“I made a decision very early on to just let the Flyers tell the story.” Welcome Joe Amodei ...
Dick Allen died... Baseball let him into the Hall of Fame four years later. Andy Billman spent four years inside that gap. He's a two-time Emmy winner out of ESPN's 30 for 30, and his new five-part series, My Father, Dick Allen, follows Allen's son...
Tom Provost lost 1,832 books in a house fire and said the whole thing taught him he barely needs anything. He's the co-writer of Young Washington and the founder of a charity that feeds LA's homeless, something he says goes straight back to watching...
“…how different my career would have been had Alan Jackson cut Long Black Train.” Welcome Josh Turner:...
We talk about lunch with Ed Asner, who became something close to a father figure. About Morris Goldner, four foot nine and fourteen years old, who photographed Auschwitz from the inside and lived to tell Robin about it decades later. About the...
Sat down with Daniel Silva, 26 books deep into the Gabriel Allon series, and asked him how much of himself is actually in that character after 25 years. He didn't give me the easy answer.
Ed could fly out to any slump with tennis balls and fix it. He and Scott's mother spent two or three days at his rehab in 2007 taking thirty pages of notes. And then there was the one thing he couldn't fix, and he said so himself. Scott still can't...
“I want my daughter to have that kind of compassion when someone’s being mean or rude.” Welcome Ryan Weiss:...
“I will be so happy to rewatch, watch this every day to talk to every single director, every single writer, every single cast me...
“The lines don’t matter. The life does...
“I’m not worthless, like my father said I was.” – Billy West Welcome Billy West: We’re joined on the Starline by a voice...
Leanne Morgan almost never left a kitchen in Bean Station, Tennessee. Three babies. No comedy club within an hour. Twenty-seven years before anyone bought a ticket. Now she's got a Netflix sitcom, and the husband in it walks out after 33 years. Her...
Welcome Ron Friedman: We’re joined on the Starline by a social psychologist and author who spent the last decade doing something most researchers never bother to do…actually talking to people. His new book makes you rethink every meeting...
“Things don’t come easy...
Welcome Kenny Wayne Shepherd: We’re joined on the Starline by a blues- rock guitarist who recorded his debut album at 17, drove to Memphis on weekends to track it, and went Platinum before he could legally drink...
“It’s funny, I’m not saying I did it, but to me, it’s we did it like all versions of myself, you know, the gir...
We get into what it actually takes to be ready across four major sports, the moments he wishes he could’ve called, and the ones he knew instantly would live forever. There’s also a side you don’t always hear like being a dad while living on the...
“I think that’s kind of the, comes with the territory of being an actor, is that you kind of move to New York hoping that you’ll move away, or book Broadway, one of the two.” Welcome Kaitlyn O’Leary We’re joined...
You can tell a lot about a comic by how they write jokes. Setup first? Punchline first? Brad Williams explains his process when he goes Beyond the Mic.
“I love the whole process of writing, fleshing it out, getting on stage, working it out.” Welcome Henry Cho...