Classic Conversations: Pop culture Interviews with Jeff Dwoskin

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Rhonda Shear on Up All Night, Mel Brooks, Chuck Barris and Playboy

September 14, 2026

Rhonda Shear hosted more than 400 episodes of Up All Night on USA Network from 1991 to 1998, and she is one of the only hosts from that era who still owns the name. She talks about the Happy Days incident with Henry Winkler that got her blackballed from every Paramount sitcom at 23, the one line in Spaceballs that Mel Brooks cast her in himself, opening for Robin Williams at the Holy City Zoo, and how a Playboy pictorial where she kept all her clothes on cost her a pageant crown and made head...

Rebeca Arthur on Perfect Strangers, Bill Murray and Her Years as a Private Eye

September 07, 2026

Rebeca Arthur was hired for one week on Perfect Strangers and stayed eight years. Before that she was a working private investigator in New York, and one of her agency's cases was Robert Durst. She talks about playing Mary Anne Spencer opposite Bronson Pinchot's Balki Bartokomous, photocopying her own backside for Scrooged, improvising with Bill Murray, getting career advice from Bob Newhart at a table read, and the dog who got a SAG paycheck out of Match Game. Forty years after Perfect Stran...

Steve Meyers and Shawn Johnson: How to Rob a Bank, The Treehouse, and the Hollywood Bandit

August 31, 2026

Thirty years after the last shot was fired, the bank robber and the FBI agent who chased him are sitting down together. Steve Meyers helped Scott Scurlock pull off the Hollywood Bandit crime spree that hit 19 Seattle banks and took roughly $2.3 million between 1992 and 1996. Shawn Johnson was the FBI case agent who spent four and a half years hunting them. Both appear in the Netflix documentary How to Rob a Bank, and both say the film left out the story that actually matters, which is why the...