Tuesday, April 21, 2026

My appearance on NBC's TOMORROW with Tom Snyder


 

Amazing. Sixteen minutes on national television. The interesting part? The previous week we had a church "slave auction" to raise money for charity. I offered to mention you, your family, or your family business, during my upcoming appearance on the TOMORROW show. Toward the end, see how I delivered on that promise, promoting Pick's restaurant in Issaquah, Washington. Yeah, I crack myself up.

By the way, Pick's restaurant paid $50 to the slave auction.

Sincerely yours,
Rick Bennett
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Monday, April 20, 2026

My TODAY SHOW appearance 48 years ago.


 

I think I came up with a great one-liner when I talked about my Hagoth voice stress analyzer's potential effect on society: "Either there will be an emphasis on telling the truth in your conversations, or there will be a renaissance in letter writing."

I guess I was into guerrilla warfare my whole life?

Sincerely yours,
Rick Bennett
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Saturday, April 18, 2026

My appearance on GOOD MORNING AMERICA 48 years ago


 

Entrepreneurs need to find what I call a "media anomaly," or a media platform that all the network TV assignment editors use to get unique stories to air. I found one in a now-defunct magazine called THE NEW TIMES. I flew to NYC and dropped in to their offices to personally deliver a press release. A few weeks later, a short blurb appeared in NEW TIMES, after which I started getting calls from all the network television shows. Here's my appearance on GOOD MORNING AMERICA with David Hartman.

If you have a unique story (unlike all the AI-wannabes who say the same old thing), find today's media anomalies (yes, Grasshopper, there are some). Get them to cover your nobody-else-can-do-this story, and you too can become a star.

Caveat: I don't recommend you believe your own PR. I believed mine and sold the company to run for the U.S. Congress that very year. Of course, I'm glad I lost the election. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten into guerrilla warfare.

Here's the YouTube link to my GOOD MORNING AMERICA stint:



Sincerely yours,
Rick Bennett
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Friday, April 17, 2026

In 2017 I played that song with the Murray Symphony that I wrote at 17 for my future wife, Rita.


 

After the concert, one of my buddies came up to me and said I'd raised the bar too high for the rest of the guys.

Yeah, I'm a hopeless Romantic. We've been married 60 years.

Below is a link to the performance. Enjoy.



Thursday, April 16, 2026

I met this future movie star at a Dominican Republic orphanage


 

Three decades ago, I arranged to pay off the mortgage of an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. I found out about this from my next door neighbor's father. Missionaries Tyler Engar (pictured Left) and his companion Kirby Heyborne (right) donated a day a week at Casa Lubian, a sad place where people from the DR left their retarded, ill, or deformed children.

In later years, Kirby starred in several movies and numerous television commercials. He's now host of the Emmy-nominated BYUTV show MAKING GOOD. He's also currently serving as a bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I predict you'll see more of this genuinely nice guy.

Sincerely yours,
Rick Bennett
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