Today’s Republican party has a problem attracting young voters. But it’s not a new problem.
More than a decade ago, conservative commentator and author Margaret Hoover — great granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover — recognize the problem.
I met her in 2011 when we talked about her book American Individualism.
And as you listen in the next few minutes, you may recognize some familiar themes that permeate politics to this day, including the Republican identity crisis Margaret Hoover talks about.
So here now, from 2011, Margaret Hoover.
Margaret Hoover is 45 now. She is host of “Firing Line” on PBS.
In 1981. Christine Craft was working as a television news anchor for a station in Kansas City, Missouri. Six months into her two-year contract, she was demoted from the anchor desk, because of the findings of a focus group.
The TV station had hired a team of outside researchers to find out what Kansas City viewers thought of. Christine Craft. And what they found was starling.
The focus group said that Christine was too old, not very attractive, and didn’t properly defer to men.
Well, she left the station, then filed a federal discrimination lawsuit. I’ll let her tell you, in a few minutes, what happened next.
I met her in 1988, after she wrote a book whose title was based on that focus group research. It was called Too Old, Too Ugly, and Not Deferential to Men
So here now, from 1988, Christine Craft.
Christine Craft is 79 now, and lives in Northern California, where she practices law and is a part-time radio talk show host.
Tomorrow is Major League baseball’s opening day, the first day of the 2023 season.
On the first day of a 162 game schedule, every team is in first place. Any team can win the world series. And a batter can hit /400, and a picture can have a no-hitter.
The world is full of possibilities .
On the Opening Day roster for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1946 was a rookie catcher named Joe Garageola.
That year Joe played in his first, and only, World Series. He was a major leaguer for nine seasons, playing for the Cardinals, the Pirates, the Cubs, and the Giants.
But after his retirement from the game, Joe Garagiola found another career in which he had much greater success.
Television.
He did sports broadcasting, but also game shows, and even substitute hosting on the Tonight Show.
I met him in 1988, when he was promoting his book It’s Anybody’s Ballgame, about his post baseball career.
No, to add some context to the interview you’re about to hear. We talked just a couple of weeks into the 1988 season, but already by that time the hapless Baltimore Orioles had a 13 game losing streak, a major league record. Sadly he Os Went on to lose their first 21 games in a row, which still stands as the major league record.
Ever since there have been movies in America — that’s over a hundred years now — people have been putting together their lists of their favorite movies. Their favorite classic movies.
Some 30 years ago Bob Dorian, the longtime host on American Movie Classics (now known simply as AMC) assembled a list of the greatest “classic” movies.
Now these weren necessarily ‘t classic” in the sense that we typically think of classic movies, but they were movies that were timeless and important in their own way.
I had a chance to talk with Bob Dorian in 1990 when that book came out. So here now from 1990. Let’s talk some old movies with Bob Dorian
Perhaps no one other than maybe Martha Stewart has helped more Americans gain the confidence they need to do things around the house then Bob Vila has
His popular home fixer upper show on PBS, this Old House, premiered in 1979, and for years afterward top millions of us how to do simple projects ourselves. And sometimes not so simple projects.
I met him in 1986, when he published a reference book and guide for us do-it-yourselfers. And we talked all about hammers, saws, plumbing, and wiring.
When he was still in his teens in the 1960s, Roy Firestone got an up-close look at Major League Baseball, as a spring training bat boy for the Baltimore Orioles in Florida.
But instead of following that career path and becoming a bat boy the rest of his life, Roy Firestone cut into television. Starting in Miami, then moving to Los Angeles, Firestone established himself as a skilled Sports commentator and interviewer.
In 1980 he joined ESPN, posting their so-called “Up Close.”
I met him in 1993, what he wrote a book called up close and in your
So here now, from 1993, Roy Firestone.
Roy Firestone will be 68 in December. He is still seen on television on “Good Day L.A.”
A dog may be man’s best friend, but many of us unconsciously do things that can undermine that relationship, says Cesar Millan, otherwise known as The Dog Whisperer.
When I met him a 2006, his show was just nicely taking off, he had a large following, and was so very eager to talk about the dogs he had known.
So here now, from 2006, Cesar Millan.
Cesar Millan will be 52 in August. And he remains active in dog training, as well as advocacy for abandoned and abused animals.
