Winzenburg On The Weekend podcast

"Rules of the Game" swept the country in the late 1990s. This is the 30th anniversary of the board game's start on WHO radio with creator Robert Poole asking about football, baseball, basketball & golf. Adult & children callers play along, from know-it-all experts to clueless guessers--no knowledge of sports is necessary! These are the most popular episodes in the show's history, including...

Dr. Dean Odell is a decades-long radio & TV host, including an NBC medical correspondent, and author of "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry." Edell says people are too obsessed with health and watching shows like Dateline, creating fears that can actually damage their well-being. He takes calls about cancer, blisters, eyes, diabetes, cigarettes, vaccines, tea & food. He ends by praising the 2000 sho...

"Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy" prepare you to survive doom & make life bloom! Dr. Joe and Amy Alton wrote the "Survival Medicine Handbook" to teach you to treat medical emergencies on your own. This 2014 show focuses on the dangers of winter, weather & war, including why you should wear mittens instead of gloves & always carry a stapler with you. The couple gives practical advice on self-tr...

Can adults blame parents for problems from childhood? Dr. Dan Neuharth, the author of "If You Had Controlling Parents," gives solutions to deal with the micromanaging parents who try to guilt you, won't admit they're wrong, or put "almost cultlike" restrictions on you. He appeared on Oprah where he "agreed to disagree" with his famous media mogul father. Dan's advice in 2013: find a way to "leave...

Iowa callers have their singing voices critiqued live by voice trainer to the stars Lisa Popeil, who gives tips on how anyone can learn to sing better. Lisa is the sister of infomercial king Ron Popeil. Her website is https://www.popeil.com. Then at 31:04 University of Iowa professor Kenneth Phillips talks about the importance of music in schools & that any young person can be turned into a si...

Not so long ago there were thousands of rural township one-room schoolhouses in Iowa, similar to what was seen on Little House on the Prairie. Historian and educator Bill Sherman shares memories about their history and what some of the buildings are used for today. From the 2000 WHO Radio Crystal Studios at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines with co-host form KCCI-TV reporter Mary Brubaker. "Winzen...

Bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman talks about his books "Growing Up Firstborn" and "Unlocking the Secrets of Your Childhood Memories." His controversial advice includes not making oldest kids babysit, giving the oldest special privileges, and that opposites should attract in marriage. He also evaluates childhood memories of successful people, including Donald Trump. From 1990 on...

Celebrate Disney's 100th anniversary with Richard M. Sherman, who teamed with his brother to create songs for Mary Poppins, It's a Small World, Winnie the Pooh, Charlotte's Web and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They are the most successful songwriting team in film history and in this 2006 WHO radio interview Richard explains how he came up with Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, as well as his thought...

Stacey Handler is the granddaughter of Barbie doll creator Ruth Handler and the real-life daughter of Ken. She discusses her struggles with her grandmother over body issues and having to live up to the image of her plastic "flawless sister" Barbie. Stacey is the author of The Body Burden: Growing Up in The Shadow of Barbie" and reveals that she did not play with dolls! This interview is from 2000...

Meet the man who co-wrote William Shatner's three memoirs, spending hundreds of hours talking with the Hollywood star about his TV shows, movies, and private life. The late Chris Kreske is the one who convinced egotistical Shatner to start making fun of himself. This 1995 interview discusses hatred from his Star Trek co-stars, the first interracial kiss, the original movie death scene, the hairpie...

Willadeene Parton is the oldest of the 11 siblings of superstar Dolly Parton and in this 1997 interview she reveals family recipe secrets, including  raccoon and squirrel! She shares sweet and fun-loving stories about growing up poor, along with memories of her father, mother, and family holiday gatherings. From WHO radio in Des Moines, Iowa.

LIsteners share their craziest, funniest fears and phobias with Jimmy Kimmel Show producer/writer Gary Greenberg, author of the first pop-up book for adults. Germs, toilet seats, bats, elevators, snakes, dentists...but shower curtains and ducks wearing clothes? Hear the crazy stories from July of 2000 on WHO radio in Des Moines.

Longtime psychologist and best-selling author Dr. John Rosemond says the common sense tools your grandparents used to discipline children can still be used today, and often are better than the advice from modern counselors. In this 1996 show from WHO radio in Des Moines, he talks about disciplining toddlers to teens, ADHD, and the dangers of too much TV screen time.