Step Right Up!
The Dana Gould Hour
Hello! And welcome to season to the newest episode of The Dana Gould Hour podcast. Fasten your enthusiasm harness, we are blasting off, yet again. We have two, count ‘em, two, fantastic guests today. Richard Edlund is a legend. In his amazing career, he is known first and foremost as one of the founders of ILM, Industrial Light & Magic, which created the special effects for a little film called , and revolutionized how movies were made in Hollywood. But that is just the tip of the iceberg, Edlund began his career in the late '50s early '60s. When you watch on old episode of the original...
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One Man’s Weird
The Dana Gould Hour
Hello! And welcome to The Dana Gould Hour podcast. Fasten your fun belts, we are blasting off, yet again. We are joined today by legends. You heard me. Mark Frost is a legendary writer, first in television. He started out on , moved on to , co-created with David Lynch. In motion pictures, he wrote and directed the film , he wrote the 2005 and its sequel and he has a new book out entitled , which tells the story of FDR from just before America’s involvement in World War II up through his death. It's told through the eyes of FDR's Great Uncle, Will Hasset, who worked as FDR’s...
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Who’s Your Huckleberry?
The Dana Gould Hour
Hello! And welcome to The Dana Gould Hour Podcast. Fasten your enthusiasm harness, we are blasting off, yet again. This episode is a little late arriving, my apologies. In addition to my going on staff at a new TV show, which has forced me to rearrange my schedule a bit, we also had the taping of the Dr. Z live show at the Netflix Is A Joke Festival and the launching of the Hanging With Dr. Z season 4 Indiegogo campaign. Then we had some technical difficulties that delayed us a bit as we cleaned up some recordings and, long story short, we’re late. BUT, we’re here now...
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Welcome To My Niche
The Dana Gould Hour
This is a very special episode in that is constituted of a series of deep dives into several different subjects in which I have a rabid interest. Hopefully you do as well. If not, you’re in for a long-ass listen. Unless you’re new to the show, you know of my deep and abiding interest in all things David Lynch. So, it was a pleasant surprise when I learned of the book by Scott Meslow. Scott has written for such publications as GQ, New York and The Atlantic. And his book is far too in depth and accomplished to have been thrown together as a quickie cash-in following Mr. Lynch’s passing....
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A Man Named Beef
The Dana Gould Hour
Hello! And welcome to season 15 of the Dana Gould Hour Podcast. Fasten your enthusiasm harness, we are blasting off again. Mark Malkoff has a new book entitled . Johnny Carson is so larger than life now it’s important to sometimes take a step back and appreciate his accomplishment. Unlike today, when there are 8,000 channels, and three network late night talk shows. Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show when there were around ten channels total and one, count ’em, one late night talk show, which he hosted for 30 years. He interviewed over 25,000 guests, navigated America’s cultural...
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Three Eyes White
The Dana Gould Hour
Happy holidays! It’s the post-Thanksgiving pre-Christmas episode of The Dana Gould Hour Podcast. I think we can squeeze one more in before Christmas. That’s certainly my intention, which is not to say that this episode is not what you’d call BOFFO. Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald is here. Kevin is known for his TV show Emergency Room Vets on Animal Planet. In addition to being a veterinarian, he is an animal preservationist, a conservationist and before that, he was a rock 'n' roll tour bouncer. There are stranger tales to be told, I’m sure, but I can’t say I know of any off the top of my...
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Halloweenery From Outer Space
The Dana Gould Hour
It’s that time again! It’s October. The sun goes down in the afternoon now. Night has a chill. And at CVS and Walgreens, they are already putting up the Christmas decorations. That’s right, it’s Halloween. But none of that for us! We are firmly planted in autumn. As Ray Bradbury once wrote, “Something, something, something, autumn something.” By Ray Bradbury. We have enough show here to stuff your pillowcase, so grab a bag of candy and settle back. Howard Berger and Marshall Julius are here to discuss their new book, , inside stories from the creators of Hollywood’s most...
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Autumnally Yours
The Dana Gould Hour
Hello! And welcome to our September episode! Hopefully it’s still September by the time you hear it, but not to worry! The Halloween episode will be out long before Halloween. The reason this was so late is I basically did both episodes at once, in addition to getting three kids back in high school, college and grad school, so, ya know. It’s all here and / or on its way. Matt Braunger is here! Matt is a hilarious comedian and a good buddy of mine. A friend of the show, as they say. Matt has a brand new podcast out called Tank Top Talks and it’s exactly what it sounds like. People...
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Hollywood Underbelly!
The Dana Gould Hour
Welcome to the dog days of summer. We’ve got an action-packed episode to get you to through August, so fasten your enthusiasm harness, and get ready to listen, and enjoy. Eddie Muller is an expert in film noir. If you like movies with private eyes, tough guys and saucy dames who kiss and lie, Eddie is your dude. Eddie is the host of TCM’s Noir Alley, which is forever and always a celebration of all things noir. He has a new book out called , which examines the lives and careers of a group of actresses from the heyday of film noir. As you may suspect, their true life stories are often...
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True Tales From Lynchville
The Dana Gould Hour
Like a lot of you, I was moved by the passing of film director David Lynch this past January. Much more than I thought I would be, to be honest. A lot of it had to do with the timing. He was such a part of Los Angeles. He made movies set here. He did a daily weather report. He talked at length about how much he loved the light, the feeling of Old Hollywood, the smell of night-blooming jasmine, and he left as the city was on literally burning down around us. On top of that, we were four days away from a new president who is the embodiment of everything Lynch is not. It was like Dale Cooper died...
info_outlineAaaaaaand we’re back. Episode 1 of season 14 of the Dana Gould Hour Podcast. Has anything of interest happened since the last episode? Don’t think so. Certainly not here in Los Angeles, or America. Okay. Great. Let’s get at it!
Drew Friedman is here. Drew Friedman is one of the premiere illustrators and cartoonists in America. You know his work from The New York Observer, the New Yorker, his books, Warts And All, Old Jewish Comedians, More Old Jewish Comedians, Still More Old Jewish Comedians, Too Soon, Drew Friedman’s Sideshow Freaks, Heroes Of The Comics, More Heroes Of The Comics, the list goes on and on. In 1987 I discovered his book Any Similarity to Persons Living Or Dead is Purely Coincidental and it quite literally redefined my sense of humor. It is hard to articulate the impact the book had on me. No kidding. Drew has a new book out called Schtick Figures, portraits of people important to Drew. And me. People he refers to as The Cool, The Comical and The Crazy. Portraits of people like Gilbert Gottfried, #2 and #3 as only Drew can draw them. Drew is also the subject of a new documentary that’s about to be released entitled The Vermeer Of The Borscht Belt, Drew Friedman is here.
Kurt Sayenga is a writer, director and producer. We first met when Kurt ran the series Eli Roth’s History Of Horror. Kurt now has a series on Shudder called Horror’s Greatest. Season #2 just dropped, with guests like Davi Dastmalchian, Joe Hill, Jonah Ray, Alex Winter, Mick Garris, yours truly and many, many more. Kurt’s here to talk about the show and the topics covered this season as it continues to explore our fascination with all things cinematically horrific.
Cinematically horrific. If you want to examine the realistically horrific, True Tales From Weirdsville takes a deep dive into the 1957 classic A Face In Crowd, starring Andy Griffith, written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan. It tells the cautionary tale of what happens when a corrupt, amoral grifter gains a position of power and influence in America. It was made in 1957 and it was a FREAKISHLY predictive film.