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Today's guest, Robert Gandt, is the author of the new book, Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel. And, as he tells the story, you will ask yourself why we have never heard this before, since it is an amazing true story of epic proportions. Fortunately, Gandt, who has combined a life of flying with a life of writing such epic aviation stories, has had the...

Accusers of Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo and #TimesUp have opened the floodgates of rage against sexual harassment, sexual assault, inequality... and men in general! The hatred of men by women is called misandry - and today's guest, Dr. Paul Nathanson, has defined misandry with his books, research and lectures (which always draw protests, by the way). Dr. Nathanson and Dr. Carole walk this minefield o...

Ever wonder what your childhood would have been like if you were growing up with a schizophrenic mom in an era when they didn't have medication to treat the disorder? Today's guest, Joan Carol Lieberman (no relation), has lived to tell the tale and she's written about it in her new two-part autobiography, Optimal Distance: A Divided Life. As a little girl, every day was a struggle to find the opti...

Guest, Jane Marla Robbins, is a modern day renaissance woman: actress, playwright, author, poet, coach and speaker. After a stunning career as an actress on Broadway, off-Broadway, in film and on TV, she decided to stop being other people (the roles she played) and start being herself. Since then she has delighted in helping people 'act' in their everyday life in order to look and feel self-confid...

What do terrorists have in store for us? Today's guest, Michael Vilardi, a 9/11 First Responder and member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, had the grizzly task of piecing together human body parts for identification at the scene of the World Trade Center and saw up front and personal the devastation of Islamic terrorism. He has also had the opportunity to get the inside scoop from two terrorist...

Port Authority subway terrorist, Akayed Ullah, may have been the first to attack NYC this holiday season, but he won't be the last. Indeed, ISIS has launched a propaganda campaign to encourage lone wolves to strike NYC - using a poster of Santa Claus standing next to a box of dynamite in the middle of Times Square as a call to action. The caption on the poster says, We meet at Christmas in New Yor...

Today's show will uplift and inspire you by proving how one person can make a huge difference. Jeffrey Epstein has just launched a new charity called Healing the Wounds. It uniquely responds to the needs of children whose parent lost their life while serving as a hero in the military or law enforcement. The vision of this program is to empower the kids left behind. Epstein, as President, has amass...

Every day, new women come out of the woodwork to allege sexual harassment. Are all of these stories true or are women jumping on the bandwagon to claim their 15 minutes of fame? It's important to separate the wheat from the chaff. One of the accused, Harvey Weinstein, seems to be the most prolific of womanizers, if not rapists. (And yes, he is innocent until proven guilty.) Today's guest, leading...

Today's guest, Khaldoun Sweis, an Associate Professor of Philosophy, shares his personal story of the greatest suffering he has ever known - first, being a teen on the brink of suicide, and years later, his son's death. His riveting story goes on to explain how these events set him on his mission in life: helping people to find hope in suffering through discovering evidence of their faith - like h...

Today's show looks at two men with troubled beginnings who became polar opposites: one a mass murderer and one a scientific advisor to presidents. The murderer was Devin Patrick Kelley, who made headlines for shooting up a Texas church. The scientist is Mark Kingston Levin. Both came from dysfunctional homes and showed signs of trouble from an early age. But, Devin fell through the cracks and mani...

The opioid epidemic is staggering! Opioid overdose deaths soared to over 200 percent since 2000, and at least 91 Americans die each day from an opioid OD! No wonder President Trump just declared it a public health emergency. Today's guests, Dr. Alexis Carayannopoulos and Dr. Joseph Audette, are top addiction and pain medicine experts. We follow them into the complex world of painkillers, patients,...

Dr. Carole rants at today's headlines and urges you not to be lemmings and accept fake news or no news-which seem to be our only choices these days. She puts the three top news stories on her couch and analyzes them for you-berating the 'authorities' and media for what they're not telling us about them. First, she takes the lid off the group of therapists who are using their credentials to promote...

What a paradox: we are surrounded by death in the news every day - from terrorism to natural disasters to contagious diseases - yet it is the last topic we want to think about. Get ready for some gallows humor on today's show, as Gail Rubin shares her story about how she became The Doyenne of Death and how she helps people overcome the taboo. Her journey began in college when she satirized Ingmar...

What made Stephen Paddock become the perpetrator of the largest mass shooting in American history? Was he following in the footsteps of his dad, a notorious bank robber and prison escapee on the FBI Most Wanted List, who was labeled psychopathic with suicidal tendencies? Was he desperate because of mounting gambling debts? Was he a political fanatic trying to kill Republicans, who he assumed would...

What happens to kids who are abused or neglected? They end up with mental illnesses, dropping out of school, sometimes in foster home placement, not getting the psychiatric treatment they need, and ending up in prison. Indeed a new study reveals that over half of the inmates in U.S. prisons have a mental illness with roots in childhood. Today's guests are proof! They urge society to wake up and st...

Today, Dr. Carole gives her listeners a sneak preview of her upcoming book: LIONS and TIGERS and TERRORISTS, OH MY! How to Protect Your Child in a Time of Terror, before it is launched in NYC in time for 9/11. Why haven't parents and teachers been talking to their kids about terrorism? Why do they need to? How is terrorism like sex? (Hint: both are taboo topics that make parents uncomfortable.) Wh...

Today's show takes you behind the scenes and into the life of the number one Donald Trump impersonator in the world: John Di Domenico. Find out what made him grow up to want to become an impersonator and how the fates conspired to make him a Trump impersonator - from the time Trump was a celebrity businessman to host of The Apprentice to candidate for president - and now as The President. But, imp...

If you've ever been in a custody battle, you've likely been stunned and disturbed by the primal feelings it brought up inside of you-the rage towards the other parent trying to steal your child. And if you've never been in a custody battle, you've surely seen the headlines about parents kidnapping-or even killing-their child to prevent the other parent from getting custody. Just recently, a South...

It used to be so easy: pink for girls and blue for boys - and girls will be girls and boys will be boys was a common saying. Now it's yellow for non binaries? These days, too many parents think they're being cool and trendy to encourage their girls to be boys and boys to be girls. The result? A very confused generation. Today's guest, Michelle Cretella, M.D., President of the American College of P...

The statistics are staggering! Did you know studies show that the older kids get, the more likely they are to stop reading? Why is this important? Because books are the foundation of kids' intellectual and emotional development! The books kids read influence them to choose a career, develop a love of animals, cope with childhood traumas like bullying and many other magical things. Today's guest, L...

Celebs feel lost once they've fallen out of the spotlight, so many turn to self-destructive behaviors. But, today's guest, George Green, is the epitome of reinvention and how to shine in other spotlights. For years, he worked at KABC Talk Radio, including as President and General Manager, putting his station on the map as the first 24/7 all talk radio--until a new company took over KABC and brough...

Today's guest is living proof that it is never too late to turn your life around. Julie D. Summers, author of an upcoming memoir, OFF MY KNEES: From Skid Row to Sunset Boulevard, has seen it all. With a troubled and unavailable mom, who sends her off as a teen with a man who rapes her, and a dad who died when she was 12, Julie was left to fend for herself. An unwed mom at 18, persuaded to give her...

Do you want to live like a millionaire, but feel stuck in a barely-making-ends-meet job? Then today's show is for you. Marilyn Anderson, author of the new book, How to Live Like a Millionaire When You're a Million Short, has figured it all out and put it together on a silver platter just for you. Marilyn is the embodiment of the adage: necessity is the mother of invention. Not a millionaire hersel...

Got stress? Who doesn't? Whether it's finding a soulmate in this crazy online dating world, worrying about family, friends or finances, or about terrorism and other chaos in the world, we are stressed to the max these days. Today's guest, Pamela Robins, author of Meditating with Animals, has the answer. After being faced with a relentless series of major life challenges, including the death of her...

Has Pope Francis changed role of the papacy to be more political than religious? Does this hurt devout Catholics? According to today's guest, George Neumayr, the answer is a worrisome Yes. And, as a Catholic who loves the church, he wrote his new book, The Political Pope: How Pope Francis Is Delighting the Liberal Left and Abandoning Conservatives, to awaken the church to the danger. This book is...