CBS Sports football analyst Randy Cross talks about the impact of his father’s alcoholism, why his ambition to be a professional football player developed slowly, what he learned about chasing success from Bill Walsh, and how he leveraged his three Super Bowl rings with the San Francisco 49ers to achieve a long career in television.
Aug 28, 2023
50 min
Part 2 of 2: Susie Scott Krabacher talks about struggling to find her way after PLAYBOY, meeting the love of her life, dealing with the lingering effects of her abuse, and the purpose she has found in leading a charity dedicated to nurturing and protecting Haiti's most vulnerable children.
Aug 21, 2023
49 min
Part 1 of 2: Susie Scott Krabacher talks about the abuse she suffered as a child, a promise she made to God, her rocket ride to fame as a PLAYBOY centerfold, confronting the dark side of that world, and the marriage to a conman that eventually left her homeless.
Aug 14, 2023
48 min
Grammy-winning Bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland talks about battling against the limitations of blindness and hearing loss, a youthful encounter with Bill Monroe, the drinking that once dominated his life, and how he keeps pushing himself artistically.
Aug 7, 2023
1 hr 2 min
Art Dunning talks about the love of learning that animated his youth in the segregated South and eventually led to a successful career in academia, the defining choice he faced while serving in the U.S. Air Force, and the fateful decision he made to help integrate the all-white University of Alabama football program.
Jul 31, 2023
59 min
Part 2 of 2: Joe Kittinger talks about reuniting with Dr. John Paul Stapp for Project Excelsior, jumping out of his balloon from a record altitude of 102,800 feet, being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and working with the Red Bull team to help Felix Baumgartner shatter his 52-year-old record.
Jul 24, 2023
1 hr 2 min
Part 1 of 2: Fighter pilot and test pilot Joe Kittinger talks about the sense of independence and adventure instilled in him by his parents, the yearn to fly that led him into the U.S. Air Force in the early days of jets, his life-altering introduction to Dr. John Paul Stapp, and his pioneering high-altitude work with Project Manhigh, which took him toward the edge of space in the years before NASA.
Jul 17, 2023
30 min
Sports columnist Dave Kindred talks about the enduring influence of small-town Midwestern values, the impact of a childhood gift, the memorable day he shared a bed with Muhammad Ali, and the late-in-life assignment that has given him purpose and fulfillment.
Jul 10, 2023
1 hr 30 min
Part 2 of 2: Dick Rutan talks about the obstacles he and his brother Burt faced in building the Rutan Voyager and how, over the course of a nine-day journey in 1986, battling through mechanical problems, violent weather and gathering fatigue, he and Jeana Yeager established an aviation milestone that many thought impossible: flying around the world without stopping or refueling.
Nov 21, 2022
52 min
Part 1 of 2: Dick Rutan talks about the airplane ride that changed his life, the admonition from his mother that altered his view of the world, the need for adventure that led him to become a decorated fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, and the origins of his historic flight around the world.
Nov 14, 2022
1 hr 5 min
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