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I've often wondered over the last decade or so if Toni Grant would ever again un-retire, as she'd already done at least a couple times.

Grant was so well-received that in 1975, she got her own call-in advice show on KABC radio.

She first got started in radio as a guest expert on psychology in Los Angeles on a talk show hosted by Bill Balance, first on KGBS-AM, and then on KABC-AM.

Toni Grant was an American psychologist and talk radio host.

Grant was among the early voices in radio psychology.

She was first given her own show on KABC-AM in Los Angeles in 1975.

But fortunately, us talk radio junkies were not once more subjected to her ever-cloying, often-prurient, and profoundly-sexist broadcast.

Grant was apparently more than happy to instead simply savor the good life, married to her latest husband, after reportedly following her own oft-rendered advice to her typically emotionally-shattered female callers to never marry for love, but rather always for love AND (big) money.

Grant may have done more for gold-diggers than The Dean Martin Show.

I'm surprised Variety adjudged her show "informative"; I found it corrosive to the culture. Grant promulgated a women-are-entitled-to-pampering philosophy that flies in the face of everything I came to know and appreciate about mutual respect between the sexes.

And she often furthered the myth that few men desire intellectuality in a woman.

She was clearly dead-wrong on that point; I'd have valued Grant's intellect, had I ever detected much of one. (I

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