Verge of the Fringe

Verge of the Fringe

Lance Anderson's raw storytelling podcast. Spoken word, music and weird phone ramblings to "Dude."

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March 12, 2026
Hey Dude, I both celebrate Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, and defend Rosanna Arquette's legitmate criticism of the groundbreaking film.

QUOTE: "I'm willing to stand next to Jon Hamm and take off my shirt..."

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CAST: Don Draper, Mac Sledge, Jon Hamm, Bad Bunny, Harvey Keitel, The Wolf, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Vinnie Barbarino, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ving Rhames, Rosanna ...
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Hey Dude, I come to terms with the fact I'll never be Don Draper, but the truth is I'd rather be Mac Sledge.

QUOTE: "Obviously I don't look like Don Draper..."

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CAST: Ming Ming (cameo), Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Mac Sledge, Sanford Meisner, Jeff Goldblum, Lawrence Fishburne

LOCATIONS: Ming Ming's Barn, New York City, Neighborhood Playhouse

PROPS: toupee, Country Western, litmus test, Meisner Techniq...
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Hey Dude, I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm attracted to women with beautiful voices. My maddest crush is on Brandi Carlile who is also my favorite contemporary artist.

QUOTE: "She's GenX adjacent..." 

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CAST: Brandi Carlile, Howard Stern, Phil and Tim Hanseroth, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Kermit The Frog

LOCATIONS: The 5 Freeway

PROPS: SNL, GenX, CBS Sunday Morning

MUSIC: "Right on Ti...
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Hey Dude, while exhibiting my photos at the "Gallery at the End of the World" in the Mariposa Junction, I reconnected with Altadena through art, community and the power of podcasting.

QUOTE: "Frankly, I didn't want to have to go through the whole committee process."

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CAST: Dick Van Dyke, Ben Mc Ginty, Dave Lovejoy, Stacey (Sacred Silver), Ming Ming (aka "My Buddy")

LOCATIONS: Unitarian Universalist ...
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October 18, 2025
Hey Dude, I try to sort through my messy milestone birthday, perfectly captured in my super funky selfie that inspired the call.

QUOTE: "There's a lot of strands in the old duder's head..."

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CAST: Modesto, Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani, The Dude, The Doors, Bill Murray

SPECIAL GUEST CAMEO: Ming Ming

LOCATIONS: Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City (UUCSC), Paris, France, Smoke House, Ernie's Taco House, Toluca Lake, Casa Ve...
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Hey Dude, I goof on myself about my recent disastrous performances at an informal open mic at my church.

QUOTE: "Well, that went so well, why not?"

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CAST: George Clooney, Vince Vaughn, James Franco, Harrison Ford, Chef Ben Ford

LOCATIONS: Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City (UUCSC), Studio City, Studio City Theater

PROPS: androgyny

MOVIES: Rocky, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner

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Hey Dude, I rave about basking in John Fogerty's light at the Hollywood Bowl. Plus I ask your advice about how to tell some of my saucy stories with songs.

QUOTE: "If there's a Heaven, he's gonna be there rockin'!"

MUSICIANS: John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Belinda Carlisle, Go-Go's, Kittens for Christian, Alicia Silverstone, Richie Valens

VENUES: Hollywood Bowl, Hamburg, Germany, UCLA, Burbank

INSTRUMENTS: Beauty and th...
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Hey Dude, the amazing Reverand Rick retired at the top of his game to become an artist, while the jury is still out for me.

QUOTE: "Just do your thing. Come as you are."

MUSICIANS: Reverend Rick, Paramahansa Yogananda, John Fogerty

VENUES: Studio City, Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City, Claremont, Self Realization Fellowship, Echo Park, Altadena

INSTRUMENTS: Unitarian Universalism, poetry reading, pandemic, podcasting, Zoom...
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Hey Dude, my recent reconnection to music makes me travel back in time to 2004, where I was living in a basement apartment in "Eagle Rock" and working on a one person show called "Broken Hearts and Sad Country Songs."

QUOTE: "Whatever!"

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MUSICIANS: Stan Hillas, Kittens For Christian, Bruce Springsteen, Marilyn Monroe, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan

VENUES: United Kingdom, Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, Sun Valley

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Hey Dude, an innocent Sunday drive to the Hollywood Bowl box office with my dad, turns into a mudslide of deep hometown memories.

QUOTE: "If you don't drive through your hometown, are you really in your hometown?"

LULLABY: "Hooray for Hollywood" (Whitling/Mercer)

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MUSICIANS/CAST: John Fogerty, Joan Anderson, George Clooney, Billy Strings, Bob Dylan

LOCATIONS: The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, Hollywood Way,...
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Hey Dude, I took my dad to see Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival at The Hollywood Bowl and it somehow magically restored my faith in my own home town.

QUOTE: "I would call it a borderline spiritual experience..."

LULLABY: "California Sober" by Billy Strings

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MUSICIANS/CAST: Willie Nelson, P-22 (mountain lion), Ricky Gervais, Sierra Hull, Billy Strings, Bob Dylan, Cate Blanchett, Deadheads, Jimi Hendrix

LOCA...
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May 6, 2025

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Hey Dude, I trip out on being a heathen freshman at a Catholic high school, and then I goof on the reason why I left.

QUOTE: "I didn't want to sell the chocolates."

CAST: Pope Francis, Jesus of Nazareth, Spartacus, Chris Prine, Danny DeVito, Annette Bening, Jennifer Jason Leigh

LOCATIONS: Notre Dame High School, Beth Meier Preschool, Corvallis High School, Descanso Gardens, Altadena

PROPS: Bib...
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April 13, 2025
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Hey Dude, after stumbling from the ashes, I finally sat down to have my mind blown by the film A Complete Unknown...twice.

QUOTE: "The wheels have completely fallen off the wagon."

CAST: Brandi Carlile, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joe Friday, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Fred Neil, James Mangold, Elijah Wald, Timothée Chalamet, Sylvester Stallone, Joaquin Phoenix, Johnny Cash, Boyd Holbrook, Joan Baez, Monica Barbaro, Edward N...
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Hey Dude, I headed up to Altaden...
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February 3, 2025

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January 5, 2025

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