Podcast appearances and mentions of Steve Martin

The next Bob's Movie Club assignment is here, and we're watching ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles' with Steve Martin and John Candy. Sarah's addicted to a new show ‘Day of the Jackal' and Bob can't wait to check it out. Plus, Johnny Knoxville is rebooting ‘Fear Factor' - should Matty try to be cast? The longest government shutdown in history is over just in time for the last penny ever. An iPhone sock? For how much? And, is Vinnie's daughter too young for her first purse?

The next Bob's Movie Club assignment is here, and we're watching ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles' with Steve Martin and John Candy. Sarah's addicted to a new show ‘Day of the Jackal' and Bob can't wait to check it out. Plus, Johnny Knoxville is rebooting ‘Fear Factor' - should Matty try to be cast? The longest government shutdown in history is over just in time for the last penny ever. An iPhone sock? For how much? And, is Vinnie's daughter too young for her first purse? What even is a trillion dollars? Soon you'll be able to ask Elon Musk. In the meantime, here's all the things you could buy with a million millions. Netflix House is trying to reinvent how we engage with our favorite TV shows. A long way to go, and a short time to get there. Ay ay aron, am I saying your name right? Being a substitute teacher is hard enough, especially if Vinnie was in the class. Death is not an option: No deodorant or a stained shirt. Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Docuseries has a new trailer and premiers in a month. The Golden Bachelor has chosen his lady. Amy Schumer deletes all of her old posts introducing her new body - let's discuss. Matty tells the gang about his vintage Playboy, California dominates the list of most dangerous highways, and a woman almost misses her own proposal. Why won't men listen?! Spotify is introducing music videos. The way we are watching is continuing to evolve. Pop stars in movies! Sabrina Carpenter will take on Alison Wonderland, and Adele is working on a movie directed by Tom Ford. How about one sweet treat per day. Pixar really nailed seagulls - here's how to keep your food safe. Plus, test your knowledge with a game about engagement rings.

Actress Allison Mack breaking her silence about the NXIVM sex cult. Plus, we're inside the hunt for the Louvre jewels, what a relative of one of the alleged robbers has to say. And comedic actor Steve Martin releases a banjo album. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on Binge-Watchers Podcast, Johnny Spoiler roller-skates through the whimsical world of Steve Martin's L.A. Story (1991) — a surreal, romantic comedy that turns smoggy Los Angeles into a land of magic, love, and freeway philosophy.We're talking feel-good movies, time-travel flicks like The Butterfly Effect and Keanu Reeves' upcoming Shiver, the fall of MTV UK, and why L.A. Story still hits differently in 2025. From enchanted freeway signs to heartfelt quotes that make you believe in love again, this episode blends nostalgia, movie trivia, and Johnny's signature sarcasm. Highlights:The Top 3 Feel-Good Movies Ever: Planes, Trains & Automobiles, The Wizard (1989), and Hook (1991)Behind-the-scenes secrets from L.A. Story — Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, and a young Sarah Jessica ParkerFavorite quotes, zany ‘90s LA vibes, and why the talking signpost still rulesPlus: Staff Picks, listener shout-outs, and an exclusive $130 OFF Good Chop deal https://tr.ee/GoodChopJohnny Tune in for warm fuzzies, movie magic, and laughs with the happiest show on the internet.

Three Amigos! is a 1986 American comedy directed by John Landis and written by Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, and Randy Newman, who also composed the film's songs. The film stars Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short as three out-of-work silent film actors who are mistaken for real heroes by the desperate inhabitants of a small Mexican village under threat from a notorious bandit and his gang.

It's a new episode of the thing! I talk about Dropkick Murphys, Alison Brown and Steve Martin, The Who, Downton Abbey, and a semi-obscure movie called Still Crazy. I had a lot of fun with this one, despite a lot of back pain. Enjoy! Blog: http://emptychecking.blogspot.com  Bandcamp: http://derekbrink.bandcamp.com  email: db@derekbrink.com Time Index: 0:00 - Intro 11:39 - I Hope You're Happy 12:10 - Recent Listening 12:24 - Dropkick Murphys - For the People 16:09 - Alison Brown & Steve Martin - Safe Sensible and Sane 22:18 - The Who - Who Are You Super Deluxe Edition 29:30 - Useless 30:00 - Recent Watching 30:32 - Downton Abbey Movies 40:59 - Still Crazy 47:20 - That Weekend (Blue Tattoo) 47:51 - Outro

In this impactful and inspiring episode of Unstoppable Mindset, host Michael Hingson sits down with Ronald Cocking—performer, educator, and co-founder of the Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts—to reflect on a remarkable life shaped by rhythm, resilience, and love. Ron's journey into the performing arts began at just five years old, when his passion for tap dance ignited a lifelong commitment to dance and musical theater. From his first professional role at age 15 in My Fair Lady to founding one of Southern California's most impactful arts schools, Ron's story is one of dedication, creativity, and community.   But perhaps the most moving part of Ron's story is his 49-year partnership—both personal and professional—with the late Gloria McMillan, best known as Harriet Conklin from Our Miss Brooks. Together, they created a legacy of mentorship through the Looking Glass Studio, where they taught thousands of students across generations—not just how to act, sing, or dance, but how to live with confidence and integrity.   Ron also reflects on the legacy Gloria left behind, his continued involvement in the arts, and the words of wisdom that guide his life:   “Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” “To find happiness, take the gifts God has given you and give them away.”   This is more than a story of a career in the arts—it's a touching tribute to passion, partnership, and purpose that will leave you inspired.   Highlights:   00:48 – Hear how early radio at home shaped a lifetime love for performance. 03:00 – Discover why drumming and tap both trained his ear for rhythm. 06:12 – Learn how a tough studio change led to ballet, jazz, and tumbling basics. 08:21 – See the “sing with your feet” method that makes tap click for students. 10:44 – Find out how a teen chorus role in My Fair Lady opened pro doors. 13:19 – Explore the drum-and-tap crossover he performed with Leslie Uggams. 15:39 – Learn how meeting Gloria led to a studio launched for $800. 18:58 – Get the long view on running a school for 44 years with family involved. 23:46 – Understand how Our Miss Brooks moved from radio to TV with its cast intact. 32:36 – See how 42nd Street proves the chorus can be the star. 41:51 – Hear why impact matters more than fame when students build careers. 43:16 – Learn what it takes to blend art and business without losing heart. 45:47 – Compare notes on marriage, teamwork, and communication that lasts. 48:20 – Enjoy a rare soft-shoe moment Ron and Gloria performed together. 56:38 – Take away the “teach to fish” approach that builds lifelong confidence.   About the Guest:   My father was a trumpet player, thus I heard music at home often in the early 50's and was always impressed and entertained by the rhythms and beats of Big Band music… especially the drummers.  Each time I would see Tap dancers on TV, I was glued to the screen.  It fascinated me the way Tap dancers could create such music with their feet!   In 1954, at age 5, after begging my Mom and Dad to enroll me in a Tap class, my Dad walked in from work and said “Well, you're all signed up, and your first Tap class is next Tuesday.  I was thrilled and continued studying tap and many other dance forms and performing and teaching dance for all of my life.     In my mid teens, I became serious about dancing as a possible career.  After seeing my first musical, “The Pajama Game” starring Ruth Lee, I new I wanted to do musical theatre.  I got my first professional opportunity at age 15 in “My Fair Lady” for the San Bernardino Civic Light Opera Association and loved every minute of it… and would continue performing for this organization well into my 30's   I met Gloria McMillan in the late 60's while choreographing a summer musical for children.  Gloria's daughter was doing the role of Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz”.  Then, about 3 or 4 years later I would meet Gloria again and the sparks flew.  And, yes, she was Gloria McMillan of “Our Miss Brooks” fame on both radio and television.  Wow, was I blessed to have crossed paths with her.  We shared our lives together for 49 years.   On November 4, 1974, Gloria and I opened a performing arts school together named “The Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts”.  We would teach and manage the school together for 44 years until we retired on June 30, 2018.  We moved to Huntington Beach, California and spent 3 beautiful years together until she left to meet our Lord in heaven on January 19, 2022.   Ways to connect with Ron:   Lgsparon@aol.com     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi there, wherever you are and wherever you happen to be today. Welcome to unstoppable mindset. I'm your host, Mike hingson, and today we get to chat with Ron Cocking, who is Ron. Well, we're going to find out over the next hour. And Ron was married for many years to another person who is very famous, and we'll get to that, probably not as well known to what I would probably describe as the younger generation, but you're going to get to learn a lot about Ron and his late wife before we're done, and I am sure we're going to have a lot of fun doing it. So let's get to it. Ron, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here.   Ron Cocking ** 01:59 Thank you. I'm so glad to be here. Michael, this. I've been looking forward to this.   Michael Hingson ** 02:04 I have been as well, and we're going to have a lot of fun doing it.   Ron Cocking ** 02:08 Do you one note on that last name? It is cocking. Cocking, he comes right? Comes from a little townlet in the coal mining country of England called Cockington.   Michael Hingson ** 02:20 I don't know why I keep saying that, but yeah, cocky, no   02:23 problem.   Michael Hingson ** 02:24 Well, do you go up to the reps recreations at all?   Ron Cocking ** 02:28 Oh my gosh, Gloria. And I know you and Gloria, did do you still do it? I've it's on my schedule for September.   Michael Hingson ** 02:35 I'm gonna miss it this year. I've got a speech to give. So I was going to be playing Richard diamond at recreation. Well, I'll have to be Dick Powell another time, but I thought that you you were still doing   02:50 it. I'm planning on it cool.   Michael Hingson ** 02:53 Well, tell us about the early Ron cocking and kind of growing up in some of that stuff. Let's start with that.   Ron Cocking ** 02:59 Well, the early part of my story was when I was born just a little before television came in, before everyone had a TV in their home. How old are you now? If I maybe, you know, I am now 76   Michael Hingson ** 03:12 Okay, that's what I thought. Yeah, you're one year ahead of me. I'm 75   Ron Cocking ** 03:16 I was born in 49 and so my earliest remembrances my mom and dad and my brother and I lived with our grandfather, and we had no television, but we had this big it must have been about three to four foot tall, this big box on the floor in a very prominent spot in the living room. And that was the Sunday afternoon entertainment. I remember my family sitting around, and I listened and I laughed when they did, but I had no idea what was going on, but that was the family gathering. And just, I know we'll talk about it later, but I I just have this notion that at that time I was laughing, not knowing what I was laughing at, but I bet I was laughing at my future   Michael Hingson ** 04:02 wife, yes, yes, but other things as well. I mean, you probably laughed at Jack Benny and Amos and Andy and   Ron Cocking ** 04:09 yeah, I remember listening to all those folks, and it was just amazing. Then when television came about and my father was a trumpet player, and I loved his trumpet playing, and he practiced often at home. He would sit in his easy chair and play some tunes and scales and that sort of thing. But what captured my ear and my eyes when I went to on rare occasions when I could go to his engagements, it was always the drummer that just stuck out to me. I was mesmerized by the rhythms that they could produce. And when TV came about, I remember the old variety shows, and they often would have tap dancers like. Had a stair gene, Kelly, Peg Leg Bates and the Nicholas brothers, and I just, I was just taken back by the rhythms. It sounded like music to me. The rhythms just made me want to do it. And so I started putting that bug in my parents ears. And I waited and waited. I wanted to take tap dance lessons. And one day, my dad walks in the back door, and I said, Dad, have you signed me up yet? And he said, Yep, you start next Tuesday at 330 in the afternoon. So I was overjoyed, and I went in for my first lesson. And mind you, this was a private tap class. Total Cost of $1.25 and we had a pianist for music, no record player, live piano, wow. And so I, I rapidly fell in love with tap dance.   Michael Hingson ** 05:56 And so you did that when you weren't in school. Presumably, you did go to school.   Ron Cocking ** 06:00 Oh, yeah, I did go to school. Yeah, I did well in school, and I enjoyed school. I did all the athletics. I played little league, and eventually would be a tennis player and water polo and all that stuff. But all through the years, after school was on the way to the dance classes.   Michael Hingson ** 06:16 So you graduated, or I suppose I don't want to insult drumming, but you graduated from drumming to tap dancing, huh?   Ron Cocking ** 06:24 Well, I kept doing them both together. I would dance, and then when my dad would practice, I would beg him to just play a tune like the St Louis Blues, yeah, and so that I could keep time, so I pulled a little stool up in front of an easy chair, and one of the arms of the chair was the ride cymbal, and the other one was the crash cymbal, and the seat of the chair was my snare drum. I would play along with him. And eventually he got tired of that and bought a Hi Fi for my brother and I, and in the bedroom I had a Hi Fi, and I started to put together a set of drums, and I spent hours next to that, Hi Fi, banging on the drums, and I remember it made me feel good. One day, my mom finally said to me, you know, you're starting to sound pretty good, and that that was a landmark for me. I thought, wow, somebody is enjoying my drumming,   Michael Hingson ** 07:18 but you couldn't do drumming and tap dancing at the same time. That would have been a little bit of a challenge. A challenge.   Ron Cocking ** 07:23 No, I would practice that the drums in the afternoon and then head for the dance studio later. And in this case, I was a local boy. I grew up in Riverside California, and my first tap teacher was literally maybe two miles from our house. But that didn't last long. She got married and became pregnant and closed her studio, and then I she recommended that I go see this teacher in San Bernardino by the name of Vera Lynn. And which I did, I remember walking into this gigantic classroom with a bunch of really tall kids, and I was maybe seven or eight years old, and I guess it was kind of an audition class, but after that evening, I she put me in the most appropriate classes, one of which was ballet, which I wasn't too excited about, but they all told me, If you're going to be a serious dancer, even a tap dancer, you need to get the basic body placement from ballet classes. And I said, Well, I am not going to put any tights and a T shirt on. But they finally got me to do that because they told me that the Rams football team took ballet class twice a week at that time. Ah. Said, no kidding. So they got me, they they got you. They got me into ballet class, and then it was jazz, and then it was tumbling, and so I did it all.   Michael Hingson ** 08:43 I remember when we moved to California when I was five, and probably when I was about eight or nine, my brother and I were enrolled by my mother. I guess my parents enrolled us in a dance class. So I took dance class for a few years. I learned something about dancing. I did have a pair of tap shoes, although I didn't do a lot of it, but I, but I did dance and never, never really pursued it enough to become a Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire. Well, few of us do. I didn't dislike it. It just didn't happen. But that was okay, but it was fun to, you know, to do it and to learn something about that. And so I even today, I I remember it, and I appreciate it. So that's pretty cool.   Ron Cocking ** 09:32 Well, you would understand what I always told my students, that tap dancing is like singing a song with your feet. Yeah. And I would sing, I would say, you all know, happy birthday, right? So I would sing it, and they would sing it along, and then I'd said, then I would sing it again, and I would sing it totally out of rhythm. And they would wrinkle their nose and look at me and say, okay, so what are you doing? And I'd say, Well, you don't recognize it because the rhythm is not correct. So then I would. Would tap dance Happy birthday, and I'd say, you sing along in your mind and I'm going to tap dance it. And that would always ring a bell in their mind, like, Oh, I get it. The rhythm has to be right on the button, or the people aren't going to recognize   Michael Hingson ** 10:16 that was very clever to do.   Ron Cocking ** 10:18 Yeah, thank you. And they got it, yeah, they got it, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 10:22 which is even, even more important. That's pretty clever. Well, so you did that, and did you do it all the way through high school,   Ron Cocking ** 10:30 all the way through high school? And I think when I was 15, I was, I think I was in the eighth grade, maybe ninth, but I was 15 and got my first chance to I was cast in a professional show for San Bernardino civic light opera Association. And the show was My Fair Lady, and it was my English and journalism teacher at the junior high who had been cast. He was a performer also, but something came up and he couldn't follow through, so he had given the association my name, and I was out in the backyard. My mom came out. Said, Hey, San Bernardino clo just called and they want, they want to see it tonight at seven o'clock. So I put on my dance clothes and went over, and the director, by the name of Gosh, Gene Bayless, came out, and he showed me a couple of steps. And he said, Yeah, let's do it together. And he said, Boy, you unscramble your feet pretty well there kid. And he he looked over into the costumers and said, measure this guy. Let's put him in the show. So I was beside myself. And long story short, I Gosh, I'm over the over the years, I my first show was at age 15 with them, and I participated, did shows with them, until I think my last show, I was about 38 years old, and that last show was anything goes with Leslie uggums, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 11:52 So what part did you play on my fair lady?   Ron Cocking ** 11:55 I was just a chorus kid. I remember in the opening when Eliza sings, that wouldn't it be lovely? Wouldn't it be lovely? I was a street sweeper. I remember I had a broom, and there were three of us, and we were sweeping up that street and working in and around. Eliza Doolittle, of   Michael Hingson ** 12:11 course, being really spiteful. You just said a little while ago, you were beside yourself. And the thing that I got to say to that, quoting the Muppets, is, how do the two of you stand each other? But anyway, that's okay, good in the original Muppet Movie, that line is in there. And I it just came out so fast, but I heard it. I was going, Oh my gosh. I couldn't believe they did that. But anyway, it was so cute, very funny. That's great. So and then you were, you eventually were opposite Leslie UB,   Ron Cocking ** 12:39 yes, that was one of the high points talking about dancing and drumming at the same time. In fact, I used to give a drum a basic drum summer camp where I would teach tappers the basics of music notation, quarter notes, eighth notes, 16th notes. And then we would put a tap orchestra together. Everybody had their own music stand and their own drum pad. I would conduct, and we would play little pieces, and they would they would drum a rhythm, tap, a rhythm, drum, a rhythm, tap, a rhythm. And so anyway, it came full circle. One of the highlights of my dance slash drumming career was this show I did with Leslie uggums, the director had done this prior, and he knew it would work, and so so did the conductor in the entre Act. The top of the second act, the pit orchestra starts and plays like eight measures. And then there were six of us on stage, behind the main curtain, and we would play the next 16 bars, and then we would toss it back to the pit, and then toss it back to us, and the curtain would begin to rise, and we were right into the first song that Leslie uggums sang to get into the second act. Then she wanted to add a couple of songs that she liked, and she was very popular in with the audiences in San Bernardino, so she added a couple of songs, and I got to play those songs with her and and that was just so thrilling. And I with the scene finished, I had to have my tap shoes on, on the drum set. I had to hop down from the riser, and came out, brought one of my Toms with me, and played along with another featured tap dancer that kind of took over the scene at that point. So it was, it was really cool.   Michael Hingson ** 14:31 So with all this drumming, did you ever meet anyone like buddy rip?   Ron Cocking ** 14:35 No, I never met any famous drummers except a man by the name of Jack Sperling, which was one of my drumming idols,   Michael Hingson ** 14:44 Donnie Carson was quite the drummer, as I recall,   Ron Cocking ** 14:48 yeah, he did play yeah and boy, his his drummer, Ed Shaughnessy on his on The Tonight Show was phenomenal. Yeah, he's another of my favorites, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 14:57 well, and I remember. I guess Johnny Carson and Buddy Rich played together, which was kind of fun. They   Ron Cocking ** 15:07 played together, and so did Ed Shaughnessy and Buddy Rich did a little competition on the show one time I realized, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 15:15 right, yeah. Well, and it's interesting to see some of the performers do that. I remember once trying to remember whether what show it was on, maybe it was also a Tonight Show where Steve Martin substituted for Johnny, but he and the steel Canyon, the Steve Canyon band, came out. Of course, he was great on the band, and then flat and Scruggs or flat came out. Or which one? Yeah, which one did the banjo flat, I think, but they, but they banjo together, which was fun?   Ron Cocking ** 15:51 Oh, wow, yeah, yeah. Steve Martin is a tremendous band. He is, Whoa, yeah. I,   Michael Hingson ** 15:56 I have a hard time imagining fingers moving that fast, but that's okay, me too. I saved my fingers for Braille, so it's okay. So where did you go to college?   Ron Cocking ** 16:07 I went to for two years to Riverside City College, Riverside Community College, and then I went for two years to San Bernardino Cal State, San Bernardino, and I was majoring in English because I thought I may want to do some writing. But in the meantime, I became married, I became a father, and so I was trying to work and study and maintain a family life, and I just couldn't do it all. So I didn't quite finish a major at Cal State San Bernardino. I continued actually a nightclub drumming career. And now, now we're getting up to where this our performing arts studio began between Gloria and I.   Michael Hingson ** 16:50 So was it? GLORIA? You married first?   Ron Cocking ** 16:53 No, okay, no, Gloria was married. Gloria was a prior, prior marriage for 20 some years, or 20 years, I guess. And I had been married only two years, I think. And when we first, well, we actually met while we were both. I'll tell you the story in a minute, if you want to hear it. Sure, the first time I ever met Gloria Macmillan, I had no idea who she was, because she her name was Gloria Allen at the time that was, that was her married name that she took after the arm is Brooks TV show. Well, she took that the new name before the TV show even ended. But I was choreographing a children's summer musical, and the director came up said, hey, I want you to meet this young lady's mom. So the young lady was Gloria's daughter, her oldest daughter, Janet. And I said, Sure. So he said, This is Gloria. Allen, Gloria, this is Ron. And we shook hands, and I said, Nice to meet you. And that was it. And so the show happened. It ran for a couple of weeks, and Gloria was a wonderful stage mom. She she never bothered anyone. She watched the show. She was very supportive of her daughter. Didn't, didn't stage manage   Michael Hingson ** 18:09 whatsoever, which wasn't a helicopter mom, which is good,   Ron Cocking ** 18:12 definitely that, which was just really cool. So and so I was maybe three, four years later, so Gloria obviously knew that I could dance, because she had seen me choreographed. So I got a phone call from Gloria Allen, and I said, Okay, I remember her. She wanted to meet because she was thinking about starting an acting school and wanted someone to teach actors some dance movement. So I went over for a interview and took my little at that time, about two and a half year old, daughter, three year old, and we chatted, and oh my gosh, I just this, this beautiful woman swept me off my feet. And of course, I by the end of the conversation, I said, Gosh, you know, we talked about how we would integrate the acting and the dance, and I said, Can I have your phone number? Nope, I got the old well, we'll call you. Don't call us. And so I had to wait for a few days before I got a call back, but I got a call back, and I don't remember a lot of details, but the sparks flew really, really quickly, and we started planning our school. And if you can believe that this was 1973 when we started planning, maybe it was early 74 and we invested a whole total of $800 to get ourselves into business. We bought a record player, some mirrors, some paint, and a business license and a little shingle to hang out front. We had a little one room studio, and we. Opened on November 4, 1974 and we would close the studio on June 30, 2018 Wow.   Michael Hingson ** 20:08 Yeah. So you, you had it going for quite a while, almost, well, actually, more than 40 years. 44 years. 44 years, yes. And you got married along the way.   Ron Cocking ** 20:20 Well along the way, my my wife always said she fell in love with my daughter, and then she had to take me along with her. Yeah. Well, there you go. So we were together constantly, just running the school together. And then eventually I moved over to San Bernardino, and it was, gosh, some 1213, years later, we got married in on June 28 1987 and but nothing really changed, because we had already been living together and raising five children. GLORIA had four from a private prior marriage, and I had my little girl. So we we got all these five kids through elementary and junior high in high school, and they all went to college. And they're all beautiful kids and productive citizens, two of them still in show biz. Her son, my stepson, Christopher Allen, is a successful producer now and of Broadway shows. And our daughter, Barbara Bermudez, the baby that Gloria fell in love with. She's now a producer slash stage manager director. She does really well at big events with keynote speakers. And she'll, if they want her to, she will hire in everything from lighting and sound to extra performers and that sort of thing. And she's, she's just busy constantly all over the world, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 21:43 Well, that's pretty cool. And what are the other three doing?   Ron Cocking ** 21:47 One is a VP of Sales for it's a tub and shower company, jacuzzi, and the other one is a married housewife, but now she is a grandmother and has two little grandkids, and they that's Janet, the one that I originally had worked with in that children's show. And she and her husband live in Chino Hills, California, which is about 40 minutes from here. I live in Huntington Beach, California now,   Michael Hingson ** 22:14 well, and I'm not all that far away from you. We're in Victorville. Oh, Victorville, okay, yeah, the high desert. So the next time you go to Vegas, stop by on your way, I'll do that, since that's mainly what Victorville is probably most known for. I remember when I was growing I grew up in Palmdale, and Palmdale wasn't very large. It only had like about 20 703,000 people. But as I described it to people, Victorville wasn't even a speck on a radar scope compared to Palmdale at that time. Yeah, my gosh, are over 120,000 people in this town?   Ron Cocking ** 22:51 Oh, I remember the drive in the early days from here to Vegas in that you really felt like you could get out on the road all alone and relax and take it all in, and now it can be trafficking all all the   Speaker 1 ** 23:04 way. Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know. I still think they need to do something to put some sort of additional infrastructure, and there's got to be another way to get people to Vegas and back without going on i 15, because it is so crowded, especially around holidays, that one of these days, somebody will get creative. Maybe they'll get one of Tesla's tunnel boring tools, and they'll make a tunnel, and you can go underground the whole way, I don't know,   Ron Cocking ** 23:32 but that would be, that would be great. Something like that would happen.   Michael Hingson ** 23:38 Well, so you you started the school and and that did, pretty cool. Did, did Gloria do any more acting after our Miss Brooks? And then we should explain our Miss Brooks is a show that started on radio. Yes, it went on to television, and it was an arm is Brooks. Miss Brooks played by e vardin. Was a teacher at Madison High, and the principal was Osgood Conklin, played by Gail Gordon, who was absolutely perfect for the part. He was a crotchety old curmudgeon by any standards. And Gloria played his daughter, Harriet correct. And so when it went from radio to television, one of the things that strikes me about armas Brooks and a couple of those shows, burns and Allen, I think, is sort of the same. Jack Benny was a little different. But especially armas Brooks, it just seems to me like they they took the radio shows and all they did was, did the same shows. They weren't always the same plots, but it was, it was radio on television. So you, you had the same dialog. It was really easy for me to follow, and it was, was fascinating, because it was just like the radio shows, except they were on television.   Ron Cocking ** 24:56 Yeah, pretty much. In fact, there were a lot, there's lots of episodes. Episodes that are even named the same name as they had on the radio, and they're just have to be reworked for for the television screen,   Michael Hingson ** 25:08 yeah, but the the dialog was the same, which was so great,   Ron Cocking ** 25:13 yeah, yeah. And to see what was I going to add, it was our Miss Brooks was one of the very few radio shows that made the transition to television with the cast with the same intact. Yeah, everybody looked like they sounded. So it worked when they were in front of the camera. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 25:33 it sort of worked with Jack Benny, because most of the well, all the characters were in it, Don Wilson, Mary, Livingston, Dennis day, Rochester, world, yeah. And of course, Mel Blanc, yeah, oh.   Ron Cocking ** 25:49 GLORIA tells a story. She she and her mom, Hazel, were walking down the street on the way to do a radio show in the old days in Hollywood, and here comes Mel blank, he says, he pulls over. Says, Hey, where are you girls headed because I know that he probably recognized them from being at at CBS all the time, and they said, We're headed to CBS. He said, hop in. Oh, that's where I'm going. So Mel Brooks gave her a ride to the Mel Blanc, yeah, would have been   Michael Hingson ** 26:15 fun if Mel Brooks had but that's okay, Young Frankenstein, but that's another story. It is. But that's that's cool. So did they ever? Did she ever see him any other times? Or was that it?   Ron Cocking ** 26:30 No, I think that was it. That's the one story that she has where Mel Blanc is involved.   Michael Hingson ** 26:36 What a character, though. And of course, he was the man of a million voices, and it was just incredible doing I actually saw a couple Jack Benny shows this morning and yesterday. One yesterday, he was Professor LeBlanc teaching Jack Benny how to play the violin, which was a lost cause.   Ron Cocking ** 26:59 Actually, Jack Benny was not a bad view. No,   Michael Hingson ** 27:01 he wasn't violent. No, he wasn't. He had a lot of fun with it, and that stick went straight in from radio to television, and worked really well, and people loved it, and you knew what was going to happen, but it didn't matter. But it was still   Ron Cocking ** 27:16 funny, and I'm sure during the transition they there was a little bit of panic in the writers department, like, okay, what are we going to do? We got to come up with a few shows. We got to get ahead a little bit. So the writing being just a little different, I'm sure that's part of the reason why they went back and kind of leaned on the old, old script somewhat, until they kind of cut their teeth on the new this new thing called television   Michael Hingson ** 27:39 well, but they still kept a lot of the same routines in one way or another.   Ron Cocking ** 27:45 Yeah, when they work, they work, whether you're just listening or whether you're watching,   Michael Hingson ** 27:48 right, exactly what other shows made it from radio to television with the cast   Ron Cocking ** 27:53 intact? You know, I am not up on that number. I   Michael Hingson ** 27:57 know there were a couple that did. RMS, Brooks was, well, oh no, I was gonna say Abbott and Costello, but that was different, but our Miss Brooks certainly did. If   Ron Cocking ** 28:09 the Bickersons did, I forget the two actors that did that show, but that was a really, Francis   Michael Hingson ** 28:13 Langford and Donna Michi could be, but I think burns and Allen, I think, kept the same people as much as there were. Harry bonzell was still with them, and so on. But it was interesting to see those. And I'm awake early enough in the morning, just because it's a good time to get up, and I get and be real lazy and go slowly to breakfast and all that. But I watched the Benny show, and occasionally before it, I'll watch the burns and Allen show. And I think that the plots weren't as similar from radio to television on the burns and Allen show as they weren't necessarily in the Benny show, but, but it all worked.   Ron Cocking ** 28:58 Yeah, yeah. That's why they were on the air for so long?   Michael Hingson ** 29:02 Yeah, so what other kind of acting did Gloria do once? So you guys started the school   Ron Cocking ** 29:10 well after she well, when we started the school, we found ourselves, you know, raising five children. And so I continued playing nightclub gigs. I had one, one nightclub job for like, five years in a row with two wonderful, wonderful musicians that were like fathers to me. And Gloria actually went to work for her brother in law, and she became a salesperson, and eventually the VP of Sales for a fiberglass tub and shower business down here in Santa Ana. So she drove that 91 freeway from San Bernardino, Santa Ana, all the time. But in,   Michael Hingson ** 29:47 yeah, you could do it back then, much more than now. It was a little better   Ron Cocking ** 29:51 and but in, but twist in between, she managed. Her mom still did a little bit of agency. And she would call Gloria and say. Want you to go see so and so. She did an episode of perfect strangers. She did an episode with Elliot of the guy that played Elliot Ness, stack the show Robert Stack the show was called Help Wanted no see. I guess that was an in but wanted, anyway, she did that. She did a movie with Bruce Dern and Melanie Griffith called Smile. And so she kept, she kept her foot in the door, but, but not, not all that much she she really enjoyed when John Wilder, one of her childhood acting buddies, who she called her brother, and he still calls her sis, or he would call her sis, still. His name was Johnny McGovern when he was a child actor, and when he decided to try some movie work, he there was another Johnny McGovern in Screen Actors Guild, so he had to change his name to John Wyler, but he did that mini series called centennial, and he wanted Gloria for a specific role, to play a German lady opposite the football player Alex Karras. And they had a couple of really nice scenes together. I think she was in three, maybe four of the segments. And there were many segments, it was like a who's who in Hollywood, the cast of that show   Michael Hingson ** 31:28 does that was pretty cool.   Ron Cocking ** 31:32 But anyway, yeah, after Gloria finished armas Brooks, she became married to Gilbert Allen, who, who then became a Presbyterian minister. So Gloria, when you said, Did she continue acting? There's a lot of acting that goes on being a minister and being a minister's wife, and she would put together weddings for people, and that sort of thing. And she did that for 20 years. Wow. So she Gloria was a phenomenon. She did so many things. And she did them all so very well, in my   Speaker 1 ** 32:04 opinion. And so did you? Yeah, which is, which is really cool. So you, but you, you both started the school, and that really became your life's passion for 44 years. Yes,   Ron Cocking ** 32:16 we would get up in the mornings, go do a little business, come home, have a little lunch, go back about 132 o'clock, and we would normally crank up about four after the kids get out of school, and we would teach from four to nine, sometimes to 10. Go out, have some dinner. So yeah, we pretty much 24/7 and we had had such similar backgrounds. Hers on a national radio and television scale, and mine on a much more local, civic light opera scale. But we both had similar relations with our our moms after after the radio tapings and the TV things. GLORIA And her mom. They lived in Beverly Hills, right at Wilshire and Doheny, and they had their favorite chocolate and ice cream stops. And same thing for me, my mom would take me there, two doors down from the little studio where I was taking my tap classes. There was an ice cream parlor, haywoods ice cream. And that was, that was the the lure, if you go in and if you do your practicing, Ronnie, you can, I'll take it for an ice cream so that I did my practicing, had plenty of little treats on the way, so we had that in common, and we both just had very supportive moms that stayed out of the way, not, not what I would call a pushy parent, or, I think you mentioned the helicopter, helicopter, but it   Michael Hingson ** 33:37 but it sounds like you didn't necessarily need the bribes to convince you to tap dance, as you know, anyway, but they didn't hurt.   Ron Cocking ** 33:46 No, it didn't hurt at all, and it was something to look forward to, but I I just enjoyed it all along. Anyway, I finally got to to really showcase what I could do when I was cast as the dance director in the show 42nd street. Oh, wow. And I was lucky. We were lucky. San Bernardino clo was able to hire John Engstrom, who had done the show on Broadway. The earlier version that came, I think it was on Broadway in the mid or to late 70s. He had worked side by side with Gower Champion putting the show together. He told us all sorts of stories about how long it took Gower to put together that opening dance. Because everything in the opening number you you see those steps later in the show done by the chorus, because the opening number is an audition for dancers who want to be in this new Julian Marsh show. So the music starts, the audience hears, I know there must have been 20 of us tapping our feet off. And then a few seconds later, the curtain rises about two and a half feet. And then they see all these tapping feet. And then the main curtain goes out, and there we all are. And. I my part. I was facing upstage with my back to the audience, and then at some point, turned around and we did it was the most athletic, difficult, two and a half minute tap number I had ever done, I'll bet. But it was cool. There were five or six kids that had done it on Broadway and the national tour. And then during that audition, one more high point, if we have the time, we I was auditioning just like everybody else. The director had called and asked if I would audition, but he wasn't going to be choreographing. John Engstrom was so with there was probably 50 or 60 kids of all ages, some adults auditioning, and at one point, John pulled out one of the auditioners, and he happened to be one of my male tap dance students. And he said, Now I want everybody to watch Paul do this step. Paul did the step. He said, Now he said, Paul, someone is really teaching you well. He said, everybody that's the way to do a traveling timestamp so and that, you know, I'll remember that forever. And it ended up he hired. There were seven myself and seven other of my students were cast in that show. And some of them, some of them later, did the show in Las Vegas, different directors. But yeah, that, that was a high point for me.   Speaker 1 ** 36:19 I'm trying to remember the first time I saw 42nd street. I think I've seen it twice on Broadway. I know once, but we also saw it once at the Lawrence Welk Resorts condo there, and they did 42nd street. And that was a lot of that show was just a lot of fun. Anyway,   Ron Cocking ** 36:39 it's a fun show. And as John said in that show, The chorus is the star of the show.   Speaker 1 ** 36:45 Yeah, it's all about dancing by any by any definition, any standard. It's a wonderful show. And anybody who is listening or watching, if you ever get a chance to go see 42nd street do it, it is, it is. Well, absolutely, well worth it.   Ron Cocking ** 37:00 Yeah, good. Good show. Fantastic music, too. Well.   Michael Hingson ** 37:03 How did you and Gloria get along so well for so long, basically, 24 hours a day, doing everything together that that I would think you would even be a little bit amazed, not that you guys couldn't do it, but that you did it so well, and so many people don't do it well,   Ron Cocking ** 37:21 yeah, I don't know I from, from the the first time we met, we just seemed to be on the same wavelength. And by the way, I found out as time went by, Gloria was like Mrs. Humble. She wasn't a bragger, very humble. And it took me a while to find out what an excellent tap dancer she was. But when we went to the studio in the early days, we had, we just had one room. So she would teach actors for an hour, take a break. I would go in teach a tap class or a movement class or a ballet class. I in the early days, I taught, I taught it all. I taught ballet and jazz and and and and   Michael Hingson ** 38:01 tap. Well, let's let's be honest, she had to be able to tap dance around to keep ahead of Osgoode Conklin, but that's another story.   Ron Cocking ** 38:09 Yeah. So yeah, that. And as our studio grew, we would walk every day from our first studio down to the corner to a little wind chills donut shop wind chills donuts to get some coffee and come back. And about a year and a half later, after walking by this, this retail vacant spot that was two doors from our studio, we said, I wonder if that might be, you know, something for us, it had a four lease sign. So, long story short, we released it. The owner of the property loved knowing that Gloria Macmillan was that space. And so luckily, you know when things are supposed to happen. They happen as people would move out next to us, we would move in. So we ended up at that particular studio with five different studio rooms. Wow. And so then we can accommodate all of the above, acting, singing classes, all the dance disciplines, all at the same time, and we can, like, quadruple our student body. So then we made another move, because the neighborhood was kind of collapsing around us, we made another room and purchased a building that had been built as a racquetball club. It had six racquetball courts, all 20 by 40, beautiful hardwood. We made four of them, five of them into studios, and then there was a double racquetball racquetball court in the front of the building which they had tournaments in it was 40 by 40 we moved. We made that into a black box theater for Gloria. And the back wall of the theater was one inch glass outside of which the audiences for the racquetball tournaments used to sit. But outside the glass for us, we had to put curtains there, and out front for us was our. Gigantic lobby. The building was 32,000 square feet. Wow, we could it just made our heart, hearts sing when we could walk down that hallway and see a ballet class over here, a tap class over there, singers, singing actors in the acting room. It was beautiful. And again, it was just meant for us because it was our beautiful daughter, Kelly, who passed away just nine months after Gloria did. She's the one that said, you guys ought to look into that. And I said, Well, it's a racquetball court. But again, the first moment we walked in the front door, you start. We started thinking like, whoa. I think we could make this work. And it worked for another 20 years for us and broke our hearts to basically rip it apart, tear the theater down, and everything when we were moving out, because we we couldn't find another studio that was interested in in coming in, because they would have had to purchase the building. We wanted to sell the building. Yeah. So anyway, of all things, they now sell car mufflers out of there.   Michael Hingson ** 41:02 That's a little different way, way. Yeah, social shock, did any of your students become pretty well known in the in the entertainment world?   Ron Cocking ** 41:11 I wouldn't say well known, but a lot of them have worked a lot and made careers. Some of our former students are now in their 50s, middle 50s, pushing 60, and have done everything from cruise ship to Las Vegas to regional some national tours, even our son, Christopher, he did the national tour of meet me in St Louis with Debbie Boone, okay, and he's the one that is Now a successful producer. He's his latest hit. Well, his first, what can be considered legitimately a Broadway hit show was the show called shucked, and it opened about two years ago, I think, and I finally got to go back to New York and see it just a month before it closed. Very hilarious. Takes place in Iowa. The whole show is built around a county in which everybody that lives there makes their living off of corn, making whiskey. And it is a laugh, way more than a laugh a minute. But anyway, we had one of Gloria's acting students who was hired on with a Jonathan Winters TV sitcom called Davis rules. It ran for two seasons, and here he was like 16 or 17 years old, making, I think it was. He was making $8,000 a week, and he was in heaven. He looked like the Son he played, the grandson of Jonathan Winters and the son of Randy Quaid and so he, yeah, he was in heaven. And then after that, he did a very popular commercial, the 711 brain freeze commercial for Slurpee. The Slurpee, yeah, and he made the so much money from that, but then he kind of disappeared from showbiz. I don't know what he's doing nowadays,   Speaker 1 ** 43:00 but it's, it's, it's interesting to, you know, to hear the stories. And, yeah, I can understand that, that not everybody gets to be so famous. Everybody knows them, but it's neat that you had so many people who decided to make entertainment a career. So clearly, you had a pretty good influence on a lot of, a lot of kids.   Ron Cocking ** 43:20 Yes, I over the years, Gloria and I felt like we had 1000s of children of our own, that they that we had raised together. It's really a good feeling. And I still get phone calls. We got a phone call once a few years back from from one of our students who had been trying to crack the nut in New York, and she called us like 530 in the morning, because, of course, it was Yeah, but she had just signed her first national tour contract and was going to go out with the show cabaret. So fortunately, we were able to drive up to Santa not let's see, it's just below San San Jose. The show came through San Jose, and we got to see her up there. But those kinds of things are what made us keep teaching, year after year, all these success stories. Of course, we have former students that are now lawyers. Those are actors. Well, we   Michael Hingson ** 44:17 won't hold it and we understand, yeah and they are actors, by all means. How many teachers did you have in the studio when you had the big building?   Ron Cocking ** 44:26 Gosh, at one time, we had 10 or 12 teachers, teaching vocal teachers, two or three ballet teachers, jazz teachers, and you both taught as well. And we both continued teaching all through that time. We never just became managers, although that's that was part of it, and mixing business with art is a challenge, and it takes kind of a different mindset, and then what an unstoppable mindset you have to have in order to mix business with performing, because it's too. Different sides of your brain and a lot of patience and a lot of patience. And guess who taught me patience? Uh huh, Gloria Macmillan.   Michael Hingson ** 45:09 I would Conklin's daughter, yes, and I'll bet that's where she learned patience. No, I'm just teasing, but yeah, I hear you, yeah. Well, I know Karen and I were married for 40 years, until she passed in November of 2022 and there's so many similarities in what you're talking about, because we we could do everything together. We had challenges. Probably the biggest challenge that we ever had was we were living in Vista California, and I was working in Carlsbad, and the president of our company decided that we should open an office, because I was being very successful at selling to the government, we should open an office in the DC area. And so we both got excited about that. But then one day he came in and he had this epiphany. He said, No, not Virginia. I want you to open an office in New York. And Karen absolutely hated that she was ready to go to Virginia and all that.   Speaker 1 ** 46:15 But the problem for me was it was either move to New York or take a sales territory that didn't sell very much anymore. The owner wasn't really willing to discuss it, so we had some challenges over that, but the marriage was strong enough that it that it worked out, and we moved to New Jersey, and Karen made a lot of friends back there, but, you know, we always did most everything together. And then when the pandemic occurred, being locked down, it just proved all the more we just did everything together. We were together. We talked a lot, which is, I think one of the keys to any good marriages, and you talk and communicate.   Ron Cocking ** 46:56 Yes, in fact, when after we closed the studio in 2018 it took us a few more months to sell our home, and then when we moved down here, it was only about, I don't know, I don't know if it was a full year or not, but the pandemic hit and but it really didn't bother us, because we had, we had been working the teaching scene for so many years that we basically Were done. We basically walked out of the studio. We did. Neither of us have the desire to, well, let's continue in at some level, no, we cherished our time together. We have a little porch out in front of our home here, and it gets the ocean breeze, and we would sit for hours and chat. And oddly enough, not oddly, one of our favorite things to do, we have a website that we went to that had, I think, every radio show of armas Brooks ever made. And we would sit listen to those and just laugh. And, in fact, Gloria, there are some. She said, You know what? I don't even remember that episode at all. So yeah, that that was an interesting part. But yeah, Gloria and I, like your wife and you really enjoyed time together. We never talked about needing separate vacations or anything if we wanted to do something. We did it   Speaker 1 ** 48:16 together, yeah, and we did too. And you know, for us it was, it was out of desire, but also was easier for us, because she was in a wheelchair her whole life. I was I'm blind. I've been blind my whole life. And as I tell people, the marriage worked out well. She read, I pushed, and in reality, that really is the way it worked, yeah, yeah. Until she started using a power chair. Then I didn't push. I kept my toes out of the way. But still, it was, it was really did meld and mesh together very well and did everything   Ron Cocking ** 48:49 together. That's fantastic. I'm proud of you, Michael, and it really   Michael Hingson ** 48:53 it's the only way to go. So I miss her, but like, I keep telling people she's somewhere monitoring me, and if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. So I got to be a good kid,   Ron Cocking ** 49:04 and I'll hear I'll get some notes tonight from the spirit of Gloria McMillan too. I prayed to her before I went on. I said, please let the words flow and please not let me say anything that's inappropriate. And I think she's guided me through okay so far.   Michael Hingson ** 49:20 Well, if, if you do something you're not supposed to, she's gonna probably hit you upside the head. You know, did you two ever actually get to perform together?   Ron Cocking ** 49:30 Oh, I'm glad you asked that, because, well, it had been years since I knew that she was a darn good tap dancer. In fact, I had a tap dancing ensemble of of my more advanced kids, and if they wanted to dedicate the extra time that it took, we rehearsed them and let them perform at free of charge once they made it to that group, they they did not pay to come in and rehearse with me, because I would spend a lot of time standing there creating so. So we were doing a performance, and we wanted to spotlight, I forget the exact reason why we wanted to spotlight some of Gloria's career. Talk about radio a little bit. And I said, Gloria, would you do a little soft shoe routine? And because we had invited a mutual friend of ours, Walden Hughes, from the reps organization, and he was going to be the guest of honor, so I talked her into it. At first she wasn't going to go for it, but we had so much fun rehearsing it together. And it wasn't a long routine, it was relatively short, beautiful music, little soft shoe, and it was so much fun to say that we actually tap danced together. But the other times that we actually got to work together was at the old time radio conventions, mostly with reps, and that's really when I got to sit on stage. I was kind of typecast as an announcer, and I got to do some commercials. I got to sing once with Lucy arnazza. Oh, life, a life boy soap commercial. But when Gloria, Well, Gloria did the lead parts, and oh my gosh, that's when I realized what a superb actress she was. And if I don't know if you've heard of Greg Oppenheimer, his father, Jess Oppenheimer created the I Love Lucy shows, and so Gloria loved Jess Oppenheimer. And so Greg Oppenheimer, Jess Son, did a lot of directing, and oh my gosh, I would see he came in very well prepared and knew how the lines should be delivered. And if Gloria was not right on it, he would say, No, wait a minute, Gloria, I want you to emphasize the word decided, and that's going to get the laugh. And when he gave her a reading like that man, the next time she went through that dialog, just what he had asked for. And I thought, Oh my gosh. And her timing, after watching so many armist Brooks TV and listening to radio shows. GLORIA learned her comedic timing from one of the princesses of comedy timing is Eve Arden, right? They were so well for obvious reasons. They were so very similar. And if you have time to story for another story, do you know have you heard of Bob Hastings? He was the lieutenant on McHale's navy. McHale's Navy, right? Yeah. Well, he also did a lot of old time radio. So we went up to Seattle,   Michael Hingson ** 52:32 our two grandkids, Troy Amber, he played, not Archie. Was it Henry Aldridge? He was on,   Ron Cocking ** 52:40 I think you're right. I'm not too up on the cast of the old time radio show. Yeah, I think you're right. But anyway, he was there, and there was an actress that had to bow out. I don't know who that was, but our grandsons and Gloria and I, we walked in, and as usual, we say hi to everybody. We're given a big packet of six or eight scripts each, and we go to our room and say, Oh my gosh. Get out the pencils, and we start marking our scripts. So we get a phone call from Walden, and he said, hey, Ron Bob. Bob Hastings wants to see Gloria in his room. He wants to read through he's not sure if he wants to do the Bickersons script, because he you know, the gal bowed out and right, you know, so Gloria went down   Michael Hingson ** 53:23 couple of doors, coming   Ron Cocking ** 53:26 Yes, and she so she came back out of half an hour, 40 minutes later, and she said, well, that little stinker, he was auditioning me. He went in and she went in and he said, Well, you know, I don't know if I want to do this. It doesn't seem that funny to me. Let's read a few lines. Well, long story short, they read the whole thing through, and they were both, they were both rolling around the floor. I'll bet they laughing and so and then jump to the following afternoon, they did it live, and I was able to watch. I had some pre time, and I watched, and they were just fantastic together. I left after the show, I went to the green room, had a little snack, and I was coming back to our room, walking down the hall, and here comes Bob Hastings, and he says, oh, Ron. He said, Your wife was just fantastic. So much better than the other girl would have been. So when I told GLORIA That story that made her her day, her week. She felt so good about that. So that's my Bob Hastings story. Bob Hastings and Gloria Macmillan were great as the Bickersons.   Speaker 1 ** 54:29 Yeah, that was a very clever show. It started on the Danny Thomas show, and then they they ended up going off and having their own show, Francis Langford and Donna Michi, but they were very clever.   Ron Cocking ** 54:42 Now, did you realize when now that you mentioned Danny Thomas? Did you realize that Gloria's mom, Hazel McMillan, was the first female agent, talent agent in Hollywood? No, and that's how you know when the. They moved from from Portland, Oregon, a little city outside of Portland. They moved because Gloria's mom thought she had talent enough to do radio, and it wasn't a year after they got here to LA that she did her first national show for Lux radio at the age of five. That was in 1937 with with Edward G Robinson. I've got a recording of that show. What's what show was it? It was a Christmas show. And I don't remember the name of the of it, but it was a Christmas show. It was Walden that sent us. Sent   Michael Hingson ** 55:33 it to us. I'll find it. I've got it, I'm sure.   Ron Cocking ** 55:35 And so, yeah, so, so Gloria was a member of what they called the 500 club. There was a group of, I don't know, nine or 10 kids that by the time the photograph that I have of this club, it looks like Gloria is around 12 to 14 years old, and they had all done 500 or more radio shows. Wow, that's a lot of radio show. There's a lot of radio So Gloria did, I mean, I got a short my point was, her mom was an agent, and when Gloria was working so consistently at armas Brooks, she said, Well, I'm kind of out of a job. I don't need to take you. GLORIA could drive then. And so she came back from the grocery store, Ralph's market near Wilshire and Doheny, and she came back said, Well, I know what I'm going to do. I ran into this cute little boy at the grocery store. I'm going to represent him for television. And she that's, she started the Hazel McMillan agency, and she ran that agency until she just couldn't anymore. I think she ran it until early 1980s but she, my god, she represented people like Angela Cartwright on the Danny Thomas show and Kathy Garver on, all in the family a family affair. Family Affair. Yeah. Jane north. Jane North went in for Dennis the Menace. He didn't get the role. He came back said, Hazel, I don't think they liked me, and they didn't. They didn't call me back or anything. Hazel got on that phone, said, Look, I know this kid can do what you're asking for. I want you to see him again. He went back and they read him again. He got the part, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 57:21 and he was perfect for it.   Ron Cocking ** 57:22 He was perfect for that part was, I'm sorry.   Michael Hingson ** 57:27 It's sad that he passed earlier this year.   Ron Cocking ** 57:29 Yeah, he passed and he had, he had a tough life, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 57:36 well, you know, tell me you, you have what you you have some favorite words of wisdom. Tell me about those.   Ron Cocking ** 57:45 Oh, this goes back to the reason why I came across this when I was looking for something significant to say on the opening of one of our big concert programs. We used to do all of our shows at the California theater of Performing Arts in San Bernardino, it's a really, a real gem of a theater. It's where Will Rogers gave his last performance. And so I came across this, and it's, I don't know if this is biblical, you might, you might know, but it's, if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. And that's what I felt like Gloria and I were trying to do. We wanted to teach these kids as as professionally. We treated our students as they were, as if they were little professionals. We we expected quality, we expected them to work hard, but again, Gloria taught me patience, unending patience. But we knew that we wanted them to feel confident when the time came, that they would go out and audition. We didn't want them to be embarrassed. We want we wanted them to be able to come back to us and say, Boy, I felt so good at that audition. I knew all the steps I was and I and I read so well it was. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And so that aspect of it, we felt that we were feeding them for a lifetime, but we also were creating all of these arts patrons, all these lovers of the arts, 1000s of kids now love to go to musicals and movies and plays because they've kind of been there and done that at our studio. And so anyway, that's and whether, whether or not it was their confidence in show business or whether it was their confidence we've had so many calls from and visits from parents and former students saying, Boy, I just was awarded a job. And they said my my communication skills were excellent, and I owe that to Gloria. I was on the beach the other day, and I looked over and there was this young man and his wife. I assumed it was his wife. It was they were setting. Up their beach chairs, and I looked and I say, Excuse me, is your name Brandon? And he said, No, but he said, Is your name Ron? And I said, Yes. He said, No, my name is Eric. And I said, Eric puentes. And so we reminisced for a while. He took tap from me. He took acting from Gloria, and he said, you know, he was sad to hear of Gloria's passing. And he said, You know, I owe so much to Gloria. I learned so much about speaking in front of groups. And he is now a minister. He has his own church in Redlands, California, and he's a minister. And of all the billion people on the beach, he sits next to me. So that's one of those things when it's supposed to   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:41 happen. It happens. It does. Yeah, well, and as we talked about earlier, you and Gloria did lots of stuff with reps, and I'm going to miss it this time, but I've done a few, and I'm going to do some more. What I really enjoy about people who come from the radio era, and who have paid attention to the radio era is that the acting and the way they project is so much different and so much better than people who have no experience with radio. And I know Walden and I have talked about the fact that we are looking to get a grant at some point so that we can train actors or people who want to be involved in these shows, to be real actors, and who will actually go back and listen to the shows, listen to what people did, and really try to bring that forward into the recreations, because so many people who haven't really had the experience, or who haven't really listened to radio programs sound so forced, as opposed to natural.   Ron Cocking ** 1:01:46 I agree, and I know exactly what you're saying. In fact, Walden on a couple of at least two or three occasions, he allowed us to take some of Gloria's acting students all the way to Seattle, and we did some in for the spurred vac organization Los Angeles, we did a beautiful rendition of a script that we adapted of the Velveteen Rabbit. And of all people, Janet Waldo agreed to do the fairy at the end, and she was exquisite. And it's only like, I don't know, four or five lines, and, oh my gosh, it just wrapped it up with a satin bow. And, but, but in some of our kids, yeah, they, they, they were very impressed by the radio, uh, recreations that they were exposed to at that convention.   Speaker 1 ** 1:02:37 Yeah, yeah. Well, and it's, it is so wonderful to hear some of these actors who do it so well, and to really see how they they are able to pull some of these things together and make the shows a lot better. And I hope that we'll see more of that. I hope that we can actually work to teach more people how to really deal with acting from a standpoint of radio,   Ron Cocking ** 1:03:04 that's a great idea. And I know Walden is really sensitive to that. He Yeah, he would really be a proponent of that.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:10 Oh, he and I have talked about it. We're working on it. We're hoping we can get some things. Well, I want to thank you for being here. We've been doing this an hour already.  

Bob's Movie Club Presents: The Family Stone. Mourning the late great Diane Keaton with a toxic and real family holiday movie. Sarah actually liked this one! Only 6% of people think they are of below average intelligence, but Matty thinks most people are idiots. Tech geniuses might be able to take us to the moon, but they can't hold a normal conversation. Do you have “a spot” in your house? Wicked is coming to your TV tonight (sort of)! Oprah's annual gift guide is here - let's dive in. If you want to splurge for your pleasure, check out Goop's guide as well. Is $900 too much for the perfect cardigan? Yes. Scott Budman is on the show! He's talking tech layoffs, specifically around AI, and the anxiety it's causing going into the holidays. In the movies the computer ALWAYS becomes self aware. The Miss Universe pageant has some drama in Thailand. Miss Mexico and the other women are standing their ground. Steve Martin and Martin Short are going on tour AGAIN. Hopefully they add California dates. The Butt Lady has been convicted AGAIN. The Radio Alice Report brings you the truth about cyberspace, putting the population density of NYC into perspective, and the crazy life behind the 7th best chicken farmer in the world. Tom Bergeron is returning to Dancing With The Stars! The gang is wondering why he needs to return to work at 70 years old. If you could delete one song from the universe, what would it be? US airports are cutting 10% of all flights due to the government shutdown. It's National Men Make Dinner Day - guess it's time for Sarah to get in the kitchen since John is usually the one who cooks. Plus, how old is that guy?

The Miss Universe pageant has some drama in Thailand. Miss Mexico and the other women are standing their ground. Steve Martin and Martin Short are going on tour AGAIN. Hopefully they add California dates. The Butt Lady has been convicted AGAIN. The Radio Alice Report brings you the truth about cyberspace, putting the population density of NYC into perspective, and the crazy life behind the 7th best chicken farmer in the world.

Welcome to this month's Bluegrass Briefing, a monthly series of episodes taking a look at what's going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.News and announcements - church street news Old & In the Way Live vinyl releaseCraig Havighurst bookBlue Ridge Guitar CampReleases (The Grass is New)Buy the records mentionedAlison Brown & Steve Martin album (Compass Records)Wes Corbett - Drift (Bandcamp)I'm With Her/Iron & Wine (Bandcamp)Caitlin Canty (Bandcamp)Ben Garnett (Bandcamp)Darol Anger (Bandcamp)The Grass is (mostly) New 2025 playlist (Spotify)Scroll on BuddySierra Hull Gibson signature mandolinChris Thile interview with Rick BeatoOther bitsThe Grass is (mostly) New 2025 playlistFull list of interviewsCollings GuitarsHappy picking.Matt Support the show===Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!) Bluegrass Jam Along is proud to be sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins- Sign up to get updates on new episodes - Free fiddle tune chord sheets- Here's a list of all the Bluegrass Jam Along interviews- Follow Bluegrass Jam Along for regular updates: Instagram Facebook - Review us on Apple Podcasts

From "King Tut" to the top of the bluegrass charts! Grammy and IBMA award-winning banjoists and songwriters Steve Martin and Alison Brown join us to chat about their respective careers and their first full-length collaborative album, Safe, Sensible and Sane. PART ONEPaul and Scott chat about how impressed they are with all the various hats Alison Brown and Steve Martin wear, while also trying to wrap their heads around the seeming complexity of the banjo. PART TWOOur in-depth conversation with Steve Martin and Alison BrownABOUT STEVE MARTIN AND ALISON BROWNThough he began his career as a stand-up comedian, Steve Martin has released more musical albums than comedy albums. Between 2009 and 2017 he issued six, many of which were collaborations with Steep Canyon Rangers, Edie Brickell, or both. They all reached number one on the bluegrass chart, and nearly all appeared on the Billboard 200. He has been nominated for 15 Grammy awards and has won five, including Best American Roots Song, Best Bluegrass Album, and Best Country Instrumental Performance for his appearance on “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” alongside Earl Scruggs, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, and Glen Duncan on the 2001 album Earl Scruggs and Friends. Martin's latest album, his seventh bluegrass chart topper, is called Safe, Sensible and Sane, and is a collaboration with fellow banjoist Alison Brown.Brown first came to prominence as a member of Alison Krauss and Union Station and, in 1991, became the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Association's Banjo Player of the Year award. After a stint as Michelle Shocked's band leader she launched a solo career blending bluegrass, jazz, Latin, and Celtic influences. She has received two Grammy nominations for Best Bluegrass Album, and two for Best Country Instrumental Performance, one of which she won for “Leaving Cottondale,” a collaboration with Bela Fleck. In 2015 Alison received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association for the furtherance of bluegrass music. She and Martin first collaborated on “Foggy Mountain Breaking” from her 2023 album, On Banjo.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Join Joe as he watches 1990 favorite My Blue Heaven starring Steve Martin and Rick Moranis. We go back with this one and watchalong Now Watch This style! Written by the great Nora Ephron who was married to the writer of Goodfellas and Casino. See what happened to Henry Hill once he got into witness protection.

Smid en besked :)Vi skal skynde os hjem til "Thanksgiving", selvom det ikke er en dansk tradition. Den er vel tættere på Mortens Aften - Nå. Men Vi skal igennem det amerikanske land med Del Griffith og Neal Page - de skal til Chicago, men det er sværere end forventet. Meget svære. Et umage par der sammen må finde den hårde vej hjem. Steve Martin og John Candy er fabelagtige i denne film. Især sender vi kærlighed efter John Candy, som vi mistede alt for tidligt. God mandag til jer alle. Og mon ikke vi hører om den fabelagtige Johnny Ryback - hvem det så end er. 

A HALLOWEEN SHOW for the ages! Tom Hanks, Vince Vaughn, Joe Biden, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Bourdain, Seth Rogen, Dr. Phil, Donald Trump, Steve Buscemi, Steve Martin, Jeff Bridges and more! An hour of unhinged, full improvised comedy with the biggest stars, on the biggest holiday! Enjoy! Follow @jonthankite & @piotr.michael on IG! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New music from as far afield as Malawi, Senegal, Mali, and Zimbabwe, and from all across Canada from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, to PEI, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon, and BC. Plus a couple for tracks from the great new albums by Alison Brown & Steve Martin, and Robert Plant's new project. Previews of local concerts, too.

50 Jahre. Knapp 1000 Episoden. Über 100 ehemalige Cast-Mitglieder. Unzählige Comedy-Skits und Live-Musiknummern namhafter Acts. Sprungbrett zahlloser Hollywood- und Spaß-Karrieren von Chevy Chase über Eddie Murphy bis Tina Fey. Ursprung von einem guten Dutzend Kinokrachern, darunter "The Blues Brothers", "Ghostbusters" und "Wayne's World". Und ja, auch Inspiration für den deutschen Ableger "RTL Samstag Nacht". "Saturday Night Live", das Schlachtschiff der US-Fernsehcomedy, feiert in diesem Oktober goldenes Jubiläum. Ein ganz schön reifes Alter für ein Format, das dem Fernsehen der 1970er einst eine dringend benötigte Verjüngungskur verabreichte. Simon & Sebastian gehen zurück an die rumpeligen Anfänge, als Sender NBC selbst noch nicht genau wußte, was für popkulturelles Phänomen da eigentlich lief. Sie zeichnen die Aufs und Abs der legendären Comedyshow nach, indem sie eine Auswahl klassischer SNL-Sendungen und ihrer Ableger anschauen, unter ihnen Folge 1, aber auch die Ausgaben legendärer Guest Hosts wie Steve Martin, Carrie Fisher und William Shatner. Der Kreis öffnet und schließt sich am 11. Oktober 1975, als es zum ersten Mal hieß: "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!" Diese Folge ist Teil 4 der Rückspultasten-Reise quer durch den Humor vergangener Jahrzehnte.

Podcasters Charles, Oliver and Mabel are shocked to find a severed finger in a platter of shrimp cocktail! Is it connected to the suspicious death of their doorman? Or their search for a missing dry-cleaning mobster? The investigation takes a turn when they uncover a secret casino hidden beneath the Arconia. The gaming room contains a card table with a cleaver-shaped gash and is frequented by a trio of billionaires, one who's missing a finger. But as they dig deeper into the mystery, stories don't add up, the podcast is muzzled, and the killer remains even more elusive. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez return for season five of Hulu's Emmy-winning “Only Murders in the Building.” Television's fictional favorite true crime podcast team looks into yet another death - or two - in the Arconia. The cast of suspects includes a mob widow, a crooked politician, the world's richest people, and a robot. This time the crew learns the residents aren't the real target - it's the building itself. OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING" SEASON FIVE BEGIN IN THE FINAL 11 MINUTES OF THE EPISODE. For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

'The View' co-hosts react to Senate Majority Leader John Thune raging at Democrats over the government shutdown and question if Democrats will change course. Have Halloween costumes and decorations gone too far? 'The View' co-hosts weigh in. Grammy winning musicians Steve Martin and Alison Brown tell us about collaborating on their first full length album 'Safe, Sensible And Sane,' which is now the number one bluegrass album in the country! 'Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking' hosts James and Oliver Phelps bring a live cookie decorating competition to 'The View' while telling us all about the second season of their baking competition show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Halloween! We're releasing our episode with Halloweentown star Kimberly J. Brown as an extra treat! The Disney legend joined The Art of Kindness to discuss: - growing up in the spotlight - working with the iconic (and kind) Debbie Reynolds - behind-the-scenes treats from the Halloweentown franchise + more! While Kimberly J. Brown is perhaps most known for the Halloweentown franchise, she is an award-winning powerhouse who's rocked every medium. By age 9 she had appeared on Broadway in shows like: “Les Miserables” and the Tony-winning revival of “Showboat.” She went then on to rock TV, earning an Emmy nomination for “Marah Lewis,” on TV's longest running daytime drama, “Guiding Light,” which she played from 1993-1998 and in 2006. Other TV credits include “Law & Order: SVU,” “Touched By An Angel,” “Two of a Kind,” and more. More recently, she has been seen lighting up the Hallmark Channel. Some other film highlights include playing John Travolta and Uma Thurman's assistant in Be Cool and starring opposite Steve Martin and Queen Latifah in Bringing Down the House. Follow Kimberly J. Brown: ⁠@officialkjb⁠ Follow us: ⁠@robpeterpaul⁠, ⁠@artofkindnesspod⁠ Halloween Music: FreeUseMusic on youtube ⁠Support the show⁠ (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theaok) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this year's Halloween episode of Earthling Entertainment, Joe & Ryan have a chat with Ira Heiden! He played one of the last Elm Street kids in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” (01:05:33 - 01:37:22). In addition to his time with Freddy, he is telling us about his work with Steve Martin, Elvira, and Jennifer Garner to boot. You owe it to yourself not to miss this conversation. But before that, we're tackling a bunch of other dream demons. That's right, this Halloween's gonna be nightmareish! Followed by new extraterrestrial events, a dumb jewelry store owner, cat alimony, and an update on “Hocus Pocus 3!” All this, and a candy-bag more on this week's Earthling Entertainment Podcast!

The iconic Bob Roth joins Kelly to demystify meditation. Meditation Bob has helped quiet the minds of David Lynch, Oprah, Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, and now he's answering all of our questions. He weighs in on how often one should meditate, how to meditate and how to time your meditation. He shares the long term benefits of practicing and why mantras are secret, and he tells us how to quiet David Letterman's mind. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Join us on a journey through time and space as we imagine the best days of our lives. For Joe, that means trading spaces with Steve Martin at Wi Spa and being rescued by Selena Gomez. For Andrew, that starts at a 6:30am Barry's Bootcamp class and ends at the hospital.  Join us on Patreon! No filter. No notes. No pants (optional). New episodes drop Thursdays at 8PM EST: https://www.patreon.com/goodchildrenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cinda Canning wanted a great twist for her 'All is not OK in Oklahoma' podcast - she'd have loved ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Season 5, Episode 10 "The House Always..." which sees that, maybe, you can fight City Hall. Nighty night, Nonna. Howard says 'Hello!' and Charles, Mabel and Oliver enjoy only 3 months of peace before it begins anew. 00:00 Intro 00:09 Uncovered Clues 01:03 Let's Solve Only Murders in the Building 02:24 Upcoming Podcasts 02:47 Credit Clue Easter Eggs 03:11 London Calling 03:47 Season 5 Dangling Threads 05:56 Grading Season One 08:06 Grading Season Two 09:35 Grading Season Three 11:16 Grading Season Four 12:50 Grading Season Five 18:28 Feedback The murder mystery/true crime podcast spoof with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez! Upper West Side neighbors Charles, Oliver and Mabel bond over a shared love of true crime. The trio doubles their efforts to expose Lester's killer in a showdown that reveals the answers they've been seeking. Do you watch on Disney+, Hulu or Star+? Did we miss any clues? Twitter/Instagram/Threads: @DoublePHQ http://facebook.com/doublephq #onlymurdersinthebuilding #omitb #bloodymabel #OnlyMurders #ONLYMURDERS IN THE BUILDING Explained ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Recap ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Review ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Theory Theories s5e10 s05e10 #selenagomez #stevemartin #martinshort #arconia #TheAcronia Directed by Jamie Babbit Writing Credits Steve Martin ... (created by) & John Hoffman ... (created by) JJ Philbin ... (written by) & Ben Smith ... (written by) Cast Steve Martin ... Charles-Haden Savage Martin Short ... Oliver Putnam Selena Gomez ... Mabel Mora Michael Cyril Creighton ... Howard Morris Meryl Streep ... Loretta Durkin Téa Leoni ... Sofia Caccimelio Logan Lerman ... Jay Pfluig Christoph Waltz ... Bash Steed Dianne Wiest ... Lorraine Coluca Renée Zellweger ... Camila White Keegan-Michael Key ... Mayor Tillman Bobby Cannavale ... Nicky Caccimelio David Patrick Kelly ... Miller Amy Ryan ... Jan Bellows Ryan Broussard ... Will Putnam Vanessa Aspillaga ... Ursula Tina Fey ... Cindy Canning Ryan Broussard ... Will Jackie Hoffman ... Uma Da'Vine Joy Randolph ... Detective Williams James Caverly ... Theo Dimas Teddy Coluca ... Lester Richard Kind ... Vince Fish Anthony Ruiz ... José the Super Jane Lynch ... Sazz Pataki Jason Veasey ... Jonathan Julian Cihi ... Tim Kono Emory Cohen ... Young Lester Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Adriane Lenox ... Roberta Putnam Madison Wray ... Young Rainey Isabella Aparicio ... Young Mabel Shea Buckner ... Tony Caccimelio James Ciccone ... Doorman Joaquin Simone Recasner ... Wondify Executive Dane DiLiegro ... Caccimelio Aaron Dean Eisenberg ... Braden Caccimelio Beanie Feldstein ... Althea Jermaine Fowler ... Randall Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Jacob MacKinnon ... Young Howard Evan Mulrooney ... Johnny Caccimelio Joshua Iverson ... Young Artful Dodger John Leone ... Realtor Hayes McCracken ... Young Oliver Jim O'Hare ... Al Ivy Schur ... Tween Girl Ian Unterman ... Fagin Produced by Dan Fogelman ... executive producer Selena Gomez ... executive producer John Hoffman ... executive producer Steve Martin ... executive producer Jess Rosenthal ... executive producer Martin Short ... executive producer Music by Siddhartha Khosla ... (music by) Consulting Producers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

TVC 711.6: Paul Myers, author of John Candy: A Life in Comedy, talks to Ed about Candy's impact in the movies, particularly at a time when many major comedy stars were also huge box office stars. John Candy: A Life in Comedy tells the full story of the man behind the laughs from the people who knew him best, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard, Steve Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Jennifer Candy, John Hughes III, James Hughes, Robert Crane, Mike Myers, and many, many others. The book is available wherever books are sold through House of Anansi Books, as well as Amazon.com. Paul Myers has several appearances in both the U.S. and Canada over the next several weeks. For details on these and other upcoming events, go to Houseof Anansi.com and type in John Candy A Life in Comedy Book Tour

Johnny Mac discusses Jay Leno's involvement as Grand Marshal at the Harley Davidson Love Ride to raise money for charity, and a whimsical AI video involving the President.Johnny also talks about Jim Gaffigan's bourbon ventures and his touring experiences, emphasizing his distaste for offending anyone. Michelle Wolf shares her aspirations for performing and writing, while Iliza Schlesinger's involvement in a Jeep brand ad campaign is highlighted.The episode wraps up with insights from Bob Odenkirk on action movie tropes and an unexpected collaboration featuring Aerosmith, Youngblood, and Steve Martin.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/daily-comedy-news-with-johnny-mac--4522158/support.Become a premium subscriber! (no ads). For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app which says UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING and the bonus “DCN8” show.You also get 25+ other series  (it's only $4.99 a month with a free-trial month)Contact John at john@thesharkdeck dot com  Media Thoughts is mcdpod.substack.com dailycomedynews.substack.com DCN on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@dailycomedynews https://linktr.ee/dailycomedynews www.buymeacoffee.com/dailycomedynews  

From his humble beginnings in sketch comedy with the Toronto branch of Second City, to his rise to fame in SCTV and Hollywood film classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Great Outdoors, and Uncle Buck, John Candy captivated audiences with his self-deprecating humour, emotional warmth, and gift for improvisation. Now, for the first time since Candy's tragic death, bestselling biographer Paul Myers tells the full story of the man behind the laughs.Drawing on extensive research and exclusive interviews with many of Candy's closest friends and colleagues, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard, Steve Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, and many more, John Candy: A Life in Comedy celebrates the comedian's unparalleled talent, infectious charm, and generosity of spirit. Through ups and downs, successes and failures, and struggles with anxiety and self-doubt, Candy faced the world with a big smile and a warm demeanour that earned him the love and adoration of fans around the world.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Shelley Herman joined me to talk about about Bess Meyerson and Our Miss Brooks; going to see Elvis with a friend who's mother knew someone at NBC; getting the page job; working on The Tonight Show; giving away prizes on Stump the Band; getting people tickets; being on the Dating Game three times; going to the Rocky Horror Picture Show; Tim Curry; working on the $!.98 Beauty Show;; doing a sting operation for Chuck Barris; Battle of the Network Stars; the tragic life of Freddie Prinze; Jack & Mabel Albertson; Rickles / Carson cigarette box incident; getting harassed by McLean Stevenson'; knowing Jack Klugman from Philly; working on Van Dyke & Company; her friendship with Andy Kaufman; not watching Taxi b/c Andy says it was crap and then marrying one of the stars; Alan Zweibel hellps her clear Gilda Radner material for her book; meeting Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Jamie Farr; being friends with Susan Stafford; getting a meeting with Dick Ebersol; Andy Kaufman on Fridays; being a cast member on Off the Wall; Cynthia Stevenson & Squire Rushnell; hanging out with Richard Dawson; working on The Liar's Club; Alex Trebek and Ruta Lee; working on Love Connection; her love of game shows, especially Jeopardy; the original Wheel of Fortune; secrets of Supermarket Sweep; how she got her book title; introducing me to her husband, actor Randall Carver

You might know Steve Martin as a comedy legend, but he's also a serious musician. If you know his early comedy albums, like “A Wild and Crazy Guy,” you might even be familiar with his banjo playing. In recent years, he's gotten a lot more serious about the banjo, joining bluegrass bands and releasing music. Now, he's teamed up with Alison Brown — one of the best banjo players alive — on a new album, “Safe, Sensible And Sane.” Steve and Alison join Tom Power to talk about the record, how they both found their way back to the banjo and what makes their musical collaboration so special.Fill out our listener survey here. We appreciate your input!

Penultimate episode wild twists take ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Season 5, Episode 9 "LESTR" in a whole new direction. The Nonna took stealing food from the fridge to a whole new level as she wheels and deals. We know how an important clue slipped through the fingers of the podcast trio on its way to Camila. Randall runs, Dimas drinks, and the Arconia empties. 00:00 Intro 00:02 Fingers Crossed 01:08 Let's Solve Only Murders in the Building 02:23 Credit Clue Easter Eggs 02:57 Looking Ahead 04:33 Season 6 Mystery Pitch 10:27 Victim Profile: Lester 12:42 Victim Profile: Nicky 'the Neck' 13:24 LESTR 2.0 14:09 Randall 14:55 The Caccimelio Boys 15:06 Nonna 16:40 Camila White 17:06 Jay Pflug 17:52 Vince Fish 18:03 Teddy Dimas 18:36 Theo Dimas 19:04 Miller 19:32 Uma 19:41 Howard 20:33 Oliver 20:50 Charles 21:03 Bloody Mabel 21:10 Tin-Foil Hat Theory: Motive for Murder 26:00 Feedback The murder mystery/true crime podcast spoof with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez! Upper West Side neighbors Charles, Oliver and Mabel bond over a shared love of true crime. Told through the lens of one annoying robot who may hold the keys to more secrets than anyone realized - the Arconia throws one last party as the residents discover that a killer may still be in their building. Do you watch on Disney+, Hulu or Star+? Did we miss any clues? Twitter/Instagram/Threads: @DoublePHQ http://facebook.com/doublephq #onlymurdersinthebuilding #omitb #bloodymabel #OnlyMurders #ONLYMURDERS IN THE BUILDING Explained ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Recap ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Review ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Theory Theories s5e9 s05e09 s5e09 #selenagomez #stevemartin #martinshort Directed by Jamie Babbit Writing Credits Steve Martin ... (created by) & John Hoffman ... (created by) Max Searle ... (written by) & Alex Bigelow ... (written by) & Cast (in credits order) Steve Martin ... Charles-Haden Savage Martin Short ... Oliver Putnam Selena Gomez ... Mabel Mora Michael Cyril Creighton ... Howard Morris Meryl Streep ... Loretta Durkin Téa Leoni ... Sofia Caccimelio Logan Lerman ... Jay Pfluig Christoph Waltz ... Bash Steed Dianne Wiest ... Lorraine Coluca Renée Zellweger ... Camila White Keegan-Michael Key ... Mayor Tillman Bobby Cannavale ... Nicky Caccimelio David Patrick Kelly ... Miller Amy Ryan ... Jan Bellows Ryan Broussard ... Will Putnam Vanessa Aspillaga ... Ursula Tina Fey ... Cindy Canning Ryan Broussard ... Will Jackie Hoffman ... Uma Da'Vine Joy Randolph ... Detective Williams James Caverly ... Theo Dimas Teddy Coluca ... Lester Richard Kind ... Vince Fish Anthony Ruiz ... José the Super Jane Lynch ... Sazz Pataki Jason Veasey ... Jonathan Julian Cihi ... Tim Kono Emory Cohen ... Young Lester Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Adriane Lenox ... Roberta Putnam Madison Wray ... Young Rainey Isabella Aparicio ... Young Mabel Shea Buckner ... Tony Caccimelio James Ciccone ... Doorman Joaquin Simone Recasner ... Wondify Executive Dane DiLiegro ... Caccimelio Aaron Dean Eisenberg ... Braden Caccimelio Beanie Feldstein ... Althea Jermaine Fowler ... Randall Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Jacob MacKinnon ... Young Howard Evan Mulrooney ... Johnny Caccimelio Joshua Iverson ... Young Artful Dodger John Leone ... Realtor Hayes McCracken ... Young Oliver Jim O'Hare ... Al Ivy Schur ... Tween Girl Ian Unterman ... Fagin Produced by Dan Fogelman ... executive producer Selena Gomez ... executive producer John Hoffman ... executive producer Steve Martin ... executive producer Jess Rosenthal ... executive producer Martin Short ... executive producer Music by Siddhartha Khosla ... (music by) Consulting Producers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Comedy giant Steve Martin on making new bluegrass music with pioneering banjo player Alison Brown with their new album, Safe, Sensible, and Sane. Filmmaker Nia DaCosta on her cinematic retelling of Ibsen's classic play, Hedda Gabbler.Sharon Heal, Director of the Museums Association on British industrial heritage emerging from the cultural shadows.Senior curator at the Horniman Museum, Heba Abd el Gawad, and Egyptologist Dr Campbell Price on the enduring influence of Egyptology on culture.Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Both Steve Martin and Alison Brown share a love of the banjo. Videos of the two playing together have gone viral online, and Martin's banjo videos during the pandemic were particularly comforting to many. Brown and Martin talk about their new album, Safe Sensible and Sane, and perform live in the studio.

Actress Jackie Hoffman joins Emily and Haley to discuss her upcoming show, A Miserable Evening With Jackie Hoffman, her humble beginnings at Hershey Theme Park, and her most quotable roles. Emily gets the scoop on Jackie slapping Dave Bautista, Haley is brave enough to ask a question about New Jersey, and we learn some UK slang and some Yiddish. So throw a fit at the Emmy's, have a hysterectomy, and get George Clooney a salad as you enjoy Chapter 34 of How To Make It With Emily & Haley.You can get tickets for Jackie's show, A Miserable Evening With Jackie Hoffman, November 16 and 24 at Joe's Pub at PublicTheater.org and Jackie's website, JackieHoffman.com Watch this interview on YouTube: @HowToMakeItPodcast Follow us on Instagram: @HowToMakeItPodcast Follow Jackie: @JackieHoffman16

Graham Sharp is a Grammy winning bluegrass star. He's an accomplished  banjo and guitar player and songwriter. He plays with the Steep Canyon Rangers, a very cool bluegrass band. Graham also has a solo career. And he's been the right hand man for fellow banjoist Steve Martin on record and on stage since 2009.My featured song is “Sunday Slide”, my latest single. Spotify link.------------------------------------------The Follow Your Dream Podcast:Top 1% of all podcasts with Listeners in 200 countries!Click here for All Episodes Click here for Guest List Click here for Guest Groupings Click here for Guest TestimonialsClick here to Subscribe Click here to receive our Email UpdatesClick here to Rate and Review the podcast—----------------------------------------CONNECT WITH GRAHAM:www.grahamsharp.com—----------------------------------------ROBERT'S NEWEST SINGLE:“SUNDAY SLIDE” is Robert's newest single. It's been called “A fun, upbeat, you-gotta-move song”. Featuring 3 World Class guest artists: Laurence Juber on guitar (Wings with Paul McCartney), Paul Hanson on bassoon (Bela Fleck), and Eamon McLoughlin on violin (Grand Ole Opry band).CLICK HERE FOR ALL LINKSCLICK HERE FOR THE OFFICIAL VIDEO—-------------------------------------------ROBERT'S NEWEST ALBUM:“WHAT'S UP!” is Robert's new compilation album. Featuring 10 of his recent singles including all the ones listed below. Instrumentals and vocals. Jazz, Rock, Pop and Fusion. “My best work so far. (Robert)”CLICK HERE FOR THE OFFICIAL VIDEOCLICK HERE FOR ALL LINKS—----------------------------------------Audio production:Jimmy RavenscroftKymera Films Connect with the Follow Your Dream Podcast:Website - www.followyourdreampodcast.comEmail Robert - robert@followyourdreampodcast.com Follow Robert's band, Project Grand Slam, and his music:Website - www.projectgrandslam.comYouTubeSpotify MusicApple MusicEmail - pgs@projectgrandslam.com 

I happen to catch the "I like me" documentary about #JohnCandy on Netflix, directed by Colin Hanks.  It's a wonderful trip down memory lane.  In my case, I studied at Second City in Chicago (took classes for a semester) before I moved to LA.  I joined a group of improv actors in the Harvey Lembeck workshop, but was an avid fan of SCTV during my years at Boston University and beyond. Charles Grodin and I had that in common - he loved Johnny LaRue (John Candy) and all the other characters, and late in life, Chuck would make DVD copies of his favorite bits and send them to his pals. I have a dozen or so.  As a film director I got to meet a bunch of people... and in this interview with John - you'll hear that I don't say the last name of the actors that I'm referring to, because it's more fun if Jennifer gets them accurately. And she does (once I let her know who we're talking to.) I had just watched the documentary, so the people in it are #SteveMartin (who needs to lighten up on the sobriety), #MartyShort (get your heart checked), Dave Thomas, Andrea Martin (who never changes),  Joe Flaherty, #EugeneLevy (the skeptical one) #CatherineOHara (the dreamer he's visited) Harold Ramis... #BillMurray, #DanAykroyd, #JohnBelushi, #TomHanks... I remembered to mention his lovely wife Rosemary and his two children, both whom are very touching in the doc.  (Sorry I didn't mention his brother in case he views this.)  I asked these questions without Jennifer knowing who I was talking about (except she saw Tom Hanks and saw Bill Murray when I said their first names.  That happens.   So this is an extreme yet excellent example of what we've been doing for  every week for over ten years.  See the film HACKING THE AFTERLIFE on Gaia or Amazon prime for examples.  Jennifer doesn't know anything about the doc about John's life, doesn't know anything about John Candy's life - and I made some errors, like giving Harold Ramis credit for directing Stripes which he cowrote (Ivan Reitman directed it) Harold directed him in Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation.  (A movie that John Hughes told me in person he hated the film but clearly he like John in the film).  As noted, I went to high school with John Hughes, and he was pals with my brother, and super close friends with his wife - who was close to both John and Nancy.   My brother was also pals with Bill Murray in high school, and although I didn't say it in the podcast, I'll say it here - Bill Murray gave me - a brother of his high school pal - free tickets to the dress rehearsal at SNL for years.  I mean - for years -I took friends, including Luana Anders to the show.  And once, had the chutzpa to wait to see him after the show, give him a bottle of wine, and introduce him to Luana...  It was funny because he really didn't know me - I was just there to thank him for leaving tickets for "Elvis Martini" for all those years, and I think he was miffed I'd stuck around to thank him. Little did he know that the Luana he met - the very same Luana - is the moderator of our podcast from the flipside. If I was going to point to one show that demonstrates the ability of Jennifer talking to people offstage - it's this one. She works with members of the FBI, NYPD, LAPD on missing person cases, works pro bono a third of her practice, has been doing this for a long time, and indeed, they're making a show about her on Fox as we speak. I've written 13 books about the flipside, I do offer guided meditations, and Jennifer does these "wine and spirits" evenings in Manhattan beach that anyone can attend and isn't expensive, or they can book her directly. She works with members of Steve Jobs and Kobe Bryant's families - and they've given her permission to say so. So sit back, watch her talk to John Candy about all his pals onstage and off, mock Tom Hanks, tease Steve Martin, make fun of Bill Murray's golf game - all of it is not coming from me or Jennifer. I don't know how else to say it - have been filming people talking to their loved ones for over 15 years via hypnotherapy, guided meditation or mediums like Jennifer.  The story never changes. They aren't gone; they just aren't here.  Enjoy. 

Nick takes a look back at Saturday Night Live Season 37, a strong and steady run marked by some unforgettable first-time hosts who went on to iconic status, including Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, and Mick Jagger. It was also a season of change, as Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg said their goodbyes, and John Mulaney stepped into his first year as head writer and producer. The episode revisits standout sketches like Alec Baldwin's spot-on Tony Bennett, a bridal shower derailed by a delightfully creepy Emma Stone, and Zooey Deschanel turning quirky into an art form on a talk show parody. Nick also highlights the final outing of the beloved soap opera spoof The Californians, packed with the full cast and a cameo from Steve Martin. Along the way, you'll hear great moments from hosts like Ben Stiller and Channing Tatum, plus some behind-the-scenes stories that make Season 37 a fan favorite worth remembering. [Ep 145]

He sings.  He plays multiple instruments. He tells jokes. He writes songs. He creates music videos. He plays hockey, even at the age of 70. He's an author of short stories and novels. He's Wayne Faust, a man who hasn't held a real job in 50 years. This is part II of our conversation about those 5 decades. It's not easy to describe Wayne Faust's stage presence.  He evokes shades of Harry Chapin, Jim Stafford, Steve Martin, and Ray Stevens.  He dares to make audience interaction a substantial part of his show, including on-the-spot song compositions about his delighted patrons.  It is easier to state that our guest has for over five decades successfully entertained people across America and overseas. Wayne is a Renaissance man whose creativity includes playing multiple instruments, composing songs that range from novelty to nostalgia to inspiring, and authoring multiple novels.  Join me for a conversation with a performer who is genuine, talented, and gifted in spreading joy. Wayne Faust online presence: waynefaust.com waynefaustauthor.com (for direct link to Wayne's books)   Essential Links: https://okboomer.libsyn.com/site YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANJjEbjvP0&list=PLkRx0bBfd2KyT7PSb2RVQcGhZyPCvTarp Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/TTaudioworks/?modal=admin_todo_tour Website:  https://tommytones.webnode.com/ Email:  ttaudioworks@gmail.com

Is Camila White telling the truth? Is she an unreliable narrator? But the biggest question of all: Is she a good landlord? She's got 51% of the Arconia and all of the tea to spill on ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Season 5, Episode 8 "Cockoo Chicks." A birding app shows a shocking reveal as the Elevator cranks this episode up to the breaking point! 00:00 Intro 00:02 Can you trust your own eyes? 00:54 Let's Solve Only Murders in the Building 01:45 Credit Clue Easter Eggs 02:11 Time's Up 03:29 Dangling Clue Threads 05:32 Victim Profile: Lester 05:47 Victim Profile: Nicky 'the Neck' 07:28 Althea 07:50 Lorraine 08:40 Randall 09:05 Camila White 10:27 Vince Fish 10:55 Dr. Grover Stanley 12:01 Loretta 12:19 Oliver 12:26 Charles 12:45 Bloody Mabel 13:05 Tin-Foil Hat Accusation 18:29 Feedback The murder mystery/true crime podcast spoof with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez! Upper West Side neighbors Charles, Oliver and Mabel bond over a shared love of true crime. Mabel gathers a ragtag group to crash an exclusive ladies night. While trying to save the Arconia from being sold, Charles and Oliver accidentally end up in couples' therapy.  Do you watch on Disney+, Hulu or Star+? Did we miss any clues? Twitter/Instagram/Threads: @DoublePHQ http://facebook.com/doublephq #onlymurdersinthebuilding #omitb #bloodymabel #OnlyMurders #ONLYMURDERS IN THE BUILDING Explained ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Recap ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Review ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Theory Theories s5e8 s05e08 s5e08 #selenagomez #stevemartin #martinshort Directed by Jessica Yu Writing Credits Steve Martin ... (created by) & John Hoffman ... (created by) Kristin Newman ... (written by) & McKenna Thurber ... (written by) & Cast (in credits order) Steve Martin ... Charles-Haden Savage Martin Short ... Oliver Putnam Selena Gomez ... Mabel Mora Michael Cyril Creighton ... Howard Morris Meryl Streep ... Loretta Durkin Téa Leoni ... Sofia Caccimelio Logan Lerman ... Jay Pfluig Christoph Waltz ... Bash Steed Dianne Wiest ... Lorraine Coluca Renée Zellweger ... Camila White Keegan-Michael Key ... Mayor Tillman Bobby Cannavale ... Nicky Caccimelio David Patrick Kelly ... Miller Amy Ryan ... Jan Bellows Ryan Broussard ... Will Putnam Vanessa Aspillaga ... Ursula Tina Fey ... Cindy Canning Ryan Broussard ... Will Jackie Hoffman ... Uma Da'Vine Joy Randolph ... Detective Williams James Caverly ... Theo Dimas Teddy Coluca ... Lester Richard Kind ... Vince Fish Anthony Ruiz ... José the Super Jane Lynch ... Sazz Pataki Jason Veasey ... Jonathan Julian Cihi ... Tim Kono Emory Cohen ... Young Lester Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Adriane Lenox ... Roberta Putnam Madison Wray ... Young Rainey Isabella Aparicio ... Young Mabel Shea Buckner ... Tony Caccimelio James Ciccone ... Doorman Joaquin Simone Recasner ... Wondify Executive Dane DiLiegro ... Caccimelio Aaron Dean Eisenberg ... Braden Caccimelio Beanie Feldstein ... Althea Jermaine Fowler ... Randall Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Jacob MacKinnon ... Young Howard Evan Mulrooney ... Johnny Caccimelio Joshua Iverson ... Young Artful Dodger John Leone ... Realtor Hayes McCracken ... Young Oliver Jim O'Hare ... Al Ivy Schur ... Tween Girl Ian Unterman ... Fagin Produced by Dan Fogelman ... executive producer Selena Gomez ... executive producer John Hoffman ... executive producer Steve Martin ... executive producer Jess Rosenthal ... executive producer Martin Short ... executive producer Music by Siddhartha Khosla ... (music by) Consulting Producers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

MUSICThe BBC Ozzy Osbourne documentary Coming Home is on Peacock as of tonight!Rob Zombie will drop a new album in February called "The Great Satan". Check out the first single, "Punks and Demons". https://consequence.net/2025/10/rob-zombie-new-album-the-great-satan-single-punks-and-demons/ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails have more than just the Tron: Ares score out this month. They've also done some score work for the new Julia Roberts film After the Hunt, which is out now. The soundtrack will be released on November 14th. Check out one of Reznor and Ross's pieces, "After the Hunt, One" on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?si=wxG3cjzFSup1Tobn&v=-U7ZZmSNwcM&feature=youtu.be RIP: The disgraced frontman of the band Lostprophets, Ian Watkins, has been killed in prison. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ian-watkins-dead-lostprophets-paedophile-36052854 RIP: Thommy Price, the drummer in Joan Jett and the Blackhearts from 1986 to 2016, died Friday at 68. He also played on Billy Idol's Rebel Yell as well as with Scandal, Roger Daltrey, Steve Lukather, Debbie Harry, Ronnie Wood, and Blue Oyster Cult. RIP: The Moody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge has died at 82. TVTOP TALK SHOWS GUESTS:Jimmy Fallon has actors Steve Martin, Martin Short & Selena Gomez, actress Michelle Dockery, musical guest Karan AujlaStephen Colbert has actors Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter, musical guest J.I.D.Jimmy Kimmel has actor Bill Murray, actress Kat Dennings, musical guest ClipseSeth Meyers has actor Jason Bateman, actress Jinkx Monsoon Darius McCrary was arrested on an outstanding felony warrant at the U.S./Mexico border. MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS:RIP: Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress whose offbeat charm and fearless choices transformed her into a cinematic icon, died Saturday in California at 79, her family confirmed.Best known for her role in Annie Hall, for which she won the Academy Award, Keaton also starred in The Godfather series, The First Wives Club and Something's Gotta Give. The sci-fi sequel 'Tron: Ares' bombed at the box office over its opening weekend, bringing in only $33.5 million across 4,000 North American theaters. https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/tron-ares-box-office-opening-weekend-roofman-kiss-of-the-spider-woman-123654437 Charlie Sheen discussed feeling overshadowed by his brother Emilio Estevez's fame as a member of the Brat Pack, saying, "I felt like I was just taking up the rear. I felt like a valet on certain nights." https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/charlie-sheen-opens-up-about-feeling-excluded-during-brother-emilio-estevezs-brat-pack-era· Ellen Ripley's sacrificial death at the end of "Alien 3" seemed pretty finite . . . or so we thought. Sigourney Weaver told fans at New York Comic Con on Friday that "Alien" franchise producer Walter Hill has plans to bring her BACK. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/alien-star-sigourney-weaver-has-met-with-disney-1236397969/ Walmart has purchased the Monroeville Mall in Pennsylvania, where George A. Romero shot the 1978 zombie classic "Dawn of the Dead" . . . and they plan to demolish it. https://bloody-disgusting.com/the-further/3908419/walmart-hopes-to-demolish-the-dawn-of-the-dead-mall-within-the-next-two-years/AND FINALLYSo you want your kids to enjoy the darker side of Halloween, but you don't wanna go too dark? Here are 10 "gateway" horror movies you can stream on Disney+:1. "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" (1949). Includes a surprisingly scary animated version of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".2. "The Black Cauldron" (1985)3. "Don't Look Under the Bed" (1999)4. "Escape to Witch Mountain" (1975)5. "Halloweentown" (1998)6. "The Haunted Mansion" (2003). This is the one with Eddie Murphy.7. "Mr. Boogedy" (1986)8. "Phantom of the Megaplex" (2000)9. "Return to Oz" (1985)10. "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (1983)https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3908456/10-disney-gateway-horror-movies-you-can-stream-on-disney-this-halloween/ AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES!MUSICThe BBC Ozzy Osbourne documentary Coming Home is on Peacock as of tonight!Rob Zombie will drop a new album in February called "The Great Satan". Check out the first single, "Punks and Demons". https://consequence.net/2025/10/rob-zombie-new-album-the-great-satan-single-punks-and-demons/ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails have more than just the Tron: Ares score out this month. They've also done some score work for the new Julia Roberts film After the Hunt, which is out now. The soundtrack will be released on November 14th. Check out one of Reznor and Ross's pieces, "After the Hunt, One" on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?si=wxG3cjzFSup1Tobn&v=-U7ZZmSNwcM&feature=youtu.be RIP: The disgraced frontman of the band Lostprophets, Ian Watkins, has been killed in prison. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ian-watkins-dead-lostprophets-paedophile-36052854 RIP: Thommy Price, the drummer in Joan Jett and the Blackhearts from 1986 to 2016, died Friday at 68. He also played on Billy Idol's Rebel Yell as well as with Scandal, Roger Daltrey, Steve Lukather, Debbie Harry, Ronnie Wood, and Blue Oyster Cult. RIP: The Moody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge has died at 82. TVTOP TALK SHOWS GUESTS:Jimmy Fallon has actors Steve Martin, Martin Short & Selena Gomez, actress Michelle Dockery, musical guest Karan AujlaStephen Colbert has actors Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter, musical guest J.I.D.Jimmy Kimmel has actor Bill Murray, actress Kat Dennings, musical guest ClipseSeth Meyers has actor Jason Bateman, actress Jinkx Monsoon Darius McCrary was arrested on an outstanding felony warrant at the U.S./Mexico border. MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS:RIP: Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress whose offbeat charm and fearless choices transformed her into a cinematic icon, died Saturday in California at 79, her family confirmed.Best known for her role in Annie Hall, for which she won the Academy Award, Keaton also starred in The Godfather series, The First Wives Club and Something's Gotta Give. The sci-fi sequel 'Tron: Ares' bombed at the box office over its opening weekend, bringing in only $33.5 million across 4,000 North American theaters. https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/tron-ares-box-office-opening-weekend-roofman-kiss-of-the-spider-woman-123654437 Charlie Sheen discussed feeling overshadowed by his brother Emilio Estevez's fame as a member of the Brat Pack, saying, "I felt like I was just taking up the rear. I felt like a valet on certain nights." https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/charlie-sheen-opens-up-about-feeling-excluded-during-brother-emilio-estevezs-brat-pack-era· Ellen Ripley's sacrificial death at the end of "Alien 3" seemed pretty finite . . . or so we thought. Sigourney Weaver told fans at New York Comic Con on Friday that "Alien" franchise producer Walter Hill has plans to bring her BACK. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/alien-star-sigourney-weaver-has-met-with-disney-1236397969/ Walmart has purchased the Monroeville Mall in Pennsylvania, where George A. Romero shot the 1978 zombie classic "Dawn of the Dead" . . . and they plan to demolish it. https://bloody-disgusting.com/the-further/3908419/walmart-hopes-to-demolish-the-dawn-of-the-dead-mall-within-the-next-two-years/AND FINALLYSo you want your kids to enjoy the darker side of Halloween, but you don't wanna go too dark? Here are 10 "gateway" horror movies you can stream on Disney+:1. "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" (1949). Includes a surprisingly scary animated version of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".2. "The Black Cauldron" (1985)3. "Don't Look Under the Bed" (1999)4. "Escape to Witch Mountain" (1975)5. "Halloweentown" (1998)6. "The Haunted Mansion" (2003). This is the one with Eddie Murphy.7. "Mr. Boogedy" (1986)8. "Phantom of the Megaplex" (2000)9. "Return to Oz" (1985)10. "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (1983)https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3908456/10-disney-gateway-horror-movies-you-can-stream-on-disney-this-halloween/ AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us a textCindy Busby has starred in some of Hallmark's most beloved movies — but her journey from Montreal to Hollywood is full of surprises, laughter, and heart. In this episode, Eric sits down with Cindy for a warm, funny, and refreshingly honest conversation about acting, resilience, and the real life behind the Hallmark magic.She opens up about the Heartland role that launched her career, how a random audition landed her in a Steve Martin movie, and why her rescue dog Susie has completely stolen the spotlight (and her heart). From behind-the-scenes stories to thoughtful reflections on rejection, creativity, and joy, Cindy shows exactly why fans adore her on and off screen.Highlights:• The moment that changed her acting career forever• Why Hearts Down Under and Marry Me in Yosemite are close to her heart• The Steve Martin and Paul Campbell story you have to hear to believe• Cindy's hilarious “cop fan” encounter on a road trip• Her heartfelt take on animal rescue and living with purposeIf you love Hallmark Movies, Hallmark Mysteries, Heartland, and cozy behind-the-scenes stories with your favorite stars, this is one you won't want to miss.

Danny Robinson is a talent agent who got his start in the mail room. Before that, he was on the road with his parents as a part of their closing act. Growing up on the road, Danny learned a lot about the entertainment industry. Danny got his start at Ashley Famous, and after several summers and mergers, Danny landed a desk at ICM in the Rock and Roll Department for Chuck Ramsey. Danny has worked with all sorts of Brilliant Minds from Sandler to Steve Martin. In this episode, Barry Katz and Danny Robinson talk about the Industry as two people who work behind the scenes.The Industry Blueprint(fka Blueprint for Success)TheIndustryBlueprint.comAre you a comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, manager, host, podcaster or agent? Would you like personalized help to reach all of your goals in the entertainment business? Click the link to learn more & join our FREE industry networking group full of decades of experience!Watch this episode and more on YouTubeYouTube.com/@BarryKatzEntertainmentConnect with Barryinstagram.com/BarryKatzfacebook.com/BarryKatzOfficialPagetiktok.com/@barry_katzx.com/BarryKatzlinkedin.com/in/BarryKatzBKEBarry Katz EntertainmentBarryKatz.com

This week, Louis is joined by comedian Brendan Scannell to discuss Taylor Swift's new album, The Life of a Showgirl, as well as The Rock's A24 debut in The Smashing Machine. Jesse Williams also joins to discuss his new Amazon series, Hotel Costiera, his experience with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Meryl Streep on Only Murders in the Building, as well as his memories of the late Richard Greenberg and his the Tony-winning play, Take Me Out. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A road trip to Connecticut to confront the Billionaires reveals their evil casino plans: What are the odds?! And now the future of Arconia hangs in the balance! ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Season 5, Episode 7 "Silver Alert" sees Oliver dressed as Cowboy Carter, Mabel and Charles winning at Game Night and Bash's creepy kid! 00:00 Intro 00:02 Paying for the Finger 00:46 Let's Solve Only Murders in the Building 02:07 Credit Clue Easter Eggs 02:33 Top Suspect Talk 09:59 Victim Profile: Nicky 'the Neck' 10:17 Victim Profile: The Finger 10:36 Mayor Tillman 11:22 Romy 11:45 The Billionaires 12:18 Camila White 13:02 Algernon 13:19 Bash Steed 14:29 Jay Pflug 14:52 Oliver 15:07 Charles 15:14 Bloody Mabel 15:19 Tin-Foil Hat Theory 17:47 Spoilers from new Teasers 19:34 Feedback The murder mystery/true crime podcast spoof with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez! Upper West Side neighbors Charles, Oliver and Mabel bond over a shared love of true crime. The mayor warns the trio about the billionaires, sending them to investigate further at a villainous lair upstate - as Oliver boots it in an attempted escape. Spoiler Videos discussed:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnUSZT6mZbo  https://www.instagram.com/onlymurdershulu/?hl=en Do you watch on Disney+, Hulu or Star+? Did we miss any clues? Twitter/Instagram/Threads: @DoublePHQ http://facebook.com/doublephq #onlymurdersinthebuilding #omitb #bloodymabel #OnlyMurders #ONLYMURDERS IN THE BUILDING Explained ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Recap ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Review ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Theory Theories s5e7 s05e07 s5e07 #selenagomez #stevemartin #martinshort Directed by Jessica Yu Writing Credits Steve Martin ... (created by) & John Hoffman ... (created by) Taylor Cox ... (written by) & Pete Swanson ... (written by) & Cast (in credits order) Steve Martin ... Charles-Haden Savage Martin Short ... Oliver Putnam Selena Gomez ... Mabel Mora Michael Cyril Creighton ... Howard Morris Meryl Streep ... Loretta Durkin Téa Leoni ... Sofia Caccimelio Logan Lerman ... Jay Pfluig Christoph Waltz ... Bash Steed Dianne Wiest ... Lorraine Coluca Renée Zellweger ... Camila White Keegan-Michael Key ... Mayor Tillman Bobby Cannavale ... Nicky Caccimelio David Patrick Kelly ... Miller Amy Ryan ... Jan Bellows Ryan Broussard ... Will Putnam Vanessa Aspillaga ... Ursula Tina Fey ... Cindy Canning Ryan Broussard ... Will Jackie Hoffman ... Uma Da'Vine Joy Randolph ... Detective Williams James Caverly ... Theo Dimas Teddy Coluca ... Lester Richard Kind ... Vince Fish Anthony Ruiz ... José the Super Jane Lynch ... Sazz Pataki Jason Veasey ... Jonathan Julian Cihi ... Tim Kono Emory Cohen ... Young Lester Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Adriane Lenox ... Roberta Putnam Madison Wray ... Young Rainey Isabella Aparicio ... Young Mabel Shea Buckner ... Tony Caccimelio James Ciccone ... Doorman Joaquin Simone Recasner ... Wondify Executive Dane DiLiegro ... Caccimelio Aaron Dean Eisenberg ... Braden Caccimelio Beanie Feldstein ... Althea Jermaine Fowler ... Randall Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Jacob MacKinnon ... Young Howard Evan Mulrooney ... Johnny Caccimelio Joshua Iverson ... Young Artful Dodger John Leone ... Realtor Hayes McCracken ... Young Oliver Jim O'Hare ... Al Ivy Schur ... Tween Girl Ian Unterman ... Fagin Produced by Dan Fogelman ... executive producer Selena Gomez ... executive producer John Hoffman ... executive producer Steve Martin ... executive producer Jess Rosenthal ... executive producer Martin Short ... executive producer Music by Siddhartha Khosla ... (music by) Consulting Producers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Hydrogen bomb testing awakens an ancient monster that terrorizes Japan. Special guest Clinton Festa joins us to chat about getting a blood sample from a prehistoric beast, a carbon-dating debate, and a good gig for Steve Martin. Then we find out if 1954's Godzilla and 1956's Godzilla, King of the Monsters! stand the Test of Time. 

Welcome to this month's Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what's going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.Pod NewsSara Watkins interviewNews and announcements - church street news List of IBMA Award winnersReleases (The Grass is New)Alison Brown & Steve Martin album pre-orderPre-order Wes Corbett - DriftVinyl reissuesAlison Krauss - LiveTony Rice - BackwatersThe Grass is (mostly) New 2025 playlistScroll on BuddyBilly Strings IBMA Keynote (from 47:31 in)Other bitsThe Grass is (mostly) New 2025 playlistFull list of interviewsCollings GuitarsHappy picking.Matt Support the show===Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!) Bluegrass Jam Along is proud to be sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins- Sign up to get updates on new episodes - Free fiddle tune chord sheets- Here's a list of all the Bluegrass Jam Along interviews- Follow Bluegrass Jam Along for regular updates: Instagram Facebook - Review us on Apple Podcasts

Who says 'you can't go home again'? ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Season 5, Episode 6 "Flatbush" has Charles catfished, Loretta red-hot about losing her apartment, Oliver moving out, and a casino moving in??? + Sunny and Cloudy back together! 00:00 Intro 00:05 Lester at the Wedding 01:05 Let's Solve Only Murders in the Building 02:17 Credit Clue Easter Eggs 02:34 Dumpster Diving 04:58 Victim Profile: Lester 06:25 Victim Profile: Nicky 'the Neck' 07:10 Victim Profile: The Finger 07:25 LESTR 2.0 07:47 Althea 08:56 Mayor Tillman 09:48 Lorraine 10:29 Nonna 10:35 Sofia 10:55 Bash Steed 11:27 Loretta 12:06 Howard 12:13 Oliver 13:05 Charles 13:19 Bloody Mabel 13:44 Spoilers from the new Teaser 15:38 Feedback The murder mystery/true crime podcast spoof with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez! Upper West Side neighbors Charles, Oliver and Mabel bond over a shared love of true crime. The investigation takes Oliver and Loretta back to the streets of his childhood, where buried memories surface and secrets about Lester and Nicky's widows emerge. Mable and Charles follow leads after a break-in. Do you watch on Disney+, Hulu or Star+? Did we miss any clues? Twitter/Instagram/Threads: @DoublePHQ http://facebook.com/doublephq #onlymurdersinthebuilding #omitb #bloodymabel #OnlyMurders #ONLYMURDERS IN THE BUILDING Explained ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Recap ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Review ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Theory Theories s5e6 s05e06 s5e06 #selenagomez #stevemartin #martinshort Directed by Shari Springer Berman Robert Pulcini Writing Credits Steve Martin ... (created by) & John Hoffman ... (created by) John Enbon ... (written by) & Jake Schnesel ... (written by) & Cast (in credits order) Steve Martin ... Charles-Haden Savage Martin Short ... Oliver Putnam Selena Gomez ... Mabel Mora Michael Cyril Creighton ... Howard Morris Meryl Streep ... Loretta Durkin Téa Leoni ... Sofia Caccimelio Logan Lerman ... Jay Pfluig Christoph Waltz ... Bash Steed Dianne Wiest ... Lorraine Coluca Renée Zellweger ... Camila White Keegan-Michael Key ... Mayor Tillman Bobby Cannavale ... Nicky Caccimelio David Patrick Kelly ... Miller Amy Ryan ... Jan Bellows Ryan Broussard ... Will Putnam Vanessa Aspillaga ... Ursula Tina Fey ... Cindy Canning Ryan Broussard ... Will Jackie Hoffman ... Uma Da'Vine Joy Randolph ... Detective Williams James Caverly ... Theo Dimas Teddy Coluca ... Lester Richard Kind ... Vince Fish Anthony Ruiz ... José the Super Jane Lynch ... Sazz Pataki Jason Veasey ... Jonathan Julian Cihi ... Tim Kono Emory Cohen ... Young Lester Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Adriane Lenox ... Roberta Putnam Madison Wray ... Young Rainey Isabella Aparicio ... Young Mabel Shea Buckner ... Tony Caccimelio James Ciccone ... Doorman Joaquin Simone Recasner ... Wondify Executive Dane DiLiegro ... Caccimelio Aaron Dean Eisenberg ... Braden Caccimelio Beanie Feldstein ... Althea Jermaine Fowler ... Randall Siobhan Fallon Hogan ... Mrs. Morris Jacob MacKinnon ... Young Howard Evan Mulrooney ... Johnny Caccimelio Joshua Iverson ... Young Artful Dodger John Leone ... Realtor Hayes McCracken ... Young Oliver Jim O'Hare ... Al Ivy Schur ... Tween Girl Ian Unterman ... Fagin Produced by Dan Fogelman ... executive producer Selena Gomez ... executive producer John Hoffman ... executive producer Steve Martin ... executive producer Jess Rosenthal ... executive producer Martin Short ... executive producer Music by Siddhartha Khosla ... (music by) Consulting Producers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi has spoken about the very messy feud with her mum and the financial fallout that destroyed their relationship. But does it reveal more about the bizarre dynamics of child stars and their families? Also, Jessie has a question: if you’re going through something in your personal life, should you tell your workplace about it? How much do you REALLY want your boss to know? We have thoughts. Plus, it's 'Sit at the Bar September' and Amelia has a theory about why sitting and making eye contact with strangers IRL sound so unappealing to young people. Support independent women's media What To Listen To Next: Listen to our latest episode: Victoria Beckham’s Version & Jessie’s Very Big News Listen: “Tough It Out”. The Announcement That Upset Us More Than We Expected Listen: Everything You Need To Know About Writing A Book, With Holly & Jessie Listen: The Jimmy Kimmel Fallout & The Internet’s Biggest Cheating Scandal Listen:The Questionable Brilliance Of The 'Lemon Law' Listen: Every Thought We Had After Watching Netflix's 'Unknown Number' Listen: A Breast Pump, An Airport Lounge & The Detail You Probably Missed Listen: Behind Closed Doors: Our Personal Tarot Readings Listen to Parenting Out Loud: Stealth Mums, The Roblox Controversy & A Tiny Internet Feud Discover more Mamamia Podcasts here Watch Mamamia Out Loud: Mamamia Out Loud on YouTube What to read: JESSIE STEPHENS: On being pregnant with twins. As a twin. With twin brothers. HOLLY WAINWRIGHT: So, what do people do at night? Vanessa Amorosi was on every radio station. Behind the scenes, her family was falling apart. Child star Mara Wilson disappeared from Hollywood after playing Matilda. This is her life now. A Schitt's Creek favourite, a new child and a death: What the cast of Home Alone are doing now. The parents of Nickelodeon stars are being blamed for the horrors they faced on set. But there’s so much more to this story. Jennette McCurdy was a child star on Nickelodeon. She never wanted to be. Did the child stars ever get their trust fund? The very messy legacy of Slumdog Millionaire. THE END BITS: Check out our merch at MamamiaOutLoud.com Mamamia studios are styled with furniture from Fenton and Fenton GET IN TOUCH: Feedback? We’re listening. Send us an email at outloud@mamamia.com.au Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice message. Join our Facebook group Mamamia Outlouders to talk about the show. Follow us on Instagram @mamamiaoutloud and on Tiktok @mamamiaoutloud Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The internet continues its chaotic march, with a TikTok deal potentially happening (for real this time, maybe), while LimeWire bought the Fyre Fest brand, because more viruses are always a great idea. Corporate America is going full AI-bro with massive layoffs at Fiverr, xAI, and Google, while OpenAI reveals people are using ChatGPT for pretty much everything but coding. Age verification is coming to apps and online services in California and New York, because apparently, teenagers need protection (after the fact). Elsewhere, nudists have declared war on SpaceX over rocket launches, and fans are ditching Elon since he started being so insufferable; even a Tesla engineer quit and roasted him spectacularly, all while NHTSA investigates Tesla's fire-prone door handles.In the world of entertainment, we're catching up on Wednesday and Foundation S3 (just pretend the books never existed, your brain will be rewired!), and Upload wrapped up its truncated season nicely. The 2003 Freaky Friday was a fun, nostalgic trip through early 2000s L.A., reminding us of all the cool places that are now just... gone. Alien: Earth and Gen V S2 are on our watchlist, and we'll see if Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 lives up to its promise. The Witcher S4, featuring Liam Hemsworth as Geralt (aka the Dick Switch), drops in October, with Laurence Fishburne making it somewhat palatable. The Lilith Fair documentary is peak 90s, and Meta's latest dystopian product was so bad it made the Cybertruck demo look good. Apple's new AI features are cool, but the iOS 26 "liquid glass" update and its awful crossfade feature are less so; also, meditation apparently has a dark side, but binaural beats might just make you rave. Publishers Clearing House's bankruptcy means "forever" winners won't get paid (always take the lump sum!); international sellers are charging absurd shipping to avoid American buyers; and the deepfake Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kills Darth Maul (Live Action) is surprisingly good.Steve Martin's Born Standing Up is still great life advice, and the Carrot App the Musical is, against all odds, amazing. Robert Redford has sadly passed, a legend who gave us Sneakers, and L.A.'s own Clayton Kershaw is retiring at the end of the season, a true one-team legend who deserves all the accolades.Sponsors:MasterClass - Right now, our listeners get an additional 15% off any annual membership at MASTERCLASS.com/GRUMPYOLDGEEKS. No-risk 30-day money-back guarantee!Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. 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Get ready for some great behind-the-scenes scoop about the making of 2007's Hairspray from the man who was at the helm of the film! Producer, Choreographer, and Director Adam Shankman joins Jenna and Kevin to share some great stories about his toe-tapping and delightful musical, including the lengths he went to in order to assemble his A-list cast, like his memorable 1 AM dinner with John Travolta! Brittany Snow and Zac Efron bombing their first audition, the actor he initially didn't want, and the meeting with James Marsden that was hilariously interrupted by a Hollywood icon! Plus, he shares how working with Steve Martin on 'Bringing Down the House' changed his life, sweet stories from the set of 'A Walk to Remember,' some 'Glee' talk and so much more! For fun, exclusive content, and behind-the-scenes clips, follow us on Instagram @andthatswhatyoureallymissedpod & TikTok @thatswhatyoureallymissed!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From Malibu's Most Wanted to Most Hung?The banter begins with Jamie Kennedy's legendary TV and film career—but quickly shifts to the elephant on the internet. Yes, THAT photo. Is it real? We get the truth straight from Jamie himself. (Spoiler: blurry or not, it's all him.)From Scream to The Jamie Kennedy ExperimentThe boys celebrate Jamie's cultural moments and roast the younger generation for confusing him with James Kennedy from Vanderpump Rules. According to one producer, Jamie had even “died in a hot tub.” Jamie takes it in stride: “I'm alive, bitches.” Playboy Mansion Secrets & Trunk Sneak-InsJamie shares wild-but-wholesome nights at the Playboy Mansion—rubbing shoulders with Carmen Electra and Anna Nicole Smith, and partying with Too Short on the mic. Meanwhile, Pol' confesses to sneaking in via a car trunk. They may have even crossed paths at one of those parties… destiny? The coffee thinks so. Coffee Reading Gets Real: “Who's Whispering in Your Ear?”Pol' delivers a powerful coffee cup reading that stops Jamie in his tracks, diving into:· Emotional stagnancy· Life-changing decisions· The blurred line between Jamie the person and the persona· And if he should finally put a ring on girlfriend Elyssa's fingerIt's insightful, eerie, and so accurate it gives Jamie chills. “You're 100% right,” he admits. “I have to be all of me. Always.” Hollywood Then & NowJamie opens up about the early days—from being an extra in Dead Poets Society, to Romeo + Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio, to the breakout success of Scream. He recalls working with Steve Martin and Ellen DeGeneres and reflects on how much the industry has changed. Verdict? Social media fame ≠ movie star. He's rooting for passion over followers. Red Carpet Scams & Designer TeaPol' drops a bombshell: a major actress demanded six figures just to wear one of his gowns to the Oscars—even though his designs have graced winners like Karen Tolliver (Hair Love). Jamie's jaw drops. “She made $20 million and wants you to pay her?!” As always, Pol' and Patrik bring fashion realness with a side of shade. Hot Topics & Flirty Chaos· Zoe Kravitz & Harry Styles: Cute or confusing? Pol' says let them live.· Jamie's 20-year age gap with Elyssa: He defends it with honesty and humor. (Also, she's not in 12th grade. Relax.)· OnlyFans culture: Jamie calls out society's weird double standards—and if he'd ever post a pickle shot. Snow BooBoo Is Coming…Pol' & Patrik tease their adorable new doll line: Snow BooBoo from Snow White 90210. Jamie's sold. Pre-orders are open, and this booboo's ready to slay. Final ThoughtsBetween the jokes, raunch, and Hollywood chaos, this episode shows a man at a crossroads—balancing fame, love, legacy, and authenticity. Whether you're a longtime Jamie Kennedy fan or just meeting him, Undressed reminds you that real connection always beats public perception. Don't miss Part 2—coming soon! More revelations, more glam, and more Jamie Kennedy. Subscribe: linktr.ee/undressedpodFollow Pol Atteu: IG/TikTok/Twitter @polatteu — polatteu.com Follow Patrik Simpson: IG/TikTok @patriksimpsonbh — patriksimpson.com Follow SnowWhite90210: IG @snowwhite90210 — snowwhite90210.com Watch Gown and Out in Beverly Hills on Prime Video — gownandoutinbeverlyhills.com #UndressedPodcast — Armenian Coffee Reading: polatteu.com/armenian-coffee-cup-read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three neighbors put their true crime fandom to the test in a real life mystery. But they won't solve just any crime…only murders in the building. We go back to our September 6, 2021 review of season one of the Hulu classic starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selina Gomez, "Only Murders in the Building."OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING" BEGIN IN THE FINAL SEVEN MINUTES OF THE EPISODE. For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com.