Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny

Conversations between longtime friends about memorable encounters in Hollywood AI summary

Brent Spiner & Jonathan Frakes Visit website › Comedy · EN · 27 episodes · latest 2026-11-11 · explicit

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Dropping Names ...and other things with Brent & Jonny is a conversation podcast show from Star Trek: The Next Generation stars Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes. Each episode, these longtime friends sit down with fascinating characters they’ve met across decades in Hollywood.Whether you're a sci-fi fan, a film buff, or just here for the laughs, this is the show where great stories meet great conversations… and a few names get dropped along the way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Jason Isaacs E

2026-11-11 · 1 hr 47 min · Season 1, episode 27

Jason Isaacs joins Brent Spiner and Jonny Frakes on Dropping Names, and he arrives doing card tricks, admits he screenshotted every stranger online who complained about his North Carolina accent in The White Lotus, and…
Margo Martindale E

2026-11-04 · 44 min · Season 1, episode 26

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Rick Berman E

2026-10-28 · 1 hr 26 min · Season 1, episode 25

Rick Berman says there were three strikes against the job: it was science fiction at a time when nobody made science fiction for television, it was a sequel, and it was going out in syndication instead of on a network.…
Colin Hanks E

2026-10-21 · 1 hr 2 min · Season 1, episode 24

Colin Hanks sits down with Brent Spiner and Jonny Frakes on Dropping Names and starts where it started, on a sidewalk on the Fox lot in the late nineties, terrified before his Roswell screen test, when a passing…
Terry Matalas E

2026-10-14 · 59 min · Season 1, episode 23

When Terry Matalas first walked into Alex Kurtzman's company, the show about bringing Jean Luc Picard back was already spoken for, and he was politely told to go away, kid. He ended up running Star Trek Picard season…
William Shatner E

2026-10-07 · 1 hr 14 min · Season 1, episode 22

William Shatner sits down with Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes on Dropping Names and opens with the moment he still cannot let go of, the time Neil deGrasse Tyson answered him on camera by putting a hand in his face…
Leonard Maltin & Jessie Maltin E

2026-09-30 · 53 min · Season 1, episode 21

Leonard Maltin once walked Red Buttons over to say hello to Paramount's goodwill ambassador AC Lyles at Spago, and Red looked up and asked if he hadn't just been wondering whether AC was still alive. That is the…
Steven Weber E

2026-09-23 · 52 min · Season 1, episode 20

Steven Weber joins Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes on Dropping Names to tell the story of taking over Leo Bloom from Matthew Broderick in The Producers on Broadway, opposite the acclaimed British actor Henry Goodman,…
Wil Wheaton E

2026-09-16 · 1 hr 24 min · Season 1, episode 19

Wil Wheaton joins Brent Spiner and Jonny Frakes on Dropping Names and starts with the movie everyone knows him for, Stand By Me, then keeps going to the part nobody talks about. He explains how a memo from David Gerrold…
Noah Wyle E

2026-09-09 · 1 hr 5 min · Season 1, episode 18

A few minutes in, Brent Spiner stops the interview cold to tell Noah Wyle, as a friend rather than a host, that The Pitt is the best thing on television and that Noah is the reason. The room changes right there, and…

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Owner: Dropping Names, LLC
Oldest episode in feed: 01/2026
Typical length: 1 hr 0 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
Keywords: dropping names, star trek, jonathan frakes, brent spiner

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