# Susan Silver (Mary Tyler Moore / Bob Newhart shows, author Hot Pants in Hollywood) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/susan-silver-mary-tyler-moore-bob-newhart-shows-author-hot-pants-in-hollywood Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/susan-silver-mary-tyler-moore-bob-newhart-shows-author-hot-pants-in-hollywood.md Podcast: [Ian Talks Comedy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290) Published: 2026-06-06T13:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-fermaglich/episodes/Susan-Silver-Mary-Tyler-Moore--Bob-Newhart-shows--author-Hot-Pants-in-Hollywood-e3k53s7 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/21d579e4/podcast/play/120802631/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-31%2F1563f89a-5348-8877-3842-e998cf771a00.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ian-talks-comedy-140290/episodes/susan-silver-mary-tyler-moore-bob-newhart-shows-author-hot-pants-in-hollywood Duration seconds: 2433 ## Resource Susan Silver joined me to discuss being a Sagittarius; watching Your Show of Shows; being born in Milwaukee and moving to Whitefish Bay; being rocked by her mother; Northwestern; UCLA with professor Francis Ford Coppola; working on Laugh In; writing for Love, American Style and Room 222; writing the Mary Tyler Moore episodes "A Friend in Need" & "Room 223"; writing the pilot to Maude; wearing hot pants and being in a TV guide article; The Couple Takes a Wife and similar Seinfeld episode; Bob Newhart show; her favorite TV movie that didn't go; her political affair; helping Bill Clinton; offered a job writing for NASA; working for the ADL; my grandmothers WWII story; being a UN observer for the Simon Wiesenthal Center; Bob Woodruff a funny person; Square Pegs; saying she's in the age bracket 50 to dead; dating past 50; no longer dyeing her hair; choking stories; Dr. Heimlich & Anson Williams; her "adopted" grandchildren; working with the FIDF; future of Israel; antisemitism; Hitlers Ascent and Trump; being afraid to walk in NYC with the Star of David; NY vs. LA; Donald Trump; Buddy Hackett vs. Don Rickles; her parents ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ian-talks-comedy-140290/episodes/susan-silver-mary-tyler-moore-bob-newhart-shows-author-hot-pants-in-hollywood/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/susan-silver-mary-tyler-moore-bob-newhart-shows-author-hot-pants-in-hollywood.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.