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Actress Marion Ross was our guest on September 10, 2018. Most people remember Marion Ross as Mrs. Cunningham on the TV program, "Happy Days." She spoke about her time on that show as well as many other times and people in her life and career. She also spoke about her autobiography titled, "My Days-Happy And Otherwise."

This interview took place on May 1, 2003. Our guest was Meinhardt Raabe who played the part of one of the Munchkins in the movie, "The Wizard Of Oz." Mr. Raabe spent 20 minutes with us on the air and shared some of his stories. Mr. Raabe was 87 years old at the time of this interview. His bio online states that he passed away on April 9, 2010 at Penney Farms, Florida.

Mr. Raabe was our guest as a friend of Joanne England.

We did a show on Memorial Day of 2004 and invited listeners to call in. Three of the calls were from Veterans who shared some of their memories of their service in the military. This podcast is from that show. It features short audio clips from Joe Mitchell, Vernon Viola, and Alfred Whitler.

Singer Jimmy Osmond visited us in the WOCA studios on July 7, 2016 to promote a concert he was performing in The Villages. Many of our guests are on the air with us by way of the phone so it was a true honor and a treat for us to have Jimmy in the studio.

We interviewed the legendary Carl Reiner on February 14, 2013. He called in from California. Our conversation was one of the warmest "visits" we have had with someone we felt we have known all of our lives. Carl was promoting his new book titled, "I Remember Me." Carl's body of work throughout his life has left in its wake an entire "family" of people whom we feel we know personally and yet have never met in person. Carl, himself, felt like we knew him all of our lives. Maybe because we have.

This interview with Arlene Alda took place over the phone on April 8, 2015. We spoke to Arlene about her book titled "Just Kids From The Bronx." We spoke about Arlene's childhood in the Bronx in the 1930s and 1940s and about the personalities featured in the book.

On the eve of being drafted into the Army to serve as a M.A.S.H. surgeon in Vietnam, Dr. Sims was offered a commission in the U.S. Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska.

But, he soon learned that he was being transferred from Anchorage to work as the only physician in Nome. There, he would have the awesome responsibility of rendering medical care under archaic conditions to the population of this frontier town plus thirteen Eskimo villages in the surrounding Norton Sound area.