Now I've Heard Everything

Lani Guinier

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1993, the term "woke" had not been invented yet. But a prominent law professor nominated for a high position in the US government Saw her...

Jill Conner Browne

19 Mar 2023

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A 41-year tradition continues this weekend in Jackson, Mississippi, with the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, featuring the sweet potato queens. I...

Jodi Picoult

17 Mar 2023

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In recent months you could argue that Florida has become the de facto ground zero for book banning in schools. Hundreds of titles, ranging from the ex...

Holly Near

15 Mar 2023

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Holly Near was just 8 years old when she first performed in public. And in a career that has now spanned over 50 yearse, Near has established herself ...

Isaac Asimov

13 Mar 2023

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Ask any serious fan of science fiction who the three most influential authors of the genre of the 20th century were. They will likely say Arthur c. Cl...

Wally Schirra

10 Mar 2023

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The U.S. space program was launched, so to speak, in 1959, when the first seven Mercury astronauts were named. These pioneers laid the groundwork for ...

Ann-Margret

08 Mar 2023

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In the early 1960s you would have been hard pressed to find an entertainer who was hotter, more popular, and more in demand than singer and actress an...

Al Gore

06 Mar 2023

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In the summer of 1992, then US senator Al Gore from Tennessee was thrust into a much more visible public role, when Bill Clinton selected him as his r...

Now I've Heard Everything is back!

25 Feb 2023

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After a long and unexpected break due to illness, Now I’ve Heard Everything resumes its 3-times-a-week schedule starting Monday March 6.

A status update on this podcast?

20 Jul 2022

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Where is this podcast been recently? Here's the explanation...

Peter Yarrow

11 Jul 2022

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Perhaps no one personified the folk music trend of the 1960s like Peter, Paul and Mary. With a repertoire that included not only their own songs but ...

Capitol Steps

04 Jul 2022

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Once upon a Time three staffers for a United States Senator decided to put on a little Christmas show, just a little thing with song parodies and skit...

Michael York

01 Jul 2022

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For over five decades actor Michael York has been a fixture in Britain and in the US, in film and on television. Beginning in the late 1960s, York sta...

Bob Dorian

29 Jun 2022

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Ever since there have been movies in America -- that's over a hundred years now -- people have been putting together their lists of their favorite mov...

Sarah Weddington

27 Jun 2022

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Last week the United States Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year-old Roe vs Wade decision, which afforded women the constitutional right to an ...

Eric Burdon

25 Jun 2022

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Who knew that a little boy born to a lower middle-class family in England, who grew up with asthma and put up with teasing from his classmates, and li...

Naomi Wolf

22 Jun 2022

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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but in modern western society the beholders are usually men and the men make the rules of that social co...

Harry Hay

20 Jun 2022

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In the last 20 years the LGBTQ movement has made enormous social and political strides, but what we sometimes forget is that enormous strides begin wi...

G. Gordon Liddy

17 Jun 2022

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A third-rate burglary” at Washington’s Watergate hotel and office complex in the summer of 1972 launched a scandal that ultimately brought down th...

John Dean

15 Jun 2022

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Fifty years ago this week, a botched burglary at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC touched off a criminal conspi...

Ben Bradlee

13 Jun 2022

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The Watergate burglary was 50 years ago this week. Iconic renowned Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee played a central role in covering Watergate. &n...

Chris Lemmon

10 Jun 2022

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Father's Day is coming up in about a week, and today. I wanted to share with you an interview I did a few years ago about a Hollywood father-son story...

Mika Brzezinski

08 Jun 2022

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She is one of the most visible faces in television news. For 15 years she has co-hosted MSNBC's Morning Joe program. But before that, Mika Brzezinski ...

Edgar Prado

06 Jun 2022

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It was an electrifying finish to the 2006, Kentucky Derby, as the undefeated 3-year-old Barbaro won the race by the largest margin of victory in over ...

J. Craig Venter

03 Jun 2022

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Can the guy who just barely graduated from high school become one of the world's 100 most influential people? Well, it doesn't very often, to be sure....

Armistead Maupin

01 Jun 2022

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We're kicking off the start of LGBTQ Pride Month with a conversation with one of the leading literary figures in the gay rights movement of the late 2...

Denise Donnelly

30 May 2022

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Memorial Day is the day America honors the men and women who have sacrificed their lives in military service. But not all of those lives were lost on ...

Bobby Unser

27 May 2022

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One of the world's most iconic auto races, the Indianapolis 500, will be run this Sunday. In the 111-year history of the Indy 500 only a handful of dr...

Catherine Crier

25 May 2022

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Catherine Crier had a remarkable legal career. By age 30, she had become the youngest elected judge ever in the state of Texas. But the number of year...

Gil Amelio

23 May 2022

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Given Apple's dominance in the high-tech world, it's hard to imagine that it was once a company that had cash flow problems, poor quality products, a ...

Louise Mandrell

20 May 2022

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She began singing professionally in the 1970s, as a solo artist and together with her older sister Barbara Mandrell and younger sibling Irlene Mandrel...

Susanna Kaysen

18 May 2022

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Tomorrow, May 19, is Mental Health Action Day. So today on Now I've Heard Everything, a 1994 conversation with a...

Jenny Craig

13 May 2022

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You know the name Jenny Craig. It's a popular weight loss, weight management and nutrition company with hundreds of locations all over the world. It's...

Pat Brown

11 May 2022

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Have you ever had an incident in your life that suddenly propelled you in a whole new direction? That happened to Pat Brown. After a close personal ru...

Lucie Arnaz

06 May 2022

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It's mother's Day weekend. So today on Now I've Heard Everything a conversation with a woman whose mother was, and is, one of the world's most famous ...

Oliver North

04 May 2022

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In the 1980s, the presidency of Ronald Reagan was facing two distinct foreign policy challenges. Members of Hezbollah had taken several Americans host...

Edie Adams

02 May 2022

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Edie Adams was a very popular movie and television star in the 1950s, known widely for her comic impersonations of sexy singers, and her own wonderful...

Cliff Stoll

29 Apr 2022

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Many people think we're on the verge of another Cold war, a cyber war, in which skilled hackers will break into systems abroad and wreak havoc with th...

Sergei Khrushchev

27 Apr 2022

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At the very height of the Cold War, in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, one of the most vilified man in the world – at least in the U.S. – was Sov...

Gloria Gaynor

25 Apr 2022

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Gloria Gaynor began her professional music career in the early 1960s, when she was barely out of her teens. She was recording by the time she was 22, ...

Colleen McCullough

22 Apr 2022

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Let me take you back four and a half decades, and tell you about one of the most popular books of the late 1970s, a family saga said in Australia, cal...

Gilbert Gottfried

20 Apr 2022

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We got sad news last week but comedian Gilbert Gottfried had succumbed after a long battle with muscular dystrophy. Funny and controversial, by turns ...

Rachel Robinson

15 Apr 2022

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A few days ago Ketanji Brown Jackson made history as she was confirmed as the first black female supreme Court Justice. But 75 years ago today another...

Stephen Collins

11 Apr 2022

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For 11 seasons on the TV series 7th Heaven,  Stephen Collins played The Rev. Eric Camden, a Protestant minister who headed a family of seven. But...

Tyler Perry

08 Apr 2022

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Male comedians have been dressing as women for comic effect for decades. Think Milton Berle. Think Flip Wilson.  Or Saturday Night Live sketches ...

Jane Byrne

06 Apr 2022

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For 21 years, from the mid-1950s to the mid '70s, mayor Richard j. Daly ran the city of Chicago. And I mean he ran the city. One member of Daley’s c...

Robert Fulghum

04 Apr 2022

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Back around 1988 or '89, you could hardly go anywhere without seeing a little book written by a former Unitarian minister called All I Really Need to ...

Judith Martin

01 Apr 2022

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Where has everybody's manners gone? Doesn't anybody have good manners anymore ? For over 40 years, syndicated columnist Judith Martin -- better known ...

Alexander Haig

30 Mar 2022

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Today is March 30th, and it was 41 years ago today that a young man tried to kill President Ronald Reagan. And one of the most controversial things th...

Frank Warren

28 Mar 2022

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I'm not sure Frank Warren understood what he was unleashing in January, 2005, when he initiated his PostSecret project . What started as something of ...

Shere Hite

25 Mar 2022

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Human sexuality has been widely studied, researched, and written about over the years, most notably, perhaps, by Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson...

Otis Williams

23 Mar 2022

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It was around this time in 1961 that a group of five young men formed a singing group called The Elgins. They were good, so good that Berry Gordy sign...

Barry Levinson

21 Mar 2022

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Barry Levinson is an Oscar-winning film director and screenwriter. But it also turns out he's a pretty good novelist. The man famous for such films as...

Luba Brezhneva

18 Mar 2022

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Some think this is the beginning of another Cold war. Or worse. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has changed the course of world events. Not since the bre...

Patricia Cornwell

16 Mar 2022

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Many authors, maybe even most authors, labor in obscurity for months or years before finally hitting it big with a bestseller . But Patricia Cornwell ...

Dwayne Hickman

14 Mar 2022

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In the early 1960s, one of America's most popular teenagers was an actor who wasn't even a teenager . Dwayne Hickman played the clean cut, girl. Crazy...

Oliver Sacks

11 Mar 2022

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A young British boys fascination with science, and with metals and chemistry in particular, led to him becoming one of the world's foremost neurologis...

Betty Friedan

07 Mar 2022

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The roots of the modern feminist movement can be traced directly back to a single book published nearly 60 years ago. It was called The Feminine Mysti...

Judith Belushi

04 Mar 2022

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Tomorrow, March 5th, is the 40th anniversary of the untimely deaf of comedian. John Belushi. Belushi was one of the original cast members of Saturday ...

Art Spiegelman

02 Mar 2022

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While there have been thousands of books written about the Holocaust, and Nazi Germany, and the horrors of the concentration camps, few have been as p...

Michael Feinstein

28 Feb 2022

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In the mid 20th century, brothers George and ira Gershwin produced many of the songs that have lived in America's heart for decades. With George's mel...

Nigella Lawson

25 Feb 2022

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The thing about food is that it's not just fuel for a metabolic process of the human body. It's a social construct, bringing family or friends togethe...

Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr.

23 Feb 2022

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Benjamin O. Davis Jr. played a key role in World War II. Not only were his combat accomplishments extraordinary, but his leadership helped shape the U...

Framl Deford

21 Feb 2022

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For more than half a century, Frank Deford wrote for Sports Illustrated magazine and for 37 of those years he was also heard regularly on NPR, and see...

Gary Hart

18 Feb 2022

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As many others of his generation were, former Colorado, senator Gary Hart was inspired to get into politics by John f. Kennedy, and Robert f. Kennedy,...

Dr. Joycelyn Elders

16 Feb 2022

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Joyce Lynn elders was the eldest child of Arkansas sharecroppers, born in 1933. Through a series of remarkable happenstance, she ended up going to med...

Karen Salmansohn

14 Feb 2022

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It's Valentine's Day. And we could have done the usual mushy, romantic stuff, but instead I wanted to go more tongue in cheek . Back in 1994 I intervi...

Doug Williams

11 Feb 2022

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 It's super bowl weekend, and as we prepare to watch the Rams and Bengals in super bowl 56, let me take you back to super bowl 22 in January 1988...

Ali MacGraw

09 Feb 2022

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Back to back major movie roles in 1969 and 1970 made the young Ali MacGraw one of the world's most popular actresses. Her portrayal of Jennifer Cavall...

Elmore Leonard

07 Feb 2022

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He wants famously said that his writing was so crisp and tight because he simply left out the parts that people usually skip over. During a writing ca...

Dan Jansen

04 Feb 2022

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As the 2022 Winter Olympics get underway today in China, we are reminded that these games can produce heroes and great triumphs, but also soul crushin...

Melba Patillo Beals

02 Feb 2022

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Imagine a small group of high school students needing armed United States military just to get into school. In September 1957 9. African American stud...

Cindy Sheehan

31 Jan 2022

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After a U.S. Army soldier named Casey Sheehan was killed in action in Iraq in 2004 his mother, Cindy Sheehan became one of the loudest anti-war voices...

Karen Armstrong

28 Jan 2022

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Who is God? Who is the all-knowing, all-powerful deity who, despite having different names, is at the heart of every major religion? A former Roman Ca...

The Amazing Kreskin

26 Jan 2022

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He's not a psychic nor a fortune teller. The Amazing Kreskin is a mentalist,  perhaps the best known mentalist in the world. But is he for real ?...

Helen Thomas

24 Jan 2022

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At most news organizations, the White House beat is a coveted plum assignment. But it's a difficult, stressful, and highly competitive job. Most corre...

Richard Leakey

21 Jan 2022

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Where did modern humankind come from? Scientists,, scholars, and experts have been trying to find the answer for generations.  One of the most pr...

bell hooks

19 Jan 2022

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How and where do race, gender, class, art,  and capitalism come together? That question was at the heart of some 30 books written by author bell ...

Dexter Scott King

17 Jan 2022

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Dexter Scott King was only 7 years old in 1968 when his father Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. But his memories of his late father remain shar...

Wolfgang Puck

14 Jan 2022

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When you think of America's great present-day chefs and restaurateurs, there are only a handful of names that immediately come to mind. And one of the...

Michael Crichton

12 Jan 2022

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He earned a medical degree from Harvard, but instead of pursuing a career in medicine, Michael Crichton became a writer. And as a reader, I'm really g...

Mary Beth Whitehead

10 Jan 2022

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Surrogate parenting has become commonplace in America and other countries. It has helped countless numbers of couples become parents. But it took unti...

Carl Sagan

07 Jan 2022

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You know we sometimes get so caught up in the minutiae of everyday life. Trying to protect our own little turf on this little planet that we lose sigh...

Judy Collins

05 Jan 2022

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Songs recorded by Judy Collins have become some of America's most enduring favorites. With a debut album in 1961 at a debut concert about a year later...

William Shatner

03 Jan 2022

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Back in the fall of 1993, when I had scheduled an interview with actor. William shatner, it was fascinating to watch the generational divide in the of...

Cleveland Amory

24 Dec 2021

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It was on a cold Christmas Eve night many years ago in New York that  a stray cat found a new, loving home. His rescuer was I then crusty 60 year...

Wally Amos

22 Dec 2021

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What would you do if a big corporation took over the company you built, then told you you had no more right to use your own name to sell the product y...

Sophy Burnham

20 Dec 2021

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Do you believe in angels? Does each of us have a guardian angel? What do angels really look like? Can they perform miracles?  Some thirty years a...

Deborah Norville

17 Dec 2021

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Have you counted your blessings today? If you haven't, maybe you should. It might be good for your health. So says TV journalist. Deborah Norville. &n...

Dick Butkus

15 Dec 2021

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The national football League is over 100 years old, and in that time, football fans have enjoyed some breathtaking games, spectacular plays, some of t...

Gloria Steinem

13 Dec 2021

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Ms. Is turning 50 It was in December 1971 that a staff writer for the New Yorker named Gloria Steinem  created what would become, the following s...

Paul Petersen

10 Dec 2021

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I don't know about you but every Christmas season one of the movies I have to watch is it's a Wonderful Life. The story of George Bailey, the small to...

Tami Longaberger

08 Dec 2021

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For a generation, a handcrafted Longaberger basket is something of a home decor showpiece. Dave Longaberger founded the company in 1973, and by 1975 h...

Pearl Harbor Remembered

06 Dec 2021

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On a quiet Sunday in early December, millions of Americans went about their usual routines. Folks went to church. Children played out in the yard. Tee...

James Dozier

03 Dec 2021

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Fprty years ago this weekend  a U.S. Army general who was stationed at a NATO facility in Italy was kidnapped by a Marxist terrorist group known ...

Mel Torme

01 Dec 2021

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Does this song help put you in the Christmas spirit? That song was written by Mel Torme. He was born and raised in Chicago. He first sang in public an...

Chuck Norris

26 Nov 2021

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Chuck Norris doesn't drink coffee in the morning, he has a mug of nails. Chuck Norris can dribble a bowling ball. ChuckNorris doesn't read books. He s...

Jill St. John

24 Nov 2021

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On this Thanksgiving Eve, we'll be talking a little turkey. And gravy, and mashed potatoes, and lots of other delicious stuff from the cookbook writte...

Bob Vila

22 Nov 2021

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Perhaps no one other than maybe Martha Stewart has helped more Americans gain the confidence they need to do things around the house then Bob Vila has...

Danica McKellar

19 Nov 2021

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If you know Danica McKellar only as Winnie Cooper on TV's The Wonder Years, from the 1980s, what she has done since the show ended may surprise you. A...