a better person all around. And so once I had that epiphany, I decided that it was time to launch. And I remember that NAU had recruited me and I like I said, I'd never even heard of you before but Arizona seemed like a really exotic place to be, especially for a kid from Ohio. And so I decided that's where I was going to go. Joe: And what did you. Yeah. So what did you go there to do? Cause it it wasn't getting go there for football, right. Rick: Yeah, Joe: What was your major. Rick: I did. Joe: Oh you did. Rick: Oh, definitely. Yeah. Joe: Oh, cool. Rick: And I had no major in mind at that point. I was I was on a different kind of mission. I wasn't going there to learn or be educated out of a book. I was going there to experience life. And so the school part of it wasn't all that important to me. I had something else in mind and that was just, you know, finding out who I was, what I was fully capable of doing, challenging myself and at that point, I would say I had no fear. I had no fear of failure. I had, I didn't even have a second thought that whatever I did wasn't going to work, that I would find a way to make it work. And I would find a way to be successful and I just...I could have I could have done anything at that point. I literally could have done anything. But I didn't know what it was yet. But I had a feeling whatever I did, it was going to be great! It which change this belief, just this faith that I had. So I went out there, you know, the football was a part of the package, but it was really just to find myself in the football part of it ended up becoming becoming a very minor part of the experience out there, because I learned so much about myself and what I was capable of doing. And I had several majors when I was there. I just you know, I could never find anything that really interested me enough in school until one day at the gym, a guy told me that he had a show on the campus radio station and he said, you should come down tonight to them on my radio show. I'd never even thought of it. And I said, "OK, that sounds cool, I'll do that". So I went in there that night and I really liked it. He put me on the air. I ended up getting my own show. I'd found my thing, basically. So when I went out there for with complete confidence that I would find but not knowing what it was at the time, I did find it. It's... Joe: How far was that into into that college year or like was it the first year, second year? Rick: I want to say it was year two. And I was only there for two and a half years, so I would say probably right after my first year I discovered that. And then I switched my major to radio TV. Like I said, I got my own show on the campus station. I, I knew I was...I knew I was good at it right away. You know, I just found my thing just like you when you found that you could play drumms, right? You knew Joe: Yeah. Rick: What your thing is. So I knew what my thing was. And so I also got I was doing ah...I was like a club deejay. They had nightclubs and stuff like that, you know like disco kind of thing. I became a disco deejay and that was really fun, I really enjoyed that. And just once again, just developing my craft, basically learning how to talk in front of people, learning how to put on a show, learning how to present. And that just was just giving me more and more experience for my radio TV career that follow. So after, after a year or so of doing that, you know, a lot of people were telling me, you know, a lot of people in Flagstaff were telling me right now my, my group of people [laughter] Joe: Right. Rick: Would be, you know, they were saying, you know, "Rick, you're really good at this man. You should go to Hollywood. You should you should try to get into movies in Hollywood". And I was thinking, yeah, you know what? I should probably try that. And so once again, going back to the no fear thing, that's what I did, I ended up quitting NAU after two and a half years. This was this because after like right after the fall semester. So going in to the spring, some guy that was driving to California for a job and I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money, I literally five bucks, that's all I had. So I had no car, I had five dollars to my name, everything I owned a pillowcase. I did, I didn't have any, anywhere to go up there, I had no place to stay...nothing. Well, there's this guy that I was driving out with, had a van, so I thought, well, you know, if I get desperate, I could maybe sleep in this guy's van. So I went out there and I quickly got hired at a club about there in Orange County as a deejay. And not only did I get a job, they gave me room and board at a at this nice hotel because the club was at a hotel. So I got a job, room and board at the hotel, I got a company car, all my, all my meals paid for and all my laundry and dry cleaned. Joe: Geez. Rick: So it was like I hit the lotto, you know? And I remember I called my dad up when I got out there because he was really mad at quit school. And I called my dad up when I got out there and he ah...he goes, "So what are you really doing out there, son?" He goes "Are you in the Mafia or something?" He goes, "He said, no...nobody gives a 21 year old kid a company car". I said, yeah, I know, Dad, but they did and so I had that, you know, so that gave me some stability and some income. And I went out and got an agent and this agent sent me out on my first, like very first audition was a movie called "Fast Break", which was a basketball movie, Gabe Kaplan was the star of it. And um,  I tried out for it was a very minor role in the movie. Basically just had to play basketball. So once again, going back to the athletic ability that I had. Right. So that was my tryout and they went, OK, good, you got the part. So I ended up I work six weeks on this film every day for six weeks, and it didn't pay that much. Rick: I still remember when paid it paid seventy five bucks a day. And at that point, I'd had a motorcycle. Um, I rode the motorcycle to the set every day in L.A. for six weeks...it never rained one time. Lucky because at that point I didn't have the car anymore because when I got this job, I had to quit the the deejay job. And so that I had to get a motorcycle, somebody loaned me money to get the motorcycle. Some guy just said, you know, "Let me buy that for you". So once again, it's just like it's like everything was just meant to be for me. And so that kind of got me started down the path of trying to be an actor. The movie was a was a big hit for those of you watching this now, you could still find that movie. It pops up like on, on TBS, like once a year they play it. At the time, it was one of the biggest movies of the year that came out because Gabe Kaplan was a big star back. He was coming from Welcome Back Kotter to that. And so. Joe: I'll have to rent it now so that I can and I have to figure out if I can find you somewhere in the film before we get past this point, though, I want to ask you, what gave you the foresight to to actually go and get an agent? How did that come to your brain to go, wow. I need to go get an agent. Rick: Why just knew I just knew if you're going to be if you want to try to get some TV or movies, you needed an agent. And so this guy this guy got me in quite a few things, mostly, mostly extra roles but I did pick up ah, I got a couple of national TV commercials, I got a Budweiser commercial, I got a Marantz stereo commercial. I was an ABC sitcom called "Makin' It" with David Naughton. You know, just a minor role...I beat him up in the show. I was like a tough guy and, and they and they you up, they didn't think I looked tough enough and I had, I had blond hair, kind of surfer guy look and so they sprayed my hair black with, with a Joe: Oh Gosh... Rick: spray paint out of the can. They sprayed my hair black to make, it look like me. So I was kind of disappointed in that because if you watched it and knew me, you wouldn't even know it was me. Joe: Oh Wow! Rick: But a lot, a lot, a lot of cool experiences along the way. Joe: That's really cool, and it's funny because you started out doing the radio thing, which is not in front of a camera to being fully in front of a camera and then come where we are today, now you're well, actually you do both now. So it's kind of cool. You got the experience, so you're comfortable in both situations. Rick: Yeah. And the way I got decided to go back into get into radio is, this is, this is really was a turning point in my life. I was working at a liquor store, like all actors do. You're either a wait, you know, a waiter or you work at a liquor store or something like that. Something that gave you the freedom to be able to go out in an audition and do whatever you needed to do. So as working at a liquor store in Anaheim, right down the street from Disneyland. And it was a Friday night and that night a show that I was on was on TV. So I brought a TV in to the liquor store because I wanted to...you know, I obviously wanted to watch myself on TV. And in effect, it was that show "Makin' It" that I just mentioned, the ABC sitcom. And so I brought to TV in and I had it on the counter and it was a Friday night on Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, right down the street from Disney. And a couple of guys came in and, you know, put a 12 pack on on the counter and and I'm busy looking at the TV over here and I turned around I said, "You want anything else?" They went "Yeah, I think we'll go get another 12 pack. I said, "Yeah, that's great!" And so I go back, I'm looking at the TV, one guy comes around behind me and the guy in front of me puts a gun to my head. So they're obviously holding me up. Yeah, Joe: Yeah, man... Rick: It's so. Rick: You know, it's you don't know how you're going to react in a situation like that, until that happens and everything for me just slowed way down almost like slow motion. And I didn't panic, I was, I was really calm. I gave him the money out of the um, the cash register, but I knew that they had some marked bills in there. If you pulled these marked bills, that triggers a silent alarm and the Anaheim PD comes because if you're getting robbed, that's what you did. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't want to give him those bills because I knew that the alarm would would trigger the police to come and I thought if the police came, these guys would either hold me hostage or kill me. So you could see how how clear I was thinking. So I didn't give the bills and they said, you know, "Give us all the bills you M'efer". And so I pull them out, I threw them in the bag. Now, I knew that the cops had been alerted. So they're trying to get me to open the safe. I couldn't open that, I said, "Hey, man, I just work here, I don't have the combination". And they said, "Open the safe!!". and I said, "I can't man, I just work here". So they said, "Get in the back room, hands over your heads!!" I'm walking back like this. And that's when I thought, well, I might be in trouble now and then it's the same time, I'm still thinking, man, I hope nobody comes in that front door because they'll probably kill me. Rick: Even the cops were there, if the cops come they'll hold me hostage, if somebody else walks in, they'll probably kill me. This is a Friday night and then nobody comes in. So then they told me to lay on the floor, hands over my head, you know, like execution style...I'm doing that. And they're still trying, they find a crowbar. They're trying to open the safe, and so they, they couldn't get it open and they finally realized they're going to get out of there. And they told me to count to 100 before I got up. They had to step right over me to get out. And I'm thinking they're either going to kick me in the head, shoot me in the back of the head, you know, who knows what they're doing? Well, they didn't you know, they stepped over me and ran out the door. I counted to three and I ran up the door because I wanted to see if I could catch a license plate. But they were on foot. So they got away. It is up standing in the parking lot, five cop cars pulled up and at first they thought that I robbed a liquor store. And I quickly explained to them what had happened. And so, anyway, long story short, they never caught the guys but the next day I got called into the corporate office. It was a U-Tote'Em, I know if you remember you U-Tote'Em Joe: Ok... Rick: Became they became Circle K's Joe: Ok. Rick: Yeah, so a corporate liquor store. Joe: Mm...hmmmm Rick: And I got called in to the corporate office and the guy sat me down and he goes, "Well, you got robbed last night!", I said, "Yeah, yeah!". He goes, "Well, you know what? They got a lot of money!!" I was like? "Yeah!?", he goes "No, they got like $227 dollars. I said "Ah ha!" and he goes, he goes, "That's a lot of money!" And and I said it, and I was, I was probably twenty three years old, twenty two, you know, still just a kid and this guy's got his suit on and everything. And I said, I said, "Have you ever had a gun pointed at your head!?" And he said, "No, I haven't". And I said, "Listen, man"...I said, "I would've carried the safe to my fuckin' car!!". If I...that's a quote, you know, quote unquote. I told them that, he goes, "Oh, no, no, I understand,you know, I totally get that", but he goes, "We're going to have to let you go!". I, Joe: Oh, Rick: I got fired... Joe: Gosh... Rick: for being held up, and so I said, I said, "Why would I give up my life for a minimum wage job?" I said "I would get I wouldn't give them anything they wanted". He goes, "No and I get that we can have you work here anymore". I don't know, I still don't know what that was about. But I ended up realizing that I should probably get into radio. You know, that's really what I was born to do. Now, the acting thing wasn't my thing and so I ended up going back to school at Long Beach State because they had a really good radio program there. And I had a year and a half to go to get my degree and I got a degree at Long Beach State. They had two broadcast stations on campus, broadcasting into Long Beach. It was great experience...I did everything from a deejay shift to a sports talk show, to a news, I was a news anchor and I did play by play for the Long Beach State football, baseball, basketball team. And so I got a ton a great experience. Yeah, it turned out to be really, really good. Joe: That's amazing because I got on the radio at my college and I got the shitty 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. slot or something like that, because like it was only drunks calling in and telling me to play this and that and I'd get in trouble with it. I wouldn't stick to the playlist that the program director gave me, so. Yeah. So yeah, that's Rick: Oh, Joe: Good. Rick: I didn't know you do that. Joe: Oh yeah. It was it was a disaster. Rick: Yeah, I got to do everything, but keep in mind now I'm a little older, so I'm probably twenty three, where everybody else there is 18 and 19. So I was more experienced, I've been around. And so I really don't want to say I was the best guy there, but I probably was, you know. And so they want it, so they utilize me any way they could. And it just turned out to be great in fact I'm not bragging, but I got nominated as outstanding graduate the program. And this is Joe: Oh cool! Rick: it and me, a guy who never cared about school. I mean, I could care less about what I could learn at school or at least a classroom part of it but once I got into radio, it was just my thing. I got straight A's, I got a 4.0. my last year and a half with, without really even trying. And when that happens, you know, you found, your thing, you found. Joe: Yeah. Rick: You're supposed to be doing, you know, just Joe: Yeah. Rick: Like I mentioned earlier with you playing drums. Same thing. Joe: So now, now you're, you found it! You found what you love, you got your degree, you excelled in it. How you know, if we can just cover quickly the, the the brief stop offs at the different stations around the country that you, you got work at and then finally landing in Colorado. Rick: So, yeah, I graduated in June. I sent out tapes for, I sent out tapes for, you know, to be a deejay and I also sent out sports tapes to do sports talk or be a sports reporter because I like both. And and I didn't, you know, I thought I'd end up in sports, honestly, like to be a sportscaster but I didn't want to limit myself, so I set up both and I got hired in August. Two months later, I got hired at a radio station in San Clemente. So in the market still right on the beach, it was it was pretty cool. The money wasn't very good. I still remember what I was making back then, it was twelve hundred a month to do mornings at this station in San Clemente, but I wasn't in it for the money. I had, I knew, I knew what the goal was, I knew that the money would come at some point. This was just all about getting getting you getting reps, as they say in football, you know, building up my chops. I knew I had to build up my chops. I didn't come out of college, you know, a good broadcaster. I came out of college a you know, a green professional broadcaster with a lot of potential. So I totally saw the big picture and I knew I just had to get reps in and every day, you get better and better and better. Just like playing an instrument, you just got play. And, you know, anybody can crack open a mike and talk on the radio but it's the years of experience that really, you know, fine tunes, what you can do, just like playing drums or playing any other instrument. So, so San Clemente, I was there for a year and a half and I started getting noticed by some of the bigger markets like San Diego, they had me working weekends and say Diego at a radio station down there. In fact, they offered me the morning show down there and that's a whole another story, I kind of blew that one. Well, I don't know how much time we have. But Joe: It's Rick: Yeah. Joe: Up to you. Listen, I. I will stay here as long as, I have a lot I want to cover. Rick: Yeah. Yeah. Joe: But if Rick: Well, Joe: If this is Rick: Ok. Joe: A great but if this is a great story, because the story with the five dollars and the pillow Rick: Yeah. Joe: Case, Rick: Yeah well anyway... Joe: I had never I had never heard. So that was a great story. Rick: Yeah. Well, anyway, it was a, I learned a lesson talking to fans that would call the show, you know, a lot of times when records are playing, you'll kill time talking to people on the phone. And I happened to mention it to somebody, who happened to call down the morning show guy at the station in San Diego and tell them, "Oh, by the way, I heard this guy in San Clemente, Rick Lewis, is taking your job!" This guy's "What!!?" He went to the boss, told the boss, the boss called me. "Who? Who did you tell, you had the morning show here at the radio station!!?" And said, He said, "I can't hire you!" He said, "I had to deny it, I'm not going to be able to hire you". Anyway, that's the short version of the story, but still from there, from San Clemente, I ended up getting hired at a radio station in Anaheim. After about a year and a half in it, it was quite a big step up. It was a union station. The money was really good. I had probably more than tripled or quadrupled what I was making, you know, so I was there for just a week and they changed the format. I got fired a week into the week into this job and it was, you know, like I said, it was. Rick: It was a pretty good step up. And like I was thinking, how did they not know that they were gonna change the format a week ago when they hired me? It was pretty devastated. And so once again, I'm starting over I ended up sending tapes out. This time I'm certainly tapes out of the L.A. Three months later, I got hired at the biggest rock station in L.A. and probably the biggest rock station in the country. Some of you may remember KMET The Mighty Met, those of you from from L.A. certainly remember KMET. So, so one door closes, another one opens. I ended up like just jump, jumpin' over the mid-market, you know, radio station, right up to the very top. So in a year and a half out of college, I'm working at the top radio, top rock radio station in the country. It was named Billboard Magazine's Major Market AOR Radio Station. And so this was like a dream. It's unbelievable! I was the youngest guy there, they had legendary radio personalities there and just just a blessing for me. You know, I'm not the most patient guy anyway. Yeah, I don't think I was ready for it, to be honest, I still had a lot of a lot of growing to do as a radio personality, but that's certainly accelerated it. Rick: And then once again, the pay was two or three times more than what it was gonna be an Anaheim so in a year and a half, I just like I shot right to the top of my field. And, you know, you're probably thinking, well, you didn't pay your dues, you know. I guess maybe you could look at it that way, like I didn't have to go to a lot of shitty markets and you know, grind it out for 10 years before I got the opportunity but that's just how it happened for me. But I never took it for granted. I never took it for granted because going back to my blue collar roots, I would call myself a grinder with talent. The talent a blessing, the grind part, that's on me. I had nothing to do with the talent. But the grind part's on me, and I always thought that a grinder with talent, is the, the person you would want to hire because that person is going to take what they got and they're going to outwork everybody and they're just going to get better and better and better. And so that's kind of how it happened with me. So there I was LA, now you want to know how I got to Denver. OK. So. Joe: Yeah. Now, I wanted to how cause, like cause, that's where we're going to get into more of this other stuff. So... Rick: Yeah, so I worked in LA for...see, I started in 81' at San Clemente and I worked in LA till 1990 so nine years. I also worked at Power 106 in LA, which is still a big powerhouse radio station in L.A. because I ended up getting fired from KMET twice, um yeah, two times. Yeah, one time I just signed a three year deal and this fired me three months later. They pulled the plug on the whole radio station, this was in 1987. They, they became the first smooth jazz radio station in the country. They just pulled the plug on one of the greatest, if not the greatest rock radio station ever! Turn it into smooth jazz, fired us all. So that's the third time I've been fired now since 1981. So I went to...I realized then that I, to make the really big money and the biggest impact in the business, you got to do morning drive radio. So I stepped back down to that radio station Anaheim, that I was that early on in my career and started doing mornings there and I did mornings there for three three years and I got fired...again. So for no reason, you get fired in radio, not for doing anything wrong, it's usually a turnover of, you know, upper management, middle management, format changes, that kind of thing. So, so now I've been fired four times, since I started in 1981 and it's really hard to get a job in radio. Every time you get fired, you think I'm probably never going to get hired again. Rick: You know, because it's it's it's really hard to do. And I had, I had so many chances along the way there in LA where I almost hit like the big time. Like I got asked to guest host PM Magazine and I crushed it! And I killed it!. They call me later, they said "Hey, we want to, we're thinking about making you the national PM Magazine host" and I was probably, I was probably about twenty six years old, twenty seven, and they were like "I was like, cool!" So they said, we got to, get we got to get a reel, gotta to get something more than this to show people nationally, come on down, we'll do some test and test rule. And that day I got stuck in traffic driving from Orange County to Hollywood, took me two and a half hours. I didn't know then, that I'm hypoglycemic, so my blood sugar just tanked on the way down there. So I got there, I did the audition and I was flat, totally flat. And I knew it was not a good audition. And the guy pulled me aside, he goes, "Rick, what happened man, you crushed it when you guest hosted the show, the just wasn't very good!" "Yeah man,I know", I said "I'm just not feel "in it today. He goes, "I can't show anybody this!". "Well, can we try it again?" He goes, "No". So anyway, I blew that one. Dick Clark called the radio station in LA that I was working at, some, somehow he had seen me somewhere and he said, "Hey, I want to meet this guy, Rick Lewis, one of your radio people". Rick: They gave me the message, I call back, they set up a meeting with me. I go to Dick Clark's Studios in Burbank and I never met Dick, but I met his right hand man. We had about a 90 minute meeting. And he told me that they were going to develop a bunch of shows around me. And so of course, at this point I realized not to get your hopes up in Hollywood or in show business because a lot of times it just never happens. So I was feeling good about it, but I didn't get my hopes up at that point and I'm maybe twenty seven years old, twenty eight, I already knew better than to get my hopes up. So we had some conversations on the phone after that about different shows and different show ideas for about three, four months and then they went dark on me. Nothing, nothing ever happened again, I never heard from him again. So anyway, I had all these near misses or near hits along the way. And so at 1990, a radio guy in L.A. named Frazer Smith, and once again, anybody from LA would know that name, he was, he's one of the legendary guys out there. He was from Detroit and he told me, he said "Hey man!", he goes "I just got offered a half a million dollars to do mornings in Detroit" and this was in the 80s, so translate that into today's money. That's a lot of money! Joe: Right. Rick: He said big money Joe: That's a lot of money. Rick: You can make big money in some of these Midwest towns doing mornings. I went "Really!!? OK, it's good to know". So I contacted a guy that I knew in our company that I still work for and they offered me an afternoon show back in Cincinnati, which is where I used to live. I thought that was too big of a step down in market size, I turned it down. A show, a station in Detroit, told me that they were very interested in hiring me to do a show there and so I went back and interviewed. I took my life back, we were looking at houses and neighborhoods, never happened! And anybody that's in show business,  you know, Joe, you've been you've been in the entertainment business a long time, you know that this is just how it goes. All of these big things get dangled in that most of time they don't happen. But, I knew at that point that I'm ready to leave the market if the right opportunity came along. So the guy who offered me the job at Cincinnati got back to me and he named off about three or four other markets that they were willing to hire in and Denver was one them. And I'd never really been to Denver before. And he said, hey, we got this comedian named Floorwax, he's really funny, but he doesn't get the radio business, he doesn't understand it. He needs a really good partner to make it work. He'd already, he'd already had a show here in Denver. He was on the air with another guy and he said the station is losing money. Rick: They're they're not right even in the top 20, but he said, if you can go there, turn it around, he said you can write your own ticket. And I kept thinking back to what Frazer Smith told me about how this could all work out financially. So my wife and I flew out and we liked the city. I thought it was worth taking a chance for a year. Once again, back to no fear. I left the L.A. market and I by the way, I did get after getting fired there, I did have another radio show, another radio station I was working for back there, so it wasn't like I was unemployed, but I, I told my wife, I said, even if this only last year with Floorwax, we'll go somewhere else, meaning me and Floorwax will keep going somewhere till it hits. Because I knew I knew that what we had, was really special. And it ended up here we are 30 years later, I'm still doing the same radio show..it's unbelievable. And it's been just an incredible run and I'd never take it for granted because of how I started my career, getting fired four times in the first nine years. I wake up every day just counting my blessings. And I also realize it didn't matter how good you are, how big you are, how much money you make, they could fire you in a second and I've never taken that for granted. Joe: I know that about you, I know that you're grateful every day for what you have and what you've accomplished and that's why this is a special interview for me, because we we think along the same lines and in, you know, that's what they say, right? You said you are, what is it? The quote is something like, "You are the sum of the five people that you associate yourself with" or hang around whether or whatever. So, Rick: Yeah, Joe: Yeah, I get Rick: We all Joe: Yeah Rick: Attract, Joe: Yeah. Rick: You know, the energy we put out. We named Energy. And so Joe: Yeah. Rick: That's how you and I became friends. You know, you Joe: Yeah. Rick: Kind of attract who you are or what you what you put out there. Yeah. Joe: Yup. So you get to Denver and they get rid of this other guy that Floorwax is with and you step in and you guys create this this Lewis and Floorwax show that was on the air for how many years? Rick: Well, Floorwax and I did twenty three years together. And then Joe: Ok. Rick: Unfortunately for floor wax, he ended up quitting the show and he's been gone ever since. So he's been gone for seven years now. And the show continues to go on. The show is still very successful. You know, big revenue maker, big ratings. It's amazing. I can't believe it's lasted this long. I really can't. Joe: Yup, yeah, and there must have been a lot of pressure, right, when that whole thing happened where Floorwax was going away, you were still handed the show to say, let's keep it going and make the best of it. And I'm sure at that point everybody's eyes were on you going, ok, can he pull this off without having the secondary person with him on the air to exchange that banter with and all that other stuff? And I know listening to it after that, that it just it just kept shooting upward. It just was amazing! Rick: Yeah, I kind of thought Joe: And still is so... Rick: Maybe it was over here in Denver when he had left. In fact, I hired an agent outside. You know, the more I had a New York agent, you know, a national agent thinking that I would probably be looking for another job. And I looked at it once again as an opportunity. You know, like, all right, this is the universe telling me, hey, it's time to move on. Floorwax left in January and by that summer, the radio show was number one in the morning. And so then they the company was coming back to me talking about a new contract. And so it ended up working out where they signed me to a new contract. I don't think they thought it was going to work. I thought, I think they thought the show was over, you know, and this will be it. I think everybody was surprised, including myself. I ended up retooling the show, kind of reinventing it, reinventing myself. I looked at it as an opportunity to just get better. You know, I had a band with Floorwax as well, that was real successful. I looked at that as an opportunity to, as kind of a rebirth. And, and the approach that I took and it took a lot of work, it was a lot of work with the radio show and the band, to get it actually to the level we were before and in some cases even better. Joe: Right. So the timeline is you start with Floorwax. What year? Rick: 1990. Joe: And then it ends January of what year? Rick: Well, twenty three years later. So that would be 2013. Is what you Joe: Got Rick: Walked Joe: It. Rick: Off? Yeah. Joe: Ok. OK. And you picked up and you just just it was it's amazing. So I know that the list could be huge, but let's just for the sake of keeping it condensed. I know just a few times you invited me into the studio and I've been in town or I've listened to it from being in Arizona. What's the top five most famous people you either interviewed live in the studio or remotely on like call-ins over the phone? I know it's ridiculous because the list is probably hundreds. Rick: You know what it is, it's a really hard question to answer. Joe: Did any of them make you nervous? How's that? Maybe that would pinpoint them somebody like being really over the top. Well known. Rick: I literally interviewed almost everybody you can think of joke. You know, if even when I was in L.A., I worked for Westwood One and my job was to go get, to do probably seven to 10 interviews a week of either movie stars or rock ah, you know, rock stars, singer songwriters. So I was interviewing seven to 10 people a week for a couple of years out there. I interviewed everybody. When somebody is new album would come out, I got to meet them at a hotel in their hotel room, you know, and interview them. So it's all kind of a blur, to be honest Joe: Yeah, I'm Rick: With Joe: Sure. Rick: You. You started naming names. I could I could tell you. Oh, yeah. Joe: Yeah. Rick: I could tell you a story about Joe: Yep. Rick: That Westwood One gig did make me a really good interviewer or me, you know, it made me really know how to interview people and how to how to listen to people instead of, instead of having a list of questions in your ask, that you ask, you know, question number seven off your list, while they're talking, you're already looking at question number eight. You're just like, you've just got to let it flow, you know, and it just go with the conversation because a lot of these people, they, they, they're not that comfortable being interviewed. It's not their thing, though, some of them are great, like David Lee Roth. That's a guy I've interviewed many times. All you gotta do is turn the mic on and let em' go and just try to guide it, you know and try to, hopefully you get from point A to point B to point C without losing your license. You know, guys like that, Ted Nugent, Joe: Right. Rick: Ted Nugent, you just let him go. But you try to guide them, you know, along the way to try to get what you want out of them. Guys like that are real easy, but a lot of them, they really have very little to say. A lot of a lot of these rock stars are somewhat introverted, movie stars, really a introverted.  Movie stars, you take away a script, they don't have a whole lot to say. You know, they're always you know, they're going off, everything they do is off a script. You've seen some of these guys on the talk shows. You know, it takes a really good interviewer, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman guys like that, to bring them out. And so you learn how to do that. I like I have so many. I really. Joe: I know, I know it's it's it's Rick: We Joe: A bad Rick: Wear Joe: Question. Rick: This watch. We can do this for hours Joe: I know, Rick: A day Joe: I Rick: For. Joe: Know. All right. So now you are currently on the Fox, 1.3, 103.5 Rick: Yeah. Joe: On weekdays. And you've been doing that alone since the spring of 2013. Correct. January 2013, that's Rick: Since Joe: When four Rick: January Joe: Weeks Rick: Of Joe: Left. Rick: 2013. Joe: Ok. So on top of that, you recently. I don't, I say recently only because in this industry, you know, a couple of years is still recent. But you, is it true that you're the color commentator for the Denver Broncos? I just didn't want Rick: This Joe: To get Rick: Is true, Joe: It wrong. I don't Rick: Joe. Joe: Want to say. Rick: Yes, it Joe: And Rick: Is. Joe: Just for Rick: Yes, Joe: The audience Rick: It is a. Joe: Sake, because I didn't even though I watch a shit ton of football, I didn't really understand what color color commentator was. So if you can quickly, you know, explain what that means, because I don't want to I don't want to give it the wrong description. Rick: Ok, I, I've been doing play by play, which is a different role for a long time, going back to when I was in college, I'd been doing play by play of high school and college games for, I got back into it at least 10, maybe 12 years ago, and I was working for Comcast here in Denver doing games play by play. So it wasn't like this whole thing of being at the booth was foreign to me. So four years ago. Ed McCaffrey was the color commentator on the radio on the Broncos flagship station. Ed McCaffrey, great football player, Denver Bronco legend. And he for some reason had to miss a game and so my boss called me like on a Tuesday and he said, "Hey, Ed can't do the game Sunday in Jacksonville, what do you think? You think you can do it?" I was like, yeah, yeah, I can do it. No fear, right?. I'd never been a color commentator before, but I understood the role because I've done play-by-play so much, so I prepped for it really hard and did the game and it went really, really well. And so much so that I thought, you know, you know if Ed ever decides he doesn't want to do this anymore, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring and see if I can get that job. And it happened the following spring. Ed McCaffrey decided that he wanted to spend more time with his kids. He's got at the time, I think he had two kids in the NFL and one in college. Christian McCaffrey, his son, is one of the best running backs in the NFL. So he, he decided he wanted to watch him play more and didn't have time to do this. Rick: So, I did get the job and so the color commentator is a is a different role than play by play. The color commentator has a very short window to try to color up the broadcast, keep in mind, this is radio, not TV. It's different on TV, on TV, you don't have to explain what happened because everybody can see it. On the radio, you have to paint the picture. And so the play by play guy will tell what happened on the play and in some cases even break it down. And then I have about maybe 10 seconds in between plays to say something that he didn't already say that actually add something to the broadcast and moves it forward and kind of resets the next play and so, it's a real challenge. It's a real challenge. I always thought play by play was easier, I still do, I think for me, play by play is easier to do than the color roll. So it was a bit of a learning curve on it. But I really, really enjoy it because it's challenged me for the first time in a long time, not only with the prep that's involved, that it's a lot of prep, but the speed of the broadcast is, is such that, you really got to be on your game because it's moving really fast and you got one shot. So it's like you're a Nik Wallenda, you know, when you're on a tight rope walking across the canyon, there's no safety net. You've got to be on your game. You've got to be super focused. Joe: Yeah, and it has to be Rick: And Joe: This Rick: That's Joe: Super Rick: What I like about Joe: Delicate Rick: It. Joe: Balance between knowing when he's actually done saying what he's going to say in the play by play and where you guys aren't constantly stepping on on top of each other and then there's room for the next play to come in or whatever. I hear it, I just I, I'm baffled at how it gets done so cleanly. Rick: Yeah. And my partner, Dave Logan is one of the best in the business. He is up in the upper elite 1 percent of play by play guys in the world and so the fact that he's so good, of course he could cover up any mistake that I might make or if I if I, you know, stub my toe a little bit, he can completely cover it up in a very smooth way, which I'm sure he's done for me many times, you know, to make the broadcast on good. You know, the fact that I've been in broadcasting so long, well over 30 years, what, 39 years, you know that I'm able to make a broadcast sound good. Joe: No. Rick: Let's figure out a way Joe: Go Rick: To make Joe: Ahead. Rick: It something. Joe: Yeah. So Rick: And Joe: I Rick: So Joe: Just it just as we're talking Rick: That's Joe: About Rick: What I Joe: This Rick: Do. Joe: See how I stepped Rick: Yeah. Joe: Right on top. Yeah, that's right. So is it true? I don't know if if where I heard this, but is it true that you are the only broadcast person doing these NFL games that is not and an ex NFL player. Rick: Yeah, on TV, I don't think there's anybody certainly on ah,  I don't anybody doing NFL games on TV that wasn't a player. There may be one on the radio, but I don't know who that would be. There's only 32 teams. So you got 32 broadcast teams doing it on radio. I don't think there is a guy doing color that didn't play in the NFL. Most of the play by play guys or guys like me that are broadcast, you know, guys, you know, experience broadcast guys. We kind of flipped the formula in our broadcast because Dave Logan played 10 years in the NFL. So you've got to play by play guy that played 10 years in the NFL. And then me being a broadcaster that I know the game, I understand the game, I played a little bit of football myself, so I totally get it. But it is pretty unique. Joe: And you're having to do what is an eight away and eight home? Rick: Yeah, eight home/away and then four preseason games, so 20 games a year. Last year we did twenty one because we had the Hall of Fame game. Joe: Right. And what's the most grueling conflict with the rad... that, you know, the morning drive time show now with you having to do the football games, what what days are the hardest for you? Is it Mondays because of the Sunday game or? Rick: Well, if we play a game like on a Sunday night or Monday night or Thursday night on the road, I don't work the next morning on the radio because we will get into 4:00 o'clock in the morning, sometimes 05:00 in the morning. So I take the morning show off. I do two radio shows a day, I don't know, I don't think you're even aware of it. But I'm do two live radio shows a day. So I do the morning show on the Fox actually from 6 to 9 a.m. from 9 to noon, I do a talk show on K.O.A., which is the Broncos flagship station with Dave Logan and Kathie Lee, who's on with me on the Fox show. So I'm doing six hours of my radio in a day. Joe: I had no idea. Rick: That also also pretty, pretty unheard up in a major market. Joe: Yeah, I had no idea that you were doing that extra stuff, I had only known about the Rick: Yeah. Joe: The Morning show so well. Rick: Well, this is why you don't hear from me much anymore. [laughter] Joe: I don't that's why I'm excited that I have you right now and I can't let you go until I get through Rick: Yes. Joe: A lot of this stuff. So let's let's bounce over to, you know, you and I have this mutual kinship and in playing drums. So when did you start playing? And then we skipped over it a little bit, when you're talking about you and Floorwax and having your band, which was the Groove Hawgs and now you have The Rick Lewis Project and you run the band and, and you and I had this same sort of leadership role in our bands. But when did you start playing drums? Rick: Yeah, I started playing drums at 17, I believe. I played piano when I was a little kid. Ah like classically trained, you know, lessons, piano recitals, all of that. I probably played piano for about three and a half years, I never liked it, but my mom was kind of forcing it on me. I would have much rather been outside playing football or baseball or whatever. So that was always the dilemma for me and I was pretty good. I picked it up pretty quick, I could read music and all of that. And then she finally, she, she gave up and said, "Ok, you can quit piano and do whatever you want." You know, I'd always wanted to play drums, I was always interested in drums but my mom and dad would never get me even a snare drum up. You know, we had five kids in the family, we didn't know we didn't have enough money for, to go out and buy me a drum kit. So I just kind of put that on the back burner, but at 17, somehow my younger brother got a drum kit. I don't know, I don't remember how it happened. Maybe my mom or dad gave it to him for a Christmas gift or whatever, and I started playing drums at 17 and I realized right away, like, you know, I can I can kind of play these. And, so I really took a great interest in it, and I played a lot of self-taught, as you know, played along to records, you know, put headphones on and just play the songs. And so I learned how to play, I think I learned how to play musically, you know, I never took any lessons and so for me, I play like the record because that's how I learned how to play. And like I say, I was so people I don't have chops, I have a chop, I got one. You know, I can play a song, I can play a groove, right? That's all I got, I can play a groove, but Joe: You have more than that, trust me, I've seen you play. Rick: Well, I don't. But I, I played until I was twenty one, when I went to NAU we'd go to the music room, me and a bunch of guys, you know, and we would jam in the music room. Remember I played once in a country bar in Flagstaff. You know, it took a lot of beer to Joe: Yes. Rick: Get up there to do that. And I did it and I just I just loved it. But then when I moved to LA to be an actor, I quit playing drums and I didn't pick up a pair of drumsticks again until I was probably 40 years old, so almost a 20 year span of not Joe: Well. Rick: Playing drums. And then when I was 40, I got it, I got interested again and I bought myself a drum kit and started to try to get up to speed and we formed a band pretty soon after that. That was the Groove Hawgs Band and with the connections I have here in town, I was able to hire the best musicians around here and it was it was a pretty good band. It because of who we were on the radio and Floorwax was in the band too. Because of who we were on the radio and the high profile that we had, we were getting really good gigs. The first gig we ever played was at Red Rocks...sorry, Joe. Joe: I know, it's like man! Rick: Yeah, we opened for the Doobie Brothers and CCR at Red Rocks and it was just amazing! And I was working as hard as I could to get back up to speed. You know, just practicing every day and having had no formal training, you know, was strictly just instinctive, you know, trying to get better and once again, just play the music, just trying to play songs. You know, for some reason, I got a really good natural feel for song structure. So that that, that's a gift. And being able to play drums is probably, it might be my favorite thing I do right now is maybe playing music, which is saying a lot because I do a lot of really cool things. The Groove Hawgs got to play big shows and we played, we opened up for ZZ Top and James Brown and Leonard Skinner and Ted Nugent to Def Leppard. We got to open probably seven shows at Red Rocks. Joe: That's amazing! Rick: We opened for The Who at the Pepsi Center...that was amazing! Back in 2007 or 8, there was The Who and The Pretenders at The Pepsi Center. So we played some really Joe: And you do it right, too, because you have a drum tech and I don't Rick: Good gigs Joe: So you just rollup, with your stick bag on your shoulder and you're like, oh, here. Rick: Yeah, yeah. The whole breaking down Joe: Oh, Rick: The drum kit, Joe: God. Rick: They...love...about it...that's one that's the big downside of playing drums. But luckily for us, you know, we the band gets paid pretty good for doing these gigs and so I can afford to pay my band Joe: Yeah. Rick: Members really well. You Joe: Yeah. Rick: Know, I told you they get paid really well and so I can also afford to have a Joe: Yep. Rick: Drum tech who can do all of that Joe: Yeah. Rick: For me as well. So I'm not in it for the money. Joe: No, Rick: Believe me, Joe: I Rick: This has nothing to do with money for me, just playing music. Joe: Know, I know. And it's too bad. I know right now it's like a kind of a tough question, but you guys are still doing local gigs around town. Like when things get on the other side of what's happening now with COVID-19, you guys will be out doing your normal festivals that, you normally just play like festivals and things, right? You're not. Rick: Yeah, we have a new band, The Rick Lewis Project started in 2013. So seven years in already and once again hired the best musicians around here. We played some big gigs too, which we've opened for Leonard Skinner and you know, many other people like that. We did a show with Ziggy Marley, I mean, we were the only non reggae band on the lineup and pulled it off. We ended up switching like four or five of our songs into reggae songs. I never played reggae before and we pulled it off. So it's it's really, really cool. But yeah, we have a residency at a casino here so that we can play anytime we want, pretty much so we play there about every six weeks. In the summer, we play a lot of festivals and we do still support some big acts. We've got a show in August with Government Mule on the books. Hopefully we'll be able to play it. You know, that type of thing. And others were I mean, we were just in the process of really rounding out our schedule for 2020 when all of this Coronavirus Joe: Yeah. Rick: Hit. Hopefully we can come out of it. You Joe: Yeah. Rick: Know, who knows? I think I think we will. I think by at least July, I would think, we'll be able to start playing live shows again and people will be able to start going to concerts again...I'm optimistic Joe: Yeah. Rick: About that. But Joe: Yeah. Rick: Who knows? Joe: Yeah, it's crazy. So this is something I don't know if I've ever asked you or we talked about and I'll have a few more things, so I'm not going to keep you much longer. But if you had the opportunity with all you know about music and all the musicians you've made and all of the conversations that you've heard, if you had ever had the chance to become a professional touring drummer over being the, you know, the radio personality that you are and all of that, would you ever have chosen that, that lifestyle? Rick: Well, that's a good question! Joe: I know you love performing in front of people. When I watch you play, I'm like, you know, you are so in your element doing it and and you're a great frontman when, when you know, anytime that I've jumped in behind the drums and you've run up to the front of the stage and like, you know, you're a great front man as well. So I just was like, man I wonder if he ever goes God, if I had only started that earlier and, and my path taking me in that direction. Rick: That's a great question! I have no regrets but I do think that looking back on it now, I wish I would have focused more on music than sports because, sports was my whole world back then and now I realize that for most people, your athletic career is over and after high school and if you're lucky, after college. Very, very few get to play professionally or make a living out of playing sports. Looking back on it now, I wish I would have stuck to the piano. You know, I told my mom that recently. I said, I wish you would have forced me to continue to play, just to establish, you know, that side of me. I wish, you know what I did? I did discover drums young enough at 17 that I could have been probably a pretty darn good drummer by now, good enough to tour with a big band. I don't know if I put enough work into it to be that good. I think, I have, I have whats inside of me to be that good but I haven't put in the work you know, because of everything else I do. You know, I wasn't a guy that could sit down and play drums for 10 hours a day, which a lot of guys do it, you might have been one of them. I was a guy who could sit down and play drums for an hour a day. And so that's what I did, you know, for 20 plus years, I would play for an hour a day. That's all I had time for,you know, with a family and an established radio show and everything else that I was doing. But boy, you know what? If I could, I sometimes say, man, if if like Earth, Wind & Fire would hire me to go on a tour, because I love playing funk music, that's my thing. If I could be the drummer and Earth, Wind & Fire on one tour, Joe: Yeah. Rick: that would be hard to turn that down, the really hard to turn that down. But, but, you know, a lot of musicians, a lot of these successful musicians that we all know and love, they've had a lot of hardships along the way and a lot of it's drugs and alcohol. Almost every one of these successful bands goes through that. You know what? I don't know, man, I don't think I'd change anything. You know look look, you know, my friend Danny Seraphine, who is the drummer from Chicago...longtime drummer from Chicago. I just watched a documentary on the band and I think it was on Netflix and drugs and alcohol once again, you know, Terry Kath's ends up killing himself. Maybe accidentally, maybe not. But you watch every documentary on Netflix about a successful rock bands, it's drugs and alcohol that takes them, almost all of them down. I don't know if it would be worth it to have to go through that type of thing but I did take one lesson on drums and that was Danny Seraphine. I told you that, right? Joe: Yeah. Rick: Yeah. Danny, Danny Seraphine came this my basement Joe: Yeah. Rick: Right here that we're sitting in. Joe: He's a sweetheart. Rick: Danny Seraphine came over and spent a weekend, I think, or two or three nights at my house and I got to drum kits set up in my house and he goes, "Hey man, let's get out a jam a little bit." He goes, "I want to see if I can help you." And I was pretty intimidated, but once again, no fear. So we sat down and we played together for like 90 minutes together, side by side. You know, he'd play a lick and I'd try to copy it. You know, that he'd play a groove and I jump in on it. And then he showed me a couple of things and after about 90 minutes, we stopped. He said, said, "You're a good player" and this is a long time ago, this is probably almost 15 years ago, he said, he said, "You're a good player," he goes, "but I can tell you don't have you." He said, "I can tell you you don't think you're a good player." He goes, "You should know you're a good player" and he goes, You have good time", he said "You have a great sense of time, great feel, a great groove." And he said, "Take that with you every time you play and realize that every musician wants a drummer that has those three things, time, feel groove..You said you got it." He says believe me. "That's what all these guitar players want is a drummer like that," he said "they don't want drummers that are playing all over the song and doing drum fills, you know, every break," And he said, "Take that and be confident that you have that." And that really helped me a lot. So that one lesson from Danny Seraphine really meant a lot to me and it gave me the confidence to, you know, be myself in play and play like I do, which is my one chop, I've got the one, I got the one Joe: Yeah. Rick: Here. Joe: Doesn't matter a grooves, it feels great. That's all right, man. All right, so what's next for Rick Lewis? What's...anything that is a super exciting that you can talk about or you know, I know you got a shit ton on your plate, I don't even know how you sleep. But just wondered if there's anything new you wanted to talk about before I let you go. Rick: I've gotten really good at living in the moment and living in the now. Joe

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A podcaster goes to the countryside to spend a quiet weekend after losing his job and having his last complicated relationship implode. He rents a country house to an old-fashioned god, who struggles to hide his drunken tendencies. On Episode 376 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Tone-Deaf, from director Richard Bates Jr.! We also settle on which film we will do for our first ever commentary for Patreon supporters, we talk about the generational divide between boomers and millennials, and we find out which Rusty is the best Rusty! So grab your new 8x10, take an acid trip with Ray Wise and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Spackle, Surmise and Survey, mounting the camera, leap before you look, Rock and Shock, Bruce Campbell, The Ace Frehley hut, gen pop, Blueball Blockers, I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu, Meir Zarchi, suffering for art, Manos: The Hands of Fate, worst movies of all time, Tony Stocks and Bonds, Six Flags, Batwing Coaster, Cognac, Edgar Allan Poe, a lot of culture, new 8x10s, Pulse Magazine, Tone-Deaf, Richard Bates Jr, getting your eyes dilated, Excision, Ray Wise, Robert Patrick, Fire in the Sky, The Dead Don’t Die, dementia, D-Generation X, what is a millennial?, millennial deniers, Gabe Kaplan, the generational divide, Nicolas Cage, Mom and Dad, entitlement, Generation Z, acid trip, Johnny Pemberton, Kim Delaney, $5 Car Wash, T-1000, Parasite, 31 Days of Halloween, Secrets in the Hot Spring, Cat’s Eye, Ravenous, Greasy Strangler, Meet the Feebles, One Cut of the Dead, Late Phases, El Goro, Ethan Embry, “I forgot what I remembered”, National Lampoon's Vacation Films, pizza is a vegetable?, dual-wielding mallets, dough or crust?, Muhammad Ollie, Police Academy 2, Weird Science, and Background Check by Second Rusty.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comUse our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TheDeaditesTVInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradio)

EXTENDED PODCAST VERSION - LISTEN TO THE PODCAST FOR THE FULL INTERVIEW! INTERVIEWED BY GUEST HOST LA Personal Development Founder Mike Gormley Our VERY SPECIAL GUEST is Chairman/CEO/Founder of Panacea Entertainment Eric Gardner! Panacea Entertainment was founded in 1970 as the very first rock and roll tour coordination company by Eric Gardner, then a graduate student earning his Master of Fine Arts in playwriting at Columbia University. His early clients were the Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and KISS. By 1973 Panacea was coordinating tours for major bands in 23 countries. By 1974 Panacea's emphasis had shifted to talent management, and over the years Gardner has represented such diverse artists as Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones, Max Weinberg and Steven Van Zandt (and the majority of the E Street Band), Donny Osmond, David Hasselhoff, Richard Belzer, Timothy Leary, Arianna Huffington, Richard Chamberlain, Firesign Theater, Ben Stein, Gabe Kaplan, Rick Wright of Pink Floyd, the Stray Cats, Kenney Jones of The Who/Faces/Small Faces, Jefferson Starship, the Sex Pistols, John Lydon, Hot Tuna, Blue Oyster Cult, Utopia, Cheech Marin, Bettye LaVette, Carmine Appice/Vanilla Fudge, The Jam, The Dictators, Jim Steinman, Ralph Bakshi, Grace Jones, and John Kricfalusi (the creator of “Ren & Stimpy”). In 1981 Gardner relocated Panacea from New York to Los Angeles to expand into film and television. His first foray was signing Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson in 1982 and over the next 26 years he produced her film and television projects. He has since produced over 200 hours of national television and several features. In 2016 "Hoff The Record", which Gardner executive produced, won Best Comedy Series at the International EMMY® Awards. In 2017 Gardner was inducted into The Personal Managers Hall of Fame Mike Gormley L.A. Personal Development Website: www.lapersdev.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.gormley.10?fref=ts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/home Activity Breeds Activity

RADIO VERSION - LISTEN TO THE PODCAST FOR THE FULL INTERVIEW! INTERVIEWED BY GUEST HOST LA Personal Development Founder Mike Gormley Our VERY SPECIAL GUEST is Chairman/CEO/Founder of Panacea Entertainment Eric Gardner! Panacea Entertainment was founded in 1970 as the very first rock and roll tour coordination company by Eric Gardner, then a graduate student earning his Master of Fine Arts in playwriting at Columbia University. His early clients were the Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and KISS. By 1973 Panacea was coordinating tours for major bands in 23 countries. By 1974 Panacea's emphasis had shifted to talent management, and over the years Gardner has represented such diverse artists as Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones, Max Weinberg and Steven Van Zandt (and the majority of the E Street Band), Donny Osmond, David Hasselhoff, Richard Belzer, Timothy Leary, Arianna Huffington, Richard Chamberlain, Firesign Theater, Ben Stein, Gabe Kaplan, Rick Wright of Pink Floyd, the Stray Cats, Kenney Jones of The Who/Faces/Small Faces, Jefferson Starship, the Sex Pistols, John Lydon, Hot Tuna, Blue Oyster Cult, Utopia, Cheech Marin, Bettye LaVette, Carmine Appice/Vanilla Fudge, The Jam, The Dictators, Jim Steinman, Ralph Bakshi, Grace Jones, and John Kricfalusi (the creator of “Ren & Stimpy”). In 1981 Gardner relocated Panacea from New York to Los Angeles to expand into film and television. His first foray was signing Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson in 1982 and over the next 26 years he produced her film and television projects. He has since produced over 200 hours of national television and several features. In 2016 "Hoff The Record", which Gardner executive produced, won Best Comedy Series at the International EMMY® Awards. In 2017 Gardner was inducted into The Personal Managers Hall of Fame Mike Gormley L.A. Personal Development Website: www.lapersdev.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.gormley.10?fref=ts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/home Activity Breeds Activity

Matthew and I talk about and/or mention in passing: TV ratings for 1979-1980, Linda Marsh, Margie Peters, Hallmark, Little Darlings, Tatum O’Neal, Kristy MacNichol, Ordinary People, Dallas, Dynasty, Lou Grant, M*A*S*H*, Soap, Magnum P.I., Dukes Of Hazzard, One Day At A Time, WKRP in Cincinnati, Laverne & Shirley, Bosom Buddies, Mork & Mindy, Three’s Company, That’s Incredible, Happy Days, Angie, 60 Minutes, The Ropers, All In The Family, Taxi, Eight Is Enough, Charlie’s Angels, Little House On The Prairie, Harriet Olsen, Melissa Gilbert, 20/20, That’s Incredible!, Alice, Flo, The Jeffersons, Archie Bunker’s Place, House Calls, Real People, CHiPs, Diff’rent Strokes, lesbianism, C-section births, gold-star and platinum-star gays, theme song clips, Zac Efron, Gene Shalit, John Travolta, Gabe Kaplan, natural blondes, Jamie-Lyn Markos, Designing Women, Valerie, Gary Coleman, electrical tape, Philip McKeon, Rue McClanahan, Megan Mullally, Jean Stapleton, Carroll O’Connor, The Today Show, Carol Channing, public pretzel bowls, flu shots, Kmart, Zayre, 9 to 5.

Award-winning screenwriter, Zak Penn joins us to discuss finding early success at age 23, developing his craft, and working with with Stephen Spielberg on READY PLAYER ONE. Guest Biography Zak Penn’s career began as a screenwriter when he sold his first script, LAST ACTION HERO, at the age of twenty-three. Since then, Penn has become known for his work on numerous films based on Marvel comics, including X-MEN 2 and X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, ELEKTRA, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, and most recently, THE AVENGERS. He has also dabbled in other genres, writing scripts for disparate films such as P.C.U., BEHIND ENEMY LINES and SUSPECT ZERO. Penn’s shift into independent cinema began when he collaborated with his idol, Werner Herzog, on the script for RESCUE DAWN. Penn directed and co-starred with Herzog in INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS, his award-winning “hoax” documentary about the legendary director’s attempts to make a film about the equally legendary monster. THE GRAND, Penn’s second completely improvised film, was his third film with Herzog, and featured an eclectic cast including Woody Harrelson, David Cross, Ray Romano, Cheryl Hines, Dennis Farina and Gabe Kaplan. In addition, Penn co-wrote the original story for ANTZ and produced the animated film OSMOSIS JONES. He has also acted in a number of independent films, including STAR MAPS and CHUCK & BUCK. His first foray into television was the critically acclaimed original series ALPHAS starring David Strathairn. Penn directed the documentary ATARI: GAME OVER for Xbox Entertainment Studios. Penn most recently adapted the New York Times bestselling novel READY PLAYER ONE for Warner Bros. Directed by Stephen Spielberg, the film will be released in March 2018. Penn is currently working on a script for Warner Bros set in THE MATRIX universe. Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/036 In this episode, you will learn: Why adversity can be helpful in your career. How there are so many factors outside of one's control in the life of a screenwriter. The importance of enjoying the process of your work or whatever it is that you do. Find more from our guest: Wikipedia IMDb.com Twitter Mentioned in this episode: Last Action Hero The Incredible Hulk Marvel Studios DC Comics Werner Herzog Incident at Loch Ness Suspect Zero (2004) Ernest Cline Atari: Game Over (2014) Ready Player One (2018) Books: Ready Player One: A Novel by Ernest Cline Thanks for Listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Email me your address, and I'll mail you an autographed copy of Kimo West and Ken Emerson's CD, Slackers in Paradise. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Special thanks to Jim Kimo West for the music.

Kelly Monteith joins Mark to discuss his 30 plus appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Gabe Kaplan, and David Letterman.

This week on the Poker Central Podcast: Lots of Poker After Dark talk, the Super High Roller Bowl lottery preview, Gabe Kaplan's legendary status, and an interview with Bryn Kenney. 1:16 - Checking in on Brent Hanks' health, the Super High Roller Bowl in China, how the event came together. 6:22 - The unaired exclusive Poker After Dark episodes being released on PokerGO featuring Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey.  9:15 - Moving Violations on Poker After Dark featuring Don Cheadle, Jennifer Tilly, Antonio Esfandiari and arguably one of the most entertaining hands of all time! 21:10 - "Whine and Cheese" Week on Poker After Dark featuring Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Do we need Hellmuth on every show, at all times? 27:50 - Celebrities on PokerGO: The epic status of Gabe Kaplan and his career in the game of poker.  30:30 - The 2018 Super High Roller Bowl Lottery, speculation, hot takes and a big name who's not going to particiapate.  37:05 - Which poker player would we most like to see on Survivor, as Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies is taking part in the Finnish version of the show.  41:04 - Alex Foxen and Kristen Bicknell crush it in Macau, becoming poker's hottest couple in the game! 42:00 - March Madness update, a 16 seed upsetting the No. 1 seed and a secret love for Purdue!  46:30 - The interview with Bryn Kenney about signing with GGPoker, playing the Super High Roller Bowl in China, the state of the online game and much more.  New to PokerGO? Subscribe right now and use the promo code REMKO to get $10 off the annual subscription. Tune in live for the Super High Roller Bowl lottery at 4:00 pm ET on March 21st and the "Whine and Cheese" week live cash game with Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth. 

Episode contains fragments of: Johann Johannsson, Circular Ruins, Westworld, Sweet Valley, Joe Frank, Alan Watts, THX-1138, possibilitywaves, Kenny Rankin, Gabor Mate, Lambchop, Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, thirtySomething, Jared Leto, Clare Danes, My So-Called Life, David Wingo, Michael Linnen, Jack Kornfield, Whiz Kids, Evan Doorbell, Robert Plant, WarGames, Ally Sheedy, Matthew Broderick, War On Drugs, Live phone callers, BBC Horror, sound effects, U2, Brian Eno, Gyorgy Ligeti, Philip Glass, Alan Rudolph, The Beatles, Matthew Modine, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charlie Kaufman, 3-2-1 Contact, Gabe Kaplan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Julie Haggerty, Albert Brooks, Al Pacino, Beth Orton, Devon Gummersall, William Shatner, Peter Schaffer, Milos Foreman, Mendy Holliday, Jackie, Matthew Mathis, and other bits. Johann Johannsson - "Dis 8 ynnkudagur" Circular Ruins - "Time Without End" Ken - "You just have to go on instinct. You can't control it. Just make it up." Westworld - "Please feel free to endulge your every whim" [Please go to the color-coded tram which will take you to the world of your choice] Sweet Valley - "Sentimental Trash" Joe Frank - "Bad Karma" Alan Watts - "Limits of Language" [You can't bite your own teeth] THX-1138 - "Stay Calm" possibilitywaves - "night emotions and paint" Kenny Rankin - "The Dolphin" - Mind Dusters [Thanks to Doug Schulkind] Gabor Mate - "ReWild Yourself" [Children crying it out] Lambchop - "About My Lighter" - No You Cmon [Loops] Lambchop - "The Problem" [Piano loop] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Your Turn to Be Happy" - Your Turn to Be Happy: Show #525 from 6/14/17 [Prior week's show. Lots and lots of samples are in here!] Jared Leto, Clare Danes - "I have this philosophy. Plans blow" - My So-Called Life [(You have a philosophy?)] Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow" Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey" Ken - "Talking in other show" thirtySomething actors - "thirtySomething samples" David Wingo, Michael Linnen - "Factory loops" - All the Real Girls Jack Kornfield - "A dedication to be present" [Via Joe Frank's Bad Karma] Whiz Kids actors - "6 digit password penetrator" - Whiz Kids, season 1 episode 8 (The Wrong Mr. Wright) Evan Doorbell - "QC514-285ESS1 (Phone phreaking)" [Via Neighbors Noise with Jesse Kaminsky: Playlist from May 23, 2017] Robert Plant - "Imagination and ingenuity can't get its nose in there" [Even more Whitesnake] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Your Turn to Be Happy" [Prior week's show. Lots and lots of samples are in here!. Incl. Albert Brooks] Melvin - "that system probably contains new data encryption algorithms,you'll never get in there" - WarGames Robert Plant - "College radio is great, has the right motives, funny music" Ally Sheedy, Matthew Broderick - "I was trying to break into ProtoVision" - WarGames [Can they tell you what that printout means? I wanted Jim to see that.] Jim and Melvin - "Mr. Potatohead, Mr. Potatohead!" - WarGames Ally Sheedy, Matthew Broderick - "These guys can get a little nervous (Can you wait here?)" - WarGames Ken - "You won't know what to say. Don't think." Jim and Melvin - "They probably programmed a backdoor" - WarGames Live phone caller - "Lullabye" War On Drugs - "Loops from prior week's show" Ken - "Call with lullabyes, make beans, share your dreams" thirtySomething actors - "Maybe there's no problem at all, It's just your turn to be happy" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Uncertainty is OK" [Hear this classic here. Includes Tony Shaloub scene from The Man Who Wasn't There] Live phone caller - "Laughing" BBC Horror vol 2 - "Lunatics Laugh" Sound effect - "Mischievous Laugh" Sound effect - "Laughing Man Insane" Ken - "That's some of the things that are here. It comes out all different ways." Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Your Turn to Be Happy" Live phone caller (vision fairie) - "Laughing" U2 & Brian Eno - "With or Without You" [Loops] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "A Weird Sense of Cognitive Dissonance" [Hear this classic here. The polarized quality of life these days can stir up a weird sense of cognitive dissonance. With callers, Brian Eno] Live phone caller - "Wake up, go to work, go to sleep, dream" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Layered Laughter Brings New Closure to the Guy" [Hear this classic here. With Matthew Mathis and 3-2-1 Contact] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "No Tomorrow Life" [Hear this classic here. With Her Space Holiday] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "None of This is What I Intended" [Hear this classic here. With Blue Oyster Cult, Tanya, John, Mendy] Gyorgy Ligeti - "Atmospheres (Overture from A Space Odyssey)" - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Limited edition) Live phone caller - "Singing" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Sometimes, out of nowhere, it's like this moment of clarity." - None of This is What I Intended: 5/17/05, show #365 [With Mendy and Philip Glass] Gyorgy Ligeti - "Jupiter and Beyond" - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Limited edition) Ken - "Raw, terrible, gorgeous, cacaphonic, euphonic" [After midnight, after 6pm] Live phone caller & Ken - "Good night, time to catch a train: Stream feedback echo chamber" Philip Glass - "Abandoned Factory" - Undertow Stream feedback echo chamber - "Kenzo & phone caller goodnight train continues" Live phone caller (vision fairie) - "There's actually nothing wrong with you. Nothing. Not even one thing. Not a single thing at all." Alan Rudolph - "Your whole life is about searching for one thing" - Equinox Kenzo & phone call echo chamber - "We're searching for nothing, we find what we look for" The Beatles - "It's All Too Much (vocals overdub)" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "It's Too Much (8-minute excerpt)" [Layered. This classic WFMU episode with live Beatles and Necks remixes can be heard here] Matthew Modine - "Pushing and Pulling" - Equinox - "Equinox: That's where light and dark are equal" - Equinox Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer - "In the morning when the sun rises, it's hard to believe there ever was a night" - Gaslight Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer - "They don't hang a man for that" - Gaslight Clare Danes - "It's just so obvious she's looking for someone to blame" - My So-Called Life Charlie Kaufman - "Failure is a badge of honor: it means you risked failure" Charlie Kaufman - "I wanted to do something that I don't know how to do" [The experience of watching someone fumble. I don't know anything. An opportunity to recognize our common humanity and vulnerability.] Robert Plant - "College radio motives are right. I tune into 91.1 and hear some very funny music and some great stuff" [They think listener will switch channels.] Ken - "Shows within shows within shows. lastever.org has longevity" Sweet Valley - "One" [I've got everything I want] 3-2-1 contact - "You do have a tendency to regard the computer as your friend" [From earlier episode] Gabe Kaplan - "Vote for the dude with the most balloons" - Welcome Back Kotter, season 1 episode 5 Trader - "Dreams of recession, it's an opportunity to make money" - BBC U2 & Brian Eno - "With or Without You" - The Joshua Tree [Loops] Westworld - "Nothing can go wrong" Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins - "Crazy people don't ask if they're crazy, unless they're dead" - Proof Julie Haggerty, Albert Brooks - "I held things in so long, I just burst. Felt like I was going crazy" - Lost in America Al Pacino and woman - "King didn't drink from the poisoned well, didn't go crazy" - Serpico Beth Orton - "Mystery" [Loops] Devon Gummersall, Clare Danes - "You have no concept of anybody else's life. Are you completely insane? You have option of insanity" - My So-Called Life [That makes me crazy] Grandmother - "Being young is just as confusing as being old. You're just browsing through time" - Peggy Sue Got Married William Shatner - "Am i afraid of losing my job to that computer?" - Star Trek TOS-The Ultimate Computer (Season 2 episode 24, #53) Ingrid Bergman - "He said I was going out of my mind!" - Gaslight Peter Schaffer, Milos Foreman - "The division in the artist between light and dark" - Amadeus Director's Commentary Beth Orton - "Mystery" [Loops] Ken - "Speed relationships: How close can you get in 9 minutes?" Lambchop - "The Problem" Matthew Modine, and other guy - "Reminds me of something I heard on the radio" - Equinox Company - "The Island of Taste" [(after show, not in archive)] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76943

Episode contains fragments of: Johann Johannsson, Circular Ruins, Westworld, Sweet Valley, Joe Frank, Alan Watts, THX-1138, possibilitywaves, Kenny Rankin, Gabor Mate, Lambchop, Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, thirtySomething, Jared Leto, Clare Danes, My So-Called Life, David Wingo, Michael Linnen, Jack Kornfield, Whiz Kids, Evan Doorbell, Robert Plant, WarGames, Ally Sheedy, Matthew Broderick, War On Drugs, Live phone callers, BBC Horror, sound effects, U2, Brian Eno, Gyorgy Ligeti, Philip Glass, Alan Rudolph, The Beatles, Matthew Modine, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charlie Kaufman, 3-2-1 Contact, Gabe Kaplan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Julie Haggerty, Albert Brooks, Al Pacino, Beth Orton, Devon Gummersall, William Shatner, Peter Schaffer, Milos Foreman, Mendy Holliday, Jackie, Matthew Mathis, and other bits. Johann Johannsson - "Dis 8 ynnkudagur" Circular Ruins - "Time Without End" Ken - "You just have to go on instinct. You can't control it. Just make it up." Westworld - "Please feel free to endulge your every whim" [Please go to the color-coded tram which will take you to the world of your choice] Sweet Valley - "Sentimental Trash" Joe Frank - "Bad Karma" Alan Watts - "Limits of Language" [You can't bite your own teeth] THX-1138 - "Stay Calm" possibilitywaves - "night emotions and paint" Kenny Rankin - "The Dolphin" - Mind Dusters [Thanks to Doug Schulkind] Gabor Mate - "ReWild Yourself" [Children crying it out] Lambchop - "About My Lighter" - No You Cmon [Loops] Lambchop - "The Problem" [Piano loop] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Your Turn to Be Happy" - Your Turn to Be Happy: Show #525 from 6/14/17 [Prior week's show. Lots and lots of samples are in here!] Jared Leto, Clare Danes - "I have this philosophy. Plans blow" - My So-Called Life [(You have a philosophy?)] Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow" Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey" Ken - "Talking in other show" thirtySomething actors - "thirtySomething samples" David Wingo, Michael Linnen - "Factory loops" - All the Real Girls Jack Kornfield - "A dedication to be present" [Via Joe Frank's Bad Karma] Whiz Kids actors - "6 digit password penetrator" - Whiz Kids, season 1 episode 8 (The Wrong Mr. Wright) Evan Doorbell - "QC514-285ESS1 (Phone phreaking)" [Via Neighbors Noise with Jesse Kaminsky: Playlist from May 23, 2017] Robert Plant - "Imagination and ingenuity can't get its nose in there" [Even more Whitesnake] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Your Turn to Be Happy" [Prior week's show. Lots and lots of samples are in here!. Incl. Albert Brooks] Melvin - "that system probably contains new data encryption algorithms,you'll never get in there" - WarGames Robert Plant - "College radio is great, has the right motives, funny music" Ally Sheedy, Matthew Broderick - "I was trying to break into ProtoVision" - WarGames [Can they tell you what that printout means? I wanted Jim to see that.] Jim and Melvin - "Mr. Potatohead, Mr. Potatohead!" - WarGames Ally Sheedy, Matthew Broderick - "These guys can get a little nervous (Can you wait here?)" - WarGames Ken - "You won't know what to say. Don't think." Jim and Melvin - "They probably programmed a backdoor" - WarGames Live phone caller - "Lullabye" War On Drugs - "Loops from prior week's show" Ken - "Call with lullabyes, make beans, share your dreams" thirtySomething actors - "Maybe there's no problem at all, It's just your turn to be happy" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Uncertainty is OK" [Hear this classic here. Includes Tony Shaloub scene from The Man Who Wasn't There] Live phone caller - "Laughing" BBC Horror vol 2 - "Lunatics Laugh" Sound effect - "Mischievous Laugh" Sound effect - "Laughing Man Insane" Ken - "That's some of the things that are here. It comes out all different ways." Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Your Turn to Be Happy" Live phone caller (vision fairie) - "Laughing" U2 & Brian Eno - "With or Without You" [Loops] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "A Weird Sense of Cognitive Dissonance" [Hear this classic here. The polarized quality of life these days can stir up a weird sense of cognitive dissonance. With callers, Brian Eno] Live phone caller - "Wake up, go to work, go to sleep, dream" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Layered Laughter Brings New Closure to the Guy" [Hear this classic here. With Matthew Mathis and 3-2-1 Contact] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "No Tomorrow Life" [Hear this classic here. With Her Space Holiday] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "None of This is What I Intended" [Hear this classic here. With Blue Oyster Cult, Tanya, John, Mendy] Gyorgy Ligeti - "Atmospheres (Overture from A Space Odyssey)" - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Limited edition) Live phone caller - "Singing" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Sometimes, out of nowhere, it's like this moment of clarity." - None of This is What I Intended: 5/17/05, show #365 [With Mendy and Philip Glass] Gyorgy Ligeti - "Jupiter and Beyond" - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Limited edition) Ken - "Raw, terrible, gorgeous, cacaphonic, euphonic" [After midnight, after 6pm] Live phone caller & Ken - "Good night, time to catch a train: Stream feedback echo chamber" Philip Glass - "Abandoned Factory" - Undertow Stream feedback echo chamber - "Kenzo & phone caller goodnight train continues" Live phone caller (vision fairie) - "There's actually nothing wrong with you. Nothing. Not even one thing. Not a single thing at all." Alan Rudolph - "Your whole life is about searching for one thing" - Equinox Kenzo & phone call echo chamber - "We're searching for nothing, we find what we look for" The Beatles - "It's All Too Much (vocals overdub)" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "It's Too Much (8-minute excerpt)" [Layered. This classic WFMU episode with live Beatles and Necks remixes can be heard here] Matthew Modine - "Pushing and Pulling" - Equinox - "Equinox: That's where light and dark are equal" - Equinox Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer - "In the morning when the sun rises, it's hard to believe there ever was a night" - Gaslight Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer - "They don't hang a man for that" - Gaslight Clare Danes - "It's just so obvious she's looking for someone to blame" - My So-Called Life Charlie Kaufman - "Failure is a badge of honor: it means you risked failure" Charlie Kaufman - "I wanted to do something that I don't know how to do" [The experience of watching someone fumble. I don't know anything. An opportunity to recognize our common humanity and vulnerability.] Robert Plant - "College radio motives are right. I tune into 91.1 and hear some very funny music and some great stuff" [They think listener will switch channels.] Ken - "Shows within shows within shows. lastever.org has longevity" Sweet Valley - "One" [I've got everything I want] 3-2-1 contact - "You do have a tendency to regard the computer as your friend" [From earlier episode] Gabe Kaplan - "Vote for the dude with the most balloons" - Welcome Back Kotter, season 1 episode 5 Trader - "Dreams of recession, it's an opportunity to make money" - BBC U2 & Brian Eno - "With or Without You" - The Joshua Tree [Loops] Westworld - "Nothing can go wrong" Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins - "Crazy people don't ask if they're crazy, unless they're dead" - Proof Julie Haggerty, Albert Brooks - "I held things in so long, I just burst. Felt like I was going crazy" - Lost in America Al Pacino and woman - "King didn't drink from the poisoned well, didn't go crazy" - Serpico Beth Orton - "Mystery" [Loops] Devon Gummersall, Clare Danes - "You have no concept of anybody else's life. Are you completely insane? You have option of insanity" - My So-Called Life [That makes me crazy] Grandmother - "Being young is just as confusing as being old. You're just browsing through time" - Peggy Sue Got Married William Shatner - "Am i afraid of losing my job to that computer?" - Star Trek TOS-The Ultimate Computer (Season 2 episode 24, #53) Ingrid Bergman - "He said I was going out of my mind!" - Gaslight Peter Schaffer, Milos Foreman - "The division in the artist between light and dark" - Amadeus Director's Commentary Beth Orton - "Mystery" [Loops] Ken - "Speed relationships: How close can you get in 9 minutes?" Lambchop - "The Problem" Matthew Modine, and other guy - "Reminds me of something I heard on the radio" - Equinox Company - "The Island of Taste" [(after show, not in archive)] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76943

For our season two finale, we finally take a look at perhaps the ultimate example of the Battle of the Network Shows era, our namesake, Battle of the Network Stars. In this first-ever Battle from 1976, Robert Conrad, Telly Savalas, and Gabe Kaplan lead teams from NBC, CBS, and ABC in athletic competitions for bragging rights and a sizeable prize. Celebrities, Howard Cosell, controversy, swimsuits, short shorts, Speedos, mustaches, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat! This one has it all!

Doug and Strickland. No content, total shittery. Just another Tuesday on The Nice Guys.    Reach Us Here: Doug- @DJDoug Strickland- @NiceGuyonBiz On Facebook: The Nice Guys Community page   Become a patron and support the podcast at www.Patreon.com/NiceGuys   Show Notes by Production Assistant - Anna Nygren     Intro Reach the $150 Patreon level and Strick will make it worth your while Doug's got a new toy… a Mac toy, of course LIke a Pro, Bro March 31st was Gabe Kaplan's birthday! Happy Belated Birthday!!! Welcome, you new listeners, you Should the Nice Guys do repeat episodes?! Sounds kinda fun… Strick went to college for 5 years and never seemed to finish a degree NO JUDGMENT Doug might be a rhyming wizard, who knew? AND he admits Apple is total mind control. It's a good day. Apple still doesn't have touch screen? Bummer Closing Lines Shout out to the Patreon $5-$10 peeps! We see you :) Do you want to be a part of our slack group? All you need to do is ask!     Proud to be affiliated with the C-Suite Radio Network     Doug's Stuff: Amazon #1 Best selling book Nice Guys Finish First. Business Building Bootcamp (10 Module Course)   Partner Links: Amazon.com: Click before buying anything. Help support the podcast. Julie Reisler's book- Get a PhD in You Sign up for Sanebox free and get a $10.00 credit on us: The best way to get a handle on your E-Mail. Interview Valet:  Get interviewed on top podcasts and share your message. Acuity Scheduling: Stop wasting time going back and forth scheduling appointments   Survey: Take our short survey so The Nice Guys know what you like.   Nice Guys Links Subscribe to the Podcast Niceguysonbusiness.com   You can text Doug anytime at 410-340-6861, of if you just want to leave us a message or record an intro to the show, call 4242 DJ DOUG (1-424-253-3684)   Promise Statement: To provide a learning experience that is entertaining and adds value to your life.   Don't underestimate the Power of Nice.

Jimmy Pardo returns!  This time to talk about Gabe Kaplan of Welcome Back, Kotter.  We have a ton of fun breaking down the intricacies of an album that launched one of the most iconic sitcoms of the 70s. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike … Continue reading →

The guys are back in Episode 32 to do a little remembering about New Coke, candy from the seventies and give a little love advice.  While we fully acknowledge that nostalgia for the 90's is the territory of the Partial Recall Podcast, we felt that we were safe to slide back into the seventies and eighties for a bit of "membering". A previous episode featured the story of a faulty Coke machine in the jr. high field house which if someone was willing to get shocked, would continue to feed out free Coke's.  Ty and Heavy seemed to remember that it was a "New Coke" machine so that prompted us to discuss the disastrous change from the traditional Coke recipe to the New Coke  and the subsequent backlash that led to Coca-Cola Classic, with New Coke eventually fading out of existence. They Even Got Cosby to Shill for New Coke Of course we discuss why Coca-Cola management felt the need to monkey with a good thing.  A major factor was the Pepsi Challenge.  Ty lays out why the Pepsi Challenge was successful and why ultimately, it was deceptive to the Coca-Cola management. Gabe Kaplan of Welcome Back Mr. Kotter Conducting the Pepsi Challenge All of this talk about soft drinks leads the crew to remember magical moments when an ice cold Dr. Pepper or Coke was the best thing in the world.  Then the conversation turns to each member's favorite candy back in the olden times.  Gustav brings up some long gone candies like the Marathon Bar or Reggie Bar while Ty and Heavy just stare blankly at him. Patrick Wayne (son of John Wayne} in a Marthon Bar Commercial Turning from nostalgia to their mission statement to help their listeners, the guys put on their Dear Abby wigs and answer an email from Pretty Little Nurse  on how to catch a guy that she has been on a couple of dates with.  After delivering some remarkably sound advice, Gustav tells how Mrs. Gustav put him through a long interview process before she finally gave into his questionable charms. As always, email us your thoughts or questions to canyouhearmepod@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @realgustav @tywebb3000 @longmireheavy @canyouhearmepod Also be sure to check out the Partial Recall Podcast for your Generation Y nostalgia needs. The post Fractional Recollections and New Coke appeared first on Can You Hear Me?.

Oops, we missed a week! As you NO DOUBT noticed, last week's episode does not exist, in part due to our travels to Chicago. But we're back now from the debauchery of IML, and we're hot on the trail of the latest in gay marriage news. My favorite headline this week is that there's a group trying to get some buzz around Roy Moore for the Supreme Court... and what a coincidence, that group just happens to have been founded by Roy Moore. (But he's not the president! His wife is.) Also this week we reflect on one of the strangest episodes of Murder She Wrote ever committed to film, featuring Gabe Kaplan and a drag show and a gay bar and (in our minds) a disgusting sex act with a fish.

In this extra-extended, robot-charged episode, we make with the Mecha! As always, we start with a kidney-pleasing pre-show stretch before powering up our podcasting exoskeletons. How does the Electric Company generate all that energy? Who is the mystery woman William’s parents paid off each week? Why is money so heavy? We answer all of these questions and still have room for Ramen Noodles and water, before we are brought to a sudden halt by the memory-straining case of Kristy McNichol and the Show Note Elves. We continue our dubious guessing about things of which we know nothing by reminiscing about Battle of the Network Stars wherein we consider the athletic capabilities of Gabe Kaplan and celebrate a scandalous Baio/Diller romance. Dubiouser and Dubiouser! William reveals that his wife is having an affair with a dishwasher, which causes us to discover that the cure for sickness is a healthy dose of nursing annoyance. Scott then takes on the mantle of Mister Snake as he greets a newly-identified, mouse-hugging resident to Horn Acres. Turns out Scott has been many former people, from copperhead-leaper to tractor-caster. But wait, there’s more show! Scott finally finds his TV obsession and it’s not what either of us expected. We dive deep into anime, where skirts are raised uncomfortably, the origins of Brony culture is hypothesized, and Subbed vs. Dubbed is debated as 1970s animation co-ops an entire culture. We play the Imaging Game with anime’s version of Game of Thrones and determine that it’s as real as it needs to be. Neal Stephenson has had enough, so it’s on to the thing William did out where the things are. William celebrates progress and rediscovers comic books all in one trip to the data-driven Amazon store, now with extra cables! Thanks, data mining! Then, in hour 200, we finally turn to Music in Rearview. Brian May and friends have something to share, and it’s not good. But hey, we forced his hand, I guess. Old for any age, we endure the iconic 1983 sound of the Starfleet Project. Cheesy, badly-sung cover of a crappy TV show nobody watched? Sign me up! It’s no Triumph in any sense of the word. Finally, there’s Prince, another otherworldly, supposedly immortal artist picked off cruelly by 2016. We pay our respects to an amazing, talented musician who held to a different metric. Please, stop this segment. We don’t want to do it again. After William’s quick 7-Zark-7 flip flop, we tap into the Aldnoah Drive and head back to Terra where there’s always room for some T&A!

Comedian Steve Mittleman joins Mark to discuss his Johnny appearances, writing for Gabe Kaplan, and working with Woody Allen in Radio Days.

Episode #19: "Boom Boom's Kind of Sexy" The gang is BACK! We celebrate our reunion with a couple episodes of TV classic "Welcome Back Kotter", followed by a fierce debate over Gabe Kaplan’s poker career, 70's facial hair, off-putting home invasions, and whether or not young John Travolta is actually good looking.

The HOBI Gang welcomes Number 1 fan Doug back into the studio!  The guys talk the Supergirl pilot, Heroes Reborn and the disapointment of Blindspot.  Blake confuses his Herbs, Jason confuses his Kaplans, and Jeff explains which Michael Bolton is attacking on the Game of Thrones!  Mark from the Tangent Bound Network stops by with tips for all future doomsday preppers and the guys try to figure out a western film in the latest Plotlines!  The gang finish out the show with their Top 5 Favorite Sports Moments, minus any Cleveland teams. 

In this episode recorded LIVE! at the NorthEast Comic Con and Pop Culture Expo on Saturday June 20, 2015 Ken welcomes writer/producer Jeff Kline and actor/comedian Julie McCullough to the show.   First up Ken welcomes Jeff Kline. Jeff looks at a TV Guide from the week March 18-24, 1978. Ken and Jeff discuss producing cartoons, Jumanji, finding out you got a job in the papers, the life and death of Saturday Morning Cartoons, UPN, That was Then, being 30 and getting to be 16 again twice, The Starland Vocal Band, generational record business, The Monkees, The Banana Splits, Sid & Marty Kroft,   Johnny Carson, KTLA, The Legend of Cougar Canyon, Lawrence Welk, Lechmere, Andy Williams, Wayland Flowers & Madam, the pasts' refusal to admit gayness, dialing is a commitment, Ken's aluminium foil based conspiracy theory, Saturday Night family TV, Wonder Woman, replacing Cathy Lee Crosby with Linda Carter, Eletra Woman and Dynagirl, spending 10 minutes in a hot tub with Pink Lady & Jeff, the Sid and Marty Kroft Amusement park, suing McDonald's, Land of the Lost, Hanna-Barbera formal wear, being starstruck, telling The Rock to sound more dead, exactly what an "executive" does, Party of Five, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frank Lupo, Werewolf, Matt Helm, re-inventing your youth, GI Joe, Transformers, The 7 Stages of Fandom, Twilight Zone, Star Trek, The Jackie Chan Animated Series, R-Rated movies becoming G-Rated Toys, CG Cartoons, Eddie Albert, Love American Style, The Cowsills, the disgusting nature of Afternoon Delight, Summer Replacement Series, The Kids from C.A.P.E.R., The New Monkees, Don Kirshner, Szysznyk, Mr. President, Kolchak, Richard Matheson, The Outer Limits, Art Carney: World's Most Prolific TV Santa,  Paul Shaffer and Greg Evigan's deal with Satan, local kids' shows, the golden age of the variety show, Dolly, Hey Vern! It's Ernest, Ernest Saves Christmas, Prime Time Saturday Morning Preview Specials, favorite Christmas Specials, Police Woman, Battle of the Network Stars, Gabe Kaplan's fury, Busting Loose, and the strange TV career of Don Rickles.   Ken then welcomes actress/comedian Julie McCullough. Ken and Julie discuss Game of Thrones, Grizzly Adams, the wonders of color TV, moving around as a Military kid, touring the South, Dark Shadows, ghosts, love of the Munsters leading to a role on The Munsters Today, The Flying Nun, Sally Field, Sid & Marty Kroft, Star Trek, locking into all your interests by age 10, Max Headroom, kissing Superboy, Relic Hunter, playing an Evil Magician, being a Magician's assistant, living with Tia Carerre, Dick Clark, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Hee Haw, Carol Burnett, Drive-Ins, Big Bad Mama, a scoop on Big Bad Mama III, Angie Dickinson, when stunts go wrong, Circus of the Stars, Karen Black: Elephant Trainer, Julie's Carnival roots, Monkey Mazes, Carnival based Reality TV Series, the social implications of Freak Shows, "The Scat",  Sleepy Hollow, We Are the Millers, shooting in North Carolina, Growing Pains connection to Abbot and Costello, and loving dying on screen. 

In this episode Ken welcomes comedian, actor, producer Paul Provenza. Ken and Paul discuss Kids Court, robbing drug dealers, growing up in New York, being chained to development deals, failing to update I Spy, growing up a comedy nerd, comedy LPs, the crossroads of comedy's past and future, Graham Norton, claims of a lack of English language skills, the power of comedians, being a teenage stand up comedian,  Robert Kline, taking down the system from the inside out, Tubby Boots, Gabe Kaplan's dire warnings, Jazz Club Comedy, Jay Leno, Comedy as the road to sitcom, DIY ethos, finding your audience, the power (or lack of it) of Late Night shows in the 21st Century, I Spy, Man from U.N.C.L.E., TV Comedy as processed junk food, Everybody Loves Raymond, Seinfeld, All in the Family, The Marx Brothers, the anarchy of 20s-30s comedy, the essential nature of live comedy, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Letterman, Ha! + The Comedy Channel = CTV - Canada = Comedy Central, Comics Only, Comedy MTV, Bill Hicks, the dark, sick, twisted sketches on Comics Only, getting away with things using the power of secret fax machines, the power of critical thinking, being a warm up comedian, Pursuit of Happiness, The Facts of Life, Cloris Leachman, North Exposure, mistakenly engaging internet critics, The magic "100 Episodes", plagiarism, The Green Room, Bugs Bunny vs. Mickey Mouse, the pains of growing, When Stand Up Stood Out, and the weirdness of Boston Comedy. 

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack #19 - Attack of Lisa Loeb This week we sit down with an artist who sat at #1 on the Billboard charts, went on to sign a major record deal, followed by a Grammy nomination - all of which stemmed from having her song on a movie soundtrack. That's right Lisa Loeb, seemed like the perfect guest to have on Attack of the Killer Soundtrack. So we talk with Lisa about just how her song ended up on the Reality Bites soundtrack and what it was like to have a #1 hit single before she even had a recording contract. And all the massive changes that kicked in so quickly. Plus putting a full album together after having such a successful single, as well as crossing over into acting in film... plus several other endeavors! She’s a busy woman these days, and we are glad to have her join us on this week’s episode. Plus Lisa gives us her Killer Five music picks from soundtracks over the years. And as we keep our eyes upon the dream and go for it, someone also mentions… Jan De Bont, Gabe Kaplan, New York City, Katniss Everdeen, Brown University, just getting busy, Ethan Hawke, drinking a lot of champagne and driving in limos, being independent, putting yourself into a different character, focusing more on visual, second guessing is a loser sport, One small step for man…, Ben Stiller, walking around with headshots, Elizabeth Mitchell, 80 messages on my machine, getting it out there “for real”, Danny Elfman, one step for… me, 52nd street, when you get inspiration from outside of yourself, it’s a really fun, interesting puzzle to put together, regular music cycles, illustrated books, Stewart Copeland, live theater and the Purple Tape. “...having music placed in soundtracks... that’s really one of the best ways to get an income from being a musician - and also one of the best ways to get your music heard.“  To keep up with Lisa, check in at: http://www.lisaloeb.com/

  John originally started his descent into helplessness as a stand-up comic before turning to writing because he needed another way to express his depression. He wrote jokes for the likes of Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Gabe Kaplan, Elayne Boozler, Billy Crystal, and Joe Piscopo before joining the writing staffs of “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show,” and “Politically Incorrect.” He was the head writer for critically acclaimed D.C. Follies and has written for sitcoms so bad, to this day, he's too embarrassed to cash the checks. He was, however, the supervising producer of the ACE Award winning “Joe Piscopo Special” on HBO and also produced what the competing networks, said was the best special ever done about stand-up comedy, “Comedy Club Super Stars” on ABC.

Double Feature! Jeff Cesario (“Jack Frost”) and Paul Sullivan (Bonnie Hunt Show) join us (that’s me) to talk about the 1977 sports classic “The Fish that saved Pittsburgh.” The 70’s basketball comedy without Gabe Kaplan. Also Jeff discloses that beside writing The Oscars and Dennis Miller he co- wrote “Jack Frost…” (record Scratch) WHAT!?!!? You […] The post “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh” & “Jack Frost” appeared first on Proudly Resents: The cult movie podcast.

Double Feature! Jeff Cesario (“Jack Frost”) and Paul Sullivan (Bonnie Hunt Show) join us (that’s me) to talk about the 1977 sports classic “The Fish that saved Pittsburgh.” The 70’s basketball comedy without Gabe Kaplan. Also Jeff discloses that beside writing The Oscars and Dennis Miller he co- wrote “Jack Frost…” (record Scratch) WHAT!?!!? You […] The post “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh” & “Jack Frost” appeared first on Proudly Resents: The cult movie podcast.

Checkout this episode of Keep Flopping Aces on Rounders Radio for info on something new coming to the show! Lou Krieger's guest is Shari Geller who chats about playing poker at the new Aria in Vegas, changes at tv's High Stakes Poker (do you miss Gabe Kaplan?) and other changes on poker tv shows, and more.

Checkout this episode of Keep Flopping Aces on Rounders Radio for info on something new coming to the show! Lou Krieger's guest is Shari Geller who chats about playing poker at the new Aria in Vegas, changes at tv's High Stakes Poker (do you miss Gabe Kaplan?) and other changes on poker tv shows, and more.