From nationally known Teen Model, while still in high school, to major motion picture star and then co-starring in one of TV's most talked about series with Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd was destined for superstardom, and she didn't disappoint. When we caught up to her on my show, she had just published her autobiography, "Cybill Disobedience" which was a tell all book filled with juicy gossip about everyone who was anyone that she got to meet in her amazing career. In spite of h...
Jun 06, 2022•9 min
Evans' first guest-starring role was on a 1960 episode of Bachelor Father. The series starred John Forsythe, with whom she would costar 20 years later on Dynasty.[5] After several guest roles in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet between 1960 and 1962, and guest appearances on television series such as The Lieutenant and Wagon Train, Evans gained her first regular role in 1965 in The Big Valley. Playing Audra Barkley, daughter of Victoria Barkley (played by Barbara Stanwyck.On December 31, 1...
May 30, 2022•9 min
Back in the day while I was doing mornings at KRAK in Sacramento in 1978, I spoofed a song that Joe Stampley recorded entitled "If You've Got 10 Minutes, Let's Fall in Love". In the song, Joe asked many opened ended questions which I decided to fill on air with stupid responses from my alter ego - Luscious Lucy. Well my dumb version was an instant hit locally with our listeners (you have to understand that they felt sorry for me) and I asked Joe's management if I could record my ...
May 23, 2022•24 min
Have you ever won the lottery? I have...five bucks here, 3 bucks there. However, the big prize - never. Most of us haven't. That's why Richard Lustig's claim to winning seven state lotteries is unbelievable...but true. In fact, Richard's book - "Learn How to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery" was ranked #3 on Amazon's self-help book list in 2013. Richards sytem includes reinvesting all your previous winnings into buying more tickets and playing c...
May 16, 2022•7 min
Rivers was born as John Henry Ramistella in New York City, of Italian ancestry. His family moved from New York to Baton Rouge Louisiana. Influenced by the distinctive Louisiana musical styler, Rivers began playing guitar at age eight, taught by his father and uncle. While still in junior high school, he started sitting in with a band called the Rockers,. Johnny formed his own band, the Spades, and made his first record at 14, while he was a student in High School. Some...
May 09, 2022•6 min
Gary Gerould, nicknamed “The G-Man”, is an American sportscaster, best known as the radio voice of the NBA's Sacramento Kings since 1985. The Kings renewed his radio broadcaster contract for 4 years on September 15, 2017.He is also a motorsports reporter for ABC and ESPN and served as a pit lane reporter for the 1981 and 1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix for NBC.Gerould was born in Midland Michigan and got his start in broadcasting at the age of 15 on a local telegraph station. He later at...
May 02, 2022•16 min
From her childhood growing up in Monticello, Georgia, Trisha was passionate about music and participated in various music events held by her school and her community. Everything from talent shows, church events, and musicals. After high school, Trisha received her Associate Degree in Business from Young Harris College and in 1985 after moving to Nashville, she enrolled in Belmont College and pursued a music business degree. Her education would prove invaluable in both her bu...
Apr 25, 2022•6 min
From child star to teen music sensation - Mickey Dolenz has almost always been meant to be in the spotlight. At the age of ten in 1956 he starred in a children's TV show called Circus Boy under the name Mickey Braddock. He played Corky, an orphaned water boy for the elephants in a one-ring circus at the start of the 20th century. The program ran for two seasons, after which Dolenz made sporadic appearances on network television shows and pursued his education. In 1964,...
Apr 18, 2022•8 min
Frankly, I had never heard of Vic Dibetteto until my K-Hits program director, Rico Garcia had me watch several of Vic's hilarious You Tube videos. After just seeing a couple, I was a big fan and had to book Vic for my show. Born and raised in NYC, he had become an internet sensation thanks to his videos and was featured on shows like "The View", "CNN" , "The Today Show" and more. With over 17 million views of just one of his videos, actor Kevin James was so impre...
Apr 11, 2022•16 min
This interview is a perfect example of why I loved my job on the radio. Talking to celebrities on the show was always one of my favorite things, but when I actually got to meet and visit with a star whom I truly admired and was a fan of, well that was just icing on the cake. That was the case when I got to talk to Olivia Newton John. Of course, there's always the fear that the star won't live up to our expectations. We've got our favorites on a pedestal and there's alw...
Apr 04, 2022•9 min
Anyone old enough to remember Stanley Kubrick's movie "Dr. Strangelove" can picture the scene when Slim Pickens straddles the H-Bomb that's about to drop on an unsuspecting city, like a wild bronc and rides it on down to nuclear oblivion. That was my friend Slim Pickens, actor and rodeo star who appeared in so many movie and TV westerns he lost count. Slim and I met at a radio remote, and against all odds (me a city boy from NYC and he a western cowboy) would become real life grea...
Mar 30, 2022•11 min
So how does a guy from Providence Rhode Island that studied Law and graduated in 89 from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. end up doing comedy??? Well, during his third year working at a mergers and acquisitons lawyer and later as an investment banker, he gets invited to a private party being thrown by Jay Leno to celebrate the comedian's taking over the Tonight Show from Johnny Carson. Mecurio, a comedy fan who had written some jokes for himse...
Mar 21, 2022•13 min
In the 1990s, he appeared on MADtv as a featured player. His stand-up act was introduced to America at large when he landed his own half-hour comedy special on Comedy Central Presents in 2000. In 2001 and 2002, Francisco toured as part of "The Three Amigos" with Carlos Mencia and Freddy Soto. Since then, he has performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,VH1's ILL-ustrated, Mind of Mencia as "The Voiceover Dude" (same as "Movie Voiceover Guy"), and Frank TV.Francisco is recognized for vocal i...
Mar 14, 2022•8 min
Kim Fisher's dad, Mel Fisher who discovered one of the richest treasure troves ever found was an Indiana-born former chicken farmer who eventually moved to California. He opened the first diving shop in the state, it was called "See Da Sea". In 1953, he married Dolores (Deo) Horton who became his business partner. She was one of the first women to learn how to dive and set a women's record by staying underwater for 50 hours. Mel and Deo had five children: sons Terry, Dirk, Kim and...
Mar 07, 2022•13 min
From his excercise studio in Beverly Hills - Slimmons, managed to make himself the weight loss guru of America. His Sweatin' to the Oldies" sold millions of copies and made him a media celebrity along with the fact that his flamboyant and outrageous style was often paradied and got him invited on all kinds of TV and radio talk shows, mine included. This particular interview really stressed my producer and myself. We had promoted his appearance since the day befor...
Feb 28, 2022•14 min
When it comes to an entertainer with star power in their DNA - Matthew and his brother Gunner Nelson are the ones that come to mind. They're the sons of actor and singer Ricky Nelson and his wife, actress Kristin Harmon. who just happens to be the sister of TV superstar, Mark Harmon. Did I mention they are also the grandsons of TV's Ozzie and Harriet? Wow...that's alot to live up to, and yet Matthew and Gunner manage to do that very well with their Platinum sel...
Feb 21, 2022•8 min
There are certain people who are so naturally funny given any situation, that they make me laugh from the moment they show up. Comedian Richard Lewis, best known for his Emmy nominated role on Curb Your Enthusiasm is certainly one of them. When he appeard on my show on 92.1 KHITS, we were not only rolling audio from the moment he walked in, but we were shooting video too, for our website. From the moment he walked through the studio door, and saw the camera and m...
Feb 14, 2022•13 min
I had the pleasure of speaking with Tony "The Tiger" Lopez , the IBF Super Featherweight Champion on my morning show on COOL 101.1 when I was surprised by one of the characters on my show "The Dogman" who set the interview up to surprise me. At the time, we were very involved supporting the troops in the gulf war after 911. We had created BAT Ribbons - "Bring Americans Together" in an interview to show their support. We create a red, white and blue ribbon folded like the pre...
Feb 09, 2022•8 min
From stand-up comedy in his native Canada, to standing out on America's Comedy circuit, Howie Mandel made a name for himself in showbusiness faster than anyone imagined. Cast as a doctor in TV's St. Elsewhere, Howie never looked back. From there, scores of movie appearances, a voice over job as a Gremlin and then the host of TV's amazingly successful "Deal or No Deal". However, his current 11 year reign as a judge on TV's America's Got Talent has put him in TV's rare super...
Feb 07, 2022•7 min
The Bellamy Brothers are an American pop and country music duo consisting of brothers David Milton Bellamy (born September 16, 1950) and Homer Howard Bellamy (born February 2, 1946), from Darby, Florida. The duo had considerable musical success in the 1970s and 1980s, starting with the release of their crossover hit "Let Your Love Flow" in 1976, a number one single on the Billobard Hot 100. I had the priveledge of MC'ing several of the Bellamy Brothers concerts here in Northern Califor...
Jan 31, 2022•8 min
Toby Keith has one of those amazing voices that sounds great even when he's just speaking, not singing. We used to say, we could listen to him just read the phone book out loud. Well, there's basically no use for phone books anymore, so thank goodness Toby's become a superstar country singer, actor and record producer. We talked to him via phone while he was traveling in his amazing tour bus on the way to a gig. Here's the former oil rig...
Jan 25, 2022•8 min
Visiting our studio to promote his upcoming stand up comedy show at Laughs Unlimted, Jimmy J.J. Walker made famous on the TV comedy - "Good Times" amazed us with his intellect and insights about comedy today and show biz as a whole. He raves about the clean act and genius of one of his favorite comdeians who at the time we spoke was America's favorite, but now as you listen to Jimmy mention him, 'cause Bill Cosby's name now paints a completely different emotion in our minds.
Jan 17, 2022•13 min
In sacramento to promote the new Gatlin Brothers Music Gity Grille in the downtown area, Rudy was able to spend almost a half hour with us in person in our studio at KRAK 1140 AM. Since we were still playing Country Gold, and all the legendary artists, Rudy was thrilled to visit a station that featured he and his brothers songs. Mike Remy, my newsman was a big Gatlin Brothers fan and shared in the interview with Rudy. We talked about the industry changing focus with many stations...
Jan 10, 2022•18 min
For such a successful performer with so many skeletons in his closet, you would think Tom Arnold would be very selective about what he wants to talk about with a DJ on the radio, but that's the farthest thing from the truth. As a writer, actor and comedian who's appeared in countless TV and movies including 1994's "True Lies" with Arnold Swartzenegger, and most currently as a running character in Sons of Anarchy, Tom hides nothing and openly jokes about what most of us would cringe to m...
Jan 03, 2022•10 min
He was coming to perform in Nevada City for an annual Christmas program that made him available for my show and I was more than delighted. It was American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphy who recorded great hit singles like "Wildfire", "Carolina in the Pines" "What's Forever For" "A Long LIne of Love" and so many others. But it's Michaels love for the old west that truly sets him apart from other country artists. Just ask him to remember the history of our cou...
Dec 27, 2021•7 min
Who can forget the fun dance movie starring Kevin Bacon - called "Foot Loose". It was made in 1984 and the title song written and produced for it by Kenny Loggins is still being performed by the singer/songwriter to this day. In 2016, I got to talk to Kenny while I was doing mornings on K-Hits radio in Sacramento. Kenny had just had his children's book - called amazingly enough - "Foot Loose" published and he wanted folks to know about it. In this episode, we visit wit...
Dec 20, 2021•8 min
Here's an episode that validates why I love interviewing celebrities so much on the radio. Where else would I get the opportunity and honor of talking to a real life American hero. Only 12 humans through the history of mankind, have actually walked on the moon. Only 12!!, and I got to talk to one of them. Apollo 16's Charlie Duke. It was the next to last lunar mission in 1972, and I'm sure you've seen pictures of Charlie riding along the lunar surface on the ama...
Dec 13, 2021•29 min
If you saw the movie "Rudy" than you know all about our guest "Rudy Ruettiger" who did what some feel was the impossible. Standing only 5'6" and weighing a mere 165 lbs. Rudy talked himself onto the Notre Dame football team. Although he was placed on the scout team, a squad that helps the varsity team practice for games, Rudy was never meant to actual play in a Notre Dame football game. However on Nov. 8, 1975, on the last game of Rudy's senior season, with only one play l...
Dec 06, 2021•8 min
Space shuttle Endeavour ended its flight career Sept. 21 as it toured California on the back of NASA's modified 747 carrier aircraft, landing at Los Angeles International Airport after its final ferry flight into history.The four-hour, 34-minute flight began at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base Friday morning, and over the ensuing hours the piggyback pair made low-level flybys over scores of California cities and landmarks, many of which had direct ties to NASA's ...
Nov 29, 2021•6 min
It was a delight to have country singer Randy Travis visit with us in studio at KRAK AM/FM while he was still healthy and a vibrant star in the country music industry. He was with his then wife/manager who was recovering from a broken leg and resting in our lounge while we visited with Randy. Later, he would suffer a terrible stroke that would incapacitate him for years and rob him of his singing voice. However, in this interview, Randy as you'll hear, was sitting on top o...
Nov 19, 2021•10 min
