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So Your Parents Are Old

Feeling At Peace with Your Life with Joan Lunden

So Your Parents Are Old

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Joan Lunden joins Vanessa to talk about her new memoir, JOAN: Life Beyond the Script, and the moments that forced her off-script: bringing her baby to work at Good Morning America, living through divorce in public, surviving breast cancer, caring for her mother, and deciding what she wants for her own later years. 


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0:00.0

Hey, so your parents are old listeners.

0:08.2

Producer Lily Houston Smith here.

0:10.0

Today we have on one of the defining voices of Morning American Broadcast News, Joan London.

0:15.6

Hi, I'm Joan London from Fair Oaks, California.

0:17.9

Good morning America.

0:19.5

Joan was a host on Good Morning America

0:21.5

for nearly two decades.

0:23.5

She reported from around the world,

0:25.5

covered royal weddings, presidential administrations,

0:28.6

and interviewed celebrities, like Robin Williams.

0:32.4

Now let's look in here.

0:34.1

Oh, Jimmy Hoffa.

0:35.6

Okay, let's go over here. Did you ever feel like you lost control of an interview?

0:39.7

No, come on, Joanie. We're going by the water now. Come along. Don't be afraid. Her career led her to

0:48.2

climb glaciers, train with wrestlers, and even jump out of airplanes. Even though he plunged at 130 miles per hour for almost a minute,

0:57.3

I never actually felt the sensation of falling.

1:00.0

It seemed more like flying.

1:02.3

I saw the cameraman come rushing toward us.

1:05.6

This is the coolest thing!

1:10.2

Then Mark waved the cameraman off and pulled our shoot.

1:14.6

Woo!

1:16.6

But maybe the bravest thing she did in her career was to talk openly about her family.

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