Skip to main content
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest

MagazineWikipedia

Search complete. 49 mentions across 32 episodes found for "Reader's Digest".

Sep 11, 2026

Darren MarlarHOST
37:13
Being the grandson of the Coors Empire, the case became an international obsession.
Darren MarlarHOST
37:18
As a result, a picture of Joseph Corbett was included in an issue of Reader's Digest magazine, where he was recognized by two neighbors in Vancouver, B.C. John Corbett was arrested October 29, 1961 in Vancouver by Canadian police and sent back to Colorado to face murder charges.
Darren MarlarHOST
37:40
On March 19, 1961, Joseph Corbett Jr. was convicted of the murder of Adolph Coors III and sentenced to life in prison.
Darren MarlarHOST
37:50
He was released on parole in 1980 for good behavior and drove a truck for the Salvation Army until he retired.
IreneHOST
40:03
Americans, José Ortega y Gasset, pronounced in The Revolt of the Masses, 1930, were a primitive people camouflaged behind the latest inventions.
IreneHOST
40:21
And when Americans arrived in Europe, with the Marshall Plan, Reader's Digest, chewing gum, T-shirts, and NATO.
IreneHOST
40:31
They provoked among many war traumatized Europeans, an unstable psychological mix, a craving for the material goods produced by the war's unambiguous victor, combined with a sense of humiliation over their own deprivation, a blend of envy, U.S. support of vicious despotisms and its efforts to undermine socialist movements during the Cold War made it the bête noire of left-leaning intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Gunther Grass.
IreneHOST
41:13
Hans Magnus Ensenberger, one of the intellectual mentors of the anti-Vietnam War movement in Germany, famously renounced a fellowship at Wesleyan University in 1968, explaining in the New York Review of Books that the American ruling class was the most dangerous body of men on earth.
Kevin WilsonHOST
22:35
I find this fascinating.
Kevin WilsonHOST
22:37
So if you're an old man like me, you remember Reader's Digest.
Kevin WilsonHOST
22:43
Reader's Digest used to be basically a magazine.
Kevin WilsonHOST
22:48
And what Reader's Digest did was that they left 12 wallets around Finland.
Kevin WilsonHOST
22:56
They left them just scattered around.
Kevin WilsonHOST
22:59
And they received 11 of them back.
David G. HallGUEST
16:49
No, I know that, but if you eat too much white bread...
David G. HallGUEST
16:54
Now, I read that in Reader's Digest.
AmyAUDIENCE
16:56
All right.
AmyAUDIENCE
16:57
In Reader's Digest? Yeah.
AmyAUDIENCE
16:59
Is Reader's Digest a subsidiary of the American Journal of Medicine? Yeah, what are
David G. HallGUEST
17:03
we talking about here, man?
AmyAUDIENCE
17:04
I'm
VyzygothHOST
27:03
And then you have the situation which people have heard me say before.
VyzygothHOST
27:05
I mean, why did Glit change her story from 9-11 when she said it was... a cell phone, to other accounts later on, especially as it appeared in Reader's Digest in August 2004, which he said, oh, no, no, he wasn't on a cell phone.
VyzygothHOST
27:18
He was on a seat-back phone.
VyzygothHOST
27:20
And it's like, well, wait a minute.
Vince NeroHOST
5:50
And I have seen a lot, this theme of like- You know, I saw something this morning on like the most Googled whatever in every state.
Vince NeroHOST
5:59
I still feel like I see those once a week on like a "Reader's Digest" or like Mental Floss or something.
Vince NeroHOST
6:05
But to your point, like how much are they moving the needle for clients? I don't know.
Vince NeroHOST
6:10
I don't know what the needle is for some people.
Tim MendhamPANELIST
26:49
Anything like that-
Stuart GaryHOST
26:50
The Reader's Digest used to do that years ago.
Stuart GaryHOST
26:52
"You may well have won $20,000."
Tim MendhamPANELIST
26:54
I used to see messages from the Reader's Digest on the envelope saying, "You may be missing out on $100,000," or something, you know, this sort of stuff.
Tim MendhamPANELIST
27:00
And I thought, "If this goes to some poor old person," and I actually got it from a poor old [laughs] person, that is so terrible thing to do, to scare people.
Tim MendhamPANELIST
27:07
But that's what, you know, a lot of the messages are scaring or offering incentive.
Margaret Floyd BarryHOST
2:40
She's host of the top-rated podcast, A Little Bit Healthier, and she is also a sought-after speaker and summit host.
Margaret Floyd BarryHOST
2:46
She's been featured on Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBS, CBS, and in Forbes Health, Reader's Digest, Health Magazine, and MindBodyGreen.
Margaret Floyd BarryHOST
2:56
So as you can tell, we are in great hands today.
Margaret Floyd BarryHOST
2:58
Dr. Meg, thank you so much for joining us.
Frank MendozaHOST
8:10
He is given asylum in Switzerland and there he went to live.
Frank MendozaHOST
8:14
And that is a really Reader's Digest version of of the story.
Frank MendozaHOST
8:18
So the film opens with him wounded in the face.
Frank MendozaHOST
8:21
He is in the backseat as the cops are driving him to the hospital.
Alex SchmidtHOST
37:08
Yeah.
Alex SchmidtHOST
37:09
And by the way, key sources here are CBC Radio, NPR, and then a couple stories from Reader's Digest and from Mental Floss that I feel are too credulous about what the hot dog people are telling them.
Alex SchmidtHOST
37:21
Because here's how Mental Floss takes what the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council says.
Alex SchmidtHOST
37:26
They say there's simply no way to avoid hot dogs being in packs of 10 and buns being in packs of 8.

22 more episodes mention Reader's Digest.

Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.

We value your privacy

We use cookies to understand how you use our platform and to improve your experience. Click “Accept All” to consent, or “Decline non-essential” to opt out of non-essential cookies. Read our Privacy Policy.