Pop culture memory, straight from the credits.
Reliving My Youth looks back at the performers, bands, and screen moments tied to 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s pop culture. The conversations are relaxed and detail-heavy, with guests often drifting from signature credits into auditions, cancellations, set stories, career dry spells, and unexpected second lives.
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Reliving My Youth is a pop culture interview show for people who remember the supporting cast as clearly as the star. It centers on long, friendly conversations with actors, musicians, and familiar screen presences tied to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The show is nostalgic, but not frozen in nostalgia. Guests are asked about the parts that made them recognizable, then nudged toward the practical and personal stories behind those credits. A Parks and Recreation supporting character can lead into auditions, Cameo requests, theater work, and the grind of staying employed. A Necessary Roughness role can open onto football training, broken fingers, baseball talk, and the strange endurance of a comedy. A Camper Van Beethoven conversation can move from Santa Cruz music scenes to violin, Tusk, Sweden, and a newer album. The show likes actors who have been everywhere: sitcoms, cult movies, guest spots, one-season dramas, Nickelodeon and Disney work, Comedy Central, Doctor Who, The Sopranos, Seinfeld, and The X-Files. It also likes the odd corners that fans tend to remember best. Canceled shows get real attention. So do theme songs, network-era television rituals, on-set friendships, and the weird way a single role can keep returning years later. The conversations are casual and sometimes blunt, with guests allowed to repeat themselves, laugh, qualify a memory, or follow a side trail. That looseness gives the archive its texture. Rather than forcing each career into a tidy lesson, Reliving My Youth lets the work pile up into a portrait of show business as a long series of breaks, callbacks, cancellations, pivots, and lucky survivals. It suits listeners who enjoy IMDb rabbit holes with better company. It is especially strong when a guest turns a familiar credit into a story about how television, film, music, and comedy actually felt from the inside.
Made for: Best for listeners who love actor retrospectives, cult TV, sitcom history, movie side roles, college-radio memories, and behind-the-scenes stories from familiar names. It especially suits people who enjoy relaxed interviews more than tightly produced documentary structure.
What sets it apart: The show gives performers and musicians room to remember the small stuff: auditions, one-season shows, recurring parts, set dynamics, fan afterlives, and late-career realities. Its strength is the accumulation of lived details rather than polished pop culture analysis.
A look back at pop culture from the 70's, 80's, and 90's
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Familiar screen credits become candid career histories through Noel Fogelman's detailed conversations with the actors who made them.
Noel Fogelman starts with the credit audiences remember, then asks what happened around it. Reliving My Youth turns conversations with actors into career retrospectives shaped by production memories: Corey Johnson discusses the research behind United 93, Marcus Giamatti recalls…
The credits rolled decades ago; Noel Fogelman gets you the stories the rerun cannot.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Jonathan Siegel revisits Camper Van Beethoven, his musical detours and the chance encounter that set his path in motion.
Jonathan Siegel looks back on a musical life built around lucky encounters, detours and returns. He joined Camper Van Beethoven after someone spotted him carrying a violin across the college quad, then found a place in a band that mixed styles freely without claiming mastery of…
A memorable Pawnee politician leads into an honest account of longevity as a working actor.
Kevin Simons revisits Councilman Bill Dexhart, the Parks and Recreation supporting character whose planned one-off appearance turned into something much longer lived.
A bruising football memory opens into a warm, wandering conversation about acting, teaching, baseball, and family.
Marcus Giamatti brings the lived-in perspective of a working actor, turning a casual catch-up into something loose, funny, and quietly revealing.
A warm career conversation about cancellations, cult favorites, and the Hollywood memories behind them.
Gregory Harrison's career comes into focus through one-season curios, cult favorites, and the kind of television memories that keep branching into fresh stories.
A relaxed character-actor conversation that balances production memories, film accuracy, and candid political detours.
Corey Johnson's conversation with Noel Fogelman follows the working life of a character actor through a varied run of parts, from United 93 to Henry Van Staten, the internet-owning figure he played in Doctor Who.
Kvork Malikin traces the lived detours behind Mind Your Language and Indiana Jones.
The 300th episode frames Kvork Malikin's 60-year acting career as a story of memory, craft, and lived experience put to use. He looks back on arriving in England without English, then later drawing on language-school frustrations for Mind Your Language, where the…
Jim J. Bullock revisits Too Close for Comfort, Ted Knight, Hollywood Squares, and the joy of seeing himself on TV.
Jim J. Bullock's visit to Reliving My Youth plays like an easygoing tour through a life in classic TV, with sitcom memories, game-show stories, and animation work all sitting comfortably in the same conversation.
Warm celebrity interviews with craft at the center.
Film talk with awards-season muscle.
Actor Erik Jensen discusses his new film Brooklyn Minnesota, his acting career, and a recent cancer scare.
Kevork Malikyan reveals the Indiana Jones character he missed out on and the surprising praise Steven Spielberg gave him.
Jim J. Bullock reveals how he landed his breakout role as Monroe on Too Close for Comfort after being told they wanted a 'Jim J. Bullock type' but not him.
Noah Fulgham interviews actress Ellie Cornell about her roles in Halloween 4 and 5, the challenges of replacing Jamie Lee Curtis, and her work on Free Enterprise.
Noah Kogelman interviews actor Alan Blumenfeld about his career guest-starring on classic TV shows like Golden Girls and Family Ties.
Noel Fogelman interviews Russell Kilbey, lead singer of The Crystal Set, about their reunion tour after 33 years, his brother Steve Kilby, and the band's history.
Noel Fogelman interviews actor Raphael Sbarge about his career, including his new movie 'Friendship', his documentary 'Only in Theaters', and his experiences on shows like 'Prison Break' and 'Once Upon a Time'.
Tom Gallop, who played Alan Mercer in the Seinfeld episode "The Andrea Doria," recounts throwing out the first pitch at the Brooklyn Cyclones' Seinfeld Night alongside Dan Cortez, and says his throw was a "one or a two bouncer" in front of about 8,000 people.
Jonathan Siegel says `World Still Burns` came from the Portland federal-building protests and the `wall of moms`, and he rushed it out while finishing `Puzzle World`.
Reliving My Youth talks with Kevin Simons about Councilman Bill Dexhart from Parks and Recreation, a role that started as a one-off and expanded into four seasons.
Marcus Giamatti tells Noel Fogelman that almost all auditioning is now self-taped, and he teaches acting at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Actor Richard Portnow discusses his career, memorable roles, and experiences in film and television.
An interview with actress Kristen Cloke Morgan discussing her career, including roles in Space Above and Beyond, The X-Files, Final Destination, and Cheers, and her current life.
'Reliving My Youth' interviews 75-year-old Gregory Harrison, veteran actor of Logan's Run, Trapper John MD (7.5 seasons as Gonzo Gates), the cult surf film North Shore (1987), and a 3.5-year General Hospital arc that earned him his first Emmy nomination, covering an acting career that spans army medic service, a theater he purchased and ran, and three Broadway shows.
'Reliving My Youth' interviews Corey Johnson, a British-based American character actor known for United 93, Captain Phillips, The Mummy, Hellboy, and a Doctor Who villain role, covering his upcoming Tom Cruise comedy Digger directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, his acting origin story following a football knee injury at 15, and his political commentary on American democracy from England.