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EP: 96 Fandom Is Where It Begins: Jason Leavy

2026-10-0158:28

Send us Fan Mail Before the movie that scares you becomes the career you build, there's a VHS cover you couldn't walk past. Jason Leavy grew up in a Staten Island house where movie night meant Freddy, Chucky, Gremlins, and a little green troublemaker with a pot of gold. Today he's the co-founder of Fuzz on the Lens Productions and a producer on Terrifier 2 and Terrifier 3. He co-wrote, produced, and acted in STREAM, and he co-directed and produced Leprechaun Revenge, a love letter to the fran...

Ep: 95 Rainbow Brite and Beyond: The Bettina Bush Story

2026-09-2401:11:53

Send us Fan Mail She was Rainbow Brite. She was Lucy Little. She was Dotty Dog. And she was only twelve years old when one of those roles began with an improvised voice for a black-and-white sketch. Bettina Bush joins Back to Pop to look back on a career that shaped Saturday mornings, from her earliest days as a child actor, to the audition that became Rainbow Brite, to credits spanning The Littles, The Get Along Gang, My Little Pony, and beyond. With Rainbow Brite's 40th anniversary and a fr...

EP: 94 "Dishes Are Done, Man: The Keith Coogan Story"

2026-09-1754:49

Send us Fan Mail You've seen Keith Coogan's face a hundred times, but you might not know his name. This week on Back to Pop, I sit down with the actor who voiced Young Tod in Disney's The Fox and the Hound, got left in charge in Adventures in Babysitting, fought for his country in Toy Soldiers, and delivered one of the most quotable lines of the '90s in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead ("The Dishes are done, man!"). Keith opens up about growing up as the grandson of Jackie Coogan, whose r...

Ep:93 Batdriven West: Karen Whitfield's Bronze Age Batgirl Story

2026-09-1001:02:23

Send us Fan Mail From 1978 to 1984, Karen Whitfield toured alongside Adam West and Burt Ward as DC Comics' Bronze Age Batgirl — suiting up in the cape and cowl for audiences across America and getting a front-row seat to who Batman and Robin really were when the cameras stopped rolling. She was 20 years old. She left Durham, North Carolina for California. And then, for nearly 35 years, she barely spoke of it. In this episode, Karen opens up about the audition that changed her life, what it ac...

EP: 92 The Instrument You Can’t Hold: JP Karliak Goes Beyond the Voice

2026-09-0346:18

Send us Fan Mail Morph. The Joker. Countless characters you’d recognize instantly, and a voice you’d never place a face to. This week, JP Karliak steps out from behind the mic to talk about what it actually means to become someone else for a living. We go past the credits and into the craft: how JP prepares an instrument that isn’t a violin or a guitar, but himself, his voice, his body, his nervous system. He talks about stepping into Morph in X-Men ’97, carrying forward a character first bro...

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