Let's Talk Ten
Dan Fisher and his guests come up with Top Ten lists relating to pop culture --Movies/TV/Music/Etc. -- and then they compare notes.
"Winning" arguments over what's the "best" is never the point. It's just people talking about the stuff they love and why they love it. Sometimes the conversation is silly, sometimes it's deeply personal -- as long as it's entertaining, it goes where it goes.
Each "Let's Talk Ten" will cover a fresh topic (horror movies, debut albums, TV kids' shows) with a different guest. There are no scripts and lists are not shared beforehand.
Episodes will drop every two weeks, on Mondays.
Let's Talk Ten
EP. #21 (REMIX) - A CONVERSATION WITH TV LEGEND RON FRIEDMAN
Ron Friedman passed away on September 15, 2025. He was 93.
I was very fortunate to have had him as a guest on this podcast -- Ron wrote for damn near every show I watched growing up -- The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, All in the Family, The Partridge Family, Chico and the Man, Fantasy Island.... His output was enormous -- over 700 hours of television, in all genres, sitcoms, action dramas, variety -- and his influence on me and millions of other former television addicts is incalculable.
I was even luckier to have then known him, all too briefly, as a friend. When he learned that I was in the hospital for a lengthy stay, he would call me out of the blue, just to check up on me. He was 92 years at the time, not in the best of health himself, but his sincere concern for me meant everything.
That he happened to have grown up in West Virginia, in the same northern Ohio Valley area where I would grown up some years later, further cemented our bond.
I knew something wasn't right with Ron not only when he stopped receiving my calls, but then stopped returning my texts. I wish I'd have had one last chat with him.
This will have to do. It's Ron telling at least a part of his own life story, and he was born a master story teller.
Rest in well-earned peace, my friend.