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Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious

Season 1 Episode 51
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Sally Ride on Dumb Questions

Season 1 Episode 55
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Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance

Season 1 Episode 56
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Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine

Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine

Season 1 Episode 57
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Jane Goodall on Instinct

Season 1 Episode 58
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Richard Feynman on What It Means

Richard Feynman on What It Means

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Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials

Season 1 Episode 62
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Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt

Season 1 Episode 50

"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982 in the first interview she gave after getting out of prison. Lawrence Grobel explained how he became the lucky journalist to get the Patty Hearst interview for Playboy after she had served two years in prison before President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence.

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