{"id":251292,"date":"2025-10-25T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251292\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:38:09","slug":"this-week-on-sunday-morning-oct-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251292\/","title":{"rendered":"This week on “Sunday Morning” (Oct. 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.\u00a0 “Sunday Morning” also\u00a0streams on the CBS News app<\/a>\u00a0beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here<\/a>.)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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COVER STORY: Phobias – How to overcome your worst misguided fears
An estimated 33 million American adults will struggle at some point with a phobia \u2013 an intense fear of something that poses little or no threat, from flying to cockroaches to a trip to the dentist. Susan Spencer talks with experts about the lengths people will go to in order to overcome their fears.<\/p>\n

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ALMANAC: October 26
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.<\/p>\n

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NATURE: Tarantulas: Why you shouldn’t be afraid
We know very little about the brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi), whose habitat stretches from Louisiana to Texas and Colorado. But the first question arachnid expert Cara Shillington asks is, why are we afraid of tarantulas? She talks with Jonathan Vigliotti, who also visits Colorado’s La Junta Tarantula Fest, an annual celebration of the eight-legged creature that draws thousands to see thousands of brown tarantulas wandering the Comanche National Grassland in a haphazard, often halting hunt for a mate.<\/p>\n

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HALLOWEEN: By the Numbers
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Gavin Newsom dismisses Trump’s National Guard plans in San Francisco<\/p>\n

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POLITICS: Gavin Newsom
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PREVIEW: Newsom on Trump’s “laughable” National Guard suggestion: “Nothing happening” in San Francisco<\/a>
In a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview to air Oct. 26, the California governor dismisses the president’s proposal to send National Guard troops to San Francisco, and says that he would sue to block any such attempt.<\/p>\n

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley.<\/p>\n

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BUSINESS: CEO Jim Farley on steering Ford through Trump’s tariffs
Despite building more than 80 percent of its American-sold vehicles in the U.S. \u2013 the highest share of any Detroit automaker \u2013 Ford Motor Company still imports many parts, which have been hit hard by tariffs. Ford CEO Jim Farley discusses with Kris Van Cleave why he says President Trump’s tariffs, which have cost Ford $2 billion, are jeopardizing the company’s investments in America \u2013 and may give an advantage to their competitors. He also explains why he drives a Chinese-made electric vehicle.<\/p>\n

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THESE UNITED STATES: The White House
Since our second president, John Adams, inhabited the White House, it has been burned by British troops, reconstructed, expanded, and gut-renovated. Mo Rocca looks at the history of a cherished American landmark, which this past week was partly demolished by the White House’s current occupant, President Trump, who is building a huge, privately-funded ballroom.<\/p>\n

FROM THE ARCHIVES: When the British burned the White House (Video)<\/a>
Mo Rocca goes back in time to one of the most devastating days in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

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Singer Kenny Chesney.<\/p>\n

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BOOKS: The true, authentic Kenny Chesney
He’s one of country music’s most celebrated singers. But Kenny Chesney’s latest work is a book, “Heart Life Music,” in which he describes his life’s journey, from East Tennessee, to No Shoes Nation and beyond. Chesney sits down with Lee Cowan in the Florida Keys, where the country superstar is just another laid-back local, to talk about family, touring, and how he recovered from a 2009 concert which he describes as “hitting a wall.”<\/p>\n

READ AN EXCERPT: “Heart Life Music” by Kenny Chesney with Holly Gleason<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, on the run.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SPORTS: CEO Nicholas Thompson on how running helped him find his footing
Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, is known as a tech journalist, public speaker, author \u2013 and world-class competitive long-distance runner. He talks with Tony Dokoupil about how his father inspired him to take up running, how he faced a cancer diagnosis, and why he’s passing on his athletic passion to his children. He also discusses his new book, “The Running Ground” \u2013 part memoir, part call to the runner in all of us.<\/p>\n

READ AN EXCERPT: “The Running Ground” by Nicholas Thompson<\/a><\/p>\n

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MOVIES: Guillermo del Toro on “Frankenstein” and remaking a monster
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro is adding his spin to one of the most-filmed horror stories \u2013 the mythic tale of a scientist creating a man from body parts \u2013 with his latest, “Frankenstein.” He talks with Seth Doane about his lifelong fascination with horror, why Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was his first crush, and how “in reality we’re all weird in some way.” Doane also talks with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, who play Victor Frankenstein and his creature.<\/p>\n

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HARTMAN: TBD<\/p>\n

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NATURE: TBD<\/p>\n

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From the archives: Ballet star Misty Copeland<\/a> by
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ballet star Misty Copeland (YouTube Video)<\/a>
Ballerina Misty Copeland, who became the first Black female principal dancer in the history of the American Ballet Theatre in New York ten years ago, performed for the last time on the ballet stage on Wed., Oct. 22, 2025. In this Dec. 14, 2014 profile, Anthony Mason visited with the breakthrough star who’d joined ABT’s corps de ballet in 2001, and she described how change is coming slowly to the world of classical dance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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WEB EXTRA: Historian Jill Lepore on the metaphor of America as a family (YouTube Video)<\/a>
Historian Jill Lepore, author of “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution,” talks with Tony Dokoupil about competing histories of America; polarization; and dissent as an act of patriotism.<\/p>\n

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