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CBY Podlet: Editor Jeff Gourson Oct 15, 2020

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A Call Back Yesterday podlet, designed for anyone who is at the 30^th annual SIT Weekend, or just wishes they could be there. Recommended listening location: a landing on the long stairs to the garden.

George Wendt's "Somewhere in Time" surprise is better than a cold one Oct 14, 2020

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Imagine being an aspiring actor and inviting your friends and family to see your first movie ... then realizing your tiny scene was cut. It happened to George Wendt in "Somewhere in Time," who later landed the role of Norm on "Cheers." For George's 72nd birthday - Oct 17 - CBY gives him a most unexpected birthday present.

Caitlin Doughty talks Good Death in a Cemetery Oct 12, 2020

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Location, location, location. The best place to talk with mortician, author, and Big Funeral critic Caitlin Doughty is, of course, a cemetery. So, for her perspective on "Somewhere in Time," I met Caitlin at LA's first cemetery open to all races and creeds.

Jeannot's Ark Oct 04, 2020

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Host John Rabe talks with "Somewhere in Time" director Jeannot Szwarc about making the movie, managing his stars' affair, and where he'd go if he could travel in time. Szwarc retired last year after 51 years of film and TV direction and spoke with John from his home in the Loire Valley where he is riding out the pandemic in splendid isolation.

Somewhere in TIM Sep 25, 2020

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Host John Rabe talks with film critic Tim Cogshell about "Somewhere In Time," which Tim first saw with his wife almost 40 years ago. She passed away a few years ago, but her memory lives strong with Tim, and it turns out that jawing about it in John's podcast eases the burden a little tiny bit.

CBY: Welcome to Fantasy Island Sep 24, 2020

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In Call Back Yesterday, public radio's John Rabe addresses his neuroses by celebrating the 40th anniversary of "Somewhere In Time," and exploring the cult movie's themes of love, loss, memory, nostalgia, time travel, and Mackinac Island.

Episode One - Welcome to Fantasy Island - gives you a taste of what's to come, including interviews with George Wendt, the Avengers screenwriters, Jeannot Szwarc, critics Tim Cogshell and Justin Chang, and Caitlin "The Good Death" Doughty.

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