Now I've Heard Everything

What is it like spending your days traveling the US, finding little restaurants in out of the way places? That was the life led by Jane and Michael Stern for 4 decades. In this 2006 interview they discuss their joint memoir Two For The Road. Get your copy of Two For the Road by Jane & Michael SternAs an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may also enjoy...

Are you a liberal? You may be, and not even realize it. In this 2004 interview, which still sounds so very timely and relevant, former Llabor Secretary Robert Reich defends liberalism and liberal Concepts. Get your copy of Reason by Robert ReichAs an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may also enjoy my interviews with George McGovern and Christine Todd...

Rosa Parks's existence didn't begin or end that day in December 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus. In this 2005 interview poet Nikki Giovanni talks about her book that offers a different perspective on Rosa Parks. Get your copy of Rosa by Nikki GiovanniAs an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may also enjoy my interviews with Rosa Park...

One of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century was a man who often needed nothing more than a banjo and a strong voice to entertain an audience. Pete Seeger was a towering figure in American music as a performer and songwriter -- and political activist. In this 1993 interview, Pete Seeger discusses his career, his music, and how he helped shape one of the most famous civil righ...

Have you ever heard the phrase “hiding in plain sight”? An Austrian Jewish woman named Edith Hahn survived the Holocaust by passing herself off as Christian using a friend's identity papers. She ended up marrying a Nazi officer, even after he found out she was Jewish. In this 1999 interview Edith Hahn Beer talks about her memoir The Nazi Officer's Wife. Get your copy of The Nazi Officer's Wife by...

American politics has become a minefield of "gotcha ”. The media do it to politicians, politicians do it to each other, even the media do it to each other. And it's eroding our entire system, says the man who was once a participant. In this 2006 interview, Lanny Davis talks about his book Scandal. Get your copy of Scandal by Lanny Davis As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from...

Are men necessary? We're not asking the question, merely repeating the title of the 2005 book by the renowned New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. In this 2005 interview Dowd explains what she meant,,, Get your copy of Are Men Necessary? by Maureen Dowd As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may also enjoy my interviews with Karen Salmansohn and Sh...

If you're in business, entrepreneur or as the head of a major corporation, which comes first, business success, or happiness? Actually, happiness has to come first if you want the success to follow, says successful and happy businessman and billionaire sports mogul Ted Leonsis, in this 2010 interview. Get your copy of The Business of Happiness by Ted Leonsis As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard...

In the late 1940s and early ‘50s America was caught up in a “red scare.” The nation was gripped by fears of Communism, communist spies, communist infiltration. One of those accused was State Department official Alger Hiss.accused of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Hiss ultimately spent prison time for perjury, not espionage. His son Tony recalls, in this 1999 interview, how his father’s...

Can an attitude of gratitude make you healthy, wealthy, and wise? In this 2007 interview, "Inside Edition" anchor Deborah Norville talks about how gratitude can actually make you healthier. Get your copy of Thank You Power by Deborah Norville As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may also enjoy my interviews with William F Buckley Jr and Joan Lunden...

For some 40 years Taylor Mason has been entertaining audiences across the country with his blend of Comedy, ventriloquism, and music. In this interview Mason talks about Comedy, ventriloquism, and how an Illinois boy wound up on the Jersey Shore. Get your copy of Irreversible by Taylor Mason As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may also enjoy my in...

It was 1938, on the eve of the start of World War II. And a 24-year-old American boxer, the son of Alabama sharecroppers, was about to alter the course of our history. That young man was Joe Louis – full name Joe Louis Barrow, more widely known by the nickname “The Brown Bomber.” In this 1988 interview Barrow's son Joe Louis Barrow Jr writes about his father and how that fight changed America Get...

Why do most Americans know next to nothing about a plot to assassinate John f. Kennedy? And no, we're not talking about gunfire in Dallas. The chilling true story told in a new book by bestselling author Brad Meltzer and co-author Josh Mensch is the story of how JFK was targeted in December 1960, before he even took the oath of office. In this January 2025 interview Brad Meltzer reveals what he le...

For five decades, Dr. Joyce Brothers was America's premier pop psychologist. In this 1988 interview she discusses her book The Successful Woman, and she emphasizes that does not mean “Superwoman.” Get your copy of The Successful Woman by Joyce Brothers As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may also enjoy my interviews with Dolly Parton and Gloria St...

As a founding member of The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson led a music revolution that went far beyond the ‘60s “California sound” or even pop music generally. But fame and success carry a price. And for Wilson, the price he paid was his mental health and later physical well-being, as well. Substance abuse further complicated his life. In this 1991 interview Wilson looks back on his life and career as h...

There was a time in American politics, not that long ago, when there were actually liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats, and a broad range of moderates. But the landscape changed, as former Republican New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman talks about in this 2005 interview. She says the GOP is no longer a place for moderates. Get your copy of It's My Party, Too by Christine Todd Whi...

By the age of 15, Barry Williams was already a television veteran. He had had small roles in a number of popular TV shows, but he was about to get his big break. In 1969, Williams was cast in the role of Greg Brady, the eldest of the six children in the blended Brady family, a role that he embraced and ran with for the next five seasons. In this 1992 interview Williams recalls what it was like Gro...

By the 1980s there was a new American family archetype that included stepparents, stepchildren, step-siblings, exes and new mates. This was this environemnt writer Delia Ephron stepped into in 1982. It wasn’t long before Ephron, a talented writer who had already written several books, realized she needed to write a book about her new blended famikly experience. In this 1986 interview Ephron talks...

We all know the story of the Pilgrims arriving on the "Mayflower," setting foot on Plymouth Rock. And then the first Thanksgiving, sitting down to a feast with the Native Americans Except, most of that isn't true. In this 2006 intewrview historian Nathaniel Pohilbrick reveals the darker, more nuanced story of the "Mayflower." Get your copy of Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick As an Amazon Associate...

Tippi Hedren starred in Alfred Hitchcok's “The Birds” in 1963 and “Marnie" in 1964. A few years later she realized her true passion: wildlife rescue./ In this 1985 interview Hedren recalls her work with Hitrchcock, and tells the story of her own wildlife preserve. Get your copy of The Cats of Shambala by Tippi Hedren As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases...

Sooner or later life will knock you to the canvas. The key is knowing how to get back up and keep fighting . So maybe it pays to listen to somebody who has been knocked down and has gotten back up many times in his life. In this 2003 interview former heavyweight boxing champ George Foreman talks about being knocked down and getting back up. Get your copy of George Foreman's Guide to Life by George...

Recent congressional testimony appeared to confirm the exietsnvce of alien beings visotomg Earth. And while the question of alien abductions did not come up, that subject has been around for decades. In this 1992 interview, David Jacobs, a distinguished professor at Temple University, discusses his findings after years of research and interviews with dozens of people who said they had been abducte...

There are those who revere our 40th president as not just a great president but as a rare and exceptional leader of great principle and virtue. Into that category falls Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan’s top speechwriter, who crafted some of Reagan[‘s most memorable orations. In this 2001 interview Noonan talks about her book When Character Was King. Get your copy of When Character Was King by Peggy No...

During an otherwise routine security clearance interview in 1989 Army officer Margarethe Cammermeyer disclosed her status as a lesbian. She was then disharged from the service. But she filed a lawsuit in 1994 challenging her separation – and she won. She returned to the military until her retirement in 1997. In this 1994 interview Cammermeyer talks about her life, military career, and court victor...

The National Football League is no place for guys who don't want to get hurt No NFL veteran comes away unscathed And that means there is always plenty of work for team physicians. From 1983 to 1990, Dr. Robert Huizenga was team internist for the Los Angeles Raiders. As he recounts in this 1994 interview, Huizenga saw everything from bruises and pulled muscle to dislocated fingers, concussions and...