The Stephen Savage Show

On this Savage Classics episode, Savage takes us back a year and a half to just after the Los Angeles Palisades Fire to talk with actress Claudia Ferri about her personal experience during that terrifying event. The interview continues with a discussion about Claudia's illustrious international acting career in projects like Queen of the South, Longmire, Highlander, and more, as well as her role as part of the all star cast in the Apple TV Originals series, Palm Royale, and navigating Hollywood as an actor with a disability, . 

On this episode, Savage welcomes into the studio legendary recording and touring pianist Barnaby Finch. Mr.Finch talks about his epic career playing live and recording with some of the music industry's most iconic stars, including Kenny Rogers, George Benson, Boz Skaggs, Lee Ritenour, and the great saxophonist, Ronnie Laws, among countless others. Yes, that’s him you hear playing piano on the huge Lionel Richie-Diana Ross hit, “Endless Love”. And as a member of the phenomenal Tom Scott Band, Barnaby appeared on top television shows like The Carol Burnett Show and The Pat Sajak Show, to name just a couple. The two also dive into their lives in Idyllwild as artists in one of America's last great arts communities. 
 

On this episode, Savage suspends the podcasts hiatus for a moment to take a call from author Simon Daryl Wood, who's book "Deconstructing Jack: The Secret History of the Whitechapel Murders" has caused quite a stir in the Ripperology community. In a newly release Expanded Version off the book, Mr Wood theorizes that Jack the Ripper never actually existed, and was in fact a fabrication of media and newspaper hype, police manipulation, and a whitewash of the actual number of murderers walking the streets of the Whitechapel district of London in the fall of 1888.

One this episode, Savage introduces us to episode 2 of Fatal Gothic, a True Crime History Podcast that he produces along with actress Julia Parker.  The episode is entitled "Louise Clapp and the Gold Rush Murders. 
California, 1850. Louise Clapp lands in San Francisco with a sick husband and a need for a job. She offers up her journalistic and writing skills to San Francisco's only newspaper, The Alta California. But when her tenure at the paper is all over, she'll never speak or write about her dangerous and terrifying experience reporting on a rash of serial murders ever again.
WARNING: This episode contains descriptions off graphic violence and murder, and is not intended for younger audiences.

On this episode, Savage takes a Zoom call from France to welcome back to the podcast for a second time, Actress, Director, and Voice Over Artist, Nathalie Boyer. Nathalie talks about her election to the Board of Directors of ADAMI (similar to SAG-AFTRA in the US) and her duties as President of the ADAMI Foundation for the Citizen Artist. The two then discuss Natalie's acting career, her animal activism as the General Secretary of the French branch of Earthrace Conservation, and her active participation in marine protection missions worldwide. Plus she recounts her resent travels to China with an Allstar group of filmmakers to bring awareness of the rights of film and television performers throughout Europe and the world. 

On this episode, Savage welcomes into Cranium Wheel Studios, Jazz legend and educator, Dr. Marshall Hawkins. Marshall talks about his amazing career playing and recording with such iconic artists as Miles Davis, Roberta Flack, Herbie Hancock, and many more. He also speaks about his founding of the Jazz program at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, the prestigious performing arts high school in Idyllwild California, which led to the creation of the Jazz In The Pines Jazz Festival, a world renowned 30 year music festival. Savage also gets Dr. Hawkins to speak about the upcoming documentary on his life as a musician and educator. 

On this, The FIRST eppisode under the new Radio Free Idyllwild flag, a rembranding away from The Savage Podcasting Network, Savage reposts an interview from 2021 with Filter guitarest and film composer, Geno Lenardo. Geno talks about his years as the lead guitarest and sonwriter for the Post Grunge phenom band, Filter, and his work scoring and compoising for such blockbuster films as I Frankenstein, Anger Management, and the Underworld franchise. 

A Stephen Savage Show Classics episode from 2023 with Savage's longtime friend, the great Angus Macfadyen, who talks one on about his many great film roles, including Braveheart and the new Kevin Costner epic, Horizon: An American Saga, as well as his many memorable roles in such series as Outlander, Turn: Washington's Spies, and Spartacus. And he and Savage talk about their week long pub crawl in Edinburgh, and their mutual love of fine whiskey. 

On this Savage Classic episode from 2024, Savage takes a call from renowned director and script supervisor Faye Brenner. Faye talks about her work on some of the most iconic blockbuster Hollywood movies of the past few decades, why film festivals are still so vital to finding new film talent, her role as the newest Grand Jury Member for the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, and her own favorite Hollywood directors. 

In honor of her birthday week, Savage replays his 2024 interview with supermodel and actress, Joanna Krupa. They talk about her career, America's Top Model, Poldand's Top Model, motherhood, and Joanna's turn on Dancing With The Stars.