Episodes

March 29, 2024

Brushes with Fame

Miggs and Trace trade stories of their brushes with fame, from Otis Redding to Albert Brooks

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Aug. 9, 2023

Stacy Keach, Jr. is one of Hollywoods most versatile and recognizable…

Stacy Keach, Jr. is one of Hollywoods most versatile actors, playing everyone from Hemingway to Hamlet to Mike Hammer, and winning Golden Globe, Drama Desk and many other awards recognizing his extraordinary work. He was Sgt Stendenko in “Up in …

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Aug. 9, 2023

Ed Begley Jr. - Actor, author, activist

Ed Begley Jr.! Jeez, what hasn’t this guy done? Actor, author, environmental activist, and all around thoughtful and talented citizen trying to make the planet a better place for all of us. Better Call Saul, St Elsewhere, Simpsons, Mary Hartman-Mary …

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July 26, 2023

Actress and author Bonnie Bartlett

Actress and author Bonnie Bartlett has an amazing career spanning seven decades in TV and movies.

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July 16, 2023

Katie Cassidy is third generation Hollywood royalty

Katie Cassidy is third generation Hollywood royalty and a triple threat herself, as actor, writer and producer. She never met her grandfather Jack Cassidy, but she is very candid about her complicated relationship with her late father, teen heart throb …

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June 23, 2023

Aisha (eye-sha) Alfa is a one-woman cavalcade of entertainment.

Aisha (eye-sha) Alfa is a one-woman cavalcade of entertainment. She is an accomplished actress (currently in “Based on a True Story), writer, comedian, podcaster (The Shoutout Show), Pi devotee (as in 3.14159…) as well as being a charming and positive …

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May 25, 2023

Comedy great Ted Alexandro

Comedy great Ted Alexandro discusses the art of comedy and his experiences touring with Jim Gaffigan, as well as doing five specials and dozens of appearances on Conan, Letterman, Kimmel, and Dr. Katz!! Any lover of comedy or aspiring comedian …

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April 26, 2023

Charming, hilarious, creative, Rita Rudner

Charming, hilarious, sassy, beautiful and creative, Rita Rudner describes her years as a dancer on Broadway, a comedian, author, mother, wife and irrepressible wit in all media.

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March 8, 2023

Chris Lemmon, author, survivor, concert pianist, and son of iconic ac…

Chris Lemmon is an accomplished author, martial artist, storyteller and concert pianist, who just happens to be the son of iconic actor Jack Lemmon. Chris discusses the flawed relationship with his farther, some Hollywood memories with Marilyn Monroe and JFK, …

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March 8, 2023

Actor, writer, entrepreneur, Christopher Atkins

Brooke Shields co-star, actor, writer, entrepreneur, Christopher Atkins who discusses his first movie role at age 18, co-starring with 14 year old (?) Brooke in "The Blue Lagoon", as well as his love of baseball, fishing, mangos juice, art, and …

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Dec. 25, 2022

Clea Newman Soderlund and husband Kurt discuss Paul Newman

Newman, “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” and the documentary series, “The Last Movie Stars”, with personal insights into Pauls’s character as an actor, as a man, and as a father, who Clea and her sisters must learn to …

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Nov. 15, 2022

Dick Wingate, music executive and innovator

Music industry executive and innovator, Dick Wingate, has worked with and developed major talents including Bruce Springsteen, Al Stewart, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, Muddy Waters, Pink Floyd, and Nick Lowe among others. Dick shares his experience as a project manager …

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Oct. 20, 2022

Joan Van Ark

Joan Van Ark has hundreds of outstanding credits on stage, screen and on TV, playing everyone from “Lady Macbeth” to Gloria Fisher on “The Young and the Restless”, but she is probably best remembered as Valene Ewing on Dallas and …

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Oct. 12, 2022

Chris Jagger wants to come to America

After months of trying we finally snagged a Jagger for the podcast. A talented and candid one too, whose autobiography "Talking to Myself" has just been published. He also discusses his animals, musical influences, growing up Jagger, and the video …

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Aug. 30, 2022

Actor, author, athlete, Adrienne Barbeau

Adrienne Barbeau’s career started with her Broadway debut playing Tevye’s daughter in “Fiddler on the Roof’, and went on to play such diverse roles as Rizzo in the original B-way production of “Grease” and Maude’s daughter Carol on TV. “Back …

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Aug. 18, 2022

Sally Taylor, talented singer, songwriter, artist, teacher, creator

Sally Taylor, daughter of James Taylor and Carly Simon, is a talented singer-songwriter, artist, teacher, and creator & facilitator of the Consenses Project. With candor and humor, she discusses dyslexia, her songwriting process, becoming a vegetarian, surviving a plane crash, …

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Aug. 7, 2022

Burt Ward, aka "Robin - Boy Wonder" on the Batman TV series

Burt Ward was a boy wonder, as a chess champion and speed reader, with a very high IQ, and is now an adult wonder as inventor of Gentle Giants Pet Food, which claims to increase pet longevity by up to …

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July 23, 2022

60s and 70s fashion model and photographer Pam Barkentin

With a fashion photographer father and a fashion model mother, Pam got to know the business early on, and as a teenager ended up on the covers, and inside many of the most esteemed fashion magazines. After retiring from modeling …

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June 30, 2022

Dave Mason of Traffic - "Feelin' Alright"

Over 50 bands and entertainers have covered Dave Mason's delicious pop hit from the 60s. "Feeling' Alright, which he wrote at age 19. He played on Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower and dozens and dozens of hits for everyone from …

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June 14, 2022

Jim Messina, for crying out loud! Poco, Loggins & Messina!

Jim Messina, for crying out loud! He offers an insider’s look at his role with Buffalo Springfield, as founder of Poco, Loggins and Messina, and more! Tens of millions of albums sold. Fantastic songwriting, producing and engineering credits for the …

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June 3, 2022

Legendary actress Ruta Lee

With over 2000 TV appearances and hundreds of movie credits, actress Ruta Lee personifies Hollywood royalty. She has appeared with every major star over the last 5 decades, including Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, James Garner, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, to …

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May 31, 2022

Bass player Chuck Wright of Quiet Riot and a lot more!

Bass player, Chuck Wright, almost an Air Force Pilot after 9 years at the Academy, formerly of Quiet Riot, on and off for 26 years, has toured with the greats from Alice Cooper, Slash, Gregg Allman, Ronnie Montrose, and Carmine …

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May 15, 2022

Steve Fosson, Founder of rock band of HEART

Great conversation with Steve Fosson, bass player and founder of Heart, about the bands beginnings, touring, Ann and Nancy Wilson, and his new new band "Heart by Heart" with other Heart alumni Michael Derosier, and amazing vocalist/wife, Somar Macek. Steve …

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May 13, 2022

Bob Ellis, powerful presence in the music business

Bob Ellis, former husband of Diana Ross and father to their most famous daughter, Tracee Ellis Ross, has been a powerful presence in the music business for decades managing the likes of Ron Wood, Chaka Khan, Billy Preston and the …

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