Classic Conversations: Pop culture Interviews with Jeff Dwoskin

Phil Morris tells the story of how he ended up cast as his own father's character, Barney Collier, in the 1988 Mission: Impossible revival, with his uncle Peter Graves back as Jim Phelps.

Four decades of TV orbit that story, from Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld to Martian Manhunter on Smallville, and it all lands on his current work on CBS's Fire Country and Netflix's The Upshaws.

Show Highlights:

Jackie Chiles. Phil Morris went through a pre-read field that included Michael Dorn and Ted Lange before reading for Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, and one thing Jerry did in the room told him he had it.

Star Trek III and Leonard Nimoy. Leonard Nimoy hired Phil Morris for The Search for Spock, and what Nimoy said to him years later at a Star Trek convention still gets him.

Smallville's Martian Manhunter. A lifelong comic book collector explains why J'onn J'onzz clicked for him and why Smallville worked by keeping Clark and Lex human first.

Phineas and Ferb. A lost-in-the-hallway moment at Disney with co-creator Jeff "Swampy" Marsh became Phil Morris's model for how he wants to run a set someday.

You're going to love my conversation with Phil Morris

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Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining.

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The Dick Van Dyke Show turns 65, and historian David Van Deusen celebrates with stories from three decades inside the Petrie living room, from the pilot that aired the day before he was born to Carl Reiner's reunion set.

His new interactive book, From Fandom to Friendships: My Adventures with The Dick Van Dyke Show Cast, puts never-heard cast interviews one QR code away.

Show Highlights:

The 159th episode. Carl Reiner picks up the phone in 2004 and invites David Van Deusen to the closed set of The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited, and the reason behind it caught him off guard.

Rose Marie. A celebrity address book at the library leads to Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam's home number, and the real answer on that Mary Tyler Moore feud rumor.

The ottoman. Director John Rich had somewhere to be the night the season two opening was shot, and nobody guessed viewers would start betting on it.

Saving season one. CBS had The Dick Van Dyke Show canceled against Perry Como until Sheldon Leonard got on a plane to the Midwest.

Alan Brady's desk. Larry Mathews walks into a Danny Thomas Productions storage room and recognizes a piece of TV history.

You're going to love my conversation with David Van Deusen

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To Twilo and Beyond (book)

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Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining.

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Ari Lehman, the first Jason Voorhees, tells the story behind the Friday the 13th ending that almost never existed, and what Sean S. Cunningham whispered to a 14 year old kid right before he went under the water at Camp Crystal Lake.

From a soccer movie audition to Tom Savini's makeup chair to the brotherhood of actors who followed him in the role, it all leads to Into the Fray, the new First Jason horror metal album on CDN Records featuring Harry Manfredini, streaming now on Spotify and YouTube.

Show Highlights:

Tom Savini's mirror reveal. At four in the morning in Blairstown, New Jersey, Tom Savini and Taso Stavrakis spun the barber chair around, and Ari Lehman's first reaction to his own face was not what anyone expected.

Getting into character with Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon found a 14 year old Ari Lehman staring into the lake between takes, and his reaction pulled Harry Crosby into the moment.

Crystal Lake on Peacock. Ari Lehman weighs in on A24's prequel series with Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees and Callum Vinson as young Jason, and the timeline choice that shakes up the canon.

The Jason brotherhood. Richard Brooker, Ted White, C.J. Graham, Kane Hodder, Ken Kirzinger and Derek Mears, and the role Ari Lehman ended up playing among the giants.

Into the Fray. What Harry Manfredini sent to Ari Lehman's inbox turned the new First Jason album into something Ari calls the Dark Side of the Moon of horror.

You're going to love my conversation with Ari Lehman

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Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining.

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Dylan Brody tells the story of the phone call he got from George Carlin, the one he performed at Kelly Carlin's tribute to her father at the New York Public Library.

Four decades of comedy around it, from a 1989 Fox debut to his award winning solo special, Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood, streaming now on Amazon Prime and NextUp Comedy.

Show Highlights:

The George Carlin phone call. The story at the center of the episode, and the one Dylan performed at the Carlin tribute.

The New York Public Library tribute. Kelly Carlin, Tony Hendra, Louis C.K., Lewis Lapham, and four words from Whoopi Goldberg into a live microphone.

Comedy on the Road with John Byner. A&E wanted airline food jokes for his first national set, Dylan wanted a poem about censorship.

The Tonight Show showcase. Six political minutes for Johnny Carson's booker Jim McCawley at twenty two, undone by one question on the way out.

Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood. Three specials in one night at the David Henry Hwang Theater, then Chicago, Barcelona, London and the PIT.

Throwback episode - originally recorded 2021
You're going to love my conversation with Dylan Brody

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Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host):

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Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show

Ways to support the show:

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SPONSOR: STAMPEDE SOCIAL Drive engagement from your social channels and podcast with Stampede Social's Instagram and Facebook DM automation! Visit https://stampede.social Also check out: Why Instagram + Stampede Social Is the Growth Strategy Podcasters Need in 2025 (and Beyond)
Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining.

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Comedian, podcaster and actor Jackie Kashian has been doing stand up since 1984, when she got thrown out of a Madison, Wisconsin comedy club for heckling Sam Kinison and came back three weeks later for the open mic.

She talks about featuring for Brian Regan and Maria Bamford, playing an airport cop on the final season of Murphy Brown, the year Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle told her she was too much like Kathleen Madigan to book, and why watching Jay Leno do two word perfect sets in 1987 rewired how she thought about the job. She also digs into The Dork Forest, the podcast she has been making since 2006, where the whole point is letting somebody talk for an hour about sandcastles, Rummikub or the size of A4 paper.

Throwback episode - originally recorded 2021

Show Highlights:

The Dork Forest. Jackie Kashian has been recording her interview podcast since 2006 and has close to 700 episodes in the archive, all built on one idea: an hour of somebody explaining the thing they love most. Guests have walked her through Remember the Titans beat by beat, Star Trek, Marvel comics, and competitive sandcastle building.

The Jackie and Laurie Show. Her weekly show with Laurie Kilmartin lives on the Maximum Fun network, and unlike The Dork Forest it is not evergreen, which means it gets recorded wherever she is, including one episode whispered into a laptop at a Kinko's in Milwaukee.

Murphy Brown. She played an airport cop on the 1998 final season and calls it typecasting, and she is honest that acting is a learned skill she has never formally learned.

Featuring for Brian Regan and Maria Bamford. These are the only two headliners she opens for now, and the reason is simple: it means she gets to watch Brian Regan and Maria Bamford every night.

Getting started in 1984. At 19 she got drunk in the front row of a club owned by Bill Kinison and heckled Sam Kinison, years before the Letterman and Rodney Dangerfield appearances broke him nationally. The manager told her open mic was on Sunday.

You're going to love my conversation with Jackie Kashian

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Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host):

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Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show

Ways to support the show:

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Thanks for checking out Classic Conversations! Dive into pop culture nostalgia with comedian Jeff Dwoskin as he hosts the best TV and film interviews. Hear inspiring stories from actors, comedians, musicians, and pop culture icons about the road to success. Part comedy, part drama—always entertaining.

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