Now I've Heard Everything

Now I've Heard Everything

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Now I've Heard Everything episodes

  • The NBA's Chet Walker: A Black Athletes Coming of Age in America

    Is a talented college athlete nothing more than a commodity? A piece of property?

    In his 1995 memoir, basketball Hall of Famer Chet Walker talks about the mixed feelings he had about his own college and NBA career,

    . in this 1995 interview he talks about his life and career.
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    You may also enjoy my interviews with Wilt Chamberlain and Walt Frazier

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    #NBA #Basketball #76ers #Chicago Bulls

    21 min
  • The Fear Gripping America's Shrinking Middle Class -- An Exploration by Barbara Ehrenreich

    The wealth gap between America’s 1% and all the rest of us is wide and getting wider. But it didn’t start with us. At least, not all of us.

    In this 1989 interview author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich maps out how the rpofessional middle class is shrinking.
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    You may also enjoy my interviews with Annabelle Gurwitch and PJ O'Rourke

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    Photo by David Shankbon

    #Economy #economics #middleclass #wealth

    18 min
  • History With a Comic Touch, As Told by Paula Poundstone

    When invited to write her memoir in the late 1990s, Paula Poundstone was hesitant - until she had an idea. and the result was her 2006 book There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say.

    in this 2007 interview Poundstone talks about how she wrote this, her first book.
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    You may also enjoy my interviews with Margharet Cho and Rita Rudner

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    #comedy #comedians #history #biography

    17 min
  • A Split Second to Act: Secret Service Agent Dennis McCarthy

    On March 30, 1981, gunman John Hinckley Jr fired shots at President Ronald Reagan -- but a split second later he was subdued by veteran Secret Service agent Dennis McCarthy.
    in this 1985 interview McCarthy recalls that fateful day and his pivotal role in it.
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    You may also enjoy my interviews with Jerry Parr and Clint Hill

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    #RonaldReagan #JohnHinckley #assassination #1980s

    22 min
  • Batter up! Columnist George Wills Tribute to The Genius of Baseball

    Why has baseball remained America's pastime?

    In this 1990 interview Pulitzer prize-winning columnist George Will analyzes the extraordinary nature of the game.
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    You may also enjoy my interviews with Cal Ripken and Mickey Mantl

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    Photo by Gage Skidmore

    #MLB #Baseball #Opening day #Cal Ripken

    22 min
  • En Pointe Elegance: Ballerina Suzanne Farrell's Journey of Grace

    One of the great American ballerinas of the 20th century, Suzanne Farrell set the standard for a generation of dancers.

    in this 1990 interview Farrell discusses her life and career.
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    You may also enjoy my interviews with Ann-Margret and Ginger Rogers

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    #ballet #dance #Balanchine #

    19 min
  • Caught in The Cogs of The Washington Political Machine: Former Speechwriter Matt Latimer

    As someone who worked in the US Senate, the Pentagon, and the White House during the George W. Bush administration, Matt Latimer saw it all.

    In this 2009 interview Latimer talks about his Washington memoir Speech-less.
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    You may also enjoy my interviews with Peggy Noonan and Sam Donaldson

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    #WashingtonD.C #WhiteHouse #GeorgeWBush #Speechwriter

    18 min
  • Finding Your Capacity For Compassion: Spiritual Guru Ram Dass
    Perhaps no job in Corporate America could ever fully prepare you for a job with the federal government. Or more particularly, the United States Senate, or the Pentagon, or the white house. Someone who worked in all three of those venues in the early 2000s will tell you, it’s not just a different world, it’s a different Universe. Matt Latimer started his Washington career working in the US Senate – at one point working alongside Anne Coulter – before taking a job at the Pentagon as a speechwriter for then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Latimer joined the White House in 2007 as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, a position he held until resigning a year and a half later. disillusioned with how the president and his advisors handled the financial crisis.A year later, Latimer wrote a memoir he called Speech-less. He and I met one day that fall in the cafe at our local Borders bookstore to talk about it.So here now, from 2009, Matt Latimer.Matt Latimer now heads a literary and public relations firm he co-founded in Northern Virginia.
    18 min
  • Sir Michael Caine's Legacy: Childhood Dreams Come True

    From a working-class family in 1930s London emerged one of the greatest actors of our time: Sir Michael Caine.

    in this 1992 interview Caine talks about his early life, his unusual marriage, and the family secret kept from him for decades.
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    You may also enjoy my interviews with Michael York and Charlton Heston

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    #Actors #Memoir #1960s #Academy Award

    22 min
  • Is The 25th Amendment a Recipe For a Coup? John Batchelor Imagines this Scenario

    the 25th Amendment provides for an orderly succession if the president is rendered incapable of serving. But that sets up a palace coup.

    So said radio host and fiction writer John Batchelor. In this 1994 interview he talks about his novel Father's Day, which imagines a constitutional crisis borne of the 25th Amendment.
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    You may also enjoy my interviews with Tom Clancy and Brad Meltzer

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    Photo by Gage Skidmore

    #Thriller #Fiction #25th Amendment #presidency

    20 min

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Now I’ve Heard Everything brings you conversations about the turning points that shape extraordinary lives. Hosted by veteran interviewer Bill Thompson, the show features memoirists, biographers,…