This Week in America with Ric Bratton

Dr LeslieBeth Wish Dr. LeslieBeth (LB) Wish is a nationally recognized licensed clinical psychotherapist honored for her pioneering work in love, career, happiness, and success. The National Association of Social Workers has named her on their list of the Fifty who has Contributed to the Profession. She is the subject of biographical entry in many Marquis’Who’s Who publications. Her latest self-he...

AGELESS CELL Dr Michael Smith, senior health scientist for Life Extension Intelligently Created Actively Protecting Ageless Cell™ helps inhibit cellular senescence, a natural part of the aging process where cells no longer function optimally. Ageless Cell™ was created by Life Extension® in partnership with Insilico Medicine, Inc., a Maryland-based data analytics company that utilizes artificial in...

The KIDZ BOP Kids – Billboard's "#1 Kids' Artist" - are Coming Your Way with an All New Concert…And they visit Ric to talk about it The Best Time Ever Tour The tour is headlined by the newest group of KIDZ BOP Kids, who were introduced in January with the release of KIDZ BOP 34. KIDZ BOP has sold over 17 million albums, since the brand debuted in 2001. KIDZ BOP released the best-selling children's...

Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball by Keith Law Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law’s iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbe...

The Ultimate Business Tune Up: A Simple Yet Powerful Business Model That Will Transform the Lives of Small Business Owners by Rich Allen Business owners today are constantly faced with difficult challenges and eight of ten new businesses will not survive the first five years. Competition is difficult and building a sustainable, profitable business is arguably the most challenging sport in all of b...

You Are 10 Author: Leo F. Batista This book is about geometry, the female and male form. And what comes to be when they work together. This is about the basic of the numbers and its frequency, it touches the subject of the two energy form that compose the universe. Every movement of the universe have a reflection on this planet, that what you call nature, is that reflection is our best teacher. If...

NAMES ARE MUSIC and SO ARE YOU AND I In the ’60s, a Swedish colonel was caught in Stockholm having spied for the Soviets. That event is the biggest scandal in Swedish modern history. However, Names Are Music and So Are You and I is not about that historical fact but that this spy and the author of the text you are looking at right now have the same surname is surely a background that plays its gam...

Aging Healthfully, Happily & Gracefully 10 Tips for Living a More Sacred, Balanced Life in Body, Mind & Spirit With Susan Smith Jones, PhD It was Mark Twain who once wrote: Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Let’s face it, we all age, but do we always need to look like we’re aging? Is it possible to slow down the aging process? And why is it that som...

Your #EASYGLOWING Must-Have this Spring & Summer! Getting Sun-Kissed Skin Doesn’t Have to Take Hours in the Morning… Beauty Guru and Social Media Sensation Laura Lee Comes to the Rescue with Time Saving Tips to Get up and Glow! Her time-saving tips will improve your morning ritual and give you more time to sleep, eat or make it to work on time. You’ll be out the door and glowing faster than yo...

One in Five Women Will Experience Sexual Assault While in College The New Investigation Discovery Special "Sexual Assault in College: Tamron Hall Investigates" Shines a Light on This Disturbing Trend Premiering Sunday April 30th at 8pm ET/7pmCT Ric Speaks with University of Minnesota Rape Victim Turned Sexual Assault Prevention Activist, Abby Honold It’s been called an epidemic among college stude...

Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry by Marcus Thompson The incredible and inspiring story of Stephen Curry, the greatest shooter basketball has ever seen, and the ascension of the Golden State Warriors, a team on the verge of being an NBA dynasty, by long-time Warriors beat reporter and Bay Area News Group sports columnist Marcus Thompson. When it comes to Stephen Curry—point guard for the...

How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports: The Pay-to-Play Pipeline by Rick Eckstein More girls are playing sports than ever before—which, on the surface, is great for girls because sports offer positive and empowering fun for young women. In reality, though, few young athletes report “fun” as a reason they play sports. The rates of concussions and repetitive use injuries are on the rise, an...

MACRUDD - King of Oz (A Tragedy) by Kevin O'Donnell The book is in the form of a satirical play, loosely styled on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The main characters are caricatures of the leading figures in Australian politics in recent years. There is much back-room organising, back-stabbing, number crunching, plotting the downfall of Prime Ministers - not to mention plenty of crude and fruity language...

Business Blunders!: 10 Dangerous Business Mistakes and How to Protect Your Business so It Can Thrive! by R. Shawn McBride How DANGEROUS can business be? Very! Consider the fact that one out of every two companies go out of business within the first five years of starting and most face some sort of legal action in their lifetime. Situations such as a change in business partnership interests, fights...

Provocative, Timely & Darkly Apropos: Lifetime’s New Series Mary Kills People Follows a Doctor who Helps People End Their Lives On Their Own Terms. Premieres Sunday April 23rd at 10pm ET/PT Ric Talks with Series Star: Caroline Dhavernas Canadian born Caroline Dhavernas is best known for her role as Dr. Alanna Bloom on NBC’s Hannibal. Her other starring roles include ABC’s Off The Map, and the...

25 Years Later.... SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL RECOUNTS THE CHAOTIC DAYS FOLLOWING THE RODNEY KING VERDICT IN THE LOST TAPES: LA RIOTS Speak with Documentary Filmmaker Tom Jennings on the 25th Anniversary of the Riots that Shook the Nation Twenty-five years ago, the city of Los Angeles erupted into chaos on April 29, 1992, after four white LAPD officers were acquitted for beating African American motorist...

Groundlings alums Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel Ramras have partnered with their real-life friends, Emmy® winner Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, who executive produce Nobodies. The TV Land comedy airing Wednesdays at 10PM ET/PT revolves around the three as they try desperately to land one of their famous friends for a feature script that they have developed, so that they, too, can rise to...

Return of the King: LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Greatest Comeback in NBA History by Brian Windhorst and Dave McMenamin The inside story of LeBron James's return and ultimate triumph in Cleveland. What really happened when LeBron James stunned the NBA by leaving a potential dynasty in Miami to come home to play with the Cleveland Cavaliers? How did the Cavs use secret meetings to...

TV’s Most Captivating Detective is Back on the Case! Titus Welliver Returns in Season 3 of Bosch Titus Welliver is a veteran of film, television, and theater, starring in such shows as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Suits, The Good Wife, Sons of Anarchy and as ‘The Man in Black’ in Lost. Titus stars as the tough but damaged LAPD detective Harry Bosch in Amazon’s Emmy-nominated series Bosch. Based on Mich...

"The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M.B. Curtis" As the Statue of Liberty stood unlit and unloved by American politicians in 1886, one of her saviors was creating a theatrical sensation at New York's Fourteenth Street Theatre. Actor M.B. Curtis, who had achieved overnight success in Sam'l of Posen, a groundbreaking play that transcended the common stereotypes of...

LEGACY SERIES by Robert Maxxim Worldly and past life visions...Atlantis...Lemuria...Ancient visions...Spiritual sciences. It's the critically acclaimed LEGACY EPISODE series by Robert Maxxim. Five episodes called "A must read for every truth seeker". The author's real vision of previous lifetimes in Atlantis and Lemuria and other worlds where these lives took place. The LEGACY SERIES, thirty years...

STILL STANDING by Jessica M. Ivy Princess J had a really tough life. She didn't ask to be in this world. So the question is, why did a little girl like her have to go through what she went through at such a young age. Parents disowned her. Parents and siblings belittled her. Princess J was a depressed, sad, lonely, angry, bitter little girl and teenager. She felt unwanted, unloved, lost, broken, a...

TV News Anchor/Investigative Journalist Tony Harris Reveals the Stories Behind Shocking Crimes in Investigation Discovery's New Series In "Scene of the Crime with Tony Harris," the Emmy Award-Winning Newsman Explores the Injustices and Crimes of Small-Town America Airs Sundays at 10pm ET/9pm CT on Investigation Discovery For more than 30 years, Emmy®-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and...

A Reinvention of a Classic TV Series Returns to Amazon Prime Video for a Third Hit Season Thunderbirds Are Go! Available on Amazon Prime Video Starting April 21st Ric Speaks with Actor/Voice Talent David Menkin about his Role on the Computer-Animated Remake of Thunderbirds Thunderbirds Are Go is a reinvention of the classic 1960s TV series, Thunderbirds, and features the world's most famous family...

Emmy® Winning Journalist, Best-Selling Author and Entrepreneur Deborah Norville She’s been anchor of Inside Edition, the country’s top-rated and most honored syndicated newsmagazine, for more than 20 years. Now she is taking viewers deep into the twists and turns of some of Hollywood’s most shocking headline-making stories as host and executive producer of the new REELZ series… Exposed with Debora...