Media Path Podcast

Media Path

Have you ever become obsessed with a topic and taken a deep dive into consuming all you could uncover about it?

Media Path podcast is here to indulge your obsessions. hosted by Fritz Coleman and Louise Palanker, the show takes you along on a scenic tour through books, movies, TV, podcasts and music related to a given topic of captivation. We are exploring entertainment, politics, history, true crime, world events and all of their intriguing intersections.

Fritz Coleman is a legendary Los Angeles weatherman/humorist. Louise Palanker is a filmmaker/columnist and co-founder of Premiere Radio.
Hop aboard. Discover more layers, intrigue and substance. Go beyond binging with Media Path.

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271 episodes
Updated July 23

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Oct 6, 2022 · 1 hr 12 min
Climate Storytelling & The Day The Music Died featuring Spencer Proffer, Georgia Wright and Kenia Hale
Media and Music Producer Spencer Proffer joins us to talk about his Paramount + doc, The Day The Music Died which beautifully tells the story of the song that lives on, Don McLean’s American Pie. Plus, Audio Content Creators Georgia Wright and Kenia H
Sep 29, 2022 · 59 min
Bob Hope Memories & Letters From the WWII Troops featuring Martha Bolton
Bob Hope brought so much more than entertainment when he travelled the globe entertaining our troops. In a time before technology he provided healing, home and yes, hope. In return, Bob Hope received hundreds of thousands of letters of gratitude from the
Sep 22, 2022 · 1 hr 10 min
A Storyteller, A Renaissance Man & A Show Biz Legacy featuring Bruce Belland and Susie Singer Carter
ruce Belland pioneered boy band hysteria with The Four Preps. Hearts were won and minds were lost as The Preps created teen bedlam touring with Ricky Nelson. The Preps scored massive hits with 26 Miles, Down By The Station and Big Man before Bruce moved o
Sep 15, 2022 · 1 hr 11 min
Drama & Mystery Writing featuring Scott Shepherd
Scott Shepherd has overseen hundreds of hours of your favorite TV shows like The Equalizer, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap and many more including Monarch, his new show on Fox and Hulu. Scott is currently pouring his gift for storytelling into a series of m
Sep 8, 2022 · 1 hr 7 min
Peace, Love & Rascals featuring Felix Cavaliere
Blue-eyed soul pioneer, Felix Cavaliere soared to chart topping heights with The Rascals and their smash hits, Good Lovin’, Groovin’, It’s a Beautiful Morning, and People Got to Be Free, all designed to elevate your spirits and positively change the world
Sep 1, 2022 · 1 hr 6 min
105 Gen X TikTok Creators featuring L.A. in a Minute (Evan Lovett) & Creating Music and Sound (Jon Mattox)
Yes, there are grownups on TikTok and they are getting it done, Son. Joining us in the studio are Evan Lovett from L.A. In A Minute and Jon Mattox from Creating Music And Sound. Evan brings his hometown enthusiasm to TikTok and Instagram with L.A. in a
Aug 25, 2022 · 55 min
Lifelong Learning & Cross Cultural Comedy featuring Maz Jobrani
Comedian/Actor/Podcaster/Peacemaker Maz Jobrani has been entertaining global audiences for decades and sharing, through his comedy, just how much we all have in common. Maz hosts his own podcast, Back To School and his newest standup special, Pandemic Wa
Aug 18, 2022 · 49 min
Media Path 103 The Beatles at Shea & The Birth of Stadium Rock featuring Laurie Jacobson
The paths of 56,000 exuberant music fans intersected in Queens, NY on August 15th, 1965, the night the Beatles played Shea Stadium and forever altered the arc of rock history. Present and accounted for were celebrities, writers, agents, producers, photogr
Jul 7, 2022 · 1 hr 28 min
A Very Brady Backstory & Success Story featuring Christopher Knight
Acting was never Christopher Knight’s idea. It was the family business and he began auditioning at the age of seven and landing commercials and TV guest spots before a man named Schwartz booked him to play Peter Brady. It turns out that being a Brady is a
Jun 30, 2022 · 1 hr
Family Affair & Family Television featuring Johnny Whitaker
By the time he was 18, Johnny Whitaker had racked up hundreds of acting credits, including two iconic series, Family Affair and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. He’d appeared on Gunsmoke, Bewitched, Bonanza, in four Disney movies and the musical version of T
Jun 23, 2022 · 1 hr 12 min
Standup Road Stories & Lessons in Comedy Writing featuring Mark Schiff
Comedy Great Mark Schiff has headlined in all the major casinos and clubs across this great land and he’s appeared many times on The Tonight Show with Johnny and Jay and on Letterman. He’s had HBO and Showtime specials and has travelled the world opening
Jun 16, 2022 · 1 hr 10 min
Senate History & Mitch McConnell’s Betrayal featuring Ira Shapiro
Author Ira Shapiro has captured sixty years of Senate history in his trilogy of books documenting the dangerous decent of what should be our more deliberative, collegial government body. Mr. Shapiro’s most recent installment is The Betrayal: How Mitch McC
Jun 9, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min
Saturday Morning TV & A Legacy of Creative Fun featuring Marty Krofft
H.R. Pufinstuf. We grew up just accepting that it was a show. But honestly, why was it a show!? A British song and dance boy with a flute shipwrecks on an island full of puppets!? Why not? The minds of Sid and Marty Krofft were fertile with fantastical ta
Jun 2, 2022 · 59 min
The Carol Burnett Show and Mayberry Memories featuring Vicki Lawrence and Karen Knotts
Vicki Lawrence lit up TV screens for eleven years on The Carol Burnett Show and for an additional six years in her own spin-off sit-com, Mama’s Family. Mama has since become a cultural icon so take a seat and roll down your nylons. She’s still got plenty
May 26, 2022 · 56 min
Legendary Hit Making & The Birth of Rock and Roll featuring Pat Boone
In the mid 1950s, Pat Boone’s early hits, Ain’t That A Shame and Tutti Frutti broke ground for black songwriter/performers Fats Domino and Little Richard while ushering in the dawn of rock n’ roll. From there, Pat segued smoothly into film and television
May 19, 2022 · 1 hr
Good Impressions & Healing Comedy featuring Jim Meskimen and Cathy Ladman
You know his face and many of his voices. Jim Meskimen is an actor, impressionist, voice-artist and improv comedian best known for his work on Whose Line Is It Anyway and Impress Me. Jim currently plays Colonel Sanders in the KFC commercials and George Wa
May 12, 2022 · 56 min
Making TV Magic & The Roles of a Lifetime featuring Henry Winkler
Fritz and Weezy enjoy an elevated coolness quotient whenever their friend Henry Winkler drops in. Henry’s award and heart winning career has taken him from your living room TV, (your bedroom wall, your lunchbox and your sox) to Broadway, to the silver scr
Apr 21, 2022 · 1 hr 19 min
Late Night Comedy & Musical Ephemera featuring Steve O’Donnell and Steve Young
We are fully stocked on Steves! Legendary, luminary Late Show and Late Night Letterman writers Steve O’Donnell and Steve Young join us for an insider’s look at behind-the-scenes life within the Late Night and Late Show era’s of Letterman. And in the w
Apr 14, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min
The Beatles & The Rock and Roll Narrative featuring Tim Riley
Rock Journalist and Music Critic Tim Riley is steeped in Beatles lore and history. He’s written the definitive John Lennon bio, Lennon: The Man, The Myth, The Music, plus Beatles books, What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Life and Their Time and Tell Me Why:
Apr 7, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min
SXSW & Media Meets the Moment featuring Steve Mencher
NPR/PBS’s Steve Mencher took in so much of SXSW he simply must offload some of it to us. Steve’s festival strategy did not include pacing himself. Steve saw films, heard talks and attended concerts by Dolly Parton, Ron Howard, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow,