I made some cornbread yesterday, and you woulda thought I stripped myself butt-naked. She goes on here, and it is honestly worth listening to yourself because of how hard she is trying to talk without bursting into laughter:. Like, a little cornbread and black-eyed peas goes a long way in my house. Search Now you can search stock related news and private companies such as Airbnb. No matching results for ''. Try a valid symbol or a specific company name for relevant results.
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Give feedback on the new search experience. Jezebel January 9, However, the initial excitement quickly wore off. The friends had minor meltdowns and fought for control over the radio; King likes to have music constantly playing while driving, Winfrey prefers silence. Despite the challenges of the road trip, they got to see the beauty of Sedona , meet the people of Navajo Nation , crash a couple of weddings, take a dip in the healing waters of Pagosa Springs , and learn about Amish culture.
Winfrey's many driving anxieties and King's tone-deaf singing made the trip a huge hit with viewers. The friends visited the State Fair of Texas in They played traditional state fair games like Flip-the-Chick and the water gun race.
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They tried many of the fried foods offered at the fair and judged a best "Best of Show" food contest. For the farewell season, the best friends hit the road again for an overnight camping trip at Yosemite National Park. Park ranger Shelton Johnson wrote to Winfrey because he was concerned by the low number of African-Americans who visited the national parks each year. So Winfrey and King packed up their camper and headed to Yosemite to help Johnson attract visitors. When they arrived, Johnson took Winfrey and King around the park to see some of its famous sites including Mariposa Grove and the Tunnel View , from which El Capitan is visible in the distance.
On the way to the campsite, Winfrey made a sharp turn causing their trailer to hit a rock. After setting up their pop-up camper, the two mixed up some Moscow Mules to pass out to their camping neighbors. The drink has become a signature Oprah cocktail. The next day they took a lesson in fly fishing and wrapped up their stay with a mule ride. A segment at the end of the show that featured spiritual counselors, ordinary people who had been involved in extraordinary situations. They would come on the show and share their stories of overcoming adversity with the audience, inspiring viewers to do the same in their own lives.
Iyanla Vanzant is a former attorney, spiritual teacher and self-help expert who was a regular on the show in the late s. She started the show in its 12th season and became known for her no-nonsense, hard-hitting, and often humorous advice. Vanzant's take on everything from cheating spouses to financial struggles connected with viewers and, at times, Winfrey sat in the audience while Vanzant led the show.
Phil McGraw when he worked as a consultant for her legal team during her beef trial in Amarillo, Texas. Starting in April of that year, he became a fixture on the show and a viewer favorite. McGraw gave guests tough, tell-it-like-it-is advice and didn't allow excuses or rationalizations for their bad habits, bad marriages, or bad attitudes. His popular Tuesday appearances on the show led to his own talk show, Dr.
Phil , in Financial expert Suze Orman became a viewer favorite, offering money tips, spending interventions, and her famous "Suze smackdowns. Her motivational approach to fixing finances has led to her own financial advice empire. Winfrey introduced up-and-coming public figures who generated industry buzz but not otherwise widely known. In what several media commentators have labelled The Oprah Effect , people appearing on this segment such as Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx and singer James Blunt benefited from the extra publicity the show garnered. Blunt, in particular, saw album sales increase dramatically and landed a Top Two spot on the Billboard A show feature called "Wildest Dreams" fulfilled the dreams of people reported to Winfrey by the producers — mostly viewers who wrote into the show — be the dreams of a new house, an encounter with a favorite performer, or a guest role on a popular TV show.
Oz", regularly appeared on Tuesdays during the — season. Oz debuted The Dr. Oz Show in first-run syndication. Oz has been criticized as promoting pseudo-science, and was the winner of the Pigasus Award. A weekly live episode premiered in the show's 23rd season with a panel consisting of Winfrey, Gayle King, Mark Consuelos , and Ali Wentworth. The panel discussed the week's news and highlighted events in the media and on the show. In the —10 season, Winfrey hosted this segment on her own. Fridays Live did not return for the show's 25th season. In March , Winfrey began a campaign to stop drivers from talking or texting on their cell phone in their vehicles while driving.
This campaign was regularly noted near the beginning or at the end of episodes. On November 10, , during a show about sexual abuse, Winfrey revealed that she was raped by a relative when she was nine years old. Since this episode, Winfrey has used the show as a platform to help catch child predators, raise awareness, and give victims a voice. Liberace appeared in the first season of the show on December 25, He performed a Christmas medley; Winfrey said it was "the most beautiful I've ever heard".
Six weeks later he died of cardiac arrest due to congestive heart failure brought on by subacute encephalopathy. The episode was Liberace's final televised appearance. The show had only been on the air for just six months when, in , Winfrey traveled to Forsyth County, Georgia , a community in which, for 75 years, no black person had lived.
Winfrey brought attention to racial tensions in the area.
The show was set up as a town hall meeting where residents expressed their divisive opinions on the matter. The meeting was becoming heated when one woman stood up and said:. I just hate to think that someone is going to get hurt before the people get some sense about them and talk about this and get it like it's supposed to be There's no other way.
The "Diet Dreams Come True" episode from November 15, has become one of the most talked-about moments in the history of show. After years of struggling to lose weight, Winfrey had finally succeeded in doing so. In July of that year, she had started the Optifast diet while weighing pounds. By Fall, she weighed pounds. To commemorate achieving her weight loss goals, Winfrey wheeled out a wagon full of fat to represent the 67 pounds she had lost on the diet. She showed off her slim figure in a pair of size 10 Calvin Klein jeans.
However, after returning to real food she quickly gained back much of the weight she had lost. While doing a show centered on women drug users in , Winfrey opened up about her personal history with drug abuse:. I relate to your story so much. In my twenties, I have done this drug [cocaine]. I know exactly what you're talking about. It is my life's great big secret. It is such a secret because I realize that the public person that I have become, if the story were ever revealed, the tabloids would exploit it and what a big issue it would be.
But I was involved with a man in my twenties who introduced me to [cocaine] I always felt that the drug itself was not the problem, but that I was addicted to the man. I've often said over the years in my attempt to come out and say it, I have said many times, 'I did things in my twenties I was ashamed of,' 'I've done things I've felt guilty about.
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I understand the shame and I understand the guilt, I understand the secrecy, I understand all that. In , Winfrey spoke with seven of the Little Rock Nine and three white former classmates who tormented the group on their first day of high school in as well as a student who had befriended them.
Winfrey was grateful to have the remaining members of the Little Rock Nine on her show because she credits her success to those who have contributed to the Civil Rights Movement which paved the way for people like herself. Comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian during her appearance on the show in after appearing on a Time magazine cover next to the headline "Yep, I'm gay.
The episode brought Winfrey the most hate mail she had ever received.
Clemantine Wamariya and her sister Claire appeared on the show in when Wamariya was selected as one of the winners of an essay contest held by Winfrey. It was revealed that the siblings had not seen their parents in 12 years after fleeing Rwanda during the genocide. Winfrey surprised the sisters by flying their family to Chicago for one of the most emotional reunions on the show.
In , the Marines of the Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion Alpha Company and their naval corpsman, made the show their first stop after a seven-month tour on the front lines in Iraq. Winfrey welcomed the Marines with a big homecoming celebration where they were reunited with their loved ones on the show. On November 11, , Charla Nash, who was mauled by her friend and employer Sandra Herold's pet chimpanzee Travis , came to the show to speak out for the first time about the terrifying attack that took place just nine months prior.
Nash wears a veil daily because the attack left devastating injuries to her face and she "doesn't want to scare people. While taping the show's 24th-season premiere on September 8, , the entire audience of 21, people, gathered on Chicago's Magnificent Mile , surprised Winfrey by breaking out into a synchronized dance set to The Black Eyed Peas ' performance of " I Gotta Feeling " with new lyrics congratulating Winfrey on her show's longevity. The dance had been choreographed and rehearsed for weeks by a core group of dancers, who taught it to the entire crowd earlier in the day.
During the farewell season, two hundred men who were molested came forward as part of a two-day event in to take a stand against sexual abuse.