Shows / Kyle Meredith With...
Kyle Meredith With...
Kyle Meredith With... is an interview series in which WFPK's Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of artists. Meredith digs deep to find out how their work is made and where their journey is going. From legendary artists to the newer class, from musicians to film & television stars, you'll hear about the things you were always curious about from all of your favorites.
Episodes
- Kyle Meredith With...
Lou Diamond Phillips on Gangland’s Indigenous Stories, Why Young Guns 3 Isn’t Greenlit, and The Chair Company Season 2 Getting Even Crazier
Lou Diamond Phillips has read the Young Guns 3 script, calls it “unbelievable,” and can't understand why the sequel hasn't gotten the green light. The La Bamba…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rachel Bilson, Arden Myrin, and Rob Riggle on Christmas at the Kringles, Wild Improvisation, and Kevin Lewis’ Unseen 25-Minute Cut
Rachel Bilson spent much of Christmas at the Kringles trying not to laugh at Arden Myrin and Thomas Lennon, even while her own character was being hypnotized…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Kate Siegel on Directing Carrie, Her Dream of Casting Olivia Rodrigo, and Feature Debut Method
Kate Siegel knew the trick to making Carrie’s first house party terrifying was letting her have a great time. Talking with Kyle Meredith about directing…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Deborah Ann Woll & Jeffrey Donovan on The Cycle, Practical Effects, and First-Day Morgue Scenes
Deborah Ann Woll had one nonnegotiable for The Cycle’s horror effects, and it was making sure they actually existed in the room. She and Jeffrey Donovan talk…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Stephen Wilson Jr. on Singing with Eddie Vedder, the Pixies Connection in “Hardwired,” and Finding His Father in “Cornerman”
Stephen Wilson Jr. calls singing Chris Cornell’s part of “Hunger Strike” alongside Eddie Vedder at Ohana Festival one of the greatest moments of his life, and…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Ariel Winter on The Sisters Grimm, Finding Her Inner Snark, and Returning to Sofia the First
Ariel Winter says playing a sarcastic, cynical character like Sabrina Grimm comes pretty naturally, mostly because she recognizes a little of herself in the…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Danny Elfman & Filter’s Richard Patrick on Getting Heavier With Age, New Albums, and Industrial Rock
Getting older just means getting louder for Danny Elfman and Filter’s Richard Patrick. Both catch up with Kyle Meredith backstage at Louder Than Life 2026…
- Kyle Meredith With...
RZA, Ernest Dickerson, David Moreau & Renee Zhan on Sampling Death, Weaponizing Silence & Giving Jim Henson’s Puppets a Dark Side
V/H/S/MIXTAPE turns music into a weapon, and RZA, David Moreau, Ernest Dickerson, and Renee Zhan each found a very different way to make that nightmare work…
- Kyle Meredith With...
The Cast of Carrie on Reinventing a Classic, Mike Flanagan’s Set Rules & the Blurry Line Between Heroes and Villains
Mike Flanagan had the same first reaction a lot of people did to another Carrie adaptation: “Why?” and he tells Kyle Meredith that he wouldn’t touch Stephen…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Laraine Newman on The Sisters Grimm, Finding Her Voice, and Why Mime Got Too Cute
Laraine Newman is all for scaring the kids a little. The Saturday Night Live original cast member talks with Kyle Meredith about returning as Granny Relda for…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rewind: Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner & The Black Angels’ Alex Maas on Political Disillusionment, Music as Therapy, and Finding a Way Forward
What happens when the world gets darker and the music starts absorbing it? In this KMW Rewind, Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner talks with Kyle Meredith about…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Theo Rossi on Come With Me, the Indie-Film Boom, and Refusing to Be Typecast
Theo Rossi wants movies that leave you arguing in the parking lot. The Sons of Anarchy and Emily the Criminal star talks with Kyle Meredith about Come With Me…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Modern English Reclaims Its Post-Punk Fire, Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook Rebuilds The Professionals, and Punk Grows Old Disgracefully
Modern English frontman Robbie Grey talks with Kyle Meredith about reuniting the band’s original lineup for 2017’s Take Me to the Trees, recapturing the fire…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Peaches on No Lube So Rude, Menopause, and Fighting for Connection
Peaches is done with “me versus them,” but she’s definitely not done fighting. Talking with Kyle Meredith, Peaches digs into No Lube So Rude, her first album…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rewind: Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan and The Dead Milkmen’s Joe Jack Talcum on Turning Political Anxiety Into Punk, Why Reunions Need New Music, and Being Indie Lifers
Sometimes keeping an old band alive means making sure it never turns into an oldies act. On this KMW Rewind, Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan and The Dead Milkmen’s…
- Kyle Meredith With...
David Dastmalchian on Street Fighter, Building M. Bison’s Cult, and the Tool-Fueled Soundtrack Behind the Role
David Dastmalchian is building M. Bison from the cult leader up. Talking with Kyle Meredith, the actor says the new Street Fighter finds Bison before he’s…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rewind: Valerie June and Billy Bragg on Finding Your Voice, Keeping Traditions Alive, and Writing Protest Songs
Songs have lives of their own, and some political ones have an unfortunate habit of becoming relevant all over again. In this KMW Rewind, Valerie June talks…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Jeff Arcuri on Nice to Meet You, Moving Beyond Crowd Work, and Nearly Canceling His Netflix Special
Jeff Arcuri nearly canceled Nice to Meet You before therapy, trusted comic friends, and a month away from the footage helped him see what he had made. The…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rewind: Slowdive on Their Unexpected Second Act, “Star Roving,” and Everything Is Alive
Slowdive’s second act turned out to be much bigger than anyone in the band expected. In this Rewind, bassist Nick Chaplin looks back at the band’s self-titled…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Brittany Howard on Alabama Shakes’ Surprise Reunion, I Must Be Dreaming, and Finding Hope in an Angry World
Brittany Howard talks with Kyle Meredith about how Alabama Shakes unexpectedly found their way back together after reuniting for a friend’s brewery fundraiser…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Patrick Renna & Danielle Fishel on Dugout Dads, Reuniting The Sandlot Cast, and Why Nostalgia Can’t Be Recreated
Dugout Dads reunites some familiar faces, but Patrick Renna and Danielle Fishel have no interest in trying to recreate The Sandlot or Boy Meets World. The…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Grace Cummings on Bloodhorse, Studio Scythes, and Her AI Bro-Country Detour
Grace Cummings made Bloodhorse! like it might be the last thing she ever does, and that meant finally shutting out the voice telling her she was “too much.”…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Scott Shriner & Patrick Wilson on Weezer’s Gold Album, Rediscovering Collaboration, and Rejecting Studio Perfection
Weezer finally got its mission statement together: “Let’s just work together.” Scott Shriner and Patrick Wilson talk with Kyle Meredith about The Gold Album…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Anthony Michael Hall on Nation’s Dumbest, Surviving 50 Years in Hollywood, and Halloween Store
Anthony Michael Hall says the secret to a 50-year acting career is learning how to “outlast uncertainty,” and that can also mean signing up for a game show…
- Kyle Meredith With...
David Duchovny on Prince of Pieces, Songwriting, and Independent Film
David Duchovny says a song is already part of the past the moment you finish writing it, which helps explain why Prince of Pieces includes material he has…
- Kyle Meredith With...
David Rysdahl & Lily Sullivan on Soulm8te, AI Addiction, and Constructed Femininity
David Rysdahl and Lily Sullivan join Kyle Meredith to dig into Soulm8te, talking about how the M3GAN universe uses horror to explore grief, addiction, and the…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Jay Chandrasekhar on Super Troopers 3, Bringing Back R-Rated Comedy, and Brown Supremacist
Jay Chandrasekhar wants Super Troopers 3 to help bring loud, R-rated comedy back to theaters, and he’s not interested in turning it into another political…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rewind: Guster and Phoenix on Reinvention, Escaping Nostalgia, and the Strange Side of Pop
This Rewind episode brings together two conversations about bands refusing to let a familiar sound become a comfortable trap. Guster’s Ryan Miller, speaking…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Jane Seymour on Harry Wild, Reuniting with Joe Lando, and Radiohead’s OK Computer
Jane Seymour catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about why Harry Wild keeps getting better five seasons in, bringing Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman co-star Joe…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rupert Grint, Seidi Haarla, & Hanna Bergholm on Nightborn, Parenthood Horror, and Finnish Folklore
Rupert Grint, Seidi Haarla, and director Hanna Bergholm join Kyle Meredith to unpack the unsettling heart of Nightborn, where the real horror starts with the…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Tim Robbins, Common, and the Silo Cast on Redemption, the Origin Story, and the Humanity Behind the Mystery
Silo season 3 finally answers how the underground world began while turning some of its biggest villains into its most complicated characters. Talking with…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Octavia Spencer, Hannah Waddingham, Tessa Coates, and Matt Miller on Ride or Die and Rewriting the Action-Comedy Rules
Ride or Die starts with the best kind of best-friend problem: one of them is an international assassin and that’s not even the whole mess. Octavia Spencer…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rewind: Kurt Vile and Kevin Morby on City Songs, Strange Fame, and Writing Your Way Out
Kurt Vile and Kevin Morby both know how to make city songs feel lonely, funny, half-haunted, and still totally wide open. Vile talks with Kyle Meredith about…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Tori Amos on In Times of Dragons, Democracy, and Finding the Fire Inside Silent All These Years
Tori Amos talks with Kyle Meredith about In Times of Dragons, the concept record she built out of democracy cracking in real time, dangerous men behind the…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Jane Kaczmarek on Malcolm in the Middle, The Boroughs, and Finding Her Next Act
Jane Kaczmarek talks with Kyle Meredith about returning to Malcolm in the Middle for Life’s Still Unfair, reuniting with Bryan Cranston, and why Erik Per…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Joel Courtney & Andy Delaney on 40 Dates and 40 Nights, Rom-Com Chemistry, and Finding the Truth in Dating
A rom-com may promise the ending, but Joel Courtney and director Andy Delaney tell Kyle Meredith that 40 Dates and 40 Nights is really about everything that…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Gerry Beckley on Merciful, America, and Life After the Road
Gerry Beckley still has a lot in the vault, and Merciful proves it. The America co-founder talks with Kyle Meredith about stepping away from touring after…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Suki Waterhouse on Loveland, Motherhood, and Finding the Magic in the Mess
Suki Waterhouse talks with Kyle Meredith about her new album Loveland, a record written in that strange in-between space after becoming a mom, coming off…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rewind: Deltron 3030 on the Future, the Industry, and Staying Weird
Del the Funky Homosapien talks with Kyle Meredith across two eras, first with Dan the Automator as Deltron 3030 in 2014 and then solo in 2018 around Gate 13…
- Kyle Meredith With...
John Gallagher Jr. on Almost Okay, Swept Away, and the Exorcist
John Gallagher Jr. talks with Kyle Meredith about his new EP Almost Okay, finding the spark again after the heartbreak of Swept Away closing on Broadway, and…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Bella Thorne, Chloe Cherry, & Izabel Pakzad on Find Your Friends, Female Rage, and Turning a Real-Life Nightmare Into Horror
A girls trip gone wrong, a desert town full of menace, and one unforgettable act of revenge are at the center of Find Your Friends. Talking with Kyle Meredith…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Tony Hale & Ol Parker on Office Romance, Jennifer Lopez, and the Return of the Rom-Com
Tony Hale and director Ol Parker join Kyle Meredith to talk about Office Romance, the new Netflix comedy starring Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein. Parker…
- Kyle Meredith With...
The Cast and Creators of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed on Internet Paranoia, Bad Decisions, and Pleasure as Evidence
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed starts with loneliness, cam boys, custody battles, and youth soccer. Tatiana Maslany, Jake Johnson, Jessy Hodges, Murray Bartlett…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Tom Cavanagh on You’re Killing Me, Sharp Writing, and Playing a Small-Town Detective (and a special Rewind with Brad Roberts from Crash Test Dummies)
Tom Cavanagh tells Kyle Meredith why the writing on You’re Killing Me worked so well that the cast mostly just had to stay out of its way. The Flash and Scrubs…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Judith Light on The Terror: Devil in Silver, Mental Health, and How Horror Finally Found Her
Judith Light says horror found her, not the other way around, but The Terror: Devil in Silver might be the role that proves she belongs there. Talking with…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Kimiko Glenn on Modern Dance, Dating Chaos, and Turning Heartbreak Into Pop Songs
Kimiko Glenn says every relationship on her debut EP Modern Dance was either doomed from the start or became material eventually, and talking with Kyle…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Jack Antonoff on Bleachers, Grief, and Springsteen’s Advice
Jack Antonoff says all he really wants out of life is to make records and tour, and that turns into a surprisingly heavy conversation with Kyle Meredith about…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Maya Hawke on Marriage, Stranger Things, and Learning How to “Give Up and Be Loved”
Maya Hawke tells Kyle Meredith that her new album MAITREYA CORSO accidentally became a love record after falling deeper into her relationship and eventually…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Courtney Barnett Writer’s Block, Scrapped Songs, and Why Some Tracks Just Won’t Leave You Alone
Courtney Barnett is back talking with Kyle Meredith about Creature of Habit, digging into those years between records, the move to LA, and why that chapter is…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Natalie Alyn Lind on Dutton Ranch and Building a Horror Film From the Ground Up
Natalie Alyn Lind got the call, packed her bags in two days, and suddenly she’s at cowboy camp learning to rope for Dutton Ranch, and she tells Kyle Meredith…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Paul Bettany and Will Sharpe on Genius, Rivalry, and Reframing Amadeus
Paul Bettany says he believes in genius “the same way I believe in libraries,” and that pretty much sets the tone as he and Will Sharpe talk Amadeus with Kyle…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Jena Malone on Flowers for Men, Sci-Fi Folk, and The Boroughs
Jena Malone catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about her first album under her own name, Flowers for Men, which pulls together a decade of voice memos…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Rewind: Shawn Colvin on A Few Small Repairs, “Sunny Came Home,” and Turning a Childhood Lullaby Book into The Starlight
Shawn Colvin tells Kyle Meredith how A Few Small Repairs accidentally became her breakthrough, powered by "Sunny Came Home" and that unforgettable…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Peter Capaldi & Cush Jumbo Return for Criminal Record Season 2
Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo catch up with Kyle Meredith to talk about stepping back into the world of Criminal Record for its second season, digging into the…
- Kyle Meredith With...
The Audacity Cast on Power, Tech Culture, and the People Caught in the Middle
The cast of The Audacity, including Billy Magnuson, Jonathan Glatzer, Paul Adelstein, Simon Helberg, Rob Corddry, Meaghan Rath, Everett Blunck, Thailey…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, and Chandler Levack Break Down the Messy Indie Rock World of Mile End Kicks
Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, and Chandler Levack all sit down with Kyle Meredith to unpack Mile End Kicks, starting with Ferreira on playing a version of…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Jason Mewes on Five Things, Jay And Silent Bob, and Staying Scrappy in Hollywood
Jason Mewes sits down with Kyle Meredith to talk about building a career that’s lasted more than three decades, from his start in Kevin Smith’s Clerks to the…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Joe Bonamassa & George Benson Talk Blues and the Legacy of B.B. King
Joe Bonamassa and George Benson join Kyle Meredith to talk about the massive tribute album B.B. King Blues Summit 100, a 40-artist, 32-song celebration of B.B…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Keeley Karsten Steps Into Malcolm in the Middle Revival as Malcolm’s Daughter, and the Chaos Feels Familiar
Keeley Karsten joins Kyle Meredith to talk about stepping into the long-awaited Malcolm in the Middle revival, Life’s Still Unfair, playing Leah, Malcolm’s…
- Kyle Meredith With...
Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, James Marsden, and Jonathan Tropper on Season 2 of Your Friends And Neighbors
Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, James Marsden, and creator Jonathan Tropper all join Kyle Meredith to unpack Season 2 of Your Friends And Neighbors, which…