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Dropping Names ...and other things

Dropping Names ...and other things

著者： Brent Spiner & Jonathan Frakes
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Dropping Names ...and other things with Brent & Jonny is a conversation podcast show from Star Trek: The Next Generation stars Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes. Each episode, these longtime friends sit down with fascinating characters they’ve met across decades in Hollywood.Whether you're a sci-fi fan, a film buff, or just here for the laughs, this is the show where great stories meet great conversations… and a few names get dropped along the way.Copyright Brent Spiner & Jonathan Frakes
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  • Colin Hanks

    Colin Hanks
    2026/10/21
    Colin Hanks sits down with Brent Spiner and Jonny Frakes on Dropping Names and starts where it started, on a sidewalk on the Fox lot in the late nineties, terrified before his Roswell screen test, when a passing Jonathan Frakes told him to do well and somehow made the whole day survivable. From there he opens up the parts of that story nobody knows: getting asked to test for two roles at once to double his odds, spending the day auditioning alongside Heath Ledger, sitting in a cast meeting about people not showing up while William Sadler quietly modeled how a professional behaves, and learning off camera eyelines from Julie Benz. Then comes the reveal about The Great Buck Howard, the film he made with John Malkovich, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn and Adam Scott. His father Tom Hanks produced it and campaigned hard for a completely different actor in the lead, and the name is William Shatner. Colin also explains why a George Takei joke had to survive every draft, and why one small scene with Jack Carter still lands as the saddest moment in the picture.
    There is a lot more where that came from. Colin talks about surviving Dallas in 108 degree heat on The Good Guys with Bradley Whitford, who invented the role of emotional stunt double and who still gets quoted every time Colin finishes a take. He tells the Kreskin story that saved his David Letterman appearance while he was doing 33 Variations on Broadway with Jane Fonda. He describes realizing during a three in the morning squib explosion on set that he could shoot an entire documentary on the same tiny camera, which became the Tower Records film, and how the Eagles of Death Metal doc about the band returning to Paris after the Bataclan attack took seven months and cost him something. Brent and Jonny push him on Nuremberg, on watching Russell Crowe and Rami Malek run twenty pages in a single take in Budapest, on the critics who savaged The Offer, on Matthew Goode as Robert Evans, on Orange County and King Kong with Jack Black and Peter Jackson, on Adam Sandler calling to talk about Emma Stone after The House Bunny, and on how he badgered his agents into a meeting with Matthew Weiner and ended up playing the priest on Mad Men. Plus the scoop on Silo season three with Rebecca Ferguson, the biggest production he has ever worked on, bigger than Kong.
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  • William Shatner

    William Shatner
    2026/10/07
    William Shatner sits down with Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes on Dropping Names and opens with the moment he still cannot let go of, the time Neil deGrasse Tyson answered him on camera by putting a hand in his face and pushing, hard enough that Shatner went backwards. From there he gets into the kidney stone a Canadian gambling company called him about a week after it was removed, the doctor who handed it back over, the seventy five thousand dollars it fetched at auction and the Habitat for Humanity house in Louisiana that money helped build. There is also the fresh cigar in Cabo San Lucas that put him on the cover of Cigar Aficionado, a full body scan at half past seven that morning, and a cardiologist telling him that two more years of medical advances buys him another ten.
    He goes back to the early days too, to live television in New York when he was the twenty three year old with theatre training who could hit a mark and knew his lines while a camera the size of a bookcase rolled into his face, to Queens with a wife and a baby and a subway ride into town, to Harold Clurman nearly firing him from a play until Julie Harris intervened, and to Judgment at Nuremberg, where he sat at the lawyers table watching Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster and Spencer Tracy work. He talks about Yul Brynner on The Brothers Karamazov, Lorne Greene and Bonanza killing his series For the People in the ratings, Christopher Plummer coming back as a Klingon, and Brent remembering the Stephen Hawking poker game on The Next Generation. Then it turns to what he is chasing now, a podcast with his daughter, a Brad Paisley album, a heavy metal record, and a long conversation about feeding artificial intelligence the whole of human writing and what happened the night it wrote him a poem and he started to cry.
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