[Description by contributor Rich Borowy and Uncle Ricky]

Arlene Peck was born in Atlanta, Georgia and re-located to California in the early 1980’s, where she was a journalist for the Los Angeles based The Jewish Journal. She had been a syndicated columnist since 1976, when she traveled to Russia and was picked up by the KGB for smuggling prayer books into the country. Arlene has served as an expert on the Middle East for radio station KABC and often appears as a speaker in other forums.

Peck produced her celebrity talk show, Watch Out World Here Comes Arlene Peck, via a public access cable channel in Santa Monica until 2008, when illness forced her to put the show on hold. That’s when she gave me all of her master 3/4 inch videotapes. This 1995 episode with Casey Kasem is the only one in the entire collection that would be of interest to REELRADIO.

Arlene introduces her guest as Casey Casin, but then goes on to a fascinating, free-wheeling conversation with Casey, who appears amused and comfortable. He touches on his beginnings in radio, the inspiration for his character Shaggy in Scooby Doo, a failed trip to Lebanon, rap music, Elvis Presley, how he gave up cigarettes and what he likes to eat! Peck jumps from topic to topic and often reveals as much about herself as she does her guest.

Casey Kasem passed away at 82 from Lewy body dementia, on June 15, 2014. He was 63 when he recorded this program with Arlene Peck, sometime in 1995.