Now I've Heard Everything
Episodes
Jim Gaffigan
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you know Jim Gaffigan's comedy, you know he has a big family, five kids. He was one of six kids, his wife was one of nine. So they kno...
Sam Huff
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Huff was such a force in the National Football League in the 1950s and ’60s that CBS television produced a special called “The Violent World o...
Andrea Jaeger
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1981, at the age of 16, Andrea Jaeger was ranked number two in the world among professional women tennis players. But at age 19, a shoulder i...
Buzz Aldrin
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On July 20th, 1969, Buzz Aldrin was 39 years old, as he and Neil Armstrong became the first two human beings ever to set foor on the surface of the mo...
Cong. John Lewis
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An icon of the American civil rights movement has died. Congressman John Lewis was 80 when he passed away this weekend. Here is a repost of an e...
Richard Branson
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You could say that Richard Branson's success in business has always been about disruption. He disrupted air travel, he risrupted the music busin...
Bertrand Piccard & Brian Jones
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hot air balloons, or lighter-than-air craft, have been around for centuries. But it wasn't until March 1999 that humans were able to circumnavigate th...
Ally Sheedy
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s movies like The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, WarGames, and Short Circuit made Ally Sheedy a star. She was a prominent member of the s...
Jackie Collins
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Glamour, glitz, sex, power, drugs, and money. All were staples of novels by Jackie Collins. At the same time her sister Joan was making her name...
Carl Reiner
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We lost a true American comedy genius last week. Carl Reiner was 98 when he passed away. I first met Carl Reiner in 1993, and agai...
Sam Donaldson
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If Donald Trump thinks he's getting a rough time from the journalist who cover him at the White House, he's never met Sam Donaldson. From 1977 t...
Richard Shenkman
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we head into the Independence Day weekend, it's a good time to look back on American history. For example, we all know that Christopher Columbus di...
Tyra Banks
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
She's a supermodel, a role model, and a popular actor. Tyra Banks was already, at 24, an international celebrity when I met her in 1998. S...
George Lindsey
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to get a major supporting role on a major television show, and have it cripple your acting career? It nearly happened to George Lindsey...
Vanna White
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vanna White has been turning the letters on TV's "Wheel of Fortune" since 1982.. But viewers of the show know that Vanna is much more than just a lett...
Anthony Bourdain
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tomorrow, June 25th, would have been Anthony Bourdain's 64th birthday. That's why June 25th has been designated "Bourdain Day" by friends of the late...
Daniel Handler as Lemony Snicket
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Baby Boomers had The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books. Millennials had Harry Potter. And Generation Z grew up with Lemony Snicket. From 1999 to 2006, a...
Chris & Bob Elliott
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Father's Day is this Sunday and all this week on Now I've Heard Everything we've been featuring interviews about fathers. Today a conversation w...
Mark Shriver
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Father's Day is next Sunday and all this week on Now I've Heard Everything we're featuring interviews about fathers. Few men are as widely prais...
Rain Pryor
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Next Sunday is Father's Day, so all of this week on Now I've Heard Everything, we are featuring interviews about fathers. The late Richard Pryor...
Maya Angelou
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Few poets ever rise to the kind of prominence enjoyed by Maya Angelou. But of course, she was much more than a poet -- essayist, memoirist, and ...
Stacey Koon
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode of Now I've Heard Everything that made me think very carefully about. Given the tensions the entire nation -- the world -- is...
John Waters
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hairspray. Cry-Baby. Serial Mom. Pink Flamingos. Filmmaker John Waters has a long, illustrious, and unique body of work. He started making movie...
Reba McEntire
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reba McEntire recorded her first song in 1976, when she was just 21. Her first number one record didn't come for another decade, but she's been on a r...
Dave Pallone
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1979 major league baseball umpires went on strike. MLB hired substitutes -- scabs, as m,any call them -- and veteran minor league umpire Dave...
Stephenie Meyer
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When I was a kid, all my friends and I were into The Twilight Zone, the Rod Serling TV series. But in the later 2000s, another "twilight" captured the...
Mel Blanc
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This was actually one of the most popular interviews I posted last year on Now I've Heard Everything -- and since tomorrow, May 30th, would have been ...
Samantha Bee
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian-born comedian Samantha Bee was a fixture on TV's The Daily Show or twelvve years. Indeed, she was Most Senor Correspondent. I met her t...
Adm. Elmo Zumwalt Jr.
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this Memorial Day 2020, a very moving story of a father and son caught up in an unpopular war, with an unexpected and poignant outcome. In the 1960...
Marc Summers
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you're of a certain age, you probably have fond memories of Nickelodeon's popular '80s and '90s shows "Double Dare" and "What Would You Do?" hosted...
Wilt Chamberlain
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Few people have had the kind of impact on a professional sport that Wilt Chamberlain had on the game of basketball. In a career that started with the ...
Wangari Maathai
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize. Kenyan-born Wangari Maathai was educated in the U.S....
Peter Z. Malkin
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sixty years ago this week, May 1960, a team of Israeli Mossad agents quietly traveled to Argentina, where they found and captured Adolf Eichmann, the ...
Tony Bennett
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
He had his first number-one song in 1951, a tune called "Because of You" -- and Tony Bennett has never slowed down since. Over his seven-decade show b...
Don Shula
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Last week the National Football League and its fans lost a truly iconic figure, Don Shula, the all-time winningest NFL coach, died at the age of...
Georgia Holt
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mothers are always proud when their children are successful, and especially so when their grown children become entertainment stars. One such mom is G...
Christina Crawford
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
All this week on Now I've Heard Everything, as we look ahead to Morthers Day next Sunday, we\re featuring interviews with or about mothers. Today my 1...
Judy Shepard
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mother's Day is next Sunday, so this week on "Now I've Heard Everything we're featuring interviews with and about mothers. Today, a loving and devoted...
Georgia Durante
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Married to the mob" was more than just a snappy catch phrase for Georgia Durante. Her 1998 autobiography told an incredible story -- teenage m...
John Updike
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
People often ask me if I ever got starstruck when I was interviewing famous people -- and yes, it happened sometimes. One of those times in early 1994...
Dan Quayle
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Quayle was a Republcian U.S. Senator from Indiana. and not a very well-known Senator, when George H.W. BuSh chose him as his 1988 running mate. &n...
Laura Joplin
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been almost 50 years since the tragically untimely death of Janis Joplin, whose rock, soul and blues set the standard for a whole generation of m...
Selwa "Lucky" Roosevelt
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's not a government job that gets a lot of attention or media coverage. But the office of U.S. Chief of Protocol is a uniquely sensitive position. I...
George Takei
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy birthday to George Takei, who today is 83. Many of us remember him best s Helmsman Sulu on the original "Star Trek" TV series, or perhaps as an ...
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On a cold January morning in 2009, a US Airways flight left New York's LaGuardia Airport. At the controls that morning was veteran Captain Chesley Sul...
Chuck Norris
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
ChuckNorris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants. But a book is how I first met Chuck Norris 32 years ago, i...
Sir James Dyson
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sir James Dyson will tell you, it's not eas being an innovator. Dyson is the guy who, a few years ago, came up with a whole new kind of vacuum cleaner...
Robert Schuller
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this Easter weekend, I wanted to share with you one of several comversations I had with one of the most popular of the TV evangelists of his day: R...
Robert Blake
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the '70s, Robert Blake was a huge TV star. His career actually began when he was a kid -- did you know he was a star in many of those ol...
Gregory Maguire
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows the story of young Dorothy Gale of Kansas, and her epic journey to meet the great and powerful Wizard of Oz. And we know that al...
Dean Smith
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If not for the coronavirus, this would have been Final Four weekend. So, for you basketball-starved fans, let me share with you an interrview I ...
One Minute Interviews
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since 1985, I've done over 10,000 interviews, with notable people, not-so-notable folks, some you've never heard of, some downright infamous. In most ...
Roger Ailes
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Years before he became head of Fox News -- way before there even was a Fox News -- Roger Ailes was a media consultant. Most prominent among his ...
Joseph Pistone
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Donnie Brasco was a real person. Well, no, Donnie was an identity created by the FBI, back in the 1980s, when they assigned an agent named Josep...
Janine Turner
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Janine Turner is best known for her roles on TV's "Northern Exposure" and "Friday Night Lights," and in the movie "Cliffhanger." But until 2014...
Robert B Parker
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There have been many authors I've interviewed year after year, and one of my favorites -- a guy I always looked forward to talking to -- was this guy,...