Celebrity Interviews with Joey Mitchell

Joey Mitchell

With over 51 years as a radio broadcaster, Joey has accumulated an incredible amount of on-air interviews over his career with various celebrities and notable figures. Each week Joey will be adding a podcast with celebrity interviews like Oprah Winfrey, Astronaut Charlie Duke, ABC'sPeter Jennings, Titanic's Robert Ballard, Johnny Cash and many more. Joey will take you behind the scenes with behind the scenes stories from both before and after each interview.. For our Patreon.com supporters, we will be creating additional content and releasing episodes early as a thank you. read less

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Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd

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...

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Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd

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...

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...

Joe Stampley - The Original "Lucious Lucy" straight man

Joe Stampley - The Original "Lucious Lucy" straight man

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 ...

Richard Lustig - 7 time Lottery Winner

Richard Lustig - 7 time Lottery Winner

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...

Johnny Rivers - Singer, Songwriter and Producer

Johnny Rivers - Singer, Songwriter and Producer

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...

Gary Gerould - Voice of the NBA's Sacramento Kings

Gary Gerould - Voice of the NBA's Sacramento Kings

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...

Trisha Yearwood - Country Music Artist

Trisha Yearwood - Country Music Artist

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...

Monkees - Mickey Dolenz

Monkees - Mickey Dolenz

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,...

Vic Dibetteto - Stand Up Comic and You Tube Sensation

Vic Dibetteto - Stand Up Comic and You Tube Sensation

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...

Olivia Newton John

Olivia Newton John

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...

Slim Pickens - Western movie actor and rodeo performer

Slim Pickens - Western movie actor and rodeo performer

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...

Comedian Paul Mecurio

Comedian Paul Mecurio

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...

Comedian Pablo Francisco - "The Movie Voice-Over Guy"

Comedian Pablo Francisco - "The Movie Voice-Over Guy"

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...

Kim Fisher - Discovered the Spanish Galleon Atocha with his father Mel Fisher

Kim Fisher - Discovered the Spanish Galleon Atocha with his father Mel Fisher

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...

Richard Simmons

Richard Simmons

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...

Matthew Nelson - of The Nelsons

Matthew Nelson - of The Nelsons

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...

Richard Lewis - Curb Your Enthusiasm

Richard Lewis - Curb Your Enthusiasm

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...

Tony "The Tiger" Lopez - IBF Super Featherweight Champion in 1988

Tony "The Tiger" Lopez - IBF Super Featherweight Champion in 1988

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...

Howie Mandel - Comedian, Actor, TV Host and AGT Judge

Howie Mandel - Comedian, Actor, TV Host and AGT Judge

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...

Howard Bellamy - The Bellamy Brothers

Howard Bellamy - The Bellamy Brothers

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...