You know Thomas Ian Nicholas from his acting roles in ROOKIE OF THE YEAR, A KID IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT, and the AMERICAN PIE franchise. These days his focus is on music, and he stopped by the studio today to talk to Adrian Paul and Ethan Dettenmaier about his work with Musicians On Call and his other charitable endeavors.

I was on the show for only about a minute or so due to technical difficulties which also kept us from bringing on Hero of the Week Laura Graham, who founded 1 Closet to provide clothing to foster children and other kids in need. We’re hoping to be able to get Laura back for next week’s show.

This was a really solid episode; Thomas Ian Nicholas is an extremely kind and giving guy who had lots of really inspiring things to say. He also mentioned his wife Colette’s Pledge Music drive which will benefit Girls Rock! Chicago.

As always, you can listen to the show here.

(Also, today would have been my parents’ 43rd wedding anniversary. We miss you so much, Mom.)

On this week’s episode, I tell the story of our Hero of the Week, Malcolm Sutherland-Foggio, who founded Make Some Noise to raise funds and awareness for pediatric cancer research after being diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma in his hip in 2008. So far he’s been able to bring in over $1.1 million. Outstanding!

And then Adrian Paul and I regale Adrian’s co-host, Ethan Dettenmaier, with tales of our adventures promoting the Peace Fund last weekend at Fandom Fest in Louisville, Kentucky, where we met celebrities like William Shatner, Jason Momoa, John Barrowman, Eddie McClintock, Jason David Frank, Chandler Riggs, and Gillian Anderson, who is impossibly beautiful in person.

I can only wonder what my 1993 self would have said had he/I known that the Highlander would one day introduce me to Agent Scully.

Gillian was really nice and used my iPhone to browse our Celebs 4 Kids site. I will never clean it.

Shatner asked me in the green room if rumors of fried chicken for lunch were true. (They were not.)

Chandler Riggs, who plays Carl on THE WALKING DEAD, and his father are truly lovely people. Chandler turned down a chance to be a guest at San Diego Comic Con so that he and some friends could put a new roof on a house for a family in need. I told him he should be proud of holding his own against such a seasoned cast.

And Jason Momoa is a massive man. Super nice. Every time he saw me, he’d smile and say hello and greet me with a friendly clap on the shoulder that would have displaced me had I not braced for it. He works with a charity that takes autistic kids surfing.

We hope to have all of them on the show soon! We also spoke to the crew from the Stan Lee Foundation.

Anyway, you can listen to or download this week’s show here!