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Steve Cooper talks with actor Stephanie Erb. Stephanie's first break in television was a guest star on the cult favorite, Star Trek: The Next Generation. She owes her film debut to Peter Weir, who cast her in Fearless with Jeff Bridges and Isabella Rossellini. She has had recurring roles on Ray Donovan, The Young and the Restless, True Blood, Weeds, 24, Freaks and Geeks and The Fosters to name a few and has made guest appearances on shows such as Girl Meets World, Bones, NCIS, The Mentalist, Desperate Housewives, Parks and Recreation, Criminal Minds, Monk, Six Feet Under, Grey's Anatomy and Two and a Half Men. Her film appearances include such productions as The Ring, South Dakota, and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.

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Steve Cooper talks with actor Robert Beltran. Robert is best known for his role of Commander Chakotay which he played for 7 seasons on Star Trek: Voyager. He got his acting start in the movie Zoot Suit and since then has been seen in Eating Raoul, Lone Wolf McQuade, Night of the Comet, Bugsy and Nixon to name a few. His TV credits include co-starring in Models Inc., recurring in Big Love and guest starring on numerous shows such as Miami Vice, Murder She Wrote, Midnight Caller, CSI: Miami, Medium and many others.

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Steve Cooper talks with actor Kathe Mazur. Kathe is best known for her role as Deputy DA Hobbs, formerly on The Closer and now appearing in The Closer's spin-off series: Major Crimes. She has also been a series regular on Fox’s Misery Loves Company and has appeared on countless other shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Brothers and Sisters, Alias, Monk , Private Practice, ER, Frasier, Close to Home, Judging Amy and Charmed. As an audiobook narrator she has recorded over 100 titles for Random House Audio, Audible.com, Harper, Blackstone, Tantor, Skyboat, and others. Her recording of the book QUIET: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can't Stop Talking was named a Best Audiobook of 2012 by AudioFile Magazine, and was also named Best Non-Fiction Audiobook of 2012 by Audible.com and her recording of Sharon Sala's Don't Cry For Me was nominated for the Audie Award in the Romance Category for 2012. 

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Steve Cooper talks with comic Carl LaBove. Carl is an original founding member of "The Outlaws of Comedy", His powerful approach to stand up comedy has been filling theaters and clubs for over 30 years. At age nineteen he discovered stand up comedy with the man who would become his best friend, Sam Kinison. Together the two founded a Rock & Roll Comedy concept that would earn Billboard Magazines "Top Tour" honors by selling out theaters across the country for 5 straight years. Skyrocketing to the biggest performance stages in the country as a founding member of "The Outlaws" in the late 80’s, and early 90's, he would establish himself as an unparalleled comedic force during the biggest comedy boom of the last fifty years. Twenty years after The Outlaws, he continues to sellout venues and amaze audiences from coast to coast. His credits that include The Tonight Show, HBO, Showtime, two comedy CD's, a concert DVD for Journey Records and much more.

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Steve Cooper talks with writer/director/comic Mike Young. Mike has written and directed the movies A Stand Up Guy and My Man is a Loser. He is the creator and host of the “Young American Comedy Tour,” an international tour showcasing stand-up comedians. After performing at the Montreal Comedy Festival, Mike developed sitcoms with Warner Bros. and ABC. As a writer, Young has written a one-hour for HBO, the feature film Quad and is currently developing with Anthony Zuiker. Mike has been seen on Last Call with Carson Daly, Live Nude Comedy on Showtime and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

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Steve Cooper talks with writer Ivor Davis. Ivor first came to America in the early sixties and was appointed West Coast correspondent for the 4-million-a-day circulation London Daily Express in l963. His first big assignment came the following year: to hang out, travel with and get to know the four members of a new pop group from Liverpool who were tearing up the world with their music: the Beatles. Over more than four decades as a writer for the Express and the Times of London, he covered major events in North America. He penned a weekly entertainment column for the New York Times Syndicate for over 15 years, interviewing some of the biggest names in show business, from Cary Grant to Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton to Tom Cruise and Muhammad Ali. He also covered Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential bid and was in the Ambassador Hotel the night Kennedy was assassinated and was one of the Boys on the Bus chronicling the life of actor-turned-politician Ronald Reagan, first in his campaign for governor of California, then for president. In l969 he co-wrote Five to Die, the first book ever published about the Sharon Tate murders. (The book was updated in 2011.)  As a foreign correspondent, he traveled throughout the western hemisphere covering riots, floods, earthquakes and politics. As Editor at Large for Los Angeles Magazine. he and his late wife Sally Ogle Davis wrote over 100 major magazine and cover stories and has reported on four World Soccer Cups for CBS radio.

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Steve Cooper talks with writer/host Phil Rosenthal. Phil is best known for being creator, writer and executive producer for Everybody Loves Raymond which he won 2 Emmys for. He also has written for the shows such as Coach, Baby Talk and The Man in the Family. He recently directed the documentary Exporting Raymond and is the host of the PBS series about food and travel titled I'll Have What Phil's Having.  

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Steve Cooper talks with actor Vanessa Cloke. Vanessa recently appeared in the Oscar nominated movie The Big Short. She has also guest starred on various TV series such as Treme, NCIS: New Orleans, Satisfaction, Wild Card, The Walking Dead, Powers and American Horror Story and was a series regular on USA's Common Law and can be seen in the soon to be released horror movie Mind Puppets.

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Steve Cooper talks with comic/actor Brian Scolaro. Brian is most known for his appearances on Conan, his half hour Comedy Central special Comedy Central Presents: Brian Scolaro, as Doug on Sullivan and Son, and as Stuart on FOX’s Stacked. He has had recurring roles on Kroll Show, Life and Times of Tim, Wizards of Waverly Place and has had guest roles on such shows as Bones, Dexter, Mad Men, Grey's Anatomy, Harry's Law, Men of a Certain Age, The Middle and many other programs and films. He has also done stand up on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Gotham Comedy Live and Comics Unleashed.

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