9/11 changed the American psyche. According to some reports, Americans wanted to eat comfort food, like macaroni and cheese, get married and have babies. They wanted leaders - male leaders - who were strong, who could rescue the female victims, like Jessica Lynch. Or did they? In this hour of To...
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Commentator Erika Monroe-Kane reflects on the appeal of driving really fast. Really fast.
Can white guys be hip? Many have tried but only a few have achieved true hepcat status - Bob Dylan, Lenny Bruce, maybe Jack Kerouac. But compare them to Miles Davis and you have to wonder if they're really just hipster wannabes. We'll dig into the history of hip, and see how it's so often tied...
Mark Sundeen got an offer he couldn't refuse. A publisher paid him upfront to write a book on bullfighting in Spain. Mark doesn't speak Spanish, knows nothing about bullfighting, and hates to travel, but that didn't stop him from writing the book. He just made the whole thing up. In this hour of...
What do you do when your seventh-grade gym teacher orders some of your classmates to pile on top of you and wallop you as you leave the locker-room showers? If you're Paul Feig, you turn your adolescent misadventures into a critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning television series called...
May 9th is Mother’s Day and this year we asked a few moms to share the plain unvarnished truth about life with kids. Motherhood isn’t all sexy stars on the covers of magazines. It’s also baby throw-up, poopy diapers and sulky teenagers. In this hour, the joys of motherhood -...
For her book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America,” writer Barbara Ehrenreich worked at a series of minimally paid jobs. Speaking to Anne in 2003, she said was surprised to be both physically exhausted and mentally challenged by “menial” work.
In the 1950's many companies collaborated with their customers to create their advertising. Terry Ryan’s mother Evelyn entered hundreds of these contests writing jingles and adding the last line to odes in praise of all kinds of products. In this hour of To the Best of Our...
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