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Brent Spiner & Jonathan Frakes · 21 episodes with transcripts

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.

Spoken has transcripts of 21 Dropping Names ...and other things episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 7, 2026.

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William Shatner

October 7, 2026

Brent Spiner (0:00)

We get some comments on our videos. Do you read the comments? Sometimes I do.

I read them until they hurt my feelings, and then I turn them off. But a lot of comments say, not a lot of them, but there have been a few that say, hey, stop interrupting people.

Jonathan Frakes (0:16)

I know, but that's part of our game.

Brent Spiner (0:18)

That is the game. See, they don't get the show.

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