David Rosenthal: recommendation

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…The more you learn about Oprah, the more that you learn that as a media personality there's nothing you can do that Oprah hasn't already done. Literally nothing. One disclaimer before we get going is any time we're talking about Oprah, there is way too much to cover in one podcast episode, let alone one podcast show. We're talking about a woman who owns her own cable network, gets presidents elected, so we can't cover it all here. We're going to be covering her origin story and the business behind her. Two fantastic sources if you want more Oprah—who doesn't more Oprah?—that you should go check out. One is the local Chicago NPR affiliate, WBEZ. Did a great podcast a couple of years ago that Jenn White did called Making Oprah. It's a three-part series with a few bonus episodes. Definitely go check that out. They interviewed Oprah. They interviewed Phil Donahue. It's great. The other one is a number of years ago, Kitty Kelley wrote an unauthorized biography of Oprah which is extremely well-researched, controversial in many ways, but also forms a lot of the facts and basis for this. Definitely go read that if you want a long deep picture of Oprah Winfrey, or should I say Orpah Gayle Winfrey because that is the child that was born on January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Yeah, wasn't it something like people mispronounced her name so she just said ah screw it and changed it when she was younger.…

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