By Aron Bender
The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.
Aron Bender talks with Kacey Montoya, a reporter and weathercaster at KTLA in Los Angeles. She joined the station in 2013 after working in Oregon, Palm Springs and West Virginia. The Orange County native spent her childhood in Dallas but returned to LA to go to Cal State Northridge for her broadcast journalism degree. Kacey uses her platform to help dogs with her Fix' n Fidos Non-Profit Spay/Neuter program. She's won awards for her reporting on the Pawsitive Change inmate/canine program. And what's a conversation with Liberté Chan's best friend without some yoga talk!
https://twitter.com/kaceymontoya
https://www.instagram.com/kaceymontoya/
https://www.facebook.com/kaceymontoyaTV/
https://www.fixnfidos.com
https://www.instagram.com/pawsitivechangeprogram/
https://www.facebook.com/pawsitivechangeprogram/
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Aron Bender talks with Ralph Garman, the actor, comedian and impressionist who hosts The Ralph Report Podcast, co-hosts the Hollywood Babble-On Podcast with Kevin Smith, was on Kevin & Bean on KROQ for nearly 20 years, hosted The Joe Schmo Show, and has a bunch of movie and TV credits -- including all kinds of voices on Family Guy. Ralph's originally from Philadelphia, and way back when drove to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. He eventually fell into radio, and his fill-in gig with Kevin and Bean lasted 18 years. We cover his love for all things Batman (especially the original, Adam West), balancing work and family, how he and his wife dealt with the loss of one of their prematurely born twins, being thrust into 9/11 coverage, why he doesn't turn down any requests for impressions (his Arnold Schwarzenegger is legendary!), and how podcasting saved his life.
Subscribe to The Ralph Report Podcast
https://theralphreport.com
The Hollywood Babble-On Podcast with Ralph Garman & Kevin Smith
https://www.smodcast.com/channel/hollywoodbabbleon
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https://www.instagram.com/ralphgarman/
https://twitter.com/ralphgarman
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Aron Bender talks with Fritz Coleman, who does weather at NBC4 in Los Angeles. He joined Channel 4 in 1982 after being discovered while doing stand-up comedy. Fritz grew up in the Philadelphia area, went to Temple University in Phillie and Salem College in West Virginia, studying radio, TV and film. He used that education while in the US Navy. During his FM DJ days in Buffalo he tried comedy at an open mic night, and was hooked! A little while later Fritz picked up and drove out to Los Angeles to pursue his stand-up career, and ended up doing the weather on Channel 4 for nearly 40 years! His popularity exploded in the 1980's during NBC4's marketing campaign for his forecasts, "Fritz said it would be like this!" But he didn't forget about comedy. He was on The Tonight Show several times, still performs on stage, and is doing a one-man show "Defying Gravity" October 13th at Garry Marshall Theatre to raise money for The Toluca Lake Chamber of Commerce and the nonprofit Garry Marshall Theatre. Yes, Fritz is just as nice as you'd think he is! It was such an honor to talk with THE Fritz Coleman!
Tickets for Fritz Coleman LIVE Sunday October 13th at Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake https://www.garrymarshalltheatre.org/fritz
https://www.facebook.com/FritzNBCLA/
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Aron Bender talks with Josh Mankiewicz, a correspondent with Dateline NBC, covering stories for the news magazine since 1995. He was born in California but spent a lot of his childhood in Peru and Washington, DC, and saw his father, Kennedy Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz, announce the death of Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968. Josh started as an intern with ABC News, worked local news in DC before rejoining ABC News as a correspondent in 1982, hooked up with WCBS-TV in New York City, moved to Los Angeles to work at the relatively new KCAL 9 News, and before joining Dateline NBC spent a minute reporting for the short-lived "Front Page" news magazine on the upstart Fox network. The Mankiewicz family is well known in the entertainment industry but Josh explains why he was never interested in the family business. We talk about how ABC News wasted their money sending him to a world-renowned voice coach. Let Josh be Josh, people! We talk about how all that traveling he did all those decades as a correspondent finally paid off when he met his wife ... at the airport! And we get into what makes a good Dateline NBC story, plus why he's so snarky on Twitter. Enjoy!
https://twitter.com/joshmankiewicz
https://www.facebook.com/JoshMankiewicz
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline
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Aron Bender talks with Todd Leitz, who's originally from the Boston area but he's lived in Los Angeles long enough I'm just going to call him a native. The UC San Diego graduate is the public address announcer at Dodger Stadium. Prior to starting that gig in 2015 the man with the beautiful beard narrowly missed becoming the San Diego Padres PA announcer at Petco Park, he was an EMT (is still certified), press deputy with LA City Councilman Tom LaBonge, spent 10 years as a reporter and anchor at KNX 1070 NewsRadio in Los Angeles, has done voiceover work, acting, a bit at KABC and a little time at the now defunct KFWB News 98. Don't forget his awesome band CORE (he plays harmonica and sings) and the Deadtime Stories podcast! Enjoy!
https://www.instagram.com/toddleitz/
https://twitter.com/TODD_LEITZ
CORE
https://corejams.com/home
Deadtime Stories podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deadtime-stories/id1467413919
MySafe:LA Fire and Life Safety Education
http://www.mysafela.org/
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Aron Bender talks with Ana Kasparian, who has co-hosted the news and commentary program "The Young Turks" since 2012. She joined TYT as a two-week producer in 2007, and basically refused to leave. We have a couple things in common: we graduated from Cal State Northridge with a Bachelor's in journalism (she in 2007, I in 2001) and have returned to teach at CSUN. And we also worked at KNX news radio in Los Angeles. I was a weekend writer there during college, and Ana was a producer right out of university. Ana went on to earn her Master's degree in political science. We talk about developing her rebel streak at a young age, how in high school she would beat college kids in debate, how Barbara Walters inspired her to get into journalism, how the Armenian Genocide affected her family, and why she eloped!
https://twitter.com/anakasparian
https://www.instagram.com/anakasparianofficial/
http://www.anakasparian.com/
https://tyt.com/
https://www.youtube.com/theyoungturks
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Aron Bender talks with Liberté Chan, a meteorologist and reporter at KTLA. She can be seen every weekend morning on the KTLA Weekend Morning News. Liberté was born and raised in Los Angeles, attended Marlborough School for girls, University of Massachusetts Amherst for her Bachelor's Degree, UCLA for a broadcast journalism ceritifcate, and USC for her Master's in Public Health. Her first job in media was as a news writer at KTLA, working her way up to writing for the legend, Hal Fishman. She got a reel together to get a general assignment reporting gig in Santa Maria, then moved to Palm Springs to anchor at KMIR, and back to KTLA to try to find her on-air self. Liberté started as a web producer but used unexpected opportunities to do the weather to push her to get her meteorology degree from Mississippi State University. In addition to her winding path back to Los Angeles we cover her early days as a competitive figure skater, her parents' divorce, dealing with depression in and after college, her discovery and practice of yoga, and how she coped with the deaths of her dog, Shanti, and one of her best friends at KTLA, news anchor Chris Burrous. And we can't forget her recent Alice in Wonderland birthday party! Namaste, friends!
https://lifeofliberte.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LiberteChan/
https://www.instagram.com/libertechan/
https://twitter.com/libertechan
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Aron Bender talks with "The Career Stories Podcast" host Natalie Brunell, who's also a SoCal-based freelance correspondent who most recently contributed to ABC News. Her story is fascinating! She was just five-years-old when her family moved from Poland to Chicago. She talks about how watching the news helped her parents learn English, and inspired her to become a journalist. Natalie's super ambitious. She attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, and helped create the Italian major! And if a double major in journalism and Italian wasn't enough, Natalie got her masters degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern. After a fellowship at CNN, she worked at KESQ in Palm Springs, KCRA in Sacramento, then joined ABC News as a national correspondent based in Los Angeles. She's also an adjunct professor at USC's Annenberg School. And I pry out of Natalie one of the funniest dating stories ever! Enjoy this fun, insightful, inspiring episode!
The Career Stories Podcast with Natalie Brunell
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/career-stories/id1451439126
https://twitter.com/natbrunell
https://www.instagram.com/nataliebrunell/
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Aron Bender talks with Kat Timpf, who's more than just a Fox News contributor. She's also a stand-up comedian, host of the new show "Sincerely, Kat" on Fox Nation, co-host of The Tyrus and Timpf Podcast, and reporter for National Review. The Detroit native went to Hillsdale College, then interned at KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles, Fox News Channel and other media outlets. We talk about her experience with rats, working at Boston Market, how she deals with haters, and why she spent part of her 30th birthday in a coffin!
https://www.instagram.com/kattimpf/
https://twitter.com/kattimpf/
"Sincerely, Kat" on Fox Nation
https://try.nation.foxnews.com/sincerely-kat/
The Tyrus and Timpf Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tyrus-and-timpf-podcast/id1444681091
Katherine Timpf for National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/author/katherine-timpf/
https://www.katherinetimpf.com/
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Aron Bender talks with George Pennacchio, who's been ABC7's Entertainment Reporter since 1996. He was born in Chicago, family lived in SoCal for a while, then he spent his high school years back in Illinois. George had an opportunity to go to USC but turned it down to go to tiny Albion College in Michigan. He interned at a TV station in Chicago, then produced news in Monterey and San Diego, California. It was during his stint in San Diego he became the station's first entertainment reporter as the shop tried out this new "morning show" experiment. Next thing George knows, ABC7 in Los Angeles called, looking for an entertainment reporter of their own! We talk about family life, red carpet vs. junket interviews, how the business has changed in the last 30 years, why he's not to be trusted to hang a picture in his own house, and ... the story behind all those vests he wears! (Hint: his wife is an amazing fashion designer.)
https://www.facebook.com/ABC7George/
https://twitter.com/abc7george
https://www.instagram.com/abc7george/
https://abc7.com/about/newsteam/george-pennacchio/
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The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.