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CooperTalk

994 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings

Straight out of Philly! Entertainer Steve Cooper is ”Only as hip as his guests”. He hosts Comedians, Actors, Writers and Musicians and spends an hour with them for some organic chat about the biz!

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Mick Mars from Motley Crue - Episode 1,000

March 25, 2024 20:58 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MB

Mick Mars is the lead guitarist and one of the co-founders of Motley Crue. Over the course of their career, they have toured the world, packed stadiums and sold over 25 million albums in the US and 100 million around the globe. Mick retired from the band two years ago and recently released his first solo album, The Other Side of Mars, to rave reviews. 

Tom Bailey from Thompson Twins - Episode 999

March 19, 2024 23:08 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

Tom Bailey is one of the founding members of Thompson Twins. They were an iconic 80s band who played Live Aid and were known for their hits Lies, Love on Your Side, We Are Detective, Watching, Hold Me Now, Doctor! Doctor!, You Take Me Up, Sisters of Mercy, The Gap, Lay Your Hands on Me, King for a Day, Revolution, and Nothing in Common. 

Terry Serpico from Law & Order: SVU, Army Wives, Cobra Kai - Episode 998

March 11, 2024 14:32 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

Terry Serpico is best known for his roles as Chief Tommy McGrath in Law & Order: SVU, Captain Turner in Cobra Kai, Bill Briscoe in The Flight Attendant, Patrick Lloyd in Designated Survivor and Frank Sherwood in Army Wives. She has also recurred, been a guest star in series such as Person of Interest, The Carrie Diaries, Criminal Minds, Sneaky Pete, The Good Fight, Yellowstone, The Equalizer, The Mosquito Coast, Hightown and many more.

Guthrie Govan from The Aristocrats - Episode 997

March 04, 2024 12:55 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB

Guthrie Govan is an English guitarist and guitar teacher, known for his work with the bands The Aristocrats, Asia, GPS, The Young Punx, and the Fellowship, as well as his solo project Erotic Cakes. More recently, he has collaborated with Steven Wilson and Hans Zimmer. He is a noted guitar teacher, working with the UK magazine Guitar Techniques, Guildford's Academy of Contemporary Music, Lick Library, and formerly the Brighton Institute of Modern Music.  He was named "Guitarist of the Year" b...

Dunstan Bruce from Chumbawamba - Episode 996

February 27, 2024 14:22 - 1 hour - 58.8 MB

Dunstan is a British musician and filmmaker who is perhaps best known for his work with Leeds based anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba of which he was a founding member.  At the beginning of 1982, he joined Chumbawamba and was the lead singer of the band's biggest hit single, Tubthumping. (It peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100.) He left the band at the end of 2004. He is the lead singer of Interrobang?!, an agitprop post-punk band he formed in 2012 with ex-Chumbawamba drummer Harry ...

Joe Bonamassa - Episode 995

February 18, 2024 22:16 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB

Joe Bonamassa is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He started his career at age twelve, when he opened for B.B. King. Since 2000, Bonamassa has released fifteen solo albums through his independent record label J&R Adventures, of which eleven have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Blues chart. He has played alongside many notable blues and rock artists and has earned three Grammy Awards nominations. Among guitarists, he is known for his extensive collection of vintage guit...

Artimus Pyle from Lynyrd Skynyrd - Episode 994

February 11, 2024 19:12 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB

Artimus Pyle played drums with the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1974 to 1977 and from 1987 to 1991. He was on the records Nuthin' Fancy, Gimme Back My Bullets, Street Survivors and Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991. He and his bandmates were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. He now heads up the Artimus Pyle Band who just released the album Anthems: Honoring the Music of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Al Sapienza from The Sopranos and Reacher - Episode 993

February 05, 2024 21:44 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

Al Sapienza is best known for playing Mikey Palmice in The Sopranos, Philly Falzone in Prison Break, Frank Panzarella in Brotherhood, Marty Spinella in House of Cards, Detective Raymond Terney in Person of Interest, and Marsh in Reacher. He has appeared in countless TV shows and movies such as NCIS, Big Geroge Foreman, Minx, Gravesend, Dopesick, The Good Fight, Queen of the South, S.W.A.T., 24, Suits, The Blacklist, Supernatural, Bates Motel, Elementary, Law & Order, and many more.    

Malcolm Goodwin from Reacher and iZombie - Episode 992

January 30, 2024 14:35 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB

Malcolm Goodwin is best known for his roles of Oscar Finley in Reacher, Young Dupin in The Fall of the House of Usher, Clive Babineaux in iZombie and Shea Daniels in Breakout Kings. He has also been seen in various TV shows and movies such as American Gangster, Leatherheads, The Longshots, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Bones, House of Cards, and FBI.

Adam Baldwin from Full Metal Jacket, Firefly, etc. - Episode 991

January 23, 2024 17:28 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MB

Adam Baldwin made his film debut in My Bodyguard and is best known for his roles as Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket, Jayne Cobb and in the television series Firefly and its continuation film Serenity, John Casey in Chuck, and Mike Slattery in The Last Ship. Other movie and TV credits include D.C Cab, The Patriot, Ordinary People, Next of Kin, The X-Files, Angel, Day Break, Castle, 9-1-1: Lone Star and many, many others.

Actress Anne-Marie Johnson - Episode 990

January 16, 2024 18:18 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

Anne- Marie Johnson is best known for her roles as Nadine Hudson–Thomas in What's Happening Now!!, Althea Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night, and her recurring role as fashion designer Donna Cabonna on That's So Raven during its final season. She also was a cast member of the FOX sketch comedy television series In Living Color and has had recurring or regular roles in Melrose Place, JAG, Girlfriends and The InBetween plus c0-starring in the cult-classic movies, Hollywood Shuffle and I'm Gonna...

Billy Crain from Henry Paul Band & The Outlaws - Episode 989

January 09, 2024 15:48 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MB

Billy Crain was an important member of the Henry Paul Band from 1978 until 1982, collaborating on songwriting, and being the featured lead guitarist. In 2008 Crain would hook up again with Henry Paul, but this time in the reformed Outlaws. He has been a staple performer in the Southern rock scene since the early 1970s. He has performed with various artists including The Allman Brothers Band, The Rossington-Collins Band, The Rolling Stones and ZZ Top. In the late 1980s he pursued songwriting ...

Nick Bakay - co-creator of HBO Max’s Bookie - Episode 988

January 02, 2024 20:56 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB

Nick Bakay either acted in, or wrote for, some of the most popular shows of the 1990s and 2000s, including "The King of Queens" (CBS 1998-2007), "That 70s Show" (Fox 1998-2006), and "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (ABC 1996-2003). His first big break came in the late 1980s when he became a contributing editor for National Lampoon, which led to TV writing gigs on shows like "In Living Color" (Fox 1990-94) and the short-lived "The Dennis Miller Show" (Syndicated 1992). By the late '90s and early ...

Steven Bauer from Scarface, Ray Donovan, Breaking Bad...Part 2 - Episode 987

December 26, 2023 18:51 - 1 hour - 89.6 MB

Steven Bauer is best known for his roles as Manolo "Manny" Ribera in Scarface, Avi Rudin in Ray Donovan and Don Eladio in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. He has also starred, co-starred and guest starred in countless movies and TV shows including Thief of Hearts, Traffic, Primal Fear, The Blacklist, S.W.A.T., NCIS, Supergirl, Queen of the South, Blue Bloods, Hawaii Five-0, Raising Cain and many more.

Steven Bauer from Scarface, Ray Donovan, Breaking Bad...Part 1 - Episode 986

December 18, 2023 20:24 - 1 hour - 67.1 MB

Steven Bauer is best known for his roles as Manolo "Manny" Ribera in Scarface, Avi Rudin in Ray Donovan and Don Eladio in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. He has also starred, co-starred and guest starred in countless movies and TV shows including Thief of Hearts, Traffic, Primal Fear, The Blacklist, S.W.A.T., NCIS, Supergirl, Queen of the South, Blue Bloods, Hawaii Five-0, Raising Cain and many more.

Michael Boatman from Spin City, Arliss, The Good Fight...- Episode 985

December 13, 2023 21:49 - 1 hour - 93.3 MB

Michael Boatman is known for his roles as New York City mayoral aide Carter Heywood in the ABC sitcom Spin City, as Samuel Beckett in the ABC drama series China Beach, as 101st Airborne soldier Motown in the Vietnam War movie Hamburger Hill and as sports agent Stanley Babson in the HBO sitcom Arli$$. He also starred in The Good Fight, the Paramount+ spinoff of The Good Wife, Instant Mom, and The Jackie Thomas Show as well as guest-starring on Law & Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, Ghosts, Madame ...

Greg Grunberg - Episode 984

December 06, 2023 21:45 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB

Greg Grunberg is an American film and television actor known for starring as Eric Weiss in the ABC series Alias, Matt Parkman in the NBC series Heroes, Sean Blumberg in Felicity, Temmin "Snap" Wexley in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and Phil in A Star Is Born. He is also an epilepsy advocate and hosts the podcast Talk About it that helps bring the epilepsy community together.

Don Dokken - Episode 983

November 30, 2023 01:09 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB

Don Dokken is best known as the lead singer and founder of glam metal band Dokken. He is known for his vibrato-laden, melodic vocal style which has made him an influential figure in American heavy metal/glam metal. Dokken formed in Los Angeles in 1978. It split up in 1989 and reformed four years later. The band had several hit singles which charted on the Billboard Hot 100, such as "Alone Again", "In My Dreams", and "Burning Like a Flame", and have sold more than 10 million albums worldwide.

Lex Medlin from ”CSI: Vegas” - Episode 982

November 22, 2023 17:48 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB

Lex Medlin is best known for his characters Beau Finado from CSI: Vegas, Owen French in Drop Dead Diva, and Detective Andy Williams in Southland. He has also guest starred on countless shows such as Supernatural, Monk, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Hot in Cleveland, Castle, The Mentalist, Modern Family, Criminal Minds, Shameless, Mayans M.C. as well as over 100 national commercials.    

Roger Earl from Foghat - Episode 981

November 19, 2023 15:08 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB

Roger Earl is an English drummer best known as a member of the rock band Foghat. A founding member, along with guitarist and vocalist "Lonesome" Dave Peverett, guitarist Rod Price, and bassist Tony Stevens, Earl is the only member to feature in every lineup of the band. Foghat rose to superstardom in the 70's with hits like Slow Ride, I Just Want to Make Love to You, and Fool for the City. They've recorded over 15 studio albums, and their 1977 release, Foghat Live went double platinum.  

Randy Jackson from Zebra - Episode 980

November 13, 2023 23:41 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB

Randy is best known as the frontman for the rock band Zebra. Zebra has recorded four studio albums and had hits with the singles "Who's Behind the Door" and "Tell Me What You Want". (Which both had popular videos on MTV. The band still tours, and Randy also does solo shows and productions with an orchestra behind him playing classic rock songs.

Jesse Colin Young - Episode 979

November 08, 2023 21:10 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB

Jesse Colin Young is an American singer and songwriter. He was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the Youngbloods. After their dissolution in 1972, Young embarked on a solo career, releasing a series of albums through Warner Bros. Records, including Song for Juli (1973), Light Shine (1974), Songbird (1975) and the live album On the Road (1976). Young continued to release music in the 1980s with Elektra Records and Cypress Records before deciding to release music through his...

Greg Hawkes from The Cars - Episode 978

October 31, 2023 16:54 - 1 hour - 58 MB

Grego Hawkes is an American musician and member of the Rock & Roll HOF for being the keyboardist and founding member of the American new wave band The Cars. He is credited with helping popularize new wave and synth-pop in American popular music. The Cars have sold over 23 million in the United States and had 13 singles that reached the Top 40. They also played both Live Aid and the US Festival.

Princess Goes - Episode 977

October 26, 2023 15:29 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB

Princess Goes is the buzzy band led by the charismatic showmanship and signature voice of vocalist, lyricist, musician and actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under, Lazarus) alongside keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen (Blondie, Cyndie Lauper) and drummer Peter Yanowitz (The Wallflowers, Morningwood). They released their latest album, Come of Age, earlier this month and embarked on a European tour and have a tour of the US coming up.

Maddie Corman - Episode 976

October 16, 2023 21:01 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB

Award winning actress Maddie Corman had been working professionally since she was a teenager, appearing in "after school specials" and such classic 80s teen fodder as Seven Minutes in Heaven and John Hughes' Some Kind of Wonderful. She was also series regular on Mr. President starring George C Scott, All American Girl and Almost There and had a recurring role on Madame Secretary, Divorce, Younger and Bull. Some of her other work includes guest starring on TV shows or co-starring in feature f...

Courtney Taylor-Taylor from The Dandy Warhols - Episode 975

October 06, 2023 23:52 - 1 hour - 65.4 MB

Courtney Taylor-Taylor, is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. He is the lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols, a band he co-founded. He has written the majority of the band's songs. The Dandy Warhols The band gained recognition after they were signed to Capitol Records and released their major label album debut, ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down in 1997. In 2001, the band rose to new levels of fame after their song Bohemian Like You enjoyed exten...

Jesse James Dupree from Jackyl - Episode 974

September 26, 2023 18:33 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MB

Jesse James Dupree has spent the last four decades placing his personal vision in to forward motion, achieving success with the majority of endeavors he's chosen to commit his energies to. It all began back in 1992 with the platinum release of his debut JACKYL album (Geffen). Successful album releases followed both with the band and solo. In 2009, the first season of "Full Throttle Saloon" was broadcast on TruTV, featuring Dupree and partner Michael Ballard. Following a fire in September, 20...

John Fugelsang - Episode 973

September 13, 2023 05:29 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB

He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121.   He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal’s ‘Just for Laughs’ Festival, HBO’s U.S Comedy Arts Festi...

Musical Youth - Episode 972

September 06, 2023 13:05 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB

Musical Youth are a British reggae band formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England. They are best remembered for their 1982 single "Pass the Dutchie", which was a number 1 in multiple charts around the world. Their other hits include Youth of Today Never Gonna Give You Up, and Unconditional Love, a collaboration with Donna Summer.  Musical Youth recorded two albums and earned a Grammy Award nomination before disbanding in 1985 after a series of personal problems. The band returned in 2001 as a du...

Right Said Fred - Episode 971

August 24, 2023 00:11 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB

Right Said Fred is made up of the Fairbrass brothers. (Richard and Fred.) They are best known for their smash hit, I'm Too Sexy, which spent 6 weeks at the No. 2 spot in the UK charts and 4 months is the UK top 10. On the US Billboard Charts it was 1 for 3 weeks and hit the top of the charts internationally in 32 countries. They have achieved 25 million sales worldwide and have won two Ivor Novello Awards and one BMI Award. They have released nine albums, shared stages with big names all ove...

Bill Wadhams - Episode 970

August 15, 2023 01:01 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

Bill Wadhams is best known as one of the lead singers and guitarist for the band Animotion. They had a top ten hit with Obsession and also found success with the singles Let Him Go, I Engineer and Room to Move. Bill left the band the band in 1987 but reformed it in 2001 and they still tour. Bill also plays gig around Portland and has been working on a one-man show titled Up In The Air - A Musical Memoir.

Ian Buchanan - Episode 969

August 03, 2023 15:39 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MB

Ian Buchanan is known for his roles as Dr. James Warwick in The Bold and the Beautiful, Duke Lavery in General Hospital, Dick Tremayne in Twin Peaks, Dr. Greg Madden in All My Children, Ian McAllister in Days of Our Lives and Ian McFyfer in It's Garry Shandling's Show. He has also appeared in various other TV shows and movies such as The Nanny, NYPD Blue, Quantum Leap, Port Charles, Panic Room, Alias, and Nip/Tuck.

Vini ”Mad Dog” Lopez from The E Street Band - Episode 968

July 26, 2023 20:26 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB

Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez in a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame from his time playing drums with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. He appeared on the albums Greetings from Asbury Park. N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. After leaving The Boss, he has played in numerous Jersey Shore and Florida bands including the Wonderful Winos and the Hula Hula Boys.  

Thaao Penghlis - Episode 967

July 22, 2023 15:51 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MB

Thaao is best known for his dual role as Tony DiMera and Andre DiMera on Days of Our Lives. He also appeared on Santa Barbara, and General Hospital where he played Victor Cassadine. He has also appeared on many major crime shows such as Kojak, Cannon, Hart to Hart, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe and Magnum P.I. plus he starred in the late 80's remake of Mission Impossible. An accomplished stage actor and master storyteller he has released book two books and his podcast, The Lost Treasures, will deb...

Shannon DeVido - Episode 966

July 12, 2023 16:07 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB

Shannon DeVido has recently been seen co-starring in Lucky Hank that stars Bob Oedenkirk and High Desert which stars Patricia Arquette. Other credits include Manifest, Insatiable, Difficult People, Law & Order: Special Victims, Best Summer Ever and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

Kevin Rowland from Dexys Midnight Runners - Episode 965

July 06, 2023 12:29 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

Kevin Rowland is the lead singer for Dexys Midnight Runners. (Now called Dexys.) They are an English pop rock band from Birmingham, with soul influences, who achieved major commercial success in the early to mid-1980s. They are best known in the UK for their songs Come on Eileen and Geno, both of which peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as six other top-20 singles. Come On Eileen also topped the US Billboard Hot 100, and with extensive airplay on MTV they are associated with th...

Elie Honig - Episode 964

June 21, 2023 21:19 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB

Elie Honig joined CNN as a legal analyst in 2018 and is the best-selling author of two books, Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department and the latest, Untouchable: How Powerful  People Get Away with It, as well as the host of the podcast, Up Against the Mob. He has also worked for the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, specializing in prosecuting members of the mafia and he  rose to Deputy Chief of the Organized Cri...

David Sancious from The E Street Band - Episode 963

June 14, 2023 21:10 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MB

Long regarded as one of the premier musicians in the world, David Sancious was an original member of Bruce Springsteen 's E Street Band, toured and recorded with Peter Gabriel, Sting, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Santana, Seal and a long list of A-level musicians. He also created groundbreaking music with his band Tone. He is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and as a solo artist he has released ten albums.

Tommy Stinson - Episode 962

June 12, 2023 19:30 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MB

Tommy Stinson's group Cowboys in the Campfire recently released the album Wronger. He is the former bassist of The Replacements and Guns N' Roses (1998-2014) and has had a solo career and been in Soul Asylum, Perfect and Bash & Pop.

Liz Vassey - Episode 961

June 02, 2023 20:28 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB

Liz Vassey is best known for her roles as Emily Ann Sago on All My Children, Captain Liberty in The Tick, Wendy Simms in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Nikki in the Web series Nikki & Nora. She has been a regular or recurring character in many other series including Maximum Bob, Brotherly Love, Necessary Roughness and Two and a Half Men. She has also guest starred or co-starred in many other shows such as Castle, Dharma & Greg, Dawson's Creek and Early Edition. Lately she has been writin...

George Lynch - Episode 960

May 26, 2023 14:26 - 1 hour - 66.2 MB

George Lynch is a guitarist, best known for his work with the hard rock band Dokken and his post-Dokken solo band Lynch Mob. He is considered one of the most famous and influential 1980s metal guitarists and is known for his unique playing style and sound. He is ranked No. 47 on "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" by Guitar World magazine and No. 10 on "Top 10 Metal Guitarists of All Time" by Gibson.

Mike Peters - Episode 959

May 17, 2023 00:15 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MB

Mike Peters returns to CooperTalk.  Mike is best known for being the lead singer for The Alarm. Since 1981The Alarm that has had 17 Top 50 UK singles, a host of successful albums and over 6 million album sales worldwide. Following an initial breakthrough in the USA with 1983's The Stand along with Sixty Eight Guns that entered into the UK chart soon after, The Alarm headlined their own Spirit of '86 Concert before 26,000 fans in Los Angeles, that was beamed around the world via MTV's first e...

Daniel Ash - Episode 958

May 11, 2023 15:55 - 50 minutes - 46 MB

As a founding member of the ground breaking Bauhaus, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Ash has distinguished himself in the world of contemporary music. He later went on to form Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets. Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978. Known for their dark image and gloomy sound, they are one of the pioneers of gothic rock, although they mixed many genres, including dub, glam rock, psychedelia, and funk. Love and Rockets were formed in 1985 by former Bau...

Jeff Pilson - Episode 957

May 08, 2023 13:26 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB

Jeff is currently the bassist for Foreigner. He joined the band in 2004. He was also a member of melodic metal bands Dokken, Dio and MSG. Additionally, he played in the band Wild Horses which also featured drummer James Kottack (Scorpions, Kingdom Come), guitarist Rick Steier (Kingdom Come, Warrant), and singer John Levesque. He formed his own progressive metal group called War and Peace in 1989, handling all of the vocals, along with his instrumental work. He has also acted, having appeared...

Craig Bierko - Episode 956

May 02, 2023 21:20 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB

Actor Craig Bierko’s film roles include Timothy in the 1996 action film The Long Kiss Goodnight which he credits for being cast in darkly humorous roles such as Max Baer in Cinderella Man opposite Russell Crowe, Tom Ryan in Scary Movie 4 (spoofing Tom Cruise throughout the film), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Thirteenth Floor. In 2000 Bierko made his Broadway debut as Professor Harold Hill in Susan Stroman's critically acclaimed revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. He play...

Michael Lehmann - Episode 955

April 24, 2023 13:32 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MB

Michael Lehmann is probably most noted for directing the black comedy Heathers. He also directed 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Hudson Hawk, Meet the Applegates, Airheads and Because I Said So. He also directs for television and has worked on the short-lived HBO comedy series The Comeback and NBC's The West Wing. He has guest directed on The Larry Sanders Show, Watching Ellie and Century City. Other credits include Big Love, True Blood, Californication, Snowfall, The Wom...

Nik Kershaw - Episode 954

April 16, 2023 15:29 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

Nik Kershaw exploded onto the UK pop scene in 1984 as a solo artist. A string of global hit singles – including ‘Wouldn’t it Be Good’, ‘The Riddle’ and his biggest hit, ‘I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ – helped to propel him to 62 weeks on the UK Singles Chart through 1984 and 1985 – beating every other solo artist, together with performing at Live Aid. After stepping out of the limelight to concentrate on writing and producing, Nik wrote Chesney Hawkes’s ‘The One and Only’ and has collab...

Brian Thompson - Episode 953

April 10, 2023 15:26 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB

Brian Thompson played the villainous Night Slasher in the 1986 film Cobra. His first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988. Thompson has played several characters in the Star Trek franchise—the most notable being the Klingon Lieutenant Klag in which he informed Riker that “Gagh is always best when served live”, the Alien Bounty Hunter on The X-Files and Eddie Fiori on Kindred: The Embraced. In 2014, he produced, wrote and s...

Joe Genaro - Episode 952

April 03, 2023 23:18 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB

Joe Genaro is a musician and songwriter, best known for the punk rock group The Dead Milkmen. The Dead Milkmen formed in 1983, evolving out of a home-recording project with a mythological back story that Genaro had begun in 1979. The members of the group regularly employed pseudonyms, and Genaro most frequently called himself "Joe Jack Talcum" (stemming from the character of Jack Talcum that Genaro had imagined as the leader of the band in their mythology) in the context of the group, althou...

Vincent Pastore - Episode 951

March 27, 2023 21:15 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MB

Vincent Pastore is best known for his portrayal of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on the HBO series The Sopranos. Other credits include Goodfellas, State of Grace, Awakenings, Carlito's Way, The Jerky Boys, Law & Order, Bull, Gotti, The Practice, Pair of Kings, Hawaii Five-0, Wu-Tang: An American Saga and Gravesend. He also has been on Broadway in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway and has directed stage productions.