Welcome to “Ira's Everything Bagel,” featuring Ira David Sternberg talking with intriguing people about their passions, pursuits and points of view.
A new show is posted Thursday. Previous shows are archived. It is also available on all your favorite platforms, including YouTube.
Ira's career includes decades of professional broadcasting as well as public relations, writing and communications. He is an inductee into the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. Ira also is host of "Talk About Las Vegas With Ira", talking with the celebrities, entertainers, writers, and personalities who make Las Vegas the most exciting city in the world!
The wide variety of guests, by category, who have appeared with Ira:
The wide variety of guests, by category, who have appeared with Ira:
ART
Judith Peck (Art and Social Interaction)
AUTHORS
Richard Becker (50 states, a collection of short short stories); Joshua M. Greene (UNSTOPPABLE: From Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend, The biography of Siggi B. Wilzig; Michael S. Green, (Lincoln and Native Americans); Ted Sobel (Touching Greatness); Laura McBrid (We Are Called to Rise and In the Midnight Room);
Ernest Thompson (The Book of Maps: A Novel); David Sax (The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World); Alan Snel (Bicycle Man: Life of Journey); Max Friedman, (Painful Joy: A Holocaust Family Memoir); Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, (Judaism Disrupted: A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century); Rabbi Sanford Akselrad (Love in the Time of Corona); Michael Laser (Eulogy); Brittany Means (Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways: A Memoir); Joachim Reimann, Ph.D. (along with Dolores I. Rodríguez-Reimann, Ph.D.), (Immigrant Concepts: Life Paths to Integration)
BUSINESS
Rob Barnett, (Next Job, Best Job: A Headhunter's 11 Strategies to Get Hired Now); Nada Lena Nasserdeen (Rise Up For You, Closing The Gap Between You and Your Potential); Edward D. Hess (Own Your Work Journey! The Path to Meaningful Work and Happiness in the Age of Smart Technology and Radical Change)
CIVIL RIGHTS
Marilyn Greenwald (Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice); Brandon K. Winford (John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights) Sarah van Loon, Chicago Regional Director for the American Jewish Committee (AJC); William Anderson (The Price of Perfect)
COMMUNICATION
Leo Pearlstein, publicity pioneer, food consultant, author, speaker, and “PR Food King”; Rebecca Weintraub and Steven Lewis (InCredible Communication: Uncover the Invaluable Art of Selling Yourself)
CRIME
Robert Teitelbaum (Frogs and Snails and Mobster Tales and Hiding in Plain Sight; Robert K. Wittman (Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures and The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich); Max Marshall (Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story)
CULINARY
Sonia El-Nawal, chef-owner, Rooster Boy Cafe, Las Vegas;; Richard Pink, owner, Pink’s Hot Dogs, Los Angeles; Michael Politz, publisher, CEO, and founder, Food & Beverage Magazine; “Caviar Queen” Nina Manchev, owner of Caviar Collective and Forte Tapas; Gemma Stafford & Kevin Kurtz, “Bigger Bolder Baking”
EDUCATION
Marta Soligo, postdoctoral research faculty (International Gaming Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas); Joachim Reimann, Ph.D., author (along with Dolores I. Rodríguez-Reimann, Ph.D.) (Immigrant Concepts: Life Paths to Integration); Dr. Kathleen Corley (The Magical Place We Call School, Creating a Safe Space for Learning and Happiness in a Challenging World)
ENTERTAINMENT
Ross Bennett, comedian & stand-up comedy coach; Mark Malkoff, host, “The Carson Podcast”;
Edwin Rojas, president, Rojas Talent Group; Woody Goulard (KHJ Los Angeles: Boss Radio Forever — 1960s Rock and Roll Radio History); Mark Richards, host of “Starcade,” cable television’s first original game show, and a contestant coordinator for “Jeopardy”; Charles Pignone, president of Frank Sinatra Enterprises and Sinatra archivist; Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer, songwriter and actor; Debbie Wileman, a vocalist specializing in Judy Garland and other legendary singers; Worbey and Farrell (Well Strung: Terrific Tales from Two Turns); Beverly Washburn actress, voice-over artist, lecturer (Reel Tears: The Beverly Washburn Story, Take Two); Robert Crane (Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder); legendary comedian Shecky Greene; Mike Morse (Ha Ha History: The First History Book You’ll Want to Read!); Bill Boggs (Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns: As told to Bill Boggs); Fritz Coleman, cohost (with Louise Palanker) of “Media Path Podcast”; Gail Marie, writer, Custom Crossword and Word Search Puzzles; Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling; Shelley Herman (My Peacock Tale: Secrets Of An NBC Page); David and Susan Schwartz (The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A to Z); George Schlatter (Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy [From the Creator of Laugh-In]); Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold (Naked in the Rideshare [Stories of Gross Miscalculations])
FILM
Andrew A. Erish (Vitagraph, America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio); Bernard F. Dick (Engulfed, The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood); Shane Stanley, multi Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author (What You Don't Learn in Film School); Douglass K. Daniel (Anne Bancroft: A Life); Joseph McBride (What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career); George Stevens, Jr. (My Place in the Sun, Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington); Jon Krampner (Ernest Lehman, The Sweet Smell of Success); award-winning documentary film producer and director Yonatan Nir (The Essential Link: The Story of Wilfrid Israel); Paul W. Williams (Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen, and Holy Men, A Memoir); Burt Kearns (Lawrence Tierney, Hollywood’s Real-Life Tough Guy); Raphael Sbarge, director of “Only in Theaters”; Chris Yogerst (The Warner Brothers; Joseph McBride (along with Michael Wilmington) (John Ford)
FINANCE
Cynthia Meyers, owner and founder of Confluence Financial Planning, LLC; Brian Walsh, SoFi Bank’s Manager of Financial Planning and student loan expert; Richard Vague (The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity); Nancy Tengler (The Women’s Guide to Successful Investing: Achieving Financial Security and Realizing Your Goals)
GEAR & GADGETS
Deviant Ollam, physical penetration specialist (breaking into buildings, gated communities, & “impenetrable” server rooms) and host, YouTube channel, “Deviant Ollam”; Jon Gadget, host, YouTube channel,“Jon Gadget, Gear For Life Reviewed”; David C. Andersen, digital marketing manager of knifecenter.com and host of its YouTube Channel
Kimberly Malloy, marriage & family therapist; Amy Ayoub, founder, The Zen Speaker; David Lawrence (Are We Really BioChemical Robots: Sam Harris’ Crusade Against Free Will); Steven Sykes, MD, board-certified neurologist with Cedars-Sinai Medical Group in Santa Monica; Dhaval Desai, M.D. (Burning Out On The Covid Front Lines, a Doctor’s Memoir of Fatherhood, Race and Perseverance in the Pandemic); Maria Baltazzi (Take a Shot at Happiness: How to Write, Direct & Produce the Life You Want); Jeffrey Meshel (Trust Is A Double-Edged Sword:Trust Me)
HISTORY
Dermot Turing (X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken); lan Stavans, editor, (How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish); Colin F. Baxter (The Secret History of RDX, the Super-explosive that helped win World War II); Tyler D. Parry (Jumping The Broom, The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual); Al Olson (A History of the American Renaissance Festival.Where Have all the Hippies gone?); David Prentice, (Unwilling to Quit, The Long Unwinding of American involvement in Vietnam); Charles Scribner III (Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing)
HOME
Dana K. White (Decluttering at the Speed of Life and How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind); Lisa Bronner (Soap and Soul: A Practical Guide to Minding Your Home, Your Body, and Your Spirit with Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps)
LEGAL
Joe Wallenstein, (Flynn & Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent)
MAGIC
Greg Bordner, owner, Abbott’s Magic Company & the 83rd Abbott Magic Get Together (August 4-7); Joshua Jay (How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters); Award-winning magician Fielding West
MEDIA
Steve Herman, senior White House correspondent and subsequently White House bureau chief (2017-2021) for Voice Of America; “Sweet” Dick Whittington, Legendary Southern California air personality
MILITARY
Betsy Rohaly Smoot (Parker Hitt: The Father of American Military Cryptology); Vicki Cody, (Army Wife and Fly Safe)
SCIENCE
Dr. Jason Steffen, associate professor of physics at UNLV, who also was a member of the science team for NASA’s Kepler mission; Asma Tahir, supervisor of the Pollen Monitoring Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in collaboration with the Clark County School Dis-trict; Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors, which conducted a study to determine how prescription prices are being set
TRAVEL
Chris Raney, host, YouTube channel, “Yellow Productions”; Marta Soligo, postdoctoral research faculty (International Gaming Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas); Sarah Murdoch, professional tour guide, travel writer, artist and occasional architect; Rick Steves, America’s most respected authority on European experiences and travel, and host of a new TV series, “Rick Steves Art of Europe”; Gary Bembridge, host, YouTube Channel, “Tips For Travellers”; Grant Sinclair, along with Bonnie Sinclair (USA RV ADVENTURES)
WINE & SPIRITS
Ernie Weir (aka Don Ernesto), owner and operator, Hagafen Cellars; Bryan Paiement (The Little Book of Whiskey Cocktails); Marisa Finetti (Marisa’s Wine Doodles); Alex Gambal (Climbing the Vines in Burgundy: How an American Came to Own a Legendary Vineyard in France); Victor W. Geraci (The War on Wine: Prohibition, Neoprohibition, and American Culture)
