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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.

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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.

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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

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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 learned about the assassination plot -- and who thwarted it.

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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.”

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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 he talks about his memoir.

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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.

You may also enjoy my interviews with John Kasich and Andrew Cuomo

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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 Growing Up Brady.

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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 about her book Funny Sauce.

You may also enjoy my interviews with Erma Bombeck and Suzanne Somers

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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."

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